The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-02-09
Producers News Launches Drive for Subscriptions
Paper Is Important Weapon in
Hands Of Farmers and Work
ers in Fight Against War
and Hunger
DEAR FRIENDS AND READERS OF THE
PRODUCERS NEWS

DEAR FRIENDS AND READERS OF THE
| PRODUCERS NEWS
1t is time we got down to business and took stock of
present situation What the prospects facing the
farmers and workers of Sheridan county?
Taxsaes and foreclosures evctons grasshoppers and
the smaller farmers, UNLESS organize strong and hold
our ranks close.
For the worker the immediate future is one of miser
able inadequate relief disseminating CWA jobs and stug
gle for bare existence.
For the toling population, there is the prospect of
horrible imperialiSt war. Ii aNU
Now we all know that ORGANIZATION is our only de-
Tense against the ravages of war; hunger and exploitation
We must consider how to proceed to organize all of fell
low workers and all of fellow farmers for the fight
against these conditions
The Producers News is of our best weapons The
and farmers of Sheridan county, having their own
are already better armed than the workers and the
farmers many parts of the country who have nothing but
the capitalist gutter sheets And the Producers News
be powerful weapon in fight if utilize
4 properly.
i Every reader of the Producers News knows from
weekly reading of his paper what the warplos of Wall
Street He knows the secret purposes of the Blue Eagle
the New Deal He knows weeks ahead of others the plans
of the Roosevelt Administration to cut down relief He is
Itorewarned, and therefore fOrearmed.
Isn't it clear them that job is to make every farmer
and worker in Sheridan county reader of the PRODUCERS
NEWS? Isn't it clear that if to fight against i'm
perast if we to force more relief from the Wall
Street government that should circulate the PRODUC-
Frs NEWS far wider than its present subscription list?
We think the answer is yes and going ahead to
put drive for readers and for renewing old sub
scriptons We asking every of readers to
y operate.
We have divided the county into nine districts We
asking of old boosters to act captain of each dis
trtct. Here is the lineup:
5 Chris Heiberg Dagmar; O. N. Vance, Medicine Lake;
Harry Williams Reserve John Ksis, Reserve; Fred Radon
If Outlook; Harley Potter Dalevew; Mrs Grace MCGOWAN,
Raymond; Herbert Bake Dooey Geo. Rebo, Comertown
e Dave Gunderson, Homestead
Of course the captain can't do it all in your district
You must help. You should be member of the captains
committee get sub book from him. and call your neigh
bors to subscriptions If time does not permit this
then at least you should send in subscription and
pay up what you owe.
The allotment checks are pretty SMALL of course and
they have been delayed long that they have been eaten
times in credits at the stores But nevertheless
many farmers have been waiting for this little cash to pay
up their subs to the NEWS For this reason this is the
& best time for drive.
edition of the Producers News will be the last From then
the national edition to Chicago and becomes part
Of DUCERS NEWS is still here to fight fights and lead
E in a struggle for the things we should have.
The moving of the national edition takes away one
of finances which had But it also broadens
opportunity for making the county paper cover more
fully local county happenings etc The truth of the
matter is that must dig hard for finances but must
a also build and improve our local paper.
We have said before that every farmer and farm wife
he should consider himself herself correspondent to the
u NEWS. Every workngman should write letters
articles stories for the For after ALL the PRO
DUCERS NEWS is going to be just good you folk
make tor just bad as you allow it to be. We cannot
no over emphasize the fact that it is YOUR paper.
The fact that busy with building the local pape
not that have for the naona
paper the Farmers Weekly The drive for $4,000 by Marcel
for the WEEKLY is something in which every mltan
d farmer should be interested Moreover we wish every mill
nd an farmer in the county would be subscriber for tn
he WEEKLY For this reason we are making club subscTp
SET PRODUCERS NEWS AND THE FARMERS WEEKLY
Ont WILL COME TO YOU FOR ONE YEAR FOR TOTAL
'u' OF 1925.
If you subscribe separately of course the price
for the Producers News and $15O for the Farmers Weekly
ee Let us not delay in putting on drive If ever
reader win feel the necessity for putting the PRODUCER
NEWS on its feet solicit subscriptions and advertisement
throughout the county will not only be stronger pap
27 BUT WE WILL ALSO BE A STRONGER ORGANIZED
Isl GROUP OF MILITANT WORKERS AND FARMERS.
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20 Date 1893
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