The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-06-28

! they hSTG SLG6I6Q Will lOuQ cheers
and continuous applause. They to-
gether with II other South Da-
kota farmers, had been jailed and
had stood trial for eight days on
charges resulting out of the forci-
bic reinstatement of the farmer,
Henry Nieland, who haG been
evicted by the sheriff and his
forces last February. Mass pro-
test of farm organizations from
all over the country had brought
about a verdict of not guilty.
The five defendants were intro
duced by Knute Walstad, Commu-
mist party's candidate for Cover
nor of South Dakota. His son,
julius, state organizer Of the UFL !
gave . detailed account Of the /
trial and CT the victories gained
by the Roberts county U.F.L.
"Our arrest and the Injunction,
outlawing the entire United Farm
ers League and The Unemployed
Councils in South Dakota was the
insurance companies ard the
States answer to our activities
against foreclosures and evictiOns,
against starvation con GitiOns,"
Julius Walls ad said.
Were Victorious
''For over a year evictioEs came
to a stop in Roberts county. The
United FIcnt Committees OF Ac-
ticn, established in every town.
ship, stood guard over the homes
CT the impoverished farmers. Then
the insurance companies decided
to give the death blow to the UFL.
Thru their sheriffs they jailed II
of the 800 of Us who put Nieland
back on his farm. They issued an
injunction prohibiting all our &C.
trvities. We were not permitted to
meet. we were not supposed to
speak not to spread our literature"
Walstad continued, "but we did
nothing else but meet and orga-
nize and speak and sell our lit
e~ature and the Farmers Weekly.
We deliberately broke the iniunc-
ton. Why, we even met in the
very court house in which the in
. Junction was issued"
1--WE are freed" the farm leader
exclaimed" and the injunc. ion haC
to be declared null and void. We
have gained big victory not only
thru the building of our United
Farmers League in South Dakots
: but also thru the wonderful soil
/. darity shown US in the mass pro
= tess of farmers and workers al
+, over the country"
Art Timpson, National Orga
!, nicer of the U.F.L. and Chairman
of the Convention, emphasized tn
D Importance of the Farmers Emery
ency Relief Bill in the struggle
:. for drought relief.
!, "This bill which has been draw
j up by the Communist Party,
= Timpson said, sis a perfect mean
" to rally those sections of the in
: poverished farming population thu
: are still under the influence an,
e control of the capitalist class.
"The fact that the bill has bee
~ drawn up by the Communist Part
: and is pushed by this party shoul
prove to every poor farmer tn;
u the Communist Party really h;
4 the interests of the impoverishe
farmers at heart, it should prov
D. that the Communists have no 9th,
9 motive but fight relentlessly to Il
= best advantage of farmers al
- workers." said Timpson.
le introduced in Congress
i Forced by the mass pressure
r the $4,000 farmers in the N
|" braska Holiday Association, WI
together with farmers In prs
tically every other state are facil
complete ruin due to drought a
Roosevelt's destruction program,
congressman from Nebraska int
duced this bill into the U. S. &c
OO gress during the last minutes VIII
he Congress was in session." the \
ca tionaI Organizer explained. "HO
as ever, the bill was not introduced
no drawn up and as endorsed by I
National Executive Council of
U.F.L. and a number of local
CARNATIONS. The clause deman
IRE ing the repeal Of the AAA W
ks left out.
,ad AAA Must Be Repealed
art eve object to this treatment
20 the bill. The AAA must be
pealed. There is no difference
tween the effects of Roosev
d AAA and the terrible drought t
l has stricken this country and OF
n, countries as well and Is threat
ing a world wide famine" SO
Timpson. "The only difference
the Secretary of the Commun
Party pointed out here in Mir
apolis a few weeks ago, is that
destruction of crops by nature,
ing The drought, is called disas
slr while the crop destruction of
'om Roosevelt program is called
lar covery."
Ad- ''We shall discuss the bill
the greater detail at later sessi,
tha the chairman said, "but one Il
.otE is already evident that we m
use every opportunity to bring
Farmers Emergency Relief Bill
yeSt the knowledge of every impo
the ished farmer in the country.
fig your job, fellow delegates, to
ire plain this bill, simply. Farm
&C. who understand it will suppol
and xr;I1 FIGHT Gov - hacaY,Sa