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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02
PETER AND NIMBLEHEELS
COMPARE TAILS

DETER RABBIT always has been
Interested in tails. He just can't
help 1t. You see, he hasn't much Of
tall himself, so when he meets anyone
whose tail is short he always has a
friendly feeling. And when he meets
one with long tail he always is a
wee bit envious. Peter is like great
many people in that he always wants
what he hasn't got.
For the life of him Peter couldn't
keep his eyes away from the tail of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02

wood hearse In Shinto style win be
provided. Its driver and his assist
ant will wearscutawhy coats, and the
company guarantees that they will
be men of dignified expression. For
NAL clothes will be lent to the mourn
ers. A carriage with red lining will
convey the priests to the ceremony
and the mourners will be taken in
automobiles.
For funerals costing 90 yen and
upward woman attendant will be
added, also printed letters of thanks,
flowers and number of uniformed
funeral attendants.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02
You Are My Music
BY ANNE CAMPBELL

VOU are my music, bringing har.
mOny,
With your sweet self. to me;
Ringing clear bells above my busy
days,
Sounding note of praise.
You are my music. When I cease to
hear
The song Of you, so dear,
Then | shall know the time has come
for me
To heed Gods melody.
@by Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02
When Little Girls Show Temper

oarrsom child is sick child health good behavior
hand hand With inner health,
behavior And doesn't smiling faces and dis
helm matters to give bilious positions it's really simple
cathaic to keep chldrens bowels
them for days. When regular The only medicine most
coated dull youngsters need to promote
yeowed other of thorough bowel action Cali
The
that little this fne fruiy laxative never
them their
child real California
of Figs; get it
explained the right: ~ anywhere isn't expensive
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02

Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse. It
was the longest tail for the size OF its
owner that Peter ever had seen. 1t
was more than twice as long as the
body of Nimbleheels, and it was slim
and tapering. AS he looked at 1t Peter
couldn't help wondering how it was
possible for Nimbleheels to make such
very big jumps when he had to take
such long tail as that with him. 1t
was this which led him at last to ask
Nimbleheels If that tail didn't bother
him when he jumped.
Certainly not" declared Nimble-
heels very emphatically. IF didn't
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-03-02
How Welsh Quarry Workers Return to the Village

N/ORKERS at the Craig Dhu slate
W quarries near Merioneth. Wales,
return to the village after their days
labor on ingenious trolleys These CON
sist of an axle. seat, small wheel, and
roller. and the invention, known as
the "cargwylit" (the car that goes).
saves the men long walk down the
mountain side.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
NOW FOR SECOND
STAGE

This is only the first stage of
the strike, however. In this
stage, the surprised pickets are
receiving something like "prO-
lection" from the state forces.
They are encouraged to dump
trucks (Only the trucks of the
Independents are on the rOads).
Soon, however, when the Milk
Trust succeeds in getting rid of
the Independents, it will attempt
to call off the strike. IF THE
FARMERS REFUSE TO LIS
TEN TO THE LYING. WORDS
OF THE TRUST AND THE
PIMA OFFICIALS AND TO
CARRY ON THE STRIKE, the
strike will enter the second
stage.
In the second stage, the state,
the trust, the AAA and the
PIMA officials will fight against
the farmers with force, violence
and trickery. The strike will
BECOME A REAL STRIKE.
The splendid militancy already
shown by the farmers is a sound
guarantee that the farmers will
give a good accounting of them
selves in the second stage, too.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12

the city worker by charging
high prices.
The milk trust and the CO.
operative officials blame the in
dependents for cut-prices in the
city. We say that low retail
prices are not responsible for
the farmers plight. Low retail
prices can be a big help to the
farmer by widening the market
for his milk.
We do not care a tinker's dam
about the independent distribu-
tors. Whether the trust swal-
lows the Independents or the IN
dependents swallow the trust is
all the same to us.
What we must do IS to fight
them both, trust and indepen-
dents. And we can do this by
making a united front with the
city workers, demanding higher
prices to farmers and lower
prices to the city workers.
We must aim at the swollen
profits of the middlemen.
The second stage of the Chi
cagO milk strike will bring vic
tory to the farmers if this
course is followed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
Echo of
Chicago Conference

A couple of days ago one of the
delegates to the Chicago Confer
ence sent US a clipping from a To-
cal Minnesota paper which was a
write-up ian excellent one) On the
Chicago Conference.
There are local papers that are
glad to get and to print such ma
terial. If everyone of the dele
gates to the conference had taken
the same trouble land it would
not have been a big task lust
think of how many farmers would
have learned about the Conference.
Most of our members, and even
our organizers, seem to forget the
possibility of making use of local
newspapers.
The big city journals are dis
tinctly boss class owned and con-
sequently bitterly against us. Thew
will give publicity only to the
takers in the farm movement who
serve to mislead the farmers; but
most Of the local papers are pub.
lished by local people who realize
their dependence upon the farmers
Some of them are openly OF
secretly sympathetic. Or at least
the fact that they are dependent
for support upon the farmers
compels them to give space to eel
of the things We are doing. We
must not forget to use the loca'
papers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
Weekly OrganizatiOnal Letter
ALFRED Farmers

tors, bakers, and so forth have a
hard enough time under the con-
ditions of the crisis. We are well
aware of the fact that they are
not responsible for our deplorable
conditions.
They are victims of our crazy,
robber economic system just as
we are. We hope that they rea-
lie that their interests are the
same as ours rather than the same
as the interests Of the robber
class. That is why we of the
United Farmers League are not
very "hot" for many of the So
called cooperative enterprises that
are fostered by the government
and by high salaried farm leaders
and by so-called progressive and
radical politicians. These COOP
eratives, that are actually not CO.
operatives, merely seek for the
elimination of the small, local
business men in the interests Of
the chains, trusts and monopolies,
1t is at the behest of the "big
boys" that the government lends
its support to the rich farmers
and politician-led and controlled
cooperatives.
Actually we are not against the
small business man. The u. F. l..
however, is the economic organi.
cation of dirt farmers; and Il
would be foolish policy if we
Were to invite or to permit Other
elements to come in and get con,
troll of our organization. What
would the grocers and the doctor,
saw If we wanted to get into Their
organizations, if they knew tina
some of Us did so with the inten
ton of getting control of their or
ganization? Wouldn't they clos.
the doors against us? Of cours,
they would.
1t : the same with us. Amons
businessmen and professional mel
there are scheming politicians. w
must guard against them. W. az
guarded against rich, gentlemen
farmers. We are actually agains
them, though they may be farm
ers of a sort. We etriIra ~ -
the local business and nrofessiora
men who sincerely desire to he'll,
us to understand our position /
this matter. We do not raise
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
Milk Trust Uses
Strike In Its War
OnIndependents
CONTINUED from Front Pagsl

CONTINUED from Front Pagel :
of the Holiday Association and
the Milk Pool. They are the
same type of officials as the
interstate of Penn, or Dairy
League in New York, working
hand in hand with the trust.
II is not hard to discover,
either, the role of the ROOse-
Welt administration in this deal.
Wallace and Davis are just as
anxious to protect the interests
of the big trusts against the in
dependents as were Peek and
King, but they seem too slow
and ineffective to the trust.
Therefore, the trust and the p.
M. A. officials have said, "Now
you lay off and give us a
chance. So the Department of
Agriculture announces eve will
not interfere but will permit the
farmers to get a better price by
their own efforts. if possible
Notice how the hypOcritical A.
A. A. attempts to hide it's work
for the dairy trust behind the
welfare of the farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12

Inc County organizer In his ne
port brought out the fact that
now more than ever before we.
must build our organization. Prices
of farm products are continually
dropping, especially cream prices,
which is the basic cash crop of the
farmers of st. Louis county.
Roosevelt's New Deal has raised
the prices of all commodities that
We buy. Taxes remain on the
same level as before. The govern
ment is levying all kinds of extra
taxes, and a sales taxes aimed di-
rectly at the toiling masses is in
prospect.
The government has been forced
to grant the workers and impov-
erished farmers some relief work
CWA. The reason for this is the
fact that there has been mass re-
bellion of the workers and farm
ers throughout the country in the
past three or four years. Hun
dreds of thousands of workers
and farmers have been marching
to the local, state, and national
governing bodies demanding that
the capitalist government give
them relief.
Realizing that unless something
is done the toilers will revolt and
take the whole government into
their hands. The banker class has
consented to the scanty relief OF
the CWA jobs.
This is only temporary and in
sufficient work and we will see
that those few workers and farm
ers who get this will be as bad of
as before.
Further in the report of the
county organizer we find that the
UFL in this county has pene.
trated among the non-Finnisl
farmers. Many successful meet
ings have been held with all kinds
of farmers participating. TIL
task will be to consolidate this in
fluence into organization by hold
ing. more meetings and actually
building the. UFL.
Many successful struggles have
been carried on since the last con-
ference, held June rs, 1888. A
sheriff sale was prevented in Cool
when 800 farmers compelled thu
attorney representing the credito,
to cancel the alleged debt.
A mortgage foreclosure of a
poor farmers farm at Rice Rive
was prevented. This was dom
merely by issuing 500 leaflet
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
The Local
Business Men

The question has been raised
that we do not accept businessmen
and professional men as members
of the United Farmers League.
From this some businessmen seem
TO conclude that we are against
them. Actually we are not against
the small business men, except IN
instances where some of them
happens to be a mortgage holder
who demands his @pound Of flesh.
from a poor farmer. Such, how
ever, are rare exceptions, and we
do not base our general policy on
exceptional cases.
] Most of the local grocers, doe.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
DEMAND DEATH
FOR RANCHERS
Eight who Shot Down Cot
ton Picker Strikers Face
i'sse Friendly Court

VISALIA, Calif.-The eight. big
ranchers who shot down in cold
blood two striking cotton, pickers
at Pixley in October, went on trial
Jan. 8 before the superior court,
charged with murder.
The Cannery and Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union and the
international Labor Defense have
raised the slogan of demand the
death penalty for the murderers
of Hernandez and Davila."
The union declares that nothing
short Of the death penalty will
prevent a recurrence of the fas-
cist gang rule which the big ranch
ers tried to put into effect during
the cotton pickers strike.
The state is not eager to prose
cute the big ranchers but the
shooting was so barefaced and the
demand of the workers and small
farmers was so insistent that the
state had no other way out.
The two pickers were shot as
they entered the union hall at
Pixley. Twenty-one witnesses are
ready to testify as actual eye.
witnesses of the shooting. How
ever, District Attorney Haight has
not called for them, and the unior
is confident that the state will at
tempt to whitewash the whole af
fair unless the workers and small
farmers force the district attorney
and the court to real action.
With their demands, tht work
ers are also raising the demanC
fer dropping criminal syndicalist
charges against Pat Chambers
the leader of the strike who will
be retired on Feb. 6.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12

Continued from Front Page)
the grass roots" as Peek likes to
say, but will have the support of
the administration leaders.
Wall Street Gives OK.
The Wall Street Journal gives
the approval of Wall Street to the
project. Speaking of the Bank
head bill, the Wall Street Journal
of June 8 says editOTially: "UndeI
ordinary circumstances this would
be highly Objectionable; these
however, are not ordinary times
but seem to justify such meas
ure."
AS one who comes from the
South and who has spent some
time in the farm sections of the
country, your correspondent knows
that what may be Justified" II
the eyes of the Wall Street paper
is not necessarily justified in the
eyes of the farmers. This Bank.
head bill as well as the other pro.
posals for forcing the farmers in.
to line, shows very clearly how
rapidly the NEW Deal" is advanc,
ing along the road of fascism. II
industry, the MIRA is making ev
cry effort to prevent workers from
striking against NRA codes TO,
better conditions. Now in agri
culture the AAA will seek to hans
this starvation program on tn
farmers BY ACTUAL FORCE.
Let the Farmers Speak
Your correspondent could tel
the Washington officials that tn
farmers will refuse to stand 70
it, that they will struggle agains
it. But he would much prefer tina
the farmers do the telling them
selves. He win look forward {,
the reading of the first storms O
protest which the farmers vii
raise to the fascist proposals Of
Bankhea& Roosevelt, Wallace, ct,
al.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
Organizing
Against War

The United Farmers League ID
Roberts county, South Dakota y
setting an example in Orgam1ms
the farmers against war that . ~
serves to be copied Dy The Uni''u
Farmers League in other regions els
as well as BY the other IllH'S"'
farm organizations.
In Roberts county there are :
locals of the United Farmsis,
League. They have set up an S ~.
war committee in each local. -
committee consists of three WIZ
war veterans and three WOa'.
Thus, we are sure, they Obtain /.
combination that embodies q WnO'
hearted hatred of capitalist wan
The veterans know from eApsu
ence what it is to spill Their ~,
and the blood of their aOu =.
farmers in other lands fOI =
glory of Wall Street money ~ wv.
The women know the hearts' !
and the anguish and the tsas !,
a mother, sister, sweetheart ~ 70
wife who is left to dread
grieve for a loved one
For the 81 local cOmniI1es
county committee of Ike oO .sst
sition will be formed. We fs ~.
this this is great work. But 'n q
United Farmers LeagueTs q 81
stop here. They have planned 10 d
work for their committee = Il
Az a first task they are apron co.Dsl
ing every preacher of the , .s tive
to come out openly and .s as't 5.
for or against war, 50 'n1 mi
farmers may learn first .SSsspbsra
thew are harboring any sn'T ock
who propose to lead tnsi. ssv tbss
to destruction. We dare = how
no ruling clique, no m''' !. dat
profit mad, would dare . ..risd
.. ~ !. overv county in the ''pD
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
St. Louis Co. Lays Plans to Build UFL

determine whether these bor.,
go to prison and the WINS Tvss must
children starve. "''eS and
The Main Street GANG I,
~ anxious to convict Tom On eSFp oia
The doctor has a peeyn Eeeney.
Feeney. Others do, too f against
reason or other. 'Or one
Last summer Ravmord
job working at the AntaIo.In mad a
1t Is related that Lem Rno we MIL
the owners Of the mill, tool one e Of
mond aside and told him i'm = nay
would testify that Tom n ne
took the pig out of toc'geney
garage; that the case against StA q
would be dropped. 'S' nm
Raymond told him. mo. vo,,,
not lie to save myself. .UOld
know who took the doctor. , 9Ont
A few days afterward RavUn,s,
lost his Job. though his wor l .
been satisfactory and his We We mao
babies needed the money Is ana
is further related that all sor .t Z !.
propositions have been ms sSs' q
Jack GundersOn to testify on., %
Tom Feeney; it being saiS N% as
Schrupp. the custom Officer Hl y.
toned at RAYMOND, Montana ~ Sss'
positicned Gunderson; and M gte,
County Attorney Hoven has S susI
the same thing, promising n S So
the case against him if he v T,TS
| do this. "Ouia
But Jack Gunderson also soo,.,
the idea. saying that he wo,'Is
not lie a man into prison: bs 'S W.
not know anything about who S C.s
taken the pig. Haa
1t seems also that the PIsn,,
wood Commercial Club has tsE.-
a very active interest in this cs'a
In fact it is general gossiu m Il.
streets that the county attorroT
would have dropped it long aSo
but for the pressure exerted ~ h.
that body. The county has az.
ployed T. w. Greer, at consiSs,
able expense to assist County A.
torrey Hoven prosecute this nin
case, feeling that the Young Conn
ty Attorney was hardly equal IA
the task. !"
The farmers and worker,
of Sheridan county, after >
careful investigation. have decidaS
that this case is a frame-up and
that it is a case of the exploiters
against three Young unfortunats
workers = unemployed workers
who are being prosecuted as >
policv of terrorizing the workers
The workers and farmers feel
that thew carnot allow this to CON
tinue without a protest. 50 a com
nittee went with them to Willis
ton to hire a LAWYER.
Attorney VIM. G. Owens was an
ployed by the Committee to a..
fend the BOYS when their case /
called. Monday afternoon. Jan q
A special United Front De
|, Tense Committee has been Orps
! nized and it is asking the farmer
! and workers to rally to the defend
ants deferse, to help raise tn
. necessary money for the attorne
! fees and expense. and to atten
the trial in mass during this tria
Arrangements have been mad
j that all farmers and workers out
side CT towr can stav at tn,
: Farmer Labor Temple during tn
. term of court if thew so desire.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
ROLE OF INDEPENDENTS

The high salaried officials of
the dairy "COOperatives" have
always attempted to persuade
the farmers that it is the indie
pendent distributors, not the
milk trust, which is responsible
for the low prices paid the
farmers.
This is untrue. The main
enemy of the milk farmers is
and will be the milk trust. But
all middlemen, big and little, ex-
plot the farmer through pay
ing him low prices, and exploit
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
SOVIET AMBASSADOR
PAYS CALL ON STATE
DEPARTMENT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D. c. Alex
ander Troyanovsky, new Soviet
ambassador to the United States,
called upon Acting Secretary of
State Phillips Monday morning,
less than "a hours after his an
rival in WASHINGTON. The purpose
OF the call was to arrange formal
tiles for the presentation Of Gre
dentials to Roosevelt at the White
House.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
STRIKE OF CALIFORNIA
DAIRY WORKERS BEGINS

LOS ANGELES.-The strike Of
the workers in the large diaries in
this area. led by the milk section
of the Food Workers Industrial
Urion. began January 6 with the
strikers picketing dairy plants.
TIE strikers demand union rec
IGNITION and a minimum wage Of
sos a month for single men ard
S85 a month for married men,
with one day off a week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
DR.. StOrkan'S Pig
Comes Into Court
CONTINUED from Front Page)

tContlnueo from crOnI 6Sse(
TO get a case, though a pig case.
Afterwards Sheriff Madser and
Policeman Rookie. went to Ray
m6nd's house and arrested him,
charging him with first degree
burglary-penalty. one to five
years. Then they also arrested Tom
Feeney and Jack Gunderson, too,
fer good measure, though these
mer, had neither a pig nor tracks
leading to their homes on the
some charge. O'Toole's pig was
never taken from him. o..
They were all arraigned before
his honor, Justice Belanski, when
! they waived examination and were
held to the District Court for trial.
; Bonds were filed in the sum of
$4,000. Later the trio were re-
arrested or, petit larceny charge,
but were never arraigned or tried.
The pig is estimated as worth
about $4.19 in gold. Later Hoven
changed his mind ard informed on
some other charge. The case was
on and off and off and on for the
whole year. Then the boys were
filed against again for burglary
ard are now up finally for trial in
District Court.
This $4.19 pig is going to cost
taxpayers a pretty penrv before
the curtains run down on TIE
comedy.
But tho this NAV seem comedy
it is no joke to the Mainetreeters
and they are prosecuting in dead
earnest. 1t is no joke to the de-
PENDANTS who are being prosecuted
for they have no money and are
in danger Of their liberty.
Yes. Main Street seeks to
throw these boys into jail as n
threat to the hungry workers.
and farmers of PlentywOOd and
Sheridan county. If Main Street
has its way, it would pilIOry
these workers to "make an ex-
ample of Them" as they would
say. Their purpose is to throw
the fear of their Claw and order"
into the ranks of the destitute,
struggling unemployed. With
this trial. Main Street wishes to
say. "Stay in your places, you
buns. No matter how hungry
you are, no matter yhOw badly
you need food the sacred prop
erty of Main Street must not he
touched"
Here are some facts:
The defendants are poor unem
ploYed workers. All these bows
grew up and went to school i
Plentywood. Jack Gunderson ha
wife and a baby about two year
old. Tom Feeney is single. Ray
mond OToole, the uncle of tn
brave little bov who lost his arm
few DAYS ago, is a Young mar
with Young wife and two babies
a boy of three years ard a gin
baby seven or eight months. Gle
They have had very little wor
for months. Last winter they wer
all on relief. Now they face tn
prison. and the young wives an
babies face misery and disgrac,
over a pig, the sacred property G
Main Streeter.
Such is the farce of things a
they are.
The case aginst O'Toole is yer
weak. There seems to be no cas-
against the other two defendant
at all. But these destitute voun
men must face the court. The
must provide a lawyer to defen,
themselves. and meri have been ca
led from all parts of the county I
sit solemnly on this pig case, an
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12

to ccrle before the reSt Natl'nai
Executive Committee mee-lag la
decision, and the decision to DC
ratified in the national convention
of the membership of the United
Farmers LEAGUE.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-12
Mass Circulation for New
Farmers Weekly Stressed
at County-wide Conference
Call for Demonstration january IL to Demand Dropping
\ of Charges Against County Secretary Tanttla,
Arrested In Milk Strike
BY RENO TANTTILA'

CHERRY, Minn.-A county conference of the United
Farmers League held here at which the delegates laid
plans for building the UFL of ST. Louis county into real
mass organization of the toilng farmers.