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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
Sentiment for Cash Relief
IN County IS Growing

Gren a more balanced diet. People
needing doctor and dental care
must be taken care of.
10 practically COMPEL everybody
OH leliet TO travel all the way to
kientywood to get heir small or
der, as has been done lately, is an
unnecessary expense and hardship,
and is locked upon by most people
as being done for the purpose Of
swinging the bulk of relief bust
ness to che or two big chain stores
and discriminate against the small
businessmen, which the relief set
up has done from very start.
While ]. c. Penney company gets
$4,000 or more per year in relief
orders, the little store next door
don't get a penny. That's the way
it works out and there is absolute
ly nothing fair abou' it.
4 That cash relief could be given
out with much less red tape, and
would do all the people much more
good can not be denied. People on
relief would be able to take advant-
age of bargains, could buy where
ever they wanted to, get more for
their money and dis ribute the
busir ess more evenly.
T. In the county there is at the
present time a nearly solid senti-
ment in favor of cash relief. The
U.F.L. long ago started the fight
and now pet ions are being circu,
lated among all businessmen anC
professionals in the county in favor
of cash relief.
From reports we are getting i
is evident that practically every
, body is moe than willing to sign
The few who have refused ar
, those who figure hey are getting
, their share; that others don't ge
anything at all is something the,
don't care about. Some people ar
! that way.
: After the petitions have bee
! completed they will be forwarde
: to the proper authorities in Helen
! and Washington, D. c. 'N
! The only objection to cash relic
we have heard is, that a few peopl
would blow it all into card game
= and beer and let the family suffe1
In cases of that kind the relic;
|. should be given to the wife eithe
n in cash or kind
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
LEGION CHIEF FIGHTING
.MCOMMUNISTIC MENACE

BILLINGS, Aug. O.-Edward A. Hayes
national commander of the American Lee
zion, in his speech before the Montana con-
vention here called for war against the
t'communistic menace
'"The men and women who fought to
preserve our government must continue
their efforts in peace time against the in
roads of radical elements which are teach
ing strange tenets and advocating tearing
down of those fundamental principles upon
which our nation has progressed" said
Hayes. He also placed plenty of emphasis
on the necessity of universal military ser
vice in war time. Getting the boys ready
again, seems to be his speciality.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
STRIKES IN 5 INDUSTRIES VOTED
BY TEXTILE CONVENTION

p. NEW YORK.-The United Textile
Workers Convention in it's concluding hours
voted to strike in the silk, rayon, wooden
and worsted industries in addition to the
cotton textile industry. Date for the walk
outs in these industries is left to the execu-
I've boards of the union departments and
the executive board of the sU.T.W. In the
cotton textile industry convention earlier
voted instructing the board that it must
call the cotton textile strike before Sept. 1.
In all approximately $4,000 textile
workers are involved. rra .-t..
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
AT Mccoy MINE u. S.
ALWAYS BEHIND FIVE
WEEKS PAYING WAGE
By a Workers Correspondent


There are about Is mer working
for the United S ates government
at the Mccoy mine, seven miles
northwest of Plentywood, trying to
put out the fire in the mine. In
paying these men the U. S. Treas
urv is Sc ting a splendid example
of the governments Blue Eagle
policy.
It is hard work and the men are
getting so cents per hour. at least
they are supposed to get it. But
the U. S. Treasury is always five
weeks in he arrears paying these
men their hard earned wages. They
are working 80 hours for SIS which
they get after they have shaved
sc days.
The wages are low enough as it
is but for five weeks not even
paying the men their $1F certain
~ is an outrage. Appart ntly the
government is 'rying to earn five
weeks more ints rest on this money
For this mine the wages for fivt
weeks amount tob$1,350 and if the
government is making this a prac-
tice for all its work projects it
amounts to quite lot of money
No private enterprise would ge'
awav with such a practice; the
workers most certainly would pull
strike. But the government
MIRA or no MIRA. is always takins
advantage Of he miserable position
Of the worker.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
GERMANS vote" UNDER
BAYONETS

BERLIN, Aug. 19.-Extronoo
and in many places brutal violence ZERO, 1eLrOr
the fraudulent pebiscite TODAY in ,,h marked
man voters were threatened r. vo+ toiV aIS yer
Tor Che proposition that Hitler is To bo ~
Relchstuehrer, the supreme dictator If ~ r me
many. Prisoners in the Nazi concenfro Ger-
camps, at the point of bayonetS ''@IlOn
forced to declare their approval of His were
So vicious have been the fb.,
against the voters, that the entire canit tesOs
world was forced beforehand to ac gI-O'lSt
edge that whatever official results Tl'aO%l-
announced, they must be consideroJ hoy 10y, De
less either as evidence of the actnoI To Nt
acSt, or of the confidence of +bo $500 S vote
people in Hitler. 'erlnan
In order to prevent voters from us;ru
their ballot to protest fascism or to writ ing
their vote for Ernst Thaelmann Tho n.I !!
polling officials allowed the voters onl,, -0 %
seconds in which to mark their ballot Hu ~
numbers of armed police, picked s rtuse
troops and secret police were surron MIN
the polling places to terrorize workers T,O'iig
Voters who were afraid to vote .eNos
and preferred to express their onnosit;O,
by remaining away from the po GIGIPOT waSa
transported to the polling places n mv,e
Nazi guards. The National letting S'G u
cIared a few days before the VOTING toOE
place: ''e VOOk
Anyone staying at home on the dow
OF election is an enemy of the state 10y 01
August 19 all houses will be searched for e..
such enemies of the state"
lnspite of all the most brutal terror
according to the official Nazi count mOr,
than 100000 German workers mad
known their opposition against the blood,
Hitler regime. Hundreds of Thousand
made their ballots invalid by writing in tn
name of Ernst Thaelmann or slogans lik
"Down With Fascism." 1889 ,71O votes
were cast; $780, 6O voted eyes" SS4
654 voted 'No", and 872,29O ballots wer
declared invalid.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
FOOD RIOTS INCREASE
IN JAPAN

TOXIC, Aug. 2O.--A steep rise in the
number of food riots of starving peasants
is reported from many parts of Japan. ne
Gently in the villages of Depima and kOk
uten, where the flood added to the mlSely
of the peasants, thousands of peasants az
tackled 600 police and firemen.
The police and firemen were sent ln~
the village to pump water out Of CERTAIN
places, and in doing so they flooded EHs
homes and the lands of the peasants. lG'
villagers of Hida-Mura and from other ",
lagos attacked by police with OamO% y,
poles. Kuwashima village is isolated IIOm
the world and over 1000 people are sIarS
ing. r-rt 3'~'I'' se -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
MILWAUKEE RELIEF WORKERS
ATTACKED WITH GAS

4 MILWAUKEE, Aug. O.-The picket line
If more than 500 relief workers around the
federal project was attacked by bands of
deputies who tried to dispense the strikers
with a barrage of tear gas. However, the
attack was quite unsuccessful when the
workers picked up the gas bombs and threw
them back, They followed up their coun-
ster-attack with plenty OF rocks and stones
higher wages, And that they are subjected
Ito gas attacks in socialist controlled city
lis no longer news.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
Is KIDS IN FARM
STRIKE EVICTED
BY CORPORATION

M'GUFFEY, Ohio. = Forty-two
Scioto onion strikers, including %
children and two expectant moth
ers, were sleeping in bitches along
state highways in a drizzing rain
af er sheriff's deputies served an
eviction order on workers who
were living in company-owned
shacks.
Their new "homes" were made
possible by the fact that although
corporation farms own practically
all the land in the vicinity of the
marshes, the state-owned land by
he main highways was available.
Mrs. Maude Wilson, a widow,
and her six children, occupied a
small tent-the only one along the
road. Other families tried to build
rude shelters with pieces of linol-
cum and burlap.
County officials have made no
plans to shelter the evicted strik-
ers. or the multitudes who are to
follow them, although the eviction
cases have been pending for sew
eral weeks. Allen Ochs county re-
lief director, stated that the next
move was up to the county com
missioners.
Meanwhile, the strikers are also
trying to fight the growers thru
the courts. A warrant has beer
sought for the arrest of Allen Ed
Wards, Scioto Land Co. manager
who is said to have ordered the
garden of Ben Corhin, a striker
moved down. Clayborn Chalfin
ano'he grower, was arrested ant
released on bond for contributing
to the delinquency of a minor. HI
induced a 15-year old girl to rul
awav from home and live with an
other family in order that she
might work as a strike breaker
strikers claim. The warrant wa
sworn out by her parents.
Viril Baldwin, manager for an
olher grower, picked up two boys
IL and IL years of age, and in
duced them to return to work b
telling them that their parents ha
ordered them to go to work, it
e alleged. He is being held on tw
{ charges Of abduction.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
SEPT. Is LAST DAY
FOR CROP LOANS


BOHEMIAN, Mont. Aug. 21-The
Farm Credit Administration will
accept applications for crop loans
for general purposes, for summer
following, or for the purchase of
winter seed wheat, rye or barley
in drought areas, until September
Is, according to word received
here. The time limit for accepting
applications for summer following
loans outside the drought areas has
also been moved up to Sept. Is.
The Sept. Is cutoff date does
rot apply to the loans which are
being made in the drouth areas for
the purchase of feed for livestock
or for the purpose Of moving live
stock to new pasture and range
lands.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
MO. FARMERS BEAT UP LAWYER
AT TAX SALE

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Mo-, Aug. IS
Charles L. Waugh, lawyer from st. Louis,
thought he could buy some cheap farms
when 13 farm properties were to be sold at
a tax sale here. He was representing
committe of drainage district bondholders.
Farmers were bidding in their own prop
critics for the cost and when Waugh offered
higher bids he was severely beaten and
made to leave the sale.
The sale proceeded as scheduled. The Pemi-
scot county prosecutor stated that no
charges had been filed and none of the men
who attacked the attorney could be identi-
fled
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
FINANCIAL CRISIS DEEPENS
IN FRANCE

PARIS.-French tax receipts dropped
1,552,OOO,0O0 francs below estimates during
the first six months of 1884 1t is pre-
dicted France viii face a 3,OO0,OOO,0OO
franc deficit at the end of 1884. Sharp
falling off of foreign trade, increased un-
bankruptcies have plunged the country into
a worse crisis of capitalism than any hith-
efto experienced. The breakdown of French
capitalism is accompanied by the growing
strength of working class organizations
manifest in the growing united front Of
Communists and Socialists against war and
fascism.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23

By Hans Rasmussen


Inspite of some changes made in
the administration the old county
1elief set-up did not work ve4y
sa isfactory. We all know this.
The changes made lately have per-
haps in some cases affected that
relief is being handed out little
more impartial and a little more
freely, but may other things that
need correc ion are being left
alone.
That the people who are sent
here to straighten out the tangle
should feel a little superior, and
sometimes act that way, and
little snippy, is very natural when
we consider the swell cars thev are
Giving and the amount of cash re-
lief that is handed out to them each
month.
We don't envy them the salary
they are get ing. But, if they were
asked just why they were entitled
to ten times as much as they are
handing out to others, and why
they should have cash relief while
others were ge' ting orders it would
be a rather hard question for them
to answer.
These people might feel and act
bit superior, but they are just
ordinary people, maybe trained t.
handle the job, but not as able tc
handle it as farmers and workers
who are themselves on relief coulC
do because the latter understands
the local situation and the condi
tons of people who need relief.
Miss Hansen, who had been pro
NOTED from matron in the Grea
Falls jail, to a superior relief joI
with high salary, asked Dagma
farmer one day, "Why don't yo'
raise a garden?" To her tn
farmer did not have garden be
cause he was too lazy to plant one
Just how he would be able to rails
a garden under drought condition
when he had not been able to rails
enough wheat to feed chicken,
something Miss Hansen shout
have studied up on before she too
the job.
Then there was the mother wn
was told that the children didn
need shoes, they could go bare
footed. Going barefooted is some
thing that probably Miss Hanse
and many of the rest of US hay
enioyed once upon a time. b
she never went barefooted in
country where every foot Of cult
waited land is covered with Russia
thistles and the prairie dotted wit
cactus.
That a case worker tried to sns
a farmer off by telling him th'
if he could buy gasoline for his C;
to 90 is town he could just as we
buy clothes, only shows the Lao
of understanding on her part. Ho
, would she like to walk 40 miles
town or drive starved team tn
: distance
The main points of the reii
question haven't been considered
far. The doctor and nurse n
ported 284 school children in t
county suffering from malnutriti'
and nothing has been done abo
it. Carloads of fruit and vegetabl
must be brought in here and di
tributed freely, giving 70 the oh
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
COWBOYS USE BLOW
TORCHES TO SECURE
FEED FOR LIVESTOCK

BOHEMIAN, Aug. 21.-From the
Montana. State College comes the
report that cowboys in part of
Texas and New Mexico now carry
blow torches with them when they
go out on the range. They use
the torches TO burn the sharp
spines off the cactus so cattle can
get this unusual "feed."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
TWO ONE-YEAR SENTENCES FOR
PICKETING, NAZI CONSULATE 81

e PHILADELPHIA Savage sentences
of one year each were given here last week
to Ben Gardner, section organizer of the
Communist, Party, and to James Wilson,
Negro worker, for picketing the Nazi con
sulate. -Four women defendants in the
same case were sentenced to six months
each. 80 gsSe
The international Labor Defense is Or
ganizing mass and legal campaign around
the appeal of these cases, to smash the
court terror in support Of the Nazi fascist
regime. 49, $500
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
} CCC BOYS BURNED
TO DEATH 49,

i SPOKANE Three young C.C.C. work
Sers were killed today while working to ex-
tinguish roaring forest fires in Idaho and
California. In fire that wiped out sew
eral towns, Leroy McGinnis of Kewanee,
ILL.,, and Lester Johnson, of Galesburg, ILL.,,
were burned to death in northern Idaho.
William Madison, Fl, was killed in fire
near Nevada City, Calf.
All three were overcome by falling
snags, charred and weakened by. the flames
which crushed the boys to the ground.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
CALL FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by
the Raymond School District No.
Fl I'D to 6 p. m. Sept. Is to fur
nish coal for the five (5) schools
for the coming year.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
22-3tc L. G. Budke, Clerk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
FARM LABORERS WIN STRIKE
FOR BACK PAY

ss os STOCKHOLM, Aug. 16.-The agriCuL
tural laborers in ,Hedas have gained com
plete victory by their strike Inspite Of the
prohibition issued by the leaders of the re-
formist union, these workers came out on
strike, demanding payment of wage arrears
Despite the negotiations the employers
endeayored to impose compromise, and
were supported by the committee Of the
union IN The workers rejected this comprO.
mise and carried the strike to a successful
end. 4. .t
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
LIEBKNECHT MURDERER is PROSE-
CUTOR IN, NAZI PEOPLES COURT"

aa@ BERLIN, Aug. 16.-The true charao
ter of the Peoples Court" could not be
more trenchantly illustrated than by the
fact that DR.. Jorns, the man proved to
have supported the murderers Of Karl Lie
bknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, has been aP
pointed first public prosecutor to this court
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASES
359, 900 DURING JULY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18-During the
month of July $4,000 workers have been
thrown out of their jobs and weekly wages
have decreased $1O,5OO,O0 the Department
Of Labor announced today.
While factory employment decreased
per cent between June and July, payrollS
dropped 6.8 per cent during the same time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
100 SPANISH RECRUITS SING
INTERNATIONAL"

MADRID, Aug. 19-In OviedO q dsa s.
onstration was organized by 100 recrsS S.2
who had just been called. They marcllss
past the town hall singing the "lntel aa
tional," and demonstrating for conlpeLS"d
ton for the loss of working wages incufr''
by the mastering.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-23
A man visited a farm.

A man visited a farm.
whats that? 2" he asked.
"That's wheat" said the farmer.
whats that ?" asked the man.
"That's corn" said the farmer.
whats that ?" asked the man.
"That's barley" said the farmer.
And what is Jour business?"
"I'm a federal crop expert" re-
piled the man.-Exchange.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13
A N E DIT o R A L

must be kept at high level No scabs must be
permitted to enter the struck mills; neighborng
mills now operating or which attempt to operate
must be closed down This is necessary not only
to maintain the effectiveness of the strike, but also
to maintain the morale of the strikers.
The fighting spirit of the workers can only be
kept up when they confident that their strike
is spreading that it is gaining strength that victory
is assured
The strike involving 100000 workers, which no
longer spreads which suffers breaks in the strike
front. which loses its militancy which permits itself
to be transformed into an endurance contest with
the bosses, is certain to end in defeat for the
workers.
The Communist Party therefore emphasizes the
need of spreading the strike until it becomes 100
per cent effective until every mill in every branch
of the industry Cotton, WOOL silk, rayon, hosiery
carpets, etc) is shut down tight.
And the only way by which the strike can be
spread, the militancy and determination of the
strikers maintained and victory assured. is by con-
tinuing and further extending the work of flying
squadrons, marches, and mass picket lines
The counter policy of German Peel IL Co. is
policy which would lead to the defeat of the strike
to still further speedup and to still greater slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13

CHOULD the use of flying squadrons, mass picket
lines and mass marches be stopped in the tex
tile strike?
If they stopped, what would be the effect
on the strike; how would such decision influence
the chances of victory?
If they are to be continued. what must the
workers do to protect themselves from the criminal
violence of company thugs, local police, state troop
ers and state militiamen2
These are burning questions Of strategy In the
present nation wide textile strike
few days ago Mr. Francis J. German, the
U.TW strike leader answered the first question in
the affirmative, that flying squadrons and
marches be stopped, when he ordered the New Eng
land workers not to march Lawrence. He gave
the justification for his order "a desire to avoid
violence"
On Tuesday, John Peel, Southern UTW strike
director, following the lead of Mr.. German ordered
the flying squadrons ito disperse and not resume
activity" AS his reason he gave out the following;
Il knew if they did not dispense it meant
slaughter. issued the order because had every
reason to believe that the flying seuadrons would
be practically annhated."
1t is clear, both from Germans action against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13

1000 silk workers, almost 40 per
cent of them women,
The objective of the march was
to show solidarity with the silk
strike, and particularly to organize
to close down the large Duplan silk
mill here. How deep-going is the
sentiment for the strike can be seen
in the fact that not only was or
gained labor solid in the parade,
but beside them marched the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, the Ameri-
can Legion of McAdoo, Pa, the
Hazelton Heights Fire Company
and other organizations. A con-
tingent of unemployed workers,
marching behind the banner Of the
Unemployed League. received great
applause from the thousands Of BY
ISLANDERS, who damned the main
street to watch the parade.
Ninety-two per cent of the silk
workers here are out on strike. with
every expectation that the few still
remaining in the mills will be pulled
out before the end of the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13

QUT the question still remains: How can the work
- ers meet the violence of the mill owners Of
their hired thugs, police and militia?
The first point is this: The responsibility for
the violence rests squarely the mill owners and
on the local, state and federal authorities The
workers, in not one instance, have attacked police
troopers or militia.
In every case, in both the Northern and South
ern textile areas, provocative attacks have been
made by hired company thugs, riff raft from the
underworld pressed into service by the BOSSES and
then, to maintain 'law and order" the police
troopers and militia are called out 10 disperse the
strikers, who charged with responsibility for
the rioting and the violence started by company
agents. This has become the recognized strike
breaking technique.
The workers from the outset entirely within
their rights. They have the recognized right dn
words to strike, to assemble, to picket They have
the right to persuade other workers to join their
strike to aid them in the fight for improved condi-
tons
Flying squadrons. mass marches and mass picket
lines merely the most effective methods of
exercising the rights of the workers They are the
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