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Evening star., 1934-07-15
SIX TOURISTS STRICKEN
Five in Family Critically III of
Ptomaine Poisoning.

UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio. July
IA pa family of six, touring from
its home in Brooklyn, N. Y, to Los
Angeles, was stricken in a tourist
camp with ptomaine poisoning 6
miles east OF here today. Two
daughters we're in critical condition
The family was composed of Mr.
and Mrs. Nathan Weinthrup and four
children, Rose. l6; Mildred. u, and
Bernard and Carl. whose ages were
not learned
DR.. F, A Walton, who made the
diagnosis, said the attack was caused
by chicken sandwiches the family
mad eaten
Evening star., 1934-07-15
Malnutrition Found.

One-fifth the children recently ex-
amined in Newcastle-on- Tyne, Eng
land, were found TO be suffering from
malnutrition.
Evening star., 1934-07-15
EMERGENCY PLANS
FOR FOOD SUPPLIES
LAID IN WALK0UT

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1934-07-15
COMPANIES Can Help.

The unions cannot be compelled to
deal independently of one another.
The steamship companies cannot be
compelled to agree to arbitrate.
The steamship companies can help if
they could agree now on basis Of
arbitration. should collective bargain
ing with duly-elected representatives
Evening star., 1934-07-15

Continued From First Psge)
Evening star., 1934-07-15

the municipal boundaries but said the
State would be glad to cooperate"
with city officers II requested TO do so.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
RAILROAD PROFITS
JUMP III PER CENT.
UNDER NEW DEAL
Companies Announce Is
Per Cent Wage Cut to
Start June q

WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The
net railway operating income of
the Class l railroads in January
amounted to $SO,931, 205 as COM
pared with $1S,5s5,O10 for the
same month of 1888. This amounts
to an increase of 1877 per cent,
the Bureau of Railway Economies
announced last week.
Despite the fact that the roads
have received hundreds of millions
Of dollars from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and have cut
expenses more than 200 million
dollars largely at the expense of
the workers and of public safety
the Railroads have announced
again an increase Of the present
10 per cent wage cut to is per
cent by June 81.
The leading railroad presidents
are receiving nm average salary Of
100000 per year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
SCHOOL TEACHERS
SEE NO HOPE IN.
SYSTEM
Adopt Principles But Say
Nothing How to Realize
Them

CLEVELAND-What must come
as revelations to many a teacher
in this country was voted upon by
the Schoolmasters Club here, when
the members of this organization
of educators denounced capitalism
and requested the formation of a
strong vigilant, militant organiza-
ton" for teachers.
Clyde r. Miller, Of Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University analized
the present system of capitalism
and the club endorsed the "12
Axioms" he had outlined.
In these principles, or axions as
he calls them, Miller demanded
that there should be national con-
troll of industry and the means Of
life." However, he forgets to state
in whose hands shis control should
be placed. Only if those who toll
those who make all the wealth We
should enjoy, only when the work
ers and farmers have the contro
of industry and all the other mean.
of production in their hands vii
the great masses of people benefi
by it.
Miller also fails to outline hov
his IL principles could be realized
This question he leaves entirely
unanswered. And this question
the most important one.
In his speech Miller said: cit
time to let the youngsters in tn
schools know that they can hav
enough to eat without charity, an
can get jobs with living wage
, under a new economic orde
Hasn't it become the respon sibilit
Z of teachers to begin instructing IL
; pupils of the need for a new &c,
Inomic order instead of continuir
q to preach the gospel of Capita
. ism?"
: The following IL principles we
= adopted by the Club.
IL Principles Adopted
: 1. Life is worth living. IF
isn't we ought to stand the uner
4 ployed up and shoot them or ]
f them starve> as our financial
: terests now blandlv permit.
: 2. To sustain life we need a
+ water. food and clothing. I 81
rect that if some of our banke
a could get a corner on air and S
= it they would gladly let some
, CONTINUED on Page two) ].
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
Unitey League Fights on
United Front Basis, IS
& join League

Up IN the north fringe settle
ment in Saskatchewan, where the
farms are small and new and crop
land has to be hewed out of the
bush and scrub, the homesteaders
never had a chance to get ga start"
before the crisis came.
Shacks that were put up in
haste as temporary shelters for
two or three persons are still hous-
ing families which have increased
in size and number. eee
It is a common thing to find
farm houses with no bread, nc
sugar, no meat, and none of the
little things that have to be bought
at the store to make proper cook
ing possible. In spite Of fertile
soil and average rain fall the des-
titution is terrible ON account Of
the very little land under cultiva
ton and bounding Of the creditors
Without organization or previous
experience in dealing with sucl
situations the settlers up to nov
have suffered in silence as best
thev could.
The locality around Spiritwood
is MIXED HUNGARIAN. French Ca
madam and other nationalities ant
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
ARCHER LOCALS OF
UFL and HOLIDAY
MEET ON MARCH 29
Meeting VIII Voice De-
n1ands for Feed; Dance
on Friday

ARCHER, March 22-The United
Farmers League, the Farmers
Holiday Association and all other
farmers of the Archer community
will come together in a meeting
at Archer, on Thursday, March 20
at 2 p. M, it was announced today
by Hans Harcersen, secretary Of
the UFL, and by Emil Moe, presi-
dsnt of the Holiday Assn.
The meeting will be held with
the key-man Of the community to
YSicc demands for feed for starv-
ing cattle and horses, and for re-
lief of the farmers in that terri
tory. The secretaries are calling
upon all farmers to attend this
meeting. eff you need relief come
ard help to get it; don't let live.
stock starve when feed is being
destroyed" they state.
All will enjoy the dance with ole
time music that takes place FRIDAY
evening. Lunch will also be served
Everybody help to get a big turn
out.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
PENN. FARMERS
FORCE MORTGAGE
LAY-OFF SALE
Government Representative
Unwittingly Gives Farmer
Some Good Advise
By a Farmer Correspondents

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Here ID
a good story on the government
One of the farmers in Lehigh
county in Pennsylvania was about
to be foreclosed. Another farmer
held the mortgage, rich farmer.
The poor farmer with a large fam
lily and about to lose his home,
went to the government represen-
tative to apply for a loan. The
representative advised the farmer
to go down to Bucks county where
there was a farm organization
called the United Farmers Pro-
tective Association, and get them
to help him.
So this farmer, who had never
heard of the U. F. p. A., drove
Gown to the headquarters. The
farmers in the UFPA told him to
go back and get all his reighboIs
together and that they should go
as a large committee and demand
that the mortgage holder not fore
close. This, TIE farmer did. He
was a Pennsylvania Dutchman and
all his neighhors were too. An
onf of his neighbors was a nephew
of the farmer who was foreclosir e
"Rut when a farmers home is tt
Re saved, relations don't count
was the attitude of this nephew.
So two carloads full of farmer,
went to visit TIE rich mortgage
holder. Tney had been reighbor
| for years. They filed into hi
house. He trembled somewhat, blu
said he was determined to go thrr
with the sale.
So the farmer comittee TOLD hir
that they were going out to mo
bilize all the farmers and proven
this sale from taking place. The
reminded the mortgage holder O
the other cases in PennsyNani;
where farmers had prevented sale
from taking place. Thew also IL
formed him that row the Unite
Farmers Protective Associate
was backing them up.
Two hours later, the lawyer {
TIE mortgage holder informed ii
a lawyer. through whom the farmer
were officially filing an apple;
G ton for a stay of sale, that if Il
farmers were really going to tai
f actor the MORTGAGE holder wou
. not opnose the stay.
Y Farmers all over are hearing
f what they can 90 through organ
cation.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23

All preparations had been made
by the insurance company to legal
ly steal 800 bushels of corn, the
1882 crop of Hankins, at the chat
tel mortgage sale. But the farm
ers led by the Nebraska Holiday
Association madison Co. Plan),
had made preparations, too, ana
when the sheriff arrived and saw
a large crowd of determined farm
ers he never stopped. He just
turned around and went back to
town to talk things over with the
district attorney.
The farmers and their wives
waited patiently for the sheriff to
return and hold the sale. The mill
tant Holiday songs were sung, and
the literature agent was spreading
the Farmers Weekly, but still no
sheriff. The committee of action
called the meeting to order to de-
eide what to do about the corn.
Lived There Is Years
If the sale had gone through the
farmers would undoubtedly have
bid it in for a few cents. 1t was
learned that Mr.. Hawkins had lived
on his farm for Is years and had
always paid his debts until now,
when none of US can pay. A vote
was taken as to what action should
follow, and it was unanimously de-
cided to haul the corn away.
/ eff they arrest one of us, then
they must arrest all OF as" said
a farmer, and this plan was unani-
mously accepted.
About this time, some one no
ticed prospective bidder, of large
physical proportions in the crowd.
A small farmer approached him
and said, "You don't want any Of
this corn" The bidder guessed he
was right and went home.
i New ShOveling Record
The men made a new record in
S shoveling corn, and in a short time
a caravan of trucks were loaded
s The Hankins family was not at
e home, but the Holiday women went
e to the kitchen and prepared lunch
d Soon the corn had disappeared anC
s the Holiday farmers went home.
r. Soon after the last family haC
Y gone, the sheriff and four deputies
e were out, driving from farm to
J. farm, trying to intimidate farm
g ers, and trying to get the names o
l. the farmers who were present. N
one seemed to know a thing abou
re it, however. One farmer answere
eff you were so anxious to kno0
who was there, why didn't you sto
it in while the crowd was present
n This demonstration of mass az
ct tion is only one of many in whic
n the organized farmers of this se'
ton are showing that self prese,
If, walton, and not profits for the il
s. surance companies, is the rigl
rs guide.
Ell Convention at Grand
of GRAND ISLAND. Nehr.-TH
Continued on page p
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
Canadian Farmers Demand
Food, Organize, in i. F. U. L.

national differences and religious
affiliations have helped to keep the
farmers from getting together.
Secure Full Organizer
But in few short weeks all that
is changed. The limit of endurance
has been reached and some of the
more militant spirits got together
and secured the services of an or
ganizer Of the Farmers Unity
League who speaks Hungarian.
A few small meetings where the
farmers were shown how 70 pro-
coed, a large mass meeting to
bring the whole community TO-
gether. and a delegation was ap-
pointed to present to the next
council meeting a statement Of
cases where relief is needed for the
destitute families.
It has already been decided that
If the necessary food, clothing and
shoes are not forthcoming as q
result of the delegation's represen-
tations, the women and children as
well as the men concerned win
present themselves at the council
room some day in the near future.
This is the kind Of united front
action that counts. There still re-
mains the task Of drawing French
speaking farmers within the scope
of the movement and this should be
done in the course Of the struggle.
Ffftv-five farmers have joined
the Full there as the result Of the
organizing Of this struggle.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
MUNITIONS PLANT
EXPLOSION KILLS a

DOVER, N. J., March ga
terrific explosion, reminiscent
of the deadly blasts in munition
factories during wartime, yes
terdav blew at least four work
ers to bits, shattered a huge
hall of the Hercules Powder
Co., rocked towns and broke
windows five miles away.
The explosion occurred at 2:1S
yesterday in the dynamite shell
loading plant where men were
loading powder into paper cart
ridges with a dynamite pack
ing machine.
The H@Cnles Powder Co. Is
one Of the largest muniticn
plants in the country now bene-
fitting from the huge munitions
orders given By the war-making
Roosevelt government.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
By a FreAeA Peassn4
Correspondent

:. tKANCE.--I am the owner Of .
s8e farm $40 hectares, including
,9fest land, in the commune Of
SSOut-Subtn (YOta-Garot). In 1917
e amount of land taxes was SO
lancs. In 1888, S39 francs. AS
I0O see, the taxes increased six
Snes, and the farm products get
lover prices.
Eor fire insurance and all other
TIcs Of insurance at $4,000 francs,
nave to pay a premium of 200
s 1sIcs a year Besides the live
0ck and other expenses amount
over 600 francs a year. The
s ssoie turnover. amounts to $500
WV francs a year. Thus, after
:. sesf Of obstinate work, the peas,
~s can hardly succeed In makins
s lus meet. All the earnings gt
~, epings up an army Of trad
nav. ana an. apparatus of govern
merit officials
u,a ne bourgeois newspaper Of on
s0n.a "Petit-Jiroud' is floodinr
Hs,lWestern France with al
s.aGS OF living stories aho,,t IN
p urion. as starvation.
b,.. Labor" ETC., telling fair
ms.sl N order to conceal those trt
"0Ous achievements which ext.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
FINDS HUNGER ISLAND
"SWELL FOR PLEASURE"


She said she found the children
in less serious condition than she
had expected, and declared herself
veyy much pleased and surprised
that the Porto Rican workers kept
themselves clean. The vast ma
jority of the Porto Rican toilers
live in one room "Hooverville
shacks; the children are chronical-
ly undeInourished, ard almost all
of them suffer permanently from
hook worm, which cannot be eraai-
Gated because they cannot afford
shoes to protect them from being
infected with these parasites from
the ground.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23

SAN. JUAN, Puerto Rico, Mar,
is. -sThis island has wonderful
possibilities for pleasure, I'M SO
sorry can't stay longer" said
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she
got ready to leave this island OF
starvation, disease, and misery.
ooh, no, III have no recommen-
dations to make, that's not my
province she declared after a
weeks stay in this island whose
inhabitants are rotting away, be-
ing choked by American imperial
ism, which. drains the sland Of all
its resources and allows its toilers
not even an acre on which to grow
food.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
FARM HOLIDAY
BACKS ROBERTS
Co. FARMERS
"Our Fight Is Their Fight,
if They Lose We VIII
Also Lose Out"
ARE RAISING FUNDS.
Assn. In Brown and Day
Counties viii Join
United Front

Indignation and protest is
aroused in farmers all over the
country who learned Of the vicious
injunction issued by state authOri-
ties of South Dakota against
Roberts county farmers and the
United Farmers League. Not only
farmers belonging or in sympathy
with the UFL but farmers from
other organizations are rallying in
fight against the blow directed
at the militant farm movement.
The following letter is just one
example.
Frederick, South Dakota.
To the Producers News
Dear Friends:
At a meeting of the Farm Hoi-
day Association about two weeks
ago in Brown Comfy the farmers
there expressed their willingness
to back up the struggles of the
farmers in Roberts county. They
said, Our fight is their fight and
if they lose out we also will lose
out. 50 They are seeing more and
more that all farm organizations
must put up a united front fight
against evictions and foreclosures
and against the interests of the
banks and big business.
The Farm Holiday Assn. of Day
county is raising funds for defense
of the United Farmers League
members in Roberts county be
cause they realize that struggles
: of the farmers in both counties art
the same.
l met a man from Columbia Il
: Brown county here the other da,
and asked him what they wer
doing in their Holiday Association
towards raising funds for the de
Tense OF the Roberts county boy
He said that at their last meetin
that they had talked the propos
ton over and they decided that
was up to them to support til
boys of Roberts county and ar
making arrangements to raise tt
funds for their defense. That
the Roberts county boys lose tn;
fight where is the program of I
evictions and foreclosures that
the program of the Holiday Ass
citation.
The farmers are seeing more al
more all the time the necessity
the different farm organization
puttiA&. up a united front again
our common enemies the exploi
ers.
am sending this to you becau
1 want other farmers in the cou
try to lnoW what is happening
here and how we are finding ma
farmers who are members Of 9th
organizations willing to enter t
United Front with US on the ba'
Of our program.
Yours truly,
aaao. C. F. Engie,
Member United Farmers
League Of Brown Co., S. ]
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
U.F.L. SUPPORTS
WIS. AUTO STRIKE
WTTHDAMY MILK
Sends 1000 Quarts to the
Strikers of Nash
Plant

KENoSHA, Wis, March 49,
Members of the United Farmers
League gathered at meeting mere re
last week voted to send z'VUO
quarts of milk daily to the work
ers who are now out on strike at
the Nash Automobile plant in TINS
city. N -
Iiason Committees Of farmers
and workers are organized By the
League for a united struggle
against the Wall Street moncpo-
lies.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
French Peasant Tells
About Rising Taxes

on one sixth of the world, in the
land of the Soviets, where peas-
ants are masters of the land, till
the land with their own tractors
ard enjoy the fruits Of their own
labor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
farmers DRAW LESSON FROM
HANDLING OF FOLSOM CASE
i. At Meeting That all Troubles Of Farmers Shall Be
Taken to Local Committees to Avoid Confusion
and to Have Responsibility

BRENTWOOD, March 90 Gathered in meeting
t the Farmer Labor Temple about SO farmers, mem
the three different farm organizations in the county
d that in the future all troubles of Individual farmers
F sales evictions etc.. will be handled by local COM
tas These committees will notify central committee
pntvwood through which all other locals of our organi-
III 80. - TiI receive notice" they stated
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
FARMERS UNION
ASKS INCREASE OF
PROCESSING TAX
Hogeland Local Passes a
Resolution Demanding
Higher Wheat Tax

HOGELAND, Mont.-The Hoge-
land local of the, Farmers Union
at its regular meeting on March
10 adopted a resolution demanding
an increase of the processing tax
on wheat and also a higher tariff
rate for wheat exported.
A copy of this resolution was
sent to this paper for publication.
1t is quite remarkable that farm
ers in this state should demand a
higher processing tax on wheat.
But apparently members of the
Farmers Union do not know that
a higher processing tax means
higher bread prices. And when
bread prices are higher less bread
will be bought by the masses OF
workers in this country whose in
come is steadily decreasing.
The leaders and drains" of the
Farmers Union have always kept
away from their members knowl
edge of the fact that only wher
the millions and millions of work
ers get money into their pockets
to buy the things they need 81
badly will the farmer be able t
sell his produce at a price that
awards him a decent living. Thes'
leaders are not interested in max
ing farmers see that the well be
ing of the farm population depend
entirely on the purchasing powe
of the workers.
An increase in the processing
tax and a larger tariff on whea
will bring huge benefits to the
millers, the wheat spectators an
to the rich farmers while rnc1
farmers and tire inascne of WORK
ers will suffer r'orn i'rter~ivelv.
TIE Resolution follows.
Resolution
| Hogeland, Mont
March 10, 1891
"At the regular meeting of til
Hogeland local of the Faypel
Union, the following resolution
were adopted:
4; Resolved that the attention {
the Department Of Agricultul
: again be called to the disparit
that exists between the price
(Cortinued on Page Twol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23
C.W.A. WORK IN
RURAL AREAS
NOW STOPPED
Operations of CWA in
Sheridan Co. Are Dis
continued
MAYOR APPOINTED
Protests of Farmers Forced
County Relief Office
Into Acton

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 10
ALI operation of the Civil Works
Administration in rural areas is to
cease at once; this was ordered by
Harry L, Hopkins, administrator.
Hopkins acted under order of
the President.
Over 100000 rural families will
be placed on small plots of land in
furtherance of the already an
nounced new relief program, Hop
kins also stated. By these means
the administration expects to take
that many families off the RELIEF
permanently.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-03-23


!. nrotect a fellow farmer from
s.vinr his livestock sold by the
farmers T and Merchants bank. This
tmer. Louis Folsom, had asked
Ss United Farmers League for
telu against the banker. AT the
~ minute, he changed his mind;
h thought he could help himself
better alone.
The U. F. L. had called the
farmers to come together and help
Folsom. They now had to get
my to sent notices out stating
nat Louis Folsom did not want
Ss help Of his fellow-farmers.
Cards were written and sent out.
But not everybody who had re-
sived the call through the paper
could get a card.
The result was that around sc
farmers came anyway to see what
wuId be done. They sent a com.
mittee to see the receiver Of the
bank.
Mortgage Due Sept. 1884
There they learned that the banl
had taken a mortgage on Folsom'i
cattle and horses and on his truck
The loan had been given last yea
IN September and the mortgage
was not to come due before Sept
1894. But apparently the banl
vas anxious to get the cattle
They took advantage of the ba
feed situation that is genera
throughout the county and by stat
ing that they were afraid tina
the cattle were dying for lack O
feed they received judgment froI
the court and foreclosed.
The committee pointed out tn
unfainess and the brutality OF
this action. They argued that I'll
farmer be given feed and d.
handed that he keep his cattle
The argument was of no avail
The banker fatty refused to giN
in.
He knew that not many farmel
we're in town and he had also see
TO it that a great number of de,
uties were sworn in by the sheriff
TO carry through the sale.
When the committee returned
meeting was called. Here t
farmers decided that since the
we're not many in numbers a
SINCE Folsom had not wanted the
cooperation that they could 4
GO anything. However, they e.
phatlcally declared that the m
takes made in this case must
avoided in the future.
We Will Do Better in the
Future
When farmer is in trouble,
shall 60 to the local committee
Tie farm organization. Only if
pace the work in. the hands
committees will we be assured
SpCnsibility and a correct hands
Of every case. Here we made
mistake to let some individu;
make the arrangements. If a &C
mittee had handled it the farT
would have had much more col
Oence and no reason to change
nind," one of the speakers 4
Continued on page 81