The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-04-13
INJUNCTION CAN
NOT STOP U.F.L.
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came from Sheriff Hegna that the
courtroom is open. but that he
most urgently requests that there
will be no denouncing of the Off
cialdom.
Needless to say, the farmers
recognized that solidarity won
again, and triumphantly swarmed
into the courtroom that now for
the third time since the INJUNCTION
to break the UFL has been issued.
was jammed full with militant
UFL members.
Relief Demands
There was some important busi
ness taken up by the defiant UFL
members in this monthly meeting.
A committee was elected to pre-
sent the following demands, which
were drawn up at the meeting, to
the Relief Agency:
1. That the Relief Director shall
give full explanation why the
farmers should and do pay for one
half ton of hay when they actually
are receiving only ten to eleven
bales of hay weighing from SOC
to 800 pounds.
2. That the Relief Director shall
account for the fact that coal or
ders issued by the relief were not
paid by the relief, but that bins
for such orders are being pre-
scented to the people to whom the
coal order was issued.
8. That hay and feed orders shall
be fulfilled at the nearest distri-
button point and that in this way
unnecessary travel shall be spared
the farmers.
A. That all needy farmers and
workers shall be given cash, food,
hay and feed relief, according to
their needs.
5. That you will act Immediately
on these demands, so as to relieve
unnecessary suffering.
After the above demands were
unanimously accepted, Chairman
Ralph RuGhdaschel called upon
Johnny Hanson, one of the dele
gates to the Nebraska State Con-
vention of the Farmers Holiday
| Association, which was held on
March % at Grand Island, Nebr
Hanson told of how the five hun
dred Nebraska farmers assembled
in the convention greeted the fra
ternal delegates of the Roberts
| County farmers was to express the
Nebraska farmers solidarity for
the fight "that we are in against
jailings and injunctions."
/ John Hanson's report greatly re-
assured the Roberts county organi-
cation of the United Farmers
League in that they are not alone
in their battle, but that the farm
eTs of other states are prepared tu
give them their full-hearted back
ing.
Injunction Cannot Stop UFL
The report of the State Orga-
nicer, Julius Walstad, served great
ly to strengthen the conviction
that the injunction cannot stop the
growth and the activities of the
UFL. The State Organizers re-
port spoke of the fact that at first
in some of the townships there
was a degree of hesitancy as u
whether the injunction may not
prevent the United Farmers
League from carrying on its regu-
lar activities. The repeated mass
protest gatherings at the county
court house, Walstad reported
have swept aside every bit of that
sort of hesitation. The members
of the UFL of Roberts county and
throughout the state have now
fully learned the lesson that there
is no force that can successfully
oppose the workers and farmers
solidarity.
Successful Meetings
The State Organizer reported es-
Pecially successful regular UFL
meetings that were held in Spring
Grove, Goodwill, Enterprise and
Mckinley townships. He especial
ly credited Spring Grove township
with proving its courageous stand
for UFL principles.
The Spring Grove school board
upon whom an injunction was also
served not to permit the use OF
the school house to the UFL stead
tasty stood by the position that
the school house was built by the
farmers and therefore it belonged
to them. The regular meetings OF
the UFL went On uninterruptedly
in the Spring Grove schoolhouse-
not a single meeting was missed
because of the fascist threat.
w oAoecS0 . ACENAb bO4Q VI Tile ell
thusiastic protest meeting held in
Webster, the county seat of Day
county. The Webster courthouse
was jammed full. 1t was the best
meeting ever held there. His re-
port told also of an invitation that
came from Forbes, N. D., to Knute
Walstad to speak there On the
fight of the Roberts county farm.
ers. The Forbes local of the UFL
accompanied their invitation tc
Knute Walstad with q money order
for S22 for the Defense Wa,
Chest of the Roberts County
Farmers"
The report spoke of the increase
in the applications of new men,
bcrs, and a continuous demand
from various places for speakers.
After the State Organizer closed
his report motion was made and