The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-05-04

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Andersen against a judgment but
you were trying to make me pay
for the combine and drive me and
my children down the road" he
said. The farmers answered and
told him what they had told him
before: eve would have protected
you against being driven from
house and home as we would any
body else; and maybe we will do
it yet"
Communist Candidate for
Sheriff Announced
Hans Hardersen was conducting
a regular meeting, standing on the
hood of the large truck. When
suddenly he introduced the Commu-
mist candidate for sheriff of Sheri-
dan county, Chris Heiberg, the
crowd burst out into a roaring APP
plause.
Get up there Chris. Speech!"
many shouted. Chris Heiberg,
fully taken unawares made few
brief statements.
"I wasn't anxious to get this pob
but the Communist Party selected
me as candidate. But if / should
be elected or any other Commu
mist, one thing is sure, there will
never be such dirty job done as
was done here today by the pres
ent sheriff Madsen," the Commu-
mist candidate said.
"They will do their best" he
said, pointing at the bunch of peo-
pie standing around the court
house, mot to let Communist get
into office. And if he gets in,
maybe he will not stay in very
long, because no Communist will
ever assist in foreclosing and
evicting workers and farmers OF
robbing machinery from them"
: Heiberg was applauded heartily
when he concluded.
Before the meeting adjourned to
/ the Labor Temple, Hans Harderser
announced that several business
firms, Peterson Hardware and The
Westland Service Station, had
prominently participated in throw
ing water and chemicals at the
farmers.
Lineup Perfect
The struggle around the combine
had brought into evidence a per-
feet lineup of the classes that art
struggling in Sheridan county, anC
for that matter in every capitals
county in the world. Ex-bankers
implement dealers, businessmen
officials and lumpen-proletarians
elements who can be bought TO
anything cheaply, were fighting
the farmers. The fascist forces o
fast decaying system were fight
ing the men and women who viii
bring about a new and better so
ciety, the workers and tillers O
the soil.
Most outstanding, his gun
leveled against the farmers. was
His Honor the Mayor of the City
of Plentyw0Od, Percy Neville,
chairman of the relief committee
and agent for the International
Harvester Co. Bob Rookie, chief
of police, was swinging a black
jack. Other gun-tOOters were
Sheriff Madsen, Undersheriff
Murray, Bill SINNERS, a retired
farmer, who shot hole into the
sheriff's office; KrOst, the game
warden; Chas. King and Charles
Ermatinger workers, and Jake
Rieger, the town dog catcher;
: bank examiner Fellows. Art lie
barth. Two border patrOlmen put
in their eminent appearance, but
| they kept their guns IN their
: holsters and never opened their
mouths.
: Operating the fire engines, the
water and the chemicals and
t handling the hose were the ex-
banker Art LANCER; Blaine Rob-
, insOn, the clerk of the relief Of
7 flee; PHd Marsh, proprietor of
3 the Westland Service Station
: Dean Moore, Frank Guenther and
E Martin Nelson, representing the
4 Peterson Hardware the firm that
:. had delivered guns and ammuni
E ton; Martin StOrassli, who Op.
crates a coal mine: Frank DiOnnG
D the courthouse janitOr; Bob Fer
ris, an ex-railrOad foreman; L
a S. Olson, an ex-everything
Frank Fishbeck, and severa
, others.
: In their meeting at the Temp
the farmers unanimously decide
l. to have no further dealings wit
: those businessmen who had bee
r prominently in evidence again
n them and they decided to carry tn
t word into every farm communit
t Several speakers at the meetir
|, pointed out the lessons to
} learned from the days happening
d 1--WE learned how far those fe
lows will go. They will stop
nothing" one speaker pointed OF
y 1t was explained, that this was Il
a first time that farmers in Sherid;
e county had been met with Gun
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