The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
(Continued from last week

O4Q HScK Ou ne was III jail
which they made into a school
jailed because of the milk strike.
They kept him in cooler for nine
days without taking the slop pail
out once. Food was 70 rotten he
grew a carbuncle. 1t got so big
he'd begun to look like one of them
double-headed horses they show in
the circus.
Some of the women looked at
him with big eyes. He smiled. In
that milk strike a bunch of the
farm women made a chain of their
bodies, lay down in the road and
stopped the scab trucks. They also
fought the police and put on lights
when the gas and electric COM
panies shut them off. In one street
they even connected up with the
feed wire and did the washing for
the family of a poor widow thrown
out of her flat because she could
not pay rent.
Some of the farmers looked big
eyed too as if behind Flint lay a
new force, searching behind his
shadow and his hand for the tie
nendous body slowly stirring the
country.
"And again this brings US up to
the Johnson question"
At every get-toge her or cross
road meeting OF punching in the
post office or chat over the fence,
Flint brought in the name Of John-
son. This was the policv Steve.
Tom, and he had agreed upon.
They even wrote a letter to the
Farmers National Weekly about
conditions CT the farmers and OF
Johnson's activities and sold doz-
ems of copies that way and made a
number of subscribers. But Ike
could not be moved.
"What's the difference between
Steve and johnson. They both
amt no good. Stoves oldest girl
she peddles herself to the first man
on the road"
Flint said slowly, ct don't know
anything about Jennie Titus. May
be she does, maybe she don't. That
is her look out. But what Johnson
does hurts every mothers son. OF
us. He and his gang got their
fingers in our mouth and back
like we're their bowling balls. AnC
he's one of your Roosevelt drum.
mers too"
i Roosevelt saved US from revo-
luton"
"He did, did he? Are you any
better off now than you were two
years ago?"
"No."
"Jesse tells me your apple dealer
wrote you your apples went dow
the river with the apples from
Roosevelt's farm"
: ~Ya, but I didn't get Anymore
: for them. I got "a cents pc
: bushel less"
= "There you are"
"Roosevelt's all right, it's his ad
, visers. Wallace giving in to then
:. wheat farmers. It's the whee,
that squeaks most gets the. greas
and"
A car banged into the yard. Gu
1 Jumped Q deputy. Before he eOul1
: take a dozen steps, Toss was Out
g "Ike Sherman went to Florida o.
] his vacation" She picked up tn
}, old axe still covered with blood
? from the chicken they had kille
Sunday. "Now git off the plac
and git quick"
E Flint slipped out the back wa,
n and headed for Steve's where the
e were going to hold a meeting tina
t night. Steve roared when he ha
S heard how Toss had sailed into tn
n big deputy man man who almos
dropped his stickpin in fright.
About a dozen men were pres
ent. Only three were farm own
ers, the rest tenants, a hired ma
from Johnson's farm, backyard G
n Sunday farmers, Lucy who could
e not get back his job of switchma
t after being sold out and was mo-
t working on the road. When Fir
saw AL, the hired man, he said
" Steve "Good work, old fellow"
They crowded into Steve's Htch
en- against the walls where tn,
{ lathes showed and the rain drov
5 in. One of the Sunday farmer
was saying how down in the brio
works the conveyor had ripped Of
Russ Lingle's two fingers day b
Z for yesterday. Russ Lingle Sunda!
farms on five acres. ZachaI
Smith, one of the farmers, grunte
. Russ did some work for Johnso
" and The other mugwumps by c.
railing votes in the kiln for ii
q Roosevelt election. He was PIT
S missed a job as watcher at regis
tratlon and elections. You ge
II about SO day. He never got
Instead they treated him to
" dinner. There were thirteen sea-
: None of the others woulk take SCI
= thirteen. They had coffee blacl
- as wedge, and the Puckit woman
/ the town clerk. all she could tai
o about was empty barns. She We
y renting them out to bootleggers
n Russ was ho' as a 6-shooter a
e them. Tom Lucy pared his nail