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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
Friday, April 10, 1885
Prendergast Must Stop Block
ing Our Committee

Complaints are already coming in to the grievance
mtee asking that ceratn action be taken this or that
case Some of these complaints have been given the Pro-
ducer News from where they given to Gonus Laursen
In spite OF the fact that there is plenty of to be
done the relief office refuses to give way allow the
selection of man who just fair and square as any
man could be. That man is Sophus Morstad.
Stenehem although he doesn't say so under the in
tluence OF Prendergast who blocks everything
In Great Falls, where the farmers were not onto this
thing as WE'LL they also have committee like we have here
On that committee they have the relief administrator the
county attorney and the county treasurer
We have the makngs of much better committee un-
less Prendergast spoils it for us.
Every farmer should let Prendergast know how he feels
about these blocking tactics of the relief office and he should
also write to Helena telling them all about this queer deal
we want this committee to start work with full crew.
but not with Prendergast picked crew.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
THE NEWS NEEDS
YOUR SUPPORT

Throughout the years that the
Producers News has been in ex-
istence in Sheridan county, il has
persistently fought in the interest
of the farmers and workers of the
county.
1t is the Producers News that
has led the fight for feed loans,
seed loans, summerfallow loans,
against discrimination on relief.
against evictions and foreclosures,
against the seizure of farmers
crops and machinery by the banks
and loan companies, and every
fight that has been in the interest
of the farmers within the scope of
the Producers News.
The Producers News has not
only brought thousands upon thou
sands of dollars into the county bv
fighting for better relief, but it
will continue to fight for better
relief conditions for the people in
the county.
The more support the Producers
News gets from the people of the
county and the wider we spread
the paper, the more the paper will
be able to do for us.
Pay up your subscription nowl
Get your neighbor to subscribe!
Help the Producers News to help
you'll
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
Farm Homes Show Need
Of Repairs In State

A survey taken of the homes of
the state show that at least 90
per cent need a safe method of
sewage disposal, over half need
paint badly, nearly half need
screening, more than a third need
all sorts of major repairs, more
than a quarter need foundation
repairs, quarter need much more
closet space and have no kitchen
sinks. So says Washington.
To make every home a haven
of peace and happiness, the feder-
al government is issuing all sorts
Of loans to fix up and remake
homes.
The only hitch in the program
is that the fellow with rundown
house and no kitchen sink won't
get loan.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
Large Stock Of
Seed Is Ordered

BOZEMAN.-Farmers in Mon
tana drouth areas have ordered
close to a half million bushels of
seed grain from stocks purchased
and held by the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, it was
learned from Sam L. Sloan, extern
sion agrOnomist at Montana State
college, and chairman of the state
seed stocks committee.
The order figures, which repre-
sent the total orders submitted by
Montana drouth county committees
to the Minneapolis office of the
federal seed stocks committee,
show 265,847 bushel of marquis
36,718 bushels OF ceres,
1868 bushels of durum, 1851
bushels of oats, 36.923 bushels Of
feed barley, 1924 bushels of malt
ing barley, and 1921 bushels Of
flax.
Montana's quota for all wheat
was 100000 bushels; oats, 100000
bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels, and
flax, $4,000 bushels.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
Get Your Hay For SIS a Ton

Hay that too good to give to the farmer for cent
hay dealer for SIS ton. ~ '01 " e"
1t is less important that cattle should sarve than that
nay dealer should make profit is the way the relief set
up to think. ~ ~ Nv
The persons responsible for selling good hav to Louis
Marsh at 30 ton also say that if the farmers are unable
to pay $2l ton the hay will have be shipped back to
Minnesota That if other hay dealer hasn't bonohf
up the rest of it by that time for $3.50 ton
= inns sort OF business needs an investigation badly
Ome6ody is responsible for this outright thievery of the
nay that should be issued to the Sheridan county farmers
That somebody ought to be punished
Farmers are as fully entitled to get their hay for SIS
ton as any hay specuatQr They will for COW feed
and not selling it to someone else again for profit
Farmers should demand that they be given the
nay Tor 30 ton and that the hay be here in Sheridan
county instead of being shipped back to Minnesota That
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
McELROY

The Regional Labor Board has
decided that the 20 men fired for
union activity in the John Morrell
packing plant at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
must be placed back at work.
These men were discharged fol-
lowing the strike of March ola
that was broken up by the state
militia that Governor Berry order
ed out.
Most farmers will remember the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Worknen of North Amer
lea, local 3O4, because of the splen-
did support these workers gave to
the Sioux Falls conference.
Peter Houtsma declares that the
union is going to enforce this de-
cision. Houtsma is president of
the local.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19

blnation of the democratic ord
publican parties, and the snend;u
OF a gigantic slush fund, hut an4
ting over $4,000 votes and Ios se'-
in a three-cornered race bva lag
over 100000. The Socialist ' vie
the Communist parties made or ~l'u
gains where there were no sooon
ed radical" tickets in the field
Now, what does all this disclose9
1t shows that the masses boa
abandoned the republican nar+V ~
and turned to the democratic nartn
on hope in 1882. After two YEA,
of hope and establishment five
million did not vote at all ana
where there were some we'll on
gained and active progressive
parties in the field, the masses ~
che workers and farmers voted for
it and against the Democrat,
party.
Elections Prove Shift
The spring elections prove bv
! the vote for Sugar in Detroit bv
the elections in California. and bv
the municipal elections in Wiscon.
sin and elsewhere that the SWING
is still to the left and away from
both the republican and democratic
parties where there is another
party with a better sounding pro.
gram to vote for.
This is to be expected. The
deepening depression, the increas-
, ing misery of the masses, is driv-
ing them to the left with ever
| greater force. The faith in the
New Deal sinks. Fascism, the last
defense of capitalism, rears its
ugly head everywhere. War clouds
hang low and Roosevelt spends
billions for it while the masses
starve and go naked. Famine
stalks the land as the result Of
the drouth and the cold deal" and
the "New Deal" By the fall Of
1886, Roosevelt will be hated worse
than Hoover in 1882, and the dem
ocrats stand for a reputation such
as will actually destroy that par
ty.
Wall Street Worried
But will the workers and farm
ers return to the republican par
ty? No! The capitalist bi-party
machine is on the rocks.
What next, then? A new party
is spring up. Wall street, the ex-
ploiters, know this. The exploit
ers are now preparing to either
defeat this surge or to control it,
and it's not so easy to defeat.
That is the meaning of Huey
Longs "Share the Wealth" and
Father Coughlin's League for
Social Justice" fascist organiza-
lions that are preparing to secure
control of this new mass party in
behalf of Wall street, so as to
win with the people.
The great question is: Can the
Wall streeters, can the bankers
and bosses, through their hired ag-
ents, accomplish this?
Time will tell. But not if the
vanguard of the working class, if
the class conscious workers can
help it.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
No Messiahs Wanted

AGAIN we call on all Holiday members to take part in
the Honday convention at Des Moines on May T.
>Ihrd party plans will be discussed at this MEETING
Already several Messahs have come forward to claim
to be the shepherds who will lead us out of the
wilderness We must be the alert to prevent them taI
ing us INTO poker with stacked cards in their favor
certainly we don't want man like Huey Long who
po AIS workers IO cents hour louisiana while he was
ana whose share the wealth. program takes less
rom the ch than is taken by federal income taxes
o.u we don't want man like Father Coughlin who was
NO I ih;cs mar and racketeer by Hugh Johnson who is
we are mighty suspicious of Floyd Olson after his broa
ing V4e truck strike in Minneapolis and by the way the St
IN the country. i u foreclosures
we want a party that doesn't spend its time ;aw;no
TO % ana munitions control but that puts an end
and worker o"iiV lOf the farmer
IT. 49, -. IS
10 nave such a party we the rank and file farmors
u workers must be IN control through our Organizations
we want no Messiahs They are unsafe ''OlN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
SEED LOANS
CONTINUED from page u

CONTINUED from page u
farmer, who has his seed and can
get it in time, will benefit Dy get
ting bigger prices for whatever he
produces.
Judging from the way the seed
loans have been handled so far, it
will not be surprising if they will
be fooling end stalling around I'M
til it is entirely too late for seed
ing, and then tell the farmers they
are out of luck getting the loan, in
order to get them down on their
Bonded knees and move them wher-
ever they want to. That seems
to be the game the Brain Trust is
playing. Just how they can fig
ure out gaining any popularity and
saving the country by it is more
than we can figure out. Wen have
to inject a little life into that bunch
if we want resrIts
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
IGNORE APPEAL,
EXECUTE NEGRO
The Appeal Is Filed In
Ample Time to STAY
Execution

LOS ANGELES, April 9.-Rush
Griffin, 10, Negro, was executed
at San Quentin prison last Friday
in disregard of an appeal pending
before the state supreme court, the
public defenders office charged to-
day. The appeal was filed Janu-
airy Fl.
Deputy Public Defender Richard
F. Bird, who represented Griffin,
said the appeal should have grant
ed the doomed man an automatic
stay of execution.
The young Negro died for the.
Staying of Lawrence L. Lyon, Uni
versity of Southern California
medical student. Although he ad-
mitted the shooting, he claimed
self-defense.
Bird said he filed the appeal in
ample time to have prevented the
execution.
Suspension for 80 days is the
penalty California gave Arthur
Moore, deputy county clerk, for his
routine error" of failing to for
ward certain papers, thereby re-
sulting in the hanging of Griffin.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
HARRY |. HOPKINS
BACKS DR.. BUTLER
Ex-senator John Erickson
Is Relief Commission
Choice In State

WASHINGTON, April lit
was stated yesterday by federal
relief officials that DR.. Buffers
administration of relief affairs in
Montana has been entirely salts
factory and that they did not plan
the replacement of the relief di-
rector.
The state administrator, aItho
he is a state official and can be
dismissed or retained by the state,
must have the approval of Federal
Administrator Hopkins. It seems
like the new relief commission in
Helena is attempting to make DO
litical soup out of the relief adj
ministration. But they met resist
ance by the federal authorities YES
terday when, upon advice from
Washington, the commission was
faced with the alternative of re-
tanning DR.. w. J. Butler as adj
ministrator or making way for the
federal replacement of relief work
in Montana. At present he is the
only one recognized by the federal
administration to distribute federal
funds in the state of Montana.
Ex-senator John E. Erickson
who was appointed by the new re-
lief commission does not seem to
meet with favor by Administrator
Hopkins.
DR.. D. M. Warren, assistant to
DR.. Butler, is acting as admins
traitor in an emergency. So liter
ally we have three men at the
head of our relief organization at
the present time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
Prendergast is Next
We have won another victory.

We have another victory
Maggie Randall has just been politely told by the state
relief commission to quit her job senior case worker
In other words she has been fired
Ihls was certainly result of the stand taken by the
farmers who had had their fill of the domneering and tv
rannica woman who always made starvation limit her goal
III filling orders investigating.
Randall was working under Prendergast. She was his
apt pupil PrendergaSt approved what Randall did,
He is the poverty expert par excellence.
He Will be the next to go. He will 90 only when we
by Helena.
unless Prendergast the substitution Ethel Baird
Tor Randall might not do much good
Prendergast is next in line to 90 out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
RESERVE

The band concert and dance put
on in the school house last Satur-
day night by the Medicine Lake
band was a very successful affair
and melted the band about $50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernhard Nielsen
have asked us, through this col
umn, to express their heartfelt
gratitude to their many friends
throughout the entire district for
the many and useful presents Civ.
en- them on their silver wedding
anniversary.
Paul Jacobsen, Jr., celebrated his
9Th birthday last Sunday and had
as his guests his cousins from the
reservation and Mamie Rorvig.
Mrs. Martin Jorgensen was a
visitor at the Aage Jacobsen home
last Friday.
Hans Christensen returned Mon
day morning from the Rochester
hospital.
Several of the young people
from this town went out to the
George Hunter home Friday night
to assist with the charivari tend
cred Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Hunt
er.
The sick list this week is extern
siVe due to an epidemic of red
measles. Those afflicted are Dor
othy and Melvin Murk, Beatrice
Lyngaas, Carol Wien, Robert, Hell
en-, Doris and Stanley Lund, Betty
Jean Hanson, Virginia Madsen,
and Yvonne Strandskov.
Mrs. Sparkling and Mrs. Larsen
of Medicine Lake were calling on
friends here Monday afternoon.
Miss Mootheart and Mr.. Rice
were business visitors in Plenty
wood Monday.
The Lutheran Ladies Aid met at
the F. w. Carpenter home last
Thursday.
George Bennett returned to this
district Monday morning after ar
absence of five years. He notes
a great deterioration in the gen.
eral appearance of the country anC
the towns around here due to the
bad years.
The Farmers Cooperative nipple.
ment company is loading a car Of
tractors for shipment to Alberta
this week.
Mrs. Wise, an old timer who ha:
farmed about Is miles west O.
town for Is years, shipped hel
household goods to Kansas Cit!
this week and is leaving this coun
try for good. Mrs. Wise had al
auction sale of her farming equip
ment a couple of weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Johnson anC
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Johnson Of
Brockton visited friends in towr
Monday.
Ira Eatinger, who is working a
the Riverside Dairy at Nashua
called here Sunday.
Sylvia Nielsen, who has beer
employed at the Nels Sampser
home this winter, returned to hel
home in Dagmar Saturday.
Miss Grace Ibsen spent the week
end at the Walter Rasmussen
home.
Mrs. Stewart of Plentywood Wis
tied at the Robert Henderson home
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Bertha Paulsen was a guest
at the Osmund Estensen home on
Monday evening.
Mrs. Sorensen and daughter of
Dagmar visited friends here Mon
day afternoon.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
OUTLOOK

Louis Becker was elected as
member of the school board to
take the place of Carl Beck whose
term expired.
The teacher of the Lindblom
school, Miss Gladys Peterson, has
been i'll with pleurisy for two
weeks. Her place is being taken
by a substitute.
Hans Hansen has BEEN sick with
rheumatism the past week.
Among the Plentywood shoppers
from this locality on Thursday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Carl and Ad-
olph Hovdey.
Tim Clawson returned the first
of the week from Washington
where he has spent the winter.
One of the participants in the
Outlook declamatory contest, Lou
Use Hannah, was i'll Friday and
could not attend. The others all
did very well. First place was
given to Richard Schruehl who
gave the selection "Brotherly
Love-" Second place went to Bar
hara LELAND who spoke a piece by
Dorothy Garfield, "Truly Mother"
Third place was given to Dorothy
Writ who gave "Glory For Sale. f"
In the first grade rhythm band
that played at the beginning of
the contest, little Evelyn Hollitz
won the applause of the entire
crowd with her naive mannerisms.
Vernon Stoner has been absent
from school this week on account
of illness.
Ole Garrick went to Scobey for
couple of days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hank visited at
the William Weiss home Sunday.
Helen Smith, Jackie Westphal.
Leonard and Albert Lindblom and
Maynard Mathieson are among
those who have been laid up the
past week with either bad colds or
measles.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
HOSPITAL NOTES

Donald Anderson of McElrov
was admitted to the hospital for
medical treatment last Monday.
Jessie Madsen of Archer enter
ed the hospital on Tuesday as a
medical patient.
Mrs. Gordon Peterson of Dag
mar gave birth to a baby boy at
the hospital Saturday. Both moth
er and son are doing well.
Anton Peterson of Medicine Lake
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
NORTH RAYMOND

Mrs. L. Figler of Stoughton,
Sask., and Mr.. and Mrs. Otto w.
Smith of Fleche, Sask., both sis
tiers of Mrs. J. w. Brown, were
visitors at the Brown home last
week.
Leland Evenson who is employed
at Fort Peck arrived home Thurs
day to spend the week end. He
returned to his home Sunday eve
ming.
A fair sized crowd attended the
U.F.L. meeting held at the Otto
Grantham home last Thursday.
Charles Taylor spoke on the Labor
Party question, and other import
ant issues. The next meeting will
be held at the Melvin Evenson
home on Sunday, May IL, at 1 D.
m.
Among the North Raymond peo-
pie who attended church in Ray
mond Saturday morning were Mrs.
M. w. Bretzke, Mrs. Carl Stadstad
and children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Swanson of
Plentywood were callers at the
Evenson home last Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Void mo-
tored to Plentywood last Monday.
Herb Shirtliff, accompanied by
Carl Hovdey, made a trip to the
county metropolis last Monday.
Henry Ross, Charley Larter, Ar
chic Larter and Jake Zeitner were
among the North Raymond people
seen in Plentywood last Monday.
Miss A. Current and Mrs. M. w.
Bretzke attended the PTA meet
ing in Raymond Monday evening.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19

their days played cards, or even
supervised a beauty contest, with
divers other letters of the alpha
bet behind their strange and un-
known names. These intellectual
takers caught up all sorts of cards
from their sleeves and underwear
to thrill and inspire hope in the
masses.
Even before the ink was dry on
the signatures on the 'New DEAF
bills, establishment set in. Peo-
pie distrusted the brain trust the
ory of having more by producing
less. The promised improvement
was short lived. Then came the
failure of the section Ia of NRA
which had promised the workers
real unions, shorter hours and in
creased pay, more jobs and better
working conditions. The promised
raise in prices of commodities oc-
Cured. Then came crop reduction,
wheat control, the blowing down
of cotton and the killing of little
pigs for the farmers. And pro-
cessing taxes for both the farm
ers and workers. The drouth came
to help the crop control theory.
And then came the subsistence
farm proposal-the proposal to
plow down two million farmers for
the benefit of the rich farmers.
And along with this came huge
dividends for the bankers, the
bosses, the spectators, the food
trusts, and the war mOngers.
Republicans Lose Again
The republicans barked and bel
lowed at the "New Deal" and told
the workers and farmers that 1t
was failure, that they must re-
turn to the "Old Deal" and the
republican party. The disillusion-
ment of the masses, however, did
not result in a back surge to q
republican wave. That was the
amazement of the 1884 election.
Five or six million of the work
ers and farmers did not vote al
all. And in state, such as Mime
sofa, where there is a Farmer.
Labor party with a program, re-
fOrmist as may be, but radically
worded, the workers and farmers
voted that ticket more consistent
ly than ever before, electing Gov
Olson and Senator Shipstead, sew
eral state officers and representa-
tives in congress. In North Da-
kota the Nonpartisan League
which is in reality political par
ty supported by the farmers and
workers, won everything ercept
the governorship. In Wisconsin
the LaFollettes organized their
Progressive party and won, de-
feating the democrats and the re-
publicans in the first campaign
In California, Upton Sinclair, a
renegade socialist, with his ITO
plan, END Poverty In California
program, a fake, radical program
of the greatest of demogogy, pre-
tending socialism, won the demo
cratic nominations against the
Roosevelt-Farley democratic ma
chine and the huge capitalist press
by a huge majority, and was de-
feated for the election by the COM
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-04-19
The Rising Labor Party
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR

The political tidal wave that
washed the democratic wing of the
Wall street bi-party ship into the
power dock at Washington, d. c.,
was not a conscious revolutionary
upsurge, but it had significance in
that it marked the beginning of
the breaking up of the bi-party
ship. The working masses were
on their way, somewhere, though
they did not then and do not yet
know where.
The toiling farmers and the un-
employed and wage-cut workers,
and large numbers of small bust
neSsmen, crushed in the depression
were through with the republican
party. They were done with Hoo
yer. The vote for Franklin De-
lano Roosevelt was not so much
for the grinning Wall street Mes
siah, with due consideration for
the alleged popularity of the Roo
sevelt name, as it was against
Hoover and the republican party.
Many workers and farmers, dis
cussing the situation in 1882 with
the writer, said: 81 do not expect
anything from Roosevelt, and he
promises nothing, but l want to
get the republicans out, out of
everything. I am afraid that if
we vote minority party tickets
Hoover will be elected. 1t is not
so much that I want to vote for
the winner, but 1 want to be sure
that Hoover isn't" And that was
the consciousness, the Uniformed
idea, that was the force behind
the huge wave.
There was, of course, hope be-
hind the notion. But the shift was
deeper and more determined than
had ever occurred before since the
Civil War. Franklin had promised
to remember the forgotten man."
an d promised the "New Deal"
scorchingly scored Hoover, the
man the masses were after. A
new deal might mean something
better.
Promises Are Broken
"But hone deferred maketh the
heart sad" And the hearts of the
impoverished farmers and unem-
ployed workers grow sad and sad
der as the days go by. To their
bitter sorrow and disappointment,
they have learned that a so-called
"New Deal" might even be worse
than the "Old Deal" and that the
times that "just could not get
worse" have actually worsened, for
the workers and actual farmers.
though not for the bankers and
bosses. The forgotten man" was
remembered with wage cuts, high
er prices, processing taxes, sub
sistence farms and reduced relief.
However, actually, there was a
new shuttle of the old deck. Roose-
welt took up where Hoover left off,
and the game continued. There
were new faces about the table.
Franklin brought with him into
the game bunch of professors
college theoreticians, with Phi DIS,
L L DIS, D DIS, M A's, B A's
and B Sers and other false alarm
politicians, who had never in all