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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-06-07

again to Fort Peck, this time to
demand the rest of his pay which
hey had withheld when they fired
him. Again he was picked up and
taken before Brainard. Here he
was searched, roughly treated and
thrown into Jail. He demanded to
phone his friends. This request
was mechanically refused.
Fingerprinted
The worker demanded to see the
warrant on which he was arrested.
There was none. When he finally
threatened, "You let me out of
here or my father and my friends
will prosecute the whole outfit
here, including the chief of police, .
they took him out, took his finger
prints, abused him further and let
him go.
This story shows we'll the brutal,
highhanded and illegal methods
used by U. S. deputy marshals,
when they think they can get away
with it. They had no right to in
terfere with this worker when he
was distributing newspapers am
ong his fellow workers. They broke
at least half a dozen laws in al
effort to keep organization away
from the Fort Peck workers.
Work Goes On
The demand for working elias:
newspapers among the workers a
the dam is great. Parrotte wa
able to sell and distribute more
than 200 copies on May Day anC
on other issues of the Daily Work
er alone. Measures are now being
taken by workers groups to stol
the highhanded methods of tn
government authorities and to car
ry on the work of organizing an,
educating the workers of For
Peck.
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Where IS the Democracy In Our
democratic" Government?

Inc great and gorified American democratic const
uC0n mas been getting great deal of criticism from some
the NRA. ~ OU ueclSlOh Oh
among those who have given it the hardest knocks is
elaIor Norris OF Nebraska who favors constitutional
enoment deprvlng the courts of all power to hold anv
law unconstitutional. P " nOlu any
he said this is the only civilized country in the world
~ when law passed by the parliament and approved bv
1le executive can be overruled by a supreme courf
m not crtczing the court in any of the decisions =
mas made but it does illustrate that we are OoveTnrt
by injunction" " 0 =" government
There is perhaps not so much democracy ~ o,,, ..,.
1 constitution after ALL When we look il over core
y' s lnuch talked OF democracy is pretty well hidden
m a democracy IS a government of the people, We elect
0u representatives. by majority vote to enact orr loy
Bu our great forefathes thought would never do to e
sne people get TOO much power so they set up an nne
mousse 10 cneck the lower house, and the executive tbr
ms Veto is check on both houses To top it all the %
on the whole government f' y q cnecK
What then, becomes of the much talked Of Aoericor
democracy? " hi0An
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HOUSEWIVES DEFY
POLICE TERROR IN
EASTERN CITIES
They Demand That Profit
eering On Meat Must
Be Stopped

The housewives have started a
meat-buying stoppage in New York
and surrounding cities as a pro-
test against the high retail prices
of meat which is result of the
AAA destruction of millions of
cattle and hogs. More than 5000
meat shops in New York City have
been closed.
A campaign of police terror has
been launched against the house
wives. but they have defied the
terror and spread the stOppage to
new shops. They announced that
a mass picket demonstration of
housewives and trade union mem
bers will be held in front Of the
big packing houses at First Ave
nue. and Forty-second Street.
The pickets will demand that the
retail prices of meat be reduced
ten cents per pound without af-
fecting the prices paid to farmers.
Meat costs have advanced 100
per cent in some cases in the last
year, and the stoppage campaign
is a protest against the profiteer-
ing of the great packing houses.
The housewives have already
forced the poultry dealers to re-
duce the price of poultry nine cents
per pound.
1t is exactly what we have said
all the time, that the only ones
to benefit by the AAA destruction
of cattle and hogs last fall would
be the big packers. They bought
the cattle and hogs which the far
mers were forced to sell for a
pittance, and are now reaping the
huge profits.
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Thew will Have to Stretch
the law

The deportation case of Alfred Miller editor of the Pro-
ducers News in the hands of Frances Perkins,
rotary of labor 1t up her to make decision What
the decision is going to be is not much of a mystery.
The secretary, whom the newspapers played up
Liberal two years ago. right deportng tremendous
number of foregnbo workers who have been actively
gagged the struggles of the workers and farmers this
country.
The Spokane immigration Inspector recommends that
Alfred Miller be depored Germany, the country of his
nativity and citizenship" He wants to him delivered
into the hands of the Hitler storm troops.
Only the strongly voiced objections of farmers and
workers all the country only considerable pres
sure will save the editor from this fate!
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SHOWS WALLACE
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their connection with it. On May
Is, ]. R. Virgins, st. Paul Pioneer
Press correspondent in Washing
ton, wrote:
"At the department of agri-
culture. Secretary Wallace and
Administrator Davis and their
aids continued TO deny amy part
in bringing the farmers to Wash
ingtOm. Letters and kilograms
were written. they disclosed,
warning field employees not to
participate. County agents were
alleged to have taken an import
amt part in the movement but
the extension service, through
Director WarburtOn, denied this"
On the same day the Associated
Press reported that at a press con-
ference, Wallace said "he knew Of
no communications between his de-
partment and AAA officials with
farmers concerning the farm as
semblage. Chester C. Davis, AAA
administration, interrupted to say
field agents had been warned not
to participate in plans for the
march,"
Evidence
The Morrow letter brings out
several facts, each of which is a
damning refutation of the "inno-
cence" of Wallace and Davis, and
of the Roosevelt administration.
The letter shows that:
! The estate" of South Dakota
was instrumental in getting the
delegation under way. This
means in the first place the ex-
tension service and the u. S. de-
partment of agriculture in South
Dakota.
In other states the march was
organized in the same way.
The expenses for the trip to
Washington came out of money
raised through the processing
taxes, donated for the good cause
by the committeeman of the
cOrn-hOg or wheat control assO-
Citations.
The money raised from this
source was to be applied" ON
the expenses of the trim. indie
ating that it would not fully
cover these expenses.
There was a difference be-
tween what the committeeman
contributed and what the trip
cost. The letter does not indi-
cate how this Difference was made
mp.
The state board of review of
the AAA hand picked the dele
gates. They Suggested" that
the chairman of either the local
cOrn-hOg or wheat control assO-
citation" should go as a delegate.
These facts were available to the
AAA. They should have beer
available to the representatives anC
senators. Only one senator, Hast.
ings of Maryland, pressed some.
what for information concerning
the relation of the AAA to the
march.
The AAA opened up on him with
some of their senatorial guns, anc
he closed up. The noisy Huey
Long also shut up after STARTING
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Defense Committee
Welcomes Letters

Workers Bookshop,
P. o. Box 532,
Sioux Falls, S. D.,
May 80, 1886.
Mrs. Grace Hardersep,
Plentywood, Montana
Dear Mrs. Hardersen:
Enclosed find dollar bill for
the Alfred Miller Defense Fund.
1t is possible that before 1 get
this mailed ] will be able to col
lect some from others here, too,
for the fund.
1 knew Alfred at Commonwealth
College and I not only learned to
have a great deal of respect for
his fighting qualities, but I owe
my awakening to what is at the
bottom of our economic troubles
largely to him.
Please greet him from me when
you see him and tell him we are
backing him in his heroic fight.
Faternally,
Edwin Fitzroy.
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Home Demonstration Clubs
to Re-Organile

TO Re-Organlle
The Reserve and Wolf Creek
Homemakers Club will cooperate
with the Montana extension divi-
sion in carrying on a program of
work for the coming year.
Miss Blanche L. Lee, state home
demonstration leader, will meet
with representatives of these clubs
and other clubs in outlining plans
for the years work the latter part
of June.
The Reserve and Wolf Greek
clubs have continued with their
meetings during the past few years
without the services of leader
training.
New clubs should organize and
choose representatives to meet
with Miss Lee, according to M. J.
Peterson, county extension agent.
The date for this meeting will be
announced later.
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DONOVAN ARGUES
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CUES that the evidence presented
is entirely insufficient to qnst.;u
the charges, ard that mere mar,
bership in the Communist nsr4r
which was admitted by the edito,
does not justify deportation,
Dept. of Labor Letters
To prove his point, Donovan
quoted a number Of court decision.
which held that mere membersbiD
in the Communist party is insDi
ficient reason to deport anybodv
He also cited a letter written nv
the commissioner general Of inn
migration in 1880, Harry E. HuI
and sent to the International Labo,
Defense. which reads:
Gentlemen:
Replying to your letter Of June
16, you are advised THAT no order
has been issued by this department
declaring that membership in the
Communist Part U.S.A., is a sui.
ficient basis for deportation, and
in fact opposite results have at.
tended the efforts of the immgrs.
ton service 10 deport members 4
the Communist party when then
cases have gotten into the courts
on writs of haDeas corpGs.
Respectfully,
Harry F. Hull,
Commissioners General
Concluding his argument, Mr.
Donovan states: at is respectful
ly submitted that the hearing in
this matter was wholly unfair 10
the alien. The charges were in.
definite and did not notify him
that he was upon trial for mem
bership in the Communist party OF
that such party was held to be an
organization prohibited by the
statute, nor was the alien given
any reasonable opportunity to re
flute the insinuations at the hear
ing that his affiliation with tn,
Communist party subjected him t
deportation. Furthermore, the at
titude of the examining inspeCta
in playing the role of accuser, wit
ness and Judge, introducing hi
evidence without being sworn o.
submitting himself to cross exam
ination, is a palpable denial Of
fair hearing before an impartis
tribunal.
" Judgment ceases to. be jude
ial if there is condemnation in ad
vance of trial.@Justice CardOz'
May 25, 1885.
aside from the unfairness 0
the hearing, amounting to a denis
of due process of law, it is SUB
mitted that the evidence is who'll
insufficient to prove that mer
membership in the Communist par
ty subjects the alien to depOrs
ton"
Recommends Deportation
On the other hand, the inspe'
tor, of course, recommends TIA
Alfred Miller 'be ordered depOrte
to Germany, the country. Of hi
nativity and citizenship" the cOu1
try where, as one of the mspe'
tors promised, the editor will %
put against wall and shOt."
Protests Needed
The decision rests now with I'd
secretary of labor, Frances PeI
kins, and unless the hundreds Q
protests already sent by organic
tions and individuals incresSs
there is not much doubt that 81
will decide that the editor OF ~
Producers News be delivered lnp
J the hands of the Hitler storI
troops at the earliest possible NV
: ment.
: Only a great number Of sharl
protests against the efforts Of tlrd
department of labor to depor
class-conscious foreign-bOrn WOIl
ers and farmers will prevent y
carrying out of the recomInenOS
ton of Inspector Stewart to depo'I
{ Alfred Miller to fascist Germany
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LUTHERAN FREE CHURCH
Westby. Mont.

Divine service in Oslo, Sunday
June 9, at II a. m.
st. John, Sunday, June 9, at J.
p. m.
Scandal, Sunday. June 9, at A
p. m.
G. Mellby, pastor.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28
By Elsie Robinson

Do not fear your own vagrant
impulses-your own lnconSlst-
encies and rebellions.
Do not be ashamed Of your
blunders and bewilderments.
Say to yourself
"Life is like this. I was made
to be like this. This is as much
a part of my natural life as my
humdrum program. / need to
be inconsistent, sometimes, as
much as I need to be cOnSis-
tent. need to stop feeling,
sometimes, as much as I need
to feel.
A CODE
"a machine may perform
smoothly, evenly, day after day,
year after year, but it's abOm-
Unable to expect such perform
ance from a man and he'll crack
up if you try to force it. I'm
not going to treat myself like a
machine. I am going to recog-
nize and accept my humanity
ana reVcl IN IL. III SOl1Ag W
be MySelf-all my different
Selves. I'm going to take life
as it was meant to be taken
rise and fall, ebb and flow, seed
time and harvest. Or lie fallOw
if 1 need, without fear or COM
junction. For that's life. AND
AT LAST I AM GOING TO
LIVE.
AND DON'T LET ANYONE
BADGER YOU INTO TRYING
TO FEEL WHEN 1T ISN'T IN
YOU OR LET ANYONE
SHAME YOU BECAUSE YOU
INSIST UPON ACTING LIKE
A MAN INSTEAD OF A
MONKEY WRENCH.
Copyright. 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

The squirrel carries the NUT and the little boys mother
the right walks regularly with her book to the savings
bank because all squirrels and human beings know
that Winter is coming.
For the squirrel Winter cold winds and snow slip
perry ice-covered limbs the tree when nuts
fall to the ground and few little boys out in the parks
to feed the cunning squirrels"
For the human being there another "Wnter longer,
and for many painful than that of the squirrels The
human Winter is not the recurring Of ice and snow
it the Winter of OLD AGE, when the hair is whte the
hands tremble sight feeble the walk Slow and vitality low
Pity the squirrel if ice and snow Winter finding
him with food supply buried in the ground in the hol
low Of tree where he find it.
Pity the human being whom old overtakes and finds
with empty pockets, nothing saved
Poverty is hard charity is cold The world is busy has
little time to listen to the story of hard work which failed to
give results, of misfortune at the end
The world knows that actual reasonable saving and keep
ing possession and security when the time It
has little generosity for those that neglected their
ity at time when it might have been established.
Squirrels ants, bees put away food, and have it when
needed Fortunately this Government has arranged to pro-
vide the old and with modest pensions that will
them from actual WANT. But the ordinary American
does to be dependent on Government
pension the charity Of relatives Independence in old
age does not mean, necessarily riches, does it
just enough to keep body and soul together ndependence
being able to do what you want to do where
you choose to when you choose An old horse that has
been worked until most of its strength gone and is then
charltaby turned out into pasture by goodnatured
is not 'ndependent in old age it only IAN old horse"
confined to pasture.
American and do not want to be "only old
horses They want to have what others have enjoy what
others enjoy have the freedom that goes with REAL
pendence.
They have these things by getting them and KEEPING
them while they young
The young squirrel two months DID, climbing up and down
the tree playing among the green leaves could with diff
Guilty be persuaded that and ice actually coming
But he gathers and stores his share of nuts in imitation
seeing older squirrels do it.
And young people should notice the DID, sitting on park
benches gazing out into space hoping nothing only waiting
for release Winter is here for them though be mid
Summer They know that what the young believe be i'm
possible has HAPPENED. The Winter old age has come
there will be Spring Of YOUTH strength and hope except
in another world
Save today when you young and be independent even
when you old.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28
Listen, World!

nate with times of lassitude or
actual storms.
And vigor depends as much
upon those times of lassitude-
or chaotic upset-aS upon the
periods of calmness.
EBB AND FLOW
Even the soil itself knows this
ebb and flow of vitality. Now
it is October. Take the same
plot of earth which was yeasty
with life in April, give the same
water, maintain the same heat,
plant some of the same seeds
YOU used in the spring. Even
so, the growth will come up
weak and faltering.
A man is like that-body,
mind and spirit. No normal
man lives evenly, yields evenly.
No normal man can continue to
think on a certain level, work,
play or love on a certain level.
Every so often something hap
pens. Something lets go. some"
thing stops.
He isn't tired. He isn't sick.
He may not need a rest. But he
does need-change. What sort
of change? That depends on
the person.
Some people need to buy a
new hat.
Some people need to raise
hell. :" =" q
Some people Just need to be
let alone-to even leave them
selves alone, stop peerlng ana
prying into their own MINDS
picking at their own scabs.
Do not be excited or upset
over your occasional instability
or nag the other fellow over
his.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

George Washington established what was
called, "The Order of the Purple Heart"
In explanation of the "order," he said:
"Ever d">irous to cherish virtuous ambi-
tion in his soldiers, as we'll as to foster and
encourage every species of military merit,
rious action is performed, the author of it
shall be permitted to wear on his facings,
over the left breast, the figure of a heart in
purple cloth, or silk, edged with narrow lace
or binding"
General Washington believed in reward
ing a soldier for his services but did not
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

There is an interesting
fight coming, with the
Democrat donkey on one
side, with more than FOUR
THOUSAND MILLION
DOLLARS WORTH OF
AMMUNITION T H A T
THE PEOPLE UNDER
STAND.
On the other side the
Republican elephant who
FORGETS quickly a n d
LEARNS slowly, without
any four billion dollars to
TEMPT VOTERS.
In the middle comes the
we'll known "dark horse. "
You know him, the candi-
date supposed not to be
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

you live like that? Why must
you be torn by blunders and be-
wilderments? Or go through
dreadful periods when for days
or weeks you seem completely
empty, have no ambition or
desire.
You're not sick, though your
friends think you must be.
You're not brooding over any.
thing. Then why-WHY? Some.
thing must be wrong! But what?
Keep your shirt on, neighbor.
Nothing'S wrong. You're just
living, that's all, and normal
life is always a stop-and-go per.
formance. No healthy thing,
fish, flesh or fowl, common cab
bage or human being, ever lives
evenly. Z. thinks or feels evenly.
Always. times Of activity alter
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

Journeys

It is interesting to consider
how it is that one place becomes
famous, a mecca for visitors, a
delight for artists, while an
other spot quite near, and per-
haps just as lovely, remains not
only unhonored and unsung,
but unvisited.
Such a place is Ischia, a golden
island in the Bay of Naples,
that has as much and even more
to offer than has its nearby
neighbor, Capri. Yet, 1schia is
rarely visited except by the
initiated. It is so beautiful that
once one does discover the place
it draws one back again and
again.
The boat leaves Naples and
the first stop is at the port OF
Ischia. then on to Porto d'Ischla.
Porto d'Ischia is one of the
most beautiful harbors OF the
Mediterranean. Once it was
the second crater Of the extinct
volcano that dominates the
island, but it has been excavated
and offers much to see.
At Porto d'Ischia and Casa
micciola there are thermal eStabE
lishments that are popular with
rheumatic sufferers in this re-
gion. Many such visitors come
from Naples and Rome in the
summer. All along the coast,
boiling springs bubble up out OF
the sand at the waters edge.
On the south coast. there are
smoking sandstone rocks which,
when famed by a lighted paper,
pour out dense clouds Of white
smoke.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28
No CORPORATION for "Purple Hearts"

believe in establishing permanent organlza-
tions to prey on the taxpayers and the gen
eral public. You will be glad therefore, to
hear that an attempt to incorporate 1.-THE
Purple Heart" and enable few gentlemen
to run it for their personal profit, has been
vetoed by the President.
An excellent idea. We have "organiza-
tions," charitable, civil, military, religious
and others, carefully and efficiently organ
lied for their own benefit and for the milk
ing of the general public. 1t is the general
public that pays the taxes. The less of this
kind of patriotic organization for profit"
the better.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28
Marry-Go-
Round
By Helen ROULand

Love is sometimes a head
ache and sometimes a luxury.
But everything worth having in
this world has both its price
and its headache.
Why do they call a tentative
engagement an understanding"
when the understanding never
really comes until the divorce?
Nothing so shocks and sur
prises a man as to wake up and
find himself walking to the
altar beside the girl he thought
he was only bluffing.
Being a one-girl man has its
Compensations. Many a modern
man has gotten into hot water
and lawsuits, by trying to be
Goods Gift" to too many
women at the same time.
No matter what high ideals
and noble principles a man may
stand for, the woman who loves
him feels justified in guarding
him from any dizzy little blonde
that a less noble man might fall
for.
Some day the world will dis
cover that being a wife is not a
picnic or an avocation, but a
great profession-requiring skill,
science, application and natural
ability.
When a woman asks too much
from love, she is overdrawing
her bank account with life, and
always finds that she has to
supply the deficit.
Copyright, 1898. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

election. That personality
disappeared from the scene
with the assassination Of
Senator Huey P. Long.
But other dark horses,
North and South, that some
reporters will call "equine
trotting down the center of
the political battlefield,
might surprise both the
donkey and the elephant.
At least he might completely
upset the plans of at least
one of them.
This is a time to watch,
recognize and estimate the
Importance of your pet
dark horse. He may sur
prise you, and the other
horses.
The Washington times., 1935-09-28

known until the last min
ute, when he gallops in
and goes away with the
prize, namely, the nomina-
tion-perhaps.
He often gallops in, ap-
pears for a minute at the
convention, then gallops out
to be seen no more, giving
a good imitation Of Shakes
peare's "tale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury,
nothing"
This time, some unusually
interesting clark horses
may be expected. One
VERY dark and threaten
ing might have made a
great difference in the