The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-15
Friday, March Is, 1885
1t Is Up TO Farmers and
Workers Now

For just about three weeks the relief administration
has made all efforts to sderac stall OF and sabotage the
setting up grievance committee in Sheridan county
Three weeks ago DR.. Butler, the state relief admins
TRAITOR sent instructions to Penwood ordering the county
relief director to call meeting at where farmers
and workers to elect representative for this grev
ance committee Prendergast was to appoint second
and the two to elect the third.
1t seems that this idea most dsasteful to Prender
gast the former grocery clerk Such committee might
stop his efforts to cut relief in the county for promotion
sake He refused to call the meeting finding
that Buffers instructions contradictory That later
instructions often contradict previous he didn't stop
to think else he would have found different
Then the Helena delegation called the meeting
Butler had ordered There heavy snowfall the roads
blocked but still about 200 farmers and workers at
tended the meeting They denounced the activities of the
county relief administration and elected GOnus Laursen
prominent Dagmar farmer as their representative on the
4 grievance committee
fused to acknowledge the meetng it chad not been called
properly District Supervisor Bureigh however, recognz
fetch him to the meeting that Senehjem their
the committee He said that the two, Laursen and
Steneem, should get together and elect the third mem
them"
f On Thursday after the meeting Genius Laursen was
able to meet Prenderga only Burleigh had left He
told by the local relief director that his meeting today
that that fully his fault and asked to consider the
orders given him by the state administrator the former
for this territory In other words Prendergast de-
fnitey indicating that he was opposed to grievance COM
E clerk riding the high horse
From whatever else he said it appeared that Bureigh
tratng and sabotagng the setting up of grievance COM
mttee This is also proved by the fact that in the three
that passed since Buffers instructions Burleigh
has done nothng TO carry then1 OUT Een ne Woo IoC
recognize the meeting called by the Helena delegation he
should have called meeting Of his He has not done So
1t recognized everywhere in the county by farmers
workers and businessmen that the relief situation here
pretty bad Even the county commissioners agree to that
Two hundred people went record last week demanding the
immediate dismissal of the local administrator and his head
case worker They charged them with incompetence The
fact that S 900 relief money allotted to Sheridan county
returned to Helena has just about convinced the last
in the county that something quite rotten And not
soul is able to out and defend this and other acts
of the administration.
No. Like last month"; again the relief officials cutting
relief They have stated that clothing orders are
being given out this month They cut and have cut grocery
This despite the fact that according to from
Washington sufficient money has been provided by the
minimum which is lower than that of the Chinese cooie
is the policy of the relief officials who getting salaries
After all this sabotaging and stalng another was
made by the delegation who had received the promises iron
Dr. Butler The matter was put before Butler by means
staling, trying to back his promises When asked
Immediately order the local relief administrator carry
his ORDERS Butler replied that he going to send
man down here ito straghten matters out"
But already he has sent into this county JOIN
Zeuch of Wolf Point has stated here that he had been
missoned by Butler to carry on an investigation in tn
county.
ly opposed a grievance committee which farmers
workers represented should prove to everyone that
committee quite and could be of large bene
fit everyone in the county 1t has been promised by tn
highest relief authority in the state Local officials sab
otagng it and continuing to distribute much miser
as possible skMM
It is up to the people of the county, to the farmers an
workers in particular to that the promise made by But
Ter is carried out that grievance committee set up Tn
county relief committee has abolished long ago
the present there institution to get people redre
Of the grievances to help fight against discrimination
to that relief is handed out in as large measure
possible to families in need Hundreds of children in til
county undernourished This has to STOP Dscrimin;
ton has to CO. have inefficient and incompetent relief
fcals grievance committee help lot if is pro-
eTy backed by the of people, to accomplish this
Only another meeting, much larger than the or
last Thursday force the local administrator to accel
the committee elected Such meeting will be called if
Butler should also be stallng if he should do nothing
that his orders carried out Already farmers an
workers and also snail businessmen should advertise an
9ropagandlze this NEE % Get ready to because
snay q necessity be called Oh short order!