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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
Editor and Manager
The Hay Graft

Now standing in piles of bales, stacked
up at various places in Montana, are thou
sands of tons of hay purchased by the Re-
lief administration during last fall and
early winter. The writer has recently seen
such piles at Divide, Big Timber and Plenty
wood. There are probably dozen or twen-
ty places, where an aggregate of many
thousands of tons now stand weathering
and spelling.
This hay was purchased with money ap-
prOpriated for relief. By the amount of ex-
penditure it cut down on the cash available
to feed and clOthe hungry humans-hu-
mans who were hungry and threadbare
then but who will be still more hungry and
threadbare during the coming winter.
The announced purpose of hay purchase
was twO-fOld. To furnish farmers with
market for hay and to furnish food for
livestock in areas where drought had cur
tailed or burned out the supply of fodder
The real purpose seems to have been to
furnish a new field for graft.
Farmers who had hay to sell either took
$40 per ton Cater in the season up to $13.-
so per tom or made no sales. For the same
or similar hay Mr.. Butler and his Relief
Administration paid from $14 to $40 per
ton. Spectators, and Heavens knows who
else pOCketed the difference.
Then while thousands of tons of this hay
stood TOtting in piles, literally hundreds of
head of live stock persisted for want of fOd-
der. In the PlentywOOd district stock per-
ished almost within sight of the rOtting
hay pile.
The destitute lost relief money; the far.
mers lost hay market and hungry live
stock lost its lives, while the grafters got
the coin. A regulation dose of Mis-Deal
prosperity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
Roosevelt Doesn't Dare!

The misery and suffering in America
could be Immediately eliminated and this
country turied into happy near-paradise
within 80 days, with hunger and unemploy-
ment completely abolished and suicide muir
der and other crimes practically done away
with, IF President Roosevelt would compel
Congress to use it's constitutional preroga-
tives: First-to cancel ALL DEBTS. public
and private; second, to assume it's boot.
legged abdicated- inundated authority to
coin and regulate the medium of exchange
(the money! of the United States. (The
Nye-Sweeney bill which was defeated at
the last session of Congress would do the
trick very welD.
Both of these requirements would be per-
fectly constitutional Roosevelt won't
recommend either one of them to Congress
or from the rOstrum. HE DOESN'T DARE!
If he did, he would suffer the same fate as
did Lincoln, Garfield, Mckinley and Huey
Long.
ShylOck will not permit any one-not ev-
en- potentates, kings or presidents-to in
terfere with his time-dishonored interna-
tional enslavement racket The Progress
sive Miner).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
STORY OF NORMAN MINI
STORY OF NORMAN Nm
Rich California Farmers
Vicious Labor Haters
TALE OF THE COURAGEOUS STRUGGLE OF OP-
PRESSED FIELD WORKERS FOR LIVING WAGE
AND THEIR CONVICTION LAST WINTER

The crimes of the California capitalists against Norman
Mini of the Workers Party, u ST. and his coworkers in pr
are such to the most vigorous resentment of
every cassconscious worker in the United States The b
GRAFTON of these victims of class justice must be accomplish
ed and while the task is difficult it be made by
the concentrated pressure OF the workers AMI farmers thru
out the nation who to realize that every blow
dealt to leader of the working class is primarily intended
to subjugate the entire labor masses.
The leadership of the American Federation of Labor with
William Greene as spokesman has done everything possible
ignore the rights of these clasSwar victims They have
not only gored the demands for justice but have shame
fully aided and abeted the slave drivers in the perSec-
of those who would battle to the last to the en that
standard of living be improved for the workers. The
Tom Mooney furnishes than enough evidence to
damn Greene and his cotee of bureaucrats to everlasting
nfamy But the great rank and file has still to be awa
ened and when this done the moned lords who would
ensave them will vanish together with the labor skates
who have betrayed the interests of labor that they might
enjoy seat at the rich mans table.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

present issues and now another and Greater
one is to be thrown into the nat;or,o9 ,"aSS
What will you do about it? ii'A Aie0''
Will you take these helpless and homeless
humans out and exterminate thon oiO I;T5o
bunch OF polecats? Or will you do the ,e4 less
humane NJ as act and let them just starve by
the roadside? In either event. millions Of
customers for the products of vow ~ OnEiU Nc
age industrial plant will be ''out Of the mar.
ket'' for keeps. - 'ii0 iii''i
viii you revamp and again set In "relief
by the dole" or create more projects and
extend work relief" by borrowing more
money, creating more debts, adding more
interest and taking more taxes out Of de-
clinin1g values, to the absolute and certain
WrecRln r., OF the whole national credit struc-
ture? What are you going to do. Mr.. Can
italistt, other than cling to your archaic no
ton that a profit system will survive while
you wait for the deIuge.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
War-Not Eats

With a government wage scale hardly
above the wage scale of Chinese coolie,
so far this year the government has ap-
propriated $780, 100000 for war purposes
with more money to be expended in Novem-
Der for war materials.
Congressman Fred H. herman of Iowa
quotes the following figures on the appro-
prlations, which have been made so far this
year for war:
For the Army-$ 4O1, OOO, 900 regular ap-
preparation; $139,OO0,OOO from WPA; So
100000 from PWA; total, $549, 100000.
For the Nays 549, 100000 regular ap-
preparation; $16,OOO,OOO from WPA; $114,-
100000 from PWA; total, $685., 100000.
Grand total, $1,1S8, 00O,O OO.-(Butte Eye
opener).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

For the fiscal year 193S-34, Postmaster
General Farley balanced the postal bud
get'' for the first time in many years. He
reported to the president that there was
surplus for the year of something over 12
million dollars. The nation was flooded
with propaganda news acclaiming
the accomplishment. 1t now develops that
the resourceful Farley Overlooked adding
into his list one little item of fifty million
dollars which he borrowed" from one of
New Deals other funds and spent during
the year. Oh well! What is fifty million
dollars between friends?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

such Impartial" citizens as a wo-
man who had just presented the
prosecution with a brace of ducks.
By spending county funds to shad-
ow prospective jurors, McAllister
discovered and eliminated every
union man and every relative of
a union man. The result was a
jury of business men, statesmen,
well-to-do housewives, a police
mans mother and several retired
gentlemen, including one cocktail
pal of the prosecutor! These sure
ly will have no bias for the defen-
dants!
On the bench sat Dial M. Lem
mon, so unbiased" that one night
at his club he said that ain time
of war Norman Mini would be a
great danger to the government.
This opinion of the learned jurist
was widely circulated. When Am
erican Legion leaders suggested
that, as an Illinois lawyer, Albert
Goldman should not be allowed to
appear, the Judge illegally threat
ened to eject Goldman, and aban-
doned his plan only because he
feared a protest. Compelled by the
defense to investigate jury-tam-
pering, he called off the inquiry
when it got hot for the prosecutor
"The latitude which Judge Lem
mon permitted the prosecution il
the introduction of material which
had no relation to the activities Of
the defendants was denied to de
Tense. Thus Lennon served thu
Associated.
Continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
FL PARTY LEADER
COMING TO STAT
Congressman AmIie, Pro
gresSive of Wisconsin,
Max Tour In Interest Of
Third Party.

Thomas R. Amlie, the battling
Progressive Party Congressma
from Wisconsin, and chairman o.
the American Commonwealth POit
ical Federation will visit the NOrt
west on a speaking campaign in b
half of the Farmer-Labor party
according to an annOuneemeHi
from national headquarters Of The
Com m o nwealth Federation il
Washington.
Mr.. Amlie is to cover Minnesota
North Dakota, Montana and Idaho
in a six weeks campaign. Definite
dates and places for Montana hsv.
not yet been announced but vii
probably include Glasgow, HAVE
Great Falls, Helena and Butte
starting about Nov. 4 to 6, in the
northeastern corner of the state
Mr.. Amlie was one Of the fOna-
ers of the Progressive Party d
Wisconsin, took a leading part j
all preliminary work looking to the
formation of national Farmer
Labor party and is the acnowleg-
ed leader of the group Of Congress
men that have declared for the ae
clifton of capitalism and the SUB
stitution of a Production for US
system.
Mr.. Amlie recently declared ina
Farmer-Labor party forces WI
elect at least one hundred OCr
gressmen in 1886 and sweep tn'
nation in 1910. He says the gres
break in public sentiment may eye !
come in time to capture the natl~
I in 1886.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
Technology Advances Capitalism
Fails

The march of science and invention can
not be halted. Technology, or what is COM
monty called the machine age, continues to
advance. In the work of providing food,
clothing, shelter, training, amusement, med
lcal care and the final burial that all folks
must have, labor saving devices more and
more replace human Drawn.
This phase of mankind's progress cannot
be stopped or turned back; nor is there any
sane reason why it should. Who now wants
to substitute the OK cart for modern motors.
the spinning jenny for the automatically
operated spindles, the miners pick for mod
ern coal cutting machines, the old hickory
handled No. 2 for five yard steam shovels,
or the scythe for the Mccormick mower.
Doing work by hand, that can be better
and more easily performed by TOOLS is a
manifestation of identically the same form
OF insanity that would be exhibited by a
man who carried thousand tons of rocks
" up mountain side merely that they might
roll down again.
Now the practical mechanical cotton pick
er has arrived. Steel spindles will replace
human fingers IN harvesting the 1886 cot
ton crop. Rush Bros. of Memphis, Tennes-
see, have perfected and put into mass pro-
ductiOn a power driven mechanical picker,
that will sell for $1,000 and gather each
hour as much cotton as one hundred flesh
and blood human beings now pick.
The machine works on any kind of land.
straight or crooked rows make no differ
ence. It's manufacturers are adequately fin
anced. Their sales forces are about ready
to take the field. In a couple or three years,
at the most, mechanical cotton pickers will
!" be as thick in Dixie as combine harvesterS
are in the wheat belt in Montana.
f: Nearly five million humans now exc out
" a miserable existance by picking cotton.
Already twenty per cent of these are af-
fected with pellagTa or slow starvation.
These get an insufficient supply of whole
some, health giving food. Yet their blood
is as red as yours and mine, their nervous
systems react, in the same way, to the same
kind of pain and torture. They have the
same needs, the same requirements the
same warnings and the same emotions as
you and /.
Ninety-eight per cent of these flesh and
blood huamns will be out of job cut off
from all chance if getting work of any kind
thrown on the breadlines- sand there are nc
breadlines. Of course, they will soon be
turned out of the miserable cardboard
shacks that dot southern plantations Feud-
al landlords will not want them around
'"They might steal something"
Now, Mr.. Capitalist, you haven't yet fac.
ed the issue of twenty odd million already
on relief, ten or twelve million already un.
employed, increasing crime, spreading cor
ruption, piling debts, mounting taxes, de
!. teriorating schools, restitution, starvation
insecurity and chaos, everywhere, in lane
OF potential plenty. You haven't faced the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
TAROV ESCAPES
t.. FROMSTALN Jla
Political Prisoner of Rn..
Rulers Viii Jour rrus'',p
Europe ;.1! to Describe z. 70
dltiOns in Stain Priso ~oa'


The heroic Russion
feminist, TarOv, who ba nOlsheVa
prison and exile siDo mas So been h
made made his escape and i sSS, y
Z ASA awaiting financial Is s;d dOE y i
ms international cOmradS SiO irOa
able him TO make to ; to e..
Europe where he will I %rfdIy to
Iull story of the bestiaI Uu lie
IONS and fortunes inflicted aSecS
Union. COmrade Taroy we . SSvia
smith by trade, is the first DO IOSk.
ylk-Leninist to escape from D : 81
mist jail. ''On Sts.
Comrade Tarov spent tb,o.
In exile and four wears IN yeah
the Wechne- Uralsh "Isolatap.l5 lsoa5
this ore prison alone, 4S5 Rs h
vik-Leninists were confined V ss
a great hunger strike duriTrr, - AII!ei
they were subjected to fe SraGA
61eatlngs and tortures, thew ' rs.5
dispersed to various other 1,;1 wen
The hunger strike was dso tSunS
because the prison terms ~
comrades We're autOmatica6n us
tended from two to three vea r u !,
ter the original sentences had - d
served. The intention is NOT ~ OV ~
our comrades get out alive ~ N'
During the hunger strike NH,
lasted Is days, the prisoners WI" ,u..
artificially fed, beaten and s5o ~' !.
through the windows of their csli y
Several comrades attemDteSS '', J.
commit suicide. "
In the near future we will /.
able to publish extensive and "
tailed information about the o "
ditions in Stains exile camps I sOi
prisons. Already, from this br;a =,
report, the situation of the BoIs5s
vik-Leninists in the Soviet TIni",
is shown. The Stalinists are oasL
ing to annihilate them physieaIlv
They can pursu< this course Ori
because the truth has been hide
from the international workh
class. The escape of comrade n,
ov, and the information suppis
by him, will row make possible
campaign to mobilize proletaris
public opinion Throughout d
world. We must set ourselves re
olutely to this task.
First in order is the collection
a fund to provide comrade Tar
with the necessities of life and /
means to travel to Europe. Eve
internationalist must regard it
an urgent duty to contribute
this fund. Collections will be
ceived by the national office Of t
Workers Party, A. J. Music, s.
rotary, 55 East 18th Street, N
York City.-(New Militant).
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
NORMAN MINI:
AN APPRECIATION
By Travers Clements
Co-anthnr nf .eRehel Americ,

CO-authOr of ''Rebel America"
The youngest of the eight "out-
side agitators" convicted of "crim-
inal syndicalism" in Sacramento is
26-year old Norman Mini.
Unfortunately for the propagan-
da "angle" of news stories in re-
dictionary papers, this young "out-
side agitator" with the foreign
sounding name is a native of Sac
ramento and an ex-West Point ca
Diet! His parents were workers
his father a membe rof the Rail-
way Brotherhods. Because of the
encouragement received for an I'M
usual scholarship record in the pub
lie schools, he decided to try for
West Point. He passed his en-
trance examinations with an I'M
usually high rating, and received
a fanfare of "local boy makes
good" publicity in the hometown
papers.
Mini entered West Point without
a "subversive" idea in his head.
He left at the request of the au-
thorities, after writing a satirical
sketch on military training for a
student publication. Back in Sac
ramento, he discovered Karl Marx
and the labor movement, and be-
came immersed in the struggles
of CALIFORNIA; canery and agricul-
tural workers. He joined the Com
munist Party, leaving it after two
years to join the Workers Party
of the United States. In the inter-
i'm, he had written novel which,
if he ever gets chance to revise
it, should be the "proletarian''
book of the year.
From West Point to the San
Quentin jute mill, via the picket
lines of striking cannery and agri-
cultural workers, is a long road fol-
young man of &c to have travel
led. Mini has negotiated it without
loss of spirit or personal integrity
on the way. Nor, as 1 learned or
a recent visit to San Quentin has
he lost that dry and delightful sen,
Sc of humor, manifesting itself il
his quiet drawl which so infuriatec
the district attorney while Mini oc
cupied the witness stand. His grea
conce.nc at the moment are hov
to keep in contact with develop
ments in the international labo.
movement, and how to get tn,
Warden to let him work on the re
vision of his novel.
One need not be a political par
tisan of this boy to realize tina
Prisoner No. 57606 is a credit t,
the whole labor movement.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

The Wall Street Journal now devotes
column to REPUTATION of articles that appear
in New Republic, National Economic News
and Views, Daily Worker and other left
ward bound journals. A year or two ago
its sacred" columns would have withered
up on mention of any publication that was
even pale pink. We don't understand it un-
less growing mass sentiment and pressure
is making the Wall Street crowd little
jittery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

A record crowd was in town o.
Sunday, attracted by the sng y.
Steamboat Round the Bend NJ. y.
latest picture in which Will HC y.
ers was starred, and which was AZ y
leased shortly before his :aO5 X
accidental death. People W9 1!1o !.
front of the Orpheum the Hg .Ssir
part of the day, to await ' va;
turn to see the picture, Whicr v" m
shown continuously from l p
to II p. m.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
FOUR P'WOOD STUDENTS
ARE FRATERNITY PLEDGES
Moore, Mont.
Sept. "a. 1886

Four Plentywood boys, who are
now freshmen in the University of
Missoula, have been pledged to the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
The boys include Gerald Morck,
Levi Paul, Richard Peterson and
Robert Ferris.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

Entered as Second Class Matter, October
Is, 1918, at the Post Office at Plentywood,
Montana, Under the Act of March 9, 1897.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
THE PRODUCERS NEWS

Published Friday of each week at Plenty
wood, Montana, by The Peoples Publishing
-. Company, Inc.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11

EDITORS NOTE.-The editor
of the Producers News agrees full
ly with the statements and conclu-
sions in the above letter by H. w.
Smith. They apply not only to
Roosevelt and the United States
government, but to every capitalist
government in the world, and with
a thousand times the force to Stall
IN, and the Soviet government of
Russia, which has and is selling
more war material to Italy for use
IN the rape of Ethiopia, than all
the capitalist governments COM
Dned, and is now selling for cash
and material to Fascist Mussolini
Tor the subsection and enslavement
OF this backward people in the car
rylng out of Italy's colonial am
6ltlons. And what is worse the
Third International, nor its sec
tons, has not raised its voice in
protest of this base betrayal of the
International working class, by the
betrayers of the workers father
land" While Stain sells muni-
tons to Mussolini, the Comintern
calls upon the workers of other
countries to refuse to make or load
munitions for Italy, and to dem
onstrate against the enslavemen,
OF Ethiopia, while the Russian
workers remain silent. Workers al
the world wonderl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-03
WEATHER CONDITIONS AT A. M

Ketchkan cloudy temperatur 46 Craig 49; wfangcl cloudy 30; Sa cloudy 5 Soap rain 5l; Port Attn rny; skagwa cloudy 50; Rad ovie cloudy rkuy 55; Fairbanks M Tan n clear 6 Nulato cloudy Kaag cloudy k.eet c.ear, CO., Ruby, clear. clear,
 ~ s!I!EA SyNppSIs
 barcmeilc pressure this lc ana the Arctic canada While light rain has fall o ana southeast Alaska during the lat est or the Territory has had have also fallen along the Portland oe last night the Ing occurred temperatures this rning Territory mostly slightly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-03

opening of the mine Friday and a few more pointed remarks bronent Folta to his feet with the assertion he resented the Ashyster-like tac- tics and Mr Grigsby if1mediately declared he was not insulting the District Attorneys office and that he resented the statements of shys- ter methods from F'olta. The latter charged Grigsby was playing to the gallery :, and attempting to make a speech that might have some .place in Congress but not in the trial of the issue at hand.
 RoJen Says Friday OK.
 a Senator Roden said a. Friday hearing was all right with, him and Attorney Foster and Vim attempt ed to have the $s,o0o bond lowered to $500 on grounds that some of the, charges would develop into rnis- demeanors if any thing and thst 8 900 was far too high under the circumstances. The court held the charges said felony and that he did not believe $3,0OD was too high in a case where conviction would mean from three to fifteen years in the penitentiary. He allowed the bond to stand. af T
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-03
THREE FIRMS FILE
 ACCOMMODATIONS

Articles Of incorporation have been filed with the Territorial Au- Iditor by the American Tinfields In witt, principal office at Tin Citg. Capital Is given at s65 900 and in- eorrorators are Floyd McKennen, B. Mann and Dorothy E. Shea, all Of S.7attle.
 Two other interpretations are the Norris Packing Company of Ju- neau and the Ketchikan Transpo-- tatien Company of Ketchikan. h. corporators of the former are H. L. Morris and Magdalena B. Mor- is Of Juneau and Abbie Mann of Seattle. Capital stock is listed at $50 900, and the company propo- : to operate a chnnery.
 Capital stock Of the Kei :. ksn ompanv is s5o030, wi.h t,:c lnc9
 ocrorators named as J. A. Talbot 5. c. Bar holo o mew and E. W frcwn, all of Ketehikan. They p.o pose to operate a boat line.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-03
HoGGAN TO DAWSON

G. Hogan, connected with the Yukon Consolidated Gold Mining Company, travelled to Skagway from Vancouver, B. C.. on the Charlotte, enroute to mining properties at Dawson, Y. T.