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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Friday, May 81, 1885
The Wheat Referendum

The vote of the wheat farmers of the country in favor
OF continuation OF the AAA destruction program does
not come as surprise to anyone The richer strata of
farmers are OF in favor of the AAA Thew are the
direct and Immediate benecares and they are certainly
In tu agreement with the AAA policy that proposes to take
out OF production for the market half the farm popua
ton of the country The market share of three million
farmers to go to the rich farmers corporation farms
all OF whom, of course, voted Eyes" on Saturday
However, there is no doubt that also large number
VI ana drouth-strcken farmers voted for AAA
continuation The vote in Sheridan county, with O3O vo
shows that clearly. -'O-" '0'iie'
Obviously these farmers were afraid that tbev would
not receive allotment checks if the vote went
against continuation of the wheat reduction program Most
farmers did not realize that they also voted for
on OF the processing tax that has helped to raise prices
Oh all things they have to buy up to 40 per cent duno the
last year They did not know that their vote would be in
eFpeCed as full endorsement of the entire AAA cron
obstruction program and they certainly are not aware Of
the TACT that the main objective of the AAA is to take awav
by reducing them to the level European peasant This
particular feature of the AAA not yet been transacted
nde ne very noses They have learned about it through
the statements of Wallace Tugwel and HOPKINS hnt he
eVed 1T to be in the distant future In the meantime be
mo 70 I'VE ana Tor that purpose those allotment checks
ZANE III very mandy They constituted the only cash most
farmers have handled during the last year Their vote on
SATURDAY expressed their desire for continuation of these
payments, nothing else. ~
1t is significant that nowhere in the reports announc
ing the result of the vote could be found statement men
onng the actual number those qualified to vote There
?PPIeu only Che ngres OF many (160546) who voted
FAVOR and so many (2632 who voted against the con-
Cnuatlon OF the wheat reduction program
why was there mention of the number of nonvoters
was this number large that the apparent victory Of
the administration would turn into defeat?
according to government Statistics the grain belt of
Ie country that is North and South Dakota Nebraska
Kansas and Montana is amed by about 500 600 farmers m
owners and of FARMS tenants and share
we 90 not know how many of these farmers have
signed last years wheat contracts but conservative ost
ate would certainly place them at less than s00
only 100000 farmers, about half of them voted to
nave I'M the AAA wheat reduction policy continued
Inc result OF the referendum stated in such vav would
look much less encouraging to the administration and ond
ne OIL much less propaganda value However it would he
closer to the facts - "ouiu NC Il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
The Supreme Court Decision
a Maneuver CIeverTv Executed

clever maneuver has been pulled by the Roosevelt adj
nhsuaUon The supreme court has declared the Mr. to
ne unconstitutional and illegal The decision hoe c+ y
death blow the newspapers saw w ~ "
And according to the newspapers tho nine old mon -
supreme court bench to blame for lestrovino the
presidents way to recovery! VIZ
What farce! And what q clevor r,ono,uo~,
The NRA had died long ago The mich boraldod blo
TIoaKeo When the American people lost their belief
III C1e MIA as measure that would lead them to recovery
WV soon experienced the fake character of this partic
seen more strikes and greater labor STRUGGLES than a
any previous period of American history
=, ana When the national NRA review hoard Of which
49, DdIICw' famous liberal attorney was chairman
us report last year and stated that the NRA was m
ana VICIOUS TO the because if stranded + I;++Io
euoW Tor the benefit of Big Business most of o ";ft
also ost their confidence in this recovery
Vi the president. From then on il becanoa n,o a.
the majority of the people that the MIRA was on ~
concerns = w "uS'S ana wan Street
-, When its fake character was thus exposed the NRA
IosI much OF its value. In fact it helped to desro [
q MT Roosevets popularity For this reason
1ee lace Oh the 1886 elections the president had f.
u CS Wnte elephant To admit failure to confess ~ AZ
mlS I OF tne MIA was, of course impossible That
ony nave further decreased his ponuaTit onJ
~ ms Vaiue as president AS consequence t5a Mp ~
PerIecC natural and official leath death for yb;oL
tne president could not be blamed ~ i WHICH
tho % Jgcson OF the supreme court did the lob And
them anyhow ' 'ne Oidle. NO one knows
Inc maneuver was well prepared CONGRESS- bod b0op
@ NID Oy the administration to extend be life &c
ing out this job by preparing legislation tbat S
eno OF the MIA two years hence These efforts p1s Inc
court decision seem to rather unexpectedv e Tie
s u - tnere any better explanation WHY the s,rr
cOurC decision comes after the blue eaoe had
erg Cne people for two years. unconsttutionaIl al M
soy surely, they wanted to or If thew hod 49, S,
no SO the supreme court Judges could have S 1
sey OF the NRA before it was instituted and ~ Sf
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Ford Lays OFF $1,000
Without Cutting Output

DETROIT, Mich.-The effecs,
of the greatly increased speed-up
In the Ford plant is already be-
ing felt as approximately $4,000
of the 10000 workers have been
laid off, although the production
season is at its height.
The rolling mill has been put
on a five-day basis, in place of six
and in several departments, as m
the spring and upset building, the
midnight shift was eliminated.
Workers of the housing depart
ment simply found their punch
cards gone last week when they
reported to work.
Meanwhile foremen are canvas
sing the workers in the plant, ask
ing if they intend to buy a car
this season, plainly limiting that
those who will buy a Ford have
greater chance of holding on to
their jobs for the remainder of the
season.
While lay-offs are already be-
ginning, loudspeakers at the rae-
tory gates told workers that "You
have produced 100000 cars, there
are 100000 more to go. This means
four more months work. You need
not fear to buy car"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
ITALY THREATENS
TO QUIT LEAGUE

GE NEVA, May 24.-Rushing
headlong toward the invasion of
Ethiopia, Mussolini today brushed
aside a League of Nations protest
resolution with the idential aggres-
siveness of the Japanese imperial
lists prior to the assault upon Man
churia, and threatened to quit the
League should it interfere with his
robber expedition against the Ne
gro country.
Immediately upon receiving
word of Mussolini's intentions to
proceed with the advance upon
Ethiopia, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet
foreign commissar and acting
president of the Leagues council.
asked all members to be ready to
attend a night session and to pre-
pare for stringent action.
Mussolini rejected the councils
resolution over the feeble "pro-
tests" of the French and British
representatives, who have consist
emily maintained their treaties
with the fascist dictator promising
support of the plumber of Ethiopia.
Hours before he had formally
Notified the League, Mussolini was
reported to have declared at a
celebration of Italv's
entrance into the World War that
be was ready to hurl the entire
italian population into the agony (;
If imperialist war.
Eve march directl" he shouted |
We do not turn backI"
The League suggestion for
peace" deliberately weakened
through the efforts of Pierre La |
val, French minister, and the Eng |
ish envoy, Captain Anthony Eden. |
night nevertheless have exposed
he aggressive tactics of the Ital-
an imperialists. The League pru-
,osaI provided for a weak 'sneu-
raj" commission of Cancellation
md arbitration, with a time limit
or settlement of all disputes"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
WHAT FASCISM HAS BROUGHT
TO THE FARMERS OF GERMANY

going on among the farmers.
Young farmers and farm hands
have been forced to join the Hit
Ter Youth and the S.A. (the storm
troops). Many of them were rorc-
ed to go to farmers schools, not
so much for the sake of being
trained for agricultural work as
for receiving national socialist
training. That is, preparation for
a new war.
Feed Them Speeches
The Hitler government is con-
tinually holding farmers confer
ences, parades and festivals at
which it tries to create good spirit
among the farmers by all sorts OF
festive games and speeches which
the farmers may listen to but not
discuss among themselves.
In spite of this, the dissatisfac-
ton among the farmers is grow
ing steadily from day to day. The
poverty of the farm hands and
small farmers cannot be talked out
of existence. Nor can the eternal
talk about a community of the
people fool the farmers into for
getting that they are the economic
victims of the Nazis.
Resistance Is Growing
In many sections of Germany
the middle and small farmers are
putting up passive resistance to
the measures of the government.
That is, they are opposing the col
lection of foodstuffs for relief of
the unemployed in the cities, col
lections which are in reality moth
ing but robbery committed on the
farmers. An expression of the
feeling among the farmers can be
seen in the fact that they harded
In rotten foodstuffs and poured
milk in the streets so that they
should not have to give it to the
government. And the farmers
meetings which are ordered by the
government are being more and
more poorly attended. Here and
there the opposition of the farm
has already reached open revolt
and demonstrations, as for exam
pie, in Koenigsberg.
Thus the result of Nazi activity
among the farmers is: Increasing
dissatisfaction. 1t cannot last much
orger before the storm against
Hitler will break out among the
farmers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Coffee an

And dust storms are a blessing
to town gossips, who don't have
to stir from their parlors to get
all the dirt.
And two New York bankers have
just been released from prison af-
ter serving % months for "mis-
applying" two million dollars. We
are not sure that there aren't MANY
other people willing to serve that
length of time for that amount.
And the newspapers say that
this summer the American fields
will be swamped with "cinch bugs"
an insect with bad odor. Most
likely the Hearst editors opened
their windows.
And a numismatist saws that in
200 years our present-day coins
will be rare and much. sought af-
ter. How about now?
And when it comes to making
speeches, Hooey Long certainly
lives up to his name.
And our good relief statisticians
have found that So week is suf-
ficient to feed a family. And whv
not feed 'em feather off the chick
en- in the New Deal pot?
And at the end of the week in
which The New York Times bust
ness index had been dropping at
the greatest rate in more than a
year, our good president said that !
ne had never been so sure as he
was then of the return of pros |
perity.
And we've never been so sure |
either, Franklin.
And "Three Die as Storm Sweeps
Kentucky; Derby Horses Excited |
But Uninjured" is headline. Yes.
every horse king.
And scientists say that the earth
ooks blue to the Martians. That's
Capitalism has made it
ook blue to millions of earth
lwellers, tool
And "Roosevelt's Plans Mapped
IS He Fishes" is headline. Fishes
or plans?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
HIGHWAY BOARD
ISSUES new SET
OF REGULATIONS

HELENA, May ga new set
of regulations covering proper
equipment for automobiles ana
commercial trucks on Montana
highways was issued today by the
Montana highway patrol board.
AS the state highway patrol act
prohibits driving a motor vehicle
with improperly adjusted brakes,
the state patrol board in its sup
Elemental set Of regulations fol.
lowed the practice of the states Of
California, Oregon ard Washing
ton in defining stopping distances,
Mr.. Donohue said.
To operate a motor vehicle with
proper brakes the followig stop
ping distances will be required: At
10 miles an hour, stopping distance
9.S feet; at Is miles an hour, 2OS
feet, and at 20 miles an hour, 81
feet.
The board also established a
rule that all vehicles be equipped
with windshield wiper and rear
view mirrors, and that all com
mercial trucks and buses must
carry at least two flares, lanterns
or bombshells, and that the head
lights shall be equipped with lights
no more than 80 candlepower, the
maintenance engineer said.
1t was deemed advisable by the
board to grant drivers license ex-
to out-of-state cars, fol-
lowing the same procedure as the
state does in the matter of auto
licenses, a 3O-day exemp-
ton with an additional 80 days il
the vehicle is in the state for tour
ist and pleasure purposes only.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION PROTESTS
GAG LEGISLATION


NEW YORK.-Only vigorous
action can balk fascism in the
United States, according to the
officials of the American Civil
Liberties Union at it's annual
meeting in New York City.
l"Never before in our Is years
have the forces of reaction been
so united or determined" Director
Roger N. Baldwin declared. "Nev-
er in years have we had to face
such legislative attacks on civil
liberty from so many quarters"
Arthur Garfield Hays, who re-
ported on the ACLU's legal ac-
Invites, said that the organization
had more cases involving criminal
syndicalism and sedition laws dur
ing 1884 than in any year since
the war.
Gag Legislation
he conference unanimously
adopted resolution opposing the
'gag" legislation now before con-
gress and before various state leg
islators. 1t attacked particularly
the program of legislation spon-
sored by the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce, the American Legion,
the Daughters of the American
Revolution, the Hearst and Mca
Fadden press as un-American in
and dangerous in effect.
Sponsors of such bills, the resolu-
ton stated, are "reactionary and
patriots who would
create the very force and violence
they purport to prevent by deny
ing all means of open and peace
ful agitation"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
PLANS FOR SUBSJS-
TANCE FARMS NEAR
WILLISTON MADE
Option On 1000 Acres
Has Already Been
Obtained

BISMARCK, N. D., May IT,
l. A. Acker, rural rehabilitation
director, announced today that op-
lions low are being obtained on
lrrigable Missouri river valley land
IN the Williston area where it has
been proposed the federal govern
ment establish subsistence home
steads.
E. G. Schollander, RRC repre-
sentative, has obtained options on
more than 1000 acres principally
in the Buford- Trenton and Nesson
valley areas, Acker stated, and
surveys of the optioned lard will
commence when weather permits.
Land valuations will be set by a
federal land bank appraiser.
That means that somebody else
than the farmers who have work
ed their land and built their homes
will determine what this work and
these homes are worth.
Acker said he has been informed
by Williams county officers that
approximately $50 families now on
relief rolls could become self-sus-
tanning on the projected home
steads. There are about so fami-
lies now occupying the land at the
present time.
How this land that can barely
give a decent living to so families
,an sustain $50 families is some
hing only AAA experts can flo
Ire out. 1t can be done only bv
making paupers of the farmers
Who are the victims.
Recommended to the RRC has
been the establishment of 20 five
lcre tracts, % 1O-acre tracts and
IL 4O-acre tracts. The smallest
racts, located near Williston
would be given over to those fam
lies who. had part time work IN
he city. The 10-acre tracts are
truck gardens. On TIE
arger tracts, small grains and
'eed crops could be raised with adj
oinirg submarginal lands employ
d fer grazing purposes.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
OUTLOOK

Several of the Outlook rural
school contestants for track were
In Plentywood Friday to take part
in the meet there.
Claude Mills, H. G. Prescott, N.
j. Nelson and Sam Thompson drove
to Fort Peck Saturday to the Am
erican Legion convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Thompson are
the owners of a new Ford car.
Mrs. Madsen, mother eff Hans
Madsen, is returning to her home
in Canada this week. She has
been with her son practically all
winter, helping the family in its
illness.
The cloudy weather on Saturday
did not deter many of the school
children and their parents from
attending the school picnic held in
Grants coulee.
Our county attorney, Verno.
Hoven, spoke at the high school
commencement exercises Wednes-
day evening.
Ed Larter has been i'll the pas.
week.
Mrs. Carl Wollan and Mrs. S.
Back visited with friends at White
tail over the week end.
John Gunderson has had some
bad luck this spring with his en-
CINE. About every time he starts
working with it, something breaks
delaying his spring seeding con.
The Misses Emma and Bertha
Lux treated the pupils of Miss
Lux's school to the show in Pier.
5ywood Saturday afternoon.
Among those who went to the
show in Plentywood Sunday from
outlook were Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyo
Homme, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Kicks
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Benson and
Peter NELLIE.
Mrs. Bob Fitzgerald and Mrs.
Toe Kowski were county seat shop :
oers this week.
Little Eugene Becker was in
own Tuesday afternoon with his
ather to have his teeth attended
o.
Pete Kohler was. a business call /
r IN Plentywood this week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
Butte Workers Revive
Historic Celebration of
Miners Union Day

BUTTE, May 27.-Miners' Union
LAY on June 10, the miners holi-
uay and a day of demonstration
OF the historic Western Federation
OF Miners, is being revived this
year Dy the Butte Miners Union.
The Butte local. with its 1000
members, the largest in the Inter
national Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, wants to brine
pack the old holiday in order to
unite all labor organizations, es-
peclally those connected with the
INNING industry, throughout the
west. e
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
NM. GRAND JURY
WILL INVESTIGATE
KIDNAPPING CASE

SANTA FE, N. M.-Governor
Clyde Tingley of New Mexico has
promised grand jury investiga-
ton of the Minor-Levinson kid
mapping.
The gobemor's promises follow
ed a conference with representa-
tives of the newly-organized New
Mexico branch of the American
Civil Liberties Union. He dec1ar-
ed that he would request District
Judge M. A. Otero of Santa Fe
to summon state grand jury to
conduct a full investigation.
Otero is the Judge who granted
40 framed Gallup jobless workers
preliminary hearing following
the death of Sheriff Carmichael of
Gallup and two workers during a
police attack on jobless demonstra-
tors. The 4S, SO men and 10 wo-
men, had been rushed to the death
cell without trial, when Attorney
A. l.. Wirin of the A.C.L.U. ar
rived on the scene from California
to defend the prisoners and won
the right to the preliminary hear
ing. Minor and Levinson, the kid
mapped men, head the Gallup de-
tense committee.
Following the conference with
the governor, the same represent
atlves conferred with Attorney
General Frank Patton, securing
from him assurance of cooperation
Tor a sweeping and thorough grand
Jury hearing of the entire affair.
The A.C.L.U. representatives IN
Guided Katherine Gay, Walter Day- !
export, artist, Prof. F. o. Matthie- |
son OF Harvard University, and A.
L. Wirin, A.C.L.U. counsel and
spokesman for the group
The group has demanded a
grand jury investigation not onw
70 secure indictments against the
xdnapers but to expose local of
.lclals who have sabotaged inves-
lgation and cooperated with the
Lldnapers by calling the crime a
hoax and frame-up."
The same committee is TO call
N United States Attorney William
!. Baker at Santa Fe to demand
federal grand jury investigation
Direct requests to the u. S. de-
'artment of justice for a federal
INVESTIGATION have again been re-
ected. The attorney generals Of
Ice reiterated its stand that its
Jurisdiction was not involved. des-
lite claims of the defense thar
lnce Minor and Levinson were
ropped on an Indian reservation
lrsdiction of the federal govern
lent is obviously involved. Wirin
uotes federal law making the
rlme clearly federal offense.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
cur FOR BANG;
DISEASE TFRAA'SSS0

WASHINGTON. Nav %
9arnstareh will not cure a. n0.--Pint
b. Bangs e99 disease of cattle, I but control ,.
TO SlS a package it helps 'I tt at IS
u NOW the pOeketboOk. F y Keep
may honestly believe in the 5a'l a.l1
c Cheney Of Of this sO-called cur. ell q
e cause til the symptoms of t tba Be- a',
ease which in plain words 't is DIS
taglouS abortion. are often m A. con,
o oSd the final development Of r ,,sAsd
ance to it in individual " cd resist
resistance e !: that develops reo oOwS--s
OF remedies" sardless
However, jury in tbos
court at Richmond bas ro. federal
y re Of guilty aga ii9sqiR \ a
Bellwood, trading as Ror., :. I.
Farms. South Richmond D 81
accused of violating the Fo "JO is
Drugs act by shipping Be JI ana
Farms abortion treatme6t t."OOd
terstate. commerce. This FL. - H.
lent concOctiOn. the goyer 1"uuu,
showed was made up of corn ,,l.lsl'
with just enough potassium ,,9'a 1
mangate to make a pink soln PEI
IN water. Neither the starch l1uon
the permangate cost more tL !, nOf
few cents a pound. ' q
"The court placed Bellwood
probation for three years d1,iU On
which time he is obliged n nrtA. y
violate the Federal Food and NJ "
act or any other criminal LAM. lug =
the United States. If he doc doc = u
legally ship his abortion treatrou II
IN interstate commerce. the con..
may pronounce sentence nno1
him." upOn
Contagious abortion, says Dr. i
=. Moskey, veterinarian Of ha
food and drug administratioO
causes great loss to farmers and
stock raisers every year and N
desperation many of them ara
willing to try anything that !.
held out as a cure despite the 70.
peated advice of the department -
agriculture that all preparatiovs
to be of benefit to tbi'
are fraudulent
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31

Editors NOte-The following
is taken from the speech deliv-
cred by DR.. Kurt ROsenfeld be-
fore the Farmers Emergency Re-
lief Conference March 26, at
Sioux Falls. DR.. Resented was
minister of justice in Prussia in
1918, and a member of the Ger
man Reichstag uD to the advent
of Hitler.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-31
A RADICAL BOOK CLUP

A non-profit book club called
the Book Union, which will select
and distribute one book of left
wing or non-fiction each month.
has been established with offices
at 581 Fourth Avenue, New York.
The editors are Harry Block, NAL
colin COwley, Robert w. Dunn.
Henry Hart, Granville Hicks. Cor
liss Lamond, Isidor Schneider.
Bernard Smith, Alexander Trach-
tenberg and Mary Van Kleek.
With such an editorial board the
Book Union is bound to be a sue
cess.