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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
FORCED SALE OF
FARM AVERTED
BY MASS ACTION
Wave of Foreclosures Is
Expected In Mime
sofa County
By JIM JONES

ASHBY, Minn.-About $50 far
mers assembled at the courthouse
at Elbow Lake Monday, Feb. A, to
stop the foreclosure on the farm
of Emil Boerner, living south of
Elbow Lake. Through the unity
and militant action of the farm
ers, the sale was postponed for 16
days.
The farmers, under the leader
ship of the Grand County Holiday
Association, are mobilizing to stop
the foreclosure of the same farm
again. They plan a big mass meet
ing at Elbow Lake. The owner
of the farm is a returned over
seas man who even put his veter-
ans compensation into the farm in
order to save it. The farm was
homesteaded by the present occu-
pants father some so years ago.
Mr.. Boerner was willing to make
a loan from the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration to repay the bankers
farm mortgage company which
started foreclosure proceedings,
and his local creditors. He was
promised $6,400 for the insurance
company and to pay off the debts
held by local creditors who had
been willing to scale down their
debts, but Mr.. Winters, the agent
of the insurance company, demand
ed the whole $4,000.
Advertise Foreclosure ite-
& Other fore closures of the homes
of farmers who have spent their
lives trying to wrest a living from
the soil are advertised for the near
future. 1t is up to the active far
mers of the county to keep the
bankers and insurance companies
from taking away the homes Of
the farmers who are unable to
meet interest payments because Of
the depression and low prices Of
farm products.
At a meeting held yesterday by
the Grand County Holiday Associ-
elton ct Ashby, keynen were cleo
ted to carry on the Holiday work
in Pelican, Eagle Lake and other
townships. The meeting was call
ed 70 or1er by Philip Carlson, To-
cal Holiday organizer.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01

ton; Bertha Cunningham, Farmers
Union, McCoOk county; Henry
Schempt, vice president Marion To-
cal No. 765, Farmers Union, Turn
er county; George Adler, president,
Miner County Farmers Holiday AS
ISOLATION; Erik Eide, Farmers I'm
ion, Miner county; A. Zimmerman,
director, Farm Bureau, Miner coun-
ty; Miner County Farmers and
Workers Relief Association; F,
w. Novak, president, Brule Coun-
ty Farmers Union; Brule County
Mass Meeting for Relief; J. E,
Nicholl, secretary, Sphinx County
Farmers Union; Paul Werth, Sphinx
(Conticued on page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Contractors at Dam Fire
Men After Two Days Work

the hands of a contractor. Three
times we were sent from the bar
racks to the job by bus and three
times were we turned back. No
work right now, we were told. We
were expected to return to the bar
racks and wait. We had to pay
the bus fare for every trip.
For more than a day we were
being stalled until finally we were
allowed to pick up tools and start
working. For two days and three
hours we worked and then we
were told to go back aoain from
where we came. There was no
more work for us.
Ten men out of IL who called for
work last week Monday were fired
after they had worked a little
more than two DAYS. They had
travelled for hundreds Of miles on
" to be forced back home again
on their own expense.
During the two days and three
hours they had earned $3.50 each.
For room and board $4.62 were de-
Quoted. With $1.SS in their pock-
cts, they were sent home again.
Those who had friends and rela-
tives living near had to borrow
money to get home on.
According to a particular ruling
made recently, no worker is allow
ed to stick around and to wait for
some job to turn up. Anyone laid
off is forced to return to his home
county to re-register with the To-
cal reemployment office and to
wait there for another call for men
and then perhaps to 90 through
the same experience again.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Prendergast Refuses to Garry
Out Buffers Instructions to
Elect a Grievance Committee
RELIEF CLIENTS
TO REGISTER WITH
LOCAL MRS OFFICE

In accordance with instructions
received from the federal govern
ment, it is required that:
1. All employable relief clients
register with the MRS office.
2. The employee of the Mon
tana Relief Commission, RESPONSE
bic for placement in each county,
check No. 144 with the county
manager in the MRS office. This
is to insure corresponding records
for each of US on the same client
Discrepancies should have another
interview in the presence of both
MRS manager and placement re.
preventative.
3. Keep a record of No. LA
and on MRS registration cards Of
cards which have been checked &C.
cording to these instructions.
These instructions were signed
by w. j. Butler, state Administered.
or, Montana Relief Commission
and Walter T. Bridges, associate
director, National Unemployment
Service.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Workers Called and Sent
Home Again on Their
Own Expense
By a Worker Correspondent

The ways Of hiring and firing
men of Fort Peck dam contract
ors were severely criticized today
by several men who had been call
ed down there to work for two
days and were laid off and sent
home again.
Contractors handling the spill
way outfit at the dam are calling
for workers from unemployment
agencies in all counties of the
state, have the workers come down
there and after a day or two Of
employment, send them home a
gain. The men have to pay their
own travelling expenses both ways.
On Monday of last week the re-
employment office at Plentywood
received a call for 10 men to work
at the dam. We left the county
at once and reported at the Glas-
gov unemployment office that
same night, arriving at the dam
on Tuesday. We had to pay our
own way, scraping together PEN
MES and dimes in hopes of get
ting opportunities to earn some
morey while down there. Fathers
of families were among the 10.
Turned Back 8 Times
After going through a physical
examination we were told to work
with the spillway outfit, job in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01

ter to the local relief admlnlStrat-
or, Prendergast, instructing him
to call a mass meeting at once,
advertise it properly and have the
meeting elect one member Of this
grievance committee. Another
member, according to Buffers in
structions, was to be appointed by
Prendergast and the wo were to
appoint third one.
Bluntly Refuses
Prendergast has bluntly refused
to carry out these instructions.
When some members of the dele
cation went to ask him about the
mass meeting last Tuesday, he
simply stated: "You have a griev-
ance committee" Coa
Mrs. Hans Hardersen and Hans
Rasmussen were somewhat sur
prised. They were sure nobody
had ever heard Of such a commit
tee. Prendergast then admitted
that it had just been appointed by
himself. This grievance commit
tee" consists Of H. o. Stenehjem,
J. G. Van Hee and Phil Zeibarth.
Mrs. Hardersen pointed out that
this committee was not elected in
accordance with the agreement
made with the state relief admin
istrator, and that farmers and
workers were not represented
eve don't want this committee, ,
she said.
eft doesn't make any difference
to me what you want" was Prem.
dergast's reply.
eyes, we have understood that
all along" said Mrs. Hardersen.
Tries To Outsmart Farmers
By appointing his own commit
tee, the high and mighty local adj
ministrator thinks he can outsmart
the people of this county, but he
will find himself mistaken.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01

Inc IlUdl Call dS ISOUCu ny viz
conf renee committee states in
part:
owe who sign this call know
that there are great differences in
opinion as to methods, policies and
remedies for the national mess in
which we find ourselves. For eX-
ample. some may believe that the
farm problem can be solved by
currency expansion, while others
are certain that Big Business can
control the wealth of the country,
no matter how much currency may
be issued; then there are some
who may believe that refinancing
the farm mortgages is solution,
while others are convinced that
farm debts, like fireign debts, can
never be paid and should be can
csile3 Immediately. This confer
ence is not called to settle these
differences. This conference is
called to bring the hundreds Of
separate farm organizations to-
gether on a program over which
there is no difference Of opinion
the program which all the organ
izatiors and persons signing this
call support:
1 Cash. relief sufficient for
q good standard Of living to all
families who are in need; and
relief feed 30 maintain our live
stock in good condition.
We are against present relief
methods which force us to mort
gsTe our last clear property
which force us out Of commercial
production. and which may force
us into subsistence farms, a pea
ssrt lpvn' Of living.
{. Production credit to equip our
farms with the seed, livestock
and machinery which we must
have if we are to continue farm
Tag.
The conference with this pro-
gram has been endorsed and is be-
ing sponsored by the following or
CARNATIONS and individuals:
South Dakota
Cotton Local No. 673, S. D
Farmers Union, Minnehaha county,
Willis w. Danson, secretary, John
lin"e, president; Mr.. and Mrs. Sc
bert 0yen, Farmers Urion, MINI.
county; C. F. Meilke, Wall Lake
Loci Farmers Union, MINI. coun-
ty' fontrose Farmers Holiday As
ISOLATION, McCook county; A. F
CN1.i"g cham, secretary, McCooB
County Farmers Holiday Associa-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
c. G. Christianson
Is Elected President
Of Merchant Chain

c. G. Christianson, manager Of
the Ingwalson store at Plenty
wood, was elected vice president Of
the National Merchants Associa-
ton at the organizations last an
nual meeting at Minneapolis.
The association consists Of q
group of merchants from Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, Iowa and Montana. Mr..
Christianson has been a member
of the association for quite. some
time.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Fort Shaw School Probable
Site for Augusta Indians

The Indian Federation at Hell
ena has been notified that efforts
will be made to secure the old
Fort Shaw school buildings and
land, located or the Sun river a.
bout 80 miles west of Great Falls,
for the Augusta Indians.
This land and buildings will be
purchased providing the Indian
Federation at Augusta will accept
this offer.
The Augusta local of the Indian
Federation will consider this offer
at its next regular nesting and
will report to the headquarters of
the Federation at Helena.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Helena Gives Promise
TO County Delegation

to Helena. That's the kind of an
outfit the doctor is tattling to.
The committee, consisting Of
Gonius Laursen and Clifford And,
ersen of Dagmar, Mrs. Tooke Of
Raymond, Mrs. Hardersen and my,
self, started out bright and early
Tuesday morning. The roads were
good and near Havre and further
south there was no more snow. W.
arrived in Great Falls at 6 p. m
where a delegation of workers me
us and arranged for lodging ant
meals.
Wednesday afternoon a meeting
Of unemployed was held in Carpen
ter's hall. We stayed for the meet
ing and enjoyed it, gave a short
outline Of the conditions in Sheri
dan county and received much ap
plause when we offered to worl
and cooperate with a relief com
mittee Of theirs, already sent t,
Helena that morning.
We arrived in Helena at 8 o.
clock Wednesday evening, and fin
ally located Senator Lars Angvick
from whom we learned that
meeting with Charles Quinn, ad
ministrator for hay and feed FOL
relief, had been arranged for tn,
next morning.
Feed Meeting
This meeting took place in tn,
capitol building on Thursday NOR
ming, with Angvick and Quinn pre-
sent. The result Of the meeting
was that a telegram was sent Il
Jim Griffin at Chinook, who is il
charge Of feed and seed loans, ask
ing him to come to Helena at ono
and meet with us the next day.
Another meeting had been ar
ranged for the afternoon where W
met with the house relief investi
cation commission, and where ais
DR.. Butler and Mr.. Gerson of tn
relief office were present, beside
Senator Angvick and Representa-
tives York and Petersen, and tn
Great Falls committee.
Investigation Assured
This meeting lasted probabl,
two hours, and our report wa
well received by the commission
Before this commission had ap
reared committees from Grea
Falls, Helena, Butte, Billings an
Miles City. But the chairman
John Rich, told us afterwards tina
our report was the best and mos
interesting they had listened t
yet, and he thanked us. for comini
and assured us that conditions i
Sheridan county would be investi
gated and corrected.
After giving a report on the dis
elimination and the unfairness O
the distribution Of relief in Sheri
dan County, we insisted that ,
grievance committee elected by
mass meeting should be set up i
the county. a committee having tn
authority to go THROUGH the file
and books in the relief office
necessary.
We also insisted that Miss Rar
dali and Mr.. Prendergast shout,
Continued on page three)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
MEDICINE LAKE
BANKER PASSES

The report arrives here that
Edw. E. Powers of Medicine Lake
passed away at his brothers home
in Spokane after a short illness Of
erysipelas. His health has not been
of the best for a number of years.
He died at the age of 40 years.
Mr.. Powers is well known in this
part of the state where he has
been in the banking business in
the town Of Medicine Lake from
the beginning of the town.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Delegation at Helena Is Granted Concession to Have
Member of Grievance Committee Elected by Meet
ing; Witness Instructions to Prendergast
He Appoints Own Committee
1T Doesn't Make Any Difference to Me What Farmers
Want, Says Prendergast; Sends $11 900 of County
Budget Back to Helena, Then Cuts Relief

mass meeting of all farmers workers and business
in the county interested relief has been called by the
relief delegation that went to Helena last week. The meet
ing is to take place at the Faerabor Temple on Thurs
day. March T. at D. m.
While in conference with Dr. Butler at Helena the dele
cation granted the concession to have grievance
mtee established in the county In the presence of the
delegates, the state relief administrator dictated let
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01

immediately after this blunt re-
fusal, the delegation sent the fol-
lowing telegram to DR., w, J, But
Ter, state relief administrator, Hell
ena, Mont: }s
"Prendergast refused to call
mass meeting per your instruc-
Continued on last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Several Bales of Hay Are
Stolen from Relief Storage

Several bales of hay and some
concentrates were taken from the
relief storage of feed at Main
street last week.
Whoever took this feed most
likely needed II hadlv for his starv-
ing cattle. However, there are
other methods of obtaining feed
A strong decoration of farmers
will not be refused feed bv the
local relief office if the demard is
strong enough and the feed is real
" needed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01

SIOUX FALLS S. D.--The Farmers Emergency Relief
Conference endorsed by than one hundred farmers
srd workers organizations will take place March 25 26
snd q at the Coliseum at Sioux Falls, it announced
here by the local arrangements committee.
By putting forward minimum program on which there
no difference of opinion the broadest possible basis of
any farm conference held has been established.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-03-01
Relief Mass Meeting On March 2
Farmers Relief Conference
To Be Held at Sioux Falls
Coliseum March Is II

More Than One Hundred Oranizaticns From All Ov6-
Country Have Endorsed 1t; Agree On Relief
and Production Credit Demands
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
GAS REVENUES.
FALL HERE

The monthly report of the
Washington Gas Light Company,
filed with the Public Utilities
Commission yesterday afternoon,
shows net operating revenue for
April of $196,80 compared with
$198,267 for April of last year, a
decrease of $1,458.
Operating revenues for April,
1891 ,242, compare with $577 ,154.
Operating expenses, increased SIS.
546. this years figure being 1894,
433.
The monthly report of the
Georgetown Gas Light Company
also filed with the Public Utilities
Commission yesterday afternoon,
shows a net income Of $3.50 for
April, 1885, as compared with
&1,948 for April last year.
Operating revenues this April
were $127,141 as against $123, 1885
for April, 1884. Operating ex-
penses decreased $2,793, this
years figure being $114,859.
Incorporating revenue de.
creased $1,725 this year over last
year, resulting in a gross cor
porate income of $12,283, COM
pared with $7,16O for April, 1884.
Interest deductions decreased
$76s, this years figure being
$4,434.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
D. c. BOND CLUB
NAMES LEMON
PRESIDENT

James H. Lemon, a member Of
the firm Of James M. Johnston
& Co., was named president Of
the Bond Club Of Washington at
the annual meeting held yester
day in connection with the clubs
outing at the Burning Tree Coun'
try Club.
The new president Of the Bond
Club, James H. Lemon, is a part
ner in James M. Johnston and
Company, members of the Wash
angton Stock Exchange and cor.
respondents of Spencer Trask and
Company, of New York.
Other officers elected were:
Carl r. Kurtz, of Kurtz, Stroud g.
Co., vice president, and T. C..
Montgomery, of Wagga a n,
Brawner & Co., secretary-treas.
urer. The above officers with the
following who were also elected
yesterday form the board of gov
errors: L. Clark Brown, Of Brown
Goodwin & Co. and Chauncey G.
Parker of Auchincloss, Parker &
Redpath.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
Meetigs of Citizens
Set for Next Week

The following Citizens Associa.
lions will hold meetings next
week:
Monday Night
Mid-City, Thomson School. Re-
ports on widening of G st. from
Seventh st. to Ninth St.: Elev.
enth ST., Massachusetts, Ave. to
Rhode Island Ave-, and Twelfth
St., New York Ave. to Massachu.
sets Ave.
North Capitol, Mckinley High
School.
Georgetown, st. Johns Church
Parish Hall.
Trinidad, Wheatley School.
Tuesday Night
Conduit Road, at the Commun.
ity Church, meeting advanced
from Thursday night.
Logan, Thomas Circle, 1920
Rhode Island Ave.
Southeast Washington, Buch.
anan School.
Saturday Night
Federation of Citizens AsSocia-
tionS, District Building.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
Wheat Agreement
Reached in LOndOn

LONDON, May Is Q.N.SO.
Decision to continue the frame.
work of the present international
wheat agreement to July 81,
1886, was formally announced
today by the international wheat
advisory committee, meeting here.
The members agreed to modi-
fication of a French request
made at Budapest last November,
reducing Frances anticipated
emergency exports of denatured
wheat from 100000 to 9,000,'
900 bushels. :.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25

Ave. to Twentieth ST., would fail
to provide transportation to the
business section, and therefore
should be discontinued at Sixth
st.
The following was proposed as
substitute route: Sixth st. and
Constitution Ave. to Pennsylvania
Ave-, to Eleventh St., north on
Eleventh st. to H ST., east on H
st. to either Tenth st. or Sixth
st. and return to Constitution
Ave.
C. Melvin Sharp Of the Capital
Transit Company, said his com.
pany had not been consulted by
the commission as to the routing,
and simply was following the com.
MISSIONS order. He assured the
association the transit company
would be glad to consider any
change that would better suit the
community.
Committee Named
DR.. Fred I. Bartlett, Walter
Treadle, M. E. Diehl, Mrs. Phyllis
PlemonS and Mrs. Lucy FobertS
were appointed to confer with the
Public Utilities Commission re.
garding the proposed change.
DR.. E. E. Richardson, president
Of the Congress Heights Citizens
Association, was Endorsed unani.
mously for appointment as q
member Of the Board Of Educa.
ton, for the next vacancy, as q
representative from Southeast
Washington. William j. Tucker,
association secretary, in present.
ing DR.. Richardson's name, de.
clared the southeast section had
been Disseminated against in that
it seldom has a representative on
the board.
Police Criticized
What was termed as the lax
enforcement by the metropolitan
police Of traffic regulations against
dazzling automobile headlights on
city streets was condemned in q
resolution sent to the District Com.
miSsioners. DR.. Bartlett, Mr.. Diehl
and Charles Roberts were named
to confer with Federal authorities
to oppose any change in the CCC
camp in Anacostia.
The association deferred action
until its June meeting on a pro.
poSal of the District Commission.
erS to add one cent to the two
cent tax on gasoline.
Owing to absence Of George C.
Havenner, president, William H.
Benhoff, treasurer, presided.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
Being Lawmaker
Costs Him a Job

ROME, Ca, May Is Q.N.S0.
Serving in the Georgia State leg
islature as representative is not
a sufficient excuse for absent
ing oneself from his regular en-
ployment, according to an opinion
here.
Representative R. C. Anderson,
of Floyd county, returned from
the recently adjourned session to
find his job with a local company
had been taken by another. The
Regional Labor Board decided
that Section IA of the National
Recovery Act did not guarantee
his regular employment while he
attended the assembly.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
R. Wiley Heads
PIT. A. Federation

RIVERDALE, Md, May 25.-R.
C. Wiley, of College Heights, was
named president; Mrs. Elizabeth
AGREE of Capitol Heights, vice
president; Mrs. C. E. Jones, Of
Oxon Hill, and Everett Carman.
of Cottage City, secretaries, and
Mrs. Ellen B. Miller. Of Seat
Pleasant, treasurer. at the annual
meeting Of the Prince Georges
County Federation Of Parent
Teacher Clubs here last night. -.
The Washington times., 1935-05-25

the markets and statistical bu.
reaus of these five countries. Here
are the bare results:
Cost of basket: Finland, ~ Finn
marks; Esthonia, 2.55 Esth. Kron; Lat
via, 4.61 lats: Lithuania, 5.32 Its:
rubIes.
Average wage per hour of adult male
unskilled worker: Finland, 500 Finn
marks; Esthonia, O.22 Esth. kronen: Lat
via, 0.4O lats; Lithuania, $50 Its:
Poland O.7O zloty; Soviet Unions 100
Number of hours work necessary to
earn basket: Finland, .; Esthonia, II;
Latvia. 10: Lithuania, 10; Poland, 8;
Soviet Union II.
Thus, the Soviet workman has
to work eight hours longer than
the Finn or Pole, seven hours
longer than the Latvian or Lth-
uanian, and six hours longer than
the ESthonian to earn the food to
keep him a week. This Is of course,
but one factor, but it is the pri-
mary one in any standard Of liv-
ing.
Unemployment Problem
This leaves one fundamental
problem: unemployment. The
Soviet Union boasts with justice
that it has abolished unemploy.
ment, and though much debate
could enSue about the reasons for
it and its permanence, let it be
taken as a flat fact. Also let it
be assumed, although it is not al
ways the case, that man with a
job in the Soviet Union is better
off than a jobleSs man in these
countries. What per cent, then,
of the population in these coun-
tries could be assumed to be worse
off than in the Soviet Union? The
table gives the answer:
The Washington times., 1935-05-25
BALTIC PEOPLE
PROFIT UNDER
CAPITALISM

(AH but 2 per cent OF the
people of the Baltic republics
haze benefited by their firm re-
tuSGl to tolloU BolSheDik lead
erShip into communism. Ninety
eight per cent OF the citizens
of Finland, Poland, EStoni
L1tUid and LithuGni1 are better
off financially, socially, pItySi-
cdlly and In the realm OF hu-
man happiness. HoW capital
ism has thus triun1phed over
communism is told By H. r.
Knickerbocker In the conclud-
ing article OF his series on the
Baltic ndtionS.)
The Washington times., 1935-05-25

in Anaco S tia
M e t h cd | s t
c h u re h Hall.
a 6 a ms t the
route assigned
by the Public
Utilities Com.
mission for the
buses that are
to supplant the
AnacoStia street
car S erVic0
June /.
It W as as
serted the pro-
posed route, ex.
tending along
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