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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
CLOSING DATE FOR
RYE APPLICATIONS

The Sheridan county wheat al
btment committee has definitely
Iet Wednesday, January is, as
TIE final date for accepting appli-
cations for the Rye Production
Adjustment Program. Applica-
TORS may be made through COM
mitFeemen or at the County EX-
tension office.
TIE necessity of some regula-
ton Of the rye crop is apparent
because of the two-year supply
Piled up at the present time. This
surplus has depressed prices Sc
that we producers are receiving
less than 40 percent of fair ex-
change vale. based on 19O9-1l
prices.
Farmers who have raised rye
one year or more in 1902 IN
elusive, or two years or more Il
1885 inclusive are eligible t.
JOIN in the program.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-The United States supreme
court TODAY killed the AAA-man pillar of the admins
traton farm program-n sharply wOrded opinion which
cast serious doubts the legality of other vital
deal reform and recovery acts
The recovery agency announced soon afterward that it
would stop all benefit payments Immediately
In a to decision the nations highest tribunal held
that the AAA was wholly unconstitutional because it in
vaded the rights of states seeking to control farm pro-
ducton The whole system Of processing taxes imposed to
finance the program was swept into discard.
Developments in connection with the devastating Opn-
ion today included:
l. The government may be compelled to impose new
taxes President Roosevelt said in his budget message to-
day that AAA would be made permanent part of the
government
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

The following facts are for the
consideration of the farmers,
sportsmen and taxpayers of SheI-
idan county.
A great basin extends from the
Canadian line to the Missouri
River, through this county. It is
drained by the Big Muddy River
and it's various tributaries. Every
spring the water which falls on
this big watershed, many square
miles in extent, drains into the
center channel, runs off, and is
lost to our people. It not only
does no good, in thus flooding
awav. but it does great harm, in
wearing away the soil, and IN
carrying it off, where it will 90
no good to anybody, and is lost to
our farmers.
About a year ago the State
Planning Board asked our people
to designate a project which
would be useful and beneficial to
the whole county. Judge Paul
and I suggested that the water
which is wasted every spring IN
the Muddy Valley be held back, by
dams and dikes; so that it could
not only be used for surface lrrl
CATION but also for sub-irrigation
The State Planning Board agree
: to take up the matter with the
State Water Conservation Board
This was done. And the Stat
Water Conservation Board order
ed the survey made. Such surve.
is completed; and the State Waite
Conservation Board has approve
s this as an economical and ser
: viceable project. However tn
e Congressional appropriation 70
+ Montana was insufficient to pre-
vide for all the projects; and az
: preparations will be made fo
i those projects which the people
: Montana are able to demonstrat
y are most needful for the stat
= welfare. !,
n The survey which was mace Z
IS the State Water Conservatlo
Board has been duly forwarde
N AS County Surveyor made 4
II report on the same; and a col
J. has gone to Governor Holt ana
0t the State Water ConservatiSS
in Board. And we promised that y
taxpayers of Sheridan County al
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
BIG MUDDY IRRIGATION PROJECT
BYR.L. WHEELER. County Surveyor

Roosevelt County would petition
Congress to appropriate sufficient
funds to complete this project.
The State Water Conservation
Board needs our help. They can
not do this alone. IF we do not
give them our combined support,
we may never have another
chance. We are grateful tt t7,-,o
for what they have done; and Wses
should express our appreciation
bv cooperation and supporting the
Board to the fullest possible ex-
tent.
Only a short time ago, three
fou1ths of our livestock were sac
rificed for one-fourth of their val
ue, because of the lack of feed
and water. Many valuable animals
were killed because thew were too
weak and thin to winter. Many
others died because of the lack of
feed.
This waste would never had oc-
Cured had we been able to save
the water which runs off our land
every spring. And the project is
ready; it is the most economical
project which can be conceived;
and the returns from the storage
of the surplus waters of the great
valley will pay the expense OF
such a project many times over.
The Board of County Commission
ers of Sheridan county has pas
, sed its resolution asking that tn,
. State Water Conservation BoarC
! proceed with the project, and tina
! Congress appropriate sufficien
. funds for the completion of sucl
! project. All we need now is tn
concerted efforts of the farmer
and taxpayers to help us put i
these dams and thus back up thi
Z water. 1t means dollars in tn
= pockets of our farmers. 1t mean
: lowered taxes for our taxpayers
It means game refugees which wi
:, save our wild game for on
sportsmen and their sons who al
! growing up, and who otherwise wi
= have to do all their shooting
. gophers and jackrabbits.
q A call is made on our people
n get together, form their organii
le atoms, and by lifting as one ma
ID to put this project across.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

The workers at Fort Peck, liv-
ing in the many taxpayer shack
towns that have grown up there
like mushrooms since the great
project started, who have recently
been laid off by the thousands
without a moments warning, after
having been congregated there
from everywhere, or if not laid
off, have had their hours and
wages cut below starvation levels,
are now trying to organize and
have made some Roadway.
The workers are organizing
along two lines: (a) specifically,
the project workers themselves
into a Federal Labor Union, along
industrial lines under an Ameri-
can Federation of Labor charter;
and (b) everybody, men, women,
youth and sympathizers in a wide
and loose organization called the
"Fort Peck League for the De-
tense of the American Standard
of Living" The first organiza-
ton is organizing the workers on
the Job for shorter hours and
better working conditions, that II
union conditions so that the work
ers may have a voice in the mat
ter which they have not now. TIT
second organization is an organ
ization for the lettering OF the 50
cial conditions generally, and TO
the procuring Of more and bette
relief, adequate to maintain a.
american Standard Of Living"
Both organizations have mad
some organizational and Othe
progress, and made some figh
for better conditions, carrying o
some disconnected sort of public
itv campaign explaining the cor
ditions at Fort Peck. These n
LEASES have been sent to the Prt
ducers News and other paper
dav bv day. The Producers New
has published these as they haV
come from the officers of the O
CARNATIONS, giving the reader
some notion of the conditions
Fort Peck. and the activities
the workers.
Most of the workers activiti
So far have been in the way
meetings in the different setti
ments, where speakers have pi
tured the situatino and criticlz
those responsible, and resolutio.
have been passed and letters aut
;. orized to the Montana Congress
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
MOST RELIEF
MONEY SPENT
TO BUY FOOD
State Audit Shows $7,272,-
746 Devoted to House
hold Necessities

HELENA, Jan. Total sums
received bv counties for the whole
relief period were as follows:
Beaverhead, $123,516; Blaine,
S11O,6O9; Big Horn, $12O,98o;
Broadwater, 37,543; Cascade, ST.
293. 8O4: Carbon, S393,439; Carter,
S117.431: Chouteau, SOS, 1872; Gus
ter. S463,143; Daniels, $273,453;
Dawson, $3.50. 81; Deer Lodge
S961. 734: Fallon, $126,887; Fer
gus, $25f,851; Flathead. $4O9, 962;
Gallatin, S113,814; Garfield, S1O2,-
/ 819; Glacier, $78,856; Golden Val
/ lev. 1888; Granite, $58,396.
Hill, $316,444; Jefferson, SIS
487: Judith Basin, $4O,443; Lake
S216,688: Lewis and Clark, S245,-
/ 5O7: Liberty, S24,884; Lincoln
| sos, 1862; Madison, $S9,68S; NC
Cone, $13O,45S; Meagher, S44,'
! $50: Mineral, $66,5O1; MISSOURI
S6O5 O2O; Musselshell, 1882, l59
Park, S213,665; Petroleum, $0z'
500: Phillips, $142,686.
Pondera, S81 ,286; Powder River
y P1lOyG ElUS EOWC11l PIOS'S nj
) $112,447; Ravalli, $154,115; III RIcn
land, S174,588; Roosevelt, $51o,
/ 826; Rosebud, $1O5,S81; Sanders e,:S
v $9O,326; Sheridan, $465, 124; 81
IS yer Bow, $4,79O,758; Sti dlH9 5eS
i $125,851; Sweet Grass, $500 - =
N Teton, S29,8O7; Toole, $112.s1611z
A. Treasure, $47,581; Valley, POI
4 1862; Wheatland, $66,049; Wi0aN
< $65,721; Yellowstone, $685. $40
Commodities and services ~ ~
A. which the money was expenue
1t and the amount devoted to eau
" follows:
IS Food and household necesslt at1
so $7,272, TAG; shelter, $84,Sl6; oS ci ooi
" ing, $1,181.544; fuel, $3.50 $500 90 .,
< public utility service, $4,000
IA medical care, $25,363; seed 1
subsistence crops, $31, 1SO; wol
ve and cash relief-labor and mate
n iaI, S4,929,2O1; feed for livesto.c
in sos, sos, other charitable agenc co
to $51, 4O7; other purposes, $oS,Oo
administration, 81, 1888
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
LABOR UNION ASK FARMERS UNION AID

ional delegation, the Governor and
the several relief set-ups of the
state, and to the army officers in
charge of affairs at the dam, and
the contractors on the dam. De-
mands have been made that Sena-
tors Wheeler and Murray and
Congressman Ayers come to the
project and meet with the workers
and investigate the situation, and
speak at the workers meeting,
but there has been not report on
this matter. Secretary James D..
Graham of the Montana State
Federation of Labor was up to
Fort Peck, and Investigated the
situation, and spoke at a large
mass meeting, bat there has been
no further report on the matters.
Also a demand has been made for
a Congressional investigation, but
the progress made on the demand
has not been reported.
During the past week or so the
following releases have been re-
ceived at the Producers News Of
flee, which are printed in the or
der Of their dates.
WORKERS ASK FARMERS
TO HELP THEM
The Federal Union in a letter
to State Secretary Kinder Of the
Farmers Union of Montana, under
date of December 18th, asked tn
members Of that organization II
protest the discharging of Georg
Walters, president of their organ
ization for his union activities.
The letter: -.
Dec. %, 1885,
NY Dear Mr.. Kinder,
Federal Union No. IA. F. c
L. charter applied for, approve
by Valley County Trades and Ii
Dor, Council, and by James I
Graham, President of the Nor
tana Federation of Labor is
S union for all unorganized worl
ers on the Fort Peck dam. It W:
: organized about the middle
s November. On December IL tt
T president of the Union, GeorG
L Walters, was fired without motto
although he was a permanel
s civil service employee. Waite
i is an expert powder man, who n;
: been kept on during seven montl
:, of the slack season (for powd
ID work. in order to be availaI'
IS for ice breaking in the spring.
4 order to keep him on at $1.2U t
S government had to call him
acting foreman, although the
was very little for him to do
foreman. When winter came
there was more powder work
stumps to shoot. But is was j
at this time that Walters was
ected president of the union. l
government says there is no VIC
IN for him to do. Walters So
that several hundred stumps WI
actually tagged the day he "
Continued on page four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
SHERIDAN COUNTY
TOWNSEND CLUB
ORGANIZED THURS.
About 200 Meet at Court
House, Elect Officers,
Prepare for Campaign

About two hundred adhererts
of the Townsend Old Age Pen
sion Plan met at the Sheridan
county court house, Thursday
night. perfected an organization
and took the first positive steps
in preparing to participate in the
coming election campaign.
There were no outside speakers
brt the local organization will
sponsor a series of meetings IN
the county to occur in the not toe
distant future. :,
The following officers were ell,
ected:
/ George Munson, president.
George Pierce, Vice-President.
Oscar Collins. Secretary.
VIM. SINNERS, Treasurer.
The Executive committee j
composed of the following cltl
zens: Forest Goodman, Georgg
Jackson, and Nels Olson, togetn
err with the above officials.
The organization will hold reg
ular meetings where the primer
ples and program of the organic
alton will be discussed ever
Thursday evening in the couI
room at the court house. AS 500
&c Is feasible regular lecturer
. will be brought in.
, The Townsend Old Age Penslo
: Plan is rapidly growing in nuInh'
. and interest in Sheridan and a
|, joining counties and will no dou!!
exert a tremendous influence
this years election campaign.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE
HALTS PUBLICATION OF
MUSSOLINI EXPOSE

NEW YORK. = The Brit
ish Foreign Office has inter
vened to stop publication in
England of a series of arti-
cIes by Angelica BalabanOff
former felIOw-eXile Of MussO-
Iini. telling how the Italian
dictator betrayed his political
convictions and sold his cOun-
trv into the World War for
Allied gold.
tn Federated Press from
BrOcI1way, Independent Labor
Party leader, who has visited
America on speaking tours.
Brockway comments: "YOu
will see how much sincerely
there is in the opposition Of
our government to MussOlini. "
The BalabanOff articles were
published in the U. S. in the
PEOPLES Press and are APP
pearing currently in Norway,
Sweden and Holland. They
; tell how the author met Mus
: sOlini in Switzerland when nc
> was penniless and lOatne'
= sOmely diseased and how she
: helped him to her later sOr,
/" row, to get back on his fee
. and gain a place of inhuene'
. in the Socialist movement.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
Congressman Monaghan
Announces His Candidacy
for United States Senate
Is ENDORSED BY
THE TOWNSENDERS
Young Native Son of Mon
tana Has Made a Re-
markable Political Career

Congressman Joseph P. Mona
CHAN, who represented the First
District for the past four years
in Congess, announces in Wash
ington that he will be candidate
for the United States Senate to
fill the regular full term of the
office made vacant by the death
of Senator Walsh in 1888. "Great-
er opportunity for public service"
he states, "impels me to be a cam
didate for the United States Sen
ate."
ENDORSED
BY TOWNSENDTTES
Informed that the State Board
of the Townsend Old Age Pension
organization had endorsed Mona
CHAN for election to the United
States Senate, Congressman Nc
Groarty Of Californit telegraphed
Mr.. William Thomson of Deer
Lodge for confirmation: "Under-
stand State Townsend Old Age
Pension Board of Montana endor-
sed Congressman Monaghan for
the United States Senate in forth
coming election and insists upOr
his becoming a candidate. Please
B advise whether or not this good
news to m@>snd other Townsend
supporters is correct. (s) JohI
: Steven McGroarty, NC Eleventh
: District, California" To which
e the following reply was received
d Happy to advise Congress-
4, man Monaghan first choice of
II OAPP State Organization in
( Montana for United States Sen.
ID ate. Two other candidates with
r draw in MOnaghan's favor (s)
VIM ThOmasOn President Pow
r ell County Townsend Clubs
P.i Montana"
o. Congressman Monaghan IA
made pension legislation his ma.
e or congressional activity, in pau
IN ticular having introduced an
ne sponsored the Townsend Plan .
10 an amendment to the Social s.
:, curity Act and having filed
10 petition to bring the McGroart
IN Bill embodying the TownseI
# Plan, to a vote. Prior to this a
"A; tivitv and as one of his first o
ca ficiai acts, Mr.. Monaghan intr
as duced an Old Age Pension Bill.
Slh In a United Press dispatcl
from Washington, January G
49, 1884, Duane Wilson said:
Congressman Joseph P. Mon
Afghan, (Dem) of MOntan
plans to devote a major part Q
his legislative career tOwar
passage of a Federal Old Ag
Pension law. This MOnagha
believes, would have a tbO-fOl
effect: ID it would provide
respectable living for men an
. women who have become SUI
ION erannuated and who are no
ant dependent on relatives or chal
ity. and (2) it would relieve III
employment, in that aged .WOri
ION ers now forced to continue Q
an their iObs could retire thus NAL
40 n2' ing way for younger men an
women" -
her MONAGHAN SUPPORTED
,,, RAILWAY PENSION BILL
wv Mr.. Monaghan later circulaI
Ion Ion a petition to block the adJou
.ile ment of Congress until the P
ca sage of the Railway pension
in 1884, which was enacted
rec clared unconstitutional and Ia
sac yo~o,ac+oJ in an improved fol
val
feed Continued OH page U"ol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

A FACT A WEEK

A ''first class diet" for the
American people would require
an increase over 1929 prOduc-
ton Of nearly every import
ant class of fOOdstuff. Some Of
the increases required: Meat,
1919; poultry, $3.50; milk, 1870
butter, 1O0%; vegetables, $3.50;
fruit, 1919; eggs, 500.
Figures are from the Nat
iOnal Survey of Potential Pro-
Capacity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
Fort Peck Workers
Fighting for Relief

III LETTER TO STATE ADMINISTRATORS VIM
RUFFCORN DEMAND $500 PER MONTH MINI
MUM FOR TWO, SIS PER MONTH FOR EACH
ADDITIONAL DEPENDENT-ALSO TAKE MAT
TER UP WITH HOPKINS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS INVADING
STATE RIGHTS = THREE JUDGES DISSENT

DECISION DEMOLISHING PILLAR OF NEW DEAL
FARM RECOVERY PROGRAM, ALSO WRECKS
COTTON CONTROL, TOBACCO AND NEW PO-
TATO ACT = PROCESSING TAXES VOIDED
AND STOPPED
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

S.1Eers left around Mammalian
: keep the city going
m Yeah Department
vrbSn the Carnegie Endow-
-. "I gor International Peace was
so,p,ej in 1910. due to the vision
.D, ~ ,o[,anerositv Of Andrew Car,
=. - 4 started It's work in E
D '1S cutie different from the
MI 1o.id today."-pFess release
P.ao. vas still in the Ox-car
.rioj IN 1910" says the SAM
'u vail Judging from the head
rrs. yight now, it hasn't as We
s l,rlIi Goods children and 60
wings" - =
ne bombing planes.
Reliye II or Not Department
Sin 1890 only % per cent OF
@r farmers we're tenants, but
3 1894. az per cent or nearly
Salf Of our stalWart American
farmers we're reduced to a state
a tenancy. Less than One-third
cow avn their farms free OF
6ebt."-Pres. A. F. Whitney OF
ne brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen. speaking at the Far
mers Union national cOnven'
i'm.
A New York social group i
seeking a means Of aiding IL
legitimate children.
They might join their broth
Sfs in some Of those 100 pc
emit patriot outfits.
Lighthouses in daytime US
are going to be tried out by tn
photographic office Of the nav
b combat fog.
And, presumely, if the test
8e successful, they'll install
o5nple in Washington.
Social service workers in Cir
ehati are facing technOlOgic;
unemployment.
The City's welfare departmel
3 hiring thugs instead of 81
dal WOrkers-prObably on Il
basis that the gangsters' tecl
lique is more persuasive tia
the gentler methods of the oil
fashioned case workers.
Benefits Of a COOrdinated Pre-
Count CianO, II Duce's avia
hOn-ln-law, who was annOun
some time ago as returning fl
Ethio0ia 10 Rome to celebra
the Christmas holidays with
iatheFin-law, IS now reported
returning to the Italian cap
Tor government work.
TIE INDIANS GOT A N
DEAF. THIS YEAR, BOAS
SEC. lCErS or THE DEPA
AfET OF THE INTERIOR
MS ANEIAL REPORT.
WILL. WE'RE GLAD sol
BOIW DID.
TraagcAy
N'ikC'rosE-c-. on the A
Ei"T'2,, News. Harlem wee
paFeT, ave considering walk
on on a littIe strike Of til
ONN..
The nay. which thew have
beeH 'ceviv;ng. is being cut!
S. Claus had an easy
this o. iStmay.
There a'e 50 many hom
PeC'!' throughout the land tn;
az 9:t havc tn waste a lot
6me jumping down chimney,
TIE AMERICAN LIBF
I.E'"''E Is ATTACKING
IREND TOWARDS DICTA'
SHIP.
THAT'S WHAT WE {
SEl.F.CRITICISM.
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
6IGEATSYSTEh
By JOHN PAINE

France and HOare OF
taVal q - reported to be hay
Bg PolI tSsir plan to bring peace
S . s5' TP e4Sio By S to Italy.
prs q 5s,. Erb9g and English people
The tTeIs; l,iS s to a "Peace on
apparently 6yod O' WIiIl to Men" scheme
Earth. UC gC,SSich II Duce gets his
t5lo oa and the Philippians ;- get she
paiessSr aI'I Of the bigSh0t diplomats
Recovery Note
-. number Of adOptions OF
.. Iae throughout the midwest
!. '' 'STee times as great as
gar ago
s..na the holiday season in
eH9F Icrida, urges the Penn
l o1lL,! Railroad. and save lots
' ',ooey on the train fares.
d /. nS easts ONLY $3.50 to make
a. 70 nd trip from New York
= S Nil'l fares 50 low, it looks
T ,br,eh there won't be enough
l. IT, left around Manhattan
: keep the city going
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
~ Yeah Department

0h Yeah Department
vyr,Sn the Carnegie Endow-
-, "I Tor International Peace was
so,p,s5 If in 1910, due to the vision
. ~ '~Sen1erosity Of Andrew Car
y. - i started It's work in a
-, Day n quite a different from the
- - today."-,press release
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

SP ~QG Sga 10 slodsa
~ SA& OVl S1UIId y 'EPua
81 - WE!PlsQRS pUB slS
-WDJ 70 anO1S = "a p0uAO
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

Mr.. Monaghan later circulated
a petition to block the adjourn
ment of Congress until the pas
sage of the Railway pension BIZ
in 1884, which was enacted, de-
cIared unconstitutional and later
re-enacted in an improved FORM
CONTINUED on page two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10

A Neg York social group Is
eeEing a means of aiding lie
legitimate children.
They might join their broth
Sfs in some Of those 100 per
emit patriot outfits.
Nogales international., 1936-07-25
-eral of this State.

Mr.. Houston is a native if Loui-
Siana, a Staunch Democrat, and was,
prior to his graduation from the
Law College of the University of
Arizona, a druggist in Shreveport,
Louisiana. He was married, in Pres
colt, Arizona, in 1924, to Margery
Niles, of Necedah, Wisconsin.
He is active in Kiwanis and Le-
gion circles, having seen active SER
vice in France during the World
War.
He is the son of w. N. Houston,
proprietor of the University Shoe
Repair Shop, in Tucson, and says
that if he is elected he will, to the
best of his ability, conduct the af-
fairs of the office as efficiently and
economically as possible.