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The producers news., 1923-08-24
Low WAGE DESTROY HOMES
ECONOMIC NEWS SERVICE
BY LELAND oLDs, FEDERATED PRESS INDUSTRIAL EDIT

capitalist industry is revealed IN study
completed Woans
by economic system are OF nave
proportion mothers 1t shows further
home which is in great measure casual ana
inadequate. L..
and girls years OF
o. figures for 1920 bear
in this figure terms OF
the children
finds that of the working Passac four ffh
children ~
the The
percentages mutually exclusive mothers with chill
children between
presents kgy significant fact that all of these bread"n
ming mothers small children at home requiring care
Pous investigation by the Department Of shown g
infant dehte mothers breadWinners and have remarked
high death children to the OF ~
According the following facts showing made
children of earning mothers challenge attention
the
children with neighors andade boarders
@ Another left children with relatives N More than
the children the husbands
unemployed working home 5 More than
virtually without in the home
of these breading mothers did all their house
children
One-ffh of these breadwng mothers had help
the household ues that the number having hired help
washing irreguary negligible
this disruption the The points striking discovery
the fact that widowed mothers other With disrupted
the
This clearly that the paid industry
today inadequate the support of family With hundreds of thousands
family be supplemented by the labor of
children The bosses learned that low enable them
exploit the labor the entire family for the Of bare sub
only because it is destroying the
moral and physical strength of the population .,wx
The producers news., 1923-08-24
TAX LAW APPEALED.

passed the legislature got by not known
Of delinquent
month twelve
delinquency pa on
taxes brought county only.
the
prohibited by the United States Con
section which orbd the
legislature obligation due the state
Iecen ne sad 70 pronounce
ana act of legislature unconstitutional
appeal supreme
Helena notifying Attorney
Ranli to prosecute the
regIetaDe that
would had
significance comprehended
relief 1T Invest
Bill hundred being benefited
constituting actual gift of several million dollars to forecod
and holders
of in disclosed that it
nearly 100000; that the delinquent farmers do not
in being
only
to opartwi money the
It be Attorney vigorously
to the endhthat the be destroyed.
every change, Fighting LaFolte either
president
the Senate
violated to
keep down." Alexandria Minnesota Region Echo
The producers news., 1923-08-24
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Exhibition and Union Service Program
End Vacation School For This Year

On Friday afternoon, after the
Church School closed on Friday noon,
there will be on exhibit at the Con-
gregational Church, the finished pro
ducts of all the hand and craft work
that the children have been working
ON during the school,. Every parent
and frierI Of the children will want
to drop into the church sometime Fri
day afternoon and see what a splen-
did lot of worthwhile things the chill
dren have made. Nothing will please
the children, more than 30 have you
come and see their work. Everybody
is welcome and urged to see this Ais-
play.
Then on Sunday evening at 7:30
promptly there will be another Union
Service at the Congregational Church
in which the children will give the
program of some Of the things they
have learned the Fast two weeks. You
will want to be there early if you de-
sire a seat.
There will be the regular morning
worship next Sunday at 100 o'clock.
The sermon will be the last on the
Lords Prayer. We welcome all Of
you to all of these services.
The producers news., 1923-08-24
WHEAT PRICE FIXING
By JAMES c. LODAHL

/ see in the papers, that the four
Senators, Magnus johnson, Shipstad,
BrOOkhart, and Frazier, want the
President to call an extra session of
Congress, because the present condi-
tiOn Of agriculture threatens a nation
al calamity, and to meet this emerg-
ency.
All agree that the condition of
agriculture is deplorable, and that
something should be done, but what :?
is the question?
Some think that the farmers DO not
get fair deal, when Congress, IN the
war, put a price on wheat, as it would
have gone much higher if left alone,
and that it now is the duty of Con-
gress, to fix good price on wheat.
But a wrong can never be made right,
by another wrong, it would not be
right to ask the government to pay
the farmer more for his wheat, than
he could get for it, it would not be
business, but charity.
Townley wants the farmers to or
ganiZe, put a price on their wheat,
and hold it till they get it. That
sounds good, but it can't be done, be-
cause of the surplus, as we live in a
free country, and know. that not all
will join the alliance. When the or
ganized farmers have forced the price
up close to the agreement, all the I'M
organized farmers will sell their
wheat, and the organized farmers will
keen the surplus.
The president Of the Farm Bureau
wants the government to recognize the
fc-mers granaries, as public ware
The producers news., 1923-08-24
By F. w. LEIGHTON

E Mexico City.-What international
complication is there between the U.
S. and Mexico that LibradO Rivera,
comrade of the Inflated Ricardo Flores
Magon, remains a prisoner in Leaven-
worth despite official requests for his
release from the Mexican government,
the Mexican Federation of Labor and
from groups and individuals in both
countries interested in justice and hu-
manity?
Rivera and MagOn were convicted in
1918 under the espionage act for the
publication of a manifesto against the
world war printed in California in
their paper, Regeneration. There was
no overt act of any kind proved
against them. Their case was a SIM
pie question of freedom of speech and
the press.
IS it that the Mexican government
fears the return of Rivera as a dang
erous labor agitator and has quietly
in the fashion of, governments allowed
the American state department to
know that its public protests have
been made merely to stem the tide of
popular demand in Mexico For sew
eral reasons this is unlikely. Rivera
is ffty-nine years of age and much
worn by five years of prison. Accord
ing to recent medical reports he is
suffering acutely from rheumatism,
pyOrrhea and many minor ailments.
A funeral at public expense was of
fered the martyred Magon by the
Mexican congress and the government
made no attempt to suppress the huge
workers demonstrations held in all
parts of Mexico upon the return of
the body Magon's brother. Enrique,
who was recently depOrted from Cali
fornia, has used the prestige Of his
dead brothers name and tragic end
to stimulate and arouse the workers
to anarchists thought and action to
such an extent that several times the
military authorities have brought
charges against him and finally had
The producers news., 1923-08-24
THE ELIBRADORTVERA CASE
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

him arrested. On the laCUer occasion
President Obregon himself ordered
Wagons release. 1t is unlikely that
the present firmly established regime
of President Obregon fears the return
of bowed old man from a cell in
Leavenworth. ~
Or is it perhaps that the U. S. con-
siders Mexico not as a sovereign state
but as an unconfessed though actual
zone for it's domestic police activities
The secret report Of the American
Trade Commissioner in Mexico, pub
lished last autumn in the New York
Call, which with the resulting recall
of its author, John Bushnell, after
mentioning consultations with the en-
bassy and the consulate referred to
"other offices" of the U. S. govern
ment in Mexico. These offices, accord
ing to-latcst estimates from Mexican
sources, employ over $500 agents and
spies in Mexican territory. A little
over two years ago when the number
was calculated to be over $500 the
Mexican government deported from
the country a score of radicals, anar-
chists, communists, etc. It is COM
monty charged IN labor circles not
only that the U. S. state department
forced the expulsion of these men,
but even went so far as to present the
list Of those considered Objectionable
The Italian ambassador requested
the release of Giovanni Baldazzi and
B2ldazzi came out; the Spanish am
bassador asked for Manuel Rey and
MoDuo1 Pow x1ro11~oJ f,oo II = VHo1l-
the British novelist, wrote an article
in the New York World about Charles
Ashleigh and Ashleigh gained his
freedom, Yet on July 6, Manuel Tel
lez Mexican charge d'affaires in Wash
ington, informed Attorney Harry
Weinberger that the state department
had refused his governments latest
request for the freedom of Librado
Rivera.
Why?
The producers news., 1923-08-24

Cost of living figures of the u. S.
Department of Labor are misleading
They should be disregarded as a basis
Tor determining wages until industry
agrees to fix the basic minimum for
unskllled labor on a living basis.
Monthly publication Of the department
figures showing cost of living increase
since 1913 is playing directly into the
hands of employers. The June figures
show living costs 70 per cent above
the prewar level and only 2 per cent
over June, 1922. With wage index
numbers 15 per cent over a year ago
and over 100 per cent above 1914 en-
ployers contend that wage earners
have received more than Justice re-
quires.
The cost of living basis of wage adj
Justment was a wartime expedient. It
was agreed by employers and employ
es IN the Council of National Defense
that neither would profiteer out of the
emergency. This agreement delayed
wage advances to such an extent that
the standard of living fell below the
prewar level. On the other hand cor
porations, not limited by wage boards
lacked up prices until their profits
were double and triple the prewal
level.
That average wages in industry to-
day are slightly more than 100 pei
cent over the 1914 level is due entire
ly to the pauper wage paid unskilled
and semi-skilled labor before the war
Large increases to these groups were
recognized as necessary to prevent the
physical and moral deterioration of the
people. Skilled labor has only recent
ly regained something like its prewa1
standard of living after years in which
its purchasing power has been badly
deprecated.
The disgraceful level to which the
wages of the majority of workers had
fallen prior to the war was revealed
by numerous investigations. Robert
Colt Chaplin, who made the first thor
ough investigation Of workers living
costs, wrote in 1909: can income un-
der $500 is not enough to permit the
maintenance of moral standard
HIS investigation showed that incomes
under $500 meant rs per cent of the
families underfed, SO per cent under
clothed and 68 per cent .overcrowded
incomes between 5000 and S699 meant
The producers news., 1923-08-24
SENATOR RAPS
RESERVE BANK
MAGNUS JOHNSON SAYS OPER-
y ATI0NS GIVE MANUFACTURE
i. .ERS ADVANTAGE OYER FARM
ERSt .4 -.t fsf4f.-r-s 49,,

Austin, Mimi, Aug. 2O.-United
States Senator-elect Magnus Johnson,
addressed a gathering at the Christ
gau farm, 10 miles east. of here yester-
day on the subject of cooperation, at
tackled the operation of the federal
reserve bank system, declaring it fa-
vored the manufacturing interests to
the detriment of the farmer.
. Johnson declared that the farmer,
business man and laborer must CO.
operate in politics as well as -co-op-
Grating in business undertakings. r
He branded as "hes" reports that,
he said, misrepresented his policies
and declared his intention to fight to
the end for the system of cost plus
reasonable profit for the farmers in
marketing their product on the same
basis as the business man. "Not
more credit but cheaper credit is want
ed by the farmer of the northwest and
this will soon be brought about"
The producers news., 1923-08-24

houses, so the farmers can loan money
on their wheat and keep it on the
farms, until the price goes up. It will
take an army of Inspectors to look af-
ter the farmers granaries, and to take
care Of all the many thousands of
loans and mortgages, and if the price
could be forced up that way, the
farmers would still have the surplus
unSold.
Then there is the Wheat-Pool. who
who with orderly marketing will sta
biliZe prices. Yes, the Pool can sta
bllize the price, but it can force the
price up very much, even if it controls
two-thirds of all the wheat, because
OF the surplus, is very doubtful, any
way 1t will take years, and it is now,
this years crop we need a paving
price for, and not five years from now.
But it is easy to criticize. We want
a plan that will give the farmers a
falr price for their wheat, beginning
win tins years crop, and conditions,
without discriminating anybody.
Why we don't have that condition.
is, that what goods the farmers buv.
IS made in an American factory, bv
American workers, payed at American
wages, with an American price. pro-
tected by an American tariff. The
wheat is produced on American sod.
by American farmers, with American
machinery, thrashed with American
tractors, run by American gas. mar
keted by American railroads, charging
American freight rates, and at last
The producers news., 1923-08-24

80 per cent of the families undeTia
81 per cent under clothed and % p
cent overcrowded. Serious undaflS,e ,,.
ing and overcrOWding for all IaIlIli'
with incomes under 5000.
During that pre-war period Taillo'. sias !.
section men were averaging S4og /
year and common labor in the 5. s''I \
Industry $500 a year. The families ]
these hundreds Of thousands OF gg!1 g!5
ers were thus in the group IN WIN. n,.
three-fourths of the families were y
derfed and seven-eights undeTco~gr.. .,,or.
During the same period the a,S.ia ..,is,
bituminous coal miner was gS.J ro|.
S615 a year. Which meant the piUg ;Os,
bility that one-third Of the coal lllin,,. ase
families were underfed and over over !"
half underclothed and oyercIO,"'ouuoo'f fqc
Weekly earnings Of the average aI55 S6;t
tory worker brought hlm ON! Iyof 3
a year if he worked without layy5r 5,,,
weeks. Industry was golng, ,,iies on b
in which one-third Of the ianli,Io5 i.. nr5sr
wage earners were chronicaiIy, ,oor-lr uerl
fed and over one-halt lno'''
clothed and housed. =.
This shows the injustice Of "a any Ss.s !.
tempt to arrive at just wagS w giocrsss
now in terms Of a 70 per GEM To bring
in wages prevailing in l9I4, - ed
the standard of workers - cured if|
Which WIN J,''llCr ronjd have been procuLos,ps
s8I0 IllSii IN % 1911 the following lnclf cl,irei
in 1914 wages would Lao " ,or cent, b
Railroad section men 232 pei aont. sss
luminous miners 1872 per tSIiiI II bS
con1rnon labor 169 per cent ant q, c
and shoe workers 10 P99 5o9 per cen.
building and repairing lo9 oort. cotti
mems Clothing 190 per GEM iron a1
- ,I,ei, ion,1fecf,Irp ? e 28O per cent oroTmb1s
steel skilled and un3 unS8lllTTIp n,,Ip mills
iS8 per cent, paper ana ans t.,Ie PulP 188 r''
per cent, wool manuia'''
cent. orrings Of
workers in American icssaIorted tl5G' to the 7
estaonsnmgfHTTs ISM of abor should be e mar
| III per cent to enable enlg If 1914, F.,s .a,,
tain the S84O standard a. % lowest ag wv.
v1as v1li, .l .adnitted to be the nee Sef Of f'o
yviIicb w%2 the physical eXls5eDiBu exist But the
iiy Hy''ct5 could Id be maintainey@t.e s5oyted has ~
tual increase as iep
ONLY ia per cent.
The producers news., 1923-08-24
THE LAST OF THE 'PATRIoNUTs".

The tribe almost gone! The "PahiOnu who reigne in
fellow nuts Jealous efforts most
DEPENDING upon the width Of Vision of the particular member Of the
Streets e aed "S o1 t6e Be shaay s e ed the
where you found them waving their flags delivering speeches mbbng
But % ana es % dsae | @ pGP e eItn5e tbe u Of % m
remaining during passing
vanished ordinary
There reminders of
The last of the "Patrionusn
aggravated specimen extent the
Another one Judge Kenesaw Mountains Land base ball fa
about PatOnutng whenever he get few Of the
And finally there is one
This particular Patronuts" name Dan Noble said that
boys county pictures
SHOW s sst @ THIS 1obe 5 Mr. Noble boe into tRe headlines of the hectic
Bsy9 By few 5Sons "oPBss who city
wages and erTise deeanng themselves inspire
the farmers up for temper cent il. that territory
cod @ %s for S day az" of bo and te @ adVby OF setg
s ig &c Il The G pc % of % and @ as the money
@ @ sH ao P R R a ne 0ng nd s Just o T the % 3 do %o eeee
tg Hs4 wd6B sS S's and Sa2 usu r9'g gnon @ d0ss ana
The back f lender
Let us look for this "usurer" in the wood pile.
poorer Bak 2 Ga s p are @ the n P @ csnter looks pet
Of the harvest hands 2k awful bfOF old 5 ten per m center center knows
Ss u3prsT $50 dsedto setting things can't get over
He sets the e p a of qsS b6 mae woq % 3 s en @ 5 % ea the the %
% his Dd wf the can 57Ts any 2 59 a & for the the 9iy days
everybody everything 50 he might be enough
Mr. small town usureF now wiling have
the thoughjust recently
into his nut that can't
back principal borrowed with the price be is getting for his
So be well to fix price wheat well as wages paid to
"wobblies'
when 0111 @ m s5S the @ Rs1s Bar 0 and M THEIR TFessS S8r
Standard
Labor Trust is all sedion and the Paionus that the
~ hm and federal troops United States
the Bainv1e nurrecOn did
fzzeled Roosevelt County
apology published Small
Buges" Roosevelt
the udcOus and ridiculous into which he had gotten hse
SHERIFF AND L. s MARSHAL TAKE CHARGE OF LABOR
SITUATION AT BAINVILLE"
in probably bad
last week a however, that during the past few
radical labor
the which bad effect
observed that these agaos each
the harvest abOer make contact
the
to card whether they want to not
harvest that
this small bunch OF agl&Os
looking for work
fields bad and loss to farmers Of north
Montana.
at was after Bainvile last Sunday,
these atatOrs $500
explained above, had been going
a of
sance u. the local authorities to
condition. There has been little violence at
these
this the state who depend help harvest
At the present time the sheriff has the situation
So fades from the landscape "Parionu".
w. DID A I
The producers news., 1923-08-24
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
MAX o. SIEWERT, Minister.

Services for Sunday, August 26th,
are as follows:
Sunday School at 10 m.
Morning Worship at IL O'Clock.
Union Meeting at the Congrega-
tional Church at 500 o'clock Sunday
evening. A, program of the Church
Vacation School will be rendered by
the pupils of the school
You are invited to be present.
The producers news., 1923-08-24
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AT THE CHURCHES
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Rev. C. J. TjomsEand of Scobey will
conduct services in the Plentywood
lutheran Church next Sunday, Au-
oust 26th, at 8 O'Clock in the evening.
Services will be conducted by Rev.
Tiomsland the same day at DoOley at
II o'clock and at Outlook in the af-
ternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The producers news., 1923-08-24

Toxic. Aug. 2O.-Advices received
here today from Seoul said that 346
persons are dead and more than a
thousand missing as a result of the
recent tidal wave and storm in the
four western provinces of Korea.
The damage to houses and other pro-
perty also was great.
The storm was heaviest along the
Yalu river on the west coast of Korea.
The first report Of the storm, received
here on August Is, said tidal waves
submerged $4,000 houses along this
river.
SHIP REACHES PORT
Manila Aug. 20. - The British
steamer Ming Sang, which was report
ed sunk in the Hong Kong harbor
during the typhoon Saturday, arrived
here safely this morning after tu-
multous voyage. Her officers reported
that the vessel seen to sink in Hong
Kong was probably the British steam
ship LoOng Sang.
The Loong Sang is a ship of much
the same type as the Ming Sing, and
might have been mistaken for her.
Many lives were lost with the
steamer whose identity was in error.
Of those aboard only two, European
officers, were saved.
A minor typhoon has been raging
here for the last three days. With it
came a heavy rainfall that flooded
many streets. There has been no
damage, though shipping is suspended
The producers news., 1923-08-24

The reduction by Cows
McMaster of South .nSl,eetLnolr n,
line prices, was depreciatsS5 N gsS.
speaker, who said that seo the a.. Oy III
have been 3.9 cents the ,s paIIo,.s Tuss Should
of sc because too radical iSaIlon instea
permits per + the Standard Oil ia5 coms.ct an acton
kill OFF the Independent de9iapann deoiapany @
The producers news., 1923-08-24
ALIAS SUMMONS

IN THE DISTRICT CouR7 =.
THE TWENTIETH JTrDICCGGtnI OF
TRICT OF THE STATS TF'I1aL d3 DIS
TANA, in AND FOR THE T COMM. ImSN.
OF SHERIDAN. OoUNIY
The producers news., 1923-08-24
GRAND VIEW HOTEL,
SETTLED IN NEW LOGAN.

The Grand View Hotel. ~.
been moved to Main Stroot" winch has
lowered to its foundation mas aaS been
front glass in the office has ana ana The
in. ''0S Oeen pu,
The producers news., 1923-08-24

The personnel of the Outlook teach
ing force for the coming year is: f.
A. Lundahl, principal; Miss Mary A.
Craig and Mrs. Jessie Cox Seger,
High School; Helen Bergan, 9Th grade
Mary Huddleston, 9th and 7th grades;
Ruth Schultz, 4th and 5th grades;
Hannah johnson, End and 3rd grades;
and Mildred Mills. LIST grade,
Miss Milderd Wallace of Cheney,
Wash, has accepted a45positiOn as
teacher in the Homestead High School.
James Mclean of District No. 81
was in August 10th to loog over ap-
plications, relative to hiring a teacher
for the Rocky Spring School.
A. A. Brenteson of District No. "a
has resigned as Trustee in that district
and Mr.. Carlson has been appointed to
take his place.
Nearly all of the schools of the
county have engaged teachers for the
coming year. Carl Jacobsen has ac-
cepted the Daleview school; Mamie
Gassman and Alvin Jacobsen will
teach in District No. 81; Bert Omund-
sen and Mrs. E. Mensing in No. &c;
Pearl Morgan in No. 72; Ethel Holm
quist and Matte Donaldson in No. 5;
Maude Nelson in No. Ga; Osta Mad
sen and Elmo Stephens in No. %; Vel
ma Crawford and Grace Bailey in No.
20; Gertrude SINNERS in No. 80; Alice
Redden in No. %; Mrs. Signe Jacob
sen in No. 21; and Mrs. Markuson and
Miss Dunsden in DOoley.
The High Schools of Sheridan cOun-
ty on the accredited list this year are
Plentywood, Westby and Homestead
There will be no High School in
DOoley this year.
EMMA CRONE,
County Superintendent