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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
SONS OF NORWAY
TO ORGANIZE LODGE
AT PLENTYWOOD

Last Monday evening about 80
members Of Norwegian
descent met at the Farmer-Labor
Temple in Plentywood for the pur-
pose of deciding upon whether or not
to organize a lodge of the Sons Of
Norway.
Mr.. Peterson of Fargo, N. D., who
has been one of the organizers of the
Sons of Norway opened the meeting
with a speech on the purposes of the
lodge and the reasons why Plenty
wood would be a good place in which
to have such an organization. He ex-
planned that in organizing lodges
throughout the country it was for
mutual protection for all its mem
bers such as life insurance and sick
benefits and that it was an organiza-
tion for good fellowship and broth
erhood. He emphasized the fact that
the organization was a nOn-political
affair and that its members should
refrain from all such discussions in
their meetings and in dealing with
its fellow members.
IVERSON TEMPORARY
CHAIRMAN
Edward Iverson Of Antelope was
elected temporary chairman of the
meeting and it was decided by the
members that a Sons of Norway lodge
should be organized in PlentywOod
and committees were appointed to
perfect arrangements for the organi-
zation and it was further decided that
Sunday, May the 18th, Norway's Ma
tional holiday shall be the day for the
organization of the lodge and the
committee on organization were in
structed to have refreshments served
to the new members and the Farmer
Labor Temple was engaged for that
day.
LODGE AT
ANTELOPE
The delegation from Antelope ex-
pressed a desire to also organize a
] lodge and some of the prospective
members in the vicinity were so en-
thusiastic about it that they went out
and in one day had nearly sixty
prospective members signed up. Only
| twenty-five are required for the or
ganization of lodge, SO Antelope will
undoubtedly have one of the largest
lodges in the Northwest in the near
future with the possible exception Of
the Plentywood lodge.
A committee of five were appoint.
ed to secure new members and al
those who are desirous of joining the
Sons of Norway lodge should com
municate with A. C. Erickson OF
Louis Moe at Plentywood, who will be
glad to give the necessary blanks tx
the prospective member SO that ap-
plications may be filled out and fileC
for action by the charter members.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
NOTICE TO PUBLIC

I hereby give notice to all my
customers, and the general pub
lie, that have sold my store,
the "Weiss Cash Store" to
Messrs. o. A. Moe and A. J.
Moore, who took possession last
Monday. I am quitting business in
Plentywood, after an eight year
sojourn, I wish to thank nv
many customers and friends,
some of whom have dealt with
me ever since started my busi-
ness, and to bid them bon voy-
age and good luck and prosperi-
ty and I take this occasion to
bespeak their patronage for the
new firm, which is worthy, and
which will render the service with
the courtesy which has always
characterized the business.
Sincerely,
ED. WEISS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
SECRET ORDER OF
MORON NO. COG SEND
NOTICE TO SINNERS
Threatens to Get Awful Naughty
and Tough Unless People Be
have Themselves.
"NIGHT SHIRTIES"
ON RAMPAGE

The Producers News today re-
ceived a letter and a dollar bill
from an outfit of nuts who re-
side some place in the jUngles in
Sheridan county, threatening to
do something awful to some one
if some one don't behave and
quit drinking all the moonshine
up so that they can't get any
when they come to town.
These morons most all of
whom have a racy record of their
own as is disclosed when their
own private lives are investigat-
ed, came to Plentywcod the other
night and burned one Of their
"fiery crosses" before the home
of a local Mary MagdaIene, just
in order to show their Christian
charity; before the home of a
poor woman without friends or
pull of any kind; a poor woman
who does not belong to any lodge
or travel in social circles Of our
best people; one whom this brave
outfit dared to make an example
of without any fear of conse-
E quences.
Of course this poor woman is
not the only one engaged in the
3 occupation to which these "holier
than thou" crowd take righteous
3 exception to, for let the fact be
Continued on Page Four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
RECEIVERSHIP
UNNECESSARY


The Ledger ntimates that it was
unnecessary to appoint a receiver, and
that the great system was thrown in
to the Federal courts because the
bankers and other "insiders" wanted
to handle the proposition in that way.
"Many members of Congress re-
gard as suspicious the fact that the
application for receivership was held
back until after the adjournment of
the last session." says the Ledger.
"They predict that at the next ses-
sion the affairs of the st. Paul will
come in fer a complete raking over.
In summarizing the reasons for the
st. Paul failure, the Ledger cites the
following:
Loss to stockholders of large sums
of money alleged to have been ex-
pended to obtain political, state, coCn-
! ty and municipal favors in the pro-
motion of the Puget Sound extension.
Excessive cost of construction and
electrification of the Puget Sound eX-
tension.
Manipulation of the securities of
the st. Paul through which stock
holders are known to have lost many
mllllOnS.
Lack of competent and economic
management in the last ten years.
Tt is charged that officials Of the
st. Paul entered into contracts with
relatives and business associates at
eXtravagant prices.
''RAKE-OFFS' RUNNING
INTO MILLIONS
Certain companies engaged in the
manpfacture of railway supplies are
said to have made from S15,0O0,00O
to $2O,000,O00 through the favor of
the st. Paul officials,'' is one charge.
When the st. Paul endeavored to
Continued on last page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
FIELD OF OPERATION OF
BOOTLEG GERS NARROWED
MOVING OF HOOCH FOR DISTANCE OF ONLY 25
FEET CONSTITUTES VIOLATION OF 18TH
AMENDMENTS TRANSPORTATION" CLAUSE.
May PREVENT OFFICERS FROM MOVING

Helena, Mont, May Montanas supreme court handed
the traffic another jolt opinion handed down Wednes
defining transportation" of liquor and declaring that
Of Intoxicating beverages for few feet becomes pun
shab under the statute Associate Justice Gaen delivered the
opinion all justices concuing affirming Judgment of the
Madison county court in the of Ed Redmond fined
sentenced to go days the county carrying
q Of Linmnr about 20 feet
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
SERVICE CHARGES NORTHERN
PACIFIC WITH VAST LAND FRAUDS
4 4
HELLAND THANKS
ALL CUSTOMERS

Having sold out my stock of
Hardware to Peterson Company
l take this means of thanking
each and every customer of the
Holland Hardware for the patrOn-
age and good will extended dur
ing these past years.
l trust our business relations
have been as pleasant to you as
they have been to us.
E. C. HELLAND.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
HELLAND SELLS BIG HARD
WARE TO SCOBEY PARTIES

Popular Pentyvood Citizen Retres From Business Because
Of Failing HeaIth-Fas Been in Business Since Town
Started
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
Federal Probe of ST. Paul Smash Urged by Ledger
Philadelphia Paper Makes Sensational Charges About Biggest
of Bankruptcies Hundred Rail Systems Wreck
ed" in 80 Years; Excuses Which Fail to Excuse
GOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

Philadelphia, May 1.-THE Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, owned by the
Curtiss interests which also control
the Saturday Evening Post, is run
ming a series of articles by Louis Sci
bold giving some inside history of the
wreck of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul railroad.
The Ledger describes the break
down of the st. Paul as "the great
est bankruptcy in history" and asks,
"did it collapse because of natural
economic causes?
"To what extent did possible bad
judgment, inefficient management and
lack Of sound business principles force
this great transportation system, val
ued at $8OO,OOO,OOO into the hands of
receivers 2"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15
HOODED HOARD OF
HOODLUMS PUT ON
ANOTHER SHOW

The local order of Ku Klux
Klan crawIed out of their holes
long enough last Wednesday ev-
ening to burn a cross in the
street in front of the home of
Mrs. Gus Olson, frightening a
couple of small children nearly
to death.
The cross was light about $3.50
by two mites dressed in white
who stood and watched the cross
burn before returning to Ante
lOpe in a car-bOth men were
thought to be "weIl mOOned."
Alderman Joe KaYOn going
home at this. time, saw the fire
set by the incendiarists and rush
ed up and kicked the holy warn
ing to the ground and called the
. fire department which put out
" the fire and perhaps saved a seri-
GUS cOnhagratiOn.
The incident accorded an even
ing's entertainment for an other
= wise cOlOrless night.
A heavy rain fell Thursday evel
ing soaking the ground and causir
grains of all kinds to shoot out
the earth in 7.9Did orOwth
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-05-15

Official Newspaper of Sheridan County
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
Who Gets the Subsidy?

owners of Great trying reduc
the base rates the miners spite Of the made by
them and Prime Minister Baldwin when the granted
subsidy he industry that the base rates would remain
pending the report tof the coal commission and final agre
ment-the same as they were in July 1925.
Baldwin backing the in their violation of this
specific agreement with the lawyers argument July
the agreement of 1924 operative and that under the basic
wage could be- circumstances ALTERED" The
that the prevailing in July 1925 would continue without
gard to how these rates derived. -
Clearly the reacny government with its spirit buoyed
bit by the fascist mobng for violence and civil
against labos resistance decrease in its starvation living
standard renege its July promise and contract with the
miners, and is deliberately provoking serious crisis.
Without ventung into prophecy observe that British
labors take the challenge for battle may result
casualty altogether onesided bring
out the truth of the debate going the subsidy The
all huy the other when A. Cook mentioned that the
fantes their profits This lie the vocerousy protest
Let's
The making profit the
If they do make profit the coal isn't mined with the miners
employed and profits stopped This has been result in
degree of competing with PREPARATIONS Dawes plan coabut
viii deny that the unemployed miners bear the heaviest bur
den of suffering and want There have been mine reduced
to living in shanies and begging for crusts.
capitalism the charge upon industry profit
the miners accepted the the said they could
profit and would shut down. The miners refused
the government prevent disastrous disocaon
dusy agreed pay subsidy to the mine allow the
continuance of wages without taking the profits The
of the miners that the subsidy guaranteed profits
attempt wages deliberate effort provoke
with labor in the hopes Chicago Tribune that the British
bourgeoe has better chance for showdown
the aid Of the counerevoluon organizing its fascist
dictatorship which the Tribune wishes believe would be but
society is course
the naturalization of the Mines but it is apparent
capitalism is going allow such thing unless
open civil with victory perched working
class This why the question SHOULD the workers
debate before British labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
Liverpool and the Red Flag

While eated bourgeoisie venting great JOY at
the defeat of the Communists in the Liverpool labor
the congress closes with three significant things First opposes
the alleged security pac second endorses the Dawes plan
third, it ends singing the song "The Red Flag"
Why this mysfcation for Main Steeters?
the Scarborough Trade Union Congress the left
Liverpool labor party remained right the British
puzzle the brains
added conundrums.
But the fact is that the fraternity that has up between
British and Russian labor is overwhelming that
Ramsay Macdonald has bend the that the
security pact is alliance against the Soviet Union
mun the forced him this patonc gesture
least of opposition to against the workers republics
betray the Russian workers. he makes
protecting them and has the added advantage being in opposition
the Baldwin which made the security pac
gain political capital by opposing its handwork.
The Dawes pan however is of MacDonalds babies
may be scky infant with questionable parent
side Macdonald but it his And then this plan only
beays the British workers. who his in
He do it, so he does it.
As the Red Flag" that is traditional song the
British labor and just only political IDIOT Lenin
said attention to words it be said that while
party congress closed singing the Red Flag raised white
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
TUNNEL CAEv|N
TRAPS WORKERS
NEAR RICHMOND
Repair Men Caught as
Collapse Occurs

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 2-More
than one hundred workers were
trapped in the collapse Of a tunnel
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
they had been sent in 70 repair, near
Richmond, Va.
Most of the workers were foreign
born. The section that caved in
took the roadway in the park above
the tunnel with it. Those who were
first at the park could hear the stifled
groans of the workers that were
caught in the tunnel.
A rescue crew has begun the work
of rescuing the covered workers. 1t
is not known as yet how many are
in the tunnel. The railroad head in
charge of the job estimates there
were several hundred in the tunnel
and that many have been able to es-
cape. The estimated number within
the tunnel at present is placed above
10O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
WARD BAKERIES
BECOME PART OF
GIGANTIC TRUST
To Control the Large
GranGrieS

Since the Ward Baking company
has sIashed its prices on bread 20e5.
the other companies have held con-
ference and are trying to find ways
Of meeting the slash.
The Ward company has been a non
union concern for a number of years
and this attempt on its part to slash
prices is interpreted by the union
officials of the Bakers Union as moth
ing but an attempt to force the small
union shops into the bankruptcy and
the larger union shops into the nom
union column
The slash of 20qo in bread prices
by the Ward Bakery company, comes
after an announcement in financial
circles of merger between the Con-
tinental Baking Co. and the Ward
Baking company. The formation of
a bread trust is well under way. The
bread trust after the consummation,
will control numerous grain elevators
flour mills and baking establishments
in all the principal cities Of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04

effectively the situation in the
party is as follows: Lore accepted
the resolution Of the party congress
about his expulsion from the party
with light heart He did not make
any attempt to protest against this
decision to the G. I. which only proves
that the Comintern is thOroly foreign
to him. Now he is openly working
against 1t. Tho Lore alone is not
big power, yet we must not forget
that he is the spokesman Of those
social democratic Loreist and half
Loreist elements which are still very
numerous in our party
LNOSTER and Bitteln1Gn are actually
following line against the Comm
tern altho they declare that they are
for the Comintern- (Such declarations
are very cheap.) They are gathering
the right wing OF the party around
them. The elections to the conxen-
ton prove that.
BY remaining longer in the Foster
faction, the Cannon group, which ia
supported by the healthier part Of the
former majority, which actually is for
the Comintern, risks in this situation
to be thoroly discredited. Neither thu
party nor the Ccn1intern could inter.
pref such a further adherence in any
other way than as a support to the
Foster-B fttelman group. After the
New York membership meeting which
has proven that the Decentralization
group has made a further step against
the Comintern, a firmer formal unity
Of the Cannon group with the Boster.-
Bittelman group is effectively q sup
port Of the right wing Of the party.
There is lot Of talk in the party
cision of the Comintern was the result
of incorrect information and OF for.
eign influences. The talk goes around
that the Comintern will annul this
decision. This is ridiculous humbus.
But facts are stubborn things. No
rumor can eliminate or hide them.
Is It not fact that Comrades Foster
and Bittelman are now taking a posi-
ton against the c. l.? Is 1t not q
fact that they are supported in the
party by the right elements? These
facts cannot be hidden by any reao-
luton and even the G. L does not
have the power to do that.
THE party has still many difficulties
4 ahead of It until it stands on the
firm ground of Bolshevism. But 1t
Will overcome these difficulties IL It
learns to judge the groups and fsc-
tons not by their words but by their
deeds. This is all important.
am sorry that Canadian engage
ments make It impossible for me to
take further part in the work OF the
Workers Party in this extremely i'm
portant period OF Bolshevization and
reorganization. But it is clear TO
me that the party has entered a new
period OF its life and that the old
divisions are changing. This Is proof
,of the growth Of the party and a
guarantee for it's further Development
In the direction OF Bolshevization.
Montreal, Sept 80. 1925.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
BY P. GREEN.

A SHORT report has been given
a to me by some comrades about
the membership meeting of the New
York organization, September %.
This report shows that Comrade
Foster, in his speech, sometimes
quoted my words spoken in the
Parity Commission. l took occasion
already during the party convention
to emphasize that no stenographic
minutes of the Parity Commission
exist and that therefore quotations
from memory are not good source
for the information Of the party. They
are always more or less inexact and
can always be questioned. 1t is there
fore preferable not to use such
sources but instead use facts and
documents.
The report of the New York mem
bership meeting makes it urgent for
me to give the party a short report
of the work of the Parity Commission
on the basis Of unquestioned facts
and documents.
At the beginning Of the work Of the
Parity Commission beginning OF
JULY there existed split in the par
ty; in Cleveland there were two or
CARNATIONS; similar situation exist
ed in Philadelphia; in Chicago and
| New York the situation was extreme
ly sharp. The party had two central
committees, two independent organ
izations with their own finances and
connections and their own internal
discipline.
lTNH1S actual split was liquidated by
4 the Parity Commission.
The Parity Commission did not de-
tect any fundamental differences in
political questions between the. two
Factions. An political resolutions
were adopted unanimously. Il en-
phasize this fact later when l analyze
the party life during the last months.
| will therefore come back to this.)
The election campaign before the
party convention was the basis for
an extreme sharpening Of the fractional
struggle. The dangers of split grew
to a high pitch. Especially so because
apparently the struggle was not about
principles but about the majority in
the party.
The representatives of the minority,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
Internal Situation Of the Workers Communist Party

foreseeing the possibilities Of a split
made the proposal to the Parity Com
mission to settle the most touchy quesi
tions of the individual composition Of
the Central COMMITTEES and the Dis
trict Committees. They agreed tc
form a minority in the Central Com
mittee altho the result Of the cleo
tions was not yet clear. BY these
means they hoped to avoid a split
The proposal was accepted by the
Parity Commission. The number Of
members in the Central COMMITTEES
for the Foster group was fixed at Is
while were assigned to the Ruthen
berg group. Irrespective of this de-
cision there developed an actual split
in three districts. The Parity Com
mission succeeded IN liquidating this
split.
ITNHE decision of the Communist In
l. ternational conceded in the most i'm
portant practical proposals and deci
sions with those Of the Parity Com
mission, not less than 4OTo for the
representatives Of the minority Of the
central Committee (the decision o.
the Parity Commission. was $500
maximum of the parity principle in
all executive organs (the decision o.
the Parity Commission was not less
than one-third for the minority. Blu
the political appraisal of both factions
by the Comintern, contained in the
resolution OF the E. &C. G. l., created
a crisis within the majority faction
The faction split in two parts; frs
the group Of Comrade Foster which in
the beginning declared itself for non
participation in the Central Commit
Zee and later proposed not to take
he majority in that committee, and
second, the group Of Comrade Can
non which made the proposal to or
ganize the Central Committee on the
basis of the parity principle. The
view Of Comrade Cannon was vic
torious and his proposal was &C
cepted unanimously by the factor
after a long discussion.
A new session Of the majority fac
ton designated as candidates for the
politbureau Comrades Foster and Bit
lehman. During all this time Com
rade Bittelman supported ComradC
Foster -..---ssssr.is.s..ss '-'.''-'--7'-a'
In the meeting Of the new Central
ommittee-thanks to my vote-th'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04
AppIe and Potato Harvest

On the heels Of the wheat harvest
in the Dakotas and southern Canada
comes the apple crop in Washington
and Oregon and the potato crop in
Idaho, as is pointed out by the In
dustrial Workers of the World from
their headquarters In Chicago. They
urge their organizers and active
members to utilize the harvest condi-
tions for organizing the transient
migratory workers that flood those
districts. Wenatchee and Yakima will
be the organizing centers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-04

majority Of the politbureau and the
secretariat was secured for the Ruth
enberg group and instead Of Bittel-
man, Cannon was elected to the
poAtbureau and the secretariat for the
Foster group. .........auM.
r EFT us try to analyze the above
- cited facts.
The first thing one is impressed
with is that the party has gone thru
very severe crisis and that it had
sufficient strength to overcome the
danger of split between the former
majority and minority. That does
not mean that the danger of a split
is completely eliminated or even con-
siderably lessened. 1t only means that
the crisis Of the party has been moved
onto a new track; the former divi-
sions in the party are giving way to
new divisions. 1t is no secret in the
party that there are serious differ
ences between the Foster and Can
non groups. These differences are
not less serious than those that had
existed between the former majority
and minority. The formal division of
the former majority group into two
groups is only a question Of time.
That is the first thing.
Second: The differences between
the new groups in the party follow a
new line. That does not mean that
tha former differences are fully over
come. 1t merely means that new
questions arise as the center Of the
inner party controversy. Now it is
no longer the question Of the labor
party that is being discussed but
the question Of Bolshevization and
reorganization Of the party and first
Of all the question of the relation
of the party to the Communist In
sernational. Goth questions are very
closely connected. The group which
goes against the Comintern cannot
at the same time be Tor the Boil
sheviEation Of the party.)
THEREFORE,, il split does come,
4 It will take place on a new line;
only part Of the former majority will
split of from the party.
Third: What importance can be at
tached to the fact that the former
majority faction accepted unanimous
ly the resolution of Cannon but pro-
posed as members of the politbureau
and the secretariat Comrades Foster