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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-05-21

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Byron E. Ahalt has taken over
the management of the King Hill
ranch, which was only until recent
ly managed by Ernet Mas. Mr..
Ahalt is a recent arrival from Walla
Walla, Washington, and was attend
ing to business in Mountain Home on
Tuesday.
Dr. Evans. the Optician from
Boise, will be at the Mellon Hotel
next Monday, May "a. II your eyes
trouble you come and see me. ft
glasses correctly and attend each
case one year. j. t, Evans 1t
The residence OF Joe Bennett has
recently been treated to a new coat
of paint and presents very attrac-
tive appearance.
Mrs Gilmore ottenheimer accom-
panied her husband and Rev, J. L.
Taylor to Boise last Tuesday.
C. NJ, Selix, representative Of Ell
more county and chairman of the
committee on engrossed and enroll
ed bills and a member OF the COM
mittees of military and indian af-
fairs, immigration, labor and sta
tistics and private corporations at
the state legislature. together with
Mrs, selix and their daughter, ex-
pect to move to Boise in the near
future, so we are informed.
Mr.. and Mrs, w. A. Ross Of Weis-
er, and Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Ross, of
Oakland, have been the guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs, Ole Herring for the past
week. The former are the parents
of Mrs. Herring and c, A. Ross is
her brother They expect to remain
in Mountain Home for the next two
weeks.
An addition is being erected on
the rear of the building occupied by
Browns Cigar Store and the interior
Of the building is being re-painted.
Joe Boyle and Joe Novak have charge
of the carpenter work.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-05-21
Local and Personal
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o. E. Cannon, of the First Nation
al Bank of this city, was a business
visitor in Boise last Tuesday after
noon.
w. c. Settles, well known mining
man of Pine, was attending to busi-
ness matters in Mountain Home last
Saturday.
Clyde Love left last Tuesday for
ArcO, where he has accepted posi-
ton on some highway work near
that city.
FOR SALE-Big Four Mccormick
5-foot mower. See G. c. Zacher
Tom Ledbetter, will known ranch
er of Hammett, was attending to
business matters in the county seat
last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Argo, of
Nampa, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Emmett Thompson last Sunday,
having motored over.
w. ]. Baird, well known rancher
of the Grand View section, was at
tending to business matters in Noun
tain Home last Tuesday,
Mrs Edward Mason and son, Ed
ward, were arrivals from Moscow on
Monday of this week and are guests
at the home of Mrs. Masons par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Eaton.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-05-21
Local and Personal

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Piano for sale near Mountain
Home Beautiful high grade piano
must be sold at once. Big discount
and terms $40 monthly to reliable
party For particulars write Cline
Piano Co., Sc Front ST., Portland,
oregon. este
Mrs. ]. o. Jaggers. who has been
spending the past several days visit
ing with her mother, Mrs. Stevens
left on Tuesday for her home at
Boise.
Don't blame the local baseball team
if they were defeated at Grand View
last Sunday. How many of you went
with the boys to help boost them to
victory?
Kelley & Stanford, operators of
the Franklin mine at Pine, passed
through this city last Saturday en-
route to Boise on a brief business
mission.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Goul were
among the few local residents who
made the trip to Grand View last
Sunday afternoon to boost for the
home team.
Mrs. Earl Schwartz, of Nampa, was
an arrival in Mountain Home last
Tuesday. being called to this city by
the very serious illness of her broth
er, French White.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-05-21

,PULAR PRICES OF ADMISSION
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09

the unskiled by democratizatoP by the elimination
OF corruption, are especially forceful.
For example, just the of the great national
strike OF the railroad shop mechanics in 1922 the H. t. e.
L. raised the demand for amagamaion of all 16 RAILROAD
unions The need for such consolidation of forces in
the face of the bitter attack from the companies mani
fest The rank and file understood it once The senti
ment for amalgamaton swept the of the railroad
workers like prairie fire and it also became great vnl
issue in the whole labor Only the autocrac
control Of the unions by the bueaucra defeated the move
ment
Another example, when the "a unions were embarkng
upon the big campaign organize the steel workers in
1918 IL was easy to get them join hands gigantic
erQon and to adopt many measures undoubtedly leading
in the direction of industrial union Of metal workers
In such the demand for the strengthening of the
unions is linked up closely with the actual struggle that
il becomes very powerful The present struggles in the
needle trades, for example shoud be utilized to bring
about the amalgamation Of those unions.
In times Of great struggle the real strike srategist
will not fail to press home demands upon the breaucrats
for The building Of the unions into real fighting bodies
ITO be oontinHedJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09

ers the strength of the workers organization the
of the workers. the degree of their theological Development
ETC. In time of industrial activity the workers ordinarily
go into more less general offensive, demanding more
wages shorter hours better working conditions and the
right of organization But in slack periods they suauly
have to face employers offensive and their chief fight
to preserve existing standards to defeat wage cuts pre-
vent lenghening the working day. and maintain their
unions.
Under present conditions in the United States with
the final capitalist crisis still far off, the workers make
their hardest fights when they defending standards
that already in existence The desperate strikes
American labor history have been against sweeping wage
cuts and other attacks upon the workers standards Strikes
for higher standards ordinarily much less militant in
character.
DEMANDS UPON BuREAUcRAcY
In organizing campaigns and strikes the workers should
make demands not only upon the employers but also upon
the reactonary bueaucas where these the unions
This is very important consideration for the Strike sra
egst TO bear in mind When unions are about to plunge
into great struggle already in the midst of IT, their
weaknesses apparent and demandsfor the strengthen
ing Of the organisation by amagamation, by taking in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
RAISE LEVEL OF
WAGES PAID TO
SOVIET WORKERS
Backward Industries to
Be Projected

MOSCOW, Nov. 1.-THE Peoples
Commisariat for Labor has submitted
to the government a project of nor
malization of workers wages. Accord
ingly the Council OF Peoples Commits
saries has decided to increase the sal
aries in mining, metallic, chemical and
other industries, especially for back.
ward categorfes of workmen, whose
wages were behind the general level
of prices.
In connection with this Peoples
Commissary of Labor, Mr.. Schmidt
said to Tass correspondent:
= THE decision of the government has
a great Importance, especially If one
takes into consideration that wages
were, in fact, increasing all the time.
The average level Of salaries in all
industries increased, beginning from
1922, by 81 per cent. However, quail.
fed wOrkmen received much more
than unskilled laborers, owing to the
system of piece payment. Until now
it was impossible to improve it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
Canadian Farmer Pool
Sells 100000 Blu.

WINNIPEG FP)-Canadian wheat
pool farmers have closed another ban
ner season during which the Central
Selling agency disposed Of 10000, 900
bushels of wheat. The last dividend
on the 1925 crop, which has just been
paid, totaled $8,5OO,0OO or 2Ac per
bushel.
Wheat pool members thus received,
for the 1925 crop, an initial payment
Of 81, two additional payments of zoe
each per bushel and the final payment
making a total for No. 1 wheat Of
S1.42h per busheL This is consid-
cred by the farmers an excellent re-
turn as the 1925 crop was large one.
During the 3 years of their exist
ence the wheat pools have handled:
1928 crop 100000 bushels (the AL
berta pool alone); 1924 crop, 81, $780,
600 bushels (Alberta, Saskatchewan
and Manitoba), and 100000 bush
els of the 1926 crop for the three prov
inces, or more than double the guam
tity handled in the previous year.
Membership in the pools has increased
from 1890 in July 1924 to 127, 200
members in July 1925.
Last year the pools inaugurated the
policy Of securing elevators by the
simple process of deducting &c per
bushel on all grain handled for eleva-
tor purposes. This elevator fund has
been used to secure 80 local elevators
in Manitoba, 80 elevators in Alberta
and SIS in Saskatchewan, or total OF
63S for the three pools These eleva-
tors, like the other property of the
D. els, is paid for in cash; hence there
are no bonds or mortgages.
In addition to the local elevators,
the pools have terminal elevator facili
ties for handling 100000 bushels Of
wheat at a time. With the small en-
largement Of these terminal facilities
and quick turnover the pools will be
able to handle their entire product.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
The Role Of the British Miners

a position to render quick and sub
stantial financial assistance. This
meant suffering for the miners and
their families from the very outset
of the strike. Tho this heart-gripping
adversely of the miners has lasted
seven long months, they have not
fiinched-they have carried on the
battle in manner that has won the
applause and admiration of the intel
ligent worker the world over. The in
dications are, as shown by the recent
plan to withdraw the safety men from
the mines, that the miners mean to
carry nthe struggle until the arrog-
ancy of their exploiters has been bro
ken. But to do this, they must be
fed, and the workers of America must
not shirk their responsibility.
British capitalism has set out to re-
build its empire. upon increased ex-
ploitation Of its workers, by attack
ing their trade unions and standard
of living. We already see even in the
midst of the battle irreconcilable
breaches, based upon contradictory in
terests of the various groups of the
bourgeoisie, are occurring, threaten
ing their unified front against the work
ers. Britain cannot hold out against
the miners much longer. Already her
exports have fallen alarmingly and its
imports have risen to a staggering
height. 1t is true that among its i'm
ports a great tonnage of coal can be
counted, which is aimed to break the
strike, but the coal is poor and costly.
1t cannot be used extensively and
probably by British industry. As
result of the miners struke, industry
is closing down, foreign trade is being
undermined, markets are being perm
anently lost, and instead of rebuilding
itself thru the attack upon the min
ers, British capitalism is actually has
tening it's own doom.
A mighty effort must be made by
the American workers to rush help to
the British miners. We must. make
it possible for them to fight on to vic
tory. Let US follow the example of
the RUSSIAN workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
The Farmer Is On His WAY

Farmers and their families were
running away from their homes. They
gathered together a few personal be-
longings and set out for the cities
were they expected to find work. They
had to get employment in order to
keep away the reaper OF death.
If the father and mother could not
make enough money to meet the daily
obligations the children would have
to be called and put in the harness of
slavery. Nature has not deserted the
farmers. The soil remains fertile
The sun continues to shine The
rains come fairly well in seasons.
This old earth is not a failure. The
grass grows green. There are some
fruits that mature and are plentiful
The fields yield fairly good crops of
corn and wheat, and potatoes in
abundance. The gardens produce
splendid crops of vegetables. The
lawns and walks are still ornamented
with flowers. What is the matter?
Middle Men Thrive.
Man is the power that drives the
farmers from their homes. He is not
one Of the farmers. ~He is one of the
many engaged in the work of farm
ing the farmers. He lives and thrives
on the profits made by handling the
products of the farm. He may be a
local merchant, general buyer, money
lender, transportation agent or pro-
fessional man. He may be a town
builder or a city booster. He pros
pers because the farmers produce
things on which he collects profits.
The western farmers are face to face
with real conditions. They are not
dealing with theories. They have long
ago cast aside the old proverbs about
farming. They know that the long
worn tales about the law of supply
and demand are mere fables. They
are not repeating the warning story
about the rolling stone that catches
no moss to their children. They know
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
BY JACK BRADON
ARTICLE III.

The reason for the collapse OF tina
general strike are quite we'll known,
and so will not occupy any space
here. 1t is the desperate struggle OF
these staunch-hearted miners, who
are facing the consolidated attack or
British capital and it's government,
that must claim our attention ana
immediate aid. Let it be understood
that thus far we, here in America,
have fallen down on the Job of aid
ing the miners most miserably
Very little, next to nothing, has been
done by us to aid the miners in their
fight which in fact is our fight.
Surely it is not difficult to understand
that if the British miners are defeat
ed, the entire British working clasp
will be defeated, which in turn will
mean reduced wages apd longer
hours for them. And it will not bS
long before the forces Of competition,
influenced by cheapened British labor,
will force down our wages here in
America. To help the miners is in.
ueed 10 neIp ourselves.
At this writing a report comes that
a sum Of $3.50, 900 has been received
by the miners since the beginning Of
the strike, and that $4,000 900 of this
amount was contributed by the Rus.
sian workers. The American Fedora
ton Of Labor is listed as having con-
tributed thus far only $46,5s5.
The magnitude of the miners strus
gle, the disastrous potentialities 10
the working class, in the event of a
miners defeat, demands that we az
least do as well as the Russian work.
ers, who as yet are much poorer
than we are.
Since the beginning Of the strike,
only about sS.75 was received by the
average miner and his family for re-
lief. 1t does not take much specula-
ton to know that this sum stretched
over a period of seven months did not
go very far. Terrible privation of the
miners, their women and children has
characterized this strike from the
very beginning. For many months
before this strike, the miners worked
on a short time basis. Their earn
ings were insufficient to provide even
the most pressing necessities of life.
The saving Of funds for strike event
ually was out of the question. The
union fund, not only Of the miners,
but the other trades, were drained as
a result of chronic unemployment.
During the general strike the treas
uraries of those unions were COM
p!etely depleted; and so, when the
miners were left on strike alone, they
had no funds in their pockets nor in
their union treasury. The other trade
union treasures in Britain were not in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
The Farmers Section will appear regularly every Mond
mornings Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for IT,
Political Program

: Relief from the evils Of the
mortgage and tenantry evil thru tne
adoption Of a land tenure system
which will secure the land TO the
users.
2. The naturalization OF the ran.
roads, the meat packing plants, gran ran
elevator combines and the eontroI anu
MANAGEMENT of these marketing OF
CARNATIONS by the organizations 90 "a
working farmers in co-operauon, WIZ,
the organizations Of city industrial
workers who are employed In these
Industries.
8. The control and operation OF the
farm credit system by theworganiza-
tionseof working farmers, in place OF
thru capitalist banking institutloih,2.
which now use this, the farm creolI
system, for their enrichment.
q. Relief for the farmers from the
excessive burden of taxation thru
levying higher income taxes, ana IN
heritance taxes on the swollen for
tunes of great capitalist exploiters
and higher taxes on the proflts OF the
railroads and great Industrial COM
bines.
5. Against the expenditures for a
big army and navy, which serve no
other purpose than to support the I'M
perialist adventures OF the great
6. Fight against Wall Street Dol.
lar Diplomacy" and expenditure OF
the wealth produced by the farmers
and industrial wOkers to support the
capitalist exploiters in their effort 10
make profits out of the people OF
Cuba, the South American countries,
China and the Philippines. Freedom
for the Philippines. Self-determina-
ton for Porto Rico, Hawaii. With
drawal of all American soldiers and
marines from the Central and South
American countries. No Intervention
in China.
7. Against the Dawes plan, thru
which the American banking houses
are securing control Of European in
dustries and paving the way for a new
war.
8. Close corporation with the
farmers of other countries and partic-
ularly the farmers of Russia, who are
so important a factor in the world
market. The recognition and estab-
lishment of economic relations with
the first workers and farmers gov
ernment-the Union of Socialist Sow
let Republics.
9. The alliance Of the working
farmers and city industrial workers to
establish a workers and farmers gov
eminent of the United States. Only
a united struggle of all working farm
ers, together with the city industrial
workers, in support of this program
will win relief for the farmers from
the conditions under which they now
suffer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09

CIXTEEN million people toured the
~ United States in private cars during
the summer of 1926. They used more
than three million automobiles. They
were classed as tourists, home seek
ers or investors. The machines just
went rolling along carrying passengers
from somewhere to nowhere. Some
returned to their homes. Others
found temporary employment. Many
are roaming in strange lands. Where
the money came from to finance the
summer vacation for approximately
one-seventh of the people of this ma
ton is an open question. Some fami-
lies used the savings of years to pay
expenses. Others borrowed funds
from interest collecting moneychang-
ers. Many just fitted up for the occa-
sion, with the least cash possible, and
lived of the country. They saw the
farmers of the west and were disap-
pointed. Other caravans of mixed We
hicles lined the highways Of the north
west. 1t was the procession Of the
homeless farmers on the way to re-
puted cities of refuge.
Farming Fails.
The farms ceased to pay interest on
investments, taxation for cost of gov
eminent and the demands of local
merchants and transportation agen-
cies. The families were loaded into
ancient wagons, dilapidated trucks or
carts and taken on a pilgrimage for
LIES necessities. The highway trav-
elers found that the stories about the
western farmers rolling in wealth were
mythical. They had their eyes opened
to the false propaganda carried on by
capitalistic politicians. They saw the
marks of poverty. They counted the
abandoned farms. They read the
faces of dying women, observed the
tottering steps of starving children.
They asked questions and learned why
those conditions prevail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
Farm Price Level Has
Another Sinking Spell

WASH1NGToN-(FP) - American
farmers are falling lower in the eco
uomic scale month by month, accord
ing to the latest figures issued by the
Department Of Agriculture. The gen.
eral level Of farm prices dropped from
134 per cent Of pre-war level on
Sept. Is to only 1870 per cent on Oct.
Is. The level this October was 10
points lower than on Oct. Is a year
ago.
Cotton is now at about the same
relative position when compared with
pre-war prices as corn, oats and bar
ley during the past year and apples
this falr", says the report. Farm
products this year buy only SO per
cent lin September) as much as in
the years 19O9-14, averaged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
Russian Grain Much
Improved Since Gar
Regime Is Overthrow

MOSCOW, Nov. Representatives
of German firm in Odessa, who are
controlling grain exported from the
U. s. S. R., declared that the quality
of the grain has been greatly improV-
ed during the last few years in COM
parison with what it was before the
war, because the peasants now obtain
better sorts of seeds.
Lately there was not a single case
Of grain being rejected on account of
bad quality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
Many Tractors for
Russia Bought Here

MOSCOW, Nov. 7. - The Gostrog
Estate Trade Administration has fin
ished its task of purchasing agri-
cultural machines abroad for the U. s.
S. R. in 1925-26 operative year. More
than half Of the machines were bought
in America. Tractors have been Dur.
chased for the sum of over eight mil
lion rubles. The conditions of credit
abroad were quite acceptable and sat
isfactory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09

/ that the farms do not pay for the rea-
son that the non-producers take too
much toll. Farmers are rolling away
from the clutches Of the enemy. They
cannot stand against the Increasing
tide of sight-drafts on their incomes
United States in private cars during
They are tired of working IL to 10
hours day, seven days a week, for
those who toll not neither do they
spin, but depend on the farmers for
the necessities and Injuries Of life.
The present movement of farmers
from the land to the cities is merely
beginning.
Future Dark.
What Of the future Of agriculture in
the United States? It is full Of shad-
ows. There are dark spots on the sun
Of prosperity and visible wrinkles on
the face of the moon of progress. The
farmers cannot exist on the proceeds
of the land with everyone attaching a
profit to that which he does not pro
duce. And so will it remain until we
produce for use instead Of profit. DR..
Sherwood Eddy, international secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, who spoke before the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor convention
in Detroit on October s, said: Russia
is the only country on earth where
man no more exploits man. / have
travelled thru England, France, Ger
many, Italy and Russia with a fact
finding commission consisting Of edi-
tors, social workers, lawyers, doctors
and business men, and ask, why don't
you go to Russia and find out for your
selves? "-Great Falls Labor Topics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-09
Bersdoll Case Again.

WASHINGTON, Nov. THE Dis
trict OF Columbia supreme court for
the sixth time today continued until
the January term of court the suit of
Grover C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, for
recovery of S1,OOO,OOO worth of prop
erty from the alien property custodian.