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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
Swimming Pool Baptisms

The Billings municipal swimming
pool provides four life savers for
bathers and now has added a soul
saver in the person of E. G. Hicks, a
preacher from BrOadview. Recently
he stood in the shallow portion Of the
pool between 2 and 3 o'clock and
baptized Is converts.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
SPUDS
AREARISTOCRATIC
OVERSIZE POTATOES GIVEN A
SPECIAL NAME IN
NEW YORK

Glenn S. Freeman, Instructor at Cor
ell University, Writes to Kalispeu
Telling of His Experiment with
Seed; To Boost Montana Product
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

tories of the Bitter Root will use al
most 3O,OOO,OOO pounds of milk this
year and it will require about 5000
COWS working the year around to sup
ply this amount.
Most of the products manufactured
in the Bitter Root T sold on the
Pacific coast markets and Ire impOr-
tant factors in making Montana a
leading contributor at Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Seed; To Boost Montana Product
The F1athead AFistOCratiC pOta-
to, which is not a variety, but the
name given oversize spuds, has &C
quired fama in New York, accord
ing to Glenn S. Freeman, instruc-
tor in the agricultural department
of Cornell university. His expert
ments with the "AristOcrat'' indi-
Gated a possible yield of OVer 600
bushels to the acr
Recently writing to w. G. Phipps,
Mr.. Freeman, who formerly lived
here and was a Flathead booster,
tells of his experiment.
He received the Flathead Artistic
crat potato, he says, through, the
chamber of commerce early in April.
It weighed one pound and 10 ounces.
During the Farmers week at the
New York state college of agriculture
he had some on exhibit and on April
20 took the same potatoes to the
plant and soil greenhouse.
"I cut the potato into two pieces
writes Mr.. Freeman, "and planted
half in One box and the other half
in another. 1 studied the soil to
match FIathead. Large vines grew,
and on July z dug same to find them
ripe.
"FrOm the one potato the two hills
dug So bushels; as we figure, a yield
of 636 bushels per acre. I will get
order in early for the AristOcrats
and will show them they can be rails
ed on proper land in New York
state"
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20
IIehtnine PIava Hanoc

lightning recently struck the resi-
dence Of d. BrOudy In Butte. Al
though it tore a large hole in the
roof, shattered every window in the
building and gave its occupants the
scare Of their lives, It furnished Mr..
BrOudy enough kindling wood 60 last
Cor months when 50 sphnterod one ol
the elk trees standing &c the side Of
the house.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-08-20

Plans Tor the bic days q 'A9
celebration to be held at Harlowton
the last Of August have been c0mules-
ed. More than 100 business men have
pledged themselves to let their WhiE-
.kerB grow until after the celebration,
% make the occasion more realistic.
Even now many Hlrlowton residents
could te mistaken Cor real fortv-nin-
.-..
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
C. A. C. ELECTS
North End Club Has Successful Year.-Membership Stead
 fly Increases

The annual meeting of the Canadian Athletic Club was held Sunday iH the club rooms on Providence street. Re ports of officers showed that the clab has had a successful year and is in good financial condition The club has also had an enjoyable year in sports and entertainments. and the member ship has steadily increased. The cleo tion of officers resulted as follows.
 Honorary president, Armand Brous- seau; president. Lueien Giard; vice president, Wiifred Dupre; treasurer James J. Charron; financial secretary Aldor Guertin; recording secretary Marcel Paulhaus; auditor, A. A. Bro. deur; hall committee, Joseph II Breault. David Magnan, Ernest Bar. dier; purchasing committee, Alphonss Marion, Emilien Breault, 0mer Du. rand.
 It was voted at this meeting that the club will run fair under the aus. pices of the c. A. C. in the last week of January, 1927.
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
ABINGTON

Winfrcd Hawks is now working for Harold Cunningham.
 William Gallup is staying with his father. NJ F. Gallup of Hampton.
 Mildred Stone was at her mothers Mrs. Bessie Stones. over the week. end
 Relatives from Thompson called on A. H. Amidon and family Sunday af. ternoon.
 Harold Stone and family of Hamp. ton called on his mother. Bessie M Stone. Sunday.
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thorpe and son and friend, MT Robert son of Wor eester. called at C. E. Hatstat's Sun day.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. II. Amidon ana two daughters, Ruth and Charlotte called on his brother, R. s. Amidon oi Scotland, Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Jennings and daughter Sybil of Quinebaue called on Mrs. Jennings mother, Mrs George Hicks. Sunday.
 Miss Ella Arnold of Pomfret Land ing is boarding with her aunt, Mrs
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
PUTNAM GIRL PICTURED
Miss Rhoda cilpatrie In College Gles
 Club and Choir

In the phot0gravure section of the Hartford Sunday "Courant' appeared d picture oi the six Connecticut girls who are members O. dt. Holsose Col iege Choir of ninety voices. The go.eraoI daughter, Miss Florence Trumbull. was one of the seXtette and Miss Rhoda Gilpatric Of Putnam was another. Middletown was the home of one, Hartford of two and Sufield one of the remaining four.
 The Carol Choir is giving concerts this Christmas season in Holyoke. Hartford. New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. This choir of ninety, which will give an unusual repertoire of old European carols. under the di- reetion of Professor Hammond, choir master and head of the department of music at Nit Holyoke, represents the finest voices in the college and was highly praised by music critics and audiences after the successful tour of last year. Miss Gilpatric is also a member of the Mt. Holyoke College Glee Club and of the Sophomore Choir.
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
CHARLES DANSEREAU
 GETS , YEARS MORE
killingiy Man Who Escaped From States Prison Is Al
 ways Stubborn
Found Guilty by Jury h Twenty 70
 Minutes

Maintaining his usual attitude that he is not guilty until proven guilty, Charles Dansereau of Kllingly was found guilty of prison breach by a jury in the superior court at Hart ford. Tuesday, and sentenced to serve from one to five years more after his present long term has expired.
 Dansereau is we'll known in Putnam as a trader and as defendant in criminal court actions. He is serving a long term sentence for acting as fence in the receipt of stolen automo- piles. The state police uncovered facts which plainly sho=cd that Dansereau was teaching young men to steal au- tomobiles and giving them about $5 for each car brought to him. Dansereau escaped from the states prison while working on the prison farm He was caught within twenty four hours and last week was brought before the superior court where he maintained that obstinate attitude for which he is known in official circles. When asked to plead Dansereau said :: T plead guilty to a breach of trust, and that's all
 His counsel, an attorney from Springfield. was apparently taken by surprise The lawer was asked f he had instructed his client to make the plea he did The lawyer replied T thought ] represented DaHsereaG, but l find l don't"
 Breach oi Trust
 The public defender was then as. signed 70 Dansereau In eouversa- ton with the prisoner Danscreau was heard to refuse to plead guilty to es- cape from prison maintaing that he only committed breach of trust. when he left the prison farm where ae was at work l. was then that fhe case was set down for trial, Tues day
 Al the trial Dansereau's defense vas. that while out picking squashes j9 the prison garden he slipped down 10 the river with companion to have i 4 swim Finishing the swim they sat down on log to have smoke. While i they sat there searchers from the pri- son began firing into the woods. This frightened them and they kept to cover At night they started away but the following morning. Sunday August x. were captured about three miles from the prison
 The state showed that the two men. when they slipped away, were seen. and an alarm given. If was
 hoWn that they hid behind q build ing and got away only to be captured twenty four hours later. The jury Wa= out but twenty two minutes when they returned with a verdict of guilty
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17

J. E. Stoddard. So it viii k.
 venient Tor her to attend siss a'i'
 Al the business naa,,.-
 members of the Congregatie,-ss { held at the home 0f Bert l'i-. Ws..'s sss Thursday yeening, Decemis',' ''.'e''' z "a decided that the Every Ns-,s al yass should be held Sunday ,' -s. ' December 26. @s.sfas
 strougheart, the second ,,... the Lyeeum course. was gigs. ,-''. {, SIC Hall Thursday evening 5 h. 3. Al who attended were ,1ss ~'sa a cd with the entertainmes, va. 2 heart told about some of fs. ssa and habits of the Indians s-'s that the Indians are ne3 ss as people make out they are as they are not pagans. He sl.- - " the terrible conditions tbs t
 have to live under on the rs... .-.1 and how they are treated tbe.. s.' ,. Simpson will be the eatertaIns, .s. s 2 next program, which takes slsa. .. 2. {, day evening, January 8.
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
RICHARD WHALEN TO
 BE OPERATED ON

Richard Whalen. who entered the Massachusetts General Hospital. Bes= ton. last Friday. has been assured by the physicians there that. following an operation to be performed as soon as he has been prepared for it. he will be able Co resume work as yard clerk fer the New Haven railroad
 Mr. Whalen suffered a severe i'll. ness last summer and has been unable to work since. He entered the hos pital for observation and the doctors almost immediately decided that ar operation would relieve his trouble.
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
ATTAWAUGAN

MT and Mrs Joseph Aabia and son spent Sunday iH Manville E l.
 Mir. and Mrs Henry Provost of North GreavenaFdale were Sunday fs 8f6rs here
 Mrs George Brown attended Che f#- neral of a relative Ia Ponegansett. k. , last Wednesday
 Mrs. Joseph Tatraalt was called t8 Worcester on Monday because Of the serious illness Of her mother at St 4lacents Hospital
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17

Declaring that be thought minis fer should not be paid more than the average income of the people of his congregation. the pastor of a New York State Presbyterian church re- fu ed with thanks a salary increase of $500.
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17

A 5,l00-pound seaplane x..
 ly shot from the deck of a bs,,I''. ,' at San Pedro. Californis. bv ,-.' : putt in which a charge of a' equivalent to that used when a. - pound shell was exploded
Putnam patriot., 1926-12-17
SCHOOLS CLOSE WEDNESDAY

Schools of Putnam wiil close next Wednesday af noon for the holiday re- cess. re0pening Monday. January a. for The winter term.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
srRANaL1Na A STRIKE

Undercover men appear obstructiOnsts especially
when an organizing campaign is just beginning or is
Just weakly going ahead. Then the employers NAV find
more advisable to try to choke the movement quietly
than to smash in open struggle Therefore they set their
soopgeons, weorganized and strategcaly situated at
policy Of systematic obstruetionism These worthless OBJ
pose the honest leaders, spread defeatism among the
workers. and block every effort to build vtaEe the
ment In this way many promising movement has been
killed. i. sS
The employers to facilitate the slow strangulation of
the movement do not discharge otherwise victimze
leading workers. fearing thus gavanze the whole body
Of workers into action Under these circumstances the
left wing must manty expose the harmful tactics of
the detectives 1t fight for the characterization of the
leading committees and upon every possible occasion force
these doubtful characters before meetings of the rank
and file to defend their reactionary policies When the
leading union committee is controlled by undercover men,
must be found to crystalline the forces in the
union and to gradually build substitute leading body
PROVOKING PREMATURE STRIKES
Where movement is going ahead effectively and the
choking process can not succeed then the employers may
decide TO kill the union by premature strike Then the
undercover men become proyocaeurs demanding strike
to adjust some discharge other grievance carefully
rugged up by the employers As strike provocateurs the
undercover especially dangerous They pretend
be the defenders of the rank e But the left wing
must learn to keep it's head and allow workers TO
be stampeded into hopeless strikes.
In hourishng organization campaigns such as those
In the packing and steel industries in 9179 the role of the
undercover is reduced pretty to that of the spy
and nformer Then the undercover must pretend to
go along with the in order TO secure strategic
positions and to win influence over the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
Send The DAILY WORKER
for one month to yoW' shop-mGte.

Consequently in the packing and steel industry campaigns
some of the most effective organizers were discovered
to be detectives.
In strikes notably of the unorganized the
men blossom forth primarily drsupters and beraycr
Especially is this the in the later difficult stages
of these struggles They then spread deeatsm among the
workers.
SPREADING DEFEArsM
They head "backtowork" movements, frame up acts
OF violence to Jail the leaders dscredt the strike and
in numerous other ways seek break the ranks the
workers The policy of organized Vndercover in an
organization of the workers may vary from time to time
But is based in the methods likely to break up the
movement in the given circumstances
Left wing leaders to combat the menace
Of the undercover This is not to be done by inag
rating alarmist spyhunts such have some
unions. The best way to approach the problem is by
careful study of the given situation and systematically
isolate those doubtful individuals who are manifesty
carrying out the undercover policy of the employers This
much be done to neutralize these traitors and often
they can be exposed and driven from the unions.
THE FIGHT UNITY
The Of good leadership in strike situations
to conduct successful fight establish and maintain the
unity of the strikers in the face Of nnumerabe splitting
disntegrating tendencies The fighting policy of the
ployers against the workers weexpressed by the time
honored axiom Of all strategsts divide and Conquer"
And their ways to divide and weaken the workers are
many devious, and difficult TO defeat
In the foregoing have indicated of the more
important Of these and how checkmate them The
employers play skilled against unsked native workers
against foregnborn whites against blacks unemployed
against employed adults against youth men against
And IN all these they receive practical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18

assistance from the reaconary policies of the present
union bureaucracy
METHODS DIVISION
The employers seek to demoralze the workers intel
lecuay by injecting the poison of patriotism in their
ranks and by cultvatng religious peudices among them
They starve the strikers and their and children
they terrorze them with the courts the army the police
and various kinds of private thugs To all these methods
they add bribery in the shape of cash payments leaders
and Of illusory concessions the as com
pany unions, welfare systems temporary wage increases
etc.
They plant their provocateurs and detectives in the
ranks of the workers to misead and beray Them They
try to force them back into the mills shops with "Cit
zens Committees and Backto Work" organizations Their
nondescript politicians and gobetweens try poison the
strikers spirit in hundred insidous ways In Their culver
the employers have many deadly of disruption to
shoot into the ranks of the workers.
UNITY THE PRIMARY Task
To defeat the employers manipulated policy of driving
wedges between the different caegories of workers.
starving, terrorzing demorazng and brbing them to
maintain solid, unbreakable unity Of the strikers spite
Of all these attacks is the prime task Of working class
strike strategy 1t is the sine qua for winning strikes
And this can be accomplished by intelligent and loyal ap
pcation of the general line of strategy above outlined
American capitalism is strong but the workers can
thwart it with correct policies proearan determine
ton The pressure of capitalist exploitation forces the
workers TO unite regardless Of all obstacles They tend To
forget their differences and IA clearly the powerful
enemy, who be defeated only by united action Itfs
task to speed up these unyng tendencies help the
workers to rise superior to every difference and weakness
among them. 1t is battle for unity and it will be won
ITO be continuedJ
p -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
Plays for Workers,
Is Aim of New Group

NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Up THE
Biggest Boob in the World, fantastic
labor comedy translated from the Ger
man by Upton Sinclair is the first
production announced by the Workers
Theatre. Karl Wittvogel is author of
the play The play will be given Dec.
in the Church of All Nations, New
York, and repeated there Dec. and
10 before being taken to various labor
halls thruout the city. lo
The aim of the Workers Theatre,
according to Michael Gold-editor
New Masses and organizer Of the
group, is to present to American
audiences the spirit of labor in drama
that will touch closely the life Of the
workers. Gold contends that the Amer
lean and European stage is decadent,
that 1t panders to the taste Of a small
wealthy and effete audience, and there
fore has no great influence in the life
of the nation. He plans to model the
Workers Theatre somewhat after the
newer theatres Of Russia, which, ac-
cording to the noted British critic
Huntley Carter, are now the most
vigorous and alive in the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18

ployers reluctant to break with
unions: Financial and building inter
ests should be brought to the point
that they will confine their awards
to open shop contractors"
REMINISCENT of the A. F. of l..
~ tilt with the Detroit churches are
the instructions under presenting the
open shop to churches: Furnish your
pastors with literature on the open
shop. Meet with your ministerial as
ISOLATION
Finally the conferences defines it's
own function as that Of correlation
agency helping local and state employ
ers' associations in their struggle with
unions. "The American plan-open
shop conference must be known as
voice of industry for the open shop
as the militant, determined, intelli-
gent group that is equipped to fight
for, ably represent, the cause"
THE organization is committed to
4 company unions, IL necessary to
head off real trade unions, and is espe-
cially interested in preventing organi-
cation of workers in the automobile
and motion picture industries. Con-
corning the latter it says: Every In
dustrial association (meaning its at.
fliated bodies) should work to keep
the motion picture industry in the
open shop ranks"
The Dallas convention will undoubt-
eddy take up methods for combating
the announced purpose of four big A.
F. of L. unions to get the closed union
shop in their sections of the movie
industry. The convention will also
discuss new means of meeting the A.
F. Of L. campaign in the auto industry
and in organization of the morgan
lied.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
VOL COMMENDS
COOLIDGE F 0 R.
SOVIET POLICY
A. F. of L. Reactionary
Is In Accord

Pretending to speak for the work.
ers, Matthew Woll, reactionary vice.
president of the American Federation
of Labor, has sent letter to Presi-
dent Coolidge commencing him on his
stand against recognition Of the Soviet
Union, as expressed in his Kansas
City Armistice Day speech.
Chambers Prove It.
That the workers are in accord with
Coolidge's policy is shown by the &C.
tions of the New York and United
States chambers of commerce and the
A. F. OF, L. against Russian recogni-
ton, Vol said to Coolidge.
Gives an Earfull.
Vol devoted 1000 words, or about
seven newspaper columns, to explain
to Calvin the reasons the workers
were opposed to recognizing Russia.
A large part of the letter was de-
voted to attacking Sherwood Eddy,
who addressed the A. r. of L. conven-
ton at Detroit on Russia. He de-
clared that Eddy was "in league with
the Communists" to spread Soviet
propaganda in the United States.
"Folly," Says Mr.. WoII.
Mr.. Vol informed Coolidge that fu-
ture revolutions and internal turmoil
in Russia are certain, and until the
time when the Russian government is
firmly established upon a program of
international justice, America would
be committing the greatest folly to-
offer recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
STRIKE STRATEGY
By WILLIAM z. FOSTER
ARTICLE XVII
UNDER COVER MEN

American employers make extensive use of under
cover men than any capitalists in the world They plant
large numbers of detectives and stool pigeons among the
workers beray and defeat them Those undercoyer
constitute real problem in all important organizing
pagns and strikes Strike strategy include ways
and means to these traitors and defeat their
treacherous activities
In all sections Of the labor the undercover
men are deadly influence but nowhere so much as in
newformed organizations of the unslled In established
unions the employers control the Masses depend largely
upon the corrupt and conservative bureaucracy
new unions and movements Of the unorganized employ
ers have to depend upon the undercover Hence
poyers flood such new unions with their detectives and try
TO capture them entire
In about all the great movements OF the unorganized
in American industries undercover men work their way into
the leading committees Often the leadership is saturated
with spies and detectives In cases. as in the l. w
W. dozen years ago. the rubber strike in Akron under
cover men actually made up majority the leading union
committees. eise.e.
Undercover men obstructionists, provocateurs,
spies, and dsrupters When many Of them working
together In union they may engage in all these activ
ties simultaneously but generally they be found per-
forming particular organized role the character of
which is dependent the state OF the movement The
employers carefully fit their policies In the shops to har
monte with those Of their undercoyer in the unions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-18
Asks for Fair Play
from Police in Box
Makers Union Strike

NEW YORK, Nov. 16.-Fair play to
striking paper box workers and the
removal of policemen from delivery
wagons was requested of the police
department in letter sent yesterday
to Police Commissioner Mclaughlin
by Fred Caiola, manager of the Paper
Box Makers Union.
The police commissioners attention
was called to recent statement by
the manufacturers association to the
effect that through concerted asso-
citation efforts the full cooperation Of
the police department has been Sc
cured" The union maintains that
every manufacturer has been fur
nished with officers who ride on every
delivery wagon and prevent the strik-
ing union drivers from approaching
the strikebreakers with a view to
convincing them that they are doing
an injustice to the strikers"
1--WE beg Of you to maintain a neu-
trail position" concludes Mr.. Caiola,
giving our boys the right and oppor-
tunity to do their lawful picketing.
This can only be achieved by remov-
ing the policemen from the wagons"
Send The DAILY WORKER
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