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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
RAIL PROFIT BOOST IS AID TO WAGE DEMANDS
By LELAND oLDs, Federated Press

With profits steadily mounting efficiency of its
employees how the Baltimore Ohio
to its shipment covering show profits
of this sOaed running percent
1925 And 1925 profits
than percent
Through April the B. o. compared
with $99492 the first gives it the largest
pportonate of the big quarter of
the ended with O. profits percent profits the
Pennsylvania had advanced 1877 only
So percent.
The played by the shOpmen producing these gains for
the stockholders the proportion needed
for maintenance The B. o. from 1863 percent
CT in the first 1925 percent
the most important factor percent
Of in 1925 to 144 percent n
Profits of the railroad industry running than 10
ahead POpagandists
discount this argument for general increases railroad
Railroad profits for the first quae amounted to 1928 65
compared with $6O582 the that the
roads earning about 5 the
terstate commission all initiation up the value
of investments could be be consider
ably higher Returns for April form majority railroads
indicate that combined profits for the 100000
pared with $66199296 year ago.
The steadily mounting profits railways must
bitter disappointment ownership operation
Though it includes several thousand advance
OF civilization for coonzng this fair
cover not only operating 1926 charges
its borrowed capital
the Canadian parliament provide 5OOOoOO0
meet the needs OF the Canadian system operations were
good that S1OOOOOOO In first four months IF 1905
the roads profits $98921 compared S37747S2 the same nd
Of 1925 This is gain Of $9144a5 1876 percent
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
THE CANADIAN WHEAT POOLS

present membership going
prairie provinces pools
cooperative States
viOus gesca capitalist production distribution
lively higher living standard of skilled workers. bawardness of labor
movement etc., very backward only hOurisng cOopa
tive that the Sydney, Scotia there
ing cooperation.
During war; bodies were created to handle the marketing
Canadian One the Wheat company which
purchasing the British allied powers the
other Board OF Grain made members of the Wnn
and prices By machinery
and 1918 crops marketed
wheat Export company
july spring year mperias
nunced that they would not take the 1919 postwar wheat beard
therefore July, CROP
() controlling the internal price flour ) ubordnatng
cnery OF the Winnipeg grain exchange its rulings The of 1920
1921 and 1922 however handled through the ordinary
cooperative OganizatOnsthe UNITED
Grain Growers Tin Manitoba and Abet the Saskatchewan Cooperative
Elevator which operates local and terminal elevators These either
buy outright from their members sell O commission.
The great price slump in 1920 drew from the farmers demand that the
wheat board should continue function To this the
ac compelled turn voluntary
efforts, forming three pools In 1924
of pools On 1921
Cooperative company reported
favor OF voluntary pool while the Council of Agriculture" demanded
board government
ground that ultra power mes
ferred the matter to the provincial authorities The legislatures
and Saskatchewan Immediately passed enabling
the bill of Garmer beard
In 1929 drive farmers signatures voluntary
enegehy representing per acreage of Alberta
The pool started year report
marketing 81 million bushels at $1OS buhl
bushel In
provincial pools manager
at Winnipeg and another Vancouver AS result
wheat of 1924 marketed
by $4,000 farmers representing
The pool based the system pce
farmers and the California fruit
for five years. breaking contract liable c
% cents bush
farmer does not have sell Immediately pressure
creditors that by orderly feeding i
hood Of obtaining higher price than by dvdual marketing
As forward the direction cooperative organization wheat
pool to be welcomed 1t has obvious way
marketing But wheat cooperation finance cap
ast monopoly and subject all sabotage
limitations capitalism
will be of service to the farmers ILLUSION
that this is the solution agraran they recent year
acutely experienced.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
American Coal Miners
Cable Money to British

WashingtOn-Definite official as
surance that the international office
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea has begun sending money to the
British Miners Federation, has been
given to the Federated Press by Thos.
Kennedy, general secretary-treasurer
of the u. M. w. A.
In response to an inquiry Secretary
Kennedy has wired your correspond
ent: international union United Mine
Workers last week cabled substantial
donation direct to British Miners Fed
Grafton. We also sent out circular to
our affiliated local unions and branch
es for donations to be sent to our in
tenational office for transmittal to
the British miners. While strikes,
idleness, etc., have placed limitations
upon our resources, nevertheless we
are doing and will continue to do all
in our power to help our British bro
theirs, who, like the American miners,
are engaged in a great struggle to
protect and further wage condition
standards"
From London comes a statement by
A. J. Cook, secretary of the British
Miners Federation, that the u. M. w.
A. has promised $4,000 on which the
first installment has already been re-
ceived. Cook has also acknowledged
receipt of $4,000 from the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers of America.
Thus two of the powerful labor or
CARNATIONS in the country-one the
largest single body in the American
Federation of Labor and the other the
largest independent labor bcdy-have
opened the campaign to relieve the
starvation and suffering of the fami-
lies of the 100000 British coal mi
ners who went on strike May 3. Their
example will probably have a pro-
nounced effect On other sections of the
American labor movement, including
the building trades, whose financial
condition is now better than at almost
any time in he past.
President Green of the A. F. of L.
who was Kennedy's predecessor as
secretary-treasurer of the U.M.W.A.
has gone west on a speaking trip
that will keep him away from Wash
ingtOn until July. He has never ex-
planned the reasons which led him to
abandon his original project of giving
financial aid to the British miners,
which he discussed on May z. Mem
bers of his staff at Washington head
quarters say they have no knowledge
of the receipt of any appeal from the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02

British Miners Federation for help.
Until he announces that he will ap-
peal to all unions affiliated with the
A. F. of L., to donate to the starving
families of the British strikers, his
staff assumes that his policy is one
of leaving the matter wholly to the
discretion of each union. They do not
expect him to encourage the sending
of money to Britain. On the other
hand, they do not expect him to OPP
pose it.
Under these conditions of neutral
ity from the executive of the A. F. of
L., the story of the suffering of the
British coal miners and their wives
and children will come to the Ameri-
can labor movement largely through
the members of the u. M. w. A. and
the spokesman for the relief commit
tee which has been established in the
city of New York to forward contri-
buttons.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02

was manager for the PinchOt forces in
Allegheny county, and was in a posi-
ton, through past experience and &C
quaintance, to know what Pepper, the
Mellon candidate for senator, and
Fisher, the Mellon candidate for gov
ernOr, were doing,
In brief, McGovern testified:
That the Leslie (Mellon) machine in
Pittsburgh had joined hands with the
Ware machine in Philadelphia to block
his efforts in past years to secure
state laws that would assure a fair
election.
That Pepper had $3.50 paid work
ers, called watchers, at $40 each, on
primary election day in Allegheny
county, and received a total of only
!8O,436 votes. Thus his expenditures
no watchers alone was $4.14 for every
vote he received in that county. The
total of S353,5OO was only a begin
ming, since there are 81 counties in
the state.
That Ware had 14,14O paid watchers
in the county, at $40 each, and this
] figured out 1921 for each Ware vote
in that territory. PinchOt had no paid
watchers.
That the Republican county chair
man, who supported Pepper, was also
prosecuting attorney, and attempts
made by election board officials t.
secure the failing of persons commit
ting election frauds had been wholly
unsuccessful over a period of years.
He did not mention Mellon in his
testimony on the buying of the 9,49C
watchers. He mentioned no names ex-
cept those of the candidates and then
managers, but the Investigators knew
and the Pittsburgh witnesses knew
that Pepper was merely an errand-
boy for Mellon, who raised the slusi
fund and remained the power behind
the scene.
/ Joseph R. Grundy, president of the
PENNSYLVANIA Manufacturers A S n
and familiar figure in the textile
tariff lobby in Washington during
many years past, led the "battle Of
the barrels" in the primary in Penn
sylvania, because he wanted the man
tie of leadership which fell from tn,
dead shoulders of Boies Penrose tt
be firmly fastened upon the form 0.
Andrew w. Mellon.
Money talks in Pennsylvania
Grundy testified he put into the rae,
for nomination for governor a New
York Central attorney, John Fisher
Mellon, nephew of the secretary O.
the treasury, and they agreed on ;
Pepper-Fisher coalition. Grundy pu
Then he signed a note for $9O,OOI
and contributed $4,000 to a citizen
republican campaign committee, which
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
Russian Labor Leaders Pro-
test British Interference

Moscow, June 1.-THE Presiden-
cy Of the Federated Labor Unions
has issued a strong protest against
interference by the British govern
ment in the affairs of the Soviet or
ganized labor. The protest: "The
Conservative British Government
has sent to the Soviet government a
note pertaining o the aid given by
the Russian declarations to the Brit
ish strikers. This encrOachment by
the British government upon the
solidarity of British and Russian
workers is an attempt to limit our
freedom to determine what aid our
unions may offer to any unions in
any form. The Federation of Sow
let Unions expresses the most en-
phatic protest against this interfer-
ence by the British government in
the affairs of the Russian workers
and declares that the organized
workers republic will not permit
any government to dictate our poll
cies." The protest has been trans
mitted through the usual diplomat
ic channels.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
DR.. STORKAN A
WONDERFUL MEDIC
Producers News,
PlentywOod, Mont.
~ Co..

Producers News,
PlentywOod, Mont.
Dear Sir:
l read an article in your last is
sue in regard to "The PlentywOOd
Hospital" and I was surprised there
were any people in Plentywood that
did not appreciate what DR.. StOrkan
was doing to make the hospital a
success.
A hospital should be for the good
of the people concerned, that are sick
and not for the benefit of all the doc
tors.
We have no nurse down here to tell
us what doctor to send for when any
one is sick but / notice in this part
of the Medicine Lake territory where
DR.. Storkan used to practice before
he moved to PlentywOOd, people gen.
orally send to PlentywOOd for him II
any one is real sick.
DIR. Storkan works night and day
to make his doctoring a success and
no one down here believes he stole
any of DR.. Steele's or any one else's
patients.
The fellow that told that, is like
some people before election, they
promise each candidate they will
vote for him and then vote to suit
their own private interests.
Thanking you for this space, am
Respectfully,
MAY C. JACOBSON,
Homestead, Mont
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
Melons Slime Covers
Pennsylvania Primary
One Million and Quarter Spent in Election Orgy to Deter
mine Who Shall Be Republican BOss-NO Principle In
voved.

Andrew w. Mellon, master of the
Coolidge administration, secretary OF
the treasury and one of the richest
and bankers In the
United States, is the man behind Sen.
Pepper, in whose behalf the recent
senatorial primary in Pennsylvania
descended to the depths of corruption
hitherto unknown in American poll
tics.
That is the significant fact in the
disclosures made by the witnesses
now testifying before the senate COM
mittee which is probing frauds in
this years senatorial campaign.
Col. Chas. McGOvern, controller
of the city of Pittsburgh, who for %
years was a part of the Bill Flynn
machine in Allegheny county, was the
first witness to tear the lid off the sit
uation in western Pennsylvania. He
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
RAILROAD MEN ENJOY CUMMINs DEFEAT

Still hopeful of crumb of legislative relief
the Washington the
in Chicago declined to publication that
buried u Senator Cummins the
pyes department eff the A similarly cautious
The railroad that abolished the
labor
1T great pleasure author
transportation law defeated by Bokhar Secretary
Scott of the victory 10000
majority, almost the railroads
careful violate spirit act lest more string
legislation be passed."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
Lenroot Says Haugen Bill
Violates States Rights

Sen. Lenroot, of Wisconsin, locking
for a safe issue on which to face the
farmers and organized workers of his
state in tn ecoming primary campaign
has chosen state rights. He told the
Senate, June IL, that the last vestige
of state rights would be swept away
if the Haugen bill with its equaliza-
ton fee for stabilizing farm crop
prices were made law. He argued
that if citizens could be taxed to Gre
ate fund to control the prices paid
to other citizens for goods, then the
government could fix prices on all
manufactured goods. This, he declar.
ed, was utterly subversive of a COM
petitive society.
Other prospective lame ducks nod
ded alphabetically.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02

Playing no favorites, the American
Civil Liberties Union comes to the
aid of the threatened civil rights of
Italian Fascist in the United States.
Chairman Johnson of the House Com
mittee on immigration and naturali-
cation has received from Forrest Bail
ey, director of the Union, a protest
against the suggestion that Fascist
be deprived of American citizenship
secured by naturalization, if they
have sworn absolute obedience to
Mussolini.
Bailey takes the position that Ital-
ian-Americans have right to Join
any association in the United States
expressing their political views. The
anti-Fascist organization in the
United States has taken the position
that Fascist membership is a repudia-
ton of the oath of allegiance to the
democratic form of government es-
tablished by the American constitu-
ton.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
FRIDAY. JULY , r,,.

US, used d., about S125,OOo ). ~
Sen. JIM fa' R S5li total ctis i55 ea
tfbH d Pa thus f far 5 that IN \
T1;tb Ftespper-Fisher CT co.i stnits 5 :
T %lDH the e, small part Co@fal n s!S
spent by Pinchot. p rao, the sISs :
$1,226,OOO. He er ngaSehed sot.i I.
m!itted fact that 'tf5Ipanasized H. {
issue between the C caa5:, was 10 :.
fected the public. 'a onS III, !.
u tnese amazing sum, mat ts = :
d 6etaliTog contest t. had been 5na
vania. ''-''iune in Pen.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
OUR
WASHINGTON LETTER
By LAURENCE TODD
War Department Failed to
Fire Salute for Puppet

Westinghouse. P.)-War depart
ment officials are chuckling, and State
department chiefs are trying to look
shocked, because the order for firing
a salute of Fl guns in honor of the
landing of the dummy president of
Haiti, Louis BOrnO, got "lOst" on the
way from Washington to New York.
The military are nursing a grudge
toward President Coolidge because he
has not helped them to get a bigger
appropriation, and because he has
sabOtaged their Defense Day mobili-
cations, and in general because they
consider him a tightwad, unworthy to
lead a powerful military nation.
Hence they are delighted when they
can cause him embarrassment.
Borno, whose father was a colored
French colonial, is the puppet of Gen.
John Russell, military commander of
Haiti. He is ineligible by the fact
of his foreign parentage TO hold the
presidency of Haiti. He was not
legally elected to the office. He was
merely set up as president by group
of IA government officials, called coun-
cillors of state, who met secretly at
night and issued a decree declaring
him president. In the background
stood Gen. Russell with his Ameri-
can forces of occupation. This "elec-
ton took place April 10, 1922, and
BornO has continued in office, while
Russell and the marines have run
the country. In April of the present
year Borno's council again declared
him elected for four years. He now
comes to Washington to pay his re-
spects to President Coolidge and Sec
rotary of War Davis, and to enable
editors Of Negro newspapers that
draw Republican campaign funds ev-
cry two years to print his picture.
Failure of the army officers to be
willing to salute Borno was not due
to the fact that he is a puppet, but
to contempt of the use which Cool
idge was attempting to make of his
race. Let Coolidge entertain him al
dinner in the White House, and ar.
range that the Pan-American Unior
banquet him, too, but ask someone
else than the Army to greet him il
New York with a 21-gm welcome.
On the same ship with Borno came
circulars of protest from the Haitian
patriotic societies, denouncing Borne
as a usurper and a fraud. s
Russell and BOrno," said one Of
these letters, care bOasting the prog
ress and prosperity of Haiti under
their despOtic leadership. There i.
not a word of truth in that PROPOSE
ticn. The country is under the heavi
est burden that it has ever expert
enced since it became a nation in 1904
The people of Haiti are getting poor
er every day by the continual in
crease of the taxes and customs du
ties. Haitian laborers are paid from
20 to 80 cents, American money,
day, with a deprecated currency call
ed gourde. How can a man live OF
such a wage? It is why they ar
leaving the country for Cuba an,
Santo Domingo. Already more thai
100000 have left. Russell and Born
are responsible for this sad state o
things"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
I0aBo8

Letters intended for publication IN
TTevva the fore part OF the week They
should not be long and should bear the
name and address OF the writer. Com
munioet1ons written over q nom oe
plume win be published only Il accom-
panied with the name Of the author.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-02
CORRECT.

Prof. of coal is So per ton, how
many tons will you get for $50?
Student:-"Fourw
"That's wrong"
eyes Sir, I know it but they do it
just the same"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-18
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Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-04
MELOLAND NEWS
by Press staff Correspondent

MELOLAND. Mar. 4-Mr. and
Mrs. Burkhart were house guests for
several days recently at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. a. Swerdfcgcr.
Mrs. Burkhart is cousin of Mrs.
". \. Swcrdfcgcr. The Burkhart $
are on the way home to Indianapo
lis, after spending the winter in
California.
Virgil Edwards was painfully in
jured Monday morning when his
tractor kicked back and broke his
wrist joint.
Karl Engcbrctson went to Los
Angeles Sunday on a short business
trip.
Mrs. Ethel O'Ncil left Tuesday
for Redlands, where she will spend
a week cforc returning here to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Dan
Scott, with whom she has been
spending the winter. Mrs. O'Neil
will assist in concert at Redlands
while there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Dabncy.
who have been visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Mcbride, left
for San Diego Thursday morning.
Mr.. Dabncy is Mrs. Mcbride S
brother.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-03-04
EXPECT BIG TURNOUT TOMORROW EVE.
FOR RE-OPENINC OF BOXING SEASON

He also wanted a couple of heayics
and was fortunate in getting Harry
Lee and Charlie Weir.
Last year, the first the club OPP
Grated, convinced. the directors of
the athletic club that the people
of FL Centre and vicinity will sup
port first class boxing shows and
the directors plan to maintain the
same Nigh standard of bouts this
year. In fact many of the lessons
learned in the initial year will be
for the benefit Of the club this
year.
The first bout tomorrow night will
start at $3.50. All seats III the house
are offered at $l.50. and riugside
seats may be reserved as usual at
that price. The seats aside from the
ring will be offered OH the basis of
first come, first served.
Tickets are on sale in the usual
places in Ell Centre, Brawlcy and
Calexico.