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The producers news., 1927-11-11
Labor Hit by Layoff
System on Big Roads

Seasonal expansion of railway en-
ployment in July fell far short of
that year ago, according to the
monthly report of the Interstate COM
merce commission. The report shows
that between June and July this
year Glass l carriers added only 1845
workers to their payrolls compared
with an increase of 23,598 from June
to July 1926.
The July report shows 1,823, 1856
railroad workers receiving a total of
$249,314,967 in wages. In July
1926 the railroads employed 1,857,219
workers and paid them $254, ,617, ,654
in wages. Railroad employment IS
down is per cent from a year ago and
the wage total down 81 per cent.
Between June and July this year
the railroads added 1916 to their
maintenance of way forces but laid
Off 3,l25 shopmen and 1,00S train and
engine service men. There were in
significant additions in other depart
ments. Compared with July, 1926.
there were fewer wage earners in ev-
cry department of railorad work ex-
cept maintenance of way where roads
report an increase of 1892. Reduc-
tions from year ago mean loss of
Jobs to 4,217 clerks, 27,255 shopmen,
ll,185 train and engine service men
and 1886 other transportation work
ers.
In spite of the reductions in the
The producers news., 1927-11-11
SENATOR WHEELER WILL NOT
REPRESENT MONTANA
(From The Dawson Countv Reviewl


Our distinguished junior senator has been an
nouncng to Montana audiences while on his recent
"nOn-politica" tour that he no longer desired to
be Montana's messenger boy at Washington.
He explained that he has recently been travell-
ing about the world in order that he might gain
first hand knowledge Of worldwide questions and
that he intended hereafter to devote himself to
those problems of great moment.
Looking after the interests of Montana are al
together too small to interest him. He desires to
gain high and mighty position for himself simi-
lar to his distinguished colleague from Montana,
Senator Walsh, who is fond of being referred to
a great international lawyer and who concerns
himself much more with the foreign policies Of
the nation than with the interests of the state that
elects him to office.
We doubt if the people of Montana care very
much about the weighty questions of foreign poll
cy and the great and massive matters of interna-
tional law that so interesting to our two sena-
tors
Rather are we more interested in the things that
vitally affect US right here at home And we think
when the time comes our citizens will show how
they feel about it.
The producers news., 1927-11-11

from the scent gasoline tax would be used in CO.
operation with 1edera funds to build and maintain
highways linking county seat towns. The highway
commission announced in conformity with tnat
plan, highway route from Scobey to Plentywood,
thence to Culbertson, where if ions the Roosevelt
highway, previously designated federal aid
route. Thus definite pledge has been made to
the people of Sheridan county and we can not con-
ceive of such pledge being broken.
1T is evident that the Producers News is oppos-
ed to the construction of the proposed Wolf Point
bridge if it should not interfere with the con-
struction of the highway projects contemplated in
Sheridan county. Such an attitude is the sort of
community selfishness that The Tribune deplored
in an editorial published Nov. 2.
eve feel that those communities in eastern
Montana which are opposing the Wolf Point bridge
project in the fear it will iniure them are short
sighted. Unless the policy of the bureau of public
roads OF the federal government is changed con-
siderably from what it is now, there is no chance
that any OF them will suffer the loss of inch
of federal aid highway that is now designated as
part OF the states trunk system So if the bridge
project is consummated, it is not going to be at
the expense OF any community Instead, it will
be an entirely new acquisition for that part of the
state-somethlng to be added to what they already
nav i00elNe" VI nave Deen promised 10 receive.
In this, every one of the eastern counties should
rejoice; for Montana will be settled quite rapidly
in the next 10 or Is years, and the Wolf Point
bridge will be an economic asset to every commu-
nifty within hundred miles out.
"Plentywood and Glendive, instead of misrepre-
senting the project and trying to make it appear
that it would be brought about at their expense,
should be far-sighted enough to see that it is
something which will help them in the years to
come"
The producers news., 1927-11-11
Average ..-...--.$11.72

These wages are low not only in
money value but in real value as we'll
According to the international Labor
Office at Geneva the wages of workers
in Berlin have only about a third of
the purchasing power in terms of food
and rent represented by the wages of
similar workers in Philadelphia. If
German workers can take advantage
of the present period af business ac-
tivity to raise the purchasing power
of their wages they will afford a bet
ter market for their own products
and the products of worker the world
over.
Should the strike movement be-
come general the reverberations will
be felt outside of Germany. 1t may
even postpone the British mine crisis.
During the long British coal strike
British producers lost foreign markets
to their German competitors. The sit
uation may now be reversed, reliev-
ing for a time being the depression
which is bringing unemployment and
starvation wages to British miners.
The producers news., 1927-11-11
ECOnOnAiC Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
German Labor Seeking
Share Of Large Profits

The threatened revolt of German in
dustrlal workers against the low stan
dard OF living forced on them by the
Vlctor's peace terms comes at a time
when the strategic situation is more
favorable to labor than any time in
recent years. Reports that 10000
miners are on strike in central Ger
many, that 10000 textile workers are
locked out and that these skirmishes
may prove forerunners of a general
strike come simultaneously with
statements that the number of unem-
ployed has fallen to 472,O00 compared
with l,965,O0O in February 1927. Cen
eral trade is booming, prices are ris-
ing and production is at a high level.
A glance at the level of wages now
being paid in German industry indi-
Gates that there is plenty of fuel to
feed the flame once it has started.
The striking miners In the brown coal
mines or Ignite pits receive only S1.50
for day of to 10 hours. Their de-
mand for 6 and one-half per cent
increase, which would raise their daily
wage to about $1.60, seems modest
enough, but the mine owners contend
that they cannot grant an increase
without raising prices which would
injure the position of German indus
try in world markets.
The average wage of skilled work
ers employed in all German indus
tries June l, according to the federal
statistical office, was 1915 marks per
week, $11.72 at the present rate of ex-
change. For unskilled workers the
average was 1865 marks or S8.75.
Weekly wages of German workers in
the seperate industries were:
German industry
weekly wages Skilled Unskilled
Mining -. -......-........-. .S12.76 S 9O4
The producers news., 1927-11-11
BRIDGE WOULD HELP MANY

Inc lOlO"hg eltOrlal appeared in the
Great Falls Tribune recently anent the
editorial in the Producers News last week
IN reference to the location of the Canada
to Mexico Highway and the building of
the bridge over the Missouri at Wolf
fOlnt, IN which Mr. Warden, manager of
the Tribune and also member of the State
highway Commission explains a recent
editorial appearing in the Tribune:
With characteristic disregard for the truth. the
Plentywood Producers News asserts that The
Tribune is knocking" the north and soutb biob.
way via Plentywood, Bainville, Sidney and Glen
i've in favor of one from Scobev to Wolf Point
Circle and Terry. What the Plentywood paper is
elueaVorng to DO IS to make it appear that should
the propose bridge across the Missouri near Wolf
ONT De oullt as a federal aid project, there is
some chance Of Sheridan county losing its fedora
aid highway now projected from scobev 70 Plen.
tywood to Culbertson
Inc tribune pointed out in an editorial on Oct
g that boosters for the proposed bridge 81 woll
Point stood little chance of being able - oo+ O
ol the federal highway projects, now DESIGNATED !;
this state, changed in order to place the bri5o.e
on such route. Our exact words were. "rTo raono,
the per cent system of highways for tba mn,
pose OF relocating routes is not in harmony wifi
'ne present policy OF the bureau of public roads
ana II permitted in one state would have to be
allowed in other states, which would result in end
less confusion and destroy the broad purposes fo,
which the system was envisioned."
That, so far as The Tribune is concerned ef
fectivey shuts off any possibility of the highway
from Plentywood to Cubertson being abandone,
as federal aid project in favor of the highway
OF which the proposed Wolf Point bridge is :
part When the good roads measure was submit
.eu 70 the voters of the state, it was explained
'iia'' the measure carried the funds to be raised
The producers news., 1927-11-11

Melstone-Heavy oil royalty as
recorded on Ivanhoe dome
The producers news., 1927-11-11
24ito1;qQS
RE&SSZA
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
WHEELER PROMISES INVESTIGA
TION

The other day, after Sen. B. X. Wheeler visited
Plentywood, he upon his return to Great Falls, the
scene of many episodes of our junior Senator,
among others wild ride to a road house in which
his car was wrecked and Burton himself was near
ly killed, putting him into bed at the Park hotel
for fortnight so, while his lady companion
injured for life, and who is chatting about
China" in the churches of the State, delivered him
self of the following interview, which was received
by and elaborated upon by news editor Thurston
of the Great Falls Tribune, who has a grudge
against the progressive disposition of the people of
this section of the state, and afterwards printed
in the columns of the Tribune the leading copper
and railroad organ in the state and ardent support
er of Senator Wheeler:
The producers news., 1927-11-11
WHEELER WOULD PROBE

lnNeSLlgdtlOn Dy the state and FEDERAL
governments into bank rObberies, autOmo-
bile thefts and other criminal activities in
northeastern Montana will be asked by
United States Senator B. K Wheeler,
who arrived in Great Falls Wednesday af-
ter a stay of several days in that part
OF the state.
The situation in northeastern Montana
is serious enough to warrant action by
both the government and state authorities
Senator Wheeler declared and | intend
to do what 1 can to cause a complete in
vestigatiOn to be made. Evidence enough
was volunteered to mo while was there
to disclose that the situation is more
grave than commonly supposed.
There have been three or four bank
rObberies and at least one murder in that
portion of Montana within the last few
weeks and l discovered that among
great mapOrity of the people there is a
genuine feeding of apprehension 1t is a
TACT that business men who declare that
they never carried weapon before now
are habitually arming themselves as they
so about their daily affairs.
There already has been a local Orga-
nized effort made to correct the situation
which the people recognize as existing
and my request for an investigation by
the state and government will he made
at Bic instance of representative of an or
ganizatiOn which has been active in PIen-
tywOOd.' "
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
New Ford Car
To Aid Realty
1928 To Be Big Year For
Autos and Real Estate
Activities

Indications that demand for the
new Ford car viii create unpar-
allied production records next year
in the automobile industry also
forecast unusual real estate activity
in 1923. The automobile is today
playing an increasingly important
part in creating real estate values
as well as exercising much influ-
ence on business prosperity as a
whole. Every year in which auto
mobile production attained new
peak has been a year of unusual
activity in the real estate market.
Thus in the present year, when
automobile production declined to
2,SS4,646 cars compared TO 1861
S51 for the same period in 1928,
the number of real estate trans
fers has also fallen sharply.
Conversely. 1922, 1928 and 1925
were all years in which new records
were set for sales both of auto
mobiles and real estate, and in
new high levels
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
a WIDER STRAND

Improvement In Bathing Beaches.
Bathers next summer will scarce
ly recognize some of their favorite
beaches because of the sand accre-
lions during the intervening months
due to new jetty system the city
is installing. A wider strand will
be at their disposal and the jetty
system also will remove the bumpy
bottom of some of these beaches,
the fills bringing gradual slope
out into deep water. The municipal
ity is expanding $4,000 on this
Improvement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
Route OF New
Super-Highway
Main Artery Connection in
Newark viii Be
Elevated

The New Jersey State Highway
Commission has outlined the
southern route of the new super
highway through Newark, starting
at Belleville and connecting vita
the main artery of traffic to the
Holland vehicular Tunnel and New
York City.
The highway at Market street,
Newark, near the new Pennsylvania
Railroad station, will be elevated.
according to the plan. The route
will utilize the New Jersey Rail-
road avenue. which will be made
into a sixty-foot highway.
The State win pay for forty feA
of the construction costs and New
ark will pay for twenty feet. In
acquiring the valuable right of way
the State and Newark win each
pay half
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
Isn't It Just Wonderful
At This Season." They Exclaim
Winter Has Its Type of Enthusast-Deght of Climate and
Charm of Sun and Water Lakes Bay

Generally conceded to be the
greatest all-the-year-round resort in
the world, Atlantic City enjoys the
patronage of a vast number of
winter visitors who are, perhaps,
even more enthusiastic than all
the other seasonal admirers of this
popular resort. Time was when
Atlantic City was only summer
resort" The Boardwalk was even
taken UP and stored away for the
winter. But not so today. Instead,
winter is open season for thous-
ands of people who can be over
heard to remark as they saunter
along the Boardwalk:
isn't it just wonderful here? ?
We always make it point to come
to Atlantic City just at this time.
We come down here several times
during the year, of course, but
somehow We like it best just at this
time"
This particular type of enthusiast
is with Atlantic City always
spring, summer, fall, winter
nevertheless, as stated previously,
the type seems to be most abund-
ant in the winter season. Another
type of enthusiast very prevalent
lust now is the devotee of horse
back riding. Atlantic City's superb
stretch of beach is always turned
over to this popular diversion dur
ing the winter months, and smart
ly attired men and women may now
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
Albany Blvd.
Location Proves
Successful
Edward n. Willis Who Recent
Iy Moved From Atlantic
Avenue Is Pleased
INCREASE IN
BUSINESS RESULTS
Builds New Structure at $50
North Albany Ave. B0ule-
ward to House Used Car
Department

Edward w Willis. Atlantic City
dealer for the Willys-Knight and
Whippet cars, not long ago moved
from his old location on Atlantic
avenue to spacious quarters at 210
N. Albany avenue, ON the West
Atlantic City boulevard.
The new location proved to be
so satisfactory and promising OF
future growth in business that Mr..
Willis has built new building for
his used car department at $50 ".
Albany Avenue Boulevard.
In making this move, Mr.. Willis
now has both his new car head
quarters, which remains al 30 n.
Albany Avenue. and his used car
headquarters on the famous bouie-
ward.
Mr.. Willis has been associated
with the automobile business for
number Of years. over two years
ago he acquired the agency for the
Willys-Knight and Overland pro-
ducts, opening a place on Atlantic
avenue Since that time he has
seen his business grow SO that he
was forced to move to larger
quarters. Being firm believer
that Albany Avenue Boulevard is
fast becoming the business center
of Absecon Island, he established
his first headquarters at 30 N.
Albany avenue. Convinced Of the
Importance of this avenue be has
now opened his newer and larger
additional quarters.
Mr. Willis is delighted with the
prospects for business. He says
that the market is firm, and tbs
opening of the new year viii be
banner season.
There are a large number OF
other automobile showrooms now
centered about or directly aEsos.
Albany Avenue Boulevard. which
promises to become a business ana
financial center in the near
future.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
Women Extend
Christmas Cheer
Hundreds Included i'm Distri-
button of Food and
Clothing

The women are busily engaged
in preparations for Christmas. Not
only private plans engross them
however. In fact, their Christmas
shopping and their plans for
parties to be held during the Yule-
tide are secondary to the important
business of arranging to take care
of the poor of the resort.
Each women's political club in
the city distributes at Christmas
200 or 800 baskets of food and
clothing, and there are other
organizations such as the Willing
Workers whose whole excuse for
being-if excuses there need be
is to do charity work. Their work
lasts all year around, but at Christ
mas the members are even more
active.
Then there is the Christmas
party, which is given each year by
the Women's Auxiliary of the
Atlantic City Hospital for the
youngsters who have been patients
in the hospital or treated in the
dispensary during the past year.
This party took place Saturday
afternoon when over 500 children
were benefited.
The Hospital Auxiliary is also
planning card party to be held
December %, at the Traymore
Hotel, to replenish the organi-
zation's treasury, out of which the
members recently took $4,000 for
the equipment of the operating
room of the new hospital
Members of the Colony Club are
preparing to look after their wards
in the Children's Seashore House,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
West Atlantic
tyDwellings
Show Features
Atlantic City and Suburbs
Offer Great Variety in
Home Types
LIBERAL TERMS
FOR PURCHASERS
Every Type With Modern
Conveniences Mag Be Pur-
chased on Advantageous
Terms - Well Known for
Honesty of Construction

Real estate brokers who have
residential park dwellings for sale
report an increasing demand for
them. There are several such oper-
ations now on the market. both
within the city limits of Philadel-
phia and Atlantic City, and in the
suburbs. The noise and smoke, as
we'll as the expenses involved in
the city make this type of develop
ment undesirable to the majority
of people.
The type of homes make the de,
velopment what it is, and West
Atlantic City stands out as an in
dividual community of fine but in
expensive houses. The question of
buying such a house is. of course,
matter for the individual pocket
book. 1t may be said, however, as
a general rule, that houses which
possess all modern conveniences
are a more stable investment and
invariably command higher prices
in case of a resale than those which
are not equally we'll equipped. An
investment in a dwelling for one
who needs it is the best of all in
vestments, and an investment in
a home possessing all modern con-
veniences is in the preferred class
of such Investments.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
RUBBISH INclNERAToR
Preliminary Outlay $4,000 To
Improve Smoke Nuisance

Work on the site of new rub
bish incinerator will begin the first
of next year and s150,000 will be
spent as a preliminary outlay. The
consumer will stand at the edge
of the meadows and in a location
where it will be necessary to builc
a new road to it. With the erection
of this plant. Atlantic City hopes to
do away with the nuisance of burn
ing waste whose smoke often
clouds the movements of motorists.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20
NATAToRiUMS POPULAR
They Meet The Demand FOR Sea
Bathing.

Although bathing in the surf Il
not one of the features at this
time of the year, the many big
natatoriums along the beachfron.,
where sea water is pumped from the
ocean. filtered and heated TO mic
summer temperatures takes care
of the demand for this form of
sport. Sun decks make it possible
to acquire the usual summer tan
and enjoy the benefits of the solar
rays with absolute comfort.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20

ton of new houses built in other
cities in answer to the growing
demand in these communities for =
better type of dwelling will con-
vince anyone of this fact. This, OF
course, applies to the house buill
to suit the needs of the ordinary
man, not to the more expensive
type of dwelling which is found in
other large suburban areas of the
country as well as in West Allan
tic City.
Leaders In Certain Type.
There are more houses of the
expensive type, for example, in and
around New York, than there are
in Philadelphia, or the Philadelphia
area. But there is no greater var
iety of moderately priced dwell
ings to be had in the country than
may be found in West Atlantic
City And, too, it has some of the
finest residences in the state. In
all, West Atlantic City is a well
balanced home community, with
homes within the reach of all
1t has often been said, and with
truth, that if all the houses now
offered for sale in the Philadelphia
and Atlantic City area market were
offered in New York or Chicago
they would be sold within a weeR.
Residents of other cities have
never enjoyed the advantages Of
such a choice of dwelling as are
yearly offered in this market. This
is due to the healthy competition
which has evolved during the last
twenty-five years a type of dwelling
at moderate cost which for comfort,
durability and beauty has not been
yet equaled elsewhere.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20

be seen riding along the waters
edge where, but few months ago
Americas fairest bathing queens
held absolute dominion over the
smooth, white, strand.
The same delight of climate and
charm of sun and water carries
interest to suburban residences on
Lakes Bay, West Atlantic City
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-20

But there is an excellent idea
behind this movement never the
less of making Christmas useful
Christmas. This thought should be
given serious consideration by
hundreds of families living in the
city, but who are yearning for their
own rooftree in the suburbs.
In hundreds of homes are mem,
Ders of Christmas clubs, recipients
of substantial bonuses, who could
apply these lump sums to taking
title to suburban homes.
A Family Present.
No family present would be more
appreciated, more sensible, more
worthwhile, more lasting than to
announce this Christmas morning
that you have taken title to your
own home; that when next Chris.,
mas Eve arrives stockings will be
hung before your own fireplacs.
Christmas trees lighted in your
own living room, holly wreaths
and crimson ribbon decorating
windows in your own home.
Homes of style to appeal to
every taste and purse are available
for immediate occupancy. Few per-
sons realize how small an amount
of actual cash is necessary to
acquire title and possession OF
one of these homes.
Little Money Needed.
In many cases the amount of
money saved in Christmas fund
clubs, or the size of this years
bonus are sufficient to take title
for a home in West Atlantic City.
The purchase of a home would
be happy joint Christmas present
to every member of the family 1t
would be an ideal gift, an all-the-
year-around gift; a gift which, in
later years, every member of your
family will be grateful for and
Christmas of 1927 would stand out
in the memory as
THE BEST CHRISTMAS OF ALL.
as are the women belonging to the