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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
business and
Professional Women

Professional Women
The Business and Professional
Women have planned a dance to be
given FEBRUARY % in the auditorium
of the Phelps Dodge store 1t has
been customary for all of the dances
given by this organization to be held
in the Gadsden with the exception of
this one. Some new innovations in
the way of lucky spot dances ana
prize numbers will be included In
The program. Mrs. M Browder is
at the head of the committee in
charge.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
Country Club

Information received late on the
Country club program for February
adds the names of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Cole and Capt. and Mrs. G. r. Peck
to the list of hosts and hostesses
for the st. Valentines dance. Mr..
Souers wishes to call the attention
of Country club members to the face
that the Warren park orchestra will
play for this dance3 to be given Feb
ruary 22
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
Eadies' Aid

EaJlies' Aid
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Presbyterian church held party
Thursday, which was the regular
meeting for February. A luncheon
was served by committee composed
of Mrs. r. S. Classy, Mrs. A. E.
Patterson, Mrs. Emma Meischer, Mrs
c. L. Meloy and Mrs. M. e. Irwin.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
Entertained at Luncheon


Mrs. j. L. Hastings, of the League
of Women Voters, assisted by Mrs
James P. Boyle, entertained Wednes-
Gay at the Sociale club in Aqua
Frieta for Miss Josephine Schain
and Mrs. E. J. Mott, who were here
in the interests of the league. Miss
Schain and Mrs. Mott both spoke to
the guests in an informal way al
the luncheon.
Problems of general interest to the
league women were discussed. Those
who attended the luncheon were Mrs.
Gerald Sherman, Mrs. L. r. Redwine,
Mrs J. P. Boyle, Mrs. J. L. Hastings,
Mrs N. v. Allessi, Mrs. E. r. Pirtle,
Mrs. Carl H. Lund, Mrs. S. f. Me-
guire, Mrs. L. L. McDaniels, Miss
A. N. ellison, Miss May Smith, Mrs.
John Cook, Mrs. E. w. Graves and
the guests of honor, Miss Schain and
Mrs. Mott
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
Surprised with Party

Mrs. T. G. Grabfelder entertained
with surprise dinner party for her
husband Wednesday evening, February
2, in honor of his birthday. The
following guests were served: Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs w.
w. Hobin, Mrs w. S. Schlotzhauer and
sons, Albert and Dale, Mrs. John
Lundberg, Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. Grab
fielder. and Virginia and Thomas C.
Grabfelder, Jr. ,o
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06

CHURCH OF CHRIST (COIored)
Come one, come all. Our overseer
and two good singers will be with
us Monday and Tuesday night
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-06
Mrs. Julia H. Mccall Returns


Mrs. Julia Mccall returned last
week from Tucson, where as a char
ter member of the Saturday Morning
Musical club of that city she at
tended the laying of the corner stone
cf the Temple Of Music
Mrs. Mccall was very enthusiastic
in her praise of the work done by
music leaders in Tucson, which has
eliminated in the Temple of Music,
a project which represents 20 years
Of concentrated effort. Mrs. Mccall
was teacher of music from 1905
tc 1909, when the first active work
was done toward the founding Of
the Temple of Music.
The Douglas woman, who has re-
turned to this city after seeing the
ideal of lifetime eliminate in even
greater things than the first spon-
sors anticipated, told of some of the
first concerts ever given in Tucson
for the purpose of building the
Temple of Music.
The producers news., 1927-04-08
STEEL OWNERS GRAB BIGGER
SHARE.
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press

BY LELAND OLDS Federated Press
How the increasing prosperity of the U. S.
Steel corporation in the last years has brought
the workers an ever smaller share of the custom
ers dollar appears from its full annual report for
1926. The report shows that in 1924 the workers
received 1870 of the gross revenue In 1925 the
workers share was $3.50 while in 1926 it fell to
318a.
IN 1926 the corporation paid S467, 4O9,446 for
salaries and wages, an increase of 2396 over 1925
and $50 over 1924. The company's gross bust
ness amounted to $1,5O8,O76,OOO, an increase of
'Z9o over 1925 ard 19.4@6 over 1924. If we de-
Duct IntercOmpany sales and the earnings of trans
portation and other subsidiary companies the ac-
tual sales to U. S. Steel customers totaled s987
1916, gain of $3.50 over 1925 and 17e5 over
1924
II the workers had been given the same share
OF the consumers dollar as in 1924 about $50
OOO'OOO which went to swell the 1926 superpro-
ITS would have been diverted into paw envelopes
Ihls would have increased the 1926 wage bill to
Sol4OOO,OOO or an average of S2O3O per emplove
The wages of U. S. Steel employees in 1926 aver
age $1S44
The difference of S186 would have covered the
winter coal bill with good margin for warm
winter clothing and more wholesome food. In
stead 1t went to George F. Baker with his 58 65O
shares, to Pres Coolidge with his so shares and
TO other comfortably situated members of the in
vestlng class, whose chief contact with the stool
business is through the quarterly dividend check
The number of workers. average wages and
total wages paid by U. S. Steel in the wears 1919
to 1926 were;
The producers news., 1927-04-08
AS THEY SEE US
(From the Cut Bank Pioneer Pre-
Press)

(FrOm the Cut Bank Pioneer Press)
Reading of the unfolding drama in Sheridan
county, is intrigued and thrilled its counter
irritant for the dull vaporings of the SNUG and
stupid newspaper stuff that is sifted out for us
from day to day.
The thickening of the plot as limned by the Pro-
ducers News of Pentywood recalls the best output
of Maupassant, Cork, Tolstoy Doyle. You visual
ize sOmber ghettos in Moscow and the red spre
of the Kremlin, the dark and foggy purlieu of
Whitechapel or a group of conspirators in foul
cellar in Sophia-indeed you think of dark and
broodmg terrOrs of the world around, mafas,
plots blackhand, warnings, weird conspiracies
A county treasurer and his lady assistant are
bound, gagged thrown into cage while an auto
speeds over the tenebrous immensity of the ter
rain, officers helterskelter, amid the whispers
and sneers of the knowing rabble, an attorney gen
eral and bank superintendent are summoned to
the scene. Black intimations and mutterings in
the press libel suit or two No clues Reel
ends.
Reel 2 Surety company threatens suit More
nsinuations and charges. A fired county survey
or bombards the Producers News with damning
accusations against the board-and Just to thick
en- the mulligan an ex-banker is thrown out of the
'OWH library Dy Dand OF heroic ladies, armed
with brooms and flatirons. They stick to the
building and stage hunger strike" that is. they
appeal for food while they hold the works and
get it from the Jean Paul Marat, one Pat Wallace.
editor of the Plentywood Producers News. who
also showers them with candy and flowers.
Reel g. wooden legged lawyer and a crop
grabber are seen going into soft drink parlor
and the members of the Commune gather in the
garret of the Producers News to learn why. A
county commissioner, a real estate man are seen
going over the distant hills at 8 in the morning
Are they going out to play marbles or something
like that asks the News. Rumors fly, the Tories
and the Communists, armed to the teeth. watch
each other across Main Street The tongs are
ready to heave at each other with unabated fury
at any moment
We've grown sated with tales of the "old west"
OF Vlgllantes, road agents, CORY encounters be-
tween sheep and cattle men, with the Staying of
few Indians always, for good measure. Plenty
wood, in Sheridan, affords a setting for new
western thriller that will crowd the old-west
yarns into the want-ad pages.
The producers news., 1927-04-08
Total Wages and Number Of
Employed Less Than a Year Ago
By LELAND OLDS


The U. S. Department of labor re-
port, showing employment in Febru-
airy 1870 better than January and on
ly 2729o worse than February 1926
tends to conceal the critical change
which has come over industry in the
past year. A glance at the individu-
al industries reveals the precarious
condition of factory employment. La
Dor will watch anxiously for the sta
tistics of the next couple of months
to see whether the turn for the worse
materlallzes in increasing unemploy-
ment and deflation of wages.
Employment in February, according
to the department, was go below the
average of 1928. In the last three
years employment in February and
March has marked the high point of
the year, with slow decline toward
the summer. Whether a similar fall
ing off is avoided this year will de-
pend in large measure on the market
for automobiles and building materi-
ais. The February statistics for
these industries do not make for opti-
mism.
Employment in the auto industry
fell 1880 below February 1926 ana
the industry distributed 1870 less
In wages. Sympathetically the auto
tire industry shows a falling off of
$3.50 in employment and $50 in the
wages compared with a year ago.
The industries supplying building
materials are practically without ex-
ception operating at a reduced scale
compared with 1926. Manufacturers
of castiron pipe are employing 7Go
fewer workers and paying 1860 less
IN wages. Reductions in other indus
tries in this group are hardware 9.49o
IN employment and $3.50 in payroll,
heating apparatus $3.50 in employ
ment and 6.696 in payroll, sawmiils
6.7%o and $3.50, millwork 1890 and
1890, cement SO and 40, brick and
tile $3.50 and go, and glass 2.6a6
and 40.
Plants making and repairing rail
road rolling stock are employing 7.6
The producers news., 1927-04-08
WINS SCHOLARSHIP AT
MONTANA UNIVERSITY

Ralph Bjorge of Culbertson, a
member of the Lanark Corn Club in
1926, has been awarded a one wear
scholarship in the University of Mon
tana. The scholarship has been
awarded to Ralph on the basis of pro
ficiency in Corn Club work and the
showing made at the various corn
shows last fall.
One scholarship valid for one wears
attendance in any branch of the Uni
verslty of Montana is given each year
to the outstanding club member in
each division of club work in each
county. Roosevelt County received
put one scholarship last year, this
beng given in the Corn Club work.
A summary of records of club
members In the state who have re-
celved scholarships shows that the
average winner is IA years of age and
mas had three years of club work. Ac-
ccordlng to these figures Ralph is a
typical member as he has had four
years Of club work and is IA.
There were nearly 5000 club mem
bers IN the state last year, more than
800 OF whom completed their pro-
jects.
Donald McGillivary, prosperous
farmer from Redstone, came in Sat
grday to chat with the editor of the
Producers News.
L. W. Paul of Redstone was among
tnose returning the past week from
california, where he spent the past
winter with his family at Hollywood.
The producers news., 1927-04-08

Irom the worker; In the factory the worker must
follow the motion of the machine and adjust him
self to it. In the factory the lfeless mechanism
lives independently of the workers, and they are
attached to it like living complements, subordin-
ate to the uniform motion of the implement and
machines.
The development of machine production under
capitalism also increases terrificallv the use of
womens and childrens labor in capitalist enter
prises. Previously, before machines and the high
level of capitalist engineering one needed particu-
lar ability often obtained only through a long
apprenticeship, or great strength to work in cap
italist enterprises.
The broad development of machine production
and the far-reaching division of labor under cap
italism simplifies labor extraordinarily, making
muscular strength superfluous in many cases, and
for the first time opened up the possibility of ex-
plOitation on tremendous scale of women's and
children's labor.
Instead OF one adult worker who used to feed a
whole family before, the capitalist now works all
the members of the family and often the man is
deprived Of his wages and forced to live upon the
means of the wife and children.
The statistics of women's labor in the biggest
capitalist countries give huge and continually in
creaslng figures, In particular in Russia, the
number OF women workers grew steadily. In 1900
they formed 25@o of the total number employed
IN factories and plants. In 1908 already 31%-
nearly one third-and in 1912, 4596-nearly one
half In some branches of factory production the
women are in the majority e. g. in textile produc-
ton. During the war, the number of women work
ers increased enormously everywhere AS for
child labor, in spite of all the different prohib-
tions and limitations, it is also used extensively
IN all capitalist countries including those most
highly developed (America).
In connection with the supplanting of present
C'hvng") labor power by machines and the
growth OF unemployment, another condition de-
velopes to tremendous proportion and RACES in all
capitalist prosttution-when women
can find no other way to live or are forced to
supplement their earnings by the sale of their
bodies. In the big cities such as Hamburg or
London, prostitution reckons tens of thousands of
victims. Capital makes them into source of
profit and enrichment, arranging big disorderly
houses organized alphabetically.
So the machine and technical progress instead
Of being benefit to the toilers, under the con-
ditiOns of capitalism becomes the scourge of the
working class, implements for their enslavement
by capital, and means of worsening the conditions
of labor.
The explanation of this is that despite the fab
ulously gigantic growth of riches in society, the
portion received by the worked does not increase
and his real wages remain approximately at one
and the same level, and at times during wars or
crises, when unemployment grows) even becomes
less.
And this at the same time that the little group
OF capitalists attain unheard-of riches and gather
IN undivided all the fruits Of technical progress.
(To be continued next week.
The producers news., 1927-04-08
SIX ARTICLES ON FARMING IN
EUROPE

On completing tour of European countries
John B. Chapple, managing editor of the Ashland
(Wisc) Daily Press, has written for Federated
Press member papers a series of six articles on
the agricultural situation in Europe. The coun-
tries covered are England, Denmark, Sweden,
Italy, Poland and Russia. The series will begin
in the Labor Letter of April 6.
"The astonishing servility of the million English
land workers who have patiently accepted $3.50
to $3.50 a week wages and degrading, hopeless
existence is crumbling away" Chapple writes in
the first article, "and the next year or two may
see these slaveminded workers in the whirlpool of
political demands for a decent life"
The producers news., 1927-04-08
INKS, ADS AND WAR
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Pres


Scare headlines scream: Chinese Nationalists
Outrage and Kill Americans; American Warships
discloses only single American killed among
hundreds that refused to leave land torn by
revolution and counter-revolution The American
public is being deliberately poisoned for military
intervention in support of the wealthy corpora
tions that exploit the Chinese people.
1 discussed China with an industrial chemist
He was hospitabe to the idea that Chinese Ma
tionalists were doing for China what Washington S
army did for the American colonies in 1776, fight
ing for a national life free from economic domin-
alton by foreign powers. Next night 1 met him
again. He was ready to jump into khaki. The
propaganda headlines were working
The enormous annual subsidy paid by corpora
tions to this propaganda press is emphasized in
report of the U. S. department of commence on
printing and publishing in 1925. According to the
department the country in 1925 spent 81 1.321, ,61O
733 for newspapers and periodicals, the chief We
hicles for propaganda. And 1925, ,272,673 or 7O36
of his huge bill was paid by advertisers. The
public, interested primarily in getting true pic
ture of the world, paid only $398, 1885, O6O or 3O@6
of the bill.
The dependence of newspapers, taken alone on
the support of the corporate advertisers is even
more striking. The country in 1925 paid S892-
O94,122 for its newspapers of which S661, ,513 242
or about 1870 came from advertising Newspapers
could not continue for week without the subsidy
from advertisers.
-
Reports from Washington indicate that there
are more than 800 American firms with branches
in the war of China. Among them are big
advertisers such as Marshall Field Iiggett & Ny
ers Tobacco, Standard Oil, Dupont, Eastman Kod-
ak, Ford Goodyear Tire, Singer Sewing Machine,
John Wannamaker and the National City Bank of
New York.
The attitude of the press toward the Chinese
natiOnalists is therefore a foregone conclusion.
Labor should consider whether backing labor
press against the subsidized press of the employ
ing class is not of primary Importance.
The producers news., 1927-04-08
ON THE ROAD UP NANKING WAY

with thanks to Rudyard Kipling for the jingle J
BY the mighty Yang Use River, surgin' eastward
to the sea,
There's Chinese soldier watchin' and know he
waits for me,
For the wind the flood is sweepin' and methinks
hear i'm say:
"Come you on you British soldier-come you on
up Marking way
Come you up Marking way,
Where the Canton armies lay,
Can't you hear their canons roarin' can't you
see the airmen play,
On the road up Marking way
Where the splitting Maxims slay,
Where the dawn of freedoms comm, crimson
red up Marking way.
is uniform is yaller with little tabs of green,
An is rifle an is baynet they look most awful
mean,
While the open doors is motto an he means is
sure enough
For ell 'elp us thru it flyin with freemans kick
that's tough.
Guns and baynets made of STEEL
Gawd's strewth they make you feel.
them Tommes squeal
On the road up Marking way.
Meath the screamin' shrapnel's snrav
Where the dawn of Freedoms comm, crimson
red up Marking way.
Well we're cooped up ere in Shanghai with the
warships in the bay
An barbed wire fence around us an no Supi
Yaws to play,
Their little banjoes for we aint in Mandalay,
An them Chinese on the warpath comm down
from Marking way.
"Bloomin' Chinks" we used to say,
eve were safe in Mandalay.)
But they cut away their pigtails and they chas-
ed US all the way,
Down the boomin' Yang Use River
To our gunboats in the bay,
An the dawn of freedoms comm, crimson red
up Marking way.
Ship us somewhere west of Suez-ship me the
very first,
For the Cantonese are comm the plunderbund to
burst
An there amt no ten commandments to stop them
in the fray,
For them Chinks can fight like blazes as they
come from Marking way.
Comm down from Marking way,
We may sleep in Chinese clay,
An ear them Chinese singin' while the rapid
firers ring,
On the road up Marking way
Comm nearer to the bay,
For the dawn of freedor,,s ooY1in' crimson red
up Marking way.
The producers news., 1927-04-08

per cent fewer workers and paying
ESQ less in wages. For agricultur-
al implements the reductions are 1912
per cent and 9.1@o, for electrical ma
chinery and apparatus 4.196 and 1920.
These industries along with the auto
and building supply industries affect
the market for steel. AS a result the
iron and steel industry is employing
900 fewer workers and paying 1870
less In wages than in February 1926.
Among the industries producing
home furnishings and other consumer
goods we not reductions as follows:
Furniture 1870 in employment and
1.4%o in wages, kitchenware 1920
and 1870, pianos and organs $3.50
and 1850, stoves 6.2%o and 1880,
silk goods 1870 and $3.50, mems
clothing 2.3ao and 296, shirts and col
lars $40 and 1870, millinery and
lace goods $40 and 1870 while ci-
gar and cigarette factories employ
7.2%o fewer workers and pay $50
less in wages than a year ago.
All these figures cover industries
in which both the number of employ
es and the payroll have been seri-
ously reduced compared with Febru
ary 1926. There are other industries
showing either slight reductions in
both employment and payroll or re
ductiOn in employment coupled with
Increased distribution of wages. Al
together 40 out of "a industries COW
cred by the report show fewer en-
plOyes than in February 1926.
The average weekly wages paid in
factories of the country in February
amounted to an even S27. This is a
gam of 4.1@o over January and of 19e
over February 1926. The relatively
large gain over January reflects a
gain IN full time work following in
ventOry taking.
The report shows 10 of all fac
tories idle, the remainder operating
an average of 9796 of full-time with
an average of $40 of a full normal
force. Thus in February industry
The producers news., 1927-04-08
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
By LAURENCE TODD Federated Press

Washington = (FP) - william
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor and also presi-
dent Pan-American Federation of
Labor with which the A. F. of L. and
the Mexican Confederation of Labor
are affiliated, is anxiously studying
the latest Mexican drive of the state
department. Any change in control
OF Mexico would involve the re-en-
slavement of the Mexican working
class and the crushing of the labor
movement IN that country.
Relatives of naval officers have
been telling their friends that secret
sailing orders have been issued for
service In the Caribbean, and the navy
department is buzzing with gos-
sip about probable service on the
Mexican coast. If these reports are
true, the Coolidge-Mellon admins
tration is sending a naval expedition
to encourage a revolt against the
Mexican government by the clerical
and reactiOnary forces, who have the
backing of the American oil interests
for which Mellon, Sinclair and Do
heny are spokesman.
If such an expedition were sent, its
first task would probably be to seize
the Tampico oil fields, as was plan
ned during the world war by the gen
eral staff. After seizing the oil
fields, the navy would presumably
take or blockade Vera Cruz, in order
to cut off Mexico city from munitions
from abroad.
Pres. Coolidge, through secretary
The producers news., 1927-04-08

of state Kellogg, has notified Mexico
that he terminated the treaty with
that republic for prevention of snug
Cling Of arms~and other goods across
the border. This permits him, if he
lifts the embargo on arms to Mexi-
co to allow trainloads of war sup
plies to be sent secretly to individu-
ais In Mexico. Under the terms of
the treaty he was bound, if the en-
barge were lifted, to notify the
Mexican government as to what
goods were being shipped and to
whom and when and where.
The white house spokesman, when
asked the real meaning of this ac-
ton, said he had no comment to
make on the termination of ga small
treaty with Mexico covering the sub
ject of smuggling"
Formal protest has been delivered
by Pres. Sacasa of the Liberal gov
ernment of Nicaragua to Kellogg
against the killing of Nicaraguan
noncombatants and the burning of
several blocks of buildings in the
center of Chinandega by two Ameri-
can aviators hired by the Diaz forces
which are backed by Kellogg. The
aviators bombed the town during re-
cent fighting there.
In one of their raids over the town,
foreign minister Espinoza declares
"they set on fire several blocks of
buildings in the central part of the
town, causing heavy losses of nation
al and private property, leaving home
less more than so families and killing
many noncombatants."
The producers news., 1927-04-08
Martin Hippo Passed Ava
Saturday, March 2S,L

Froid.-Funeral service woro !,
last Monday afternoon at > MED
from the Norwegian Lutheran clock
for Martin B. Hippo who passed Syiaufch al
quite suddenly Saturday Marcb9 Se Sway
the Froid hotel where he had - at
his home for the past several made made
DR.. j. S. Geiser conducted the so5! sea!S'
es. Mr.. Hippo had been IN 9~t4lc- ra+l
poor health for some time past t'IeI LsI
not serious enough to cause sU1 Uu'
I ajarI until shortly before his deatS
passed away of paralysis. He wa ailu
friend of everybody and had ms. - Z
friends; he was kind hearted and ,li'lly y
ways glad to contribute an act d, !,
kindness toward his fellow men u. !.
was especially fond of children ors ,'s
when with them always seemed banu oru
py and cOntented.