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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
BANK ROBBERS AND MINE
DISASTERS
By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Press

1917 coal miners at Mather Pa, paid with their lives
for the failure of the coal operators to take adequate
precautions against mine explosion
Suppose 1877 Texas banks had been robbed! We all
know the answer.
The Texas Bankers Assn. has offered a reward of
$4,000 for a bank robber, alive dead. Vigiantes
armed with rifles patrol the towns and if the informa
ton from Texas may be believed killing "bank rob-
bers" at $4,000 per head has become prosperous bush
ness
Suppose 1877 American mine managers to lose
their lives in Nicaragua. We all know the answer.
One mine manager was reported kidnapped when two
American properties were seized by SANDING. The
press from to coast reported the episode in big
type. U. S. marine columns moved into the territory
from three different directions The force of the u S.
government was called into play AS it turned out the
mine manager had not been kidnapped after ALL
Suppose 1877 missionaries had been killed by unruly
soldiers during the Chinese civil war! We all know
the answer
The papers spread streaming headlines across the
front page when missionary loses his life.
At Marking in 1927 a dozen American citizens were
in danger Socony Hill, in the Standard Oil build
ings U. S. war vessels bombarded the city. The
whole nation stirred to fever heat, yet through
the entire episode only 2 Americans killed
Bankers, mine managers and missionaries all belong
in the ruling class If the members of the u. S. rul-
ing class have learned nothing else they have learned
that can injury to is injury to ALI" Miners be-
long in the working class. They hired help to the
rulers.
Mine disasters are commonplace affairs. In the
United States each year than 1000 miners
killed the job Mining is considered dangerous
trade. We are in the habit of paying 1000 lives each
year for the coal the United States consumes
Miners do not fight back Their union is practcing
class peace Their leaders busy explaining that
the interests Of the mine and the mine worker
are common interests.
If the Pennsylvania miners were as militant and as
aggressive as the Texas bankers they would offer
$4,000 for any mine owner alive dead, who has had
a fatal explosion in his mine.
Would squads of armed miners be permitted to hum
through the towns, picking off mine on sigh
and turning in their at $4,000 per carcass
And if they did? Within fortnight the leaders O
the miners movement would be on their way to tn
penitentiary and the Of miners would be look
ing straight into the eye of blanket injunction tina
would forbid them even to think bad thoughts abou
the bosses.
Things being as they are, the bankers of Texas ar
ready for their next bank robbeT, and the miners
ready fos their next mine disaster.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
Farm Machinery Cuts Jobs

More machinery and less labor will
feature this years harvest which is
just getting under way in the wheat
belt states, according to figures is
sued by the national association OF
farm equipment manufacturers. The
association estimates that the num-
Der of combined harvester-thresher
machines increased more than 500
between 1926 and 1927 and states that
the demand for these machines con-
tinues strong.
Kansas farmers have always led in
the use of combines. In 1927 there
were 1872 such machines in the
state compared with 8,276 the previ-
Gus year, an increas eof about $3.50.
But the greatest increase in the use
of combines appears in Montana
where the farmers were operating
100 in 1927 compared with $50 in
1926, gain of 1000.
The associations estimate Of the
number of combines in the leading
wheat states in 1926 and 1927 is:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

The railroads reported fewer work
ers in every department in March
than they had on their payrolls in the
same month of 1927, according to the
monthly wage statistics of the inter-
state commerce commission. Every
department of railroad work also
showed a reduction compared with
year ago in the average number OF
hours per working day.
March marks the regular annual
expansion of railroad working forces
particularly in the maintenance-of-
way department. This year the CARR.
ers took on 1906 additional men Oh
whom 14,6l0 wer maintenance-of-way
workers. The only other important
increase over February was 1000
train and engine service workers add
ed to the payrolls.
The commission reports l,62o,4O'
workers employed by class ] railroads
in March compared with l,73O'66l IN
March 1927 and 1,816,479 IN Marcr
1923. Railroad workers have been re-
duced l04,254 or 6@s in the last yeal
and l90,072 or more than 1910 IN th'
last five years.
The reductions compared with
year ago include laying off 1863
clerical workers, 27,562 maintenance
Of-way workers, 35,675 shopmen, il,
29S miscellaneous transportation
workers and 1908 train and engin
service men. Altogether the averag
number of hours per day for whic
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
Economic Articles
Rv Leland Odds, Federated Press
Railroads Amputate More
Positions

the ailroads are paying wages mas
been educed 976,402.
During March the railroads pald
1927 ,634,118 in wages compared with
$249, 655, $50 in March 1927 and $780,
447,7 in March 1923. In the course
of five years speedup tactics have re-,
duced the spending power of railroad
workers as a group $17,Sl3,646 or
about 796. This amount which mas
been cut from railroad wages would
have provided a market for nearly
2 million barrels of flour or more than
60 million pounds of meat.
The average railroader earned STAG
in March compared with $144 in
March 1927 and SAL in March 1928
Eliminating high salaried employees
and other whose pay is not reckoneC
on an hourlv basis, the averages were
S139 for March this year, $l38 las
year and S137 for 1928.
The commission shows graphical!
how the railroads have been speeding
up freight carmen. In chart it trac
es month by month from Januar
1924 to December 1927 the hour
worked by these car repair men col
lectively per 1000 freight train car
miles. AS a result of the speedin
up shown in this chart the railroad
/ reduced the average number G
, freight carmen from 91,064 in 1872
: to 80,026 in 1927 in spite of consider
: able increase in traffic. This is typ
I cal throughout the industry, particI
e larly in shop work. More productio
e with fewer workers is the rule in raj
h reading as in manufacture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
A New Nicaragua

A Greek worker shot dead by Greek
police Whom were the police pro-
tecting? American investors in their
determination to exploit Greek work
ers at the lowest possible wage. That
is Imperialism.
Today that shot is heard round the
world in quicker time than the fam
Gus shots fired $50 years ago by the
embattled farmers of Massachusetts.
But the Greek workers are not likely
to succeed in throwing of fthe for
eign yoke. In the end they will be
suppressed by the minions of Anglo
Saxon capitalism.
J AT present it looks as though more
than the Greek police might be re-
quired. The strike may become a
general strike of Greek labor, may
even involve disaffection in the Greek
military forces.
The first news of this Greek strike
did not get much space in the Amer
lean press. Workers in the American
Tobacco Co. factories at Kavalla
Greece, struck for higher wages. On'
employee was killed and several were
injured in a clash between strikers
and the police.
: But the latest dispatch makes from
/ page on the New York Times unde
> the caption, Greek Warships Report
!, ed in Mutiny. The dispatch may b.
exaggerated. But it is pretty clea
e that q majority of the Greek unicn
= have voted solidarity with the Tobacco
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

workers and that a general strike is
Imminent.
Clashes between strikers and police
continue with reports indicating that
30 persons have been killed and 100
injured.
Last year American Tobacco made
a profit of more than $20,000,000. In
the last ten years its profits have to-
tailed more than $190,000,000. A part
of this tribute came from the exploit
tation of the Greek tobacco workers
now on strike.
The Greek police, the Cuban police,
the Porto Rican police, the American
police, the police in other countries
which have been invaded by the dol
lars of American Tobacco exist in
part to enforce the right of this wing
of the American dollar empire to col.
lect its tribute. They exist in par
to support the right of other American
corporations to exploit their fellow
countryment.
That is q feature of imperialism
AS the American business empire eS
tends there will be more such Incl
dents reported. AS the demand 70
tribute increases and the incentive t
produce diminishes in the province
clashes will grow for frequent merg
ing into guerilla warfare on the out
skirts of tn eempire. Eventually tn
revolutionary significance which tn
: capitalist press sees in the presen
strike will become real as the proviI
: cial workers throw off the yoke of
remote and decadent American owr
} ing oligarchy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

1927 also reflects the increasing me-
of agriculture. 1t shows
that sales of farm equipment for use
in the United States totaled $780, |
583,767 in 1927 compared with 1884, |
751, 042 in 1926 and $340,27l, 234 in
1925. The department says:
"Tle large increases in the output
of combines and tractors in 1927 over
previous years are indications of the
trend of agriculture toward the aban-
donment of antiquated farm machin
cry and the adoption of more modern
labor-saving devices. The number of
combines manufactured increased in
1925 from 5131 to 11,760 in 1926 and
18,307 in 1927 and the output of
tractors increased from 1885 in
1925 to 181 1896 in 1926 and 200,504
in 1927
The increased sales of combines
and tractors are wholly accountable
for the increase in the total sales Of
farm equipment in the United States.
Many of the older types of farm e.
quipment the report shows decreased
sales.
The departments figures reveal the
wide range of equipment now avail
able for the farmer. There are IL
varieties of pillow ranging from the 1.
horse walking pillow up to the 5-disC
and larger tractor pillow. There are
J planters for corn, cotton, gain anC
J potatoes. Thee ar ecultivators anC
weeders ranging from the hand cult
} yator to the tractor cultivator. Har
vesting machinery includes, in add
ton to the combine, grain binders an'
headers, corn binders and potato dig
: gers. There are 8 types of machin
5 to prepare crops for market.
t Altogether there are about 80 sub
: divisions under which the department
: complies the output and sale of. farr
!. equipment. And the trend is slowl
e but surely away from the hand an
: horse-drawn tool toward the powe
n driven machine which displaces labol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
BOOSTERS ARE ADVERTISERS

Advertising has time and again proven its worth
to the merchant purchasing space in the local news
paper. 1t has been proven successful by huge con-
Germs in national advertising. Unknown articles have
been put on the market, advertised in mediums OF
large and small circulation and in short time have
become popular and we'll known to the general public
Despite these we'll known facts few of the business
in Plentywood still persist in the belief that adj
vertising does not pay in their particular line We
wonder how these merchants would feel if there were
no newspapers in PentywOod. They perhaps would
be the first to say that have got to have news
paper but if newspaper had to subsst on their pat
ronage the publisher would starve to death.
A newspaper fills very conspicuous niche in the
life of a community. One of the purposes of this pa
per is to advertise Pentywood and Sheridan county.
1t is doubtful if any merchant in Plentywood would
deny that any medium which brings people to this city
Is boon to their business matter what line they
may be in Every fair, circus, ball game, celebration,
convention tournament etc. is given free publicity by
the local newspaper a matter of news But who
gets the benefits in dollars and cents when the visitor
to PlentywOod goes about the city shopping tour
and visits the various mercantile houses purchasing
supplies.
This is where the merchant who refuses to advertise
because he thinks it does not pay takes advantage of
the merchant who patronizes his home paper to grab
off any business which may to him through the
efforts of the live business He is willing to take
what the other fellow hands him. provided it costs
him nothing and will calmly fold his hands behind his
back and inform the newspaper man who solcits his
establishment for advertising that it does not pay to
advertise after that newspaper has been largely
instrumental in bringing the people to the city through
advertising the various events In other words the
non-adversing merchant is making share of his v-
ing off the efforts of other business who
giving time and money to keep advertising medium
in the shape of a newspaper in their midst.
OF if you would accuse the non-advertising
of IF he str
keepers progressive efforts, he would indignant
Nevertheless it is fact, and WHILE of course, the live
merchant gets the bulk of the trade because he let's
people know what he has to offer and that he appre-
ciates their business, the dead merchant calmly tells
the world that it does not pay to advertise cannot
afford though right at the time, he is deriving
benefit from the advertising of Others.
live town is based on live business men and Plen
tywood is fortunate in having such class of goget
tiers in their midst, but there still few who
holding back the wheels of progress. To these WI
say "Show your spirit! Advertise!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
BY LAURENCE TODD. Fed. Press.

Gle Shoals power plant, issued bit
terly ironical statement on Pres. Cool
idge's pocket veto of the Muscle
Shoals bill. He said this last blow to
the farmers from Coolidge might we'll
prove "the last straw that will bring
a third party into the field"
Coolidge's method of silently
strankling the bill, Norris pointed out,
was unfair and cowardly, but it was
also characteristic of hardboiled New
England political craft. A veto mess
age would have required statement of
reasons against the BILL A pocket
veto required nothing but timidity and
evasion Of the issue. 1t would please
easy for the republican national COM
mittee to secure abundant funds for
the coming presidential campaign. If
Coolidge had signed the bill, the pow
er trust would have been angry, and
might have refused to oil the political
machinery.
Meanwhile Coolidge's friend Len
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

Washington - fps newspaper
men, radio broadcasting from Wash
ington their views Of the national
platform-mal1ing situaAon, agreed on
the main issueTthe platforms Of the
republicans and democrats are worth
less because they are designed to at
tract as many conflicting elements as
possible. The party. stands Son on farm
relief and prohibition enforcement for
emit emit trickery e of platform phrases;
Ashmun Brown Of the rroy1dence
Journal spoke for the re Ia.D Ca !,
Charles Nicholson Of tne New 5orE
World for the democrats, ana Basil
NJ. Manly, syndicate writer, . for t the
progressives They all predicted that
the 1928 platforms will pc as untrlst'
worthy as those Of past campaign
years.
Sen. Norris, leader Of the Al, lO- yea
fight for public opera'iOn - ' NUS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29
Friday, June %, 1929

publican party will be di,n,.-
nun, but the po uulsgusted and
well as the Hoovers ftSS INV 7 trust, a.
the Sinclairs, the Dob "ae Daughertvs
theSmoots, the HavseSe y,, the FAIL
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apologize to power trus gteG2em6er 70
his man from Illinois fos insult and
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wv; TO seat boss Ware, tb sian 500,
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apologize to Sinclair and THssaaerty; %
10 Nro pass law returning to tF Say, and
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court said they had frau5 4, supreme
famed; to ask for the pard o,entiy o..
lCe;htlary; to destroy the incrir me pen.
evidence which a,ti;CO,ni91lnatng
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upon our government bv tba attack
ifust; and to ask forgiveness pc poV :,
us ITS activities in disclosing franz lS' 4. a
dishonesty in high places , 'aud an
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turned up in Kansas City as ana Nv VI
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should win. 'e Il n00V
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Is bla, which was Oganized bv r vU'ul
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

The association states that the Da-
kotas last year used 445 combines
against practically none in 1926. 1t
is estimated that in 1927 53,823 COM
bines were in use in % states COM
pared with 81 ,939 in IL states in 1926.
The U. S. department of commerce
preliminary report on the manufac-
ture and sale of farm equipment in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

With cool weather prevailing and the ground full Of
moisture the crops growing rapidly and the third
Of July will see Plentywood full Of smiling people
ready to celebrate the great Independence Day if the
weather man stays genial. Plentywood is spreading
itself to entertain the visitors. You are all welcome
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

when | looked out of the window
Johnny, ! was glad to see Won Nav
ing marbles with little Eddie ''''
1--WE wuzn't playing marbles m,
We just had a fight an was belnis'
Eddie 70 pick up his teeth"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

Once upon a time a young man
strolled past a pretty girl without
looking around.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

She: as there any alcohol in Il.
6er?" al c'
He: "Inside whom?"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

Neihart.Old Block P. mine bsi,,
reopened for development. s
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

On the hopeful side this session
showed fear of the growing anti-mili-
tarist and anti-fascist sentiment
among the workers and farmers. 1t
did not seriously consider the legion's
universal draft bill nor any of the
wild measures designed to authorize
quick deportation of radical aliens. 1t
failed to enact the big navy construc-
ton bill. 1t made a circus of Tom
Heflin's attacks on the Catholic
church. 1t did not tremble at the
spectre of Soviet Russia.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

1.-THE rank and file of the great re-
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
BANDIT HOL DS.uP GAR

WILkEs-BARRE. Pa, Aug. /.
a masked bandit. flourishing an
automatic pistol. held up the crew
and passengers OF a Nanticoke
trolley car OF the wilkes Barre
Railway Corporation at lonely
point In Hanover township. The
conductor. David Daniels. and the
naotorman, Harry CooIbaugh. and
five passengers were terrorized and
the thief fled with so, the days
recefnts.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
Man Lying in Bed Shot
By "SWarthy Intruder

NEW YORK, Aug. Louis
Meyerson, 40, was shot and killed
early today as he lay in bed. His
wife. Rebecca, told police he was
killed by one of two intruders who
were young and swarthy.
Two straw hats, left by the muir.
derers IN their flight. furnished the
only clues. Mrs. Meyerson said
her husband had no enemies.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
Summer Students at
g. w II. Ia Celebrate

The close OF the first term In the
summer session of the law school
Columbian College: the graduate
school of letters and sciences. the
school 81 engineerfng. the school of
education and the division or library
science. ~ George washington Uni
versitv. Will Be celebrated with an IN.
formal party for the students Of the
summer schools In Corcoran Hall
and the college ward ION Friday night.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
DRIVER HURT IN CRASH

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. IT, VII
liam Kennedy or 604 Congress Ave.
nue.. is patient in the Grocer Hos.
pitaI and in serious condition from
head and body injuries. sustained
when his car figured in a collision
with the machine of Domtnick Var.
ellie, of Wilmington The accident
happened near kerlin street en-
trance 10 Grocer Park. James Gal
lagher sustained decorations of the
head and Lillian Hatch, Upland,
was cut by flying glass.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
Bremen Flight Chief
It'll After Oneration

BERLIN. Aug. THE Condition
OF Baron Won Huenefeld. leader of
the crew of the transatlantic plane
Bremen, who was operated uDon for
appendicitis yesterday, caused some
anxiety today.
While the operation was success.
full and the baron appeared to be
holding his own some Of his friends
worried for fear his general physical
condition would suffer
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
Named n d Designer 0f
New Freight Terminal

The new depot of the Potomac
Freight Ternlnaf Company IN the
William fl. Goodman, Ok Philadat
pllia.
The terminal development win be
one Of the finest lin the country. pru.
viding for the handing 81 perishable
food products ~ rail, water and
truck TRANSPORTATION.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
Colored Women Dedicate
Frederick Douglas Shrine

The National Association OF
Colored Women this afternoon will
dedicate the recently erected care
takers house at Cedar Hill. Ana
costa, the home of Frederick Doug
lass.
Mrs. Nettie Langston Napier,
chairman of the Douglass Memorial
Home Association, win make an ad.
dress.
The Washington times., 1928-08-01
K st. Office Building
Is Sold for $500. 900

The five-story office building at
1920 X st. n. w. was sold yesterday
70 syndicate headed by Joseph j.
Crowley for the reported sum of
100000.
The property was held by NJ. Fl.
Mangan, who bought it about two
years ago from Louis T. Roulea,
architect and builder.