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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
MINOR, 4 OTHER
WORKERS, HELD
|NCOMMUNICADO
Young Pioneer Ordered
Sent to Indiana

While Robert Minor, editor of The
DAILY WORKER and Workers
(Communist) Party candidate for U.
S. Senator, and four other workers
were held in jail practically incom-
municado for taking part in an anti
imperialist demonstration July 8, an
other participant in the demonstra-
ton was yesterday caught in the
machinery of capitalist "justice"
when Magistrate Samuel D. Levy of
the Children's Court condemned Rose
Plotkin, 13-year-old Young Pioneer,
to be sent back to her home town in
Indiana.
The young militant had been kept
prisoner in the Heckscher Founda-
ton since her arrest. When she ap-
peared for trial yesterday morning,
Jacques Buitenkant, defending at
torney, representing the New York
Section of the International Labor
Defense, asked that the case be
postponed in order that Fanny Plot
kin, the sister and guardian of the
young accused, might have an op-
portunity to testify. Fanny Plotkin
was serving a two-day sentence for
her part in the demonstration. The
magistrate, evidently acting on in
structions fro mhigher up, refused,
declaring that Fanny Plotkin was
unfit" to be the guardian of the
Young Pioneer. Rose Plotkin will
be released from the Heckscher
Foundation today and sent back to
Indiana.
Three Workers Freed.
Three of the workers who were
yesterday given jail-terms by the
viciously anti-labor M a agistrate t e
Maurice Gottlieb, of the First Grim
inal District Court, were released
yesterday at A p. m. upon the COM
pletion of their two-day terms. They
are Phil Frankfeld, Fanny Plotkin
and Anna Bloch.
The other five, Robert Minor, Re
becca Grecht, Harriet Silverman.
Emanuel George and Robert Wolf,
who are being held virtually incom-
municado, will be released Friday
afternoon. The men are in the
Tombs and the women in Jefferson
Market Jail.
When Lydia Gibson, Minors wife,
attempted 20 see her husband yes
terday, prison authorities refused
her entrance. They also refused to
allow books or copies of The DAILY
WORKER to be sent to Minor,
stating that prisoners are permitted
to receive only underwear. When
she asked to have underwear de-
livered to him, she was told that
prisoners can purchase underwear
at the prison store. This is an obvi-
Gus attempt to compel inmates of
the Tombs to boost the profits of
the prison store.
The cases of Max Shachtman, D.
Benjamin, George Powers, Nathan
Kaplan and I. Zimmerman, five other
workers arrested when police at
tackled the anti-imperialist demon
stration, will be heard at the First
District Criminal Court TOMORROW
morning. Kaplan is charged with
felonious assault, while the others
are accused of disorderly conduct.
The District Executive Committee
of the Young Pioneers last night is
sued statement condemning the ac-
tion Of the magistrate in ordering
Rose Plotkin, 13-year-old member of
the Young Pioneers, to be sent back
to Indiana for participation in an
anti-imperialist demonstration July
8.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
RED CONGRESS
REPORT FRIDAY
Speakers Will State
: New Policy

In order that the recently decided
policy of the Red Trade Union In
ternational for its adherents in this
country be clarified, Local New York
of the Trade Union Educational
League has called a mass meeting,
Friday night, where a report will be
given by the leaders of the recently
returned delegation to the World
Congress. The meeting will begin
at o'clock at Manhattan Lyceum,
G6 E. 4th St.
81 Lands Represented
The Congress of the Red Trade
Union International, held in Moscow,
brought together the organizers of
the revolutionary unions of 27 coun-
tries. The congress exposed the
role which the reformist and reac-
tionary labor leaders are playing in
every country in collaboration with
the government and employers to-
wards the defeat of the revolution
cry unions of the organized working
class.
The congress devoted considerable
attention to the American trade
union movement and laid down
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
q Lands Represented

an end to the misery, degradation,
the sweat shop system and the
Company Union" which has brought
it all about"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
TELL FACTS OF OIL

Congressman Hull, former chairman of the De-
mocratic committee rose in his seat the other day
and demanded that President Coolidge and other
republican leaders, ''throw the full power of their
cooperation" behind the efforts to uncover bond
transactions involving the Continental Trading
Company.
This outburst of Congressman Hull was inspired
by a recent remark by Sen. Nye, Nonpartisan re-
publican, of North Dakota, chairman of the Tea
pot Dome committee that it would be interesting
to know whether any of the Continental Trading
Company bonds appropriated to reduce the
Democratic National Committee debt from 5000, 900
to 100000 between 1920 and 1922. Hull denied
that any donations to the democratic committee had
been received from that source. Hull screamed
"The publication brcadcasted throughout the coun-
try this week, unsupported by a scintilla of fact
intimating that portion of the Sinclair Continent
al Trading Company oil bonds was received in
1922, or Whereabouts and applied on the deficit of
the democratic National Committee constitutes as
false and foul libel as was ever perpetrated."
These stage dramatics are very amusing to
those who are informed as to how both of the old
parties are financed. Con. Hull, as ex-chairman
of the democratic national committee is we'll aware
of the contributors to the democratic campaign
funds He knows that the money comes from
Wall Street, from the railroads the public utili-
ties, the great industrial combinations and others
who give this money in exchange for favors The
great interests of this country finance both old
parties, for exactly the same reason that the Con
tinental Trading Company donated, without 9
doubt, to both parties. Any one knows that DO.
itical party constituting minority party as pow.
erful as the democratic party, with as many mer
In the Senate and House of Representatives al
that party has cannot be neglected during the
campaign years If it were it would raise hob b,
ways of exposure when the legislative bodies met
Hull is sore, no doubt, because the republican.
got millions while the democrats got only 2OC
thousands. The disclosure of that fact would b,
what Hull calls "disgraceful scandal" TIL,
crime lies in the partiality.
Now over here in Montana the Anaconda Copper
Mines and other interests in this state contribute
to the campaign fund of both old parties, more t.
one probably than the other, and which the mos
depending on the year and for the same purpose
The Copper company is part of the Standard Oh
Company.
Of course Walsh and Wheeler are in the senat
thank to lavish contributions and support of thi
same company. They would not be in the senate
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
What Other Editors Saw
A PLEA FOR FAIR PLAY
Clipped From Our Exchanges
(Teagarden's Recorderl

The Recorder is of the decided conviction that
an issue be successfully raised in the election
OF the next state legislature upon the unfair and
hurttul disposition of the proceeds of the Scent
gasoline tax
This weekly believes that at 2aeast one-third of
these proceeds should be returned by the state to
the counties In the same proportions as are the
proceeds from the vehicle tax and that the funds
from both sources should be devoted to the devel-
opment and upkeep of production roads-that is
roads Tor getting land products to points of SALE
at seasonal times
In the first place. the autoists of the larger in
corporated cities and towns pay no property tax
Tor the building and maintenance of country roads
but their autos cut up and wear out these same
roads to as great extent as do the autos of the
farmers who are taxed for them. In no other way
than nby taking a part of the gasoline tax thew
pay can these city folks be made to contribute to
the country roads they use so freely and which
are VITALITY NECESSARY to the business well
fare of town and city
This weekly unhesitatingly challenges the wis.
dom OF putting all of the gasoline tax money into
system of park-to-park highways for the evcu
sve benefit of the tourists of this and other states
Against the extravagant claim of $1O,O0OOOO left
In the state last year by outside tourists Teaqar.
den's Recorder puts the $2750000O0 of new wealth
In land products produced by the states apricuul
tural industry For every dollar of tourists money
Ewenty-SeVen dollars of farmers money! And vel
line tax money on the tourists roads to the uttel
neglect OF the roads for getting the vastly create
volume OF new wealth to the market places in the
state. F ~ 'i''
1t isn't estate building" It is state stranoula
tlon-strangulation of merchandising evervwher,
IN the state, as well crusfixion of the farmers
Inc merchants of Montana exist because of th,
flow of land products money into their tills HaC
IneX 10 rely upon tourist money, they would quick
] ~ WIIHER and DE- every one of theml
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
EhEDIIORlAL
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR
JUICE TOO HIGH

The rates that the people of Plentywood are
paying for electric light current are too high, al
together too high.
When the MOntana-Dakota power people bought
out the Plentywood Electric Company, it was given
out that the rates would come down.
The rates adjusted downward on paper
The light rates were lowered by the Public Utilities
Commission of Montana. A meter man came here
and adjusted the meters. Since that time the costs
have gone up until now the people are actually
paying more when they pay their bills than they
did under the old regime.
The rates have been lowered, but the discounts
have been discontinued; paper juice is cheaper
but on the bills which you pay are higher than
they ever have been before
The people asked for bread and they got stone.
The rates here for juice are an outrage
There is only one thing to do, and that is to petit
ton the Public Utility Commission for hearing
in the premises and lowering of rates-at the
same time the Commission should send man here
to inspect and test the meters
The rates in Pentywood-they should be cut by
at least one-third
The way to rectify this condition is to act, and
there is no better time to actt than right now
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
By Leland Odds, Federated Press

Why did the junior Rockefeller
come forward with such sudden moral
fervor to help the senate investigating
committee? Because they had struck
a trail leading right back to the
throne on which he sits prime regent
of the oil dynasty. AS a sanctimoni-
Gus despot in a country not yet en-
tirely hardened to depravity in high
places, he must wash his hands pub
licly. The oil industry, the business
structure, the economic monarchy
must not be smirched.
''The oil Industry" he told the
committee, lis under suspicion be-
cause of the facts that have been
brought to light and more particu-
larly of the facts that have not
been brought to light. The business
structure of the country is under
suspicion. The cynic is saying: SIS
there any such thing as basic in
tegrity in business?"
On this account Rockefeller was
keenly anxious to bring to light the
facts. At least so he asserted, but
his eagerness to assure the commit
tee that he could really do nothing
further to unravel the plot casts
doubt on his sincerity. For Rookie
Teller has the power to bring all the
facts to light. Instead he chooses to
administer public rebuke to one of
his suhordinates who was directly in.
volveJ.
Rockefeller testified that his voice
in Standard Oil of IrdIana represent.
ed about 1870 of the OUTSTANDING
stock. His personal holdings amount
to 4O2,280 shares; the Rockefeller
Foundation, of which he is chairman
holds 463,760 shares; and there is :
Rockefeller trust holding over 500, OOC
shares. This is sufficient to make his
voice weighty one with the manage.
nent
But he testified this was lust one
OF hundreds of companies in which the
Rockefeller interests were investment
stockholders and he said: at would b.
utterly impossible for us to follow
the transactions of any company"
The implication is that while Rookie
Teller wasn't looking, one of his bis
oil trusts combined with another t.
provide the funds to purchase the re
publican administration at Washing
ton.
Rockefellers' tremendous power il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
WHEELER AND WALSH FOR LEASE

- Inc people of Montana have no senator The
nohCaha rover Company has two The effort to
secure 1lfty year lease of the Flathead Indian
reservation by the Montana Power Comnanv has
the support of both senators from Montana. John
Collier, secretary of the American Indian Defense
Assoclatlon, says The bid of the Montana Power
company Is SzzoOOO year too low" When one
considers this extra profit from the transaction is
10 run fifty years, and will amount to more than
eleVen millions besides the normal rate to be exact
ed It IS enough to turn the head of a hungry poll
Ician In the direction of an electric meter.
Wheeler is reported to ia vor the lease because
the INDIANS have been robbed of most of the land
by Congress, and the Indians wanted the lease to
be given SO they could get the one dollar per horse
The logic CD of such a proposition can be readily
seen. Since Congress has robbed the Indians of
their land, why not allow the Montana Power Com
pany to loot the potential wealth of FIathead res
ervation.
Senator Frazier of North Dakota comes to the
rescue of the citizens of Montana and the Flathead
Indians in opposing the lease 1t is the position
OF the North Dakota senator that the pubic should
develop the power site, and no rake OH given to
the Montana Power Company 1t is said that
Walsh is somewhat embarrassed by the perslsten-
lcy of the Power Company. Walsh has led the
hight against the competitors of the STANDARD vi
company and ~alned the reputation Oh Oelng Tor
the people Just at this time to be exposed as
friend of the Montana Power Company causes the
copper collar to pinch Senator Wheeler 1avors
public development of Muscle Shoals, but ne is in
favor of giving the lease on Flathead reservation
to one of the most unprincipled corporations IN
America. Wheeler appears to think tnat ne can
advocate public ownership of an industry located
In another section of the United States ana tnere
by blind the voters Of Montana while he delivers
tn heads of his own citizens to the montana rover
Company. Shylock must have his pouhd Oh i!esn
If the people of Montana and the fiatheaa; INDIANS
bleed when it is extracted This is eeceloh year
and the people of Montana should elect Senator
who would give at least half his time 70 'ne iH0er
est OF those who elect him.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

today if oil had not agreed to it, well the sapi
ent know
Wheeler and Walsh have become famous in the
Teapot Dome case, and the Fall-Sinclair- Doheny
exposure and the part they played in the same.
But they had to be very careful of the channels
through which they have carried their investiga-
tions. Nobody but those marked for destruction
nave been hurt Many more scoundrally than Fall
Sinclair and Doheny have never been touched even
though the case against the Sinclair crowd has
been weakened in order not to uncover them.
There is John d. Ryan of the Anaconda Copper
Mines for instance, who was the dollar year
patriot, who spent a billion dollars logging spruce
and building airplanes, producing or two
Flaming collins, not word has been uncovered
about him. disclosure that in comparison would
make Sinclair look like Sheridan county ant hill
compared with Mount Hood. There is Attor-
ney General Palmer, who stole his millions while
the odoriferous "Ohio Gang" have gotten their
thousands. There is the whole rotten corrupt Will.
son administration with whose doings Sen. Walsh
is familiar, as well as the Harding administration.
What has Wheeler and Walsh said or done about
the crooks, and the crookedness of the Wilson ad-
ministration.
1t makes one sick to read of the rank and brazen
hypocracy of these smerk apostles of righteousness
who are righteous for the profit of Standard Oil
and indignant at the corruption of the republicans
in behalf of the rottenness of the democrats.
How long, oh, how long, will the people follow
the lead of either one of these old parties, the
parties of corruption and privilege, the only diff
ference between which is that is out while the
other is in?
How lorg will farmers and workers continue
either both of these fakirs in office before they
will organize themselves into political party Of
their own-a mass class farmer-abor party anC
take the power in behalf of their own inter
ests?
Let Wheeler and Walsh represent the Copper
company and the Standard Oil interests. They
can do it well any one else-only let no
allow them to those interests while pretend
ing to serve the people-the farmers and workers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24

this And if the Governor had asked Clements W
resign that gentleman would no doubt have uone
so-at least he would have remained in office III
face of very embarrassing circumstances. Inc
Company of course does not wish to lose the ser
vice of Mr.. Clements, consequently the Governor
does not
The interest of the injured working people Is
and never will be of any consequence with either
the Governor or Mr.. Clements
After this hearing, Mr.. Clements, professional
reporter, sent out reports, without doubt, writ
ten by himself, misreprseenting and confusing the
whole proceedings, magning the committee and
the resolutions, charging the members of the COM
mittee with malpractice and self serving, without
reporting line of the resolutions or the evidence
in support of the charges made: it being an eX-
parte report in toto. This story was printed IN
all of the copper press. The Producers News and
the Great Falls Town Topics being the only papers
III the state that printed the resolutions, in full and
the statements made by Messrs. Maury and
Pease.
Long editorials on the matter, written again.
no doubt, by Mr.. Clements appeared in the Hell
ena Independent, which threw several fits about
the resolutions and charges, attacking both Peast
and Maury calling them "Lump Sumers" etc, anc
insinuating that they instead of Clements had vi
olated the law and had charges preferred against
them. The Independent also alleged that there
were only fourteen lawyers present at the meeting
and gives the impression that the meeting was {
rump affair." instead of the regular annual meet
ing
The Independent also thinks that the resolution
have merit because only fourteen members o
the Association present, insinuating that eff
the entire membership had been present, no sucl
resolution would ever have been passed.
! Of course, these the self-serving contention
/ of Mr.. Clements
The fact remains that all of the members coul
have been present-the meeting was the regula
annual meeting, the date of which all member
were well aware, and the resolutions were propos
ed and after consideration passed How? IMAM
mously.
The committee made a case against Mr.. Glen
ents that the dust kicked up by that gentleman
the Governor, the Helena Independent, and til
Copper Interest will not obscure
The question seems to be-Is Burke Clement
above the laws and courts of Montana!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
Pan-American Dis-Union

The complete United States domin-
alton of the Havana conference is
shown by the fact that delegates did
not even mention the Nicaragua muir
ders when they discussed intervention,
but talked generally of outlawing in.
tervention under international law.
Everyone was thinking of Nicara "ua.
Not a delegate mentioned it.
'SThere is a suspicion that underly-
ing the reorganization of the Pam
American Union is a revival of the
suggestion that there may ultimately
develop an arrangement for the form
alton of a Latin American Union
which would not include the United
States" cabled the N. Y. Times cor
respondent. He adds that Mexicans
and Argentine delegates at the con-
ference actively champion the cause
of the weaker Latin American states
against Intervention by the United
States.
That is the heart of the matter
The Pan-American Union is made OF
two unmixable elements.
One member, the United States, is
richer and better armed than all tht
other members of the union combined
Furthermore United States business
interests have $1,500,000,00O invested
in Cuba, 81, 400,000,OOO invested il
Mexico; $4,000, OOO,O 900 in the whole o
Latin America. The other 20 mem
bers of the union are relatively poo
and unarmed. With their resource
and public utilities mortgaged to tn
business interests of the Unitet
States, they always lie under the gun
of United States battleships.
For the moment the Pan-Americal
Union may continue, at least in form
But in the long run, the United State
will line up on one side, with the debt
or countries Of Latin America rang
ing themselves on the other in a
anti United States Pan-American Al
lance. If this can not be done oner
ly, for fear of the United States,
will be organized secretly, like all
other suppressed movement.
: Pan-American relations are III
| stable. Almost any critical event ma
: divide them into two classes: on IL
: north the Yankee peril, as it is d,
= scribed in Latin America; on ii
Y south the territories and peoples tn;
Z are being exploited and absorbed
the American Empire.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-02-24
TIME TO TAX POWER

News comes from Great Falls that number of
citizens and taxpayers of Montana met a few
days ago to formulate plans for initiating laws to
be submitted to the taxpayers of Montana at the
next general election, providing for the proper
taxing of the power companies of this state and
other public utilities, which are notorious tax
dodgers.
The proposed laws would take the rate fixing
power from the Public Utilities Commission and
place that power in the hands of the City Coun-
ellis and Commissions with right of appeal to the
Public Utilities Commission for review.
The proposed measures also provide that the
valuation of the Utility used for rate making pur
poses, shall be the valuation of the property fol
taxation purposes. 1t also provides for the limta
ton of annual earning dividends to stockholders tt
per cent.
This is legislation that should have been on the
statutes of Montana long ago.
A lot of noise has been made about the mine
taxes, but there has been a suspicious silence or
power tax at all times.
And while the taxation of Public Utilities are
being considered it would be we'll to look into tele
phone company and railroad taxation at the same
time.