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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
ROOM ENOUGH, If

By Glengarry, Federated Press
When WORLD-BROTHERHOOD
Finds place in the heart
We will not put UP BARS
TO keep OUT the workers
Who are seeking a land
That gives PROMISE
Of sef-improvement.
Those who came EARLY
And ROBBED the NATIVES
Fenced not the OPEN shores
Nor closed her harbors
To the shoreward driven;
But, now, because a FEW
Seek to OWN THE EARTH
We agree to keep away
The needy MANY.
WELCOME ALL the toilers
Who can come to America,
But be ourselves ORGANIZED
To meet them with examples
Of what and how much
WE have GAINED
By and through
ORGANIZING.
There is ROOM enough
There are MATERIALS enough
And there are HOURS enough
To put every ABIE-BODIED man
In the ARMY OF PRODUCERS
Who will CREATE all of
The useful abundance
Which will OVERFLOW
Every WORKERS home
And gladden. every
WORKERS heart
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
GOOD BYE HELLO GIRL

The following article taken from the Western NJ
published at Hamilton shows the rapid trend of I
'hmery and mechanical appliances taking the place
me laborer as direct result of which millions are
'ut of work today in the United States:
Out of the debate the unemployment
situation come talk which we recall as an
old friend whom we have not seen for some
time. 1t is the case of the machine, the la
Dor saving DEVICE putting people out of
job.
Everyone knows that as labor saving de-
vices are adopted labor is turned loose The
employer can save money by using the de-
vices and turning away human labor. Of
course it makes for unemployment but it
makes cheaper production and consequently
longer profits for the manufacturer be-
cause he keeps the price up through monop-
Oly through the tariff, and because people
nave been accustomed to the old price under
different conditions of production.
In considering the case we cannot fail to
observe another line of work which will
soon be thing of the past It has to do
with the telephone operator The perfec-
ton and swift adoption of the automatic
dial system in the telephone business will
render unnecessary the "hello girl". She is
slated for economic obsoleteness
eminent authority states there are at pres
ent about 10000 telephone operators, near
ly all of whom, upon the adoption of the
automatic dial will no longer be needed.
The prediction is made that by 1880 there
will not be telephone girl in Washington,
D. c..
- Thus does the relentless machine take
from the human employment. The
" very means of subsistence are snatched
" from the hands of willing workers by the
economic worth of an inanimate mechanical
-. device. The result will doubtless not be
any material reduction in rates to subscrib-
ers, it will likely mean an increased eff
cheney, but the vital thing is that employ
ment is lost and profits increased for the
owners of the industry.
The serious nature of the battle of labor
with machine needs no development in this
column. Thoughtful persons may well un-
dertake it's solution.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
friday, April 20. 49,.

a aso %ss at 5s' tRs same ,,r period -,
sserts, the department. e Warden e q
that there are unwerS S records i a.
tor tor vehicles in MontsTnsa 81 !, l2OOOOS o ny
100 tSO are still unqualified therefore e.
the public highways, 10 operate ~ q
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

Times change and modern poet would probably saw
that taxi by the sidewalks rim yellow tax; uoa -
him, and it was nothing more.
cave with twenty echoes has Just been discovoros
and that would seem to be just the place for Sen H
What with all the mysterious fires in WASHINGTON
these days, it's lucky the oil scandal has gone dr
Il our big navy" is to be only paper fleet mavbe
we can fight the next war in bathtubs. 10y -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

This is the list of presidents
From first inaugural date
In Seventeen-Hundred Eighty-nine
To Nineteen Twenty eight.
Contributed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
Broad Appeal to Be Made for
Billings and Mooney

Ike and FrenOhnan"--T0n
a earliest
California Prison.
oumt4n.ca1.
Mr. JamesP Secret
tiona1
vare Edgar oWnn Street.
Francis
Ny Deer Cannon:
After ny talk with
present convinced
lat appeal
Billings
largely great
liberal
people throughout
Anything In o
small Of Justice after Of
imprisonment Will. am
Billings
organization bring
enjoyed th& viii
Sunday. ferab1y.
III
good Wis
international
remain ever ''''''''' -' ''''''',, ,..,I2s.ez5
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
$2,5S9,S9O,671 $147,S78,SO6
Estimated.

With few exceptions the of these retail COM
binations making than 1000 a year their
original investments.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

Retail Giants Sales Profits
A &P *$70O,OOO,OOO S1S,411,119
Sears Roebuck 292,927 ,267 25,O22,559
Woolworth 272,754,O45 35,35O,473
Montg. Ward 186,683,34O 13,127,431
PIGGY Wig 185,746,958 851, O69
Kroger Groc. 61,261, 1853 4,S77,1O4
J. c. Penney 151,957,865 $685. 500
Kresge 133,765,777 1S,977,O65
Amer. Stores 12O,664,567 7,442,922
May Dept. 1O2,756,1 1877 6,498 927
Natl. Dept. 74,959,296 1,57S,5S1
Safeway 76,484,749 1,917,163
Kress & Co. 5S,O59924 5O89,O36
McCrory Strs. 39336,00O 1928, 9O3
Hartman Corp. 17593,74S 1,O12,694
Spear & Co. 14939,51O 1,149,727
Total $2,589,S9O,671 $147, 378, 9O6
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

Deer Lodge Valley has sbinno3 IN
carloads of potatoes. pP'u !"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20
FARM LAND FOR SALE


Hear are some real Land Bargains
Get Our Terms
800 acres-N1a 1S-S7-54 near Ray
mond.
800 acres-NWAS6, SWA 25-S4-55
near Antelope.
800 acres-Wright Farm In Sec.S.
4-34-54 near Plentywood.
80 acres-E1sSEA 1S-S4-54, price
$500, terms, near Plentywoo 8:
800 acres-SEA 16, NEA z1-SS-55
near Reserve.
Secure our Dependable Wlndstorm
Insurance now. You cant tell now
soon you might be caught unpro-
tected.
F. D. MORCK AGENCY
Established 1911
Fire Windstorm hail AutOmO-
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

The following article taken from the Western News
published at Hamilton shows the rapid trend of ma
chmery and mechanical appliances taking the place of
the laborer direct result of which millions are now
out of work today in the United States:
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-20

P.s. Would like TO see Owen and i
at their earliest convenience
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
WORKERS OPEN
FOOD KITCHEN
Jobless Will Meet at
Union So. Tomorrow

While the Workers Internatinal
Relief, l Union Square, was feeding
600 men and women at the opening Of
its first food kitchen for the unem-
ployed at so St. Marks Place yester-
day, the New. York Council Of the I'm
employed held successful organiza-
tion meeting preparatory to its big
open air mass meeting at Union
Square tomorrow.
The meeting room at the opening of
the kitchen was crowded with over
800 unemployed while many outside
listened thru the windows. The speak
ers were Johrf Di Santo, secretary of
the Council Louis Baum, secretary of
the Photographers Union, Roy Ste
vens and George Saul, of the Council,
Phil Frankfeld, of the youth commit
tee of the Council, Melman, of the
Young Pioneers of America, and Mar
ian Emerson, secretary of the Work
ers' International Relief.
Hundreds To Assemble.
"With thousands of workers unable
to obtain work, with breadlines grow
ing constantly longer, the strutting of
politicians and their shelving of the
entire unemployment problem by
means of fake investigations is moth
ing short of criminal" Di Santo said.
Among the speakers at the Satur-
day meeting, in addition to Di Santo,
will be members of trade unions, ex-
service men, and representatives of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
Slogans such as "Work and Wages"
and GOOD and Shelter" will be
raised there.
Not Charity Mission.
Marian Emerson emphasized the
fact that the kitchen was not a char
ity mission and that the Workers In
ternational Relief was not conducting
Continued ON Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
TECHNICAL men
ARE REBUFFED

Mayor James j. Walker threatened
more than 1000 city employees with
dismissal and ordered them out of
the meeting of the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment at City Hall yes
terday afternoon~when they appeared
to present their case for an immedi-
ate distribution of salary increases.
Budget Director Charles Kohler has
held up the distribution, which was
authorized many weeks ago.
When Daniel j. Hauer, business
agent of Local 81, Union of Technical
Men, undertook to present the en-
ployes' case to the members of the
board, the mayor asked if he were a
city employee. Hauer answered in
the negative. Walker then refused to
allow him to continue, saying he had
no right to speak in the name of the
city employees present. Those pres
ent were in the main engineers and
craftsmen. AS members of the union
they had authorized Hauer to speak
for them.
When the meeting started shortly
after IL o'clock over 1000 men had
crowded into the room. Police barred
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
Original Acts
at Red Revue

A decided relief from the stand
ardized and stereotyped entertain
ment of the commercial theatre is
promised in the form of the "Red
Revue" to be presented at New Star
Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave-, Fri
day evening, March 16.
Directed by Pauline Rogers, who
has just returned from a visit to the
Soviet Union where she observed the
technique of the proletarian theatre
and the travelling "Blue Blouse" COM
panies, the skits at The DAILY
WORKER revel will be fresh and ir-
reverent in their approach.
The members of the Workers Thea
tire, under her supervision, are now
busily rehearsing the eight varied
and original sketches, skits and skit-
lets which will be put on for benefit
of The DAILY WORKER family,
thousands in number, which will
crowd into the New Star Casino.
Songs, dances, gay music, original
acts, revolutionary tableaux, humor-
Gus blackboard sketches, 14-piece
Balalaika orchestra, Russian gypsy
troupe-these are only a few of the
tantalizing attractions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
|. R. 7. men WILL
CONTINUE FIGHT
Unite Ranks for Real
Battle Ahead

A half dozen more traction work
ers discharged yesterday by the In
terborough Rapid Transit Company
brought the total to at least forty
and possibly fifty victims in the
campaign to crush the traction union.
That these vicious tactics will bring
the inevitable reaction of rebellion
and strike action has become certain
despite the combined efforts Of
the union officials and the Tammany
Hall politicians to hold the workers
in check.
Hundreds Of telephone calls, 1t In
known, have been made by members
of the union to the headquarters Of
the Amalgamated, Hotel Continental,
Broadway and 41st ST., with demands
that action be taken. To others seek
ing an explanation for the obvious
betrayal of the workers cause, tho
suggestion was made that they should
be patient"
Officials Resting"
mo matter how many more men
are discharged, nothing will be done
before Saturday" William B. Fitz-
gerald, vice-president of the Amalga-
mated announced yesterday. He did
not say that the reason was that he
is carrying out his part of the deal
Continued on Page Tico)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
TRACE MORE OIL
Cash TO C. 0. P,
Wheat King Admits Aid
to Both Parties

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8.-James A.
Patten, Chicago wheat. magnate, to-
day admitted to the senate oil inves-
tigation committee that he took over
$4,000 worth of Liberty Bonds in
1923 in return for which he gave the
republican national committee q like
sum in cash. OF these bonds, Patten
testified, $4,000 were formerly own
ed by the Continental Trading Co.,
a dummy concern organized by Harry
F. Sinclair, oil magnate, for the pur-
pose of making Sinclair's contribu-
tions to the Harding campaign debt.
Boost Both Parties.
An interesting side-light was cast
on the republican and democratic par
ties when Patten stated that he had
always contributed to the republican
as we'll as to the democratic party"
Patten testified that he paid the
$25,00D directly to Fred w. Upham,
treasurer of the republican campaign
committee at the time.
M. ]. Pessin, New York advertis-
ing man, testified that in 1919 the
late John T. Pratt, 7. Coleman Du-
pont, and William Boyce Thompson
paid 100000 for the American AS
sociation of Foreign Newspaper Lam
guage Papers, and had assumed
100000 of its Indebtedness. This
deal was for political purposes" i"
said Pessin. Pessin was for time
president of the association. Chair
man Nye of the senate investigating
committee stated that the stockhold-
ers of this association included Secre-
tary Mellon, Swift and Co., Armour
& Co., Coleman Dupont, and John T.
Pratt. The Patten transaction oc-
Cured in December 1923, the year in
which Will Hays, former republican
national chairman, admitted that he
had sent Upham $4,000 in bonds re-
ceived from Sinclair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
HOLD CRECHT FOR
MAY GRAND Jury
Miners Give Support
to Labor Organizer

HOUSTON, Pa. March 8.-Charge
of sedition against Rebecca Grecht
for ADDRESSING nnaeting were sus-
tanned by Sauire McNight at hear
ing here this afternoon. but charges
of melting to riot ard disorderly con-
duct were dismissed when Corporal
Harold Pierce and Sergeant Jones of
the state constabulary admitted un-
der cross-examination that the meet
ing was orderly and no attempt to
resist the officers were made by
either speaker or audience. The case
will be heard by the grand jury Of
Washington county in May.
Tho sedition charge, however. was
based upon speeches made in McDon-
aid on January 19 and in Canonsburg
two and half months earlier. and
had no bearing upon the Burgetts-
town mass meeting which was held
under the auspices of the "Save-the
Union Committee" Monday afternoon,
,..h'eN the police broke up after Miss
Crecht spoke for about ten minutes.
When the arrest was made, a
charge of disorderly conduct was pre-
ferred, but later in the squire's Of
flee, Corporal Pierce added the
< (Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
DIST. Y SAVE
union COMMITTEE
SENDS Mine CALL
Demands Fight Against
Wage Cuts

SPRINGFIELD, H.. March 8.-A
call to all mine workers and mine To-
Gals was issued today by the Save
the-Union Committee of District 10,
United Mine Workers of America,
Joseph Angelo, secretary, 431 N.
Wesley ST., in which the miners are
urged to rally to the struggle against
wage cuts, against the attack of the
operators and the treachery Of the
Lewis Fishwick machine. The state
ment follows:
The Illinois coal operators demand
wage cut below the Jacksonville
scale to $500 day for day-work and
tonnage rate of 84c.
We must fight for the Jacksonville
scale-against wage cuts-against
arbitration.
Loading machines and mechanical
devices have already been introduced
into the Illinois mines, throwing more
miners out of work and helping to
break down the wage standard.
We must fight for the full tonnage
rate and differentials with control Of
operation of loading machines. We
must uphold the union conditions!
Lewis and Fishwick and the rest of
the corrupt machine say, "There are
too many miners" We say NO. There
is unemployment everywhere. The
problem is to organize industry Sc
all may find work.
We must fight for the six-hour
day. fiye-day week. and division of
work.
While the Illinois operators de-
mand these wage ~cues, in Pennsyf-
vania and Ohio the operators have al
ready declared the "open shop
scrapped the Jacksonville scale and
ere now trying to completely smash
the union with the help of injunc-
tions, state police, and starvation
Next the turn is to come to us, if
we don't resist
This is the result of the cowardly
Lewis policy of district and local set
Elements. It splits the union and plays
directly into the hands Of the opera.
tors.
The Pennsylvania and Ohio miners
(Continued on Page Ttoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
.3ETRAY WORKERS
TO PUT over AL
S NIT H IN 1928
Agree to Block Strike
on Traction Lines
Rv Holm L. SHERMAN.


The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, especially
Matthew Woll, vice president, and
William Green, president, were
shown here yesterday to have en-
tered into an agreement with the
Tammany Hall administration Of
New York state not to call a strike
of the traction workers. In return
Tammany Hall agreed to hand down
a Favorable" decision on the injunc-
tion application recently made by the
Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany in an effort to restrain union
organization.
A Confirmation.
This disclosure is complete con-
firmation of the view already ex-
pressed in The DAILY WORKER
hat a deal was made. Hitherto,
however, the evidence has been only
circumstantial.
Behind the surrender and betrayal
by the officials of the Amalgamated
Association of the fight to organize
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
CLOAKMAKERS TO
HOLD BIG MEETING
New Group Ascends in
Signan Local 2

The New York Joint Board of the
Cloak and Dressmakers Union yes
terday announced call for a mass
meeting at Cooper Union next Thurs
day evening, March Is at Z o'clock.
The purpose of the meeting, ac-
cording to a statement issced by the
union, will be to present to the cloak
and dressmakers the policy of the left
wing Joint Board toward the coming
convention of the international union
which is to open in Boston on May Z.
Breakdown Revealed.
Additional proof of the disintegra-
ton of the right wing fake joint
board of the cloakmakers comes to
light daily. New "grouplets" in the
Sigman machine are forming each
day. The latest information on one
of their turbulent meetings was re-
vealed yesterday.
The Sigman manager of the dual
Local 2. A. Kaplan, an adherent of
the "Trade Union" group double
croussed his comrades" by arranging
an easy victory for one Of the groups
opposing the "Trade Union" group.
The victors in an election for an
election and objection committee,
which is to pass on candidates for
convention delegates is known as the
Friends fer Ever" group.
Kaplan arranged q victory for them
as follows: Instead of permitting the
executive board which is controlled
by the "trade union" group to call
the local meeting, Kaplan himself
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09

The program, which was designated
as Finnish Night, consisted of selec-
tions by the Finnish B. S. S. c. Band,
songs by Aino Saari, folk dances by
the B. Young Cooperatives, athletic
exhibitions by the Kisatoverit Ath-
letic Club and the Vesta Athletic Club
and several numbers by the orchestra
of the New York Young Progressives.
German Night.
Tonight will be Hungarian and Ger
man Night. The organizations that
will participate are the Hungarian
Workers Singing Society, the Work
ers Gymnastic and Sports Associa-
ton, who will present Living Pic
tures," the Prolet Buehne in a one
act sketch and the G. Ad Uthmann
(Contimted on Pd0e Tl0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
SPEAKERS WILL
WARN OF COMING
WORLD CONFLICT
Trachtenberg Tells Of
Ruthenberg's Life

The Ruthenberg memorial meeting
next Sunday afternoon at the Central
Opera House, Third Ave. and 9th
St., will mark one Of the high points
of the Lenin- Ruthenberg drive for
5000 new members for the Workers
(Communist) Party and 10000 new
readers for The DAILY WORKER.
The most successful period in the his
tory of the Workers Party will be
signalized by a tribute to the memory
of the dead leader of the American
Iworkingy class. It viii cake the form
of mighty protest against the muir
der of Nicaraguan and Chinese work
ers by American marines for the pro-
lection of bankers investments, and
the plot of the imperialist powers
against the Soviet Union. Speakers
TAT the meeting will include William q.
Foster, famous working class leader
and secretary of the Trade Union
Educational League; Bertram d.
Wolfe, national agitprop director OF
the Workers (Communist) Party;
Jack Stachel, director of the national
organization department of the Par
ty; William W. Weinstone, secretary
of District 2, of the Workers Party;
Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY
WORKER; Herbert Fam, national
secretary of the Young Workers
League, and Ray Ragozin, prominent
leader of New York working women.
simultaneously with the New York
Continued on Page Ta0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
STRIKE IN EGYPT TO
PROTEST. TORY TREA TY
CAIRO March 8Twenyg workers students and eight
today when police attempted break
demonstration against the More than 1000

demonstrators paraded in front of the
Nationalist headquarters carrying
placards denouncing Great Britain.
Numerous riots took place in other
streets thruout Cairo. Police used
their clubs freely in an attempt to
break up the anti-British demonstra-
tions. At Tanta, fifity-five miles
northwest of Cairo, workers and stu
dents burned automobiles belonging
to government officials.
Strikes Spread.
A number of students were also in
jured yesterday when an attempt was
made to draw the American college
at Cairo into the strike. DR.. Russell,
principal, who attempted to dissuade
the students of the college from join
FCon.ins.ed on Page 1'IsTess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
"New Masses Frolic
To Be Held Tonight

Most of the artists, actors, writers
and journalists active in the New
York radical movement and hundreds
of left wing workers are expected to
be present at the annual Spring Fro
lie of the "New Masses" tonight at
Webster Hall, 18th st. and Third
Ave.
The 'New Masses" founded nearly
two years ago, is the only radical
magazine of arts and letters in the
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09

The desperate need of The DAILY
WORKER is bringing militant re-
sponse from workers all over the
United States. Scores of letters re-
ceived daily at the office of the paper
reveal the sacrifice the militant
American working class is making to
defend their only English daily organ
and their determination to make .
working class effort to defeat the at
tacks which the Wall Street govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
MANY RESPOND TO "DAILY'S' DANGER
Workers Turnout Country Are Rushing Defense Donations

wish it was $5,0o0,' writes another
worker from San Diego, California,
"I'm not able to work now tho Pm
not in the damned hospital or poor
house."
"At the last meeting of the Boro
Park Jewish Workers Club, it was
resolved to aid The DAILY WORKER
in it's struggle against the attack by
the capitalist courts and other enc
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09
Tariff Reduction on
Fertilizer Proposed

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8.--A tariff
struggle may he projected into the
senate debate over the $100,000,000
\ Muscle Shoals project, it was learned
today.
Senator Fletcher of Fla. announces
he will sponsor an amendment to the
Muscle Shoals bill, repeating the tar
iff on ammonium phosphate, used as
the basis for fertilizer. He said he
would take this action to determine
whether the senate really desired to
lift the fertilizer burdens from Amer
ican farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-09

ment has launched against their
press.
Every Dollar Blow.
"You will find enclosed five dollars
for the defense of The DAILY
WORKER" writes group of work
ers from Grand Rapids, Michigan,
"and / hope every dollar Of mine will
help knock out the foundation Of the
capitalist system"
"I'm sending YOU five dollars. I