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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-22
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
A CAMPAIGN OF PERSONALITIES

Apparently Sheridan County is going to be thrown
into another campaign of SANDER and misrepresenta-
ton the part of those who endeavoring to
gain control of the courty from the farmers Most
of these attacks being centered Senator Taylor
and Sheriff Salisbury
1t is certainly amusing to hear men like Joe Dolin
and Harry Polk espousing the cause of public morals
Both of these have past that reads like story
from Jim Jam Jems and as the campaign progresses
these will be shown up in their true character if
personalities what they interested in
The Producers News is not going to carry on a
campaign of personalities, but will submit the cand
dates of the farmers to the people on their merits
will defend the past administration of the farmers
government its merits but the general character
istcs of these who issuing the slanderous
tcles the different individuals in the progressive
farmers movement in this county will be shown up
they and assure our readers that they will
learn just how much they can expect from moral
standpoint from with a Jekyll-Hyde complex and
history.
This expose will open the eyes of many of the old
gang who not familiar with the various escapades
of certain gentlemen ca but who willing to take
to their bosom anyone who would assist them in their
fight to regain control of the county from the farm
ers and producers The low mo1al type of citizen
evidenced by the different escapades of Joe Don neais
no extension to the citizens of this county. Dolins
periodic moral rampages are joke to all who know
Joe.
At this time it might be well to state that Sheridan
ccuny is no worse in regard to moral conditions than
other counties of the state where Main Street controls
the policy of the counties and while conditions in
Sheridan are not perfect it is cinch that they would
not improve under the influence of such men as Polk
and Dolin
And in passing it is well to remark that the city
government of Penywood is not under the control of
the farmers organizations their elected officials
but rather it is in the hands of the who support
Polk and Dolin If the moral conditions of Plenty
wood and environs not to their taste what is to
prevent them from making these conditions to their
ikng-they have the authority and the law. They
have city attorney and ample police force on the
streets all of the time. Roulette wheels cannot be op-
Grated without their agreement consent well they
know that. Why do these people keep up an attack
upon Salisbury instead of doing their own plain duty?
If Main Street did not desire these conditions to exist
in Plentywood they would not exist
Over in Medicine Lake, Joe Doln is Mayor He has
city attorney in the person who is the republican
candidate for county attorney and a couple of police
men, Surely Joe can, during the moments that he is
not drunk beating up his wife, or chasing chppies
about, attend to cleaning up his home town and put
ting it in condition to suit his fancy instead of rant
ing so much about Sheriff Salisbury and the deplor-
able conditions in the county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

cal 1t is undercover stuff that the and
contempt of all red-booded, clean thinking ment and
women 1t is difficult to combat because the poison
mongers rarely be definitely located and brought
into the open to face accusation.
Both presidential candidates under this form Of
attack at this time Some of the anonymous publica
ons that have been circulated against them too
vile for exhibition
In the case of Mr.. Rankin it may be said that he is
running upon his record of long, highly efficient and
honorable service in important public offices Nobody
point to flaw in that and that is all that should
be under discussion worthy of consideration
Mr. Rankin's qualifications for the governorship
have been fully demonstrated The only criticism of
him from the powers behind Erickson is that he refus
to be led by the Anaconda leash He will not stand
hat in hand in the outer the sixth floor wait
ing for orders. There will be faint of copper con-
troll in the governors office when he occupies it next
January, he certainly will Refusal to obey is his
only offense in the eyes of the company that is break
ing its back to elect Erickson.
If Erickson is encouraging whispering in this
paign suggest that he tell about the midnight
whispered conferences at the executive mansion with
the high mogu of the Anaconda Company in Montana
who accustomed to sneak to Helena at night
in closed automobile and with his coat col
lar turned up his face, prowl his way up the de-
serted streets to communicate his instructions to the
governor in person.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
LOCAL. REPUBLICAN DILEMMA

Lard Olson, distinguished chairman of the Republi-
can County Central Committee is proving to be of as
much use to the republican party, state and national
skunk at garden party
AS whole the republicans are not inclined to the
idea of being presided by sef-confessed pur-
lOner of bOotlegger fine money nor do they care to
sit in convention with ''scum" we use the word adj
visedly, like Joe Doin, that staunch "Al Smith re-
publican of Medicine Lake, who forced to return
to the taxpayer of the county that huge sum of money
secured by perjury and fraud after being convicted of
that very thing in friendly court The recent mem
Ders OF the republican party just can't stomach joe
and his wife beating proclivtes, and are not wild
about attending conventions made conspicuous by his
presence-for most of the republicans don't care to
have their linked up with ilk like Don. thew
are not that sort of people
80 1t is quite natural that when Clean Christian
gentleman like Aage Larsen, for instance attend a
republican convention harboring collection of cor
ruptlon such as Olson and DoIin should hold his old
brown derby his nose-he hates to do it but he
simply can't stand the SMELL tho he may pretend that
the odor is the perfume waited from field of new
mown hay.
From the reports emanating from the innermost
courts of the republicans their convention was as
harmonious as an assembly of Kilkenny cats"
good republican remarked to the Editor of the
farmers paper yesterday that the rumpus was cased
by the proposal of old Lard to fingerprnt the COM
mtteemen TO see any of the robbers of the Sheri-
dan county treasury were present, when Joe Dolin
blew up and wanted to know "what he meant" Lard
lowed he needed practice and that there were lot
of good material present to work on
1t is said that the Republican State Committee will
not transmit any funds to the local committee for
distribution during this campaign but that a PROM
ment local lawyer will allot this money, which has
Lard all fused up again.
Well, let the merry fun go on. We really don't
think the farmers have much to fear from the Olson
Collins, Dolin, oGrady combination this year in
county politics. though Aage Larsen tried to give
farer cOuntenance to their dark designs by injecting
his auburn mustache into the picture
And poor Aagel how the angels fall
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
NEW DAILY PRAISED

IRON The Dawson County Review
Inc ilrs1 Issue OF the Montana Free Press was is
1Jeu AZ butte last Monday This is the new paper
which was started by W. A. Clark when +bo
bought out his Butte Miner las month ana
it with the Standard. ' anu 'onOlneu
Inc new daily is splendid paper in every rasraot
anu starts out under the most favorable auspices Ac
corolng TO ITS owner it viii be devoted to tba
u .ne people of Montana and will oppose IN
"'orsiues Oh the copper colared" press of Montana
Inc REVIEW has no doubt that the people Of MOnta
WIN welcome this new paper and that it will fill
us place in Montana journalism It is our he
no;t;a mon'anans are getting tired of having their
punOcai opinions provided for them in smear $500
pills manufactured by one big corporation :;
nearly every daily in the state 0O'''oi OIL
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Economic Articles
BY Leland Ods, Federated Press
Al S Pal James

When Americas greatest railroad
magnate pledges allegiance to Al
Smith he knows on which side his
bread is buttered. He may talk a.
bout prohibition but he knows that
the president controls appointments
to the interstate commerce commits
sion.
Arthur Curtis James swing to
Smith followed closely the announce
men that large western roads In
which he is dominant would cooper
ate to form a traffic consolidation.
James undoubtedly knows Smiths
attitude toward this huge railroad
combine as we'll as toward western
rate increases.
On July 9, 1926 The Federated
Press predicted the virtual unlflca-
ton of the Southern Pacific, Nor
thern Pacific, Burlington, Great Nor
then, Western Pacific and Denver q
Rio Grand Western under James, a
multimillionaire who has purchased
railroads with his inherited wealth
It said:
wealth produced by workers in
copper, silver and gold mines has en-
abled one man to gain virtual con-
troll of 1T of the railroad mileage OF
the United States. Altogether it j;
estimated that this copper lord is the
dominant interest in 36,575 miles OF
railroad. His roads were formerl,
parts of the Gould, Hill and Harri.
man systems. According to one Of
his associates the time is not far dis
tant when these lines may be known
as the James System"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Uncle Sam Tells How Capital
Hurts Kids

Children suffer disastrously when
the family wage Garner is unemployed
says the U. S. department of labor
in reply to inquiries directed to its
children's bureau. The department
report makes it clear that large
groups of children suffer not temper
airy but permanent setbacks from in
dustrial depression.
The report is based on data ga
thered in Racine, Wis, and Spring
field, Mass, during the industrial
depression of 1922. The families
investigated were selected from lists
of the men who were registered at
the local employment offices and rep
resented a cross section of families
of unemployed men in which there
were two or more children under Is.
The report says:
GA large proportion of the men
being skilled workers the incomes in
the families in normal times ranged
from $75 to more than 5000 per
month. More than 9-10 of the men
had been earning between 500 and
$175 per month. During the period
of unemployment, the complete fam
lily resources of AS of the families
of these same men amounted to be-
tween $25 and 500 a month"
These meager resources, averaging
little more than half what the fami-
lies were accustomed to, included not
only what the father could pick up in
temporary work but also the wages
of the mother and the children, saw
ings taken from the bank, food and
other necessaries purchased on credit
and aid from relatives and relief
agencies.
cit is inevitable" says the report,
"that there should be a lowering of
the standards of family life when
the regular income is interrupted.
When the father loses his job the
mother must secure work II IL is pos
sible for her to do so. Approximate
ly 1-3 of the children included In tne
study were in families IN Wnlcn tne
mother did undertake and was engag-
ed in gainful employment. Inc evl-
dence indicates that in some OF tneSe
families the money for the 1amiiys
food was secured at the cost OF per-
manent injury to the health OF the
mother and neglect of the children"
Two-fifths of the families were
forced to part with savings which
represented years Of econc T9'..nl !. and q
planning for the future. Homes that
had been purchased in whole or part
were sacrificed. over 40 o,, OF the the
families went into debt. oysr nan
the farnihes had to turn to charity.
"The hardships that must pe en-
dured bv a family when the father
is out of work" SAYS the report do
not end when conditions improve pro. ana
he again has steady Jop. roa , many
months after the father secures WORK
his wages will have to be divided be-
tween the purchase Of the necessaries
of life and the payment Of the heavy
burden of debt. Many of the fathers
interviewed had little hope OF success
fully taking up again the task s.s OF .I pro-
wiling a home and comforts Tor tnose
dependent upon them" -,
In addition to the actual depriVacion
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Roads Squeeze Out Workers

Railroad workers in May lost more
than a million hours a day by, reouc-
ed employment compared WIN .a Wy
1927, according to the interstate
commerce commission. Al the aver
age hourly wage of 59.S cents the
railroad owners were saving ABOUT
S665 600 per working day at the eX-
nense of families dependent on rail-
road wages for living.
The total railroad payroll for May
was S242, 88O,334 compared with
S249. 146, 1886 in May 1927. This IS
reduction of more than S6,OOO,OO0'
But the railroads got an extra days
work in May 1928 and per capita
dailv earnings had been slightly IN
creased by raises for certain groups
of EMPLOYEES. Without these chang
es the monthly payroll would have
been cut at least $15,0OO,OOO.
The reductions in man-hours and
wage totals reflect the laying off OF
SO. APO railroad workers compared
with the previous May. In May 1928
there were 28,147, fewer shopmen,
3.O63 fewer maintenance of way
men, II $50 fewer train and engine
service men, 1864 fewer miscellane-
Gus workers than a year previous.
An Increase of 51,O13 employees
from April to May was entirely sea-
sonal reflecting principally the taking
on of 1866 maintenance of way
workers.
The average railroad employee in
May earned $142. This average in
cludes high salaried officials as well
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

Over 2 years later the New York
Times for Aug. %, 1928 said: "Con-
solidated operation of a transconti-
mental railroad system, to include the
Great Northern, the Northern Pacific
the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
and the Southern Pacific, and en-
bracing practically all other lines
which have been in consistent traffic
and freight competition with the
roads named appeared in prospect
with the announcement today of i'm
portant changes in the executive per-
sonnet of several of the companies.
The proposed system would serve vir-
tually the entire United States west
of the Mississippi. It's total mileage
would be $780,"
More important than this revela-
ification means an end to competi-
ton of capitalist manipulation may
be the effect on the farm regions. I'm
ification means an end to competi-
ton. A little over a year ago the
railroad broker, f. J. Lisman, sug-
gested that railroads in the north
west need car in order to get high
er rates and bigger profits. He said
that with ownership scattered among
unassertive stockholders shippers ra-
Their than the railroads fix the rates
Apparently Arthur Curtis James
is coming forward as a car for the
western roads. If Al Smith agrees
with his views on western rates farm.
ers may see gains from farm legisla.
ton gobbled up by the western rail.
road combine.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Senate Digs Up Putrid Ware
1926 Election Corruption

Washington (FP) = Testimony
showing wholesale frauds and cor
ruption employed by Boss VIM. S.
Ware of Philadelphia, republican SEN
atorial nominee in the 1926 election
in Pennsylvania, as presented to the
senate committee in the contest brot
by VIM. B. Wilson, democrat, has not
yet ended.
Thus far, the inquiry has disclosed
protests from 1000 districts in Phil
adelphia and 300 in Allegheny count
ty, relating to the casting or count
ing of votes. Mrs. John L. Miller of
Pittsburgh, chairman of the Pennsyl-
vania League of Women Voters, told
of securing So tax receipts-used to
qualify voters-from the Alfalfa Da-
ly Home in Pittsburgh. These were
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

ployees was $25.6S a weeL
These figures mean tbat
IN the aluminium utensii nd worker
average only about 81 39 SEt'uuStry can
ne doesn't miss a single wa q year il
average male worker con "eek' The
but $3.50, a figure more t count on
short of the amount which man !. $500
partment of labor holds nsno. the de-
supply family with a m;n;sy to
health and decency. "iiiimum Of
A few pattern makers ovo..
$4l,94 got the peak wages ~ ~s "a
dustry. Female solderers u In tae m
actual average of S2O.31 ton VIZ" I'll. an
wages, unskilled male labor o ~Onehs
$22.49 and unskilled femaI a'eI Ig
1929 a week. Altogether no,. i az
fifth of the men average O'e IMAM man
] $25 a week. under
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

all made out in favor of ons 49,.
and in Identical handwriting "t can
then learned that the taxes maid one ~.
county by the man who secured '+ tA oe
receipts had in many cases b e rH, y
ready paid by the persons U,bo a.,
names were forged. County Tro oS
urer Foster, she testified had adm;s
ted to her that disposing Of these ' DIV
plicate payments was giving him ~ .
great deal of trouble.
Ware is making a last ditch fivbt
against the tendency of a maioritr
in the senate to bar him on grcnnSs
of proved corruption. His action n
throwing the Pennsylvania deleVa ..
ton to Hoover in the national CON.
vention this summer is now used N.
his support by the machine repubE.
cans.
Opheim section is pushing harvest
ing operations at top speed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Andy Mellon Sweats Women
at 81 3.28 a Week

Andrew Melons aluminium trust
pays women 1929 a week. The U.
S. Department of Labor report on
wages in the manufacture of uten-
sils and wares shows this wage for
unskilled women workers. Coolidge's
secretary of the treasury controls,
through the Aluminium Co. of Ameri-
ca 900 of the aluminium made in the
United States. It's subsidiaries manu-
facture utensils.
The average weekly wage for the
aluminium utensil industry in 1927
was $26.83. Men averaged $3022
and women employees averaged $18.-
81 week. But these are theoretical
full time wages. The department of
labor found men averaging 1924
and women $17.44 while the general
average actually earned by all en-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

father idle about the house, unsettled.
disheartened; the mother going out
to work if she can secure it, and US
ing up every bit of her strength IN
the double task; the children suffer
ing from the depression and uncer-
talnty of what the future may bring,
which is even more to be dreaded than
the discOlnforts of the immediate
present"
This is a government picture of
what unemployment meant to a cross
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
Straight time Pay
H. NJ moo

Straight time pay represents about
900 of the total compensation of all
railroad workers. For all except
train and engine service employees it
represents more than $3.50 of their
total compensation. But for train
and engine service men only ITO of
their pay is straight time, the re-
mainder being over time and other
compensation for special conditions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

as wage earners paid on an hourly
basis. The great body of employees
paid by the hour earned an average
OF $136 a month including all over
time pay.
Railroad workers would have aver
aged the following in May is paid
only straight time for work.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
THE POISON PEDDLERs

NrIOm Inc MONTANA Free PreSs)
venomous whispering campaign has been started
against Wellington ID. Rankin by a poison peddl;ng
squad mostly in the state house at Helena The friends
OF Mr. Rankin claim to have traced this campaign
straight to the doors of the executive office.
WORDS are insufficient to impress the veness of this
form of campaigning The cowardice of II i diabol,.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28
rr-oay. September Is, 1921

ssSIt@9 of the unemployed
purely historical al significance i not q
Intensified ,,ei in the last stu y y mas been
5 H,url fI the winter there w We. months.
oily four to five million T Were prOba.
workers. There are millio unemployed
me include all those facns e eS,s.i i
ans Ir, throughout h. chronic Ianl.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

livery child of school age should be present a. Tho
oeock demonstration train in Plentywood Octobar -
and also to take in the other special educat;ora1
lures specially given for the children on that dsv
Inc oay VIII be worthwhile to the children Of the
boys and girls DING your
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

there is the terrible uncertainty and
fear which undermines the family
spirit when the father is laid off, ''the
, 1928-11-21
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his weeks reel shows amongO erh ings:-
l. The frstb beauty contest ever held aboard a TRANSATLANTIC liner
Passengers of the "AqutapEa" compete fort the title Of 'Daughtas of Neptune"
q President Gales takes a short vacation on his country estate outside Mexico City.
g. King George of England dons kie IN visit to Scotland
A. Byrd Expedition starts on iusWyage to the South Pole, City Of New York"
s. A new geyser appearsi in Yellowstone National Park of greater size than ay
found to date.
g. |, S fordfes the Bay of Portland. Maine. with huge INT bombs in recent man.
OGVres
T. An island off the Florida coast becomes refuge for peHcans. Thousands of the
birds gather there.
g. Golf fans play miiatureg game on top Of New York skyscape.
g. Charles H. Clark inventsa war sport which beas everything to date. W9tcb!t
and yOu'jhod your breath it's so exciting.