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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
CULBERTSON GIRL
WINS HIGH HONORS

CulbertsOn, May T. Martha
May Kurth, IL, of CulbertsOn high
school, has received a telegram
from E. l.. Freeman of the State
university interschOlastic meet
committee that her essay on
"Kilpling's Three Loves" won
first place in the state essay con-
test.
The essay was one of l,56O
words and dealt with Kipling's
great passion for India, the sea,
and England. The description
was highly poetical and was tai
ented, according to Miss Eugenia
Alexander, head of the English
department of the CulbertsOn
school.
Miss Kurth is business manager
of the purple and Golf" Culbert-
sons high school annual, and is
salutatOrian of the senior class.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gustave E. Kurth of north
east of CulbertsOn.
I'm her freshman year she rep
= resented the Latin department of
: the school in the state scholar
ship contest at BOzeman. She has
an average of $40 in her academ-
= ic standing for her four years of
= high school work. Her compost
tiOns have expressed an origin
= atty in the past and have many
: times been discarded because of
: their peculiar style. 1t is only in
A" the last two years that the true
expression of originality in them
has been recognized.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10

placing a SIS license on male dogs and
$40 on female dogs. This action by
the City Council is also causing much
dissension among the owners of dogs
as against those who have no dogs
which have become household pets; for
it is felt that the policy is not giving
the working people who have to ac-
count for every dollar proper consid-
Grafton.
The stringent dog ordinance is an
aftermath of the sheep-killing episode
at the Peter Marion ranch, in which
some dogs from Plentywood killet
over $500 worth of sheep. The
owners of pet dogs, however
complain that it was not their dog!
that did the killing and that they
should not be penalized because Of
what some other PERSONS dog ha!
done. The city dads believe tina
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10

The Senior class play, "The oG-Get-
ter" was given to a packed house at
the Orpheum theatre Friday evening.
The play was very enthusiastically re-
ceived and seemde to have a particu-
lar charm for all those who are in
terested in oil in this vicinity. 1t
would be difficult to comment on the
individual acting done by the cast.
Each one carried his own part as well
as anyone could. The scenes between
Don Esteban and his wife the Dona
Farina never failed once to bring
forth a roar of laughter. One feature
of the play was its very effective set
ting. The stage had all the trim
mings of a Spanish home. The strong
sunlight off stage gave a realistic
touch.
The numbers between acts were
very we'll given and the Senior class
is very grateful to all who helped in
the program.
The school is much indebted to the
Peterson Company for the use of fur
niture. $219.75 was taken in at the
play including both performances. This
speaks very well for the Plentywood
community, for it shows that people
are back of all school doings.
The English II class is writing poe
try. Booklets are being made in
which to keep the best poetry.
Miss Dyste's Latin l class enjoyed
a luncheon in the Salisbury coulee on
Monday. 1t was given by the losing
team after having carried on a con-
test in vocabulary and constructions.
Leonard Olson, Buford Jelmeland
and Edie Matkin are attending the
state contest at Missoula this week. A
trip of this kind is of much benefit
to high school students because it
gives them contact with the outside
world. They expect to return at the
end of the week,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
GRADES

First-On May, Dorothy Glorvick
and Mona Moore surprised the room
with baskets and lollipops.
Second-We lost two pupils this
week: Willmette Toftness, and Arthur
Mcmillan. Mrs. Koser visited our
grade on Monday morning. We have
finished our booklet showing a years
progress in penmanship.
Third Harold Grams won first
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
BOARD OF co. COMMRS.
CONVENED MONDAY

The Board of County commission
ers convened in the regular May SEES
sion Monday, May 9th. Chairman
French and Commissioners Anker ano
Iverson and Clerk Madsen were pres
ent.
The session has been occupied with
road affairs and routine matters The
Commissioners adjourned Thursday
The proceedings of the Commission
ers will appear in these columns next
week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10

CONTINUED from page One)
after all. what is the law between
friends? Respect for law yields to
respect for Mr.. Mellon.
The men who are requested to re-
spect law are those who are out of
work through no fault of theirs and
who turn bandit to get unjustIy what
they cannot get justly-just as do the
rich! The Welfare Council of New
York reports that there are mO-e
homeless men in New York TODAY
than for the last Is years. The
council being from New York might
have blamed it ON prohibition. It
did not. It blamed the umemplOy-
ment on our existing industrial sys-
tenn. JObless people make living by
selling mOOnshine who would be glad
to get honest work under this amaz-
ing prosperity.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
ATTENTION!

Have you got anything you want
to get rid of? Put want ad in Pro-
ducers News. It means. money. to
you. 2 cents a word.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10

this is the only means of getting rid
of all the mOngrel dogs around Plen-
tywood, and that a stiff license will
mean their elimination.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
THE WEEK

CONTINUED from page one)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-05-10
MAYOR STORKAN

Continued from page one)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
Takers REFUSE
III
TO ORGANIZE
RY. CARPENTERS
Co. Stool-Pigeon Has
Four Fired
(Ru a Worker Co1vespondentJ

(By a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, (By MaiD.-The car
penters and joiners working for the
Chicago surface lines repair shop on
Madison Ave. not only receive poor
wages, but the shop they work in is
very unsanitary. The Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners has done
nothing to organize these shops.
Last April worker there wrote to
the Slovak. Workers Party paper,
Dennik Rovnost, exposing the con-
ditions in this shop, and criticizing
the carpenters Union officials for
failing to organize the shop. A spy
brought the copy of the paper to the
foreman of the shop. The foreman
took it to the superintendent, and
claimed that he knew who wrote the
article. As I was always sticking
up for the rights of the men in the
shop, the foreman accused me of
writing it. ] do not know who wrote
the article, but it was true. 1t
seems to me that the union officials
are helping the bosses, for when re
was proposed by militant members
to organize the shop, the officials
refused. saying that "the company
was under receivership." The Off
Gals refused to consider the organi-
zation of the shop. The officials of
the union destroyed any signs Of
solidarity among the workers. They
allowed the bosses to have their own
way. AS a trick to keep the work
ers divided, the company last July
gave a raise of 8 cents an hour,
but not to all the workers, only to
those who were not in the union,
and those who were acting as COM
pany spies in the union. Of the rest
of the workers, only a few got this
small increase in wages. On Dec. 8,
a few moments before quitting time,
was notified that I was laid off.
Four other workers were also laid
off. All of us who were laid off
were men who were for the rights
of the workers. This was the reason
we were laid off. A company stool
pigeon, the right hand man of the
foreman, had squealed on us. This
stool-pigeon comes to work drunk all
the time, but as he is the company's
spy, they do nothing to him.
j, B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
JObless Workers Die
of Cold in Chicago
While Searching Jobs

CHICAGO, Jan. 14.-Three work
er were frozen to death today when
the coolest wave of the season swept
into the Chicago area from the
north, sending the thermometer down
to 10 degrees below zero.
The suddenness of the cold wave
caused much suffering in Chicago
and surrounding territory. An I'M
identified woman was found dead
from exposure on the street in South
Chicago. A man believed to be AL
phonso Owimet, "a, of Detroit, was
found frozen to death in a hallway.
The frozen body of Cuno Schiz;a-
tillo, 33, was found on a prairie in
Cicero, suburb. Several other per-
sons suffering from exposure re-
ceived treatment in hospitals.
Schiziatillo's wife, mother of six
children, told police her husband had
left home Saturday looking for work.
Several families were driven shiv-
ering into the cold at Argo, suburb,
when fire destroyed a two-story
building there. A fireman was in
jured when caught beneath a fall
ing wall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
MussOlini Does Not
Accept Aid Offered
by Amsterdam Int'l

LONDON, Jan. 14.-Mussolini,
dictator of Italy, thinks that even
the reformist, weakened Interna-
tional Federation of Trade Unions
is too radical" for "his" workers,
according to London Sunday Ex-
nress disnatch. He sharply rebuked
Walter Citrine, secretary of the
DISQUALIFICATION British Trades
Union Congress, and J. Sassenbach,
secretary of the International in
Rome because they attempted to
persuade Mussolini to permit the
workers of Italy to join the fedora.
ton.
Mussolini listened to a long ex-
PLANTATION by the "labor' leaders in
which they are reported to have
reached eloquent heights in show
ing the benefit Of the Amsterdam
International to fascism. When they
he'd finished Mussolini said:
II am dictator of $4,000, 900
Italians. My word is law. / am
prime minister of this country.
AMI the minister Of five government
departments. You have the auda-
city to come here and ask me to
delegate the rule of my working
people to a handful of political
fanatics at Amsterdam. You have
wasted your own time, gentlemen"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
EUROPE SEES NO
INDEMNITY CUT
Morgan, Expert Board,
Continue Dawes Plan

- BERLIN, Jan. IA W.H.-A ma
jority of Berlin newspapers were
inclined to believe that Morgan's
unexpected acceptance of the post
signifies a postponement of several
years in transferring PREPARATIONS
debts into private loans. A respon-
sible American authority confirmed
this Interpretation in a statement to
the United Press.
Evidently a powerful figure like
Morgan is needed to tell Europe
bluntly that the present moment is
unsuitable for floating huge block
of German reparation bonds in
Wall Street." the authority said.
German financiers are of the
opinion that the appointment indi-
Gates a continuation of the present
form of the Dawes Plan for sew
eral years before drastic revision is
possible. Meanwhile, they point out,
the United States financiers would
observe the development of the
German economic situation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
R. R. SHOPMEN
ARE Deceived
Betrayed by Officials
in Wage Case

After months of dilly-dallyipg de-
signed to wear out any strike spirit
of the 10000 shopmen of the New
York Central who had voted to in
struct their officials to make de-
mands for wage increases, the case
was further postponed Saturday by
the leaving of the whole question
in the hands of a special board"
This board. apparently acting un-
der the infamous Watson-Parker
railroad labor law, is given author
ity to decide on the "merits" of the
workers demand. By this means
the effectiveness of their trade
union is practically abolished. No
news was given out as to the COM
position of this board, but from
that fact it can be judged that it
is to be satisfactory to the COM
pany. If it grants any raise, such
raise will be so little as to be use
less.
Jocob Aronson. who made the
arguments for the company, said
that comparison of wages of the
shopmen with other trades could
not be made as other trades were
based on irregular employment. He
T.. 1e T.
building trades were artificially
high.
Donald Richberg, for the union
officials, tried to convince the New
York Central that "a new economic
order existed, requiring higher
wages" but had to admit that since
1922 this "new economic order" had
given only 20 per cent more money
wages while the cost of living had
gone up 40 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

Imperialism, through it's puppet in
Cuba, has crushed out the life of one
of the most courageous revolutions
aries in Latin-America.
"The New York District of the
International Labor Defense is for
tunate enough to have had personal
relations with Comrade Melia during
his visits to this country and we
came to know him as one of the
most fearless fighters for the work
ing class, absolutely devoted to the
struggle against American imperial
ism and ready to suffer tortures and
death in that struggle.
"Julio Mella, dead, lives in the
hearts of the workers of the world
and particularly of those on the
American continent. The New York
district of the LID. calls upon all
it's members and all other workers
to protest against this foul murder
of our comrade and against all the
murders and fortunes instigated by
U. S. imperialism at the Lenin
memorial meeting"
Leaders to Speak.
Speakers at the Lenin meeting
will include Ben Gitlow, William z.
Foster, William w. Weinstone and
Jay Lovestone. The arrangements
committee last night announced an
enlarged musical program. Jascha
Fisherman, noted Soviet pianist,
will accompany $50 members of the
Freiheit Gesangs Verein in the rem
dition of the international" The
revolutionary artist may play an
other number in accompaniment to
the singing of society's program.
Another feature of the meeting
will be labor sports spectacle by
the Labor Sports Union. Tickets
for the event are now on sale at
district headquarters of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, &c Union
Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
TO HONOR MELLA
AT LENIN MEET
Demonstration H ere
Saturday Night
Continued from Page One

COTtfnueu from rage OUe
active among the class-conscious
workers of Caribbean countries. He
was an inspiration to hundreds of
thousands of Latin Americans who
felt the oppression of Wall Street.
His activities are an excellent exam
pie to be followed not only by Latin
Americans in New York, but by all
the American workers and poor
farmers in the common struggle to
overthrow the Wall Street govern
ment.
Appeal To Negro Workers.
Cyril Briggs, editor of Negro
Champion, issued this appeal:
Negro workers! Attend the Lenin
memorial meeting to protest against
the murder of one of the greatest
champions of exploited workers and
oppressed races the world has ever
known. Mella~gave his life that we,
Negro workers and white workers
alike, might have freedom. Negro
workers! Join with the revolution
airy white workers, who are your
friends and brothers, against the
common enemy--the bloody Wall
Street governmental the Nrdison
Square Garden demonstration.
Louis Hyman, president of the
new National Needle Trades Indus
trial Union, declared:
"The bourbons Of Wall Street are
responsible for the fatal shooting of
Julio Mella, brave leader of the
revolutionary working masses of
Cuba. Mella was a mighty enemy
of Machado's vassal government and
the Machado regime was determined
TO get him. They did get him. but
the workers of America will not
forget this dastardly act, will not let
it pass without a challenge. call
on the members of the Needle
Trades Union and other class con-
scious workers to attend the Lenin
memorial meeting and protest this
latest outbreak of terrorism against
the working class leaders"
I. L. d. In Appeal.
An appeal by the New York Dis
trict Of the International Labor De-
Tense, through its secretary, Rose
Baron, to attend the Lenin meeting,
reads as follows:
"The cold-blooded murder of Julio
Mella by agents of the bloody
Machado regime has Mortified and
outraged workers throughout the
world. Demonstrations of workers
and peasants in Mexico City are re-
ported to be greater than at any
time since the murder Of Sacco and
Vanzetti. The hand of American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
Soviet AZneft Oil
Trust Reports Big
Gain in Output

The Azneft Oil Trust reports an
output Of 7.55500O metric tons of
oil and 100000 tons of gas for the
past fiscal year. In comparison with
l926-27, the total output increased
a.5 per cent.
OF the total oil produced there
was refined by the Trust 5,2S1, 900
tons, nearly onc-third (31 per cent)
more than in the preceding year.
Drillings for the year 1929
amounted to 100000 meters of
which 221 900 meters were for pro-
duction purposes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
REFUSE AID TO
SADESKY, Who
FOUGHT BOSSES
Yet Deduct From Pay
II Health Expense"

BIZ a Worker Correspondent
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, (By MaiD.
The doctors in the mining towns
efuse their services to miners be-
cause the miners do not have lots
Of money to pay them. At Vesta-
burg, miner, Steve Sadesky, died
because no doctor would help him.
Sadesky. who always fought the
corrupt Lewis machine, and was one
Of the leading fighters from the be-
ginning of the strike, was unable to
get a job. He died in one of the
barracks on Dec. 8, and at the time
he died he was writing to Hun
galian workers paper to describe
the starvation facing him and thou
sands of other miners. Sadesky was
a member of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party. The first doctor called,
a Doctor Bliss, refused to attend
Sadesky, saying that he (the doc
tori was employed by the Vesta
Coal Co. Sadesky, as an employe
of the Vesta Coal Co. for many
years had paid part of his wages
for the salary of Bliss. The COM
pany makes a deduction for 'health
expenses" from each miners wages.
Two other doctors from Fredericks-
town, also a mining town, refused
to attend Sadesky when called. You
may think there is some law that
compels a doctor to attend when
called to a sick person, but such a
law is the bunk in Pennsylvania. I
do not know about other states, but
it is probably the same all over
under the capitalist system.
The miners around this vicinity
work for miserable wages. For in
stance, the enclosed pay envelopes
from the Monessen Coal Co. show
So 81 for a half months wages for
two men. In order to make this
much they had to slave from 5 a. m.
to 8 or 8 p. m. The amount, you
VIII notice, is SS197. But you will
notice that the bill from the COM
pany store is $58.57. This is the
enount for merchandise that two
single men purchased in a period of
two weeks from the company store.
This bill of S58.57 is only for meat
and canned goods, and bread. The
company certainly is overcharging
on this bill, but the miners do not
dare complain to the company that
- y sare being cheated, for they
ow that the company will fire
nem if they do.
We miners work at Alicia mines
70. and 2. The miners while at
ork cannot talk to their fellow
orkers. The straw bosses watch
EN- very closely. The reason is
lat the bosses fear that the min
srs may discuss their rotten work
ing conditions. Anyone talking in
the pits is fired. If you make any
complaint about anything to the su-
perintendent you are told, "Shut
your mouth; if you don't like it take
your tools. There are plenty wait
ing for your job" Brownsville is
hell-hole in Fayette County, where
the authorities protect the interests
OF the bosses. e.
On the enclosed water receipt is
the charge for the water used by
family of two for quarter of
year. This bill for water-for three
months-amounts to $765. If you
complain that this is an overcharge
the company shuts off the service
and you have to pay dollar to have
it opened again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
Venizelos Banishes a
Revolutionary Workers
to the Island of Death
.(Red Aid Press Service J

ATHENS, (By Mail).-The Greek
political police have ordered the de-
portatien of four members of the
Central Committee of the Tobacco
Workers. Union. Two of them, Ka-
petu Andrei and Gruzu have already
been banished to the island of
Anafi, which is reported to be worse
than the darkest dungeon.
The two others, PapanikoIau and
Assikis have thus far avoided the
police.
The tobacco workers played a re-
volutionary role during the strike
last year against the American
owned tobacco company. The strike
became general and was supported
by sailors of the Greek fleet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

finishers comprised the meeting. A
discussion touching the need of a
Negro organization fighting for the
full social, political, economic and
racial equality of Negroes took
place.
The discussion brought in COM
parison of the workers government
in Russia with the dictatorship of
the capitalists in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15

A mass meeting will be arranged
as soon as possible to rally the large
masses of Negro Workers to the
ranks of the A. N. L. c. The i'm
mediate task of spreading the Negro
Champion was undertaken. There
is a great task before us but the
working class will emerge victorious.
and the Negro workers in the South
will fully partake in the struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-15
FORD PLANT is
LAST RESORT or
STARVING men
Belt Slaves Can't Lean
Against Post
fBy a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
CHESTER, Pa, (By aiD.-The
mills shut down, so I lost my job.
After my job evaporated l came
near starving. I was broke. Had
nothing to sell but energy. No mas
ter wanted it. Got hungrier and
hungrier.
Remembered the preachers talk
about the "lord helping those VINO
HELM themselves" Decided to. But
saw a cop. Reminded me OF jan.
Been in jail. Don't like them. 80
I went to the last resort Of starv-
ing man, to the Ford gate. There
are $500 workers in Ford's. Over
800 on line, waiting for a job. Cos
pretty bad, l danced around to keep
warm while waiting. No job. Henry
saws most of us don't want one. But
we have to eat. Have to sell our
labor power. Met friend. Asked
for pass for employment to FORD s.
Friend gave me ticket. At last
I had a new master to enslave me.
The boss had me where he wanted
me. It's no joke, when you're broke
and hungry and thirsty. Begging
for a chance to work. Promised me
62 and half cents an hour for the
first so days and rs cents an hour
thereafter provided proved to be
a Woodworking, docile numbskull.
Told me to hang my coat in the
locker-room. Looking all around, |
could not find any. So hung it
where the other slaves hung theirs,
on railing at each end of the
toilets, three deep.
No union here. Ought to be one.
Lots of men outside the gate. Henry
says they don't want to work. But
they're broke like myself. They
have to work. Have to sell their
labor power. I started to work.
Speed-up fierce. No smoking per-
mitted. No chewing either. Twenty
minutes for lunch. Used to be a
half hour. Ford now saves 10 min
utes on each slave on the lunch per-
iod. Plugged along for while.
Tired as hell from speed-up. Leaned
against a post. Foreman ran up.
Such things not permitted here.
Lunch period. Hungry as hell. Paid
10 cents for cents worth of milk.
Also Is cents for box lunch of
three sandwiches, an apple, and a
cookie. Twenty minutes for lunch
time, and you have to stand in line
for 10 minutes for something.
Back to work. Slave like hell at
the Ford belt. Cars keep coming.
Six million men out of work, and
still l am overworked.
That's the way / feel after my
first day in Ford's. Don't take long
to find out just how bad this place
really is. After a few days here, l
won't want to write. Want to fight,
strike, organize into union and
fight for better conditions. Will
want to run Ford's in the interest
of the workers, as they run the fac
tories in the Soviet Union. Getting
the 7-hour day there. They have eff
ficiency there too, working class ef-
ficiency. Not capitalist efficiency,
which is only efficiency of cost and
means of driving the workers to the
limit. That's Ford's kind. Sends
men to the scrap heap before their
time.
A FORD SLAVE.