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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-03
CIGARET TAX is
VOTED BY HOUSE

Continued from Page One)
Dilley, Enstrom, Gehan, Hastings
Herfndahl, Hitchcock, Holm, Hubert,
C. Johnson, D. w. Johnson, R. G..
Johnson, Kenendy, Herman, Kodak,
Lamb, Lewis, Loftegaarden, Lundeen,
McDonough, McNuity, Masek, Merritt,
Moser, Mullin, Mum, ]. A. Nelson,
Nolan, Payne, Peterson, Peterson,
Dunlivan, Reed, Renick, Richards,
Rodenburg, Samec, Scribner, Starkey,
Stockwell, Swenson, Therrien, j. A.
Weeks, Wright, Youngdahl and Zim-
norman.
Speedy action on the bill by the
senate tax committee is promised. A
public hearing will be held in a day
Or two and the bill will come before
the senate within couple of weeks.
1t stands an excellent chance of pass
ing and the governor stands ready to
sign it. 1t would impose tax of two
cents on each package of twenty cl-
garets and would, is believed, bring
into the state treasury over $2,OOO,OOO
per year.
And the money is what the state
will need the next few years, judging
by the enormous appropriation totals
that the present legislature will pile
up before it adjourns three weeks
and two days from today. Eeven Re
preventative Hitchcock, the tight-wad
chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee admits that the total will be
over $43,000,000, the biggest in the
history Of the state.
There was quite a furry at the
capitol the other day when Represent
ative ]. A. Weeks of Minneapolis,
who doesn't love Governor Christian
son and some of his Minneapolis
friends like w. l. Norton), introduce
ed bill to appropriate 100000 for
the relief of the unfortunates who
invested a part of their savings in the
"Gold Notes" of the celebrated Mr..
Cochrane a couple of years ago. Mr..
Weeks contention is that inasmuch
as A. E. Nelson, member OF the
state securities commission, was In
with Cochrane and was
in obtaining from the
state license to sell these worthless
securities, the state is morally, II
not legally responsible and ought to
reimburse Mr.. Cochrane's victims.
Needless to say, neither the author
of the bill nor anybody else expects
it to pass, but the introduction OF 1t
calls attention to an unfortunate in
cident in Governor Christianson's ad-
and may be considered,
as one of the Minneapolis papers puts
it, "a political gesture"
One of the most important bills be-
for the legislature was killed by the
senate, Wednesday, after an animated
debate of three hours-the bill to sub
nit to the people constitutional
authorizing the levying of
a state income tax. Senators Chris
yau and L. P. Johnson were the lead
ing champions of the measure, while
G. H. Sullivan of Saltwater furnished
most of the arguments in opposition.
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April 3-10-17.

CITATION FOR HEARING ON
PETITION FOR ADMINISTRA-
TON.
State of Minnesota, County of Red
wood, SIS. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Marcus J. Stephens, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota, to All
Whom it May Concern:
Whereas, Ada Stephens has filed
in this Court her petition stating,
among other things, that she is the
widow of the above named decedent;
that said decedent died intestate, a
resident Of the County Of Wyandotte,
State of Kansas, left property in the
County of Redwood, State of Mime
sofa, and was citizen of Kansas
City, Kansas; and praying that ad-
minstration of his estate be granted
to Ada Stephens:
Therefore, You are hereby cited to
appear before said court on the 9Th
day of May, 1929, at 10 o'clock A. M,
in the Court House in the City Of
Redwood Falls in said County and
State and show cause, if any you
have, why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated April 1st, 1929.
A. r. A. LAUDON,
Probate Judge.
Clague and Barnes
Attorneys for Petitioner 39-3ts.
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Those voting for the bill were:
Arens, Bridgeman, Carley, Christgau,
Frost, Hougen, Johnson, Johnston,
Lanby, A. S. Larson, Lawson, Lee,
Lem1n, Lommen, c. A. Lund, McCub-
rey, Millett, Naplin, Nordlin, Peter
son, Romberg, Serline, Sharpe, Sol
berg, Spindler, Stemsrud.
Those who voted against the bill
were: Adams, Anderson, Besette,
Blanchard, Banniwell, Cannon, Child,
Duemke, Hanson, Hausler, H. A. Lar
son, Lennon, Lilygren, Long, Mac
Kenzie, MacLean, Mcknight, Mangan,
NORM. Nelson, Olson, Orr, Putnam,
Pulitzer, Ribenack, Richardson, Rock
ne, Roepke, Rollins, Rosenmeier, Sag
gau, Schmechel, G. H. Sullivan, j. D.
Sullivan, Swenson, Thwing, Trailer,
Turham, Widell, Zamboni.
The effort to- put through a bill
granting bonus to Minnesota veter-
ans of the Spanish-American war was
defeated in the house after Chair
man Hitchcock of the appropriations
committee had warned against adding
to the enormous appropriations to-
tails by enacting such measure and
John B. Hompe, the eighty-three
year old Civil War veteran, had
characterized the war with Spain as
only a minor war-"pretty much OF
a joke"
In spite of the earnest pleas from
the range country to save the iron ore
industry by reducing the tax burdens
of the companies, the house killed,
Thursday afternoon, the bill to ease
up on the occupation or tonnage tax
on iron ore. Most members of the
legislature don't take pleas for mercy
of the steel interests at all seriously.
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Many Bird Houses
Entered in Contest

Big bird houses, small ones, red ones,
brown ones, most every color, shape
and description will be on display at
the Farmers Elevator Bird House con-
test judging which will be held next
Saturday afternoon, April 9Th, at the
company's office. Approximately 60
boys and girls have entered bird
houses in the contest for which prizes
of $500, $500 and $1.OO will be given
for each of the two divisions. En-
tries will close at 200 p. M, just be-
fore the judging takes place. The
judges selected by G. A. Patton are
Mayor A. ]. White, JOS Tyson and b.
z. Marsh.
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A barberry bush destroyed now
may save the small-grain crop of an
entire community. One common
barberry bush to feet in height is
capable of producing on one year more
than Ga billion spores of stem rust,
the most destructive diseases of small
grains in the United States. The
spores are very small and are car
ried by the wind, and rust damage
from a single hedge of barberries has
been traced to a distance of over 100
miles, says the u. S. Department OF
Agriculture.
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R. o. Aga, Pastor.
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SHERIFF INJURED

But a few seconds after Richard
Flynn, ST., of Slayton had compli-
mented Sheriff George Nelson Of
Murray county upon the excellency
of his driving, the sheriff lost control
of his car and it plunged into the
ditch north of Slayton, injuring both
men and reducing the car to a pile
of junk. The two men were return
ing from Minneapolis in the Sheriff.
new Chrysler car.
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Church of Christ

" The Church of Kindness"
All Sunday Services in Armory.
Sunday School at --------1O:OO A. M.
Preaching Service at ----11:OO A. M.
Sermon: "a Command to Pray"
Christian Endeavor, three groups $50
P. M.
Evening Service at ----- 1880
Sermon: "The Man Who Doubted"
Tuesday, Missionary Meeting.
Thursday, Midweek service at Byron
Whittet Home.
Oscar Joneson, Pastor.
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Catholic Church

Masses-S:3O A. NJ, second and
fourth Sunday in month; other
Sundays of month at 500 and
1890 A. NJ.
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CHAglRSHES
Methodist Episcopal Church
"The House of Happiness"

C. w. Gilman, Pastor
Sunday School at- 1000
Preaching Service ---11:O 100
Subject: "a Sacred Trust"
Epworth League ---------------6:45
Evening Service --------------7:3O
Subject: "The Romance of Lies
Story"
Mid week service, Thursday ----7:3O
The morning choir will sing "The
Lost Chord" and "Holy Spirit Faith
full Guide" by Mattel.
Sunday evening the Junior Choir
will sing and mixed quartet compos-
ed of Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Ward, Mrs.
Caroline Thomson and H.. V. Starr
will sing "The Old Rugged Cross"
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First Presbyterian Church
First English Lutheran Church

''The pastor gladly offers his serv-
ices and would welcome any informa-
same"
r. o. Aga, Pastor.
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st. Johns Lutheran Church
". C.. Nickels. Pastor
The daily worker., 1929-01-28

New Bedford and their struggle
with the false bureaucratic labor
leaders. That the vast majority of
textile workers previously unorgan-
lied are now organizing under the
revolutionary, militant textile work
ers' union. We want to ask ques-
tions about these things of the tex
tile workers in America" This
from woman textile worker of the
large textile centre, Ivanovno Voz-
nesensk.
Basis For Mass Paper.
The worker and peasant cores
pondent movement is big mass
movement in the Soviet Union. The
"Pravda" and the Bolshevik papers
before the revolution considered
worker correspondence one Of the
solid bases for mass workers pa
per. After the revolution with the
development of the proletariat and
the abolishment of illiteracy in the
villages this movement grew by
leaps and bounds so that now II
years after the revolution hundreds
of thousands Of workers and peas
ants and Red Army men write for
their enormous working class press
Now, II years after the revolu-
ton they are still militant workers
and in their present class struggle
with the kulaks in the villages they
are in the forefront sacrificing their
lives in the fight. Upon them rests
the responsibility of roofing out bu-
reaucratism wherever it is found
often causing hardships to them
selves and their families. They are
the "cyes Of Lenin" ON watch night
The daily worker., 1929-01-28

ance of the employers in one of the
most stubborn fights ever waged by
organized workers. The Mineola
Cease" is intrinsically interviewer
with the fate of the strike and with
the struggle of the Greenwich bur-
eaucracy against the furriers' Left
leaders.
The furriers' strike began Febru-
ary 16, 1926, and was accompanied
by police brutalities on an unpre-
cedented scale, with 1,455 arrests,
imprisonments and fines. 1t was
when the strike was reaching it's
height that Malkin and Franklin
were tried and convicted on the
trumped-up charge of having at
tackled the Rockwell Center shop, the
sentence later to be annulled by the
appellate division of Brooklyn, which
ordered new trial. It was only
when the chieftains of the A. F. of
L. had decided to declare war against
the successful union that three more
leaders were arrested in September,
1926, on the same charge.
And it was only when the bureau
Gratis had decided to organize an OPP
position union to break the victorious
furriers' union that few more left
wing leaders were arrested and a
trial begun (April, 1920. There is
an ominous coincidence also in the
fact that, after the accused had been
free on bail for 81 months, a new
trial has been ordered Immediately
upon the formation of the new needle
workers militant union of which the
furriers are an integral part.
A Political Trial.
This is not trial for an ordinary
crime. 1t is political trial. 1t is a
class trial. During the first trial
april, 1920 the district attorney
started his concluding speech with
the following words:
Gentlemen of the jury, you are
dealing here with men that are
against the government"
In examining the defendants, the
district attorney was very much in
terested whether they read the Com
munist "Freiheit," whether they
knew Ruthenberg, Lovestone or
Weinstone, whether they had been
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
The MineOla Fur Frame-Up
BY Fred Ellis

conscientious objectors during the
war, and whether they had gone to
Japan "as Communist delegates"
While the trial was going on, Mat
thew Woll and other A. F. of L.
bureaucrats were conducting a press
campaign against the defendants ac-
cusing them of being ruled by Mos
COW and of being hostile to "Amer-
lean institutions" The same bureau
Gratis, aided by the Socialists" of
the Jewish Daily Forward, accused
the strike leaders of having corrupt
ed the New York police by a hundred
thousand dollar bribe. "Civil gov
ernment is on trial today" declared
William Green at a conference
March 21, 1927, while Matthew Woll
declared at the same meeting that
the struggle against the militant fur
riers was "a struggle against the
principles of the Soviet government" "
Before and during the trial, the
Jewish Daily Forward was conduct
ing poison gas propaganda against
the furriers calling all of them Com
munists, Communist gangsters,"
underworld men," alleging that
many of the accused We're profess
sional strong-arm men. This was
only part of campaign, conducted
by all those elements with the aid
of the police and detectives and in
open cooperation with the employ
ers, to force the workers to register
in the opposition union and thus lose
the advantageous position conquered
after great victorious strike.
Aid Needed.
And now two Of the accused are
serving sentences while seven are to
be tried in the same poisoned atmos-
phere of small town infested by
the Ku Klux Klan, before a petty
bourgeois jury hostile to organized
workers and frightened by the
spectre of Moscow"
The situation is grave. The fur
workers are being tried as the ad-
vance guard of their class. They
are being tried by the united forces
of the bosses, the A. F. of L. bur-
eaucracy, the police, the socialists of
the Jewish Forward and the Klan.
The workers who are conscious Of
the imminence of new strikes and
new and much more far-flung strug-
giles must unite behind the accused
to help them win this battle.
Aid must be Forthcoming. The
battle in Mineola must be fought
with relentless energy and deter
mination.
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
By MOISSAYE J. OLGIN.

Two innocent workers serving
prison terms of 211 to ) years.
Seven more awaiting trial for be-
ing loyal to their class.
Fur manufacturers, A. F. of l..
bureaucrats, Socialist" daily, po-
lice, gangsters, Ku klux Klan and
class Justice" united in frame-up
against militant strikers leaders.
Aid must be rushed to frustrate
this assault on workers!
TWO workers, Franklin and Malkin,
went to Jail Jan. 10 to serve a
prison sentence of 21a to years.
Seven more workers: Mencher,
Schneider, Leonard, Maileff, Weiss,
Katz and Rosenberg, were to be tried
Jan. 27 on the same charges that
placed the other two workers behind
iron bars.
What is their guilt?
They are accused of having raided
a furriers' shop in Rockwell Center,
L. l., and wounding one of the own
ers. The crime is supposed to have
been committed on April 10, 1926,
during the great furriers' strike. The
accused were then active in New
York. Some of them, like the head
of the picket committee, Mencher,
and the chairman of the furriers'
joint board, Schneider, belonged to
the top leadership of the strike.
Others were engaged in highly re-
sponsible strike work, in a strike in
volving 10000 workers.
The scab shop they are supposed
to have raided employed, all in all,
two women workers. Nine respon-
sible strike leaders from New York
are accused of having travelled all
the way over to Long Island to at
tack a shop of two workers!
Stoolpigeon witnesses"
Could the district attorney produce
any evidence to prove this silly
charge? His "star" witness was a
creature by the name of Bassoff, a
stool pigeon and friend of the own
ers of the Rockwell Center shop, a
degraded former worker who first
attempted to extort money from the
leaders of the furriers' union under
threat of causing them trouble" !"
and who this failed, offered his SER
vices to the district attorney of
Mineola. Another witness was man
by the name of Weisenblum who,
previous to becoming pillar" for
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
Rabselcors Garry on Teachings Of Lenin

new machines. / would want to
ask Ford workers many questions
about the highest development in
production. We should not be en-
tirely at the mercy of our engineers.
We need only remember the Shakh-
ty case to realize how important
this is for u.s." was the eager con-
tribution to the discussion from a
worker of the large automobile plant
in Leningrad.
Want Truth About U. S. Workers.
"We are told by some Americans
visiting Russia that Ford workers
ride to and from work in their own
automobiles, that they work only s
days a week and receive big wages.
That workers in New York and Chi
cago live in luxurious apartments
and earn enormously high wages.
"Yet we know that fierce battles
are being fought in strikes. We
know that capitalist naturalization
in America is shortening the lives
of workers. We know about the
revolutionary textile workers OF
The daily worker., 1929-01-28

and day for the faintest suggestion
of irregularity and what they will
write to American workers will
bristle with the life and struggles
of the working class for it's eman-
cipation from it's exploiters and enc
mics.
Interchange With Soviet Union.
The American workers have much
to write to the workers of the u. S.
S. r. and much to learn from the
letters they will receive. Ford
workers, metal workers, chemical
workers, steel workers, railroad
workers, transport workers, textile
workers, shoe workers, clothing
workers-every man, woman and
child who works for a living, you
are invited to write to the workers
of your industry in the Soviet
Union.
Write in English. The original
letter will be published beside tn.
translation, when it appears in tn,
newspaper in the Soviet Union. Let
ters should be addressed to the In
ternational Workers Correspondence,
Department, Daily Worker, q
Union Square, New York, N. Y.
Every letter received will b,
promptly answered to inform th
writer of the disposition of his O
her letter. Another reply will comi
from the workers of the Sovie
Union when it is received there
Give your own name or use pen
name--if your letter is published i
the Daily Worker your name vii
not be used unless requested.
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
Fur Bosses, A. F. L. Bureaucrats, Police,
Socialists" Work Together

the prosecution had confessed to hav-
ing been involved in the attack upon
the Rockwell Center shop. Last but
not least in the prosecutions "evi-
dence" wee stories by detectives
who had spent hours in the offices
of the right wing scab union organ
lied by the reactionary bureaucrats
-conferring on ways and means to
"get" the militant leaders.
Flimsy Evidence.
This flimsy evidence" so trans
parent that every unbiased observer
could see thru it the bosses hands
that moved the puppet-witnesses,
was shattered into nothing by the
very circumstances of the struggle
as elucidated during the first trial
(April, 1926) of these workers. The
presence of every one of the accused
in New York on strike duty during
the very time the raid occurred in
Rockwell Center, was proven by a
host of witnesses beyond any shadow
of doubt. There was a shop chair
mems meeting in Manhattan Ly-
ceum, New York, on the very day
and hour when the raid in Rockwell
Center took place. Most of the ac-
cused were active at that meeting.
The others could prove their pres
ence in other parts of New York.
In face of such iron-clad evidence it
seems grotesque that the charges
were pressed. Yet the supreme court
of Brooklyn confirmed the sentence
of the Mineola court covering two
of the accused and ordered a new
trial for the others.
The machine of the claw" is about
to grind more lives of courageous
and devoted workers.
Workers Innocent.
The nine union members are not
guilty of the crime they are being
accused of, but they are guilty of a
crime that is more objectionable and
grave in the eyes of the capitalists:
they are guilty of having led a
successful militant strike of 10000
workers in face Of the opposition of
the A. F. of L. bureaucrats and the
right wing traitors within it, are
guilty of having broken the resist
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
Worker, Peasant Correspondents Fight Foes
of Soviet Union

Fourth Congress recently held in
Moscow.
"No political articles, no letters
giving high sounding phrases of
praise and telling nothing. We
should not say for instance, Every
thing is beautiful here. When will
you make your revolution? or such
inanities. We should write about
the way we live and we will ask
the workers of our industry in capi-
talist countries to tell us how they
live" A miner from the Don Basin
explained.
"Tovarishchi (comrades), I can
see very good results from interna-
tional correspondence for the i'm
provement Of our technical develop
ment. Many are the questions
which arise in our factories, when
we are considering the purchase of
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
BY NANCY MARKOFF.

IN the fifth anniversary Of Lenin's
death, the Rabselcor workers
and Peasant Correspondence of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
are proving that they are true Len
inists. This is shown by the fact
that they have accepted it as their
duty to give the lie to the vicious
propaganda spread broadcast by the
enemies of the working class about
the workers republic and are realiz-
ing the necessity to do their share
to fight the war danger. Their
The daily worker., 1929-01-28

weapon is the pen and their battle
ground the international workers
press.
ut is not enough that we have
fought our revolution and are now
engaged in. graphing with our prob
lens for building Communism. We
must help the workers in capitalist
countries make their revolution" !"
That was the message of Maria
Ulianova, sister Of Lenin and head
of the Rabselcor movement in the
U. S. S. r. to the delegates at their
The daily worker., 1929-01-28
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The daily worker., 1929-01-28

ports with all of its strength the Bolshevk Party of Lenn in
the severest that may be necessary against the
Troskyst conspators in the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
pubcs 1t also supports the ruthless expulsion of all the
followers of this counterrevoutonary from our
Party in this country.