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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
Larfargue Writes of Marks Intellectual Life
and Methods of Work

the authors he chiefly priced: Push
kin, Gogol, and Shedrin.
But his main reason for learning
Russian was that he might be able
to read certain official reports -
which the government had suppress
ed because the revelations they con-
tanned were so appalling. Some de-
voted friends had managed to pro-
cure copies for Marx, and there can
be little doubt that he was the only
western economist who had cogni.
zance of them.
Besides the reading of poetry and
novels, Marx had recourse to an
other and very remarkable source OF
mental relaxation, this being math-
ematics, of which he was exceeding
ly fond. Algebra even gave him mo-
raj consolation; and he would take
refuge in it during the most painful
moments of stormxtossed life.
In the days of his wife's last ILL
ness, he found it impossible to gosor
with his ordinary work, and his only
escape from the thought of her suf.
ferings was to immense himself in
mathematics. At this distressful pc.
Rod he wrote an essay upon the in
finitesimal calculus. professional
mathematicians who have read it
describe it as being of the first i'm
portance, and it is to be published II
his collected works.
In the higher mathematics hi
could trace the dialectical movement
in it's most logical and at the same
time in its simplest form. According
to his way of thinking, a science was
not properly developed until it hat
reached form in which it coulC
make use of mathematics.
Marks library, comprising more
than a thousand volumes laboriousl!
j got together in the course of a life
time of research, was insufficient fol
his needs; and for many years h,
was a regular attendant at the Brit
ish Museum Reading Room, who's,
catalogue he greatly priced. Ever
his. opponents are constrained tt
admit that he was man of pro
found and wide erudition; and thi
not merely in his own speciality o.
economies, but also in the history
philosophy, and belletristic literatur,
of many lands.
Marx was an extremely conscien
tious writer. He never gave fact
or figures which he could not sub
stantiate from the best authorities
In this matter he was not conten
with secondhand sources, but wen
always to the fountain head, how
ever much trouble it might entail
Even for the verifcation Of som,
subsidiary item, he would pay spe
cial visit to the British Museum
That is why his critics have neve,
been able to convict him Of an erro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16


Year after year he would read Aes-
chylus again in the original text, re-
garding this author and Shakes
peare as the two greatest dramatic
geniuses the world had ever known.
For Shakespeare he had an I'M
bounded admiration. He had made
an exhaustive study of the English
playwright whose lesser characters,
even, were familiar friends.
He rested his mind by pacing up
and down the room, so that between
door and window the carpet had been
worn threadbare along sharply de-
fined track, like a foothpath through
meadow. Sometimes he would lie
down on the sofa to read a novel,
and had often two or three novels
going at the same time, reading
them by turns-for, like Darwin,
he was a great novel-reader. He had
a preference for eighteenth-century
novels, and was especially fond of
Fielding's Tom Jones.
Among modern novelists, his ia
vorites were Paul de Kock, Charles
Lever, the elder Dumas, and Sir
Walter Scott, whose Old Mortality
he considered a masterpiece. He had
prediction for tales of adventure
and humorous stories. The greatest
masters of romance were for him
Cervantes and Balzac. Don Quirote
was the epic of the decay Of chival-
ry, whose virtues were depicted by
the rising bourgeoisie as absurdities
and follies.
His admiration for Balzac was so
profound that he had planned to
write critique of La comedie hu-
maine as soon as he should have
finished his economic studies. Marx
looked upon Balzac, not merely as
the historian of the social life of his
time, but as prophetic creator of
character types which still existed
only in embryo during the reign of
Louis Philippe, and were not to I'M
dergo full development until the days
of the Second Empire, after Bal
zac's death.
Marx could read nearly all the
leading European languages, and
could write three German, French,
and English) in a way that aroused
the admiration Of all who were well
acquainted with these tongues; and
he was fond of saying "a Foreign
language. is a weapon in the strug-
giles of life"
He had a special talent for Ian
guages, and this was inherited by
his daughters. He was fifty when he
began to learn Russian. Although the
dead and the living languages al
ready known to him were of no help
in the mastery of Slavic roots, he
had made such progress in six
months to to be able to enjoy
reading in the original the works of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
Members of Italian
Consulates Act as
Agents for Fascist

PARIS, (By Mail) 1t is a we'll
known fact that the diplomatic
representatives of the fascist gov
eminent work quite openly with the
local fascists and interfere very
definitely in the affairs of the coun-
tries to which they are accredited
without any protest being made by
the governments in question.
A new case has been reported,
this time from Liege. An anti
fascist Italian immigrant in Bel
GUM married a Belgian girl. In
order to obtain Identification papers,
the young woman went to the Ital-
ian consulate and there she was in
formed quite simply that if her hus-
band would give up his anti-fascist
opinions and join the local Fascist
League, both he and she could have
all the papers they required,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
Personal Rec0llections of Marx

due to carelessness, or to show that
any of his demonstrations were based
on facts which could not be corrobo-
rated.
Thanks to his habit of consulting
originals, he would often quote au-
thors whose names were known to
very few besides himself. Capital
contains number of such quota
lions so many that it might be
supposed they were introduced to
make a parade of learning. But
Marx was moved by a very differ
emit impulse. He said: 81 am per-
forming an act of historical justice,
and am rendering to each man his
DUE" 1t seemed to him obligatory
to name the author, however insig-
nihcant and obscure, who had first
expressed a thought, or had express
ed it more precisely than any one
else.
His literary conscience was no less
strict than his sense of scientific re-
sponsibility. Not merely would he
never mention a fact of whose au-
thenticity there could be the slight
est doubt, but he would not allude
to topic at all unless he had made
a thorough study of it. He would
not publish anything until he had
worked over it again and again, and
until. what he had written seemed to
! him satisfactory in point of form.
He could not bear to offer half
finished thoughts to the public. 1t
would have been most distressing to
him to show one of his manuscripts
before it had been finally revised.
This feeling was so strong in him
that he said to me one day he would
rather burn his manuscripts than
leave them behind him unfinished.
His methods of work often involved
him in tasks enormously more ardu-
Gus than the readers of his books
could imagine.
For instance, in order to write the
twenty-odd pages of Capital dealing
with British factory legislation he
had consulted a whole library of
blue-books containing the reports of
special commissions of enquiry and
of the English and Scottish factory
inspectors. AS the pencil markings
show, he read them from cover to
cover.
He regarded these reports as some
of the most important of the docu-
ments available for the study of the
capitalist method of production; and
he had so high an opinion of the
men who had made them that he de-
clared it would be hard to find in
any other nation linen as compe-
tent, as unbiased, and as free from
respect of persons as are the Eng
fish factory inspectors" This re-
markable tribute will be found in
the, preface to the first volume of
Capital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
BY G. PLECHANOFF.

(From ans article aoritten IN 1903.)
The thirty.,ffth number of "Iskra'
appears on the twentieth anniver.
sary Of the death of Karl Marx
to whom tie first place must there
fore be allotted. If it is true, that
the great international working class
movement was the most remarkable
social phenomenon Of the nineteenth
century, it follows that the founder
of the International Workingmen's
Association was the most remark.
able man of that century.
A fighter and thinker rolled into
one, he not only organized the forces
of the international army of the
workers, but forged for that army
lin collaboration with his faithful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
Scientific Thinker and
Revolutionary Fighter

friend Friedrich Engels) the power
full spiritual weapon with whose aid
it has already inflicted many de-
feats upon its enemy, md will ere
long win a complete victory.
If socialism has become scientific
we owe this to Karl Marx. Further
more, if awakened proletarians are
now fully aware that the social rev.
olution is an essential preliminary
to the final deliverance of the work
ing class, and that this revolution
must be brought about by the work
ers themselves; if they now show
themselves to be the implacable and
interchangeable enemies of the bour-
geois system Of society - these
things are due to the influence Of
scientific socialism.
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BILL s s:s.s.: e. .,' lac. By international
HA Y WOODS
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Haywood, Captive, Rushed by Special
Train to Death Cell at Boise,
Idaho, Charged With Murder

previous chapters Hay0ood told of his early life miner,
coOboy the Old West Of his union
Idaho election head Of the Western Federation Of
strikes Idaho and Colorado; the formation OF
the of the explosion (Which killed Steuenbeg
oovernor Pettbone kidnapped
February 1906 and put special train under
guard bound for Idaho charged U the murder Now
reading
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w Telluride have human face
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The deputy warden of the Idaho penitenti1 ry
up and spoke to u.s. In the course OF his talk,
he tsld us many of his exploits in arresting dam
gerous men. We listened for want of better .enter
tanment. Later Buckley Wells came into the car
with bottle of whisky and asked us to have drink
which we did, handling the glass rather awkwardly
on account of the handouts. We found out from
him that we were on special train and that we
would arrive in Boise the following morning.
We were going at terrific speed. The engine
took on coal and water at small stations and stoned
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-12
CLIMAX NEAR
IN FARLEY TO
LIMIT NAvlES
Demands of England May
Defeat RooVer's Aim
for Reduction.

BIZ United Pres
WASHINGTON, Sept. t2.-Wheth-
er President Hoover's project for
real naval reduction has been de-
feated by unreconcilable British and
American problems probably will be
revealed within the week.
If reduction in the cruiser class
has slipped beyond reach, there will
remain the goal of cruiser limitation
and the probability reduction may
be obtainable an other classes of war
vessels. During the last few days
officials have said the odds were
about even for attainment of cruiser
reduction.
A long day Of conferences
Wednesday between the President,
Secretary of State Stimson, Under
Secretary Cotton, Secretary OF Navy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-12
STUDENT FIGHTS
INDIANA u. BAN
ON RUM CHARGE
Carries Case to Governor;
Admits Violation of
Dry Laws.

BIZ Crfted Press
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. II.
Refusal of Indiana university Of
fcials to allow Arthur Schaible, 81,
e return TO the institution this ses-
sion because ne was convicted on
liquor charges was subject OF
much conversation in Bloomington
today.
Schaible, who already has COM
pleted his pre-medical course, was
denied permission to continue his
studies at the university by DR.. Bur
ton D. Myers, assistant dean of the
medical school. Myers decision was
upheld by Professor c. E. Edmond
son, dean of men.
Schaible, after being barred from
the school. carried his appeal to the
cf1ce Of Governor Harry g. Leslie.
The student admitted TO L. o. Cha
sey. secretary to the Governor, that
he had violated the dry laws, but
was not a bootlegger.
II vas said that Schaible and two
companions we're arrested by fed
ersl authorities in August when
they we're alleged to have sold liquor
while employed on a steamboat.
Trey we're given suspended SEN
tences after pleading guilty to the
charges in Chicago.
Chasey said Schaible told him
that unless he was permitted to en-
ter Indiana his ambitions to become
a physician would be thwarted.
Schaible said it would be practically
impossible for him to enter any
other university.
Chasey, acting in the absence of
Leslie, told Schaible to make an
other attempt to enter the school,
and if he again was denied entrance
that he would carry the case be-
fore the Governor.
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Adams and members of the navy
general board ended without an
nouncement of progress. Further
discussion today was limited before
dispatch of the United States re-
ioinder to Britains statement thai
about $4,000 tons represented min
imum cruiser requirements.
If that tonnage level were &C
cepted, the United States would fall
far short even after completing the
remainder of the 1924 building pro-
gram and the 1929 program for con-
struction of fifteen cruisers of 10000
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tons. With cruisers already in COM
mission. the United States would
have only 305.000 tons of cruisers
after the last authorized cruiser was
built
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-12
COLLEGIANS ARE COMING

Orchestra Begins Engagement at
Ballroom Saturday.
Jan Campbell, and his Washing
ton and Lee Collegians orchestra
will open a two weeks engagement
at the Indiana ballroom Saturday
niaht.
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". 60 out and watch New Yorks famous Old Seventh
Regiment take the concealed cigarette test We WI
publish YOUR eyewitness story word for word So here
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
HUGE DRY SQUAD
ADDED TO ROLLS
SINCE MARCH 4

Washington, Dec. 3.-Secretary
Mellon reported to the senate that
275 additional prohibition agents
and 257 additional customs agents
had been employed here since
March 4th to enforce the liquor
law under the increased appropri-
alton of $2,427 ,514 authorized last
session by congress.
The report, made in answer to
a resolution by Senator Harris,
Democrat, Georgia, also included a
comparison of the work done by
the prohibition service from April
L to October 81 of this year and
during the same period of last
year.
James M. Doran, prohibition
commissioner, in a letter attached
to the report, said a marked i'm
provement" shown was "due to the
governments policy of concentrate
ing on investigative work."
In the seven months period for
this year the report said, 37,19O
persons were arrested by federal
prohibition officers as compared
with 1928 in the same period last
year, while 9,121 distilleries were
seized this year as compared with
9,O21 last year.
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five yearly payments with so on
deferred payments.
Purchaser to pay for laid over
breaking If such was found on
land bought at the rate of $500
per acre, and summerfallow pillow.
ing to be paid for at the rate of
$500 per acre and $0.75 per acre
for each disking or similar kind of
work done on summerfallow not to
exceed $500 per acre.
The following lands were sold:
A one acre tract. known as the
Plentywood Creamery tract, locat-
ed in Sec. 10, Twp. IS, rye. SIS, sold
to P. D. Howell for $155.00.
SWA, Sec. IL, VIZ VIZ, Sec.
1865, sold to Niels Madsen for
$4,000.
We Sec. IA, twp. SO, rye. 81.
sold to Peder Bruvold for $500.
Lots 1886, sec. A, twp. 81, rye.
Sc. sold to S. C. Faaborg for
S64O.
NWA, Sec. Is, VIZ NEA, SEA
NEA, Is, twp. 81, rye. 81, sold to
]. P. Schell for $3.50.
AS this concluded the sale, on
motion, the Board adjourned.
Frank French,
Chairman of the Board.
Niels Madsen, Clerk.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
NATIONAL CITY OF
IN. Y. PREDICTS RISE
In WHEAT PRICES

The November bulletin of the
National City bank of New York,
discusses the heavy stock and
grain slump and believes that
wheat will eventually range high
er, since the world production is
millions of bushels below that of
last year. It's review of the Can
adian wheat pool situation is es-
pecially interesting. Here it is:
The Canadian wheat pool is act
ing upon the theory that a scar
city of wheat for the ensuing year
actually exists, and is exerting its
influence for holding back the crop.
1t justifies this policy not only by
the estimates of production and
requirements, but by the claim
that while the Canadian crop is
short in quantity it is exceptional
in quality, and will all be wanted
at higher prices.
The officials of the pool organi-
zation have been holding this po-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06
MONTANA BEHIND
HOOVER PROGRAM
WIRES ERICKSON

Helena, Dec. Montana may
be counted on for its share in the
presidents economic program.
Governor Erickson has wired the
chief executive at Washington.
Highways, railroads, power con-
Germs and municipalities contem-
plate construction programs in the
state totaling many million dol
lars, he pointed out.
The governors message follows:
Montana will cooperate to the
utmost with you in an endeavor to
avert an economic and industrial
disaster. While public work in
the state will be somewhat limited.
yet we plan during the coming
year to expend about 100000 in
construction and maintenance of
highways and bridges. There is
pending before the interstate com
merce commission an application
for permission to spend between
$1O,OOO,0O0 and $15,OOO,OOO in a
new railroad line across the state.
IL the federal power commission
will, in the near future, issue a Ii
ense to responsible parties to de
velop the Flathead power site, be-
tween $S,O00,0O0 and $4,000, 900
Will be spent there. There is ev-
cry indication that the present
prosperous condition of the mining
industry will continue and that
there will be an extension and an
increase in the production of oils
and minerals.
ut is hoped that activity of the
federal farm bureau will improve
the market for the farmer and in
sure increased prices for his
wheat. This will increase activi-
ties of the state in an industrial
way. | have written the boards
of county commissioners to give
me an outline of their plans for
the coming year and these will be
reported to the secretary of COM
merce. You may count on Mon
tana doing her best to assist your
program of sterilization"
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were ordered cancelled:

were ordered cancelled:
Taxes for the year 1921 assessed
against John Pace on S1a NWA
Ne SWA, Sec. 5, NEA, Sec. g.
1882.
Taxes assessed against Albert
Sletten for the years 1923-24-25-
26-27-28 and 1929 on SEA, 1882
"a were ordered cancelled as no
patent has been issued to this land.
Taxes assessed against Joseph
inc NORM for the year 1917 on
NEA, 23-3256 as this was Indian
allotment at that time.
Taxes assessed against Davelin
NORM for the year 1917 on SEA
1926, as this was an Indian
allotment at that time.
Taxes assessed against Joseph
Norm for the year 1917 on NJ
SEA, SEA SWH, 33-32-56, as
this was an Indian allotment at
that time.
Taxes assessed against Louis
DeEorme for the years 1918-19-2O-
21-22-23-24-25- 26-27-28-29 on Sc
a NEA, SEA NWA, 3-32-54, as
this land is an Indian allotment.
Taxes assessed against Arthur
NORM for the year 1917 on NWA
24-32-56, as this was an Indian al
lottment at that time.
Taxes assessed against Anna
Savers for the years 1917-19-20-21
on S1a SEA, Sec. "a, E1s NEA
sec. 25-32-56, as this was an In
dian allotment.
! Taxes assessed against David
Norm for the year 1917 on SWA
23-32-56, as this was an Indian al
lottment at that time.
On motion, the minutes of the
previous meeting were read and
approved as read.
On motion, the Board adjourned
at 500 o'clock P. M, until Satur-
day, November 9th at 10 o'clocE
A. M.
Frank French,
Chairman of the Board
Niels Madsen, Clerk.
At 1000 o'clock A. M, Novem'
Der 9th. 1929, the Board of County
Commissioners met in special SEES
sion for the purpose of offering
for sale lands on which the Coun
ty had obtained tax deeds.
The following terms of sale
were agreed upon by the BoarC
and were explained before thu
sale:
An sales of $4,000 or les
would be cash sales. on sales am
bunting to more than $4,000 thu
following terms would be given:
20% of purchasing price TO b
paid at time of sale and balance il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-12-06

sition in the face of falling prices
and despite criticism, expressing
themselves as satisfied to allow
other wheat to be marketed first
and thus gotten out of the way.
Total exports of wheat from Can
ada in August and September,
1929, were 17,566,075 bushels, a.
gainst 51,979,947 in the CORES
ponding months of last year, and
it must be considered that while
this crop is considerably smaller
than last years, supplies available
for export, including the carryov-
er, have been constantly larger
than last year. For the same two
months, exports of flour were
down from 1,S14,421 barrels last
year to 1,135,627 this year, show
ing the indisposition of the foreign
trade to buy on the price basis.
This restriction of the market
ing movement is the uppermost
subject in Canada. The railroads
are suffering for traffic, the
steamship lines are complaining
about the lack of cargoes, manu-
facturers and merchants are dis
turbed by slackening of trade and
collections. The Canadian dollar
has been for some time at a dis
count of approximately 1.25 cents
in New York because of payments
was running against Canada and
with the heavy demands on the
banks to carry wheat it was thot
inadvisable to allow the gold re-
serves to be depleted by exports.
The break in the prices on the
New York stock exchange in the
last weke of October caused this
discount to increase to PA per
cent. Ordinarily, an exchange of
u per cent will move gold between
Montreal and New York.
1t looks as though the crux of
the situation would come soon, for
if Europe continues to get what
it needs around present prices un-
til the new harvest stands in Ar
gentina and Australia in six weeks
or two months, it may maintain an
attitued of indifference much long
er.
Our own information from Ar
gentina is that devastating
drought prevailed until the middle
of September. Since then general
rains have fallen and conditions
have improved very much, but ev.
en- so, the acreage is somewhat
less than last year.