The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
As We See 1t
Tom O'Fiaherty

,e.rs TO the heads of SEN
1 10 lel'si55 house appropriations
/ as AM President Hoover eX-
/ 0nTlI''I5ii 4. fears that if congress
/ pest. :.l ~ an its present rampage
/ oltnae.so U nj the govern
1 d aP gpooId have a deficit saS of aEo
] pent sVair S3OO,OOO,OOO in the
/ r'lI4 gscai year. Perhaps Her Her
/ raI !, ilsI nnt know that Andy Mel
/ b' n .,l,5 70 Individuals and cor
i bg sums an n their 1917 taxes:
/ Eail'Rn u rockefeller, $356,378;
4 JOIN oi =. Company of Phila-
i Ihf =. h''S S22S.S25; Estate of Ell.
/ @Ip m nnrye. Guaranty Trust of
/ IN " yo p' Fl al, $1O8,7l1. Other
New a l' mounts of sixty and for
ifi lslass.and dollars were refund
4 ~, rbat of it? It's the Dig
/ %ns We are after.
4 ,.,oe. are now furnishing VIC
4 'uus' If the VOlstead law on
go ;o,toIlment plan. Judge BOur-
4 lie D', IN. nrpsilIino at the cur
~ federal term of court at
Isa Fans must have felt like
! g S,'1, receiving the delegates
ho.,' Rotary Club convention
1 w. .5abs.hands party, as he sat
,5e bench. They came in
I \ '-' and in single file. The
Wv 1S,s' Al not waste much time
' .' them ON their direlec-
IN. He would slap a fine On a
~,D home brewer, take a down
] m,nent and let the prohibition
H sii,esrs collect the rest. In or
4 M 70 be straight with the gov
4 mmeDt the home brewer must
/ 3 right back to his crOckery and
1 aat all over again.
go E+Aa
] NJ course the proper thing to
/ vouH he 70 nut those fellows
H. al With unemployment such
Ill., is, every man thrown in jail
i rIeye. the labor market of just
4 j much DrotoDlasm. And it would
4 ne another citizen a chance to
n into business. But the jails
M 50 crowded with bOOtleggers
1 Nal honest criminals haven't a
I Date TO lay their heads. There
also the. danger of an explosion
] Deer Lodge which is said to
\ Wercrowded. With prison
hots raging all over the country
! md getting bigger and blOOdier
every day perhaps Judge B0ur-
oun had the right idea. This is
an installment plan age anyhow
| and it was only question Of
time until it hit the bOOtlegging
business.
s*## asa
Grover Whalen will not be a
police commissioner of New York
! after May 6. He was allowed to
Enain over May Day to see if he
could not make as big a jackass
/ d himself as did on March 6
when he turned his armed thugs
bose on an unemployed demon
arstim. Whelan became a hero
n the eyes of the capitalists but
The reaction from the workers
vas so strong that James Walk
e, the Iammany mayor, advised
GrOyg that he could return to
hS job as glOrified flOOrwalker
At Wanamaker's. the largest de-
nnment store in the world,
where girls are driven like slaves
a slave wages. Grover got along
al right in the role of official
geeler to the "KOtzafanesti"
Vlen Of ROumania. but he was
~ So lucky with the COmmun-
*&***
The Industrial Worker of Sc
ave carries a pretty story about
on Old scab herder named Bert
vG'len who now occupies a spe-
"a spot in a Seattle soup line.
Ua herded scabs for the Cas-
ne Lumber Company at Gle
Lun during the 1918 strike. This
aa''ly how the bosses reward
SS who do the dirty work for
%a' once had the pleasure of
sung the home of an ex-Burns
lplgeon. He was living in
E s',el n poverty. He told me that
uA burns paid his rats no more
.'n aOO a day and believe me
! D maue !. 'nem produce. They had
~,S puI threatening letters into
'a BOXES alleged to be written
4. 'aulcals and of course when
., plule found the letter he be-
S,o nal - 20 a shimmy and he might
S In call in Burns to protect
&&##%
s, Unless they created "Red
S ~Sss and threw their quota Of
dsD 's n order to give Burns a
henl an :, sae weekly state.
veDs S ~ !ae Red Terror" the,
t,rS,a oallled and abused like de-,
pipv s Oy a lieutenant befor,
Sopij On duty. Old Bill Burn,
i, oif; ias MS back on couch n
Psiss'1' ''G dreaming of new 'Ret
kior. ne might lay for hour,
lin. "a \ happy thOt would strik,
hnn NJ ,1en suddenly he wouIc
dictate y I, call a,.i his stenOgrapher ant
hat 'n.l Statement to the effec.
h BI eVSn a place was going {,
have tba up and that he wouI,
s.Iour, NJ Sulprits inside Of t twen
tae "a n ours Burns always tool
bose 1 Og' a few of them nh br pIs
Burton I I s., methods. Fi nall
tack 1 a, !, Wheeler got on "'a II
nd inst...55e Daugherty b ms q,
figure 1 l. Of being the U Datia1s
'cAsap \ liO once was Burns i poa
a'Aole. running an Ordinar
Now TIA, -