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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1880
CON CUTS HIS SLAVES WAGES

Cornelius F. Kelly, big mogul of the Anaconda
Copper company handed his wage slaves little
gift the other day in the form of twenty-five
cents day wage cut. 1t appears that the price
of copper dropped few cents and Con immediate
" decided that his serfs should shoulder the drop
Con can do pretty much as he likes with his
slaves. There was time when wage cut would
be resisted-when Bill Dunno, with his Butte Bull
letin and supported by thousands of militant work
ers turnout the Northwest was leading the fight
against the Anaconda and when the l. w. W. was
in its prime.
But the labor movement in Butte today, like
the trade union movement in the rest of the coun-
try has no fight in it. 1t does not fight like the
Anaconda Copper Company. King Copper reigns
supreme 1t owns the labor leaders as well as
senators and congressman. How long this state
of affairs will last is another question.
Con Kelly has been honored recently by univer-
stiles and metallurgical institutions for his SER
vices to the science of producing ore at the ex-
pense of the workers. Perhaps Con does not need
as many gunner to protect him now as he did in
the old days when the workers of Butte were in
a fighting mood. Perhaps he can spare few
dollars for those servie universities
Con Kelly of course is not the issue. He is only
one of the figure heads; one of the Simon Legrees
that drive the copper slaves to the profit of dis
tant stockholders.
But we venture to predict that the time will
ecome when he cannot cut the wages of his slaves
at will and that the time will also come when the
workers of the whole of Montana will elect men
to office who will represent their interests and not
the interests of the copper barons.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

Zeppelins on round the-world flights sheer at her
from the air.
Out of the late world war; developed two mighty
forces, standing at opposite ends of the social
pole On one side is the Soviet Union, born out OF
the Cars empire, building up economy based
on the interests of the workers and peasants; on
the other side stands the United States which as
result of the war secured the upper hand over the
British empire hitherto the strongest world power,
king of the land and queen of the seas.
The ultimate struggle will be between these two
forces but we believe that before this world shak-
ing decisive conflict between capital and labor
takes place that England will make a desperate
effort to halt the march of the United States
towards world hegemony she did in the case
OF Germany in 1914. The next world war is likely
10 find England and the United States the main
antagonists with their various satellites taking
sides in the conflict.
This is the picture that is stretched out before
us on this May Day. There is no use blinking the
facts The rivalry for markets between the CAPT
talist powers and their jockeying for favorable
naval and military positions must end in war. But
it is liable to be war that will shake the struc-
ture of capitalism to its base and bring it topping
to its foundation, as the late world war brought
down the corrupt and rotten government of the
Gear.
Whether this war will come in two years or five,
no one can tell-not even those who are preparing
for it. But it is a certainty Not even the silliest
pacifist will deny this. The fires of revolution
have been lighted in India and the hitherto paci-
fic masses are plundering arsenals and Selling
and using them the British invaders. The
Chinese revolution which suffered temporary de-
feat is again on the war path. While on the one
hand the oppressed masses in rebellion against
the imperialists on the other hand the mperialist
robbers ready to fly at each others threats in
a quarrel the loot stolen from the workers
and colonial peoples the world over.
This May Day finds the American working class
showing faint signs of being able to read the
hand writing on the wall. Only the small section
Of it led by the Communist Party knows whittier
it is going. The Socialist Party dominated by
preachers and lawyers breaches the word of peace
and with legal tones offers to lead them into the
promised land without the loss of toe nail. The
leaders of the American Federation of Labor led
by the unctious Methodist, William Green, ex-
press their satisfaction with the capitalist system
and denounce in soaring words those who would
GO away with it. The farm leaders, on the whole,
are jockeying with capitalist methods of Saving
the farmers But the masses learn faster from
unemployment and war than they do from books
from the lips of speakers They will come to
realize that their only hope for salvation is thru
struggle. They will drop their reactionary leaders
as one would drop pole cat. They will establish
their own government-a Government of Workers
and Farmers.
There is no other way out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
LUCK JOHN D.

Your mistake, ladies and gentlemen lies in the
fact that you did not take the precaution to be
northumberland. If you had economic depression
and unemployment would not worry you; the
problem of putting in your crop would not bring
wrinkles to your brows and you would not need to
give hang whether there was prohibition or not
cause you could take trip to Paris whenever you
felt thirsty or even hungry for Partisan fare
For it is given to those that have and to those
that have not that which they have is taken away
from them. Sounds like the Einstein theory but
we are bit flummerbusted over the news that the
internal revenue department returned wad of
dough to John (Dime) Rockefeller amounting to
S35637S-a tax refund for 1917
Now, if John had not been multi-millionaire
and he asked Andrew Mellon for a little loan with
which to put in a crop, Andy would have his jani-
tor throw him into the furnace or something like
that. But because. John is so rich that he does
not know where his money is how much he has,
Andy opens out his big heart and puts a few
more bags of gold on Johns truck
Johns living expenses are said to be less than
that of the average farmer. His only weakness
III the spending line giving away new Dimes
But since the stock market crash he reduced his
hobby to nickles Let's hope he returns to his dime
debauchery and thus help restore prosperity to
normalcy
ToL,. n
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
THE GLEASON GIRLS-WHAT'S
THIS?
"a contributed editoriall


Very likely will be in Jail for contempt of
court by the time you read this, and don't care.
Contempt of court is what am chock full of The
more l see of it, the fuller l get. What farce
court is any way, with all its judges, lawyers jur
ors lying witnesses and Justice!
The 100000 special term Of court show Grant
Blackwell put up in order to get mig" Collins has
been pretty well chewed over, but l can not help
going over it again. want people to understand
just what kind of "justice" we have under our
present Main street administration
Mig running a place a couple of miles out
of town. Call it chicken ranch; call it road
house; call it anything you want The county
commissioners had graveed the road all the way
from town to his door. Things served there could
be had in town as well-some of our county Off
Gals could testify to that if they wanted to- ask
Frank French. Money is getting scarce and COM
petition is getting keener, the town trade had to
be protected So they had to get "Nig and they
got him.
Frank Fishbeck and Stanley Palubicld made
date with three girls to go tc Nig's place for
good time, got them in the car and picked up
Mig" The girls young but were not born
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a vote. Chairman Smell of the
rules committee told the labor
men that he would not grant them
a special rule under which the
bill could be considered. And since
the bills reported from the com
mittee on postoffices and post
roads will not be reached on the
regular calendar before the House
adjourns for the summer, this and
all the rest of the labor bills that
remain under control of Long
worth, Majority Leader Tilson and
Smell are dead-so far as this year
is concerned.
Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary
of the National Federation of
Post Office Clerks, describing the
blow dealt the postal workers bv
the men who dictate House action.
said that it was clear that the adj
ministration's wishes were being
obeyed by Longworth, Tilson and
Smell. The Hoover administration
was. as Postmaster General Brown
had testified, hostile to this AZ
hour measure for postal employees.
It was hostile to the hopes of or
gained labor in many other d.
rections. 1t was applying pressure
to prevent labor's bill coming to a
roll call in the House.
Were In Deadlock
Inquiry as to the probable fate
of the federal employees retire
ment legislation, into which Pres
ident Hoover intruded his ultimat-
UNI against the Dale bill which
had passed the Senate, showed
that on April % the House and
Senate conferees remained in dead
lock. The Hoover-Lehlbach hill
adopted by the House went to
conference with the Dale bill on
March IL, and the last time the
conferees met was April 8. In
volved in this deadlock is the in
creasing of maximum retirement
allowances from $1,000 to 81 200 q
year at base rates of pay, with the
possibility of much higher nnav;-
mum pensions for workers who
pay additional sums into the re-
tirement fund.
Postmaster General Brown. who
boasts that he is preparing to dis
tribute $30,00O,O00 a year of fed
eral mail-subsidy funds to shin
builders. and that he does this ae
a disciple of Mark Hanna in Ohio
politics, has repeatedly denounced
the postal workers unions for
their daring 10 demand higher nav
and shorter hours for the men who
spend their lives in the service.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
The WASHINGTON SCTNr
By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated D.. NL


Washington = (FP) = Before
these words appear in print the
Senate may have received word
that Judge John J. Parker of the
Fourth Federal Circuit has asked
that his name be withdrawn from
nomination to the Supreme Court.
Or, if he clings to the hope that
the White House may yet force
him upon the Senate and the coun-
try, debate may have started in
the Senate, leading to his rejection
for cause. There seems no chance
that he can be confirmed.
Were the United States a ma
ton conscious of feudal tradition
rather than of the free-for-all
scramble of capitalist individual
ism, the deliberate action of Pres
ident Hoover in demanding that
the Senate confirm to the highest
court an obscure, feudal-niinded
Republican politician from North
Carolina would not have aroused
the political echoes it has. When
organized labor, stirred up by .
few of its progressives, attacked
Parker's record as a sponsor OF
the yellow dog injunction, there
was midi dismay in party head.
quarters. When the highly intel
ligent leadership of the Nationa
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People stirred the Ne
gro voters in every corner of thu
country with an expose of Park
er's enmity to the political free
dom of their race, the G. o. P
leaders wrung their hands. Tn,
1916 vote in the Senate judiciar!
committee, rejecting Parker, wa
made inevitable by the protests O
these two elements.
= = =
What this battle has develope,
is the fact that in the people still
resides-indeed is steadily devel
oping-a power of protest agains
governmental arrogance whicl
will be awed neither by the judi
cial ermine nor by the pomp an
intrigue which surround the pres
idential throne. Contempt for tn
Judgment and the social attitud
of Herbert Hoover-the man i
the White House who repulsed ev
cry suggestion that he name
man of the type of Judge Williar
S. Kenyon, to stand with Holme
and Brandeis for the moderniza
ton and humanization of Amer
can governments written a
over the record of the Parke
case. Not all the detective-secre
taries and tea-bought press eulc
gists and radio-glorifiers at tn
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

tested to Pres. Green of the A. r
of L. against the "treachery' 4
Pres. Frank Feeney of the Eleul.
or Constructors init. in leading 1
delegation of alleged labor lesdeu
to Washington to tender their SUD
port to Grundy. Pres. Green j
asked to investigate Feeney's mo-
tives in backing the wealthy al.
iff hog.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

command of his DOVE,
f fEs can wash out the V vr9st bad.
tne people have stamn veto Wild
the lace of this appoin toa aa's
,o Exercise ere: of this nr ,,ssnt
has delighted the co,I p,st.Otest-poss
brought brought new courage to 4. ~
movement mover the defendteO,,' Ae laS
negro race, and to 'i ind.oott 81
thinkers who have a bo T,ae r
nation ma will begin t to -'t XIII That q
us Us economic organiz saltIR ab'S
Hughes can be Show, -aa1lOn n
Wall Street judge, and % Y a ss d
can be b.. beaten, then the I Sn psis.
G lou can, by stubborn iS S9p!'a
1ltness to occupy that p S,S.S ! 10
thority, be made safe f E,a'e q q
,,l1'lil.y aS the American 80
now now understand. 1t can i. peSs
ualIy made over into an 'S La ga
ment for human bettermsr9t 'ta :.
stead of remaining an avan,, :
Stacking peOnage upon 'tsSs e ". =
ers. H 'ne vol
= *&&&s
These statements sours
tlonal. The plain fact Is tS., enc
er in a decade have the ' Sa..l l''
press correspondents at t jssSols
tol been so awakened emot i ~
as in these Hughes and '' paS
battles. They realize, evan siIt
their editors do not publish 'u !
fact, that here and now i ~. Y
determined a new chapter : y OI y
erican struggle for human N q. y
dom. The favorite of tba M NJ
power interests is an acci5s'.
pretext for a battle which ''I h
been preparing ever since \
crash of old feudal powers n \
World War, and the emergen /,
the Soviet challenge to canit t,
justice. Since 1917 it has be 'sr
steadily less safe for Amer n,
politicians to pack the saw
against the working class. Pc
radio and the films bring "a /,
erican workers attention. n
steadily growing stream.
news and plans of workers in !,
er countries who are better
their own condition. This 4
1880 has marked the turning nj
for the old arrogance in Amer
If Hoover and the power n
rulers and the political chiefs Y
are directed by big industry i
ognize that it is too late to
sist on yellow dog iniuncH
judges on the Supreme Court h
will save themselves some NJ
surprises in future.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
HOUSE DICTATORS
7 H u NJ B NOSES AT
| ABOR LEADERS

Washington FTP - Legislative
agents of the labor movan, sare
were informed April 81 bv Sr ,aeI'
er Longworth that he wo,ld e "a
entertain a motion to suspend benz T tbs
rules, so that the postal worte sns
44-h0ur bill could be brought et t.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

Editors ELECTROMAGNETIC for
publication in this column must
be not longer than 500 words.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

patton would in itself be an ac-
acknowledgements that May Day is
labor holiday. Nevertheless
Pres. Joseph P. Ryan of the cen
trail body and the init. Longshore-
mems Assn. has approved the lat
est anti-radical crusade.
From all parts of the country
come protests that Uncle Sam is
treating his nose counters in a
shabby manner. Averaging &c a
name and &c for each employment
blank filled out, census takers find
it hard to knock out $25 a week
even in highly congested New
York. In New York, Scranton,
Seattle, st. Louis and other places
enumerators have abandoned their
jobs and supervisors have been ap-
pealing to Washington for permits
sion to raise the commission rates.
Pennsylvania Federation of La
Dor representatives, meeting in
Harrisburg, have unanimously en-
dorsed Sec. of Labor James J. Da-
Wis for the U. S. senate and Fran
els Skunk Brown for governor.
For many of the unionists, the ac-
ton was not so much an endorse
ment of the Davis-Brown ticket as
a gesture of hostility to Sen. Joe
Grundy, head of the Pennsylvania
Mfrs. Assn, inveterate foe of la
Dor, who is seeking the Republican
nomination. The Federation pro-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
Eastern Labor News
Labor Skates JubiIant

~DOA 0AdbCS JuDlidnt
New York-FP = New York
State Federation of Labor officials
are Jubilant over the enactment of
list of II labor bills bv the
state legislature and the defeat of
al dangerous anti-labor measures
The state political situation PLAYED
INTO the hands of labor forces this
year, IN marked distinction to the
legislatures hostility last wear
Republicans, aware that tbe De-
mocrats have walked away with
the states liberal-labor vote for
years by opposing the too-onen
business control of the state q
Y. r., have decided to adont a
more liberal tone in order to brealr
dammany's hold on New York
CITY Democrats have controlled
/ the governorship of the state. nor
mally Republican by overwheln-
ing maJorities, for nearly 10 wears
through the Smith-Roosevelt noli-
cy. po-A
Jockeying For Takers
consequently the Republican
machine, tool though it is Of the
New York bankers and unstate
power interests, obligingly pushed
through niggardly old ape mem
sion law, mild curb on judicial in
Junction tyranny and a measure
assuring union wages on . bio
railroad grade crossing elinoina7
ton program. The Republican ma
cnlne will try to break the Demo-
cratic hold on the union labor vote 20,
TINS fall by playing up the record
OF labor bills passed. 0
New York labor leaders war,
OF the Republican game. have sent
profuse thanks to Gov Roosev veit'
democrat, for his efforts in nush,
ing through the labor program ,,
Fres. Sullivan attributed union Ia
Dors success to an aroused labor
sentiment" the like of which he
mad not seen in 10 years. during
which the State Federation has
oeen lighting for an Injunction
curbing bill. '-oA
Inc New York Central Trades
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02

The New York Central Trades
ana Labor Council deity side
stepped an invitation of the Veter-
ans OF Foreign Wars to take part
IN the provocative anti-radical de-
m \ May 1 in Union So. It
uiu so on the grounds that partici-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-02
POOR FIDol POOR KIDDIE

There is no other way out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-21

Artistic design, as pictured.
Removable bowl. Built of
wrought iron. Finish in green.
For indoors, sunroom. porch
wherever you have plants or
vines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
ARM!STICE DAY
TO Be MARKED
Legion Post at Columbus
Sponsors Program.
En- Times Special

BI Times Special
COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct. 25.-Al-
bert Stump, indianapolis attorney,
has been obtained as the principal
speaker for an Armistice day cele-
bration to be held here under aus
pieces Of the American Legion officers
Of that organization announced.
Final plans are being made for
the affair which the legion members
say will be one of the largest ceIe-
brations ever held here.
At a business meeting of the
legion, Robert Lambert, school prin-
cipal. was installed as commander
Of the post, succeeding Marion
Amick. Other new officials installed
are William H. Dobbins, adjutant;
Raymond Bell, first vice-command-
err; Clarence Adams, second vice
commander; Robert Grove, third
vice-commander; Nicholas Dell,
finance officer; Otto P. Hughes.
chaplain; William Western, SER
geant-at-arms; William E. Hertel.
service officer; Charles Pittman,
child welfare officer, and Melvin
Lostutter, publicity officer.
The installation services were in
charge of Ollie Davis, state adiutant.
and other state officers who took
part in the ceremony were Floyd
Young, commander, and John r.
Ecker, service officer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
MANY SPEECHES
BEFORE VOTING
Democrats Schedule 80
Meetings in Week.

Thirty meetings will be held in
the state next week to wind up the
Democratic campaign with Paul v
McNutt, former national COM
mander of the American Legion
heading the speakers. NIcNutt will
speak every day, according to the
schedule.
Two state rallies have been set for
Nov. 3, the day before the election,
with McNutt winding up the cam
paign at his home in Bloomington
and Mrs. Olive Beldon Lewis speak
ing at Scottsburg.
The schedule follows:
Monday-Terre Haute. Vigo county. Nc
Mutt; Batesville. Walter Myers and r.
E, Peters.
Tuesday-Anderson. McNutt: Green's
burg. Evans Woollen; Rockport. Myers:
Goshen. Albert Stump: Richmond judge
James E. Deery; PoseyvilIe Curtis Shake.
Observation-Disclosures Earl Crawford
Twelfth district, MeNutt: Vincennes.
Arthur Greenwood: Evansville. John E.
Fredrlck; Rushville. Myers: Covington,
John McFaddin.
characterization. Stump: Button.
McNutt; Lebanon. Peters. Mrs. A. P. Flvnn
and Fred Van Mugs: Elwood. Crawford
North Judson. Myers: Ligonier L. Ert
Slack: South Bend. Henry Richardson.
, Friday-Shelbyville. McNutt; Vermilion
Peters Winchester, Myers.
Saturday. Nov. Evansville. McNutt;
Woollen; Hammond. Myers; Franklin, Van
Nuys; Versailles Addison Drake.
Monday. Nov. Bloomington, McNutt:
Scottsburgh, Olive B. Lewis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
Beer AS CURE
Defense FAILS
Columbus Woman Fined
and Term Suspended.
En- limits SpecioI

BB limits SDeci0J
COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct. 25.-Mrs.
Agnes Reid, wife of Albert Reid, was
fined 500 and costs and given six
months suspended sentence in the
Indiana Woman's prison, by Circuit
Judge Julian Sharpnack, when she
pleaded guilty to possession of home
brew. Her arrest resulted when she
was called to testify in behalf of her
husband who was arrested on a
liquor charge following a raid on
the Reid home. Mrs. Reid claimed
the brew was hers and that she had
been instructed by a doctor to drink
it for her health's sake. On this
testimony charge was filed against
her to which she first pleaded not
guilty and then changed the plea to
guilty Reid, who had previously
pleaded guilty, was released.
The raid at the Reid home was
one of four made at the same time.
Others arrested were Virgil WATSON,
Jake Sucker and George Shore, all
Of Bartholomew county. They all
pleaded guilty. WATSON and Shore
were given ninety-day sentences to
the state penal farm; Sucker was
sentenced to sixty days and each
was fined 500 and costs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-25
wabash WILL
Greet ALUMNI
Colleges Annual Home
Coming to Open Friday.
En- Times Special

En- Times Special
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, Oct
25.-Wabash college will hold its
annual homecoming next weekend,
to open Friday evening with a pep
program, including a bonfire and
parade. The Wabash-ButIer foot
ball game will be played Saturday
afternoon.
A barbecue luncheon will be
served at noon Saturday in the COL
lege gymnasium building, at which
hundreds of alumni and other visit
ors are expected to be guests.
At the football game, the newly
uniformed Wabash band will appear
and stunt program will be given
on the gridirOn.
Glass reunions and other meetings
will follow the game. The annual
home coming dance, beginning at g
p. m, will close the program.