The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-17

Sunset highway and everything v
.~ont fine, but / could notice that {
"fter the first week Jack started t
n get uneasy and asked him sew I
oraI times what was the matter, I
bnt 7 never got any satisfactory
answer. / knew though Jack was I
receiving letter from a sweet lit {
tle lady living somewhere in Wis
consin. 1t was on a Sunday even
ING Jack asked me to go for walk
with him that he told me he was
leaving for Wisconsin the next
morning. He also showed me some
of the letters he had received from
tbis Wisconsin dame, also her pic
: tnre. And if all that she wrote
was true l don't blame Jack for
going. and to go right away. Well
the next morning Jack left and l
wished him good luck and bon
: vovage and l asked him to write TO
2 me which he promised to do, but
haven't heard from him so far.
Maybe Jack is too busy to write.
Well | continued to work on the
: highway the same as before altho
Z 7 felt kind of lonely without Jack
because he was such jolly good
u fellow, I worked on the highway
I for three weeks more when they
!, were going to quit work for the
q winter so the whole crew was layed
n off and some of the working men
Z went back to Seattle. Some went
u to other cities, and stump ranch
ers went to their cabins. In Sc
} attic there sure was lot of un-
: employed laboring men and the
j. most of them were broke and hun
y. grv. Logging camps were closing
q down, construction works were lay
=. = in off men and people were stream
y ing in from the east every day. So
= there sure was lot of unemploy-
. ed in Seattle. Bread lines and soup
a kitchens were running full blast.
The city jail and stockade was
ne filled to the limit. These bread
IN lines kind of reminded me of the
lineups for mess in the training
= camps during the World war, the
Fl = war to end warsl | stayed in Sc
pc attic for about week this time
81 and | had a talk with several of
u the men that had to get little to
n eat on the bread line mot the Hin
lc, denburg line" A lot of these men
Gu / talked with were ex-service men
ne who had served in the great wal
iuo for Democracy not so awfully long
70 ago. / also got acquainted with
AZ few young fellows that were eat,
~ ing at the bread line and they tolC
'sG me that the only job they coulc
gu get was to enlist in the army OF
III navy-that there were chances fol
~ men between the ages of IL to 81
years. And there sure was plent!
- of recruiting officers of both TIT
III army and navy to tell them thu
en- good points about it. was ais
ny asked by one of these army re
'uS cruiting officers if | didn't wan
eA- to Join the army. 1t happened thi
&c way. | had been in lady barbe
I've shop and got a shave, and mayb
10 had a pretended smile on my fac
lar when this army recruiting office
az. asked me quite politely, "Wan
81 to. join the army young man Z"
az -. was quite a surprise to me so
% stopped as / didn't know at tn
'es time that l looked young and In
~ nocent and / then told him that
~ had already served in the army, a
&c so when and where, etc, and that
w. would probably join an army agai
e.. e.. but most likely an army somethin
like the Coxey's army. l do nc
see how all these unemployed &c
by. Of course if some of thel
-. starve or freeze to death there
'e: p. never anything said about it, an
III if it is mentioned it is most hkel
AZ AZ in way something like this. at
To- their own fault, why don't the
M 80 work." 1t was on this stay in 81
"a attic thatI made a trip to Por
. :. - land, Oregon. l found it the san
ms way in Portland as in Seattle
90, 60 lot of unemployed and no jobs.
NJ NJ was in Portland that l happene
CO. CT to hear two men talking to the p'
- ~ lice, asking him if he wouldn't tai
up, o.ars them to jail as they had no NEAR
.o,,r to get anything to eat and no pla'
.ou to sleep. l didn't stay in Portlar
iup very long-only day and a nigl
ello then / went back to Seattle al
e Just by luck got job to work {
tl the highway in the Rainier Par
Oar- and Rainier is a good name for
as when it didn't snow it SUI
rained. | worked with this QUIT
till they closed down on account
q too much snow then l went 5a'
=. to Seattle again. Well l didr
lrty know what was going to do ne1
So | rented room for week al
bors decided to take life easy and spe
and most of the time listening
rday speakers or at a good show, and
sion course l never missed the speakl1
yer- and singing at 700 o'clock 2.
on Occidental Avenue and Was
,lay- ington street. One corner of t
street was held by the l. w.
,ious speakers and singers, on anOth
was corner the Salvation Army, and t
Mrs. Communists and the House of Da
4 a ids had a corner apiece, and wi
lver- thousands of unemployed crowdil
es- around you can imagine there W
| nv something going on. | must a
nit though that didn't see ever
pio- thing that was gong on IN such
unity, big crowd, put qiu see anu =
cost was that every once in a while
couple big police that would wei
tho a quarter of ton together, wou
orr;e come along and shake up an l.
)mm, w. or Collii ll1,S epee'Nei anu
vino him up yester way to Jail, but
',o,,+ never did see or hear about t
= noIice ever taking a Salvation