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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
u. S. WOrker-F Farmer
Delegation To Be In
U. S. S. r. for May Day

A number of delegates, represent
ing various industries, have already
been elected to the delegation Of
American workers and farmers that
will leave for the Soviet Union the
middle of this month under the au-
spices of the Friends of the Soviet
Union. This delegation will arrive
in time to take part in the May Day
celebrations, where it will bring the
greetings of the American workers
and farmers to the workers and
peasants Of the Soviet Union.
Among the workers who will be
members Of the delegation are Louis
Horvath, of Akron, O., rubber
worker; Joseph Pirka, Ziegler, H.,
young coal miner; Martin Hen
erickson, New York state farmer;
B. Moser, New York City, teacher;
A. Mccarthy, Seattle, Wash, mem
Der Of the Building Laborers Union,
ana A. Olsen, Seattle, a carpenter.
night april g. forum of the Work
ers' School
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Militant Workers Defy Prague Cops

PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovckia( m
preco17' Hell Service THE strikc
waUe liz C1echo-SJoUakiG is char
acterigcd By the length of the IN
dividaaL strikes, the persistence of
the a0orkers, and By the fact that
the authorities Immediately inter
Dened everywhere IN favor of the
otU1ters.
Immediately the shoe workers of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

A sedition case a day is the rec
ord so far this month throughout
the United States. Convictions and
long terms are piling up to I'M
equalled heights.
Here is the record by date: April
+, Betty Gannett and Zorka Yoki,
found guilty in Cadiz, o. April 2,
Ray Peltz and ]. Holmes, found
guilty in Chester, Pa. April 8,
Eleven go on trial in Newark. April
IA, Fred Beal on trial in Pontiac,
<
In Chester two workers spoke be-
fore unemployed Ford workers
sedition. In Martins Ferry, o., five
workers distributed leaflets August
l on International War Day-sedi-
ton. The appeal is pending on be-
half of the five Los Angeles wo-
men found guilty of criminal syndi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
TRIAL OF ) NEARS;
PROTESTS CROW
Release Demanded of
Committee of 10000

Continued from Page One)
jailed and prosecuted March fight
ers for the unemployed. We demand
their liberation.
eve see in this capitalist class
vengeance against the March 6
fighters, the growing attacks of the
boss class"
The fo | o W ng organizations
passed this resolution of protest and
demand for release: Washington
Council of Unemployed; Hungarian
Educational Federation, Fairfield,
Pa; Lakeview Scandinavian Work
ers Club, Chicago; Group 322, indie
pendent Workers Circle Mass Meet
ing of $50 at Philadelphia; Turner
Protest Meeting at Chester; Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
Philadelphia, 7 p. M; American
Jugo-Slav Association, McKeesport,
Pa, rs members; LID, Weirton, w.
Va; the Prospect Workers Club,
New York; Operative Plasterers and
Cement Finishers Local No. 155,
Bait, o.; Workingmen's Sick Beno-
VIOLENT Education Society, Akron, o.;
the Waterfront Unemployed Council,
Philadelphia; Ella May Branch,
LID. Butte, Mont, at which 425
workers attended; Workingmen's
Singing Society of Trenton; Hunt
ington Finnish Progressive Club,
IN. Y; Philadelphia Workers Forum;
Joseph Vamasi, Sick and Benevo-
lent Society, Kulmont, Pa; Russian
Branch, LID, Chicago; Verhovay
Aid Association, Brancgh No. 149
Sly. of Alesbury, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

MOSCOW, (Inprecorr Press Serv-
ice).-Referring to Poincare's anti
Soviet article in 'l'Exelsior" the
'Pravda" writes: "The meaning of
Poincare's infamous lies concerning
alleged conflicts provoked by the
Soviet Union on the Roumanian
frontier and the alleged Soviet dan
ger on the Polish frontier is quite
clear. Up to the present, not even
the most rabid Polish patriots had
noticed any such danger. Now that
Paris has given the hint however,
there is no doubt that Poland and
Roumania will take up the role al
lotted to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
PRAVDA HITS POINCARE
FOR WAR MOVES ON USSR
IN RUMANIA, POLAND
Rumanian General Calls for Aiming for War
on Soviet Union
Instructions of French General Army Staff
Being Carried Out

The commander of the III Rou-
manian Army Corps which is sta
toned in Bessarabia, General Dragu
has acted speedily and appealed to
all Roumanian patriots to arm
themselves against the danger
sweeping up from the Dniepr. This
means that the instructions of the
French and Polish General Staffs
are being carried out in Poland. Ac-
cording to the Bucharest correspon-
dent of the "Chicago Tribune" these
latter have warned the Roumanian
government against the danger of
a Soviet attack on Bessarabia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Jobless, Steals Milk

NEW ORLEANS, April 4.-Wil-
liam Eye, 38, arrested and charged
with stealing two pint bottles of
milk, pleaded with police to permit
him to go home to his destitute
family. He said he had been out
of a job and that dire necessity
forced him to steal the milk for his
hungry and needy family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

Here is the picture of Norman
Thomas, the en-clergyman and
leader of the Socialist" Party
a0hich fiercely fights against the
a0orkers. Thomas said a fen qoeeks
ago before the Tammany capitalist
Board of Estimate that sue, the
socialists and regular unioniSts,'
aoGnt to cooperate a0ith you, aUithin
the laao, to speed up the building
program" To cooperate qoith Tam
n1any IN deluding the jobLess By
fake speeding up of the building
program" is Thomas program for
the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Monday Mass Meet
to Start the Chicago
Election Campaign

Monday, April Z, will see the
mobilization of all working class
forces Of Chicago to start the cleo
tion campaign of the Communist
Party in that district.
A mass meeting will take place
at 8 p. m. at Temple Hall, 1923
South Marshfield Ave. (Marshfield
and Van Buren,. 1t will deal with
the present primary elections and
The preparations for the congress
sional elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

the Libertos factory IN Fisohern
rear RcrlSbad 1oent on strike the
police ayriUed, occupied the fac
tory and broi;e mp taVo strife meet
ings. The same qvas done in con-
nection a0ith the strike IN the
Trnub factory IN Podbaba near
Prague. In PribisIau severe COL
Jisions occurred beta0een striking
aOorkers and the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
100000 Collective Undertakings

MOSCOW by Inpreco Mail the March
less than 108800 collective agricultural undertakings
total 1873 million hectares and So of all
ant farms haze been formed IN the Soviet Union 42per cent of all
0Sg cattle haze already been ocazed 43560000 grain
haze been contributed the seed funds and So million
the collective undertakings total of 5733 agricultural machinery and
tractor stations being organized for the spring Songs ohch
10000 tractors 1cU take part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
WALL ST. BOSSES
unite With Green
AGAINST j0BLESS
Push Plans for 10000
Delegates July 4th
Continued from Pare One

Continued from Page One)
penditure of $150,0OO,0O0 is pro-
vided by the Wagner bill, not one
penny of which will go to the job
less workers. The money will go
into the pockets of government Of
ficials to collect statistics on I'M
employment" and to "plan public
works expenditures.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
FORD TO SPEAK AT WORKERS
SCHOOL FORUM.

James ]. Ford, national organizer
of the Negro Department of the
Trade Union Unity League, will
speak on the "Red International of
Labor Unions and the American
Working Glass" at the next Sunday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Threaten Strike Against Rotten School

threatened by many children and
their parents. Thomas Madden,
chairman of the health committee
admits that more children in this
school are now i'll than ever before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

A strike against the unsanitary
conditions in Public School 116,
Wren Pl. and Polhemus Ave, ia
maica, which has caused the severe
Illness of many children already, is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
French Workers Show Solidarity in Strike

PARIS npecorr Press Service)-700 Tiers employed by Paris
leadership
They work after having of Is
trmmes in lie gone strike
result the rejection of their demands by the employers The
strike half
sympathy with the striking lockers 200 workers broke through the
through the singing the n
ternationale."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
French Unions Call Solidarity Strike

strike of all workers in Moirans in
support of the striking textile work
ers there. The appeal of the revolu
tionary unions is for a 24-hour pro-
test strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

PARIS (By Inprecorr Service).-
The local district committee of the
revolutionary unions in Moirans
issued an appeal for solidarity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

Oil Robber Dohony is freed on
$t0O,0OO bribery charge, avhiIe hun-
dreds of aOorkers face 2O-year jail
terms IN their fight for jobleSs re-
lief and against aVoge-cat8. This
is capitalist class "justice."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
Disturbances in Guadeloupe Islands

PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Service)There details
available the Islands,
cordng the information of the Colonial Ministry workers of the
factories have been strike for 10 days.
On the 25th 26h 2Sh February violent collisions
between strikers police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05
TOILING IN FIELDS.

PARIS.-According to figures just
released there are more than 4,000,-
900 women agricultural workers in
France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

mand that the workers shall receive
either work or wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

Every new Daily Worker reader
you get is a potential Party mem.
Der.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-05

night april g. forum of the Work.
ers' School.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06

trial, right freely granted to the most hardened
criminal?
And why not allow the cripple or the widow a
lowly per cent interest on deferred payments, if
required to accept monthly payments, instead of
lump sum--that the beneficiary might otherwise
invest profitably place at interest?
The resident workman seeks only protection
when he insists that distinction be made be-
tween resident and alien dependents. The fact
that the mines are filled with alien workers and
single men may suggest the reason.
Also he proposes waiting period of six DAYS.
instead of the two weeks provided now, with com
pensation from date of injury. Six days is sure
ly sufficient to prevent malingerng, the only ex-
cuse for waiting period Under this section
workers have been defrauded out of one-half to
80 per cent of the compensation for which their
employers have paid premiums to insurance COM
panies.
The biggest yell comes, of course over the
method of determining the degree of injury, the
amount of compensation and the rating by the
doctors-who are retained by the employer The
amendments would result in cutting out some of
the abuses arising in this connection whereby in
dustrial victims, permanently partially disabled
and even those totally and permanently incapaci-
tated are thrown back the care of the public
after few years. There are such cases in every
county.
It is the considered Judgment of The Western
News that the amendments are fair and reason
able and should be voted We believe this likewise
ID Iie JuuBineHI OF every INFORMED and falr-mlnd-
ed and disinterested person who has examined
them.
But the voters not even to be permitted TO
pass on them. The Gar of the Copper Powerful
surance combine has decreed that the amend
ments shall not even come to a vote To head If
off operating under the guise of the Associated
Industries" he has for weeks past filled all the
daily newspapers, which are owned by the COM
bine, with editorial and other matter and the $50
weekly papers in Montana with advertisements at
tacking the amendments This matter is a tissue
Of downright lies, exaggeration and general mis-
leading statements, calculated TO fool bewilder
and befuddle if not scare the voters SO that thew
will not sign the petitions Supplementing the
newspaper propaganda, 500 casualty insurance
agents and other paid workers are reaching into
every county to carry out this nefarious design.
The campaign is costing tens of thousands If
dollars that should more properly have gone to
the victims of industry. Don't let them fool Won
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06
Voters, Have a Heart
BY ROdNEY in WestemN News
By MILES RoMNEY in western News

If you believe in social justice if you believe In
the principle that has been affirmed by the SUI
preme court of Montana, you will sign the lnitia-
tive Petitions providing for amendments to the
Worlman's Compensation Act. This fundamental
principle as stated by the Montana supreme court
is: "The law contemplates the burden of caring
for injured workmen and their dependents shall
not fall upon the public in general, but upon the
industry"
These amendments simply provide that the
crippled workman, the widows and orphans, vic
Tins in this state chiefly of the mines, smelters
and other extra hazardous industries, shall receive
a fair measure of compensation as speedily as
possible. 1t is not question of rates-the rates
in other states in many instances are higher than
under the Montana Compensation Act.
The amendments are designed to clarity the
Act, which was written by lawyers on the legal
staff of the biggest employer in the state, the
Anaconda company, in collaboration with repre-
sentatives of the casualty insurance corporations
intent upon holding down the cost of compensa-
ton to the lowest possible point Thus fathered
the Act was jammed through corporation con-
trolled legislature which has refused for years to
grant amendments prayed for by the workers.
And now the workers. marshaled. by the Mon
tana Federation of Labor, will submit these
amendments to a direct vote of the people if but
eight per cent of the voters sign these two petit
tions.
The amendemnts would cut out the weasel words
by means of which corporation lawyers misinter-
pref the plain intent of the Act and beat the work
er out of his just compensation, thus coming the
blood and tears of crippled workers, the widows
and orphans of industry into fatter dividends for
the insurance companies Such words for ex-
ample, Casual" which corporation judges have
interpreted to mean ga worker temporarily en-
ployed," thus beating the worker out of compen-
sation.
Indeed, the workers hope to cut out the para
sitical casualty insurance companies entirely and
have the compensation assessments paid by the
employers directly to the Industrial Board and adj
ministered by it.
The workers also crave the right to appeal from
the decision of the Board, whose members upon
occasion have leaned heavily to the side of the
big employers, who control lots of votes, and de-
mand a trial by jury-why shouldn't the crippled
worker or the widow have the right to a jury
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06
Reserve Girls Form
All Club; Elect Officers

Last Saturday. May S1st. the girls
OF Reserve organized a All Club
which will last all summer.
The officials were elected as fol-
lows:
Leader. Mrs. Anna Bornstedt: AS
sistant Leader, Mrs. Edna Evenson:
President, Helen Everson; Vice Pres
ident, Birdie Bergen; Secretary, Myr-
tie Rasmussen; Treasurer. Norma
Petersen; Organist, Brunette Ror-
Wig: Song Leader. Sylvia Jacobsen;
Yell Leader, Laura Rasmussen: Re-
porter. Dorothy Murk.
After electing officials Miss Ada
Worst answered numerous questions
regarding the Club work. Miss
Worst brought along her ukelele
and she played while the members
sang. After singing two or three
songs, the leaders were selected.
After singing more songs, Mrs. Ev-
enson and Mrs. Bornsted went down
town and got ice cream and cookies
for our lunch, after which we sang
two or three songs. We suggested
who would serve at the next meet
ing. They were Laura Rasmussen
and Sylvia Jacobsen. The next
meeting will be held at Mrs. Born
sted's on the 14th of June.
Dorothy Murk, Reporter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06
MONTANA CROP
CONDITIONS GOOD

With seeding of small grains vir-
tually completed and rapid progress
being made in the planting of corn.
flax, barley and oats crop conditions
are favorable throughout the North
west except for dry weather in west
ern Montana, the Farmers Union
Terminal Associations weekly re-
port, issued today, asserts.
With practically all of the wheat
seeded, indications are that the re-
duction in spring wheat acreage will
be between Is and 20 per cent" the
survey says. Northeastern North
Dakota and northwestern Minnesota,
apparently, have adhered most close
iy to the advice of crop experts as
regards curtailment, with many dis
tricts reporting wheat acreage re-
duction of 20 to % per cent.
Abundant subsoil moisture to
carry crops we'll into June is report
ed from all districts except western
Montana. Due to cool and backward
weather, growth of grains has beer
slow, but the deep roots and stool
ing gives promise of rapid and
healthy growth with warm weather
Rain has delayed corn seeding
which is in progress generally thru
South Dakota, southern Minnesota
and southern North Dakota, which
belt of the Northwest. Soil is in
excellent condition for the germina-
ton of corn.
"a scarcity Of seed flax and some
possible damage to early seeded flax
from frosts is reported.
Rye prospects generally are good
and the winter rye in North Dakota
and Montana is far above the con-
dition a year ago.
Indications are that the North
west will harvest it's largest acre
age OF flax and that more land will
be devoted to barley and feed crops.
Pastures are excellent and pro
viding plenty of feed for livestock.
while conditions in the spring
wheat area Of the Northwest are al
most ideal, except for usual spotted
areas, there are reports of spindIy
short straw and short heads in the
wheat districts of Kansas; Hessian
fly damage in Kansas and Nebraska
and hot damaging winds in Texas
and Oklahoma, which have caused
some experts to predict another
shrinkage of % to 30 million bushels
in the government winter wheat
forecast for June 1 condition.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06

vides that on the anniversary date
each year, which falls on April "a,
the city may upon notice and upon
proper procedure, cancel franchise
and take over distributing system.
The Council notified the company
of its intention to cancel April "a,
1881, and asked the company to
appoint appraiser to determine the
value of plant, the city appoint
ing Robert Rookie as its appraiser,
and to have its appraiser meet
with Rookie to appoint the third
as provided by the terms Of the
franchise. The city took steps to
have petitions circulated calling a
special election as is provided by
law, where amount involved is
over $4,000 and the duration Of
contract is over three years-the
contract with the Fairbanks-Morse
people will endure more than three
years, or until engines are paid
for.
In furthering the policy of the
city, and for purpose of getting
all factors behind proposition, a
special meeting of the Plentywood
Commercial Club was called at the
City Hall Thursday night. A large
number of the members were pres
ent. Jack Bennett, president, call
ed the meeting to order, and out
lined the purpose of the meeting,
when Mayor Storkan lalG the pro-
position before them, reading the
report of the committee, and ex-
planning and simplifying the same,
and reporting the action of the
Council. The matter was favor
ably received by the Club, and a
resolution was unanimously adopt
ed. approving the action Of the
city, and the calling Of the special
election to grant the city power to
carry through its policy.
Mayor Storkan disclosed that
the assessed valuation of the Mon
tana-Dakota distributing plant was
only $4,000, and that the total city
tax paid on, same is $115.C0. He
inferred from this that the valua-
ton of the plant was about S12,-
600. He said that in order TO car
ry out its policy, the planned re-
duction of the city levy would net
be made. He said that the city
levy in 1928 was 43 mills: that it
was cut 10 mills in 1929, to SO
mills, and it was planned t. furth-
er reduce it Is mills to 13 mills,
but after full consideration the
Council had decided that the best
interest of the taxpayers could be
served by not making the reduc-
ton his year, but rather by re-
storing it to 43 mills as in 1928
and formerly, which would provide
the funds this year to pay for the
distributing plant of the Montana
Dakota next spring, when after a
year or so, the light rates could
not only be reduced. but the CITY
levy entirely abolished, while at
the same time paying for the
DIESEL engines,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-06-06

tConChueo from First Page)
yer, tho probably the equal to
Grant Blackwell, the county attor-
ney, and the idea of the elimina-
ton of Paul Babcock is considered
unbelievable and even ridiculous
Anent this matter, it is said
that Onstad has collected some
money for Miss Hass which she
had standing out, amounting. so
it is rumored, to about thousand
dollars. which she needed for at
torneys' fees.
Another thing that amaze the
public and is causing a lot of talk
is the fact that Mr.. Onstad Is the
personal attorney of VIM. Hass
the brother of Hugo Hass. and
one of those involved in the mvs-
terry behind the killing. VIM. Haas
calls upon Onstad every time he
comes to Plentywood and has had
several protracted conferences
with him.
When Attorney Slatterv arrived
in Plentywood Friday, he was ta =
en- in tow by Onstad and dr; S.A
over to Outlook to see s ,,r.s ~
parties whose names are ma =