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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12

stand for program that promises TO carry on sne
splendid tradition that was handed down py Ine ne
former Farmers Administrations tradition enas
made sheridan County known thruout the United
States as the most progressive county IN the STATE
of Montana, if not in the whole country
The Producers News, the only militant organ u
the producing classes in the state OF Montana
stands one hundred per cent behind the program
calls on the workers and farmers OF the county 10
support that platform and the candidates nomln-
ated at the mass convention. 1t calls on the Vot-
ers to vote the straight Farmer-Labor ticket
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12
For a Militant Newspaper

Sheyenne, N. Oak.
Sept. 2, 1880.
Sen. Chas. E. Taylor, Mgr.
Plentywood, Mont.
Dear Senator:
Enclosed find my annual sub.
scription for your paper.
I sincerely hope that all your
subscribers will realize the neces.
sity of maintaining a militant
newspaper.
Wishing you another year Of
luck, l am
Yours for action,
LEO NELSON.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12
EASLEY CALLS FOR
ECONOMIC VAR
ON SOVIET UNION
By HORACE B. DAVIS

New York-FP-Beating the
war-drums as of old, Ralph M
Easley, secretary of the Natl. Civ
&c Federation and crony of Mat
thew Woll, summons his red-hat-
ing cohorts to renewed war on
the Soviet Union. This is not to
be a military war,-at least (this
rather regretfully) not yet; tho
ments are found genuine by the
"if" the so-called Whalen docu-
ments are found genuine by the
Fish committee, "true Americans
(Easley style) will demand that
the whole staff of the Amtore
Trading Corp. be "taken out and
shot" But before this repetition
of st. Bartholomew Day, Easley
hopes to have launched a trade
boycott of Soviet Russia which
will be far more deadly in its eff.
feet.
Red Shirt on wv
To make this proposal look re-
I spectacle, Easley reports to hi
usual methods of blackening-o
rather reddening the character
of all those who favor maintain
ing and extending trade relation
between the two countries. H
puts a red shirt on Ivy Lee, tn
poison Ivy" publicity agent o
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who ha
the temerity to advocate Russian
recognition. He puts a red Goa
of paint on Columbia UNIVERSITY
one of the intellectual red cen
tiers of the United States" an
pins red label also on it's presi
dent, "called by unregenerate fol
DIR. Nicholas Miraculous Butler
who recently advocated that Com
munists be allowed the right @
free speech. Paul D. Cravath, r,
l
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12
Friday: Sept. u, ,,,o

Hugh Hugh |. New eS., York banI.''
engineer engine now enya noted Ane,@.'.
TTF5EuctiOn project ct{ e Cd IN a '' ass
i thomas D. CamDI5asiSS Soviet Ru,aaGiaa..
M laIgieS-s seal farmer 'a ~, q MonIsoas'
f fraD the ne two cOuntris,0 Of TIE i5!,
l lose are 50 manv 'i as than I tSa..
Is too much for + tba Moscow III,
ST. slnuates. With him mem = Easiey Si r.
e @hs a matter Of pri5c y Is sItossSt5..
drawing nnHd1 a salary 1 f \ have \,
Longer long possible to L w.t. Il We're M N
shirt before scared ed E EsTs the I'D N
ness men en-, he nowhere a,1P afs'I, bus,
His nroua DH ocOrns CASH
should lead the wa Spd y Aneria
e op%ap nj boycott Of the Il = s so?9'.
sia'S fiiye-year Plan Trii'P ss, Of Rps
would W. the SOviets' ord.. And vhn
n me answer EE is, says SEE Fs.gi.S. thel
business of other co M such lat
DO the same" Il ; i uT souS
with them, too; profit f q? !; Principe
airy consideration. 0f : a ssOid.
such Obliging foreiSu, course, Vii
it would be a simple ' SsaI
the American gOveI T,T matter "a
the lead in laying dOWH s,t 70 u
5 to Soviet Russia for ' r.a, 0nSSal
trade relations, ". mor r''s N /
) thinks. VI 50 Easla
: 1t, It is doubtful how man, :,
f lowe lowers s of the cult Of NANNY Irnv q
! take Easley seriously. Thu VI
! pparatively modest PROPOSE sSs :. S .
t SOVIET :. manganese raised ~, , =. '. =
TIC howl from big bushes, Y Tii
i, too, American business men ll .
! such a suspicious lot tb9 men n. a
: they were willing TO ts~' s1sA 4,
( 1oregO the profits Of S Su'5l
> trade themselves, they miS T1'1 !.
: attribute such pure motives a =,
f their brothers in urofit.,..,.
: from across the water
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12

Mrs. Thomas Walsh and son Den
mis- of Great Falls, Mont, are Wis
iting at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Jonasen of Vol
mer. Mr.. Walsh will arrive the lat
ter part of September.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-09-12

The Producers News-S3.OO a year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
STEEL TRUST
Profits Last Year Is Peace
Time Record

New York.-The steel trusts prof
its last year aggregated $258,659, ,889.
Even hard-bo Wall street, that
accepts huge net earnings as mat
ter of course, was surprised at these
figures, which have been surpassed
in only two previous years, 1916 and
1917, when World War business was
taxing the capacity of the country's
steel mills.
The trusts report of various quar-
ters during the year shows that last
falls slump in the stock market was
not unexpected by close observers.
Earnings for the last quarter-Octo-
Der, November and December -
amounted to $50, ,667 ,438, as compar-
ed with total of 45,270,431 for the
third quarter. The "big money" was
earned in the first nine months of
1919.
Many stockholders are dissatisfied
because the trusts's board of directors
have not declared an extra dividend,
and thus divide these immense profits
that have been sweated out of thou
sands of unorganized workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
HUDDELL STATES
ISSUE In SUIT

From Tampa Arthur M. Huddell
president of the Steam and Operat-
ing Engineers, is reported as having
the support of all building trades
uninos in the fight against the suit
of suspended members of New York
local unions. These have sought to
enjoin him from suspending members
held to be violating the laws of the
union.
''The peculiar thing about this suit
which comes up shortly in the su-
preme court of the District of Colum-
bia," Huddell told his associates on
the executive board of the building
trades department, sis that Samuel
Untermyer, who is seeking the in
junction against me and my asso-
ciates, is suing among other things
to prevent our doing what he advised
being done in the course of the Lock
wood investigation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
RULING APPEALED
In Shreveport One-Man Car
Case

New Orleans, La. (ILNS)-An ap-
peal of the city of Shreveport, La,
from the decision of Federal Judge
Ben C. Dawkins holding unconstitu-
tional an ordinance under which the
Shreveport railways were prevented
from operating man" cars, has
been filed in the Fifth United States
circuit court of appeals with mo-
ton for preferential setting.
1t is generally understood in this
city that the ruling of the court which
is expected to pass upon the questions
of the safety, efficiency and economy
of one-man cars will largely govern
the New Orleans Public Service, Inc,
in this respect.
The testimony upon which Judge
Dawkins acted was supported by sta
tistics purporting to show that street
car accidents have been reduced ma
terially by the use of one-man cars
and that their use spells the differ
ence between profitable and unprofit-
able operation of street car system.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
MUSICIANS FORM
PROTEST ARMY

New York City (ILNS)-Carryine
the big advertising campaign to its
logical next step, the American Fed.
Grafton of Musicians has begun or.
ganization of the Music Defense
League in protest against substitu-
tion of canned and squawking music
for living musicians.
In the display advertising now ap-
pearing, there appears a blank on
which all persons may enroll as mem
bers of the league, there being no
financial or other obligation, except
the registering of opinion in favor
of living music.
"If you believe that the esthetic
merit, glamor and emotional appeal
of real orchestral and organ music
are worth preserving in the theatre
program, sign the coupon" says the
current advertisement. The union also
says canned music is cheaper for the
theatre but not for the patron.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
PROFITS DOUBLE
In Eight Years; Wages Gain
Less Than One-Fifth

Washington-"En Enormous increase"
in profits during the past eight years
are reported by the A F. of L. in
its Monthly Survey of Business" for
current month. These profits, it is
declared, "show that American firms
have the means to raise wages"
The profits are exclusive of taxes,
wages, depreciation and other fixed
charges.
From 1922 to 1929 the combined
profits of all corporations in the
United States nearly doubled. Cor
poration profits, after taxes, wages
and all other expenses were paid,
total $5,183 100000 in 1922 and ST.
538,O00,000 in 1927 (U. S. treasury
reports), So, 900 100000 in 1929 (esti-
mate by David Friday. The 1929
estimate is 81 per cent above 1922.
During this period wages of work
ers in manufacturing increased but
19 per cent. In railroads the figures
are much less.
"The large profits left after
wages and other expenses were paid
have made possible enormous in
creases in dividend payments to stock
holders" the Monthly Survey de-
clares. "In eight years dividends
have more than doubled Total divi-
dends paid in 1922 were $780, ,000,-
900, in 1927 they were $6,423 100000
(U. S. treasury reports) and in 1929
about $4,000 100000 estimate by
David Friday, an increase of 1873 per
cent In 1929 dividends increased 30
per cent over 1923 and earnings were
2 per cent higher"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
WRESTLING MATCH
Will Be Staged Next Tues.
day Night at Moose
Auditorium

What promises to be the best wrest-
ling match staged in Hamilton in q
long time, are those arranged for al
Moose auditorium next Tuesday night
under the auspices of the Moose Ath-
letic Club.
The main event will be between
Irish" Pat Mccarthy, champion of
Ireland, and Hugh Nichols, of Cincin-
natl. Nichols is rated the third best
in the country by the National Box
ing Association. This event calls for
two best out of three falls in two
hour limit.
The semi-fnal go is between Silent
Olsen and George Sauer. These men
are also scored as first-raters in the
game. They go in a half-hour limit.
Several other preliminaries by top
notchers are also being arranged, and
lovers of wrestling are assured of a
fine treat when they attend next
Tuesdays show.
Tickets are now on sale at the
usual places where tickets are sold
for the Moose boxing events.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
MORE LIGHT
On Question of Why Mar
ried Women Work

Washington, D. C. QLNS)-Do
married women seek jobs from neces-
sity or choice? Approximately nine
tenths of them work outside the home
because they need to, if a closeup
study of a small group of Denver
women by Miss Emily c. Brown, of
the women's bureau of the United
States department of labor be taken
as cross-section of the problems of
married women workers.
This report, just issued, covers al
most 450 women who were or had
been married and who applied for
jobs during the spring and summer
months of 1928 to the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association and to a
department store in Denver.
"While the data are fragmentary
in character" Miss Brown states, Sin
these times when the numbers of
married women who are employed
outside their homes have so .trik-
ingly increased, each bit of evidence
on the forces behind this phenomenon
is valuable"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
HOSIERY WORKERS
STRIKE SPREADS
In QUAKER CITY
Employees of 'Open Shops" Re-
sent Recent Wage Cuts and
Join HI. C.. Aberle Strikers in
Seeking Protection of Union.

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-The re-
volt in the non-unon full fashioned
hosiery mills of Philadelphia is
spreading, and already a second i'm
portant shop has joined with the
400 H. C. Aberle workers now on
strike. The Rodgers workers, some
800 strong, constituting practically
the entire force, walked out follow
ing the discharge of a group of en-
ployes for joining the union. The
Rodgers walkout is significant be-
cause of the fact that this plant is a
subsidiary of the much bigger Quaker
mill which in turn is a subsidiary of
the Bromley lace works of this city,
one of the strongest and biggest tex
tile corporations in Philadelphia.
The Bromley lace mills have been
organized for years although the
union controlling these workers is in
an organization outside the American
Federation of Labor Discomfort runs
high in the Quaker mill, and a walk
out there is expected almost any day.
Smaller plants in Philadelphia have
caught the contagion or have been
cut during the recent period of de-
preston in the full fashioned trade
and demand to be unionized.
The Rodgers shop has been paying
considerably under the union scale
for some time past and has worked
two shifts, one of ten hours and an
other of II hours. The workers want
the straight scale and two shifts of
eight hours. The workers in the
"open shops since the recent wage
cuts are also clamoring for the pro-
lection of the unions national agree
ment with its arbitration clauses
preventing strikes and lockouts.
While the industry was still in the
heyday of its prosperity and boom
period, with the non-union mills often
permitting workers to make wages
higher than those earned in organiz-
ed shops where hours were regulat-
ed, the full fashioned workers took
things easily and let the bosses talk
the union idea out of their heads.
Many full fashioned workers consid-
cred themselves somehow privileged
characters and out of the reach of
wage cuts.
The slump which the trade took,
after the Christmas rush subsided,
caused almost every mill owner
whose wage rates were not fixed by
contract to try and put over wage
slashes Now the girls and boys in
the full fashioned mills are waking
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
PEOPLES B. AND |.
HAS BIG YEAR
Old Directors Reelected ;
Fred Graeser Again
Elected President

The Peoples Building and Loan
Association held it's annual election
Monday night, and A. j. Warndorf
and Fred w. Graeser were reelected
directors for a period of three years.
The hold-over directors are: A. O.
Rolfe, Adam Braun, George A. David
son, Don w. Fitton and C. M. Eiken-
berry.
The board of directors organized
by re-electing Fred Graeser, presi-
dent; A. 0. Rolfe, vice president; E.
F. Warndorf, secretary; T, G. McCaf-
ferty, assistant secretary, and C. j.
Fitton, attorney.
The report of Secretary Warndorf
shows the association experienced a
most prosperous year during 1929.
The report shows total financial as
sets of more than $1,000. The Off
GERS predict another big year for the
association during 1880.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
CHARITY ON INCREASE

New York.-Public and private
charities in rs representative cities
spent $3,426,O00 to aid 145,53O famil-
les during December, the Russell Sage
Foundation reports. This is an in
crease of % per cent over the pre-
vious month. Extensive unemploy-
ment and severe cold weather are
blamed.
The foundation indicates that De-
cember relief probably was larger
than for any previous month. Among
the cities showing greatest relief ex-
penditures were the industrial cities
of Detroit, Akron and st. Louis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
TEXTILE STRIKERS
FIRM

Marion, N. C.-Textile workers
here appeal to organized labor and
sympathizers not to believe stories
that are whispered by employers
propagandists that the local strike is
at an end. More than 1000 strik-
ers and their families are on the
relief roll. They live in East Marion,
just outside the corporate limits of
Marion.
The power of reaction and preju-
dice is so strong here that it is i'm
possible to buy records of mountain
ballads recently reproduced by a
phonograph company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
WOMEN PAID LOW
WAGE

New York-Low wages of work
ing women affect the buying power of
one-quarter of the nations feminine
population, said Miss Frances Per-
kins, state industrial commissioner.
The danger of new poisonous sub
stances in industrial plants was
stressed by Miss Perkins, who urged
that companies be compelled to adopt
proper protective measures.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
O. X. POLITICAL
LEAGUE

Portland, Ore.-The Central Labor
Council approved the formation of a
separate organization to handle polit-
ical affairs of organized labor. The
plan was proposed by Ben Osborne,
secretary State Federation of Labor,
who points out that unions are often
engaged with industrial issues and
that a unified political program is
impossible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
PHOTO ENCRAVERS
GET MORE PAY

New York City (ILNS)-The New
York Photo Engravers' Union has ac-
cepted the wage proposal of the New
York publishers, according to an
nouncement by Lester L. Jones, exec
utive secretary of the Newspaper
Publishers Association.
The agreement, which runs fol
three years from May 26 last, pro
vides for a 81 weekly increase the
first year, ST increase the second
year and 81 increase the third year
The wage offer, Mr.. Jones said
was due largely to recognition by the
newspapers of the excellent produc-
ton, both in quality and quantity, OF
members of the union and to their
willingness to meet some of the adj
ministrative problems.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
TRADES COUNCIL

The Cooperative Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regu-
lar session, with President Charles
Butts in the chair, and thirty dele
gates present.
The credentials of Earl Brown, to
represent Plumbers Union 108; Mar
tin Weber, Oscar Fades and Herman
Wehr, to represent Letter Carriers
Local No. 426, were read, received
and delegates seated.
Several locals reported their organ
ization in good shape with a great
many of their members unemployed.
The matter of the Y. w. c. A. en-
ploying an architect from New York
was discussed at length, and the sec
retary was instructed to keep in
touch with the matter.
Molders reported Williamson and
Holland furnaces unfair. Mounters
reported that the same firms are un-
fair to them-Krebs, Grimmer &
Long, Fahrney- -Martindale and the
Electric Shop. Milk and ice cream
wagon drivers reported National un-
fair
Brother VIM. Finfrock, member of
Painters and Decorators Union, was
granted the floor and addressed the
hn Of VT
books for public schools. He asked
that committee be appointed, which
was granted. The chair appointed the
following on the committee: BRANDED,
Baynes, Condor, Mrs. Finfrock and
Ross on.
On motion transfer of funds was
made to pay taxes as requested by
the treasurer.
Brother Chris Eichel, of local Bak
ers' Union, was granted the floor and
spoke to the delegates about scab
bread. He stated that there are union
made pies made in Hamilton and the
Kinks pies are non-union.
The secretary was instructed to
write the International Retail Clerks
Union about the actions of local re-
tail clerks not having delegates at
tending the council meetings.
Quite lengthy discussion partici
pated in by almost all the delegates
on the subject of trades unionism as
practiced in Hamilton.
A discussion concerning the matter
of buying electrical current from the
municipal light plant was launched.
1t was agreed that we use our best
endeavors to have all possible users
of current to purchase our own cur
rent.
Brother Popp, of Engineers Union,
donated $500 building bond
Stanley Ogg was appointed to rep
resent the council at the meeting of
the Welfare Federation, February %.
At this meeting plans will be made
for the Community Chest campaign.
A communication was read from
Secretary Ogg in which he communi-
Gated with Mrs. Gall, of the Y. M.
C. A., regarding employing of for
eign architects on the new building.
The action of the secretary was con-
Cured in.
A communication was read from
VIM. Green, of the A. F. of L., in
which he calls attention to the cigar
and tobacco industry machines which
have displaced thousands of skilled
and semi-skilled wage earners. On
motion the same was received.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

A communication was read from
the Hamilton Welfare Federation,
calling attention to the meeting of
the organization February %, and in
which they ask that the council be
represented. Received and complied
with.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

A continuous demand for the union
label, shop card and working button
will bring joy and sunshine into the
lives of thousands Of trade unionists
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
PLUMBERS RAISE WAGES

Vancouver, B. C.-Organized plumb
ers raised wages to $40 day. They
secured the five-day week more than
four years ago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

Those who desire better living and
working conditions must do their
share to secure them. Demand union
made goods and service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

One great handicap to the progress
of the labor movement is failure to
demand the union label, shop card and
working button.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

The man who says II forgot" to de-
mand union goods or service is full
brother to the one who "rocks the
boat"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

Fifty million pounds of shavings
and sawdust are ground into -four
each year-but not for food. The
-four is used in various plastics in
manufactures.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14

Prior to the first firing of new
boiler, the New York Edison Com
pany gave luncheon for 81 persons
in the enormous combustion chamber.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-02-14
WHAT NEXT?

Laboratory men have exhibited an
incandescent lamp having sun-like
value, predicting soon these will be
available for all home sockets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14

King of Providence R l.; Fred Landreaux and
Van Worst of Cincinnati Charles Sweeney of
Seattle, Wash; Jules James Bach of st. Louis,
Mo-; James Stewart CarstairS of Philadelphia,
Pa; William Thaw of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
others. Thaw had attempted first to enter the
French Army aviation and when he re-
fused enlisted as a Legionnaire; he succeeded
in transferring to the aviation in December,
1914, and became the founder OF the famous
Escadrille Lafayette. Guy H. Agostini of San
Francisco, John Bowe of Candy, Mimi. and
Wilfred Michaud of Detroit Mich, joined the
I'd Regiment at the front in the Spring of 1915.
The first American citizen killed in the
World War, Edward Manden Stone, met his
death in the trenches near Craonnelle with the
I'd Regiment. He MORALLY wounded by
shrapnel on February Is, 1915, and died IL
days later in hospital at Fismes Less than
two weeks after his death, Rene Phelizot of
Chicago was fatally injured in a fight with
three veteran Legionnaires who had made dis
paraging remarks about the American volun-
teerS.
The two regiments of the Foreign Legion re-
NAMED in the calm Alsace sector from July,
1915 until mid-September, then moved up into
Champagne, where a great assault was being
prepared The French Army had reached its
peak in strength. ''"t
dawn of September % and continued without
pause for three days and nights. The grand
assault was launched in a driving rain, at 9Ia
on the morning of September IS. The I'd
Foreign Regiment joined the second wave of
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