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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
,sS1TR;S SLOGAN: PROSPERITY AS
&'i" 'TI GOOD JOKE ON HUNGRY WORKERS

did farm tenants and unskilled
workers from all parts of the
country cluster to the big factories
in Michigan and Ohio for work
and get it; thousands of workers
who had lost jobs in other indus
tries became auto mechanics, gar
age workers, chauffeurs, truck
drivers and oil workers. Between
Is and 209o of the American work
ing people were directly dependent
on the auto industry at the height
of its expansion in 1928-29.
Limit of Expansion
"NOw that is over. The auto in
dustry has reached the limit of ex-
pansion, huge factories are idle,
and salesrooms are crowded with
cars that can't be sold.
"What is known as technologic-
al unemployment, the displacing of
human labor by machines, has
been going on steadily, but the ex-
pansion of the automobile indus
try hid its ravages. Now they are
apparent. Added to that
is the world depression. Of course
things may pick up, but America
is through with its so-called pros
perity, shabby as even that was.
From now on we will be faced
with the social problems of Ger
many and England and we will
have to meet them with social in
"There is more unrelieved dis
tress and suffering arising from
in Philadelphia to-
day than in anv other large city
in the United States" saws DR..
Jacob Billikopf. director of Jewish
charities. Billikopf estimates 1885,
600 jobless in Philadelphia, against
census figures of $4,000. Nearly
100000 are destitute, he says.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

viets making all foreign tariff
laws, based on calculation of pro-
duction costs, look foolish. No
body has found a way to estimate
Soviet production costs. Hence no
proof can be brought that Soviet
products are sold below cost. And
Soviet production of wheat, lum-
Der, manganese and many other
commodities is steadily and rapid
" increasing. Soviet wheat ex-
ports have frightened the wheat
traders of the world within the
past week, yet the Soviet wheat
exports this year are less than
one-fifth of what they are likely
to be within a few years. AS
soon as the United States lays an
embargo against Soviet wheat,
lumber. coal, etc., it will be as
sumed by American manufacturers
that Moscow will transfer its pur-
chase of machinery, so far as
possible, to Britain and other
countries that do not exclude So
Wet exports. Thus American ex-
port trade in machinery will be
hit, with consequent reduction in
employment, while Soviet wheat
will be sold in the European mar
kets at a price which will COM
pete with any to which the Amer
lean farmer can be driven.
Senators Frazier and Dill have
warned the country that the adj
ministration attack on Soviet
wheat trading is a political red
herring, and not a sound economic
move Thew propose that gambl-
ing in the farmers grain by Am
erican grain gamblers be checked.
The President, friend of Julius
Barnes, grain broker, has kept
still
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
FORD FIRES HIS
|NAVES IN GRANDS

y, usaoit-FP- old excuse is
) =, ,. enough to fire a Ford work
=. .' y. Two thousand have
nv ~ discharged since the plant re-
~ work Work recently.
4 Ford employee does not wear
oadge on the left side NV it IS
S ,Ft cause for his discharge,
S,,I-;I e walks in the aisles during
i ~, hours, a service man.
{, r 1UsS company police-takes
= II: ~ and he is told TO rino
,d y card and get what mone :
s Sang to him. ' -''Oii'S
| ii \. found himself minus his
ii a, qib Standing gl;ti in front of the
va. 81 /. waiting for tools. After.
NJ ee discovered that there II !,
sorTs H. lOrOidding more than three !,
ts ~, IFS 10 stand in front Of # thu 4,
"a t no at the same time. H,
fourth.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
british CAPITALIST LION AND LABOR
lamb UNTTE--LAMB IN LIONS TUNTMY

especially in the Far East, where
Japan now dominates the cotton
industry there. The volume of
cotton goods exported from the
United Kingdom is less than two
thirds of what it was in 1913. Ex-
ports to India dropped by nearly
500 while those to China and Ja-
pan were reduced over 1919 during
the same period. So the commit
tee suggests that a commission be
sent to the Far East to stimulate
business.
British cotton mills have been
trying to pay dividends on capital
hope in the suggestion. However,
watered about seven fold during
the war and postwar boom. The
banks have frightened their grip
and the Bank of England, in order
to guarantee returns for the own
ing class, is behind the big Lam
cashire Cotton Corp, which aims
to embrace companies with over
100000 spindles.
Call For Costs Reduction
The governments committee
calls on the employers and the
workers to reduce costs and in
crease efficiency by concerted &C
ton" But even the conservative
cotton union officials see little
the leaders in the A. F. of L., they
are willing to make united front
with their own capitalists against
the capitalists and workers of 9TH
er countries. This is the logic of
Encouragement coope ration
when applied in capitalist coun-
tries. The left wing and the Brit
ish Minority movement lead in the
fight against such policies. And
even the New Leader, of the indie
pendent Labor Party, contends
that "the troubles of the cotton
industry will be solved finally by
government having power anC
the will to apply Socialist meth.
ods."
Mac Is Doing Nothing
Certainly the Macdonald gov
ment is doing nothing to appl!
such methods. Nor is 1T possible
to apply them-and improve the
lot of the mass of workers-whil'
the capitalists run Britain as the!
do today. The problem is INSOFAR
ably connected with the struggl
of all the British workers agains
their own imperialist government
Capitalist naturalization will no
solve the crisis in the cotton in
dustry either in Britain or in tn
United States.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

airy relief from this unfair and un-
economic Soviet invasion, but So
Wet prices could be made to de-
cline more rapidly than duties
could be adjusted upward, and
therefore more drastic legislation
in the form of embargo has be-
come necessary in order to protect.
American industry. see no
other alternative than to introduce
bill at the beginning of the next
session of Congress to exclude
Russian manganese, coal, lumber,
wood-pulp, gelatin, wheat and glue
/. 1t might also be necessary,
in order fully to protect the wheat
growers of the United States, to
include a provision in the bill to
prohibit the Soviet government
from trading either directly or in
directly in the wheat exchanges of
this country. There may be other
commodities which should be in
Guided in the bill"
Favors War Measure
Oddie's demand for an embargo
against a country instead of mere
ly against a product is wholly new
in economic proposals-except for
time of war, when embargoes are
used as weapons of attack. The
capitalist governments maintained
an embargo against the Soviet
Union for some years after the
Russian social revolution of 1917
in the hope of overthrowing the
new government. Failing in their
object. they dropped the embargo.
Now the Nevada senator proposes
that it be invoked. to break the
economic growth of the Soviet
Union, and to help private capital
lists and wheat owners in this
country.
Tariff Laws Foolish
What the economists in Wash
ington see in the Soviet wheat
sales, however. is something which
cannot be held back by an Amer
lean embargo. They see the So.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

trade repot. They show total i'm
ports of $217,OOO,O0O and total ex-
ports of about $300,00O,000. The
White House official statement de-
clares that these totals indicate
chat our buying power has held
up much better than that of for
eign countries"
However, buying power" is but
one portion of the picture, and
Commerce Department figures for
August, with its usual great sea-
sonal upswing, show an increase in
exports of only $3S,000,OO0 over
July, while imports show a de-
crease of 100000 from the July
figures. This indicates that in
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
''DAKOTANS" In
HIGH POSITIONS

Graduates of Dakota Business
College, Fargo, win their way to
high places. VIC. Green is Prose-
cutor, US. Senate; Gerhard Krogh
is European Manager, ChrySler
Motor Co.. w. A. Mcintyre isthe
b25, 000-a-year metropolitan man
ager, Burroughs Adding Machine
Co., New York; F. ]. Sprung IS
sales manager, John Deere Plow
Works, employing 400 salesmen-
You are equipped to go far with
ACTUAL BUSINESS training
(copyrighted-at D.B.C. only.
Follow the Successful. Late
Fall Term Oct. 10. Write +. l..
Watkins, Pres, 800 Front St, Fargo
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
HOOVER FIGURES
SHOW PROSPERITY
LIMPS PAINFULLY

Washington = FTP = President
Hoover told the press Sept. 16
with evident satisfaction that
while exports from the United
States have decreased 20 per cent
in quantity during the first seven
months of 1880, imports have
dropped only per cent. Doubt
less Americas millions of unem-
ployed will join Mr.. Hoover in a
hearty cheer.
Hoover's figures are based upon
Commerce Department foreign
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

FP-Not even poll
yss YS ~ much now of any re- e,
"a: tai, al1ros H5sr this year y,sa1;s+r ol
| = 70 P Pre- revival in industry
= r, Gsssse n the financial aISda,
r bsst gus. gI customers prefer
l,s. wi, ~1Os to Hoover 6 }t!lSe.
: sIg an months but maintain in
sssrss stt ,-r the holidays. IN
w ,1 sl5s' offices however aS5 and and
* al. soisI workers and city
| 80 :octaI bureau officials no re-
s,,,Ioy1iens srossure Of the destitute
e.- Pc P' seeking relief is fore
,.-rsr the depression lasts,
Z n'': work'ngclass homes.
20. I here are family trin k
Isl ed relatives to be beg
: 7. -ss'' to be ured. But as
\. - bv and still no job is
- workers family is in
;-Zz~ i'.- - Although to the
l'@ employment is merely a
. 4 ' adding figures, to the
s 10. \ and social agency, a
.o5ress six months is a
80 .er:ous problem than one
.' i,5 only six weeks.
lo,v ent Paramount Problem
I''' E...sir. who as head Of the
Y. Assn. for Old Age Sc
(. IN direct touch with the
g. = unemployment and pow
20 =. = unemployment not mere
/. aeTciical" issue, to be set
. re,un Of good times
-. n the rext To him it
remanent problem.
!. :, ialcvon DAYS Of Cool
.~.peritv' maintained itself
:. srp.n.ion Of the auto in
l. explains. "Not only
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
The Reactionary Record Of the Fake Progressive
Senator Thomas J. Walsh

refer the declaration of war to referendum of
the people.
Senator Walsh is a supporter of the League of
Nations.
Senator Walsh voted for the paltry sum of $50
a month for soldiers in foreign service, voting
against the LaF gillette proposal to pay them 500
a month. Wall Street COTS its cannon fodder
cheap
Senator Walsh voted against the proposed
amendment to the Leasing Act of 1920 which
would have made it impossible for any person to
have taken oil from Teapot Dome.
A REACTIONARY RECORD
Is this the record of progressive or of reac-
tionarya
How can Senator T. j. Walsh pose as friend
of the workers and farmers after having taken
leading part in crucifying their most courageous
leaders during the warp
We agree with Senator Burton K. Wheeler's
statement made in 1924 when he ran with La
Toilette on the Progressive Party ticket: The
old parties rotten and corrupt" Senator
Wheeler also said Never again will have any
thing to do with either the Republican or Demo
cratic Party"
Workers and farmers of Sheridan CountvI IF
you cast your ballot on November 4th for either
t. ]. Walsh, the fake progressive, or for Albert
J. Galen, the frank reactionary, you will be cast
ing your vote for the Wall Street bankers the
grain gamblers, the railroad magnates, the mort
gage sharks-for all the elements in the country
that live on the sweat and blood of the producing
classes
Workers and FarmersI Vote for the candi-
dates on the FarmerLabor Party ticket, the ticket
that stands for your interests.
Vote for Charles E. Taylor, candidate for the
United States senate on the Farmer-L abor PARTY
ticket
Vote the State and County ticket straight.
Vote for the party of the producing classes and
against the two parties of Wall Street.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

Humiliation must be applied
!. = British cotton industry.
I. The essence of the recon-
-i,.iars Of the Committee of
- appointed by the MacDon-
i g.vernment to survey the in
/ - and its relation to the
ri aias in textiles.
n. reorganization of indus
i vi take the form of more
/ sra. Of companies and the in
.3eion Of new wage-saving
liner. Ring spindles, says
!, rD0rt must be substituted for
= .vndles additionally used on
\ finer yarns. The result will
! decrease in the number of
mixers required IN spinning.
In bOms per weaver are advis-
I T the committee and in some
a., automatic looms as in the
Tina States. This means more
rsrblOyment in the weaving
asis From 50 to $50 of the
|Elkers in Blackburn and certain
Ter cottOn centerS are already
q Of work About 2O-2596 of oil
.zred workers in the industry
rs iObless.
bangle the Old Carrot.
FW the employers the commit
iR holds out the chance to recov-
2 the bstO foreign markets, t
IKE more profits, and to achieve
Important savings in wage costs. -
lts few more skilled workers who
" able to hang on to their jobs
r'y possibly receive an Improve
rEt IN remuneration" But for
Z masses more unemployment OF
.EE yearly earnings, is newt
DE-
though they are not specifically
raaoned in the report, wage cuts
II 0Htemplated. William King
Elier for the Textile World
;,sSng the decline of the great
1hester industry, says: Gin.
ga reconstruction, almagatior
NILS, reductions in wages
reductions in taxes, and now
Sa'Cs Of weaving will undoubt.
Place Lancashire in a better
S-Ilon to fight her competitors.
/ We're cut after the strike
:. Nglsh cotton workers a yeal
Employers look forward Il
- GUS as a part of the solu
~. = y their cost of production
Losing World Market.
u I..., committees report is reall,
.-'Ie cry in the fierce trad
So s1efe the British find them
'' Nsng their world market
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

His bond was set at $4,000. Off
GERS said they have kept Bradford
and certain men Of New Orleans
under surveillance for several
months. Bradford denounced the
charges against him as a frame
up.
Reform Crusader
Identified often with turbulent
affairs in Lake county politics,
Bradford gained wide prominence
two years ago when he testified
before the Reed senatorial investl-
eating committee and charged
that wholesale shakedowns of sa-
loonkeepers had been conducted by
organizations supporting United
States Senator James E. Watson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

spite of the most favorable sea-
sonal conditions, foreign trade is
still in a weakened state and that
no immediate improvement can
be expected. Without improve
ment in foreign trade, employment
in this country will remain de-
pressed.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
~ ~ ELUX LEADER IN
Nl " IS HELD
AZ DOPE DEALER

s B addtoi5 mo- g.. Sept. 8 Ralph B.
NuS Kan vary any political and Ku
snplicitTn Il leader, charged with
aday suyra n a narcotic syndicate,
an. surrendered to federal al Off off,
e p STiitisnt had been issued for
a'et officers fo,i arrest yesterday,
q Nd t. g, contain sESG narcotics %9il pack SaI
'''00O to BradfOrd's office.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

Senator Thomas J. Walsh, candidate for re-
election to the United States Senate on the Dem
ocratic Party ticket poses a progressive be-
fore the workers and farmers of the United
States and particularly of Montana but Walsh's
war record, when he aided the Wall Street bank
ers to dragoon the young manhood of America
into the world war to save British Imperialism
and secure the gigantic loans made by the House
of Morgan to the Allies, forever brands him as
time-serving reactionary and traitor to the peo-
pie during that historic crisis.
When the Jackals of Wall Street were thirst
ing for the blood of Robert NJ. LaFolette who
opposed the entry of this country into the war
his most implacable foe was Thomas j. Walsh,
senator from Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03
VOTED TO EXPEL LA TOILETTE

When a resolution to expel LaFollette from
the United States senate for his opposition to the
entrance of this country into the war, Senators I.
]. Walsh was one of the two members on the
senate committee reporting on the resolution to
vote in favor of LaFolette's expulsion. Nine
senators voted against the resolution to expel
Fighting Bob"
Senator Walsh voted FOR the infamous Esch-
Cummins Act.
Senator Walsh voted for the declaration of war
after campaigning for Wilson under the slogan
He kept out of war
Senator Walsh sponsored the notorious Walsh
Sedition Law, under which Eugene V. Debs, that
noble and lovable leader of the people was sent
to the federal prison at Atlanta And even when
the war was over and angry passions had abated,
Senator Walsh refused to add his voice to the
chorus from millions of throats demanding the
release of the sick and aged tribune of the ex-
plotted masses.
Senator Walsh sponsored the notorious Walsh
Criminal Syndicalism Law
Senator Walsh voted for the Lever Act in the
interests of the Anaconda Copper Company.
Senator Walsh voted against the resolution to
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

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ISSUED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PARTY OF
MONTANA FLEETWOOD MONTANA
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29
TEXACOTO ERECT
NEW GAS STATION
Corner Opposite Bank Chosen for
Super Service Building to
Cost $4,000

Kennewick is to have a new super
service station on the main street
soon, according to unconfirmed re-
ports on the streets today. The
Texaco oil company has taken a
ten year lease on the seventy-fiye
foot front opposit the First Ma
tional Bank and will erect its new
retail plant.
According to District Manager
Watts, the company will put in a
plant costing $1,000, equal to- the
finest establishments of the kind
in the larger centers. It will be in
every way modern and will be a
standardized architecture with a
nicely handicapped grounds.
Watts states that the establish
ment will be the last word in auto
service and the plant will feature
the Texico products entirely.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29
HOUSE is ENTERED
THIEVES Enter House on Highlands,
Take Clothing, Money

While Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Tweet
and their two sons were in town
Thursday evening, their home on
the Highlands was broken into and
rifled. The thieves cut the window
screens, and finally forced entrance
by breaking the lock on. the door.
Most of the things stolen were art
icles of clothing, including shirts,
sweaters, and mackinaw. Money
belonging to the boys, watch, and
a suitcase were also taken, while
another suitcase was broken open
with an axe.
Tweet reported the robbery TO
the police department, which has
been searching the countryside and
Pasco for the trail of the house
breaker. No definite clews point
ing to their identity have yet been
unearthed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29
GOOD WILL BOAT
SINKS IN SNAKE
Launch Lono, Here Friday, Hits
Rock in Rapids; All Passengers
Were Saved

Incomplete reports sent into
Lewiston said that the Lono, the
smallest of the two launches used
by the Portland goodwill tour,
struck rock and sank in the
Snake river, at Bear Creek rapids,
35 miles from Lewiston. ALI four
passengers were reported safe.
They include Capt. Arthur Riggs,
Claude MCGEE, owner, Henry Wag-
ner and Fred C. Schubert.
Preceded by the Kaleetan, the
second boat, the Gono was navigat-
ing the rapids when it crashed in
to the rock, which tore a hole in
the boat and sunk it in six feet of
water. The Kaleetan went back to
the aid of the Lono.
Passengers of both launches
visited with business men in Ken:
newick and Pasco Friday morn
ing while the Kaleetan, whose rud-
der had broken, was being repair
ed. The goodwill tour was made in
conjunction with the Columbia
Valley associations attempt to re-
vive Columbia river navigation.
DR.. Clark Black, president of the
association, Phillip jackson, owner
of the Oregon Journal and several
writer's and engineers were men,
bers of the party.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29
Population for
County Gains 49
Census Check Adds So
Over First Count !; Pre-
cinct Record Shown

- Z 4 ( 81
Fifty-eight names were added to
the Benton county census list,
bringing the total to 1882, follow
ing new canvas of the reports,
Notices sent from Washington,
d. c., declared that the census SUI
pervisor can announce the unem-
pfoyed total in the various dis
tricts. That of Benton county, the
only one yet complete in the Yak
ina district, shows 220 persons
unemployed. Other totals for Ben
ton county record 1867 farms in
the county
1t had been decided first not to
give out the unemployment fig
ures, but the demand for them be-
came so great that the policy was
changed, and district supervisors
are allowed to give out the figures
for each county.
The precinct record, after a COM
plete preliminary check, is as fol-
lows:
Benton City, .69S; Carley, 55;
Columbia, 100; East Prosser, 1856;
Expansion, 81; Finley, 5S4; Han
ford, 429; Highlands, 426; West
Half Horn Rapids, 131; East Half
Horn Rapids, 339; Horse Heaven,
1870; Hover, 1856; Kennewick, 1919;
Kennewick Gardens, 1919; Kenne-
wick Valley, 453; Kiona, 1856; Low
er Yakima, 271;. N. Prosser, 668;
Paterson, "a; Prosser, 1859; Rat
tlesnake, 1913; Richland, 2Os; Riv-
erside, 1876; S. Kennewick, 401 |;
Vale, SO; Walnut Grove. 436; Well
lington, 81; West Prosser, ISL;
White Bluffs, 672. Total, 1882.
The population of Benton county
in 1920 was 1O,903, or gain of
40.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29
Business Girls To
Cook Camp Dinner

Business girls will exchange
desk chairs for seats around the
campfire Monday night, June 2,
when they hold a picnic at Richland
park. Each girl is asked to bring
bacon, potatoe and egg to herself.
These will be cooked at the park,
and coffee, cream and sugar will be
furnished. Following supper, there
will be kitty ball game and other
entertainment.
The girls are asked to wear old
clothes and meet at the CONNER
cial Club at $50. All who have
cars are to bring them, and trans
portation will be furnished for the
others.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-29

While hydro power is abundant
and cheap, a combination of steam
power and hydro power is even
cheaper /, and for this there is
available as fuel the vast coal
measures of the state, supplement-
ed by fuel oil brought cheaply by
water from the California fields,
and by not inconsiderable and a
growing supply of logged fuel of
the lumber mills.
Not only has the state been es-
pecially favored by nature in pro-
viding potential power, both water
and steam, for all future needs,
but its potential resources are be-
ing developed by Washington's
electric utility companies well in
advance of the growing demands
for power and are available to the
large and small user alike in all
parts of the commonwealth.