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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
AMONG THE WAGE SLAVES

Perhaps those who rebuke President Hoover for
his optimistic sermons prosperity are speakng'
without full knowledge of the conditions under
which industry is operated by the higher strata of
wage slaves and the conditions under which those
toilers labor Hoover insists that we have prosper
ity-it was due here on May sand his aides and
assistants that our workingmen are better off
than their class comrades in any country in the
world.
In the Literary Digest of May 10th, we find
list of slaves, picked out of a roster of one humid
red who receiving million dollars year
for their services to industry. We find the estim-
able philanthropist Cornelius F. Kelley Of the Ana
conda Mining Company the list.
In these dull days of depression how consoling
it must be for the jobless worker beating the
bricks on the lookout for chance to earn bread
and butter to know that all is not dreary; that
there is silver lining to the cloud of poverty and
want that has followed in the wake of the stock
market crash last fall and the advent of Herbert
Hoover to the presidency of the United States!
Always ready to bring ray of hope and bit of
cheer into the home of the poor, The Producers
News hereby publishes in part list of the wage
slaves who by their ability and industry have con-
quered the problem of making living. Unem-
ployed miners of the Anaconda Copper Company,
please read:
Walter P Chrysler was paid $750OOO a year
by John N WHY'S, years ago, and he received
other emoluments which raised Chrysler's in
to the million mark
Judge Gary paid an income tax of more
than 100000 year, indicating that he was
in the On-dollar-a-year class.
The Steel Corporations profit-sharng plan
presumably has put its present chief execu-
tive James A. Farrell, in the seven-figure
category. Myron c. Taylor, chairman of the
corporations executive committee, has earned
more than million year, but not as an
employee.
William NJ Wood got more than million
a year from the American Wooden Company
Among well-Bnown executives having mil
hon-dollar-a-year incomes are Hubert T. Par
son, of Woolworth's; E. T. Bedford the vet
head of Corn Products Refining; Julius
Rosenwad, of Sears, Roebuck; Sydney T.
Mitchell, of Electric Bond and Share; Samuel
insult, of Chicago; John Organ and Cornell
us F. Kelley, of Anaconda; Frederick s.
Wheeler of American Can
Charles I. MitchelPs job is rated as worth
million year. Income-tax returns revealed
that million-dollar incomes were received by
these J. P. Morgan and Company partners:
J. T. Morgan Thomas w. Lamont Charles
Steele, Thomas Cochran, Dwight W. Morrow,
R. c. Leffingwell
These Kuhn, Loeb and Company partners
also were of million-a-year rank: Felix M
Warburg, Mortimer L. Schiff Otto H. Kahn.
Jerome ]. Hanauer.
| Clarence Dillon and his senior partner in
Dillon, Read and Company, William A. Phil
lips, are similarly rated. So are other large
scale investment bankers
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
THE PRODUCERS NEWS

that market may be cut off from us at any NOM
ent."
Canada's action favors England and is also IN
line with the much discussed idea in Great Britain
of building tariff wall around the Empire and
preserving free trade, within between the mother
country and her children.
Our American trade commissioner at sydney
Australia. found the Australian tariff plan SO dis
turbing that he wired full details to the Depart
ment of Commerce at Washington Immediately at
ter he had obtained the list of new duties. Aus
traa buys S15O,OOO,OOO worth of American pro-
ducts annually, and her tariff policy is direct
blow to our rapidly increasing export trade with
that country.
Germany has erected practically impossible tar
if walls around wheat importatons and levied
high duties on sugar, barley and flour.
The round robin signed by 1923 economists re-
Gently sent to Congress and the President urging
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
The WASHINGTON SrFNr
By LAWRENCE TODD. Federated Pro-, A1'L
LIBERAL EDUCATION
IN COMMUNISM

Washington-(FP) =. Members
Of the House of Representatives
are about to give themselves a
liberal education in Soviet facts
and fable, and the effect of each
upon the welfare of American
wage earners and farmers, thru
the proposed Fish-Snell inquiry
into Communist propaganda.
Chairman Smell of the rules
committee says that it is simple
enough, for the House to order a
broad investigation by a commit
tee whose researches will not in
-terfere with Soviet trade with the
United States. Rep. Hamilton
Fish, said to be an aspirant for
the G. o. P. nomination for gov
ernOr of New York, agrees !
his own resolution, aimed directly
at Soviet-American trading inter
ests, must be replaced by a meas
ure which does not threaten the
Amtorg. But the House immigra-
ton committee falls promptly in.
to line with Police Commissioner
Whalen of New York, to the ex
tent of inviting Whalen to tell it
behind locked doors, all about the
Bolshevist Menace and his docu
ments which locate this Menace
right in the offices of Amtorg. So
if one House inquiry does not hi
Soviet trade, the other seems like
/ ly to do just that.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
TARIFF WAR MENACES FARMER

Last summer, high protectionists were plainly
Indifferent to the volume of protest from abroad
that followed publication of rates in the Smoot
Hawley Tariff Act. Thirty-six nations protested.
"Wel, what of it," in effect asked the disciples
of Grundyism. But serious answers to their casual
attitude come almost every day in the form of re-
taliatory tariffs from foreign nations
The latest report from Canada is the most de-
vastating, Our best customers latest fiscal bud
get contains tariff alterations that will probably
alter our export trade to Canada by $685. 900 900
decrease. Just how we have inspired those
changes is clear from the words of Lieutenant
Colonel J. H. Woods, President of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce in his recent address be-
fore the United States Chamber of Commerce.
We find difficulty in establishing any market
with you and we are growing to feel what is even
worse, that if through earnest efforts and sound
modern methods we cultivate market with you,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
SAYS DAGMAR FARM
Err is ALL WET
Dagmar, Montana.
May 5, 1880.

D0S AhctA NACAAIcNAAe-.
May 5, 1880
Producers News.
Dear Sirs:
In reading your paper the other
day we ran across an article in
the columns regarding Grant
Bakewell and the Gleason Girls.
We certainly wish to tell the au-
thor of that letter that if he was a
little bit smarter than he is, he
could be called half-wit. If he
knew what he was talking about,
it wouldn't be half bad. If he
didn't shoot off his face so much,
he might bluff folks into believing
he was part way smart. First,
the Gleason girls were not in this
country at the time of election. He
happened to have Mrs. Mary Glea-
son, woman of about so years
old, and as decent a woman as
there is in the country and is far
more intelligent than any other
the other one was Mrs. Dolores
woman in or around Dagmar. And
Gleason, with a two-year-old son,
and what the Dagmar Farmer
knows about her won't harm her
or any one else, and it will take
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fed of a bottle of moonshine, l
shall give him a dime for his
candy and blow gum fund.
Truly yours,
MRS. JOHN A. STAHLBERG.
There Must Be Lots of
Gleasons

Dagmaf, montana
May Z, 1880.
The Producers News
Plentywood, Mont.
Editor:
If the people of the Dagmar
country would take up a collection
and buy the Dagmar Farmer
pair of spectacles, and if he had
been looking at their faces instead
of their legs he would have MOTTO
ed that the Gleason girls that
Blackwell hauled to the polls to
vote were Mrs. Fred Gleason and
son Jackie. If he had looked, or
had someone else look for him if
his eyesight was so bad, he would
have also noticed that Mrs. Rob-
ert Gleason had her husband with
her. Had he looked at the face of
Mrs. Fred Gleason he would have
noticed she was no spring chicken
She happened to be over fifty at
the time and the mother of seven
children.
Now I hope this learns him a
lesson. No matter how expert he
may be at recognizing women by
their legs, here is once when he
made a mistake.
His letters are good but he
should be more careful what h
puts in them. Guess work DOM
always come out right. If those
guys who have so much to say
would do their fighting in the al
ley The Producers News would
be a far better paper.
WIOTA GLEASON.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
UNEMPLOYMENT BUNION
ON HOOVER'S FOOT

Unemployment in the United
States is a fact which embarrass-
es, more every day, the admins
tration's zeal to treat all Soviet
representatives as the early Chris
tian missionaries were treated by
the Roman imperial authorities.
The Soviet state has undertaken
to industrialize its vast agricul-
tural nation, and to do big frac-
ton of this job in five years. Am
erican mass-production methods
are more efficient than any earlier
industrial methods. Hence Amer
lean experts by the hundreds have
gone to the Soviet, under contract
with the Soviet government, to as
sist in the building of new fac
tories, railways, mines, refineries
power plants and industrial towns
Soviet technicians by hundreds
have come to this country to study
American methods. And the vari
Gus federal departs at Washington
are getting reports that the Five
Year program of the Soviets il
"going over, big"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
S SS-rII EXPORTS
n a,5IIE TO I. &

cbi IN order to pay for f, ..
SS@ o1istss s aad g ssf9sioaI aid d h.
ed States, Soviet Sra 15Un Tie 81
sold Sold abroad. Some 'G Of s ms,
d q l,sas, come to America t he. y
american anthracite '% Al; ports \
o ors, already in de desn @,ns nj
cause their market iTnpt.I5adN \
Is is; being eaten awa " IN fnl' oopas
s snd ibGiff ,,s,aural gas S' Ds s2al
planning that 5000 It tom Z. q
land land in = the first qua n New ,, 3
year. True, this 3fI oreia5, Of
e 1d5e Sol ID at 81 a ton s5oa ~ !
showing l1o, that it must BE- mug !
1uel, but that fact NAV " a. :
vent the administrative. not t, !
machinery being invoked PdS
clare an embargo agai1.t . ;
anthracite. And tb T,,ls' NJ
idea may be used Iat s eno'
Soviet products. '''ef agS
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
a IS L6. MUSKiE AND
HIc CAPTOR

Nov is the time for all good fisher
men to prepare for that summer trip"
is an appropriate slogan for disciples
of Isaac Walton these balmy spring
days A successful fishing trip de-
ponds largely upon the careful selec-
ton of location. tackle and even ageo-
ciates. for many a party has been
ruined by the last-minute introduce
ton Of wet blanket" to an other
wise congenial collection Of sports
men
One Of the most interesting fishing
streams in North America is French
River. Ontario. Canada. ais miles
north Of Toronto on the Canadian
Pacific Railway. This lordly river is
celebrated as the habitat Of the fight
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

luton and embodiment. Never
mind the others, start with your
self. You are stumbling over OBJ
stales in the path of your pro-
gress.
John seems to have done all
he could to be mean to his rela-
tives and friends. Just to show
off what he thought was a lot
of wisdom, and all he did was to
make an ass of himself.
For all his learning CD he
seemed to forget that a well
known poet of years gone by said
something in a few words that
carries more meaning and more
tragedy than volumes written by
smart alecs.
In speaking of the deeds men
do without realizing how impos-
sible it is, to undo the thoughtless
act or recall the word that should
not have been spoken. The philo-
sophical pen of Omar Khay Yam
wrote these lines:
The moving finger writes. and
having
Writ, moves on; nor all your piety
nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a
line,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
ANT!-SOvIET POLICY
MEAN LESS IORC

If Soviet trade be iDv..s.
the the House lou members will 't fiog
$40, 100000 worth Of 1 iI-e !
goods, representing a ya A,3'H'
OF skilled labor, were ' .o5
year to the Soviets. + f fS,a
Is not wanted, it will 20 ' Il ~ ].
manufacturers who now sss i,
Unemployment in PENIS sS5I
ONO, Illinois and other in5 \.
states will be increased a ,,r,s
ly. 1t is reported that tb 5i'' y /
ment was put up to the airs
tration during the recent ' ~.
ton of the U. S. Chamber :. W. y
merce, by some of the ba,J h
manufacturers from Detroa + !.
Chicago. They pointed "a h. s
ernment's own report, NY
that trade with all other bis Il
tries except the Soviet UNI,
off, in the past 6 months, I'M (,
Soviet trade rose considersg,
1t is anticipated that tbe 4,
committee or COMMITTEES M
vestigate Communist activis, !
be strictly prO-administ,,s
Hence President Hoover can h
der full responsibility for mi
crease Of American emplovms,,
may follow its economic iovI,
Fear of working-class govern
In Russia, leading the Hooyv
ministratiOn toward pOTT
persecution, has reached The 4
where it is paid for BY the nj
American workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

ing muscalunge. one Of the gamest
fish known; huge Great Northern
pike, pickerel. an abundance of small
mouth and <large-mouth black bass
and other hnny prizes. To accom-
modate sportsmen and their families.
a fine bungalow camp-a collection of
individual cabins centering around
main clubhouse-has been erected on
a cliff overlooking the river. Here the
fisherman and his family can rough
it in comfort" far from the cares and
annoyances Of work-a-day world
That big ~muskies' are plentiful at
French River is proven by the fact
that one recent summer q monster
muskie weighing So pounds was taken
in the North Channel at the mouth of
the Wolseley River. Also. not long
! ago party Of Ohio sportsmen caught.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
Says Hubby Hard Worker
Outlook, Montana.
A nil 90 mon

OuLlOOK, Montana.
April %, 1880.
The Producers News,
Plentywood, Montana.
Editor, P. N.
If you would like some first
hand knowledge of my husbands
qualities as laboring man, YOU
can come out here and help him
hoe the garden. If you can keen
up with him for one real Farm
Labor day-that is, from 5 A. M.
to 3 T. NJ, we will give YOU
enough strawberries for a short
cake every Saturday from july 70
November, inclusive. Free short
cakes are not very numerous in
Montana. "
You may take this as a beauty
nlnt If you wish. 1t would GER
family take few pounds off vour
most prominent plane surface
II you are afraid that first-hand
information would be too emphat-
&c for the good of your tight LITTLE
tummy, you can still get reliable
data by referring to Victor All
er, Harry JUL, Jens Tango. Lew
Hlppley, or any other honest dirt
farmer for whom John has work
ed. For that matter, even the
person from whom we believe Won
nave been getting most of vnnr
transformation, has seen John
snock wheat in the harvest fields
ana at the same time one of hel.
snelky boys had hard time keen
ing within shouting distance Of
We do not like to quarrel with
babies, but if Rodney Salisburv,s
amusing little boy can prove that
| am teaching school, or that INV
husband has ever SO much as sniff
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

besides their daily limit OF oass, pike
and pickerel. no less than seventeen
'muskies" ranging from 10 to 1914 lbs
In 1925 q ''muskie" of IS pounds
weight. so inches long and 81 inches
in girth was taken in the main chan
mel Of the French. one mile from the
bungalow camp.
The French River Bungalow Camp
will open June is and remain open
until Sept Is. Jack Strathdee. its
genial manager. is an experienced out
doorsman whose chief delight Is
coaching the uninitated In the art OF
Turing the fish. French River also has
a fine 9-hole golf course so that de-
voices of the royal and ancient game
who are also fond Of fishing need not
entirely forego the former sport IN
favor Of the latter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

more than that half-wit TO 4
an intelligent person 10 believ
Poor fool, if a few white A
pie would go and visit this 4
war relic he might gain a h
knowledge of what is going n ]
the outside wOrld-but | snarl
it is rather late to hope n /
cOvery. He is far more ws
than the cats and dogs On
place, as they are far above b
when it comes to Smartness u
at least run and hide when 70
one shows up, but he stand ,
and blahs-blahs in his ape me-
which leads US all to believe ]
he is the missing link. The d
BILE with the Dagmar farmer n
NAV have tried to get the Glal
girls out at some time or aei
and was refused-it may Z
stung his pride if he has any,
least we can stay that We hF
little decency left and ! Z
whether he knows what that :
Now. if we haven't told af
the truth as he did, its up i'l
I to tell US. But please find :
one smarter than our feebeH'
ed friend. the Dagmar Farns
Yours for truth,
MRS. DOLORES GLEASl
LEONA STEPHAN.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
WORKMENS COMPENSATION

The Montana Federation of Labor as spokes-
man for the workers of the state is circulating Pc
titions with view to the repeal of certain sec
tions of the present compensation act which is
really protective measure for the big corpora
tons and was railroaded thru the legislature by
those interests under the leadership of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company
Organized labor proposes to substitute for the
sections it would have repealed, amendments which
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
Suggests John Stahlberg
Take Look At Himself

Editor Producers News:
Can anyone grasp Stahlberg's
idea of writing all the crap he
writes?
No, l do not think his pocket
book needs to be trimmed" NAV
be not his hair, but I do know
he needs mental trimming.
Poor John has had such an ov-
erdose of vanity and conceit that
he has become so important in
his own eyes, that he can never
fit himself into an ordinary world.
that sees him as he is.
Here is my advice, if the world
is all wrong, examine vnursalf
All reform is from within ont
ward. You are in process of evo-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

Lewistown-UP- Present J
cations point to the largest " !.
convention of the Montana }. y
growers association in I 5
when that body ASSEMBLIES ~
in Lewistown. Reserva doa !
mounting towards the 0v' Il
and convention COMMITTEES :.
pate an attendance OF aPP'-
ately 1900.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
Listen, Skinny!

Want shapely figure2 Want more
strength and pep? Try Tanlac. It's
worthwhile remedy druggists guar
antee on money-back basis to build
weight, strengthen nerves and increase
appetite. Just see how quick it works
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
FAMILY DOCTOR
LEARNED THIS ABVVI
CONSTIPATION

DIR. Caldwell loved i. piTsl 4
wears Of practice c :SDir ib.iIsl
many were running 1 fI Iisrsatirs \
G Gstermined to write a 6'i p { /
s SsrS1 tom which would ~ ~
cause Of constipation - - hT|
Today, the prese;I1iplt%IoOo
in 1856 Is the worlds ..libs sp ! ~
laxatiyeI ne 3 ot R5s pure
OF he ;i1oSs ar,S IS DR.. CsltF '.,,ry
Pew Pe"sin, in thousand; ., ,oaCs n
b EsB''I breath "a coated '1 ~ VI
P headaches, biliOusns'' ;ibsrI Y
a aOoed or energy g, nd 81
bowels Of men, w " O,1,os,d rss
we're sluggish. i po,SSs'bSps' "a
IN me even he I, most : r. $500
o,J llked 10 Nkl
An drugstssf'ss.s, . F |
Calawelrs syssR Il
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Ed. Note: The above is canned editorial
sent out by a Washington editorial bureau
Wha1 the editorial fails to point is, that the
tariff war which is now raging all over the
world is prelude to another kind of war.
Neither would universal free trade solve the
problem, even if such development were not
utopian. There are bound to be tariff wars
and military wars as long as the capitalist
system exists. Trying to make this robber
economic system behave in a civilized manner
is as futile as putting a mustard plaster on
a wooden leg.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

defeat of the tariff measure, explains how tariff
will hurt the farmers:
"Our export trade, in general, would suffer,
Countries cannot permanently buy from us unless
they are permitted to sell to us, and the more we
restrict the importation of goods from them by
means of cur ever-higher tariffs, the more we re-
duce the possibility of our exporting to them"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
1ZMaHS
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Editors Notes-Communications for
publication in this column must
be not longer than 500 words.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-08-28

then kept watch for the bear and what
was to follow
In due time bruin made his appear
ance and gobbled the sandwich down
with gusto and in haste. Shortly there
after the snoose began to get in its
work and the bear became mighty sick.
The men were convulsed with laughter
In watching the antics of the poor bear.
1t sat down and with both forepaws
rubbing its distressed stomach, it cried
and moaned and took on in Just the
same manner as many a sick man
would have done. Eventually it disap-
peared in the brush, sick but wiser
bear.
However, the question is, did bruir
learn lesson? In a way he did and
then again he didn't. He is Just a.
bad a raider as ever and just as muck
OF a nuisance, it is said, but you cam
get him to touch the stump from which
ne took the doctored sandwich
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-08-28

ming Of Aug. Is someone was surprised
in the act Of rpbbing the store by Louis
Micho, a clerk, who Unexpectedly en-
tered the store about $50 o'clock,
Young disappeared the same night the
robbery was committed.
Young had cut the seam out of the
leg Of his overalls and used it as rope
with which to hang himself
A special report from Fortine to The
Western News says;
Speculation is rife as to the reason
for the suicide, but no definite
reason can really be found. Some
have advanced the theory that finan-
cial difficulties were the cause of his
taking his life His job at Klinke's store
was to be over few days after he
disappeared and it was known that he
had no other job in view, nor any
money ahead.
Mr.. Young came here from Spokane
where he had been employed by the
Great Northern railway for number
of years. He leaves a wife and one
child, both of whom have returned tc
Spokane, taking the body with them
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-08-28
Little Stories Of the Town

This is tale Of dirty trick played
on bruin.
Bruin was one of the numerous tribe
OF bears that make their homes in this
district and like practically all his fell
lows, he had made dreadful nuisance
Of himself whenever opportunity af-
forded This particular bruin chose, TO
attach himself as a camp follower to
the J. Neils logging camp north Of
town. He had gotten the bad habit
of robbing dinner pals or any other
delicacy that came to his attention and
which he could get hold of.
Patience at last ceased to be a virtue
and one OF the woodsmen decided to
teach bruin lesson and have some
fun as well at the same time So he
carefully prepared a doctored sand
witch by placing goodly dose of snoose
within it and then placing it on stump
the same stump where the bear had
formerly found dinner pals The men