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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06


(WireIess By Inprecorr)
PARIS, Feb. 5.-The French gov
eminent is rather openly encourag-
ing the fascists who continue to
howl for war against the Soviet
Union over the cease of General
Koutiepoff, whose disappearance
now turns out to be his own choos-
ing. Ignoring this, the fascist pa
per, "Liberte," says that the Soviet
Ambassador shall "be held person
ally responsible" while the govern
ment paper craftily kindles the agi-
tation by talk about the Soviet Gov
eminent being "boorish," etc.
The White Guard general, mean
while, is known to be on his way to
South America. The capitalist press
brings up the issue of war on the
Soviet Government quite easily, CIV
ing the opinion of jurists that raid
upon the Soviet embassy, desired by
the fascists, that such raid would be
sufficient reason for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

on Tuesday and Friday evenings and
Thursday matinee.
The week will begin with Tche-
kov's "The Sea Gull" Balance of
the week will include on Wednesday
evening, "The Living Corpse; Sat
urday matinee, "Peter Pam" and
Saturday evening, "The Sea Gull"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Today in History of
the Workers

February 6, 1840-Communist
Workers Educational Association
founded in London. 187S-Gen-
eral Trepoff, enemy of Russian
popular movement, shot by Vera
Sassulitch. 1919-Seattle, Wash,
general strike began in sympathy
with shipyard strikers. 1923--l72
revolutionary peasants condemned
to death at Chanch, India. 1925
Great unemployment demonstra-
ton before Parliament at Oslo,
Norway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
IBSEN'S "HEDDA GABLER"
AT CIVIC REPERTORY

For the first time this season, on
Thursday evening, Henrik Ibsen's
"Hedda Gabler" will be presented at
the Civic Repertory Theatre. The
new double bill, "The Open Door,"
by Sutro, and Quinteros' "The Wo-
men Have Their Way" is scheduled
for three performances this week;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

Comrade. Having spare Room.

Comrades Having spare Room.
To house students of National
Training school for six weeks, please
communicate at once with Workers
School, rs Union So, Stuy. ITO.
Il
AgitDr0p.
District Agitprop Committee and
section agitprop directors Thurs
day, 1870 y. y. at Center
Section Membership Meet.
Tonight ?. m.,. lo5 Thatford Ave.
Unit fig, Section 2.
Tonight, $50 p. m, 1l7s Broadway,
shop Papers.
All comrades connected with this
work. February 8. 8 .. m. at Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
TO SHOW "a VISITOR TO So
WET RUSSIA" IN CHARLOTTE
FER 3

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-The first
Soviet film to be shown in the South
will be presented here for the tex
tile workers of this section on Sat-
urday, Feb. 8, under the auspices
of the Department of Cultural Ac-
tivities of the Workers International
Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

Write About Your Conditions
4 he Daily Worker. Become a
rnr'ier Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Imperiaist War
Plots Against Soviet

Continued from Page One)
Union, is totally unfounded. NJ
such executions have occurred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

Build The Daily Worker-Send
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
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Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become a
Worker Correspondent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
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ment as a whole remains "menac-
ing" The Emergency Confer
ence of Unemployment formed by
needle trades and other progress
sive unions, reported no change
yet from the low employment lev
els of the first three months of
the year. With both men and
women retrenching first of all on
new clothing in an era of depres-
sion, the clothing trade reported a
quarter to a half of their members
jobless.
'.sLast year at this time the en-
ployment agencies were pulling
men off the streets to get 'em to
go to the country" said a jobless
worker on the Bowery. "They
hollered at me from the doorway
come on in and get a job. l
told 'em | was working, why
should go bone on a railroad !?
They wanted to pull me in. This
year-you can't get jobs. Agencies
are charging fees. They never did
that on the Bowery."
Five Dollars for Job
The director of one of the mis-
sions confirmed this. "$5 for a
job, at the agency near u.s. he
said. LAST year that outfit sent
200-400 men a day, and the COM
panies would pay to get them"
eve handle just about five jobs
a day." said an employment agent,
"Last year it was 10O,110,120."
Worst winter in years." said
Col. Winchell, at Salvation Army
headquarters. Though he had
heard things were opening up this
week, he admitted the streets book
ed as full Of iobless as a month
ago. "Over $3.50 of the men, we
find, will do any work they can
get" said the colonel. "But no
wonder they get bitter. Pay S.
for a job, and then they may get
out in the country and be fired
after working two weeks. It's just
like slavery"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
An Open Letter on Interest Rates

banks prosper a little while, and
then with any little disturbance,
they go broke.
Many Banks Fail
This disaster has been seen in
Montana. About twelve years ago,
due mostly to our high interest
rate large number of tin-horn
banks sprung up all over Montana.
They lasted two or three years
and as was inevitable, in one year,
in Montana, 226 little banks (and
some big Ones) went broke. The
high interest rate which encourag-
ed the starting of the worthless
little bank was the same cause
which acted finally to put the lit
tie affair out of business. 1t kill
ed the customer in a few years.
1t killed the goose that laid the
golden egg. The goose might
have continued to lay eggs at 5 or
g per cent per annum and both
goose and bank prosper, but in
the effort to make the goose over
exert itself both banker and goose
died. The other disastrous effect
of excessive interest may be left
to the imaginations of 81 per cent
of the voters.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
By HARLOW PEASE

the plains of Kansas and In the
engine-house at Harpers Ferry he
sung the monster; in 1865 it died,
by his hand more than any other.
His raid in $50 cost the slave pow
er ten millions of dollars in Slave
property hurriedly sold; that mar
ket never recovered. His legal
execution was a heavier blow to
the slave power than any he dealt
in life. The song which arose
from his tomb inspired the armies
of the Union to their final victory.
Browns whole. life,-. not. his
death alone, was a continuous act
of sacrifice. He sacrificed COM
parative wealth and comfort to en-
gage in what he called the great
and principal object of my lifep
For this object he starved and
was hunted by Federal Marshals
and regular troops of the United
States. For this object he sacri-
feed the lives of his sons along
with his own. He never engaged
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
A Neglected Birthday

in politics. but viewed the ques-
ton thru the sights of a Sharps
rifle. He won when outnumbered
five and ten to one; the terror of
his name alone routed a cavalry
detachment sent to take him.
To Brown the government which
protected slavery was void and not
to be recognized; the national
eagle became a vulture in his eyes.
He denied the doctrine of proper
ty in man; he also denied the doc
trine of property in the land on
which man must walk and live. He
asserted Christianity.
Happy America of today! The
principles of John Brown are un-
der foot. The song of John Brown
is now shuffled out of sight by
the nation whose history it alter
ed. That nation teaches its chill
dren that he was mailman or a
fool. His birthday is forgotten. So
perish all who plant in the Jungle
the seed of the ideal.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

May 9th, 1880, has passed and
again the people of the United
States have ignored their oppOr-
tunity to pay tribute to one of the
unique and exalted characters in
their own history. This man was
born May 8, 1900, when the great
est French commander was pre-
pairing the campaign of Marengo.
This man died by hanging SO years
later, and then the greatest
French man of letters said of him,
"He has made the gallows as holy
as the Cross!' America alone de-
spises his memory, because he
stood for everything that present
day America despises, and he des-
pissed everything that is idolized
by our dominant civilization. His
soul, somewhat lonely in these lat
ter years, is marching on.
The tyranny of wealth and pow
er over common humanity inflam-
ed John Brown in his youth with
a hatred which never died. On
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

against the department av,.u
make clear the legal SITUATE 'ss'
The patent laws were Ds,,.,
with a view toward prOteeti~ INV. y
the little fellow from interis,., J,
with his patents, when then -
no indication of conditions ms NJ N
have developed, with the n,i~s
no longer in the hands Of M \
tie fellow who needs prOtec6a'
Wheeler said. 81 have fan
some time that the patent I
needed a thorough Uverhau5
This might demonstrate it,
The department suit was m
it was announced, "to test ths /,
atty" of agreements for Uoors
radio holdings among the RAJ
Corporation of America, the a
eral Electric company, WeTm
house Electric and Manufschis
company. The American Tsll
phone and Telegraph COMPANY m
six other corporations.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
LIFE FOR PINT
Law MAY BE RULE
In NORTH DAKOTA

Bismarck,CHolding that the vi
olation of the prohibition law in
wolves moral turpitude, the SUI
preme court of the state has made
it possible 10 inflict the life SEN
tence penalty upon repeating Of
tenders of the loquor laws.
The decision which was rendered
here recently in the case of Joe
Malusky, held that violations of
the prohibition law come under the
provisions of the habitual criminal
law, which provides that the
fourth conviction of felony NAV
be punished by life imprisonment
The appeal was based on the
final section of the habitual GRIM
inal act which provides that the
provisions of the act shall NOT an
ply to offenses made felonies hv
statute and not involving moral
turpitude. His sentence in the dis
trict court, from which the appeal
was taken, was to four wears in
prison under the provision which
allows doubling of the ordinary
penalty on conviction of a third
felony.
The decision was signed bv Judc-
es Burke, Nuessle and Burr. while
a dissenting opinion was SIGNED hu
Judges Christianson and BirdzeIi
who contended that IN passing the
habitual criminal act the leSisla-
ture had not intended it to apnlv
to all persons convicted of felon,
les.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
Noted Agriculturist to
Speak In This County

Mr.. J. G. Haney, Superintendent
of the Agricultural Extension De-
partment of the international
Harvester Company, will be in
this county on May 81 and 22nd to
speak on agricultural subjects,
Mr.. Haney is cooperating with the
County Extension offices thruout
the state of Montana and will take
part in programs in different
counties in the northern part of
this state.
The first meeting will be held
in this county at Medicine Lake
on May 21st at 2.30 P. M. Ar
engagements have been made to
hold meeting in the Theatre
building and it is expected that
there will be large crowd to hear
Mr.. Haney as he is we'll known all
through Montana and North Da-
kota as he has been very instru-
mental in breeding up a number
of varieties of corn adapted To
North Dakota and Montana condi-
lions.
Mr.. Haney will address a meet
ing at the Court House here on
Wednesday evening at 500 o.
clock. Mr.. Haney has been doing
experimental work with alfalfa.
sweet clover and other forage
crops. 1t is expected that he viii
give a very interesting and edu-
cational talk in regard to growing
feed crops in Montana and North
Dakota. All farmers in Sheridan
County who are interested in live
stock production are cordially in
vited to attend the meeting at
which Mr.. Haney win speak.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

Peet, says: "FOr "a nation that
was looking forward to reduction,
this is a jar. But the conference
was worth while. even so. 1T
PUT A CURB ON NAVAL RIV-
AIRY emphasis ours. T. OFF,
We can build this tremendous al
lOtment of warshiDs without
arOusing suspicion anil jealousy,
the breeders of war. Il the con-
ference had not been held,
building program like this would
point directly toward eventual
armed conflict And did you
ever hear Peet go tweet. tweet,
tweet on the DiccOlO?
l!!ilI
Here comes our cd playmate
Charlie Schwab with q word of
cheer ard q note of optimism.
Charlie IS chairman Of the Beth
lehem Steel corporation ami a
seli-sacrificing citizen. He work
ed for a-dOIbar.@-year during the
war. Yessir! Now lissun to the
big cheer-leader: CAS- a matter
of fact business IS a Lot better
today than it was six or nine
months ago, because of the in
evitable housekeeping that has
taken place. We cannot expect
record years all the time" Right
you are Charlie. Those damned
BOlsheviks insist that times are
bad when there are seven million
wage earners out of work. but we
know different Charlie. Don't
we?
i!!!i!
The Anti-SalOOn League was
born of God AYERS F. Scott Nc
Bride, the distinguished general
superintendent of the blue-nOse
organization. Senators immedi-
ately pOunced on Mcbride, charg-
ing him with taking liberties with
Jehovah. Yet Mcbride had as
much right to claim divine par
entage for his ''bar-sinister" child
as the Catholic Church had with
its InquisitiOn and the nations
that were engaged in the Late
world war had for claiming the
blessing of their divers deities on
their adventure into the business
of carnage and slaughter.
l!ll!.
The return of StimsOn and his
peacemakers from London was
marked by one of the prettiest
airplane maneuvers ever seen in
New York. His return also CO.
incided with the arrival of the
fleet from its winter sOiOurn in
southern waters. 125 planes pa
trOlled Manhattan island. It was
a beautiful sight. we are inform
ed. The sailor boys have captur-
ed the town. and all is well on the
banks of the Hudson. particular
ly on Riverside Drive from seth
Street to YOnkers. "Peace be to
yOuw
iiIiiiI
President DOumerque of France
visited Alglers recently to cele-
brate the centenary of the
founding of that city. He was
greeted with salvO of guns from
80 French wIarships. 1t is report
ed that the roar of the cannon
could be heard in Rome where
the Italian cabinet was approx
ing the construction of 20 new
warships. The London confer
ence may not make for peace but
1t will certainly put some money
in the Golfers of steel magnates.
li!iiiI
Orange, Va, May 11.-Dr. HUI
bert Work, former chairman of
the republican national commit
tee, here on a fishing trip with
President Hoover, fell in the wat
er of the Rapidan when he step
ped on a log which rolled under
him. He emerged unchanged
except for a wetting. News
item. A light-headed man was
mot born to be drowned.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
George Case, County
Treasurer of Scobey Gets
Bouquet from Helena

Helena, Mont, May 14-UP-
Although residing farther away
from Helena than any county
treasurer in the state, County
Treasurer George Case of Scobey,
beats all other treasurers in the
state consistently ir forwarding
reports and fees to the state treas
urer's office, according to State
Treasurer F. E. Williams.
Mr.. Williams wrote the Scobey
official expressing his appreciation
for his prompt attendance to his
duties, explaining that if other
county treasurer would follow suit
it would materially expedite state
business.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16

Continued from page Cne)
was unarmeI-hc went for the To-
cal deputy She.ief. VIXEN hey re-
turned and opened The door they
found that Kingsley had shot him
self and lay in the kitchen breath
ing his last.
The dying man made no state
ment.
The cause of the tragedy was
the loss of his job with the Mon
arch Lumber Company and jeal-
ousy over his pretty wife.
1t seems that Kingsley has been
in the employ of the Monarch
Lumber Company for some years,
formerly at Dooley in this county,
and Flaxville in Daniels county.
He was widely known in this sec
ton of the country as baseball
player, being the pitcher on the
Dooley team when he lived there
and he has also pitched for Plen-
tywood. He was periodic drink
er. AT his last spree he was
warned by the company that if the
lapse occurred again, he would be
rdismissed. 1t seems that the lapst
occurred again, and Wednesday
officials of the company came anC
brought man with them to take
Kingsley's place.
Kingsley was a member of the
militia. Each member of the
company had been given an obso-
lete Krog-Jorgenson rife, once of.
fetal ordinance U. S. army, fol-
practice purposes. The rifle was
at the lumber office. Kingsley
after he had helped check in his
successor, took the rifle home with
him Wednesday night. THURSDAY
morning he used it for the pur-
pose of destroying his wife arc
himself. He shot the wife twice
once thru the chest and the second
time between the heart and shout.
der. When he turned the gun or
himself he had some difficulty
the barrel of the gun was so Ions
he could not reach the trigger. He
put the muzzle of the rifle against
his side just below the heart, anc
with the stove poker sprung the
trigger.
The Kingsleys had had trouble
in the past. About five years agc
they were divorced at brentwood
but later, because of the sons
they were reconciled and remar.
ried. 1t is said Mrs. Kingsley hac
told her husband that if he lost
his job she would leave him again
The boys are in an historical
condition. the deed having made q
horrible impression on them.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
WHALEN

former czarist officer, and he
makes the most of the social game
while shedding dramatic tears "a
bout his poor dead emperor.
One of the wealthy women who
have sponsored this alleged exof-
ficer made hair-raising report
behind locked doors, to the recent
state convention of the Maryland
d. A. R., on the Bolshevist men
ace. In the same city, a few years
ago, similar fright was occasioned
by confidential reports on the sit
uation in Mexico, as reflected in
the Nosovitsky documents. ii
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
Teagarden Adds His
Mite to News View
On Galen Selection

The Plentywood Producers
News, commenting upon
Judge Galen's statement, at
the time of his endorsement
by self-elected bunch of po-
litical bosses, that he would
support" the administration,
remarks that the Hoover ad-
ministration is just about as
popular in Montana Gas hot
soup in a cats saucer"
To which the Recorder adds
that the republican bosses in
Montana are a lot of buzzards
of disaster, and their flocking
: is nothing more than an evil
dence that there is a "dead
one" in sight.-Teagarden's
Recorder.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
SPLINTER
FROM THE FLEETWOOD SCHOOLS

The English V class is working
on a contract to be finished May
16. Among the things included in
the contract to be done by each
member, are: an original one-act
play, two original settings for
plays, a report on a famous actor,
or actress, and a construction of a
stage.
Mr.. Stegner is now sorting over
the books for English reading,
sending those away, whose covers
are becoming old, for reminding.
The Miles City summer normal
school now has a special depart
ment organized in addition to the
regular Normal School work, un-
der auspices of Custer county high
school. This department is open
from June 10th to August 18th
for those who want to take up
regular High School subjects. This
school is also open to those who
want to take one or more subjects
that they have failed in at high
school, along with regular nor
NAL course.
TIL A..Io-4 e IL T7Is1 TxY
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-05-16
BUTTE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE STARTS
GAS PRICE WAR

Butte, Mont, May 13-UP-
Montana means business in its
fight against asserted discrimina-
tive and exorbitant gasoline prices
charged by foreign oil concerns.
Talk, protests and indignation
have finally rnaterialized
into concrete action. War has
been declared by the consumer
against the producer.
The Butte chamber of commerce
is leading the way. 1t has applied
Tor permission to construct and
operate a gasoline station at which
it will sell gasoline, oil ard other
supplies,
To Sell At Cost
The Butte chambers station
will sell for cost and will continue
just as long as alleged high gaso-
line rates are maintained. The
present rate is 2713 cents a gall
lon; the Butte chamber maintains
it should be down to 221s cents.
Other cities throughout the state
are observing the Butte expert
ment with interest with the inten-
ton, it is understood, of eventual
ly following suit. If this comes
to pass, it will be unique situa-
ton in the United States; a stu
alton in which an outraged public
is modified to oppose what it con-
siders an oppression of oil COM
panies.
Asked Reason Why
The gasoline war is based on a
number of charges. When COM
mittee discovered that gasoline re-
fined in Wyoming and shipped
through Montana was sold several
cents cheaper in Spokane, Wash,
than in Montana it asked this con-
Germ "why ?"
"a gasoline war has compelled
us to slash prices in Spokane, -
was the reply. :.
"Well!" the committee replied,
you've got war under way
here, too"
Charge MOntananS Most
Public Investigators can see no
reason why gasoline should be so
much cheaper in Wyoming and the
Dakotas than in Montana. They
state that for some reason I'M
beknownst to them-"Probably be-
cause we've been suckers and have
stood for it so long," remarked
one man-Montana seems to be
the state in which oil companies
charge the most.
Nor is the Butte uprising" the
only straw which shows the way
the wind is blowing. The Contin-
entail Oil company is accused by a
Montana refinery operating in the
vicinity of Conrad, Shelby and
nearby cities of waging an unfair
war against the home concern.
Specifically, the charges allege
that this concern raised its price
of gasoline one cent in all sections
of Montana except the north CEN
trail Montana section where Mon
tana refineries served patrons
There, the Continental slashed its
prices two cents, it is charged.
Montana Penalized
I'm other words" complainant
spokesman state, "the major part
of Montana was penalized one cent
gallon to finance discrimina-
tive and unfair gas war waged bv
a foreign concern against a home
industry"
What will be the outcome of the
squabble is, of course, unknown
However, well informed authori-
ties state that if some concessions
are not Immediately made. and
material concessions, too, that o;I
companies will find themselves
faced with the unique situation AZ
competing with the public thew
attempt to serve.