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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
THE VALUE OF THE STATE FAIR
TO THE STATE

When we think of Detroit, we think
of automobiles; when we think OF
waterfalls, we think of Niagara; and
when we think of automobile racing,
we think of the great speedway at
Indianapolis, Ind. If the Minnesota
State fair gets the patronage from its
people it should have and deserves
in consideration of the high class edu-
cational entertainment it affords, then
it too will keep expanding and ad-
vertise our state to the Union to make
the name Minnesota have relative
significance.
Through fat and lean years our fair
has stood as the rock bound coast
stands to ward off the buffeting of
the storm waves. 1t apparently has
weathered the storm if the patronage
of the public will continue. 1t will
get bigger and better as surely as the
demand for gasoline has made the
filling stations increase in number
and in architectural excellence. 1t is
our institution and it will be what
we make it.
The best of all livestock and pro-
duce throughout the state will show
one what is being done in a produc-
tive way. The latest in scientific and
mechanical achievements will show
the advancement along these lines
being made and the latest in art,
school work and club work will be
exhibited to make for an educational
week.
Don't miss this wonderful exhibit.
Plan now to be there and to absorb
all the good to be had from the sue
cesses of others. The dates will be
from Sept. to IL.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

Mile Laos County Times: What
foreign governments pay us ON their
debts amounts to less than one-half
of one per cent of their national in
come; less than three per cent of their
national budget, and less than 13 per
cent of what they spend for arma-
ments. Their armies are 20 times
greater than they were before the
war;" says Senator Henrik Shipstead.
To cancel the war debts would only
help foreign countries build up their
armies and navies faster and hasten
the coming of ''the next war;"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

called to our attention, that we had
stretch of bad years in the nineties,
and things worked themselves then,
difference Of actual conditions. at that
time the northwest was yet to be
opened up, railroads to be built and
other construction work took up the
surplus of labor, there is no great
construction work in sight, and the
people actually working right now can
produce more than enough for every
body unless the hours are cut down,
and the work spread over a large
number.
Two hundred eighty thousand peo-
pie in the United States today
pay 81 per cent of the income
tax collected by the National gov
eminent. The total income of about
500 people is equal to the entire in
come to all the wheat and cotton
farmers in the United States, or more
than all the railroad labOrers in the
United States, four per cent of the
people in the United States own 80
per cent of the wealth. These figures
can be sustained by governmental re-
ports coming from the treasury de-
partments. With such cOncentra-
tion of wealth it is hardly necessary
to go further to look for the cause
of our present depression. These
large fortunes should be broken up
through income taxation and inheri-
lance taxation, and things so adj
justed that such concentration OF
wealth hereafter will be impossible
Progress means prosperity for all who
are deserving, not for a few favorites
whom circumstances made rich, eth
err honestly or otherwise.
With all basic products going down
fifty per cent the people who have
large sums of money in cash or in
their wealth, thereby increasing the
present evil. If anything prices should
go up thereby making it easier to pay
off Indebtedness. France, Italy, Ger
many, Russia, and most European
countries with the exception of Eng
| Iduu loISCu LilClI uuOlCy uO"A, IhCA
by making it possible to pay off their
internal Indebtedness at low value
money. This of course was a hard
ship on the wealthy, but they can
stand it, the welfare of the many
should govern. England to save itself
from communism long ago adopted
the plan of unemployment insurance
thereby saving their people from star
walton. There are no bread lines and
starvation in England like there was
before the war, the dole did what it
was supposed to to, prevented desti-
tuition.
In few months the major parties
will be campaigning for votes. For
the people who want to help them
selves there is no other remedy, but
to vote and stand by the progressives
who understand actual economic con-
ditions and who advocate measures
drastic enough to solve present con-
ditiOnS. ri.
| q S. J. SIMONSEN.
Chitina, Alaska, June IL, 1881.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
A NEW PARTY
is PREDICTED
League for Independent Political Ac.
ton to Discuss Plans for Ma.
tiOnal Third Party.
By H. G.. TEIGAN

Howard Y. Williams, executive
secretary of the League for Independ-
ent Political Action, announces that
he will be in Minnesota ON June 80,
to spend some time here with Farmer
Labor leaders in discussing plans for
a national third party. -
Mr.. Williams states that there will
be a frank call for a new party
which shall be at least as radical as
the Bull Moose of 1912 and the LaFol-
lette crusade of 1924"
Among the fundamentals on which
the proposed third party movement is
to be based, are the following:
1. Calling of constitutional con-
vention to revise the federal consti-
tuition.
2. Insistence on Reorganization of
the federal government departments
(which, much to his credit, Mr.. Hoov-
er has repeatedly demanded"
3. international cooperation for
the restoration of the economic health
of the world"
4. Launching of political war on
special privilege of every sort, in
Guiding the tariff barons as we'll as
the despoilers of our natural re-
sources.
Politicians Surprised.
The Williams announcement will
probably prove something of a sur
prise to those politicians of the old
parties who are predicting fusion be-
tween the Democrats and Farmer
Laborites. 1t will be recalled that
just few days ago Ed Smith, former
Republican political boss, gave out
statement in which he predicted
that in 1882 there will be a union of
forces on the part of Farmer-Labor-
ties and Democrats in Minnesota with
the result that the Democrats are to
receive the presidential electors,
while the Farmer-Laborites will get
the, Democratic support for their can
didates for state and congressional
offices.
Smith may be right in his prog
nosticating, but he has not submitted
any proof of the plan which he says
will be contaminated in next years
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
IN A TRYING POSITION

1t was a difficult task for Presi-
den Hoover to dedicate the Harding
memorial at Marion. The dedication
was delayed long time while the
Ohio gang, including the notorious
attorney general, Harry Daughtery,
were busy lodging the penitentiary.
1t was this gang that the late presi-
dent was responsible for bringing to
the capitol at Washington. Their
work of graft and corruption is vel,
known.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

Mile Laos County Times: The sug-
gestion that the buying of farm prod
ucts by the Federal Farm Board
should be done only through farmers
cooperative organizations is good
one. The private wheat spectators
and grain dealers are already starting
howl against this plan, which shows
that they think it would be effective
in aiding the farmers to control mar
keting and prices. In Denmark, a
great cooperative country, farmers
who do not join cooperative organi-
cations are not permitted to use such
agencies in disposing of their produce
but must take their chances with the
private dealers. This is only proper
as the man who will not support CO.
operation is not entitled to any of it's
benefits.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
COMPLAINT ON HIGH WATER

Editor AskOv American:
Farmers living along Snake river
and some of it's tributaries above the
dam near Pine City, have been dam
aged considerably the last couple of
weeks by high water. Acres of grain,
potatoes, corn and meadows have been
under water. Some of the roads have
been under water and impossible. A
great number of game birds that nest
along the river have had their nests
destroyed, killing their young. Some
of the game animals have also been
destroyed by the high water. This is
the result of the keeping of planks
or splash boards on top of the dam,
that raises the height of water for
many miles above the dam.
The owners of this dam, an cleo
trio power corporation. keep these
planks on the dam knowing the dam
age caused by them and in opposition
to decision of the state supreme court
forbidding them to obstruct the flow
of the stream in any way.
A willful causing of damage to
town roads should not be tolerated
even if the party responsible for caus-
ing the damage is a corporation
The farmers are the ones who pay
to fix up the town roads regardless
of who damages them. If a farmer
owned this dam it wouldn't be long
before he would be compelled to stop
flooding personal and public property
Why not make the corporations re-
spect the laws?
FARMERS PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
Pine City, Mimi, June %, 1881.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

the benefit of Minnesota while the
majority in the legislature fiddled the
time away.
Rural Minnesota will do we'll to
lend tin ears to the propaganda which
is aimed at discrediting Governor Oh
son. The dope will come to the peo-
pie through every old guard daily
and weekly in the state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

would take the films from the projec-
tion booth and destroy them.
AS this was precisely what Italian
troops stationed in Peiping had pre-
viously done to the film Three Sis
ters," the manager quickly agreed to
the demands of the French soldiers.
returned their admission fees to all
patrons in his theater, and closed
down until another picture could be
secured.
Trouble seems only to have started
however.
On the one hand. the Chinese amuse-
ment company owning the theater is
making demands on the French lega-
ton for legal redress, pointing to the
obvious fact that the troops had nc
right, under existing treaties, to raid
Chinese establishment outside the
legation quarter.
And, ON the other hand, the Ameri-
can marines who act as guards al
the American legation have inserted a
notice in Peiping newspaper that
the next time any of their military
confreres start destroying American
films or preventing their showing
they expect to go into action in de-
Tense of the products of Hollywood!
The same newspaper which carries
the threat of the American marines
comments editOrially:
1--WE have previously referred to the
legation guards as being an unneces.
sary thing in Peiping; it is becoming
more and more evident that they are
not only unnecessary but in part dan
gerous."
But if that is true, what of the films
that are at the root of the trouble?
And what of the American policy
which sets one department of the
government at work pushing the eX-
port of such films, while it refuses to
allow the state department to have
any check on their pernicious circu-
lation?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome.
whether or not the writer's opin-
ions conform with those of the
American. All letters must be
signed with the writer's name for
our information. Signed articles al
ways are more effective. but If the
writer does not wish to have his
name used. it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News.
papers, Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
Of the AskOv American.)
HOLLYWOOD'S CONTRIBUTION TO
INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL
(The Christian Century,

1.-THE Christian Century,
Soldiers of the French legation
guard in Peiping, China, recently
raided a moving picture theatre in
that city.
Declaring that the film being shown,
Hot for Paris" was an insult to their
nation, they served notice on the
theater manager that, unless its show
ing was Immediately stopped, they
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25
A BIT OF HUMOR

Doctor, is it absolutely necessary
to remove my appendix" asked a
wealthy citizen of his doctor. mot
absolutely" the doctor replied, "but
it is safer to begin with some simple
operation like that"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

Bridget, 1 wish you would go and
see how old Mrs. Jones is this morn
ing"
Bridget returned in a few minutes
with the information that Mrs. Jones
was seventy-two years, ten months,
and eight days old.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

Jenkin Lloyd Jones: Those men who
try to do something and fail are in
finitely better than those who try to
do nothing and beautifully succeed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

A bachelor girls club, save a care
full observer, is an association of
women who think they are more like
ly to get husbands by pretending not
to want them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

$50 you went to see the druggist
before you came to see me-" said a
doctor to a patient, what damphool
advice did he give your ''He advised
me to come and see you," replied the
patient.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

81 have stewed kidneys, boiled
tongue, fried liver and pigs feet
said waitress in a restaurant to a
travelling man. Don't tell me your
troubles. Bring me doughnut and a
cup of Coffee" he replied.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-25

Louisville Times: 1t is a pity that
the farmer can't make as much money
out of a good hog as the city man can
out of a blind pig.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
Police Arrive Too
Late to Stop JObless
Stopping Eviction

NEW YORK. - The Down Town
Branch of the Lower Manhattan
Council of the Unemployed went
down to 1876 Henry Street yesterday
and put back on the fourth floor
the furniture of Peter Zosleski, a
laborer with three children. He was
evicted He had been without work
for year.
The police came down, but the
furniture was already back
Zimmerman, of 116 East 4th ST.,
appeared in court yesterday on a
charge of unlawful entry because the
jobless had put his furniture back.
There we're a considerable number of
members of the council there to sup
port him. The judge told him to get
out by Tuesday, but the council has
organized the tenants to see that he
stays in.
The usual open air meeting will
be held at Leonard and Church to-
day at 1870 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
.ENGDAHL IS FREED
IN SEDITION CASE
Judge Aids Prosecutor
Put Over Case

MONTREAL, Canada. May 81, =
j. Louis Engdahl and Bella Gordon
were acquitted in Kings Bench Court
here today on charges of sedition
after two-day trial The prosecu-
ton tried desperately to convict,
aided by the court They introduced
flood of old pamphlets and liter
allure. including Engdahl's pamphlet
on "Sedition," the Atlanta pamphlet,
Death Penalty" The Story of I'M
perial Valley" ETC.
In charging the jury. Judge Wilson
said that even criticism of courts
could be considered as sedition.
The mot guilty" verdict today is
considered a good precedent in the
fight against sedition.
Seven others arrested at an I'M
employed meeting and Lenin me-
mortal meeting also face these
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
"A SON OF THE LAND" ON
CAMEO SCREEN TO-DAY

In accordance with the "Fiye-Year
Plan Russia has chosen the cinema
as the most thorough and powerful
method of reaching the people and
influencing them to use improved
methods in construction and agri-
cultural technique. With this thought
in mind, many cultural films, such
as, THE Harvest Campaign" Use
Selected Seeds" and The Prepara-
ton of the Soil for Spring Corn"
have been released in the Russian
villages.
There are also special films showing
the advantages of big-scale farming
over small individual farms and the
value Of the construction of moderi
up-to-date dams in sections where
the land would otherwise be barren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
Slipper Workers
Are Locked Out
Antonoff Slipper Co.
Is Picketed

NEW YORK.-The Is workers EN-.
ployed by the Antonoff Novelty
Slipper Company of II Green Street
New York, have been locked out by
the bosses for no other reason thar
to prevent the workers from organ
izing their forces against further
wage cuts.
The lockout followed q conference
May Is, between a committee of the
workers from the shop, a union rep
resentative and the bosses. The
workers at this conference had pre-
sented the unions agreement in
Guiding the demands of the workers
and another conference was TO take
place the following Saturday to dis
cuss the agreement.
On Friday, however, the bosses
locked them out and the workers
answered with strike.
The shop is at a complete stand
still and, as usual the bosses have
the police on the Job and are adver-
tising for all kinds of help. 1t is
therefore, important that every shoe
and slipper worker give every pos
sible aid to the workers on the
picket line every morning and eve
ming.
The workers demand the recogni-
ton OF the Shoe and Leather Work
ers' Industrial Union agreement and
an adjustment of wages and prices
based upon the wage scale existing
before the last wage reduction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
Knee Pants Makers
Throw Out Officials
Committee Takes Over
Office; Some Dangers

NEW YORK.-The committee of
Is elected at the membership meet
ing Wednesday of Local 10, knee
pantsmakers, of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, to take over the
administration and tie the can to
the clique that has been grating
off the local. went down yesterday
morning to the office and put out
the paid officials. The officials, who
had forbidden the meeting which
unseated them. tried also to hold the
office.
The committee informed Blumberg,
the manager of the joint board, that
all paid and unpaid officials of the
local stand ousted, and that arrange
ments are being made for new cleo
tons.
Blumberg was forced TO agree that
the action of the local meeting was
legal, and that the committee should
inform the board of directors of their
action and ask for immediate cleo
tons.
Kneepantsmakers should be warn
ed that Hillman and Blumberg and
Co. have not changed, they are mere
ly taking time to work out some
scheme to fool the members and foist
on them another staff as bad as the
last. The members must be on the
watch to reject any proposals of the
Hillman clique to appoint officials
from above. and should go through
with the demands Of the workers
voted at the meeting, for an NINE
date election, controlled by the
workers themselves, and that the
committee elected should organize it.
self to defend the interests of the
workers in the shops, to stop wage
cuts, to stop further introduction of
piece work. and TO immediately or
ganize relief for the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
FRAME-UP TRIAL
IN HARLEM MAY &c
4 Workers Victimized
BY Garvey Reformist

NEW YORK.-The trial OF the
four Harlem Negro workers who
have been framed up in the most
outrageous manner on robbery
charges will take place next Thurs
day, May 26, in General Sessions
Court. Allan Taub, attorney of the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, will defend
them.
The four workers, Arthur Will
liams, William Campbell, David
Warfield and Sam Brown, were
framed up at the instigation of the
notorious Negro faker and betrayer,
General" Grant, Garvey reformist
leader. williams and Campbell, ar
rested about two months ago, have
been out on 81 900 bail each. War
field and Brown were arrested about
ten days ago and taken to the
Tombs with four charges against
them: robbery, grand larceny, felon-
ious assault and receiving stolen
goods. Exorbitant bail of $4,000 was
set for each OF them, which the
I. L. D. has succeeded in having re-
duced to $500. Efforts to secure
the release of the two workers on
writs of habeas corpus have thus far
proved unsuccessful
The frame-up of these four work
ers, who have been active in the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
in Harlem, is a blow struck at the
L. S. ". r. at the very moment when
It is seeking to rally the Negro
masses behind the campaign to save
the nine Scottsboro boys. Only
mass pressure of the workers will
defeat this frane-up conspiracy Of
the Tammany-U. N. I. A. alliance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
STATE AUTHORITIES IN NY.
TELL UNEMPLOYED TO STARVE
By HARRIET SLOVENIAN.

The sum and substance OF the
bosses solution which the Governor
Of New York endorses and will no
doubt officially propose for adop-
tionis first-Hoover's "stagger sys-
tenn" second. more studies Of I'M
employment, third, Vocational Guild
ance to begin in the public schools
with the teachers acting as the en-
ployer's agents, directing children
into the trades most in need OF
workers" fourth, the Rochester
bosses plan of Unemployment Bene-
fit organized by IA leading employ
ers of the city. The Eastman Kodak
Company of Rochester which has
carried out a vicious policy of wage
cutting in the past few months, was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22
LENIN BROCHURE
ON WAR READY
Tells of Role of Social
Betrayers

The War and the Second Inter
national has just been issued by
International Publishers as volume 2
in the Little Lenin Library, in which
many of Lenins important works are
included. Like The Teachings OF
Karl Marx" with which the series
began. the new book is well printed
and bound in heavy, colored cover
paper. 1t sells at 20 cents.
This volume contains the essay,
The Collapse of the Second Inter
national" and the first official de-
claration of the Central Committee,
written by Lenin. In this the at
titude of the Party on the nature of
war is stated, and the imperialist de-
signs of each of the participating
governments shown 1t is here that
the slogan turning the imperiahst
war" was finally formulated.
Against Super Imperialism.
The Collapse of the Second Inter
1tat4Cllol Wde NllttSIk III 1910 d1lNl 10
a thorough analysis of the causes
which led to the betrayal by the
leaders of the International at the
outbreak OF the war. Lenin's sharp
polemic against Plekhanov and par
ticularly against Kautsky's theory of
ultra-inperialism make this essay
classic Marxist study Of imperial
ism and the role of a revolutionary
proletarisn Party during an inper-
ialist war.
The lessons of THE War and the
Second International" are particu-
larry apt at the present time in
view of the threatening war, Again
'the Second international plays its
role with the labor movement, at
tempting to delude the masses into
a support of the bourgeoisie and to
neutralize the class struggle during
the war period.
The War and the Second Inter
national may be ordered from the
Workers Library, Publishers, 40 e.
18th Street, New York, who viii also
be glad to send complete list of
books and pamphlets of interest to
workers.