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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
NTWU Proposes Unity toAU
Workers to Win Silk Strike
Mass Parade of Strikers and Families to Show
Determination to Win Their Demands

a delegation to form the committee
for negotiation,
This shows once more the eager
ness of the workers of the N. T
w. U. to bring about unity among
the workers in order to win this
strike.
More Strikers Arrested
Mass arrests continue. This morn
ing at the Streng Dye Shop, a pickeS
line of twenty was met by a patrol
wagon before they had a chance tc
start picketing and bundled them off
to Jail.
Nineteen were pulled in, seven OF
them young militant workers.
The cops tried to punch one of the
workers in the wagon and it was the
alertness of the rest of the picketers
who surrounded the intended victim
that this young worker escaped being
beaten up.
All the arrested were taken to the
Criminal Court and were bailed cut.
The language meeting was held
last night. One Lithuanian worker
and number of Jewish workers
both reaffirmed their confidence in
the policy of leadership of the N. T.
w o and pledged their continued
support. At rank and file discus
sion from the floor at the Jewish
meeting. members of the Associated
were present and practically all of
them expressed their keenest desire
TO find some means of getting to-
gether on some basis of unity on
which the strike could be won.
A meeting of the italian workers
will be held Wednesday night at
Turn Hall at o'clock to take up
the same question of unity.
Prepare Mass Parade.
1t was decided to hold a mass
meeting Thursday afternoon at Turn
Hall with prominent speakers to
prepare for a mass parade through
the city Of thousands of strikers. A
committee was elected to get per-
nit for the parade This parade is
intended to show the workers of the
city that the strike is holding fast
through its determination to win its
demands and that the workers will
not stand for fake settlement
reached between the officials and
the bosses behind their backs. This
meeting will involve not only the
strikers themselves, but their wives
and children and all neighbors will
ing to help the strikers win, 1t will
be a tremendous demonstration of
determination and fighting spirit.
The relief committee is organizing
store collections Of food on Friday
and house to house collection for
money and food on Sunday. A
truck is being sent on Thursday to
farmers near Paterson for food. Re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Collect for Mine
Relief in Resorts,
Catskill Mountains

A committee revisited the Catskill
Mountains for the purpose of collect
ing relief for the striking miners and
succeeded in obtaining the following
amounts; Pine Lodge, SIS, Kuper-
mans Farm, $7.7O. Rosenhack Sackett
Lake, 81. Kleinburg, Sc, Daisy Farm,
81. Rock Sheldrake Crest. $l8; elisha
Elkins, 81; Hotel Fishman, $3.50;
Camp Harmony, s688O; Lock Shell
drake Park, $50; Hotel Wernick, $40;
plus additional individual collections
and boxes which brought the amount
up to $685.
Evictions are occurring daily in the
mine fields. Rush tents, food and
money to the Striking Miners Relief
Committee. Room 800, 799 Broadway,
at 18th ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
ELECTION MEET
IN SECTION FIVE
Plan Drive Wednesday
at 500 Prospect Ave.

New York.-On August 20. 1881 at
500 Prospect Ave, 8 pm, Section 5
of the Communist Party will hold an
Election Campaign Conference
All workers organizations should
send two delegates to this conference.
The Importance of the present cleo
ton cannot be overemphasized. At
this time when conditions are get-
ting worse each day, when the COM
ing winter will be one of the worst
winters ever known, our fight thru
out the electio ncampaign must be
for Unemployment Insurance, for
immediate relief The Socialist Par
ty endorsed by the bosses must be
exposed as the betrayers of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Brooklyn Committee
Meets Wednes. For
Fight on Deportation

NEW YORK. The Brooklyn Com
mittee in charge Of arranging mass
meetings for the national anti-de-
portation week, which runs from
August % to August 3d. will meet
wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at
382 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn
This committee will make detailed
arrangements for meetings which are
to be held during that week in South
Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Benson
hurst and Long Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
What's On

WEDNESDAY,
Friends of the soviet Union
There will be a regular meeting
of the Prospect Park Br. at IL Crown
Street in the b0asemeSt this August
on Red Villages by Vim. Wales and
George Gonna recently returned
from ten months stay in the Soviet
Union will give a talk
Bath Beach LID.
viii have a meeting tanight at
IS Bay 2Sth St, at $3.50 pm.
Brownsville workers Center
All delegates to be present at
very important meeting this August
IL at 1tS Bristol st. A final report
viii be granted in the new building.
office workers Union
All office workers are called TO
the membership meeting Of the o. w.
L. which is to be held at the Labor
Temple, 244 E. 14th St, at 7 p M,
August IL.
Workers -ServieemeD League
Branch 1
There will be an Executive Com
mittee meeting OF the ". Ell. Au-
gust II, at 7:3O p. m. at head
quarters. All members. must attend.
steve KatOvis Branch I. L.. ID.
Will hold an open-arr meeting at
Ith Street and Avenue A, August IL,
at 5 .. m.
THURSDAY
international Labor Defense BorO
Park Branch
This August IS a lecture will be
given on Glass Injustice and the Role
of the / L. D. will be given by VIM.
Paterson at 1873 43rd St, Brooklyn,
at $50 p. m. All workers invited.
workers Ex-servicemen's League
Branch
Will hold an outdoor rally at 126
Street and 5th Ave, at $50 p. m.
after which there will be an indoor
meeting at Phytian Hall Madison
Avenue, between 1875 and 126 streets.
All workers ex-servicemen are call
ed upon to be there.
steve Katovis Branch /. L. d.
Will have an open air meeting at
IA Street and University Place, at
1880 p. m. All workers invited
Worker Ex-servicemen's League
Branch
win hold an open air meeting at
Hopkins Avenue and Pitkin Street
Brooklyn, at S p. m.
Plumbers Helpers See. T.U.Uh.
Meeting to be held August IL at
i0S e. 14th ST. 4th floor Ali plum
bers helpers are asked 10 attend.
Joe Hill Br. LID.
There will be a membership meet
ing Of the J. Fl. Br. lid at 1872 r..
&c ST. at $50 pm. sharp
BOro Park Workers Club
viii have a meeting this August
"a at 1873 43rd St To hold a dis
cussion on the wallpaper after the
meeting,
W. /. n. Camp
This is the last chance TO Join the
fourth group of children going to
W. /. r. camp. over $50 children
have already registered. The great
est difficulty is to get the children
TO come back after they have spent
several weeks in camp due to beau
tiful surroundings. The rates are
within reach of every worker. Not
at all charity the camp receives it's
support from many organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Relief Quarters Are
Opened in Paterson

The Workers International Relief
and the National Textile Workers
Industrial Union have opened
headquarters for the distribution of
relief to the striking textile workers
at 40 Ellison St., Paterson, New Jer-
sey. The textile workers are waging
a bitter fight against wage cuts,
speed-ups and police terror and are
in urgent need of funds and food.
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

could speak English, French and three
or four Indian languages fluently, he
was uheducated After one hunting
trip with him sat at his feet and
confessed myself ignorant of every
thing essential. We started early one
bright morning for the mountains some
twelve miles distant, each mounted
on reliable saddle horse, and can
tered over the smiling prairies until
we were within a couple of miles of
the timber line. We were upon the
high ground between Daisy Dean and
Mud creeks and here a careful survey
of the foothills discovered to Moses a
large band of blacktail deer After
considerable difficulty I managed to
see them too. Up to this time 1 had
assumed that this hunting expedition
was joint affair. I now accepted
gracefully subordinate position which
I never lost. The trained eye of the
half f-breed instantly detected the weak
| ness of the position held by the deer
and we left our eminence and gal
loped in a devious course through COL
lees and over low ground until it be-
came necessary to change our mode OF
travel. Tying our horses to some
stunted willows, we hurried forward on
foot, then on all fours. I remember
that this part Of our approach was
through the snowy slush of ravine.
Next, prone on our faces in the grass,
we wormed our way to position be-
hind a PROSTATE tree. Here was in
formed in a subdued whisper that there
were about fifty blacktail deer quite
close to us, and I meekly complied
with the suggestion that we should
exchange guns. I had the better arm.
was directed to get ready and fire
at will as soon as my companion had
fired the first shot, but when / lifted
my head so that the game was visible,
was stricken by q violent attack OF
buck fever and fired but one shot.
(The bullet may be found by any one
who chops down the right tree and
splits it into kindling wood) But the
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04
When John Barro1U Became A Co1uboy
With His Parents in Via Fort Benton

to keep us In meat. We adopted the
precaution, perhaps unnecessary, OF
keeping armed guards at night, but
saw no Indians. hostile or otherwise.
At Roberts creek we were met by
team sent from my fathers camp at
the saw-mill site in the Belt noun
tains. Here in company with four
others, l left the party, and that night
was in council with my father, whom
I had not seen for more than year.
The last stage of our journey from
Sawmill gulch was about thirty miles,
but we were travelling light, with a
tough little team of cayuses and
lumber wagon almost empty. The day
was bright and warm, and our course
lay over thinly grassed uplands, dip
ping into occasional water courses.
Early in the afternoon, from a sterile
hill west of Daisy Dean, beheld our
destination, an insignificant huddle OF
diminutive log cabins at the foot OF
low hill near the confluence OF TWO
streams. We were at the head OF the
Musselshell valley Mountains fronted
and flanked us, mountains naked and
snowy, mountains rounded and green.
and old mountains revealing rocky
vertebrae. From these encompasslng
heights the eye turned incredulous to
the little smudge Of civilization in the
midst of untouched wilderness.
For something more than two
months I took minor part in the
life at the forks Of the Musselshel.
The tide of emigration from the set
Elements in the older valleys west OF us
was commencing. There was consider
able travel, and life was active and full
of business. At first had no regular
employment although I made myself
useful in the trading post Gauglers-'
vile, especially at those times when
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04
HOUSEWIFE CAN
SAVE MUCH TIME
WASHING DISHES ONLY ONCE A
DAY SAVES GREAT DEAL OF
TIME, SPECIALIST SAYS

The housewife Of former days who
left her breakfast and lunch dishes
until it was time to do the dinner
pieces could have heard some critical
things about herself, but today she
is almost commended since science
turned its eye toward this daily
household task. In fact, a housewife
can save just 587 motions and
minutes and 6 seconds of time by
washing dishes only once a day for
family consisting of three adults
and one child.
When daughter does the dishes it
is pure hard work and when the son
does them it is unbecoming drudgery.
No matter who does them the task
consumes lot Of energy. Miss Nora
Hulbush, home management specialist
at Montana State college who has
eliminated much of the drudgery from
houseWork, recently ran across some
figures on dishwashing which were dis
covered at the University of Chicago.
1t was found that for a family of three
adults and one child it took 1854 mo-
tions, 38 minutes and seconds to
wash the days dishes Such family
used rs pieces of china, Is pieces of
glassware and 81 pieces Of silver or a
total of 141 pieces. Such an imposing
total of pieces and length of time con-
sumed directs attention toward the
amount of work the housewife must
do for just this one of many house
hold tasks
In Rosebud and Richland counties,
home demonstration groups are in
| tensely interested in the ways in which
this task of dishWashing may be les
sened, Recently they made study
of the standardized practices which
will reduce the amount of work neces
sary in washing dishes three times a
day
The study included all the little side
tasks necessary in dishwashing, such as
scraping the dishes, carrying to the
kitchen, stacking and similar time
consuming actions. They found that
by wheeling the dishes from the dining
room to the dishWaShing center on a
wheel tray saved the most time. An
other practices which reduced time was
the stacking of the dishes at the right
side of the pan with those to be
washed first nearest the pan The dish
drainer was another worth while time
saver. Another item was having the
sink at the correct height.
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

the flag. / took position directed
by my comrade and there, lying on
my back, l waved my legs in the air
for what seemed an interminable time.
The antelope were attracted by my
ridiculous behavior and three of them
remained as testimonials to the skill
of a sixteen-year-ol half breed.
My inconsiderable part in the events
of this period was preparing me for
my first real adventure, and this ad-
venture was moving slowly and re-
lentlessly in my direction. 1t had the
shape and substance of herd Of cat
tie on the trail to new pastures in the
buffalo country. In an effort to fix
the time of it's arrival / recall that
on one day early in August, two men
with the cradles known to our an
ceStOrs, went into a field of oats, full
three acres to harvest, and were driven
to shelter by violent snow-squall. l
had hardly ceased marveling at this
display of Montana climate before one
Of the DIS herds reached our settle
ment short-handed, and l accepted
position" as a cowboy at $50 month.
There was a wild scramble to get to-
gether the equipment available for my
new role, and that afternoon I was
happy in the humblest position behind
the drag" of herd of $500 stock
cattle. There were about twelve of us
in the party. Besides the foreman,
there were the cook, who drove the
mess wagon, two night herders who
slept in very primitive Pullman on
a bed suspended from the bows of the
calf-wagon, where beneath, in the body
OF the wagon, was the nursery for
those inopportune calves dropped in
the course of the day, or too tired to
follow the herd. This combination
was hauled by dignified and solemn
yoke of oxen and was in charge of a
lank youth who was much inclined to
follow the example of the night herd
ers and sleep in his seat. The post of
honor was held of course. by the two
men who on opposite sides directed the
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04
EMPIRE BUILDER
HIT BY TORNADO
THREE MONTANANS INJURED IN
WRECK OF GREAT NORTHERN
TRAIN IN NORTH DAKOTA

Three MOntanans we're injured in
the wreck of the Empire Builder,
crack Great Northern passenger
train, that was wrecked near Fargo.
N. d., by a swirling tornado which
swept over the country without
warning.
One man was killed and more than
score were injured The Montanans
in the wreck were Mrs. Christina An
derson, Froid, who was slightly in
jured; Orr Burgett, Scobey, and Mrs.
George Havens, of Conrad who was
seriously injured.
D. E. Mckee of ST Paul, engineer,
said the II cars were literally jerked
away from the locomotive which re-
manned on the rails.
The Empire Builder is one of the
fastest and most luxurious passenger
trains in operation in the country. 1t
was named for James j. HILL "the
empire builder" who constructed the
Great Northern from st. Paul TO Sc
attic. 1t operates between those two
points via Minnesota, North Dakota,
Montana and Idaho.
The Empire Builder had just crossed
the North Dakota Minnesota line and
was nearing the station of Sabin, Mimi,
at the time the tornado struck.
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04
fRv GRACE STONE COATES)

There appeared in a couple of
Montana papers, recently, an item
from the Billings Gazette Of fifty
years ago, announcing the arrival Of
the Barrows party. Mr.. and Mrs. A.
II. BarrOws and family, founders OF
Ubet, were prominent in the history
of central Montana. Their son, John,
Lad of seventeen, recorded his early
impression Of the Musselshell valley
In diary which has become a unique
contribution to the annals of his
times. Through the courtesy Of H.
G. Merriam, editor OF the Frontier,
a regional magazine of the North
west, the following portion of the
diary Is available. Writing Of his
experiences in 1880 he says:
I'VE had found upon our arrival at
Fort Benton five or six teams with
prairie schooners, in charge Of friends
who had preceded us to Montana, and
in three days after landing were start
ed on our overland journey to the
forks of the Musselshell, one hundred
and forty miles distant.
We were well equipped and favored
with fair weather. The green prairies
afforded excellent grazing to our hors-
es we were unincumbered with CATTLE
and this phase Of our emigration was
as delightful as our river journey.
About ten miles from Fort Benton we
came upon frontiersman beginning
home on a little stream, but from
this point we travelled hundred miles,
to the east of Square butte and the
HighWood mountains, across the Judith
basin and into the Musselshell valley,
without encountering another human
being. We followed faint, unauthor-
itative track. There was no road in
the proper sense Of the term, no
bridges, no grades. Mounting the rim
of the Judith basin we struggled for
two days up the Arrow Greek hill,
travelling only four miles The hill is
distinctly plural. The high benchland
to the south of Arrow creek breaks
away into number of closely crowded,
detached buttes and hillocks, too steep
to be f1anked. We hauled our wagons
with double teams to the top of each
elevation, frontal attack in each case,
and rough-locked, let them down the
descent to the foot Of the hill, the be-
ginning of the next ascent, where the
operation was repeated.
This was the only serious barrier on
our road and when it was surmounted
and our whole course across the Judith
basin to the Gap, some seventy miles
distant, was almost visible, I first be-
gan to sense the real meaning of
mountains and prairies. Nine or ten
mountain ranges, detached bulwarks
of the Rockies, were in view; some dis
tant and unreal, others close at hand,
stark and palpable. These were for the
eye. Under foot, close at hand, was
the comfort of the firm -sodded sloping
benchland, the rolling hills, and pleas
ant infrequent watercourses Prairie
fire had destroyed the old grass, but
the warm sun of spring had already
covered the ground with the most bril-
liant green. Three lovely spring days
in this setting gave me the intimate
sense Of fellowship with this foothills
empire which was never to leave me.
We had the usual trouble in fording
the various streams that crossed our
trail. Our hunters found game enough
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

hunt was not total failure, for the
uneducated half-breed with twelve
cartridges in the magazine of my '73
Winchester had killed nine large deer.
Our unequal achievements, together
with the fact that my horse bucked me
off on our way homeward, had ten
dency to reduce my self-esteem to
proper proportions. I made one more
excursion with Moses, but on this oc
casion we tagged antelope and l was
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

mother in her kitchen work and rapid
ly accommodated myself to the new
environment.
We had for visitors at this time
family of Red River half-breeds who
camped near us for month or so,
and became quite intimate with the
son and heir of this clan. Moses Wells
was about my own age. Beyond the
fact that he could ride and shoot,
and was an accomplished hunter and
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

head or point" of the herd. Next in
Importance was the pair working, per-
haps quarter of a mile in the rear
on the flank" and three or four fol-
lowed in the rear, urging along what
was called the drag" or drag g-tail," ("
the discouraged or unambitious dregs
of the herd-old bulls, footsore and
weary, and young calves. All this I
learned in five miles of travel. We
camped for the night on Daisy Dean
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

the proprietor was incapacitated by
liuuor. I took a kindergarten course
in horsemanship, and was able to ride
to our postoffice, Martinsdale, some
thing more than half-mile distant,
and make a safe return. In the alb
sence of any other help I assisted my
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

Moses Wells, young breed and heir
to a family of Red River half-breeds,
taught young John Barrows the art of
observation and action on the plains
while they were on a hunting trip In
the Musselshell country in the eighties,
soon after Barrows came to Montana
from the east.
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

Airmen were ordered not to fly lower
than 1000 feet altitude over Oxford
England, during this years Oxford
Cambridge boat race,
Plentywood herald., 1931-06-04

1t is going to be difficult ito point
with pride" to a treasury deficit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-26
LOW GRADE OIL PAYS HIGHEST

Los Angeles. (UP)-When an "upside down. schedule of prices for crude oil was posted by buyers here recently, with the lowest grade of crude oil commenting the high est prices, independent operators quietly devised scheme for treat
 ing their prouct to get higher prices. They steamed out the gasoline! l Back of the stunt, of course, was the price cut. Crude oil of 30 grav- ity, rather high in gasoline content
 was bringing only 35 cents a bar rel, due to the overproduction of the fuel. Oil of 20 and 21 gravity, on the other hand, was selling for 62 cents barrel.
 So the independents found that
 by boiling their high gravity oil with steam pipes, the lighter frac- tions, representing gasoline, escap- I ed, with the result that the gravity of the oil dropped. And although the volume of the fluid has been reduc-
 ed slightly, it. still permitted a gain
 of 15 to 20 cents a barrel in price. The treatment, however, has re-
 suited in a wastage of between 20.- 900 and 25,000 gallons of gasoline
 daily. Tank wagon prices quoted to
 stations now are stationary at 1-2
 cents a gallon, which represents a
 daily loss of $1,500 daily in gasoline,
 but a much large return for the crude oil