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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-16
NOTICE

Teachers examinations will be held
at the courthouse August 10, IA, and
10 and again September g., A and 5.
An examination for seventh and
eighth grade pupils will be held in
Plentywood August 20 and 81.
Marjorie M~arkuson,
County Superintendent
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-07-16
TAX TALK
Edgar l. Syverud
ccretary-Treasurer

Sheridan County Taxpayers Assn.
What is Sheridan County doing for
Drought Relief, for the poor and
needy, and for those that are willing
to help themselves? It is interesting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
MACHADO FOR
MORE TERROR
IN Gu B A
"Tr11ce" Offer Flops;
Mobilize Troops

Havana dispatches state that the
proposed truce offered by Bloody
Machado to his bourgeois opponents
has failed. President Machado of
Cuba, dictator with the supporter of
Wall Street, had been ordered to Of
fer his truce by the U. S. Arnhassa-
Tor Guggenheirn.
On Saturday Secretary of the In
terror Vivancos announced he was
doubtful" of the success of the truce
because of the bitterly contrary
stand taken by students Of the Ma
tional University at Havana and
other members of scholastic insti-
buttons. who are threatening to start
disturbances In Havana and all Sec
tions Of the Island"
This is just a prelude announcing
greater terror against the revolution
airy forces in Cuba, especially the
working and peasant masses under
the leadership of the Communist
Party. Machado's terror has been
increasing, daily, with hundreds be-
ing murdered, tortured and jailed.
To carry through this increased
terror, Machado is modifying his en-
tire police force for Monday when
he says plot has been made against
the life of congressman by students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
FINNISH FASClSTS.
FOR WAR ON USSR
Wave ofTerrorAga
RevolutionaryWo rkers

MOSCOW, A wave OF terror against
the revolutionary working class Is at
present sweeping through Finland.
tnnumeyable hard labor sentences
have been passed on revolutionary
workers and left-wing leaders. Par
allel with this campaign of suppress
sion is a wild chauvinist campaign
against the Soviet Union. The fas-
cists speak openly OF the coming
conquest of Soviet Carelia,a the
overthrow of the Soviet power and
even OF the annexation of Lenin-
grad" and the annexation of the
northern Soviet districts TO the ur-
ais" If ridicule killed. they would
all drop dead, but IT doesn't and in
the meantime Finnish fascism rep
resents a very serious threat to the
peace on the Soviet frontiers, val-
enius the convicted Chief OF the Fin
nish General staff has now been re-
leased from prison. He is "beund
over" The rabid anti-Soviet General
Mannefheim, the murderer of thous-
ands of Finnish workers, has been ap-
pointed president Of the Army Coun-
Gil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
Thompson Restaurants Cut Wages Again

Income from operations S1,2s6,3G5
for 1880, compared with S1,494, 344
for 1929.
Net profits of S1,126.5S5, equal to
S3.75 per share ON 100000 shares of
capital stock in 1880. Net profits
for 1929 were s1,5S4,S3S, but this
included S3s9,441 on sales of lease
holds, and they were equal to s5.2s
a share. The balance sheet of
December 81, 1880, shows surplus of
S6,997 ,674. compared with s6,847,524
al the end of 1921.
These are the figures given out
by John r.. Thompson, Jr. This
shows how they grind out profits
at the expense of the workers.
Workers, organize and fight these
slave drivers, until you get better
working conditions. better wages
and better food, also the S-hour
day, 6-day week, decent dressing
and locker rooms with shower
baths and facilities for recreation.
Join the Food and Packing House
Workers. Industrial League. head
quarters at 23rd and Lincoln SITS,
Chicago, Ill. &C. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

From II, A. of Wheeling, w. Va:
THE Daily Worker is going pretty
slow here, but ] am trying TO or
ganize a Red Builders News Club. !
think we will sell a great many more,
SO watch for an increase
Selling Like Hot Cakes"
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union reports: THE Daily Workers
sell like hot cakes here in Brooklyn.
One started Wednesday, selling 80 q
day since. II we had a few more
comrades We could sell hundreds
every day" 4 few more unemployed
mariners should rig up the sales!
Tony J. 8. has been treking Kane,
Pa, byways. Starts q bundle OF 10
a day to ]. M. of Dubois, Pa, Anna
b. Of Dunbar, w. Va. has her eyes
on G. J, of Charleston, getting 10
daily paid. Perth Amboy, N. j.,
once-upon- time sliced is to 7, but
Joseph F. F., financial secretary, took
tip, put jobless ON the job and
hammered the bundle back to its
original shape, Wont forget about
paying, either" he assures US.
Boosts, Apologies.
New section representative, Ro-
chester, N. Y, sends newsstand in
crease of 10, while H. s. sends q
boost to so alongside an apology for
looseness in the Rochester school of
Daily Worker finances. Promises
remedy. They're tackling house-to-
house.
G. c., Daily Worker representa-
tive of Chester, Pa, says; Send 25
a day to j. s., Twin Oaks, Pa. I
hope this Negro unemployed fellow,
like the other, will soon increase" he
remarks, the "other" being Ionic
Council. getting So day. not storing
any.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
BY WILLIAM z. FOSTER.

Alexander Howatt, together with
Watt, Angelo and their handful of
TrotSkyists, working under the lead
ership of Music, have called ma
tionai convention" of miners to take
place in st. Louis on April IS, This
convention is the latest step along
the miserable paht of betrayal trod
by these Music elements in the Illi-
nois situation. 1t Is merely prep
aration to introduce more democrat
ization and Reorganization into the
ranks of the struggling Illinois min
ers.
During the past year, HoWatt and
his Musteite- Trotskyite hackers have
shown themselves to be definite tools
of the Illinois operators. At a time
when the miners were breaking away
en- raasse from the Lewis machine
and rallying to the revolutionary
National Miners Union, Howatt
jointly with his friends, the arch
crooks, harrington, Fishwick and
Walker, organized his U. M, w. of A.,
No. 2. The purpose of this organiza-
ton was clearly to stop the flow Of
the miners into the N. M. U. and to
make them still more helpless in the
face of the employers wage-cutting
speed-up program. And the worst of
it was that this reactionary pur-
pose was accomplished to a very
great extent by the Howatt organ
ization.
Now the crooks harrington, Fish
wick and company, have patched up
their differences with Lewis, and
Howatt is on the job to make a new
maneuver to prevent the disguised
and disillusioned miners from TAX
ing real steps towards building an
organization and developing struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
DEMAND TO FREE
MOONEY BILLINGS

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April B.
Support for the demand that Mooney
and Billings be released from their
life terms given them after frame
up in 1915 by the organized capital
lists of this city, is being won among
the rank and file of the AFL In
spite Of the attitude of the AFL Of
ficials.
(The Tom Mooney Moulders De-
Tense Committee has recently pub
lished pamphlet exposing in detail
the treachery of the AFT official,
dom, This pamphlet is now running
serially on the back page of the
Daily WORKER
Among the unions passing resolu-
tions demanding release of the two
worker victims are; Typographical
No, 1868 of MERGED. Cal; Typograph-
zeal No. Is of Rochester, N. ~,
Painters No. 275, Chicago; Carpen-
tiers No 2oao, Sacramento, Cal; Metal
Trades Council Of st. Louis,
The State Legislature Of Wisconsin
has appealed 10 the California Gov
eYnor for q full pardon.
4 motion has been introduced int
the California Stats Legislature call.
ing for . full pardon Of Mooney and
Billings, The Sacramento legislators
sent 1t to . committee.
Letters of protest are reaching
Governor Rolph daily, in an ever,
increasing flood. The volume Of
those already received is too great
for listing in detail.
Prof. Albert Einstein's letter is ar
especially illuminating side-light or
the subject Of Tom Moneys lone
imprisonment, and Is quoted here ir
full:
y know we'll the injustice OF the
Mooney case in California, and how
the big business interests there try
to prevent the majority OF the people
from being fully informed about it
I have found that such ridiculous
examples Of injustice are more pre-
valent in America than In Western
Europe. But I know also the heroic
efforts made by a minority. In youi
fight against this injustice. And ]
am convinced that the time has come
when the majority of the people are
now more fully informed in this case
and will not permit the injustice
whlsh occurred only because they did
net Aava the tsas facts In the esse,'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
WAGE CUT REPORT.
DOES NOT COVER
ALL U. S. PLANTS
Many Thousands Are
Affected
(e0NTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

Of thousands OF workers.
The Labor Bureau, however, does
not say anything about the new
drive against wages which started
around the first Of April. and which
is reaching into every industry in
the country, threatening to cut the
pay of every worker in the United
Statess. This new drive is intended
to cut pay, even where previous wage
cuts were put over.
Besides the batteriag down of the
living standards of the employed
workers, the Labor Bureau reports
that the condition of the unemployed
is become worse all the time. The
100000 who are without jobs are
drawing closer to the starvation
level. The worsening of the condi-
tions of the employed proceeds with
the worsening of the conditions Of
the unemployed.
The Labor Bureau. referring to
the unemployed workers, says that
there is arising a desperate situa-
tion," due to the fact that the funds
of the jobless had been exhausted
a.ld that welfare agencies are near
ing the limit of their funds. and the
final source of aid to the unen.-
ployed seemed to be the local trea-
sury."
'It is on account of the inlni-
hence of this crisis they say, (which
threatens to mean actual starvation
for thousands (they put it mildly,
millions would be closer to the truth
that many who know the situation
have been pressing for an extra ses-
zion of Congress In order to tap the
Federla taxing power as an emer-
gency measure"
But only the workers themselves
employed and unemployed, fighting
together against wage cuts and for
immediate unemployment relief and
unemployment insurance, will be
able to force relief from the bosses
and their government.
PORTLAND, Ore. (By maiD--The
street car men of the Pacific Elec-
trio Power Company are facing a ten
per cent wage cut and viii get it
unless they go over the heads of
their representatives" the mislead-
ers. The union officials are not even
making a bluff to stop it. The Pa
eifie Electric Power workers have
been sicked by the cheap praise of
the company newspaper Watts
Watt" which comes out with a heap
of lies to keep the workers from
striking, praising Mr.. so and SO for
his courtesy to customers and good
service to the company.
Layoffs are being made daily and
everything Is being prepared by the
bosses and misleaders to put over the
wage cut.
Only action by the workers them
selves, forming grievance committees,
and preparing to organize a strike
committee, will fend off the pay cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

Wage-cutS. But the posses were
clever. They started the wage
slashes in one department, gradu-
ally spreading them to the Others
They also used the divisions and
discrimination against certain work
ers to keep the workers from put
ting up a fight.
Several Injured.
In the speed-up following wage
cuts four workers were hurt in the
tin mill department and two in the
galyanizing department. One of the
latter burned his hand and face,
but the iodine doctors refused to
leave him go home and the bosses
made him work l6 hours a day
Negro workers are fired every day,
being replaced by white workers.
Every worker is now trying to find
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
p
WORKERS TELL OF
PLANS PROGRESS
Town for $4,000 Being
Constructed

MOSCOW.--A delegation of work
ers from the new tractor works in
TchelyabianSk in the Urals, which is
in course of construction, reported to
the Sixth Soviet Congress concern
ing the progress made, The founda-
tons of the main departments of the
workers have already been con-
cluded. A temporary colony for
10000 workers has been established.
A permanent town for $4,000 people
is being built, Five four stored
houses with 10 flats each have Just
been completed, On Nov. an ex-
perimental station was opened for
the study Of chronological processes
and for the training of the skilled
cadres for the new works. On Feb.
IS last this experimental station
turned out the first Soviet caterpillar
tractor. When it is working at full
capacity the main tractor works will
produce 10000 caterpillar tractors
annually, each with SO horsepower,
or 100000 horsepower annually.
The date for the final completion Of
the works has been fixed for Nov. |,
1888.
The first experimental factory for
wood-fibre was opened in Moscow.
The factory is equipped with the
most modern machinery and will
produce cellulose. The final aim Is
to make the Soviet Union iudepen-
dent Of imports. New farms are
being formed for the production Of
the raw material for this new in
dustry, such as Kenaph, Kendyr, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
Chicago. Ill.

NniCages llls
Daily Worker:
The notorious slave drivers of
the John r. Thompson Co. have
cut wages another 10 per cent.
making a cut of IS per cent since
he first of the year 1890 to March
81, 1881. They have reduced the
number of food workers from 1000
On January l, 1880, to 900 on March
81. 1881, amounting to reduction
of nearly Al per cent.
The speed-up and long hours on
their feet, 10 to ~ hours daily,
Jays per week, without rest the
rotten conditions they have to
weEk under, and the slop they are
allowed TO eat, these are killing
hem rapidly
They are only paying floor boys
and dIshwashers $40 per week.
counter men and girls S12 to SIG
per week, cooks S14 to SIG and girl
cashiers $40 per week for day work
and only 81 a week more on scale
for night work. Yet they report
total sales of Sf4.943.3I7 for 1880,
compared to s15,742.600 for 1929.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
ore Ware Cuts and Layoffs in Bedford, Pa.

Bedford, Pa
Daily Worker:
The Penn mill here has closed
down, throwing 40 men out of jobs
paying the Hoover stagger wages of
Doc. an hour. The Handle factory
Is still running at cut rate speed
Men that were making Sc a day now
are working for $. and S days a
week. The local candy factory has
iayed off men, and those that are
working have received a l0-cent cut
from their wages of CSC. an hour,
Will, days work a week.
The job that l am working on cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

a way out of this situation. and there
is feeling that Negro and white
workers must stick together to make
a successful strike. The bosses know
this. SO they have learned a lesson
from previous wage-cuts. when they
announced the cuts two weeks in
advance. In the wage-cut that took
place April l, the bosses announced
it only two days previously, SO the
workers did not have the time to
prepare strike. It is chiefly be-
cause of the growing influence of
the M. w. I. L. that they did this.
So, Negro and white workers, join
the M. w. I. L. and build the shop
committees, so that when the time
comes to fight back we can force
Charlie Schwab and the rest of the
parasites to kneel down. p. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
Elizabeth Party Membership
Sldestebs Activity tor Daily:
Los Angeles is Eager for Page

J. Gray of Elizabeth, N. j., sinks a
few welI-aimed blows into the Party
membership. Nothing at all is be-
ing done about the Daily Worker here
for getting news subs, selling at fac
tories or getting the Unemployed
Council members to sell. We want
to start a Red Builders Club, but it
is hard to get it on the unit agenda
to get its Q, k
Gray, Ars and Williams, unem-
ployed, smash this situation by or
dsrips SO day of their own. The
Party membership must get behind
them and not too far behind. In
fact. with Dailies under their arms
on the streets and in front Of the
mo Help Wanted" signs.
l.. A. Eager for Section Page.
every enthusiastic about Sec
ten page for Los Angeles, but must
present this for approval. Los An
ge,as could well take care of a Sec
ton page with proper prepara-
t;cnc," writes Rose Spector, Daily
Worker representative. This will
be giant stride for Los Angeles.
C. McGinnis of Oakland, Calf,
wired a cut from $50 to 200, promis-
ing a letter of explanation (con-
tinued in our next). Oaklands been
doing excellent work, A temporary
halt.
Steubenville, Ohio, Pioneers send "a
cents in stamps for four day for a
vce'-. SIGNING Fl. "The Pioneers of
stcutrn"il'e viii try to sell them.
P'o~sc send receipt They mean
b,'s ness! The wealth Of experience
of the young should prove invaluable
to old Party members. Davenport,
Iowa. sent $3.50 for 25 for week
to be sold ON the street. "We would
like to become good Red Builders
write Katherine X. and Betty n.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
DOWN TOOLS!

tcosT1suEp FROM PAGE ONE,

fear that the progress and the revolution will inspire
capitalism caKing on evers war prep
against the Soviet Union That why 1t lies about ana 0e
Union, -
The for the workers in Amer
the lies American capitalism peddlng thru the mouth o.
Hamilton conditions of the workers in Russia
workers starving because they cannot na
market for hyseea American capitalism is rang
thru the about forced labor Russia
workers DECEASED and pushed into the abyss
eagerly American capitalists thru the treaeeous
the American socialists collect money to help the DECEASED
petty shopkeepers in Russia
capitalism flag has the more ferocos become
rawlings the profltpatros against the Red Flag
become the brtaly
beast the American capitalists become in
lynhng expedionshe more they are shouting about the Vo
0 the Communists
The capitalist its feet
elementary right organizing
right assembling striking the right of pckeng the
persistent become the rawlings Of bosses and their agents about
democracy against the Russian dictatorship
Hsled by this propaganda Demon
strike May First against the growing fascist terror in
Demonstrate downing that understand that
democracy capitalist dictatorship and that the Russian
Capitalist Government Workers Government
the capitalists
the of class the workers Our
immediate interests demand struggle against the one and support Of the
sumpuous palaces kyscrspers built them
with sbobut cannot rent 1t Is the essence of capitalist
justice right
worker have roof his head Therefore capitalist justice
eyicts the worker.
warehouses surround filled to the bursting point
We have filled them with our ahorbu we cannot pay for our bread IT
price his commodity superior the right Of the worker to live
therefore capitalist a tine WORKERS tof e peac N1t
which they cannot live.
capitalists populate They have their
riches out Of the fruits labor The law Of capitalist
the defense the riches OF the rich Therefore the capitalist
government sugs and clubs and ai the workers who before them
demand Of taxing the rich provide Unemployment
for the poor
Protakng the law of capitalism Defense profit
making the dominant function capitalist effective
struggle the workers right tor the 1--we
necessity turn into struggle against proftmakng capitalism and
against the profitdefending capitalist government
Soviet will
interests of the workers against the capitalists
Only workers will solve the problem Of unemployment
Only a workers government will finally stop yncEing.
Only government will exploitation
Only workers government viii end inperialst
First occasion the
demonstrate for workers government
Demonstrate First unemployment
Demonstrate and fight for immediate
Demonstrate May First against the nchng the
America and for the right of the Negro themselves
Demonstrate and fight for the 7hour without reductions
Demonstrate and fight against
the Secretary and the of
Demonstrate and fight the
capitalist Soviet
Down with profit making capitalhm!
Long live the Soviet Unien!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
c0An3uNuST rAETx or THE us.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
Shoot Down Jobless
Negro Seeking Coal

: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April g.
Porter Bailey, 1s-year-old Negro. was
shot down and killed by night
Waterman at the J. r. Barnes Coal
Company. Bailey was trying to gef
some coal for his family. The watch
man says he fired in self-defense. al
though there was no gun found on
Bailey. This was the third killing OF
this kind in the last five days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
SOVIET COTTON IN ENGLAND

London reports state that British
textile mills are buying an inereas-
ing amount of Soviet cotton which
sells at about one cent pound be-
low American cotton. It is clearly
stated that Russian cotton is not
dumped" but is sold cheaper be-
cause it is produced cheaper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

the wages Of plasterers from Sc per
8 hours work to 81, and we are do-
ing more work now than We did a
year ago, when we made $40 a day.
There are about 300 men out of
work in this town. There are also
a court house and Jail, both filled
up.
The farmers around here are on
the ruin. Those that own their own
places are just as hard hit as the
tenant farmers. Very few farms,
though, have been sold for taxes or
bad debts.
&c, E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
Still Less Relief.

NV ~ FAfN NNNJf
Still Less Relief.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April g.
The Scripps- Howard Newspaper Al
lance reports that news from the
South, Southwest and Midwest
shows relief being cut off in all those
sections. In Oklahoma it was in
tended to cut off all relief early IN
April, but the report from Okla
hona City is that if this is done the
distressing situation encountered sew
eral months ago would soon return"
Other cities, according to this CAPT.
talist news service, claim that they
do not need to give relief any longer
for unemployment, but that the
problem of rehabilitating the unem-
ployed and their families" is with
them.
The news service tells of shutting
down the commiSsary in Houston OH
April Is, of the pinch of hard times"
still being felt in Akron, Youngs-
town and Cincinnati.
Workers in all these cities know
that even the little relief that was
given did not go far, that jobs are
not more plentiful now and that
mass starvation is under way.
Relief is being cut off in North
eastern cities, not covered in this
report, and in large Mid-Western
cities like Chicago, which the report
does not mention.
Roy Jones, of Springfield, Ill,
writes in to say; THE conditions
here in Springfield sure are he'll.
There were IL coal mines working
part time this winter-now 8 have
closed down in the last week, throw
ing out of work about 5000 TO starye
with the rest of us. The factories
are working only part time. The
soup lines are getting bigger and
bigger right along"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09
SCHWAB KEEPS UP PAY
CUTS AT THE SPARROWS
POINT STEEL MILLS
Cut Wages Department by Department to
Head Off Concerted Strike Action
Accidents Mount As Bosses Push Up the Speed
Another Notch for Profits
Baltimore, Md.
Dear Comrades:

Dear Comrades:
AT Sparrows Point where the workers in the Tin Mill De-
partment have already had two wage CUTS and where the
openers two months had 10 per cent cut another
cut is being put in the department again. On April
the hot mill received az per cent cut and the openers
per cent cut
During all these wage cuts the workers struggling
and organizing strike to fight against these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-09

Use your Red Shock Treep List
eysry day VA your job. The worker
neFt to jon viii Asls ssys ths Daily
Worker.