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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-02-12
Norica or APPLICATION ton TAX DEED

Notice Is hereby given vii On the 5h Gay # March
Lincoln County o 8N 7eed ~ w.
lagen described properly t-Nr
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-02-12
County Commissioners
Proceedings

Libby Montana, February End. 1879.
The Lincoln County Commissions rs
met in regular session Monday, Fca.
Srd. 1881 All members present
County Attorney James NJ Blaef 2
ford ST.. having made application 9
have James NJ Blarkford Jr appoint
deputy county attorney without pay.
the Board appointed James NJ Blaes
ford deputy county attorney.
Tho old axe pension Of II, A. Mo-
sion of Tortiue IN the amount Of sl5 Q
pcr month Mas renewed for PERI
ot one vear.
The Board disapproved the persor
bond 81 FL H. MeGovefn COVERING KS
appointment as Justice Of the peace /
Tobacen township and ordered
efVic us justice Of the peace be 1
continued on end after Feb. Bird
All claims chargcable to the PEI
ard Bridge Funds which were allowed
81 the January meeting and war-
rants not issued for the reascn
that the balances in the blds
were insufficient woTe re-allowed
acted upon Il the REGULAR meeting
the Board
I'he following clTims were allow
hv the Beard.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-02-12
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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-02-12

Dated a Aops' N LINCOLN COUNTY, MONTANA
order Board Of Commissioners
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CARD PARTY IS ENJOYED.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Washington, Pa. Hunger March
Spreads Miners Strike

This miner told me he had three children he
was trying to raise alone. as he'd lost his woman
last winter. AS 1 understand it, this here
strike is to win something for our kids Amt
that right? We can't let EN- starve any longer.
We gotta do something that's all I tell you,
mans coward that1l stand by and see children
starving"
The next we saw of him two days later,
when he led the Diamond miners straight from
the pits over the mountain to the mass meet
ing of VeSta Mine No. 6. Vesta men, women
and children had just ended their three-hour
picket duty and were gathering in grassy
field still wet with morning dew, for it was
barely T:3O. The Diamond miners in their pit
clothes and caps were spied coming down the
valley. AS soon as them came within calling
distance they shouted: I'VE pulled Diamond
100 per cent" Ninety men ali out" They
were the happiest men I've seen in long time,
and Vesta gave them the reception they de-
served
The Washington hunger march has not only
enthused the miners to pull down many new
mines. It has also given the unemployed fresh
hope and strong desire to organize New IN
employed Councils are being built up. Like
wise, the steel workers are becoming aroused,
and not only are undertaking to give the miners
active support, but are asking among them
selves: IF the miners can do it, why not us,
also?" An old-time miner, veteran of many
struggles and now busy in various sections with
N M. U. organizing, remarked in conversation:
IF even one big steel mill comes out! When
the miners see that, it'll mean general strike
in the coal industry"
So it goes. Conditions throughout the coal
and steel state are so unbearable, the ferment
among the men is SO great that each stride for
ward lets loose immense forces for strike struggle
and the building of mass revolutionary unions
and unemployed councils. Hunger marches are
a powerful factor in giving this ferment organ
lied direction and fighting spirit
The gigantic demonstration called for June
80 in Pittsburgh will witness many tens of thou
sands of striking and unemployed miners, steel
workers and other jobless and starving, march,
ing on Melons home town from every section
of the state. The difficulties in the way are
great. The coal and steel barons and their pup
pet governor will do everything within their
power to cripple and terrorize the march. The
marchers have many miles of mountainous coun-
cry to cover, with little or no means of trans
portation Many of them even have no shoes.
Nevertheless they will come, men, women and
children. For it is march against actual star
walton. June 80 will be day that Pittsburgh
and the Pennsylvania working class will never
forget For the streets will resound with the
march of those who have mined the coal and
wrought the steel crying their defiance of their
rulers and exploters, throwing their demands
into the teeth of the MELONS, Schwabs and
Rockefelers, who have waXed ever richer while
their wage-slaves have sweated and starved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Why | Believe the Daily Worker
Should Live

waves of reform have gone over this country
time and again. Forty years ago movement
instigated among so many Of the masses
that the Sherman Anti Trust Act was passed to
check the size of corporations Then in 1920 the
railroads by the Transportation Act were sub
iected, supposedly, to regulation by the govern
ment-also the utilities But ask what good
has any of these reforms done the American la
borer? None The prosecutions under the Anti
Trust Act were for the most part evaded by
naaneuvers of the great trusts The railroads
now have just as staunch grip on the masses
and more so-than they had in 1920 The CEN
trahzation of their control is appalling. And
with them they carry the great industries, many
of which they own and direct The same with
utilities which strike out and get what they want,
Corporate reform has been absolutely useless in
quelling the great trust movement.
Marx Showed the Way.
yet thousands upon thousands now march to
this convention and that to reform an America
which is so powerfully in the hands of these few
thousand rich men that no reform of any value
can possibly be made without a fundamental
change. The fate of these laws and of political
movements like the non-partisan league, twelve
years ago in Dakota, ruined by financial and
political manipulation of capitalists, has made
me certain that nothing in the way of super
fetal or local reform can be of any deep value at
all
Karl Marx, the great German economist and
philosopher saw this hundred years ago; Rus
STA saw it and is building another system, the
motive and basis of which is to manage every
activity and industry of the country for the bene
fit of the masses of people instead of, as here,
for the superintendent of those few who own
by inheritance or direct or both.
This political analysis, in the large, is what
the Daily Worker stands for. 1t is the only
daily paper in the English language in America
which adheres to this economic doctrine that
change in the treatment of property is neces-
sary. This solution 1 claim is the only real one
to restore the balance of power which has so
rapidly favored the wealthy few at great loss
and expense to the masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
BY MYRA PAGE
~ w 4 WI
Especial to Daily Worker)

Especial to Daily WOrker)
THE hunger march on Washington's county
l seat last Tuesday of $4,000 striking and un-
employed miners-a march joined by many hun
dreds of unemployed steel and other workers
has had an immediate effect in spreading the
miners strike.
Coa1-diggers still at work found courage to
walk out themselves when they saw or later
heard from other miners who were there OF the
fighting determination and solid unity dis
PLAYED at washington. Up util this time they
had hesitated Though starving and desperate
over conditions in the mines, they had held
back because of the many sellouts they had
suffered at the hands of the United Mine Work
ers in the past and because they had been lied
to and misinformed about the present strike and
the National Miners Union by the daily papers
which, without exception, are under the thumbs
of Mellon and the coal operators.
At the hunger march these men and their
wives for the first time, heard the true facts
from their fellow-minerS about the union and
the strike cat last we have got a union of
our own" "The National Miners Union belongs
to the coal-diggers,' Men, I'd shed the last
drop of my blood before I'd give up the N.M.U.,
and similar statements were made again and
again. both by pit-men speaking from the plat
form and by those standing packed together in
the demonstration. There is no question that
the Western Pennsylvania miners are solidly
behind the National Miners Union. They are
putting their last ounce of strength and all their
past organizational experience into building it.
They willingly go hungry and trudge many miles
in its service, for they feel one expressed it.
"Unless we win our union, for us it is the end
At the demonstration the solid unity of Negro
and white of employed and unemployed miners
was also brought home to the approximately
5000 participants I'VE unemployed miners
will never scab on you," one declared. This
strike is our strike, too victory for you will
be victory for us" 81 am proud to see so
many of my race here" one Negro miner de-
clared I'm 1922 and other years the operators
imported many hundreds of us to break the
strike. We we're too ignorant at that time to
know better Besides we felt the United Mine
Workers was not for us. only for the whites
! want to say to the white miners, stand by us.
And to the Negro miners-boys, this is our
great chance, to prove the stuff we're made of
and build our union which treats all alike"
Here is one example Of the after-effects Of
the march against starvation at Washington.
There were several hundreds of mining fam
lilies from the Brownsville area which took part.
Among these were two miners from the Da-
mond Mine (Which still operating). These
men had laid off for the day. One of them had
brought along his guitar and, at the crowds
demand, sang two miners ballads The first
began:
1.-THE children wake up crying in the morning,
For the cupboard is SO empty and so bare"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24

Comrades and Fellow Workers.
At the present time the boss class and its
government is carrying on a'vicious policy of
terrorization against the workers, taking the form
of frame-ups, lynchings, deportations, etc. This
is an attempt to crush the fighting spirit of the
working clacs This spirit is being more and
more aroused. The efforts of the bosses, in the
form of less pay, longer hours speed-up etc.,
to make the workers bear the burden of the
crisis result in the increasing dissatisfaction and
rehabilitation of the working masses and in their
greater readiness to fight against the bosses.
At such time it is of the greatest Importance
to the workers to have fearless leadership in
their struggle against the bosses. More than
ever the workers need a fighting organ to point
the way of militant class struggle. This fight
ing paper of ti.o working class in this country
is the Daily Worker.
1t is especially now, when the whole capital
list press is united in campaign of lies and
SANDER to prevent the working class from learn
ing the truth about the Soviet Union to prevent
them from hearing of the successes of the Five
Year Plan, and prevent the unemployed from or
ganizing and fighting for unemployment insur
ance and immediate relief that the Daily Worker
stands out as the most important means of reach
ing the workers with the truth about the sys-
tenn under which we live
We, the five Paterson workers, framed up on
a murder charge as result of our militant
struggle against wage cuts, have our own ex-
perence as members of the National Textile
Workers Union, of the role the Daily Worker
plays in helping, stimulating and organizing the
fight against frame-ups Despite the bad f1nan-
cial condition of the Daily, we received copies
Of our paper every day that we were in JAIL and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
By THEODORE DRESSER.

WILL outline briefly the fundamental political
! movements in this country, tell what doctrines
the Dailv Worker represents, and why I believe
that these political views for which it, in the
large. stands, are the only economic solution for
America today
The millions of workers cast out of work, and
hence out of any financial support in most cases,
those barely existing by living off their friends
or relatives and those enduring a standard Of
living absolutely injurious to health and life
are surface evidences which everyone can OBJ
serve in every city. town and rural section OF
America The underlying cause of this is that
the great officials of business are out for their
own interest and theirs alone.
These executives have so strengthened their
position by centralized organization and by
taking enormous profits for themselves and Civ
ing the mass Of common people just enough and
In most cases less than enough upon which to
live on decently that now small class of Amer
icans control the banks, the railroads. the indus
tries the utiites-n short every necessity Of
life for these masses. All this I have learned
in great detail from an involved study have
made of the economic situation in America.
Banks Control Everything,
The banks and corporations have gained such
power that everything goes with thern-every-
thing carries out their wishes-au of the great
newspapers, the large publicity bureaus and even
the government. Both political parties in Amer
lea are aligned with the owners of wealth whose
motive is to enrich themselves and to make their
own profits despite all suffering. This is done
by increasing rates which the common people are
to pay. Witness the recent drives and victories
of the telephone companies, of the New York
Edison, the New York Central, the Lackawan-
ma. and now all the railroads are asking Is
percent rate increase. 1t seems to me there is
also graphic proof that the corporations are out
for their own interests when they lay of men at
will. with no planning of employment and with
no protection. and then give enormous SURPRISES
in dividends to themselves, the owners.
To mitigate this whole situation sweeping
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
All O. X. in Alabama

Are wages high in Alabama? They must be.
Are there no workers unemployed in Alabama
Apparently not Is thtre anything at all which
Southern workers lave to complain about, oe
have they been emancpated from capitalism
without letting the rest of us in on it2
1t seems so. Because the Southern Labor Re-
view" of June 10, which says it is devoted to
the interests of organized labor lies before me.
with its entire front page devoted" to two
things:
First, Sermon by Rev. J. A. Bryan Pastor
of the Third Presbyterian Church of Birming-
ham, Alabama;" Subject: Paul's Inspired Epistle
to the Ephesians and to us"
Second, an editorial entitled: "Our Flag Is One
Hundred Fifty-FOur Years Old"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party o. 8. A.
p. o. Box 81 Station D.
New York City.
munist Party.
Address Observation-Disclosures.
City ........................ State ...........
Mail this to the Central once. Communist
Party. p. O. Box 81 Station d. New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
BY EARL BROWDER.

DAILY mass support for the Daily Worker!
IL Precisely at the moment when the Daily
Worker is doing its most effective work it is
threatened with suspension for lack of money.
The financial crisis of the Daily Worker is not
caused by a decline in its influence or its cir
culation. Quite the contrary. Because the Daily
Worker circulation has doubled, and because the
issues of the class struggle are becoming so sharp
those timid parlor radicals who used to enjoy
donating on the quiet to the Daily Worker have
fled away from us and are rapidly going over
openly into the enemy camp.
Nobody gives money any more to the Daily
Worker except the workers. These workers are
forced to give smaller amounts than ever be-
fore because the vast majority of them are on
the verge OF. starvation.
Therefore we have situation in which it is
no longer possible. for the large contributions
of few thousand people to meet the deficit of
the Daily Worker Now it is necessary that we
get the small contributions of tens of thousands
of workers to cover the smaller deficit of the
Daily Worker.
This means that the Daily Worker must be
a mass paper, not only in its circulation, but in
the financial support extended to it by contribu-
lions. The Daily Worker cannot live single
day unless tens of thousands of workers decide
that it shall live by sending in their small do
nations
Let every worker reader of tl1c Daily Worker
understand this. You, individual are decid-
ing whether the Daily Worker shall. live or not
when you decide whether to make contribu
ton to the sustaining fund.
Let every working class organization under
stand that if it fails to make donation to the
Daily Worker, it is thereby making a decision
that the Daily Worker is not necessary. If it
believes that the Daily Worker is necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Swimming Thru the News

The Houston Texas, "Press" has headline:
State Prison Farm Cannery Goes to Work; %
Gallons of Beans Canned Each Minute by Con-
victs" Who's using convict labor?
From Manchester, England, by the Associated
Press of June 13, comes the news that Poland
is dumping tweed suits into England at prizes
of $2.26 each. Who's dumping now!
Remember reading, back about May g. Of ths
big fire which destroyed the ar1nory at Buffalo?
The police blamed it on the "reds," raided the
Communist offices and made great fuss Fish,
wired an opinion" from somewhere that mo
doubt it was the reds"
Well, a military board had ten hearings to
determine the cause of the fire. and has decided
it was accidental And, do you know, it hints
that the fire probably was caused by the Amer
lean Legion which was using the armory that
night as a drill and evidently got careless with
lighted cigarette butts
Tain't right for the Legion to go around burn
ing up arnories that the workers will need
some day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Rls~.<
But billions for War!
By JORGN

Remember those 100000 homes" that Hooy-
ers twenty year plan" is going to build for
100000 more people? with 20 percnt nore
farm products" to feed them2
Well, the Baltimore Post of June 8, gives Just
little example of what the millions of workers
already alive or yet alive-without looking for
those to come-have to endure:
I'm three-room clapboard and Taxpayer
shack, William Hartman, the wife and three
children are facing starvation. Two leaves OF
bread, doled out daily by the police /. 4. Out of
work more than a year :. The rent behind
more than year. Charles, who is ten years, no
shoes to go to school. Louise. who is five, with
out carefare to go to the hospital for treatments
for anemia =. Three year old Marie Sick had
no milk for months Mrs. Hartman cold all
the time and hungry ., No clothes no food.
no money"
This is what Hoover boasts of--the result Of
his refusal of Unemployment Insurance, because
that, oh, that would be dole" and would "un-
dernline the morale and ruin the proud indivts
dual independence" Of the workers
But he has billions for wagi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24
Workers, You Are Deciding the
Fate of the Daily Worker!

fighter for the interests of the working class
and of each particular workers organization,
it can only effectively make such a decision
b. voting donation to the Daily Worker fund.
l. is not enough for individuals to send dona-
items to the Daily Worker 1t is not enough
for trade unions and fraternal organizations
and clLoS to vote donations from their treas
uries and take up collections. 1t is necessary,
in addition to these things. that the Daily
Worker readers shall begin to organize them
selves into Daily Worker Clubs which shall not
only help to collect money for the Daily Worker
but even more important, will begin to partici-
pate in the editing of the Daily Worker, in the
collection of news for the Daily Worker, in the
discussion of the faults and strong points of the
Daily Worker, and in helping the editorial staff
of our paper.
And yet, only small part of the wide circle
of workers which our paper reaches, have re-
acted to the financial crisis of the Daily Worker.
Many of them evidently do not yet understand
how serious it is
Suppose we had no Daily Worker at all! Would
you be interested in starting such paper?
With just one tenth of the effort and sacrifice
which would be necessary to start a daily paper
anew, it is possible to save the Daily Worker and
put it solidly on its feet
The tremendous role now being played by the
Daily Worker in the historical coal miners strike
in Pennsylvania; in the famous Scottsboro case
in Alabama; in the fight for unemployment in
surance and relief; in every issue affecting the
life of the working class, has proved and is
proving that it is absolutely essential for the
workers movement.
Let every worker, therefore do his part in
carrying through the $4,000 campaign to COM
pletion in the shortest possible time Clear the
decks for larger and greater actions of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-24

the coming 'imperialist war and for the defense
of the Soviet Union.
Some of the comrades may say: "Wen, we
have the Young Worker We cannot help
the Daily Worker. We must spend all our time
in building up our youth press" Such an atti-
tude is wrong. We must build up our youth
press, we must widen the influence of the
Young Worker" but this does not mean that
we are to do nothing to help the Daily Worker
in its present campaign. We must understand
that by building up the Daily Worker we are
not only helping the revolutionary movement in
a general way, but that we are helping to build
up a more powerful YOUTH movement.
The Daily Worker reaches thousands of young
readers who have no contact with our move
ment as yet. Every member of the Young
Communist League and every young worker
must help put the Daily Worker drive over the
top,