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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
Caraway Scores Presidents Hunger Relief Plan
As We See 1t
bV Tom 0'FIaherty

AT a convention of mOlar spe-
o;oIists held here last week it was
unanimously agreed that most of
the physical ills spring from the
roots of decayed teeth. Now the
morticians are complaining that
there are not enough ills going
ground and that as a result of the
;mnroyement in the general
health. which they attribute to
economic depression, the ambalm-
inc and burying racket is in a
had way. Some say that the
Ianse in mortality rate is hue tn
reduction of food intake while
others are of the opinion that it
can he traced to the fact that the
harder people work the easier
thevdie. Be that as it may, the
morticians looked with jaundiced
eve on the dental admOnitiOn to
take care of the teeth and live
longer.
49, **
Returning from Palm Beach the
other day | met with a cOmbina>
ton druggist and mOrtician wan
dering around in quest of work.
I suggested that his line should
he busy now, particularly in Chi
cago. January is a good month
in your graft" l observed, both
trades cashing in on coughs and
colds and sudden demises." He
grunted. at used to be the best
month in the year with the posi-
bic exception of March when st.
Patricks Day was celebrated as
if should be-" he answered, "but
the competition for stiffs is SO
keen now in Chi that a bird is
risking his life by walking the
street in the vicinity of an under
taking parlOr. l used to see my
self hopping over to Blankety
Blank hospital and coming back
with no less than three stiffs at
time but now when you go So
letting to an hospital you have
to stand in line. It's like looking
for a b9wl of soup at a Salvation
Army Joint. Cut-thrOat cOmpeti-
ton is what is killing the under
taking business,
asked my travelling companion
how did it happen that cOmpeti-
ton became so rife all of IA sud-
den in the undertaking business.
Here is his explanation: When
the late wave of economic depres-
sion first hit the land everybody
who ever squirted a dose of en-
balming fluid into a dead body
came to the conclusion that there
would be large crop of suicides
Immediately in the wake of the
industrial calamity. Many there
were who quit the business fOI
aesthetical reasons and went into
other lines. But all men must cal
to live SO they returned in drOves
to the rather gruesOme if neces
sary business of making deaC
bodies fit for burial. But though
there was a fair crop of suicides
it was plucked by the more fash
iOnable undertakers and the poo
who were used to hard times in
stead of dying in drOves los
weight and gained health. The re
suit was that the newcomers il
the game were left twiddlinj
their thumbs and looking as for
lOrn in their establishments as ex
bartenders behind soda fountains
And like the capitalists the,
blamed their misfortune on tn
poor, who refused to die whel
they had the very best reason
for doing so. The capitalist
Continued on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
PRES. HOOVER LIES TO MILLIONS
OF STARVING DROUTH VICTIMS

Arkansas Senator Denounces Republican Leaders and
Chairman Payne of American Red Cross for Leaving
Mothers and Babes to Die-Recaled how Hoover had
Asked for Money to Feed Starving Russians IN 1927
but Who Refuses to Allow Government to Feed
the Starving People of the United States
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
TODAY Is 10th DAY OF LEGISLATIVE. SESSION
At A& : 80 . . .
; BRAZIL TAKES "WoP" SHIPS =

Rel De Janeiro, Feb. o. The
eleven italian seaplanes which
reached here after a transat1ant-
icflight from Rome and Portu-
guese Guinea, have been sold to
the Brazilian government. The
price was about $43,50o for each
= plane, payable in three INSTALL
ments of six months each. The
Brazilian government reserved
the right to pay either Ia coffee
= OF Brazilian currency.
4 4 A 4 = a
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
FRIDAY The THIRTEENTH IS UN-
LUCKYDAY FOR MANY MEASURES

Legislative Grind Continues With No Important Bills in
Hopper Married Women Bill Killed Bankers Bill to
Make Stocks Listed N Y. Exchange Security for
Public Funds Barely Gets by Senate-Nonpartisan Ju-
dietary Measure Axed-Two Million of State Building
Fund Allowed mo Re-occurring of "Red" Fits.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
Back Into Records

Caraway went back into
the record on the voting of
federal funds, in 1919 and
1921, to feed the starving
people of Central Europe and
drouth stricken Russia. He read
from the statement of Hoover at
that time that it was the duty of
the American people to render aid
to victims of war and drouth and
Hoover's declaration that if the.
need were in America, congress-
would not hesitate to provide the
funds of mercy.
HOOver's November Statement
He read Hoover's statement of
Nov. A, 1929, that it was the duty
of this nation to see that no wor-
thy persons suffered from hunger
or cold. Then he called on Hoover.
to say whether he were honest
when pleading for federal food re-
lief to foreign peples, or honest
and fair when he denied the right
and duty of congress to provide
food relief to million starving
men, women and children here In
America For Hoover now says
congress is playing politics with
human misery"
Russian Relief Appropriation
Reading from the official record
he showed that when the Russian
famine relief measure was before
the house, Wood of Indiana moved
to recommit so that the Red Cross
would be directed to expend the
100000. Tilson, Smell, Long
worth, Fess, Hawley, GiIlett and
Treadway were among the repubh-
CONTINUED on last page.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
&&&&& $40 1880 @s
CuBA1gs sHTvER

= Havana. Feb. B. Cubang al
. most sflivered yesterday when
. the thermometers recorded q
> temperature of SO degrees Fahr-
= enfeit, the lowest in IS years.
. climbed TO "a degrees.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
State Capitol, Helena, Montana,
Friday, February l3, 1881.

Special to The Producers News
The twenty-second assembly of the Montana legis-
ature is on its 10th day today-Friday the 9th of Feb
ruary, which may be lucky unlucky day for the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
. . . . . . , . 2
AID FUND MOUNTS

Washington, Feb. 8.-The Red
; Cross today had received $6,7S7s-
: 100 in its campaign for a $40
ooO, 900 drought relief fund.
b $50 $3.50 - r. **& = > =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
ARTICLE 8.

ARTICLE 8.
IF WE take up the prospectus on Arizona land
offered cat $3.50 per acre. by the Rodina
Realty Company, advertiser in the Russky Golos,
which recently threatened the Daily Worker with
legal action, we find things more marvellous in
Arizona than the famous petrifed forest.
Here in an illustrated folder, is magic wish
ing carpet" transporting the reader to a won
derland where people do not know the struggle
of labor with capital" Think of it!
How the Rodina Realty Company, plays vilely
upon the fear and insecurity of the wage workers,
to get them to buy land at $3.50 an acre in dis
tant Arizona, may be seen in all its rottenness.
The prospectus says:
when you go to the shop, isn't your soul torn
by dark thoughts? Now the factory will close
and the boss will say that I'm already old!-
What you going to do then? You have seen
what happens with the worker at the time of
crisis. Then misery and hunger reign in the cit
les. Before it is too late, Immediately emmi-
CRATE to Arzona!"
These are the friends of Russky Golos for
which it speaks when it threatens to use capital
ist courts against the Daily Worker, defender of
the workers in America foreign-born and native
alike!
The prospectus wakes eloquent about Arizona,
the promised land of the Rodina Realty Com
pany. Here in one part, we are told that "one
fig tree gives 5000 yearly income;" that 'one
bee hive gives $50 pounds of honey" Such trees
and bees deserve mention in the tales of Paul
Bunyan or John Henry the wonder workers of
American folk lore. But there is more
The Rodina Realty Company, prospectus prom
inently displays list of figures showing what
great wealth may be extracted from 20 acres of
their Arizona land, claiming that the figures
are approved by the Phoenix Chamber of Com
merce, the Society for Testing Cows" and the
Poultrymens Union. On eight acres it says
six COWS will produce an income of $91596--which
indicates that the Rodina Realty Company are
no pessirnists.
Likewise six four -month calves are supposed
to bring total of $3.50, doubtless for veal, but
we must remember that they are in Arizona
while the top prices for veal at the Chicago
stockyards are $3.50 per hundredweight, and
four month calf cannot weigh over 300 pounds
The same goes for -four pigs" put down TO bring
500 profit, which would mean that each must
weigh not less than $50 pounds, and be sold at
least for SO per hundredweight; yet we find
-. tnn pork prices IN Chicago are $s7s per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Russky Golos and Fairy Land

hundred-and the Arizona pigs are in Arizona,
and there is freight charges to Chicago market
to pay-not to speak about Con any of this live
stock the little matter of cost of raising these
animals. Evidently they live on Arizona climate
exclusively!
But if you examine the cotton crop, from ten
acres of which Rodina Realty Company tells
us 5000 income can be won, we must come up
for air. For brutal statistics tell us that in 1922
in Arizona, 10000 bales were raised ON 266,00O
acres, or at the rate of 56-1ooth part of bale
per acre.
Now at this average rate, the ten acres claimed
by the Russky Golos advertiser to produce 5000
income, would yield Sc bales. Each bale weighs
500 pounds And even for long staple cotton
(the highest grade) the price paid by the dealer
to the grower in Arizona could hardly be more
than IL cents per pound-and may be much less.
Thus instead of 5000 income the most possible
would be $315. So much for debunking the in
come, which Russky Golos advertiser says would
total $2,136.
Then we look at the Expenses" which are
given us by the Rodina Realty Company, as a
total Of S1,29360, leaving, SO these mathema-
teal nlarvels claim a met profit, first year, of
S887.40." But these expenses include only Sir
rigation, taxes, interest on debt, and part pay
ment for land"
Where, might we ask, is the cost of a house?
For the Rodina Realty Company is selling bare
land with no houses on it. Where is the cost
of barn in which to keep work animals?-And
where, indeed, are these animals? Or the plows
and other implements which, in spite of Russky
Golos ads assertions that Arizona is para
disc" may still be needed to till soil? And upon
what food is the Russian farmer and his family
to live in this paradise? This also is left out of
expenses listed by the Russky Golos advertiser
All told the Russian immigrant workers in
America can discount Russky Golos ads in the
measure that it is willing to accept money for
printing ads for such deceptive schemes which
are nothing more or less than swindle
And these Russian workers will remember that
to defend such swindles, the Russky Golos threat
ened to call in the capitalist courts to attack the
Daily Worker.
And last, but not least Russian workers in
America will know from now on that the only
paper in America in their native language which
defends their interests as workers, which really
and not hypocriicaIl4 -defnds the Soviet faith
erland Of all workers. Is the NOvY MIR, organ
OF the Communist Party Of the United States
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

as to whether your local union should peti- (
ton the Governor of California for a pardon
for Mooney. Before taking any action
would suggest that you confer with MI.
Scharrenberg"
Green, presumably. had discussed the Mooney
Billings matter with Scharrenberg Both at
them had come to an understanding; the two
prisoners must remain in the penitentiary. Tia
method Green adopted when he answered thu
letter is devilishly clever. "See Paul Scharren-
berg in person." Don't write, he'd be compelled
to reply-be placed on record in black and whiteL
See him in person! Why all this secret diplo-
macy? Paul Scharrenbergs reply to Mr.. II
Force, who visited him in conformity to GREEN'S
letter, answers this question. IT will neithE
recommend that you do, or that you don't tain
any action on the Mooney Billings case" Heul
is political maneuvering with vengeanos.
Scharrenberg knew that as member Of th1
Harbor Commission he welded enough power u
put his visitor under obligation to him, and hi
reply left no doubt in the mind of Mr. La Force.
The added emphasis on "or that you don't" gave
j. H. La Force to understand that if he did take
any action he would not only jeopardize his own
job, but the jobs of many others. This test case
amply proves that the Czaristic control over tho
unions exercised by Scharrenberg, together with
the Los Angeles resolution. effectively blocks q
directly chartered body from taking any actioH
on the Mooney Billings case.
TO BE CONTINUED ,lSs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
Alexander. But Not Great!
Oh Skinny! Iookitl We've got a Grand


Duke
Right here in New York too, in spite Of the
righteous immigration res F." with which
Mr.. Doak is going to "Solvc ployment.
Grand Duke Alexander, late (very) from Rus
sa-not the Soviet Union writes two whole COL
unns in the N. Y. Times of March 81, and he
opens up thusly:
when think Of Russia, my country and
my home-when return spiritually and mem
tally to my beloved people, forget the past
forget that am grand duke, and. -
But we simply can't go on! We are afraid
our printers would be so touched that they would
break into tears and the Daily wouldn't come out.
So we'll only give you touch Of his CUFF as
told in the headline:
Alexander Predicts Success Of Five-Year
Plan, but Failure of Communism Because q
Lack of Spirituality"
Now, then. You know it all, the dreadful
truth: Communism will fail because it will sue
coed. That's clear, isn't it?
Alexander, we advise you to retire. spiritually
and mentally" from your" country and your
people, and remember again that you are
grand duke one of the most useless and even
pernicious things on earth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31
A. F. of L. Leaders Betray
Tom Mooney

In the last installment Tom Mooney, writing
his story of the treachery of the A. F. l..
bureaucracy in the of himself and
Billings tells how William Green, A. F. L.
president, tried to force him into asking for
parole instead of pardon, and how the leaders
of the A. F. L. organization in California cam
paigned to re-elect Governor Young, who had
denied pardon to Mooney and Billings. Now
Mooney continues:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-31

leadership think they are leading, If they have
no time TO give leadership to the units!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Book Reviews
THE LOW>DOWN ON
MORGAN

witewash their crooked deals, are
regular practices. Morgan gave
money to both the republican and
democratic parties. 1t was Morgan
Jr. who said that there is no differ
ence between the political parties"
While the ruthlessly driven and OPP
pressed miners on strike in Morgan
controlled coal fields, were starving
and being evicted with the aid of
government troops, one of Morgan's
henchmen, the largest coal operator
declared:
THE rights and interests of the
laboring man will be protected and
cared for by the Christian men to
whom God has given control of the
property rights of the country"
The notorious reprobate and swind-
Ter, Daniel Drew, used some of his
fraudulent money to endow the Drew
Theological Seminary at which the
preacher who got the money said,
"Oh, that we had one more Daniel
Drew" Again the bankers president,
Mckinley, insisted that he got orders
from God to grab the Philippines, in
the following fashion:
81 went down on my knees, and
prayed Almighty God for light and
guidance, and one night it came to
me, take them all. 80" Mckinley
also said, what we want is new
markets. -"
The last will of old Morgan said,
II commit my soul into the hands of
my Savior 49," His business meth
DDS and his religion evidently went
well together.
The author shows that these
Christian capitalists are the bitterest
enemies of labor and labor organiza-
tons, miserably exploiting workers
and suppressing strikes with the aid
of troops and thugs. The bloody
Homestead strike is an example. One
should be convinced that there is no
way for the workers to get some re-
lief from this oppression except
through organization and the most
militant struggle, and no way out
except by overthrowing the whole
tribe of capitalists.
In spite of the damning picture
which the author draws of these men
and the present economic system, he
still retains admiration for them. He
has praise for Morgan, calling him
a constructive" force. (He states
that Morgan was rather dumb intel
lectually) If one wants suggestions
as to what can be done about these
conditions, he need not look to the
author for them. The book shows
the apologize and confusing role
played by such liberal" writers, as
well as the rottenness of the capt.
talist syster
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

"A new kind Of family life, changes
in the position of women and in the
upbringing of the younger generation,
are outcomes of the more advanced
forms Of capitalism; the labor of
women and children, the break-up of
the patriarchal family by capitalism,
necessarily assume in contemporary
society the most terrible. the most
disastrous forms. Nevertheless, large
scale production, assigning TO women
and TO adolesccnts and children of
both sexes an important role in the
socially organized process Of produce
ton away from the domestic hearth,
creates the economic foundation for
higher forms Of the family and Of
the mutual relationships between the
sexes.'-Karl Marx. Capital Vol. 1,
y. 50
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
A LETTER FROM A
DANBURY'S STRIK-
Frs CHILD - - -

I am child of one Of the strikers
OF Danburk. I cannot have any more
milk, or I cannot have any more new
dresses, or new shoes. Why do you
think I can't get these things? I
will tell you why. The boss goes
ahead and cuts down the wages of
my parents, and gives my mother and
father less pay, and now what we
can do to help our parents get their
pay back sto help them to fight,
and our mothers and fathers should
go on the picket line every morning.
The way I can fight is to join the
strikers children's club and get other
children to join.
A strikers. child,
j.. N. no yrs. old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
"Opportunity"
By VALENTINE, v. KONIN.

AT FIVE O'CLOCK, the factory
"a whistle roared, stirring the earth
and the sky with the mightiness, of
its call. With caps pulled down over
their foreheads, and lumber jackets
buttoned close to the neck, men pour
ed out of the building, sullerly step
ping up the hill along the dark fence
of the lumber yard. On the other
side of the street, group of little
girls, with wet noses and red, chap
ped hands, were continuing their
game of Walter, Walter, the Wild
Flower, weakly drawing out the ris-
ing and falling intervals of the ir-
regular tune.
George McQuade was turning
around the corner of the factory,
when somebody's arm, waving news
paper, stretched out to him from be-
hind the lamp post.
Buy the Daily Worker! Only
three cents, said girls voice. Read
all about the working class.
George McQuade was going to 60
along his way. His head was buzz
Zing from the pulsating din of the
machine. His whole body panied
with the desire to stretch itself out
and rest. He was not going to bother
with anybody now, least of all with
Reds. He had heard enough of them
from the accounts of their demon
STATIONS in the evening papers, which
he read religiously every night after
supper. And he wasn't going to get
into trouble with the factory man
ager getting into his car right be-
hind.
Read all about the working class,
said the girls voice again.
George turned without energy. His
eyes met q fair, childish face with
naive eyes opened little nervous
ly. George smiled.
Well, you are a nice little lady
to look at, he said. "Only amt
going to buy any OF your papers.
You folks don't know what you are
talking about"
oh, we don't?" said the girl,
surprised. Suppose you read one
of our papers. Maybe then, you'll
see whether we know what we are
talking about"
George shook his head
Nav, nav, amt going to bother
with it. You folks, you've got lot
of pluck fightin' the cops on Union
Square. But you don't know enough
about this country. Here we've all
got the same opportunity. Your stuff
won't go with U.S."
You think we've all got the same
opportunity?" asked the girl amused.
Just take look at these kids here.
They have no coats on a day like
this. Do you think your boss's chill
dren live that way too? You bet
your life they don't. His kids don't
have to worry about dropping out of
school, as soon as they are old enough
to get job"
George still shook his head. (.
Alright, you need t buy the paper
if you don't want to-, said the girl
struggling her shoulders Take one,
anyhow. Read it when you have
time" -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
BY A. WAGENKNECHT.

There is plenty to eat. And the
unemployed army can get it If it or
ganizes and fights.
Mellon, the watchdog of the
United States treasury, during his
term in office lavishly presented rich
corporations and millionaires total
Of two. billion dollars in tax refunds.
Melons Hoover says there's no
money for unemployment insurance.
Let the unemployed starve.
More than 500 fat rich gentlemen
pay income tax upon a million or
more dollars income each year. They
say, let the children Of the unem-
ployed go hungry.
Wine flows. rich foods are gulped,
diamonds sparkle at coming out par
ties for the daughters OF the fabu-
lousy wealthy held in Washington.
They say, let the babies of the unem-
ployed die for want OF milk.
Larger dividends were declared by
corporations in 1880 than for the
year previous despite the crisis.
These corporations say, lay off more
men, cut wages. speed up the ma
chinery-work the workers hard and
plenty. aDm
Beautiful, comfortable mansions of
the rich that cost millions Of dollars
In upkeep, dot the nation. Exclu-
sive apartments for the wealth in all
the big cities for which $4,000 to
100000 rent a year is paid. They
say, let the unemployed freeze, go
without shelter, let underfed children
turn blue with cold. ,
Refrigerators OF the packinghpuse
trusts. filled with meats, cold storage
establishments OF the commission
corporations filled with vegetables
and fruits, immense bakeries flied
with bread, hundreds Of millions OF
bushels Of wheat in storage In grain
elevators. For the hungry ,neni-
ployed, laddle OF watery soup,
stale sandwich, a cup Of coffee, slow
starvation. ~
Unemployed workers, there's plen-
ty OF everything. Have not work
ers shaved for years producing all
there is. You made all wealth, made
btllionaires out OF millionairsS. ana