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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
JUNIOR HIGH.

Candle Flame" and Sounding
Brass" will be given Thursday evening
at 800 p. m.
Teachers spending their Christmas
vacation out Of town are Miss Smith
at Hazon, N. D.; Miss Aasen, Seattle,
Continued on page 81
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
STORES WILL BE OPEN.

Notice is hereby given that Libby
stores will remain open for the ac-
commodation of Christmas shoppers on
the nights of December Is and "a, but
will be closed all day Christmas.
fSipned) MERCHANTS COMMITTEE.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Entertain Mid-Weck Club.

Mrs. ]. F. McCully entertained the
members of the Mid-Week Bridge Club
at her home Wednesday evening. At
the close Of an enjoyable evening It
was found that Mrs Harold Miller
had won high score prize and MRS
Lee Sleizer the consolation. Dainty
refreshments were served
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Individual Bowling Contest.

An Individual bowling contest i be-
ing started at the Play, in which each
participant pays an entrance fee q
Is cents, which goes into jackpot
The winner Of the contest gets $40
prize. Quite large number a am
bilious bowlers are signing up TO enter
the contest
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
HOLD TRYOUTS FOR PLAY.

Tryouts for the junior class one-act
play we're held last Thursday,
A one-act comedy, Bargain Day.
and one-act tragedy Mr.. Thomson's
Luck" were tried out.
Members of the cast and the play
to be put on have not been decided.
Miss Hilda Witt will be the super
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Swamp Creek Honor Roll

The following pupils are on. the
Swamp Creek school honor roll:
Yvonne Hadwen, Jennie Schneider,
Iona Mae Smith, Jeanne Hadwen, Ed
ward Syverson.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Not Cold on the Yak.

Mrs. Matte Roderick writes from the
Yak and sends a check for another
years subscription to the Western
News. She writes, THE snow here is
nine inches deep but it is not very
cold"
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Christmas Cantata
Will Be Sung Next
Sunday Evening
Community Choir Will Present "Thc
Manager OF Bethlehem Large
Chorus Will Take Part

The Christmas cantata, 1.-THE Man
ger of Bethlehem" will be presented
next Sunday evening at the Junior
High auditorium, beginning at 7.30
o'clock. There will be Is voices in the
cantata in addition to ten in the girls
Junior choir and the solo numbers. The
rehearsals for the cantata have been
under the direction of Mrs W. N.
Curtis, who will also direct its presen-
tation There will be no admission
charge but an offering will be taken
to pay for the music. Last year sim
liar community cantata called out a
capacity audience and the same re-
Spouse is expected this year.
The program will include the follow
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
First Series In
Bowling Contest
Is Now Closed
Western News and Lovick Blacksmith
Shop Teams Tied for First Place
Two Teams Tied for Second,

(Note--In the first game Of the sec
ond series Of the tournament, played
last night, the Mountain States Power
company team won over the Lovick
Blacksmiths.)
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

During the past week the following
games were played, with results as
indicated.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

The first series Of games in the bowl
ing tournament is now closed, each
team having played Is games. The
CLOSE of the series finds the Western
News and Lovick Blacksmith Shop
teams tied for first place, and the
Richard & Miller and Mountain States
Power company teams tied for second
place The second series of games is
now starting
Below is given the team standings
for the cnrinc.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

Team Standing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
lloot Worker On
Deportation Train

FLENITNGTON, N. j., April pa
worker, attempting to escape from
the deportation train which started
rom Seattle, Washington, bripging
315 foreign born workers to Ellis
Island for deportation, was brutality
stot down by Federal guard. APP
propriately named Lynch, although
the worker had broken four ribs in
his Jump from the train and could
not have gone'far in his agony. An
other worker managed to escape.
While the boss press is playing up
the pretense that the prisoners, on
the train are gangsters and criminals
whom the racketeering government is
deporting to rid the country of crime,
most of them are militant foreign
born workers being deported for no
other crime than refusing to scab
on the working class and joining the
struggle against wage cuts and for
unemployment relief and insurance.
Many Of these n..'!tants are being de-
ported to fascist countries where they
face death because of their working
class activities.
The workers Of the United States,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
New Masses Drawn Into Struggle
to Free 9 Lynch Verdict Victims
Protests Continue to Pour In On Gov Miller
from Mass Meetings and Negro and
White Organizations

Struggle for Nero RIGHTS. the work
ers vehemently co~dem~ed the lvrch
verdict. and sent Gov. Miller tele-
gram of protest.
Speakers from the L. S. N. r. visit
ing the y. N. I, A. branch at 24A8
Eastern Avenue were enthug' 7stic7llv
erected bv the rank and file when
they urped fighting alliance of Ne
gro and white workers and all sym
pathetic elements in the struggle to
save the boys. The rank and file
Carney members greeted coldly an at
tack on the speakers by one Of the
Garvey reforrnjst leaders, and showed
by their attitude that they will brook
no cooperation with the southern
boss lychers ON the part of their lead
ers.
The rank and file Of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People. resenting the failure
of most of the leaders Of that organl-
cation to support the defense, have
hailed with enthusiasm the letter Of
William Pickens to the Daily Worker,
in which Pickens, field secretary Of
the NAACP halls the defense cam
paign of the I. L. D. and pledges his
full support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
Only a Policy of United Front Can Save the
Nine Negro Boys at Scottsboro
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEI

Communist has apology
defeneess called and calls
organization unite issue
alone namely Alabama No
there here
united front struggle
in all of its fights the working
which by the Communist Party
of and elements
Communists The LID rightly is drawing
willing to fight for the most fundamental
people and the working to defeat this brazen
which being defend without placing
with the mrderers the burn
ing stake and the lynchers
THE united
with who the
nevertheless the
the children of people
evidently reached other ministers with the
those who uniting for defense of
plant tried recently
through reputation of the
with international Labor Defen
indignant resistance against this heart
the ministers caused it to be withheld The
the expedition behalf
prosecutor without
Alliance
coming Patterson mother of the
standing
actively participating
the International Labor Defense
emphasized that the defense must united
against this hdous
arew willing to fght-ioin the fight!
white
these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
OKLA CITY MASSES
LANBIG MAY DAY
Protest Starvation and
Lynching

OKLAHOMA CITY, April o.
Negro and white workers of this city
will protest the Scottsboro lynch
verdict, mass starvation and misery
wage-cuts and the general boss ter
Tor against the working class in a
gigantic demonstration on May Day
The demonstration is planned for
$50 p. m. at the famous "lSed Lot"
at the corner of Robinson and Pot
tawatomie. From this point parade
will be formed and will proceed
through the working class sections to
a meeting hall where a program of
speaking and entertainment will be
presented.
Working-class sentiment in Okla
homa City is rising strongly in pro-
test against actual starvation of
thousands of working class families,
the cutting off of relief and the crude
demagogy of alfalfa Bill" Murray.
On April % a protest mass meet
ing against the Scottsboro lynch YER
dict will be held In slaughters Hall,
Second and Stiles, under the joint
auspices of the International Labor
Defense and the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
PHILA. PROTEST
MEETS THIS SAT
Hit Discrimination AT
Scottsboro


PHILADELPHIA, April 2S.-The
Young Communist League of the
Philadelphia district is holding pro-
test meetings this Saturday, April
%, at z PM, in North Philadelphia
against discrimination against Ne
groes in the Popular Theatre at 9Th
and Poplar SITS. These meetings will
also protest against the legal"
lynchings of the nine Negro youths
in Scottsboro, Ala. Three open-air
meetings are being arranged in the
neighborhood of the theater at the
following corners. 9Th and Girard
Ave, Marshall and Parrish SITS, and
Randolph and Poplar SITS.
The Young Communist League will
use these meetings also to mobilize
the workers for May l denonstra-
tons and indoor meetings and for
National Youth Day, May 30-31 in
P2Ssaic, N. j..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
CONTINUE FIGHT
FOR NINE BOYS
Mother of Victim in
New York
CONFINED rmoM PAGE oNEl

lance) and a delegation from the
Ministers Alliance went to Birming-
ham and by lies induced the worried
youngsters to agree to issue state
ments to the boss press repudiating
the I. L. D.
The parents are aghact at this
trick to d-prive the boys Of rval de-
Tense and place them again at the
mercy of lawyer who deliberately
permitted the illegal sentencing to
the electric chair OF 14-year old Eu-
gene williams (the death sentence
against children is prohibited even
by Alabama law and douole-cro3oed
The others.
These parents will expose to the
boys the treaclery Of this latest
move of Roddy and his supporters,
and will assure them that the Inter
national Labor Defense and its chief
of counsel, George w. Chamblee,
must have complete charge of the
case and will fight every inch Of the
way to smash the frame-up and Sc
cure their release.
The boys are all minors. Ank con-
sent to defense by Roddy has never
been obtained from any of the par
ents, although neither Roddy nor any
of the big preachers backing him has
ever been to see the parents. Both
the boys and their parents have
signed a retainer for the I. L. D. and
its counsel.
In a closed session here this morn
.ng while It's committee was in Biz
ming CHAM, the Ministers Alliance pre-
pared to issue. a statement that it
would not cooperate with the LID.
in the fight to save the lives Of the
nine youngsters. However, after
hearing the I. L. D. district organizer
exposure of Roddy, the rank and file
of preachers from the poorer church
es raised such a vehement protest
and demands for endorsement OF the
I. L. D., that the session was forced
to agree to reconsider the proposed
statement before publication.
Meetings are being called here to
protest against the Scottsboro lynch
verdict and the attacks, fostered by
, me Negro hating boss lynchers and
heir press on the struggle to stop
The mass murder of the nine boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
Whole Anthracite Sestlling With Revolt
At Lay-Offs, Speed, Cuts; 10000 Striking

striking are now holding back door
conferences with President Brennan
and thus helping to betray the miners.
The fact of the matter is that the
miners are aware of this situation
and they are becoming demoralized.
A number Of mines have been affect
ed by a partial return to work. This
is inevitable in the face of the failure
to organize the strike. The miners
hang around without leadership
without knowing what to do. The
entire leadership" of the strike con-
sists of or so called leaders out
OF the IA members of the Shamolzin
section grievance committee.
At the same time while not putting
forward these demands at this time
the miners must keep in mind the
necessity Of organizing more solidly
to fight for the six-hour day without
reduction in pay,
The miners must organize to fight
for unemployment insurance through
the state and the federal government.
The fight for immediate relief from
government and mine owners must
be developed in all mining sections
The National Miners Union calls
upon all miners, particularly the an
thracite miners to take up the Sham
okin strike in their locals, to vote
support Of the strike to condemn the
strike breaking activity of the Lewi7
and Brennan leadership, and to give
financial assistance to the strike. The
miners must also stop giving one cent
of dues to the Lewis Brennan be-
trayers.
The NMU will rally all workers
possible for the support of the strike.
The miners must make this the fight
for their lives Take the strike into
your hands. Organize the fight. De-
feat the Mine Operators Starvation
Program. Defeat the Lewis Brennan
agents of the bosses. Watch the
Dougherty- Fisher leadership" They
must either fight for you or they are
against you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
"a MORE JAILED
.E00R DEPORTATION
.=eivil Liberties Charge
Deportation Bee

WASHINGTON, April % The
-f>Tvil Liberties Union today charged
--tl1st Los Angeles, Calf, is the scene
Ga deportation bee in which Sec
rotary of Labor Doak's men are be-
7-r3s assisted by local police and pa
ttfotic organizations in hunting out
h9TAtant foreign born workers.
Among those arrested for deporta-
tton are G. Rade, an italian anti
dttSscist, and John Vilarino. Spanish
y restaurant worker.
Grades case is identical with that
OF Guido Serio, New York alien anti
fascist. whose pending deportation to
italy will doubtless result in his ex-
: .ecution," Attorney John Beardsley Of
the Civil Liberties Union pointed out.
t'.Vilarinos case is more tragic in
That it involves his large family. He
came to America % years ago. has a
N1fe and IL children, B, very poor.
He admits being a Communist, and
as such is under deportation orders.
II he is shipped to Spain his -
dependents will become public
charges Beardsley said
= These two c13eG afford additior9'
e rroaf that behind the smoke screc-,
Of the bosses and their governmcr
Of deporting criminal aliens is vi
1eioEs campaign against militant for
:: -etgn born workers whose crime II,
,.:--.@4tl1e. eyes of the bosses is that they
refuse to scab on the struggles of
the working class against starvation
and for unemployment relief and in
;Sllrance.
,Workersl Defend the foreign born
/. and. Negro workers. Stop deporta-
tions! Smash lynching! Join the
: May Day demonstrations against the
boss system of hunger. and terror
against the workers! Down tools
May Firstl Demonstrate!
,-1i-NEW MILFORD, Conn, April o.
continuing their persecution of for
*Sefgn born militants, State and Fed
s.efar. authorities took IL workers into
z custody last night for deportation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
March In Memory
Of 1920 Victim
: ovi9ts End Purchase
of Canadian Goods
Gable BY Inprecorr)

BERLIN, April 21.-Five thousand
marched in a demonstration yester-
day noon at Hanln1 Westphalia, in
memory of the three hundred work
ers who we're killed in a nearby bat
tie at Knapp Putsch in 1920. Police
tried to prevent the masses from en-
tering the cemetary. In the collisions
that occurred, police fired at the
workers, killing three and seriously
wounding four. The Infatuated mas
ses attacked the police, injuring sew
eral of them.
At the last moment, police prohib-
ted an indoor protest demonstration
in the evening. Workers were ejec-
ted from the building by brute froce.
MOSCOW-The Peoples Commi-
sariat of Trade prohibits all Soviet
trading organizations from purchas-
ing goods of Canadian origin, and
from chartering Canadian ships. This
is the answer to Canals prohibiting
of Soviet imports.
DUMBRATONSHIRE, England. -
One thousand Dumbratonshire dyers
struck against wage-cut of Is per
cent, which was demanded by the
employers, and recommended by
union asdcials. Strikers asked the
unemployed organization to assist in
picketing, ETC., which was readily
granted. An appeal was issued to
English dyers for financial assistance
and solidarity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
CORRECTION

BY error, the article in Wednes-
days Daily Worker on the arrival
Of the Pennsylvania state hunger
marchers at Harrisburg, the dem
onstration and presentation Of de-
MAIDS, states: There were over 400
Hunger Marchers, of which the two
largest groups were from PhiladeI-
pbia and Chester"
This should read, ",he two Iarg-
est groups were from Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh" The Pittsburgh
delegation numbered 1913, mostly
miners and steel workers. Three
Of the four who spoke for the hun
ger marchers at the joint session Of
the legislature were from the Pitts
burgh district. They we're: Ike
Hawkins, leader of the marchers
from western Pennsylvania, and
representative of the National Min
ers Union; Pat Cush, Of the Metal
Workers Industrial League of the
T.U.U.L.; and Boswell, leader of the
Avella mineis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25

Additional thousands Of white and
Negro workers continue to be drawn
into the struggle to nsaye the lives Of
the nine working-class Negro youths,
victims of the outrageous Scottsboro
lynch verdict. Among the latest or
ganizations to send their protests to
Goveror B. M. Miller of Alabama, at
Montgomery, Ala. are:
The David Lodge. 1877, Rights of Py-
thias, New Orleans, Amos Lodge, 1887
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows,
New Orleans, the 1. L. D. branch, New
Orleans,
ST. LOUIS, Mo, April "a. = The
Young Liberators branch of st. Louis
composed of white and Negro youth
sent a vigorous protest and pledged
their organization to rally the young
workers against the legal lynching
and to aid in mobilizing all workers
for a gigantic protest on May Day
against persecution of Negro workers
against discrimination in the city
schools of st. Louis and the shooting
down of Negro workers by st. Louis
police.
At a mass meeting held Sunday
under the auspices of the League OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
...4c0NT1NuED FROM PAGE oNEI


part, thus always holding the whip
oNer the officials in the event that
do not carry out all the wishes OF the
operators. But thus far there is no
case where these reactionary officials
did anything that can be termed
they bite the hands that feed them"
The miners in the Shamokin sec
ton, like the miners in the Glen Al
g den mines are now faced with de-
feat unless they take the strike into
.rtheir hands and organize the fight.
oThe self-imposed leadership in this
strike, Dougherty, Fisher, ETC., are do
ing nothing to organize the strike.
SFhus far no strike committee has
abeen elected, no demands formulated
40 serious mass picketing organized,
The miners are left to shift for them
Selves. 1t makes no difference that
5ztsese leaders" are themselves miners
-E8,ld%i the past have had record
of fighting for the interest Of the
IHtilerS,
q -
The way they act now they are re-
!. peating the same methods that were
followed by the Glen Alden Grievance
Committee led by Malloney that led
to the defeat of the strike. There
also the method used by the NAL
.-,lQpeys was not to organize the strike,
mot to elect a mass strike committee,
to soft pedal on mass picketing thus
laying the basis for the defeat of the
..strike. The fact that some of the
rsc=called leaders in this strike of a
record of being honest workers does
=, not change this. At best they are
iinfapable of organizing the strike,
they fear militant action on the part
.sof+ the workers, they fear what will
:. happen to their reputation and to
their jobs. Such elements naturally
e,eannot lead the miners to victory.
-. There is also TIE possibility that some
.-of.the SO called leaders while having
participated in the calling of the
strike which the miners decided by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
SCORES OF CITIES PREPARE MASS
DEMONSTRATIONS FOR MAY J

missioner Gather has refused TO
grant the City Hall Plaza to the
United Front May Day Committee
for the May Day demonstration. The
ground for the refusal is that the
location has been granted to the
socialist party In spite of the fact
the permit was applied for suff-
GENTLY in time, the permit was given
to the socialists.
This is an attempt TO prevent a
militant demonstration of the en-
ployed and unemployed workers
against the starvation Of the 10000
unemployed workers in Baltimore,
against the wage-cutting drive of
the steel and railroad barons, against
the misery and discrimination of the
Negro workers. The social-1ascists,
who have never before held demon
STATIONS in this city, are well serv-
ing their masters-the capitalist
CLASSIFY trying to prevent a mill
tant workers demonstration.
The United Front May Day Com
mittee calls upon the workers of
Baltimore not to be cowed down by
the threats of the police and come
out in masses on May First to the
City Hall Plaza. The demonstration
will begin with march from S.
Greene st. at IL noon and go through
the working-cla section and the
waterfront and march to the City
Hall Plaza.
An indoor meeting will be held at
8 p m. in the Workingmen's Hall
2507 E. Madison st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25

native and foreign born Negro and
white must rally to the defense of
the foreign born. Smash the attacks
on the Negro and foreign born work.
ers. Organize mighty demonstra-
tions for May Day. Down Tools May
Firstl Demonstrate against Boss Ter
ror and Starvation!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
In Waterbury. Conn.

WATERBURY, Gonna leaflet
has been issued to the workers here,
calling them to take part in the
May Day demonst ration to be held
at 10 a. m. at Soldiers and Sailors
Monument on West Main st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
Police Refuse Permit in Elizabeth.
Omaha Demonstration.

OMAHA, Neb,-A mass meeting
will be held here on May Day, and
special leaflets are being issued. One
of the chief slogans Of the demon
stration here will be the demand for
the immediate release of the nine
Negroes threatened with legal lynch
ing in ScottSboro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25
Quincy, Mass, Workers Out May L

QUINCY, MaSs.-The Communist
Party and all unions affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League here will
take part in the May Day demon
STATIONS here. to which all workers
are urged to rally.
A mass meeting will be held at
Johnson's Hall on Hancock ST., at s
p. m. All workers and farmers are
urged to atten dthis demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25

Demonstration Against DepOrtatiOns.
NEW YORK.-The New York City
committee for the Protection of For
eign Born has issued a statement
calling on all workers to demon
strate May Day against the wave of
deportations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-25

WESTERLY. r. 1.-The workers of
westerly, New London, and Volun-
town will join in holding an inter-
national May Day celebration at the
Finnish Workers Hall in Westerly
at 8 p. m. There will be speakers
in English and Finnish.
BALTIMORE, Md.-Police Com