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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
Had the Amount Too Large.

The Tooley Lake CORRESPONDENT re-
ported last week that r. L. Cole was
getting out 10000 feet of plank for .
new county bridge. The correspondent
writes to say that she made an error
and the amount should have been
10000 feet. The bridge is TO he 4o(
feet long and Is foot plank will be
used
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
NOTICE.

The regular annual meeting q The
stockholders of the Vermiculite anc
Asbestos Company will be held in the
office of the Lincoln County Abstract
Company at Libby, Montana, on jan
uary "a, 1881, at o'clock p. m, foi
the purpose Of electing Board Of Di-
rectors. and for the transaction Of any
other business that may come before
the meeting,
Dated at Libby. Montana, this 7tf
day of January. 1881.
VERMICULITE & ASBESTOS co,
jn8-15-2t RyM D. Rowland, Secretary
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
MIR. and Mrs. DeIzer Entertain.

The members of The Pinochle cluE
were the guests of Mr.. and aud Mrs
Gus Delzer Friday evening, at (which
the honors of the evening and the ac-
companying prizes were won by Mrs
Paul Church and Ralph Tone while
the consolation prizes went TO Mrs
Ralph Tone and Forest DeRosia.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
Entertains 1889 PinochIe CIuh.,

Mrs. j. B. Lamey was hostess last
Thursday evening to the 1880 Pin
och1e club at her home in west Libby
Mrs. Frank Boyle proved the mos
skiIlful pinochle player during the Eve
ming and captured the high score
prize. The consolation went to Mrs
Reedy. Refreshments were served.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
Entertains at PinochIe Party.

Mrs. w. G. Seims entertained num-
Der of friends Saturday night at q pi-
nochle party at which Mrs. B. F Maiden
and R. w. Smithberger captured the
high score prizes while Mrs. August
Wichman and Mr.. Maiden won the con-
ISOLATION prizes. Dainty refreshments
were served
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
Widow Self-1mmolatio ton

Suffice Ia the seif-burning Of Wild
ows. The custom began in India when
one OF the wives of Brahma, the Son
OF God, sacrificed herself at his death
that she might attend him in heaven
Seventeen widows have burned them
selves on funeral pyre OF ralah
and In Bengal alone over 100 have
been known to perish this way In a
year. The English government abol-
ished suttees In December, 1923, but
they have since occasionally taken
place.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-08
Miss Letha Williamson Is Hostess.

Miss Letha Williamson entertained
a number of lady friends Saturds y
evening, bridge being the diversion 81
the evening. Mrs Ralph Fields carried
home the high score prize and Miss
Agness Lane the consolation. Refresh
ments were served
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Vol. VIII, No. So
"Re Kind to Animals"

WE are reminded
Indeed is said that there is "a great deal of
cruelty" to animals,
At the
capitalist of that city entitled They Are Treated Too Gently
We hasten 10 talking
animals While the Detroit capitalist talking about
workers.
into what amounts Jail but
which called Te Municipal Lodging House, where they furnished
limited something that has been msnamed food
and % mannded pushed about and Disseminated against
is obess workers.
poedy compensation for being treated with this cruelty hnha-
required Iabor
Workers that spite the fact that forced labor exists
in Detroand number OF other ceSnether Mr. Fish as repre-
country Matthew Won who
dent Of the F. OF L. will raise word in Remuneration OF this forced
labor
Moreover the same capitalist newspapers
Fshs and VOLTS brilliant discovery of forced labor in
the Soviet Union and greatly concerned horses dogs ard
cats faced with the embarrassing extremity admitting that the
millions of starving unemployed particularly those forced to labor with
out pay, have only one defender-"the reds
Detroit, Unemployed
the bes workers against forced labor the capitalist suddenly dis
that forced labor is all right that it holy and righteous
altogether They that the reds demand bed of roses and
stated above the unemployed treated too gently
They useless mgratefl
leech who should be thrown out bodily else the
involuntary entirely
captaisms remedy for forced labor is-foced
Mayor Murphy of Detroit whose feet all of the aed liberals
wohppng quite the workers shake
their fists his plan
to relieve unemployment He indeed Officially Mortified
labor discontinued
beyond he
who refused to be driven forced labor
of the miserable refuge
unemployed
to do and demanded hourly performed
Murphy upon city no money!
tens and hundreds of millions gathered
wasted thousand parasites
city from the duty feeding the bess produced
these prohs
Before May Day after especially upon
raise this question
ef work. Unemployment insurance for jobess worr All
to demonstrate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

by the southern landlords and
capitalists.
Speaking last night at mass
meetings in two of the largest
Negro churches in CHATHAM
ooga, the district organizer Of the In
ternstional Labor Defense was greeted
with bursts of spontaneous applause
when he pledged his organization to a
finish fight to get new trials with
Negro workers on the jury for the
nine colored lads Both meetings
were packed.
Negro Organizations Request Speakers
Both the I. L. D. and the League
OF Struggle for Negro Rights are being
swamped with requests from colored
organizations to send speakers to their
meetings to explain the evidence in
the case and outline steps ching taken
for defense. So far, seven churches
have requested speakers.
A conference of Negro and white
organizations has been called by the
I. L. D. and the l.. S. N. R. for April
%. The conference will be preceded
by big mass meeting on April 27.
Fire Steve Roddy, Double CrOsser.
An attack on the l. l.. D. was made
today by Steve Roddy, Chattanooga
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
PROTEST
MEET FRI. NIGHT

NEW YORK.-William l.. Patter-
son, Negro militant, who formerly
practiced law in Harlem, will be one
of the speakers at big mass meeting
this Friday night at st. Luke's Hall,
125 w. l13oth St., at which hun
dreds of New York workers will de-
mand a halt to the legal lynching Of
eight Negro boys in Scottsboro, Ala,
and five white silk strikers of Pater-
son, N. j., on framed-up charges.
The meeting will be held under the
joint auspices Of the New York Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
tense and the City Committee of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
Other speakers will be c. A. Hath
away, who acted as prosecutor in the
mass trial against white chauvinism
few months ago in Harlem, and
Richard B. Moore, national Negro
director of the International Labor
Defense.
All workers are urged TO attend
this meeting and relp defeat the
frame-ups by which the bosses of the
North and South are trying to smash
the struggles OK tha WORKING class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
W IN COLUMBIA
SLIPPER STRIKE
Fer Bros. Strikers
DIT 0rmined AS Ever

NEW YORK--After a tWo-day
strike at the Columbia Slipper Co.
696 Broadway, the firm granted the
demands and signed an agreement
with the Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union The wages of sew
eral of the very low paid workers
we're increased 81 to $3.50 per week
The Shop Committee will get to-
gether with the firm on all new
piece work prices.
The strikers returned to work to-
day with a full union agreement
Holidays. including May First will
be. observed. The strike at the Fifer
Bros. Slipper Co., at 18th St, and
University Pl., now in the third week,
is holding a solid front Yesterday
the boss had one of the pickets ar
rested for telling strike-br to
beat it. Judge Brant. a new bosses
man. fined the striker So. in spite OF
the fact that there was no evidence
of any disturbance. The strikers are
aware of the game played and will
not be intimidated.
At their meeting today they de-
cided to hold out till cold weather,
if need be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
MORE JOBLESS
FOUND IN CITY
Nneed Preparations for
Conference May 10

NEW YORK.-Condition discov-
cred by the unemployed councils be-
low seth st. in Manhattan are Civ
ing an added push to the plans for
united front conference on May
TO- Manhattan Lyceum, at 10 a. m.
of delegates from all workers or
CARNATIONS in this territory.
The Down Town Council, which is
a branch of the Lower Manhattan
Council that the conference will
form on united front basis, found
on Fourth ST., between Bowery and
Second Ave, a widow with one child
starving and about to be evicted.
The gas and electricity had been
shut off.
The CanvaSSerS found janitor
with eight children and no one work
ing in the family, which had no food
at all on hand.
Such cases as these the Lower
Manhattan Council and its branches
will find and catalog and take the
evidence to the board of estimates
and demand relief. If relief is re-
fused the council will rally the ten
ants in the neighborhood to get re-
lief to the starving.
Fewer Jobs.
The councils in this territory find,
by actual canvassing, that unem-
ployment is increasing and that the
wages of those employed are being
cut. The united front conference
May 10 will work out further means
of uniting for struggle the jobless
and those who still have jobs.
at is expected that only hand
full of the 1900 now being dis
charged by the Prosser Committee
will be able to get work from the
CITY," said the New York evening
papers yesterday. The men being
fired will be last on the city list, 9TH
ers being taken first Only $2,000,000
have actually been arranged for by
the board of estimates, and this does
not add new work to what the city
would have had to do anyway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
TENANTS LEAGUE
WINS ONE ROUND
7orces Coney Island
Landlady to Terms


NEW YORK, N. Y.-Mrs kite
prosperous landlady, who evicted an
unemployed worker, Alderman, has
sent five more notices of eviction to
make these tenants appear at court.
The reasons for the eYictions were
that these tenants demanded S. re-
!. duction. necessary fixtures. and TO
abolish the security system. e.
Mrs, Kite is the owner of about
seven houses in the Coney Island
district, on 33rd, Sind and oath SITS.
When she found out that the ten
ants league had placed the furniture
back into Ackerman's house and
staged demonstrations for two days
straight and held many open-air
meetings she went to these tenants
and tried to settle with them and
tried to force them to sign an agree
ment. She went to them individu-
ally, claiming to each that the other
tenants had signed it: But each
worker asked to see what they signed
She was beaten and asked the ten
ants what they we're going to do.
The tenants said that they we're
going to have mass meeting and
that they would sign an agreement if
it met with their demands. She was
forced to give in to all their wishes,
which called for a reduction in rent,
painting and repairing their apart
mentS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Nall Bakers to Mass
Meeting Fri d a v to
Form United Front

NEW YORK CITY.-The Food
Workers Industrial Union is calling
a mass meeting of all bakers of the
A. F. of L., the Bakery and Confec-
tionery Workers International of the
Amalgamated Food Workers, and all
organized bakers, to be held Friday,
April "a, beginning at p. m, at
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Pl.
The purpose of the meeting is to
discuss the plans for organizing a
united front of all bakers in the
struggle against bosses and sell-out
agents of the A. F. of L. and the A.
F. w. When the union contracts
end on May l, these takers will pro-
pose no increases, no stopping OF
long hours and speed-up, but they
will give more concessions to the
bosses. United action of all bakers
can stop this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Liberal" Mayor At First Denies It; Mass
Meetings and Demonstrations Unmask His
Pretense; Prepare State Hunger March

ers such as General Motors. ETC.,
made their huge profits. Out of these
millions of profit the unemployed
council demands that workers be
paid and receive the necessary re-
lief.
Prepare State March.
Unemployed Councils and the
Trade Union Unity League are pre-
pairing for state hunger march on
May 25th. Organizers are being sent
about the district. Conferences are
now being organized calling upon the
different workers to actively partici-
pate in the preparations of the Hun
ger march movement.
At the demonstration which pre-
coded Mayor Murphy's admission,
there we're 1900 workers in front of
the city hall. A committee composed
Of Negro and whitsS workers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Detroit Jobless Forced to Work for Nothing;
1000 Protest; Murphy Admits; Gives Promise

headed by Secretary Albert Goetz Of
the Unemployed Council was sent in.
Murphy told this first committee that
there was no forced labor, and de-
clared Goetz. didn't know what he
was talking about"
The demonstrators outside heard
speeches by Goetz and by John
Schmies, secretary of the Trade Uni
on Unity League, pledged to join the
council, to fight for relief. and to
build the state hunger march on May
25.
Workers in Eamtranck are organic
ing splendid battles under the lead
ership of the Unemployed Council OF
Hamtranck against the cutting of
of relief. The propaganda on the
part of the mayor in Hamtranck
about the return of prosperity is be-
ing exposed through the fighting
demonstrations for immediate and
increased relief.
In Hamtranck the whole police de-
partment was called out and a splen-
did resistance was shown on the
part of these unemployed workers
against the police brutality. -,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

DETROIT, Mich, April 20. The
unemployed workers of Detroit thru
a series of mass meetings and two
demonstrations nfront of the city
hal have finally compelled Mayor
Murphy to recognize that forced la
Dor doeS exist in Detroit and extract
from him an order for its discontin-
uance; When the unemployed delega-
ton met with Murphy April 16, he
pretended that orders had been given
against forced labor and that his de-
partment heads assured him that
there was none. On April IT, how
ever, 1t could no longer be denied and
the only thing the mayor and the
department heads could do was gloss
over the rotten conditions existing in
the Lighthouses, soup Kitchens, ETC.,
and make an attack on the secretary
of the unemployed councils as a Com
munist. In all this, however. they
failed. The whole delegation refuted
the lying assertions of Murphy and
his welfare" officials, citing case
after case of rotten meals, mishand-
ling Of men, DISCRIMINATION, forced Ia
Dor. etc, ~~~.-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
l6 MORE JOIN
MARBLE STRIKE
Looking for w Or k
Found the Pickets

NEW YORK. Picketing will con-
tinue this morning at the Excelsior
Marble Works. 896 East 141st ST.,
where the workers went out Monday
demanding that wage cut of Is
per cent inflicted on them two
months ago be rescinded, demanding
also the A hour week and recognition
Of the shop committee.
The workers here have organized
in the Marble and Tile Workers sec
ton of the Building and Construction
Workers Industrial League, affiliated
with the T. U. u. L.
Sixteen more workers who came to
look for work, finding that strike
was on, have joined the League.
The Italian fascist paper here, Il
Progresso, has refused to print ar
announcement that there is strike
at the place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
DELEGATES MAKE LAST
PLANS FOR HUGE MASS
DEMONSTRATION MAY |
Fishes to Feed His
Hungry Family: But
Is Arrested for 1t

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Out of
work for months and unable to
feed his family, Frank Kennedy,
48, attempted to keep his children
from starving by fishing in the
Schuylkill near Flat Rock dam.
For attempting to staye off starry
alton in this way he was arrest
ed. He had caught few fish
and was about to take them home
when cop hauled him into court.
Despite the story of starvation he
told to the judge, the fat, well-fed
magistrate fined the unemployed
worker $25 and costs. Unable to
pay, Kennedy was sent to Jail. His
family is home still hungry and
facing starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
ScottsbOrO Meets

Tuesday night, at Seventh st.
and Ave. B; auspices Steve Ka-
tovis Branch of the I. L. D.
Thursday night, at 14th ST. and
University Pl; auspices Steve Ka-
tovis Branch of the I. L. D.
Friday night, at st. Luke's Hall,
125 w. 130th ST.; auspices I. L. D.
and l.. S. N. r.
Saturday, $3.50, Protest Parade
from I40th st. and Lenox Ave,
with demonstration at 10th St.
and Fifth Ave.
Elizabeth, N. j., Thursday night,
at l06 E. Jersey ST.; auspices Of
L. S. N. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

YESTERDAYS DEVELOPMENTS SCOTTsBORO CAMPAIGN
finish fight lives of
o Alabama lyuching.
meetings
in Milwaukee, Omaha Sioux City, Oklahoma City City
Commons meeting Buffalo, Niagara Falls New Haven Danbuy United
May Conference in Elizabeth, N j.
4. Ukrainian Toilers of America join protest
Negro reformist organizations continue
with boss
Detroit City Council the Trade Union Unity
oppressed
people exploited white
T. May Day demonstrations mobilzing huge protests
CHATTANOOGA, April 20.-Undeered by the trechcer-
cooperation of the Negro reormss with the southern boss
nchers the Negro eagerly raying in fighting
alliance with the white workers to the defense of the nine
nocent coored Youngsters being rroaded to the electric chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
End Forced Labor!

The delegation made three de-
mands: that forced labor should be
abolished; that all men who worked
be paid at the rate of 55c per hour,
and that all men men who were
thrown out of the Lighthouses and
souplines for refusing to work for
nothing should be reinstated. Muir
ply definitely stated that there
would be no more forced labor and
that all men kicked out for refusing
to work for nothing would be rein
stated. He said that the city o. De-
troit has not the money to pay those
who have already worked for moth
ing and that they would not be paid.
The committee called sharply to
the attention of the Mayor that Hen
ry Ford made over s5o,O00,00o profit;
likewise, the other auto manutactur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
3 ARRESTED in
ATLANTA STRIKE
Distributed Leaflets Of
the TUUL
BULLETIN

ATLANTA, Ga, April 20.-The
trial of the three members of the
T. u. U. L. arrested here for dis
tributing leaflets to the Georgia
Power strikes has been set for
Thursday, at which time Prosecutor
Elder, of the A. +. of L. Electrical
Workers Union, will be finished with
the convention of the Georgia State
Federation of Labor convention now
going on, and will be free to try
and make out another "insurrcc-
ion" death sentence case.
ATLANTA. Ca, April 17.--Three
workers were arrested here while dis
tributing leaflets to the Georgia
Power Co. strikers. The arrests and
distribution took place outside the
power plant while the strikers, who
are out under A. F. of L. leadership,
stood around helpless and scabs went
in and out of the plant at liberty.
The Georgia Power Co. is owned
by the Power Trust and has been
consistently cutting wages, firing and
hiring unorganized workers at a
lower wage Under the heavy bar
rage of wage-cuts which resulted the
workers forced the A. F. of L. union
officials to permit a strike.
Five hundred have been out six
weeks. During all of the time they
we're out the Trade Union Unity
League has been steadily winning a
wide influence over the strikers.
Treadaway, one of those arrested,
was already invited by some of the
strikers to speak at meeting of
the union and promised plenty of
protection against the A. F. of L.
Klansmen.
At the present time the fsker
"leaders" are putting the strike over
into the hands of the mayor, asking
him to arbitrate with the Power
Trust
The leaflets given out by the three
workers arrested exposed the coming
sell-out and warned the strikers
against the soft-soaping tactics of
the mayor and the A. F. of L. Off
Gals. The back knitting officials of
the A. F. of L. posted their own po-
lice around the strikers to watch out
for the Reds"
The three arrested are Treadaway,
Singer and Hart. At present they
are out on bond, with the case to
be called in a few days. The Inter
national Labor Defense is on the job
and is represented by Attorney Han
cock, who is handling the Atlanta
Six cases.
The Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League are issu-
ing leaflets to the strikers, exposing
this latest attack. The A. F. of L. is
openly aligning itself with the police
and the Power Trust by having Ell
der Atlanta labor" leader, prose-
cute the case against the three ar
rested workers. They are under the
fake charge of "disorderly conduct"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

ION May First, and will march
from that point on Union
Square, where the big demon
stration will be held in spite
of the united front plans Of the
fascist Veterans of Foreign Wars and
their police and socialist party allies
to hold Union Square from the work
erS on May Day.
Organizations Report.
Various organize tons reported last
night on their activities in mobiliz-
ing for May Day The Building
Trades has arranged open air meet
ings in Brooklyn and the Bronx and
have distributed 10000 leaflets. Three
carpenter locals we're represented
with delegates at last nights confer
cuce. Local 209O has decided to par
ticipate in a body together with the
Buiiiing Trades League A MEM
bership meeting with the League de-
cided to meet at headquarters of the
Trade Union Unity League and
march with banners to Madison
Square. The meeting elected car
pentcrs to be in charge of the Build
ing Trades section The campaign
among the building trades workers is
developing at full speed.
All shops controlled by the Needle
Trades Industrial Union we're repre-
scented at the conference. 1t was re-
ported that there is a big movement
among the company union workers
to repudiate the socialist party and
it's police and fascist allies and join
lhe United Front May Day demon
Stration.
Food Workers Send Delegates.
All shops under control Of the
Food Workers Industrial Union have
elected delegates and are carrying on
an energetic campaign. Members of
the Amalgamated Food Workers,
aroused at the refusal of their Off
Gals to permit the representative of
the United, Front Committee to adj
dress their meeting, are pledging to
demonstrate on May Day with the
revolutionary workers Of New York
City
Four of the biggest metal shops in
New York sent delegates to the con-
ference and pledged support for the
United Front May Day demonstra-
ton.
Following a successful strike led
by the Industrial Shoe Workers
Union, the shop meeting elected dele
gates to the conference and decided
to actively participate on May Day.
The Unemployed Councils, ths
Women's Councils and other organ
izations are actively engaged in mob
ilizing the unemployed and morgan
lied workers for joint struggle with
the organized and with the employed
workers against the boss system OF
starvation, wage cuts, lynching, de-
portations, frame-ups and prepare
ton for war on the Soviet Union.
Meet Thursday.
On Thursday, April %, the Trade
Union Unity Council will meet at 16
West 21st Street to hear reports of
all the delegates on May Day prep
arations. On the same evening at
7:45 o'clock, there will be a meeting
of captains from the various organ
izations affiliated with the United
Front May Day Conference in order
to perfect arrangements for the par
AIDE. A special May Day issue OF
Labor Unity will be out on Saturday.