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The Washington times., 1932-08-20
The Truth Is Out

A close friend of the Walter
johnson family is no little pro-
Voked because the telegram
which Walter, jr., who is spend
ing the summer in the West,
sent to mis- father on the oc-
casion of the Old Timers game
last Monday. has been grossly
mlsquoted. Young Walter, you
know is something of pitcher
himself.
What the Crown Prince of
the johnson dynasty actually
wired his pater. according to
reports reaching this bureau
was:
Congratulations on your re-
turn to the mound, Wish 1
were there to pitch the last
eight innings for you"
Be that as it may. the facts
are that if Young Walter had
been on hand to pitch only the
last seven innings for the Big
Train, it would have been in
plenty of time.
! Meanwhile do not be sur
prised to see both Marty CALI
CHER and Matte Brown turn
wrestlers before the coming
winter is far advanced. Train
ing with Benny Bortnick in
the latter's effort to get into
condition to handle recalci-
trant matmen Marty and Matte
have both expressed a fondness
Cor the Sport. Two, Benny has
convinced them there's more "of
what it takes in wrestling, than
in boxing.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Alexandria Post
Wins LegiOn Title

COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 90
The Alexandria American Legion
baseball post won the East Le-
gion championship yesterday by
winning a double-header. They
defeated Columbia Post in the
initial game, 10 to o. and blanked
Memphis Post in the nightcap,
l to 0.
Schrivener and Lewis pitched
the games and pitched we'll. God
frey was the batting star. He col
lected five hits in the two games
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Barry Farms Wins
COLOred Track Title

Scoring more than twice as
many points as its nearest rival,
Barry Farms Playground girls
won the District colored girls
track and field championship yes
terday.
Barry Farms amassed IS points;
Cardozo, 26; Rose Park. IL; How
ard, 7; Lovejoy. 6; Logan, 5; Will
low Tree. 5; Garfield and Briggs,
each; Lincoln and Smothers, 3
each; Burville, 2, and Crumell.
Monroe and Francis, l each.
Barry Farms won seven firSts
and Cardozo four. Cardozo took
three firsts in the 115-pound
class,
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Jack GdgnOn Lasts
Minute With Primo

TIVERTON, R. l.. Aug. 90.
Primo "Bootsie" Carnera, the
ambling alp, only needed one
minute last night to ring down
the curtain on his match with
Jack Gagnon, FrenCh-Canadian
from Brighton. Mass.
After a little light sparing in
the first round, "Preemo" swung
stiff left to Gagnon'S body and
the latter dropped on his face.
1t was several minutes before he
was revived.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
DidricksOn OutpLdys
Three Male Golfers

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-Mildred
Babe" Didrickson, the record
holding "one-gal" track and field
team from Texas. today added a
new triumph to her long and
varied list. Just beginning to
learn golf, Miss DidrickSon out
played three men companions in
an 18-hole match at Butterfield
Country Club. She scored an
"a as against a card of IS and
two of 81 registered by the three
men.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Ben Leonard DOWns
Mike SdrkO Easily

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-Benny
Leonard, former lightweight
champion. recorded another vic
tory today in his comeback book.
leonard. who is to fight Jimmy
McLarnin, easily outpointed Mike
Sarko, Boston welterweight in
six rounds here last night.
Leonard dropped Sarko in the
third round and generally gave
him a good humping.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
UNIQUE AUTO RACE

EVANSTON, ILL.,. Aug. 2O.-A
blindfOlG race, it was announced
today, will be a special feature of
tomorrow's program at the motor
speedway. Their eyes bandaged.
Joe Brusso and Bill Kiser will
drive their automobiles in a
match race around the track.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

*Games behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
Boston. 6; Chicago. ).
Brooklyn. 6: Cincinnati, o.
New York, 10; Pittsburgh. 4.
st. Louis, 5: Philadelphia, 4. on
innngsD
TOdays Games
New York at Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
Boston at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
BEARS SIGN PLAYERS

CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-The Chi
cago Bears, professional football
club, today announced the acquisi-
ton of two halfbacks, Bernie
Leahy of Notre Dame and George
Corbett of Millikin University.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
PITCHING OF MARBERRY, M'AFEE new GRIFF FEATUR
SPORTS
Bv KIRK MILLER
Environment Tells
In Young Griffith
Who Is Baseball Star
Gets StGuntOn Letter
In Basketball, Too
VIII Attend e.. W. u.

Environment means much in sport it does in most
phases of life Take the of Calvin Griffith nephew
and ward of Owner Clark Griffith of the Washington ball
club.
Raised by his uncle in baseball environment the young
has become quite proficient the diamond and may
hap sometime he will follow his elder relatives footsteps
upon the professional paths of the pastme which made
Clark Griffith famous player of another and dis
tinctiYe as a magnate in the current one.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

" ~ W. y " ;" 7 " 1T
Runs batted in-SPeds, AppIing. Funk.
BlueGe. CrOnin. Spencer. Manush Two
hits-Grube. Bluege (2). KrpsS. Myer.
stolen bases-CrOnin, KuhpI Bases on
ballS-Off Marberry. ,: off Faber. 1.
struck "Ut-Bv Marbrrry 3; by Gregory,
,. Hits-Off Gregory. 6 in & inninvs
Losing pitCher-Faber. I'mpircs-Van
Graflan and Guthrie. Time Of game
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Baseball Standings

*Games behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
WASHINGTON. 4-3: Chicago, 81.
Detroit. As; New York, 3-6.
Philadelphia. 9-3; Cleveland, 7-2.
(Only games played.
TOday's Games
Cleveland at WASHINGTON (Two).
Chicago Mt Philadelphia (TwO).
st. Louis at New York.
Detroit at Boston.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

Young Griffith earned his
baseball letter at Staunton
Military Academy the last two
springs and captained his nine
in his graduating year. Ditto
in basketball, but that is be-
side the question.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
INDIANS BOOKING

Indian Spring nine seeks op-
position for tomorrow. Unlim-
iteds interested should call Silver
Spring 63-R.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

pinches. Homer Drissell socked a
long home run for the winners.
Burgess and Zahn starred in the
infield.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Union Printer Stalwarts
Back in Town and Happy
Bv sINDEY KATZNELL

group baseball players arrived in town today happy
as larks and went to work huming songs of victory.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20

WASHINGTON - 20 5000 x-3
Runs battPd in-Manu>h. REYNOLDS,
Funk. TwO-hasP nit-Manush. Three
base hitS-ReynOldS, Berry. Eases on
baIIs-Ofi Chamberlain. 3; off Gallivan'
|; off Bartholomew, I; off McAtee. 2.
struck Out-ByMCAfPP. !: by Cham
bqrIain, p Hts-On Chamberlain. 3
in 5: off GalIivan. in ?. Losing
pitcher - Chamberlain. Wild pitch -
Chamberlain. Impirrs-(iuthrie and
Van Graflan Time of Game-l:37.
Home seekers who want TO establish
Themselves In a home Of their own Will
find n timely home selection In the
Real Estate for sale Columns OF the
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Pair Lend Support
When GnB Need
Help Most
Bv GARRETT WATERS

They say it's pitching that wins ball games and the accusa
tion opinion statement whathave you pretty close to
The Washington times., 1932-08-20
Fine Work, Mac

1Batted for Chamberlain in sixth.
2Batted for GalliNan in eighth.
WASHINGTON
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
MOTHER MOONEY, RICHARD B.
MOORE TOURING NORTHWEST
VIII Rally Farmers in Struggle to Free Mooney, SCOTS
boro Boys and All Class War Prisoners

AS a part of a national tour for
the freeing Of Tom Mooney and
the Scottsboro byos and all class
war prisoners which is being con-
Quoted under the auspices of the
International Labor Defense, five
meetings have been arranged for
Mother Mooney and Richard B.
Moore, Negro working class lead
er, in eastern Montana and North
Daktoa. This tour is in prepare
ton for a mass Mooney conven-
ton which Tom Mooney plans to
call for Labor Day September in
Chicago at which thousands of
working class delegates will be
present.
Mother Mooney, who is "a years
old, is fighting bravely with the
working class to free her son anc
all class war prisoners. Tom Moo
ney's crime, for which he ha:
been held in the California dun
geons for sixteen years, is being :
working class leader. His limo
cence is known 30 millions of work,
ers on all five continents of tbs
world. Framed sp, he has beer
buried alive by the capitalist class
as a warning to the working class
1t shows the extent to which tn.
Icapitalist class will go to crust
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27

Foreign Trade at
Lowest Point for
Over Twenty Years

Foreign trade of the United
States for the first quarter of
1882 was lower than in more than
twenty years. Merchandise ex-
ports which amounted to $3.50, OOO,-
600 were % per cent below the
previous quarter and 50 per cent
below the amount for the first
quarter of 1881. Merchandise i'm
ports which amounted in value to
1898, 100000 were 16 per cent be-
low the previous quarter and so
per cent below the amount for the
first quarter of 1881.
The unit value of merchandise
exports for the first quarter of
1882 was SO per cent below the
unit value for the first quarter Of
1928. In the same period the unit
value of merchandise imports fel
56 per cent.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
MILITANT FRONT OF FARMERS
DEFEAT DEPORTATION DOAK
Attempted Deportation of Simon Swanson Smashed By
United Farmers League

streeters, were that he was a mem
Der of the United Farmers League
and that he had worked in the
Producers News office. The local
bankers agents and their stool
pigeon pals of the Border Patrol
hoped to hit a vicious blow at the
mass organization of the farmers
of the county thru this frame-up.
The determination with which the
UFL rose to meet the attack came
somewhat Unexpectedly 10 them
and smashed the frameup.
The attempt to deport Simon
Swanson was part of the attempt
to outlaw the United Farmers
League, to drive the foreign born
farmers away from it thru terror
and to divide the united front OF
the native and foreign born small
and middle farmers. Deportation
Doak has been defeated in this at
tempt only thru the mass organi-
cation Of the toiling farmers in the
northwest. Only by firm Drgani'
zation can we repel similar attacks
in the future by Doak or any 9th
Ter thugs of the capitalist class.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27

the militancy of the working class.
The Scottsboro boys nave been
sentenced to die on June 24th be
cause they are members of the
working class. because they belong
to the nation of Negroes enslavcd
within the borders of the United
States. They have been framed
and sentenced to die as part of
the terror program against the
Negro workers and poor farmers.
The capitalist class wants to burn
these boys on the electric chair to
fright off Negro and white work
ers from organizing against star
walton, wage cuts and bosses war,
The meeting In eastern Montana
and North Dakota will take place
as follows:
June 9-PlentywOOd, Montana,
Farmer-Labor Temple, s D. m
June 1O-Stanley, N. Oak.
june 11-Min0t, N. Oak.
June 12-Grand Forks, N. Oak
June 1S-FargO. N. Oak
The main speaker at these meet
ings win be Richard B. Moore
Negro working class leader, Of tht
International Labor Defense. Moth
er Mooney will appear at all thesc
meetings to fight for the freedom
Of her framed and jailed son.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
BEET WORKERS
LIFE DESCRIBED
SUGAR COMPANY EXPLOITS
ENTIRE FAMILY

In order to understand the con-
ditions which faced the beet work
ers at time Of the strike, we give
a few quotations from al article
written by Comrade Sanchez of
the Agricultural Workers Industri-
al League for Labor Unity.
'"The work in the beet fields has
three different operations: hoeine
and blocking, wedding and top
ping. To do this work takes 90
days of backbreaking toll by beet
workers and their entire family.
A beet worker and his family Of
four can only do from Is to 80
acres. The money saved from the
summers work is supposed to car
Try them thru the other nine
months of the year. During 1885,
the beet worker was receiving $2S
an acre which meant the average
family made about 5000 a year
To fully appreciate the extent Of
the sugar company's exploitation
of the workers it must be remem
bered this is not for one mans
work but for the work of father
mother and all the children down
to five and six years of age.
"In 1881 the worker received {
wage cut of 259O. This year the!
were cut to as low as So to SIS o.
even lower thru the introduction
of all sorts of sharing" or eco
partner" schemes. These vary il
form. One provides that the farm
er pay Sc an acre for the hoeing
81 for the first wedding, so cent
for the seemed (this money to b
held back by the farmer as
guarantee); and for the topping
the worker is to receive so cent
a ton. This means that if the acr
produces six tons the beet worke
will make providing he gets hi
"holding back'') $1,000 per acre
The average tonnage on fertil
soil is from 10 to IL tons an acre
Had the beet workers accepted thi
J Continued on Page rwo)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
CONVENTION WILL
MEET IN CHICAGO
MAY % AND 29

ty. Unemployment. continues to
rise. Wages have been and are
being ruthlessly slashed under
Hoover's regime of hunger and OPP
preston. The standard of living
of the vast millions of toilers is
being driven down to pauper lew
els. Capitalism has exposed its
bankruptcy and its inability to
feed the working people.
The big business interests, in or
der to keep up their high profits
and swollen fortunes, are violently
attacking the workers standards
on all fronts. Increased exploita-
ton and oppression and new i'm
perialist wars are the two-fold
means being used by the boss class
to get out of the economic crisis.
Imperialist war, with its bloody
sacrifice of workers lives, has al
ready started in the Far East a.
gainst the Chinese people, a wal
which is being systematically de-
veloped by the robber nations into
a war against the workers father
land the Soviet Union. In fear Of
the growing strength of the Sow
ct Union, where no crisis or unem-
Iployment exists, the capitalists arr
organizing their forces for inter
vention. War against the Sovietl
is an immediate danger.
| United States imperialism be
hind the screen of peace maneuv
ers and sham pacifist phrases, L
rapidly preparing TO throw it
forces into this robber war.
The capitalist politicians-Re
publican and Democratic-aided b,
the leaders Of the American Fed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
1000 PROTEST IN COURT HOUSE
SQUARE, FORCE DELAY IN TRIAl
Sugar Beet Workers Struggle Against Wage Cuts, Rob
berry, Foreign Born Discrimination

The demands for which the
beet workers of Colorado are
striking at the present time are
the following:
A return to the 1880 wage
scale of $23 an acre. The pres
emit contracts offer So to SIS and
in some cases as low as 81 and
SIS.
A guarantee of wages from
the sugar company. This to pre-
vent the occurrence frequent last
year when everything the farm
er got for his beets went to the
banks and the grower was left
with nothing for his. seasons
work.
Advances to be paid IN cash
instead of credit. Often the
stOreiOeeper and the big owner
or sugar company representa-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
JAPAN PLANS TO
SEIZE CHINESE
EASTERN ROAD
Soviet Citizens Arrested By
Hundreds In Hardin,
Manchuria
WAR PROVOCATION
CAPITALIST PRESS PREDICTS
JAPAN WILL ATTACK IN
NEAR FUTURE

In dispatch to his paper, Hallet
Abend, Far Eastern correspondent
of the New York Times, admits
that the Japanese militarists are
carrying on a monstrous series of
provocations against the Soviet
Union. He reports that wholesale
arrests Of Soviet citizens are con-
tinuing and that the Japanese are
maneuvering to seize the Chinese
Eastern Railway, owned by the
Soviet Union and jointly operated
by China and the U. S. S. r. Cabl-
ing from Hardin, Manchuria, he
says:
by political, military, finan-
cial and mechanical means. jap
an is pressing her advantages a
gainst the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way, valuable railway proper
ty which is of immense political
strategic and economic import
ance to the Soviet Union. and
fears are felt here that the rail-
way question may bring about
the RussO-Japanese clash which
the Far East has been dreading
for many years"
The japanese, he reports, have
brought about through their Chin
csc militarist tools a change in tn
Chinese members of the board o
directors of the railway. "The new
Chinese members at once began t
play Japan's game" They hav
demanded change from the Rus
sian broad-gauge to standard Am
erican-gauge tracks, "the sam
gauge as the Japanese-owned Sout
Manchuria Railway" This dc
mand is aimed toward facilitatin
the movement of Japanese troop
to the Soviet border.
In addition, more than 800 81
Wet citizens have been arreste
recently by the Japanese and the
Chinese militarists and Whit
Guard allies, he reports.
Conditions have reached such
pass that already thousands of s.
Wet Russians have left for SoviC
territory, and more are withdraw
ing every day. The Dalbank is n
ported to be winding up its affair
here, as is the Naptha Syndicat
Many private firms are sellin
out and the owners are returnin
I to Russia.
Gall of these circumstances hay
served to unsettle business cond
tons to such an extent that Il
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
new WALL ST.
COMMITTEE OF
IL ORGANIZED
Committee Members are
Leaders of Big Banks
FASCIST COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
| BANKERS WILL SHARPEN
ATTACK ON TOILERS

AS a result of the continued
sharpening of the crisis despite all
Of the government measures which
have attempted to find a solution
to it, twelve of the leading bank
ers and capitalists of Wall Street
have formed an executive commit
tee to find some new solution"
This committee which has been
formed to give more direct orders
to the Hoover government was or
ganized May 10 after meetings of
the bankers in Wall Street with
Secretary of the Treasury Mills
and Meyer, Chairman of the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
This committee which was an
nounced thru the Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, Harrison, consists of the
following:
Owen D. Young, chairman,
General Elecrtic Company,
chairman.
Mortimer N. Buclner, chair
man, New York Trust Oompa.
ny.
Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman
Consolidated Gas Company.
Walter S. Clifford, president
American Telephone and TeEe.
graph Company.
Charles E. Mitchell, chair
man, National City Bank.
William C. Potter, president
Guaranty Trust Company.
Jackson e. Reynolds. presi
dent, First National Bank.
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., presi
dent, General Motors Corpora
tiOn.
Walter c. Teagle, presiden.
standard vi company or New
Jersey.
A. A. Tilney, chairman, Bank
ers Trust Company.
Albert Fl. Wiggin, chairmal
of governing board, Chase Ma
tiOnal Bank.
Clarence M. WOolFey, chair
man, American Radiator an
Standard Sanitary Corporation
This is primarily a Morgan com
mittee, representing ]. P. Morga
and the other great financial in
terests of Wall Street. 1t is thi
committee which will now give tn
orders to Congress and to tn
White House as to the ways an
Continued on Last Page)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
COUNTY RELIEF
IS TAKEN AWAY
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TRY
TO BREAK STRIKE

Denver, Colo, May 20.-In the
face of the export of the Industrial
Commission that even if they
worked at the present wage scale,
the beet workers would have to de-
pend on charity to live, the county
commissioners of Weld County
have been shameless enough to is
sue statements that any worker
who refused to become a scab and
go to work would be cut off from
all relief. They thus become open
ly strike breaking agents of the
sugar company and use their off
cial position and the county's
money to force men to work fol
wages which even their own state
industrial commission brands a:
less than subsistence level.
The conditions under which the
beet workers lived and worker
were some of the worst in the
country not even being surpassed
by the Negro share troopers o.
the South. The report given b!
Thomas F. Mahoney, Colorado
chairman of the White Hous,
Child Health Conference is terrific
in it's exposure of suffering anC
exploitation especially when it i
remembered that such white wash
ing Investigations never tell any
thing they can help and neve
more than half the truth.
"In Colorado" says the report
"all statements to the contrar,
notwithstanding, children of from
Is to Is years of age work lonl
hours under high pressure at har
manual labor in certain kinds o
industrialized agriculture.
Thousands of children are i
the sugar beet fields at labo
which stunts growth, physical an
mental, and makes real educatio;
impossible.
cit is the old sweatshop syster
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lives split the excess graft made
by charging e0Orbitaht prices at
the store where credit is add
vanced.
Recognition of the United
Front Committee of Beet Work
era.
No discrimination against
any fOreign-bOrn worker. no
matter what nationality he may
be.
The beet workers of Colorado
are engaged in a heroic struggle
against starvation and conditions
OF actual slavery. Workers ev-
erywhere must come to the aid
of these fellow workers with
food, funds and tents for the
evicted. Rush contributions to
2736 Lawrence Street, Denver,
Colorado.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27

Grafton of Labor and the Socialist
party are forcing through their
starvation and war program a.
gainst the. workers by means of
terror, by suppessing the workers
rights, by means of beatings, muir
ders and lynchings. The fight for
the defense of the standards OF
living of the masses and the rights
of the workers to fight against
starvation and war are the burn.
ing issues before the millions OF
toilers today.
There is only Oalv W.. out of the
unprecedented misery and oppres-
sion of the toilers. This is the
way of united and organized mas.
struggle. If the working class i,
not to be plunged into still great
er poverty, into the slaughter
house of a new world war, it mus
fight with all its might agains'
the economic and political often
sive carried on by the capitalists
and their government.
The Communist party calls up
on the workers to establish thiI
united fighting front around tn,
following demands:
1. Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the stat
and employers.
2. Against HOOver's wage cut
ting policy.
8. Emergency relief, without re
strictions by the government an
banks, for the poor farmers: ex
emption of poor farmers from tar
les, and from forced collections O
debts.
A. Equal rights for the NegrOe
and self determination for th
Black Belt.
! s. Against capitalist terror; q
gainst all forms of suppression o
: Continued on Page Twol
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-05-27
HOBART, WASH.
FARMERS MEET
DISCUSS PRICES OF MILK ON
FARMS AND IN CITIES

ENUMCLAW, Wash, May %
The farmers of Hobart held a
meeting at the Hobart Hall, Sun
day, May 22nd, under the auspices
of the United Farmers League A
fairly good crowd was present
which proves that the farmers are
becoming interested. Organize
ton was the keynote of Comrade
Laurie's speech-organization in
the United Farmers League-as
the only way for the farmers 10
better their conditions. Ccmrade
Laurie pointed out the misleader-
ship of all other farmers organi-
cations, which are controlled by
the big bankers and capitalists for
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