The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-22
B UTE WORKERS
DEMONSTRATE FOR.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF
ANACONDA GUNMEN HIRED
TO PROTECT" RELIEF
RACKET HEAD.
By ROGER S. MURRAY

"~N~ ~ SAAN VIVA
ers International Relief hall in
Butte, unemployed workers are
organized and are now putting up
a fight against Salvation Army
slop and Hoover's fake relief.
Two days after the w. 1. R. hall
opened delegation. of about one
hundred workers representing the
Unemployed Workers Union went
into the Salvation Army slop
house. This delegation saw and
tasted the food that was being
fed to jobless workers. There
right in the slop house, speakers
jumped on TO the tables and ex-
posed the slop that was being fed
TO workers. The speakers showed
how the Salvation Army were be-
ing paid about thirty-five cents a
meal to feed the jobless, and that
the meals according to their own
figures published in the Montana
Standard cost them only three
cents per meal.
While one of the speakers was
on the table a stool pigeon ran
for Capt. Petersen of the Sallys.
Captain Petersen, who is the am
bassador of Jesus on earth, came
running into the slop section of
the building with his face red with
rage and attempted to tear down
the speaker who was exposing his
graft. The police came next and
questioned one worker. No one
was arrested.
Workers Demonstrate for Relief
The next day between five hun
dred and one thousand workers
lined up in front of the w. /. r
and we paraded through the city
The first place we stopped was a
the Community Chest in the Cham
her of Commerce building. 4
delegation representing the Unem
plOyed Workers Union went insid
to present our demands Willar
Thompson of the Chamber o
Criminals was bit reluctant a
bout letting us in, but when tn
saw the number of workers in tn
march and the determination /
their faces he admitted us. W
presented our demands, the Ns
tional demands and our immed-
ate local demands. The next da
we were to cali for their answe,
, Thompson insisted that the ne1
! day a committee of three and n
J more come for the answer.
, Community Chest Greets- Del
gates With Thugs
The next day three of us wei
. for the answer. To our surpri'
! we found waiting for us twelV
! gunner from the mines. We wei
into the committee rooms and I'll
! Head of the Red Cross told US
! we didn't like the slop at the Sa
! walton Army to go hungry. T
also told us that if we did n
! like the Hoover relief plan v
could go without althogether. I
stated he did not recognize o
= union. In other words he did n
recognize one thousand starvil
! Butte miners. They said the wor
: ers of Butte paraded under S
! Wet banner, because one work
, carried a sign, Defend the Sow
Union. For the benefit of the
highbinders we wish to state tn
= Soviet means council and that t
: Soviet banner is much differe
from the one the worker pack
|, in the parade.
= The Unemployed Workers Uni
I is planning another demonstrate
u wherein the women and childr
e viii march with us. Workers c
q see that the only way to ma
N these takers recognize our Uni
y and win our demands is with ms
10 action.
ey Workers, demonstrate in Blu
RS on February 4th for immediate
lief, against the slop of the Co
as munity Chest and the Salvatl
u Army. Demand that these racl
eel teers hand out decent food to
all unemployed workers and tn
s." families. Demonstrate in mas
l. February 4th.