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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-22

'E. G. Ferguson, county ag-
ent of Sheridan county for the
past five years, has resigned
that position to become field
supervisor of the RecOnstruc-
ton Finance corporation. His
appointment to the new posi-
tiOn was announced following a
conference with the finance
group at Minneapolis last week,
and he resigned his local post
upon his return to Plenty
wood"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
BY HARRY CANNES.

GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT of New York took
enough time out Of his "tin box investga-
ion" Of grating Sheriff Farley, graduate of the
same Tammany Hall school in which the gov
ernor himself was trained, to fire the opening
gun in the chief demagogic campaign in what
he calls "a non-radical plan for unemployment
insurance"
Unemployment insurance has now become a
major political issue and Tammany Hall will
attempt to ride its candidate into the presidency
on a Shiny plank they will call Unemployment
insurance" They will start campaign for
their sham scheme to catch the votes Of the mil
lions of unemployed workers and the millions
now employed who know their jobs are no safer
than a dollar within the reach of a Tammsnv
CRATER
The Roosevelt plan" is not purely New
York matter It was drawn UP with the an
proyal Of the governors of six of the leading
industrial states in the comtry-New York,
Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Connecticut, 1t is being approved by the
most reactionary capitalist newspapers It is
more than unemployment insurance" fake
scheme, as it contains a direct attack against
wages and is in full conformity with the bosses
plans Of lowering the standard OF living of the
American workers.
One OF the basic principles of the plan is
that the unemployed I'VE will always have with
US" or, as the proposal Of Governor Roosevelt's
commission states it:
"At the best there will for some time remain
a residium of unemployed who must continue TO
look for assistance to the agencies of private and
public charity"
So after all the unemployment insurance"
scheme about which Governor Roosevelt will
below good DEAL is not intended to take care
Of the 100000 unemployed who must con-
tinue to look for assistance to the agencies Of
private and public charity"
The scheme itself was cleverly worked out for
several purposes namely, to be put over In an
attempt to fool the workers when the pressure OF
the struggle for real unemployment insurance
bill becomes too great, and to draw the workers
away from the task of building an organized
working class movement TO force rough the
genuine unemployment insurance
The experts appointed by the 81 governors
studied every so-caled unemployment insurance
plan in European capitalist countr1es-and
picked the worst features Of each, directed
against the workers.
Fundamental in the plan are the propositions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
Tammany's Unemployment In
suranCe" Scheme

% the burden Of unemployment would still be
borne by the workers." and, (2 $40 should be
considered the maximum wage paid to any
worker.
Instead Of a national unemployment insur-
ance bill, the recommendation Is made that
statewide systems of reserves" be established
each exclusively controlled by the local state
capitalists and particularly by the individual
bosses.
Each employer, so the recommendations read
would contribute per cent OF his payroll into
his own reserve fund" When sum of $50 for
each worker has been gathered the boss is sup
posed to stop contributing.
Now the question arises wl1erv would the 2
per cent really come from7 boss faced with
the prospect of creating this "reserve" would
take 1t out of the hide of the worker. He would
take not but at least per cent right out of
the payroll, keeping per cent for admins
tratton"; and the other per cent would be
iuggled around
The provision about benefits reads as follows
The maximum rate Of benefit shall be so
per cent of an employees wage, or $40
week. whichever is lower; and the maximum
period of benefit shall be ten weeks within any
twelve months"
the workers are concerned. The boss Is sup
''~Hd to pay the unemployed worker half Of
his wages (and the maximum wage Is put at
.-. a eek, so that no worker would ever get
more than $40 week as unemployment bene-
fitsD. What is more the limit OF payments La
supposed to run ten weeks
In the first place, the reserves amount to
wage cut. Then the manner of payment helps
the boss further fix a starvation standard Of
living; and after all these blessings, an unem-
ployed worker could see his family starve slowly
for 10 weeks before they began the rapid road
to death by hunger.
There are a whole series Of safeguards for the
bosses. SO that in the event hters n q crisis
like the present, and say half OF his workers are
thrown out Of work he dcee mot have 10 nav
any OF them one cent even after Their wages
have been robbed for the purpose.
THE financial responsibility Of an employer
shall be strictly limited by the amount Of his
Unemployment reserve" says the plan which Is
an insurance of the boss and not Of the worker
And this is the scheme which will be Haunted
In the capitalist press as Unemployment insur.
snce" in answer TO the struggle fow the WORKERS.
Unemployment Insurance Bill now being backed
by millions Of workers. now penetrating into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
Developments of theDdiry
Trust in the Agrarian
Field
By M. S.

IN a previous article wrote Of the vital impor-
lance of the milk receiving station to the
dairy farmer. I also showed how the trust
Ruhn, Loeb & Coz through Bordens and the
National Dairy Products Co. are buying up all
the market outlets that they can get hold Of
At PlatnSboro N. j., is the largest dairy farm
in the country owned by Walker Gordon Co..
a Borden subsidiary Here a revolutionary. ma
chine has just been developed called the Roto-
factor. 1t milks and washes COWS at the rate of
COWS minute. 1t means the doom of the
small producer of milk, that is certain, but how
is this trust going to use this new weapon?
The organizational idea of the Walker-Gordon
system is:
l. A farmer comes in as producer He
brings his producing COWS to the central farm.
He still owns the COWS. The COWS are placed
in separate barn for his cattle alone He must
have 100 producing COWS to make up the re-
quired unit; If he has not enough COWS the
company arranges with a bank for loan to buy
the required amount. Very few farmers own
100 cows so practically all farmers must go into
debt at once
2. The farmer must own or rent farm with
In 15-mile radius OF the central farm, where
he lives and cares for those cattle of his unit
that are not in production (young stock and
dry stock.
8. The farmer sells his milk to the company
but the company does the milking ION the roto-
lactro). In other words where formerly the
farmer sold his milk in a can he now sells it
while still in the COW.
T. The company has complete veterinary and
sanitary control.
5. The farmer or his hired man must come to
the center several times daily to take care Of
his unit Of cattle, mainly feeding
8. On his own farm away from the center the
farmer raises hay and corn for sage which he
must sell to the company to be stored at the
center
7. The farmer buys back his feed as he needs
1t for his cattle in the center Some of the eff
fectS Of this system are:
1. The farmer is put into debt and can be
left perpetually in debt II the company so wills
it.
g. The great cost (diseaSe) of large scale cor
poration agriculture the national risk Is elm
mated by having the farmer "own" the cows
At present the trust Is just working this sys-
tenn with IS farmers as an experiment These
Is farmers are well satisfied because they are
being paid attractive rates. As this system de-
velops, the trust will move into other dairy sec
tons and build similar centers. Farmers who
will then refuse invitations" to Join this pro-
ducing center will find the trust through own
ership of the milk stations and market outlets
able to force the farmer to give In or stop selling
milk
When this system reaches certain stage Of
growth the trust will be able to squeeze and ex-
plot the farmers like they never have in the
past because they will have an almost complete
monopoly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
Professor Christ

When bourgeois tries to get Justice" out OF
bourgeois society, he-being devotee OF rug
ged individuahsm," usually tries it all by him.
self and with a gun. Even when his name is
Christ.
Thus the Hearst press tells us of an incident
in Los Angeles, where Anton Christ, "once
wealthy professor of mathematics" shot himself
after Vainy trying to get even with capitalism.
1t appears that Christ was not such a lowIy
person as his name might imply. He had had,
SO It's said, 100000 in Florida bank But
those red rumors' knocked over the bank in
1880 and the bankers having gotten away with
the 100000 gave Christ the horse laugh.
Christ, it appears was the author of more
than 100 books" and being mathematics pro-
lessor, couldn't forget the figures of that 100000.
Having gone with his wife and his memory to
Los Angeles, Christ had only two bits left the
other day, wnen he thought up way to get even.
So he goes out cunning for real estate man.
nabs him, rigs up some kind of dynamite jig
ger in the real estate mans pocket fixed to
explode if Christ pulled a wire, and marches
Mr.. Real Estate man down to his bank, with the
order to write out check for whatever he can
draw.
However bank guard notice Christ carried
a gun, and interfercS with the show SO Christ
bumps himself off
The moral of this is that workers should not
follow Christ example. Plenty of workers have
lost their savings in busted banks But workers
don't go around with a gun trying to get it
back by the stick up method. They organize
for mass struggle. Firstly, they get more that
way, if anything can be gotten. Further, they
learn that by mass struggle they can do away
with capitalism the basis Of all robbery. Only
such stupid bourgeois as Christ uses individual
violence Christ is no example for worker to
follow
Capitalism Imperialism is lots more efficient
than the ancient kind. The Romans had to
corner Christ and then cruelty him. American
capitalist Imperialism has it fixed so that Christ
has to cruelty himself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
ranks Of the A. F. OF I.

This is the offspring Of the great promises
Of endorsement" of unemployment insurance of
Governor Roosevelt! The Republican opponents
of Roosevelt in the New York legislature could
find nothing to oppose in the proposal, except
they thought 1t wasn't timely"
The bold Socialists through their mouthpiece,
Norman Thomas, declared the bill totally in
sdequate"-yes, 1t was something for the work
ers but ~inadequste." Not word about the
wage cut features; nos a word about tho class
weapon against the workers: not . word about
the whole hoax, Just merely gcntlesnanly ~cri-
ucisrn" OF sympathetic capitalist proposal
More win be heard in all six states concerned
about this unemployment insurance" scheme.
All class conscious workers should brand it for
what 1t isanother instrument in the campaign
to lower the standard OF living of the Amer
iran workers and to keep them from struggling
~ caass for real unemployment insurance All
fun wage rates ut the expenss 81 Tire boesss and
administered by tbs workers. NwzYrxss--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22

ImperiaIist 'Humanitarianism'
By JORGE

After making shambes of Chapel, the thickly
populated working class district of Shanghai for
fourteen days Of continuous slaughter, in which
unknown thousands of workers and their wives
and babes were killed the Japanese stopped fir
ing long enough to allow the removal of about
5000 who miracuousy had escaped being killed,
and the American capitalist press calls this
the most notable humanitarian act of the con-
flict"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-22
BY LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.

THE Kentucky Tennessee miners strike
brings out sharply the gIaring contrast be-
tween the conditions of American miners and
those of the Soviet Union.-Ed Motel
Evening star., 1932-09-04

wear handkerchiefs tied around the
wrist. Millions of handkerchiefs are
sold especially for this decorative pur-
pose. All the women, from the hard
dancing 50-year-olds to debs and mill
girls, sport colored handkerchiefS,
either tied around the wrists or tucked
into barbaric bangles. And they have
no idea what it is all about.
A fashion of the moment was
launched by a platinum blonde who
came across to Monte Carlo beach in the
speed boat of Greek gambler. When
she got back to her cubicle after SWIM
ming she found some one had snitched
her pajama top. So she put on her
trousers and gave herself corsage after
the manner of the Mediterranean coast
fisherwoman who bore her She folded
her bandana into triangle, spread it
across her front, tied the top points
around her pearl necklace, and the ends
around her waist at the back; and thus
emerged for lunch. Dozens of ultra
smarts saw the eyes of their escorts
wandering in her direction. They gazed
intently seeking the secret of the latest
Summer beach fashion, and saw how it
was done. Simple, chic and naughty.
Next day several women appeared in
pajama legs with nothing above but a
neatly secured handkerchief Before
the month was out the costume was
almost de rigueur from Antilles to Beau
vallon.
The news sped to Paris, and there, by
one of those miracles of alchemy which
they know so well how to perform in
the fashion laboratory, the new hand
kerchief idea was applied to elaborate
Evening star., 1932-09-04

at LIE Touquet. She skips down to the
sea in a peignoir gorgeous as a pea
cocks tail, and under it vivid silken
bathing suit. She bobs up at the hotel
dance at San Sebastian, where the
maitre in person hands out colored bal
looms with an air as if he were saying:
"Caramba! Are we not making
whoopee?" always so smart" people
say where does she get her clothes?
At Y's? 7 must try them
THERE is Shanghai Lily. In pure
white satin gown of new cut, and
green sandals with gaga heels of type
never seen before, she makes all the
other women in the Casino at Deau-
vile merge into background for her
beauty and chic. Wherever you find
assembled Argentine wheat kings,
Egyptian cotton princes, Chilean nitrate
barons, American bulls, Greek bears,
French exchange gamblers, polished
blackmailerS of indeterminate nation
ality, and ruddled millionairesSeS with a
gigolo in tow and a husband in the
cemetery-there you will find Shanghai
Lily, with her Sated eyes and her clothes
which compel attention and are always
just so much (but no more) ahead of
the prevailing fashion that the rich
women feel their inferiority complex
coming on again, and set to work to find
out where that woman gets her things"
Shanghai Lily pays for her clothes about
as frequently as a professional golfer
pays for ball or a club. Most of the
time she is dressed free, for the adver-
tisement, like the pretty and broke
countess. like the tennis player.
Evening star., 1932-09-04

that 1t must be the real thing. True,
he had died in an asylum for the in
sane, but time had come when every
distinguished person had a degree of
sympathy for one in that trouble.
William II, with an empire more pow
erful than any the world had seen, in
dorsed the idea and the Church of Ger
many seemed to fall in line behind him.
Many of our college professors gave
their approval to this new idea. No
great voices of authority were raised
against it. We began to see that our
old notions of right and wrong were
doomed; that those of Gladstone,
Tennyson, Lincoln and others had been
booked for the junk pile.
Now there was the Christian Church.
It apparently had forgotten that it was
a fighting machine and that all life was
a perpetual war against evil. Could it
be now in doubt as to the identity OF
evil? Anyhow, it made no effective re-
sistance to the new philosophy. 1t
apparently had settled down to a COM
Portable, easy-going life, with no great
captain to lead it into battle, no world
constitution upon which it could saddle
the responsibility.
Still, we thought that the church was
noble institution allied to great veri-
ties. But new prophet had arisen. His
name was George Bernard Shaw. He
had gift of wit that caught the ear
of the smart folk. Shaw became fash
ionable diversion. He said that the
church had no ground to stand upon.
It's SanctitieS were therefore bunk. Now,
the smart set in every city has an in
Vulnerable host of followers. They are
the busy would-bes, and some of them
may be found even in humble homes.
An army of debunkers were shooting at
the old ideals Their guns were explod-
ing in books, magazines and newspapers
and on the stage. The forces of destruc-
tion were besieging the citadel of the
past. We old fellows began to learn
Evening star., 1932-09-04

evening frockS in nice time for the
Autumn fashions OF, 1881. Thus origi-
mated the mode featured this Summer
on American beaches.
The new orientation of the fashion
business has profoundly changed the
mannequin calling. In the old days the
fashion lords used to make the names
of mannequins. Lady uff-Gordon had
an ash-blonde called Dolores whom she
made the rage. Now the shrewd fashion
lord goes to work the other way around,
and harnesses well publicized personali-
ties to his business machine.
In London the other day a famous
Paris couturier left her regular man
nequins at home and hung her frocks
on a Russian princess, the younger
(debutante) daughter of the late Earl
of Birkenhead, and one of the best
known members of the young married
smart set.
But most of the fashion lords prefer
to vary their mannequin types and pay
in kind instead of cash. There is the
Countess of Y, so young, lovely and so
broke She is one of the best dressed
women who catch the cameraman'S eye
at smart race meetings. She puts on
dazzling evening gown and is photo
graphed for the illustrated weeklieS. She
graciously consents to lead the manne-
quin parade at the charity ball. Women
ask: who dresses her?" Never any
secret about that. "It is of London,
Paris and New York, you know"
Thanks. I must drop in"
There is Miss A, the pretty young
tennis champion, SO dashing and so
much in the cameras eye You see her
Evening star., 1932-09-04

70 little Basque fishing village to rest.
The Argentine millionaires son paid her
a surprise visit. He accused her of being
friendly with a local fisherman. She
denied it. The man spotted rough
beret on her dressing table. He struck
her. She screamed and out jumped the
fisherman and attacked the Argentine
with a knife. But the latter was agile
and athletic The fisherman got knock
ed backward and fractured his skull on
a stone fireplace and expired. There
was scandal, which the cocotte thor
oughly enjoyed.
Back in Paris, she fiaunted her esca-
pade She wore the new, celebrated
beret 1t was perceived to be unexpect-
edly becoming; at once jaunty, alluring
and smart, with sadistic hint at the
exhibition of a male scalp. Abruptly
all the women from Hollywood to Ber-
lin and from Scarborough to Sidney,
Australia were wearing berets.
In a fashionable Paris restaurant, a
courtesan is bitten in the wrist by an
infuriated dancer whose Grand Duke
she has purloined. The assailant is
thrown out. The triumphant rival ties
a gay handkerchief over the wound and
goes on dancing. A fashion leader of
the high world has witnessed the Incl
dent. She also has stolen a man, hus-
band of one of her enemies night
or two later she appears at a smart
reception with a colored mouchoir tied
around her left wrist I'm case I get
bitten" she laughs to her friends, and
tells them the story
Immediately it becomes the rage to
Evening star., 1932-09-04

something. We were all wrong, and few
people had any use for us.
We clung to the idea that chivalry
was fine thing in men, and modesty
and virtue and loyalty were the quail
ties that gave womanhood a command
ing charm for which any one of us
would have fought and bled and died if
necessary.
THEN came the swarm of vivid pornog
raphers laughing at shame and
exalting lewdness and brutal passion.
These were great facts in life. Why
should they be concealed? The under
world of the human intellect began to
assert itself. Filth was necessary to the
production of roses. Therefore, let us
erect mountains of it and survey them.
Our dislike of that kind of thing was
only due to foolish, puritanical habits of
thought. Talk and action which would
have banished any guest from our
houses were common in printed books
and plays elaborately staged.
Again we were wrong. Still we had
the faith of our fathers in our Republic
and its ConStitution-"theg greatest single
product of the human mind" as Mr..
Gladstone had said. With the rules of
navigation in that noble instrument the
ship of state had ridden dangerous seas
and proSpered.
Suddenly the church conceived the
idea of unloading upon the Government
the responsibility for drunkenness and
the lawlessneSS and the poverty which
it created. Here was the Constitution.
Every one respected it. If the RESPONSE
bility could be put upon that the prob
lem would be solved. There were many
of us who shared the hope. We could
not then see that greater peril than
any that threatened us lay in popular
disrespect for the Constitution; that per-
sonal misbehavior was no proper con-
Germ of that greatest product of the
human mind; that innumerable enc
tgua
Evening star., 1932-09-04

mics of the Constitution would be Gre
ated by innumerable acts of enforce
ment.
Why should the Constitution be Gre
ating enemies for itself? The Constitu-
ton had always been and should ever
be above the rancor of party strife.
Liberal and Conservative, Catholic and
Protestant, Republican and Democrat
must have a common respect for the
Constitution or we are lost. Is not that
the soul of our country? Yet we are
faced by the undoubted truth that more
than half our people are in effect enc
mics of the Constitution-an intolerable
situation full of the greatest peril.
Now many tell us that democracy is
failure. We old fellows think that we
see in all this clamor a great truth. All
governments are threatened with fall
ure. The tottering in Europe far ex-
ceedS our own. This is the truth The
new faiths of humanity have failed. It
has surrendered its ideals for mess Of
rotting rubbish. Has it not been miSled
by its greed for gain and power and
pleasure? Do not the tragic fate of Ivar
Kreuger and the lonely and despised
figure of William Hohenzollern sound
the call to halt and face about and find
the old path? These two are the only
acknowledged Supermen of my time.
Where are they now? Supergreed has
unhorSed them. At last the debunkers
have been debunked
In spite of our missteps, the healthiest
government in the world is our own.
Some of our great cities are bankrupt
in finance, with a failing machinery of
law and justice. Their people are appar-
emily Indifferent and helpless. They
have neglected the first duty of citizen
Ship-that of seeing IT, at they were well
governed by honest and thrifty men.
Many do not suffer their children to in
terfere with their pleasure. The city
folk have failed, and largely because OF
the corrupting power of bootleg wealth,
ever busy in public affairs while they
were idle. With corrupted tools of JUS
tice, how are we to deal with crime?
| WAS born in a countryside where boys
and girls were trained to love honor
and virtue and learning and to practice
thrift. No man neglected the duties
of citizenship. They kept the town in
good hands. They considered first the
character next the ability and next the
political color of their candidates. Main
ly the people of that countryside were
sound, human material.
I am told that there are now II
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