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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
NJ HOLIDAY
ASSOC. FORMED
Talbot, of Farmers Union
Attempts to Prevent
Militant Picketing

A Cass county North Dakota
unit of the Farmers Holiday AS
ISOLATION was formed at meet
ing held at Casselton, on Sunday,
Sept. 10. Four hundred farmers
from 80 townships were present at
the meeting which was addressed
by the Farmers Union officials,
including C. C. Talbot, president
of the N. D. Farmers Union.
Talbot is organizing the farm
ers to PREVENT MILITANT AC-
TION.
''Take about 10 dozen cases of
eggs to town, sell them, buy
some fishing tackle and go over
to the 10000 lakes in Minnesota
and fish," was the advice of
Talbot to the assemblage in the
CasseltOn high school auditorium.
He talked of the low prices they
get, of the threat of eviction, o.
the burdens they bear, IN ORDEF
TO WIN THEIR CONFIDENCE
so THAT HE COULD PREVENT
THEM FROM PICKETING.
AGAINST VIOLENCE"
'SWe don't want any violence
in North Dal1Oat. We don't want
any picketing here, and it won't
be necessary, because we'll get
organized by townships on a
hundred per cent basis and there
won't be anything TO picket.
We don't want any revolution,
either. If we had a revolution,
who would set up a new govern
. ment? We haven't got brains
enough to run the one we have"
This is simply STRIKEBREAK
ING. 1t is an attempt to with
hold from the farmers their mos
effective weapon, to prevent ther
from militant picketing.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
BETRAYS THE FARMERS

In making a special bid for the
farmers votes, Roosevelt CLAIMS 70
be a farmer" himself, because nc
owns a thousand acres OF lanu
and plants trees. He boasts u,' -
reducing the farmers taxes: luz
rich owners, of course, welcome
such reduction in taxes and nan
Roosevelt as Savior" but worn
inc farmers and farm laborerS'
shaving 10 hours a day for oOr.
liar. know that Roosevelt is ~
friend of the agricultural workers
and poor farmers. The lncreasnss
number of tenant farmers, crushed
out of the farms they formerly
owned, and forced to give up y
cause of mortgages fOreelOseu'
know that Roosevelt is no lIien y
Of the working farmers. He Is :.
all times himself the rich ianu
owner. the country gentleman =.
candidate of capitalists, class CO. "
scious as a capitalist, always "
posed to the class-cOnsclOus '''
action Of the working class
! Roosevelt's hackers VINO %.
counted upon to make large I'm n.
tributions toward his election =,
clude such outstanding OsllA'
; and industrialists as Melvin Ne t.
Traylor, president of the FRS. ~ y,
tional bank of Chicago, one o. ~. =
Morgan banks; John J. E .sors
vice president of the E. !. durvS S.
} de Nemours & Co., munitions me- .r
} ers; and Owen D. Young pow pow
magnate, who heads the Gene =
{ Electric Co.. and is a direc'D- .,ss.
: other Morgar-controlled compai. ~.
Roosevelt and the Democrauc = 4
{ ty have the financial backing
big capital.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
Roosevelt and Labor

President William Green and
other high salaried officials of the
A. F. of L. want Franklin Roose-
Welt to be elected president of the
United States. Green has endorsed
the Democratic candidate in the
following statement: Labor has
very seldom secured the enactment
of so many measures which so fa-
vorably effect their economic, So
cial and industrial welfare during
single session of a legislative
body a most rare accomplish
ment," brought about by RoOse
velt's personal leadership and in
spiration."
The facts are that practically
every bill looking toward the pro-
lection of workers in New York
state has been defeated during the
Roosevelt administration. No less
than six bills looking toward I'M
employment relief and social in
surance were defeated during the
recent session of the legislature.
The boosted "48 hour week" law
for women workers, already in eff
feet when Roosevelt came into Of
: flee, was supposedly improved to
make it "more enforceable" but
: the amount of overtime still al
lowed, 25 hours a year, forces the
women to work legally 49A or 81
hours a week. No law whatever
limits the hours of work for the
women in hotels, in domestic ser
J vice or in agriculture. Even sucl
laws as stand on the books ar
not enforced, and tremendous IN
crease of illegal overtime work il
New York state is admitted b,
Frances Perkins, state industria
commissioner. State factory in
spectors freely take brides fror
employers who are freely breakin
the labor laws.
CUTS JOBLESS RELIEF
With at least 100000 joblesi
workers in his territory, and tn
! numbers still increasing. Cover
: nor Roosevelt and his Temporal
:. Emergency Relief Administrator
$ are cutting down relief in ever
|. city in the state. The Tome R
t, lief Bureau in New York City hs
IS reduced relief by SO per cent, fro
X $5.79 to 1884 a family, althoug
: it only pretends to feed 41,00
y y families, when at least 100000
Il workers in the city are jobless.
- Similar cuts in relief have take
% place in all the upstate cities.
IS Rochester, the amount for eac
y family has been cut by SO per ce-
S so that each person now gets on
n An cents for a meal. In Utic
~ the rate now is only three and on
: third cents person, meal, whe
fc 8 months ago it was 6 cnts. II
+ city of Schenectady does not fe
even half of the jobless and the
Sc families. Turnout the state, wo
o. relief is being discontinued. Pub
st works, highways, bridges, and t
is buildings on which jobless worke
III are supposedly employed, sta
unfinished.
=" This is the record of Gov. Roos
welt on unemployment relief VIII
l. capitalist newspapers carry su
A headlines as the following: "2,O
o. Starved to Death in New Yol
u City in 1881"
NJ
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ports get from all over, Magnus
Danielsen of Medicine Lake will be
elected with a big majority. We
will then be two commissioners
working for the interest of the
people that you are working
against.
Respectfully,
Carl, HANSEN
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23

In the Leningrad district new
and extensive sources of electric
energy are being opened up. The
numerous mountain rivers of the
Waldai heights are to be utilized
for the production of milliards OF
killowatts of electric current. The
largest power station is to be al
Chosjuginsk, with a capacity %
100000 Hlowatt hours.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
BREAKS STRIKES

Roosevelt in cooperation with
the rich banker. Lieutenant c.
Herbert H. Lehman, has been a..
rectly responsible for breakina ~
strikes in New York State, IT."
most recent instance of their S+,;le
breaking was the sell out Of D..
GOO needle trades workers NJ.
struck against a wage cut Of *
week, about 10 per cent in .rrI~
1892. Lehman, with Roosevelt ~.
hind him, was "arbiteir Of A..
strike, and handed the victory o,.o.
to the bosses, as a matter -
course. Officials of the Tntorn -
tional Ladies Garment Workar.
Workers Union, accepted this all
out, and forced the rank and FL
workers back into the sbors -
terms that reduce them again -
the sweat shop level. This is +So
same Herbert Lehman who Is ssiS
to have paid 100000 in 1928 -
"rehabilitate" the I. L. G. WI
but really to fight the Left Vino
needle trades workers in tb;s
union.
Roosevelt's strike-breaking req
ord in the state is in line with
his record as Assistant Secretary
of the Navy during the imperialist
World War, when he was instu-
mental in creating the War Labor
Board, especially in order to pre-
vent strikes.
PARDONS GANGSTERS
Roosevelt's anti-labor record is
seen also in his method of hastily
pardoning prisones who are gang
sters and crooks, while allowing
labor prisoners to serve long SEN
fences for the "crime" of leading
the unemployed in demonstrations
demanding relief. Thus, he left
VIM. q. Foster, Robert Minor, and
e Israel Amter, leaders in the New
York demonstration of unemployed
' workers on March 9th, 1880, to
grow i'll in Jail. Minor almost
' died, during the six long summer
: months. But he quickly pardoned
S a prisoner who during a prison
n "riot" turned against his fellow
h workers in the jail and helped the
} guards to fire upon them.
With the power of life and
death in his hands, the Governor
n hastily runs over the prisoners
n cases brought to him for his de-
l cision, decides in about three ant
It hree-fourths minutes on each one
Y according to his biOgrapher, ant
4, the mans case is then put into ont
= of two piles; one for the Heaven
e of release, the other for the "helP
lie of execution. If it is the case o.
d gangster favored by Tamman!
il Hall, the Governor quickly pardon
K him, and the Tiger will register
ic his gratitude in votes. Thus gang
le sterism flourishes in New YOr
rs state. Such a notorious murde
i'd and bootlegger as "Legs" damon
for example, could live on hand
E. some estate near Catshll, N. I
lie within so miles of the Governor
n Albany, and be sure of prOtectlO
DO from the Governors state police
k But let unemployed worker
come within so miles of Alban'
: as in the Hunger March of 1873
and the Governor orders out "a
police to crack their heads VII
clubs. One worker was serious
injured in this demonstration d
49, fore the state buildings at AlDal
- that he was not expected to Nv
= and many others were severe
Mt beaten.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-09-23
STATE ORGANIZATION
FORMED

The state organization of the
National Farmers Holiday Associa-
ton for North Dakota was COM
pleted on Monday, September IL
in Bismarck. Two hundred farm
ers from 80 counties were present
at the meeting. It is reported that
of the 80 counties represented at
the meeting "a hove county organi-
cations. Among the speakers at
the meeting was C. C. Talbot,
president of the North Dakota
Farmers Union.
The association thru its presi-
dent has however, already declared
that it is against militant
picketing. President Burdick, in g
statement to the capitalist press
on September IA said, 81 call upor
every available farmer and bust
nessman. in sympathy with the
farmers, to set up an organization
in every township so thoroughly
organized and so united that pick
citing shall be unnecessary"
This is actually a move to defea
the interests of the toiling farm
ers. The strike struggles can onl!
be effective thru militant picket
ing. The farmers of North Dako
ia as turnout the rest of the coun
try must refuse to slop the hog
while they strike. They must fol
low the militant example of tn
Iowa farmers-picket the roads S
that no produce comes thru to tn
great monopolies.
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

Gladys Hymiller Of Baden, Md,
writes that she has never seen
her first letter or picture in the
paper. Maybe Gladys picture
is one of the dozen or SO we
have in our desk without either
name or address on them. We
have one, now that we are on
the subject, that we'd like par
ticularly to identify. It is one
of an attractive little girl and
her mother standing under O
blosSoming cherry tree at the
Tidal Basin. We'd love to use
it but we don't know who it is.
There is another one. but
there are too many Of them to
mention.
Here is Gladys second letter:
81 read the column every day
and I certainly enjoy it. I think
it is a very nice club. / wonder
how many children belong. I
hope that 1 will find my letter
in the paper and also my pic
ture."
Come in
We will publish Gladys pic.
ture just as soon as she sends
us one. Or, if hers is among
these unidentified ones in our
desk, as soon as she comes in
and tells us which is hers. We
are really hoping she is the
cherry tree-mother-girl picture.
New Members
Mary Owings, 1903 North
Capitol St.:
II am 8 years old and in the
third grade. / am sorry ] did
not join sooner. That is ALL"
Herman Isis, 3110 Park Pl.
N. W.:
"I am 8 years old and an old
member of the club. My little
brother would like to join, too.
He is Z years old. We both go
to the Park View School. I am
in the fourth grade and he is
in the second"
Charles Pullman, 604 Twenty
first st. N. W.:
"May join your club? 1
would like to. / have some
friends who would like to join
also. So long. I'll be seeing
yOu."
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

Luck. BIon- GENEVIEvE GIBBS
die, Mickey Mouse and POpeye."
Two of our Adventure Club
members, Merriam and Sylvia
Sander, At K st. N. W., cele-
brated their birthday annlver-
sary on Christmas Day.
The sister (they are twins)
were 10 years old.
We are a. bit late with our
congratulations but we didn't
receive their letter until yester-
day. And anyway we didn't
publish a paper Christmas Day.
We hope they had a grand
birthday. And how could they
help it, the day being BOTH
Christmas and their tenth an
niversary.
AS a Christmas birthday pres
ent to the club the twins sent
us two new members. One, their
own little brother, Adolph Ma
than Sander, is 312 years old
and the other, Lena Band, $50
Navy Pl. S. E., is their cousin.
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

JEAN DAVIS ola ohou& ,.on
in the column except you said
my brother was interested in the
column when it should have
been my mother. / have no
brothers or sisters. This is all
can think Of for his time"
Genevive Gibbs, Seat Pleas
ant, Md:
"The big black thing was q
bat"
II think the Adventure Club
is grand. I am ever so glad to
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

De a member.
I am in the
fourth grade
at the Dis
trict Lin e
School. Miss
Dudley is my
teacher and I
like her very
much. / am
8 years old
a n d nearly
10. My ia
VOrite funnieS
are Little
Annie Rooney,
Tim Tyler'S
The Washington times., 1932-12-30

have been so
busy. I will
try to write
more often"
EliZ abeth
D a Wis, Seat
Pl e a S a n t
Md:
81 am sorry
I didn't write
sooner but I
forgot about
it. I was IL
years old on
naOQnah0R q
/ was pleased
with the arti-
The Washington times., 1932-12-30
CONGRATULATIONS

Charles BrOtman, 1918
Fourth st. N. E., q new
member Of our famous Ad-
venture Club, is five years
old today.
The Adventure Club wishes
him Many Happy Returns.
The Washington times., 1932-12-30
Hunts Rabbits

Jean Davis, 3012 Massachusetts,
Ave. N. W.:
"y am very sorry I have not
The Omaha guide., 1932-11-05
q "REMINISCENCES

ed child. The walls offered space
for the gross offers I had grown
familiar with years before. But in
stead, on one of these walls. in a
neat handwriting, 1 read: unless
above himself he can erect himself,
how poor a thing is man." And be-
low: mo conflict is so severe as his
who labors to Subdue himself. But
in this we must continually be en-
gagged if we would strengthen the
inner man."
I would not imply that it was
usual to find Shakespeare and
Thomas a Kempis written upon the
walls. I never saw them again. But
the Imagination and religious fer
|vor that they expressed were ia
miliar to these sordid city blocks.
Negro children, when taught good
manners, enjoyed practicing them.
Some of the children on my street
were a delight to entertain. 1 loved
to have them come to my fiat, their
hair standing out in two little
braids, their eyes bright, their hands
slender and pretty. If one handed
me a flower it was done with grace.
I remember walking down my
block with an old Greenpoint friend
and seeing a boy of eight III up to
his mother, kiss her, and then take
a parcel from her arms. That's not
unusual" l said to my friend. Quick
as a flash, her Irish wit responded:
Then you needn't be explaining
to me the reason for the high death
rate among children"
The darkest part of life on the
Hill was the realization that so
little was ahead for these same
children. Poverty was their lot. 1
remember Annabel Tho came running
to me mi evening to say that her
mother would the next day be turn
ed out into the street. She had sup
ported the family by laundry work
until sickness came and now the
threatened dispossession. I went to.
her apartment.
1T is the end" she said, offering
the n chair left. That morn
ing she had sold the furniture and.
on the way home lost the money.
ut is the end" Organized charity
came the next day and paid the
rent, but there followed a long
period of want and suffering. Anna
bel told me one day what she ex-
pected to do when she grew up. Il
shall dance" she declared. Dancers
make money. 1 shall not work the
way my mother does. She works
and works and never has anything. :"
At the end of eight months L saw
that my settlement dream would
never be realized. Mr.. Phipps was
interested in housing, but his inter-
est stopped there. In the one inter
The Omaha guide., 1932-11-05

Cnere petty larceny aDOuLutu. Anu
where, as on San Juan Hill, moth
ers had to go out to work, arrests
were numerous for improper guard
ianship. Our researches exploded
the loose accusation that Negroes
are born with a propensity to steal
The colored child stole no more and
no less than the average white
child.
My best friend on San Juan Hill
was the Rev. George SimmS of the
Union Baptist Church. Since San
Juan Hill has become a W-5t In
dian neighborhood, his church has
moved to Harlem, but when I knew
it, it was frequented chiefly by
newly-arrived SouthernerS. They
went to the Union Baptist Church
and found themselves at home, got
happy" and were not frowned up
on, though they never got beyond
their ministers control.
His sermons were madly pictur-
esque and yet full of common sense.
He could preach as vivid a sermon
as any in Goods Trombones" His
picture Of Jesus in his blue smock
leaving his carpenters bench to be
baptized by John the Baptist be-
longs in "The Green Pastures"
He ~co-operated with all of us on
the Hill, the kindergartners, the
day nursery workers, the superin-
tendent of the Tuskegee. The suf-
fragists came to his church, and
he made the best speech of any. He
had a rival in one of his deacons,
known as Brother Baptist.
Once, when an anti-suffragist
complained that if women were
given the vote, the women who
walked the streets would be en-
franchised. Brother Baptist said in
answer: Eyes, we knows dey's wo-
men waikiki de streets. Dey's walk
in de streets right now. But who's
walking wild emf"
Eight months was not a long time
to study a neighborhood, and I had
my book to write as well as COM
mittees to attend, but T managed to
see a good deal. With a tenement
house inspector, fer ten days I
climbed thousands of stairs. The
white homes We looked into, homes
bordering on the Negro neighbor-
hood, were more dirty than the
colored. They seemed to contain a
great many NANCY dogs. But the
Negro, however poor, did not sur
render the attempt to make her
home attractive. A white spread or
a calico quilt would be on the bed,
the china on the shelf would be gay
and neatly arranged, the room usu-
ally fairly clean. The standard may
have come from intimate acquaint-
ance with the homes of well-to-do
mistreSSeS, but it was there. The
streets, too, though they knew
fighting and heard outlaws of
laughter and screams of terror,
preserved a certain decency. 1 can
Illustrate this in no better way
than by the fact that I never saw
the obscene writing that had been
common in Greenpoint.
I thought of this one day when I
was poking about in an inner court
to find the home of an impoveriSh-
The Omaha guide., 1932-11-05

view 7 had with him, I could not
convince him of the value of all that
I hoped to do. The City and Suburb
an Homes Company also took no
interest in supporting my plans.
I suspect they thought a settle
ment in a model tenement would be
a nuisance. I saw my savings rap
idly disappearing and no chance
of a salary. So when the summer
was over, very reluctantly / gave up
my apartment and for a second
time left busy. warm-hearted work
ing-class neighbors for middle class
responsibility. 1T would have been
harder to do this, had / not been
greatly needed at home.
In all the months that I lived, a
white oma alone in a block with
five thousand Negroes, I had
a disagreeab1e experience. I was
never accosted rudely. The race
riots of which 1 had heard had
ceased to occur. Some of my
friends thought I was running a
risk. One called me up after dining
with me, and in forceful language in
which the word "Nigger" was pres
ent. told me I should leave. 1 told
him I was as safe there as any
where. Danger is never absent, but
1 did not taste it.
The colored people, more than
the whites in Greenpoint, took me
for exactly what 1 was. Had they
been better educated, more Sophisti-
Gated, they might have been sus-
picious of my sincerity. But L was
among big-hearted, friendly, hard
working human beings. r h e y
thought me a teacher and put me
down at that.
1t spoke well for the work that
had gone before mine, public school,
mission, kindergarten, health de-
partment, charity organization So
ciety-that I was understood. They
saw that I wanted to help. They
believed that 1 respected them in
their terrific struggle to make life
easier for their children.
1t was many months before I
mastered my disappointment, and
Saacs before I ceased to think of
that street and my home OIL it. I
had met the Negro race and felt
its charm, that charm that New
York has not yet wholly destroyed.
In the evening at my open win
dow on the crowded street I hear
the children calling to one another
in their play. They have a street
song, Sound dem weddin' bells"
that I have not heard before
An evangelist moves past me say
ing, Salvation is SO convenient.
don't forget that. Friends, it's con-
venient. It's for this world"
An old woman, in a high, shaking
voice sings, Give me Jesus, give me
Jesus. You may have all this world
but give me Jesus" 1t is after
noon. A knock comes at my door.
| open it, and three little girls, in
freshly laundered white dresses,
slip shyly in. The oldest, she has
The Omaha guide., 1932-11-05

husband and older children sup
ported the household, but usually,
the mother had to help support the
family. She did this by taking in
laundry, or sne went out to service.
As a domestic, she would be away
for twelve or fourteen hours. If
she went out to clean, she put in
eight hours of work. When she got
home she must at once attend to
her husband and children. Her
babies were boarded with some old
and inefficient woman unless she
was lucky enough to get them in
the Nursery. When they grew
older, they lived in the street. That
was safer than leaving them locked
in at home.
The men ere unskilled laborerS,
some longshoremen, a decently paid
group, some porters in factory or
store. Some were general utility
men in boarding-houses, with hours
as long as the women's. Many a
employs such a
man who works early and late
about the place, receiving a scant
wage. Men worked at night as
watchmen, and must sleep through
the days noise. And lastly, far
more than at Greenpoint, men did
not work at all, either because they
could not get jobs, or because the
jobs they might secure were hate
full, and they could find some wo-
man-wife, mother, or sweetheart
to support them. These men loung-
ed on street corners during the day,
or played pool in one of the many
pool rooms.
The absence of the mother from
the home led to juvenile delin-
quency. More than white children,
colored boys and girls came before
the juvenile court for improper
guardianship. That was the only
|offense where the Negro percentage
was higher than the white. 1 know,
for I spent many late afternoons
going owe the juvenile court records
in the stuffy court house. Ruth
Draper, then a young girl, a men,
Der of the Junior League and work
ing at Greenwich House, used to
help me. I wish she might have
seen the cases instead of the records
only. We went patiently over the
pages and learned that environ
ment was the determining factor in
juvenile arrests. Where, as in a
Jewish neighborhood, the push-cart
stood temptingly by the side walk,
The Omaha guide., 1932-11-05
By MARY WHITE OVINGTON
FIVE
Living on San Juan Hill
A Lone White Woman Living in a City Block
with 1000 CoIored Folk.

Not living on San Juan Hill in Cuba up which the
the colored soldiers charged, but on San Juan Hill In New
York, a poor neighborhood running from West Goth
Street, to West 64th Street, between 10th and 18th Ave
nues. Whites dwelt on the avenues, colored, on the streets,
and fights between the two gave the hill its name. "A
rough neighborhood, but, at least among the Negroes, a
place where all classes lived.
There were people who itched for a fight, and people
who hated roughness. Lewd women leaned out of win
dows, and neat, Woodworking mothers early each morn