Montana labor news., 1933-11-09
Youth Peace Farley
Meets Despite YMCA


C~HICAGO-(FP)-The preliminary
youth conference against war, with
1876 delegates from 3S local organiza-
tons, held a successful meeting de-
spite attempts by the YMCA to wreck
it at the last moment. The Y had
accepted a deposit for its meeting hall
but cancelled the contract at the 18th
hour on the pretext that it had not
rented its hall for a public meeting.
The peace committee pointed out that
the meeting was to be a delegate af-
fair, and therefore not public, but the
Y remained obstinate. The Victor
Lawson branch of the YMCA has been
boosting a militarist exhibit in its
building, giving it special prominence
during the recent American Legion
convention.
Henri Barbusse, French author, sent
the conference a message saying that
the "young people who are the chosen
prey of war and fascism should work
ardently from now on in their strug-
gle against war and fascism under
the principle of the united front"
The main Chicago conference against
war will be held Dec. II.
against the cold. Don't forget 20
stow away a couple of boxes of food
and a few cooking utensils, plates and
cutlery to be used along the way"
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The conference program is interest
ing to industrial workers and trade
unions because it stresses the solidar-
ity between all workers, farm and
city alike. 1t demands higher prices
for what the farmer produces and
lower prices for what he must buy,
but it demands that the middler.an
and the corporations be soaked and
not the city workers. 1t believes in
high wages and low profits to insure
prosperity for both farm and city
workers.
The conference also plans to pre-
pare effective stoppage of evictions
and foreclosures and this program
may become useful to city workers
facing similar evils. Scaling down or
cancellation of debts is another live
issue and so are lower rents for farm
tenants and cash relief given outright
and not on a loan or mortgage basis.
Mass action and active picketing are
indicated as paths to success. Head
quarters of the committee in Chicago
are at 2457 w. Chicago Ave.
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The most reactionary farm organ
ization in the United States has also
been shown to be probably the most
crooked, a. witnessed by the forced
resignation of Executive Secy. M. S.
Winder of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, with headquarters at So
E. Washington St., Chicago. Winder
and H. R. Kibler, the farm bureaus
director of information, were fired
when a senate investigation in Wash
ington revealed that the federation's
lobby in Washington was for sale to
the highest bidders and that substan-
tial donations or perhaps fees had
been paid in by the power trust and
other corrupters of public officials,
educators and editors. In three de-
preston years the power trusts own
brand of farm relief" had brought
$4,000 into the farm bureau fedora
ton treasury.
The power trust operated through
the Natl. Electric Light Assn, the
Sam insult corruption set-up, now
known as the Edison Electric Insti-
tute-a change, as Sen. Norris has
said, "from one dirty shirt to an
other" 1t wasn't the power trust
and other payments that caused Sec'y.
Winder to be fired, however, SC mrch
as the discovery by his superiors that
he had ~pocketed some fees on the side
n their knoWlpdpp