Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-10-05
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ident of the American Federation
of Labor at Its fifty-third annua
convention was full of inspiration
for any citizen who has any inten
ton of being a hundred percent
American. Muck of his talk was de
voted to discussion of the Nationa
Recovery Act, what II had alread,
accomplished for the workers o.
the nation and its possibilities fol
the future. Out of that inspiring ad
dress came one certain conclusion:
that child labor Is gone from OIL
country forever. With all the loose
talk about whether NRA will sue
coed or fail, or the argument over
what it is accomplishing for the I'M
employed, one opinion stands out
| forcibly In our minds-that II the
Recovery program attains no other
one thing than to abolish sweat
shop labor by children, it has been
worth all the efforts of those who
conceived and administered it.
| believe it was Ramsay Mac
Donald, that great champion of La
Dor in England, who, after the Re
covery Act was passed, said, Am
erica has done with n single
stroke what it has taken England
eighty years to accomplish Mr..
Green struck the keynote to the
success Of MIRA when he said to
make the act successful, I'VE must
first have faith in our nation and
its people; we must have faith In
the principles of the N. r. A., faith
In those who are doing their best
in Its administration; and above all,
faith in our great leader, the pres
ident of the United States!'
Now that North Dakota has voted
to make the sale OF beer legal. 1t
will be interesting after the new
measure becomes effective to watch
its development compared with the
Montana regulatory act, especially
as a source of In Montana
the distribution is directed through
a state board, who grants licenses
to those who can qualify. North
Dakota will have one state beer
commissioner to regulate distribu- |
ton outside OF incorporated cities,
but each city will set up its own
regulations as to licenses. A city
may establish a license fee of $500
or 1t may make 1t $50. One would
apparently have the effect of les
SEEMING the number of retailers,
while the lower fee would perhaps |
in an equal amount OF Teven-
through a larger number OF dis !
The state tax in North Da-
kota will be much higher than In
Montana. For every barrel that
in, $1.24 will pour into the
state Golfers, while Montana only
asks SO cents. incidentally, what
the people really voted for In the
special election over there, was
state revenue and not beer. They
already had the beer, actually lie
ensed by the Federal government,
but the only public venue derived
It's sale was that which went
into Washington for the Federal
license and tax from the brewers
If the demonstration" staged
PlentyWood Tuesday represented
LII, or even the major portion, OF
he Impoverished farmers and
workers" in the county, as we be-
ieve Ii was intended and prophe-
lied 1t would, then we are not near
y so bad off In the county as some
would have us think. Something
Ike a hundred people responded to
he "call" sent out to every farm
r and worker" They marched on
he county commissioners, made
heir demands through their chief
,pokesman, Chris HeibeTg, a pro-
Iounced radical, Of the Quitmeyer
ommunity: then attempted to Sc
ure a hearing en- masse at the
Meeting of the Emergency Relief
In the evening. only to
e told that the board would re-
GIVE a small committee, but would
lot attempt to talk with the entire
ody OF agitators.
The actual result of the demon
Simply this: the county
commissioners agreed to ask the
tate emergency board Ii more
unds could not be secured for the
ounty (Which had already been
one by the local Emergency Relief
.mmittee several times), also, the
commissioners said they would
1ake an effort to investigate the
ctual conditions in different parts
I the county.
This should be done, and done
romptly. 1T there Is loose talk
bout starving men. women and
hildren" In Sheridan county, the
tate Emergency Relief should
now 1t. If there are people who
ave been beneficiaries of emer-
ency relief and not entitled to 1t,
ais should be established as a fact
nd not as mere gossip. And above
II, Ii there are cases In our county
I deserving people who are In want
nd have not been properly provid-
d for, the fact should be known !
they are forced to face the =
ardships OF another winter.
The Herald has always contend :
i that no one In Sheridan county !,