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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07
Negroes Are Again Winners.

The fast baseball team of colored
workers from the Pipe creek camp took
the Libby team to another trimming
last Sunday, the score this time being
IA to 8. The colored boys scored in al
but two innings, while the locals were
BANKED in five frames.
Roberts, Patt, Burpee and Allen were
batteries for the Libbyites, while the
colored bunch opened with Graves and
Miller and later switched to Peorsall
and Brown. Dedic and Kammeyer,
umpires-
A short story of the game is told in
the following score by innings:
Colored Giants 4 / 5 o. l O x-14
Libby s................ 2 O. 2 o 0 O.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07

Increases III
High School
Facilities Taxed to Take
Care of Growing
Number.
GRADES HAVE 3l2;
GRAND TOTAL 639|

The Libby school opened Tuesday for
a full days work. Each principal and
teacher had arranged schedule which
enabled them to give out texts, -
sign lessons and outline their COURSE
during the class period. Except fsr an
occasional conflict among Irregular stu
dents, the different departments are
running as smoothly as they do in the
middle OF the year. There has b4en
quite a uniform enrolment in tfse
grades for q number of years, but he
high school continues to grow and il
now taxing space and equipment
The reduction In the high school fac-
ulty and elimination Of manual training
and home economics have made It ne
cessary to shift the emphasis to other
subjects, with the result d 4 number Of
large classes. All courses In commerce
and those leading to college entrance
requirements have been retained % The
students will be accommodated in all
the fundamental and essential courses
The vocational courses have been vary
popular and it IS hoped that they may
be reinstated when normal conditions
return.
IT was necessary to place number of
new desks in the high school assembly
TO seat the increased enrolment A
large number of high school pupils
from other districts have enrolled this
fall, while practically none OF last
years classes have been lost. The be-
ginners' section is back to normal. reg
istering 81 first graders The enrolment
Tuesday evening stood.
High School-Frosh, 40. sophs, As;
juniors. 43;, seniors, 38; Gss,
total, 179.
Junior High, 148.
Centrai-Mr, DeSonia. ct. Miss Stew
ems, 26; Miss Liebe, 80; Miss Thorson,
Is, Miss Staudacher, 81; Miss Hostel
ter, n: Miss McGrade. 28;;-Miss Mad
den, rs; Miss Cartwright, rs; Miss
Arnold. al Mias Sha.a 2a-tntal, a12
Grand total, all departments, 639
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07
Was II Earthquake or Meteor Shock?
THREE GO OFF HIGH GRADE
IN CAR; ALL ESCAPE INJURY

Driving from Troy to Libby Saturday
night, Bill Nelson, Vernon Friend and
Morris Benson, in Benson's Chevrolet
coach, with Nelson at the wheel, went
off the high grade on the Libby Troy
road just east of Mahoney Springs.
The car rolled over several times and
was demolished, but the three men es-
capped with only few scratches.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07
LIBBY'S FIRST GOLF
TOURNAMENT THIS MONTH

Glen Frisbie, proprietor of the Koote-
mai Golf Course, is advertising golf
tournament among the local people to
be held on the 10th and 18th of this
month. This is something new IN local
sportdom as it is the first one ever
held at this place.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07
McGinDis Meadows District Hears
Rumble Followed by
Distinct Shaking.

McGINNIS MEADOWS, Sept s.
Last Wednesday this community re-
ceived some kind of shaking up 1t is
not known here just what it was, but it
must either have been an earthquake
shock or meteor. There was a rum
bling noise, which was heard before
the shock was felt which some think
might have been caused by meteor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07

The Misses Antonio and Elizabeth
Grandiean and Mrs. A. c. Herbst LEFT
yesterday for Fortine where they viii
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. II. P Weyde-
meyer, also visiting with friends II
Eureka before they return. They were
accompanied by Mrs, o, &c. Gompf,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07
CAMP FIRE PERMITS
NO LONGER NEEDED

That camp fire permits will be no
longer needed was announced this
morning by J. X. Dwinelle, assistant
forest Supervisor. However, smoking in
the woods is still prohibited, he stated,
and a shovel. axe and pail must still
est. Burning permits are required up
be carried in all cars entering the for
to the end of this month.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07

N is for National. which includes us
all,
r. for Recovery, complete this TALL,
A. stands for act, an emergency law,
Johnson says take II, or sock on the
jaw. Ray Brock.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07

Mr.. and Mrs. d. O. Mount and daugh-
ter arrived home Saturday from visit
of several weeks at the old home In
Peoria, Ill.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-07

H. A. Joughin was business visitor
to Spokane the first of the week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

this united front of all the toilers. I
wants it for the sake of the join
fight.
During the past few weeks it
has repeatedly appealed to the So
cialist Party, the Free and Chris
tan trade unions to join in calling
upon the working class to oppose
Fascism and the employers.
TN this hour Of the greatest
peril the Communist Party again
calls upon the workers organized
in the Socialist Party, the Free and
Christian trade unions, at once to
join us in beginning the fight
against Fascism in town and coun-
try, in the factories and at the
unemployment exchanges.
Call joint meetings at once for
the formation of fighting organs in
every factory, at every unemploy-
ment exchange, in all residential
districts. Reinforce mass self
defense against Fascist terroriSml
There isn't a single day, a single
hour to be lost!
Glass comrades, Fellow workers.
Grasp the hands stretched out to
you by us Communists for COM
mon struggle! We will win this
fight, if we fight united and with
determination.
Long live the revolutionary uni
ted front OF all those who toll"
Berlin Brandenburg District Exc
cutiye of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
CHEMICAL WORKERS
REFUSE WAGE CUT

BOONTON, N. jim the Weco-
line Products, Inc, chemical plant
coils, soaps and glycerine) a 10 per
cent cut was announced recently.
The men met and decided to refuse
to accept the cut. A round robin Pc
tition was signed by the majority, in
Guiding the engine room men and
nlachinists. 1t was decided to strike
in the event Of victinization. This
was the fifth cut.
The conditions il this plant are
terrible. The men work supposedly 8
TO IL hour shifts according 10 de-
partnsnt). But two weeks ago one
man worked 50 hours straight. They
Call upon the men at all hours Of
the night to come TO work.
Last week, one unit was closed
down; one of the workers decided to
no to New York for the weekend. He
was called upon to come to work Sat
Irday at IL. He also worked Sun
day. On Monday the unit shut down
On Wednesday (Washington's birth
day. he and another of the two on
he shifts had TO start work taking
spsrt the apparatus. The third fell
low remains home while they work
from a. m. TO D. N. with time for
supper only. The pay is very low.
The place is very dirty. The slippery
floor is very dangerous. The manager
IS incompetent, and every one hates
h,rls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08

Bronx, N. Y.
Editor OF Daily Worker,
Dear Sir
Out of curiosity l looked up the
word ''proletarian" in Websters
dictionary compiled by editorial
contributors suGl as Robert Arrow
smith, Professor in Teachers Col
lege, Harry Thurston Peck, Phi. D.,
LID. and few more degrees,
Frederic Taber Cooper, also an
LIB, Phi. D. late professor in the
New York University, and to my
amazement I found the following
definition: pertaining to the COM
mon people-lOw-vulgar. Is it any
wonder that we have so little pro-
gresS in this country when our
educational system is 1orded over
by these would-be intellectuals,
who will not give the proper an
SWer to the pupils so that they will
know the true meaning of the word
proletarian: that he is a wage-la-
borer who having no means of pro-
duction Of his own, is reduced to
selling his labor power In order to
live. protest that he should be
classified as a loW--common-Vulgai
being
Here's hoping that the proletar-
ians viii OYerpoWer and wipe out
our existing order so that they will
have the gates of culture and edu-
cation open up for them and then
there will be no necessity for old
Noah Webster to give his bourgeois
definition of a proletarian.
Sincerely yours,
ID. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
SOCIALISTS REJECT COM
MUNIST OFFER OF UNITED
FRONT I


The Berlin district organization
Of the Communist Party proposed
to read the following united front
declaration at q Socialist demon
stration i'll front Of the former
imperial palace in Berlin on Fee
bruary 7th.
The Socialist leaders, Wendt.
KuenStler and Otto Wells refused to
let Comrade Erbst Torgler, chair
man of the Communist Reichstag
deputies, read the declaration to
the assembled workers, although it
was deliberately phrased so as not
to give the Socialist Party leaders
any excuse for rejecting it.
The declaration reads as follows:
Socialist class comrades! Com
rades of the Reichsbanner and the
Iron Front! The Hitler Papen-
Hugenberg government is estab-
fishing open Fascism in Germany.
The entire labor movement is to be
suppressed so that capitalism may
live. Everything is at stake for the
proletariat. We can win everything
in these days and weeks, but we
can also lose very much indeed
That is why we must Immediately
conclude the united front for the
common struggle. The freedom Of
the working class, wages and bread.
are at stake.
The Communist Party wants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08

forward to ayenge this insolent
murderouS answer Of Ford.
The leaders stepped forward and
urged an organized retreat in face
Of the murderous odds while the
wounded were picked up and taken
to the rear. The raging hatred Of
the masses was transformed into
firm determination to go back and
organize and return again, stronger
and mightier.
Under Ford's fiendish machine
gun fire the marchers displayed
their solidarity and heroism by
picking up their dead and wounded
unnindful of the dangers. In this
explosive situation it was only the
firm leadership and organized dis
Cipline that prevented u heroic but
suicidal storming of the entrenched
nlurderers.
MACHINE GUNS
CLEAR CLASS LINES
The F'ord-Murphy machine guns
on Bloody Monday not only tore
out the lives of four young working
class fighters, manning and pierre
ing the Lodies Of over forty work.
ers, The machine guns tore aside
the veil of hypocrisy from the
greedy arch exploiter and labor
hater, Henry Ford and all that he
symbolizes On that bloody after
noon the working class caught a
clear glimpse Of the murderous
character of the ruling class and
their readiness to drown in blood all
serious efforts to challenge their
blood-stsined riches and power.
The Ford Massacre revealed bSs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
HOW THE LATE LARRY FAY
BUILT LAUNDRY RACKET
Deal Put Over to Smash the Union for $1,000
Despite Terror Industrial Union Broke Up
the Racket

Swered by an open declaration, apA
plauded by the rank and file, that
the aim of the Communists is to
clear the gangsters and their tools
out of the union and to build q ranE
and file union. At the following meet
ing there was sharp criticism Of the
treachery of the racketeers in ala
lowing the Pretty laundry, whose boss
was q leader in the Association, 10
fire workers Unfortunately.
Big Sell Out
Finally, in the week Of Sept. "a
1881, rurnorS floated down the shoes
that a deal was put over with this
Association to break up the union fog
the sum of $4,000. On Thursday,
Sept. 10, workers came to the regular
meeting place, but detectives closed
the hall on the ground that the char
ter, which was in the hands of the
Association, was missing. The off,
Gals refused to hold q meeting, bus
a number of workers went to another
hall and held meeting with As
workers present.
Members Take Over
SAu Ollho 11lCCVl1lS oil OlSd1llGdLHOR
Committee Of II was elected and s2i
tS:'!cctad to start the work of re-
organization. The bosses and the
gangSterS were wild. Intimidation, the
red herring of Communism were
used, but to no avail The bosses rec
taliated by breaking the head of the
chairman of the organization COM
nlittee, Louis Schribman, worker Of
the Active Laundry, and fired him
on top of it. This worker was put
back to work after the next strike in
the Active Laundry.
Scores of workers in shops, where
only a few were fooled by the racket
GERS into joining them and where the
workers did not stick together for
protection, were fired.
All the application cards and the
books were in the hands of the boss
es. But this did not stop the Laundry
Workers Industrial League from TAXI
ing its place. In spite Of disillusion-
ment and intimidation, the struggles
carried on by the union against wage
cuts and firing brought results. The
Laundry Workers Industrial Union
became an industrial union in fact,
organizing the inside workers for the
first time in the laundry industry
Recently, the union concluded sucs
cessful strike in the Fairway laundry
where all the workers, white and Me-
gro, drivers and inside workers wenB
on strike to reinState Negro girl on
the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08

enty thousand marched in the
silent, grim, disciplined formation
behind the four hearSes, while
scores of thousands lined the side
walks for miles, and other tens of
thousands massed in the center of
the city and at the cemetery. A
moving forest Of banners and
signs, ominous red, gave the slo-
gans, demands and the purpose Of
this mighty silent procession.
This vast, determined and bitter
body of marchers was more than a
funeral; it was a threat and
promise. 1t was a heeting glimpse
Of the not far-distant future.
EIGHT miles away the River
IL Rouge plant, hard by the
Woodmere cemetery, was an armed
fortress. Hidden in the skyscrap-
ers, the agents OF Ford watched
this living answer TO their machine
guns and their terror.
Next day the tone Of the press
had changed, murder charges we're
dropped, warrants cancelled, or
perhaps delayed, and the police
were recalled from the workers
headquarters. Their courage and
power did not measure up to their
plans in the face Of this menacing
silent voice of the masses.
York, Russell, DeBlaSio and Leny
were lowered to a brotherly grave
in the Woodmere cemetery direct
ly overlooking the Ford River
Rouge plant. Six months later,
the powerful Ford company and
the city authorities prevented the
fifth victim of the Ford massacre,
Williams, a Negro worker, from
being buried side by side with his
comrades in the brotherly grave.
The power Of the Ford millions
prevented the Detroit workers from
erect lg monument of stone and
bronze over the grave of the mar
tyrs. That bare, unmarked grave
in the Woodmere cemetery is in
itself an eloquent symbol of Ford's
ruthless greed and fear. It is also
challenge and threat that shall
be fulfilled. Ford's refusal to per-
nit the erection Of the monument
at Woodmere is neither final nor
lasting. The masses that smashed
his terror program will yet smash
this decision and in the not distant
future smash his power.
ANSWER TO MASSACRE
TAKES SHAPE
At that memorable protest DEM
onstration in Arena Gardens the
workers, with appraised, clenched
fists, pledged a solemn vow to
avenge their dead by forging a
weapon more powerful than ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
March Fourth
JObless Flashes
500 DEMONSTRATE IN
LINCOLN, NEB.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Five hundred
workers gathered at the City Hall at
the call Of the Workers Unemployed
Council and drew up resolutions de-
handing unemployment insurance,
and immediate cash relief from the
federal government. These resolu-
tons were passed unanimously and
sent to President Roosevelt.
The Workers Unemployed Coun-
ellis candidate for mayor was intro
ducsd and was received with a ire
mendous ovation. The candidate, D.
Robert Burleigh, laid before the as
sembly his working class program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
ENDORSE CONN. HUNGER
MARCH

WATERBURY, Conn.-Over 1000
workers Of the city Of Waterbury as
sembled at the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument in protest against the
80 1-3 per cent cut in the miserable
charity relief handed out by the city
fathers.
A resolution Of protest against the
murderous attack on the working
class Of Germany was adopted. An
other resolution endorsed the state
Hunger March TO be held in Con-
necticut March 21St.
At an organizational meeting In
Bank st. Hall the workers laid plans
for further neighborhood demonstra-
ton. "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
FIelnington. N. ]

Pennington, N. J.
Editor Of Daily Worker,
Dear Conrade
AT the Jewish Community Cen
ter today. August Classsens ex-
pounded at length and yolubly on
tho crisis and America" At last
he wound up with the suggestion
that the way out was by Joining
the Socialist Party. And--oh, Of
course, he was SO glad to answer
oil queStlonsl
The first question; What assln'-
ance have we that the Socialist
Party has the way out, when we
observe it's political record here and
abroad? At once our friend" be-
came angry, He cried, "T know that
man is a bOlsheyik-came here to
disrupt this meeting" And then
the way he carried on was quite
shocking and surprising TO one not
used to such tricks in avoiding real
questions.
Comradely,
g. A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
BY LEON BLUM

In the spring of 1881 someone
brought TO Larry Fay who was
bumped off by his 500 a week
doorman last year, the PROPOSE
ton of organizing a racket in the
laundry industry. The figures were
that there are $4,000 workers in the
industry who will pay 81 and over as
initiation fee and. 50 a month dues,
besides the unlimited graft and side
money from the bosses.
To put the racket over, about Is
strong arm organizers were put in
the field, using two laundry workers,
who were once active in the A. F. OF
L. as the Greater New York Laun-
dry Workers Union, Inc"
Larry Fay also made a deal with
several laundry bosses to give them
some of the Spoils.
In the Lux Laundry strike, the only
one conducted by the racketeerS, the
bulk of the trade taken away from
the Lux went to the Hydrox laundry
where the gang leader OWney Mad
den had en interest. In return, the
owners of the Hydrox, Regent and
some others, forced their workers to
join the racket. In fact, the bosses
paid the initiation and dues for many
drivers.
In August, 1881, most workers real
lied that the only purpose the rack
eteerS had was to get money from
both the workers and the bosses. A
movement started in the shops to
stop dues payments to the racketeerS
and to build inner groups in every
shop to be ready to reorganize the
union when the sell out would come
Open Clash
A secret meeting OF shop chairmen
and leading workers was held at
about the same time. To this meeting
a representative Of the T.U.UL. was
invited to outline a program of action
for the rank and file. While the
meeting was in progress, the gang
broke in. This brought the issue to an
open clash. Workers brought out the
treachery and racketeering of the
gangsters and declared their purpose
to clear the union from the faint OF
gangsteriSm.
The secret meeting brought the
fight into the open, and at the next
two union meetings there were sharp
discussions and bitter criticism.
At one meeting the president Of
the racket made an attack on several
workers who joined. Ee said they
were Communists who came to de-
Stroy the union" The attack was an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08

chine guns, by building the Auto
Workers Union in Ford's very
shops and in the entire industry.
In such crucial moments, the mas
Ses do not make vain boats and
empty threats. Serious practical
goals are set and the fighting en-
ergy of the masses is directed to
attain it.
THIS solemn proletarian pledge,
made over the biers of our dead,
is now being fulfilled. Under the
firm guidance OF the Communists
Party the auto plants are being
penetrated and organized. The
masses that marched in that greab
funeral are now being cemente@
into the Auto Workers Union. A.
new weapon is being forged In
Detroit.
A year ago, under the shock Of the
Ford Massacre, the factories slowed
their tempo and seethed with
anger, but there was no protest.,
strike, the union waS not in tho
shops.
Much has been learned and aes
complished since the Ford Mas
sacre. The rapidly growing Auto
Workers Union has already organ~
lied and led the first wave Of
strikes and, if only indirectly,
closed the great River Rouge plant
Of Ford'S. The union gave new
power to the Detroit auto workers.
They struck and won victories.
The first wave of strikes is but s.
beginning, but is a forerunner of
greater strikes to come, greater
strikes in actual preparation. The
police terror in the Ford plants has
been challenged. Under the harsh
discipline and the keen spy system
the union is taking shape. The
Ford workers will strike. The first
Ford strike will be against the wage
cut and the inhuman speed-up, but
there will follow strikes that will
challenge other and greater powers
and crimes Of Henry Ford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
Union Grows AS
Answer to Boss
Terror

doned police clubs.
The Hunger March reached its
destination intact, determined and
aroused. Its spokesman proceeded
to the main gates to present the
demands. Streams of icy water
and cracks Of rifle and revolver
shots met the marchers' commit
tee. The assembled masses surged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
Letters from Our
Readers
THE DAILY YORKER
AGAINST HUNGER

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Editor of Daily Worker,
Dear Conlrade:-
At our last meeting OF the 33rd
st. Block Committee of the UN-
employed Council of Brooklyn, we
discussed the national demands
that the Unemployed Council will
place before the new president. We
adopted these as the expression of
cur needs, aims, demands. We also
adopted a resolution that since the
Daily Worker is the only newspaper
that printed this news, and express
ses editorially its wholehearted
support of the struggles that we
workers are putting up against
hunger and wage cuts, We there
fore unanimously support the
Daily Worker. We enclose one dol
lar and pledge to help raise the
necessary funds to save our Daily
Worker.
FrateInally,
ORGANIZER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
BY H. BAKER

BLOODY MONDAY, March r.
u 1882, marks a glowing milestone
on the road of workers struggles
against hunger and terror and for
bread and freedom in Detroit. The
Ford Hunger March and the stormy
events following it for a memorable
week unIeashed the potential fight
ing forces of the proletariat into a
firm united front that stayed the
bloody hands of Ford and Mayor
Murphy from outlaWing the reyo-
lutionary movement in the auto
industry.
The one hundred fifty thousand
workers on the streets of Detroit