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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-15
ssExtra Period" Forest
Fires Show Decrease

Despite an increase In the number
of forest fires In the national for
ests over 1881, the last year of COM
parable hazard. the United States
forest service has reduced the num-
Der of "extra-period' fires this sen.
son by 20 per cent. An extra-period
fire Is forest blaze that is not ex-
tinguished or controlled by the begin
ming of the second day.
1t is the rule of the forest service
TO make every attempt TO put out or
surround Il fire on the day of dis
covery and the night that follows.
Speed of attack Is the key to sue
cess. Facilities for speed have en-
abled the forest service TO cut the
loss In acreage burned by about 10
per cent and to reduce the expense
for fire fighting about 40 per cent
as compared with the dry season of
1881, despite an Increased number of
fires and greater hazards this year.
In most of the western regions this
year fire weather conditions were the
worst on record. The middle of Sep
TENDER, however, saw the fire hazard
greatly reduced by scattered rains.
The number of extra-perlod fires
this year to September 10 was 2si
compared to $50 In 1881. Area
burned over so far this year totals
500.oS3 acres, against SCI $50 in 1881,
and all average of oG7,301 for the
last three years.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-15
Air's Composition

The colurless gas which we call the
atrvgor atmosphere Is mixture Of
several gases. about 71.O8 per cent
being nitrogen. o015 per cent oxygen,
O.95 per cent argon. 0Nl3 per cent
carbonic acid gas. 0.O)l per cent hydro
gen and water vnpor. averaging l.2n
per cent. II also contains minute
quantities OF the rare gases, heium.
krypton. neon. niton and xenon. A
cubic foot OF air under average condi-
lions weighs about OS pound. or an
ounce and a quarter.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-11-15
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

BY ELMO $50 WIZ SUN
HE WAS the "Father of Oklahoma yet
): !: !: !
except for giving his name to one of
It's original counties. that state has
done very little to honor Capt David
l.. Payne True, In 1929 there was a
proposal to remove his body from
a Wellington, Kan. where he died just
v so years ago this month"; \ and rebury
him In Oklahoma City ASIA part of
the program celebrating fhe fortieth
Evening star., 1934-01-21

RooMING HOUSE. with meals income,
$3.50 monthly; rent, SS2. so; beautiful
home near Dupont Circle; nine attractive
bed rooms; owner called out Of town and
will sacrifice for $3.50. r. M. De Shazo.
J12O 14th " MA 66oO
Evening star., 1934-01-21

IDEAL LOCATION for dentist, with living
quarters on busy ne. corner; rent. $50
month. Call Ii. 1850 between l and 5
Evening star., 1934-01-21

HAVE $500 70 INVEST in good business,
with services, as active partner. William
Maske, Route l, Box 40. Benning Station,
Evening star., 1934-01-21

WILL SELL my agency rights in complete
and p-odern line of gas and oil-burnfng ap-
pliances. including automatic domestic water
heaters (gas ana oiD; territory. D. c. and
radius of 25 miles Md. and Va.s reasona BILE !;
moving to Southwestern territory; III health;
financial and business capability required.
Address all inquiries to Box 177-V, Star
office o1S
Evening star., 1934-01-21
FONTANET COURTS
14OO FAJPMONT ct N VI

FONTANET COURTS
1400 FAIRMONT ST. NV.
. Rooms. 3 Rooms. ) Rooms
$3.50 $50 90 $500
Large kitchen. tiled bath rooms plenty
closet space; quiet roomy apartments COM
pletely. redecorated; light ivory woodwork
beautiful light OAK floors: refrigeration;
some rooms 17xl7; some apartments have
southern exposure. overlooking entire Dis
trict: spacious lobby: 24hcur elevator and
switchboard service.
See Resident Manager. Miss McNiell
FIDELITY STORAGE CO.
1920 You st. NV North 340O
Evening star., 1934-01-21

Real Bargains in the Following Places:
Grocery Stores, Paving-All Well Located
Novelty and Cigar, Also Stationery Bargain.
Candy Store Longest Bargain for $500.
General Paying Rooming Houses.
10 to "a Rooms Each. Priced S400 to
S2,0o0-Cash Payment. $50 to 81 600
CClored Cafetera-Real Bargan-Part Cash
Several Lunch Rooms. 81 200 to "a 600.
Easy Terms on Above Places. Please
Investigate.
Pastry Shop High C1as--Real Bargain.
p CARIEY Me Q1o7
Evening star., 1934-01-21

ROOMS-FURNISHE
1884 COLUMBIA RD.--S3 wk., single rms:
maid serv; hall rn., So 80; men. AID. 1923.
1922 L ST. NW.-Bright warm rooms: sin
gle, $3.50 up; Ink. with alcoye Kitchen
cite. running water. SO up; maid. 1anttor.
bellboy service: transients. 75c up:
ATTENTION-Prices uneaualed; large. airy
near showers: new furniture. elevators; single
or double, So weekly UP. The Westminster.
1907 18th st. NV. Also cheaper rooms
1923 VERMONT AVE. Apt. "a (Thomas
Circle)-Sunny, quiet. bed-livlns room
suitable for refined person; night service.
1852 NEWTON ST. NV single rooms.
gentlemen employed: 2 baths; $40 each per
month; private family; references.
1888 CONN AVE. (near wardman Park.
Attractive double room, semi.private bath.
for gentlemen; garage; reas. co: 1887:
1922 PARK RID. N.w.-Attractive front.
single room. IN owners home ior sentie
location; bus passes door. convenient to car
line: reasonable.
1904 OTIS PI. N.W.-Two nicely furnished.
bright warm rooms; very reasonable.
1873 L ST. N.W-Lovely. cheerful. warm
double rooms; redec.; homelike; maid serv-
| ice; Ink; S6-S7 weekly; downtown.
1920 18th ST. corner P st-Basement
| room, private entrance, running hot and cold
| water; telephone: rent S3.75. %.
| 924 @ PL. N.W-Rooms. sleeping. 50 week;
Hight housekeeping, 81, IS; new beds; quiet
adults; desirable location.
Evening star., 1934-01-21
AND LIVE STOCK.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

RESTAURANT on ST.; 25 years in same
S. 900 Address Box 155-V, Star ofnce. 21'
SEA FOOD BUSINESS in good Northwest To-
cation; beer license: doing good business:
store and soda fountain; good condition
throughout Apply 2157 Pa. ave. NV. 2l.
I HAVE AN INVESTMENT Of twenty-five
hundred S2.50000) dollars as an equity
have bigger investment in my business
which needs capital for present opportu-
mites. AS result. I am willing to sacrifice
former for seven hundred fifty tS150.O0l
dollars clear on immediate action. Call
National 55SS to investigate or write Ad-
YertiSer Room Sn7-SlO. 18th st n. ".
Evening star., 1934-01-21

FOR SALE OR LEASE by owner. 18th ST.
boarding club: reasonable. Address Box
4S-V Star ONCE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Veen UWA Leaders Hered Scabs 4ded Troops Gallup

the New Mexico miners decided upon
the National Miners Union as the
union of their choice. AT one of
these meetings in Gallup, with local
speakers only and secret ballot, the
N. M. U. received 475 and the U. M.
w. A. only g. Despite that, the
bosses, city and county officials,
Chamber of Commerce and National
Recovery Administration officials
we're actively smuggling in the United
Mine Workers of America. The
miners repudiated it and chose the
N. M. U. Memory of the treachery
and betrayal Of 1922 Of the U.M.W-A.
leaders was still fresh in the miners
minds. Regardless of the methods
used, the U. M. w. A. could muster
no support from the Gallup miners,
aside from handful of company
suckers, stool-pigeons and no-account
elements.
The employers correctly estimated
that mass and militant struggles were
inevitable if the National Miners
Union gained leadership of the
miners. This explains their interest
in establishing the U. M. w. A, as
opposed to the N. M. U. But Hef-
ferley, who was appointed by Lewis
as District President (and who is
well known to the miners of Penn
sylvania and Illinois as a wretch and
raccaD was tOO coWard1y and fearful
Of appearing before the miners and
challenging the program and lead
ership Of the National Miners Union.
With the bosses, N. r. A. and c.
of G. they tried to maneuver the
miners into the U.M.WA. An ex-
ample of this was when this gang
called an innocent appearing IN. r.
A. Rally and spread the word that
union speakers" would be there.
The sco9me was to get the miners to-
gether where Hefferley. surrounded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
400 Orange PickerS
Strike for More Pay

SAN BERNARDINO Cal. Jan. %.
More than 400 workers in the citrus
belt, of which this city is the center,
walked out on strike last week The
strike was called by the Cannery
and Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union In united front action with the
Mexican Confederation of Labor.
The strikers have been paid and
4 cents d box, for picking, the equiv
alent Of 20 cents an hour They are
demanding so cents an hour for
orange pickers and packing house
workers, q five hour minimum and
eight hour maximum working day,
elimination Of contractors, elimina-
ton of speed-up, picking sacks and
clippers to be furnished free of
charge, free transportation to and
from the fields, recognition of the in
duStrial union, and hiring to be done
through the union.
Soon after the strike was called,
the growers instigated police attacks
on the strikers and - pickets were
arrested. Bail has been set as high
as $500 for a vagrancy charge.
Students from Redlands University
were on the picket lines with the
strikers on Thursday, and succeeded
In keeping about 65 workers from
scabbing Officials Of the university
threatened the students with eXpuI-
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

BY II. NJ.
Sunday evening, Jan. 81, j. 3. s.
Hardman, Louis Budenz, Gerry
Allard, Robert Levey and q few lesser
lights of the Music clique met at
Hardmans house to explain to
specially invited group of about
35 intellectual and white-collar
workers the why's and wherefore Of
the new American Workers Party"
I had found out about this indi-
rectly and, naturally, showed up. AS
soon as Hartman spotted me he
angrily demanded What are you
doing here?" I explained that I
wanted to know what the American
Workers Party" had to offer to the
workers. He couldn't quite get up
the nerve to throw me out, and so I
was permitted to stay
Attack Communist Party
Hartman opened the meeting by
introducing Louis Budenz, who I'M
mediately proceeded to deliver a
45-minute speech, devoted for the
most part to slandering in the most
vicious and INSCRIPTIONS manner the
Communist Party of America. When
he wasn't slandering the Party, he
was ranting about the activity Of the
Unemployed Leagues in Ohio. When
he finished, Hardman announced
that the floor was open for questions
and discussion, BUT, he stated, no
Communist would be given the floor
or be permitted in any way to take
part in The discussion. Knowing
that this was aimed at me, I imme-
diately spoke up and demanded the
right to reply to all the lying SANDER
that Budenz had made about the
Party and its activity.
Budenz had stated that the Com
munist Party press existed on fic-
tons, that it had no followers in the
trade unions, that its slogans Of self
determination for the Negroes in the
Black Belt was gibberish, that the
Party wasn't speaking the language
Of the American workers, that Lenin
and Marx were out of date so far as
this country was concerned and
finally ended with the conclusion
that the c. P. U. S. A. was bankrupt
and that the A. w. P. was the party
that could lead the workers
Knowing the composition Of his
group, he had also mentioned that
Sidney Hook and Edmund Wilson
had joined the A. w. P. AS ne said
this, one of the workers present
uttered under his breath, MY God,
is that whom they got?" Hardman,
who heard this. later took the floor
and openly stated that it was I'M
fortunate thst Eaderz had men
toned these nat the A. w. P.
didn't mean to put these men for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Porto Rico, West Coast
Send Delegates to Feb. 3
Unemployed Convention
New York Send-Off at
Arena on Feb. /;
Call for Funds

NEW YORK.-Credenti for de-
agates from Porto Rico, Colorado and
Idaho received in one morning indi-
cate the widespread response to the
National Convention Against Unem-
ploymenJ. The Porto Rican delegate
comes from the Unemployed Council
Of San Juan. Two delegates from
Denver are from the Unemployed
Councils, and one from an A. F. OF
L. local Two delegates from Occur
D'Alene, Idaho, represent the Work
ers and Farmers Council, an organi-
cation Of /, 100 in Kootenat County;
both are farmers.
The New York delegation to the
convention will have a send-of meet
ing at the st. Nicholas Arena at Q
pm, on Feb. l.
The New England delegation will
be present at this meeting.
The National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils urges all organ
izations to send representatives to the
meeting with donations to help cover
the expenses Of the delegates. THE
send-of meeting must demonstrate
that the workers Of New York are
behind the Unemployed Convention
and their demands for immediate
relief and unemployment insurance"
the statement Of the National Com
mittee declares. Show that you are
with your fellow workers. Get your
organization to make a contribution.
Come to the send-off meetingl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Reese Threw Acid On
Pickets, Praised
Martial Law

the union driven underground. Five
hundred dollars daily was the COST
Of the troops and the ultimate cos
was 100000. The militia tried TO
choke the union and smash the strike.
Openly the militia was the instru
ment of the employers.
Demand Troops Withdraw
The N.M.U. and Communist Party
launched vigorous campaign
throughout the state for withdrawal
of the troops and restoration of civil
rights Various A. F. of L. unions,
railroad brotherhoodS. the New Mex
leo Federation Of Labor and various
newspapers supported the demand.
AS a result, a tremendous pressure
was brought on the Governor to
withdraw the troops. Plainly, the
Governor and state was on the run
and further use Of troops could not
be excused even by bourgeois circles.
To prevent withdrawal Of the
troops, the bosses modified their
forces and initiated a campaign to
force their retention. Side by side
with the bosses and Chamber Of
Commerce there appeared the delega-
ton of Reese, Statham and other
scab leaders of the United Mine
Workers of America" They pleaded
with the Governor to keep the troops
in Gallup. that I'VE want to WORK
and not be interfered with" that
the companies are treating us good
and we do not want to strike" etc.
So. again, the U.MW.A. leadership
aligned themselves with the employ
ers in an effort to smash the strike
by keeping the soldiers in Gallup
and martial law in effect.
ITO b n--r..ssT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Buffalo Meetings
Protest Lay-OffS,
Pay Cuts on CWA
Demonstrate Wednesday
In 7 Halls; Relief
Union Active

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 22.-Mass
meetings in seven halls throughout
the city will be held here on Wednes-
day, Jan. "a, and Thursday, Jan. Is.
protesting against the Roosevelt
abandonment Of the C. w. A. pro-
gram and the mass lay-offs and wage
cuts. At these meetings the reason
for the lay-offs and wage cuts will
be explained, and campaign started
for the Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill.
The Relief Workers Protective
Association is issuing 10000 leaflets
to c. w. A. workers and employed
and unemployed workers against the
wage cuts and lay-offs. The leaflets
call upon the workers to discuss these
questions during their lunch hour
and at the relief stations.
The demands Of the workers,
which are raised in the leaflets, call
for immediate organization Of all C..
w. A. workers to resist this newest
Roosevelt attack upon the workers,
and that, IN the event Of lay-off,
workers shall be placed on relief I'M
mediately at the same rate as was
the pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

crawling out Of tight spot, stated
that the mentality of the American
workers was developing backwards
instead of forward and that the A.
W. p would have to use artifice -
win him over. Someone then asked
whether he expected to win the
workers over by fooling them.
When Hardman saw that the meet
ing wasn't coming off as he had ex-
pected he took the floor and made a
long demagogic appeal, stating
frankly that this move in organizing
the A.WP. may be considered oppor-
tunistic, but, he asked, what of
it?" He also admitted that they had
considered sliying themselves with
the Trotskyites, but had finally voted
against it because the Trotskyites had
shown very little progress. Never
theless, he praised Trotsky very
highly and regretted not being able
to tie up with him.
The meeting broke up with no re-
cruits obtained except two friends Of
Hardman's. These we're two whom
he had gotten Jobs with the n. r. A.
Lshor Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

who had been forced into joining by
bosses threats Of being fired unless
they joined. The strike brought out
these members also.
The U. M. w. A. leaders in
stantly showed their colors as boss
instruments. HeffeT,ey sent a tele-
gram from Denver, addressed to
William Ferguson, most shady
and INSCRIPTIONS character in Gal
Iup. This wire condemned the
strike and Instructed all members
of the U.MW.A. to return to work
Immediately.
But the sincere U. M. w. A. mem
bers refused to return. Only the
company suckers, agents of the bosses
went back. Angered by the refusal
of the rank and filters to scab, Bill
Reese, notorious scab-herder and
company stool-pigeon, who was U. M.
w. A. leader" issued his famous
call to action. This Call to Action"
condemned the U. M. w. A. members
who refused to scab and demanded
they either scab at once of be eX-
PEELED from the U. M. w. A.
All this time the U.MW.A. "lead-
ers." Reese, Statham, etc, enjoyed
every privilege Of holding meetings,
visiting camps-al OF
which the strikers were denied by
martial law and soldiers Why not?
Were they not q part of the strike
breaking machine of the coal COM
panies and state?
Reese was active during the strike.
Very active. One Of his jobs was
that OF chauffeuring carloads of scabs
from Gallup to the mine up the high
way and through mass picket lines
Of the N.MU. stretched in gauntlet
form along the highway.
One day Reese earned himself an
unforgettable reputation. Going
through the picket lines he sprayed
The pickets with deadly acid. Some
IS men, women and children were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Coming Convention VIII
Suppress Facts of
n. VI. Strike
BY PAT TOOHEY
ARTICLE II


The 33rd Consecutive and Consti-
tutional Convention Of the United
Mine Workers OF America will con-
vene Jan. % in Indianapolis. The
convention, no doubt, will be RECALLED
with tales by the corrupt and reac-
tionary leadership of Lewis OF the
tremendous organizational gains and
phenomenal growth Of the U. M. w.
A. in the West.
U.M.W.A. Leaders Broke Strike
But what are the facts regarding
the role Of the U.M.W.A. leaders in
the West?
Will the delegates be told about
how the U.M.W.A. officials in Gallup
and Utah were strikebreakers and
agents Of the operators in attempt
ing to smash the N. M. U. strike?
Or Of how the Wyoming miners who
voted overwhelmingly in q referen-
dun against 20 per cent wage cut
were blackjacked back to work on
threat of expulsion and forced to ac-
cept this wage cut? Or about when
the Colorado miners struck against
the contract signed by the U. M.
w. A. leaders, In which every method
Of repression was used against them?
OF course notl The delegates will
not hear of these things. But the
miners must know of the treachery
and strikebreaking activity of the
Hefferleys in Colorado; Fonteehhio's
in Utah; Morgan, Lambert and
RGdili in Wyoming and Utah
Ssriiebr eaking In New Mexico
BY an overwhelming ma iority vote
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Workers. Questions Embdrross
Musteites Forming NeU ''Party'
ward as their ofront. ,,

ward as their front"
Before Hardman could stop ME, I
went on to ask Budenz why he had
failed to mention the heroic strike
of the $4,000 miners in Mexico which
had been led by the C. P. I asked
whether that otrike proved the bank
ruptcy of the G. P. or the inability
Of the Party to attract American
workers. And I further asked
whether the successful drive Of the
Daily Worker for $4,000, which
came in small change from workers
all over the country, proved the
bankruptcy of the G. P. I further
stated that I was like the man i'll
the subway who reads testimonials
from kalamazoo, Mich, and such
places when I heard Budenz speak
about the activities OF the Unem-
ployed League in Ohio. Why hadn't
the Unemployed League been heard
of in New York. I demanded.
But by this time Hardman, white
with anger, asserted his rights as
owner Of the house and insisted that
I stop Then one Of the workers
obtained the floor and asked Hard
man: What questions is one al
lowed to ask here?"
To Aid A. r. of l.. Officials
Another worker got the floor and
inquired about the attitude CT the
A.. w. P. towards the A. F. CT l.. This
was answered by Budenz who stated
that the A. w. p plans to build the
A. +. Of L. out at the same time
Wor! as an opposition group. The
other workers present Immediately
bounced on MIN, pointing out that
their idea of building the A. p, OF L..
means working with the bureaucracy
and is certainly net working in the
interests of the WORKING class. Still
another worker vino stated that he
| had a tradition G. 200 years Of New
England background spoke for about
ten minutes to point out that the
LANGUAGE Of the c. P. was not foreign
to him, that in fact all the workers
he came in contact with understood
clearly it's aims and it's program ard
that the only function the A. w. P.
could have would be to disrupt the
unity Of the workers at a time when
they were showing greater and
greater nlilitancy BY this time ell
the workers present were thoroughly
convinced that the A. w. P. was
merely another toy for Hardman,
Music and company to play with.
Despise American Workers
Hardman frequently had to come
to the rescue Of Budenz, who was
constantly in hot water, by trying to
answer the questions that were put
to him.
On enc Gee sen Hartman. in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23

in the factories, on the CWA and
! PWA jobs, and at the relief bureaus
The struggle against the develop
rnent of fascism requires much more
attention to the struggle against dis
elimination and for the unity of the
Negro and white toilers.
The work among the agricultural
proletariat and the poor farmers, as
sumeS much greater importance in
view Of the developments towards fas-
cism and war. The work in the rural
districts must henceforth receive the
attention Of the Party in every dis
trict.
Each district and particularly the
concentration districts Chicago, De-
troit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh are
charged with the responsibility of i'm
mediately checking up on the con-
troll tasks set by the District Buro and
Of taking steps to realize these con-
troll tasks before the Party Conven-
ton.
The fight against all right oppor-
tunist tendencies, as the main danger,
and against all cleft" deviations must
be carried on not only more firmly
in the Party ranks, but among the
masses.
Particularly Is it necessary to ex-
pose before the broadest masses the
dictatorial character of bourgeois
democracy. of the rapid transforma-
ton Of bourgeois democracy into fas-
cism, and Of the feverish preparations
for war.
On the basis of the most deter
mined struggles for the burning de-
mands Of the masses and the struggle
against war and fascism, it Is neces-
sary now to boldly bring forward the
revolutionary way out of the crisis,
the proletarian seizure of power, pro-
letarian dictatorship, Sovie t
America.
The bold putting forward OF the
revolutionary detectives of the Com
munist Party, popularizing these
among the broadcast masses, stressing
the most serious work in the factories.
in the trade unions, and among the
unemployed in an effort to win the
demands of the workers.
This is the road toward winning the
decisive majority Of the American pro-