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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
WcGinnis Meadow

G. e Gilbertson went into Libby last
Tuesday He took in part Of the
Manicke school children.
Mrs Raymond Shelley and children
were in Libby last Tuesday
Fred LeLacheur was a caller al the
meadows last Wednesday evening
Mr. and Mrs. NJ / Davis spent last
Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs
Gene Scott
G, E. Gilhertson worked last week
hauling gravel into the mud hole near
the Bower ranch and il working there
again this week So much rain makes
it hard to accomplish much but every
one viii appreciated having that place
fixed 50 they can get through IT.
Bill Orr was home the first Of last
week Bill Is with The CCC and Is
stationed at Troy
Mrs. Pay Beebe has been quite sick
tut now much better
Orland Phillips was visitor IL the
James Orr home the first Of last week.
Earl Fowler and Gladys Bergen
drove over to Whiteiish Saturday and
back Sunday
Miss Margaret coanc of McGreRor
lake IS staying with Mrs Ray Beebe
This week.
Mrs George Erhard and the children
visited a the II. j Fowler home Sat
urday
Mr.. Griffin and Mr. Egan, our new
neighbors on the DR.. James place, called
Monday afternoon al the Nj. !. Davis
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Scott and the
children spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Davis.
Mrs. LaMunyan and Mrs. Bateman
Of Libby visited the meadows school
Monday. Mrs. La Munyan gave the
children their tests and all did well.
Wallace Scott 3rd grade, made an
average of IS and Bette Beebe second
! grade, 49,
Ernest Davis attended the dance AT
Forest View hall Saturday night.
MIR. and Mrs. Hubert Beebe were
in Libby Saturday.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
STUFF

Mrs. Fl. |. Monk of Boomers Ferry
was a Libby visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Susan Carleton was in Spokane
Sunday, returning home Wednesday,
Observation-Disclosures, middle aged
woman-W. DIN. Box II, Libby. 1880
Ben Graham, Ural rancher, was
transacting business in the city on Fri
day
Norman Dickinson was in the city
Friday from his ranch in the Fisher
river district.
For Sale-10 acres, / mile from Libby
Alfalfa, pasture, good house; bargain
See Western News. 48tf
A. w. Basham had the third finger
on the left hand removed Tuesday at
the Libby hospital the finger being
badly infected.
Prof George White. superintendent Of
the Troy schools for the past several
years, was transacting business ii
Libby Thursday
Work of removing the slide on the
highway west Of Libby is supposed 70
start Saturday, using the Reeress shovel
of the ]. Neils Lumber company.
Jack Ratekin came over from Bolton,
where he is employed in a CCC camp,
to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Sam Ratekin, over the week end. He
returned to Bolton Tuesday.
Don Orr was over from Bolton TO
spend the week lend with his father, the
Rev. R. W. Orr, and visiting with other
friends. Don is with CCC forces ard
spent the winter in California
If you like comedy you should be
sure to see that pair Of fun-makers
Wheeler and Woolsey, in Hips, Hips,
Hooray,' at the Kootenai theatre
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E II. Curtis spent few
days the first Of the week IN Libby
looking after business matters and
visiting friends. They are moving iron
Plains 10 Missoula, where Mr. Curtis
has been transferred BY the forest
service.
j. II. Skidmore vas recent winner
of $500 prize in word spelling CO..
test conducted by the Capper puhlica-
lions Several hundred contestants en-
tered and Mr.. Skidnore was one q
those awarded ninth place in the contest
and winning prize thereby.
Lot 6, Blk. II, Demers Second Add
Eureka House and lot for sale $50 i
taken at once, Write NJ. Paulsrud. Fox
229, Deadwood, So. Oak. 50-51
Several Libby organizations sucn al
social clubs, etc, are new recessing foI
the summer and have held their last
meetings until next fall. One Of these
is the Wranglers club, which held il.
last meeting on Wednesday evening 81
last week. The leader, w. c. collars
chose very pertinent topic Tor discus
sion in this-"After the trial Of Insul
what? Shall we have government own.
ership Of utilities? More laws to regu.
late private ownership Or content eur.
selves in taking our spite out on I'm Ok
man?' The topic provided matter .oi
an evening Of interesting and some
times spirited discussion
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17

ing a few days with friends on their
return trip.
The forestry picture show which was
given at the L. c. H. S. Monday eve
ming was well attended and much ap-
preciated.
John Gilden and wife and Fred Gil
den and wife Of Kellogg, Ida, are visit
ing at the Gilden home in Eureka. Mrs.
Fred Gilden was Miss Mary Ellen
.Haehl of Monterey, Cal
\ Ed Richardson has been at Ant Flat
ranger station doing the plumbing work
in the new forestry building.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17

regular session on the second Monday
in June, at its usual place Of meeting,
and will at such meeting prepare and
adopt a preliminary budget Tor The
next ensuing school year Any taxpayer
in the district may appear at such
meeting and be heard on such prelim-
mary budget.
CARRIE LAMUNYAN,
1t County Superintendent Of Schools.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
The Churches
81. Johns Lutheran Church.

THE Friendly Church. 7
Sunday, May goth, Pentecost Sunday.
Special sermon.
Special singing.
The service begins at IL a. m.
Sunday school, Gas a. m.
Immediately after the service there
will be meeting of the voting mem
bers
The S. S. teachers meet on Wednes-
day evening Of next week
II you have no church affiliations,
you are invited to worship with usl
H. L. PFOTENHAUER, Pastor.
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Church of God.

Sunday school 10 a. m Preaching ii
a. m. Young Peoples meeting p. m.
Preaching 8 p. m.
Prayermeeting Wednesday at 8 p. m.
You are welcome to all these services.
REV. FRED DECKER, Pastor.
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Christian Science Church.

The subject for the Lesson Sermon
Sunday, May 20, "Mortals and I'M
mortals"
Wednesday evening meeting at 500
o'clock
Sunday school at GAS a. m.
The public is cordially invited to all
of these services.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
Methodist Church.

Schedule Of Services:
Morning worship at HOO a. m.
Church school at 1000 a. m.
EpWorth League TOO p. m.
Choir rehearsal Thursday evening.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
Libby Home for Sale.

Modern dwelling with So acres of
land known as the c. Ed Lukens prop
erty. Anyone interested write
NELL AND MAY RITCHIE,
SOL Franklin, w. Va
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-17
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES MEETING

In each school district in the county
the board of trustees will meet in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Deportation
Hearings Open
This Morning
U. S. Seeks to Ship Two
Out of the Country
for Militancy

Hearings on the cases Of Christ
Popoff and Fortunate Eria, whom
the U. S. Government is trying to
deport for their working class activ-
tiles, will be held this morning, at
the U. s. District Court, Room 235,
Old Post Office Building. The Com
mittee for Protection of Foreign
Born is fighting the attempt to de-
port these two militant workers.
Popof is slated for deportation to
Greece, where he would face torture
and death as a Bulgarian identified
with the struggles for Macedonian
independence. Eria has been held
on Ellis Island for the past six
months for deportation to Italy fol-
lowing his frame-up by his en-
ployers to avoid paying him com
pensation due him in an injury in
CURED while on the Job.
Popod has a wife and three chill
dren in Syracuse. Eria has wife
and two children living in Brook
lyn.
The Committee is urging all
workers to. attend the hearings this
morning at 10 a. m. to protest the
attempt to victimi2e these two work.
ers for their working class activities
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Party Units Publicize
c. P. Radio Breakfasts
In California Campaign

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Oct. 49,
Two Communist Party units here
publicized radio appearance of
Sam Darcy, candidate for Governor,
by telephoning many residents with
in the territory of the units on the
evening of the broadcast to remind
them Of the hour and station at
which Darcy would speak.
Both these units recently raised
SIS for the election campaign at a
small lawn party, Harriet Premier
gave a brief talk at the party
Additional radio broadcasts over
station KIM by Communist. candi-
dates for assembly, Tom Patterson,
district SO; John Leech, district 81;
and Sam Jones, district So, were an
nounced today by the Los Angeles
Section Campaign Committee.
Patterson will speak on Monday,
Oct. %; Leech on Friday, Oct. %, and
Ronald Keith will speak for Sam
Jones, now in jail, on Monday, Oct.
20. The talks will be held at the
regular hour, 10 pm.
The intervening schedule is as
follows: Wednesday, DR.. Biggelman:
Friday, Joe Turchinsky; Oct. "a,
Tom Patterson; Oct. "a, Sam Darcy:
Oct. 26, John Leech, Oct. %, Ronald
Keith for Sam Jones; Oct. 81, Law
renee Ross; Nov. 2, Joe Turch' lsky;
Nov. 3, Lolli Dobbs; Nov. 5, Bob
Minor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
CoInpanyUnion
Based OnNRA'
Is en- Scheme
Statement to $50, 900
Workers Appeals to
Section IA

DETROIT, Mich, Oct 15.-The
General Motors Corporation, in a
statement to its 1900 employees to-
day, declared that their company
union plan, is based on Section IA
of the N. R. A. collective bargain
ing" TO the General Motors Co.,
means company unionism. The au-
thority of the Roosevelt govern
ment and the N. r. A. is invoked as
justification for the company union
which has robbed the auto work
ers of all their rights.
THE management may, however,
assist any employee organization in
plans for employees mutual bene-
flt," one section Of the General
Motors statement says, provided
there is no discrimination" Collec-
tive bargaining, the company de-
clares, must not imply an asSump-
ton by the employees Of a voice in
those affairs which the manage
ment by its very nature, must ulti-
mately decide upon its own respon-
sibility." The entire statement is
an attack on the A. F. of L. unions,
thinly yelled.
Under the General Motors com
pany union the employee has no
say in the hiring or firing, and
grievances must be taken up with
the foreman or supervisor, with
higher executives in the company
having all say after these lower
company officials are consulted.
The company brazenly announced
it will submit to arbitration only
what will not injure the business.
The. company unions have flour
ished in the auto industry since the
establishment by Roosevelt, with
William Green's permission. of the
Auto Labor Board. This N. r. A.
board has recognized the company
union and strengthened it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
American Democracy
Shows Long History
of Discrimination

country and mercilessly applied by
the descendants of the founding
fathers, must make Communists
and active sympathizers doubly de-
termined to see the legal and rou-
tine aspects of their election cam
paign move without a hitch. !
you can't vote if you don't
register" is Alexander Trachten-
berg's admonition. IF there is any
doubt as to your qualifications as a
voter, make it your business to find
out from the nearest campaign
office of the Communist Party
wherever you live. Every person
who intends to vote Communist
should check up on his friends.
neighbors, shopmates, and should
see to it that they, too, register.
THE education and propaganda
OF the Communist Party for che
needs and the rights of the working
class are going forward with energy
and determination in the election
campaign Trachtenberg says.
And while the size of the vote
we roll up is not a measure of our
victory or defeat, it is a measure
of the effectiveness Of our propa-
ganda."
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picion that they are sponsoring an
anti Hitherto Catholic newspaper
appearing in Saarbrucken.
Permanent Terror"
One of the clergymen made an
urgent appeal to the commissioners
to use all their influence that the
+ German population Of the Saar,
willing to vote against the return to
Germany today, shall have the OPP
portunity to express its opinion in
a second plebiscite after the fascist
government of Hitler is gone.
The Socialist and Communist
members Of the territorial counsel
of the Sasr are objects of permanent
terror. One member of the Land
rat" the Communist deputy Som
mer, has narrowly escaped assassi-
nation.
A police commissioner allegedly
too lenient to refugees" was also
attacked by a man armed with an
automatic rife of German army
origin.
The commission had long con-
ference with the president of the
PlebiScite Commission and different
members of the Administrative
Commission of the League of Ma
tons in the Saar.
AS a result of all its investigations
a report was issued summarizing
the findings in the following points:
"a The existence of widespread
and organized terror acts and vio-
lence has been established as well
as open and secret pressure by Nazi
organizations against the Sasr
population, the attitude of which is
hostile to the Hitler regime.
(b) The existence Of a grave ap-
prehension in the Saar population
concerning the imminence of relgi-
Gus persecution both in Germany
and in. the Saar. The commission
received reports of physical and
moral insult and oppression inflicted
upon Catholics and Catholic clergy
men.
Co The existence of a general
conviction in the minds Of the Saar
voters that the coming plebiscite
will not be secret and will not be
free. The Inquiry Commission did
not fail to bring this fear Of the
Ssar population to the attention of
the Plebiscite Commission of the
Scar.
I'D The commission was finally in
position to establish that the Saar
population. favoring the mainte-
nance Of the status quo, demands
an opportunity Of another vote
whenever the Hitherto dictatorship
is over in order to decide finally the
fate of the Saar territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
nocratic' Election La,v Bars Many From Polls

pose to place the government in the
hands of the workers "by peaceful
means" is full of legalistic tricks to
limit free choices at the polls. Vast
numbers of nominating petitions
must be obtained in virtually all the
states.
In Louisiana, for instance, only
those who did not register as voters
in any political party in the previous
election, may sign the nominating
petitions of any group
In many other states, such as
Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, it is some
times necessary to collect a greater
number of nominating signatures
for local or county candidates than
for q state ticket.
Many states require filing fees
based on percentage of the salary
paid to the Office for which a candi-
date is competing.
Once these serious obstacles have
been overcome, frequently with pro-
digious effort. as in Ohio, Pennsyl-
yania, Illinois, Connecticut, new
barriers arise before the individual
working class voter.
All Kinds of TESTS
Aside from residence, most states
have literacy tests and many have
poll tax, property and even moral
qualifications. When first the Re-
public was founded, James Madison.
one Of its early presidents, declared
that the right TO vote ought to be
confined to owners of land indus
trial or commercial enterprises. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

Westinghouse
WOrkerNa
TOGO to USSR
Pittsburgh Delegate to
Join Group Attending
Nov. 7 Celebration

The workers of the Westinghouse
plant Of Pittsburgh, Pa, plant
employing many thousands of work
ers, have elected Robert .Whisner
as their delegate to go to the So
Wet Union for the Nov. celebra-
ton. Whisner, a worker in this
steel and electrical products manu-
featuring plant, has indicated ire
mendous interest in what is taking
place in the Soviet Union.
Whisner will arrive in New York
City late Friday, Oct. 10, in time
to address the farewell affair being
by the New York District
Of the Friends Of the Soviet Union
which will take place at the Man
haitian Lyceum at Sc E. Fourth st.,
on that night.
Whisner is securing the endorse
ment of workers in other steel pants
in Pittsburgh and vicinity, and
therefore will be assured a great
number Of stable hearings upon his
return home from the U. s. S. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

gave as his grounds that I'm the
future, a great majority will not
only be without land, but will be
without any sort of property. These
will combine under the influence of
their common situation-in which
case the rights of property chat is,
of the capitalists and public liberty
will not be secure in their hands. .
AS a result slaves, women and
men without property, were barred
from the polls. Since about. 1920,
these stiff restrictions have been
eased in part, but many of them
remain.
In the southern States ownership
of property. ability to read and write
and the payment of poll tax are
almost universally required. Among
these states are Alabama, Arkansas,
Delaware. Florida. Georgia, Louis
lana, Maryland, Mississippi North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas.
Negroes Especially Victimized
These provisions initiate with
particular severity against Negroes
and poor white farmers. In local.
ties where poor farmers, and Negro
workers are engaged in sharp
struggles, restrictions can be and are
used to prevent them from voting
for the Party which leads them in
these struggles, the Communist
Party
Such difficulties, such restrictions.
planned against American workers
by the farsighted fathers of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Election Laws Designed
To Operate Against
Working Glass

The efforts of the politicians who
represent capitalist power in Illinois
to keep the Communist Party off
the ballot, reported in recent issues
of the Daily Worker, are common
examples of the obstacles placed in
the way of workers who want to
choose candidates of their own
without regard for the hand-picked
states offered to them in the Re
publican and Democratic primaries
In Alabama, Communists we're
permitted on the ballot this year
only after militant fight, and with
the open threat of the election
authorities that they would take
note" of those who voted Commu-
mist.
In Washington, oregon and other
western states, legal and extra legal
means were used to force working
class candidates off the ballot. Relief
workers who signed red nominating
petitions were threatened with the
loss of their Jobs.
All this is part of the heritage of
the political chains which sham
democracy have drown about the
American workers.
Many Legal Traps
The Wanted democracy" under
which Socialists, for example, pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

would be greatly weakened without
the Daily Worker.
That is why the Daily Worker,
its existence, its circulation, must
be a major concern for us. The
waves of. naturalization rise around
us. Our Daily Worker will help us
to organize these waves into prole-
tartan power.
Hundreds of thousands OF Daily
Worker readers represent such a
proletarian power. A bigger and
better Daily Worker will help us
to organize such a power.
That is why the drive OF the
Daily Worker for funds is a most
important proletarian event. That
is why our hearty response to the
call for this drive is our most i'm
mediate political duty. Every COM
rade must respond. Every organ
ization must enter action.
The drive to date lacks enthusi-
asn. 1t is as if it did not matter
to us whether we succeed or not.
We must not permit this lethargy
to prevail any longer. we cannot
endanger the success of the drive.
We dare not endanger the very ex-
istence of our Daily Worker.
Comrades To work. Concentrate
your energy for whole day, for a
whole week, on one determined eff
fort to raise the required $4,000.
We can do it.
Let us do it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Hathaway to Address
Milwaukee Celebration
Of Soviet Revolution

Clarence Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker, is to be the chief
speaker at the celebration of the
Russian Revolution Meeting to be
held at the Milwaukee Auditorium
on Saturday, November 3 at 1880
pm. This meeting is also to be
utilized as the final Election Rally
and the leading candidates of the
Communist Party will be among the
speakers.
In addition to the speakers a
musical program is being arranged
with the participation Of number
CT workers cultural clubs and organi-
cations.
All workers and organizations are
asked to keep tbs date open and
urge their. membership to partic-
ipate in the Celebration.
Other meetings to be held in the
Milwaukee District are:
Milwaukee, Sunday. Nov. 4, Pu-
laski Hall. 18th. and Grant st., 2:30
pm; Racine, Sunday Nov. 4, Sokol
Hall, 1925 Racine Street, pm;
Kenosha, Monday, Nov. 5, Polonia
Fall, Seventh Avenue and Fiftieth
Street, 1880 p. m.
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NCVHttftttU IfOHt L uHb 4
ing standards of the people to the
last degree of misery.
The mine owners remain indiffer-
ent to this last act of desperation,
absolutely refusing to give the min
ers the additional $50 a week
which would raise them from their
voluntary suicide.
Refuse to Taste Food
The frantic wives of the strikers
attempted TO send some bread and
meat down the shaft to the men,
who are without food, water or
lights, and desperate tragedy was
written on their faces when. the food
was Immediately returned. A note
accompanying the refusal of food
said, Rather than suffer the slow
pangs Of starvation, we will commit
suicide by smOthering ourselves"
Some Of the workers who had
been dragged from the pit by sheer
force were delirious from hunger,
others were at the point of death;
many were unconscious and the
condition of all was grave.
Throughout Hungary other min
ers, whose wages and living condi-
tons parallel those at Poets, were
restless and bitter. Regiments of
militia pstrolled the cities, and
everywhere the extreme desperation
of the PEGS miners was mirrored
on the faces of other workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

demand for the boys freedom to
the U. S. Supreme Court.
No illusions of fairness and
justice must be permitted for one
moment. Remember how this
court swept aside the basic issues
in the last appeal and when the
masses forced a reversal of the
lynch verdicts, the court based it
on technicality and practically
instructed lower court how to
carry out lynching without inter-
ference.
Remember blow struck by this
court against Sacco and Vanzetti.
Into the streets. Stop the Scots
boro murder planned for Deem
Der It'll.
(Signe6
WILLIAM L. PATTERSON,
National Secretary,
International Labor Defense.