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FARMERS FIGHT
CONTINUED from page u

grown children. were fighting on
the front. And some of their chill
dren were. not very grown up at
that, towards the last of the war
they took them awfully young. To-
day there are. large, organizations
of just widows alone in these for
eign countries. Those women &C
tually broke down and cried when
they reported the intense suffering
caused by the war.
They told how they had one big
hope during the war while they
were working on their farms do
ing their husbands and sons work.
Even though some of their own
family was slaughtered, they were
hoping that at least they would
be able to throw their own exploit
ers overheard, and put the gov
eminent in the hands of their own
working class. If they had had
the government in their own hands
they would be building up better
conditions rather than going down
The rich men who rule these coun
tries were afraid of what the re
turning soldiers might do whe1
they came back from the front
line trenches. Therefore the ex
ploiters called for help from thu
American capitalists who saw to i
that an enormous army Of Amer
lean soldiers. were sent across t.
save the European capitalists. The!
we're afraid of revolution, that i
what they were afraid of.
Today we must fight against tn
outbreak of another terrible wal
call on all farm sections of tn
: country to elect delegates, espec
tally the youth, for the Second
Congress Against War and Fas'
E cism which will be held in Chicag
j Sept. % to 80, 1884.
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LYNCHERS SEEK LIFE OF
FRAMED NEGRO

PRINCESS ANNE, Md.-The Eastern
shore of Maryland, where many Negro
workers have been lynched in the past two
years, has been swept by another wave of
lynch sentiment following the arrest of
James Holland, young Negro farm hand,
framed on a charge of attempting to GRIM
inally assault Mrs Anna Waddy, white wo-
man on whose farm he was employed.
Local Negroes and white workers be-
ieve the arrest and lynch Indictment an
other case of ruling class vengeance against
a Negro laborer who dared to demand his
wages
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FRESH MEAT
CONTINUED from page y

A. N. Wankel has been dropped,
and in his place Mrs. Dick Frank,
wife of the Plentywood plumber,
was appointed.
None of these people is on the
relief roll and none of them knows
what it means to need relief.
Neither farmers nor workers have
any representation inspite of the
fact that the entire county depends
upon the farmer for a living. What
can be expected from this commit
Tee, past experience has shown
The future will prove that more
than ever this board is going tc
be farce, a hunk of putty in the
hands of an almighty administers
tor who ever so nicely barricade:
himself behind 'trules and regula
tions."
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LID. FREES Is IN
ILLINOIS

Observation-Disclosures activity un-
der the leadership of the international La
Dor Defense has forced the release on bail
of all but two of 20 militant workers who
had been held in Illinois prisons as a result
of their militant activities in Hillsboro,
and on the South side of Chicago. Their
Grimes consisted in leading unemployed
workers in struggle for better relief They
were charged with conspiracy to over
throw the government"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-09-20
SOUTH DAKOTA UFL
PREPARES FIGHT
AGAINST FASCISM
Knute Walstad, Sharp, and
Ilmoni to Tour State
By a Farmer Reporter

SISSETON, S. D.-State-wide
speaking tours, in which we will
appeal to the membership of the
Farmers Union, the Grange and
Holiday Assn. for support against
the new fascist wave of terror in
South Dakota have been mapped
out by the state United Farmers
League. This, together with an in
tensified struggle for relief and
against foreclosures and evictions,
is our answer to the sheriff of
Marshal county and his gang of
drunken Legionnaires who raied
our meetings and brutality beat up
julius Walstad and six other mill
tant leaders. 4.
X. Walstad to Tour
Knute WalStad, Clarence Sharp
and Carl Ilmoni will be the chief
speakers on this tour. Walstad
and Sharp are independent candi-
dates for governor and congress-
man, respectively. Their candidacy
has been endorsed by the COmmu-
mist Party. Ilmoni is an instruc-
tor in the Farm School on Wheels.
An attempt on the part of States
Attorney Babcock and some of the
leaders of the Britton Legion post
to draw in the Sisseton post of the
Legion in the fascist drive against
the workers and farmers, failed
miserably. After the BIritton post
asked for joint meeting at Sisse'
ton, they failed to show up. Bah
cock rallied against Communism
and urged the Legionnaires tt
crush the movement of the work
ers and farmers in South Dakota.
eff they are law-breakers VIII!
can't you handle them ?" asked ;
Legionaire. Babcock had no an
swer.
"YOu Tell Us"
"What is Communism" other
Legion rank-and-filers asked Bah
cock. Suppose you tell us, so W
will know what it is we have u
fight" Babcock remained silent
and some one moved that the LIE
gionnaires invite julius Walstad
or Dolph De Arment to speak t.
the meeting to explain Commu-
niaw III
In the end, the Sisseton post re
fused to mobilize for the fascist
drive.
On Monday, August 81 there wa
supposed to have been state-wid
mobilization of Legionnaires on
farm near Britton. They didn'
dare meet openly in town for fea
IF swift reprisal by the angereC
farmers and workers. Legion lead
"~s urged on attack on the Farr
School at Monson's Grove but tn
meeting wavered. More than hal
urged caution" and were agains
repeating such actions as at Clea
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ITALY FINANCES
HETMWEHR

PRAGUE, CzechOslOvakia-ItaILIsTr as Re
nation over the Austrian Helnlwe t..ioU Vice
vealed today by the former Austrian acl JARED
Chancellor Franz Winkler, who .G GoT'I dCE
that Mussolini has paid over a m IdnSer d
the Heimwehr, since 1922: oSar chan.
also received $4,000 monthly IRON ron sum sums
cellor Shober, and similar montniyy ;cate d
from the Vatican and from Syliui''
Austrian bankers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-09-20
RELIEF LISTS OF HOMELESS
INCREASE

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 1.-THE
number of homeless persons being cared for
by the Transient Relief Bureau has in
creased steadily this year, according to Off
Gals of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration.
" On August Is there were 226, $50 per-
sons receiving such relief as compared with
1928 on June Is. Sixty-five per cent,
relief officials report, are between 16 and
81 years of age.
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POLICE MURDER CIGAR

MANILA, Philippine Islands ,. SSsSi and
Four striking cigar makers were KIN, RlGSIt her
10 wounded when island ponce ONCE S' If stnE
rifles and riot guns on hunoreuS o;rar fsr
ers in front of the La Minerva 'S
In order to completely crush osr,.SSered b
United States army troops were OiO
be held in readiness.
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NOTORIOUS GEN. ARAKI, MAY
LEAD CWAR' ARMY

PEIPING, Sept. An connection with
the present situation in Manchuria, the no
torious Japanese General Arah has again
appeared on the scene
Japanese newspapers state that General
Arald will probably be appointed cOmman'
der of the Kwantung army, now occupying
Manchuria and feverishly preparing a
North Chinese base for future "big war;
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Want
|VVAdS
HELP WANTED

MAN WITH Carlo take over
profitable Watkins Route in
nearby locality. Long establish
ed customers. Must be under
so and satisfied with earnings of
$50 a week at start. Give your
age and type of car. Write The
J. R. Watkins Company, Rural
Dept, 523 Liberty Street Winona
MINI. Z5-ztp
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BELGIAN MINERS FIGHT FIVE
nTHn CTSNTT nav CVUT

BRUSSELS, Sept. 14.-The owner Of
the Borinage mines has announced that the
miners in all pits will be given pay-cutS Oh
5 per cent, effective Sept. 16.
The Central Committee of the Revolt
tionary Miners Union has declared that the
miners will accept no wage cut. A program
of meetings has been shaped for action
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ESTRAYED-One white-face 3-yr.
old steer, no brand; odd white
strip on right side. Owner please
call for at Endersby Ranch
Whitehall, Mont. 26-1tr
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TAKEN UP-One red bull IL yrs
old. Owner may have same by
paying for keep and advertising.
Carl Hovdey, Raymond. 24-c
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rs PRISONERS SENT
TO ISLAND

LISBON, Sept. 1S.-The steamer linn.
LOOK 20 political prisoners to the island j1 An
era do Heroismo yesterday where b E,ll'
must serve long sentences. u'ey
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FOR SALE-We are forced to re-
possess in your vicinity small
bungalow model piano, like new.
Responsible party may have
same by paying balance due.
Write ORION BROS. Bozeman,
Montana. Z4-Stc.
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not believe. he helps us see what we really do
believe.
The essence of his theory IS that the New
Deal-or any other effort to improve condi-
tons upon the capitalist foundation-must
fail in the very nature of things
Unemployment is inherent in modern capt.
talist society. The ills against which workers
protest can not be cured without putting So
ciety on new foundation
The division of human beings into exploit
ers and exploited is fundamental. and the only
possible solution is to give the exploited COM
plete control
which expressed more precisely the exact OPP
posite of the sentiment which animates the
New Deal
We are dedicated, that is, to the theory that
the ills that have afflicted us in the last four
years can be cured within the framework of
capitalism.
We believe that unemployment is not a
necessary accompaniment of modern, mass
production capitalism. We believe that the
worker and the consumer can be given a de-
cent break without destroying the rights of
employer and investor.
We believe that cooperation can be sub
stituted for exploitation in such way as to
help all hands and not for just enc class.
We believe all these things so firmly that
we have room for great diversity Of opinions
as to the way in which our goal can be
reached. Most Of the time we overlook the fact
that we are actually at a crossroads in our ma
tional life.
The Russian leaders remarks remind us
that We are making great fight to prove that
the traditional American way of life can be
preserved. That is the real stake at issue in
the recovery program.
The way the battle is fought-whether via
the New Deal or some other kind of strategy
is relatively unimportant The big thing is
to prove that we have the intelligence and the
determination to win it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
MORE SPOILS

MIR. AUSTIN, United States census bureau
Iva director, admits that some 5000 deserv-
ing Democrats are to be employed to take the
agricultural census, beginning next January
We admit the farm canvass 10 to be
taken under law passed by Republican
congress and approved by Republican Presi-
dent. We admit that, were the Republicans in
power, they, too, would award the $4,000 jobs
to deserving partisans, as they have done re-
peatedly in the past. And we admit that,
should Director Austin try to upset this ira
dition of spoils, the Farley-Hurja machine
probably would try to get his scalp, and
succeed.
But we wonder whether this is the best
way to do the job? How about the millions of
voters and taxpayers, who are neither profess
sional Republicans nor professional Demo-
Gratis, but mere American?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
OLD THEORY DIES HARD

THE old, moss-covered theory that the sailor
- in the United States navy is a crude, I'M
mannerly and rascaly lout seems to die hard.
1t may have been true in the days of square
rugged frigates, but it isn't true now and it
hasn't been for long time. Yet some people
still believe it.
New York authorities recently accused a
taXi-dance hall proprietor of permitting his
business to sink to the level of an ordinary
vice joint.
One of the dance girls was a defense wit
ness. Insisting that all the girls at the hall
were refined and lady-like. she added that
even when the fleet was in no girl walked out
with a sailor"
There is something rather laughable about
this attitude. Where, do you suppose, does a
taxi-dance girl get off, assuming such superb
ority to the bluejackets?
Considering the gang Of drug store COW
boys, gangsters' apprentices, and loose-lipped
corner loafers that infest most taxi-dance halls
we suggest that the tone of such joints would
be improved considerably if the sailors did pa
tronize them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
FEDERAL INCORPORATION

A NATIONAL Incorporation act is sug-
= gested by the senate banking committee
as one remedy for financial abuses.
The committees latest report contains i'm
pressive evidence of how some holding COM
panies and investment trusts have been used
to plumber the investing public by legal meth
DDS. State regulation of corporations operat-
ing nationally has not been affective. A few
men can speculate riotously with the savings
of millions, making insecure the property
rights of widely-scartered and helpless stock
holders.
The committees suggestion of federal char
tiers seems to offer logical solution States
rights arguments hardly can be sustained in
defense of a system which makes state laws in
effective.
The need Of adequate regulation is adj
mitted by such defenders of the holding COM
pany system by George Whitney, Owen D.
Young and o. P. Van Sweringen, and such
champions of the investment trust as Clarence
Dillon and Otto H. Kahn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
OUR DREYFUS

OVER in Paris Colonel Alfred Dreyfus Just
- celebrated his seventy-flfth birthday.
About him were his devoted wife, children
and grandchildren. He is growing old in the
honor and respect Of his fellows.
About forty years ago France did this man
great wrong. Framed" by a fellow officer,
contaminated and convicted of selling mill
try secrets to Germany, he was sentenced to
life on Devils Island. There he spent four
tortured years. The flaming pen of Zola
aroused France to the injustice and made the
case a national issue that almost caused a
revolution. The guilty officer confessed Cap
tain Dreyfus was pardoned promoted and
made member Of the Legion of Honor
The United States has parallel in the
Mooney affair" The difference is that Tom
Mooney, as innocent as Dreyfus, is spending
his eighteenth year in prison while our own
republic has yet to make amends.
Until the United States supreme court or
CALIFORNIA; Governor frees Mooney and his
fellow frame-up victim, Warren Billings, M.
Zola's passionate Il accused" will be pointed
at Americas conscience as it once was at
France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
READY FOR THE JOB

HE deliberate improvement of the NRA,"
prophesied confidently by Donald Rich
berg 10 Chicago Rotarians will depend upon
more than the wisdom with which Mr.. Rich
bergs industrial emergency committee formu-
lates policies and the new national industrial
recovery board revises existing codes.
Great policies and great codes will not
operate unless there is intelligence and integ-
rity of those placed in charge of enforcement.
One thing that makes President Roosevelt's
proposed capital labor truce possible Of
achievement is the confidence in the good
judgment and effectiveness of the national Ia
Dor relations board in handling labor dis
putes.
But the administration has not yet desig-
mated the agency which is to have charge Of
the other phase Of enforcement-that which
concerns unfair trade practices. such as mis-
representation. fraud and secret rebates pro-
hibited in many codes. Honest employers will
feel secure if enforcement of fair competitive
practices is turned over to some trusted and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
EXPLAINS DETECTIVES
OF COOPERATION PLAN

By C. A. Chambers
Let us put the United States on
cooperative basis and see what
happens.
We will start at the farms and
produce what, for example, will be
shipped to our own mills. Flour is
made and sent to cooperative
warehouses from which cooperative
stores will be supplied. From pro-
duction to consumption it has been
carried on comparatively. Now,
can't you see by having our own
farm land, ways and means Of
transportation, mills, warehouses
and stores we will be able to reduce
the cost of commodities? No mid
dleman has a chance to intervene
and make a profit by his advertis-
ing and craftsmanship.
From every angle the co-opera-
tive society is organized on a nom
profit basis. This permits selling
commodity at a lower rate.
In a cooperative organization
every one works for the benefit of
every one as a whole, and not just
for themselves. There is no cut
throat competition in the co-opera-
tive movement.
We would not need any consum-
ers' research or government bu-
reaus, because cooper alive organi-
cation automatically stops the prac-
tice of short weights and measures
and improves the quality of all ne
cessities of life. No one can benefit
from dishonesty and poor quality.
The public would be saved millions
of dollars by eliminating govern
ment bureaus and inspectors.
The cooperative organization can
not be built overnight: it will take
time to prove itself successful. Co
operative associations started on
farms and have moved gradually
into the activities of the city.
Persons are learning more about
this organization because they are
in distress and looking for a way
out. AS long as persons are salts
fed they do not want to change,
but since the depression, many have
turned to the cooperative organi-
cations hoping for something bet
ter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
ADVOCATES america
FOR AMERICANS"
Nv Orie i. Simmon,

BY Orie ]. Simmons.
It is significant that in 1917 a
Democratic President believed in
guarding the seas for the benefit Of
American shipping. 1t shows Re-
publicans are not alone as friends
of big business" even at the cost
Of American lives.
There may be, probably will be,
war in Europe again soon. Has
Roosevelt the vision, the genius and
the nerve to tell the world:
The Monroe doctrine means
America for Americans. The cor
Rotary of this doctrine is, The old
world and its peculiar problems are
not our problems"
AS far as we are concerned it is
Asia for Asiatics; Europe for Euro
peans, and Africa for Africans. At
any rate, we should not spend lives
TO protect any part Of the world save
America and its immediate strategic
waters. Nor are visitors from our
land to foreign shores to be pro-
tected as they wander.
Shipments on the high seas dur
ing wartime shall be at the risk Of
the shipper or ship owner. No
longer does America need foreign
trade in order to live. We are de-
serting certain obsolete phases OF
our freedom Of the seas" formula.
The forgotten man who fought in
1918 is stlll foolish enough TO go to
war to avenge the sinking Of a ship
lead Of American sightseers and
lcontrabandD war munitions. Why 2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
RELIEF FOR U. S. TREASURY

NEWS that the treasury department is pre-
pairing to continue the task of convert
ing Fourth Liberty loan bonds into securities
bearing lower rate of interest is a reminder
that we have a fine chance, in this way, to
relieve the current strain on the federal treas
ury.
This bond issue originally totaIed little
under $7OOOOOOOOO 1t bore Az per cent in
terest when issued. Last spring approximately
$1,875, 100000 was converted into per cent
bonds At present some ST 25OOOO,OOO more is
being converted into 3A per cent bonds and
2l5 per cent notes.
Now it is planned TO convert the remain
der of the issue; and it is worth noting that
a substantial saving i7 in prospect Already
something like s33,OOO,OOO a year in interest
charges has been saved.
If the whole issue is converted, the annual
saving will reach S66,OO0,OOO At time when
federal finances are being strained to the ut
most such saving is we'll worth making.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
TWO GOALS

TN the west officers are searching for the
Aelusive Pretty Boy Floyd, gunman extraor-
binary and in Indiana and Kentucky au-
thorities are pressing the hunt for kidnaper
who upset a nation by snatching Mrs. Alice
Stoll, 26-year-old Louisville woman.
Each case is outstanding. The hunt for
Floyd. which has been going on for months,
is marked by numerous rumors and false re-
ports that Floyd is here and there. His chase
much resembles that of Dillinger in that re-
ports place Floyd in many places at the same
time
In Kentucky the officers Of the United
States. the state of Kentucky and police of
Louisville find themselves the victims OF a cir
cumstance that short-sighted public policy
has permitted to exist They have failed to
take the precautions that would prevent the
escape a man such as the kidnaper Of the
Louisville woman.
Even the continual cry of economy should
not be offered this time as an alibi. When
life is at stake it is a poor time for public
officials to vail about what it costs to block
crimes disgusting progress.
When the legislature meets this winter,
members of that body should concentrate on
two goals:
l. Revision of the penal system of the state,
placing it under strict civil service and the
merit plan, and.
2. Formation of an alarm teletype system
which would link Indiana. Kentucky, Ohio and
Illinois,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
ROOSEVELT'S ALPHABET

A N invaluable guide to the functioning of
New Deal machinery is provided by the
Brookings Institutions latest volume in its
series on government: New Federal Organ
izations," by Laurence F. Schmeckebier. The
book might better be known as "F DIS Alpha
bet" but that title would connote a Henry
P. Fletcher approach which this volume dis
tinctly has not.
The book is the best source produced so
far for study of the Roosevelt administra-
tons daring extensions of government It is
factual. descriptive, and complete as far as its
limitations of length permit
1t lists forty-six major organizations, and
numerous minor ones, known as administra-
tions, corporations, bureaus, boards, etc.. set
up or enlarged in scope between March
1888 and June 3, 1884. They are classified as
to activities and duration, purposes method
OF creation and chronologically. The rela-
ton of the new agencies to the civil service
from which some of them, including the HOLC.
AAA, NRA, PWA and IVA, are wholly ex-
enpted, is carefully charted.
This book rather than the Republican ma
tional committees press releases, should be
consulted when there is talk of bureaucracy"
The bureaucrats shown here by the actual
hard facts are not by any means the num-
erous "lice of Egypt of which ex-senator jim
Reed speaks so bitterly.