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The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
OCTOBER 7-l3 IS
FIRE PREVENTION
WEEK;HELP ASKED
Devote Week to Cleaning up and
Making Needed Repairs, is
Advice of Chief

The aid of Redwood Falls residents
in making Fire Prevention Week Oct
ober z to 13, success was asked
this week by Fire Chief Joseph Cor
bett.
Uncontrolled fire is one Of civil
ization's greatest menaces," Chief
Corbett asserted. "Last year it took
toll of 10000 lives and destroyed
homes and buildings to the extent OF
$500, 100000 in this country alone.
More than 5000 Of the innocent VIC
tins of fire were children under III
years of age.
"This department in calling your
attention to Fire Prevention Week,
asks you to see that there is no rub
bish or other infammable material
near your furnace and that heating
pipes are well insulated with as5es-
tos from all partitions, floors and
all timber. Check your oil burner for
leaks and clear away all dust accum-
ulations."
Chief Corbett stated that the
darkest side of the terrible fire record
is that most fires can be prevented,
asserting that they start because
someone has been careless, has neg
lected some condition that was dang
erous or disregarded the obvious
danger of flames and sparks.
beginning Monday" the chief
asked, "let us start Fire Proven
tion Week that will keep on going de-
finitely. Your fire department is anx-
ious to help you avoid fires in your
homes, factories and stores by point
ing out the fire hazards they may
contain.
"Will you take advantage OF this
service" Chief Corbett urged, so that
you can be sure that no life is lost
or ne property destroyed because you
allowed FIRE to start?
"This department." he concluded,
"wiH highly appreciate anything you
win do to help rs in IRE prevention.
Make = special effort during the
week"
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
Redwood Merchants are Sponsoring
Unusual Selling Euents This Week

clothing. Sward- Kemp Drug COM
pany is conducting one of its per-
iodical two-for-one sales and Jaehn-
ing hardware advises buyers to see
the Philco radio line.
The J. C. Penney company invites
comparison of it's offerings. John
son Shoe store has several interest
ing advertisements. The Economy
store points to a list of special items.
Three grocery stores, the A and P,
the Fairway and the Red Owl offer
food savings. The Smith Agency,
Closz-Holmberg, Redwood Milling
company, The Redwood Theatre, Hill
gers Garage, Redwood Dentists,
North Redwood Farmers Elevator
and other firms are represented in
this big edition.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
Mitchell to Install
Legion Officers Here

William Mitchell Of Tracy, state
commander of the American Legion,
will be present at a meeting to which
all ex-service men are invited at the
Legion hall here tonight.
Mr.. Mitchell will install recently
elected officers and talk on a subject
Of interest to service men. National
Commander Hayes will speak at 8:45
D. m. over the radio and arrange
ments have been made to hear the
spesrh at the meeting. Refreshments
will be- served.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
2 Bandits, lmpersonating
Federal Officers, Holdup
Garageman; Steal Car
Firemen Dance to be
in ArmOry Thursday

The annual firemen's dance will
be held October II, in the armory in
connection with Fire Prevention
Week. Buddy Melges' orchestra will
play.
Members of the arrangements COM
mittees are: music, Joseph Corbett;
tickets and publicity, Oscar Rand
gard, R. H. Byram, c.. H. Schultz,
Eugene Charlebois, Grover Mans
feldt and E. L. Gallea; floor, Burton
Hauck, John Brueske, H. G. Thomas
and Robert Pryor and check room,
Mike Richards and Lloyd Schmid.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
Pea President Attends
Conference in st. Paul

Returning from a conference of
88 Pea presidents Of the seventh
farm credit district, Otto Flom,
president of the Redwood Falls Pro-
duction Credit association, express
ed enthusiasm over prospects for
such associations as permanent and
useful lending agencies.
The volume of loans made in Min
nesota up to the first of the month,
he stated, was STATS, ,161. Of this
amount already farmers have paid
back $97,043.- The Redwood Falls
institution, recently organized, serves
Redwood and Renville counties and
four townships in Yellow Medicine
county.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
Voters to Have Opportunity
To Hear All Three Sides of
Political Issues This Month
Nelson Leads Poll;
Olson Running Last


The Daily Gazette straw vote poll
on governor to noon Wednesday indi-
Gates that Redwood Falls is sticking
by its Republican traditions and that
the strong vote given Albert Pfaen-
der here in the Democratic primary
is swinging back to the COP. can
didate rather than to John Regan,
Democrat.
Governor Floyd B. Olson is run
ming last. He is trailing Nelson by
a ratio of IA to while Nelson leads
Regan by a margin of Z to 2. Only
a small number of votes have been
cast. The ballot also appears on
page four of this issue.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
New WabassO Bank
Will Open Saturday

Wabasso's new bank will open Sat-
urday, October 6, at 9 a. m. it was
announced this week. A. F. Hassen-
stab of Redwood Falls will be CASH
ier with F. w. Rohlik as his assist
ant. George A. Goblirsch- win be
president and C. 81. Leistikow, vice
president. Other directors are L A.
Bangerter, Charles P. Goblirsch and
d. e. Sinclair.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
Cobleigh Farm Sold

A deal was made last week where
by Charles F. Gales became the own
er Of the C. E. Cobleigh farm Of 278
acres, one and one-half miles west
of town.
Otto Gales of Carver, who will
manage the farm for his brother,
has already begun the fall work there
and his family will move here Novem-
Der 1. Mr.. Cobleigh will hold pub
lie sale some time during the month
to dispose of his stock and machin-
cry there.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
TWO COMMISSIONERS ILL

The board of county commission
ers met this week without the serv-
ices of John Arends, chairman and
Herman Muetzel, both Of whom are
ill. Routine business was transact
ed. The official proceedings will ap-
pear in an early issue Of The Ga
Zette,
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
COOK NAMED DCOUNTY
ADMINISTRATOR
Four Departments Now Work.
ing Under One Head; County
Has "a Projects

In line with the effort to coordin-
ate relief activities, Richard Cook,
Redwood county engineer, has been
appointed county administrator for
all ERA work in the county, accord
ing to information released at the
office of L. p. Zimmerman, deputy
state emergency relief administrat-
or, at St. Paul.
This action brings the four depart
ments Of relief under one head and it
is believed will result in greater eff
cheney and avoid duplication of serv-
ices. Mr.. Cook has been at the head
of the work department in charge of
initiating and completing all pro-
jects.
Social service work is another de-
partment which is now headed by
Mrs. Eleanor Bue, successor to Rob-
ert Haeft who is transferred to
Rock county. This department con-
tinues to determine the deficiency of
families applying for relief and re-
commends work or direct relief as
the case may demand.
A third department is that Of
drouth relief, directed by M. l..
johnson who has charge of the dis
tribution of feed and seed in drouth
areas. The fourth department is the
disbursing office, headed by Leland
S. Tyler, which handles the book
keeping and pays the salaries.
At the present time there are 16
relief work projects and eight drouth
relief projects underway in the coun-
The Redwood gazette., 1934-10-04
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STARTS NEXT WEEK

The series of stories dealing with
early Redwood Falls history viii
start next week instead Of this week
as originally planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

demand from the President OF the
United States, backed by Gompers
and a great majority of our Ma
tional Committee, that our strike be
called of. And worse yet, this
demand was framed in such an in
sidious way as to make it appear
that what was involved was only
a short postponement until the
whole matter could be adjusted by
"Labor's friend" President Wilson,
at his widely heralded conference.
GAS for myself, 1 was convinced
that any postponement of the strike
would mean a terrific disaster. I
had not the slightest confidence in
Wilson's doing anything for the
steel workers, nor his october con-
ference made up of Capital"
Labor" and the Public" Even a
short postponement would demon
alize the workers by wrecking their
confidence in us and by throwing
them at the mercy of the employers
who were then discharging them by
thousands all over the steel indus
try. Any attempt to postpone the
strike would doubtless wreck the
unions in a swelter of confusion
and wildcat strikes. The whole
movement would inevitably be de-
stroyed. Incomparably better would
be an open struggle, even if it we're
lost. In the first place the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
Pittsburgh, Courier, NA.A.C.P. Chiefs,
Again attack Scottsboro Defense

misleaders, he carries out the de-
spicable role of assistant executions
ers of the Scottsboro boys and the
Negro people.
This attack upon the Scotshoro
defense is another attempt to cover
up the betrayal of George Crawford
by the N. A. A. c. P. nisleadsrs
into the hands of the Virginia lynch
oppressors. This is clear from the
foul screed of the prostitute COL
umnist, George Schuyler, VIII
writes of the Crawford case: The
N. A. A. C. P. handled the case as
we'll as it could be handled. He
was lucky to get off with life inn
prisonment, what with the noun
tain of damning evidence against
him" Going on immediately to
attack the Scottsboro defense,
Schuyler writes Both of these
young men, 1 wager. would have
preferred to have the N. A. A. c. P.
get them life imprisonment, in
stead of burning DEATH"
Not death. and not life imprison-
ment for the nine innocent Scots
boro boys. as these treacherous
lynch agents desire. But struggle,
united mass struggle. to force their
release and TO establish the rights
of the oppressed Negro people. Re-
pudiate these treache-ous refcrmist
misleaders! Support the I. L. D.
defensei Send resolutions and pro-
tests from every organization. Or
ganize strikes and militant protest
demonstrations. Raise the funds
needed to save the Scottsboro Boys
and Angelo Herndon. See that they
are sent Immediately and directly to
the international Labor Defense.
Fight to smash the murderous lynch
frame-ups Free the nine innocent
Scottsboro boys and Angelo Hern-
donl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

formist newspaper carries a letter
it claims to have received from
Clarence Norris, thanking the Pitts
burgh Courier for "sll they have
done for me in these trying days"
But this letter bears on its face
unmistakable evidence Of the vicious
forgery by which it was produced.
The second paragraph of this sup
posed letter of Clarence Norris
reads: Trying days . with the
death in the offing =. the electric
chair with waiting straps to bind
his arms and legs straps that
will hold him in their taut strength
until his egonizing writhing ceases
and he is freed by death ITSELF"
Emphasis ours.
These forgers would have us be-
lieve that Clarence Norris writes not
of me, but of him. These tools of
the lynch oppressors would like to
make the Negro people believe that
Clarence Norris accepts and resigns
himself to his own lynch murder
in the electric chair, and writes
gloWingly about it.
With unspeakable hypocrisy, the
Pittsburgh Courier comments on
this forged letter; what a chal-
lenge to us to fight and fight until
the bitter end!" From the begin
ming of the Scottsboro case down to
tho r,reSal7t moment the PITTSBURGH
Courier, linked with the official
misleaders of the N. A. A. c. p,
have fought not against the lynch
ers, but against the defense and the
mass struggle movement which
alone has saved the lives Of these
nine innocent boys and which is
their only hope now.
The editor of the Courier, Robert
Vann, has been bribed with posi-
ton in the Roosevelt government.
Together with the N A. A. C. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
he 1919 Steel Strike Has Valuable Lessons the Steel Workers Who Haze
Labor Leader

Wilson. Gompers and the union
heads in the steel campaign. They
had to back up and give the strike
their 'endo- sement', though they
sabotaged it all the more viciously.
The great strike went on, as per
schedule. It was a bitter struggle.
Twenty lost their lives, thousands
were dubbed, shot, arrested. The
masses made heroic sacrifices. But
the strike was finally lost and we
called it of on Jan. 8. 1920 At
least the workers had had chance
to fight. And the strike could have
been won hands down had the
heads of the A. F. Of L. and Rail
road Brotherhcods ceased their
strike-breshng sabotage and given
the embattled steel workers even a
modieum of assistance.
"The later course of the National
Industrial Conference showed that
we we're quite right in having no
confidence whatever in it. At this
time the employers nationally were
just launching into the greatest
open shop drive in American labor
history. They we're organizing
tremendous offensive to wrest back
from the workers all the conces-
sions, in conditions and organiza-
ton, that they had won during the
course Of this offensive Nearly
every union in the country had to
wage a desperate struggle against
being crushed. Under these cir
cumstances, of course, it would have
been folly to expect Wilson'S con-
ference to chastise the militant
Steel Trust and to force it to grant
our demands. The National In
dustrial Conference, made up of the
greatest employers in the country,
had to and did reflect their mill
tant antagonism to Labor. 1t was
so hostile to Labor that hardly had
it met when it split over the steel
strike and even the reactionary
Gompers clique had to walk out OF
it.
Won Certain Conditions
Clearly the only chance for the
steel workers to win was by an eff
fective strike and strike hard they
did. Had we postponed our strike
it would have thrown the steel
workers at the mercy of the en-
ployers. Our forces would have been
swiftly cut to pieces and have gone
down to ignominious defeat with
out even striking blow. The great
steel strike of 1919 was completely
justified. Although it was broken,
it was by no means all lost. 1t
shattered the IL hour day in the
steel industry, improved genera
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

were strongly organized, 100000 of
them. and had a good chance in
a strike and secondly, the only way
to secure any possible consideration
from wilson's conference was to
hang a great strike over its head.
was, therefore, firmly convinced
of the absolute necessity of the
strike and I resolved to do all in
my power to make 1t go on in spite
of all the official opposition.
But what was to be done? Simply
to call the National Committee to-
gether would have been suicidal, as
a majority we're for postponing the
strike. 1t was also impossible to
put out vote to the workers as
to call a big, representative rank
and file conference, as it was only
a few days before the strike date
and already the workers were be-
coming demoralized by all the talk
in the newspapers and by company
agents about the proposed calling
of of the strike. So, upon my own
responsibility, wired and phoned
cur field organizers, at least 95 per
cent of whom were honest and
wanted earnestly to have the steel
workers organized, to express their
opinion ana that Of their local steel
councils. Immediately I got food
of kilograms, showing an over
whelming mass demand for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

consulting us, at once gave out a
public statement endorsing Wilson S
demand and also calling upon us
to postpone the strike. Then, show
ing a concerted movement to wreck
this strike, there poured into our
National Office, a stream of endorse
ments of wilson's and Gompe-s'
stand from a majority of the Inter
national Union Presidents who made
up the National Committee for Or
ganizing the Iron and Steel Work
ers. Let me cite some of these here
with:
Z wish to be recorded as in
favor of complying with the Presi-
dents request.-W. H. Johnston,
Pres. Infl. Assoc. of Machinists.
Engineers will abide by sugges-
ton Of President Wilson that we
delay action until after labor con-
ference at Washington M.
SnelIings, Pres, Stationary En-
gineers.
The Executive Board of the
BricklayerS, MasOns and Plaster
ers International Union desires ac-
ton in steel strike postponed till
after industrial conference in
washington. VIM. Bowen, Pres.
1T is our opinion that there
should be no strike called until
after the October conference.'-J.
R. Alpine, Pres, Plumbers and
Steamfitters.
"A strike at this time would be
very inopportnne.' F. Ryan,
Pres, Bro. Railway Carmen.
TT will be better to postpone
the calling of the strike until after
President Wilson's conference of
Oct. 6.'-Wm. Atkinson, Acting
Pres, BoiIermakers. We oppose
strike in the steel industry until
after the adjournment of the in
dustriaI meeting called by Presi-
dent wilson,. Wilson, Pres,
Patternmakers.
Several other union presidents
affiliated to our committee sent
similar notifications by wire or
through local representatives. AS
for the officials of the Amalgamated
Association, they had been against
the entire organizational campaign
and strike movement from the very
start, openly opposing and cove,tly
sabotaging every phase of it. The
overwhelming majority of our Ma
tional Committee was against the
strike. In fact, the only Presidents
who opposed postronement were
those of the Blacksmiths and the
Mine, Mill and Smeltermen.
A Tricky POstponement
I'VE were in real crisis indeed
Here we we're confronted with a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21

ship and The government made a
similar effort to break it up. In
my book, The Great Steel Strike
and its Lessons" I pointed out the
general lines along which this
strike breaking attempt was made
and how we successfully combatted
it. 1t may be fitting, however. to
cite the following more detailed
statement, written several months
ago and taken from my forthcom-
ing book entitled From Bryan to
Lenin," an account Of my personal
experiences in the labor movement:
an the New York Worker of April
4, 1922, Samuel Gompers charges
me with responsibility, for the 1919
steel strike as follows: This is the
same Foster, who in the face of def
mite information that the United
States Steel Corporation was pre-
pared for and wished a strike in
1919 and in the face of a request
of the President Of the United States
that the strike be at least post
poned. insisted upon that disastrous
struggle I am proud to accept
this responsibility; for never was a
strike historically more necessary
than that of the steel workers in
1919. To have adopted Gompers
policy of 'postponing' the strike in
accordance with President Wilson'S
wishes, would have amounted to the
rankest betrayal Of the steel work
ers and the complete Generalization
Of their movement.
THE situation was the following
After a bitter years struggle in the
face Of A. F. of L. sabotage and
Steel Trust terrorism we had or
ganized 100000 steel works., they
had formulated their demands, pre-
scented them to the Steel Trust,
been refused a conference, had
taken a national strike vote, and
set strike date for Sept. %, 1919.
AS for the companies, they had
completely suppressed free speech
and the right to hold meetings
throughout Pennsylvania and we're
discharging our workers everywhere
by the thousands, at least 10000 be-
ing already on the streets. The
workers. correctly, were all set for
the strike, the first time they had
ever had a chance to deal real
blow at their Steel Trust oppressors.
ut was at this critical iuncture,
on Sept. IL, that President Wilson
publicly demanded a postponement
of the strike until after his Ma
tional Industrial Conference, which,
beginning on Oct s, was to set
about establishing industrial peace
between Capital and Labor in the
United States. Gompers, without
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-21
The Fighting Vet

turned out to be a dead fish stink
ing with corruption and betrayal.
They began to see that Negro
veterans and workers, were like
themselves victims of the same
bosses and misleaders in labor and
veteran organizations. The bond
Of suffering and priyation that
brought Jew and Gentle, catholic
and protestant, Negro and white,
together on the battle field to be
slain by the same bullets brought
them together on the picket line.
The first historic Bonus March
and the succeeding rank and file
veteran conventions in Washington
proved thai ex-servicemen could get
together regardless of race, color,
creed or political afiliation ON a
common program. The San Fran
cisco General Strike proves that
workers and veterans who free
themselves from their pay-triotic
misleaders can get together for their
common good and force their COM
mon enemy, the bosses, the labor
and veteran misleaders and the
liberal" mayors and Federal arbi-
traitors to their knees.
Awaking from their deep dream
of Democracy, Free Speech" and
trust in Fourth of July oratory a
group of rank and file ex-service-
men founded the Workers Ex-Serv-
icemen's League.
The presence and influence of the
w. E. S. L. is a reassuring sign to
those non-vets who in the past have
been led to fear the Army and
Navy, the National Guard, the
Legion, the v. F. w. and all ex-
servicemen as potential strike
breakers, scabs and thugs; who at a
given signal from the Federal Gov
eminent and veteran misleaders
can be used to crush the workers
fight against starvation, unemploy-
ment and Wall Street Wars.
The recent strike wave has proved
to the workers and pointed out to
the ex-servicemen that their fight
is common fight. The Legion rank
and file in Minneapolis who refused
to accept S. day as strike-bre
ers, the protest of the Legionnaires
in the quarry strike in Vermont
against the use of the National
Guard, the refusal and arrest of
several National Guard in San
Francisco for calling on their bud
dies not to shot their striking
brothers, the call of the rank and
file committee in Cleveland for sup
port of the workers shot down in
the relief fight, the freeing by Mass
Pressure of Victory, Negro veteran
and militant fighter of Detroit, are
significant straws in the wind.
The killing of Howard Sperry in
San Francisco for active participa-
ton in the strike, the growth of the
rank and file veteran movement all
prove that the rank and file of the
American Legion, Veterans of For
eign War, and unattached ex-
servicemen are not a privileged
class" not potential fascists but
allies of the working class if prop
erly approached.
Soldiers Are Workers and will be
with the class conscious workers in
increasing numbers as soon as they
free themselves from the lies of the
capitalist press and the propaganda
of their misleaders. Let their answer
TO Gen. Johnson and his ilk be,
MORE POWER TO THE RANK
AND FILEi FORWARD TO A
GREATER UNITY OF VETERANS,
FARMERS AND WORKERS.