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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Ross Of Kalispell
were in Libby Tuesday.
Perry Wilson of Troy was business
visitor in Libby Wednesday
r. w. Smithberger was at Kalispell
Wednesday attending a group meeting
Of bankers.
Paul Gehrke has accepted position
clerking at the United Purity Store Of
South Libby.
Mrs. r. H. Gerhke and daughter
Gretchen left Sunday for Merrill, Wis,
to visit with relatives.
County Commissioners Kensler and
Millegan were in Libby the first Of the
week and with Commissioner Brink
held the regular session Of the county
board.
Miss Olive Arnold and her mother
left Wednesday morning to motor to
South Dakota where they viii visit
with another daughter Of Mrs. Arnolds.
They were accompanied by Miss Leone
COPYRIGHT.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Gives Tit for Tat.

1t is highly interesting to run through
the book in which visitors register at
the Lion fountain south Of Libby and
note the people who stop at the foun-
tain and what they write. Registered
last July we noticed this: Captain Mar
land Coleman and Captain d. H. Mac
donald, Of the British Hindu service, on
leave One visitor wrote: why don't
you build some roads2" The next man
to register below him replied, I'VE will
when we get some money, you crab"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

Pfotenhauer, only members of the two
families being present The bride was
attended by her daughter, Mrs. Charles
Golden of Spirit Lake, Ida, while the
groom was attended BY his son, Mr..
Delbert Withee.
Following the ceremony wedding
breakfast was served to the party and
later Mr.. and Mrs. Withee left on a
motor trip through Canada Mr.. and
Mrs. Withee have many close friends
who will wish them much happiness.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Entertains Mid-Week Club.

Mrs. Sam Tefeau was hostess to the
members of the Mid-Week Bridge club
at her home Tuesday night. High score
prize was won by Mrs. Lee Sleizer and
the consolation by Mrs. J. f. McCully
Mrs. John Kugler Of Boomers Ferry and
Mrs. Paul Bellamy of Selleck, Wn.,
were non-member guests, Dainty re-
freshments were served.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Church Of God

Sunday school 10 H. m. Preaching IL
a. m. Young Peoples meeting I p. m.
Preaching 8 p, m.
Prayermeeting Wednesday at p. m.
You are welcome to all these services.
REV. FRED DECKER, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

Mrs Israel Crotteau drove into Spo-
kane the latter part of last week with
MIR. and Mrs. W. r. Kienitz.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

M. G. Candee of Jennings was trans
acting business in the city Saturday.
Wanted-Modern furnished house
d. H. Griswold Phone 85W evenings
-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Christian Science Church,

The subject for the Lesson-Sermon
Sunday, June 10, God the Only Cause
and Creator
Wednesday evening meeting at 800
o'clock
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m
The public is cordially invited to all
of these services.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
Withee'- Mitchell.

A marriage ceremony joining the
lives Of Mr., Bert Withee and Mrs.
Bessie Mitchell was performed at the
home Of Mrs. Mitchell in Libby at 8
O'Clock Saturday morning, June 2. the
service being read by the Rev. II. l.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
st. Johns Lutheran Church.
ttrIrl. IL (rl.ni y


Sunday, June 10th
Holy Communion will be celebrated.
Regular service, II a. m
Confessional service, 1890 a. m
Sunday school, $50 a. m.
If you have no church affiliations,
you are invited to worship with usl
H L. PFOTENHAUER, Pastor.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07
The Churches
ST. Luke's Episcopal Church,

Evening prayer and sermon next
Sunday evening at 5 o'clock. You are
cordially invited to attend
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-06-07

Continued from page II
end that holds the interest of many
Libby friends was that of Mr.. Emmons
Hampton and Miss Ruth Hostetter, who
were married Sunday morning at 8
o'clock at the Methodist parsonage by
the Rev. r. ". Crater. The bride and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Factory Units Must Be
Builder of the T. u.
Opposition

It is necessary to bring sharply
to the attention Of the entire Party
that trade union work in itself will
not raise the political level of our
membership nor the class conscious
ness of the workers. The role of
the factory nucleus as the leader
in the factory must be emphasized
in our pre- convention discussion and
in our Party resolutions Unless the
political level Of our factory nuclei
is raised unless we increase our poll
teal activities in the factories, there
is danger of losing new Party men,
bers in factory nuclei. Especially
in shops in New York District there
is constant turn over in labor,
where workers stay short time
in the factory, where we have very
little time of contact with these
workers, must we speed up the poll
tical education Of these workers.
If we are not on guard on cor
recting what has been indicated
above, then there is danger for
right opportunist practices to creep
into the work of our factory nuclei.
We can help to prevent this, by
bringing these points out sharply in
our Party resolutions. In this way
we will help to increase and main
tain the attention of the entire
Party on the improving Of the
quality of the factory nuclei and
trade union work and in that way
help to quicken the tempo of root
ing the Party in the factories for
the great task Of winning over the
majority of the American working
class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Personal Guidance OF
Section Committee
Gets Results
BY MARGARET CowL

THE draft resolutions for the
Eighth Party Convention points
out the need for a" quickening
of the tempo and improvement in
the quality Of the work of the
Party to fight for winning over the
majority of the working class by
more quickly carrying through the
decisions of the Open Letter with
regard to roofing the Party among
the basic strata of the proletariat.
in the most important industries and
factories, through the application
Of the policy of concentration.
1t is general complaint that
factory nuclei do not respond to
letters from the Section Commit
tee. That these nuclei do not func-
ton as part of the Section.
Upon investigating Section-I
found that: factory nuclei are
made up in the majority of new
members, many of whom do not
understand the Technology of our
letters and resolutions, who do not
know the structure of the Party;
that there are many concrete prob
lens in the factory nuclei which are
entirely different from that on
street units.
This finding forced the Section
Committee to appoint members of
the Section Committee to give
personal guidance to selected
number of factory nuclei by at
tending every meeting of the nu-
cleus and its buro. Also to transfer
one or two more experienced Party
members including comrades work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
45NegrOYOuthS
Fired in CCC Camp,
Denied Pay Checks
Lads Had Been Forced
to Work in Open Dur
ing Zero Weather

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, March Is
by MaiD-Forty-five Negro bows
arrived home yesterday after being
fired from C.C.C. camp in Kane.
Pa, and cheated out of a months
pay when they were forced to leave
the camp before pay checks were
distributed.
Capt. Mosely, Of Alabama, who
was appointed camp commander on
the theory that Southern whites
know how to handle" Negroes, be-
gan picking on the youths when
they militantly refused to buy foot
lockers at $3.50 each, filming them
at each inspection.
Last Wednesday, with the tenn
perature II below zero, the boys were
sent to dynamite rocks at site II
miles from camp. The truck stalled
in the heavy snow drifts, and they
were forced to return TO camp.
Lieut.. Cleaver, camp health officer,
declared it was entirely too cold for
the boys to work in the open and
permitted them to remain indoors
Moseley, however, disagreed, charged
the lads with characterization, held
a summary court-martial and eject
ed them from the camp. Although
it was pay day they were not per-
mitted to wait for the pay-off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

In another section Factory MI
cleus - was confronted with op-
position on the part of comrades in
trade union apparatus, when it
attempted to bring forward the face
of the Party in shop work and to in
volve the Daily Worker in this work.
There were some inner clashes as
these questions arose, but due to the
determination of the nucleus, it sue
ceeded in establishing the influence
of the Party in that factory. And
very important that it involved these
same comrades from the trade union
apparatus in this work.
The immediate reaction of the
factory nucleus in this factory in
telling the workers in the name Of
the Party, what to do under certain
particular situations in the factory
electrified the workers into discus
sion of the proposals of the G. P.
nucleus and resulted in switching
the sentiment of quite a few work
ers in favor of the tactics of our
trade union in given situation. The
appearance of the Party before the
workers in one particular situation
caused a discussion in a number of
departments on the Party being the
sole party leading the daily strug-
giles Of the workers. This gave our
comrades in that factory a very
good opportunity to talk to the
workers more extensively about the
work and program of the C. P. The
fear of the red scare" which in
fiuenced a number Of the members
in this nucleus has been broken be-
cause of the successful work of the
nucleus. At this opportunity I wish
to mention that this also caused
some comrades to take a leftist ac-
ton in openly coming out as Com
in the factory. Because Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

this latter happening, some say that
it was not proper to bring the Party
before the workers as was done. The
nucleus had discussion on this and
decided that the nucleus properly
carried out its work, and warned
comrades not to get dizzy with
success" and to guard against ex-
posture of individual comrades be-
cause this harms the work of the
entire nucleus.
IN Sections 1-2-7 some factory
nuclei do not publish shop bull
letins or get them out very rarely
because comrades from trade union
apparatus oppose their issuance on
the ground that it would rather
harm than help in the work in the
shop or that because of lack of forces
the trade union opposition paper
takes precedence over the shop bull
letin. In sections Ia comrades from
trade union apparatus over-rule de-
cisions of factory nuclei, in instances
even without consulting the nucleus
organizer. Here is manifest a lack
of appreciation of the Party's ability
to lead the masses and of the factory
nucleus being the organization
giving political leadership to the
workers in the factory.
In the reelection of our Section
Committees-which are the moss
important acting links with the
higher Party committees because
they connect up with the units and
nuclei which carry on direct work
among the masses-it is advisable
to include a number of comrades
from trade union fractions so that
they may carry the Section Com
mittee decisions on factory nuclei
work into these fractions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
HayerhilI Shoe
Strikers Force
New Settlement
To Send Delegation To
Washington To Hit
Labor Board
Special to the Daily Worker

HAVERHILL, Mass, March Is
A new victory was scored by the
striking shoe workers when the
Newburg shoe shop signed an agree
ment with the union yesterday.
Picket lines are solid in front of
all struck plants.
The union was informed yester-
day that the National Labor Board
has called a hearing of union rep
resentatives and manufacturers in
Washington Monday. The workers
will send delegation to the hear
ing to expose the strikebresking
policy Of the National Labor Board.
At strike meeting, Sam Ziebel,
union leader, pointed out how the
Wagner Bill is designed to break
strikes by calling out the forces of
the government against the workers.
1t was reported here today that
over 500 shoe workers are striking
in Manchester, N. H., for better con-
ditions and recognition of the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union. Strikes are looming in every
shoe town in the New England
states.
The Relief Committee set up by
the strikers is functioning well.
Shoe workers, however, are depend
ing on aid from workers from other
centers. The Haverhill union has
issued an appeal to workers thru
out the country to send relief funds
to the United Shoe and Leather
Workers Union, Ss Washington ST.,
Haverhill, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Members Of 81 RI Labor
Unions Can Stop 10 PC.
Wage Slash Extension

ments and restoration Of conditions
which existed and were recognized
and accepted on the railroads prior
to the depression" Such a man
date, coming before the opening Of
negotiations. expresses very clearly
what the membership wants.
Workers Must Act At Oncel
The present wage agreement does
not expire until June 30, 1894. Then
why are negotiations being rushed
through in this manner? There
would have been ample time to have
taken a referendum of the entire
membership on so important an
issue and the cost would have been
considerably less. Instead of the
$4,000 ESTIMATED at $50 apiece
which will be the minimum cost of
transporting, housing and feeding
the 1900 general chairmen to and
from Washington, a referendum
could be taken for less than one
third Of this sum. The membership
is still smarting under the assess
ments to defray the expenses of the
first wage cutting negotiations,
assessments which have had to be
met from the reduced pay check.
The negotiations are being rushed
through, just as they we're rushed
through in July, 1898, when East
man interfered to extend the 10 per
cent for eight more months, pre-
cisely because our Grand Chiefs do
not wish to give the rank and file
in the organizations a chance to ex-
press themselves.
There will be no protection what
ever to the membership of the 81
standard railway labor organiza-
tons nor to the half million unor-
gained and company unionized
railroad men in the 1900 general
chairmen sitting in Washington.
The membership in the lodges must
act at once to instruct the general
chairmen and the grand lodge Off
GERS as to what they want done in
Washington. Unless there is imme-
date pressure the 1900 general
chairmen will sign away our rights
as they did in the past negotiations.
The emergency which exists be-
cause the date for negotiations has
been set by our Grand Lodge Of
ficers for March Is necessitates a
resolution at the very next lodge
meeting or. if the lodge does not
hold regular meeting before
March Is, the demand for a special
meeting where such resolution
can be passed. Failing a quorum
at such meetings, and, of course, we
must strain every effort to avoid
such situation, there is still the
possibility Of circulating petitions
and sending these in with a state
ment that since no meeting was
called the membership took this
means to express their wishes.
Resolutions Not Enough
But resolutions and petitions are
not enough.
We have let the machinery of our
organizations slip from cur hands.
If we do not want to see the COM
plete breakdown of our conditions,
such a breakdown as is already oc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
More Ala. Miners Strike,
Brin ging Total to $4,000
Despite Troop Movements
Rank and File Miners Of PM,
UMWA in III. Map Struggles

7. For democracy in each union
and local; freedom Of expression
and action Reinstatement of all
those expelled by the offtcialdom.
Reinstatement Of those miners
dropped because Of refusal to pay
dues from c. W. A. Jobs,
8. The right to strike. organize
and picket, free speech and assem-
blage, and against arbitration.
9. Payment for all forms Of dead
work, horseback, yardage, states,
etc.
10. For the right Of Negro miners
to work on all jobs in all sections
Of the mines and all shifts without
any discrimination, and the right
to live in any house on equal terms
with the white miners.
IL. That we unite the rank and
file of the P. M A. and U. NJ. W. A.
under the leadership Of the Illinois
Miners Rank and File Unity Com
mittees at a conference to be called
at later date, on the basis of these
demands, strive to unity the miners
to secure one militant class struggle
union here in Illinois and also con-
meet ourselves nationally with other
similar movements toward calling
a National Conference for uniting
all the miners into one fighting
union, free from labor takers, on
national scale.
We go on record as calling an
other conference. Invitations to be
sent to the locals Of the P. M. A.
and q. M, W. A. and Womens
Auxiliaries. Imported scsbs or men
taking other mems Jobs cannot at
tend this conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Examine Work Of Shop Nuclei in Pre-Conuenton Discussion


ing in the apparatus of trade
unions, into the factory nuclei. The
Section Committee also held Joint
meetings with buros of several of
the factory nuclei and Jointly re-
viewed their work and problems.
This resulted in bringing some of
factory nuclei into the orbit of the
work of the Section Committee, and
in improving the work of these
nuclei. They now serve as a guide
OF how other factory nuclei should
organize their work.
leadership of factory nuclei can
not be effective if the Section Com
mittee is not acquainted with the
concrete situation in the respective
factories where nuclei exist. Lead
ership without this knowledge is
abstract and will result in the isola-
ton of the factory nuclei from the
Section and may result in the dis
solution of such nuclei.
The Factory Nucleus as the Builder
of the Revolutionary Arade
Union Movement
In this work it is very essential
that better working relationship
be established between the factory
nuclei and the trade union frac-
tons. Very many of the members
in the factory nuceli came into the
Party because they were convinced
that the Party gives leadership in
their bread and butter struggles.
And comrades, trade union func-
tionaries, oyerburdened with the
many tasks they have in their spe-
cial work, are not able to attend
many Party meetings and thereby
do not feel the pulse of Party life
as they should, do not keep up the
Party consciousness. They
either do not attend factory nuclei
meetings or when they do, more
often insist on the nucleus taking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16

curing on the D. g. H, the Louisi-
ana and Arkansas, the Kansas City
Southern, the D. 81 r. G., the
Southern Pacific and the G. & N.
Wifi we do not want to see the
spread of the open shop company
unionized roads-then we must
take steps to win back control of
our unions for the rank and file.
The place to start getting back
this control is in the lodge rooms
and on the job, 1t lies in the set
ting up Of rank and file machinery,
over the heads Of the Grand Lodge
officers If necessary, to unite the
various crafts for organized action
to settle grievances on the job be-
fore they pile up to the number
of thousands, it depends on the
ability Of the organized railroad
workers to establish contact and
confidence with the mass of unor-
ganized and company unionized
men who have no apparatus what
ever for winning wage agreements
or protecting their working rights.
1t calls for setting up united front
committees between the organized
and unorganiped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Should Instruct TIL cir
Officials on What
to Do About 1t
BY WALTER BOLT
0iIing the Machinery for Another
Wage Cut

The Grand Chiefs of the 81 stand
ard railway labor organizations, the
President of the United States,
Railroad Coordinator Eastman and
of course the railroad owners are
busily oilirg the machinery for the
extension Of the present 10 per cent
wage cut for another six months
from its expiration date, June 30.
They propose to call in the 1900
general chairmen on this matter, as
they did in previous negotiations, to
give the impression that the ex-
tension is being accepted in &C
cordance with the will Of the mem
bership. How is this illusion of
rank and file endorsement being
staged?
The general chairmen were mott
fled on Feb. 10 to obtain authority
from their unions, empowering
them and the executives to COM
plete negotiations on the points to
be discussed by the conference.
What is meant by obtaining
authority?" Will special meetings
Of the 100000 members Of the 81
organizations be called, where the
entire wage question can be dis
cussed and the will of the member
ship really be heardP Quite the
contrary. Except in the rarest in
stances the membership will not
even know when and how their
authority has been granted. The
general chairman will place the
matter before his Division Commit
tee If he deems advisable, or he will
merely fill out the necessary Gre
dentials, the procedure suggested by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers in the wage negotiations Of
the fall of 1881.
Instruct the Chairrnen
Technically, when this has been
done, and the general chairmen
proceed to Washington, they are
acting in a manner authorized by
the membership, but actually they
are not. Therefore, 1t is necessary
for the membership to Immediately
instruct the general chair1nen as to
what they want done In Washing
ton. 1t is necessary for the mem
bership to Immediately pass resolu-
tons in every lodge, such as those
passed by the three lodges in
Minneapolis last week. This resoIu-
ton, adopted by Local 299 of the
Railway Carmen, Local 3 of the
Boilermakers and the ST. Paul
Union Station Lodge of the Rail-
way Clerks, states emphatically that
the membership of these lodges
want "the immediate and rncondi-
tional return of the 10 per cent
deduction, an additional increase
in wages sufficient to meet the
rising cost Of living due to inf1a-
ton, and enforcement OF agree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Daily Worker Midwest Bureau

0AAF fNRAAA[A AfAAAhENN AkAA
SPRINGFIELD, III, March IA
One hhndrSd and twenty-five min
ers, eiec1sd by opposition groups
within the Progressive Miners Of
America and the United Mine
Workers Of America in Centralis,
unanimously adopted a militant
program Of struggle when they met
in conference here last week. The
conference also decided to begin is
suing a paper to be called the
Miners News" within one week.
The Peary machine sent a group
to the conference in an attempt to
distort the program and split the
meeting, but failed. They left the
hall together with their leader,
Jack Allen.
The program passed by the con-
ference follows:
l. That we demand and organize
action for the immediate restora-
ton of the s610 scale, and around
this immediate action prepare our
forces to fight for a So basic wage
scale for all miners in or around
the mines. with a minimum guar
antee Of $50 per week, 40 weeks
work per year and a maximum
working week Of five days and six
hours per day.
2. The right of the miners to be-
long TO union of their own choice,
which means the right Of the p. M.
A. miners in the U. M. W. A. con-
trolled pits South TO organize
their own locals side by side with
the U.M.WA., wherever miners so
decide. The recognition of each
union without checkoff
g. Full support in the enactment
Of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill III. R. 7598) presented
to Congress by the Unemployed
Council.
a. Immediate increase of unem-
ployment relief. Minimum of "a
hours work at union scale on
G. w. S. Protest against any lay
offs from c, w. A. or the cutting
Of S0-hour minimum in small min
ing towns. Additional clothing,
food, fuel. etc. All this not to be
deducted from ratio Of relief.
5. In case of a referendum vote,
we demand that every man who
worked in a mine prior to April /,
1881, be given the right to vote.
6. Miners eheckweighmen on
every scale, elected and controlled
by miners.