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The Bismarck tribune., 1934-07-27
BY FULTON THATCHER GRANT
CHAPTER NINE


CHAPTER NINE
So much for the purely political
aspect Of those days.
But there Is another facet to the
diamond Of France. the human side
Of things. have not mentioned what
was going on while Daladier. Frot and
Cot were being 'vite ct fort" Do ncs
suppose that the people Of France
sat back and waited for the miracle
to happen. Do not suppose that even
the National Lottery, which made
millionaires over night, once month,
was enough to draw these excited peo-
pie out OF themselves and to make
them forget why they had been curs-
ing the men who had, somehow, In.
sinuated themselves into the power
Of the land.
On February Paris was quiet
but watchful. The provinces were
disturbed and there were unimpor-
tant manifestations, chiefly In Bor-
deaux.
On February 2 the staid old Journal
des Debats wrote:
II the Cabinet deceives the
waiting people 1t will fall. because
evidently It has no strength aside
from that which the country gives
1t. NJ. Daladier is going to have
an experience. an adventure. He
has six days to create q new
world: one day less than the
biblical Genesis.
As II to prove the cynical attitude
OF the public echoed In this, there
was some small rioting In the Saint.
Ouen quarters where Left-minded
workmen have q sort Of common
wealth.
On February Paris learned that
the Ball of the Little White Beds, the
greatest Of all social functions In
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-07-27

1t Is felt, to influence weather and drainage condi-
tions.
COST NEAR 37seo0,Oeo
The forested areas would have to be fenced, to
keep out cattle and sheep while the trees grow
Ing and this work, with the planting itself, would
be expected to furnish great deal Of needed en-
ployment to farmers Of the region who have been i'm
poverished by drouth conditions.
It Is estimated that from 10 to IL years would be
required to finish the job and the cost would be at
least $75ooooo. Part Of this money could come out
Of drouth relief funds already appropriated. great
part Of the millions Of fence posts needed could be
cut forest projects where thinning Of timber is in
order.
NO EQUAL IN WORLD
Such belt of forest trees. 1900 miles long and
100 miles wide, would have equal in the world.
The size Of the undertaking is indicated by Charles
Lathrop Pack president Of the American Tree asso-
cation who estimates that 100000 miles OF fencing
would be required to encirce the new woodlands and
that 200,000,000 fence posts would be needed.
The land would either be bought from farmers
whose ground lies in the path Of the proposed belt
or Immediately leased with option to buy the wooded
sections later At least six. and probably more huge
nurseries would have to be established, and vast
quantities Of seeds and seedlings provided.
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-07-27
BY NEA Service

BY NEA Service
Washington. July 26.-Al the tree planting done
by the CCC thus far and all the forestry projects of
the states, would look like brier thcket compared
with the grandiose plan being considered by the
Forest Service
This Is no less than the planting Of magnificent
belt OF forest trees 100 miles wide. all the way from
the Canadian border to the Texas Panhandle.
F. A. Silcox, chief forester, is studying the plan
It Is believed that such shelter belt Of trees would
help bring more rainfall, reduce dust storms which
have ruined SO many midwest FARMS help check
erosion and floods give employment relief to present
drouth sufferers. and of provide valuable tim
Der later
STUDY OLD WORLD PLANS
The plan has not yet been approved, but study is
being given to two very old similar programs in
France and Russia. That in Russia was launched
some 70 years in Czarist days to reclaim Of
the worn-out prairie lands
That In France is $50 years old. and Is said to
have made splendid pine forest out of a useless
sandy waste. So there is nothing particularly new
about the shelter belt proposal except its tremendous
size
The plan involves either renting or buying land
IN strips perhaps 100 yards wide running north and
south The area between would be cultivated Just
as at present But the alternate strips Of woodland
The Bismarck tribune., 1934-07-27

Fair tonight and Saturday: little
change In temperature.
For Minnesota: Generally fair
Friday and Saturday: cooler Friday
night, extreme north and extreme
south portions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Klamath Falls Tops
Daily Worker Drive

SEATTLE, Nov. l5-The Klam-
ath Falls section of the COmmun-
list Party is first over the top in
the Daily Worker drive for funds.
Klamath Falls has raised $50 per
cent of its quota. Yakima was the
first to complete it's quota, but
it has now been passed with the
success of Klamath Falls.
Seattle is still in the lead with
the amount of $40 to its favor.
Nothing has been heard recently
from Astoria which challenged
Seattle to a socialist competition,
and the amount to it's credit still
remains at $50. Spokane and Ia
coma are also tagging behind.
Spokane with only 80 per cent of
its quota raised, and Tacoma with
hardly 10 per cent of its quota
raised.
Sections that have not been
heard from yet include Belling-
ham, Portland. Olympia, Everett,
and Centralia. These sections
should begin action Immediately
in order to catch up with those
sections now in the lead.
The Northwest now has 40 per
cent of it's quota completed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Farrar Goes On Trial In
KeISo Syndicalism Case
Predict Judge will Show Same Anti-LabOr
Leanings As In Leaflet Case

KELSO, Wash, Nov. 15-Max
Farrar goes on trial tomorrow on
charges OF criminal syndicalism.
The trial of Anre Pisila will fol-
low.
Several hundred signatures
have been secured to the petition
for dismissal of the charges. The
petitionswill be submitted to
local papers and to Prosecuting
Attorney Hallin and Judge J. e.
Stone.
Judge Stone last week denied
subpoenas for 20 witnesses called
by the defense.
This same judge, in sentencing
recently three workers who dis
tributed leaflets denouncing an
editorial in the LOngview Daily
News as "inciting to violence"
when it said that local citizens
should follow the example of Cal
ifornia vigilantes and drive the
Communists out of town, said
that the workers weren't ordin-
airy criminals but Communists,
and for that reason he'd have to
give them the full sentence al
lowed by the law.
1t is clear that there will be
two prosecutors in these criminal
syndicalism cases, one OF them
sitting on the judges bench.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Bradley Sues Veterans
Relief Administrators
Charges E-Soldiers Denied Aid BecauSeOf Their
Radical Political Affiliations

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Nov. 10
Unfair discrimination in the
administration of veterans relief
funds is charged in the suit
brought by George Bradley, Com
munist candidate for the u. 5.
Senate, and Charles Watson
against Julian Brown, George +.
Rhode and Irwin ii. Sly as men,
bers OF the Veterans of Foreign
Wars relief investigating commit
tee. Bradley, who has been I'M
employed since 1882 and with a
wife and child to support, testi-
flies that he has received only $S3
in aid from the relief fund from
September, 1888, until April, 1884,
although Julian Brown told him
he would be adequately provided
for if he ceased his working class
activities. Both Bradley and Wat
son were refused sufficient aid
because of their red activities.
Judge w. p. Brown. former
Superior Court jurist stated that
the committee had the right to
turn down applications from any
veteran who was trying to over
throw the government.
IL believe you're on pretty thin
ice," said Judge Ed Hardin in
whose court the case is being
tried. 1T is the duty of the relief
committee to make inquiry with
out regard to the political or re-
ligious beliefs of the applicants.
1t is the committees duty to as
certain his needs as a veteran. L
don't propose to judge this case
on its political merits"
IF the relief committee" said
Brown, honestly believed the
funds might be used for improper
purposes they could tell these
gentlemen to go to hell and this
court could not reverse its ac-
ton"
That is not the law" said
Judge Hardin, "and | wouldn't
want to live under a government
that did things that way"
Referring to Bradley's candidacy
on the Communist ticket, prose-
cutting attorney keplinger accus-
ed Bradley of receiving a salary
from Moscow.
Claiming that Julian Brown.
George +. Rhode and Irwin Sly
were no longer members of the
investigating committee since
under the law a new committee
should have been appointed in
October, Keplinger asked that
the trial be dismissed.
This motion was denied by
Judge Hardin who continued the
hearing until Wednesday, Novem-
Der q, by which time a new set
of defendants can be substitute
ed by the plaintiffs attorney, u.
ID. Gnagey.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Thomas Talks on
Fdscism, Gives
Vague Solution

SEATTLE, Nov. Is Norman
Thomas, Socialist Party head, de-
livered fireside chat to an audi
ence of 500 at the Civic Auditori-
UNI Wednesday afternoon, on the
subject, THE Drift Toward Fas-
cism."
Pointing that while America
has not yet gone politically fas-
cist, Thomas stated the RoOse-
welt administration already was
economically fascist, squeezing
out small business men and turn
ing business over to the monopo-
ly capitalists.
"Fascism undoubtedly will not
be called such when it is polite
ally developed" Thomas declared
but probably will come under
the disguise of 'one-hundred per
cent Americanism' fighting all
forms of foreign importations.
No Unity
Politics are highly personal
ized," he continued. I'VE vote
for or against a man, laying the
way open for rise to dictatorship
of such demagogues as Huey
Long, who is now following the
early socialist footsteps of Mus
sOlini."
The reigns of terror in the tex
tile belt and California during
the recent strikes were described
by Thomas as more advanced
stages of Fascism."
Asked by a listener II the So
cialist Party leadership nation
ally advocated a united front
with Communists against war and
fascism, Thomas said,
THE Communists, by the use
of wrong tactics, play into the
hands of the fascists and make it
impossible for us to cooperate
with them.
I'VE have cooperated in isOlat-
ed instances on a united front
basis, on specific issues in small
groups, but, he intimated, these
instances were mistakes"
Solution Vague
The solution Thomas offered
his audience in the fight against
fascism well, just protest
against tyranny whenever and
wherever found"
How? By better organization
of workers and farmersw
No program was limited at by
Thomas, though questioners
in the audience specifically ask
ed for one, except an invitation
to attend his evening lecture
when I'll describe the other as
poets more fully"
The small audience, probably
as much aware of the dangers of
fascism as Thomas, filed out of
the auditorium somewhat disap-
pointed by the utter lack of
Thomas Socialist Party program
to offer any vestige of a concrete
militant program aiding in the
fight against fascism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

he was about to depart on a
south-bound freight.
Rations Cut
The practice of cutting ratiOns
has been progressing by degrees.
A month ago the transients re-
ceived only two meals per day,
but with the opportunity of OBJ
tanning a second helping at each
meal. Recently it was announced
that they would receive three
meals; but the noon meal consists
of two very poor sandwiches and
coffee. The possibility of obtain
ing additional food at any meal
is discontinued. The three meals"
are thereby actually less than the
former two. Moreover, after a re-
cent meal of stew" 210 COM
plants were received of stomach
and intestinal irritation.
Don't Work, Can't Eat
Now comes the command that
If you don't work, you can't eat!
Work for what? 1t has been the
policy of the American worker to
work for pay. We have long
prided ourselves on our high
standard of living" And now we
are commanded to work two days
out of each week for two sand
witches.
There is a name for the man
who is willing to go to work and
undersell his fellow. He is consid-
cred a very low form of humanity.
Yet the authorities are placing
so-called apprentices to manu-
facture mattresses and clothing
in competition with union work
ers. The men are asked to go to
work on various projects involv-
ing semi-skilled labor, for three
dollars per week. One of the few
remaining paid" kitchen work.
ers labors for " hours per week
for a dollar and two cans OF smok-
ing tobacco.
New Committee Organized
These are the conditions pro-
tested by the newborn spontan-
eously organized movement am
ong the unemployed transients
on relief. They are heartily en-
dorsed by the marine workers,
who are represented on the pro-
visional committee. The latter
have also their own demands pc
culiar to their trade which the
provisional committee will COOP
crate in presenting.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Arrest TaCOmanS
On Poster Charge

TACOMA, Nov. 15-Jamming
Judge Jackets court in response
to an International Labor De-
Tense leaflet, workers yesterday
heard hizzoner tell defendant
Phil Davis this is the wrong day.
The case has been set for tOmor-
row AT YOUR REQUEST"
1.-THE defendants were amazed.
No such request had been made.
Davis works on Thursdays.)
On defense insistence the case
was continued to next Wednes.
day. A call has been issued to
jam the court again, then.
TACOMA, Nov. l5-Phil Davis,
local leader of the Young Com.
munist League, was due to be
hailed before Judge Hackett on
Wednesday to answer charges OF
putting up pOsters-after an
election campaign had plastered
every inch of space in town!
Two other young people. one a
17-yearold girl, were arrested
with Davis. The posters advertis.
ed mass meeting in NOrmanna
Hall this coming Sunday evening
18th and X. Jim Bourne, re-
Gently returned from a stay in
the Soviet Union is billed to
talk on youth in the Happy
Land"
Judge Hackett has an anti
working class record.
Though booked for "defacing
city poles" local newspapers re-
port them arrested on disorder,
ly" charges, and never forget to
mention the communist" post
ers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

SEATTLE, Nov. 15-Forced to
organize in self-defense against
increasingly unbearable living
conditions, 100 jobless transients
stormed the central YMCA at 10
pm. Saturday and demanded
quarters. The workers, from city
shelters, are without beds.
Although no beds were ac-
quired, this mass pressure re-
vealed a powerful lever to WELD
against authorities.
The demonstration was led by
a provisional committee of IL
elected from 200 unemployed
transients who met Friday at
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union hall. Other points in a
permanent program for better
conditions were: Promotion of
a mass meeting at Washington
and Occidental streets Tuesday,
issuing OF leaflets and spontane-
GUS rallies at the s Union street
shelter whenever Necessary.
A committee was appointed to
visit health and fire department
heads to demand an investigation
of health and fire hazards in re-
lief shelters.
Delegates also will visit the In
ternational Longshoremen's As
ISOLATION to solicit support, to-
gether with help, past and future
from the MWIU.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Free Speech
On Trial

PORTLAND, Nov. 15-Richard
Lovelace, World War veteran, was
arrested October q at a street
meeting at 4th and Alder. This
arrest is another example of the
vicious campaign against freedom
of speech and assemblage being
carried on in Portland. Three
IWW's were also arrested on an
opposite corner, who were charg-
cd with disorderly conduct. Love-
lace was arrested for blocking
traffic on the sidewalk"
His trial took place last Friday
in Judge Longs court in the po-
lice station.
Two new lawyers for the Inter-
national Labor Defense, Dan
Hartley and Cliff O'Brien, defend
ed Lovelace.
Mayor on Stand
Witnesses subpOenaed for the
case included Mayor Joseph X.
Carson, Merle r. Bacon and Mar
tin II. Pratt. The Mayor testified
to the effect that he was in charge
of the police department and also
that he was fostering city ordin-
ance prohibiting street meetings.
The other two refused to show up
in the court room on the preteXt
that they were either out of town
or were busy in another trial.
The other witnesses testified
that there was no blocking OF
traffic on the sidewalk and that
another street meeting held by "a
religious group was not bothered.
This shows that any meeting call
ed by the Communist Party or
any group gathered to discuss
governmental issues are to be
broken up on any pretext.
Lovelace was fined S. by Judge
Long. The Judge refused to in
crease the fine so the case could
be appealed. Lovelace is now serv-
ing out his fine in jail.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Clothes and Shoes Scarce

In the shelters at Seattle it
has been found that the food "a
tion has been cut considerably
during the past month; that
employment of regulars" from
the line without pay or other re-
Enumeration and not possessing
health cards has taken the place
of paid" kitchen and dining
room help. Clothing and shoe Or
ders are almost impossible to
obtain, and then only for small
items at time.
But by far the most pressing
Injustice is the condition affect
ing some 400 individuals who are
forced to sleep on the stone base
ment floor, or in cots damned so
close together as to make any
pretense at healthful conditions
a lie.
A Fire Trap
The basement shelter at "a Un-
ion street, where several hundred
or more men are forcd to sleep
under such conditions, is a GRIM
inally dangerous fire trap. After
midnight the two exits, front and
rear, are locked. The rear en-
trance is useless in case of fire, as
it leads to a stairway leading
through the floor above.
Although facilities for ventila-
tion exist, for some reason they
are not used, and the air is heavy
with the almost unbearable
stencil of feet and stale, over-used
air.
Frequent Beatings
If you happened to be lined up
awaiting a bed at the Blue Ok
Lodge" at 107 First Ave. some ev-
ening, you might have an oppor-
tunity of seeing some crippled or
old man brutally Slapped for some
irregularity, fancied or real. You
will observe that anyone capable
of resistance is never bothered
This happened to chap wound
ed severely in the head, who was
pacing the floor in pain. 1t was
after 10 o'clock, so the floorman
and a stool-pigeon took the ex.
cuse to break a sap across his
head and throw him into the
street, where he was arrested.
In another case. young. well
built hoosier who was floorman
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
VOICE OF ACTION
California Casts Record
Communist Vote OF 50, 600
All Parts of Nation Report Red
Strength At Least Doubled

SEATTLE, Nov. bah returns
since election day bear out last
weeks Voice of Action conten-
tion that the Northwest has more
than doubled the 1882 red vote.
Every sector of the nation re-
ports similar results for working
class candidates running on the
Communist ticket.
California ran up the record
vote of $1,000 for Anita Whitney,
red candidate for State Control
Ter. This puts the Communist
Party officially on the ballot, in
to the California primaries from
now on, major political party
in the state.
All New York's worker-candid-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
DeJonge Talks at
Protest Meeting

PORTLAND, Nov. 15-Before a
crowd of about 200 workers who
stood with bumped shoulders in
a drizzling rain Tuesday in the
Plaza Park across the street from
the County Court House where
his trial is taking place, Dirk De-
Jonge explained what was going
ON in his trial and the significance
of the criminal syndicalism cases.
DeJonge said "The state is u.s.
ing the criminal syndicalism
cases in Portland as a wedge
against the Communist Party in
other parts of the United States"
He called upon workers to sup
port the defense and for those
who could not get inside the
courtroom to hear the trial, to
stand on the outside of the door
in the corridor and register silent
protest against his frame-up.
March to Court
Following the meeting, the
crowd marched into the court
room. A committee was sent to
the Judge with resolution and a
demand that the court doors be
opened. They were refused the
latter demand because of the con-
fusion in the corridors.
A mass meeting will be held
every day during the trial to tell
those workers who are not able to
hear the trial first hand what is
going on inside the court.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
.Dykeland Farmers
Must Now Organize
BY a Farm Correspondent

CLATSKANIE, Ore, Nov. 10
$500 acres inside one length OF
dike-wall-One of the richest and
largest pieces of land in one mass
surrounded by a wall of dirt
and this spot of the United
States has passed untouched by
the crisis for number of years.
Farmers started to cultivate
these lands by taking large loans
to build dirt bikes to keep out
the Columbia river floods. In
former years they have been
prosperous, as they have been
able to pay for the diking and
most of the farmers own their
own land.
Now these farmers are faced
with the same problems that
farmers in other sections of the
country have already experience
ed: to find markets and prices
to insure an income; to continue
the ownership of these lands and
livelihood for their families.
Control by Monopoly
Farmers are beginning to see
that they are up against finance
capital and the monopoly food
trusts which today control the
marketing and buying of farm
products. For various reasons
the food trust buys from only
certain sections of the country.
1t buys from the section of the
country where it has control over
the farmers by mortgages and
tenant farms. Thus it is able to
make the lowest bid for their
products, exploit these farmers
the most and make the largest
profits.
On the other hand finance
capital is looking with an evil
eye at these rich lands here,
planning on how to rob the
farmers of the years of toll in
building and paying for these
diked lands. As finance capital
has control of the markets, these
farmers are thrown off the mar
ket. Food trusts advertise only
certain products from certain
sections of the country through
radios, shows and press. These
products are advertised as the
superior quality and all others
are inferior grade and thus have
a poor price if any. And in many
places only the advertised pro-
duets are on the market.
Expenses High
These farmers see that it will
not be long before they will lose
their farms, for there is no in
come and expenses are the same.
Tax statements are sent to the
farmers as they always have
been. Clothing, food and school
ing for the children is as costly as
ever.
Last Sunday so farmers met to
discuss plan of action to find a
way out of this situation.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

ates ran a good 20 per cent ahead
of last years vote. Socialist gains
as elsewhere. were small, averag-
ing around Is per cent.
Workers Ticket Wins
Communist voters in the New
England textile strike region
jumped 300 per cent.
At Taylor Springs. Illinois, a
Socialist Communist combined
Workers ticket swept into Of
flee by 2 to l margin.
The Socialist Party lost heavi-
ly in many important sections,
running far behind Communists.
Sam Darcy, Communist candid
ate for governor OF California,
pOlled three times the Socialist
nominees vote.