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The producers news., 1934-10-11
Communist Candidate for
County Commissioner

In the last election, 1882, Hans
HarGersen ran for sheriff on the
Communist ticket and pulled 1,042
votes. This year he has been nom
il ated as Communist candidate for
county commissioner.
Hans Hardersen was born in
Schleswig Hols Elm. Germany, in
1882. When he was six months
old his parents emigrated to the
United States and settled in Clin-
ton, Iowa, where his father worked
as a harness maker and uphol-
sterer.
After graduating from school,
Hans w5n to wrok as a carpenter
4 cement worker and farmer in Iowa
and Nebraska. In 1911 he came
to Montana and filed on a home
stead near Archer where he is now
| living. Later he married Grace
Morgan, the daughter Of ]. ]. Nor
gan, who was one of his neighbors
To them have been born thre'
children, two girls and a boy.
Hans Hardersen is a farmer an,
he has been a worker, and there
fore understands the problems o
both farmers and workers. Al
though his neighbors regard hir
as a good farmer and a har
worker, he is now facing the sam
conditions as most Of US. He
hanging on with the skin of hi
teeth and he doesn't know ho'
long he viii be able to. Like mos
Of US, he too has been forced o
relief.
Hans is sta e secretary Of ii
United Farmers League and men
Der Of the Farmers National Con
mittee for Action. AS such an
as a Communist he has been figh
The producers news., 1934-10-11

There is a collective vegetable gar
den as we'll and we have so many
vegetables that we feed cattle on
them. Our collective farm has al
so a milk farm, the best in the
district. Our gain las year, not
counting the increase of the herd,
was $4,000 rubles in money. We
have also laid by enough silo to
last us the year round. Green
fodder is good for the cattle. Be-
fore the collectivization we did not
know any hing about it or how to
store it, and the good herbs vast
ed in the fields. But now we use
them all.
"Not one of our collective farm
workers has less than 100 work
days and very many have 800, SO
even in the weakest collective
farms each family will have al
least from one 20 one and a hall
tons of grain, besides vegetable!
and money. And in the bet e.
collective farms there will be from
four to five tons per head, no
counting the rest.
ave have many tractors, har
vesters and other complex ma
chimes This years harvest ha
been completely gathered by har
vesters and we have motor truck
to carry our grain to the stat
. elevators. The tractors work da
ard night and the tractor driver
in three shifts, eight hours da
| each.
?, "In our district all collectiv
farms have day nurseries for tn
> babies and the older children al
! all sent to school. Many of til
5 grown up men and women stud
t also. There are special courses
i winter for those who can't rea
r and write well. In our distri'
n only the very old people have n
e mained illiterate.
d "Now you see that we live vel
a well indeed. We threw out all Il
). koolaks ESQ are called the form'
The producers news., 1934-10-11
Is CHICAGO
DELEGATES ARRESTED

CHICAGO.-Eleven men and two wo-
men, delegates to the Second U. S. Con-
gress Against War and Fascism, were ar
rested here for demonstrating against fas-
cism on the campus of the University of
Chicago. The demonstration, composed of
college students and delegates, was staged
in front of the international House where
a group of honor students from fascist
Italy were quartered. Twenty police Of
ficers were sent to break it up. While
the arrested delegates were being booked
at the city jail, Mayor Kelly of Chicago
was presenting the fascist students with
the keys to the city.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
NEGRO CHURCH GROUPS
BACK WORKERS BILL

WASHINGTON Church schools and
missionary societies of the A.M.E. Zion
Methodist church in Washington, Balti
more and Philadelphia have unanimously
endorsed the Workers Unemployment In
surance bill, the Washington Unemployed
Council announced last week.
The council sent delegates to present
the workers bill to these Negro church
groups during their recent district conven-
ton at Washington. Several Negro pas
tors, addressing the 100 delegates, spoke
enthusiastically for the BILL
The producers news., 1934-10-11
Y.CL. ORGANIZER ARRESTED
ON .VAGRANCY CHARGE

TAMPA, Fla.-The organizer of the
Young Communist League, Orlando Todd,
was arrested on charge of vagrancy and
not given the right to defend himself and
sentenced to Jail for an indefinite period.
In pronouncing sentence, the Judge eX-
pressed his hatred for the young Commun-
list, saying: "People like you are too dang
erous to be allowed on the streets of Or
landO"
The producers news., 1934-10-11
WAR VETERANS TO
BE PUT ON FARMS

WASHINGTON.-In order to get the
needy war veterans off their hands, Off
cialS of the Roosevelt administration are
considering to put them on farms. The
plan is either to establish subsistence home
steads where the old soldiers may receive
the thanks of the fatherland in the form
of a subsistence or starvation level; or to
buy farms in their respective communi-
ties On these farms veterans will be eX-
pected to make payments extending over
q period of Is years.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
OUTLOOK

Glasgow is becoming a deserted
place now that gambling has been
stopped by the state authorities,
says Mrs. Liz Vaughn who has
just returned from the boom town
to Outlook.
Bert Grove is expecting to leave
Outlook to receive medical atten-
ton soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Witte who
have been gone for some time re-
turned last week to their home.
During their absence, Mrs. Chris
Lux took care of the farm.
The garage from behind the for
mer Robert Frost place has been
moved to Plentywood.
Another truckload of potatoes
this time from the Red river val
ley IN Minnesota, was in town OF
Wednesday.
: Mrs. Carl Tango and her TIVE
cnllQrSU, NlIld dilu uAdA SoASN, -
for Los Angeles, Calf, Thursday
going by bus from Glendfve. Mrs
Tango intends to remain out ives
until the first of January with he
mother and sister.
Among the Outlook people VIII
were in Plentywood Sunday to tax
in the movie, Little Miss Marker,
, were Mrs. N. ]. Nelson and Mr.:
Art Ueland.
The German Lutherans had Mis-
: sion Fest Sunday at Outlook.
Mr.. Fowler Of the Oliver Ma
! chine company and Mr.. Bowles
Scobey were in Outlook last wee
calling on the Adam Kohler ar
i Joe Smith families.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Kasimir Melle vi
/, tied friends in Canada this wee
The producers news., 1934-10-11
ARCHER

Charles Dress, Sr., spent Satur-
day night with Joe Whitish.
Arthur Ike transac.e ed business
in Plentywood and Antelope Sat-
urday.
Ed Boelens was a county seat
caller Saturday.
Joe Whitish, Leo Kazeck and Ole
Flalne were in Plentywood Satur-
day.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
FRENCH PEASANTS INIPRISON
POLICE TO STOP SALE

DIJON, France.-FOur hundred t+Grlrs Ts
ants joined in protest against the a..,ro ssrrs
ed sale of the farm Of a sTnan is e b.
named Chapuis. He is the mayor .Is vs
village of Trudy Bel Seurre. Inc gn5 S1s
ordered by the Agrarian Credit funo n"d b
A conflict between the peaSail.S ~rrbb ~,
militia and police took place. vsr
of the representatives Of the -" ASS
locked up by the enraged peaS.a,ns'.o .,l. II hsf
result the sheriff gave up the loe@ 4 Is
ing sale at this time and pOstpOn''
three months.
The producers news., 1934-10-11

"Dear Comrade:
1--WE peasants of The collective
farm, The Wave of the Revolu-
tion,' of the Boozoolook district OF
the mid-Volga, have read your let
ter at a meeting of all our mem
bers, and have decided to write you
a letter describing in a few words
how we live here.
"Our koIhoz COLLECTIVE farm)
has been organized since 1880. In
the beginning we had only very
primitive agrarian implements and
horses for all traction work. Now
we have 9 tractors, two harvest
The producers news., 1934-10-11

ing in the front ranks for the Sc
curity of farmers homes and their
means of existence. In struggles
against foreclosures and evictions,
in the continuous fights for better
relief, for sufficient feed, etc., he
has taken leading part. Farm
ers know him as being fearless
and as a man they can depend on.
For these reasons he is the Com
munist candidate for county COM
missioner.
None of his opponents for this
office can point to as good a re-
cord as Hans Hardersen can. Time
and again the present county COM
missioners who are up for re-elec-
ton have shown by their actions
that they are not using their Of
flee in the interest of the small
farmers and workers. They have
put up no struggle 20 increase re-
lief; they even went SC far as en-
dorsing the action Of their sheriff
who met farmers with guns.
AS every other Communist can
didate, Hans Hardersen will adj
ministrate his office 10 the well
fare of the impoverished farmers
and workers, and not in the in
terest Of the power companies,
chain stores, bondholders and the
like. And never before has the
need for such administration beer
as great.
The vo'ers who know this, the
farmers and workers and ever
many small businessmen and pro
fessionals. will vote for Hans Har
dersen as one of their next com
missioners.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
eve Live Very Well In
Decd" Their Letters
Read

NOTE-Following We publish
two letters written by farmers of
collective farms of the Mid-Volga
district in the Soviet Union. The
letters are addressed to some
French farmers and are sent to
the Producers News by n. Gaum-
er, manager of he International
Department of the Peasan s. Paper
published in Moscow.
Gaumer writes that the Russian
farmers are very much interested
in exchanging letters with Amerl-
can farmers ard especially with
farmers up here in Montana. He
asks thai farmers interested IN
such correspondence send their ad-
dresses to him IN. Gaumer, The
Peasants Paper, Moscow Z, Komn-
htepha 9, U.S.S.R.) or write di-
rectly to the addresses given at
the erd of these letters.
The Producers News believes
tha' some Of our readers will use
this opportunity to get in direct
contact with farmers in the Sovier
Union. We would appreciate it i
we could receive copies of let er,
sent to Russia and the answer
received for publication, since w
know that mary of our reader
will be interested in such CORES
pondence.-Editor.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
LAX THE BLADDER
Use Juniper Oil, Buchu
Leaves, Etc.

If you are bothered getting up
nights, burning, leg pains, back
ache. make this 25c test. Flush
out the excess acids and waste
matter that cause irritation. Get
juniper oil, extract buchu leaves,
etc. in green tablets called BUK-
ETS. the bladder laxative. After
four days If not satisfied any drug
gist will return your 25c. E. l.
Miller Druggist. Adv
The producers news., 1934-10-11
ABOUT IL MILLION UN-
EMPLOYED, DELEGATES ESTIMATE

SAN FRANCISCO.-Delegates at the
convention of the American Federation of
Labor estimated here today that 16,S46,0O
persons were either unemployed or work
ing only part time in the United States
The statement was made by Boston dele
gate on the basis of a government spon-
sored survey in Massachusetts,.
The producers news., 1934-10-11
"Dear Comrade:

"Dear Comrade:
First l want to tell you about
myself. | was born in 1900 and
am he son of a very poor widow
who had to work very hard all
her life for a big landowner. We
were three brothers and a sister.
The elder children had to work
for the landowner as soon as they
were big enough, but l never did
because l always hated landown-
ers like mad dogs. So l got sent
down from our village school for
insubordination. When l was old
enough l got mobilized in the civil
war and l fought for three years
and half. Then l came back to
the village and began to farm, and
to work in the village Soviet, and
l also learned my trade. Now
am carpenter in our MTS (Machint
and Tractor Station). I work
eight hours a day and then I an
Tree TO 90 as 1 ike.
"The collec'ivization in our dis
trict is almost complete. Their
are very few peasants that farm
on their own. We work very wei
ard this years harvest has beel
gathered in almost without an,
losses. Even in the weakest col
lective farms workers will receiv
not less than five Kilograms grail
per working day, but mostly it
8 to IL Kilograms and in the bes
organized collective farms they wi
receive even 16 Kilograms pc
work day. Every family has a
individual vegetable garden. Thos
that had no land have receive
from the collective farm half
hectare land and enough seed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
by a Shoe Worker Correspondent

by Shoe Worker Correspondent
AUBURNE, Melt was very dis
appointing for us, the shoe workers
of Local 81, of the United Shoe and
Leather Workers Union when rep
resentatives" of the Co-ordinating
Committee appeared, the brothers
Paul McKeon and Frank Costello.
We expected them to report to
us on the struggles of the shoe
workers in Haverhill, Nashua and
other parts of the country, and give
suggestions from their own expert
ence about the best way to or
ganize the union. But it is too
much to expect such things from
them. They showed themselves up
as no better than the A. F. of L.
reformist leaders.
In direct defiance of the consti-
tuition Of the U. S. and L. W. u,
that guarantees to everybody with
out discrimination in regards to
race, religion or political opinion,
the same rights in the organization,
they launched an attack against the
Communist Party, the militant ele-
ment in our organization which is
trying to make the union a fighting
organization. They also attacked
the organizers of strikes, claiming
again that they are against strikes.
I suppose they can't forgive the
militant fighters in Haverhill for
defying the Labor Board. They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
SHORT STORY CONTEST

N6N 1OIh NlJy.
Editor:
I realize that the content and
quality of the Daily" has improved
tremendously. However, it is far
from ideal and 1 wish to add a
little constructive criticism.
In the first place your editorials
ale entirely too long and drawn out.
Make them shorter and more con-
else. This brevity will make for in
terest and attention.
Propaganda is like medicine and
1t is often necessary to Sweeten for
f1avoring. Theoretical Marxism must
be made concrete and brought to
the every day struggle of the masses.
Stories, like the picket story of Be-
denheim, must become Daily
Worker feature. We need more like
Spivak, Gold, and Garlin.
In connection with short story
daily feature, I think it would be
advisable to inaugurate a short story
contest dealing with human misery
under the capitalistic order. Mem
bers of the N. S. L., F. S. U. and
Y. G. L. should be urged to con-
tribute. Readers of the Daily" and
Socialists of Y. P. S. l.. and L. 1. D.
should also be asked to contribute
to the daily story feature. The new
illustrated edition of Karl Marx
would be quite apropos as prize.
A series of drawings showing
slum areas of the city and its hui
man misery, would act as a splendid
countermove to drawings of New
York City in the Sun" Perhaps a
few drawings of model Soviet hous-
ing would serve as contrast to the
dilapidated and superanuated fire
trap tenements.
An example of what I'm trying
to express would be daily feature
article with titles like News the
Papers Failed to Print" The COL
umn would begin with an extract
from a bourgeoir, paper and be fol-
lowed by revelatory news behind the
news. This would emphasize the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28

speed-ups by various mills, N. T. W
U. in 3 days organized sympathy
strike of 10000 workers to support
one department of 40 workers who
struck.
This stormy strike lasted 10 days.
Edith arrested. Defended by work
ers and I. L. D. Released on bail.
Strike won partial victory: "effi-
cheney experts" removed from mills.
A. F. of L. officials brought to
Lawrence by bosses. Tried to win
workers from N. T. w. U. Cen
eral wage-cut Of 10 per cent an
nounced.
Twenty-three thousand workers
struck. Edith again arrested. Or
dered deported to fascist Poland.
Held nine months in prison at East
Boston. Contracted tuberculosis.
Removed to sanatorium.
Deportation order protested every
where. Stay Of deportation for one
year granted by Frances Perkins.
Edith now released from hospital,
now out on bali, but is still held for
deportation.
WorkerSl Working-womenl Raise
the issue Of 5ne freedom of Edith
Berk:nan- now two years a prisoner
and demand heI complete release,
through all organizations. Send
protest kilograms to Miss Perkins,
Secretary Of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
By a silk Worker Correspondent

ny BLK WORKER correspondent
PATERSON, N. Jon Saturday,
March II, there was a silk workers
conference for all workers, silk and
dye workers, both A. F. of L. and
National Textile Workers Union
members, at the Roseland Ballroom.
Moe M. Brown, secretary of the N.
T W. u, was chairmen. The main
speakers were John j BALKAN of the
National Office, N. T. w. u, and
Juliet Stuart Poyntz. organizer of
the Trade Union Unity League, for
unity and action to stop the wage
cuts.
John j. BALKAN explained and an
sWered questions about the 3 per
cent wage cut which the United
Textile Workers leaders Of the A.
F. of L. put over the silk workers
of Paterson. The rank and file of
the A. F. of L. voiced themselves
against the wage cut and about the
one big, powerful, industrial fight
ing union controlled by its rank and
file There was a motion for shop
delegates conference in two weeks,
Of both A. F. Of L. and N. T. w. U.
members, which all Shop Chairmen
and delegates are to attend, to take
the first step towards building one
big powerful silk and dye workers
union.
What good is a union that helps
the bosses to cut our wages? The
bosses can cut our wages without a
union, or, without us paying big
8 wages to Schweitzer, Keller and
other such people. A leadership
that proposes and votes for wage
cuts must be thrown out.
Only Beginning
The bosses, together with the U.
T. w. leaders, tell the workers to
accept the 3 per cent cut, as it is
only small cut; as it only amounts
to SO or 81 month, but the work
erS realize that the SO or 81 can
help pay the rent. The bosses and
A. F. of L. leaders also point out to
the workers that the National Tex
tile Workers Union is making en-
tirely too much noise about such a
little 3 per cent cut, that they only
want to make trouble for the work.
ers and to call strikes. But they
did not say anything about their
own union only helping the bosses
against the workers.
The N. T. w. U. leaders know
that if the workers take this cut
without a fight the bosses and A.
F. Of L. leaders will put over an
other cut bigger than this one a
little later That is why the N. T.
w. U. leaders tell the workers to
fight this cut.
If the A. F. Of L. leaders would
have made lot of noise, as they
call it, about the wage cut, as the
.N.T.W.U. did, the workers wouldn't
have to take the wage cut, but the
workers would have gotten a raise
in their pay instead. The N.T.W.U.
has always led the workers in their
struggles against the boss class and
will always do so, because their
leaders come from the rank and file
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
Must Work Like
Hell for Living at
Dundee Textile
Good Week Nets SI4 to
SIS for 4-LOOm
Day Weavers
BY a Worker Correspondent

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.-Here are
the conditions at the Dundee Tex
tile Corp. in Middletown, N. Y
You must be a friend or relative
to the boss to get a good joe. The
boss and his three or four sons
work there, and more relatives. One
is day foreman, one is night fore
man, one is a loomfxer, and one
daughter weaves. The boss has
nice soft chair in the Office.
Weavers have to work like hell
to make a living in this mill. A
four loom weaver can make about
$14 to SIS per week, if he has a
good week, that is for day weav-
ers. The night weavers make a
little more than the day weavers
because they get 10 per cent
bonus, but you have to work every
night to make this bonus. That
is just one of the bosses schemes
so that the workers will work every
night. if not you lose the bonus
for all week. They don't give a
damn if you are sick. To them
workers are not supposed to be sick.
Crepe pays IL cent for one thou
sand picks. Sand crepe pays IA
cents for one thousand picks, Celia
nese pays 2 cents for one thousand
picks. Winders are supposed to
make $13, but they always get a
day or a half a day off, so that the
boss does not have to pay the mini
mum wage. Winders are supposed
to run 100 spools. But most of the
time the workers have to run to
keep the spools running.
You are not supposed to have a
float as big as a pinhead or any
kind of mark in the cloth. Some
times marks in the cloth are I'M
avoidable because of the old looms.
Most of the time you have loom
f1Xer, and let me tell you that the
loomfiXer is so busy that the weaver
| has to wait from l to hours to
have his machine fixed. They have
two loomf1xers for 100 looms, and
that is too much work for two
men, when they have junk to work
On. The day weavers cannot make
much more than S13 per week.
Most of the day weavers run four
looms. On working days when you
run a warp out you have to wait
from one day to a week to put it
in. That is, if you are not a friend
of the boss, but if you are you have
it put in right away. Wrappers make
from $1S to $3.50 week, but the
silk is so rotten that they just can't
make much at it. The boss tries to
tell us that anyone can run a warp,
but he should have to run some of
the warps that they put in the
looms for the weavers to run.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
United Shoe and Leather Union Local in
Maine Refuses to Be Split BY RED Scare"
Paul McKeOn and Frank Costello, A. F. L. Mis-
leaders, Also Fail to Put Over Their
NO-Strike Poison

claim that strikes are un-American.
Brother Costello was introduced
as a staunch fighter against the
foreign element and the red" men
ace in the Boston convention, and
he did his best to show himself as
this, even if he did get mixed up
once and admitted that you can't
find the Communists in the Cham
Der of Commerce and other bosses
organizations. But they did not
succeed in putting over here. things
that they are afraid to bring up
in Boston and Haverhill.
The rank and file, one after an
other, pointed out to them that
if they came to split the union into
racial and political groups, they
could get out.
We are building union to fight
the manufacturers; not the shoe
workers, even if we are not of the
same political opinions. 1t was also
brought out that strikes are the
only weapon that the worker has
and must use to better his condi-
tons. 1t was also proposed and ap-
plauded by the workers that we ex-
press solidarity with the Haverhin
strikers in their defiance of the La
Dor Board.
would like to ask the rank and
file members in Boston if they in
structed their representatives to
show them in such a light. and will
they stand for it?