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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27

profit" despite the fact that eighty
percent or more, Of individuals in
this country never made a profit
in their lives; that one hundred
sixty million Russians are living
and laughing and making a more
rapid economic and social prog
ress than we ever did. under an
almost wholly profitless system.
The nation cannot transform to
a complete production for use sys-
tenn over night. Aided by two rev.
olutions, during which seven or
eight million persons were violent
ly heaved into eternity, Russia is
taking twenty years to wipe out
all Individual profit. America may
take a century or longer to work
a complete change in economy. The
immediate and pressing problem is
to break up Wal Street economic
and political power, put idling ,on-
centrated wealth into use, wipe
out the staggering debt load and
permit man-power a return to pro-
ductive work.
Assuming total national wealth
as 200 billion, with more than half
Of it owned by handful of bank
ers and industrialists and eighty
percent held BY two percent Of
population, it follows that a pinch
OF reform here and there will re-
turn no prosperity. At least one
hundred billion dollars worth OF
properties must be returned to the
ownership and service of the pea.
pie. Some Of the Billionaire Bows
may drop dead when they add VI
the cost, but the list for iquida.
ton viii have to look something
like this
1 Banking and Loan Companies
and such other financial insti
buttons as control credit.
All railroads, Steamship lines
Air Transport and Bus line,
engaged i'm interstate and for
eign commerce.
Express companies to be con
solidated with Parcel Post.
Telephone, Telegraph and Rs
) di0.
Coal Oil, Gas, Power and al
distribution systems.
Il Aluminium, Copper, Zine. Iro
and possibly other mineral re
sources.
Steel, Auto, Machinery, Mum
! ton, Textile, Rubber, and Oth6
! nenopolistic manufacture.
{ (Cmtinusd next week)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27
Workers and Farmers Must SMASH
Criminal Syndicaisln Laws IN
California Montana has Them

mortgage-gobbling banker
instruments are used, incln5;n
gangsters, the press. police and .Ss
courts. me
Sunshine and what? And bood
the blood Of exploited, opuressSt
toilers who die Of hunger. ~ 49,
work, of gangsters' and sbS Ossr-
bullets when they rebel Snn vii:ls
and blood create the nroJI,o asliihe
California's Valleys, the weajtS VI
the Golden State. " u
DIVIDING"
THE INCOME
Few California farms helm. 4.
real farmers. Many cotton gro8ers
are mere tenants, ruled bv cotton
gins and financiers. Of 17000
acres in lettuce in Imperial VaIlev
in 1885, only $3.50 were even No
minally independently owned Tbo
state has more 1,0OO-acre-and-ovsr
farms than any outside the cattls
and grain regions. Many farms an.
owned by corporations such as tbe
California Lands Co., which IN
turn, belong to such combines IA
the monster California Packing
Corporation, which has 10000 en19
plOyees. CALIFORNIA; canneries av-
erage twice the size of those els.
where.
All this means heavy capital in
vestment and bank ownership-con-
troll, especially by the Bank Of
America with its 423 California
branches. and the Anglo California
Bank. w. R Hearst has great in
vestments in the industry. So has
Senator Hiram Johnson, A. P.
Giannini and the Fleishacker fam
lily. Wall Street, as always, has it's
nose in the trough.
And what a trough! Down to
1929 California farms made stu
pendous profits, so that many Am
orleans dreamed of owning one
After the first crisis, new up
swing began. The California farm
is so profitable that the averagS
acre price is by far the highest
in the U. S., while the average
crop-value per acre is almost foul
times the national average. Thu
California Packing Corporation
controlling Del Monte, Sunkist ant
scores of other subsidiaries, admit
ted a profit Of more than ten mil
lion dollars for 1928. In 1884
! paid S241,2 68 in dividends-an
tucked away a surplus of almOs
four million dollars. Il has a ne
balance of assets over liabilities O
% million dollars.
] California farms put orang
juice on some of our tables. The
provide a few rich stOckjobber
landowners and bankers with but
lers to serve it in Venetian got
lets. But those whose sweat an
blood fertilizes the soil get but
bare existence. Peas have bee
picked at ten cents a hamper, an
peaches at fifteen cents an houl
The New York Times (Oct. 10, 1!
33) estimated that at sixty cent
per hundred pounds "the averae
family can earn in the cotton fielC
what a single breadwinner Of
city would receive under the min
mum NRA scale" In 1885 a U.
Department of Labor man state
that the everage family working
the field earns 5000 annual
! those in the sheds but S400. Othe
! say $500. In short, the Californ
:: migratory farm worker has a /
as miserable as that Of any work
! in the country. And all this in Il
. midst of the most bounteous n
J turei
i CONTINUED next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27

AS understand it. Hart ct al, New Deal politicians,
tremendous victory for Montana Labor. Those
nployed WPA projects will still get S44 per month";
bs ever become available.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27
CONTINUED from last week.
SUNSHINE AND
WHAT?

Californians tirelessly tell of
the sunshine which transforms the
great inland valleys of their state
into an enormous horn Of plenty.
California is the golden state more
for its food crops than for its min
es. In the southern groves grow
$500 of the lemons and $40 of
the country's oranges. Salinas is
the "salad bowl of the world" Wal
nuts in Santa Barbara, raisins in
Fresno, prunes in the Santa Clara
peaches at Marysville, wine-grapes
in the Napa, melons, cherries, ber-
ries, tomatoes, almost 20@o
of all vegetables, 459c of all fruits
and nuts, 300 of all canned fruits
and vegetables produced in the U.
S. are California products. In 1929
CALIFORNIA; crops were worth half
a billion dollars, go Of the total
u. S. crop value. If you can af-
ford fruits or vegetables, you eat
California product daily.
Do you know what it takes be-
sides sunshine to produce your
orange juice or crisp lettuce?
It is February in a California
Hooverville. A mamie may be a
Mexisan, a Filipino or a plain Am
! erican harvest worker-loads his
miserable belongings into a ram
shackle flivver, and with his wife
and children drives to the Imperial
Valley. All day he picks lettuce
under a 120 degree sum- the wife
and kids trim and pack under a
sitting shed. Drinking water is SO
foul as to cause typhoid. Flies and
insects are pestilence. All labor
protection laws are violated. At
! the seasons peak, working hours
are from A am. to 10 pm, with q
sped-up system. When cotton Is
harvested, women ard children
come in from the fields dragging
50-pound and 75-pound sacks with
bleeding hands.
One after another as the season
moves up through the Imperial
San Joaquin and Sacramento Val
legs, crops ripen here and there
Migratory workers follow them
picking, sorting trimming, canning
and Grating. Hard toll, disease
disorganized homes and miserable
education for Children and in Nov
ember back to Hooverville. During
!. the winter-and for 300 Of thu
workers during the season, accord
ing to the California ERA-ther'
is unemployment ard its miseries
Three to four hundred Thousand
people toll in this industry in Cali
fornia. Their condition is thus sun
med up by Investigators Of the U
S. National Labor Board:
eve found filth, squalor, an en-
tire absence of sanitation and
crowding of human beings into to
tally inadequate tents or crud
structures built of boards, weed
and anything that was found a
hand to give a pitifuI semblance o
a home at its worst. Words can
not describe some of the condition
we saw-many workers are no
able to earn sufficient to maintai
even a primitive or even savag
! standard of living
The wage-slaves want a squar
a meal, a home, an opportunity
! raise a family decently. Agains
> those who organize unions to figh
, for these elementary neds, an agl
cultural oligarchy wages a releni
es campaign of persecution. So ths
there shall not perish from thi
earth super-profts for corporal
landowners, packers, ginners an
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27

The depression is over but we get no more official
cures the number of unemployed those who require
ief the amount of manutrition the millions who need
edca treatment the number Of school graduates who
nnot find jobs We presume the New Deal is too busy ac
aiming its victory want to spare time to take an in
entory of its non accomplishments
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. John Lucas, own
ers Of the Superior Cafe in Miles
City, were visitors at the A. N.
! Wankle home near Raymond last
Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Lucas
is niece of Mr.. Wankle. The trip
was made by car.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27
JOBLESS CENSUS
CALLED OFF

Washington, Sept. rs. = Appar-
emily well-authenticated reports in
Washington say that the census
of the unemployed, which Relief
Administrator Harry Hopkins an
nounced early in the year will
never be held. The reason given
is that the figure would be reveal
ed as embarrassingly high just be-
fore the Administration must sub
NIT its record at the polls. So long
as estimates are unofficial they
can be laughed off. But an Off
cial count, showing that despite
the huge expenditures and the tax
load prepared for the future un-
employment has been curtail'd only
slightly. would not be the best
campaign material. 1t is a family
skeleton better left in the closet.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-27
BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Bolshevism is knocking at gates We can't afford to
it in We have to organize ourselves against it. and put
r shoulders together and hold fast We must keep the
orkers away from Red literature and Red ruses We
ust that his mind remains healthy."-A Capone No.
1882
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
T TrumpedHubby y'sAce;
 Now Seeking Divorce
Mrs Potter Alleges Husband Threw Cards in Her
 Face-Later Married Without Obtaining Decree

Her husband, Gordon P. Potter, formerly of Waterbury, married another woman in Chicago last January, although still married to Nellie D. Potter of this city. she testified in her divorce action be- fore Judge Frank F. McEvoy in su- perior court today. Judge McEvoy reserved decision. on her applica- tion as we'll as upon the petitions of two other women who present. ed their cases here today.
 Mrs Potter said she was married to the defendant January IA, 1928. and that he abused her by staying out nights, playing poker and trav- cling around with burlesque girls when he was engaged in his en- ployment out of the city.
 Trumped Ace
 A photostatic copy of her hus- bands marriage to another woman in Chicago was introduced in evil dence by the petitioners counsel, Attorney Harry s. Krasow. She said she attempted several recon- cillations, without success. On one occasion while she was living with him in Omaha, Neb, he became angry because she trumped his ace in a game of bridge and threw the cards in her face, Mrs Potter said. Soon afterward, she left him and came to her home in Waterbury.
 Mrs Susie Masterfrank of this this city told Judge McEvoy hers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
Project Could Best Be Handled By Them
 Says Administrator
Relief Agencies Could Handle COnductOn Work Thus Fastening Task-egislative Action on Matter
 Delayed By State Corporation

Efforts of local contractors to be given an opportunity to conduct the widely-discussed rural rehabili- tatiOn building program, if and when the necessary legislative ac-. ton is taken, will have the en- dorsement of William M. Harris, relief administrator.
 Mfr Harris said today he believed the project could best be handled through the contractors. He said that while the construction could be handled trough relief agencies he thought that giving the work directly to the contractors would have the effect of hasening the ac- tuel development, of the project.
 Many Reports
 "The institution of any govern ment project usually calls for wOluminous reports and netails tremendous amount of preliminary work which might be eliminated through the simpler method of al- lowing contractors to handle the construction" MT Harris said. He stated. however, that the work could be done by the local relief agencies if necessary.
 Legislative action on the project, which is to begin in this vicinity, is delayed because of failure to get necessary approval of the proposed state corporation which is to direct the entire program. Without the formation of the corporation the federal government will refuse to sanction the work.
 Assails Inexperienced Men
 The inclusion of inexperienced men in the committee proposed by the state commission was assailed by Mir Harris, who expressed the opinion that the contracting trades should also have some representa- ton.
 That there Is a real demand for the proposed rehabilitation project whereby needy families would be given homesteads and sufficient land to derive at least partial sub. sistence. is evident, according to Mir Harris, from the numerous phone calls inquiring for details which he has received since 1t be- came known that the work was to be started in this vicinity.
 200 Families Here
 He estimates that at least 200
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
DIAMOND MAKING
 IS SUCCESSFUL

London, Feb 8-(UP)-A pro- cess for manufacturing diamonds, has been developed and has met with success, Victor Jourado, an antique dealer, asserted today. Jourado said a scientist whom he would not name, invented the arti- ficial diamond process. Six men in all, he said, know the secret and if one dies another man will be taken into the group. So harrassed has the inventor been, Jourado said, by men who want to steal his secret that he secludes himself in a lab oratory where he works with two assistants.
 Jourado said the diamonds were almost as good as natural ones. They are made, he said, by means of extreme heat which crystallizes the ingredients. It is possible also. he said, to make rubies, sapphires turquoises and topaz by the pro- cess. It is so expensive to make the stones, he said, that it is only profitable to make big ones.
 He asserted that New York, Ann sterdam, Paris and London dia- mond men had taken samples of the stones to examine them. He sold to an American woman, he said, a $250 synthetic diamond which matched a $600,000 one she had in a ring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
Harris Name Linked
 With State Position
Considered Candidate for Appointment as State Agent;
 Mrs Nora Mahaney Harris Also Mentioned

post and Mrs Nora Mahaney Har- ris of New Haven, former local school teacher and sister of Re- presentative Daniel J. Mahaney of Waterbury is also mentioned for a place under the state agents de- partment.
 Mrs Harris, who is vice-president of the democratic state central com mittee, is a candidate for the post of deputy head of the department of state agencies. Governor Cross. according to rep0Fts, also, is favor ing man for the position but Mrs Harris has been active in her quest for post at the Fitch's home for soldiers in Noroton and is receiv- ing much support. According to stories, MT Harris of this city is re- ceiving support from Mayor Frank Hayes, the present lieutenant-gov- ernor. However, it is known on good authority that Mayor Hayes has pledged no support to any body.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
MYSTERY BLONDE
 ENTERS MURDER
Billy" EdIin Is Freed of BIame-Wife of Slain
 Man Released

Chicago, Feb 8-(UP)-A mys- terious blonde today entered the investigation of the murder last Sunday of Louis K. Straub, whose body was found riddled with bul- lets in a basement closet of the fashionable Saddle and Cycle club. Police teletypes ordered a search for a woman who frequently kept rendezvous with the dapper clerk and bartender in the deserted club house after he had seen the last guests out. Developments yesterday entirely absolved of suspicion Mrs Ellen (Billy) Edlin, close friend of Straub's emotional and attractive widow.
 A car driver who drove an ex- cited young woman to the entrance of the Saddle and Cycle club grounds Sunday morning at op- proximately the time Straub was killed, and Is minutes later drove her to drug store ito get a drink" said Mrs Edlin was not the woman. Clerks in the pharmacy agreed with him. Mrs Edlin indig- nantly gave Mrs Straub the lie in regard to the widows frank statc- ment that the two were bound by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08

was a "run-away marriage" She was 14 years of age and was liv- ing in Greensburg, Pa, when her husband, Sam Masterfrank, in- duced her to elope with him to Cumberland, Md, to be married. He told her to give her age as IS be- cause Maryland laws do not permit marriage of parties under IS years of age. The plaintiff, seeking a de- cree on desertion grounds, came to Waterbury six years ago. Attorney Fred Bayby represented the plain tiff.
 The third decree was sought by Elizabeth F'risina of Naugatucl; against Salvatore Frisina. They were married four months after they became acquainted in New York in 1881. They also took q trip to town near Baltimore, Md, to have the ceremony performed February IA, 1881.
 Family Divided
 She told Judge McEvoy her father, Carl Rasquin is now with the Ringing Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus in Texas, preparing for it's annual tour of the country. He is engaged with the circus as boss property man. She said her parents were divorced when, she was IS months old. Her mother since has married and is living in New York. She frequently makes visits to her mother in New York, while maintaining a residence with her father in Naugatuck, where she serves as housekeeper, she said. She asks a decree on grounds of desertion. She was represented by Attorney Henry J. Freeman of Naugatuck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08

William M. Harris, executive sec- retary of the Lincoln House Asso- citation, chairman of the Mutual Aid and EZRA administrator for the Waterbury district. is one of four persons being prominently mentioned for the position of state agent, according to reports eman- ating from Hartford. The demo- crats now being in office 1n Hart ford and with the appointment coming out of the office of State Controller Charles Christian Swartz, there is a move on to name a Waterbury man.
 Other candidates for the post of state agent include Angus P. Thorne, superintendent of the Bridgeport public welfare depart ment. Senator Francis w. Hogan of Torrington and Major Sutherland N. Beckwfth of Litchfield.
 Mrs Harris Mentioned
 The position of state agent was given to Mir Gates by former Dep uty State Controller Robert Smith. Under the law, MT Smith holds his office until a new appointee Is pick ed directly by Governor Wilbur L. Cross. Needless to say, Governor Cross will pick democrat for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs Kate (Luddy) Fitzgerald, will be held on Saturday morning at 8:15 o'clock from the home, 30 Grandview ave- nue. to the Blessed Sacrament church where a solemn mass of re- quiem will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in new St Joseph's cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs Grace Ame- lia (Goodspeed) Allen was held from her home in Prospect yes terday afternoon. Rev Thomas Feltman conducted the services. assisted by Rev Thomas s. Co., chard and Rev Ephraim Allen. Special music was rendered by q duet, Mrs H. M. Bunnell and Mrs William R. Freter. Burial was in Prospect. The bearers were Arthur Driver, Raymond Chandler. Treat Hotchkiss and Clifford Wallace.
 gThe funeral of Enos Ball was Held from the Alderson funeral home yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. with Rev Richard Hegarty officiating. The body was placed n the receiving vault at the Pine Grove cemetery. The bsa.ers were Francis Dow, Fred Platt, Harry Platt. George Platt, Roger Holmes and Ernest Muerka.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
FORCED HIM
 TO END HIS LIFE

Boston, Feb 8-CU.P)-Appar- ently unable to bear the pain from an intestinal operation, James H. Crowley, 47. associate physical di- rector in Boston schools and form CT professional athlete, leaped to his death from the fifth floor of City hospital.
 Crowley, who had ben operated on Monday, slipped from his bed in private room late yesterday, opened a window and jumped to the roof of a first floor, tunnel. He died of a skull fracture, crushed chest and other injuries three hours later.
 Crowley was the father of six children. one of whom James, was captain of the 1893 Boston College baseball team.
 Crowley had been connected with local schools as coach and physical education instruction since 1908. He was appointed associate director of physical education of Boston schools only a few days ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
VIEW. PAY TRIBUTE
 TOLATE FRIENDS

Tribute to the memory of the late Martin Scully as a past honor- ary member, was paid by Wheeler Young post, Veterans of Foreign Wars at its meeting in the Armory last night. The members stood for Q moments silence in respect for MT Scully and for the late Past Commander Chief Admiral F. F. Coonz whose death was reported recently.
 The post indorsed the Elks' Americanization program calling for the stamping out of commun- ism. A commander-in-c chief night will be held February 14th, at Pythian hall. The committee in charge of arrangements Is com posed of W. D. Walker. F. Smith. E. LaBelle, J. Luddy, F. Fitzgib- bons. Murray Carter and William Cashin. The post named Frank x. Downes, publicity agent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
PRIMA DONNA IS
 DISAPPOINTED

New York, Feb. 8.-(UP).- Little Mary Moore, 21-year-oId prima donna. was bitterly disap- pointed today. A sudden attack of laryngitis forced cancellation of her debut on the stage of the Metrololitan grand opera scheduled for tonight.
 A Metropolitan debut is the goal of all singers. Miss Moore had worked feverishly for weeks pre- pairing herself for the role of Gilda in Verdfs Rigoletto. So soon as she recovers. her debut win be re- scheduled. And tonight Lily Pons. French coloratura, will take her place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
Harris Endorses Contractors Bid for Building Program
EVENING SCHOOLS
 FINISHING COURSES

Graduation exercises for ap- proximateIy 200 students of the free evening schools will be held next Thursday night in the wiIby high. school auditorium, John c. Gilmartin. supervisor of the classes announced today. Final sessions will be held Wednesday night in order to make up for the day lost IAuring the Christmas recess. The complete program of exercises will be announced next week, MT Gil- martin said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08

Waterbury families could be placed on the homesteads. A large per- centage of the inquiries have come from persons of foreign birth or percentage and 1t is this type of ap- plicant who Is best suited for the project, MT Harris believes. A stipulation of the relief commission is that the applicant have some farming background.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08

an intense unusual affection.
 Gus Schwartz, dour 54-year-old watchman at the club who has been held since the murder, said Straub often entertained women in the club after 1t was closed for the night, and Ceiling, the cab driver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
TOWN HALL BURNED

Greenville. N. H. Feb 8-UP)- Fire virtually destroyed the town hall here last night, causing m estimated damage of $15O,OOO, and thratened nearby business and residential districts, forcing fire- men to summon aid from four neighboring communities. Appa- ratus was sent from Milford. Will ton, and New Ipswich,' and Fitch burg. Mass. and the fire was con- troIied only after three-hour battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08

said the woman he took to the club Sunday was "blonde, beautiful and young. and extremely well dressed" : Mrs Straub, former show girl. whom Straub married nine years ago, was freed yesterday on a writ of habeas corpus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
DENTISTS MEETING , MONDAY EVENING

Dr Arthur P. Young of the Har- yard Dental society will be the guest speaker of the Waterbury Dental society at it's meeting at The Elton Monday evening.