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the publication of this secret re-
port to Viereck. Let US, then, get
on to other of the professional
patriots" activities, this time in
dissemir ating anti-semitic propa-
ganda.
I pointed out earlier in this ar
ticle that when Viereck came back
from Germany in October he had
large sums of money available. At
this period the patriotic" Mr.. Eas-
ley became intensely interested in
disseminating Adolf Ehrt's book
Communism In Germany" which
though purporting to be an attack
on Communists, is actually filled
with cunning anti-semitic propa-
ganda-the best kind to get across.
Easley, with Viereck maneuvering
and advising in the shadowv back
ground of international intrigue,
worked desperately to get Jews to
endorse the book. What Viereck
and Easley wanted was a promin-
ent Jew for this and Easley wrote
to Morris Waldman, secretary of
the American Jewish Committee,
sending him a copy of the book
and the suggestion that Waldman
get Judge Joseph Proskauer to
okay it. The letter dated October
16, 1888, follows:
"Dear Mr.. Waldman:
"In pursuance to our talk on the
telephone, I am sending, for your
confidential information, a copy of
the book described in the enclosed
copy of letter.
"At luncheon today of a COM
mittee including General John Ross
Delafield ard Congressman Ham
ilton Fish, Jr., both these gentle
men suggested that we ought to
ask Judge Proskauer or some 9th
er patriotic Jew Of prominence to
sign with them and others the
Foreword herewith enclosed. They
said that, as Judge Proskauer and
all the other members of the con-
/ servative Jewish group that he re-
presents are as bitterly opposed tC
Communism as are they, he might
be willing to endorse this.
"At any rate, look over this anC
} let me have your reaction tonor
row morning as well as your sug
gestion as to whether it would b,
|. wise to try to get a Jewish CO
| signer.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) "Ralph M. Easley.'
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PUZZLE DIRECTIONS

Each picture represents an animal If
you can find at least four Of them write
the answer on the back Of q penny post
card and mail 1t in. Then you can be-
come q member Of the Daily Worker
Puzzle Club.
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day.
Miss Gail Ueland has been in
Plentywood with fler uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. M. Nelson, dur
ing the past week under a physi-
clans care. She has had a very
bad cold which threatened to turn
into pneumonia.
Miss Edith Morgan has been i'll
this week with a severe cold.
Several farmers attended the
corn-hog and allotment meeting in
Outlook on Wednesday of this
week.
Mrs. Pearl Skaggs reports that
her son who has had an operation
for tumor which had grown onto
two of his at Rochester, is at the
present time doing nicely. Her
bert had to have two of his ribs
removed with the tumor.
Roy Collins and son Jean were
in Outlook Thursday from Ray
mond, looking over the carload Of
horses that is being shipped from
the stockyards.
Conrad Benson who has beer
working for Bill Tobin for some
time has resigned his job there
and has gone to find work al
Glasgow. Tony Ereth is taking
Ccnrad's place.
Harry Witte who is stationed a
CCC camp in California writes
home that he enjoys life in hi
camp very much.
j Two of the numerous person.
who have been sick this week arr
Miss Bertha Lux and Vernie Faw
cett.
The Catholic ladies aid has post
poned its card party scheduled fo
March to March 5 on account o
the dance which will be given o.
Saturday, March 2, for the bene
fit of the basketball players. Tn
proceeds of this dance will be use
to help defray expenses of tn
, basketball boys who are going t
, Great Falls after winning the dis
; trict tournament at Plentywoo
last Saturday.
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ONE PIONEERS STORY

One day not long ago, I received
a message that a Negro Pioneer
from Harlem had come down to the
Office to see me. He roller-skated all
the way downtown, which is dis
tance of several miles. But the next
time he came 1 was in the Office
and very glad to see him. He started
right off telling me all about the
way things are among the Negroes
IN Harlem. This is what Robert T.
told me:
Last week I was going to get my
papers to sell when I heard the fire
ens1ne coming along. I followed it
u ways and it stopped in front of
tenement house, blazing away like
mad. They got all the people out
except one woman. She was on the
top floor. Her little girl was saved
just before, but the house was blaz-
in too much to get back in it, so
J the f1remen spread a net. The
woman was scared and excited. So
when she jumped, she missed the
net and was killed. There's fires al
most every day in Harlem during
this cold weather. Nobody cares if
these old dumps burn down except
ing the people that have to live in
them. Landlord don't care, he gets
his insurance, but we've got to live
in these old houses that can burr
down in a minute. You never heal
Of such fires in the rich neighbor-
hoods.
Then in the school round my way
they give out food tickets to thosI
who need them. But they're Away
thinking up excuses to take then
away again. They say they want Il
renew" the cards. And then it take
them a month to renew q littl
bit of paste board card. So we hal
quite a fuss up there in schoo
The kids were complaining and get
ting together and it looked lik
trouble for the principal.
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Waldman read the book. So did
Proskauer. Much as they hated
Communism, they could not see
themselves endorsing a book so OBJ
viously anti-semitic, and Proskauer
refused. However, the book was
here to be distributed and despite
the fact that these Jews called
Easley's attention to the anti-sem-
itic nature of the book, and flatly
refused to endorse it, Easley pro-
ceeded to distribute the copies
wholesale. The books were distri-
buted free of charge from the Of
flee of the National Civic Fedora
ton. Easley's wife, Gertrude Beck
Easley, who always works with
him, handled the distribution, Civ
ing at one time 100 copies to Will
liam Dudley Pelley of the Silver
Shirts. During the period of dis
tributing this anti-semitic material
the Easleys kept telling everybody
that "the National Civic Federation
had printed the book and was dis
tributing it because of the fight
against Communism.
What Easley kept to himself is
that the anti-semitic book "Com-
munism in Germany" had been i'm
ported from Germany by George
Sylvester Viereck to be used fol
propaganda purposes. Twenty
thousand copies of this book ar
rived in this country on October
II, 1888, consigned to George Syl
vester Viereck, who paid duty OF
them.
Let me quote from a secret re
port Easley sent to Viereck Of
July 13, 1884.
"Dear Mr.. Viereck:
"In thinking over the situation
which has grown out of my pro
posal for you to have your friend
in Germany answer the statement
: contained in the pamphlet "Th
Jews In Nazi Germany" purport
: ing to be "the factual record o
: their persecution by the Nations
Socialists" and issued by the Am
erican Jewish Committee of Me-
York, I am wondering if, instea
] of answering that Memorandum,
: would not be better if the Nations
: Socialist Party itself should pre-
2 pare a statement supported b
: documentary evidence and shown
the entire undermining work whic
it claims is being done by Con
munists in Germany"
The producers news., 1935-03-01
OUTLOOK

Mrs. Joe Kowski and Mrs. Roy
Ury called on Mrs. F. Koester at
Plentywood last Saturday.
Mrs. Walter Lund gave birth to
a big baby boy this week.
Palmer Scott was a Plentywood
caller this week.
The Cath. .olic Ladies Aid gave a
card party last Friday at Mikes
pool hall
Miss Melinda Wangerin and
Maynard Mathieson visited at the
Mathieson home in Raymond Sun
The producers news., 1935-03-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Holland
were callers at the Fred Budke
home last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Stadsad
visited with Mrs. Stadstad's sister,
Mrs. Cramer, in Plentywood last
Friday.
Herb Blair and son Donald mot
ored to town last Saturday.
Percy Budke called at the Even
son home last Sunday.
Lloyd Adams made a trip to
Plentywood on Saturday of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Hovdey
made a business trip to the county
metropolis last Saturday.
Leo Heisler motored to Ray
mond last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Walkeden,
Nels Nelson and two sons made a
business trip to Plentywood Mon
day.
Melvin Evenson and Jake Zeit-
ner motored to Plentywood on
business Monday.
Archie Larter and Joe Wilson
took in the basketball tournament
dance in Plentywood last Saturday
night.
Mervin, Milton, Eugene anC
Kenneth Evenson and Howard
Zeitner motored to Raymond last
Sunday.
! Morris Homme of Outlook wa
caller at the L. G. Budke home
last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. William Robinson wa
shopping in Plentywood and Ray
mond last Friday.
The producers news., 1935-03-01

Perhaps both Jews and oo-.:7-
who have been contributing r,"r a~-es
to the Federation in the belief the
were fighting Communism will I
quire into the strange connac+;a II
of this patriot" who last srr; ur,Irs
personally called on Undersecrnes s
ary of State Phillips to trv to t.eS &C.
the boycott of German pooS. S.Op
precisely what the Nazi agent W.
reck desired.
The following letter has hoou
sent to Mr.. Easley by registeroS
mail:
October 26. 1894
"My dear Mr.. Easley:
"Your secretary informed me-
this morning that on advice of
counsel you should not let me in
terview you on your anti-semitic
activities which you carried on nm
der the guise of fighting Commun-
ism. She added that counsel ad-
vised you to ask me to submit the
questions Ilwish to ask YOU and
that you ''would give them due
consideration" Herewith are the
questions which I hope your legal
advisors will permit you to answer:
al. In your fight against Com
munism you distributed a book
Communism in Germany" which
contained anti-semitic propaganda:
Where did you get this book?
"2. Did you know that this book
had been imported into this coun.
try bv Georpe Sylvester Viereck.
a Nazi agent?
"3. Why did you trv to get
Judge Proskauer, or other pronin.
ent Jews, to sponsor it? And why
did Judge Proskauer refuse?
"4. Did you ever inquire of
George Sylvester Viereck, or any
ore else. who was PAYING tho cost
of printing and shipping of the
anti-semitic Communism in Ger
many" which you were distribut
ing?
"5. Did ven suspect that Naz
propagandists were behind this at
tack on the Jews and if SO. why
as an American "patriot, did yol
undertake to distribute a bOol
which you knew carried insidiou
anti-semitic propaganda?
"6. How much money did yo
get from George Sylvester Vierec
to help defray the cost of distri
tributing this anti-semitic book?
"7. How much did your wife
, who is your assistant, get to hel
defrav the expenses of distribut
ing this book?
"S. Your wife expressed tn
hope that before long she woul
have an office of her own to carr
; on the distribution. of this ant
semitic book. Who proposed to pa
for this office of her own, abOl
which she confided to several (
her intimate friends?
"9. You solicit and receive col
tributions for anti Communist pr
paganda. How much of this can
: from wealthy Jews ard what po
Il tion of it was used to dissemina
this anti-semitic book?
"10. Why did you not infor
Il the public or Judge Proskauer al
other prominent Jews whom y
tried to get to indorse this bO,
Il that it had been imported into II
country by George Sylvester Vi
y reck?
. al. Did you inform your ass
Ie ciates, such as General Delafie
= when you, they, and promine
= Jews were fighting anti-semitis
a. in this country were meeting 81
! reilly, that the meetings had be
" first suggested to you by Geor
"a Sylvester Viereck? I am referri
- to your proposed committee of !
Al which you tried to get formed
"12. Since your fight is again
y Communism and radicalism, WI
+ has that to do with your eff
I" to get the Jewish boycott of G.
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Continued from last week.

For instance l quote the letter
dated June 6, 1888, which Easley
sent to Viereck.
George Sylvester Viereck,
1927 West 18th St.,
"New York, New York.
"Dear Mr.. Viereck:
"I have just learned from Mr..
Waldman that he will place in my
hands tomorrow a rough tentative
draft of the statement which will
be issued in pamphlet form by the
American Jewish Committee the
first of the week and which will
contain the Jews whole case a
gainst the Hitler Government,
making definite charges.
'"The suggestion is that, upon
receipt of the pamphlet, Acting
President Vol and General Dala-
field, chairman of our Foreign Re
lations Committee, will write the
American Jewish Committee that
they have referred the charges to
our German-American members,
Messrs. Herman A. Metz, Bernard
and Victor Ridder and George Syl-
vester Viereck, for reply. The
Woll-Dalafield letter, which will
be given to the press, will de-
scribe the, various activities Of the
Federation's Committee in this
connection, thus marking our pub
lie entrance into this situation. Sc
far as I know, ours is the only or
ganization in this or any other
country that is undertaking to me-
diate in this critical controversy,
all the others being propaganda
bodies on one side or the other.
{ "Of course, the answer to the
American j Jewish Committees
pamphlet will open the way for the
National Socialist Party of Ger
many to give its whole case. 1t
may be that our committee will
decide that the situation has again
reached a poirt where it could ap-
peal, on the one hand, to the Am
erican Jewish Congress, to stop
the boycott against German goods
in this country, and, on the other
hand, to the National Socialist
Party to lift or at least modify the
more drastic restrictions upon the
Jews in Germany.
"Sincerely yours,
, (Signed) "Ralph M. Easley."
This tricky scheme to stay The
; boycott and give Nazis a charct
to blast their publicity against the
, Jews and the boycott did not ma
, terialize, for the Jews, though the!
: did not know that Easley was re
porting to Viereck, became some
: what suspicious of Mr.. Easley'
: sudden interest. 1t was ir stinc
{ with them. Perhaps when they rea'
! this confidential report they will
= see their instincts served then
3 well. Easley is still interested il
stopping the boycott. Perhaps tn
E wealthy Jews who are contributing
0 to Easley's and WolPs organiza
: tion, can explain the activities 0
1 the chairman of the executiv
council of the Civic Federation O
which Woll is the acting nresiden1
especially since the A. F. of I
went on record as favoring tn
boycott There are great man
= Jews in the A. F. of L. as we
as a gerat many gentiles who d
not like plotting behind the scene
= and reporting to Hitler agents.
= I think that this effort to sen
'' Good viii Commission Cwhic
Schacht approved of and stoppin
the boycott is now finished wit
The producers news., 1935-03-01

"What are you doing hereP"
'Pm going to speak"
'Whatl" she says surprised. SIN
front of all these white people?"
"Sure, why not?" said. Were
all the same here. Nobodyn eat me" /"
Then I told her how Negro and
white workers are equal among the
Communists. "In summer at the
Pioneer camp" I said, I'VE sleep in
the same tents, white and black
boys together, and one time when
it rained so hard during the night
my bed got all wet, and l bunked
with q white boy"
"Do you mean you slept in the
very same bed with a white boy9"
she asked me.
"Sure!"
"And didn't you feel strange and
the white boy too? Didn't he mind?"
The producers news., 1935-03-01
Coffee an :

The governing is suing its for
mer secretary of the treasury, An
drew Mellon, for the sum of $3,-
100000 that he beat his govern
ment out of in income tax in 1881.
And that's what they sent AL Ca
pone to the pen for.
And nearly 40 bills" have been
reported on in the state senate,
carrying with them the death of
nearly one-fourth of the 116 Ii
quor stores.
And one paper claims: "Presi-
dents ball is huge success"
And DIR. Stephenson says: "This
situation is a problem. Folks who
can't afford to have more children
are having them anyway"
And Duke, of the Dukes Nix
ture, left his only daughter 1O1
million dollars, and then somebody
married her.
And Helena girl sent greet
ings to Harry Polk.
And in Washington they are dis
cussing paying the soldiers bonus
out of the foreign debt they are
not going to get.
And during the latter part if
1884 we imported 1921, 900 bush
els of wheat from other countries,
including France.
And in King county, Washing
ton, people on relief will now be
asked to sign a contract leaving
to the county upon their deaths
any property they may possess.
And maggie and Eddie" seem
to be very much worried about
something.
And last Monday our house Of
representatives was supposed tC
dispose of 119 bills. And that:
what they call law-making.
/ And work with no pay or pay
with no work for people on relief
is the burning question in Wash
ington at this time.
And no person by the name o
L. S. Olson is known in Helena anC
not on the relief payroll either.
And Simon Swansons had tw,
rooms, one stove and electric light
added to their house over night h,
the relief office.
And now if we just had a Law
preventing the Reds from citiciz
ing things as they are, how nic
those things would be.
And William Ackers of syria
cuse, N. Y, was handed a sentenc
of "a years in prison for stealin
two chickens.
) And he should have organized
holding company a la insult, steal
ing 20 million chickens out Of tha
many pots and lived free and haI
py ever after.
And the ony thing missing j
all the fanfare about Hauptmanni
guilt was a poll by the Literar
5 Digest.
And German unemployment ros
100000 in January. They call
I a Hitler boom.
: "And legislators feel themselvt
innocent" reports the New Yol
Post on utility probe. Com
now, is that news?
S And John D. Rockefeller, Jr., hi
r just had his fingerprints taken /
: the police. The governments dri7
S against the real crooks seems
o be getting under way. Wonder
the prints turned out to be an OF
= smear or a bloody smudge.
And the French workers ha'
!. solved the problem of what to (
i with old razor blades. They stu,
/ them in potatoes which they u.s.
e as hand grenades battling cops.
e And president Enjoys Fe
e Hours of Rest" is headline
n the Helena Independent.
And a plot to lidnap the pres
dent of the Bethlehem Steel col
, pany for a S25O,0OO ransom h
y been discovered by Pennsylvar
{ state trooper. It's kind of tou
,e to be millionaire, isn't it?
e. And the chairman of the Nc
70 tana Reconstruction Finance CC
a poration board, Joseph Swind
hurst, is reported to be in "serio
al condition" Indeed, not a bad nal
9 for an RFC chairman.
The producers news., 1935-03-01

Entered Second Glass Matter. October 49, 191S the
Post Office at Penywood Montana Under the Act of March
9, 1879
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New members are:

New members are:
George Krpan, Raymond Colaizzi, Mir
jam Pylkki, Adrian Wilen, Lille Smith,
Alex Mojeson, Harry 2oistacher, Charles
Libove, Israel Davidman, Miriam Mendel-
sohn, A. Chondler, John Taus, Ivan KemeS
novich and Joyce, John, Audrey and Mattf
Nikkari.
she asked.
mo, of course not, that's just Il!
We're all the same in the Pioneers" "
I told her.
Some of our mothers say we are
too young to be with the Reds who
show us the way to get better cor
ditions. But are we too young tS
starve? And are we too young to 60
to school hungry and to have no
shoes? I say we are not. I'm .
Pioneer, and we're all going to make
a Soviet America, where life viii De
better.
OF course, those Of you who hVS
out of New York cannot come doWN
like Robert and tell me things IN
person. But you can all write let-
ters and tell me what is going on
in your city and town. I will be gao
to print your letters in this column
The producers news., 1935-03-01
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-03
CREST REACHED, FLU EPIDE MIC,
 POINT BARROW
Three Hundred and Thirty Cases Reported8 s
 Victims Die

POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 3.-Fighting heroic battle despite lack of adequate facilities. Dr. Hen ry Griest said he believed the crest of the influenza epidemic, which claimed eight lives during the past ten days. has been reached.
 Dr. Griest said he did not know about Wainwright and other com munities to the south.
 The epidemic here affected 30 per- sons and developed before discover ed.
 Dr. Griest has two nurses and one native helper. The sick are placed in halls, dining rooms and base ments.
 An airplane brought the wrong vaccine just at the critical time.
 The dead include Mrs. A. H. Hop son, Eskimo midwife, and her hus- band, Isiah, noted whaler.
 E. o. Mcdonnell, of New York, Vice-President of the Pan-Ameri- can Airways, was i'll but has re- covered
 pr. Griest and his assistants are also ill The shortage of food, fuel and famine in canned milk makes the situation acute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-03
LEFT WlNCERS ARE TO CONFER
 ON 3RD PARTY
Ultra-Liberals Eyeing Sem ator Long as Pos
 sible Cohort

WASHINGTON, May 3. With Senator Huey P. Long again assail- ing the Roosevelt Administration, half hundred or more left wing leaders headed for conference tomorrow to decide whether the time is ripe for a national third party movement.
 Some of the Liberals ap- peared inclined to look upon Long as possible ally although feeling his program does not go far enough.
 Senator Long attacked the Ad- ministration once more as a "St. Vitus Dance Government He sug- gested Congress might we'll con tract with Vincent Astor for his s5,OOO,O0O yacht, not only to take the President out in British wat CTS to fish for few weeks, but to keep him there several months and trust to luck the country will find it's way back to normalcy."
 Senator Long also advocated his own share of wealth movement and suggested that telegrams to Sen ators be sent asking them to back the Patman bonus. The attack was made in a radio broadcast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-03
WINDHAM BAY
 MINE FUTURE
 LOOKS BRIGHT
Preliminary investigations of Property Encouraging
 Says Mathew Reese

Preliminary investigations of the Windham Bay Gold Mining Com pany property have been most en- couraging and if milling operations prove out our assays of ore from all sections of the tunnel and cross cuts, the mine has bright future before it. Mathew Reese, mining engineer in charge of operations at the property, said today.
 MT. Reese and Patrick J. Heney. Jr., president of the company, came north late in March and during the last five weeks, MT. Reese has been making a careful examination of the mine.
 Both mill and mine are now ready to operate and we are milling all ore to determine whether the results bear out my convictions based on samples which have been assayed. So far the lowest assay has been fifty cents and one of the most encouraging results has been that we have not yet drawn a blank" MT. Reese said.
 Operations of the mine and mill will be carried on during the sum mer with a crew of approximately fifteen men and considerable equip ment has been sent for to be used in handling the ore Heavy ma chimes that will drill 12 to 20 foot holes mechanical muckers and other modern equipment is to be used, ac- cording to MT. Reese.
 T feel decidedly encouraged about the future of the mine. While the ore is low grade, there is vast body of it and, if it proves out, the property will be a large scale operation, MT. Reese said.
 MT. Reese and MT. Heney arrived in Juneau aboard the motorship Excel to spend few days on busi- ness matters and will return to the property on the mail boat Dart.