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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
HOSIERY STRIKE
Is THREATENED

READING, PA.-(FP)-A SYM
pathetic strike to close down all
hosiery mills in the Reading dis
trict has been voted if the long
strike at the Berkshire knitting
mills is not settled by March 1.
The action followed the presen-
tation Of charges to Gov. George
Earle by the Reading Federated
Trades Council that permits to
carry guns are being granted il
legally to Berkshire guards and
that counsel for the mill have
threatened to Organize vigilante
committee and take over the pow
ers of the police"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
HOLIDAY ASSN O. MONTANA
PUSHES MORATORIUM BILL
LEGISLATORS ACTION TO Be WATCHED

Fl lodges of the AA in the Bir-
mingham district and nearly 5000
of the $4,000 steel workers in and
around this southern steel town
are signed up in the union.
There are often as many as six
union meetings going on at once
on a Friday or Saturday night.
Many of the plants are about 100
per cent organized. A new factor
has come in to help the work. The
union car has a loudspeaker and
drives through town and out to the
surrounding hamlets.
Birmingham is a proud hand
some city. Her residence district
on the hillside is as beautiful as
you will find anywhere. The hous-
ing of her workers, especially her
Negro workers, is shame and dis
grace. We drove past street after
street Of mean houses. One row
of houses after another, filling up
whole block solid with building;
litter and disorder around the
houses of the workers whose toll
Continued on page g.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
PLANTERS RESCUE MULES IN FLOOD:
TURN BACK SHAREHOLDERS

All along the route, men and
women were preparing for evacua-
ton. Shawl-clad women sat by the
roadside on their bedding, waiting
Tor the ramshackle truck that 8
Noah's Ark to them and wavina
drearlly to mule-herders driving
dozens of beasts to safety and
pasture.
In Forrest City, we found activi-
ties under way for the housing of
refugees in a large cotton COM
press. At every moment new ar
rivals poured in, bringing with
them their property" their chill
dren, a few chickens, a dog and in
one case a goat. AS the newcom-
ers pulled to stop in filmsy mo-
del T Fords or tottering trucks
that had been hired for the pur-
pose-as one painted legend re-
vealed, from Frank, the poor
mans friend"-the earlier Corners
pitched in with zest to aid rickety
htchen-table.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
CHICAGO'S FIRST
SIT-DOWN ENDS

CHICAGO.-(FP) - Chicago's
first big-time sitdown strike ended
abruptly when police prevented
strikers in the Wahl-Eversharp
factory from receiving food from
scores of friends, relatives and
sympathizers gathered around the
plant.
Before the $50 girls and young
men-the majority of them un-
der SO-left the factory, the man
agement had agreed to negotiate
with Gold Pen Workers Union Lo-
cal 1888. They are seeking pay
raises.
When the strike started the sit
downers imported blankets, food.
radioes and coffee to make their
stay a deluxe affair. The next
morning, however, rs cops sur
rounding the plant forced the
workers to use real ingenuity in
getting their breakfast.
From a window they strung a
copper wire to a rear porch of a
neighboring apartment house.
With it they hauled in a supply of
rolls and coffee provided by a To-
cal bakery.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
WHO MAY SECURE
1897 FEED LOANS

Applications for emergency crop
and feed loans for 1887 are now
being received at Plenitywood by
Arnold Horgen, field supervisor of
the Emergency Crop and Feed
Loan Section of the Farm Credit
Administration.
These loans will be made to
farmers who cannot obtain credit
from any other source, as provided
by regulations issued by the Gov
ernor Of the Farm Credit Admin
istration. The money loaned will
be limited to the farmers imme-
date and actual cash needs for
growing his 1897 crops or for the
purchase Of feed for livestock and
in no instance may exceed $500.
Farmers are not eligible for
these loans if they can borrow
from an Individual, production Gre
dit association, bank, or other con-
Germ. Emergency crop and feed
loans will not be made by the
Farm Credit Administration to
standard rehabilitation clients of
the Resettlement Administration
whose current needs are provided
for by Resettlement.
AS in the past, the security for
these loans will consist of a first
lien on the crop financed if the
loan is for the production of crops,
and if for the purchase of feed for
livestock, then a first lien on the
livestock to be fed. Landlords, or
others having an interest in the
crops or the livestock to be fed,
will be required to waive their
claims in favor of the lien to the
Governor of the Farm Credit Adj
until the loan is re-
paid.
Checks in payment of the ap-
proved loans will be issued by the
Emergency Crop and
Feed Loan Office at Spokane,
Wash.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
Clio. GAINS THIRTY
MILLION DOLLARS
FOR WORKERS

NEW Y0RK.-(FP)-Declaring
that demands had been presented
''on the theory that the workers
in the industry are entitled to a
larger share of the fruits of their
industry" Pres. Sidney Hillman of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America announced that
100000 will be added to the
payrolls of the industry as re-
suit Of negotiations between the
unions and committee Of manu-
facturers.
Hillman asserted such an agree
ment would have been impossible
if the workers in the trade mad
been divided into craft unions. 1t
was, he said, a victory for the
type of organization for which the
Committee for Industrial Organi-.
cation stands. Hillman is one of
the leaders of the c. l. o., to which
the A. C. w. A. is affiliated.
Hillman estimated that real
wages under the new contract
would be increased by 796 or $50.
He emphasized that the increase
was not the restoration OF de-
pression cuts, nor were demands
based upon rise in the cost OF
living. The union demanded a
share of the profits of industry
that would enable the workers TO
live on a higher standard OF life
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
ENDORSED BY MONTANA
FEDERATION OF LABOR
DECEMBER 2O-21.
(Mine Mill and Smaltermsa
of Great Falls and many
other labor organizations
throughout the state On r.
cord supporting msasura)
By Rodney Salisbury. Prsa

The Holiday Association GpNa~
sored a bill for q moratorium H.
troduced on February 18th By H.
preventative Chamberlains, Mana
CHAN, Peterson COT Sheridan
Burns, DeDobbelier, Ruffcorn, ~
Ter, Miller (Of Roosevelt), Sorta.
McKenna, McClain, Finnegao, and
Masterson in the house and knaWa
as H. B. S87 and introduced in tia
senate by Plumer, Montgomery,
Mahoney and Angvick and knsYp
as S. B. 142.
The bill is mandatory and o.
quires no court action. IF yea
want to buy a car on the INSTALL
ment plan, you can waive yaur
right Of Moratorium BY signing q
waiver before . Notary PUAlla
Then you will be subject 70 saiEans
as It Is now. This NoRotorinm
will not stop RRyone from hWgiAe
cars but it will stop ell foreclosure.
Of debt contracted in the last TIVE
years by farmers and home oWn.
ers. Of cOuse If a home owner
has two homes the Moratorium b
only good for the one whore he
lives; If he has two farms and tha
party holding the mortgage can
prove the farmer can make . Hv-
ing on one Of them, then the other
is subject to foreclosure. This viii
give both the farmer and home
owner a breathing spell Of tive
years. It will enable the Farmer
to get the kids some clothes, buy
some meat from the butcher.
some groceries from the merchant,
and not have to turn every cent
over to the banker (who holds the
security as he does today. It juse
means that the shadow Of the loan
shark will be cast in the back
ground for two years. We believe
this to be q Comomn sense meas.
ure.
The b ig packers and nillars Of
this country collected S4OO Coz. ee0
flour hundred million dollars) u
processing tax belonging to ths
government. They declared q me
ratorium and refused to turn ever
a cent. They said it would be uu-
constitutional! Undoubtedly they
have cancelled this 400 Million BIZ
this time.
Our government cancelled 81 per
cent of the war debts to foreisw
countries, amounting to % biTTiex
dollars; gave them 81 years to
pay the balance at from sfx-tenFhs
IF one per cent interest up. This
Zeal was made in 1882 and since
hen not one of these countries
nave paid a single cent. These
countries. including ENGLAND.
France and italy have declared
moratorium on these debts and
vii, perhaps, cancel them later.
Continues On pasa 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
SOUTH RESPONDS
TO UNION DRIVE
By MARY HEATON WORSE

Birmingham, Ala.-(FP)-Last
summer there were only two LODI
ges of the Amalgamated Assn. of
Iron, Steel & Tin Workers in the
Birmingham area. Organization
work proceeded slowly and for the
most part secretly. Workers were
tinid about going into the union.
Spying and intimidation made or
ganization difficult.
But the organization work went
on just the same. Today there arc
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
BY AARON LEVENsTEIN

HEMPHIS, TENN-(FP) - A
TASTY automobile trip into eastern
Arkansas, cut short by the in
reasing tapping Of flood waters
over the highways, showed the
picture of a people in exodus, car
rving with them the most miser-
able household goods that human
beings ever tried to salvage out
Of disaster.
The poorest of Americas popu-
ation, the sharecroppers of Ark
msas, are desperately trying ia
rescue their broken-down sticks of
furniture from the ravages of the
flood. And in some cases, they
charge, the planters are blocking
their efforts.
Refugees from Edmondson and
Louise, bound for Memphis with
none Of their humble belongings,
tod this correspondent that plant
eT8, after sending their mules to
high ground, were stopping trucks
hired by sharecroppers. They said
that the drivers were turned back
at the point Of a gun and threat
eled with death if they attempted
to move the belongings Of tenants.
ShOd in waist-high rubber boots,
Negro refugee from Edmondson
described the efforts of choppers
70 escape the menace of the rising
waters in the bayous fed by the
St. Francis river.
The planters have sent out all
he mules already" he said, ''but
they won't let the folks out. A
Nack that come for us from Menu
PMS was stopped by the Boss Man
WIN shotgun, and he told the
aEiYer to git. The planters want
-elr mules out Of the way because
hey can bring them back, but
-sy re afraid if we get away we
want 60 back"
a number of refugees from Ed
-'onusOn and Louise who succeeded
Z making their way to Memphis
WI similar stories Of how they
sc compelled to leave their prop
> Oehlnd. Members of the Sou
1'!n tenant Farmers Union COM
= .1laed that while planters are
plg some to flee, they refuse
I'VE aid to union members, say
. Let the union move YOU"
ne inundated section of Arkan-
through which we passed is
= T" the strongest areas in which
= :. l. +. Z. is organized, being
-ol'ed by some $4,000 members.
UugAout the section, stretching
oo'h sides of Highway 10, the
NED shacks, whose gaping
; : nave been open to the winds
-. .Is winter, are now filling with
1s'e and there, cabins are iso-
i aS the hated cotton fields lay
- ''ged under accumulations of
e waters or backwaters of
o. Francis that have flowed
y. vi Of their banks. At one
: farmers wagon, freighted
49,. an load of hay was being
along an unseen pathway
en-. ~ mules, their bellies fretting
y -. 'Ct with the icy water. A
ausse. ''0 rear Oaakeo =
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
WHAT WILL MONTANA
DO?

A Bill to extend the pres
ent Mortgage Moratorium
Law in Minnesota to Janu-
airy l, 1889 passed both
houses of the State Legis-
lature last week, and was
signed by Governor Elmer
A. Benson.
Continued on page g.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26

ATHENS, Greece.-(FP)-lne
Athens munitions factory mas re-
eeived an order for 100000 IN p,
fantry cartridges for the spanish
Fascists.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-02-26
WErLAND, ont.-(FP)

WEELAND, Ont.-(FP) = An
agreement to rehire workers with
ont discrimination, permit the es-
Establishment of shop committees
and union recruiting, increase
wages of lowest paid workers and
review other wage scales has end
ed the strike at the Empire cO''Oni
mills. involving TOO workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17
WEDDING
 IS SORROWFUL
Continued from Page D

(COnCnueQ 1rOm rage v to take charge of the bodies of those who died. The wedding date was picked partly because Saturday is the new grand dukes 29th birth. day. He is stationed here as a secretary in the German embassy.
 Daughter of Geddes
 The bride at today's ceremony, now the Grand Duchess of Hesse, is e daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes, former cabinet minister, who was ambassador to the United States from 1920 to 1924. Before he went to Washington, Sir Auckland was principal of McGill university, Montreal, Canada. Miss HTarriet Agney came here from her home at Toronto, Canada, to be a bridesmaid.
 Nearly all the guests wore black, and before the brief ceremony was over nearly all the women were in tears. It was one of the saddest weddings that Londoners could re- member.
 Twelfth Victim
 Ostend, Belgium, Nov. i7.-(UP)-- A twelfth victim was added today to the list of those who died yester- day in the crash of Belgian air liner, which all but wiped out the doyal family of the German arch. duchy of Hesse.
 Police, Investigating the ruins of the plane, which struck e chimney in fog as 1t struggled for safety ofl a flight from Frankfurt to London, found the remains of e prematurely born child, killed ct the moment of its birth in the flaming plane.
 Those Who Died
 Those who died, in addition 10 the prematurely born child and the planes Belgian crew of three, in- cluded:
 Granduke George of Hesse.
 Granduchess Cecile, Princess of Greece and Denmark.
 Dowager orandduchess Eleanore
 Prince Ludwig 6, and Prince AL denbach, 1, sons of the grand duke and grand duchess.
 Baron Won Riedegch Zu EiSen- bach, Grand Court Marshal of Hesse.
 Frau Line Hahn, maid of the dowager Grand Duchess.
 Herr Martens, German engineer and glider expert.
 Grand Duchess CeclIe
 Grand Duchess Cecile was Q daughter of Prince Andreas Of Greece, and was 6 first cousin of Duchess of Kent, sister in law oj King George VI of Britain.
 The Grand Ducal party were On their way to London to the wedding 8 Prince Ludwig of Hesse, youngs CT brother of the Grand Duke, to Miss Margaret Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland oeddes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17

for the care of communicable dis- ease cases and S3,000 for babies and baby clinics. The expense of han- ding needy cases, he said, should be borne by the welfare department.
 The proposed health department budget for 1888 is S54,823. This Is less than the 1887 budget of S58,i10.
 Health Officer Reports
 Health Officer pr. Edward J. Qod- frey reported that there were A cases of communicable disease in the city last month, causing 13 deaths. He urged that children be itnmunized, as e preventive measure during the present spread of diph- theria, of which Waterbury has more cases than any other city in the state.
 Dysentery Cases
 The city had nine cases of dyBer- tery last month, he reported, but this was not due to any fault of the water or milk supply. The cases were all in one group, and the cause had been found, he said.
 Applications for appointment to department positions were received aB follows: From Barbara Borchardt and Anna Hughes for dental hygieii- ist, from Anna D. Hogan and Mary Carroll Dwyer, nurses; from pr. 5averio Carullo. for school physi- clan; from James Salfas, for dental interne; from Deborah Griffin, for laboratory assistant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17
Unruly Congress ls
 Liable To Hurt Plans
<Consinued hom Page D

hours and IS minutes of that time, Connally sat by while the clerk read speech delivered by Supreme Jrls- tice Hugo L. Black in the Senate in 1885 denouncing the anti-iynch- ing bill as unconstitutional.
 COnnally Thanks God
 "Thank God the supreme court is still over there," Connally said. T know that one justice will hold this bill unconstitutional and that is Justice Black"
 Conally disavowed any intention of fllibusterlng but sal dthere were many senators who wanted to speak at length on the bill.
 The majority leader and Van Nuys expressed belief the debate would end late this week but there ap- peared to be plenty of ammunitions to continue it throughout next week -or indefinitely until the farm bill IS ready.
 Van Nuys expressed confidence that the anti-lynching bill would be enacted at this session. If 1t is dis placed by the farm bill, 1t will be the first order of business after the crop measure.
 Revision of Taxes
 Washington, Nov. l7-(UP)-The congressional movement for revision of the undistributed profits tax as a means of encouraging corporate business expansion was kept to the fore today with arrangement of a conference between Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate finance com mittee and Secretary of the Treas ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
 If remained probable, however. that the tax legislation would be delayed until the regular session of Congress that begins in January.
 Harrison said that proposals for modification of the profits tax would be 0 leading topic at a luncheon conference with Morgenthau and Undersecretary Roswell Magill, who has been presenting the adminis- tration's tax revision program to the House Ways and Means committee It was expected the conference would discuss further tax revision plans suggested by Morgenthau and supported by Harrison. Seeks Sound Program
 Chairman Fred M. Vinson, d., Ky, of the House Ways and Means tax subcommittee which already has tentatively approved Q reduction of sos, 100000 @ year in taxes paid by small corporations and business men, said that in revising the entire existing revenue structure his group sought sound, permanent program He emphasized that this could not be hurried unduly or enacted il, piecemeal.
 Vinson was supported by Chair man Robert L. Doughton, d., N. O.. of the House Ways and Means com mittee and Chairman Pat Harrison d., Miss, of the Senate finance com. inittee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17

4AOlAA u8G AJ room and taking a pile of civilian clothes.
 One of the three men recaptured entered the home of A. M. Fuller, Poquetanuck, last night, state police said, announced he was Vice Presi- dent Garner, and asked us of the telephone to call Hartford.
 He got no further than 8 discuss sion with the Norwich operator, Mrs. Fuller said. The man, whose name she did not know, talked unintel- ligibly, and permitted himself to be led back to the Institution. Those Who Broke Out.
 All those who fled came from the criminal insane ward.
 John J. Dwoykowski, 40, Norwich, committed from states prison, and believed to be the ring-leader.
 Joseph Kuzuk, 25, Rockville.
 John B. Perry, 23, New Haven.
 Re-captured soon after the break were:
 Andrew Nichols, 54, Stamford.
 Edward Puckus, 3l, Waterbury.
 John Kamiversky, 30, Wethers- field.
 Concerted Effort
 Dr. Chester Waterman, superin- tendent of the institution, said 1t was apparently e concerted effort to escape"
 "The men, he said, usually are locked in their rooms and taken out only Q few at @ time at stated in- tervals.
 'These six jumped the guards, knocked them down, and locked them in a room. Then they went to the clothes room and took all avail able clothes.
 "The guards were not injured"
 Dr. Waterman said Nichols and Puckus were captured in a woods near the institution early today and lodged in Norwich jail. Kamiversky was taken just outside the asylum and returned to his quarters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17
Army Of Hunters On
 TruiL Of Kidn0pers
CcOntlnueu from Page D

The police teletype system already had flashed warnings to Canadian border authorities.
 Police were instructed to shoot first and talk afterward.
 They will not be captured with out fight" said Chief Inspector Albert B. Moore of the state police.
 Acting Governor w. William Bray appealed to all law enforcement ofn- cers, particularly in rural sections, to "be on the alert"
 Probing Into Escape
 The commission of correction, headed by Edward P. Mulrooney, completed last night preliminary investigation of the escape, which obviously had been carefully planned. The five guards and the prison matron, who had been cowed by the kidnapers' guns, were ques- tioned.
 "There were several discrepancies in the stories told by the guards" !" Mulrooney said.
 He refused to ampltfy the state- ment.
 One of the first moves in the in- vestigation was to re-arrest Charles Spafford, of Moravia, N. Y., who was discharged from the prison Monday after serving four months for 8 minor offense. Spafford occupied Q cell in the same block with the kid- napers, and officials wanted to know what he had overheard, if anything, while they were planning their es- cape.
 Geary, pint-sized member of the kldnap gang, engineered the break by saving through two steel bars near the floor of his cell. Investi- gators believed that that was done several hours before Geary decided that it was time to wriggle through the opening, and they felt that Q guard or "trusty" should have mo- ticed the steel shavings on the floor. Geary concealed his work by holding the broken bars in place with chew ing gum.
 Oley and Geary were under 77 year sentences and Crowley under a 28 year sentence for their part in the O'Connell Kidnapping. OConnell, nephew of the powerful Democratic leaders of Albany county, was re- leased after g days on payment of $40,000.
 New York city police suspected part in the sensational $427, ,00C the three kidnapers of having had holdup of an armored car in Brook lyn, N. Y, in 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17

hordes of panic stricken civilians moved out of the capital as the Japs anese approached.
 Seventy Japanese warships were strung along the Yangtzc. An un- confirmed report said that the Jap. aneSe had reached the boom bars ricading the rive at Kiangyin, ape proxinately 10 miles south of the capital, and were preparing to open the river.
 Capital In Fear
 Fears that the Japanese soon would attack the capital heightened. Chinese admitted that once the Kiangyin boom was penetrated the Japanese could drive quickly on Nanking.
 The evacuation fever spread rap- idly. Thousands of residents-rich merchants, civil employees, students, coolies and beggars--jamfned the water front, railway stations and train sheds, surrounded by their household goods, weeping women and crying babies.
 President Lin Sen already had left for Chunkkiang, far up the Yangtze In sEechuan province. Five other ministries went with him. The ma. jority of government ofilces were bare of files.
 The Russian embassy was the first to announce plans to move up the river and the United States, Brit- ish, Branch and German diplo- matic corps were expected to follow when the government announced definite plans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-17
DECREASE FOUND
 IN OTHER CITIES

Hartford, Conn, Nov. 17--tUP) --The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce today reported c decrease in october employment fin New Ha- ven manufacturing plants of 152 employees over September.
 The chamber said l6,100 employees were ct work during october, as compared with 10,3i2 during sep- tember.
 At Bridgeport, the chamber said, ail employment decline has been ,in. derway since the first of october. At that time, 20,001 employees were working. At the end of the month, 10,70o were employed, c decrease of 33l.