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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
By ARTHUR HOPKINS

The continued degeneration Of
the trade union policy of the Min
neapolis Communist Party is be-
coming more apparent each day,
and is revealed glaringly in their
tactics during several recent minor
and picaymune strikes. In the re-
cent strike at a local WOOlwOrth
chain store, for example, where
there was only one employe, in the
Retail Clerks Union, who got fired
for "union organization" the
Stalinists prevailed upon the union
to call a strike on the store. Then
instead of proceeding to organize
the workers, or even to present
their demands to the WOolworth
manager, they hiked to the head
quarters of General Drivers I'm
ion, local 544, demanding that all
deliveries be stopped at this store.
The union did this, and in q few
weeks had warehouse full of de-.
layed deliveries. The store man
ager contacted the Drivers and
complained that he had no oppor-'
tunity to interview the Clerks I'M
ion in order to adjust the griev-'
ance. Thereupon the Drivers in
sisted that the Clerks union re-
representatives. present their de-
mands to the store manager. This
being done, the manager acceed-
ed to the demand of rehiring the
fired worker.
This tactic of the Stalinists is
being used again in a manner
much the way as outlined above.
When a worker is fired for any
reason whatever, they advise the
worker to make it a grievance and
to prevail upon his union to throw
a picket line around the struck
place. Then instead of organizing
the other workers, they go to see
the Drivers Union and demand
that deliveries be halted. Thus the
Drivers are forced to act as cats
paws for the Stalinist adventures,
who know that the Drivers see
through the tactic which is to have
the Drivers Union refuse to COZ
operate.
The policy of the Drivers Union
is cooperation in all strikes Of the
workers, even where they are pat
emily Stalinists adventures. Act
ions of the union in the Petroleum
strike, the W.P.A. strike, and
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
By ARTHUR HOPKINS

Despite the bitter Is below
zero weather, Albert Goldman of
Chicago, outstanding Socialist,
leading labor lawyer, and CO.
editor of the Socialist Appeal,
spoke to a large audience which
packed Pioneer Hall Friday even
ing to hear the Moscow trials of
last August discussed.
Goldman b." - thA blind worr
snip Of the nu==-uz1s Tor Lenin's
physical remains, while the re-
mains of his thought is prostitu
ted by the Stalnist bureaucracy.
He declared that if Lenin were
alive he would gnash his teeth in
rage at the worship he is receiv-
ing which is running counter to
all he had ever taught. Lenin
taught the old Bolsheviks and to
all who would listen not to wor~
ship anything, to do away with
idols and icons and other para
phrnalia of superstition. Yet to-,
day in Russia, Lenin is worship
ped, and Stain is teaching the
Russians to worship him as the
successor to Lenin. This is the
reason for the success" of Sta
Inns policies in Russia and
throughout the world, a success"
which has caused the defeat of
the working class in Germany,
Austria, China, and today is caus-
ing the Spanish workers to oper-
ate against double odds-against
the aid of Hitler and MussoIini
and world capitalism in. general
Tor the Fascist general Franco,
and the weakened support OF
STAIN for the Spanish anti Fas-
1t is deception, rather than
force which causes the working
class to remain in bondage. Cold.
man said. Socialism must depend
upon the truth in order to adj
vance y It's ideals and program, and
y deceptive methods are used,
socialists are only cruelty deceiv-,
ing themselves and the rest of
Gne working class. Socialist crit
clsm OF the Stalinst bureaucracy
OF Russia is based upon the de-
termination to strengthen the So
vet Union By Kidding it of those
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
STALINTSTS CONTINUE ADVENTURE
POLICY In TRADE UNIONS
several other bears this ont


In these strikes thu S+oI;.,-.
called out the workers IN +S I'-' .-ts
irresponsible manner conca e; niTst
deVotlng a great deal of atter ,tS;.S'
to strategy" las in the Petroi irUu
strlke) by setting up a committso
to sit and "strategize", and moo -soO'
while not taking anv NOR 60
during the strike to Organiza ~
workers than they had done b y Wv
the strike. These adventures 6Ocs
no intention Of organizing The
workers Of the city instead. tS ,U
intend to capture organizations ~
ready built by the unselfish laboro
Of union leaders anr rank and Slo
(Who are usually Socialism, ana and
then use these organizations Fo-
their selfish and narrow polit,Col
policy which is unite all worIiTa
class and liberal political and .
economic organizations intD N
American Peoples Front (see Snain
and France) where the WORKING
class will be kept in bondage 70 =
program suitable to the liberals
within the peoples Front" tbev
want builded in this state which
would serve as a "model" for tbe
rest Of the country.
Such a policy also ties the work.
ing class to the status QUO, and tina
workers can expect no change
from their present more or less
miserable status if the Stalinists
have their way. And the whole and
only reason behind this reactiOnarv
policy of the Communist Party can
be traced to the Russo-Ffanco
Pact, whereby the Soviet bureau
cracy has shown that it relies up.
on bourgeois government for its
defense in preference to the aid OF
the international working class.
AS the first step in combating
the straegy Of the Stalinists IN
playing ducks and brakes with the
labor movement, the Drivers IN.
ion is calling upon the Central
Labor Union of Minneapolis to set
up a committee which will investl-
gate and report on such strikes as
the Stalinists have lately caller,
which report will act as a guide
for what actions other unions will
or may take in labor troubles. The
policy of 544, General Drivers, will
of course remain as always: All
support to all just economic act
ions of the workers.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
DENOUNCES MOSCOW TRIALS
AS VILEST FRAME-UP IN HISTORY

weak, unMarxist elements which
are sapping the strength Of the
Soviet Union. These are Stain
and his followers.
Socialists will always defend
the workers state. tina SoVie'
Union, to the extent - their lives
if need be. The Soviet Union be,
longs to the workers Of the wCrlG
and therefore Socialists snaI
criticize the Stain regime to the
whole world, and especially TO the
working class. Those who Stage
such trials as those OF hA~~~'"t ~
Moscow are the real s'"-'"""'' O
the workers, by vilifying 'AsS1 TE
tempting to discredit the O1Ly my
Marxist elements within tno
working class, these same ele-
ments being the only hope, Of 'nS S
workers to achieve the Victory Oa
the working class over the lOiO''
Of capitalism.
Thtre is not even a reasOas9lS !.
doubt as to the innocence OF 81: -
16 Old Bolsheviks charged VIZ
plotting to overthrow Stain Sj =
instituting a capitalist regime me- =
Russia. That they turned t To-
SITS to achieve this goal u az Is
as incredible, for all Of tne ~
throughout their many Year, .,,o.
service in the BOlshevlk, !. nit iai-
ment has time and again, by Grar.
ings in the prisons OF the ing ling
bv their suffering and , S.say
in the old Russian reyo IIoSr er-
movement, demonstrated T 19o-ever,
naitv to capitalism. MOl wsre,
MaTxists, which these men .o ~T1r'
never re1gt advocated individual .efi The
ism as a means to advance The
eau cause of the working class
CONTINUED on Page o.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01

A NUMBER of strikes are crashing the
periphery of the great industrial combines.
They have the appearance of vanguard
skirmishes, attempting to seek out the
weak spots on the enemy's flanks and ga
thering forces the while for mass attack.
Soon this may eliminate in mighty test
of strength in the steel and the automobile
industries. Probably these numerous
strikes, now taking place, are the harding
ers of a new great strike wave.
Industry is in the grip of restlessness
and ferment. The direction of the forces
set into motion by this ferment may not
yet be entirely clear. The workers may
not follow very closely the curves of the
industrial production chart, nor do they
study comparative statistics of wages and
profits. The meaning of the production
index of the Federal Reserve Board, re-
cording for October last $3.50 percent of
the 1923 average, while mass unemploy-
ment remains, is perhaps not so clearly
understood by them. Alongside of fabul-
Gus dividends to stockholders, employees
in many industries have received a bonus;
but the lean pay envelope does not mea-
sure up to the demands of the rising cost
of living. The turn to recovery did not
bring the much-Wanted economic security
the pressure of increasing speed-up on the
conveyor system remains, and above all
there is a growing recognition amongst
ever broader working class layers of the
need for protection through an economic
organization of their own, not subject to
labor relations boards, nor dominated by
the industrial corporations. For the first
time in many years this general ferment
is taking root In the mass production in
dustries.
The strikes take on varied forms, sit
down Strikes stay-in strikes, or massing
on the picket lines. Even company unions
have become saturated with the general
ferment. Through all of it, it is possible
to trace the line of conflict between the A.
F. of L. and the local CLIO Open rivalry
within individual unions or local central
bodies is not yet particularly apparent. At
the present moment the AT. of L. is
quiescent while the CLIO. has become by
far the strongest center of organization.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
WAVE OF "SIT-DOWNs''

The strikes have for their objective pri-
marlly the establishment of trade union
organization. But in every instance the
specific character is determined by the
degree Of OrganizatiOnal advance made
The most elementary form of these strikes
is the shop action, sit-down. In the auto
mobile industry these have become so
numerous, arising entirely spontaneously
at the - drop Of hat without await
ing official sanction, that union leaders
look askance, fearing a wildcat movement
that may interfere with the routine of the
planned organization campaign. But thev
have been in the most cases highly effect
i've. Starting in the accessory plants they
quickly spread to the auto plants. One
notable instance was the Kelsey-TIayes
Company, where 5000 workers after ten
day slt-down strike gained recognition and
an agreement covering minimum wages.
The potential:+ies of this movement the
manufacturers recognize as well, so much
so, that at times the mere threat of action
has brought quick results. Some weeks ago
one large manufacturing company was
notified that the workers would not hand
lie frames sent in by a struck plant. This
action served to help iquidate the strike
IN the frame plant. The workers are not
even inclined to tolerate too much tempo
izing in meeting the demands for union
recognition. Thus for instance, at the time
OF this writing, a sit-down strike started
in the Cleveland Fisher Body plant, en-
ploying 1000 workers, because of the
company's postponment of a conference
with union representatives. Similarly, a
remarkable degree of solidarity has been
manifested throughout these strike move
ments. Perhaps one of the best examples
in this respect is furnished by the flat
glass workers union, whose action also
affected very directly the auto industry.
This union struck for closed shop agree
ment in the five plants of the Pittsburgh
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
THE STRIKE MOVEMENT BEGINS
BY ARNE SWABECK

Plate Glass Company. The company trans
ferred its orders to the Libbey- Owens
Ford Glass Company giants. Distance did
not interfere. Even though these plants
were located in variou parts Of the count
ry, the workers respO 2ded quickly and the
strike was extended t, every one of them,
tying them all up com lletely.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
The PRODUCERS News

Published Friday Of each !, VI no :
PlentywOod, Montana o,,,Da ~ Inc
Entered as Second - Il Post Of
October 10, 1918, at ,tt the rUs' Tn
fict at PlentywOod, Mo 3 Is7s.
der the Act Of March y
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01
EFFECT OF STRUGGLES

1t IS Of course inconceivable that such .
titanic movement for organization w,L;cS :
IS now under way, can be brouOht 10 - -
conclusion without struggles that uiII n us Us
deeply into the whole social stTnc +r 0 ~
american capitalist society. Tie I'M ;roro ~
upon the working class movement ;+ nngs': =
measurable: But it is possible - so S0e Is Is
l. nolds within its scope the possbiIi{;o sia az
enormous and irresistible WORKING ,,'le cIo ~
Continued on page five)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1937-01-01

Ella above his
/ leading int IRE
81 jerry OCon
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
CHINA JAPAN
SOLDIERS LOCK
IN FIERCE FIGHT


PEIPING, China, July 10 WH-
Chinese and japanese forces were
locked in the heaviest fighting with
in a week tonight as hundreds of
additional troops for both sides were
rushed to this area.
The Domei (Japan) news agency
reported that four divisions Of Nam
kings crack first army, known as
"Generalissimo Chang Kat-shek's
own" were moving north along the
Peiping-Hankow railway.
japanese authorities also were re-
ported to have dispatched reserves
to Wanpinghsien after the Chinese
were charged by the japanese with
violating an agreement for cessation
of hostilities until peace negotia-
tions were started.
japanese press reports in Shang-
hal said that the Chinese govern
ment had been petitionei to declare
war against Japan. The newly
formed democratic salvation socie-
81, composed Of 300 members. tele-
graphed officials in Marking de-
manding an immediate declaration
of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

Charles Fremont, while governor of
Arizona in 1881, seriously proposed
that the Colorado river be turned
into the Salton basin with the idea
of filling Imperial Valley to the old
beach line and thus materially modi-
flying the extreme summer tempera-
lures of the desert areas of south
ern California and Arizona.
2. Pasqual Valley is in the east
ern portion of Imperial county. 1t
embraces all the agricultural LAND
in the Winterhaven-B -Bard-Pot Holes
area.
3. 1t is claimed by some author
tiles that the accumulation of wind
blown sand forming the present
range of sand hills in eastern I'M
perial county is the residue of sand
formerly forming the beach line of
the eastern edge of the gulf when
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

measure on the fifth day of debate,
the Nevada Democrat struck back
vigorously at efforts of party lead
erS to rally support on the basis OF
loyalty to President Roosevelt.
Addressing a crowded senate
chamber, McCarran quoted a state
ment written by the president sew
eral years ago to support his dec
laration that he would stand on
the floor until he dropped rather
than see the bill enacted.
81 don't believe the hour has come
when our party ddreS to cast off or
read out of the Democratic party
those who follow their conscience
in opposing this bill" McCarran
cried. shaking his finger at senate
leaders.
But if that be the theme-if
those who under the leadership of
Burton K. Wheeler are seeking to
hold democracy safe are to be read
out of the party as threatened
then I am ready to stand beside
the senator from Montana to the
last.
I'D rather go down holding the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

it occupied Imperial Valley.
4. Most travel by early settlers
into Imperial county was via Nj
land, Mammoth Wash, Glamis, OgD-
by and east to point on the Plea
cho-Yuma road, and thence south
into Yuma.
5. Ell Centre started as a rival
to the original town of Imperial
because of an attempt of the city
fathers of Imperial to force the
builders of the railroad from Holt
vile to the Southern Pacific to pay
what they felt to be an exhorbitant
price for the right into the
then desert settlement. The con-
nection was made with the railroad
at a point three miles south OF I'M
perial, a site which was later de-
veloped into the present county
seat.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

continued the forlorn quest.
But neither the ships nor the
planes hurled into flight by the
Colorado had found the slightest
trace of the missing fliers and
their $4,000 Lockheed-Electra "fly-
ing laboratory.
There was no official announce
ment, and one navy official said
the search will not be effectively
started until the Lexington arrives,
but privately those aboard the Colo
RADIO felt the chances of finding
the fliers alive are now one in a
thousand ...t
The naval fliers whose planes
have been catapulted from, the
Colorados decks for the daily search
z-Lieuts. j. o. Lamorecht. w. B.
Short and J. l.. Fox-emphasized
the difficulties Miss Earhart must
have faced in making safe land
ing when they reported that many
of the islands and reefs shown on
old navy charts could not even be
found.
Also there has been no radio sig
nal or message of any kind pur-
porting to come from Miss Earhart
in the last so hours. None of the
early calls ever was checked as
authentic, but George Palmer Put
nam, husband of Miss Earhart, is
confident at least two or three OF
them originated with her or Noonan
and that the plane was on land
when they were sent.
A new theory was advanced to-
day by H. Cow Copra plantation
worker in the South Seas, who be-
lieves the fliers may be found in
the Gilbert Islands, which lie di-
rectly west of Rowland Island. Cow
said prevailing winds along the
route from New Guinea were south
east and that if Miss Earhart was
forced down at open sea after
overshooting Rowland Island the
current would have carried her near
the Gilbert group.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
10000 Live Like
Animals in Dust

\ SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 10
y(UP) Gov. Frank F. Merriam sale
today he would be "gla'1 to cooper
ate" in any move to alleviate suf-
ferings of California's dust bow
refugees.
The governor said he has received
no invitation to reported confer
ence to be held in Los Angeles in
an effort TO obtain federal aid, but
promised his support If called upor.
He said he would be in southern
California on July 10 or 20.
Reports reaching here stated the
refugees were living like animals
In Los Angeles county and the San
/. Joaquin valley, where 10000 persons
were reported homeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
CARS CRASH
ON HIGHWAY
NEAR HEBER
Two Mexicans in
Hospital After
Collision

Charles Gillett, former
sheriff of Imperial county is
in the Ell Centre hospital,
critically injured, and two
Mexicans are under observa-
ton at the county hospital as
result of an automobile accident
Friday night mile west of Heber
on the Calexico highway.
Gillett's left leg was broken be-
tween the knee and the hip one rib
was brokn and possible internal in
juries were suffered when the car
driven by one of the Mexicans, on
the wrong side of the road, hit
Gillett's machine. The Mexicans,
Amador Salazar, Heber, and Igna-
clio de la Rosa, Santa Ana, we're
cut on the head and face.
Authorities Friday considered pos
sible criminal charges against the
Mexicans, who were drunk at the
time of the crash, according to
Highway Patrolman Tillman Daley.
An investigation disclosed that
Gillett, seeing the other car bear
ing down upon him, pulled his car
completely off the highway, but
was unable to avoid the collision.
The other machine struck his be-
tween the radiator and cowl, driv-
ing it even farther off the highway
until the rear wheels came to rest
in the bottom of a small canal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Pastor, Fired by
Flock, Rampages
To Collect $50

Ed Hawcrth, Negro minister
Of the Second Baptist church of
El Centre, who was fired by his
congregation this week, was.
charged with disturbing the
peace late Friday because he
would not let his successor ad-
dress the congregation.
Hawcrth declared that the
church owed hin, $50 and should
give him 80 days notice before
firing him. The congregation,
represented by Mckinley Fisher,
declared that ministers are hired
by the congregation from week
to week, and paid S. Sunday.
The peace disturbance charge
grew ont of an altercation when
Hawcrth assertedly broke up
meeting of the congregation, at
which his successor was attempt
ing to deliver q sermon. Ha-
worth was ordered to stay away
from the church pending trial
next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

Valley pioneers cross the mountains
to San Diego?
2. What famous promise did
Theodore Roosevelt make concern
ing Imperial Valley that he was
later unable to fulfill?
3. Where was the first concrete
pavement laid, outside of the met
ropolitan and city areas, on the
present highway route between Los
Angeles and Imperial Valley?
4. What man, now living in I'M
perial county, occupied a govern
ment position here long before the
first development?
S. Where are the largest fossil
beds in Imperial county, and what
fossils are found there?
LAST WEEKS ANSWERS
l.. 1t is claimed that Gen. John
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
GIRL SLAYER
ON ROAD TO
DEATH CHAIR

WEST CHESTER. Pa, July 10
CUP)- Alexander Mayer, 20-year-
old confessed slayer of a 16-year- old
girl whom ne ran down with a
truck so that he could assault her,
started to Rockview penitentiary
and the electric chair today.
The son of Philadelphia coal
broker was convicted of numbering
Helen Meyer, a schoolgirl whose
nude body he threw into well
which he dynamited later to con-
ceal the crime.
He was scheduled to be executed
Monday at 1890 am.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
School Janitor Assaults Girl, s
ATTACK UPON
CHILD BLAMED.
ON CURIOSITY
Valley Man, Father of 5,
Lures Her Into
SchOOlrOOm

A school building janitor
who has served in his posi-
tion for eight years was held
incommunicado in the Impe-
rial county jail Saturday
while authorities prepared a COM
paint charging him with criminal
attack on an eight-year-old Ell Gen.
tro girl.
Presley Pickle, 35, the prisoner,
said his assault on the girl was
provoked by reading of the Ingle-
wood sex murders and curiosity"
about the physical development OF
a young girl. He is the father OF
five children, three of them girls,
ranging in age from two to nine
years.
Pickle admitted to arresting Of
ficers, they said, that he lured the
little girl into the Harding school
building at 10 am. Friday, per-
suaded her to enter small ante
room, and there attacked her. He
was arrested by Patrolman T. M.
Sharp and T. J. Harris Friday night
Eat his home, 514 South Eighth
street.
After statement was taken from
Pickle Friday night, he was lodged
in the county Jail with orders that
no visitors were to be allowed to
see him until further orders.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
CHANCES OF FINDING
AMELIA ONE N 1000
"a Miles of Canal
Fully Excavated

Seventy-four miles of the AL
American canal had been complete
ly excavated at the eni of June,
r. B. Williams, U. S. reclamation
bureau engineer in charge of con-
struction, reported Saturday.
Imperial Dam and desilting works
is 68 per cent complete, including
the All American canal headworks
and desilting basins.
A total of 173 carloads Of mater
ial was received on the canal pro-
ject during the month, with 1,795
men employed during that period.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

]. D. McCary, thus far leader in
correct answers to the Post-Press
Know Your County" questions, this
week failed to answer correctly two
of last Sundays questions, but
maintained his leadership because
the next-best list contained three
errors.
While McCary was rated wrong
on Question No. 3, the official an
swer is open to controversy. so that
his statement that the sand hills
we're formed at the bottom of the
former inland sea might be cor
rect. On Question No. 4, vagueness
of his answer brought his average
down.