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PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934
VX1L Number 19
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
VOL
War Moves of Capitalist
Nations Go on as Putsch
of Austrian Nazis Ends
Italy Masses 48,000 Additional Troops at Austrian Bor
der as German Military Forces are Being Mobi
lized; French Ready for March Into Rhineland
t,M DEAD AND WOUNDED IN PUTSCH
gcfmschnigg, New Austrian Chancellor, Refuses to Con
firm von Papen as German Envoy; Dollfuss Is
Buried as 1 wo of His Killers are Hanged
Armies of the capitalist powers surrounding Austria re
mained on a war footing, with mysterious troop movements
going on in Germany, as the Fascist Austrian government
succeeded in putting down the remaining Nazi insurgents *
Carinthia and on the Jugoslovian border.
Reports from Rome state that Italy has sent reinforce
ments of her troops to the Austrian border, 48,000 more sol
diers were moved north into training camps and other posts
near the border. Jugoslavia has also massed large numbers
of troops on her Austrian frontier.
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Italian newspapers, to
tify the heavy war mobiliza
tion on the Austrian border
declared that though the pres
ent Nazi putsch was defeated,
the maintenance of troops
nearby was necessary to fore-1
stall another similar attempt.
In Berlin, the Nazi ministry of
propaganda would neither affirm
nor deny the mobilisa" ion of Ger
man troops in connection with the
present events.
In London, acting prime minister
Stanley Baldwin, frankly declares
that Great Britain's fror/ier now
.. . ., ricm pv
lies along the German Rhine,
meaning that Germany is the po
tential enemy of Great Britain,
The House of Commons over-■
«Mmmgly voted approval of a
treniendoug increase of armamet»
% n- A w. TW
" urg ^ ymg F- M
With mndenburg, former
G^v'f niriHHvin^plrir *
tomanys president dying, Pans
te tab g of a ehenzollem 1 res-.
i°n m Germany and views
vere expressed that French armies
jjrmdy to march into the
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Jr .t f.om Mussolini, the
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dininr h a ne^onfirm^i tinier^
SStoem „1 vTcLZnllW ™n
p. riowrr. f v
fc r e r?eoL! voo
PiDrtv'q f o
Faackt AnwhliKQ /„JLÎrtrf i, r . p
rc*HT) move *
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mmg m Austria ,s a growing bit
m between German and Ital
ascism, in which the two ban
^° w<>rK reveal be criminal deed
p. 116 ano " ber *
Hi, exam ple, commenting on
Hitlers pose of ignorance about
prearranged seizure of the
(rf to ^be killing
inireÜf i! 9 . t ^ ie blood y upris
o the Nazis, an inspired ar
* m ™c P °P° l0 di Romano says:
(Continued on page 8)
Aftermath of Uprising
The aftermath of the Nazi
up
FOR FAKE REASON GRANTHAM
IS EXPELLED FROM HOLIDAY
"Signing of U.F.L. C»U" U
for Expulsion, Call
Really Signed by Moe
The present officers of the
armera Holiday Association
r® their best by all
eans to get rid of some of
ne most active members in
Wer to be able to carry out
' ^ lr bwn personal ambitions
n that of their friends.
That they
. . are not afraid to
an ything to accora
Püsh thi s was shown in the
letter received by Otto Grai*
u* 01, Raymond, member of
nl^nty committee of the
1 lld ay Association.
• containing his expul
sion** this committee, and
A N ' mi ^ ^ oe > president, and
Mum'*V 0 ?* 1 ' ^wtary, stated a
tv _ ^^ehood, a fake -reason for
Grani£ PU Si ° n * r0m office. Otto
aboutît 01 Was €ven asked
•• I el»« he nor was he given
ce to defend himself,
reason for Grantham's expul
' rinn««! that he refuses to
VeuJ 1be Political aims of Wan
""•««j2,r i * hat he has not
• !,w "*
the
the Holiday Asso
used as a political
# n blS 5 t rnm « n t to split the
tlte . farmers and workers in
* 0T benefit of the
. *> and Mainstreet politicians.
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irvr t a PTnilfmO
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WIS. DEPUTIES
SHOOT 39 OMRS
Troops Throw Up Barricade
as Marita] Law Is Declared
at Kohler
KOHLER, Wis., July 28.—Two
• strikers, Lee Wakefield, 26, and
j Henry Engelmann, 27, were killed
and 39 others wounded in a mur
j derous attack of dcpu * y sheriffs
here last night. Hundreds of dep
I u ties and gun thugs, employed by
t h e Kohler bathroom fixture plant
charged upon more than 1,006 pick
: e , ts mth nfles ' pistola > shotgruas,
Field-dubs
gas grenades. They
T*** *** sht>t W ° mCT1 and cW1 '
dr en. (
Fearing the anger and wrath of
the workers over their killed and
wounded comrades and children.
the state government declared mar
j.tial law this morning. Two Troops
of cavalry from Milwaukee were
«rt in by the Governor and took
possession of the town. When these
lr T >ps wera not '»
drive more than 1,000 of the pick
" s »« additional 80« N.
tional Guardsm «n were called.
The strikers reorganized and
were reinforced by unemployed and
employed workers from the Shey
boygan plant, 12 miles distant. By
throwing up barricades across the
highways leading into the town the
troops try to prevent the strikers
appearing in large numbers.
Even visitors are barred from the
town by oaranets of sand bags
across which the rifles and ma
chine guns of the military are
fTi-noJpirîiio,
j The stJ.ikers, insnite of the ter
J ror of soldiers, thugs and deputies,
! are continuing to picket the plant
; alongside the sentries of the Na
Honal Guard. They are fighting
for their daily bread.
Otto Grantham asks us to print
the following statement:
"To the Members of the Holidsv
Association of Sheridan county:
"The following letter was re
reived by me from the so-eslled
Committee of Action of the Holi
day Association:
The gentlemen Wankel and Moe,
having usurped absolute power in
the Holiday Association, in order
to carry out their schemes have to
expell all persons who are trying
to keep the Holiday on its path as
a fighting and protective organi
zation of the fanners of Sheridan
county.
"Raymond, July 6, *34
"Mr. Otto Grantham,
"Raymond,
"Dear Member:
"At the enlarged meeting of
the Com. of Action of the
Sheridan county F.H.A. thru
a vote, your seat at the meet
ing was declared vacant and
some one else elected in your
stead.
"This action was taken for
your signing the Call of the
XJ.F.L. without any authority
consultation on the pert
or any
of the F. H. Assn, officials or
its membership.
"Com. of Action of F.H.
Assn.
"(Sign.) Emil Moe. Pres.
"(Sign.) A. N. Wankel, Sec"
(Continued on page 8)
MURDERED
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Emst Toregler, Communist leader
and aquitted Reichstags fire de
fendant, is repor ed as being mur
dered at the command of Nazi
bloodhound Goering.
ERNST TORGLERi
IS MURDERED IN
NAZIS PRISON
Killed by Hitler Storm
Trooos on Coerino'a
iroops on Uoenng S
Order»
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NEW YORK.—Ernst TargleiV
German Communist leader and one
of the four aquitted Reichstag fixe
defendants, has been murdered in
been murdered in
prison by the Nazi butchers, ac
S"*??* t0 * 9tcny puWisb «i by the
Washington (D.C.) Sunday Star,
| Reports from Paris have con-1
firrned this story. The National
Committee to Aid Victims of Ger-!
ma n Fascism Vas informed by a
cable that there is much concern
°ver Torgler in England. France
end other European countries. The
Daily Mail of London reported ten
^ th . at ^ been
found dead in hig cell. Inquiries
subsequently directed to the N«i
authorities resulted in neither
mission nor denial, but were met
with semi-official ridicule.
The Washington Star reported
that Goering ordered Torgler's
murder during Hitler's bloody
massacre of hundreds of his foi»
lowers and lieutenants on June 86*
The story states that the death of
the Communist leader has been ad
mitted by a Nazi official, whom it
quotes as declaring that he died
natural death. Rejecting this Nazi
version, the Star comments that
Goering has finally fulfilled his
threat, made during the Reichstag
firr trial, to murder Torgler.
Schering» Murdered
The fate of Richard Scheringer
is not In doubt. He was brutally
murdered in the period of bloody
massacres, around June 30. This
■ anti-fascist hero was a lieutenant
j In the Reichswehr up to 1930, when
He was charged Vith high treason
for Nazi activities in the German
army. In prison he met a number
and ioined the Communist Parriy of
Germany.
After his release, he openly ex
posed Hitler, answered a number
of questions directed to him by
Nationalists and Nazis in a pamph
let, and was again condemned to
Prison for two years. When Hit
ter was called to power by the Ger
man industrialists, Scheringer
® n a riempt
I" 'l e b5 ' N :' zi '««dors to Win hl m
| J"* *° He «*•«»<•
| •_ s1 i pp ? rt German Commu
Part y. *** was ^own into a
^lT, t . ra ^Lfïï P ' Wl " re ^ ™
__ ^ f ,*
^ re,>ort of these mold « re
was
was
em
phasizes the necessity far intensi
fying the mass united front fight
against the murderous Nazi re
gime. Protests with demands for
definite information regarding Tor
gler and Thaelman, for the safe
and immediate «release of Thael
maim and all other anti-fascists
held in the Nazi prison dungeons
and concentration camps should be
sent immediately to all German
consulate« by locals of farmers
land workers organizations and by
| individuals.
I Flood the Nazi consulates with
protest resolutions!
Answer the appeal of the Paris
Liberation Committee for funds for
the freedom of all anti-fascists!
Rush money to the National Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger
man Fascism, 870 Broadway, for
remittance to the Paris Commit
tee?
H. HARRIMAN HALS
SUBSISTENCE FARM
PROJECT OF AAA.
Good Move to Avoid Un
employment Insurance,
He Thinks
WASHINGTON, July 29.—"Ap
P- l>ve (> f the subsistence horn* stead
P r °j ec s ' t)f course i do," d«*ciared
Her ry I. Harri man, president of
Lnited States Chamb- r of
C'omm. roe. describing the "plow
u nce»: farmers policy of the ad
ministration as the "most funda
i mental and far-reaching movement
under way today."
j In the interview this captain of
Big Business immediately revealed
why he thinks this subsistence
movement so great and so advant
ageous.
! "I believe that if the subsistence
movement already had been carried
out there would be little need for
unemployment insurance, or rather
unemployment reserves," said Mr.
Harrimann.
! The president of the Chamber of
Commerce is spilling the beans.
Subsistence farms in order to avoid
payment of unemployment insur
ance.
"I am not opposing unemploy
nvent reserves, or old age pensions"
| said ^ ^ J
j fear is that the^ may impose teo
I heavy a burden u^n SSs at
this time."
Yes, they might cut a Wee little
bi t into the huge profits. And that
is wb V the banker Harriman pre
HoweCr
subsistence farms.
1 b « * not sure whether it will work
and if then unemployment insur
ance is necessary he wants to make
sure that most of it Is paid by the
workers themselves,
i "Unemployment reserves must
' come through contributions from
I Ix»th the employer and worker," he
' -ays,
i The workers Unemployment In
! trance Bill. Which has gained
I ma »s support all over the country,
! provides that the Insurance il
ad-jpaid by the employen* and the gov
crament.
j Harriman had just made a trio
: with assistant secretary of agri
! culture M. L. Wilson, Inspecting
some of the subsistence homestead
units,
He had no comments to
make on the fact that the govern
ment Intends fo put workers on
"subsistence farms" and have sur
plus farmers "absorbed by indus
try."
MAGGIE PRITSCHAU
NEBR, ON WAY TO
PARIS CONGRESS
To Represent Midwest at
Women's Congress
Against War
GRAND ISLAND, Nebr.—Mag
' I^tschau, a farm woman of
Buffalo coiyity has left for Paris
together with 29 other women dele
gates from all over the country.
She will represent the farm woman
of the mid-west at the Interna
tional Women's Congress Against
!^ ar J n Paris on August 4, 6, and
ri "z r * Pritschau was elected at
M id-Western Conference Against
War and Fascism held at Grand
Island on July 8.
Maggie Pritschau is the mother
of two children and a dynamo of
She has planned her own
work so that on her return she can
devote considerable time to a cam
paign to bring the message of the
Pans conference before the farm
•"* farm women of the mid
west.
The delegation of 80 women is
headed by Mother Bloor, springhtly
aad Dcrenlally-youthful 72-year-old
working class leader.
,r ^' 8 » fine delegation going to
Paris." Mother Bloor said. "
that American workers and farm
ers should be proud of. We shall
not end our work in Paris, but
come bade determined to organize
as many women of as many views
as We can into leagues against war
and fascism. The real work will
begin when we «return."
The delegates left on the He de
France last Saturday.
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Evacuate Montana
for What?
AN EDITORIAL
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Tens of thousands of people
must be removed from the dry land of the eastern coun
ties of Montana, the similarly located counties of Wyo
ming and the western half of the Dakotas, it was an
nounced here by Dr Elwood Mead, federal reclamation
after his return from a tour through the
western states.
! never believed we would have anything m this
country like the catastrophe I witnessed out there "
Meadsmd. There is nothmg left, no green thing. It
a
is gone.
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The commissioner did not state, however, what was
to become of the thousands of farm families now living
in the stricken area. He gavé no opinion where they
could be moved to. Mead emphasized that the land
should never have been cultivated since there is, even
in normal times, insufficient rainfall to sustain inten
sive agriculture. Even if this drought i-s broken, he said
another is bound to follow.
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This announcement is entirely in line with ihe state
ments of Under Secretary of Agriculture Tugwell, who
in explaining the policy of the Roosevelt administration
has time and again announced that there are two million
farmers too many in the country. These farmer® have
to be eliminated, taken out of production.
This policy was announced first by Tugwell on Oct.
30, 1933. Up until now the administration has dared
not to undertake definite steps to cut out fanners on a
large scale. Lately, however, much propaganda is being
made about the irrigated farms, little plots of land on
which farmers are supposed to grow most of the things
a family needs for subsistence. This means, of course,
that the American farmer i® to be pushed down to an
even lower standard of living than that of the European
peasant. The proud conquerers of the wilderness, the
homesteaders and pioneers, the men and women who
first built this country, thousands of them, in fact two
millions, are to be sentenced to a hand to mouth exist
ence and a miserable one at that.
For the administration here again the drought seems
to be a blessing. It makes their policy of "plowing un
der" farmers quite comprehensible at least so far a® the
drought area is concerned. Eastern Montana and Da
kota farmers are to be the first who are to be removed
on a large scale.
The Washington commissioner i® just sounding the
alarm. The stricken land must be evacuated. It is only
fit for grazing purposes, grow bunch and buffalo grass,
he says.
What is to become of all these small fanners, work
ers and small businessmen, we ask again. The govern
ment answers : Those people must be absorbed in other
industries.
However, those "other industries," all of them, are
unwilling to even give work to their own workers Over
fifteen million of them are tramping the streets. Be
cause these industries cannot make any profits they are
unwilling to take care of the young workers who are
coming up daily. Breadlines and subsistence plots will
be the fate of all farmers, workers and small business
men who are to be removed from the land.
Farmers and workers will not willingly submit to
having their living standards smashed, to become peas
(Continued on page 4)
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WIS. FARMERS HAY
BUY HAY IF THEY
SIGN A CONTRACT
Hay Is $30 a Ton, Contract
Cuts Dairy Herd 25 Per
Cent, Says Letter
Wisconsin dairy fanners, severe
ly hit by the drought, are allowed
to buy hay at $30 per ton if they
sign the government contract that
calls for the selling of every fourth
cow, a letter from Roy Miller, UPL
organizer of southern Wisconsin,
states.
According to the governments'
own figures there is a tremendous
underconsumption of milk in 1 the
country. Children are starving,
babies are dying for lack of milk,
Yet, dairy farmery are forced to
sell every fourth cow, they are
compelled to cut down their herds
26 per cent if they want to secure
hay at $30 per ton to feed the
rest of their cattle.
Roy Miller's letter follows:
July 28
"Dear Comrade Editor;
"Will try "o send you the long
promised letter on hoW our orga
nization is progressing here. We
have been holding many meetings
of the UPL with which we had
much success. Several hundred
new members and many subscrip
tions to the Farmers Weekly have
been secured and much literature
has been sold.
"The drought here is very se
vere. No fairmers in this com
munity have enough feed to last
them over winter and when the
government starts its cattle de
struction p r ogr a m around here no
body can just tell what is going
to happen in southern Wisconsin.
"The farmers can secure hay at
80 bucks per ton providing they
sign the feed loan contract which
calls for selling every fourth cow.
As you know, the Wisconsin farm
ers are mostly dairy farmers and
have high bred and high price
cattle.
"While the drought has affected
the growth of everything connected
(Continued on page 8)
OLSON DECLARED
MARTIAL LAW IN
MINNEAPOLIS SAT,
| Picketing, Strike Meetings
Are Prohibited by Force
of 4,000 Bayonets
MINNEAPOLIS.—The city Was
placed under the rule of 4,000 bay
onets as the Farme«r-Labor Gover
nor Floyd B. Olson declared mar
tial law here last Friday. And the
workers are learning fast.
They first believed what Olson
had told them, that the troops
troops
were called for the protection of
the strikers; they are now finding
that trucks are moving. Whereas
until ï\riday no truck was on thé
streets, now they move freely. Un
til Friday, pickets patrolled the
streets, large strikers' meetings
were held. Now, no pickets are in
sight and meetings »re forbidden,
This looks different from Gov
ernor Olson's promises. Illusions
that the troops Vere coming to aid
the workers are being blown into
all winds. The proops are here.
They occupy every comer, rifles
hand. Military trucks patrol the
streets. Mounted machine
occupy the streets around the
armory.
Olson's declaration of martial
law stated that Minneapolis
"in a sta"e of insurrection." • One
of his first acts was to "take over
the operation of all trucks." Per
mita were issued for the operation
of those trucks the governor
"deemed necessary for the protec
tion. of the citizens." This open
act of strike breaking is supported
by the bayonets and machine guns.
Soldiers are escorting the track*.
As much as possible the 6.000
striking track drivers are keeping
up "heir picketing In spite of the
bayonets of the labor «roverruor.
Driver of Car Killed
Cart Wallis, driver of a private
car. was killed and his companion
seriously injured '»hen a squad
of soldiers mushed into them
Tuesday. The troops were speed
ing to a place where pickets were
(Conti n ue d on Page Four)
guns
wa
Stop the Wanton
Cattle Killing!
Countless cattle are being bought by the government
Wdliston and Other Places Distribute Meat Freely Every
Week, Demand That Every Person in Need in
County Is Provided With Meat
are knkd and buried at the spot or in
! sands never reach the alleged destination: the tables of the
Ineedy families. They are annihilatd for the same reason»
lcot ton is plowed under, wheat and other food stuffs are d"
stroyed; to keep prices up, to guarantee the profits of the
speculators and Big Business. Milliins of people are starv
ing? Who cares, as long as a certain group of people
reap their juicy profits.
STRIKE LEADER
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Harry Bridges, aggressive leader
of the figh"ing Frisco dock work
I ers, has carried on the fight with
amazing support not only of his
own longshoremen, but of scores
of other unions.
FARMER DESCRIBES
BESTIAL KLUNG
OF TEXAS CATTLE
By » Farmer Correspondent
BARNHART, Texas.—Agents
the Roosevelt Raw Deal certainly
are killing the cattle. On the Hen
derson ranch today they will kill
j about 1500. Here is a description
I of just how it's done. I witnessed
one slaughter 10 miles south
j Barnhart of 15 head belonging
j R. L. Owens, after
were signed making claims for the
cattle, with Mr. Owens agreeing
bum the dead cattle.
some papers
Two of Roosevelt's Raw Deal
killers with their high power «rifles
commenced pointing the guns just
anywhere. They hit flank or nose
and shed a lot of blood, on the
fence or ground. The bawling
the cattle was hardly enough to
down the yell of the killers squawk
ing like a band of Comanches, and
after 100 shots theae were five
cows staggering about the lot.
The killers Vent in with
and anywhere they could hit, the
Mow was struck, until all
dispatched. This small lot was
Burned. They were good cows,
stodeers, all calve« weighing less
than 200 pounds and if good to eat,
aire good to give beef to anyone.
The others are shipped for
axes,
were
oan
1.000 WORKERS AND FARMERS
PROTEST FORECLOSURE SALE
Was
bay
the
on
Sheriff Taken for Walk
When He Refuses to
Accept $15 Bid
CHEHALIS, Wash.—One hun
dred militant workers and farmers
took Sheriff Blankenship, his dep
uties and the bidders representing
the mortgage holder for a little
Walk in the corridor of the court
house on July 14 when the Sheriff
refused to accept the bid of
offered by Mrs. Fred Aust at
foreclosure sale on her own home,
Deputy Borne, who was acting as
auctioneer fled.
More than 1,000 workers and
f armera massed at the court house
to protest the foreclosure sale. The
mortgage on Mrs, Aust's farm was
held by Prank Good, a bootlegger,
who refused every settlement of
fered by the United Farmers
League.
Thirty minutes before the sale
was scheduled, a large committee
of workers and farmers jammed
the office of Sheriff Blankenship
and demanded he call off the sale.
ft«
He «refused saying that he "sympa
thized" with the farmers, that he
knew the sale was wrong but that
he was compelled to "execute the
law."
When the sale began, the bidder
for Good marched out of the court
house under the pro*ecting arm
the sheriff, but he didn't stay long.
A committee of workers and farm
ers took him out of «the picture.
After a description of the pro-p
eriy was read, M«rs. Aust made her
hid of $19. There were no other
bids, and the crowd of 1,000 roared
From North Dakota
j ports that Ihe relief agencies have
been farced by the wrath of the
people to distribute meat freely.
At Williston, many of the cattle
taken from the farmers in Wil
liams county, are being butchered
and the meat is distributed in big
amounts to needy people. Bucher
ing takes place Saturdays and a
large number of people is provided
with meat for immediate use and
for canning purposes.
Such practice, of course, is not
to the likings of the meat trust.
The profiteers of the trust have a
certain idea that "prospective cos
tumers" migh + aquire meat in a
way that leaves the shareholders
of the trust without dividends. If
people would not get this meat
they might be compelled to buy a
couple of pounds in the future thru
the agencies of the trust and thus
assure the profits.
Thousands of cattle are being
bought in Sheridan county. Many
of these cattle are being killed and
buried. There are many families
in the county in need of meat.
Demand that the wanton destruc
tion of cattle be stopped! De
mand that every person in the
county, in need of meat be..pro
vided first before any herd of
cattle leaves the county. Protest
the killing and burying of cattle
while there is a hungry, person in
the country!
come re
There a»re butchers in the to'wns.
.The job can be done right on the
spot. There cannot be any excuse,
' Demand!
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Only Communist Fight
For Relîèf, Washington
Commissioner Declares
WASHINGTON, July 26.— .
After a week's tour of bread
lines and relief offices of Cleve
land, Milwaukee, Chicago, De
troit and Toledo, District Com
missioner George E. Allen,
turned to Washington yesterday
declaring that 98 per cent of the
unemployed are anxious to get
work *hat is not available.
Allen, disguised In tattered
clothes, stated that he had tried
to get a Job In 26 different
places and failed everywhere, *1
found out our employment, sys
tem is wrong from beginning to
end," he declared.
"I »earned the power that the
Communist« have is gained
prtodpally because they will
listen to people who are down
and out and will work for them
and fight with them," Allen de
clared, /
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for its acceptance. It was then
ithat the sheriff and all of his
j deputies except Borne were taken
; into the courthouse, because the
.crowd saw that the sheriff
supporting the bootlegger-mort
gage holder. Deputy Borne
fused to take the $15 offered by
M«rs. Aust and rushed into the
courthouse.
wa,
i A committee of workers ana
$16,'farmers followed him into the
the!sheriffs office and demanded of
[the sheriff that her $16, the only
| legal bid made, be accepted. Borne
re
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then claimed he had a higher bid
from Lawyer Donahue, Good's at
toraey.
Workers and farmers of Lewis
coun'y, however, are determined
that Mrs. Aust shall not lose her
j home.
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; * n m °d er n war?
I Around $25,006, according to of
Gcial figures based on the total
! cos ^ th. e World War and the
number of people killed therein.
What does it cost to kill a man
The dead of the World War, sol
dier and civilian, standing shoulder
to shoulder, would make a solid
wall around the entire boundary of
the United States.
If all the workers of the U. S.
were employed at N.R.A. code fig
ures (40 cents an huor, 40 hours a
week in the "better" codes) it
would take them just about ten
i years to earn enough to pay for
the last World war.