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PAGE TWO
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And be said it as If he thought
that settled the matter Well it
"HU M " I ' SW ''
did for this high-ericed ' preader I I CO-OPERATIVE
that settled the matter Nell
P !
of educated ignorance but it cer
NOTES
tainly did not for the worker and !
his family weir) had to go on living I
(In A bare eubeistence basis
USSR Co-ops 31ove
THE CRUELTY OF N ECONOMIST Villages
To
I remember also a talk I bad --
with another faeulty member who Soviet Russia with the greate
was criticiring the attempts
I system of consumers' co-operato
through legislation to interfere in of any country in the world h-
the 'working out" as he called le !supplanted the co-operatives in t!
of the depression He said it i cities by- etate atoree which ha'
should be allowed 4" riln I" I been found more adapted to ci
course" as all previous depressions i needs
had That this was the only way i
to bring it to an end That miry he Central Co-operative w sery i uee capital taken out of the cil
had come to millinlr's in ttl) "run- distribution systems to expand tr
ring of ite couree" never seemed lndousy
i the co-operatives in ti
to strike this prefessor with a nice ' "''
I villages The State Bank of le
fat selary from an institution i
which got meet et its endowment USSh ""1 give U315 co'n)rnrativ'
from some of the biggest financial i 30:11tr00Opng and organizing 50
00i0 rubles this year f(
and industrial pirates in the couti- I nn
I try new village co-operative store
Two other words re The State Bank will also give i
dislocation" also aret:'steernePraleenlfacilitleis to furnish working cis
Sometime ago 1 had occasion tc! ital CO the condition that up-t
bitterly denounce an 'economist date bookkeeping svaterns al
who has always peeled as a "Lb- I used An allotment of trucks wi
eral" for using these words I ! be set aside by the Heavy Inal
took the salary of this prefessor I tries Department for co-operatn
and compared it with the income I use
of a worker who bad been 'die- I The significance of thettic(1
located" in an attempt to show I operatives in the cities e ash
the erug titterer of the phrase when uniform prices were decree
that while he the professior might ard an open market policy Leer e
be 'dislocated" without any actual The state stores wdoee locatior
hardship coming to him that just can be planned ' eatraily in m
one week's "dislocatioe" suffered dition to other seventenee hat
by the werker meant Immediate I been welcomed n y the inhabitanl
hardship particularly if be had a of Moscow and other cities Tc
family frequently co-operative stores o
EITHIII POOL garezed among workers in a fai
OR sCOUNDREL tory or other unit of econoue
Maene my readers think I sm I life were inaccessibie to the home
Intolerant in dealing with the of the workers
"economists" Perhaps I am If I On the other hand the stet
had bad less to do with them per- stores appeer at the preseet e
baps I would be mcre tolerant least not to be best for the vil
Anyhow using the word "revolu- i agee With the customers not d
tionist" in its proper sense as one
-- --- Ire:tly connected with managemen
who believes in the total abelish- mietakes In menagement could m
ment of any system which bring s be quickly corrected as with stet
misery to the mass of the people I stores in the cities This obje(
subscribe absolutely to Bernard 1 tion does not apply to the cc
Shaves statement made 30 years operatives
ago to the effect that any man
who baying reached the age of
35 (at least I thlek it was 35) is I M
"Ti es" Recognizes
not a revolutionist is either an I
inferior person mentally or a Co-op Growth
scoundrel That is if he fails o —
grasp the real import of the pre!- He Thomas F Conroy
ent economic system be must have i In New York Times
an interior intellect and that if he Estimates that the membershl
does grasp it and supports it be- of consumer co-operative societie
cause be is ore of the beneficiaries
e in the United States expanded 40c
of it then ee must be a non""
scoundrel in the depression years from 192
PROFITS FLOW I to 1934 made by the Co-operativ
nIORE FREELY League of the U S A gave adde
point te statements made by re
If one didn't keep certein tail authorities at the Boston Cor
'ACTS before nee's mind as he ference on Distribution that th
has to go over financial and in- consumer co-operative movemer
dustrial reports one would get !ia destine' to receive a "new im
pretty well mixed up ete to what ! petus'' in this country
actually is happening in the coun- 1 The "co-op" picture today wa
try Here an industry makes a said to be essentially afi follows
better showing—that is for the There are about 6600 co-opera
etockholders—here one is bolding tive societies with approximatel
its own—whatever this might 1SIXe000
mean—here another one is still members They did total business last year of approxi
badly "in the red"—meaning not ' mately $365e00000 or about 1r
able to loot efficiently—that is not of the total retail trade of th
able to make "profits" having to country The societies cornpris
use some of ite past lootings to 500 operating general retail store!
keep going etc etc The general i
i 3600 credit unions 1600 farmer!
summing up of all the report I supply purcha-sirg aseociations an
shows that more laot more proflta i some 1600 associations carryin
are flowing In than a year ago 1
! on miscellaneoua activities such a
BUT HERE ARE THE REAL ! cafeterias bakeries and even
CONDITIONS OF THE COUN- mail order busineme
TRY ONE-SIXTH OF THE PEO- I
LE ARE ON RELIEF THAT The major factors cited at th
II
P
IS TFY CALL IT 'RELIEF" I Boston conference as making' fc
IN REALITY THEY ARE JUST
potential spread of the "co-ops
i
EXISTING ONE-FIFTH OF THE included the reeeouing that ne
: developments in redling ar
EMPLOYAI3LES IN THE COLN- eanernnn and that consumer
TRY ARE UNEMPLOYED These may tura to new "low cost" du
are the FACTS to which I re- tributing systems and secondl
ferred above That the few are the possibilOy that the country
e e
allowed to pile up profits while now headed for a period of shag
these conditions exist is the most I ly rising pricei The generet- tenc
damnable indictment that could be! of these predictions was that tt
drawn against the present capital-
1st system It's all right for consumers will tend to organize I
buy their merchandise requite
Roosevelt to talk for Farley and ments and that the consumer ci
some others to bray but they can operative movement may be one (
neither talk nor bray these the means used
FACTS away As for the Repub 1 It WaS the rise in prices in th
beans who didn't even try to do country during the war and in
enything to change these condi- meeiately thereafter which gee
Lone what they have to say is an the co-operative movement il
insult to whet intelligence the start in this country in atinnesol
country still possesses
tTILITIES MAKE in 1921 An executive of the Ci
Ilt-61 PROFITS
operative League declared tt
movement was a "spontaneour
What liars these utilities cot- action on the part of larmers I
porationee are Remember what that state who regarded gasolir
they had to say about the very
and
mild legislate-el which was sup- oil prices as too high an
banded together to effect saving
posed to give the Government a on purchases of these eommoditie
little control over them Remem- needed for tractor operation o
ber how they said they would be the farm
crippled destroyed even by such
Those familiar with the set-ur
legislation How they denied they of the consumer groups througt
were getting nice fat profits or
out the country reported tha
lootings at the present time Well while some men formally in th
here's American Power and Light
retail field have been hired by ft
Its re-dement shows earnings for
co-operatives the majority of es
the three months ending Aug 1
ecutives and employes ere me
to have been over three times
es I directly trained 1
great as in the cmilar period for who have been
and by the movement itself
1934 Ain't it awful: Ain't al
The Central Co-operative Whole
awful! Poor abused corporation!
sale in Superior Wet which ha
Last week I had something to
'30
say regarding John W co-operative stores an
handsome legal e
eentienlan wnn D Davis the
renches bee its on school whic
4 trains from 30 to 50 new employe
gets handeorne legal fees serving
each year in topes of work rang
the unhandsome enaecial pirates
ing from selling to boekkeepieg
of the country He made a speech
Each of the petroleum co-opera
ne-e in the East a few nights ago
tires has an oil seheol for trait
which be thought was smart in
ing managers and field mei
fact he shewed by his demeanor
Integration of the variees Node
that he thought it ear smart If
ties throughout the country is
you want to 3'el secure then you feature of the movereenn Lots
must be centen r
!
t to be a slave If
secieties
you want to be free then you must are federated into large
groups
be content to live in a state of in-
and these are served b
security That you could be b°---
e still larger wholesalers in fee
' vnth their substantial expenditure
free and secure never seemed to
for capital equipment eren omen
enter this "master mind"
the you's of depreeesion has bee
Maybe you think I am ex-
sr e
aggerating Well bere are the I rf k d
I Eventually according to thom
exact words of the ex-car:en-late
serporting the movement consurr
on the Democratic ticket fee' Free-
1
dent era will be banded together fo
: '-nnere have been peeple in nrolucticn as
well as distributior
this country who lived rent free1 n
In Eneland production by the cc
They were fed and they were
burled when they died Their eco- operatevee has already mad
ramie status was perfectly secure nen'n" P'' g'"
They had no care about taxes—
r3 more than about Governrneet Churches Plan Big
But they lieed where cther men
told them to live aed they worked Pow-wow
where other men told them to -----
work They bad 'security They The Federal Council of Churche
were the slaves of the Soutb" In of Christ in America has voted t
other words the whole idea of eponser a "National Seminar ol
freedom of which security is a the Consumers Co-operativ
part is false If you want to be Movement" to which churct
secure yen must be content to he I school and co-operative leaders i
a slave Ai tnis man actually I the country will be invited in In
thinks be thinks! 1 deerneees reeneenne ea 4 e 1
r4Lo ALTO PARTY
Pal( Alto (Ca:if) Ljcal of the
8 P give a Hallowe'en party
t 915 Chazning Ave Alderton
bcme to which all Guardian read-
rs within reach are invited
USSR Co-ops Move
To Villages
Soviet Russia with the greatest
I system ot consumers' co-operation
of any country in the world has
supplanted the co-operatives in the
cities by state corm which have
I been found more adapted to city
i needs
1 The Central Co-operative will
! use capital taken out of the city
: distribution systems to expand tre-
rnendously the co-operatives in the
villages The State Bank of the
USSIt wilt give tbe co-operatives:
30000000 rubles this year for I
equipping and organizing 5000
Dew village co-operative stores!
The State Bank will also give its
facilities to furnish working cap-
ital on the condition that up-to-date
bookkeeping svaterns are
used An allotment of trucks will
be set aside by the Heavy Indus-
tries Department for co-operative
use
The significance of the co-1
operatives in the cities vatished1
when uniform prices were decreed1
aril au open market policy started
The state stores Waose locations
Can be planned Jatrally in ad-
dition to other svantages have
been welcomed by the inhabitants
of Moscow and other cities Too
frequently co-operative stores or-
ganized among workers in a fac-
tory or other unit of economic
life were inaccessible to the homes
of the workers
On the other hand the state
stores appear at the present at
least not to be best for the vill-
ages With the customers not di-
reAly connected with management
mistakes in management could not
be quickly corrected as with state
stores in the cities This objec-
tion does not apply to the cooperatives
(Continued from Page 1)
sta with the greateet !
nsumers eo01ceatioo: are a unit One and all they op-
pose social and economic change
-rld has!
rY in the v° and they agree in their ccndern-
le co-operatives in the
natien of Epilim Utopianism
:e corer' which have Socialism and Communism
nore adapted to city DAILY "LIVE"
IN IASe ANGELES
al Co-operative will
Drunken drivers -and drunken
aken out of the city driving are matters of continuous
ystems to expand tre- occurrence Prostitutes solicit in-
e co-operatives in the discriminately Every six minutes
s State Bank of the according to the record crimes of
ive tbe co-operatives robbery: rape or murder are re-
bles this year for ported at police headquarters
id organizing 5000 Gambling flourishes openly And
co-operative stores big business has its way without
elk will also give its stint so far as interference by la-
urnish working cap- bor organizM or unorganized is
!ondition that up-to- concerned All these activities are
eping systems are accepted by the people of Los An-
atment of trucks will geles without criticism or corn-
by the Heavy Indus- plaint
lent for co-operative Now however school children
some from the best families are
icaece of the co-1 caught en masse in a rendezvous
the cities vanished in the heart of the enest residen-
prices were decreed1 tial section of the city disporting
narket policy started! themselves after the manner of
re w dose location s! drunks and prostitutee Had this
en Jatrally in eels! episode occurred In any American
Cr svantaen have' city 50 or 25 years ago the entire
cl by the inhabitants nation would have been horrified
3d other cities Too After the trst sensational write--operative
stores or- tip the Los Angeles press quickly
g workers in a fac- killed the story and now only
r unit of economic Persona Ethically minded or re-
ressibie to the homes ligiously inclined or those filled
with social concern for the future
aer hand the state mention the matter in their con-
' at the present at versations
be best for the v1Il Sith their elders immersed in
he customers not di- hypocrisy exploitation and crime
with management --isnd the children aware of it
nagement could not --a hat conduct other than that
a
rected as with state displayed hy the children at their
7
cities This °Nee-
sporting v
house rendezoue could
t apply to the co-
be expected': The elders haAe
sowed and me continuing to
sow and the children are begin-
ning to reap the harvest
' Recognizes Students of history and econom-
ics know that all this is merely
p Growth manifestations of Capitalism and
- that there Is no remedy except the
Co-op Growth 1 mic
By Thonias F Conroy
Is New York Time
Estimates that the membershipll
of consumer co-operative societies
in the United States expanded 40'70
in the depression years from 1929
to 1934 made by the Co-operative
League of the U S A gave addedl
point to statements made by re-!
tail authorities at the Boston Con-
ference on Distribution that the
consumer co-operative movement:
ia destined to receive a "new
Fetus" in this country
The "co-op" picture today was
said to be essentially au follows:
There are about 6600 co-operative
societies with approximately
1S00000 members They did a I
total business last year of approxi-
mately $365100000 or about 1-21
of the total retail trade of the
country The societies comprise:
500 operating general retail stores
3600 credit unions 1600 farmers
supply purcha-sing asaociations and I
some 1600 associations carrying !
on mificellaneoua activitiel such as
cafeterias bakeries and even a
mail order busineme
The major factors cited at the
Boston conference as making' for
potential spread of the "co-op'
included the reaeouing that new
developments in reialling are
'overdoe a and that consumer3
may tura to new "low cost" dis-
tributing systems anti secondly
the possibility that the country is!
now headed for a period of sharp-i
ly rising pricei The generel tenori
of these predictions was that the
consumers will tend to organize to
buy their merchandise require-
ments and that the consumer co- r
operative movement may be one of
the means used
It WaS the rise in prices in this
country during the war and irn-1
mediately thereafter which gave
the co-operative movement its
start in this country in Minnesota!
in 1921 An executive of the Co-1
operative League declared the
movement was a "spontaneous"
action on the part of larmers in
that state who regarded gasoline
and oil prices as too high and
banded together to effect savings
on purchases of these commodities
needed for tractor operation on
the farm
Those familiar with the set-ups
of the consumer groups through-
out the country reported that
while some men formally in the
retail field have been hired by the
co-operatives the majority of ex-
ecutives and employes are men
who have been directly trained in
and by the movement itself
The Central Co-operative Whole-
sale in Superior Wis which has
130 co-operative stores and
branches bee its own school which:
trains from 30 to 50 new employes !
each year in types of work rang-
ing from selling to bookkeeping
Each of the petroleum co-operatives
has an oil sehool for train-
ing managers and field met
Integration of the vario-li socie-
ties throughout the cuuntry is a
feature of the moverezn:' total
societies are federated iclo larger i
groups and these are served by
still larger wholesalers in fact
with their substantial expenditures i
for capital equipment eaen during I
the years of depreesion has been
therked
Eventually according to thoee
supporting the movement consum-
ers will be banded together for
producticn as well as distribution
In England production by the co-
operativee has all eady made
marked progreas
Churches Plan Big
Pow-wow
rhe Feleral Council of Churches
of Christ in America has voted to
sponsor a "National Seminar on
the Consumers Co-operative
Movement" to which church
school and co-operative leaders in
the country will be invited in In-
dlanapolis Deceroter 39 and 31
The seminar will be under the
direction of James Myers indus-
trial secretary and Dr Benson Y
Lars assoiate secretary of the i
Division a Research and Fluca-
tion of the Federal Council of
Church 105 a 22 nd Street New
VLOS ANGELES
HYPOCRISY'S
Ye I TRUE ABODE
replacement of Capitalism by a so-1
chit and economic order from
which private profits and the
gorge for greed have been re-
moved COMPARED TO
Itl'iSsIAN CHILDREN
Such episodes are Impossible
and unthinkable in the Soviet Re- -
public American ministers of the
gospel visiting that country return
to the United States to declare
that the morals of Russian young
people are the cleanest and the
older people are freer frorn crim-
inal taint than can be said of any
people young or old in any other
country on earth But the Soviet
Republic 111s abolished Capitalism
and is now at work building So-
cialism A proposition the thieves of Los
Angeles and their political protec-
tors will not tolerate hence so-
cial corruption individual vice and
crime
RHODE ISLAND
LABOR VOTES
CLASS FART Y
-
(Continued from Page 1)
ministration lie opposed a Labor
psxty and maintained that the
traditional policy of the A F of L
must still be followed if labor is
to get anywhere politically He
received polite applause
A fight took place over the ques-
tion of industrial versus craft
unionism industrial unionism los-
ing 44 to 73
SALES TAX
Is 01'1'0EI)
A resolution protesting the
planned imposition of a sales tax
introduced at the request of the
Socialist Party was passed unani-
mously Socialist observers stated after
the convention that on the whole
the convention was decidedly pro-
gressive in F pito of the defeat of
the industrial unionism resolution
The state federation is not yet free
from the chains of control by job-
holding or Job-s:eiting Demoratie
politicians bur the chains are be-
ginning to break and several have
already given way
York City Dr Toyohiko Kagawa
inspirational leader of the co-operative
movement in Japan Tvill
meet with the group which will
also visit consumers' co-operatives
in action la middlewestern states
The national seminar on con-
sumers' co-operation will precede a
four-month tour of the United
States in which Dr Kagawa will
address church co-operative edu-
cational and labor groups ovtlining
the development of the co-operative
movement in Japan and ex-
plaining his belief that co-operatives
furnish the technique of ap-
plying the Twinciples of brother-
hood to business and creating on
economic foundation for world
peace More than 5000000 Jap-
anese families are members ef
head h marketing utility credit
and -producers and consumers' co-
operatives Missouri Methodists
Urge Movement
Following the lead of the New !
York East Conference of the
Methodist church which endorsed
the consumers' co-operative move-
rneit at its annual meeting in
May the Nitslouri Methodist Con-
ference has called on its ministers
and laymen to study the move-
ment and —organize co-operative
enterprises of every sort" The
resolution passed bout a dis-
senting vote describes consumers'
co-operation as a Ivorld move:
ment active in 41 nations app:v-
ing the nee:ds of mil:ions of peP:e
Its Frowth has teen steady
through famine wars and fman-
cial crises It is fJunded tport the
princip:es of der:ocracy ethical
Jstice end the 444:table d:stri-
butiru of the matedal goods of
life
By Charles V Ervin
Many people are so busy trying
to get enough work in order to get
! enough money to be able to con
tinue to exist that they feel they
have no time to keep themselves
posted on what is really occuring
: today or regarding what has tap-
' pene'd in the past Others are so
I! worried Over continued unemploy-
! merit that they have no interest in
!present or past events outside of
their interest in trying to secure
! a bare living
It is for this reason that millions
! of our people were not interested
! in the arrant impudence of a
group of financial and industrial
pirates forming a -Liberty
!League" Some prostitute writers
' hailed the formation of this
League as an attempt to protect
the sacrednees of "our Constitu-
! ton" Others who saw both the
impudence and hypocrisy of this
!organization made sarcastic corn-
: meats That is where they could
get a publisher to print such crit-
! RICH DEMOCRATS
ERE sillELDED
Naturally such publishere were
! few in number Even the Demo-
cratic press hesitated to tell the
truth regarding the persennel
! this group 18 hy not? Two of
the members John Davis the cot-
! aeration lawyer and Al Smith the
' intimate of multi-millionaire Eas-
t koh had been candidates for the
!
! presidency on the Democratic
! tickets in 1924 and 192S
! The use of the word "liberty"
by reactionartes is generations old
It's a very effective method to be
used in fooling the people for a
period It was tried out in Eng-
land in the latter part of the leth
!century when some very mild re-
1 formers desired very slightly to
!refashion the English Constitution
! of 168S to meet new conditions
' I remember back in 191S when
' May's "Constitutional History of
England" came out that Dr
!Charles A Beard in reviewing it
told some very interesting facts
regarding Tory opposition to any
changes of government Beard
has what can truthfully be called
"genius" for getting at the very
!guts of any governmental or so-
ielal phenomenoa ard just as much
' genius in marrying the past to the
!presenL
!NAME CALLING
130 1 EARS AGO
A "Society for Constitutional
!Information" was founded in 1750
to forward the cause of constitu-
! tonal reform In other words to
! amend certain pares of the Con-
! stitution of 16Sa At once the re-
actionaries to protect their privi-
lege formed a 'Society for the
I Protection of Liberty and Prop-
! arty Against Eepublicans and
!Levellers" The word "Reptibli-
' can" of course was used for the
purpose of prejudicing the minds
of the public The idea was to
! convince the people that these
very mild reformers were against
the monarchy The use of the
word "leveler" by tnese Tories was
for the same reason that anyone
! who objects to having his pockets
: picked to the limit ia these days
is called by our Tories eisr a
"Socialist" or a "Bolshevik"
I This society for the "Protection
of Liberty and Propert jp' went
much farther than our present
Liberty League has yet gone The
ond of the activities of this bunch
however has not yet come Some
of the moil who favored Moderate
1 constitutional reform were haled
into court and accused of 'edition
which in the old Eng!sh law con-
i sisted of arousing "discontent or
1 zftection among subjects"
N-hen one of the accused
challenged the right of a mem
The
BILLY GOAT
almorgim
THE AMERICAN GUARDIAN
SIXTEEN NEW “GORKIS" TO BE BUILT
L)
The Liberty
League
her of one of these reactionary
societies to sit on a jury before
whi!'h he had been haled the
presiding judge told him sternly
that "lie might as well object
to the judges ho had sworn to
Uphold the Constitution" trying
such cases
This statement may seem quite
raw to some people today but as
! a matter of fact it is no more raw
than what takes place today when
' Supreme Court judges sit on cases
linvolving property rights as
!against human rghts Our Su-
'pre:me Court judges have also
sworn to uphold the Constitution
which favors property rights as
:against human rights
UILD TO
HEART'S CONTENT
! Dr Beard in commenting on
!the manner in which these consti-
I tutional reforms were treated in
i the latter part of the 1Sth century
wrote: "Militant mesdioeritics who
' had been incapable of understand- i
ing the mothes or character of
Imen W h o cherished democratic
!
opinions had their full day in
Icourt and persecntad to their
hearts' content" We have our
militant mediocrities" also today
Page Han Fish Beard further
saol that 'ignorant judges and still
!more ignerant counsel browbeat
and intimidated men of refinement
and high character who bad been
discovered corresponding with con
stitutienal reformers In a
' word the ruling classes under the
'guise of patriotism waged a social
!war on those who thought that
even the British constitution the
most perfect in the world was
susceptible of amendation for the
better"
"JUDGES WERE 1
El EN OR"
I Men were both sent to jail and
exiled for being advocates of con-
stitutional reform Juries were
'packed in order to bring this out
and Beard points out that "the
I judges were even worse" and
:proves it by quoting some of their
remarks from the bench As now !
the lawyers were the servile tools
of the Tories with a few notable
exceptions such as Lords Erskine
and Brougham
This "Liberty League" of the
liith century did not content it-
self merely with going after the
constitutional reformers They
!went after groups of industrial
!workers who were suffering under
! "unjust combination laws (early la-
bor unions) long hours low wages
and intolerable conditions of labor
I s The terrors of the law were
rigorously applied to men with
economic grit-et an!es and protests
'against conditions af employment
were -treated as sedrious and dis-
loyal All were grouped together
in one 'traitorous mob' — the cul-
tured and refined advocate of par-
liarienta!y reform and the untut-
ored WO (man who lifted his voice
against iong hours and unendur-
able coral!tions of labol The
harvest was white and the Tory
! judge juror and mob reaped while
they could"
IT COULD
HAITEN HERE
1 The actian a few days ago of
the legal reainers of American
plutocracy In starting a campaign 1
against the Wagner Labor Dia
putes Act by declaring that labor
iegislaton "unconstitutional" even
before the judges had been given a I
SEACROFT
A Workers' EJuearionFtt Co!nmun!ty
oevoted LareTey to the ie416tuwes
For inforratk)n IA rite
Wm E Zeuch Fh D Chancellor
Fort Royal Sculh Carolina
MNIIMMM
The Guy Locicwood who had for
years been head of the
Lockwood Art Stool and
BILLY GOAT who was at one time pub-
lisher of The Billy Goat
patterned after JIM Jam
Jems has recently had a severe heart attack
"cleaning up houbi:" he has a large number of The Billy
Goat's" on hand They are exceedingly well illustrated and as
to '2-o:ieganda value even Jack London thot them outstanding
He Ccesn-t want to sell then but will ship them out for Postage
only A dollar will bring a good sized package They are worth
while in every v'ay--Siegfried Ameringer
Send remittances to cover postage Only to
GUY Locliwoon Route 8
Kalamazoo Mich
MM&MEMMM
taiMINENIM
i
Construction plans have been made for 18 great flying "hotels like the Maxim Gorki which
rwently Soviet aviation executives announce Above Is a picture of the Gorki on which the 16
modeled It was the largest liying ship ever built
ITALIAN BONDS
DROP IN PRICE
NEW YORK—a-II—Prices of
war commodities bounded upward
in the nation's trading markets
following news of Mussolini's in-
vasion of Ethiopia Wheat jumped
up 5c a bushel irii Chicago the
maximum amount permitted in
any one day while corn closed 3c
a bushel higher Cotton hopped
up $2 a bale
The stock market showed temp-
orary fear and a rush of selling
orders believed to have come
largely from European holders
forced the price list down about
11i points but Wall Street observ-
ers predicted a speedy resumption
of the upward trend of the last
few months
Danger of the collapse of Italian
fascism during the war was re-
flected in sharp 33-$4 drops in
prices of Italian bonds M New
York Most of the Italian securi-
ties are seIng for less than half
of par
chance to decide after hearing the
arguments shows that ouly the
methods of the Tories have
changed in this 20th century from
those of their predecessors in the
Is century
Unless the workers of this
country organize the power of
their numbers in the sery near
future this Liberty League with
the assistance of the Judges and
the corporation lawyers will use
the Constitution the police and
the militia in an attempt to
crush any industrial or political
move that the workers may
make to better their conditions
The crly way to keep history
from rpeating itself as far as the
tyranny of the few over the many
goes is for the many to organize
the power of their numbers to
crush out the tyrannical rule of
the few in place of allowing them-
selves to be crushed
"END POVERTY"
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VIGILANTE MOB !Labor Candidate
VICTIM IN SUIT 11' ints 'V eo tnrt in it at li) 0 n
SAN FRANCISCO--Sol Nitz-
berg Santa Rosa tar and feather
victim has brought suit for $76-
000 damages against Fred Cairns
Pee reta ry of the Ilealilsburg
Chamber of Commerce and al-
leged mob leader
Jack Green another victim who
Is a member of the Utopian So-
ciety filed suit against Cairns
several weeks ago Nitzberg a
Petaluma poultry rancher for 10
years is a World War veteran
Texans Urged To Pay
Poll Tax IARIIIS BAN WILL
EY EDISOBEYED
Since October 1 poll tax pay-
ments are in order Very few of
the horny-banded boys are doing
so as yet Most of them instead
of paying them NOW while they
have a little cotton money are
going to wait until January when
they are ''broker'' and then not pay
them at all May suggest that all
Texans who intend voting a radical
ticket next year get that poll tax
receipt now and while they are at
It get one for the old lady and cast
two votes against the capitalist
system Payment of a poll tax is
robbery all right but I should
like to know what these passive
resistants hope to gain by not
being able to vote One voter
beats a dozen curbstone "belly-
achers"—A F Von Blom
Give me wide walls to build my
house of Life
The north shall he of Love against
the winds of fate
Tbe south of Tolerance that I
may outreach bate
The east of Faith that rises clear
and new each day
The west of Hope that e'en dies
a glorious way
The threshold 'neath my feet shall
be Humility
The roof—the very sky itself—In-
finity Give me wicl walls to build my
house of Life
—Author Unknown
SUCCESS STORY
Final glory of the teachers'
loyalty oats bill in 'Massachusetts:
getting a Mayflower-descended
Harvard professor to tell the cops
that he's loyal to the constitution!
If I can put one touch of a
rosy sunset into the li'e of RID!"
man or woman I shall fell that I
have worked wits God--George
MacDonald
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Friday October 18 1935
DETROIT—Maurice Sugar at
torney running on the Labor
ticket won the nomination for the
City Council in last week's pri-
mary election 1-le stood tenth in
the 1it of 18 nominated for the
nine places on the council
Edward Jeffries son of Judge
Jeffries who has campaigned for
the labor ticket and the only
member of the present Council
who opprsed abridgement of civil
rights received 34000 votes and
nomination
NEW YORK—American busi-
ness rnen who deal in the Italiao
export trade have announced that
they will deliberately refuse to
obey the Presidentii neutrality
order
They criticized the order hold-
ing it had been "issued too soon
and covered too wide a scope"
One point they made was that
with other nations imposing
"sanctions" on Italy the United
States was given a clear track to
capture Italian trade
Radio
Sernzon
You will be glad to know
that the article by Oscar
Amertinger on the hopeless-
ness of the economic situation
confronting our younger gen-
eration under capitalism was
used as the basis of a radio
sermon by Rev Wayne Rob-
ison Baptist minister of Ban-
gor Maine and resulted in a
larger number of favorable
comments according to Rev
Robison's statement than any
other radio sermons he gave
during the past summer season"
This editorial "YE WHO EN-
TER HERE LEAVE 11011 BE-
HIND" is unquestionably one of
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YOUTH PROBLEM It has
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ters from young people with
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and college youth of the nation
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torney running on the Labor
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