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...The writer recently drove from Great Falls to Whiteflsh by way of the Glacier Park Country, a distance of 260 miles, without a stop and comrades think nothing of driving 30 to 60 miles or more to attend a Socialist meeting...

...Even the Peace Treaty can be quoted to support this contention...

...The fight put up by James D. Graham...

...And this speech, remember, sameV from a man who is one af the most important members in an administration which is often .ursaa because it is too friendly to labor I It is useless to make the Administration the prin...

...One still finds much of the spirit of the old West in Montana...

...H. O. Fuhrberg and J. M. Glenn, Washington...

...It is not too late to keep the United States out of war...

...Ambassador Luther waa being entertained in Milwaukee by a group of wealthy bankers and industrialists...

...Our Opportunity in Montana By W. R. Snow THE time for building a strong worthwhile Socialist Party organization in Montana was never more opportune than now...

...With redoubled energy we must seek to build a political and industrial organization of the workers who will take the stand adopted by the British Labor Party on motion of the Socialist League headed by Sir Stafford Cripps...

...They were not anxious to have the Hitler emissary see a demonstration against Fascism...

...If even as late as the closing years of the last decade the United Staes had tried to take an initiative in handling war debts and reparations in such fashion as would lessen Germany's resentment, would the world now be in the terror that grips it...

...Yet that Hitler is in power at all is the direct consequence of the Allied policy toward Germany...

...THE worst of the European tragedy is that * logically Hitler* is right when he says Europe ought to disarm down to the German level or else permit Germany to arm...

...FIXING THE BLAME A JEW who was heard shout-ing in the Berlin streets, "It's all the fault of the Fiih-rer," according to a veracious story in the London Herald, was warned by a friend because Fuhrer, which" means "Leader," is the name they use for Hitler...

...It is only a comparatively short stes beyond this to the labor set-up in Hitler's "tetsU, tarian" state...

...When Emil Seidel was elected first Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee in 1910 the manufacturers here immediately rushed to the state legislature and had a bill passed stripping the Mayor's office of all power over the police department...

...The Socialist Party should not only have the support of every comrade in Montana, but also of the National Executive Committee...

...It is too late to do now what might have been done only a few years ago...

...Many tool and die makers s*y they formed their own independent union to conduct their own strike because of experiences in A. F. of L. unions 1 What they have done is for the present merely to give us one more craft union...

...Qflorrls 0tlllcfuU By GERTRUDE WEIL KLEIN TO some time gives long years Of idle whistling down an empty street, For him the dayj were crowded and too fleei To let us note their passing...

...I still believe there is enough statesmanship in the American labor movement to end this serious situation...

...From our preliminary investigation, it appears that the police acted with uncalled for violence in breaking up a peaceful demonstration...

...It adopted some resolutions...

...TO some time gives bright playthings For their pleasure, Wealth, glory, power and the leisure To fascinate the uorldy with their blaze...

...the politics...

...It did not clear the way for industrial unionism, but instead voted to split up in crafts the Brewery Workers' Union, a precedent that will do untold harm...

...The A. F. of L. IT is with profound disappointment that -.11 So-' cialists, all foes of Fascism, all lovers of labor's cause, must view the record of the A. F. of L. convention...

...The City Attorney's office had previously refused on three different occasions to prosecute...

...Chicago, III...

...President of the State Federation of Labor, in revising the wage.scale upward of more than 4,000 State Highway workers has already borne fruit in publicity through newspapers and the radio, and has put a fighting spirit into thousands of workers...

...This is s state of magnificent distances, its 536,000 population scattered over 146,000 square miles of territory...

...As a result Mayor Hoan has no direct control ever the police department...

...Those beaten men, whose failures and ivhose errors Looked from their baffled eyes Were his own cross, at once a searing challenge And a call to battle in a high emprise...

...Who can blame them if under these circumstances they seek to form independent industrial unions of their own, whatever the risks involved...

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...We are emphatically opposed to the use of police clubs on workers at any time...

...It warned of the dangers of uncontrolled inflation...

...Socialist Gains EVERY Socialist will want to congratulate the Arizona comrades who put their candidate, Dilworth Sumpter, second in the Congressional race for Congressman at Large, something like two thousand vote/ ahead of the Republican...

...Party Protests Luther Visit to City MILWAUKEE, Wis...

...It heard not without disquietude General Johnson's declaration that labor unions should be regulated by government, that each labor union should have a government representative in its control and that strikes were henceforth unnecessary...

...This means extra expense and effort In organising...

...But it did not exert itself to have a clause inserted in the code that wages should automatically rise with the cost of living...

...v Does any sane American believe that Hitler would have captured Germany if it had not been for the war and the peace of Versailles...

...cipal culprit in this situation...

...Yet there is no region so remote or so sparsely settled that it may not feel the hot breath of war upon it as a consequence of what Hitler has done...

...Max Raskin, City Attorney, and William F. Quick, First Assistant City Attorney, are Socialists...

...no cooperation with any nation or group of nations for war...

...I mean Moses...

...and our tears A charge his shining talents rose to meet...

...During the discussion Raskin and Quick were given the floor and engaged in a verbal conflict with As-, nist.-nit Inspector Joseph Drewniak of the police department...

...That convention itself was somewhat aware of the- crisis it faced...

...Our fears, Our battlements of suffering and defeat Were his life's burden...

...The Detroit comrades waged a first class Socialist cam* paign with the right emphasis on Socialist fundamentals and their application to city conditions...

...Other members are H. H. Freedheim, Idaho...

...Only in the Federated Commonwealths of mankind will peace be secure...

...Quick established the point that he had refused to issue warrants for the arrested men and women...

...Enshrined, he lies among us, even dead...

...Workers have a right to show they- disapproval of the Hitler government by a demonstration...

...Contributions should he sent to the Western Organizing Fund, Socialist Party, 649 Randolph St...

...For him one single, simple clement to measure The value of Ins days...

...Andrew J. Biemiller, educational'' director, and Carl Hampel, appointed to investigate the affair and issue a statement, this week released the following: "It is not surprising that the appearance of a representative of the infamous Hitler regime in Milwaukee provoked a demonstration on the part of the workers...

...A special party committee consisting of Herman O. Kent, county secretary...

...KMY regret at the I6st opportunities of the A. F. "* of L. is intensified by what I saw and heard in Chicago and Detroit In Chicago the attempt of the Carpenters' Union to collect in full back dues from unemployed members has resulted, naturally, in a secession from it, of which Communists have taken advantage...

...It did not set up more efficient machinery of organization, strike relief and labor defense, k did not recognise the necessity for independent political action to capture political power before it is too late...

...Montana can be put oi...

...In Detroit A- F. of L. organization of automobile workers goes very slowly...

...Debs, Berger, Hillquit—the three men most responsible for the present Socialist Party...

...Region Is Remote • ONE feels strangely far away from what happens in Geneva or in Germany while crossing this wilderness...

...Some of the most tragic chapters in history have been written under the heading: "Too Late...

...It decided to join the boycott on German goods...

...By Norman Thomas TIMELY TOPICS Crossing Nevada, Sunday, October 16...

...A Western Organizing Committee has been formed with O. A. Kennedy, state* secretary of Utah, as chairman...

...The widely divergent attitude of the Socialist city officials and the Milwaukee police became quite evident...

...Non-partisan aldermen put the resolution through the Council by a 14-13 vote, the twelve Socialists being joined by one non-partisan...

...It finally granted a charter to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which I hope will prove a good thing...

...have long controlled political policies and made the laws of the state...

...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan vetoed a resolution passed by the Common Council to appoint a special prosecutor to represent...

...Hoan Vetoes Bill to Prosecute Anti-Nazi Demonstrators...

...a A Monument to Hillquit OUR celebration of the seventh anniversary of the death of 'Gene Debs acquires a special significance coming so soon after the death of Morris Hillquit...

...A change in the state election laws imposes a heavy filing fee on all candidates...

...This constitutes a big handicap for the party...

...the city in sixteen cases against persons arrested 'n an anti-Hitler demonstration held under Communist auspices nearly one month ago...

...The National Office has sent out a circular to Socialist and sympathizers in all states, asking financial assistance to these western states...

...Hitler's representatives are not welcome here...

...The Socialist Party will defend the rights of any workers' group, regardless pf rsce, creed or political views, to exercise its constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom oi assemblage...

...and the Mountain States BeU Telephone Co...

...I don't mean Hitler," replied the Jew...

...It did not take adequate steps to democratise unions or end racial discrimination...

...If he had*not led us out of Egypt we should now all have British passports...

...Sentiment has changed remarkably in the past two years...

...We applaud the action of the City Attorney's office in refusing to prosecute the cases under its jurisdiction...

...No other state in the West is so thoroughly corporation-ridden and in no state are the masses so aware of who cntrols it The A. C. M. (Andaconda Copper Mining Co...

...Meanwhile the slogan we must make the slogan of America is: Cooperation with the world for peace...

...map for the Socialist Party in 1934...

...No fresh crusade for democracy by meana of war can undo the evil which in large part was due to the crusade of the first World War...

...Montana is one of the most promising of the western states for Socialist education and activity...

...the pacifists that there is no easy price of peace by limitation of arms or any other panacea...

...James P. Graham, Montana...

...It can be overcome, but 'it means, extra work of organization...

...American workers are opposed to dictatorship and particularly to a ' dictatorship which is wreaking aruel punishments upon working class leaders and destroying the workers' organization...

...Tlic police got the warrants from the City Clerk, who is not a Socialist...

...General Johnson', speech was a warning of what ia bound to happen* save as labor by its own power and wisdom averts -it But what did the A. F. of L. do...

...The great memorial to them will be the vigor with which we meet the circumstances of our day in the light of Socialist principles...

...They were not sorry to see the demonstration broken up by police...

...Too Late...

...Some counties are larger than the State of Connecticut...

...It listened to some sound speeches on the evils snd dangers of NBA...

...My own comment on it will be a week old before the earliest of my readers will see it, but whatever happens, certain principles stand sure...

...three transcontinental railroads, the Montana Light and Power Co., the Mountain States Light and Power Co...

...The trouble is that Europe cannot trust Hitler with Germany rearmed or Europe disarmed...

...That motion pledged the Party to refuse support to any British government attempting to make war and to try to stop war, if necessary by a «*tneral strike...

...The writer toured Montana for seven weeks in 1931, again for almost three months in 1932 and has now been in the state one month...

...Montana has many hand-working and loyal old-time comrades, but the sparsely settled population raises serious obstacles...

...Grshsm forced the hands of the bosses for better wages and conditions in so many instances that Montana is rapidly forging to the front as a state where the workers are learping the .necessity not only of tra'de union solidarity, but are understanding the importance of legislation for workers and farmers...

...Lessons for All ALL of us can learn something from this crisis:" ** the militarists that there is no military security for peace by disarming a great nation...

...might have walked with kings accredited...

...There was a gain in the Socialist vote and Walter Bergman came in sixth in a field of twelve candidates for Mayor in a so-called non-partisan primary election...

...Unless the Executive Council can repair these omissions very rapidly, in many places and in many industries workers will be faced with the bitter choice: no union, a compan, union, or one of several inefficient and sometimes mutually hostile craft unions...

...Workers exercising their constitutional rights are not guilty of disorderly conduct "But the real blame for this deplorable incident rests clearly on the shoulders of those who insisted on flaunting a representative of the Fascist government of Germany before the working class of Milwaukee...