The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1918-05-10

Being a Characteristic Exam
pie of how 81 Want Wealth
W0bbles are Aiding Huns

a horrible toll. Russia is not pleasant
. to behold.
4 It America is to play its full part
in the war, if the power of it's blow is
to be undiminished, the greed of the
: profiteer must be ruthlessly curbed
: wherever found.
Morale-the determination of an
army, t.te wiH-to-victory of a people
has become of greater Importance
than guns and battleships. So ter
rible is the suffering produced by the
long war that nation which loses
its grip, whose spirit breaks under
the strain, resembles a doped prize
fighter. Sooner or later it will
throw up the sponge as Russia did.
i France approached the danger
point after costly, unsuccessful Of
fensive in April, 1917, but the entry
4 of the UnlUed States rekindled the
! glorious courage of the country that
has borne the brunt of the fighting
for almost four years. So long as
the foe is on her soil France will
fight, no matter what the COST Italy
its morale weakening last fall, has
been welded together by the loss of a
province. It's very existence threat
ened, the British empire will carry
ON to the bitter end. Nor will the
grim remnant of little Serbia desert
the ranks. It's existence as a nation
also is at stake.
In France, England and Italy pro-
fiteering is suppressed with an iron
hand. In Serbia there are no profit
GERS. In all these countries the roar
! of the invaders guns is audible day
I and night. !.
On this side of the Atlantic we do
not hear the thunder of the guns
As yet We do not wholly believe thar
the kaiser or any other potentate can
ever make a vassal state of America.
Our shores have not yet been invad-
ed. Despite the immensity of our
sacrifices we are merely helping the
democratic nations of Europe in their
fighting for existence, helping be-
cause lofty idealism bade US go to
their rescue. And The strength OF
our blow for democracy will be de-
termined by the idealism that caused
us to fight.
The profiteer, no matter where he
| is found, is poisoning this idealism,
paralizing the nervous system Of
Americas war efforts.
No modern war can be successful
unless the masses are willing to
fight hard, both in the trenches and
behind them, in the factories. In the
United States the mass of the work
ers cannot be made to carry on the
war insthe factories at full speed un-
less profiteering is stopped with an
iron hand.
Hog Island and similar incidents
are contributing to the retardation OF
output noted in practically every in
,dustrial establishment the country
over, increasing wages notwlthstand-
ing.
Put yourself in the workers place.
For years his leaders have told hina
that the employing class is relent-
less, greedy enemy, to be fought at
every turn. For years he has been
advised that only by organizing and
| fighting could his position be imprcv-
ed. F or years he has listened to the
orator who maintained that might
is right n labor disputes, who pictur-
ed the employer as sort of cross
between the kaiser and Machiaveili,
with Shylock, Judas and Herod con-
stituting the tap-roots of his family
| tree. Alas and alaek, only too fire.
quently this caricature contained ese-
ments of truth sufficient to convince
the bulk of the workers THAT nearly
all employers were selfish, greedy
monsters caring not tinkers damn
for the weIl-being of their employees
intent only upon giving the smallest
possible compensation for the maxi
mum of toll.
During the past three years OF ths
world war the workers saw q new
brood of millionaires appear as
imiraculously as angle-worms cover
| the pavement after summer shower
They read of spending saturnalia in
noney-mad New York; they heard
| of spectators, manufacturers and
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