The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-14

THE PROF
Arthur Henderson, secretary
of the British Labor party, has
issued an appeal for aid to Brit
ish and American workers in
which he says:
Zone of the foremost issues
will be universal suffrage, which
will be strenuously resisted by
the Belgian upper classes, de-
termined as they are to con-
cede no power to the common
people which they can retain.
"The elections are fixed for
November 16 and under such
exception al circumstances,
where dislocation of Belgium's
industry have prevented the
Belgian workingmen from con-
tributing to an election cam
paign fund, / appeal to all
friends of the labor movement
in Great Britain and America
for financial assistance for this
important election campaign"
Previous to the war there
was a general strike in Belgium
to secure the right to vote, \and
the workers were partly sue
cessful.
| Statistics showing the re-
markable growth of the motor
vehicle industry have just been
made public by the National
Chamber of Commerce. On
January 1, 1918, there we're
6,146,617 motor vehicles regis
tered in the United States. In
addition, there were 100000 IL
censes for motorcycles and 3d.
065 manufacturers and deal
ers' licenses. Figures up to the
year previous show that in the
whole world outside the United
States there were only 1926
automobiles in use. Europe has
437, 558 of these and Canada
118,086.
The industry employs $4,000
persons and capital to the
amount of 1927, 100000. Mot
or trucks, the use of which de-
veloped later than the use of
passenger cars, are said to have
numbered 593, 092 here in 1918.
The number of horses in the
United States is estimated at
24,000,000 and the number dis
| placed by automobiles at 2,00O,-
900. The horse, however, is. not
losing out in the competition so
much as might be supposed. He
still has certain places to fill.
Our growth in business and
population are in his favor.
The automobile has probably
done more to the country town
than to the horse. Farmers no
longer have to trade in any one
town. The fiivver takes them
where they like to trade best.
The result is that the more en-
terprising towns are getting
new trade and a great many
are going behind.
The mine workers program
is likely to be misunderstood by
the public, and their leaders
are partly to blame. They
should use more of what the
publicity experts for the vested
interests call psychology.
The miners want a six-hour
day and an increase in wages
demands likely to appear as I'M
reasonable to the outsider. But
the fact is that the miners now
work only three to four days of
the week. The demand for six
hour day means that they
would like to have their work
spread out over the whole week.
Mining, one of the hardest of
employments, is much too hard
for human beings in 10 to ~
hour stretches.
Again, in most mines the
miners do not work for wages.
They work at so much per ton.
| The miner is a contractor in the
strict sense of the word and not
a day worker. Consequently
/ they are not asking for a six
hour day, as that term would
be generally understood, and
higher wages than they have
been receiving for longer hours.
The publicity expert would
have announced: eve believe it
would enable us to serve the
public better if mine work were
spread evenly over the six work