The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07

Washington, D. General
.,nditions have forced the most
c co,io11s break between labor
ieaders and politicians the coun-
trv has known.
u The most conservative labor
LADDERS are for the time being
,s"sbpd out into the ranks Of
p,ronressives and radicals be-
ps,,se their political friends
I've become impossible. The
Conservatives are not conserva-
i've i've to the point of sacrificing
labor organizations.
'" President Gompers simply
had to walk out of the rugged
an conference of capital and
I ii The public representa-
tives, among them Gary and
Young Rockefeller, were nearly
III CAPITALISTS. Labor'was asked
f. Give everything and the 9TH
Of side would give nothing.
Now the threatened miners
strike to begin on November l,
sakes the big break a still big
ger one. While congress is de-
6ating about passing the Cum
mins bill. with the anti-strike
clause, the administration
comes out with the suggestion
HAT strikes are already illegal.
t seems that during the war,
when labor was urged to put
its trust in politicians, the poll
ticians tackled a clause on one
Of the war bills which may be
interpreted as forbidding work
men to strike for better condi-
tons. Wilson also declares
that the tempest in the senate
teapot over the treaty keeps up
the war with Germany.
FORCING ISSUE NOW
All Indications point to an
agreement among all the big
interests to conduct an uncom-
NomiSing war on labor. Fore
inc of issues instead of compro-
mise is the plan. Politicians of
both parties have to choose be-
tween siding with them and
with labor. The dominance of
the big interests in old-party
politics forces the choice Of the
former. Labor's friends sud
denly lose all power to force any
group like the steel trust or the
coal operations to compromise
G agree to arbitration. They
suddenly turn the whole force
Of the political state against
the workers.
Labor's answer to the break
must necessarily be more thor
eugh organization and indie
pendent politics. The interests
evidently feel they have a fight
ing chaice to hold the farmers
political support, and they may
be forcing the issue now be-
cause they see this farmer sup
port of old parties weakening
rapidly. By the way both trusts
and politicians have raided
farm prices in the last three
months to reduce the cost Of
living" has caused more real
thinking on the farms than the
interests realize.
IRISH ANSWER WILLIAMS
When Sen. Williams of Mis-
aSSlppi indulged his anti-Irish
prejudice to the limit of bitter
and haunting speech a week ago
IN the senate floor, he probably
ander-eStimated the Irish love
u discussion of any attack up
On themselves. Since that I'M
lucky afternoon not a day has
passed but Williams has had to
listen to lengthy denialS and
rIiiolcule Of his statements as to
Inc military achievements Of
me Irish in the American Revo-
Iutlonary army and in the fed
era! army of the Civil war.
Inc Irish National bureau,
which IS a first-class press bu-
5 = located here, instantly sets
us historians and it's Investigate
y to work to prove that the
revolution and the Civil war
W. TIre won chiefly by the Irish.
lnGlr harvest of facts is large
"nd astonishing. They have
o c Williams cup of re
e el,t by quoting General Rob
81 CIV 4. Lee as the final authori-
" =, Tor their claim that almost
81: ! OF the Irish took the Union
f foue IN 1861, and that they
'o4 ~ calamity.
iii ms Irish advocacy is a dan
"eLouS political road to travel,
Except T. for politicians who are
woS Such peril that they may as
a "e5l take a radical side as stay
olio be run over. Sim Fein has