The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-02-14
ADMITS ORGANIZATION
Bio Business Change; Name ano
Comes Out in Open.
Article in Official Magazine of Unitee
States Chamber of Commerce Re-
veaIs Plans by Which Com
merciaI Bodies Hope to =
Control Government
Activities.

Washington, D. C.-Organized bust,
ness-formerly known as big business
has decided to come out in the open.
An article in the Nations Business
official magazine of she Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, con
tains the imperial proclamation that
organized business is an established
fact Harry A. Wheeler, president of
the chamber, tells the country what it
may now expect.
"The supreme factor in American
business today" he humbly begins, is
the government Through it's power
to regulate the distribution of fuel and
materials it controls practically all the
Industrial activity of the country
Through it's military and industrial
powers it affects all labor BY price
fixing it controls mining and i'm
portant agricultural operations. 1t
operates railways, shipyards and
munition plants and owns navy yards,
armories, gun factories and powder
plants.
Admits Authority.
"An unprecedented degree of the
power of industry has, because of a
peoples passion for victory, been will
ingly given up TO those in authority
over US. Yet business lives. The
government desires It to live.
'The government calls upon it to
preserve, to strengthen, its own organ
izations. This work has begun. Par
liaments of business are gathering
daily at Washington. Upon the caien-
dar of these deliberations is written:
First, how can we help win the war?
Secondly, what is our program, once
the day of victory has Gomez"
It is true that the government has
the power, today, to make American
business toe the mark But that's a
| job that has not been seriously begun
II business were really suffering. if
profits were not being made in the
figures indicated by the recent report
to congress by the federal trade com.
mission, the kept press would have
! been calling, long ago, for the i'm
parchment Of everybody concerned in
| the outrage What organized bust.
ness is really calling to the attention
of its members in this statement by
Wheeler is the fact that a huge gov.
ernmental machinery is being con.
structed, which will fall into the hands
of eitheH the friends or the enemies of
private profits. That's why "parIia.
ments of business are gathering daily
at Washington" They are afraid that
the government machinery may get
away and run over them, now that the
war is won.
They advise the government as to
how far any industry can be cut down.
as to materials and labor, without be-
! ing destroyed.
They are working to maintain a
good share of foreign export trade, so
that American export business shall
be ready for the end of the war.
Wheeler does not say that they are
studying the farmer problem. Organ.
lied business is going to take care that
the farmers do not organize too
| broadly.
When will the organized farmers be
| able to announce that they have gone
as far "a organized business has gone
toward making their power felt in the
| nation?
THE government" says Wheeler,
desires business to live. The govern.
| ment calls upon 1t to preserve, to
strengthen. as own organizations.
How about the farmers organiza-
tiens'