The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-10-24

Strikers Win Where Public Ofirial.
Are Fair-Mont2na Senator Join,
Tory Democrats-Anti-M Mexican As
ISOLATION Made Up of Notoriou,
Special Interests Womaz
Leaves Democratic Committee OF
Militarist Observation-Disclosures Ora,
Would Influence Farmers Unior
Head PACKERS Agitate Through
'Women's National Econom,
League"-A Legion of Patriotic
Employers Invented.
Washington, D. C.-"The great les.
son of the steel STRIKE" says Basil NJ
Manly, formerly joint chairman of
the war labor board, "is that where
ever state and municipal authorities
have dealt fairly with labor the strike
has been a success, but wherever the
public officiasl have made themselves
the tools of the steel trust thousands
of workers have been intimidated
into remaining at work.
"The bald facts of the steel strike
are that during all the preceding
years the steel trust has realized the
importance Of electing public officials
who would do its bidding, while labor
has not had either the intelligence or
the interest to elect officials who
would give them square DEAL" The
same workingmen who are today be-
ing dubbed and shot down by the
Pennsylvania state constabulaxy have
year after year cast their ballots for
the political tools of the steel trust
They have done this on the theory
that politics was of no interest to the
workingman, so why not be gooo
fellow and vote the ticket which will
please the precinct leader.
1T made no difference which of the
party tickets the workers voted for,
because the steel trust had already
been foxy enough and farseeing
enough to control the political ma
chimes of both parties and name it's
candidates on both party tickets.
AFTER the tickets were framed up
it made no difference to the steel
trust whether the workers voted for
the Democratic candidates or the Re-
publican candidates.
IF one-half of the money and en-
ergy that have been spent in unsuc-
cessful strikes in the United States
in the last 80 years had been cx-
pended by labor in organizing for
political action, the workers TO-DAY
would be in position where the;
would not have to strike to secure
fair conditions. Theq would already
have them"
MYERS JOINS TORY CAMP
Senator Myers of Montana, who
was a strong advocate Of the rights
of labor when he first appeared in
congress, has followed Ashurst OF
Arizona, Thomas Of Colo~i.. ard
cher former Bryan Democ, attic LEAH
ers into the Tory camn cstabli> ned
some years since by Bailey Of Texas.
Myers was never a leader, but ne
talked like a radical. To-Day he
shouts and gesticulate, the opposite
brand of opinions.
In the senate the ,t:,cr day the
Montana senator made speech in
which he denounced the steel strike,
the Plumb plan of railroad control,
the demands of the United Mine
Workers, and the fact that the great
of the postal employees are
in trade unions. He was
wrought up to wrath that
the postal clerks, whose miserably
low wages are about to be raised,
might contribute some of their earn
ings to the support of the steel
strikers.
After revolving this thought in his
mind, Senator Myers concluded that
all federal employees, of whatever
class, should be compelled to cancel
the utilization Of their organizations
with the American Federation of La
Dor or any other "higher" body of
labor.
WOOD OUTGENERALED
Politicians here are smiling over
the sending of General Leonard Wood
to occupy the strike zone with federal
bayonets and machine guns.
They see in this move the official
Democratic method of killing off any
possible Wood presidential boom.
Secretary Baker himself candidate
for the Democratic nomination, per-
mits Leonard Wood, a Republican as
pirant, to get full credit for brea::ing
the stel strike. He knows that Wood
enjoys showing his authority, and
that for the suppression of meetings,
censorship Of news and general Co.'S
sack terrorism in Gary he has only
to give Leonard Wood sufficient rope,
and Wood will commit political sui
eide.
Baker knows, and none better, that
he himself deserves as much credit
as General Wood for the. military
But he has only to ;
deny any personal knowledge of the
details of Woods acts, and presum-
ably the workingmen of the country /
will acquit him.
MEXICAN WAR URGED
The National Association for the
Protection Of American rights in
Mexico, which is trying to stir up a