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

Lyod George Government Likely tt
Fall in England Senators Learn Of
Steel Trust Atr0cities-Presid
Illness Comes at Critical Time
Tricks Planned to Put American
Legion on Record for Militarism-
Cummins' Rail Bill Has Vicious
Provision-States Prevented From
Getting Spare Auto Parts By Child.
ish Official Reasoning.
Washington, D. C.-Official Wash
ington has paid almost no attention to
the British crisis, which may easily
upset the whole international situa-
ton as to the peace treaties and the
league Of nations.
Private messages from London in
dictate that the triple industrial ALI
ance has been preparing, since the re-
cent Bullitt disclosures as to the real
attitude of Soviet Russia towards;
peace with Britain and the United
States, to force an early election.
The railway men, the miners and
the transport federation will seek to
drive Lloyd George and War Minis
ter Churchill to resign, and the ap~
peal to the country to choose a new
parliament will swiftly follow.
British labor is confident of electing
enough of the new house of commons
to force the immediate withdrawal of
British aid to the anti-Soviet forces.
At the same time they expect to
make possible the liberation of Ire
hand from it's present military terror
ism.
With the entire significance of the
iaris treaties changed by the abrupt
withdrawal of Britain from the anti
Soviet combination, and the abandon
nlent of the anti-Irish policy of the
old cabinet, our senate must write its
speeches on the league of nations all
over again
Since the last general election in
December, 1918, which was held under
the shadow Of the armistice and there
fore not an election on issues at ali,
the Lloyd George government has lost
ave Of the six by-elections. Arthur
Henderson, formerly Labor member
Of the cabinet and secretary of the
British Labor party, has been re-
elected to parliament.
Not only labor but many leaders
Of other classes are alarmed at the
New obligations undertaken by Eng
land in view of her back-breaking war
expenditure. Not only the war
against Russia, but the policing of the
vast territories accorded her by the
peace conference entail great expenses
rather than revenues at the present
time. Limitations Of finance thus
work for the purposes Of democracy.
The British people are stirred as new
or before by the hard conditions of
life. People in many other nations
vii! have a chance for self determ- !,
Inflammation.
ANTI-LABOR VIOLENCE
Senator Sterling of South Dakota is
t:.k'rr kindergarten course in in j.,
dus' rial relations, during the senate
committee investigation of the steel
strike.
"What do you mean,'' he asked
Samuel Gompers, in an irritated tone,
"when you say that there has been
no chance for these men to present
their grievances to the company, or
to Judge Gary, the chairman of the
United States Steel corporation !
Gompcrs gazed at him in astonish-
n,en:. ;
"Why, SENATOR" he finally gasped,
"imagine how much chance one of
thesc poor devils, not even speaking
the language we'll, and with nobody
hacll of him-imagine what chance
he would have to see Judge Gary, the
heal Of this billion-dollar concern, or
even to see any Of Judge Gary's rep
rtscntatives"
But Why" persisted Sterling
don they present their grievances
through committce?"
"Committee" exploded Gompers
"thcse men are not even permitted to
get together to discuss their wrongs
and determine which of them ought
to be taken up first. They are not
permitted to get to the point Of de-
trrmining their own minds, much less
appoint a committee. There is no
such thing as free assembly and free
for them, in the very towns
where they livc!"
And Gompers went on to testify to
places, dates and persons involved in
the reign of terror which Judge Gary's
lids III IlN
steel towns ever since the campaign
to organize the men began.
At another point in the hearing,
John Fitzpatrick, chairman Of the
strikers committee, had mentioned
the combination of "a international
unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, as being the fin
al authority which called the strike
md is responsible for its success.
"What is an international union?
inquired the statesman. "Do you
mean that you have unions with
branches in America and in Hungary,
for instance?"
Fitzpatrick explained that interna-
tional unions in America are those
whose membership may extend across
the borders into Canada and Mexico.
WILSON'S ILLNESS
President Wilson'S breakdown in
physical strength, as the outcome of
his speech making trip through the
West. Ia; caused a great deal Of
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