The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-12-05
THE WEEK
McAdo0's Plea
New York's Greatest
Parade
No Decrease in Living Costs
Wilson's New Commission
Italian Politics
A Snorting Reactionary

4SSAAAthA OlGANo 81
A Sn0rting Reactionary
McAdoo's plea for the min
ers may be one word for Ih,
miners to three or four for Nc
Adoo as president, but it is new
ertheless worth public attention
In a telegram to the fuel admin
istrator McAdoo declares TIL,
soft coal operators made shock.
ing and indefensiple profits il
1917 and that they would hard.
~ need any increases in Goa
prices to give the miners the 81
per cent increase in wages.
The profits as shown by the
income tax returns which. passed
through his office, he said, show
ed earnings on capital stock of
from Is to 1000 per cent. Nc
Adoo was in Office in 1917; so
was Fuel Administrator Gar
field; so were President Wilson
and sundry other foes Of pro
fiteering. We were at wa.
allowing it to go on how did
they have the brazenness to ask
the miners to continue at the
old wages from patriotic duty?
And how can they now take the
stand they have against the
men and for the operators ?
Surely it takes rare qualities to
be a politician these days.
The greatest parade in the
history of New York City
marched through it's streets on
November "a. It was a process
sion of 100000 Jews dressed in
mourning who were protesting
against massacres of Jews in
Ukrania. Nearly $4,000 re-
turned soldiers and sailors of
that race helped swell the pro-
cession as it marched to an old |
Hebrew funeral dirge. All Jew
ish places of business in the |
largest Jewish city of the world |
were closed.
1t may have. been something /
OF a shock to the conservatives |
OF that city to learn in this dra-
matte fashion that frightful
atrocities take place in what is
known as loyal Russia. Tx
rama is the battle-ground OF
Oenekine, Petfura and sundry |,
other anti-revolution leaders.
no cause to fight for ex-
,ept the return to the old con-
1itions under the car, the SOL |
1iers of these armies are most
y soldiers of fortune. Their ]
morale" can be kept up only by
permitting them to loot any /,
hing and any one they come to. I
The Jews have probably suf- 1;
cred more than the other ma Il
i've population from this prac- 8
ice. 1t explains hwy formid- i
bile revolt broke out in Dene- r.
ines rear a month ago and $
1hy Kolchak faces rebellion in '
astem Siberia. The soldier of /
ortune is vulture in spite of
that the story books have said | f
4 his praise. Is
Government Investigators o
ow report that the cost of liv- i
lg In 80 cities was about the {
anne in October as in Septem-
er. To be exact, they find a
ecreases of two-tenths of | per F
snt in the retail price of % a
APPLE articles. i
One naturally wonders. there f,
re, what became of SIS a hun Il
redweight Topped off the price n
hogs, the big decline. in cat s.
e, sheep. potatoes, corn and a n
amber of other farm staples. is
ne ruthles drive on the farm 10
s was bad enough, but to have "
le results of it fall into the ci
aw of the middle men is worse.
Naturally, too, one remem- az
rs Wilson's request to all s.
lions not to strike for higher II
ages or better condition until ri
e government has had time to 90
wer the cost OF living. At the IN
esent rate the cost Of living VI
IL fall per cent in five months an
d by January, 1924, it will be IL
Wn about 10 per cent, or on
ough for the worker to no.
e. The appreciate differ ga
&c of, say, 25 to 80 per cent, ali
llch would not equal what the in,
'rkers have gone behind dur Iisi
the war, would come around mn
50 to 1885, when large part Itel
the present working force SO,