The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-03-14

The world wants peace! The meet
ing at Versailles was organized as ::
Peace Conference. Peace? What Is
Peace? The Century Dictionary an
swers: "a state of quietness Or tran
guilty; freedom from disturbance or
agitation; calm, quietness, repose."
Peace Conference delegates
you wise? A word to you: There
may yet be time, if you face about
| and act now!
ARE YOU NEXT?
sons are scheduled for deportation by
Seven thousand undesirable" per-
the United States Department OF
Labor and the United States Depart
ment of Justice. Fifty-eight Of
these persons are already at Ellis
Island awaiting transportation.
Are you next?
You are manufacturer paying
girls seven dollars a week and over
working little children; member of
the manufacturers association and
the chamber of commerce? No, you
are not next!
You are a mine operator, sending
men down, day after day, into a gas
infested pit that will some time be
converted into tangle of wreckage
and charred bodies? You undesir-
able? Indeed not!
You are a wheat speculator-
! gambling in the health and life Of a
nation? Pardon! We overlooked
the size of your bank account.
You are a contractor for army
raincoats, selling pneumonia and
death to the government az high
prices? You, we will reprimand-
perhaps we may fine you few of
your bloody dollars, but deport you
Never!
But you, over yonder, agitating
for higher wages and better stand
ards of labor; speaking, writing ant'
stirring up the people; preaching lib
erty and crying aloud for Justice
you were born abroad, were you
And you come here to this free coun-
try seeking to contaminate it with
your hideous doctrines-you are next
What? You say you are not an
l. W. W., but a member of the
Anne, icap Fede ration of L+bor: 1t
is all one to us. you are .nd1ns~r-
ing profits; you are threatening di-
videpds; you are impeiIlling prope r,y
rights. We are here to maintain law
and order.
You are next!
SIXTY SEVEN PARASITES
! There are 81 people in the United
States, each of whom has admitted
to the United States Commissioner
of Internal Revenue that he has an
income of more than two million dol
> lars a year. The total gross income
reported by these 81 persons was
$$229, s45,112.
+ The ST recipients Of this three hun
/ dred millions report that 81, 400, 00c
i of their income { 10000 per person.
came from Salaries" and "commis-
sions." Twenty thousand year is q
big salary or commission even for an
;, able man, but the salaries of the 6!
make up less than l per cent Of their
total income. s.-
| Besides their salaries they report
: millions from rents; 81 millions
from interest; "a millions from pro,
!, fits, and 178 millions from dividends
1HclT ScaIdIISo, large tIROuSu IuCy NC
: are insignificant when compared with
| the other forms of income. The 6?
!, are living upon the rent, interest
/ dividends and profit earned by the
workers of these United States and
: turned over, in the form of surplus
. value to the plutocratic 81.
The 81 did not produce more than
the tiniest fraction of the vast in
come they received. Other men la.
bored, and these 81 are enjoying the
fruits-enjoying boundless, extrava-
CANT, wasteful luxury in a land where
thirty millions live in poverty.
"Parasitsm" means living upor
another, or at the expense of anoth'
er.
The 81 are parasites.
The next time a man talks to yor
about the rightfulness of interests
and dividends, citing the poor widow
on the back street as a cloak for hi<
argument, tell him about these 81
American parasites, who gain over
SO per cent of their incomes from
rent, interest, dividends and profits.