The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-07-18
SCOTT HEARINGS
SPECIAL ARTICLE
SERVICE
WORK, SAVE. PAY,

"Ohh, SAVE, PAY!
Bernard M. Baruch, banker, has
tnree word remedy for the world,
I,ouoies. interviewed in Paris. M,
baruch said, There is but one pro
gram for Germany and the rest o
VII We "TDIlo-work, save, pay" (Ney
ray! Pay whom? Why tn
uahhers, OF course, and the landlords
.ne Dond-holders, the stockholders
cue trust magnates,-in short, tn,
does not that seem a little odd
men have been told that the OLE
world is dead; that tyranny is M
more; that despontism has been de-
Stroyed and that a new world has
peen Dorm, yet the same money-grab.
pers are singing the same song that
they sang before the war,-Swork
save, pay-us."
:, 1here are many who believed that
thcre would be new song in the
new day that dawned with the over
enroW OF militarism. They looked
Tor some such refrain as "work,
peace, liberty" Banker Baruch says
no. speaking for a triumphant and
unrepentant capitalism, Mr.. Baruch
tells the workers that the future,
Tor them, is future of "work, save,
pay"
This formula applies not only to
the vanquished. The Allies won a
victory but "for Germany and the
rest OF the world" it is a case of
work, save, pay"
There is one place, Mr.. Baruch,
and only one, in which your formula
is outlawed, where the workers have
overthrown capitalism; where there
is in truth new world, they are
singing-"work, use enjoy"
THE TREASURE CHESTS
Pierre Brizon, Deputy of France,
writes in a recent issue of ola Va
gue:"
Grow rich'-said Guizot to. them.
"And throughout the century the
bourgeoisie have grown rich. Their
policy was:
Gill up the treasure chest!
"7he treasure chests have been
filled up. Not by the bourgeoisie
alone, but by the millions of peas
ants, of workers, of employees, of
miners, Of sailors, Of colonials, who,
in the country, in the work shops, In
the stores, and in the banks, in the
depths Of the mines, upon the ocean,
in the colonies have woi ked for them.
"And now that the treasure chest
is full, this is the policy OF our par
venus:--We must save tie treasure
chest!
THAT is the voice OF the 'gilded
bellies! 1t is showy-it is tinsel. 1t
is vulgar. 1t is 'noveau richie But
it is the program of the day."
That is the program Of the old
day, and the new day is at hand.
Heed again the voice of warming
"Lay not up for yourselves treas
ures upon earthi'
The police who protected the treas
ure chests in the old days are orga-
nized in unions. The soldiers behind
whose bayonets they were sheltered
have their soldiers councils. The
contents of the treasure chests, taken
by economic force from the workers,
are to be returned to the workers
from whom originally they came.
The old day is passing; the new day
is at hand when the worlds treasure
chests will be the vigorous bodies,
alert minds, warm hearts and strong
souls of the men and women and
children who compose the human
race.
MOBILIZATION
Forty years ago German industry
began to mobilize for the conquest
of world markets. British and French
industry also modified The econ
omic struggle continued for a gener-
alton; then came the military mobili-
cation of August, 1914.
Today American industry is for
the conquest of world markets. Ex-
port corporations are being formed:
banks are opening foreign branches;
the Department of Commerce is
studying foreign markets; exports
are growing; loans are being made.
The same thing is happening,-in
Italy, France, Japan. The industrial
masters of great Britain are particu-
larly active. According to a recent
dispatch published in the financial
columns of the New York Times:
''To capture the world for British
trade is the program of the newly
formed overseas organization of the
Federation Of British Industries, in
cluding in its membership something
like 1900 manufacturing and pro-
ducing firms in Great Britain"
The Organization plants to have
its agents in all of the commercial
centers of the world. Already rep
have been appointed in
Greece, Spain, Portugal, Africa, and
other centers of German pre-war
trade.
The armies of the world are de-
The bankers, manufac-
turers and traders are turning again
to the task of economic mobilization ;
with multiplied enthusiasm. How
many years will pass before econom- :
ic mobilization gives way once more
10 military mobilization; to another
August, 1914; to the whirlwind Of
war, famine, disease; to tears, ang-
uish, and torrents Of blood? Or have
the people learned thier lesson?
IMMIGRANTS
They are immigrants-Dagoes,
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