The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-02-06
The Week

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Saving the Kings Business
Business Men Agree With Farmers
Radical Message by News York Gov
en0r
Did Government Help Communists?
Kansas Industrial Court
Our Russian Policy CHANGED
Hollands refusal to surrender the
kaiser probably lifts q great burden
from the allied governments. The
propaganda put out during the war
makes effort to punish him necessary.
The pubic always likes to see a viii
lain properly finished off in the last
act. But if we remember that this
man is a cousin of the man who sits
on the English throne and that royal
ty and nobility is at q discount every
where in Europe, we see at once how
hard it would be for the allies to fol-
low the rules of popular drama. Hol-
lands refusal solves the matter per-
fecty.
The discount of royalty has reached
such point in England that King
George now employs publicity man,
an American by the way, to see that
the king business gets the proper
amount of favorable public mention.
Perhaps an American with expert
ence in making us love monopolists
was particularly fitted for this task.
One of this Americans stunts has
been featuring the Prince of Wales,
and readers will recall his recent trip
through Canada and this country
which made good reading for royalty
at home.
Residents of Grand Forks, N. d.,
who gathered to promote the sale of
state bonds to build the big state mill
and elevators there, must have smiled
somewhat when prominent business
men appeared to boost the sale. Men
who for years have taken an antag-
onistic attitude to the organized farm
.ers spoke for the bonds and used the
same arguments which the farmers
have used.
Farmers" said one, "can haul
their wheat here and have it cleaned.
They will get paid for all dockage.
They will get the benefit of freight
both ways on flour and mill feeds.
They can bring in wet wheat and have
it dried at small expense"
Another declared: "These state in
dustries will bring other industries
here to Grand Forks, privately owned
indsutri q which will come to COM
pete with the state mill and elevator
and to take advantage of the new
market created. This building up of
a center here could scarcely have been
brought about in any other way"
Here we have real town sense and
it is of the same kind of sense the
farmer has been talking. A few
years hence the people of our western
towns will marvel that they were so
foolish as to support railroad and
marketing system which robbed them
of local industry and the farmers of
fair returns.
The next wise step for Grand Forks
business men to take is to agitate for
government operation of the railroads
so that Grand Forks can escape some
of the present outrageous discrimin-
alton in favor of Duluth, the Twin
Cities and Chicago.
New York papers like the Times,
Tribune and Sun which have had so
much to say about "bolshevism" in
North Dakota had better give the
governor of their own state some at
tention. In his annual message to
the legislature Governor Smith recon-
mends the following:
l. A minimum wage law.
2. The eight-hour day for women
workers.
3. Maternity insurance for expect
ant mothers.
4. Extension of workmen's COM
pensation to cover occupation illness
and accidents.
S. Appointment of state physicians
and nurses for rural communities now
destitute of medical aid.
g. Ownership, development and OPP
Grafton of all WaterpoWers by the
state.
7. State-owned and operated grain
elevator in three states after the
manner of the Nonpartisan league ex-
perilnents in North Dakota.
8. Recognition Of the production
and distribution of milk as a public
utility, subject to control in all de-
tails.
9. Municipal operation of public
Curiously enough the big New York
press 40 not attack the prOpOundef
of this "un-American" platform as
they do Governor Frazier. Perhaps
they know that the New York state
legislature is sufficiently reactionary
to kill all popular legislation and they
are willing to let the Tammany gov
ernor gather a little harmless popu-
larity.
Are the representatives of Soviet
Russia who were called before the
senate committee bluffing when they
declare they have proof that agents
of the department of justice helped
organize the Communist party of
America? The senate at least ought
to give them chance to present this
proof or there will always be ugly
suspicion. In public statement
given some attention by the large
city press these men assert:
ave have conclusive evidence that
agents of the department of justice
have actively participated in the or
ganization of the Communist party OF
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