The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-11-05


magnates and government have been
up to the same monkey business as
ours here. Famine prices, rcstric-
ton Of production, low wages, gov
eminent commissions whose purpose
is delay, lying promises are familiar
to US and to the English workers.
Now if we can imagine the English
miners deciding that they have stood
all this sort Of thing they are going
to stand, we have the fundamentals
Of the English coal strike.
Over two years ago these miners
proposed naturalization Of the coal
mines as the only solution for the
country. The Lloyd George govern
ment knew "a great deal better, of
course, because the preservation Of
coal profiteering and the big business
system meant more to it than did
the country's welfare. The war has
been over two years and, as is the
case with return to privntc railroad
management here, the situation went
from bad to worse and the proof has
piled up that the miners were right.
The miners demand II lower coal
price to the consumer as well as in
erased wages.
lest other big labor organizations join
now it is playing two cards. The one
the keep the other unions out and the
other to 50 n,isrpercsent the miners
that it can scare the general public
into supporting it in the event Of 4
special election.
The National Catholic Welfare
council has issued a valuable state-
ment for those of tha! faith who are
likely to be mislcd by the efforts Of
Northwest politieinns to prove that
the Nonpartisan league stands for
extreme socialism, and is therefore
against the Catholic church.
In Minnesota, especially the Repub-
lican political machine mas attempted
with every means possible to deceive
the Catholic voters by such argu
mcnts. And cu.iou*Iy enough, the
same politicians tell the Protestant
voters that the Nonpurlisan league
ticket is controlled by the Catholic
church They take great care that
the two lies Go not get together.
"Public ownership Of some OF the
means of production and cistrihu
tion," says the National Catholic We'll
fare council, ais often mistaken Tor
socialism, and in the turmoil Of to-
day is frequently called bolshrvi%m.
Public ownership may or may not be
a foolish policy. That i; not the
question hclc. But whether wise or
foolish, it is not socialism for the
precise reason that it is public nAn-
crship OF the means Of production aud
.iistribut ion.
i.,.ts
league, the Labor rl,tr and tn" Conn
mittee Of FortE-,i~Il unite in de-
manding the nu1Iic rNi,,'"%lllp Of Il
number of industr,r~ all Of
them attack capitals ~ "A now orga-
nizcd and extended. nut at he same
time all leave 4 ."'t" field to private
ownership, None Of them plans the
common ownership, Ior example. of
factories engaged in other than basic
industries"
Not long az" ~ reported the
prophecy OF Doctor Mayo that IL"
next war wol!h! re ioumht by disease
germs and that thu captains in the
fight would b" medical nIrn W" did
not think that we would see this new
method of warfare applied n 1910,
yet such is the case.
The American Rod Gross Society
had accumulated large supplies for
medical relief in t.sti.onia ,o' use in
fighting disease in Russia, and our
state depart ment h;s~ con ,l>trntiv re-
fused to allow the American Red
Cross to undertake VI" work in that
field. The so-calle,l civilized natinos
have taken this means Of fighting Il
new form Of industrial order in Rus
STA.
Disease Of rrariv every kind i,
present in al PARTS OF the wurI,l.
1'hesc diseases do not ,rconc a great
menace in civilized countries because
normally science has developed rleanS
Of fighting them effectively and to
do this each country u,uw: ON all the
countries Of the world for supplies
needed to carry on the fight. No
country is sufficient unto itself in
fighting disease
America imports its herbs and
drugs from nearly every corner Of
the world If We were to raise Il wall
around America. rs has been raised
around Russia for the last two years,
we likewise would have a widespread
menace of typhus fever or other dis
eases.
In refusing to allow one country to
import means of fighting disease the
whole world is in danger, because dis
case may gather impetus there which
can not be stopped at the border line
drawn by the diplomats.
One of the worst Nonpartisan
league hating governors Of the West,
Peter NorbecA of South Dakota. has
led his state into state ownership OF
a coal mine. The state o. South Da
aota, desperate in its attempt to &c:
coal for state institutions from the
coal profiteers. has purchased Il 90
acre tract of land in North Dakota
and will operate coal 'line on this
l:nd.
But we need not eXue't that TIL,
kept press will call him Socia!is,
and attack him in his campaign fer
United States senator .his year. Nor
heck is one ci the best servants of
the interests IN the Northwest be-
cause he uses clever deceit rather
than blunt tactics. just as Burnquist