The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-10-01

try their strength against the stam-
pede.
But before going Colver had the
satisfaction of signini, the report on
combination of the farming l,nple-
ment manufacturers, and the still
more sensational report which con-
dcn,ns Palmer's proposed arrange
ment with the packers to turn over
tile IS biggest stockyur.ls in the
country to F. II. Prince f. Co., the
silent partner of J. Ogden Armour
in the Chicago stockyar,Is sw;njie
which Heney disclosed when he raid
cd the packers vaults.
The commission shows that the
plan TO turn over the stockyard pro-
pclties Of the big packers To Prince
and his holding company would
merely create . national-witlc stock
yards trust, even waTse than the
present condition where the five big
packers own different shares in each
OF these IS yards. 1t shows that the
game il; a swindle upon the public
ard fraud upon the government,
which has the pledge the Big Five
tn 1idc themselves of their stock
Yards holdings.
WATSON REPORTED SICK
Reports from Georgia are that
Tom Watson, who has just won the
%enatolship from that state from
Hokc Smith and the Wilson candi-
date-George Dorsey-is a sick man
and may rot be able to take his seat
next March. It is at least comfort
ing to know that the bearers of this
i'll news are not Watson adherents.
If he regains his health, Watson
will furnish to the Democratic side
of the seate the first liberal brains
there in many years.
There have been a score Of liberals of
good will, hut Of small caliber and
slight courage, in that body since the
days Of the free silver battles, hut
none with the keen mind of La Fol-
1ctte, for eXa ',p'c, Or the honest per-
siStenry of Morris. The able Demo-
crats have all been corporation ser
want. such as Bailey, Underwood,
and Hitchcock. or sectionalists, like
John Sharp Williams and Ben Till
man. Watson. by comparison, is a
mental giant and Il radical general
Withs the Republican old guard IN
control. Watson will have an ideal
al cna in which to show his fighting
ability.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS "LABOi."
In Washington there has been es-
tahIished branch of the publicity or
propaganda organization of the In
Labor Office of the
League Of Nations. This branch has
just issued to the press Il cabled
of report made by the In
Labor Office upon alleged
of compulsory work in
Soviet Russia. Its Investigators did
not ct into Russia, but it concludes
that labor in the red republic is not
free. So far as is known, no similar
study Of the liberty of labor in Fin
land or Hungary or Roumania or Po-
land--which belong to the league of
nations--is being made to show the
contrast which may exist
What the real labor movement of
Europe thinks of the freedom of
labor in Hungary has been shown by
the industrial boycott and blockade
placed upon Hungary two months
ago by the International Federation
of Trade Unions. This action was
taken after thousands Of trade union
leaders throughout Hungary had
been imprisoned and hanged or shot
or tortured. Finland, Poland and
Roumania have follew Il the same
course, in varying degree.
Another press statement from the
International Labor Office Of the
League of Nations tells of the plea
made to Premier Millerand of France
by Albert Thomas, head of the office,
that France should be the first to set
an example of good faith to the
workers by enacting the very mildly
progressive labor laws proposed by
the Washington and Genoa confer
ences of that branch of the league.
Millerand replied that he had
faith in the destiny Of this labor
atory Of social peace" but he failed
to say a word in support Of the labor
legislation which it was established
to promote.
WISCONSIN, VICTORY PLEASES
AAIiiOAu UTOt1t6EkOOu HIGH aIC
thanking their stars for Bob La Fol-
lette these days. They recognize
that it was La Toilette and the Non
partisan farmers movement, working
with organized labor, that nominated
the progressives in the Republican
primary in Wisconsin. They are
jubilant over the nomination of
Cooper and Nelson to the house, and
they predict the defeat Of Lenroot,
in November by Doctor Paul Reinsch,
the progressive Democrat nominee
for the senate. But the real credit,
they repeat, is due to the courage and
character of Fighting Bob"
POLITICS PAYS FOLK
Joseph W. Folk, when he came to
Washington from Missouri, had ma
tional reputation but no money. At
the end of eight years he had pur-
chased a 100000 home. An old &C
Quaintance asked him how he did it.