The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-11

And these wars are to consolidate
trade territory against America as
we'll as other nations.
The fact that our financiers enter
tain the idea at all indicates that the
system of high finance in Europe is
nearer collapse than we are generally
told and they know that a breakdown
there would mean similar breakdown
here with industrial democracy TAX
ing it's place. Here the willingness
to swallow the bitterest of medicine.
This $1O,OOO,OOO,OOO means $500
each for the 20,O00,O0O families, chief
! ~ Of poor, Woodworking people here.
If we are going to give, why give to
save Imperialism and high finance?
William M. Wood, head of the
American Wooden company, common
ly known aS the wooden trust, has
been indicted on II counts for pro-
! fiteering. The complaint alleges that
the company made IS per cent on
certain named transaction.
If 35 per cent is sufficient to hang
Il profitccr, it is not hard to see where
the department of justice can find
plenty of hanging material. But we
are not overhopeful that the charge
means that anything will be done at
last to one of the most notorious Of
high price makers.
The American Wooden company of
Massachusetts and its president have
had some interesting experiences.
During the last year it's principal
plants were idle five and one-half
striking for living wages. The COM
pany claimed it could not afford bet
ter wages, yet in six and on"-haIf
months it cleared over $,5,GoO,OOO
profits, Will" it capital took
amount to $G,MjU,G0O. IT, Facts
would warrant H., in suspcrt;.Y. that
The strike was allowed TO h"n'" e" to
make woolcns scarce and 20 force
the prices higher
In the Lawrence (MaSs.) :l.i!," of
1913, after workers had been + II, %cd
with placing dynamitc' in tr't;'n
places and engaging in oth"" vio.
lcncc, it developed that the dyn;'uit"
had been planted by the anti labor
ring. An undertaken connected with
the plot committed suicide and others
were indicted. The Indictment failed
in court and it is noteworthy that
Prosecuting Attorney Pclcticr, who
should have sent some big men over
the road for so dastardly a crime, has
since become prominent machine
politician in Massachusetts.
Report of the Fall investigating
committee on Mexico would Indicate
that Wall street was trying to get
in the proper threats before the new
government there starts anything Of
which it does not approve. In the re-
port this new government learns that
if it "bellavcs' it will get financial
aid, but that if it does not that we
will send e.; police force into the re-
public Of Mexico to open and main
tain every line Of communication be-
tween the City Of Mexico and every
seaport and every border port of
Mexico"
More reliable news reports than the
large daily press offers, which arc
gradually titcring through, Indicate
that after five years Of fighting Car
rama decided to yield to Wall street
But his change of front was so abrupt
and apparent that he obtained intense
hate rather than strength. The group
of leaders which drove him out is
made up of Socialists, moderate re-
formers and conservatives. General
Obregon is said to have appealed for
support on II policy Of giving the
land to the poems.
The next two or three months will
determine the drift of the new gov
eminent, and while our officials may
not have intervention in mind it is
not hard to see what large use the
friends of Wall street in Mexico can
make of the Fall threats to force the
1sln ils ,f tAt
triotic associates.
Release Of Mrs. Kate Richards
O'lIare, one Of the best known Of the
political prisoners, by special order of
the president is interpreted by some
rs torcshadowing similar action in re-
gard to the others. Mrs. O'Harc had |
served over year Of her tive-year |
sentence in the federal prison for
women ut jefferson, Mo.
Mrs. O'Harc was convicted on the
charge that during Il lecture ut Bow !
man, N. d., in the early part Of 1917,
she had said that mothers who per-
mittcd their sons to 60 to war were
no better than brod sows. She has
always maintained that nothing of the
kind was said. but that in discussing
the terrible effects of war she pointed
out how an English bishop was lead
ing a movement to break down the
marriage relation to keep up the birth
rate and that English women who
would participate in this movement
for indiscriminate childbearing would
be no better than brood scows. 1t is
noteworthy that Bowman, N. D.,
where she gave the lecture, was one
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ment for her release, and it is not
improbable that the war feeling of
1918 caused the jury to swallow con-
siderable testimony that would in Or
binary times receive more scrutiny.
While she has never heen Of tho