The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-06-18
keynote Speech
BY Lodge Punk

tinued by the Freedom Foundation
whose pickets Tuesday marched slow.
ly back and forth at the Coliseum in
effective contrast to the suffragista
who stood in immovable line at the
doorway. ..
NO BANNERS FOR IRISH.
No banners for the Irish Republic
were raised at the Coliseum on Tues
day, such demonstrations being defer
red until after rally for President
De Valera at the Auditorium Hotel
Wednesday night. A feature of this
demonstration was the presence of
Polish, Armenian and Czecho- Slovak
contingents in a parade through the
downtown streets. Politicians were
reminded that while the world war
brought political independence to PEG.
pies formerly dominated by Germany,
Austria and Turkey, it has only in
creased the hateful oppression of Ire
land.
RAYMOND ROBBINS SPEAKS FOR
RUSSIA
Before the resolutions committee on
Wednesday spokesman for the Ameri-
can Woman's Committee for the Re-
lief of Russia will urge the practical
and humanitarian need of removing
all restrictions to trade with Rus
lisa. Raymond Robbins may appear
to advocate such a resolution, which
is based at this juncture upon the fact
that Great Britain has formally re-
sumed trade with Russia, as we'll as
upon the contention that the illegal
war against Russia may drive that
country to a virtual alliance with
Japan, and the fact that Americas
treatment of Russia contributes to
the volume of unrest in this country.
SLAVERY FOR LABOR.
This convention is going to avoid a
showdown on the right of labor to
quit work in resistance to oppression,
according to persuasive forecasts.
The platform committee have devised
a set of phrases by which they hope
to postpone the dread day when the
Republican party must confess it's
conversion to q belief in slavery.
Omitting direct endorsement of
the Kansas or other plan of enforced
labor, the committee is said to favor
rights Of the public must be para
mount in all industrial disputes"
Labor has never denied the fact
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this case, however, is left for the Re-
publicans to interpret their own way
Labor's experience is that the big
employer is the "public" whose inter
est Democrats and Republicans al
ways seek to make paramount.
If the Republican party would be-
gin with statement that wages and
conditions that will keep the worker
on the job of serving the public is
something which the public has a
right to expect and will demand, then
the wage Garner would feel protected.
But the party which boasts of free
ing the negro slave sixty years ago
now insists that the employer is the
public, and that in defense of it's in
terests men shall continue to labor
no mater how low their wages or how
evil their environment.
., Labor men now in Chicago complain
that although the wage earners com
stitute a huge majority of the popu-
lation, the Republican party proposes
to rule them outside the pale of
what it is pleased to term the public.
WOULD MAKE STRIKE CRIME.
Senator Poindexter and Governor
Allen are still making a hard fight
before the platform committee for.
plank that would confess this purpose
plainly and make it crime for work.
men to strike. But they seem to have
lost the fight.