The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-08
Grievances Of Labor
Continued from Page One)

will liquidate the debt. The work
ers of Europe can by no possibl,
means produce more than enough t,
feed themselves. For Ave years tn,
people Of Europe have never known
what it is to have enough to eat.
Suppose that the capitalists O.
the United States were to give tt
Europe all the raw materials thai
they need for production. Suppose
the workers of Europe could get
get ahead and produce more than
they need to live on. What would
be the result? These commodities
would be produced so cheaply that
they would displace ours in the mar
kets of the world, and then the mis-
cry that now exists in Europe would
simply be transferred to this coun-
try. 1t is a situation that the ruling
class of no country is able to cope
with"
In Montana
Relative to the situation in Mon
tana he said that he could count on
the fingers Of one hand, and not use
all the fingers either, the state off
Gals who are not the property of the
Anaconda Mining Company. With
two or three exceptions, they own
and control every daily paper in
Montana. The things you see in the
papers about Butte are put there be-
cause the Anaconda Mining Com
pany want people to believe that the
workers in Butte are lawless and
hat life and property are not safe
in Butte, so that whenever the arm
ed officers take lives in the interest
of the Anaconda Mining Company,
will believe they were justi-
fed"
Mr.. Dunn mentioned instances
workers had been done injus-
tice, and strove to create the impress
sion that men everywhere who work
with their hands are oppressed by
capitalists, or the men who own the
of production. He implied
hat the stringency of the postwar
conditions affected laborers only,
put had nothing to say about income
axes, and increased prices of raw
materials, increased cost of labor,
brought about in many instances by
he raf,,co1 of 1ohorin0 ,nop ~ -
luce as much during a working day
IS formerly. Mr.. Dunn's argument
vas one-sided all the way through,
nd designed rather to promote I'M
est than to explain it, or offer any
emedies-except that of taking
barge" presumably of the govern :
nent and private property. =,
No Middle Ground
Mr.. Dunn's discourse was made
p of a series of assertions, couched /,
moderate and carefully guarded t
1t must have been difficult !
or his audience to believe that the t
verage man would be convinced or {
eeply impressed by his general and
ackneyed phrases. Very noticeable $
as the speakers disregard of the
lass who must labor with both head 7
nd hands to subsist-capitalists s
ecause they own tools Or property, V
Iborers because they use tools or T
roperty-farmers, for instance. C
he impression was left that we have t
Interchangeable castes-la- t
orers and capitalists, with no con- f
deration of the fact that changes a
,om one to the other are rapid and b
'equent, in this part of the country.
The speakers assertion that all
ut a few of the newspapers of the a
are bought up by the money c
is one that can not be proven S
: %disproven. Any paper that raises h
s voice against the forces of revo- h
tion and in defense of the govern Il
ent is, Of course, bought. c
Mr.. Dunn's effort was listened to
Y at least one editor with the ut J
ost openminded fairness, but the f
erdict is that so far as building up n
1 argument that would convince D
le laborer of average information n
Id mentality, he failed, through n
ok of constructiveness and reason g
lie consideration. He sought to ST
int America with Europe's sins; c,
larging, for instance, that Church R
, an Englishman, had said the b
orkers were not fit to rule. In it
merica the workers always have ii
e power to rule, because they are U
the majority and have the ballot. ic
Concluding Hint tt
In conclusion he touched on the m
abor League, the organization A
rough which it is hoped to link tt
ganized labor with the Non-Par- pl
san League. Mr.. Dunn's character sc
alton of the Anaconda Mining 81
'mpany and the Montana legisla-
re hit very close to what is popu-
rly accepted as the truth. m
The evident purnose of tba whole dl