The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-10-15

WASHINGTON, D. C.---Italy's bloud-
less industrial revolution continues to
eclipse the Polish war in discussions
here among business men, bankers,
trade union officials and diplomats.
Aided by the neutrality OF Pre- micr
Giolitti, who is seeking to make the
Italian war roiitecrs disgorgc for
the ~ ncfit of the national treasury,
the organized workers in the metal
industries tool; possession Of the
plants until the private owners
agreed to give them and the govern
mcnt an immediate share in the MAN.
agenent, buth in reduction, market
ing and the distribution Of profits.
These moves and the possibility
that Italy may discard the political
monarchy have fii.h!encd american
bankers holding blocks Of Italian
bonds. The have appealed to the
state department to stop this; Italian
revolution. Thc department has CIV
en- no answer lis yet.
Colby Ccns0rs Press
Secretary Colby, of course, is very
sympathetic with these American
bankersc in their anxiety. He is the
prize radical hatcr in official WASH
ington. His daily sneers at radical
working class movements here and
abroad in his confidential talks with
newspaper correspondents, are the
subject of frequent adverse comment
in the city. But Colby has the advice
Of the consular service that Italy is
quite able to judge her own conditions
and that If he tries any rough CO.
ercion the Italians may decide t, up-
set their government right off.
However, if he cannot impress his
anti-democratic program on the Itul-
ian nation, Colby can at least employ
suppression in his own office. He has
this week joined tho Palmer Burleson
class by excluding from his confiden-
tial press talks the correspondents of
the Federated Press, u cooperative
news gathering organization support
ed by farmer and labor papers
throughout the country. His retext
was the complaints made by these
men to him, verbally and in writing,
against his propaganda, cloaked al
ways in irresponsible secrecy, against
working class interests in general.
The incident Of Colby's attempt to
commented on in the eastern press,
and such conservative democratic or
gans as the Baltimore Sun have
given him a lambasting.
HERALD PRAISES FARMERS
Senator Meyers has bolted the
cause the Nonpartisan farmers and
organized labor in that state have
won the primary fight against the
Anaconda Copper company ticket.
His denunciation of the Democratic
party in Montana as II. w. w. and
bolshevism" has been rejected in
toto by the Washington Herald, Or
gan Of Julius Barnes and Herbert
Hoover, on the ground that the
farlner-labOr movement is absolutely
law-abiding, open, parliamentary and
American in it's methods.
This statement in the editorial COL
umns Of the Herald, which has on
former occasions taken issue with the
Nonpartlsan farmers movement, is
a good omen of the new understand
ing which the east is getting with
regard to the activities of the farm
ers and organized labor in the
Northwest.
The intolcrant attitude of Meyers
away the secret of the general apathy
1O"dEu Tie 1dTIilcES O1 montana gives
in connection with the democratic
national campaign 1t is not Mr.. Cox
that is an issue in this campaign; it
is the influences responsible for his
nomination. Meyers personifies those
influences.
There was time and not many
months ago, when Meyers was brut-
ally>sregular" in his party allegiance.
He took the position that he would
be willing to confirm the appointment
"of even a horsetheif. so long as he
was backed by the party" At that
moment he felt sure that the Anacon-
da would own the party in Montana
for years to come. Now that the
people have driven the Anaconda
gang out OF the temple Of Democracy
he has no more interest in the party
label. Hence he is advocating the
election Of a republican ticket which
carries the corporation brand.
Meyers attitude teaches once again
the old lesson that there is no such
thing as political craftsmanship in big
business.
AMERICAN SHIPPING
A statement from the shipping
board shows that our entire foreign
cOYonnerco f,,riny tho 6r~% civ ,,,,n+bs