The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-02-24
WORKERS AND GROW
ERs OR GRAFTERs

6NS YIN 0NkNG GukS
The congress is busy making fur
ther appropriations in order to make
certain guaranteed profits to the
private owners of the railroads. 1t
has refused even to give serious con-
sideration to any measures under
which reasonable earnings can be
realized by productive workers.
In providing guaranteed profits to
the railways, no provision is made
for control of railway expenditures.
Ficticious salaries, stuffed payrolls
and bogus prices for supplies are all
a possibility and the general char
acter of railway manag ement indi-
Gates probability.
This means unearnad incomes guar
enteed to the needless gamblers and
honest earnings made impossible for
the indispensable productive work
ers: The private ownership of the
railways with government control
and the gamblers controlling the
government is a great success-for
the gamblers.
The ownership and control of the
railways, the mines, the forests, the
steel mills, the packing houses and
all the great centralized manufactu-
ring monopolies are in the hands of
a single compactly organized group
which thru the device of interlocked
directorates has become single
Body exercising mastery over Ameri-
can industry and commerce.
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This Wall Street Soviet has taken
control of the administration of the
government and is using all the pow
ers of the government as if the ma
tion itself is nothing else than a
part of the Wall Street business or
ganization and equipment.
When the timber workers organ
lied to rid the lumber camps of lice
1t was this combination that accused
them of trying to create one big
union with which to destroy the
government When the miners ask
ed for the fulfillment after the war
of promises made them during the
war this combination used the nation
al authority to force them back into
the mines with the wartime pledges
unfulfilled. Then the steel workers
asked for something better than a
twelve hour day and seven day
week they were accused by this COM
bination of reasonable intent and
were ruthlessly compelled to sur
render. to be sure this was not done
by the swish of the slave drivers
lash but by a use of force even more
brutal and just as effective. When
the farmers asked for relief from a
market control which had made the
cost of producing wheat $2.77 bu-
shell but now demands immediate set
tlement by the farmers with wheat
at dollar only, it was this
combination which sought to make
organization crime and refusal
to take orders from Wall Street, an
act of treason to the nation.
When will there be an end of this?
Just as soon as the steel workers are
as compactly organized as are their
masters. Just as soon as the timber
workers are as compactly organized
as are their masters. Just as soon
as the farmers, following the lead of
the Nonpartisan League, the miners
and the factory workers are as COM
pactly organized as are their masters,
-then there will be an end of this
but only provided these great indus
trial groups still follow the example
of their masters in two particulars
W by some system of interlocked
become one big union
and, (2) take their interests as pro-
ductive workers to the ballot box
and back their voices in politics by
the combined economic power in
their own occupations.
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The plunderers are a unit both in
business and in politics and they
rule at both points. We are many
and they are few. Union at both
points of the productive workers
with the power to support general
ballot by general strike will place
both the public power and the eco
nomic power in the hands where they
Justly belong. The great central
bankers and industrial plunderers
have gone on general strike and
they have won thru their control or
the job, in the MARKETS and at Wash