The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-03-17
BONUS PLAN DRAWS
FLOOD OF PROTEST
Continued from last week.

ELVUU vi 4 NVknl
Continued from last week.
has manifested IN several well-recog-
nized campaigns. These have two
objects: First, TO try to overcome the
decision of senator's and representa-
tives in favor of early passage Of the
bill; second, to try to reverse the oy-
erwhelming public sentiment in favor
of the measure.
This p1ighty drive to kill the Ad-
iusted Compensation Bill has been
centered in these four efforts:
I. The Washington lobbyists of
barking, trade and commerce or2snI-
cations have beea -homhardsng Con-
gress and trying t.. lire up the MEM
tership of the :ocal organizations
they represent throughout the country
into>a wall of opposition 10 the com
peasation bill.
z. Anti-compeasation newspapers
have been conducting. in news aid
editorial columns, violent campaign
of propaganda against compensation,
largely featured by The inspired writ
ings of Washington correspondents
WHO uEiUNtS eU sAtC F@tSeIaf1h Sk N'@>s"
to. the--bonus."
5. Throughout :he country pres
sure is being used and wires are be
ing pulled to work up campaign or
letter writing against tne eompensa-
tiOs, bill. The affidavit published at
the head of this article shows one
phase of this effort.
4. The old tactics of using the dis
ahled men as a shield, of shedding
crocodile tears of sympathy, have
been resorted to by many of the sp-
uonents of compensation in an efIert
to deceive public opinion.
5. Many and various forms of un-
popular taxes have been proposed and
ex plotted by enemies of the compen-
sation bill in the effort to alarm and
line no against the bill the interests
and groups opposed TO the taxes.
The first of these efforts has frank
ly been conducted to "defeat the boa
US at any cost" The refendum coa-
Quoted by the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States on the options
Of the compensation bill was one OIL
it's earliest manifestations. The ma
tional chamber distributed to its af-
| filiated trade and commercial bodies
| in practically all the sizable cities and
towns of the country a large booklet
| purporting to give arguments pro and
con on four questions relating the
benefits provided in the compensation
bill. This booklet, cleverly prepared
giving an appearance Of fair play
was designed to secure from each at
fliated trade body an expression of
disapproval for the Legion's bill as E
whole.
{, AS this is written the national
chamber is about to announce the
result of it's referendum. 1t may be
assumed that this viii be unfavorab1e
to the Legion's bill, but the referen-
dunn has been by no means as uni,
IfornnIy successful as the nationa
chamber anticipated. Voting among
the members Of the individual cham
bers has revealed surprising friendli
ness for the Adjusted Compensation
Bill.
The bill has been indorsed by such
influential organizations as the Cieve
land Chamber of Commerce, the Lo:
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, salt
| to be the largest in the world, th'
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
and chambers in Omaha, Neb., Kan
sas City, Mo, Pittsburgh, Pa, Port
land, Ore, Seattle, Wash, Des Moines
Ia. Fargo, N. D., Oklahoma City ant
Tulsa, Oklahoma. And the very lat
est word is that the bill has been in
dorsed by the Chamber of Conimerc'
of Marion, O., President Harding
home city.
/ The Chamber of Commerce Of To
Iledo, O., is one of a number Of cham
bers which refused to vote in the ref
erendum of the national body on tn
ground that the questions being vot
ed on did not give an opportunity TO
fair expression of sentiment.
The American Bankers Associa
ton and the National Association O
Manufacturers have been equally &C
tive in opposing the bill. Both hav
sent from Washington appeals t
their members all over the countr
urging energetic steps to help kill tn
measure, particularly by bringing
pressure to bear upon senators an
representatives. Scores Of lesse
bodies have been doing the sam
thing, among them the National Au
tomobile Chamber of Commerce, tn
American Fruit and Vegetable Ship
pers' Association, the National Credi
Mems Association, the Nationa
Wholesale Grocers' Association, tn
National Association of Finishers @
Cotton Fabrics, the National Associa
ton of Brass Manufacturers, tn
National Wholesale Lumber Dealer!
Association, the Cocoa and Chocolat
Manufacturers Association, the In
ternational Milk Dealers Association
the Eastern Millinery Association an
the Manufacturing Chemists Asso
citation.
/ It should be borne in mind tha
many of the organizations opposin.
the Legion's bill consist mostly Of
few highly-paid executives and stat
of lobbyists and propagandists a
Washington. The individual mem
bers Of the organization ecattere'
throughout the country have mad littl
to do with initiating or carrying ol
the anti-compensation drives, but il
| Washington the interlocked executive
and lobbyists plan and decree AM
ask the outsiders TO tag along. t
play the game. These lobbyists il
Washington have a close comuunit,
Of interests. They work together
Just now they are concentrating up
on individual senators and Congress
men every bit of influence, every bi
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