The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-12-14
Anderson Makes Strong APP
peal to Oranized Labor
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per currency etc. In other words,
the great panic of 1907 with all
its widespread desOlation and
ruin was caused by a fight be-
tween the Standard Oil and Nor
gan interests. 1t was a battle
between two bulls in a china shop
and while they fought one humid
red million people suffered.
"Since the organization of the
Federal Reserve banking system
with its power to issue currency,
control interest rates and expand
or contract the volume of credit,
the money trust has complete con-
troll over labor and can bring on
a panic whenever they desire. Or,
if they SO order, the wheels of
industry may turn, but only if
they so order. The control of
credit is the control of industry
and business. On this point DR..
SHIRLEY further testified 4 assert
that the decision by the Federal
Reserve Board during February,
1919, to reverse its policy and
bring on an era of rising prices
and business stimulation actual
ly saved mankind from trade
union rule. Later in 1920 when
the movement for trade-rule was
at its height and the radical
wage-wOrker leaders in this cOun-
try were able to get work when
ever they were discharged, be-.
cause of the simulated industry,
our Government Commission the
Federal Reserve Board, led in a
movement which quickly con-
tracted the volume of credits,
resulting in the discharge of
hands, and then with the mem-
plOyed standing about there was
less and less likelihood of sue
cess in the plans for a general
stril0e.'
"All this means in plain Eng
lish that the panic of 1907 was
brought on by the Standard Oil
interests; that business stimula-
ton in 1919 was permitted in Wall
street in order to provide work
for the returning soldiers that the
defation of 1919 that ruined Ag-
riculture and. industry in the
northwest was for the purpose of
saving civilization from trade
union rule Our Government
Commission brought en- unem-
ployment so that when hands
were on the street without a JOB,
there power would be broken and
civilization saved from trade
union rule -.~4..
Comrades, kiss the hand that
smites you and when walking on
the street Hooking for a job with
vour children at home crying for
bread, rejoice that through your
suffering civilization has been saw
ed from trade1union rule: Shut
your eyes to the facts. refuse to
think and go blindly to the slaugh-
ter: Hundreds of men are being
laid off work in Missoula, Great
Falls, Havre and other cities in
Montana and thousands of girls in
the large department sstores in
Twin Cities. yet-in the face of
all this, many laboring men say
that Prosperity is just around
the corner, so throw away your
hammer and buy a horn, and well
come Prosperity
"You believe in industrial ac-
ton and so do /, but remember
that just as long as the great
commercial and financial inter
ests dominate the Federal Gov
eminent a stroke of the pen can
outlaw and destroy your indus
trial machine. The only remedy
is for the common people, the
wage workers and the farmers, to
gain control of the Federal Govern
ment through a political party
and it is for this, purpose that the
Farmer-LabOr Party is being or
ganized today"
Sen. Anderson has been deliveril
addresses in behalf of
of. the Farmer-Lah
Party at different points in 'Sherid
and Daniels county during the p;
fortnight and has been meeting w
success and will lea
Northeastern Montana with a sple
did organization, which will be pu
fected by local organizers until Il
section is 100 per cent organized.