The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-04-04
SENATOR WALSH AND THE TEAPOT DOME--By WILLIAM DUN

when attempted to get an expression of
the miners from him while the strike yoa sympathy b
Just few days ago. in letter to oro =
professional red batter Ed. Shields bnsir Marvin
the employers association Of Billings doe SS agent for
against charge Of radcaism. Na,T iireuled Walsh
Shields if Walsh had ever been friendly @ mad asked
Dunno and Shields replied Indignantly A. -'D William
like the granite Of our hills and had no,o Walsh lis
to do with the radicals. had anyhS
Shields, as defender Of Walsh sno.,.
labor forces in Montana. He was fo LOT the an
agent Of the Clerks Union in Butte. and dl- ousne
strike had brother who was gunroan fo ne lSi
ola Mining Company. Shields became foo Ine Anacu
the conservative Clerks Union was forooJ LOT
mediately went to work openly for the boa.o ~ and
worked for secretly as union official ne la
Walsh is trying to capitalize the rosroo4 j,
workers and farmers Of Montana have for u1' uaV t
cause of his stand during the war; when wheeler b
mean exactly that because Wheeler was ny aspect
thousands of workers and farmers who bo+o5
cratic party and all it stands for but b e me uenO
desert Wheeler in the face of the Anaconda M uat
pany attack was to play into the comnon4I lug OOn
Walsh comes up for reelection this wear aJ u hands
going to be placed in an embarrassing nociton "'a
supports Walsh he will lose his WORKING coa. en- Ae
and if he does not he must sever his connpctio
democratic party. The Daugherty invoo+ioos ue
Wheelers work but Walsh will try to tao
it although he hates and fears it. The Anaconda Mr.
Company will suffer as result Of the Daugberv INV.
tgation that has grown out of the Teapot Dome aem
the scandal that was supposed to kill off several s
competitors of the Standard Oil Company tbo nas
of the Anaconda.
EXPOSING HIS OWN BED-MATES
1t is the irony Of fate that black reactionarv n,
Walsh should be one Of the instruments used f. or
the detailed nature of the control of government r.
capital and capitalists and to bring into the fierce i
of day the corrupt practices by which his Anac@5
Company hackers Cypress and intimidate the WORKER
and farmers of the state he lives in and whose rulers NJ
serves.
Such paradox could only occur in period like nil
when the bankruptcy of the farmers and overprOducm
in industry has undermined the foundations Of Amer
capitalism.
Capitalism dies because it cannot reconcile its aDbs
Onisms and correct it's contradictions No more strr
evidence of this fact can be had than that copper trust
senator, seeking to conciliate popular sentiment order
to secure reelection and further aid his owners over
turns the boiling pot of oil and must now watch its M
ing streams flow on and besmirch before the eyes The
people the very interests he was seeking to protect
In Montana such things as l have cited builds a
farmerlabOr party; in other states the same thing
with the exposure of their local exploiting interests
The streams of discomfort and establishment unite and
American capitalism faces a revolt Of farmers and
workers; revolt that they would like to blame the CON-
munists for but which they know is the result Of IN
ability to loot with the old secrecy and efficiency The
former red baiters now are lodging the penitenuaJ
amid the laughter and jeers Of the workers and farmer
whom they fooled for little while but whom they I"
no longer.
Give us more Washes and capitalism will be an aS