The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-10-01

and systematically used r. g.,
industrial democracy or ~ IuItnel
the economic DISADVANTAGE reduce
farmers and wage workers me
against the capitalists. NiS as
When the Republican oro.
tlon goes to the voters in frar3 3;,lilza'
peals in the coming wealrs ''-tsic ap-
Calvin Coolidge one more 20 70 give
it will make one claim "R,si oi.sIeSs
good" 1t will have its cabinet t7S ~. IS
GERS repeating one solemn o,,o-t I'LL
Don't you believe that Pro.;5o-i;
Coolidge and Secretary Mel1o o7iuehG
able and honest?" ''' are
The Democratic senator's and a.
gressmen and governors and III In
dates will reply with a loud and 1gu
cere mo" to both the claim and IN tIl-
question. Since they are not il we e
flee the voters will be bopef,I FL
the Democrats will not renee ' .i
sorry performance they gave in 10 -'S
to 1921 especially. If present st,.a--.'
in the political wind are a oood ~
deX of opinion the democrats w ~,
get the decision in majority Of tbs
senatorial contests where the q ~
P. candidate is a standpatter On,
they will have a clear maiori+- ' ~
the next senate. They appear lil,oi,.
also to secure a slight majority -
the new house. IL
II the Democrats win, they will do
! so for two main reasons. The En-
is the general disgust or boredom, -
the voters toward the Coolidga-AToI
Ion party. The second reason Is ~,
activity of organized labor and or
gained farmers in the nonpartizaD
league and other groups to secnrs
the defeat Of reactionaries who bavs
blocked even the most insignificsnI
labor and farm measures in fine -.
tiOnal legislature.
The American Federation of Ia
Dor in its own publicity sheets hail
the dawn of true non-partisan poIi-
tics In this country in the prpsan+
chaos of party discipline. There is
almost equal satisfaction among the
associated rail labor organizations
which have dropped all their forme,
activities in Independent politics
since the LaFOllette presidential
race Of 1924. Today the bullr If
American trade unionism is told bv
its leaders that the primary OF the
old party is the shortest road ~
power Labor has won nominations
for perhaps Is or 20 senatorial car
didates this year and will elect most
/ Of them. Most Of these will show
some sense of responsibility to the
wageworkers after they are elected
But they will owe no accounting to
any labor party or to any genera
program drawn up by the labor
movement. Labor chiefs admit this
weakness in the non-partisan or BIZ
partisan primary system of cam
paign. But they think it a cheaper
method Of gaining legislation than
the slow process of constructing an
outright party of the working class.
On the other hand the Overmans
and Harrisons and Gamers and Gar
rets and the rest of the pro-corpora-
ton democratic leaders assure the
business public that when they swing
back to control of the White House
there will be no radicalism, no social
ism, no nonsense Of old age pensions
or federal child labor laws or public
ownership of waterpOwer. And the
progressive republicans have to adj
NIT that they stand mighty little
chance of taking their own party
away from the manufacturers and
bankers special control.
However, the speeches and posters
of October will mention only the
prosperity that the farmer and wage
worker are claimed to have, or that
the Overmans and Gamers promise
them.