The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05


OF the Communist group.
King Likes Labor
1t is said that even the King has
taken pains to let political writer's
know that he looks upon the Labor
party as lust as loyal to his throne
as is the Tory or the Liberal Party.
But of course the Communists are
considered, by royalty and all who
sympathize with the maintenance of
royalty, to be little short of traitors.
Cook Says Miners For Russia
Secy. A. ]. Cook of the miners,
however, picks up from his desk a
memorandum and recites the names
and dates of district meetings of the
miners and railwaymen and other
big trade union elements that have,
In the past two months, voted by
great majOrities in favor of permit
ting the Communists to affiliate with
the Labor Party. He remarks that
the British workers consider the
breaking off of relations with Russia
to be a more important matter than
the winning of many by reflections.
He tells you that the miners in Scot
land, Wales, Durham, Nottingham
and Northumberland have voted to
establish an Anglo-Russian miners
committee, and that the proposal will
be carried with only small dissent
ing vote.
Mcdonald Passes
AS to personal leadership, like
Ramsay MacDonald's Cook denies
that it is any longer effective against
the desire of the men to make a
harder fight for improved inter
national and home conditions. When
10000 workers in Northumberland
recently took their annual vote as
to which speakers should be invited
to campaign there, Macdonald who
led the poll last year was defeated
while Cook led the list. When Arthur
Henderson and the veteran Robert
Smillie-who has turned to the
right since his health broke two wears
ago - were advertised to speak in
Lincoln only $50 persons attended.
Cook came there A days later and
talked to 5000 who had paid admis-
sion to the hall.
Reds Win in Mass Vote
These things show that veteran
leadership does not go unchallenged
any more, the miners chief COM
mented. "Our men, in district after
district in the past month, have
swept aside the advice of their dis
rict officers that they refuse to ap-
prove Communist utilization in the
Labor Party. They reason that if
all the Tory press is so afraid OF
the Communists, our people need not
be afraid. So it is with the railway
men and the other unions. They see
that the struggle against modern
organized finance and industry re-
quires modern minds.
Miners Remember $6,OOOOO
An dthey have a suspicion that
you never placate an enemy by be-
traying your friends. The Russian
workers sent nearly $6,OOO,OOO to us
IN our strike, with no conditions at
tached. We are entering into a hard
er struggle of the classes than ever
before, and we shall fight with the
international situation in mind. The
general strike did not break oul
spirit; it gave US a new sense of oul
power to defend ourselves and to
better the situation of all the work
ers."
Rights Wall About Debt
The rights tell you that brave
words and emotionalism pay no def
cites; that the unions had to paw out
all their savings of many years in
that brief 10 days of general strike
and that most of them will for years
be crippled by the debts they Their
incurred The rights see financial
embarrassment at headquarters as
the most effectual bar to organizing
work and to the practical canvassinq
OF the districts in election campaigns
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