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The producers news., 1927-05-27

power of the mightiest empire that the history of
the human was able to record until then. One
thousand volunteer soldiers against millions!
The battle was short and swift. British gun
boats shelled Liberty Hail. the headquarters of the
revolutionists, British troops were brought from
concentration camps, the city bombarded and
partially destroyed and after a heroic struggle
that lasted seven days the survivors of the revo-
lutionary army made terms with the perfidous
enemy who violated his word as soon as the
rebels laid down their arms.
Connolly was the last of the seven signers of the
proclamation of the Irish Republic to be executed.
And the Irish workers will not forget that an
Irish supporter of the nationalist cause, remind
ed the British government two days before the
execution that Connolly and Seam MacDermot
were still living. Neither will they forget that
Arthur Henderson, secretary of the British Labor
Party, then member of the Asquith coalition gov
ernment never protested against the reign of ter
ror that was let loose by his government in Ire
land and particularly against the execution of
James Connolly, who with Henderson, was a mem
Der of the Second International that putrid fraud
which today as in 1914 is busily engaged betray-
ing the workers and stiffening the backbone of
world Imperialism.
The Irish labor movement for which Connolly
shed his hearts blood has not followed the path
he mapped out for it. 1t is caught in the net OF
reformism like the labor movements of the rest
of the world. Men who fought with Connolly ir
the early days of the socialist movement in Ire
land have grown old and weary and are content
to leave the political leadership of the official Ia
Dor movement in the hands of men who would fee
more at home in the company of the British Mac
Donalds, Thomases and Snowdens than in the
company of the Connollys, Lenins, Lebknechts anc
Luxembergs.
virile and militant minority movement sucl
as has been thrown up in England due to the
rapid decline of British imperialism and to the
guidance and encouragement of the Communis
Party, has not yet made its appearance in Ireland
Only few scattered and disunited groups swear
allegiance to the Communist cause. The defea
Of the nationalist movement through the treacher.
of those who accepted fake Free State in ieV
of republic and because of the overwhelming
power of Great Britain spread Generalization il
the ranks of the labor movement. But there ar
signs of an awakening. And on the eleventh an
nlversary of the execution of Ireland's creates
proletarian son, James Connolly, we permit our
selves the luxury of predicting that before tn
next anniversary comes around that the radica
wing of Irish labor will get together under tn
leadership of the Communist international and
conjunction with the progressive elements in tn
republican nationalist movement, organize for tn
nnal overthrow of British Imperialism IN lrelan
and the abolition of Irish capitalism as well.
The producers news., 1927-05-27
BY T. J. O'FLAHERTY

1t is now eleven years since James Connolly,
military leader of the Easter Week rebellion of
1916 was taken out stretcher from prison
hospital, prOpped up against wall and pumped
full of lead from the guns of British firing squad.
James Connolly, commander of the Irish Citi-
Army, the military arm of the Dublin trade
union movement, the dynamic force behind
the revolt that shook the mighty empire to her
base at time when her mercenaries were scurry-
ing in retreat before the gray hosts of the Kaiser
in Belgium and Flanders
James Connolly could see no distinction between
the two brands of democracy purveyed by the
British and German governments and when the
mitarists sounded the war bugles ir, 1914 instead
of burying mis- principles and 1eserting his social
ist program was done by the renegades in
England and on the continent, he called on the
workers to fight neither for British king nor Ger
Kaiser but to fight-if they must fight-to
their firesides from their historical enc
my, to keep the food they produced for the use of
their own people and to prevent the flower of
their manhood from being turned into dust on the
battefields of Europe so that a putrid empire,
bloated with the blood of millions of subject peo-
pies might survive the gruelng strain of war;
James Connolly, the of proletarian faith
er, was obliged to work at such an early age that
he had to lie his way past the authorities charged
with the enforcement of child labor law. He was
a rebel by inheritance and by nature. From the
time he was old enough to make public speech
he was an active rebel and took an active part in
the class struggle in Scotland England, Wales and
In the United States. But his heart was always
drawn towards Ireland, the land of his birth and
to the people whose moods he best understood
During the years of his exile in the United States
he never lost touch with the revolutionary Nation
alist and labor movements in Ireland. Always a
practical revolutiOnst in the truest sense of the
word he did not permit his knowledge of Marxist
economics to excuse him from participating in the
Nationalist struggle against the British Empire
as was done by Others who looked on the great
rebel founder of modern socialism as a dried-up
research worker interested only in facts, figures
and theories and not the untiring warrior who
never let slip an opportunity to put in blow fol
the workers to find some way of rousing them
to struggle against the capitalist enemy.
Connolly labored effectively IN the socialist
movement in the United States. He was in at the
founding of the 1. w. w. and served that organi-
zation in the capacity of organizer. A tireless
propagandist, he constantly on the platform
his pen was always at the service of the cause
The extreme poverty in which his family lived
did not swerve him from the only purpose in life
tnat ne considered worth wrinkle of his brow
Connolly was invited to return to ireland by
some of his old comrades shortly after the Irish
transport and General Workers Union was orga.
The producers news., 1927-05-27
The Murder of a RevOlutiOnist

nized under the leadership of Jim Larkin. When
Larkin left for his speaking tour in the United
States, which was prolonged beyond his expecta-
was eight and a half years here, part Of
the time as a guest of Governor Alfred E. Smith in
the Sing Sing penitentiary for his association
with the Communist movement-Co Connolly took ac-
tive charge of the affairs of the Transport Union
and from then on the headquarters of that orga-
nization became also the headquarters of the revo
lutonary preparations against British rule in Ire
land.
In 1916 the Nationalist movement, split by the
traitor John Redmond, who played the same role
in Ireland that Chang Kai Shek is now playing in
China, was deplorably weak for the task that con-
fronted it. Outside of Connolly and his associates
in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the petty
bourgeois Nationalist leaders who spouted about
Home Rule in the British House of Commons new
er had any intention of resorting to physical force
The arming and drilling that went on from the
time Sir Edward Carson and the present Lord Bir-
kenhead imported arms from Germany to equip
their cohorts to fight Home Rule, was to those
playboys chance to show off their excessive pa
trotism to the voters but when the time for action
arrived they withdrew into the caverns of consti-
tutionalism.
This is a good place to draw attention to the
monumental hypocrisy of the British government
of the day-a liberal government under the pre-
miership of that arch-fraud Asquith. The Irish
Home Rule bill was on the statute book and signed
by the king. But the Ulster reactionaries backed
by the Tory party in England bluntly told the
British government to go to hell and with arms
imported from Germany proceeded to make good
their threat. And the British government which
is so nightly exercised over the revolts of its
subject people in India, Egypt and Africa permit
ted Carson and Birkenhead to go their rebelious
ways flouting the government. For raising the
banner of revolt against British Imperialism two
years later James Connolly, Padraic Pearse and
many other Nationalist leaders were brutallv rnur-
dered by the same government that honored Car
son and Birkenhead with positions among the
highest in the land.
When the shipload of arms sent by the German
government to Ireland was seized off the coast
of Kerry by a British cruiser, as a result of in.
formation supplied to the British government b,
the United States secret service, several of the
leaders of the Irish revolutionary organization
planning the revolt were in favor of calling Of
the rising. Connolly was determined that a bloU
would be struck; that even though the attemn
was doomed to temporary failure the time wa,
ripe and the consequences of the event would hav,
repercussions on an international scale Connollv'
determination carried the day and the forces O.
the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irisl
Citizen Army, mere handful, hoisted the flag q
rebellion on Easter Sunday and challenged th
The producers news., 1927-05-27

Washington-(F -(FP)-Capt. Charles
Lndbergh, hero of the first direct
air flight from New York to France,
is acclaimed by Secretary Kellogg
and other Minnesotans in the nation
al capital for his courage, his deter
mlnation and his performance.
Young Lindbergh was 16 years OF
age when his father, the late Rep.
Llndbergh, accepted the nomination
OF the Nonpartisan League confer
ence IN Minnesota, in the early spring
OF the war year 1918, to run for the
Republican nomination for governor
as the spokesman of the farmers.
Ihe courage required to throw down
the challenge to organized war profi-
teers In the Northwest at that time,
when Gov. Burnquist and Sen. Frank
Kellogg were backing the fanatical
reactionary, Judge McGee, chairman
of the State Council of National De-
fense, was no small thing. The hero
ic flyer of 1927 was old enough in
those days to measure the heroism of
his father, as he went from town to
town, facing the threats of mob vio-
lence and the danger of assassina-
tion that were instigated by foes of
the farmers movement.
x
Delegates and visitors at the con-
vention of the American Federation
of Labor, held in st. Paul in June of
that year, will not soon forget the
two young farmers, organizers fo1
the Nonpartisan League, who came
to see the convention and to receive
medical treatment for the tarring
and feathering given them by the
Burnquist-Kellogg enthusiasts. Many
delegates went to the town of St
Cloud to hear Lindbergh speak, anC
witnessed the mobilizing of armed
forces to prevent the farmers from
making any demonstration. They
talked with Henrik Shipstead, ther
mayor of a Minnesota town and can
didate for the nomination for Con
gress against Volstead, a standpatter
Shipstead's house had been smeareC
with yellow paint, in the night, wheI
the local chamber-of-commerce ele
ment learned that he had Joined tn,
farmers political crusade.
On billboards opposite the conven
tion hotels were big posters, with pic
lures of shells bursting in American
trenches in France, and in big typ
an alleged message from Pershing
You take care of the Huns at hom
and we will hold them over here"
Lndbergh opposed war profiteer
The producers news., 1927-05-27
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
,,nrD5cr TODD Federated Press
By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press

and war hysteria. He made no COM
promise with MsGee, Kellogg, Knute
Nelson or Burnquist, who had set up
their monopoly in patriotism and who
had implied that the Minnesota far-
mers who dared organize to secure
a fair price for their wheat were enc
mics of their country. Lindbergh
was beaten, but the courage and dig
nifty of the contest he conducted IN
the midst of wars cowardice was an
estate of which his family is proud
After his death, the son flew over
their farm at Little Falls, scattering
the ashes of the father upon the land
to which he was devoted. 1t was
symbol they understood.
Minnesota gets into the Hmelight in
Washington again with the announce
ment that Robert E. Olds, former law
partner of Secretary Kellogg and for
the past 10 months assistant secre-
tary of state, will replace Joseph E.
Grew as undersecretary of state. The
new job will make Olds acting secre-
tary when Kellogg is away from
Washington. Hitherto he has been
legal adviser to Kellogg, and has dis
played his diplomatic prowess only
behind closed doors.
Olds' name came into nationwide
notoriety last November, when it was
disclosed that he had called into his
office for a confidential talk the
State Department correspondents fol-
the three chief telegraphic news ser
vices, and had tried to induce them
to publish, on their own authority, ar
attack on the Mexican government
His attack consisted in assurance that
he had information proving that Mex
leo was seeking to establish a "Bol-
shevist hegemony" between the Rio
Grande and the Canal Zone. Wher
later called upon by the Senate for
eign relations committee to make
good this charge-which the Associ
ated Press duly sent out to the coun
try at the time-Olds and KellogG
were unable to produce any proof
They offered in evidence a few dec
larations by Communist bodies as tt
their hope of propaganda in Latin
America. These very statements in
dicated that the Gales government
in Mexico was fighting the Commun
lists.
There are indications that progress
sives in the Senate will object to con
firmation of the Olds appointment
when it comes to that body in De
cember. They consider him a joke.
The producers news., 1927-05-27
ATTEMPT POW
R GRAB AT Ma.
TION'S CAPITA

WashingtOn-(FP) = Pow.
arrogance has OutdOne itself trust
opinion of public-OwnersbiD !" the
Gates, in the application bv II. aGy@
lesby branch of the power ~e ByL
for a preliminary permit to bO,uune
tho Great Falls of the Potom"an a'nesS
the very door of the national ~.
Three times the Senate has Jpna4
the Norris bill. providing for TOOpIed
structiOn of a great power d.. oOa'
this site by the federal govermau 1.u at
The Republican machine in the Ili'snl Tusl
has blocked it, under guidance IOuSe
the power trust lobbyists. No "OR
trust itself goes before the Fo5ue ue
Power Commission, while ConoroSes's
in recess. and demands the site
Under the Norris plan. basoa
repeated and careful studies by VI
ernment engineers, a mower sON
costing from $12,OO0,OOO to S150oGl SSla
900 could be constructed at the CISUu, C"0
Falls, and from it could be devoIassaa.. Glsa.
sufficient power to light the city t,OpSg aSi
operate all machinery now in nss 1iu
the District of Columbia. TbiSI ~ y. M
trio current could be sold at tbe ny, ny
for half cent per ldlowatt bonrr r''I. "
could be delivered to the Local oo.l /"
pany for many years We're 10 cens,
to the householder, until nnbl;'
utilities commission reduced then, y
! 71a cents. This electricity is pro5n. "
ed in steam plants.
The Byllesby application is mad.
under the name of the Potomac P;ro.
Corporation, in which H. M. Bvllesb1
& Co. of Chicago-one of the imnort
ant independents" actually controi
led by the General Electric gronn' rom
has a one-half interest. Robert RTIl
ley of Cleveland is president of ~.
Potomac River Corporation. wb;oS
talks of S55,OO0,OOO developmaDtl'
involving a possible 100000 borco'
power. It's application was submittsd
by Col. Charles Keller, a former armv
engineer and District commissions,
who is now a Byllesby agent.
: Sen. Norris is in the west, but SaD
LaFollette has taken up at once M
question of postponement of action
by the federal commission until Con.
gress shall again be in session. Sincs
one branch of Congress has repeated
ly declared for exclusive public devel
opment under federal ownerhip d
this project, LaFollette will fight an1
attempt to give the site away Will,
, Congress is out of town.
The incident adds to the long list O
reasons for bringing Congress back t
Washington in special session. Pres
ident Coolidge, opposing any publ
development of power for sale to th
people, is the more opposed to per
mitting Congress to assemble thi
summer.
Citizens associations in the capita
however, are taking action to per
suade the federal power commissio
that no preliminary permit to the ap
plicant should be considered The
look upon this move as a threat,
not the actual deathknell, to all fut
: ure reductions in rates for electrcit
n in this region. They favor govern
S ment ownership and government di
4 tribution of electricity because the
expect to get the rate down, by thu
d means, to 3 cents or less.
The producers news., 1927-05-27
FARM COOPERATION
WINS IN RUSSIA

ed. Both industry and agriculture
are making rapid progress.
During the last two years nearly
$2O,OOO,OOO was granted by the gov
ernment for financing dry farming on
the Volga. New grain culture in this
vast territory is expected to end
famineS.
Whether collectivist methods would
work out under a capitalist economy
is question. Secy. Dombel of the
Peasants International, who is in di-
rect touch with the farm movements
in 40 countries, does not think so.
He points out that any cooperative
project is at the mercy of the source
from which it borrows money; thus
the Canadian wheat pool, with a
turnover far greater than its cash re-
sources, is dependent upon bankers
and might be crushed in a conflict.
Cooperation and collectivism, he
says, cannot free the farmer except
under a farmers and workers govern
ment whose fundamental aim is an &C.
Onomic organization in which indus
try and agriculture are balanced, both
producing for the benefit not of
stockholders and landlords, but of the
people.
This is the last of six articles on
The producers news., 1927-05-27
"PAT SEES MORE THINGS"

''In this weeks "Limelight" column of
the News the editor of that paper takes
exception to what we said in defense of
Commissioner Iverson last week. In his
column, the descriptive Technology of
which would be more appropriate if it
were called "In the Quick Lime," he seems
to have a right to burn up anybody that
differs with him.
eve defended Ed Iverson in last weeks
issue of the Herald and we have no apollo
gy to make for doing so. If Mr.. Iverson
feels in the course of events that he has
right to graduate from the Farmer-Labor
fold into the Republican party that is his
business. This is a country where man
is entitled to become a member of any
party, which in his judgment would serve
the county best. This seems to be the
fly in the ointment that irritates Mr.. Pat
Wallace and causes him to turn his as
bestos-proof typewriter to lambasting Mr..
Iverson.
"Aage Larsen also comes in for pan
ming because he embraced the Republican
faith. Now, Mr.. Larsen is just as good a
citizen as the editor of the Producers
News, even though he does not send doz-
ems of farmers through the bankruptcy
courts every year and use his knowledge
of the law to beat eastern creditors out
of the money they lend on Sheridan coun-
ty land"
'We are not sorry for our defense of
Ed Iverson, who is good substantial citi-
zen and an able administrator of county
affairs"
According to the above Ed Iverson went fir
le Farmer-Labor Party by process of Geon
cal Progression. The Herald" says he "gra
ted into the republican fold. Perhaps one
he reasons that the Republican party in this
The producers news., 1927-05-27
HERALD DEFENDS VERSON

When the other anti-farmer papers published in
Sheridan and Daniels Counties lost their power to
impress or influence the public because of their
unconscionable lying, the old gang looked for sup
port to the Plentywood Herald. The Herald, as
the pioneer republican organ of the Big Muddy
Valley, has built up a reputation an ultra re-
spectacle and conservative newspaper. The anti
farmer gang now want to utilize this mask of re-
spectability to put over their political schemes.
The following article in last weeks issue of that
paper shows this purpose:
The producers news., 1927-05-27
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL. EDU-
CATION

CONTINUED from last week.
IL. WHAT is THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALIST MONO
POLES?
But these world capitalist monopolies did not
The producers news., 1927-05-27

This is the last of six articles on
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