The producers news., 1927-12-02

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The mist of mass murder which has
oeen IN The Colorado air for a month has
been preclpitated in a bloody rain. Not
quite as bloody but just as brutal as the
Ludlow holocaust is the slaughter at the
Columbine mine.
'The class struggle in Colorado is sharp
as the crack of the rifles in the hands of
state police which sent their deadly mis-
slles INTO the bodies of unarmed workers
men and women.
"Who are the heroes hailed by the cap
italist press?
Are they the men and women of the
mining camps, led by l. w. w. workers,
who faced with their bare hands the
forces of Rockefeller's state government
armed with every device of modern war
fare, who gave their lives that company
nlonlsm would be smashed and the la
Dor movement be stronger?
No, the heroes of the capitalist press
are the well-armed thugs who murder at
the orders of the capitalists of Colorado
Brave men these The capitalist press
is able to report that one was hit by stone
and one had a finger slashed.
Governor Adams praises Louis N
Scherf, who gave the order to fire. Lieu
tenant Linderfeld was likewise praised by
Governor Almond of the same state at
the time of the Ludlow massacre.
Ludlow had its Linderfeld. Columbine
has its Scherf
"But these individuals are only instru-
ments They make no policy and give or
ders that have been given to them.
Back of Linderfeld stood Rockefeller
and his government, back of Scherf
stands Rockefeller and his government.
can Ammons becomes an Adams, one
republican, the other a democrat, but
both are representatives of American
capitalism and both strew the blood
stained ground of Colorado with the bodies
OF murdered miners and their wives.
Our heroes are the men and women
of the working-class who died that 9th
ers of their class might breathe little
more of the air of freedom. Cynics will
say 1t IS not wise to die for such small
gains but the wisdom, soeapitalism's apol-
oglsts is contounded " the fact that the
working class wades for long while thru
Its own blood before it wins power
"Then, as throughout the capitalist
world since the Russian revolution, wise
acres substitute wailing for wisdom.
Slowly but surely the American work
ing class is building the traditions of
struggle and sacrifice which together
with organization, consciousness and
militant leadership will enable it to bring
crashing to the ground the whole struc-
ture of capitalist Imperialism
"The main task now is to allow no spe-
cious pleas of official leaders who have
surrendered to the capitalist rulers of
America to conceal the implications of
the struggle in Colorado or to picture it
as an incident isolated from the whole
struggle of the American masses.
"The struggle in Colorado differs only
in detail from the struggle of the miners
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
from the struggle of the traction workers
in New York, from that of the needle
trades workers, from the struggle of the
automobile workers, from the struggle of
textile workers, north and south-it is a
part of the American class struggle.
every time the armed forces of
state government appear openly as in
struments of the capitalist class as in
Colorado, every time an injunction is
granted by federal court which outlaws
unions and the efforts of workers to or
ganize, every time the capitalist press
lauds the murderers of the striking work.
ers, every time a worker is jailed for
activity in the class struggle, the lie is
given to the upholders of capitalist de
mocracy' in and out of the ranks of the
working class.
"The working men and women of the
Colorado coal fields have proven their
loyalty to their class and the organized
labor movement.
"To these heroic workers must go our
undying gratitude and answering sup
port.
The martyred dead in Colorado have
become at once the symbol of our op-
preston and the inspiration for victori-
GUS struggle against it.
ut is not true that the path of glory
leads but to the grave as poets say, but
that for the working class the graves of
those who fall in the class struggle mark
out the path to victory"
And what is true for the working class, the
lstrial working class, is also true of the farm
advances the working class advan
e farmers, for the farmers, actual work.
rmers, are part, division Of the work.
ass, having a common interest with the worke
Id the sacrifices made by the workers in
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