The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-17

time he becomes engineer until the date of payment
of his Insurance. either to himself or his benefcaries
is eleven years and six months Out of every hundred
who start firing locomotive only seventeen ever
become passenger engineers
(1O) Every member of the organization excent tho
Canadian members, is an American citizen.
11) The average wage of engineer is 100000
per annum. Ninety-fve per cent of all engineers own
their own homes; fifty per cent of engineers children
go to universities The potential investing power Of
every engineer is 81 100000 per year.
This documnt reads as if it were written by some
publicity agent OF the open shoppers 1t is the gori
fcaton of scabbery 1t is positively nauseatng to the
nostrs of every honest and decent worker 1t is an
gument against organized labor 1t is the dissemina
ton of the open shop propaganda of the United States
Chamber of Commerce. 1t is deadly poison injected
no the veins OF Labor, calculated to poison labor on,
nght 1t is not only disgrace and scandal out it is
criminal insofar the life of organized labor is con
cerned 1t is treason of the rankest sort 1t is rotten
Consider that in the name of organized labor Webb
Paddock, Cass Merrick and Company were uropagat
ing the destruction of Trade Unionism What othe,
meaning can you CLEAN from points two and three i,
the sheet of poison under review?
1t surely has come to pretty pass in the American
Labor movement, when such nspeakable treachery a.
ths can lmpant itself in the ranks of the WORKING
GLASS; Surely one need not be revolutonist to rebe
against this black treason.
Ihls is what class collaboration breeds It is thu
result OF it. And when such hypocrtes charlatan,
and phillistines Paddock Cass and Merrc are link
ca up with it, then they hit the very bottom of He'll
as we have just seen
What group with any sense of ordinary decencv !,
the labor movement not to speak of labor ethics cor
advertise to the world point sx-whch is: at is th
organization which kept the trains running during tn
recent shop strikes"
half million shop were out on strike in 1922
They were waging the valiant fight to keep the brea
IN the mouths of their families They suffered perse
cutlon and bitter, very bitter hunger To win mean
not only that portion of their bread would not be de
creased, but also that their organization would rema
intact that the backbone Of the open shop drive woul
De broken 1t was strike that Immediately affecte
the health and stability of all trade unions Their de
feat has weakened all organized labor.
1t is imperative to the interest of all rail workers
that unfcaton of the scattered and divided forces
the sixteen rail organizations be achieved via amaga
nation. 1t is long over due The supermergers q
the railroads being consumated shows with whs
favor Amalgamaton is looked upon by the financier
when their interests are at stake. Why not labor?
But Cass, Merrick and Company advertised an
goated over the fact that the shipments strike of 49,
was defeated They glOaed over the fact that Capita
ism is safe with the B. of L. E. 1t is libel upon lare
sections of that organization
Next Week: The Lion and the Lamb and Fake Al
vertising.