The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-09-28

linen came press statement Quot
ing John II. Bartlett, first assistant
postmaster general, who is earning
ms salary by campaigning for Hoov9
er. Massachusetts" he said. "neede
tariff stimulant. If YOU are do
pendent on a tariff, you can be safe
only IN the hands of Herbert Hoov-
Inspired by Admiral Hughes. chief
OF naval operations, the big navy Iob-
by is already at work to secure from,
congress this coming winter the en-
actment of legislation for construc-
ZION OF II new cruisers and other ma
Jor vessels for the navy. This bio
navy plan is to be put forward with
the demand that it be passed nefora
the Kellogg-Briand treatv- reno5,nc-
ratification.
Must the senate ratify each sepa-
rate nations adherence to the KeI-
logg treaty for remuneration of ao-
gresSlve war-if that treaty itself is
ratlfled-or does the clause in the
treaty, giving permission to all ma
lions to adhere, itself constitute such
ratification?
This raises the many-sided nroh-
lem OF recognition of the Soviet I'm.
Ion. Moscow has announced its in
tentlon to adhere to the pact. Will
the senate decide that it must ratify
or deny ratification, to Russion mem
Dershlp In the war-renunciation Choir.
us! And if it ratifies does not that
TACT make non-recognition even more
ridiculous than now?
chairman Borah of the foreign re-
latlons committee of the senate IA
vors recognition of the Soviet Union
he will have something to saw abou
this Russian farce after the Novem
Der election.
Herbert Hoover, in his Newarl
speech appealing to wage workers t.
, and the high protective tariff, pleas
ed the machine politicians and wor
RED his crusader" friends by side
: stepping the injunction issue, misouo
ting fundamental statistics on unem
: ployment, and continuing the falls
: pretense, begun in his acceptanc
speech, that workers in American in
dustries are generally free to organ
lie IN labor unions and to bargai
4 collectively with their bosses.
I That Hoover would evade any de-
i mite statement as to curbing the US
: of injunctions in labor disputes wa
q expected by all except a few enthus
asts. That he would keep pretendin
t that all Americans have equal oppol
I tunities, and that the right to organ
e lze and function in labor unions
S recognized by big corporations, we
! expected by all who watched his can
paign. But that Hoover, the b0aste
e engineer, would solemnly recite falls
Il totals on unemployment to an aud
n ence in industrial New Jersey can
e as a shock. The old political gan,
r sters, when they recovered from the
L surprise, rubbed their palms toget
a er and grinned happily. Hoover w
4 their own boy, after all!
4 What Hoover said was that "Wh,
l. we assumed direction Tin 1921 the
IF were five to six million unemploy
ce upon our streets . There ha
S. been assertions of wide unemplo
a ment at the present time There w
lg temporary dip of employment la
IS winter. From this we are now rapi
to ly recovering. 49,. An accurate su
Of vey of the department of labor sho,
ed that even including the usual wiz
er er seasonal unemployment, about
s. 100000 employees were out of wo
s. as contrasted with five or six mill
tie in 1921"
an What the bureau of labor statist
did find was that there had been
he increase of over 100000 in the
r. tai of unemployed in this country
It's tween 1925 and 1928. Senator W.
an ner of New York who called attenti
Ilv in congress last winter to the f
he that Secretary of Labor Davis,
oh transmitting the report, had spol
M of the 100000 as the total inste
he of the increase in unemployed,
be clared that the total unemployed
De- the United States was between fl
ter and five million. In other wOr
Mt. Wagner challenged the republic
claim that they had reduced une
re- ployment to any great extent.
ad- This controversy as to the mum
te- of jobless men and women in the
1u- S. attracted a great deal of attent
de- in the daily press when Hoover '
rty an active candidate for the presid
cts tial nomination. Had he wanted
ov- avoid reading it, he would have fol
ger difficulty in KEEPING himself ign