The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-27

fighting the criticism alHeu dC ILLS
big business policy on the part of the
Farmers Union, the lower strata of
officials of the union simply put all
the blame on A. w. Kicker. That is
camouflage. This policy is the Off
cial policy of the Farmers Union all
over the country, otherwise, it would
not be advocated in the official or
gan of the F. U. Kicker is merely
doing what he is told to do.
Furthermore, the rank and file of
the organization, is, according to the
! rules published in the Farmers Union
Herald, deprived of the right to dis
cuss partisan" politics.
Well, then, what kind of politics is
Kicker preaching when he comes out
flatly for the republican party? On
the one hand the rank and file is pro-
hibited from discussing partisan"
politics in the columns of the Herald,
but on the other hand the leadership
of the F. U. does actually recommend
partisan politics of Wall Street col
or. Is this supposed to be something
deep and clever; something beyond
the understanding of the rank and
file? 1t looks that way.
Forget Farmer-LabOr Party
Moreover, Kicker does not write
the truth, when he says that Gin the
West where we are republicans by
habit He knows as well as we do
that in Minnesota, North Dakota and
South Dakota, Farmer-Labor parties
are in existence, as a challenge to the
Wall Street parties. In Minnesota
the Farmer-Labor party is knocking
at the doors of political power, in St
Paul. The workers and farmers have
quit the republican 'habit", to whicf
Kicker wants them to return. Ant
that explains his mission. Big bust
ness has spent large sums to wrecl
the Minnesota Farmer-LabOr party
! The leadership that Kicker is giving
the Farmers Union politically is the
; same that the national republican
committee stands for.
Lowden is not only acceptable t.
capitalism, but he is part of it. Rick
er would bust up the growing Farm
erer-Labor party and thus serve Wal
Street royalty. Perhaps this explains
why the F. U. Herald is chuck full
: of trust ads.
|
: telling the farmers to remain chained
to Wall Street party, whose recorC
against the farmers Of the nation, i
=. one big black page of robbery ant
, treachery, a party that is owned an,
controlled by big business, and il
I which the farmers and workers hav
l as much chance to influence, as
SNOWFALL has to exist in hell. Tha
S this is so, / call upon a man for evi
dence who is the paid literary waite
4 boy Of the republican party-Samue
\ G. Blythe.
d Wall Street Will Do the NOminatin,
In recent ballyhoo article for tn
: republican party, appearing in tn
S Saturday Evening Post, Blythe said
:, -. Then the general manag
$ ers and strategists and proprietors o
the Republican Party will get to worl
In conference assembled at the pro
per moment, In company with thei
: general managers and proprietors-
: to-wlt: half dozen or so captains O
: business and finance who might b
!. named but will not be at the moment.
I Blythe wrote this in connectio
o with the question, who will nomin
0 ate the next candidate for the presi
/ dency on the republican ticket, whe
the staged deadlock will have arrive
S in the convention.
y He speaks of the "proprietors" O
: the republican party. He saws h
l. could name them but won't. ga hal
: dozen or so, captains of bushes
Z and finance" These will do the nom
y mating as everyone with a grain G
II sense knows.
e Who are these "half a dozen G
=, 500" The steel trust, the railroa
; trust, the Wall Street bankers, heaC
ed by the House of Morgan, Standar
+, Oil and the Harvester and Textil
trusts. They are the "proprietors" :
. Blythe aptly calls them. Only nam
:, the candidates for president in bot
: capitalist parties.
The history of the farmers an
- workers in every nation. shows tn.