The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-24
GITLOW CHALLENGES
HOOVER'S SPEECH
Continued from page one)


labor problems and conditions.
big Business sat back pleased.
Their Good Man Friday delivered the
goods. He praised the corporate in
terests to the skies, and pledged them
an administration of, by and for big
business.
"Hovsr's facts and figures are just
mere totals. He fails to give an anal
ysis of the enormous increase in
wealth in America showing how the
various classes are participating in
the enormous increase. If he would
have done so, his picture would have
been a damning condemnation of the
whole social fabric of America. The
facts disclose that only small per-
centage of the population are we'll
off. The vast majority live in power
ty. The low wages paid in the textile
industry, the 100000 unemployed,
the bankrupt and poverty stricken
farmers, the wage cuts in the textile,
coal, automobile, shoe and other in
dustries are sufficient proofs that ev
erything is not as rosy as Mr.. Hoover
paints them.
"Says Mr.. Hoover, Unemployment
in the sense of distress is widely dis
appearing
"This reminds me of the famous
declaration when French workers ask
ed for bread and were told to eat
grass. The charity organizations, mu-
nicipal lodging houses and other agen-
cies dealing with the unemployment
problem, have repeatedly called at
tention to the distress and restitution
that exists as result of the present
unemployment.
-Four million unemployed is a very
grave situation. Unemployment in
wolves 20, 100000 people at least. 1t
is no little matter that can be ig-
nored. 1t proves that serious crisis
has struck American industry The
sterilization Hoover speaks about and
praises is not the panacea it's advo-
Gates professed it to be, because it is
resulting in deep and profound un-
employment crisis that is bringing a
bout permanently unemployed army
of millions. Hoover may close his
eyes and refuse to see but the work
ers who will be unemployed will feel
the privations and nothing that Mr..
Hoover will say about their not being
in distress, will affect them. They
are already manifesting their disco1l-
tent and will continue to do so with
increasing volume.
"Mr. Hoover mas promised TIE
farmers that if he will be elected the
republican administration will d.
something for the farmers, even to
extent of spending a few hundred
mhhoE year. A few hundred mil
lion a year, spent upon building up
some new government departments
adding to the government apparatus
may nelp the rich exploiting far ners
who will be IN the government appar-
atus, but will be an increased burden
upon the poor orking farmers.
Mr.. Hoover failed to answer TIE
following questions.
l. Why do you favor the rape o
Nicaragua?
2. Why do you favor large arm
and navy for the purpose of imperial
list aggression and war?
8. Why do you support the prepar
ations of the U. S. for a war wit
Japan over the question of Chimes
markets?
A. Why did you favor American
China?
5. Why did you not protest agains
the Republican administration allow
ing two innocent workers, Sacco an
Vanzetti, to be executed?
6. Why are the oil grafters FIRE
and Mooney and Billings, innocen
workers, in prison?
Z. Why is the Soviet governmer
not recognized?
8. What do you intend to do to II
lieve unemployment?
What steps will you take to sto
regime of terror and suppression {
freeG9m of speech, assembly and picl
citing, row going on in New Bedfor
ara Fall River?
10. What is your stand on "" chin
of negroes and their disfralchis'
ment?
IL Why do you favor governme1
by injunctions against labor?
II. Why did you support the crusl
ing of the coal strike which is result
ing in wage cuts of from $3.50 to
per day?
IS. Why do you favor the govern
ment'S interference in the right
VIC WO1hSIS W OIBdIllAe
Ia. Why do you favor the continu;
ton of child labor?
10, Why are you opposed to a pr,
gram of social legislation for worker
such as unemployment insurance, o.
age pensions, accident and sicBne,
insurance etc =?
16. Why do you favor the use
troops and militia to break strikes {?
Many other questions could be asl
ed but Mr.. Hoover will remain silel
as a clam on all of them. Like A
Smith, he is tuning in on Big Bus
ness, listening to what the big co
porations, the bankers and manufa
turers want. Mr.. Hoover's wa,
length is Wall Street. What it war
ne viii do. The workers and farr
ers will get nothing from Hoover. D
~ tne Workers (Communist) Par
will serve their interests"