The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-20
ARE THERE CLASSES IN
AMERICA?

This question is being constantly asked by those
who are slowly awakening to consciousness of the
actual conditions existing in this supposedly free
America Those who for profit to themselves, ana
the protection of property and the privileges of
the ruling class, constantly deny that there are
classes in America.
The American dukes and lords of industry
teach that there no classes-that all are equal,
and that citizen is just the same as another.
The reason for this is obvious. AS long as the
general public is persuaded there are no classes
there will be no class organizations. AS long
the general public believes in the sacredness of
property, as long they put property above hui
mainly, then property is safe and our present own
ing ard ruling class are entrenched. Well the
ung class know this-so primary Schools Sun
day schools, public schools, private schools, high
schools, colleges, universities, semnaries, churches
and pulpits, magazines and the newspapers, all
controlled and directed by the ruling class, con-
stanty impress the public that there are no classes
in America, spending millions per year to keep
up this illusion. Even the labor union officaldom
under the complete dominance of the ruling class
teach there are no classes in America.
The comprehension of the existence of classes,
and the consequential understanding of the class
struggle, in this and all the world in the progress
classes, is the beginning of politco economic wis
dom.
Pres Green of the American Federation of La
Dor, speaking to the students of Syracuse Univer-
sity, on January 10TH said
Labor as represented by the American
Federation of Labor refuses to believe in
classes in the United States Labor knows
that class distinctions inspire class hatred
ana class domination. The nOn-clasS
characteristic of the labor movement in
America differentiates it from the labor
movements of all other countries. 1t is
distinctly an American idea"
And then again the Federated Press tells us on
the same date
ashingtOn-Investigatio of brutality
by pennsylvania mine bosses and their
gunner will be sought when the senate
orders its interstate commerce committee
to probe the strike in the bituminous field
Sen. johnson of California; state
with virtually no coal mines-has intro
duced resolution backed by the U. M.
w. A, proposing this inquiry
The johnson resolution, which is under
stood to have the tacit approval of Repub-
Hcan reacltonary senators, directs thor
ough and complete investigation of the
conditions existing in the coal fields of
central and western Pennsylvania West
Virginia and Ohio"
In the strike area all the safeguards of liberty
as vouchsafed by the Constitutions of Pennsylvania
and the United States are violated with impunity
by the coal barons. The basic law is held in alb
solute contempt. The miners are treated with a!
great brutality were the workers in Russia
under the Gar Men, women and children are muir
dered in cold blood by hired thugs and assassins
Sick and pregnant wives and mothers are put ou
of their homes by mine guards, into the street anc
the cold in order to break the strike which tn,
workers are waging for living wage. The free
dom of speech and the press are denied Thu
perpetrators of these crimes are the ruling class
They are not even charged with crime when they
murder.
What more does the public need to convinc
them of the class character of our government O
the existence of classes in America