The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-06
"RAT" HEATING AT OLD GAME.

end of time it will be the same way Men will creep
INTO the labor movement and sell those who trust them
Tor the equivalent of the hrty pieces of silver that
tempted Judas Iscariot two thousand years ago.
Fortunately there few such men holding jobs as
editors of the labor press and none such in Montana
We know that each of the editors of the Montana La
Dor papers have been approached in the interest of the
candidacy of certain senator which the Copper and
Power Barons want to keep in Washington. But they
remained upurchased and kept their columns unprosti
tuted.
Failing to seduce the editors of Montana Labor or
progressive papers from their allegiance to the cause
of the people newspaper called the "Searchlght" was
published in Great Falls and a former official of the
Montana Federation of Labor installed as editor
Our readers familiar with the character of the or
gan named which scattered broadcast throughout
the state and sent, in free bundles, to the Labor
Unions. 1t lauded Wheeler to the skies and called Wal
lace and Taylor and other prominent in the pro-
gresve movement in the state everything in the tany
of bad compiled by the photographer of vtuper
alton the sixth floor
The Cascade Trades and Labor Assembly found it
necessary to repudate the foul sheet and warn union
men that it was not connected with labor. THEN 1T
DIED, "unwept, unhonOred and unsung.'
Knowing that the copper sheets such as the "Great
Falls Tribune" "Heena Independent, and Democrat
News have influence with the workers of Montana,
another publication Incorporating under the of
Labor had to be found. This time the fat boys with
their money bags had to out of the state and down
east where men be got to do anything for gifts
of shining gold They found their in Washington,
d. c. in the person of "Pack Rat Heating, editor of
class collaboration sheet called Labor" Who is this
eddy" Heating known "The Rat' in Colorado?
Years ago the Railroad brotherhoods went into bust
ness. They established banks erected office buildings
and started a paper called Labor" The proceedings
of the last convention of the Locomotive Engineers fur
nish unlimited proof that the Brotherhoods were cata-
into
Men like Webb, Cass and Paddock pushed their
way into the control of the banks at the same time
that discredited democratic politician, down at the
heels and run out of Colorado" foisted himself on the
brotherhOods editor of Labor.
The Locomotive Engineers woke up one day. largely
through evidence furnished by friends of this paper
still in possession of the Producers News, and found
out that their bank was being looted from within by
whom they trusted
They the brink of bankruptcy But they
cleaned out the gang of high flying fakers withdrew
their subsidy to Labor and assessed their member
ship so that they might be able to save something
from the wreck.
J. c. McDemand chairman of the Board of Trustees
in charge of the Engineers Banks and Trust Companies
wired the editor of the Producers News few days ago
that the Engineers were not supporting Labor" since
the Convention nor responsible for its policy AS
result of bitter experience the Engineers cleaned house
of its takers who sucked the eggs but forgot to DESTROY
the Shells Heating survives his brother takers until
the conventions of Trainmen and Conductors meet It
takes time to give such nterlopers the gate when an
organization is large and works according to consti
tuition
Meanwhile Heating is making hay while the sun of
politics shines. Washington is the classic hunting
ground of the newspaper blackmaer. Members of
congress who make misstep in voting on some bill:
who drink scotch by night and make dry speeches nv
day. who are principals in wild parties in Washington
apartments and pose defenders of the home back
on their native heath shudder when an unscrupulous
newspaper hoves in sight
Rat Heating knows their weakness and he knows
also that man who went down the line for the Mon
tana Power Company when it wanted to steal a two
hundred million dollar power site; who voted for +be
world Court, who kept his mouth shut about the con-
dtons OF labor in Montana and who took long trims
abroad 10 escape the opportunities of who wanted
INN to serve his home state-he knows such man
Will be backed by the money bags of the interests he
serves
He knows that the who opposed the theft of the
peoples natural resources by the Montana Power Com
pany which was aided by Wheeler and Walsh have in
Cured the enmity of the Big thieves That thew want
their tools to stay in the Senate.
And this roll call bludgeOn artist this unscrupulOus
dollar chasing pusher; this scavenger of street
walker Journalism is ready to launch on a campaign
of personal vfcatiOn gross Misrepresentation Riddv
orlarty Ike vituperatOn and fendish attacks on the
men that the big interests of Montana can not buv with
fatery or terrOrize by force The presses will crea
beneath his lies and his infamous sheet "IabOr" will
clog the mails and srew the highways of Montana un
til election day next November
Get out your mask-for the deluge of poison pro-
paganda is on the move
Let the workers be not discouraged because another
traitor appears in the ranks
For
The American revolutionists with their feet bleed
ing IN the snow at Valley Forge, had their Benedict
Arnold. Jesus Christ had to carry the cross up the
mount OF Calvary and bear the of thorns because
JUDAS lscariot wanted s thirty pieces of silver The
railroad workers of the state will have to stand tba
kiss of their Heating and bury their shamed faces :;
tner hands because their fountain of information
Is poisoned at the source by the tainted gold of the
Copper and Power Trust