The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-10

gardng developments of your immediate situation and
shall gauge our support upon your cooperation with
Cleveland through our representative"
That is to say that regardless of what the member
ship of the B. of L. E. thought about the methods and
tactics of Cass, Merrick and Company it had no saw
in the matter. Cleveland, looked to Cass and Cass
only AS far the membership or the direct repre-
sentatves of that membership of the B. of L. E. were
concerned, insofar Webb was the boss they do not
exist for practical banking purposes For the rank and
file has no voice in these banks This fact should be
indelibly impressed in the mind of every worker
Every salesman was supplied with a copy of this
letter. Its purpose to nsti confidence in Cass
Merrick and Company For anything coming from
Cleveland in the opinion of most of the rank and file
certainly genuine. But all is gold that gilt
tiers. The sckers used Cleveland to overawe the rank
and file, and thus stop the rapid spread OF this mis-
trust against themselves Of course Cleveland was in
on the plot. .
Our financial experts, as a foundation step toward
the foundation of the banks proceeded to select
ganizing committee at each local point. This move
was made with the finest diplomacy.
Prominent labor men were induced to become men,
bers of these committees. They secured to act
as bellwethers, most of whom were honest and sin
They told absolutely nothing beyond the
fact that bank being organized AS regards the
ownership and control of the rank and file in the bank
"a cooperative brotherhood bank"
At first Glass; Merrick and Company employed ac-
tual members of the B. of L. E. statesmen. This
strategic step, members of the B. of L. E.
enjoyed an extensive acquaintance especially the more
prominent ones. Their connections invaluable to
Cass, Merrck and Company. For this work many rail
laid off, for which they were paid the sum of
ten dollars per day and expenses, about what they
earned rail workers. To them it no sinecure.
This system of craftsmanship provided Cass
Merrick and Company, an abundance of leads among
the rail fraternity well as the labor movement gen
orally They took full and complete advantage of all
those leads.
Now it is the most natural thing in the world for
human being to ask a question. When, therefore, the
B. of L. E. statesmen asked question concerning some
very important detail Of the bank that was being or
ganized he was told off by either Cass Merrick
that being "hog head" he knew nothing about thu
banking business and could not understand it. How
if he persisted in his quizzical mood, he fle
promptly And if he sort of a minor off
GER such used for decorative purposes he los
his office. For neither Merrick Cass could affor
the rank and file the luxury of asking questions
Their records, have delineated them these
pages show that. Webb, Cass and Merrck and Com
pany regard the of the working class as consti
tuting the hoi-polloi. Hence their dictatorship.
After the rail men had gathered the leads and es
tabshed contact with the in the B. of L. Z
and other unions Cass and Merrick let loose crev
of professional stock statesmen to finish the job in
stve of real sales craftsmanship.
These statesmen employed by the Pacific Bro
therhood Investment Company to sell stock to TIT
public generally and the workers in particular The
were carefully psychological by Mr.. Merrick and Nh
Cass with regard to the latest methods of duping tn
workers, in the phantastic regions of labor banking