The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-13
ANACONDA AND WHEELER

There is widespread superstition in this coun-
try that Senator Burton K. Wheeler is the unwav-
ering foe of the Anaconda Mining Company an in
dustrial octopus that not only owns everything
worth grabbing under the tall grass of the state
Of Montana but the brains, if any, that rest in the
craniums of capitalist editors. thruout the copper
barony.
Those who are conversant with the ways of pol
iticians and who watch the deeds as well as the
words of congressman and senator's know that the
junior is just as devoted to the interests of
Anaconda as his team mate, T. j. Walsh, is to
Standard Oil. They might be called the senators
FOR Copper and Oil and let it go at that.
Mr.. Wheeler secured reputation for himself by
defending the workers in damage cases against the
Anaconda Mining Company. That's as good way
as we know of to boost ones market price. Even
ms most bitter enemies never charged the senator
with laxty in collecting his fees or undue modestv
IN appraising his usefulness to client in terms of
money. And it is reported that if Mr. Wheeler's
cartwheels were placed end to end they would
reach as far as Rotarian's speech on the wealth
and beauty of Montana
Now, comes the Great Falls Tribune of recent
date and hands our junior senator an editorial
boquet for his fight against placing manganese on
the free list. Manganese is one of the precious
minerals placed by nature in Montana for the bene-
fit of the Anaconda Mining Company.
And it came to pass that the United States Steel
Corporation, profit bent contracted with Soviet
Russia, for some 100000 tons of manganese for
use in its steel mills. The Hoover administration
like its predecessor is as obedient to the Steel
Trust as Wheeler is to the Anaconda so it dutfully
placed manganese on the free list to the great
sorrow and anguish of the Montana Copper Com
pany.
RpfU tho cfa
see no choice of evils as far as the interests of
the workers and farmers are concerned We are
just now only concerned with proving the point.
that Mr.. Wheeler represents Anaconda in the cen.
ate and not the producing classes of the state.
And no better evidence could be adduced than the
eulogy of the Great Falls Tribune, no doubt in
splred from the office of Mr.. Dan Kelly, who does
not need mike to carry his messages to his
far-flung editors. The editorial follows:
WHEELER AND THE PRESIDENT
Senator Wheeler has way of HITTING
where it hurts, and it appears that he has
the administration at Washington all up-
set because of the sledge hammer methods
ne mas taken to keep manganese from be-
ing put on the free list in the pending
tariff measure.
Manganese is Montana product. It is
now enjoying the benefit of an import du-
~ President Hoover is on record as hav
ing said that it could not be produced in
TINS country except for the protective tar
III. But something has happened The
senate finance committee has recommend
ed it be put on the free list Senator Bing-
ham is quoted saying that this action
was taken on the advice of President Hoo
YER oo
Why? Well, Senator Wheeler. in his
characteristic manner of hitting straight
from the shoulder, says but one cnnclns
SION is possible. The big steel companies.
winch have most to gain by putting man
ganese on the free list and which are now
interested IN selling merchandise to soviet
RUSSIA are responsible for the presidents