The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-01-10
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1880
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW

The year 1929 during which our promising pres
ident Hoover was indicted into office, passed out
of the picture on note of economic depression. 1t
ended decade of what has been described by
capitalist historians of current events period
of prosperity. 1t ended with stock market crash
that cleaned hundreds of thousands of investors OF
all they had scraped together and saved thru the
years of the boom. President Hoover so
alarmed over the situation that he called together
III Washington an army of industrial doctors and
mdicine men to diagnose the ailment and prescribe
the remedy. They came, they talked and they
went about their business The depression remains.
While the old year was dying out and the shad-
ow of poverty was casting its pail over the land;
while millions of workers were in panic the
prospects of employment for the coming year, big
business was Tightening up the loose screws in its
mechanism and preparing to increase its profits at
the expense of the workers and farmers. They are
going to have prosperity they will know the
reason why.
Finance and industrial capital have merged al
most into monolithic entity. Merger follows
merger until the mind is dazed with the prospect.
New labor-saving machinery is hurting thousands
of workers on the scrap heap every day. Chain
systems in the retail trade are fast driving the
middleman to extinction as a class. The farmer is
faced with a prospect as dark and dreary as
fronted him ten years ago. The rosy dreams
evoked by the Federal Farm Board do not promise
him much relief if any.
Sitting in the places of government are the
agents of capitalists. They have complete power
in their hands. Theirs is real dictatorship hid
den away under the camouflage of a democracy.
Where are the representatives of the workers?
The great majority of them taking whatever
crumbs they CLEAN from the rich mans table.
They are playing the game of the capitalists They
are urging the workers to produce and accept
whatever the good boss in his benevolence feels
like handing them. They are warning the workers
against strikes They are advising them against
organizing working class independent of and in
opposition to all capitalist parties They are
Stacking the limbs of labor and helping the CAPT.
talists to hold them under their iron heel The
same applies to the farm leaders who tell their
followers to put their trust in Republican or De-
mocratic politicians.
There is small minority in the labor movement
that points out to the workers and farmers the
road they must take if they to free themselves
from the yoke of exploitation which condemns the
majority of them to life of monotonous toll and
which confronts them at every turn of the road
with the spectre of unemployment and poverty.
They are calling on them to rally their forces and
fight for order of things, state of society
where the exploiter and the parasite will be auto
matcaly iquidated; under which production for
the profit of the few will give way to a system
of production for the of the many.
Unpopular tho the Communists may be at the
present moment theirs is the only voice that cries
out in this reactonary wilderness and theirs is the
only plan that appears to hold the solution for the
economic disease from which mankind is suffering
today.