The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-08-22

the basis of the tool used but in
dastrial unions based on the pro-
duct turned out. There are no
open shops in Russia and the
forces are not used
against the workers if they go on
strike, which they do occasionally
when they have a grievance as
they sometimes have. The trade
unions of Russia function as part
of the government machine. The
trade union leaders there are aid
ing in the task of building up So
cialist economy, while here Green
and his associates are part of the
capitalist machine, tho they are
treated like poor relations by
their masters.
ss
The dishonesty of Green's OBJ
lection to the importation of So
Wet goods into the United States
on the ground that they are pro-
duced by forced labor. can be
seen in the fact that he takes mo
action against the competition of
prison manufactured goods in the
United States with the product of
free" labor. The North Dakota
state prison produces large guam
titles of binder Irvine every year
which is purchased by the Farm
ers Union and private companies
catering to the farmers. The
North Dakota state prisoners re-
oeive little or nothing for their
work but there is not a peep Dut
of brother Green. The same ap-
plies in every state IN the Union.
sa swws
"Get the hell Outa here" shout
ed a posse of New York coppers
to a group of jungle stiffs who
had built themselves a place to
sleep in the ruins of a down.
town building near the central
police station. And the scrip
ture says: ''The foxes have holes
and the birds of the air have
nests but the SON of man has not
a place to lay his head" PrOvid-
ed he is poor and cannot locate
boss.
The Socialists and the official
Communists of America are
agreed on one point, i. E.. that
Leon Trotsky's autobiography,
my Life" is the h0rsefeathers.
b. c. Vladeck, manager of the
yellow Jewish Daily Forward"
and one of the most obnoxious of
the reactiOnary socialists writes
in the Socialist paper, ''The New
Leader" August 10Th: "From his
0lympian heights he sees moth
ing but himself as his incarna-
ton of his theory of the Perman-
ent Revolution. He is a new kind
of deity sent by a wrathful god
to correct the evils of human life,
He treats Stain as a cheap
sort of demagOgue i. while he
f and Lenin were enjoying the free
] dom of Switzerland, Stain was
the man who organized the Boil
shevik groups turnout Russia. I"
: And so on. All his socialist and
, Communist critics charge TrOtsky
: with belittling everybody else but
a himself. Perhaps they forget
I that TrOtsky was forced to write
his life to defend his record
l against the divers charges made
against him by his political OPP
! pOnents and chiefly that he play
J. ed no outstanding role in the
3 October Revolution and that he
was always and is now an anti
! feminist.
According to Trotsky. he might
l never have written the book if
e the present leaders of the Rus
2 sian Communist party had not
! for seven years carried on a cam
t paign to destroy his prestige
! among the masses Practically
+ all of those who now minimize
h his leading role in the Revolution,
a at some time or other paid tri-
butte 10 his extraordinary SER
s vices. Indeed many of them de-
clared that but for his organizing
: genius and his courage. particu-
5 larry in the building of the Red
$ Army, the Bolshevik Revolution
might have failed. Trotsky re-
peatedly declares in his book that
Lenin was the guiding brain of
the Revolution, that he was his
(TrOtsky's) teacher. but he cor
rectly states that Lenin regarded
him as collaboration with whom
he could work on a basis of intel
: lectual equality. That Lenin and
? Tr0tsky worked together in rev.
, dictionary harmony from 1917
until Lenm's death Is well known
to everybody. What gets under
the hide of the band wagon fmc-
tionaries is that TrOtsky's 'Tife"
completely takes the ground
; from under their feet and ex-
poses them as a pack of yeIping
liars And much tho the social
lists and the other enemies of the
Russian Revolution hate Stain.
they hate Trotsky more. II Is
just too bad Trotsky had to write
about himself. IL he had a few
hundred hired scribblers to sing
ms praises he could afford 10
have the story of his career writ
ten with the pronoun 'T'' omitted.