The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-03

- ..,,s+,;al workers and the farmers. Several +
;ll;ors of industrial workers are jObless and the
price of farm products is driven below the cost u
production Starvation confronts millions OF the ur-
han population and the tllers Of the soil and Their
families are faced with mass bankruptcy ms
crisis Of industry and agriculture Is not the result
of MISREPRESENTATION Of the necessities OF lie; i
is q crisis Of ove;-prOduction. The workers ana
farmers have produced too much; therefore they
a1e in want This situation Is the logical conse-
ouence Of a system Of society under which things
ale produced primarily for profit instead OF
for use
TIE machinery Of production in industry has
developed to such a degree of efficiency that 1t Is
taking away the jobs Of millions of workers who
are thrown out of work~and forced into a per
manent army Of the unemployed Competition be
tween natio.s for world markets has resulted IN
the naturalization of industry in all the principal
industr allied countries of the world Today we
find mass unemployment world wide, with the
exception of Soviet Russia where the workers are
building up a socialist system of society under
workers and farmers government.
All the capitalist countries undertaking
each other for foreign markets. The inevitable re-
suit of this competition IS war and already there
are signs that another world war is brewing
which promises to be hundred times more dread
make the world safe for democracy was merely
curtain raiser for the next.
The capitalist system is today dominant over
five-sxths of the earths surface. 1t is interna
tonal economic system. 1t has the producing class
es in its deadly grip. The finance-capitalists of
the United States, England, France and Japan
and to a lesser degree Germany and Italy, are
taking toll from the peoples of the world Every
where the people are being robbed of great part
of the product of their toll. They are kept in
state Of impOverishment
The control of the means of production and dis
tribution is passing into fewer and fewer hands
every year Gigantic mergers are the order of the
day in every country in the world. This process
proceeds at faster pace in the United States than
ii other Countries.
The Declaration eff Independence enunciated the
principle that every human being is endowed with
the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness. These rights are denied the great mass of
the people Of this country by a privileged class
which thru its economic and political power dom
mates tht life of the people of this nation.
Thru the organization of trusts, interlOcking di-
rectorates and great banking institutions control
of the economic life of the country is eOncentrat-
in the hands of financial olgarchy. It uses
its power wealth for itself at the ex-
pense of the workers and farmers.
This privileged class controls the government
thru its ownership of the republican and demo-
cratic parties and the legislative, executive
and judicial branches Of the government as nstru-
ments to protect its loot and suppress the exploit
ca. 1t uses bribery and corruption % steal from
the people the natural resources of the country.
It the courts to strike down the industrial
workers by the use of injunctiOns. The prisons
yavn for working class leaders who dare carry
on the struggle for better wages and working
conditions and the gallows and the electric chat
are called into service when the capitalist elias
finds il necessary to make example of devote
leaders Of the working class.
II uses the supreme court 30 protect its proper
tied interests and great army and navy to pro
tect its investments IN foreign lands and in &C
ercing weaker governments in the interests of tn
Wall Street oligarehy.
It has not hesitated and will not hesitate
throw this country into war and sacrifice million
of lives in order to protect its financial interest
and increase its opportunity to make profits
The dominant financial buccaneers Of Wa
Street, thru their executive committee the govern
ment at Washington have waged a war Of eel
nOmic sabotage against the Soviet Union. sine
their failure under the Wilson administration
crush the workers republic by force of arms. Viii
the imperialist government of the United Stat
mas recognized every black shirt dictatorship
the world it refuses recognition to the Soviet go
eminent Of Russia, the government OF the produ
ing classes. 1t fears that the success attend
he building of a socialist system Of society
Russia viii encourage the workers Of this count
to take over the function of government and r
the industries Of the country in the interests
the wealth producers.
As long the cap;talist system Is permitted
exist there viii be unemployment There viii
hunger ard want in the midst of plenty. The da
ger Of war, fought in the interests Of rival grou
If capitalists viii hang over the heads Of {
people.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties
the servile tools Of American imperialism. Wh
ever differences originally set them apart hs
long since vanished until today we find them CO
Peting Ike harleQuins for the smiles and fav
Of the master class. The Republican and Den
cratic parties are merely two wings Of the G
italst political machine and no worker or explOI
farmer has representation in government w
those parties divide the privilege Of running
governments Of state and nation IN the inters
OF the employers. Both parties are owned, c
troiied ard subsidized by capitalist interests so
times groups Of capitalists donating equally
simultaneously to Republican and Democratic
iticians in order to gain special favors no ma
which political jockey passes the winning post
the lead The Democratic party under Wi