The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-17

VIII increase the WOAhCAS
chasing powers or guarantee to
the farmer the cost of production
for his commodities.
The Solution
Wherein lies the solution? In
an industrialized Canada or ALDER
ia. under a system of production
for private profit? Certainly not.
A boom might be experienced dur
ing a period of capital expendi-
ture. Then would follow unem-
ployment, starvation wages and
general distress. Our neighbor to
the south should serve as warn
ing, as should also the highly in
dustrialized British Isles. There
is only one way out-a completely
reorganized society where credit IS
socialized, where each nation is
its own manufacturer and agricul-
turist, producing mainly for its
own people those things which are
Indigenous to such nation; i'm
porting such necessities and lux
ur:es as it cannot produce, and
regulating production according to
the need. Industries will be CO.
operative or state-Owned, and gov
erned by the workers, with due re-
gard to the needs of an integrated
society. The machine will be the
slave of man, and not, as now,
man the victim of the machine.
Unemployment, hunger and ankle
ty-the mental distress which is
overcrowding our asylums today
will be unknown in that reorganiz-
ed society. All the progress at
tendant upon the release of the
highest mental faculties of all the
conitants.
A Dream or a Necessity?
A dream, you say? Nay, a
pressing necessity, if what we
have attained of good in our up
ward struggle is 10 be preserved
to ourselves as well as TO posteri-
ty. And signs are not wanting in
our own movement that the rank
and file are ready to march under
the banner of the new crusade.
What is 10 be the rallying cry? 1t
is nothing less than a new social
and economic order where private
profit must now yield place to ser
vice and the privileged few be
shOrn of their powers to enslave
the many. The rule of Mammon
nay, call it Moloch, rather, who
demanded human sacrifices-must
give place to justice and righteous
ness in the earth.
| believe the Wheat Pool could
perform no finer service than to
take the first steps in the direc-
ton of cooperative industry; ed
where it leads, other cooperative
industries will follow. In its mem
bership there is a tremendous
force ready and anxious to be re-
leased for social betterment. II
2S weavers with a capital of 40
pounds could achieve what they
did, who can set limits to the pos
sibilities inherent in the greatest
corporation in Canada, when its
face is turned toward the light?
British Labor Ideals
To the newly-elected legislatures
and to the parliament of this fair
dominion the writer would humbly
commend for their consideration
the following, taken from the plat
form of the British Labor party,
and representing the policy of the
government in power.
Changes both in economic and
political organization and in the
realm of thought have combined
to undermine beyond repair the
social order inherited from the
nineteenth century. =. What is re.
quled today T. is to secure fol-
the nation the control of its econ
omic destinies, and for the work
ers position in which they will
be free to manage their own lives
to take part IN the government of
their own professions, and to serve
the great body of their fellow
countrymen, not a handful of pro-
performers. The despotism OF
the capitalist, always inhuman and
degrading, to him as we'll as tc
the workers, Is no longer ever
practicable. The monstrous in.
equalities of the social system
the glaring contrasts of ease anc
toll, of health and sickness, of un.
earned wealth and unmerited DOW.
erty-are an outrage on human
dignity and a perpetual offence t.
the democratic spirit. To ignore
these truisms is, not practical, but
uninteligent. 1t is TO do violence
to essential realities. M
"The Labor party considers thai
the sole escape from the Difficult
ties at present surrounding tn,
nation is to be found in the accept
ance, without reservations or DUAL
ifications. of the full implication
of democracy, in their social ant
economic. no less than in their DO
I litical significance. It holds tina
indispensable corollary of poltica
democracy-and, ultimately, tn
only sure guarantee for its sur
vival-must be the abolition of tn
gross disparities of wealth tina
shock all thoughtful men and wo
men today, and such a reconstruc
ton of the industrial system a
will secure to the mass of tn
workers the reality, and not mere
ly the name of freedom"
!. GREAT RAIL Mai