The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-06-19

beat up and shoot up their own kind on occasion
of strikes, bread riots, and unemployed demonstra
tiOns-for the benefit of the governing. And as
the governing class is and always the
owning or employing class, it really would be too
much to expect this class TO tax itself for the
good and welfare of their locked-out slaves.
Of course, if these slaves were chattel slaves.
they might be out of work too but they certainly
would not be oat eats. At any rate, we never
have heard of slave-owner, who after crop fail
ure, drove his slaves off the plantation with the
advice to fall back on the rugged individualism
which had permitted their sturdy ancestors to
vive the long and killing journeys from Africa 10
what Is now the land of the free and the home of
the brave. Nor have we ever read or heard of a
slave owner with the unmitgated gall to appeal
to charity to feed his black chattes in the interim
between harvest and seeding.
In the meanwhile what is the slave, this new
slave, this unemployed this temporarily junked,
this masteress slave, doing?
Well for the most part, he is suffering in silence
and starving in solitude Too proud 10 beg he is
rarely at the bread line. Too honest to STEAL
we seldom find him in police records His head
too full of capital prunes even to parade his mis-
cry in unemployment demonstrations which more
over usually sponsored by people with whom
no proud and starving American would wish to be
seen. Occasionally a member of this class breaks
IN print by blowing his head off, hanging himself
in the garet, or numbering his family in a burst
of dependency. Otherwise they are quite docile
and we'll behaved.
The Shameless Beggars
Then we have with the unashamed hungry.
The kind of people to whom it is longer dis
grace to parade their misery in breadlines, soup
kitchens, and other charity dispensaries that is,
the hopelessy degraded. And finally, we have a
few with still CUTS enough TO strike back either by
individual self-help as applied to burglary, hi
lacking, and pocket picking, the coIlectvist reb-
els as manifested by the communists.
Sad to say it is only the latter who so far have
shown the courage to accuse capitalism as. the
main culprit. Only they have shown enough back
bone to go out in the open and demand justice for
the suffering and change of the social
rider responsible for their suffering. Only they
had the to butt their heads up against our
Venal courts our beastly.. COPS. our. thoroughly
press-pOisOned public opinion.
Communists Easy
No trouble getting rid of the communist breth-
rem, for what rght-thnking American would see
in these wild boys the spiritual heirs of the rough
necks who shot holes in Red Goats from Bunker
Hill to Yorktown. What if they risk their own
hides and offer their own heads to be cracked in
stead of fighting freedOm5s battle as four-minute
speakers, dollar-a-year men, Y. M. c. A. secretar-
| les, and army parsons? Are they not financed by
Moscow? Are not their activities to all the ideals
of Americanism as measured in dollars and cents
Sure
With the dOcile dying the shameless begging,
the rude stealing, and the boistrous protesting
safely eliminated, there is only the recognized or
ganize6 labor movement that could break lance
for the submerged millions. And pray, what is the
organized labor movement doing, with its reputed
millions of members, its millions of dollars and
| the million readers of its official press?
! The BuTl-Warks Bark
Well, the recognized official organized labor
movement as represented by it's chief spokesman
is doing some talking. It is talking in well mod
ulated voices and well rounded sentences It is
telling the pOwersthat-be in unmistakable terms
| Watch out or the Bolshies will get YOU Be
good to US Bulls and Bullwarks who alone
stand between you and the Red Sea of Com
munlsm. Be good to US, for have we no
driven radicalism at of unions; have WI
not smothered every spark of enlightenment
that inadvertently stole into our union meet
ings; have we not bounced, expelled unfrock
ed and unchurched every galoot that voices
doubt as to the loving partnership of Capita
and Labor?
''We are SO good, gentlemen, so harmless
docile, and unoffending. We ask so little, jus
sop here or there little law now an
then to prove to our dues paying members tina
we going through the motion of earnin
salaries and expenses.
"Look us over, gents. Do you see any horn
or hoofs about us? Have any of us ever bee
caught with any more revolutionary literatur
on our person than last nights sporting an
financial page? Has anyone ever accused U
of having dissenting thoughts concealed unde
derbies-or any other thought, for ths
matter? Do we not play like you, and act Xix
you, vote like you, and pray, have we an
other desire than to be like you in flesh ia
spirit and spirits?
Therefore, be good to your brothers Ell
barrassed by this pesky unemployment prol
lem. and harken to our supplicaton TO
something about it. We don't knw what Bl
do it. Like you, strenuously oppose
to unemployment insurance, old age pension
or anything that might deprive our membe
of the rugged American individualism we q
proud of. Like you we stand Iii
rocks against all attempts of imported agit
tors, who advocate public ownership natio
alization of monopolies, restoration of Il
government to the people. So please-pleas
do something to get your faithful servan
and admirers ut of this embarrassing pos
ton"
If the American official recognized labor NOV