The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-04-22

aries but school teachers -,
er civil servants 90 witbo'..O oS.
for months at a time. TS ~
billions Of dollars for war ~
OF national expenditurel h.. laS
cent for the unemployed ~; S
banks which have recentlv 70 u
hundreds of thousands !; '''Ss
depositors of their last %
our high priced officials ~ saving
lions to loan, but a Door @ s' b.
can't get a loan unless !, .a'9s
good security" Couid a. ns Ia
of public officials do w0rss 81
If they received day 1--we Il we
wages? But after ali 4 ls'0''o
more than the salary to %, "e
litical job. The people S w. , p
anee the political camuaion. III
pect to get service after f. 9 e.
tlon,-and they get it too, esS
In passing, Mr.. Editor u.
to remind you and your - an
that the one country in tba ''ASsa
world which is forging ' Jn's
amidst economic chaos Wbi.I
engulfing the rest of the wo,I,
the one country in the world M
considers its government Off,
as workers and pays them as ~.s
l refer to the Union of S ~
Socialist Republics Otbs,,'i''
known as Russia, where the nas
est paid public official pets q ~ y,
per year. y"
Just a word about the consHb,
tiOnality of an act preventinc =,
mers or unemployed wage wo,ts.
from being dispossessed bss.n,'
of failure to pay rent, interes, :.
taxes.
Now, I'd like to remind vou a.
the Constitution is daily and h0u.
ly broken by the constituted :.
thorities. Right now in BeI ~;
Harlan counties in Kentuclv N,
striking miners are denied a.
fundamental constitutional rivA,
Of free speech and free ASSENT.
age. Read the Theodore Drsi,s
report on this very situation. RI
what is going on in Kentucky \
the history of almost any MAN
labor struggle, you can mer6m
The workers rights of free sUeeS
and free assemblage are almos
universally denied in all imuortau
labor battles.
The constitution places IN
right to declare war in the hand
of Congress, but-without the al.
thority of Congress the Wilson
administration made war on N
people of Haiti and Santo Domin.
go in 1915, and on Russia in 1914
The Hoover administration Is con.
tinuing the war started BY Cool.
idge on the people of Nicaragua
In 1927 when millions Of star,
ing Chinese people were making ,
drive to exterminate foreign IN.
perialists and robbers in genera,
} U. S. gun boats were sent up Il.
Yangste river. These gunbOsh
didn't confine themselves to resu
ing missionaries either. They Or
ened fire on the Chinese peOpk
Pres. Coolidge didn't ask COngss
for the privilege of doing thl
either. Right now there are U. s
marines, gunboats and soldiers b
Chinese waters and on Chimes
soil, but Congress has declared y
war on China. Now, of course d
this military invasion of Chinss
territory isn't making war on Chi
ma.
If l seem to be getting ava
from my subject, it is only b
cause I wish TO make my pofl
i. e. that the Constitution is cor
tinually being violated by th's
who swear to uphold it. Nov, .
course when the U. S. arn'i
forces invade another country
is in the interests of the milioh
aires who have investments there
In China, American capitals
have $285, 100000 invested.
Now if the Constitution can
continually violated in the in's
ests of millonaires and it V''
stretch a little to save the mna
of destitute farmers and unsn
ployed workers in America ns
the constitution ought to be a"'
ishedi
Respectfully,
JOHN w. MARSHAL