Montana labor news., 1932-12-15

appreciated by the SO-called capltallStlc nations. That
point relates to the exploitation OF labor.
In Russia one man may not employ another. There
fore there is no opportunity for the exploitation OF labor.
An individual may engage in business IN Russia, but ne
may not employ another man, woman or even a child In
that business. His volume Of production is limited to
what he can produce or sell by his individual efforts.
The state is the employer. The state makes no profit
off labor. What the state takes in for the goods and
services it produces and sells is relnvested in projects
that employ labor. The turnover is constant and the
capital investments thus made become the common
property of the people.
But that is socialism, we remark with a note Of horror
in our voicesl So it is. The Socialists have been talking
and dreaming for cons about an industrial Utopia where
labor could not be exploited. This is the first opportu-
nifty they have had to demonstrate their principles.
Whether we like it or not, the odd principles seem to
be getting results.
The United States is in its present sorry plight largely
because labor has been exploited numerically in this
country. Not only the man who works in the ditch or
the factory or the office, but the farmer and producer
of new wealth Of every sort has been exploited beyond
all sense or reason. The result is that the bulk of the
nations wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few
persons who seem determined to gather up what there
is left.
1t would be possible to find few Americans who are
ready to embrace the Russian system, but there seems
to be much that Americans can learn from Russia. Rus
STA is q demonstrating a great human principle as well as
a theory of economy, IN their present situation. Amer1-
cans are in no position to condemn or criticize what
Russian is doing-Helena Independent.
Well folks, we are back again with a little news not
found in the daily press headlines and a few remarks
here and there that just have to come off the chest.
AS we predicted, Congress can bother itself with only
one problem. that of giving beer to the hungry unem-
ployed. A cartoon showing the 13 million unemployed
being showered with the contents of an old-fashioned
schooner bore these words: If they have not bread,
we will give them beer"
IF Coporacc ic ooino tn ecnnnd thn antirp cncciOn on
the beer question, they need not be surprised when the
vast hordes of unemployed workers and starving farm
ers march upon the capital to remind them that bread
and not beer is the burning issue of the day.
If they meet these desperate hordes with the same
arguments they gave the peaceful bonus marchers, they
need not be surprised at riots and revolution.
Revolutions have always come when least expected
and people seemed most docie.
Offering the people beer instead of bread will have
the same effect as did the advice of the French queen
to her starving subjects when she told them to eat cake
if they had no bread.
And still they call man the thinking animal.
People are wondering at the mysterious disappearance
from the public eye Of the greatest secretary of the treas
uy since Alexander Hamilton. But as one wit remarked,
if they return the treasury, they can keep the secretary.
q 2
The editor saw a good Christmas cartoon taken from
a French paper that shows the trend Of war-like propa-
ganda. A small boy is standing in a toy shop and giving
Santa his order. He states, "Please, | want some poison
gas for my tin soldiers"
Think this over, you dads, as you contemplate the
purchase of toy cannon and tanks for the future cannon
fodder of capitalism.
Norman Thomas is making his campaign for the future
success of Socialism among the youth of the nation. But
Ter suggests the same method for the Republicans. This
brings to mind the following fact: The average age of
the leaders of the American revolution was less than
40; the leaders of the Turkish revolution average 80 years
in age, and the French revolution was conducted by men
who average 80 years in age.
Capitalism had better tremble before the resentment of
the millions of youth who are sentenced to lives of vaga-
bonds thrO11Uh M far1t IF thoir own