The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-16
PROMINENT BUTTE ATTOR-
NEY LAYS OUT AN I'M
MEDIATE PROGRAN
BY LOWNDES MAURY AND
A. G. SHONE

The furor over the decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court which dis
carded much of the New Deal Pro-
gram, would subside appreciably if
the national political parties were
not hurt by mine old men assum-
inN to run the country" The de-
cision is really based on the CEN
fury old doctrine of states rights
against Capitalization; the theories
of Jefferson against those of Ham
ilton. Students agree that the Su-
preme Court in asserting the right
to declare an act of Congress uN-
constitutional has for 140 years
usurped a power not given by the
constitution or found in the COM
mon law of Egland, Scotland or
Ireland. While we. as many stu
dents of the science Of government,
think that the power of that court
should be curtailed in this respect
by another amendment to the Ba-
sic law, the object of this paper is
to convince Montana folks that by
using what weapons are left US
Of Estates rights, we can get
many of the same benefits which
we hoped the central power would
give us but which for some years
at least, and perhaps for our lives,
it is prevented by the Supreme
Court from giving the people. 1t is
the duty of men, in a fight for
their inalienable rights, when one
weapon breaks to sieze another
and that quickly before death
comes. Death is "around the cor
ner." not prosperity, as Hoover
and Dawes and the Carter Glass
democrats announce.
Conditions Grow Worse
May, June and July are the
months of an expected and usua
rise in employment in the NORTH
Temperate Zone, due to providing
food for the winter. According tt
figures from Washington in May
1885, unemployment reached nine
million six hundred thousand; il
June it was nine million eight hun.
dred thousand. If a doctor finds
that a Butte miner weighs 15(
pounds in May, lao pounds in June
100 pounds in July. he knows thai
he will die shortly if he does moi
get out Of the mines. The ForC
Motor Works shut down last week
The SO million profit of Genera
Motors for 6 months is a symptom
of disease. not prosperity. 1t wa
profits like that which brought OF
the present depression in 1929. Thu
Duponts own the General Motors
If that SO million had gone Il
wages instead Of the Dupont fam
! ily that would lead some what Il
health Of the people.
Montana Gets It's Share
In Montana, we are living mo-
in a FOOLS paradise by any means
but in a FOOLS plan. We are get
ting in government expenditure
at Fort Peck and other works il
Home loans, land banks loans
AAA disbursements, direct relief
as large a share In proportion tx
population as any state in the un
ion. This is due to active efforts
by Wheeler, Murray, Monaghan
and Ayers. The dam at Fort Peel
may be complete in two years
Murray's special achievement, the
Buffalo Rapids Irrigation Project
$4,000 arces near Glendive. can bt
completed in Is months il diligent
ly prosecuted. When done, it vii
support a Thousand families il
comfort or add million dollar
a year to the Northern Pacific sur
plus, whichever is desired bv tn,
Interstate Commerce Commission
in fixing the freight rates Of
wheat etc. or by the legislature o
Montana by adjusting the take
on that railroad.
People Have Power
The U. S. Supreme Court Der
mlts a state to regulate hours o
labor IN hazardous work. We ca
require a six hour dav in sue
work. We can prevent child labor
We can require a limit of 70 car
to a train. We can increase tn
workman's compensation for ir
jury or death until the entire pa
for such annually to the widows
cripples and orphans in Butte fc
injury and death in the mines Q
the Anaconda company totals on