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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

dental treatment needed. Medical
science breaks records in improve
ment Of method and technique, but
loses half its field for practice.
And finally there is Greed,
GREED, GRE Ed.
Possibly the foregoing means
little to you. Figures are too large;
the misery is far away; no time
to worry about other peoples
trouble. Then step out and take a
two hour stroll around town. Talk
TO everybody you meet. 1 did. Here
is the result.
Mrs. A was a teacher, husband
steady mechanic, owned home and
car and had money IN the bank.
Now she cares for thirty rooms
and halls In the third-rate firetrap
where / occupy a cubby-hole,
Draws $500 per week for a seven
day shift Of eight hours each. Hus-
band gets a day or two per week
with FERA. Two children IN school
Something is going to happen"
Miss B, laundry worker. would
ike TO get married and have g
home but the boy-friend has No
job. Used to get $14 weekly. Now
the boss makes seven girls do the
work OF ten and cuts pay accord
ingly. I'm tired Of cooking meals
over a hot plate but maybe Roose-
welt viii do something. Mary il
worse OF than me. She gets two
days a week and has the baby.
CONTINUED next week.
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Their" System

The to it all lies in a realization by American
citizens that their system has given of material
things TO people than any other system con-
ceived tn American workman is better off, his OppOrtun
better educated The American system gave those things
to citizen Proponents of radcasm offer nothing
comparable. Industrial Press Service Maintained
by the rich explOters)
Yeah, their system has given more things to more
people than other system conceived for instance
la magnificent national industrial plant built wholly by
workers and owned almost wholly by handful parasitic
Fobber barons
"a national productive organization equipped to feed
cohe shelter educate and the whole of both Amer
standing four-fths idle while million upon millions
OF the very people whose blood and toll up and equipped
this organization stagger YEARLY dsconsolate and thread
bare down the roads of privaton hardship suffering sick
and starvation.
ga few thousand industrial princes, hundred million
paupers. and twenty-five million in-beweens who are now
heading rapidly toward the bread line.
4aaces pleasure yachts and Pierce Arrows to the para
sites.
SPOT holes pest holes and no holes at all to the producers
6Lberty for the rich cheat steal corrupt and idle
and still complain.
7berty for the poor to toll struggle fight each Other
and Starve but not complain.
SA total debt load at least twenty-five percent larger
than the total value of all properly including batteships
and sidewalks.
ga rapidly growing tax burden that is putting the mid
die class out while monopoly passes it on.
1OA machine that requires and brains
Skill and science in its operation and educational system
now drying and diminishing like spring in dust storm
does.
11Yeah more things increasing wealth concentration
and paama parties for the nations rulers increasing pau
per1Sm insecurity insanity mental and physical breakdown
and suicides for the nations slaves
You're right! RadicalSm offers nothing comparable.
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rowed money. Quotations on the
graph are mine)
Six hens lay six eggs In a day
and a half. or four eggs per day.
Seven days, twenty eight eggs,
which is about the only number
someone didn't guess. 1t is only
waste OF time to estimate how
long it viii require the Princes to
reduce all the In Betweens to
Pauperism. It is the mechanics OF
the process. and the effects there
OF, that / want you to viZuahze.
II the time and effort put into this
little symposium Is not pure waste,
two great truths must now shine
forth ike a pair Of diamonds on
a black velvet pad
(1) Under our present economic
system wealth must constant
" concentrate into fewer and
fewer hands.
~ The more wealth concentra-
ties the more the national pro-
ductive machine must slow
down, idle, stagnate-
These are definite mechanical
laws, irrepealable, immutable, con
slant, and as certain as NeTton's
Law OF Gravity. A machine ags
has made them fully operative, tC
the extent that a profit system il
used, throughout the eiviizeC
world. Ninety-five percent Of al
our economic and social troubls
hangs on these pegs.
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Princes and Paupers
By Jerome G. Locke
By Jerome G. Locke

mere are still millions of intelligent and kindly people
% nk our present capitaisc system be repaired so
at least fair prosperity will return They hope for
peCter day without materially changing the system.
II Is vain hope Capitalism fails, not only because it
human greed and therefore brings to the surface of
civilization crime racketeering corruption and and
greater measure of hardship, suffering insecurity star
Von and other destructive forces but also because ca
tlon mas now gone into machine age.
Inns machine age only be maintained by wealth
The wealth concentrates the national
productivity VIII decne-the harder times will become
whole process by definite mechanical physical law that
cannot be set aside repealed set aside.
Inc following article prepared for in pamphlet form
attempts TO set FORTH in way that all may understand just
now our national business system works and why prosperity
tnat cannot be repealed or set aside.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

N4OuuS C1LCu OOSCuIG Tie sun.
How often political politics and
greed inspired ballyhoo hide opera
ton Of the two basic laws of a
profit system. New Deals borrOd-
ed billions, for work relief and
doles, has created purchasing pow
er and turned the curve Of pro-
duction upward. while the money
lasts. Credit expansion increase
IN debts) has the same temporary
effect. Millions of actual paupers
are not in rags, as yet.
Over q long run, annual increase
in national wealth, additions to
population, closure of western
frontiers, ebb and flow Of foreign
trade, chronological advance, tax
burdens and debt loads are all
factors that have effected, and will
continue to effect, but never
+ change, the two basic laws of &C
cretiOn As ceaselessly as Mag
ara's cataract their operation must
continue, as long as the present
/ system endures. By increasing dos
IS OF wealth concentration capita
ism is committing suicide. Evi
/ denee is everywhere about US.
Our whole national industrial
plant in stagnation, idle, or par
italy idle, machines. mills, fac
tories power plants, transporta
ton facilities, communication lines
farm lands, buildings and bank de
posits everywhere. Rot, Rust ant
Ruin all about.
In 125 million population, Their
are so million able-bodied poten
tial workers. Fewer than 20 milliOl
of these are usefully and produc
: lively employed. The others are i
idleness, useless competition, need
/ less overhead or rackets. Each pal
, Of useful workers carries thre
useless loafers on its back.
/ The roll Of wholly unemployed i
; nearly twelve million excludin
! farm labor, and the roster for Fed
: eral relief now totals more tina
: twenty-five million. Howeve
: stocks went up two points yestel
] day so everything is hunky-dor
S While millions upon millions {
:. worthy people dine on scanty ar
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unbalanced rations, wear rags,
deny themselves the most simple
pleasuresand stagger down the
road Of hardship, privation and
despair, sometimes to a suicides
grave our economic and political
masters curtail production TO pile
up the profit. Industrial output
now only one-third or one-fourth
what it should be. According to the
testimony Of science, but one
eighth or one-tenth OF what it
could be. Dire want N the midst
Of potential plenty.
Total value of all property In
the United States, including baltic
ships and sidewalks, zoo billion
dollars, OF less. Total debt load,
public and private. In excess Of
$50 billion dollars. Everybody work
ing for Wall Street. Each baby
born with a $1,000 milestone Of
debt around its neck.
Total cost Of government, all
kinds, about Is billion dollars per
year, or thirty-seven percent of the
rational income. Tax burdens in
ereasing and must continue to IN
crease. In Montana, exclusive of
Federal, there are over two hun
dred kinds Of taxes. One person
u every ten on some payroll of
state. More overhead than was re-
quired to govern the world a cen
fury ago.
Crime and racketeering now
costing productive society twelve
TO sixteen billion dollars per year.
Volume Of loot has doubled In ten
years and takes a twenty-five per
cent drain out of all the earnings
OF al the people. Corruption, chi
eanery, dOuble-dealing and venali-
y TO get money, position OF now
e Is here there and everywhere
Amerlca ceases to live under 3
civilization and tries to exist nm
der a racket.
efficiency of the educational svs.
TEN on about forty percent in 81
years. It's cheaper to train 'em n
the hobo jungies.
John Q. Public, IN general. nov
gets but one-half the medical a.,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

If the verdicts are upset, the
teeth can be drawn from the
criminal syndicalism" law and the
drive for new anti-labor and anti
free speech laws can be headed off.
This is important to union men
and friends of free speech thru
out the country.
During the trial the Non-Parti-
san Labor Defense provided Nor
man Mini with an attorney, Albert
Goldman, noted Socialist lawyer,
whose work was the outstanding
feature Of the courtroom struggle
against the Associated Farmers.
At their request, it raised $1,000
bail to iberate Caroline Decker
and Jack Warwick from Sacramen-
to County Jail where they had
been held for six months. It stimu-
lated public interest in the case
through printed matter and public
meetings from coast to coast.
Among the many organization
which substantially supported the
! NPLD's work were the Interna
| tional Ladies Garment Workers
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, the Workmen's Sick anC
Death Benefit Fund, the Socialis
Party of California and the Ba!
Area District Of the Worker
Party Of the U. S. The Northern
California Branch Of the Civil Lilo
, critics Union aided financially.
Because the Sacramento cor
spiracy has a significance reach
ing beyond State borders and bt
yOnd any single political organize
ton, the direction Of the Ape;
> fight has been assumed by a JON
committee supported by a grou
Of national organizations. Defer
q ing among themselves on man
: questions, they are one in sayin
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Continued from last week)

Continued from last week.
Secretary of the Interior Harold
a !s has recently stated that
Two percent of population own
elgnty percent of Americas veal
Mr.. Ickes' figures have not been
challenged, but our financial plum
oeround mas since Matched UP
many excuses why his official
scalp should be lifted. Taking all
known data into account we can.
with rough accuracy, boil the
whole situation down to a simple
summary:
6nnces ------------------------ 2 million
Faupers ------------------------.9S million
IN OetWeenS ----------.---25 million
Now If one hen LAYS one egg.
and half hen LAYS half an egg.
IN day and a half, it must be
that six hers will lay six egs in
day and a half. How many eggs
viii the SIX hens lay in seven
days. Let's reduce our economic
problem TO the same kind of simple
terms.
Population total is 125 million
/ persons; aggregate national veal
IN 100000 million dollars. Drop
/ the words million" and the propo-
4 sl1on gets down TO a size we car
comprehend. Two Princes own SOcc
OF 100000 or 100000 in national
wealth; Twenty-Five In Between:
have $4,000 worth; nirety-eight
paupers have nothing.
They live under a profit sys
TEN. To stay IN business the tive
Princes must continually sell tn,
products of their mines, mills, fac
tories, processing plants AM
farm lands at more money than j
!, costs TO produce and transpor
these products. Profit must b,
made or Prince goes broke. Pau
7 perS can contribute no profit $
business is done, insofar as posi-
bic, only with the In Betweens
Production is curtailed TO a vol
ume that can be sold at a profit
As more In Betweens Join the pau
: per class production must be fun
Their curtailed. Haven't you see
that happening everywhere durin
:, the past six years?
l The whole process is a viciou
, downward spiral that has bee
temporarily halted, but not stoI
ped, BY New Deals tremendou
/, expansion OF credit Creation {
. debts) and spending Of billions fc
work relief and the dole. A graph
copied from Labor Informatio
\ Bulletin, .. S. Dept. Of Labor, tel
the story. 1t is upon the volume {
industrial production that the gel
eral living standard Of a Peep
must depend. I'll let you speculai
as to how far the curve will SIX
, toward the cellar when the warrior
|, governments cease spending DO
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

!. Money available for production Is decreasing.
Output Of farm machinery fell SO percent years
g. Average yields per indicate that scientific know
ledge is not being widely used
Soil erosion and drought taking increasing ton
of American Farmers.
Thus in spite of the forward march of science
venon social capital represented by the fertility of
farm land being squandered by forces farmers do not con-
troll Science lifts the privileged few to heights of tech
ncal progress and depresses millions of poor farmers to
crude, outmoded methods of farming
Farm Research Inc Washington d. CT
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

Workers and Farmers Must Smash
Criminal Syndicaism Laws in
California Montana has Them

In the state of California the;
laws are made to operate against
the workers. The same conditions
obtain in various other states OF
the Union. The existence Of such
laws is attributable TO many caus-
es. chief among such causes being
the great concentration of wealth
in the hands of a small group OF
exploiters who would reduce the
workers TO slavery; secondly, the
treachery of reactiOnary labor
leaders of the William Greene type
who believes in rendering the
workers submissive to the rule OF
exploitation; and most important
of all: the manifest indifference Of
the great masses of labor who re-
fuse to heed the warning Of trust
ed. class-conscious leaders until
the great catastrophe has crushed
them.
California is oftimes referred to
as the Garden of the Gods" which
distinction fits the tastes Of the
wealthy. From the workers view
point, however, the Garden of the
! Gods" is the INFERNO OF SLAV-
cry, where monied demons keel
the fires of persecution at white
heat all Of the time.
The persecution Of Tom MOOne!
has made the pages Of California;
history black with infamy. Tn
whole world is familiar with tn,
frame-up which sent and kept hin
| to rot behind the gray walls o
San Quentin prison. Many effort
have been made to secure freedom
: for Mooney but up to date tn
: forces Of hatred have had thei
way. Mooney is in prison sine
1916 because he was a leader G
. the working class who tried I
n wrest some Of the il-gotten wealt
4 from corporate interests that tn
: workers might have a better star
+ dard Of living. Patriotic hysteri
T was worked up against Moone
: and that same myth was brougi
! up last April when a corrupt coul
4 sentenced Norman Mini and Sc
; en- other young people to "A yea
: in prison for having dared to cha
lenge the right of the monied d
Il mons to keep the farm workers
= slavery.
: The crimes Of California's e
: ploiters are verv graphically DO
: trayed in a pamphlet issued by t
ID National Sacramento Appeal Cor
mittee. The pamphlet is a natio
e wide call to all classes who a
N opposed to tyranny in any for
c and is designed to secure the IRE
in dom of Norman Mini and his {
4 workers who were sent to pris
a. for no other crime than that
ogranizing workers to secure
is decent standard Of living. Prcte:
10
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CORRECTION
MiIler's Pharmacy Al

In the Millers Pharmacy 2.,,.
l sale ad appearing IN the
ducers News last week thsre
an error as to the date II -
Of the first papers printed. -.
was not noticed until after NJ
ing.
The dates Of this popular :.
are as follows:
Sale begins Saturday, Sevts-
Der 21st and continues TO and :
cludes Saturday, September 2sa
This sale is a real opportri-
for those interested in the arts.
advertised.
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The Lutheran Free Chm.
Westby, Mont.

s. Divine service at Oslo Sui,
September p, at II am
er and bible study hon, - r.
conducted at Wesley evs :
ing at : pm. beginning wedne,s.
September 25. You are IN -
cordially invited to atts,5 :
meetings.
The Ladies Aid Of Scandia =
meet at Mr.. Kanterud's fam g
day September % AZ
member the prayer and bibla -,
hour beginning wednesday, :.
pm. in the parsonage.
G. Aellby, passs.
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are beginning to pour into the
governor of California, United
States Senators and Congressman.
The Farmers Holiday Association
of Montana has taken the lead In
Montana in these protests and will
continue to keep interest stirred up
in the state until the exploiting
fa.ces of TIAlifor1a W.. t6ludc |
U. 6. Senator Hiram johnson and
the notorius William Randolph
Hearst are brought to bay.
The pamphlet Union Smashing
in Sacramento" must be read. In
its pages the whole gruesOme
story is revealed. The Producers
News begins this week to give its
readers the benefit Of the whole
frame-up against Norman Mini
and his co-workers. Meanwhile we
advise you to send for your copy
of the pamphlet to: National Sac
ramento Committee, 7O7-41 Union
| Square, New York City. The price
is 5 cents per copy. Reduced rates
for bundle orders.
FOREWORD
! In April, 1885, eight young peO-
pie of Sacramento were railroaded
to San Quentin and Tehachapi,
CALIFORNIA; prison bells where sit
Tom Mooney and SO many other
labor martyrs. Th=y have been
sentenced to terms u up to four
teen years each on the charge Of
being in a conspiracy to commit
criminal syndicalism.'
They were in nc conspiracy
whatsoever.
The truth is, as this pamphlet
: reveals, that they were he victim:
Of a conspiracy CT antl-uniOr
forces led by the Associated Farm
l ers, Inc. The object of this cor
= spiracy has been revealed by F. ]
: Palmomares, one Of the Associ
! ated's subordinates. On Februar.
: 4, he told the Sacramento Bee tina
[ the trial was "of utmost import
ance" to his bosses because the,
: believe the defendants responsible
5 for the San Joaquin Valley strik
: OF 1933-the first serious one i
: the sections history" In the word
n Of the New York Times Of Jan. %
1885, the defendants had le
: strikes and been responsible fo
: raised wages and improved Twin
e conditions among the exploite
/ migratory agricultural workers {
/ California. Hence the conspirae
Re against them.
n, The conspiracy was carried OF
2 under cover of a red" scare, an
: by means OF the criminal synd
n calsm" statute, denounced by lea
Of ing trade unionists, educator
a clergymen, publiests and jurists {
IS a vicious instrument Of oppressio
. The red" scare was also used
al reactOnary California legislators
e. introduce new bills against IT
ut speech and the rights Of labor
\ organize and strike. Happily me
Of these were defeated, but
ms Sacramento convictions are poi1
e; ed to by reactionaries as pro
ne that there is a need for more g
: laws and more criminal syndics
.lk ism" prosecutions.
re Today, many states have la
like CALIFORNIA; criminal SYM
Ia caism" statute. William Randol
h Hearst has proclaimd that the S;
ms ramento conspiracy should be
ap model for all states, and he adv
re- Gates a similar Federal law.
Is HEARST CORRECTLY SA7
Elk THE SACRAMENTO CASE is
'ol NATIONAL ISSUE.
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THE EC0N0NIc JAN

It's a sure bust up for q poker
game when one gambler gets al
the chips. Just how fast the Wall
Street Gang is now adding TO its
stack is difficult to judge. For six
years they have been rahng IN the
pots with both hands.
Liquidation has moved billions
in wealth upstairs NRA repealed
antitrust laws and gave the grab
bers a wider field Price fixing and
code manipulation put thousands
Of small fry out. Regular pipe lines
Of profit have continued TO pour
a stream Of golden dollars into
the Golfers Of bankers and indus
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

On March IT, 1888 Braintruster Tugweu told the SEN
ate Agricultural Committee then considering the AAA bill
that it would require about fifty people in Washington to ad
minister the act and that would give immediate prosperity
to the farmers On January 1885, the Washington payroll
OF AA listed 54O8 persons Needless say prosperity fir
farmers % has scared accordingly.
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to every reader ~ e..
IF YOU HATE T lSals;
TON AND TYRANNY'A ~
EIGHT FIS5a TO ILlBERATE' 7 4HS %
STATES AGRICULuPTTTI lOaI
IGARCHY! AL q.
Ito Be Continued,
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trialists at a rate that makes the
World War period a piker. Wall
Streets Journal Of Comemrce glee-
fully confeses the amounts Of cor
porate interest and dividends.
WORLD WAR PERIOD
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-09-20

Capitalism is built credit you honeydrpping poll
tcians really mean business when you promise the public
change toward production for economy the fastest
and easiest way do the job IS to just wipe public and
most Of the other debt
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Continued next week)
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-01

Pasteurization Plant.
Chile has just opened its first milk
pasteurization plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-01
c. 0.P. TO LAUNCH
RADIO CAMPAIGN
National Congressional
Committee Opens Drive on
Roosevelt Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Republican National Congress
sional Committee tomorrow will in
augurate a sustained radio offensive
against the Roosevelt administration.
Promising a vigorous and contin-
ued attack" Representative Bolton Of
Ohio, chairman of the committee. who
will start the broadcasts over a Ma
tion-wide network, said the Presidents
record of keeping his word is in
deed a lamentable one"
Citing Mr.. Roosevelt's comment
Sunday with regard to Philippine in
dependence that 1T Is always a good
thing for the people Of a nation to
keep their word" Bolton asked:
where is the balanced budget that
was promised? Where is the reduc-
ton in the cost Of Government, the
sound money at all hazards promise,
the pledge to uphold the Constitution
and the Presidents word to abolish
useless governmental agencies?
These are but few of the prom
ises made that have been ignored, and
yet President Roosevelt is out making
more promises"
Bolton charged that "the campaign
Of Misrepresentation and deceit by
which some hope to perpetuate the
New Deal through regaining the pub
lies lost confidence in it, its leader
and its destructive policies already
has started" He added, however,
that he was convinced this hope will
| be fruitless"