The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-01-18
Tress Distorts Facts
In Hauptmann Trial

clpate in what is rapidly taking on
the proportions of an American
Stavisky scandal.
The difficulty of gaining admit
lance to the trial is also worth
commenting on. The capitalist
press has beer assiduously trying
to create the impression that the
whole world is making a desperate
attempt to steal a look at the
greatest hero of modern times"
and at the greatest criminal"
eta@ etc. The purpose of this is
nothing but to try to justify the
harrage of news-opium and capt.
talist hero-worship that the press
is laundering at the American
working class. Actually, anyone
can get into the trial who is will
ing to be at the court house at 7
o'clock in the morning and wait the
three hours or so until the court
convenes.
Symbolic of System
But most important Of all that
is being distorted by the capitalist
press is the truth concerning the
profound scandal that is imbedded
in the kidnapping and murder of
the. Lindbergh baby. 1t need not
be repeated at great length here
that the scandals of the capitalist
class are completely unimportant
to workers and farme rs except in
sofar as they prove the contention
of Marxists that capitalism is in
separable from the most deep-going
corruption and hypocrisy, and that
one has scarcely to put ones fin
ger on a typical incide Mt involving
capitalists to uncover the corrup-
ton that has helped to make cap
italism a hell on earth for the
working class. In addition, many
workers know that Lindbergh's
popularity with the masses is be-
ing consciously utilized by leading
imperialists to further their class
aims, so much. so that Lindbergh
himself, at the request of the late
Dwight Morrow, Morgan partner,
who was his father-in-law, reuues-
ted libraries throughout the coun-
try to withdraw from circulation
the anti-war book which Lind
hergh's father wrote. Even the
New York public library, in the
heart of American civilization and
culture" acceded to Lindbergh's re-
quest by taking the hook out of
circulation until storm of pro-
test forced the library officials to
put it back on the shelves.
1t is this universal attempt on
the part Of the capitalist press to
preserve the illusion of the Amer
lean masses that the mobile and
: heroic" Lindbergh is model for
American youth, and that any
American boy who emulates him
can become "great" man by be-
coming an associate of J. P. Nor
gan's, which Lindbergh has be-
come, that is most characteristic
of the accounts that the capitalist
press is reporting. No touch Of
: scandal must be allowed to tarnisf
, the reputation of the model Anne ri
can who waves the flag of imper-
ialism in his numerous flights. ThG
Hearst papers in, particular, which
, defame Lenin, the greatest leader
: of the worlds working class, anC
therefore of humanity, who evel
: lived, and which make that great
Bolshevik out to be something be-
tween a fanatic bomb-thrower anC
German-Jewish spy, are fight
, ing, at this trial in Pennington, tt
preserve the image of Lindbergl
as THE great man whom every
honest youth must emulate.
Preserving Myths
It is because of the necessity fol
, the capitalists of preserving thi,
myth that the capitalist press al
a whole is refusing to report thu
! complete account Of what is hap
pening here. For the complete &C
count would prove that everyon,
in Pennington knows and what i
, is the duty of a working clas
newspaper to report: that the lind
! bergh case is exposing some of tn
, basic corruption of capitalism t,
its very roots and that the who'll
: truth of the Lindbergh scandal ha
still to be told. And not only doe
the poulation of Pennington an
the newspapermen here know this
but so dots Reilly, who has ad
! mitted it openly, and Attorne
General Wilentz, who admitte
privately few days AFRO to an un
q improbable source that "Haupt
! mann is not the only one guilty i
this care, but the .-- ought t
get the chair because he won't tel
! who else is"
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