The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-11-08
WAR AND THE RICH


and more than 40000,00O common, every-
day Americans one jump ahead of dire pow
erty, we know what war has done for the
poor man." says A. Hauswirth, mayor of
Butte, in his paper, eye Opener that is
well worth reproduction.
Visit any of the numerous federal hos
pltals, 10 years after the World War ended
and see what war has done for the Door
chap who fought the war to end war. We
could cite the ecOnOanic upside down of wo-
men and machines replacing man labor be-
cause OF war. We could mention hundreds
OF other contributing factors abetting ma
ConWlde poverty because of the last war
we know what war, throughout the ages,
has done for the poor.
''Now let us see what war has done for
the rich. 1t made an excess profits in two
years of SS8,OOO,000 for the Anaconda Con-
per Mining company and not content with
THIS enormous gOuge, their Butte bench
men hanged or murdered man who made
a speech against war When the Butte
miner, during the hectic days of calling
sauerkraut liberty cabbage, asked for a dol
lar an hour for dangerous underground la
Dor, the leaders were run out of town.
THE steel companies made hundreds
and hundreds of millions of excess profits
out OF shredded human flesh and even the
nfSt american airplane cost the vet to be
born American $640,OOO,OOO. But bow. we
saved j. PierpOnt Morgan's capital and in
tereSt. The Mellon fortune increased from
q paltry 2OO,O00,000 to more than FIVE
BILLIONS.
But the real alakazam of the rich
crowd was the DUPONT family. AS so
polntedly stated in the current issue of
Fight Against War here are a few FACTS
to remember on Armistice Day.
During the four years of the World
war, the gross income of the DUPONT com
pany reached one billion dollars
The capital employed in their business
900. 0'OOO'
The net profit during those four wears
was S237, OOO,OOO,-mOre than three times
the capital employed in the business in 49,
Ia. ~ -
The dividends paid to stockholders
amounted to $14O,00O,OOO-a dividend of
over 45S percent on the par value of the
stock.
According to Col. E. G. Buckner. Du-
POnt SupersaleSman, war sales euualled 276
years in regular business.
In his new book, The Dupont Dvnas-
ty, John K. Winkler tells of how old Sam
tel DUPONT left France in 1900 to found a
state in America to be named Pontania. In
stead of blowing the soil, Dupont learned
that the schools made greater heroes out of
generals than they did of farmers and
other producers, so he went into the powder
business.
Then came the Civil war and the Du-
Fonts made so much money that thew were
able to practically monopolize the American
munitions business. When the Sherman
antitrust bin became a law, the DuPonts
told the government to run the politics and
the DuPonts would run the munitions en-
terprise.
After the financial drunk of 1914 to 10
1S, the family had so much money that it
made an investment of $49,0OOOOO in Cen
eral Motors and cleaned up S25O.OOO. 600.
Realizing mob fetish on something new. the
DuPonts got out cellophane so that scran
iron, toilet paper and prunes would be
wrapped exclusively in this Transparent
product Meanwhile they cut labor costs
16 per cent and added to their profits until
now, this family whose banner is inscribed
with the slogan, Bigger and Better Wars
Is now the RICHEST FAMILY IN AMERI-
CA -'---'''