The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-10-11
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ROOSEVELT SELLS ETHIOPIA
TO FASCIST BUTCHERS
Council Bluffs, Iowa,
October A, 1885.

TO FASCIST BUTCHERS
Council Bluffs, Iowa,
October A, 1886.
The Producers News:
All the politicians who wish to
remain in office another term, to
remain in good grace with the
masses, are outspoken, demagog1c-
ally of course, with President
Roosevelt in the vanguard, as the
champions of peace. They claim
that their one desire is to keep
America out of war! The recent
neutrality bill is supposed, accord
ing to these demagogues, to be the
thing that will accomplish this.
But what are the facts?
Italy at this moment is invad-
ing defenseless Ethiopia in a Grim
inal robber war for territory, for
booty. Italy, under Mussolini's
leadership, has broken every moral
and ethical law applying to civil
lied nations by doing so. The
Italian government is an outlaw
and should be so treated by every
civilized nation.
Ethiopia, suffering from lack of
defensive ornaments, first because
the League of Nations has kept an
embargo on arms going to Eth
opia; second, Ethiopia is a peace
full country, they are backward"
country. Ethiopia has nothing to
gain but everything to lose from
war. Ethiopia has no munitions
factories with which to manufac-
ture raw material into arms and
munitions. The U. S. government
has placed a ban on all munitions
and arms, leaving America (U. 81
but they have placed no ban on
raw materials that can be manu-
featured into such supplies. Italy
has munitions factories. Italy can
buy American raw material. Now
who is Roosevelt and the Demo-
cratic administration aiding?
Roosevelt and the rest of the
demagogues have the gall to call
this neutrality! Every honest cit
izen must denounce this hypocrisy,
this perfidy. Those who do not
are supporting Italian Fascism in
their banditry!
Big Business would not stand
for COMPLETE NEUTRALITY.
Complete neutrality is a Fascist
phrase!
Roosevelt and the rest of the
demagogues, the running dogs fol-
Imperialism, knowing the deep de-
sires, felt instinctively by the
masses, for peace, advances tbs
slogan, "The U. S. will remain at
peace" They know that the mass
es want peace and hope to delude
the masses with the illusion that
they, the Roosevelts, Nyes, etc., are
for peace too.
What brazen nerve these butch
ers have!
World peace today is indivisible
World war is also indivisible.
The u. S. government is already
in the war, to the extent that i
allows Italy to buy war supplies il
the raw state from the U. S. L
will be in the war with men anC
guns very soon to protect thos'
sales!
If Roosevelt, the U. S. govern
ment, had been sincerely for peace
they would have tried to preserv,
the peace, before war started.
But the war is on. There is onl7
one thing Roosevelt can do now
but won't:
1. Declare an embargo on all
shipments of goods of any kind
to Italy.
2. Furnish Ethiopia with fin
ances and war supplies to de-
fend herself.
8. Inform the League of Ma
tiOns that the u. S. will support
the Leagues sanctions, military
if necessary, against Italy.
But Roosevelt, Fascist in EN-
bry, has no intentions of going a
gainst his full blown Fascist broth
ers in Italy and Germany. The [
S. is already aigning itself wit
the Fascist forces of the worlC
under the slogan of peace. Aigr
ing itself against the Soviet Ur
ion, against civilization.
If the U. S. had followed tn
lead of the U.S.S.R. when the Sc
Wet Union informed the Leagu
that it would support it, fully, II
ally would never have dared to IL
wade Ethiopia. The u. S. govern
ment, Roosevelt, the present &C
ministration, have paved the wa
for the U. S. A. to go to war.
Hearst is already insidiousl
propagandizing against Ethiopii
Today the Philippians are starving
tomorrow they will be committin
atrocities. Any nation (accordin
to Hearst) that would support sa'
ages, even in a war of defens
would deserve to be annihilated.
Every sincere fighter for peac
every anti-Fascist can no long,
remain neutral. Their slogans fro
now on must be:
1. For full defense of ETH
Opia.
2. No embargo on war sup
plies to Ethiopia.
8. Financial and moral sup
port to Ethiopia.
A. Stop all trade with Fascis
Italy. Down with MussOlini
Down with Fascisml
5. Support the sanctions o
the League of Nations agains
Italy to the fullest extent!
H. w. Smith.
EDITORS NOTE.-The edit
of the Producers News agrees fl
ly with the statements and concl
sions in the above letter by H.