The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-05-03
Old Slave Law Revived in State
The Truth About
Force, Violence"
,,,o DAVIS ago was May Day.

oUOW
Two G J ans workers and farmers unity against
- nainsf fascism and for united struggle to better
he miserable lot of the tOilerS Oh tnlS country d
w IN that dav hundreds of thousands OF workers ana
s,orc came together expression OF tner Solid
arity. .,.oo +,o+ orlv few DAVIS after Nav
nav the hearing of Alfred Miller comes up TO test the
solidarity of the farmers and WorKeTS Vi oherudh GULL
Nv and the state Of Montana W.T.,
r. is already becoming national case workers
,nd farmers from California to New York have sent
nsts TO this barefaced attempt to throttle mltancy
gonizatOns all over the country, locals OF the Farm
avs Union Farmers Holiday Association, A r. OF L.,
United Farmers League and many others are coming TO
4bo defense of Miller Newspapers all over the country
arc carving the story Progressive congressman and
snators in Washington have expressed their willing
aess to cooperate with the defense
That is as it should be.
Every rght thinking person, every honest person
ho has any mind that think for him will see that
Che attempt to send Miller to face the Hitler firing squad
Is an UNPARALLELED piece of cOld-blOOded brutality.
The charge that he advocated force and violence"
Is ridiculous.
If anyone has any doubts about this they ought 10
look over the back copies of the Producers News while
Miller editor.
Force and violence was never advocated n .he
Ter never advocated conspiracy or force and
violence
More than that for the department of labor and
the government to Miller of force and violence
when the national guard and police making it their
profession to beat up and murder strikers and mtants
all over the country is Strachey said, insoent pre-
sumption"
The workers and farmers have never advocated
force and violence.
That field is pretty well monopoized by the forces
Of law and ORDER the police military and the gangster
wgilantes and super patriot" groups.
They have long string of frame-ups and legal muir
ders to their credit-MOOney Mcnamara, SaccO, Van
Zetti, DebS ScOttSbOrO boys, the Haymarket victims
countless workers shot the picket lines, and
children burned in tent colonies. Wall street has been
brutal in its guarding of the profits it wrngs from
the workers and farmers than the reacOnary European
monarchsts it used to rave about.
Force and violence is the invention and weapon of
Wall Street that it to forever get and more
out Of and to keep terroriZed dare not
swer.
The people who drew up the charge against Miller
know 1t is false charge. They have better reason
for drawing it up.
Miller himself they were not so worried about They
worried about the organizations of farmers and
workers that hitting back at the Roosevelt drive
70 make us all paupers and serfs.
To break up the organizations it was necessary to
hit at everyone possible with every possible.
Miller stood in their way here. He would have stood
IN the way of the two bits hour program.
That's why he dangerous. That's why it was
necessary to cook up the fOrce and VIOLENCE charge
We hold the relief office responsible to great
tent.
The fight for the freedom of Miller is a fight fo
every worker and farmer in the United States. 1t
part of the fight for BREAD and SECURITY.
Ii they can get away with this, they get ava.
with lot of other things later on.
That is why it is important that protests keep pill
ing into Washington That is why meetings should b
called where the farmers give their honest opinion
about this business
Send the letters to Frances Perkins, department O
labor in Washington and to your congressman and
atOrs.