Montana labor news., 1936-02-20

either by hired gunner or military
force.
Now from this study it is evident
that there are numerous persons on
the wrong side of the law who would
be expected to partake in s%trikebreak-
ing; many persons among the unem-
pioyed through intense suffering or in
herent lack of character or economic
disillusionment would easily be sucked
into the racket and countless indus
t~rialists who inherit old-World ideas re-
garding oppression and the theory of
property would find it consistent to re-
sort to these methods of ganging up
on the workers. On the other hand, we
must remember that the rats among
the unemployed are in the minority
and that not all industrialists are un-
social tyrants, though it is difficult Il
see how one can be very successful
and still be a humanitarian Cor could it
be possible that u system is, after all,
full of inconsistencies We ought to
view with intense alarm all general
tendencies relative to this newly init
ated "ganging-up process" regardless of
the form be it "strikebreaking incor-
porated" or the heavy arm of the law;
the law is easily interpreted to suit the
mighty and also even ignored when it
is convenient, witness the Constitu-
ton and its recent treatment. The law
was formed by the opponents Of prop
erty and not social utopians.
State Agencies Fail to Protect.
The failure on the part of all the
states to protect labor in any way from
this vile form of armed oppression is
a sign of a serious nature; all classes
of people should at least cooperate in
hating this first appearance of infant
fascism, 1t is one thing to protect lives
and property, and another, to hire
criminals to shoot down American
working people who are the very mar
row of our material well-being. "The
problem Of legal %correctives belongs to
those who believe that the conflicts OF
capitalism can be resolved into an or
derry system for producing the nations
needs"
1t is now apparent that our society is
steadily being torn apart Into irritated
minorities representing everybody from
the military, spiritual, agricultural, in
dustrial, crafts, profession, petit bourg-
costs, and big industrials and into in
finite complexities and relationships,
concentrated action and representation
in politics as it was meant to be is not
even pretended phenomena. the fall
OF Rome was nothing compared with
the Rise and Fall of Western Civil
cation with special reference to Amer
lea, now on the v of her Golden Age.
Theory and mere hot air, you may
say; only read history and then get
the modern angle through statistics and
your daily newspaper" and your
agreement will be forthcoming.
Let us strive for great compromises
and endless understanding that in the
final consequences we may refrain
from disintegrating conflict and ulti-
mate slavery of all to the domination of
one group or coalition of groups. We
have no armed parties, no dictator las
yeti, and no divine authority persona
fled in a relentless imperial family; all
we do have are signs Of political de-
cadence, a rampant criminal element
and an embryonic fascism; lets crush
the latter like a loathsome cockroach
before it infects our entire social be-
ing and then the other two will dis
appear, and we may at least be pro-
tected, until a healthier economic sys-
tenn arrives to guarantee permanently
the actual working OF those ideals,
liberty, equality and fraternity" now
SO sadly prostituted in the cause of
capitalism.