The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-08
Business and Military Men
Want Us to Take What
Is Offered -
AND "THANKEE SIR!
Right to Protest Is Upheld
By Fighting Texas
Congressman
BY HAROLD COY

NEW YORK.-"When did it
come time when an American could
not stand on his legs and raise hell
when he is starving? That is an
American right. 1t hasn't got any
thing to do with communism"
Thus Cong. Maury Maverick Cd.
Tex.) scion of a southwestern fam
lily famous for wearing no mans
brand, sounded the challenge for
the demense of old fashioned
American freedom at the 10Th an
nual American Civil Liberties
Union meeting and denounced the
reactionary campaign to put the
red brand on every honest express
sion of protest or criticism.
The hypocrisy of Liberty Leag-
uers and Chambers of Commerce,
cloakng anti-labor drives in vag-
uely-worded legislation ito prevent
overthrow of the government by
force and Violence" was clearly
anaylzed as speakers surveyed the
civil liberties horizon.
GOVERNMENT
is OVERTHROW
"There are company towns dom
mated by the U. S. Steel Corp, in
which the government of the
United States has, in fact, been
overthrown bv force and violence"
declared DR.. Harry F. Wood, A.
c. L. u. chairman.
And Director Roger N. Bald
win pointed out significantly:
"There is no court record i'm tic
16 years since the A.C.L.U. was
formed in which a single radical
has been convicted of an act of
violence or any direct Indictment
to violence. But, on the reac-
tiOnary side, there is not only in
citement to violence to maintain
the present system against any
change, but there is the consist
ent practice of violence. There
are, in fact, areas of complete
local Fascism."
Maverick, bringing to his New
York audience the salty humor of
the plains, centered his attack on
the military disaffection bill, the
Kramer sedition bill and the Dis
trict of Columbia fred rider" The
disaffection bill, designed to pre-
vent criticism of the armed forces
els dead, but watch out for the
corpse-the navy will pump life
into it again if it can" The Kra-
mer bill, (which gives you a 5-year
rest in prison for advocating the
overthrow of the governmental
has more chance. watch that
double"
WORST IN
WORLD HISTORY
The fighting congressman, an
American Legionnaire and wound
ed war veteran, reserved his worst
castigations for the "red rider"
which makes it compulsory for
Washington, D. c., school teachers
to take monthly oath, and minor
school officials a fortnightly one,
that they have not taught commu-
nism during the preceding period
Meverick declared he had called on
the research staff of the Library
of Congress, and that Through q
staff of 80 researchers my own
work and dozens of university pro
fessors, we find there is no such
persecutory law on record in the
history of the world, including
Africa and the ORIENT"
Maverick predicted the "red
rider" would shortly go into dis
card, by act of Congress.
VIOLENCE is
ENCOURAGED
Ward, a Union Theological Semi
nary professor, warned that reac
tionaries are weaving pattern o.
violence, which in the light OF how
Fascism came in Europe, Is hlgnl!
dangerous for American democ
racy. Part of the pattern is seel
in the use of armed forces agalns:
labor and radical groups, exempt
/ fled by long military rule IN lnal
ana counties, with civil authorize
| conserving to the demise of d.:
mocracy." More of the pattern.
J seen In the encouragement OF Tn