The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-07-24

them, Republicans. Damocro+s A Az -
new Coughlin-Lemke Union part ~,
even the Communists for the mo-
ment ARE concerned with reforms
possible within capitalism no
The Communists, of course Gill
Deheve that eventually revoIut;on
IN America must closely follow tbe
russian model, But this wear 49, 80
say, that the struggle is between
democracy and fascism-democra-
Gy very lmperfetcly expressed h.,
roosevelt; fascism by Landon .nS
MS hackers. Pending this hniId; In
OF farmer-labor party which e
thelr great demand. thew are haln1
ing Roosevelt serve democrac1T r.,
pressure from the left" and d.
recting their campaign against tba
1asclsm Of the Republicans.
We believe their diagnosis s.
dangerously misleading. Fascism +
a menace. Landon NAV do thin9S
winch Will encourage its coming;
so may Roosevelt but Liberty Lea
que reaction isn't fascism. The
fascist demagogue will talk like
E1uey Long or maybe like LemI1e.
not Landon or Knox. We best fio!ht
against fascism, and best nrensre
Tor a real farmer-labor party. hv
organizing and educating for So
cialism.
What will bring fascism is nov
economic catastrophe, or Americas
entry into war. What do the Re-
publlcans or Democrats propose to
prevent this drift to economic ca
tastrophe or war? Grant that the
Democratic platform is less incon-
slstent to organized workers-not
OF course, to sharecroppers-
the Republican-the difference IS
not as wide as a barn door nor as
nigh as a church steeple, and it
will not suffice. The Democrats do
not even promise as much as the
German workers had before Hitler.
and that didn't save them. Roose-
velt did not force through a Demo
cratic Congress a revised GufTev
oil, the Wagner Housing bill, or
the Pure Food and Drug Act.
He has not lifted his little finger
Tor the sharecroppers, in part the
victims of A. A. A. Neither party
will really dare to balance the bud
get as the expense of the unem-
ployed, but both will try the old
Roman way of seeing with how
few crusts and how cheap circuses
the unemployed can be kept quiet. |
With much of this criticism the
Coughlin-Lemke Party would a.
gree, but it accepts the profit
system. 1t is populism born too
late, a populism which today has
resemblances to fascism. 1t is a
party not democratically created, |
but handed down from on high, |
born full grown with candidates |
and a 15-point platform resem-
bling the old Nazi platform in
Germany. Congress shall legis-
Iate"-as if Congress were GcG,
creating the world-living wages;
the destruction of monopoly, but
good business for little men; pro-
tits for all farmers; "adequatc"
pensions for the aged; no more
mortgages for land owning farne-
srs, but nothing specific, as yet for
All this within the pre-
sent Constitution, and without plan
1ed productions Better believe in
Santa Claus and be done with it.
What the Union Party really
means is a boost for initiation and
! help for Landon.
Bitterly as these parties quarrel,
III of them alike are trying to cure
1herculosis with cough drops.
Their brands are different. They
lsc different fltvOrs ami differ
"a: drugs; s):Y:e better, some
worse. But neither the Landon,
Lemke, or Townsend
rand and flavor can do the job.
The cure, and the only cure, is
Socialism. We seek power in the
tate to take over in orderly fash
On, all the commanding heights Of
he economic order: coal, iron, oil,
ublic utilities, banks, the great
the dairy and other
odstuffs. Consumers cooperatives
nd Credit Unions will be encour- {
ged. SocialiZed enterprises will be ;
emocratically governed under
cards representing consumers