The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-06-12
Wings
OVER
Washingt'n
PARADES FOR PEACE
APPROPRIATIONS FOR WAR

APPROPRIATION FOR WAR
1t was almost as if it had been
planned.
With a touch of irony that was
lost on most of the members the
second leg of the greatest appro-
priation for military purposes in
the peace-time history of the u. S.
was put forward in the House of
Representatives on the eve Of May
day. Workers all over the world,
except in plague spots where
fascism cracked it's whips, were
preparing for demonstration again
war and the breeder of war. Thou
sands of slogans were being
painted on as many placards, all
expressing the one hope, the one
desire, the one yearning for
peace.
Over half a billion dollars for
navy second to none on earth"
was the answer of the Congress
of the United States to these
wishes. Over a billion dollars for
war, for shot and shell, powder
and rifles, ships and guns, tear
gas, shrapnel, machine guns, bay
onets, trench mortars, tanks, air
planes, helmets, pistols, artillery,
automatic rifles. The whole hell
of war is the answer of the rep
resentatives of the peepul to the
demands of the workers for peace.
On May Day millions marched
in demonstration of strength and
solidarity. On May Day demands
that the war of 1914 be declared
the last war. On May Day next
year they will be killing each other
on the battlefields of war.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CONVENES UNDER
PIRATE FLAG
If a person could get all the cry
babies, all the spoiled brats, all of
the stubborn infants, and all the
mewling kids into one room, he
would have pretty fair sample
of the just concluded Chamber of
Commerce convention
Beating their chubby fist against
well upholstered tummys they
have been lying on the floor kick
ing their feet in the air and yelp-
! ing about liberty, the constitution,
the Supreme Court, and the reds
with all the might of their tiny
lungs.
After a few days of palvering
about unemployment, taxes, and
the cost of relief, all of which
they were against, delegates from
mighty and from petty businesses
turned to a philosophical discus
sion of government. IL
The products of the philosophi-
cal discussion were not out of har-
mOny with the headquarters of the
delegates. Rep. Mccormack 3D.,
Mass.) began.
AS his blasts against the aliens
rang through the exquisite ball
room of Washington's swankiest
hotel, the breeze gently stirred
the flags of John Cabot, an Eng
lshman. Ferdinanda DeSoto. a
Spaniard, Christopher Columbus,
an Italian, and Hendrix Hudson, a
Dutchman, that hang from the
raftered ceiling of the Chamber of
Commerce council room.
One flag hanging there was a
replica of the one carried by Sir
Francis Drake, an Englishman, re-
Iputed to be one of the greatest pi-
rates ever to sail the high seas. A
patriotic pirate he plundered Span
fish ships for the glory of Her
Britannia Majesty Elizabeth. the
Queen of England.
Symbolic, brakes flag, black
with two huge silver stars, hung
above the delegates of these, more
pirates. These pirates who, with
their legalisms instead of ships,
their bonds instead of cutlasses,
and their courts instead of board
ing irons, rob and plumber the
working man.
| Another blaster was Fitzgerald
Hall, president of railroad. This
gentleman carried his audience on
his booming voice and meager his
tory from the time of Jefferson
Through U. S. Grant to Franklin
| D. Roosevelt. In his breast beat
ing Hall rallied to the defense OF
the Supreme Court and the Con
stltution. He defended rugged in
dlvidualism and called for the
| ghost Of Jefferson.
Patting their tummies in the
soft chairs of the Chamber of Com
merce Council rooms, these dele