The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-03-13
AS SEE IT!
EROME G. LOCKE

AMERICA STANDS AT THE CROSohOFADO. WIN
r,Iionc of hungry threadbare and homeless people,
db+ bdone that can never be paid tax loads that are
confiscatory criminals in full control OF many seGonS
of the country racketeering everywhere ponCiC::I
bureaucracy that STILES all initiative and The
ord economic mower concentrated IN the nandS OF d
mere handful of greedy men, Capitalism mas broken
down There is no hope of permanent repair
There are but two alternatives. In super.Power,
mass production age there can be no fedsCrouuO u
wealth in the sense of dividing physical properties
among the people. Business ndvidualsm is gone IN
der any kind of government, we must i've Dy COMFY
tive effort or perish. We can either muooie DHnuIy
ahead attempting to preserve private ownership ana
profit beneficial to only few ana on lnto SOME
form of American Fascism that will be nOthmg less
than economic slavery We half way there now Or
we can do the plain common sense thing and max up
our minds to head for Production for Use planned econ
omy and an age of real abundance Tor ALL
Production for Use means the abolition OF private
ownership and private property an industry at Time
The taking over of mOnOpOZed natural resources ana
the great transportation and communication systems
as well banking and credit structures is Lhe IHsS
STEP This will destroy the power OF wan OCreet ano
break the industrial stagnation that inevitably results
from wealth concentration
AS the great business enterprises taken debt
must be wiped out gradually but no less certainly Inc
control must be taken out Of politics and lodged IN the
hands of trained men. The earnings must be used to
provide funds for the employment of idle man power
in useful production jobs and the creation OF new
wealth ECONOMY must be planned in light of the view
that enough can be produced and all humans must be
adequately cared for.
AS vet there is little hope of basic economic and So
cia change thru national action The Republican party
is one hundred percent for Wall Street The Democratic
party has removed of the political power from
BIG Business but has DONE and apparently contemplateS
doing nothing to the power to own, or econ
omc power from the Money Masters The power to own
the real power to rule So nationally shall contin
ue the drift toward Fascism for another four years
faced always by the threat of great collapse and chaos
Montana need not follow the national drift. We can
save ourselves by action at home The state is rich in
resources about eighty percent of which owned by
absentee landlords In the next four years take
over ALL or enough of this wealth to put all of idle
man power back to work out of it earning, and the
general prosperity that will be created by breaking
local industrial stagnation.
The job not boys play but be done by peace
able, orderly, democratic process that requires only
majority vote of the people. governor and legisa-
ture that will work with him is the key to change.
Tn state constitution must be revised sufficiently to
permit the legislature to take industries by major
iy VOTE to pay for these by certificates of income rah
er than bonds, to attach automatic tax that will
wipe out such incomes in three four generations
and to set up Economic Planning Board or Indus
trial General Staff for coordination and of these
industries The necessary constitutional revision can be
secured in three four months by short process and
ratified at special election The taking over of industry
follow rapidly details of change can be worked
out We have complete plan for the whole program
The so-called middle classes embracing all those
with middle class psychology, have the balance o.
power IN Montana, well as the nation. beve they
ready in sufficient numbers to break with the OLE
order and to fOreStal FaSciSm by joining Farmer
Dor or Farmer-L abOrTOwnsend Party that will striv
to the Townsend Plan nationally and likewise 70
deem state locally.