Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
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IL ldlSG SuCIi DdSlC looutsj oO oliipAC
that any child can understand them,
would mean of course to place
blame for unemployment in Butte
and Montana, place the blame
for poor business where it
belongs-on the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company = the absentee
overload of the state of Montana
and its people.
Do the members of the Butte
chamber of commerce believe that
the Butte Better Business Builder
campaign committeeman with all
the adolescent mummery of titles
like architect, superintendent, con-
tractors, foremen, etc." can lift
Butte business by its bootstraps I'M
less the A. C. M. keeps its mines
and smelters running-or is made
to keep them running?
One cannot believe that even
Butte business men who have been
taken for a ride periodically in the
stock market by those great COM
munity benefactors, the inside clique
of Anaconda officials, are so idiotic
as to believe such nonsense. They
do not believe it.
Many if not most of them are
avid readers of the syndicated col
umns of Sokolsky New York Her
ld-Tribune), Dorothy Thompson of
the same reactionary Republican
party sheet, of Walter Lippman, on
the same payroll-and of the Sat
urday Evening Post. They sing the
same tune. As a matter of fact,
while these writer's and publications
express anti-New Deal reaction in
a clear form, it is safe to say that
at least SO per cent of the daily
papers of the country r opposing
the New Deal and the Roosevelt
social program. In one way or an
other they sound the same note-an
alarming and sinister note, one not
sounded in this country since the
Civil War and the assassination of
President Lincoln.
The social and political issues
arising around the anti-lynching
bill now before the Congress have
brought forth another barrage of
unrestrained denunciation of the
New Deal, the President and his
supporters. Again, not since the
Civil War has such a threatening
note been sounded. The anti-lynch-
ing bill has been used by the daily
press, in the north and south, to
whip up New Deal enemies to an
other high pitch of irresponsible
frenzy.
More than one Washington cor
respondent has said privately that
there is murder in the air" Against
whom is this frothing frenzy, much
like that of a lynch mob-a we'll
dressed mob, of course-directed?
Let the Saturday Evening Post
itself answer this question. In its
issue for Jan. Is the SEP publishes
as its leading political article a dia-
tribe against President Roosevelt, by
one Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., en-
titled "A Republic-If You Can
Keep It."
This article attacks the President
on the Supreme Court issue. 1t
accuses him, almost in so many
words, of trying to 'usurp' the
powers of the Supreme Court and
therefore the Constitution. 1t de-
clares that President Roosevelt is
an enemy of the republic, i. e., a
traitor.
The article ends with the follow
ing paragraph whose implications
are such as to alarm every person
who understands that the main issue
in this country today is the tyranny
of monopoly capital, economic and
political, versus the right to live
and work as a free people:
81 say that whoever attacks the
judges guardianship of our liberties
is an enemy Of those liberties, and
of the republic, and should be treat
ed as such"
Statements of this kind, made
openly by special pleaders for the
giant trusts and monopolies, in pub
locations with the enormous circula-
ton of the Saturday Evening Post,
taken in connection with the lawless
and bloody record of the great
corporations and their agents in this
country, have but one logical mo-
tive-justification in advance of
assassination, the elevation of the
reactionary Garner to the presiden-
cy and the beginning of civil war
against wage earners and farmers
for the establishment of a fascist
government, naked and unashamed,
carrying out the program of mon
opoly capital, suppression of the
popular will and unrestricted rob-
berry of all who work.
The billboard campaign of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce has already begun in Butte.
We ask the members Of the Butte
| Chamber of Commerce: How about
the rest of the campaign as set forth
in the Saturday Evening Post? Do
you intend to 60 through with it?
Do you have such a low estimate of
the intelligence of the members of