Montana labor news., 1938-11-03
oeasons Why Jerry J.
F(onneII Should Be
Returned 10 Congress
J'Connell Has Been Very Active
in the Support of the Workers
of Montana.

Next TUESDAY lne people OF oliver
Bow county, Montana, and of the
nation will go to the polls to cast
what is probably the most important
vote that any Americans have cast
in the entire history of this country.
At the polls on that day they will
decide whether the people of the
United States and of Montana will
continue to explore the possibilities
of progress toward a better and more
secure standard of living for every
one or whether they will revert to
the old system of rugged individ-
ualism" which personified the adj
ministration of Herbert Hoover and
those who dominated the govern
ment during his administration.
The fight which will be decided
at the polls next Tuesday is not a
new battle, it is a contest that has
been waged since the beginning of
time but which has been continually
growing more fierce and harsh since
the advent of the machine age. In
the age Of savagery and in the
feudal state the lot of the workers
was sufficiently difficult but with
the adoption of the machine the pro-
duction of unearned increment
which flowed into the hands of the
few owning such machines of pro-
duction became an increasingly
alarming force against which the
masses of workers were forced to
contend.
In such a situation workers at
first endeavored to destroy the
machines, to turn back the mex
orable hour hand of progress, to
defeat the inventive genius of man
kind. Then it became understood
that such a course was untenable,
that it was essential that the ma
chine remain an integral part of the
means of production and distribu-
ton. 1t became necessary for the
worker to reconcile himself to the
fact that the machine was here to
stay. But there was and is a grow
ing belief on the part of the vast
majority of mankind that the ma
chimes should exist for the benefit
of mar and not man as a slave to
the machines. Consequently the
problem that faces American citi-
zens today is whether they are to
master the machine or whether the
machines are to master them. The
owners of the mode of production
adamantly resist any e~ncroachment
on the part of the workers upon
their monopoly of plenty. 1t is for
the workers, the farmers who are
nothing more than workers without
a wage, the small businessmen who
are gradually being faced with ex-
tinction due to the memorable eco
nomic action, the professional mar
who is going broke with the mass
of his clients, to revolt against a
continued domination of the eco
nomic machine so that tomorrow
will see a free people, unfettered
and able to pursue a decent pursuit
Of happiness, able to find a security
for old age, capable Of running q
social system that will be devoted
to service to mankind rather than
profit for the greedy, sinful few
who loll in the lap of luxury at the
very top of the economic ladder.
The reason for the ~transcendent
Importance of the contemporary
election is that the forces of en-
trenched greedy these United States
are determined if possible, through
the exercise of sheer economic pow
er to elect a Congress which will be
antagonistic to the reform-recovery
administration of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. The big wigs Of
the money bags feel that if they
can elect a Congress which will cut
the Presidents feet out from under
him they will be able to stave of
friendly administration of New Deal
legislation already enacted into Law
and defeat proposed New Deal legis-
lation designed to put an end tc
other abuses. They feel that if they
are able thus to dominate the politi-
cal situation in the capitol for two
years they can then wage a cam
paign against Roosevelt, against re.
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