Montana labor news., 1938-05-19

Hoover-a government of, by and
for the banks, trusts and monopoliesl
That is all these modest people
wantl Repeal the Labor Relations
Act; go back to company unions
and industrial feudalism. Stop
spending for relief and public works
projects; drive the hungry millions
to the factory gates to be offered
by these self-appointed saviors OF
Americanism a wage of or below
that of the fascist countries. A Is
per cent wage cut for railway work
ers-but the railway companies only
ask rate increases for themselves and
huge additional government loans
they will never repay. This wage
cut demand is a mere hint of what
the Chamber of Commerce and the
National Association of Manufac-
turers have in mind for American
labor-if they can get away with it.
This small minority of the Ameri-
can people are against subsidies for
farmers. They want to drive the
poverty stricken farm population
into the army Of jobless millions
increase the competition for jobs at
starvation wages.
Since 1880 the Communist Party
has said that the main question for
the majority of American people is
at whose expense recovery should
take place: at the expense of the
great majority of people in poor and
moderate circumstances or of the
small minority of vast wealth-the
go families. So far, recovery-par-
tial and fleeting, has been, in spite
of the New Deal efforts, mainly at
the expense of the majority. But
in the main, and this is Of primary
importance, civil liberties and politi-
cal rights have been preserved and
even extended. 1t is essentially this
phenomenon that causes the vicious
attacks against the New Deal.
We Communists r in favor OF
solving every social, economic and
political problem by peaceful and
democratic methods. The threats tc
murder the President and acts Of
murderous violence on a wholesale
scale in this country and the rest Of
the world today come from mon
opoly capital in its vicious senility
they coincide with its fascist objec-
tives and its heroes-the bloody
handed fascist dictators.
This country can avoid the greater
part of the horrors of civil and class
warfare in other countries only i
the organized labor movement unite.
in face of its chief enemy-monopo.
ly; only if organized labor and th'
organized farmers, scientists, engi
neers, the liberal professions, thu
small business man-all whose in
terests are threatened by MONOPOLY
: capital and its dictatorial aims, com
, bine in one vast movement to riC
the halls of Congress and the stat
; legislatures, to purge the courts, o
the agents of social and political re
action no matter what their part,
label may be. More and more ar
Republican and Democratic label
meaningless as reaction perfects it
coalition. Great difficulties lie i
our way. Without exception tn
commercial press opposes the Ne1
Deal. OF all the dailies in this cour
try, only the three published by tn
Communist Party speak out clearl
and fearlessly for the rights and in
mediate needs of our people.
Collective agreement and deter
mined action-in line with the be-
traditions of the two great struggle
for unity and freedom waged by tn
Hberty-loving people of this natio
the wal for independence and tn
Civil War to preserve the union an
destroy chattel slavery-is the wa
toward useful work for all, securit.
preservation and extension of de
mocracy-and peace.
We Communists believe with w
shakable conviction that the preser
crisis can finally be solved only
favor of the majority Of the popul;
ton in a Socialist society-nationa
ization of the essential natural II
sources and finance and the publ
ownership of mines, mills, factori'
and public utilities-the necessa1
transition stage to the classics St
ciety of Communism.
We believe the New Deal must
supported with all energy so thi
its measures may help to reduce
a minimum the shock and sufferir
of this crisis as well as those of Il
inevitable social changes that a
taking place and that will take plat
in this epoch of twilight of wor.
capitalism-a system whose form,
services are cancelled out by Il
mass misery it now creates.
The working people of Montan
81 in mines, mills, smelter, offices az
railways, on the farms, the youth
schools and colleges, in a state who
ly dominated by monopoly capita
have a tremendous part to take
making these needed changes in OF
social order.
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