The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-05
LABOR ASLEEP
BY BEN BUCKLEY

The paralysis OF faScfSm is SLOWLY
creeping over the people as they calm
ly sit in their satisfied ignorance
duly surveying the situation without
a realization of the drift of the tide
A year ago the rats of the fascist
the un-American element that have
wormed their way into the organiza.
lions of the progressive free thinkers
and labor organizations hardly dared
to lift their head to more than growl
| | guess orders must have reached
these underground denizens to come
into the sunshine and start the at
tack. Two glazing instances stand
out amongst the thousands of little
ones that are noticeable to those who
know how to look for them.
Speaking locally, there was a joint
meeting called by the Miners Union
No. of Butte and the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council. The kept
press smeared the state with lies and
propaganda, daubed the gathering a
red front" meeting for the purpose
of sabotaging the legislature. Every
one who was acquainted with the dele
gates of the meeting knows that the
great majority Of them wouldn't know
a communist from Murphy's cow.
know there were delegates there that
If you had asked them If they liked
communists would have told you that
they didn't know as they had never
tasted any.
Another glazing instance happened
in the legislature on the floor of the
House when Representative Goodwin
tried to brand Representative Spiegel
communist because he, Sniegel
spoke against a bill drawn to per-
petuate the Dies committee. 1t isn't
question of whether the bill was
right or wrong. Representative
Spiegel was present to represent the
people that sent him there by their
vote, and he knew that his people
were not in favor of bill of that kind.
Mr.. Spiegel has been known for years
as a conscientious member of the A.
F. of L. while Goodwin has been
tagged for just as many years as a
tool of the big interests.
The writer's of the letters that the
kept press have been conveying In
their papers since the so-called red
should warn the membership
of those locals that there Is some
thing wrong within their union. Name
ly that those in authority are not well
enough versed in political strategy to
carry on an organization of that kind
Or else they are paid saboteurs placed
there by the powers-that-be for that
purpose.
A little book called the Labor Spy
Racket made up from the investiga-
tons of the LaFollette Investigating
Committee brings to light that there
isn't any organization formed for the
betterment of the working class that's
too small to have a paid labor spy.
The Labor Spy Racket should be read
by every union man in the state of
Montana, and | am sure that some of
you will understand things that never
even occurred to you before. The
5tae president of the Montana Fedora
lion of Labor has a supply on hand.
Get one-read one-learn-and be sur
,rised! And remember that that Fifth |
Column doesn't lie in the ranks of the |
common people but is in the Morgans,
he Henry Fords, the Industrial Capt. |
al of England, Spain, France, Ger
many and the rest.
Fascism, to succeed, must first of
Ill create a hysteria. Hitler created
lis hysteria by using the Jew and then
he labor organizations and then civil
iberties. Dies is the Front Man here,
he rabble rouser of America. The
,nly difference in his tactics and Hit
er's is that Dies is starting the show
~ red-baiting, after that it's labor
lnions, civil liberties and so on. It's
Ip to you, the common people, what
our lot will be in the future. The
how is yours to run, If you think it's
worth while to come out from under
he ether and take hold.