Montana labor news., 1946-06-20

"A cOrpse. lie. preserve some options
that Herbert Hoover had obtained
from the old Tsarist government for
Il British-American syndicate on mil
lions of acres of Russian oil. and 9th
CT mineral lands. Il might enthuse
the present Iranian argument il
britain wanted 10 use the oil there
for peaceful purposes. The past, pres
ent. and future use of lranian oil, was
is and will be. for the British navy.
The world could well dispense with
that navy today. simultaneously with
the Russian. French. Spanish. and
American navies. Churchill and Wheel
or advocate use of the British and
American navies against the Soviet
Union. The venal press OF London and
America are shocked that Russia
does not take these threats lying
down" in the tNOD
The not well hidden cause why
every day our press and radio bore
their patrons with silly but dangerous
SANDER Of Russian motives is eco
homie.
Advocates Ownership Of Industry BY
The People
While the more the Soviet produces,
the higher their standard of living
the more wealth we produce. the low.
or our standard of living. unless We
.ean find. or force. or buy with never
repaid loans. a market for the sur
plus that the American farmers and
workers produce above what the cap
~italists controlling the national. state
city. county. township governments
hermit them to retain. use and en-
Joy. If the British, French. Chinese
American farmer worker could capture
for his own welfare virtually all he
produces, there never would be any
more war. There would be no class
that could profit by a
There is an irrepressible conflict
between predatory capital III Europe
Britain. America, and socialism OF
communism. or public ownership oil
utilities and factories. by what evel
name freedom OF the common ma
from exploitation is called. There ar.
countless millions that feel and know
this. but cannot express their knowl
edge in words. but their ideas are
~fess0rs Of economics. Those people
have increased more rapidly in the
last 10 years than i'll any previous
decade. The capitalist class. theil
mouth pieces, such as Churchill ant
Wheeler. might well take stock tha'
the battle for more war is already
lost before the beam of civilized opin
ion.
The Soviet system is b~asically op
posed TO war. In that nation live 20t
million people. unconquered. uncon
, querable. In North China there ar,
so million. calling themselves con-
munists. really farmer-laborites. Il
Chechoslovakia. in Yugoslavia. TIL,
most numerous political party is tn
COMMUNIST lhoN Itiiy - HiiloSt
majority in France. DO you know tina
French territory on this little spher
is second to the largest, which is 0
course British? Uruguay is actual
closer to communism than Russia
Mexico is almost as close. The eco
monte systems of Sweden, Norwa,
Denmark are pretty nearly socializet
1T is in the air everywhere. Me
embrace it without knowing it. TIL
dean Of Canterbury wrote a book sta
ing truly the advance in Russia. .
million Americans read it eagerly.
Galleries may convert one-third {
Germany to communism. In the Ru
sian zone the German people are &c
ting 1900 calories the person til
day. In our zone 1,200. in the Frenc
and English zones 1850. One tho
sand five hundred calories is a su'
sistence ration, less than that is no
There are people who prefer enoue
food under communism to slow sta
walton under democracy.
There are 30 immense federal co
porations doing business in this cou'
try. This is all communism--by i
filtration.
President Truman asked congres
for a law permitting government
take over railroad or industry, pl
the operating profit in the Unite
States treasury, draft lie. punisl
any worker then refusing to work.
Stain was compelled to follow tn;
plan at first before the workers req