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prosperity Or Crisis In United States
By
John Pepper
» e Like St. John, Having a Revelation, Says in An
.' ^Statement, "The Country Is In State of Pros
^• Cia Times Will Be Good fo a Cong Time,
P enty '
i- » Disclose That America Is on Eve of Financial
Ökonomie Collapse the Likes of WWch This Contin
» Has Never Experienced, and This Breakdown Has
/Steady Set !"•
pio Iron Production Declines; Steel Ingot Produc
Decreases; Soft Coal Production and Raw Silk and
Presumption Register Declines; Food Prices Drop to
S, Basis- Iron and Steel Goes Down; Wool Prices Sag,
J^Üe Colton Mills Close Down, and Building Industry
Stomp*
Unemployment Looms— Million of Bankrupt Farm
j) ese rt Rural Life and Flock to Cities to Swell Distress
jßeat Down Prices of Labor, Foretelling Increased
jjjkery; Bankrupt Business Men By Thousands Joining
j^ks of Workers.
He S|g ns =
Ghastly
ers
., , Coolidge a False Prophet; Can Railroad Orders
^ c t Dav Is Presidential Election and Economic Disin
flation Coming Hand in Hand? Has "Republicanism"
1 * Its Charm? Will Farmer-Labor Party Win?
Lost
President Coolidge recently made an official statement an
economic conditions are good, that the country is
tue of prosperity and that favorable business conditions
* * "ji f or a long time. Production is going up, wages are in
jouncing that
"; P iR(r no unemployment in the country, the REPUBLICAN
nRTY I* 1N CONTROL, everything is all right, everybody is
"Revelation" is an actuality, the millenium hath
AND I SAW AN
YEARS." .
REVU VTION OF CALVIN
Thus spake the old Book of the "Revelation of John," and
•Revelation of Calvin" is as much a story of good as the
I1\T THE BELLS
" n,M„vih halleluyah rinz the bells, fall on your knees
« Jtet W ™le hath come down
'ot the heaven and bound the old serpent of business panic for
thoo'ld veaiV Halleluyah, halleluyah, the millenium hath
" . ' y *
(\m\ \ F AISE PROPHET
It is all so wonderful and good to hear; only it's a pity that
*i a single word of it is true. CALVIN IS A FALSE PROPHET,
The MILLENIUM has NOT ARRIVED. On the contrary. PROS
FERITY IS TENDING TO COME TO AN END, PRODUCTION
in the basic industries is DECLINING, wholesale prices are fall
a* tan. the FARMERS ARE BANKRUPT, and MASS UNEM
PL0VMENT is beginning to MENACE THE WORKING CLASS,
It is not the millenium of prosperity which is due in the age-long
cycles of capitalism, but the period of depression, panic and un
employment. That is the period concerning which the Books of
Bevelation says: "And when the thousand years are finished. Sat
» shall be loosed out of his prison and shall come forth to de
umv. the new
The old book of "Revelation" said ;
WGEL COMING DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN, HAVING
THF KEY OF THE ABYSS AND A GREAT CHAIN
IN HIS H \ND. AND HE LAID HOLD ON THE
ORVGON THE OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE
DEVIL VXD SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR A
AND THEY LIVED
come
THOUSAND YEARS. . .
REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND
AND
the new
o,d Gospel. With fiery tongue and eyes rolling with ecstacy, Cal
ïin Coolidge cries that the SATAN OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
IS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, and that the
CHRIST OF BUSINESS PROSPERITY WILL REIGN
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
eomei
By J. Louis
Engdahi
The Sixth Birthday-The Anniversary of the Triumph
WHAT BETTER ARGUMENTS TO PROVE THE
ST ABU IT Y THF IRRESISTIBLE POWER OF WORK
FRS'Ri I VIV THU Riiixr \ N SOVIET REPUBLIC,
ONITsUtvth TnkivprSARY NOV 1923 THAN
THE WORD? T U?FN^ OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
THP rvpMvi OL 1 U
^ •
HOW SURI IMF IS THE LIVING, ALL CON
QlERING TRUTH IN THE VAST MORASS, A VERI
I ABLE SARGOSSA SEA OF MALICIOUS MANUFAC
u RED FALSEHOODS!
Too* 0 , _ ... • -Forviivia ond ulaffue •
Mos " w b lower than at any time m all the days
They have claimed that the power of Gonnrvtmisri
r . ( ' J'.ening-, >' e s, as one instance, they now fear that the who
Norwegian labor movement will be won for the Communis
^national!_ Èm
i. They have charged the Russian workers apd peasants
^« ignorant, illiterate, yet Richard Strauss is mvited to Mos
to give symphony concerts ! How the truth pei sists.
the midst of lies. . , ,
at vu J or ^ ese truths come from the pages of one i ssu( b JV 0 ,
Random. Monday, Oct. 22nd, of the Chicago Tnbune, which has
tiinJV tse '* mos t bitter of the yellow sheets of the
\v!ÏÏ ba , nkers in capitalism's propaganda war against the young
orkers Republic.
; ul r i E u en on this triumphant Sixth Anniversary of iht success
JJ* Bolshevik Revolution, when even the emigre countei-ie\olu
I tzariJ'f kav e practically given up all hope of the r ® s ^i 1 o uss i an
Sovipi VI 16 Tribune keeps its ink guns in action agams ,
over it a ' e ' the ink used is as black as the lies i P
uver its printed
the
which
. Peasants'
pages of this publication help furnish the mile
to jo age the progress made by the work
Power in Russia. . „ . . 11ö
PI On the eve of the Sixth Birthday of the Soviets, let u
tel th iU SSue of October 22nd. We will pass by the first few
^ h l heir news of the developing'struggle for power of the
umÏÏl ' V0 ^ers, until we come to page five. Here m the first col
G« ut? n she . s upon the headline » "French Put Up Millio w
rvl an i rains » Soviet Envoy Wins Aid ofParis Ban •
are wÄ the story ~ 16118 how the haughty French impe> <
orced to put up 100,000,000 precious francs ($6,-90,000)
ceive the nation which are in the four corners of the earth." Cal
vin Coolidge is a false prophet. We are facing the reign of the
Devil and Satan, the reign of crisis, of factories shut down, long
hopeless lines before the factory gates, hundreds of thousands of
hungry unemployed. Coolidge is a FALSE PROPHET. And we
warn him (as for us, everybody knows, of course, that we wish
him only the best) that the same fate will befall him as befell the
false prophet in the 'Book of Revelation : "And the Devil that de
ceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where are
also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented
day and night forever and ever.
THE PROFANE FACTS
We must now array against Calvin's religious revelations,
the SOBER FACTS of the bulletins of the United States Steel
Corporation, the quotations of the Stock Exchange and the re
ports of the various government departments.
The latest report of the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE,
released on October 13, summarizes the situation thus : "Early re
ports on September business received by the bureau of census,
Department of Commerce, show slight DECLINES IN PRODUC
TIVE ACTIVITY from August . . . PIG IRON PRODUCTION
declined from 3,435,313 in August to 3,125,512 tons for Septem
ber. STEEL INGOT PRODUCTION at 3,313,354 tons compares
with 3,677,771 tons for August. ,. . Production of BITUMIN
OUS COAL and consumption of RAW SILK and TIN registered
decline. . . TOTAL EMPLOYMENT as measured by reports
from 1428 representative United States factories made a slight
decline from August. Bradstreet's wholesale food price index on
a 1913 base, at 142, compares with 140 for August. . . Prices
of iron and steel continued their DECLINE.
DEATH KNELL SOUNDED
IPs a pity that before he made his own revelation in the
of the government, Coolidge did not consult the Department
name
of Commerce of the government. He might have easily informed
himself that the death-knell of economic prosperity has sounded.
STEEL RINGS KNELL
The most important and most sensitive industry, the
STEEL AND IRON INDUSTRY, the most important barometer
of economic life, rings the death-knell of the industrial prosperity.
Steel ingot production reached its peak in May 1923, with 4,195,
800 tons. Since then, it has been declining, and in the last month,
in September, has fallen to 3,313,354 tons.
PRESENTS DARK PICTURE
And the future of the steel industry presents the darkest
sort of picture. The United States Steel Corporation reported on
Octber 10 that the UNFILLED ORDERS have declined since the
end of March when they were 7,433,332 tons to 5,035,750 tons at
the end of September which means a DECLINE OF NOT LESS
THAN 32 PER CENT. The United States Steel Corporation—as
the "Iron Age" states, is today touming out steel, on the average,
at 90 per cent of capacity, which means a decline of only 7 per
cent f rom the highest capacity of a few months ago. That means
that the steel corporation is not reducing its production in the
same proportion as reduction in new orders. That shows clearly
the plans of the steel trust. They wish to utilize their machines
up to full capacity. They will prepare the unfilled orders in a short
time, THEN THEY WILL SHUT DOWN THE MILLS AND WILL
THROW THE WORKERS BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOÜS
ANDS OUT ON THE STREET The economic depression in the
steel industry is already present-the new orders have decnedby
32 per cent, but the workers cannot feel it already, because pro
duction ha s declmed by on!y 7 per cent.
COPPER ALSO SLU .. ... . -,
The copper industry also has its crisis setting in Copper
has its lowest prices in a year, at 13c a pound, on the New York
market. .
TEXTILE MILLS CLOSE
In the textile industry the northern mills are hkely to cu.
tail operations report the New York Times of October 12, 1923.
Bradstreefs report says: "Trade m primary lines and dry goods
"with the Moscow government as credit for wheat and flax for
the coming year." Director Shemmann, ol the soviet Republic
State Bank, tells the Tribune correspondent at Pans, Henry
Wales, that "we (the Russians) expect soon to open our own
branch" in the United States.
The editorial page always carnes some mention of Soviet
Russia and this issue is no exception. This editorial deals with
the formation of the Russo-British Grain Expoit Company, oiga
nized for the purpose of marketing Russian wheat m England.
The ^ an ° tu i^ s S Wheat, Canada's prosperity, and
Canada's political relationship with England have been rudely
fhviist aside bv the group of business men composing the new or
^ ■ntotte ma, kel; where ^y^ g bg Russian, so
much the worse for Canada. So much for the Smuts theory of
making the British political commonwealth an economic common
wealth."
The Tribune mourns that capitalist greed for profits should
force it to aid in developing Soviet Rule for the abolition of all
profits. It is this greed that will persist to the end of the days of
the capitalist social order. ,
Yet on page sixteen of the same issue the Tribune seeks
to wipe away its tears with a copyright story from John Steele,
its correspondent at Christiana, Norway, predicting that the Nor
ueirian labor will go for the Communist International. The Tri
bune pins its hopes on the Magnussen, "the Socialist leader, the
Norwegian Compels. While The Tribune speculates on Magnus
sen's aspirations as a white hope, the Norwegians are buying 200,
000 C °\m'°on^page 1 seventeen^there is a "Tribune Radio" from Vienna Aus
îfi&S ÆrÂ^oSr^rÂfrf ffi«
t0 tn rome to Moscow to direct a series of symphony concerts,
opera, "infession is written down. The Tribune, like the rest of the
Of those who prey upon mankind, admits in its own columns that-it has
PS sU veariTof »S And there will be more lies! But the picking sun
lit of'truthls breaking through! But oh what a struggle .t has been! Read
what has happened through these six years.
THE DAY OF BIRTH.
Mnv 7 iQi7 The Kerensky government fell. The Communists came
Nov. I ine ^ «„tablished Workers not only in Europe, in
PEACE WITH GERMANY
The First Birthday! The treaty of Brest-Litovsk has
Nov. 7, 1918.—
and especially in cotton goods is unquestionably quieter than some
weeks ago. And the Hearst papers say: "Action of the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company in closing down its cotton mills was a
source of much disappointment to the optimists." The refusal of
the Japanese silk trust to deliver goods to America means, accord
ing to Daniel E. Douty, representative of the Silk Association of
America, that the great mills in Patterson and Passaic will be
compelled to close in October or in November. (Chicago Daily
Triune, October 3,1923).
COAL SITUATION GLOOMY
A special report from Pittsburgh, in the New York Times
of October 8, gives a clear picture of the COAL SITUATION :
"The Pittsburgh district coal market is very quiet, and it is dif
ruling, approxi
ficult to sell coal even at the lower prices now
mately equal, in steam and gas coal, to the lowest prices hitherto
official October 8 report of the Bureau of Mines shows,
BUILDING BOOM BLOWS UP
And even the building boom which was declared—the sur
est basis of the present prosperity, suffered a shock in September.
The New York Times reports on October 11 ; "CONTRARY TO
PREDICTIONS based on preliminary returns of building for Sep
tember, the total for the month will fall below August. But the
real position of the building industry is given by the Octobei 8
survey of the Bureau of Census, that building activity consists
mostly of the erecting of residential buildings, and the electing
of INDUSTRIAL buildings is declining greatly. That is one ot
made this year—in July—and in by-product coal, lower- than any
prices seen for a long time."
OIL INDUSTRY WRECKED
The oil industry is facing one of the deepest crisises—an over
production. Scores of oil refineries are closing their doors, as the
the most important signs of the approaching end of prosperity,
The capitalists no longer possess confidence, and see no hope for
increasing industrial activity; they are not putting up new fac
tories and business buildings.
building, are on the decline.
THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYED IS DECREASING
jpj ALMOST EVERY STATE AND INDUSTRIAL CEN
TER. ,
The trusts are striving to put off the starting of the
crisis, by means of big orders for railroad material; but that is
the last reserve which capitalism can throw into the economic
lif e , i n order to hold off the coming of the crisis.
Another few months, and the crisis will be upon u
anc j with the crisis there will be once more hundreds of thous
ans anc j millions of unemployed, and the position of the work
i ng c \ ass w [\\ be more frightful than that of 1920-21. The
industrial working class has grown considerably in the last
year by the migration of two million of the farming popula
tions from the farms. These millions were able to find work
during the industrial prosperity of and by the exodus of the
negroes from the South 1922-23. But what will be 'He fat«
D f t H e new three million bankrupt farmers who, as the OhH
CIAL ESTIMATE states, will have left the farms m 1923.
When the crisis comes, the number of unemployed
w iU be even greater than in the last crisis when the number
was between five and ^million.
THE NEXT ECONOMIC CRISIS IN ™EU N M
ED ^TAT^_WHICH WILL COINCIDE Wll H ht
rur^n iqimtfpIr ATUYnPoF THE OLD CAPITALIST
partifs AMP) WITH THF MOVEMENTS FOR A
PARTIES AND ^™.™ ro r p a ofy WILL BE A
THIRD F^RTYANDA LABOR PARTY WILL BE A
MArliminU C
MAGNITUDE,
NOT COME.
FACING THE NEW CRISIS
The most important industries, steel, iron, coal, textile
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NO, MR. COOLIDGE, THE MILLENIUM HAS
been signed Vthe'King of England,
whUe John Reed is arrested for making a speech exposing mtervention against
the First Wor kers' Republic, an intervention that involved the United States
and halted the first efforts at reconstruction uder Sovtet Rule.
INTERVENTION IS DEFEATED
Nov. 7, 1919—The Second Birthday! All attempts of the Wilson ad
ministration in alliance with European imperialism to stab the Soviet Repub
lic in the back have failed, altho the Soviet Republics m Bavaria and Hun
gary have been overthrown and the Spartacist uprisings in Germany have
been drowned in blood, the blood of the workers with the Soc jf^ e "
among the hangmen with Liebknecht and Luxemburg dead. The Treaty of
Versailles is signed—the Death Knell of Capitalism.
THE DRIVE FOR TRADE RELATIONS
Nov 7, 1920. The Third Birthday! Negotiations for trade relations
between Soviet Russia and Great Britian are being held by O Grade and
Krassin at Copenhagen. Other nations refuse to recognize Soviet Russia in
any way. But the imperialists' iron ring, the cordon sanitaire, about Free
Russia is breaking.
, POLAND'S LAST FUTILE ATTACK.
Nov. 7, 1921—The Fourth Birthday! The wars of intervention Have
been fought out victoriously against the allied white hopes—Kolchak, Yude
nitch Deniken, Wrangel and the rest, while American labor is demanding
trade relations with the Soviet Republic. American troops mutiny at Mur
mansk and in Siberia, and are brought home, the Polish White Ten-or makes
a last futile attack and the Kronstadt revolt is quelled. The United States
continues to spread Anti-Soviet propaganda, however, while England, Italy,
Germany and other European powers maneuver for Soviet trade.
FIGHTING THE FAMINE
Nov. 7, 1922—The Fifth Birthday! Soviet Russia meets with world
imperialism at the Genoa and Hague conference, while famine sweeps the
Volea Valley, and labor thruout the world rallies to the relief of the Starv
ing- workers and peasants. Anniversary celebration marked by Fourth World
Congress of the Communist International of Labor Unions at Moscow. 1 he
trial of the social revolutionaries exposes alliance of "Socialists" with the
monarchist reaction.
THE FINAL TRIUMPH.
Nov. 7, 192a—The Sixth Birthday! The famine has been liquidated.
The harvest is good. Great exhibition in Moscow shows tremendous progress
made in rehabilitation of Russian agriculture. Red Army of 600,000 and
n-rowing air fleet is protection against invasion and promise of help to
revolutionary workers of Western Europe. The First Workers' Republic is
far on the road toward complete recovery.
The broad highway is cleared for the march of the workers and peas
under Soviet Rule forward into pure Communism.
^ History will record this quick recovery of the Russian people, under the
Soviets from the European war, the civil wars, foreign intervention, famine
and plague, as the greatest achievement anywhere of mankind in its long
struggle upward from slavery to freedom. •
ancs
This fact should be brought home
to the American people, on this Sixth
Anniversary of the Russian Soviet
Republic, that it took the American
revolutionist, of 1776, eleven years
before they finally adopted their Fed
eral Constitution and established a
stable government.
Sovie Rule in Russia has had a
constitution since the day it was cre
ated. The Russian Socialist Federat
ed Soviet Republic has stood against
the capitalist world, and its Sixth An
niversary is its Anniversary of Tri
umph.
What Soviet Rule has accomplished
during the past six years is a glori
ous promise of what it can and will
achieve in the brighter days ahead.
APPOINT AUTO DEALER
TO COUNTY BOARD JOB
* Helena, Nov. 8.—John W. Shyrock,
a Helena automobile dealer, was Mon
day appointed to the office of com
missioner of Lewis and Clark county
to fill out the tenu of W. M. Biggs
who died about a week ago. The ap
pointment of Mr. Shryock, who is _ a
democrat, was made by District
Judges W. H. Poorman and A. J.
Horsky, both republicans.
MARRIED
Norman Marion and Helen Marion,
both of Grenora, N. D., at the Cong.
Parsonage Thursday, November 1st.
said
"Mob law and lynch law,
Federal Judge George M. Bourquin
recently, in charging the jury
mob violence case in Billings, Mont.,
"mean the dissolution of government
and society, and if juries give heed
to the specious plea of patriotism
and refuse to vindicate the victims,
they inspire distrust in overthrow of
—Civil Liberties Union Bulletin, Oct.
22nd.
in a
THE WEEK END
So ^|^ R ^ la J ie th ^ a f r ®2î > er sees
E > en tho the svm reason points
To shadow? of the past.
To Develop the Weak End
THE DREAMER
Life of man is like the daytime and
His death is like the night,
And the span between is brightened by
A real and living light.
The sun of reason's shining may
Be shadowed by a cloud,
But the dreamer's inner vision is
With greater power endowed.
A light that's ever burning leads
The dreamer on his way,
No night but night eternal can
Dispel eternal 4 a y*
Not everyone who sleeps is a
Dreamer.
THE FELLOW WHO DOESN'T
BELONG TO SOME ORGANIZA
TION IS LIKE A STRAY LAMB
SURROUNDED BY A
PACK OF WOLVES I
LAMB CHOPS IS A RICH
DISH.
OUR WEEKLY WAGER
We'll bet » counterfeit german mark
against the amount the farmers w«re
robbed of in the past three years that
there will never be another war in
volving the United States—that if
war breaks out again in Europe the
people will not believe any of the
stories of atrocity which may reach
their attention and that the young
men of the country will never again
be called upon to fight in foreign
lands.
IF HENRY FORD RUNS—
Do you suppose he won't get a lot of
Scandinavian votes?
the f aller that built the tractor?
Ain't Fovflson
THE POOR NUT SAYS
"I jis' read a article about the
Fed'ral Reserve Bunking System an'
in it the writer sez 'Don't try to un
nerstan' the Fed'ral Reserve Banking
System—even the men who operate it
don't unnerstan' it!'
"Say Bo THAT was a most en
lightenin' remark to me. It gave me
a idee all at onct on the Fed'ral Re
serve System an' I bet I can work
the puzzle now.
"Onct upon a time I was tryin' to
get a line on the Westinghouse Aair
brake System an' I asked a engineer
about how it worked an' he finally sez
'I KNOW HOW TO OPERATE IT
BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT!'
"So we couples up the Bureau of
Engraving air pump to the Fed'ral
Reserve Board reservoir and connect
it with all the Regional Bank auxil
iary reservoirs which in turn is hook
ed up to all the triple-valve banks in
the country an' we are ready to ap
ply the brakes thjru the operation of
one brake valve in the hands of the
engineer.
"To apply a Westing house Air
brake the engineer reduces or deflates
the pressure about ten pounds to the
square inch—To operate the Fed'ral
Reserve brakes they deflate ten cents
to the dollar—get it?"
"P. S.—The onie difference I sees
between the Westinghouse air brake
an' the Fed'ral Reserve air brake is
that if the engineer deflated the pres
sure on the Westinghouse system fif
ty pounds he'd wreck the whole train
an' when they deflated us fifty cents
to the dollar they onie wrecked about
two-thirds of the train.
THE WORD 'FEDERAL' IMPLIES
GOVERNMENT CONTROL, BUT,
AS IT IS USED ABOVE, IT DOES
NOT MEAN ANY MORE THAN
'AMERICAN' ATTACHED TO AN
EXPRESS COMPANY'.
FOOTNOTE
Equal opportunity must sound fun
ny to the one-leg fellow who has to
buy a pair of shoes to get the one
he needs. B1LLICAN.