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THE PRODUCERS NEWS Paper of the people, By the People, For the People By the Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers. CONTINUING—The Outlook Promoter, The Outlook Optomist, The Dooley Sun, the Antelope Independent, The Sheridan County News, The Pioneer Press and the Sheridan County Farmer. CHARLLES E. TAYLOR, Manager P. J. WALLACE, Editor FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928 SMITH, REED AND WALSH A few weeks ago we gave our readers the "low lown on Herbert Hoover, one of the republican can didates for the presidency. We now turn to the other party of capitalism—the Democratic wing. Ihis year the Democrats have three leading candi* dates now looking for the nomination. They are Gov ernor Smith 'of New York, Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Walsh of Montana. All three are national figures. They are outstanding men in their different lines. Governor Smith has been many times chief execu tive of the greatest state in the union. Measured bj, the yardstick of things as they are it must be conceded that he has been a successful administrator—a man of broad sympathy and independent thought, iried to find the greatest common denominator in state government and has given his people the advantage ol a trained governmental mind. The people of his state have appreciated this and have returned him to A1 Smith, as he is affectionately called, could well be perpetual Governor of New York, if the presidential bee did not buzz too loudly in his bonnet and if his urban admirers, longing for self pression, did not fall victims to a consuming desire to see him adorn the white house. Senator Jim Reed from Missouri is another candi He is by far the most bidding for the presidential nomination. President the people would know that somebody in the chair of Washington and Lincoln. For Jim Reed is the kind of man who was not hogtied by the rupt Wilson machine during and after the opposed the world court and the League of Nations fiercely that the Wilson dynasty opposed his election as Senator from Missouri. because of the opposition of the international Bankers. Jim Reed would be too independent a man in the White House. Then there is the Hon. Tom Walsh. We are all fa miliar with the Teapot Dorn affair. The Standard Oil wanted Doheny and Sinclair removed from the field of competition for valuable government leases. And Tom was put on the job backed by the publicity of the Oil and Copper press. Thus Tom was made quite a hero in the minds of the boobery. But there are some who remember his Tory proclivities during the war; his fatherhood of the Espionage Law; his General Leasing act of 1920 under which the Oil interests looted the public domain; his support of the World Court and oth er Wall Street foreign policies and his lead in the fight to give the valuable Flathead power sites to his straw boss—the Montana Power Company. There is an important difference between A1 and Tom. A1 believes in setting up a state authority to operate and develop the hydro-electric power sites of New York state. Tom believes in giving the whole thing to the Montana Power Company. The democrats of Montana will have an opportunity of deciding which man is the best and which policy is the best, in May. We will be there to help keep the Montana Power Company and the representatives of the Standard Oil neutral. He has power time after time. ex date. spectacular candidate If he became was cor war. He so Reed won't have a chance SNAKE PROPAGANDA Last week our readers received a copy of a publica tion called "Labor" which is published in Washington, D. C. It contained an editorial which complained that the Butte Miner did not publish the trash Wheeler is giving out in Pennsylvania about the strike down there. Labor" professes to believe that the Clark Copper interests are suppressing facts about our Junior Senator. But this so-called organ of Labor did not complain about the Anaconda press. Why? Is "Labor" making a united front with the Anaconda copper press to de feat the progressive farmers and labor forces of the state and help re-elect this stoolpigeon of the Anacon da for another term in the United States Senate? We await an answer to the following telegrams: Keating, Editor Labor, Washington, D. C. People of state want to know whether Wheel er or agent of Anaconda Company paid you for snake propaganda published in issue of How many issues did you send into state and why do you support can didate of Montana Power against labor and farmer organizations of state ? Let us know if Editorial Committee of Brotherhoods approve this snake propaganda favoring stoolpigeon of Anaconda. March 10 (stop) Producers News. N NIGHT LETTER Robertson, President Locomotive Engineers, Labor Building, Washington, D. C. Progressive Farmers and Labor Organiza tions of state want to know whether Anaconda Company paid for lauditory statements in March 10 edition of Labor sent wholesale into state. Wheeler opposed and regarded by La bor and Farmers as stoolpigeon of Montana Power and voted for giving away Flathead sites to trust. If this snake propaganda con tinues we will feel justified in publishing affi davits in our possession showing looting of Engineers Bank not yet brought to light and will issue one hundred thousand copies. Producers News. Each member of the Board of Editorial Control "Labor" received the following telegram: "Several thousand copies of Labor praising Wheeler stoolpigeon of Anaconda Copper and Montana Power distributed in state (stop) Advices from Butte indicate copper interests pay for this propaganda (stop) meeting of your board to investigate whether your editor has received cash for these issues from Anaconda Company and why he is sup porting candidate who voted for World Court, the giving of the Flathead Sites to the Mon tana Power Company, and who has caused the labor and farmer forces of the state to seek new candidate to oppose him at next election (stop) Wire when board meets so that we may have opportunity to present facts show ing why Wheeler was forced out of United States District Attorneyship and why he has forfeited support of progressive elements of Montana. Demand NATIONAL DIRECTORY, Progressive Farmers of America. By P. J. Wallace, General Counsel. The telegrams tell their story. We await the meet In the mean ing of the Editorial Board of "Labor", time we are sharpening our swords for the battle. We submitted the information that resulted in the Locomotive Engineers partially cleaning out the loot ers of the Labor Banks. We stand ready to finish the job. And we are also ready to clean the editorial rooms of grafters who accept corporation gold and in the guise of friends of labor help to rivet the chains on the people they profess to save. is M JOE DOLIN'S "CLEAN-HOUSERS Joe Dolih of Medicine Lake has decided to put a county ticket up at the next primary. He says it will be called a "Clean House" ticket, named presumably after the odorous one of that name which appeared in Roosevelt County some years ago. Joe is a clean houser from away back. The people of Sheridan County will appreciate the fact that he is making a ticket for them. Following Joe's editorial warning that he was going to inflict his "Clean House" on an unsuspecting pub lic there was a meeting held in Plentywood, we are informed by the Tribune correspondent, who is believed to be Lard S. Olson, the finger print expert who was _ such a "clean" Justice of the Peace. The people of Plentywood rubbed their eyes when informed by the Tribune that delegates from each precinct were present at the Plentywood meeting and that the democrats of our fair city asked leave to be present and cooperate in the "Clean House" campaign. He said that one democrat offered a check in three figures. There are two democrats in Plentywood. names are J. J. Gunther and Gus Riba. Draw, if you can, a mental picture of J. J. Gunther or Gus Riba ap pearing unannounced and offering to contribute a check of three figures to the "Clean House" campaign of Joe Dolin and Lew Onstad. Some irreverent souls say that there was no such meeting as that reported in the Tribune at all. In stead P. G. Anderson, L. S. Olson, Aage Larsen, Ed. Iverson, Frank French, L. J. Onstad, Joe Dolin, C. S. Nelson, Carl Peterson and a few more met a la the Three Tailors of Tooley Street and called themselves the republicans of the county. Carl Peterson was fav ored for Clerk of the Court. Old L. J. Onstad had a big lightning rod protruding from his person. But the lightning seemed to go in the direction of George Cudhie. Perhaps Lew's rod was grounded and aged in wood and for that reason became a non-con ductor. But the world is not so harsh, Lew will have the en dorsement of the "boys" he met with as candidate against Judge McElroy, If Lew beats Judge McElroy he will, at least, have the coveted title of "Judge" pre fixed to his name. And that's that. Their Elements of Political Education 17. WHAT WAS THE CITY ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN FEUDAL SOCIETY? The most trustworthy data about the formation of the mediaeval city explains the economic system of the majority of cities as a result of the economic develop ment of the fuedal domain or village communities (the German cities). Being originally nothing but the täte of a lord or peasant settlements, distinguished from villages only by their fortifications, (walled places, fortresses) soon became market places. In the cities of the ancient world, the city inhabit ant is at the same time a landowner carrying on agri culture with the help of slaves or lessees; there is not yet any division of labor between the city and the vil lage. The mediaeval European cities which the 8th century are separated before all by their omic activity. The village produces raw materials and food products, and the city engages in the working-up of these raw materials and by means of trade begins to attract from other countries whatever it cannot pro duce itself. The peasants and burghers exchange their products thru the medium of the city market, trast with the ancient city which was predominantly a consuming center, the mediaeval city do not live slave labor or es the cities arose in econ In con on the tribute of subject peoples as did the Greek and Roman cities. They live, if they are landlords, on the rent and compulsory labor of their peasants; if they are artisans, on the product of their handicraft work; if they are merchants by the change of products, by the sale of them beyond borders of the city, on ex the Thus, within the city there develop two classes known to former societies—the class of independent artisans, and the class of merchants. These classes arise on the basis of exchange economy which is cap able of development to a much greater degree than the closed-in natural economy of the feudal domain. Less dependence upon the landlord, from whom the artisan has bought himself off by paying rent, and consequent ly comparatively free labor, the growth of the special ization of labor, the development of ways of communi cation and commercial relations, the raising of the pro ductivity of labor, as a result of technical improve ments—all this made possible the enrichment of the cities, the growth of the economic influence and power of the two chief city classes—the artisans and the merchants. un While the city in the course of several centuries de veloped great economic and political strength, beyond its borders, in the village localities, there was stagna tion. There land ownership was the only form of pro perty, and agriculture the chief and almost the sole occupation. The land was the property of the land lords and the church, and agricultural labor lay on the shoulders of the peasants, bound to the soil, personally not free, immovable, heavily oppressed and the com plete opposite of the burgher—energetic, mobile freed from the power of the lord, and therefore rapidly quiring an exclusive influence over the path and de velopment of the whole economic life. Altho the city in the first centuries of its existence was still not completely cut off from agriculture, it firstly took on more intensive forms—special cultiva tion, gardening, wine-making, and secondly, an inde pendent, variegated, branch of labor-the handicrafts was developing and quickly reached a flourishing state. V 8 016 f nter of "'»«Wal activity, the center of exchange, the market, the place rlrrnlnf' 011 ^*** place develops. Th circulation of money draws the village into the sphere if oTnaT 1 * 6 ; m g P ° SSible the rapid ann üdlation in L / a Ural eC ° n0my Wlth its limited possibilities for the development of the productive forces. ac where the An Alaska store is creating much talk by passing out pennies in change, the first ever seen by many na tives—who think they are nickles with an inferiority complex. „ The King of Arabia is having a motor car built laree enough to take his twenty wives with him Think o fit; twenty back-seat drivers I on tour. Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE Admiral Magruder who was brave and now is free. Ask Chinese in China By Scott Nearine Federated Press „ ' , . Foreign penetration of China has been the theme of a ereat deal of re cent comment. It is overdone. China still Chinese. How many foreigners are there in China? The Chinese Economic Journal esti mates that in 1925 there were 336,841 foreigners in a population of about 45,000,000. That is 1 foreigner for each 1300 Chinese. In the United States in 1920 there was 1 foreigner for each 7 nativeborn Americans. In comparison with the United States, foreign penetration of China has scarcely begun. To be sure, the number of foreign ers in China is on the increase. In 1890 it was 8001; 13,421 in 1898; 144, 754 in 1129; 326,069 in 1920 and 336, 841 in 1925 but the chief increases came before 1919. Since that year the foreign population in China has been almost at a standstill. Who are these foreigners in Chifla? Two-thirds of them were Japanese (218,351 in 1925); a Russians; 15,247 i Americans; 3,739 Portuguese; 3,030 ermans; 2,596 French and 216 Span ish. All Europeans combined made up only about 1-10,000 of the total Chi nese population. The Japanese are meeting with sharp hostility because of their evident imperialist aims, and the number of Russians (mostly coun ter revolutionary Russians) is rapidly quarter were British; 9,844 were Pearl of Pacific is Profiteer s Heaven Leland Olds, Federated Press Hawaii may be a land of floweis and exotic pleasures for millionaire tourists but it is also a province of the American capitalist empire in which exploitation of cheap labor pro duces a golden flow of dividends. Ac cording to a Honolulu dispatch to the Wall Street Journal, 29 Hawaiian companies, chiefly sugar and pineap ples, paid 1927 dividends totaling $17,700,243, a gain of nearly $3,000, 000 over 1926, Compared with the great American trusts the Hawaiian dividends do not appear startling. But the entire pop ulation of Hawaii is under 300,000, about equal to the number of workers on the Û. S. Steel-corporation Payroll in 1926, The cash dividends of these Hawaiian companies actually repre-. sent about a sixth of the value of all the products exported from the islands annually and they provide a high re turn on the capital invested in the enterprises. Honolulu Consolidated Oil leads with cash dividends amounting to $2, 834,700, a return of 30% on the par value of the stock, account the 200% stock dividend 1922, the stockholders are actually ceiving a 90% cash dividend. If we take into For 1926 it was 91%% and in 1925, 84%. Capitalists Worry About Jobs By Leland Olds, 'Federated Press Has capitalism still the vitality necessary to throw up new industries for the workers displaced by the chine process? Or will the solution throws an interesting sidelight when he says: "It is only lately that orga nized labor and its leaders have been converted from their traditional en ma found, as in all senile systems, in widespread public works at low wages or in doles? "The unemployment figures issued by the American Federation of La bor," says the Wall Street Journal, "really mark an advance in mechanic al power which will work to the ulti mate benefit of the entire population. Power is one of the first essentials of industry. Producers will and must use whatever power is cheapest, whether man or mechanical. "Progress of industry and employ ment of labor at good wages are de pendent upon mechanical power. This has put some men out of employment, temporarily at least. But it does not mean permanent unemployment, means progress, for ultimately industries will take up the slack. To this the owner of the journal, C. W. Barron, adds his word: "Pro gress is not by keeping the same in dustries running at or near capacity. Prepress is by the destruction of industries and the creation of ones. The buggy and wagon business has gone as progress has brought in the motor car. We substitute silks for cotton, steel and cement for tim ber and boards, ' moving pictures for books, telegrams for letters, and in all these is the progress of man. "Invention and machinery simply shift employment, and new arts and industries are needful for reemploy ÏD ent an d for the progress of man. We should always remember that la bor consumes more than 90% of what labor produces. The problem is there fore the reorganization of labor that it may produce to satisfy, its and our ever-increasing wants." It all hinges on whether capitalist progress can go on forever. If not, the reorganization of labor so that it may produce to satisfy its own ever increasing wants, will eventually mean something more drastic than waiting for new industries to develop. It will mean a reorganization of the wage system. Irving Fisher of Yale university it new some new so own REAL ESTATE — and INSURANCE ) Fire Windstorm Automobile Plate Glass Insurance and Surety Bonds Call on our office when you are in the market for real estate F. D. MORCK AGENCY Established I 911 Montaaa Plentywood diminishing ((144,413 in 1920 and <9,r 795 in 1925.) . . ., Tsingtau furnishes an interesting u lustration of the place of foreigners in China. It was held by Germany from 1898 to 1915 and by Japan from 1915 to 1922. It was therefore sub ject to the full influence of foreign control for a quarter of a century. In 1925 there were in Tsingtau 284,73a Chinese and 8,879 foreigners; 8,164 Japanese; 256 Russians, 173 Germans, 103 Americans, 21 French, 12 Kore 12 Dutch and 100 others from ans, various countries. The Japanese pop ulation of Tsingtau has decreased one third since 1922 when they lost their monopoly. There are only about 600 Europeans and Americans in this pop ulation of more than a quarter of a million. Hongkong is a part of the British Empire. It was stolen from China in 1842 and has been held by Great Brit ain for more than 80 years. Among its 623,224 inhabitants there are 610, 368 Chinese, 8,359 Europeans and 4, 497 other foreigners. These are coast cities—concessions or foreign possessions. In an inland province like Szechian, with it popula tion of 55,000,000 Chinese, the total number of foreigners, including Ja panese would not crowd a single train in the New York subway. China is still Chinese. In a few of the coast cities the foreigners make up less than 1% of the population. But in the interior of China foreigners are almost as rare, in 1928, as Es kimos in the United States in Germany. or negroes Since 1920 the owners have received in cash 470% on their investment. Wawaiian Commercial Sugar, with cash dividends totaling $1,500,000, gave stockholders a return of 15%. Bewer & Co. paid its owners $1,120, 000 or 51% on their investment while American Factors paid its stockhold ers $1,300,000 or about 22%. gether 12 Hawaiian corporations paid cash dividends in 1927 of more than 20% on the actual investment. A study of the board of directors of 26 of the 29 Hawaiian companies in the Wall Street Journal tabulation re veals extraordinary centralization of control over the economic life of the islands. The Atherton family holds 11 directorships in 10 companies and the Cooke family holds 16 directorships in 13 of these companies. Control of the island appears to radiate from 3 concerns. Alexander & Baldwin has 28 directorships in 17 of the companies; American Factors has 30 directorships in 15 companies and Bewer & Co. 31 directors in 12 companies. To cap the pyramid, rep resentatives of Aleaxnder & Baldwin sit on the boards of both American Factors and Bewer & Co. The con trol of this group reaches every cor poration in the journal's list includ ing railroads, utilities and navigation, as well as sugar, pineapples and oil. Alto of re Jot Economical Transportation HI «7 I This Car > I has been carefully checked and recon ditioned where necessary » ! t a 1 I V Motor v.Radiator Look For the Red O. K."Tag vRear Axle a V Transmission v Starting V Lighting After we have thoroughly reconditioned ausedcar, we attach a red "O. K." tag to the radiator cap. This tag certifies that the vi tal units of thecar have been gone over completely by ex pert mechanics and put in condition to give thousands of miles of additional serv ice. It takes all the "guess work" out of used car buying. Look for this tag when you buy a used car—for it is your guarantee of quality and value! v Ignition V Battery v" Tires i ^Upholstery ft vTop V Fenders v Finish Mh B. LARSEN, Westby, Mont. PETERSON COMPANY, Plentywood, Mont. J. O. JOHNSON, Medicine Lake, Mont. 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