WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About -Bv The Man On The StreetMans inhumanity to man is age old. Greed, the ovcr-"veiin? passion of many persons never sleeps. One • ild expect that in a time of calamity it would...
...Her it O'"•'-" krr— wha> h* m< talking about when he said: 7>- - : » win think hiv not suffered enough: th» p»"i;'e - 'r- suffer can't think...
...Their color is good, their appetite Is keen and they enow that they sleep well...
...The injustice of the situation is made glaring apparent in this p?riod of long-continued depression...
...This is indeed a sad commentary upon Twentieth century civilization in a supposedly Christian land...
...Congress and state legislatures listen attentively to, organizations when they come before them demanding (heir rights...
...If wc "?rc ml...
...The workinamen know that the Progressives are their true friends...
...When they see injustice they denounce it with righteous indignation...
...Thank God, they are not Pollyannas...
...It Is a crying shame...
...They realize that, the bitterest opponents of organised labor are working hard and spending then-money trying to get another nomination for Walter Kohler...
...Every real American with a drop of red blood in him knows that there are many things better than money...
...One • ild expect that in a time of calamity it would be held abeyance, yielding to the dictates of common decency, it is not...
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...Fcr the year ending June 30 they rsfiv-i in dividends nsarly a million dollars, the largest in in- history of the company...
...They know tptti thry are in for 'rrrib'c licking...
...But to read the tortuous sentences written by Wow-sri Winter, who conducts a Wailing Wall in the Madison Journal, one would eXpert to sec Progressive" haggard with worry...
...But it will be noticed that three of the great Brotherhoods—the Railway Trainmen, the Locomotive Engineers and the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen— have not Indorsed Windbag Johnny for re-election to the lower house...
...Its workers own stock valuid at ."> 18,000.000...
...They were told that business conditions did not warrant maintenance of the quotations that had pre-viled...
...The sympathy and substantial help of all well-meaning people is assured to the unfortunates...
...What is the nation but 48 states...
...The other day they were astonished when one of the great dairy corpcratlons announced that its profits were showing, every month, a large increase over the net returns of the corresponding period of the previous year...
...vidua 1 business men...
...The long-continued and severe drouth, the worst in many years, extending over a dozen states, has caused great suffering and losses running up to more than a billion dollars...
...All that the greed-obsessed profiteers see in a time of distress Is an opportunity for a golden harvest for themselves, a time to add still more filthy lucre to their bulging pockets...
...Proctor & Gamble...
...Wisconsin is still a member of the union and its intelligent people take a deep and active interest in all questions of federai policy...
...Windbag Johnny Schafer...
...In fact, in their eagerness to ret into the tr-uah they step on one another's toes and b-ccd ar.imo ties that do net hsai for years...
...Every effort should be made to prevent a repetition of the sordid scramble for money that marked the evil days of the war time...
...Satisfied that they have not been paid a fair price for milk and cream, and confident that they can compete successfully with the great dairy combines in Milwaukee, they have organized the Golden Guernsey Dairy Co-Operative under the state laws on co-operative marketing associations...
...Some time ago Wisconsin dairymen were forced by the big combines to accept lower prices for their products...
...we nil nrf interested in every public question, n.'tional...
...They know that they are affected by national legislation and they have the brains to express themselves on national questions at every flection...
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...These powerful Brotherhoods have indorsed Phil La Follette for governor and the other Progressive candidates tor the same office...
...Thousands of farmers and the memb?rs of their families, deprived of a means of living by the searing heat which has destroyed their crops and consumed feed for their livestock, face privation on top of the lass of their savings and their hard labor...
...This is an unwholesome condition, and one that calls for immediate correction...
...Wisconsin Con-servative organ editors are writing reams cf stuff trying to convince the people that national questions hsve no place in the state campaign...
...This company guarantees all year around employment, with ? minimum cf 48 weeks' work a year with full pay...
...cu;ht not to be allowed to vote...
...Even before the national and state governments are able to make known their organization for extending aid to the afflicted, comes the announcement that measures must be taken to prevent gouging...
...who has been mlsrepre- senttng Milwaukee in congress, for years has made political capital out of the fact that he used to hold the throttle as a locomotive engineer...
...Thus we have another striking illustration of the truth of the char.e made by Progressives that wealth is steadily being concentrated into the coffers of a comparatively few mammoth corporations...
...dividends...
...There saw Con-scrvative editors take a tremendous interest in national affairs when there Is some federal jap to be handed out...
...Their great size and immense wealth gives them the power to dictate prices both to the consumer and the producer...
...county, city, village, township and --rhefl dl'rict...
...Does the individual dairyman who has been voting for Standpatters all his life, believe that this intolerable situation will be remedied by the G. O. P., whose directors, are themselves owners of the largest combinations of capital...
...And for 43 years it has been paying its employes profit-sharin...
...The attent'en ci Donctini Thomases who say nothing can be done to prevent unemployment is directed to the policy of a bii rap manufacturing concern...
...Plutocrats, feasting on the profits brought to them by their monopolies, are not worrying because the little fellow Is being crushed...
...If they do, they are going to be badly fooled again...
...Don't listen to G. O. P palaver, but organize—and elect public officials who will represent you when they get down to Washington or to your state capital, * * * When we meet a bunch ol Progressives we find them a cheerful, healthy-looking lot who have not tor-gotten how to laugh...
...While the great majority of business concerns are reporting greatly decreased earnings and losses, the dairy combines are raking in more money than ever before...
...Every few days one reads of smaller concerns b'ing absorbed by the dairy trusts...
...The capital of $150,000 has been subscribed on the farms—not on Wall Street...
...The strone ti-nd toward Phil La Follette in the Wisconsin race for the governorship has made the reactionary editors of the Kudger State goggle-eyed and so rattled th-t they arc writing more blathering editorials than they ever did before...
...They exhibit the contentment of those who are enlisted in a good cause...
...But who Is simple enouqh to believe what Wowser Winter writes...
...By October the co-operative expects to deliver milk and other dairy products in Milwaukee, the stronghold of the two largest dairy combines in the world, concerns who do a business of hundreds of millions of dollars a year—and constantly growing in size until they now spread a merged network all over the United States...
...Three hundred farmers living in Waukesha county, Wis., and vicinity, have had their eyeR opened to the depredations of organized wealth and have banded together to assert their rights and to obtain a square deal in the marketing of dairy products...
...The individual can hope for little relief in the present highly-organized state of society...
...Organizations of capital, which seek to grab everything in sight, must, be fought by organizations of workers, farmers and indl...
...According in the Wowser, all the Progressives do is to worry and tremble and fuller and fear...
...But in the midst of the wreckage caused by the disaster, just as comprehensive plans are being made to afford relief, appear reports of an intention upon the part of the unscrupulous to resort to profiteering, the despicable practice that brought disgrace to the period of the World war...
...those who do not ought to be forcibly taught a much-needed lesson...
...These southern Wisconsin farmers have taken the right step on the Square Deal road...
...That means something...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
