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Show THE OTHER SIDE OF MONTGOMERY-WARD'S CASE We are for the government. We cannot take any other stand. We are for "honoring and obeying and sustaining the law." And so we give the public a picture of the other side of the Montgomery-Ward case. Here we have ten or twelve or more multi-millionaires, some drawing salaries of $100,-000 $100,-000 a year and their bonuses and dividends making them much more than that. They have defied every war measure from the beginning and tried to side-step every regulation. The first words spoken by Mr. Avery at his ejection were, G D the (New Deal) government, and all of them have said about the same for the past number of years. They have been exactly like Hitler was at his trial in 1925 when he said to the court: "Am I supposed to ask a government govern-ment of traitors and scoundrels for a permit to speak?" The chairman of their board, Mr. Wood, was the front of the America Firsters. Now, while they, the gods of wealth, have been acting that way, think of 12,000,000 service men standing by the government, obeying orders and taking directives. Each of them was literally picked up and put in his place to fight, suffer and, if need be, die for their country. It is all right . for them to obey, to take directives and never reason why, but it is all wrong for a group of heartless and unpatriotic multi-millionaires to defy the government. Since 1933 they have been in open rebellion, taking every order given them into court, but losing in the end. They care little for the men in the service and the sacred cause. They look upon the plain people as a mob. But let them beware. They will see a day shortly when they will wish with all their hearts that they had a government, even by directives. The action is one of the entering wedges in the all-destroying fight that looms between capital and labor. m m |