The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

The New Publishing company ar
pears to be "side-line" of T. B. Well
corporation attorney" as the offic
of this company is in the offices oc
cupied by him, and he acknowledge
to being secretary and treasurer o
the company" The office of the Sec
lretary of State has no record of thii
company as an incorporated body. Sc
unless 1t is incorporated under the
laws of some other state, the job Of
secretary should not be particularly
onerous.
This News Publishing company is
listed as owner of one percent or
more of the stock of the Independent
Publishing company and the Record
| Herald Publishing company of Helena
and the companies which publish the
Daily Muscular, the Billings Gazette
and the Livingston Enterprise.
Direct Connection
Should you wish to confer with J..
II. Dickey, listed as president of the
board of directors of the Post Pub
fishing company, publishers of the
Butte Daily Post, vice president of
the Standard Publishing company and
member of the board of the companies
publishing the Livingston Enterprise,
the Billings Gazette, and the Helena
Daily Independent, you will have to
go to the main reception room of the
Anaconda Copper Mining company
and tell one of the office boys or girls
who you want to see. If you can
then get the privilege, you viii be
escorted into one of the offices off
the reception room to see Mr.. Dickey.
He formerly had his offices in the
Butte Post building, but apparently
that arrangement was not close
enough to the other big-wigs of the
ACM, and the present, less distant
connection was established.
Condemns
The Peoples Voice condemns this
control and ownership of these pub
locations which should be channels of
information for the peo-
pie of the state whose patronage gives
them their only reason for existence.
AS disclosed in the previous issue of
The Voice, these companies, accord
ing to the corporation reports, UNI |
made for the protection of |
heir directorates, show that under no |
circumstances could they be operating |
Is reputable business enterprise, "un-
Ter their own steam" and dependent |
IN their separate incomes like any
,ther legitimate business must.
The subterfuge apparent in the an
iual reports, where the tremendous
leficits incurred, are listed as debts,
md all other means employed by the
\. G.. NJ company or any other large
with practically unlimited
to hide the true facts of
ontrol of the press from the people
# the state, The Voice considers de-
iberately misleading. They are APP
,arently made only for the purpose of
rying to make the people believe that
hese newspapers are conducted as
rdinary business enterprises of the
tate, for the service of the people of
he state.
, Challenge
The Peoples Voice challenges the
anaconda Copper Mining company or
ny other large corporation in the
tate interested in newspaper enter
rises in the state to prove them
elves free from any intent to deceive
he people of the state in regard to
UGH interest. The legal right of the
!. G. M. or any other corporation in
he state to possess an interest in a
ewspaper or any other business en-
srprise in the state, cannot be ques-
oned. We do question the moral
ght of any such large organization