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

1t is still fresh in my mind when
the depression very nearly hit bottom
| say the depression, because it has
always been a depression for great
| percentage of the people The only
difference is that at intervals 1t gets
worse when business las the robber
barons are known call home their
dollars that have been out In the
world breeding interest for their mas
tiers. At these times the stores and
warehouses are full of food, yet the
people are starving to death on the
street because there Is a depression
The small merchant Is starving though
his selves are full of food. But he
can't eat 1t because there isn't any
money coming in to put in the till
so that he can take a can of beans
down from the shelf to appease his
hunger. So he walks the floor, pulls
his hair, and prays to God to send
him someone with couple of dimes
so that he also can eat.
1t shouldn't be very difficult for
anyone old enough to be In high
school to remember when the last
depression was at its peak just before
Roosevelt took office. Then families
were living in shacks made of old
railroad ties, apple boxes, tin or what
not, while row upon row of good
houses were standing vacant and go
ing to rack because no one had money
to pay the rent on them. When the
peoples clothes were patched until
they looked like checkerboards, while
cotton and wool growers were COM
hitting suicide because they couldn't
get rid of their products. Yes, thou
sands and thousands Of men, women
and children starving 10 death while
tons and tons of food stuffs were
piled up and left to rot because the
people didn't have any gold or silver
in their pockets to exchange for the
of life.
Without silver, gold or bank note,
which calls for such, the producer of
life's necessities is forbid the right to
consume. We pride ourselves on our
freedom in this country. We gather
in community halls, homes and on the |
street corners and we boast to each |
other of our freedom OF course we |
have free press, free speech and free |
Yes, we have-as long /
IS we don't tramp too hard on the /
.oes of the big interests. We also
ire free to starve to death If we will |
20 off some place and not make a
Jcene of it. In fact that is one thing
We can get help at
| have been watching the daily pa
,ers of the kept press here to see if
hey would carry a story on the de-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
XMAS MONEY
FOR NYA BOYS

Nearly 1900 Montana youths will
receive their NYA paychecks in time
for Christmas, j. b. Love, state youth
administrator, has announced.
The NYA's payroll period ordinar-
lily ends about the 25th of the month,
the administrator said, but by spe-
cial arrangement with the finance di-
vision, December checks will arrive
in time to help make the Yuletide
happier for many Montana boys and
girls
Montana's youth payroll for Novem-
Der, according to a report released by
L. M. Berger, director of the NYA
finance division, totaled S21,37245.
AS of November 80, Mr.. Love ex-
planned, 1,444 youths were assigned
to NYA projects. A steady rise in
the number of young men and women
employed on NYA projects will place
the December enrolment well above
that figure. Mr.. Love said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
West Coast Inquiry
Opened, LaFollette
Committee
By DICK HARTFORD
Federated Press)

Before packed hearing room il
the post office building, Gov. Culber
L. Olson CD testified on the open
ing day of the LaFollette committee
investigation of the Associated Farm
ers and other anti-labor groups.
Olson sternly rebuked district attor
neys and sheriffs who had been in
volved in the recent cotton strike and
demanded that they turn over all rec
ords requested by the committee.
The officials, Sheriff w. o. Justice
District Attorney George Mordecai
and Sheriff George Overholt, had ig-
nored committee subpenas. A few
weeks earlier they had permitted AS
ISOLATED Farmers COON squads to beat
and harass striking cotton pickers in
MADEIRA and Fresno counties, and had
co-operated further by arresting the
victims of the vigilantes.
II intend to follow up such incidents
as the disturbances in MADEIRA and to
see to it, in this and all other similar
incidents, that the law is not enforced
with an unequal hand" said Olson.
GAS long as workers are not organized
in California agriculture they are like
ly to be subjected to discriminatory
treatment"
The committees chief counsel, Hen
|ry Fowler, outlined the investigation
already made and laid the ground
work for the hearings Since 1888
there have been 1873 strikes in Califor-
MIA agriculture" he said. In 65 OF
these acts of violence, civil and GRIM
inal disturbance have been reported"
Fowler presented charts and statis-
tics showing that agricultural disputes
and civil liberties violations in Cali
fornia far exceed those in any other
part of the country. He showed that
the county anti-picketing ordinances
conceded with the major agricultural
areas and were almost identical in
wording.
(The Simon J, Lubin Society has
long claimed that three ordinances
were sponsored by the Associated
Farmers.)
Paul Taylor, University of Califor-
MIA economist, contrasted the prob
lens of the small, working farmer
with those of the Associated Corpora
tom Farmers. More than third of
the small farmers employ no hired |
labor, he pointed out.
Labor trouble in agriculture, said |
Taylor, occurred between those in
dividuals or corporations who are
more properly called agricultural en-
ployers' (rather than farmers) and the
numerous workers they employ"
Summoned to the preliminary hear
ngs was practically every important
5igilante leader, strikebreaker and I
icabherder in rural California. Off
Gals of the Associated Farmers from
10 northern counties came and reluct-
unity handed over subpenaed records.
From the material collected it was
apparent that the committee would
over every major agricultural strike
ince 1888 Among them are the re-
.ent cotton strike, the Earl Fruit Co.
trike in Marysville, the Salinas cot
on strike, the Stockton cannery strike
nd the apricot pickers' strike. The
however, will not be neg I
ected.
Witnesses will be called December
3 when the civil liberties committee i
egins its major work. The hearings
yill be open to the public.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. I. HARRIS

4 company paying its workers living
wages. Top pay for operators, &C,
cording to testimony, is not more than
| $40 week.
At Natchez, Miss, the company
operates under the name of Natchez
Fabricating Institute The story is a
lsimilar one. A group of local bust
ness men started raising money in
1885, The power company pledged
100000; local bank $4,000. Approx
mately 100000 was raised. Rent is
free; so are ground taxes. And if the
payroll reaches the $1,000,000 mark
within seven years, the property is
turned over to the company as gift
by a grateful community" But the
weekly salaries of the stitchers is
from Sc to SO.
The company formerly operated
plants in Pennsylvania, where there
was a docile labor market. Here also
wages paid were unbelievably low.
The workers organized. Bob company
told them it would "get even" for
this act of "treachery" And the state
of Pennsylvania and the government
of the United States are now contri-
buting to keep the former employees
of H. D. Bob Shirt Manufacturing
company alive-except the few who
are eking out an existence by bootleg
four of whom were recently
killed by a cave-in.
"Rackets Buster" Dewey appro-
priately selected Minnesota as the
jumping off place for his bid for
republican presidential nomination
His theme song was more jobs in
private industry" Minnesota's
Governor Stasson was elected on
the same theme song-"more jobs
by bringing new industries to Min
nesota." Thus far the only new in
dustries he has brought to his state
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
.Stolberg and Post
Sued for S150,0O0

NEW YORK. = (FP) "A $780,
libel suit against Benjamin Stolberg
and the Curtis Publishing Co., pub.
fishers of The Saturday Evening Post,
has been filed in supreme court by
DR.. Jerome Davis, former president of
the American Federation of Teachers
(AFL).
Davis is seeking 100000 for gen.
eral damage to his reputation and
peace of mind and $4,000 special
damages charging that Stolberg's ar
ticles charging him with being a
Communist" and "Stalinist" had
deprived him of getting an sNYA job
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

The number of local housing au
thorities during the past two years
have increased from 46 to 260. Anc
the surface has not even beer
scratched.
Community Gifts to Industry
Which Exploits Its Workers
An Illuminating example Of a man
ufacturing concern setting up plants
where it can obtain the most conces-
sions from the local community, and
where the workers are not organized,
and then moving elsewhere when the
workers organize against exploitation,
was afforded recently during hearings
of the application of the H. d. Bob
Shirt Manufacturing company for
learners exemptions under the wage
hour act.
The company has headquarters in
New York city, and at present oper-
ates two large plants in MISSISSIPPI.
It's business methods, the hearings
disclosed, are typical of many Amerl-
can manufacturing concerns which
maintain low working and wage stand
ards.
These facts were disclosed:
The company opened factory IN
Picayune, Miss, in June 1887 called
the Picayune Manufacturing company
In 1886, local big-shot business man
started a movement to bring the fac
tory there; $4,000 was raised, and
the money was used to purchase build
ing and grounds Even workers in
local plants were approached for con-
tributions. They were put up against
the guns, so to speak, and had to
kick in
The company pays no rent and no
taxes on this property. 1t has been
promised the building and grounds
gratis if, within 10 years, the payroll
has reached the S1,O0O,000 mark. But
this has been no incentive for the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

Governor Ayers presided over the
meeting of the board and declared
himself in favor of a thorough investi
CATION and possible "house-cleaning'
in the University The executive
board of the university, composed of
President George Finlay Simmons, S.
J. Coffee and J. S. f. Marshall with
j. B. Speer, registrar, as secretary
were designated to receive all COM
plants, charges, protests and accusa-
lions which may sbe offered between
this time and the {hearing scheduled
1t is understood that there was
little, if any opposition to postpone
ment of considerations of the resigna-
tions of Professors Merriam and At
kinson. 1t appeared to ne the concen-
sus of opinion of the board that the
entire situation demanded thorough
airing before any further decisive ac-
ton was taken.
Compromise Expected
Observers of the apparent attitude
of the majority of members OF the
State Board of Education gained the
impression that there is a distinct
possibility that the situation ,calls for
a compromise" along the Zines of
insisting on approval Of the previous
action of the board in demanding the
designations of Professors Merriam,
Atkinson, Hollett, Lennes and Keeney
and to even the score, the removal
of Simmons. A compromise of that
character would make the board mem
bers feel that they have saved face,
these observers reason. Whether or
not, the public will feel that it should
be necessary to sacrifice five out !
standing members of the faculty to
permit the board to save its fatce, is, |
of course, question for the public |
to decide for itself.
A Blow
A distinct blow to the state uni
versity administration is said to have
beef death last week bly, H. w.
Whicker, who holds a position as an
associate professor in the English de-
partment, and is recognized by many.
as an ardent Simmons supporter
At a meeting before the Student
Faculty Council with a large attend
ance, held on Tuesday of last week
when DR.. Atkinson was given an OPP
portunity to present his side and the
side of the other professors under fire
before the council and Professor {
Whicker the arguments for the Uni .
versity administration, this Professor !
Wicker is reported to have gone
"haywire" and made charges against
certain dissident members Of the fac
ulty which were of character which
should certainly not have been made t
before mixed group OF men and
women. 1t is reported by RESPONSE
BILE witnesses that the charges made
and implied were actually obscene in s
character and there may be repercus- a
sions in the form Of SANDER suits. IT.
A flood Of telegrams is said to Il
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

to control and influence the channels
OF information in Montana. We
charge them with dishonesty, If they
do own and control these newspapers
and hide such ownership
Finally The Peoples Voice chal-
lenges the A. c. M. company to prove
by publication of sworn statements by
some responsible official Of the com
pany that it has not in the past con-
tributed huge sums to these various
publishing companies and that 1t will
not make any such contributions In
the future.
II this is done, The Peoples Voice
VIII apologize for any real and i'm
piled charges made. Until that is
done, The Voice will continue to
Smoke them out"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
FARM INOME STILL
BELOW LAST YEAR

WASHINGTON, D. CTR Farm
income during the first eight months
of this year is slightly less than for
the same period last year, according
to the latest federal figures. The
January through August total, includ-
ing government payments amounts to
$4,594, 100000 this year compared with
$4,612, 900, 900 in 1888.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

have been sent to Governor Ayers
from students, members of the faculty
and townspeople of Missoula, protest
ing the vulgarity of the charges made.
Inasmuch as the alleged remarks were
made by one said to be sort of
protege of President Simmons, and a
stenographic copy is reported to have
been read to the board members at
the executive session, they may have
had an important bearing on the atti-
tude of the board towards the entire
situation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
GRAPES OF WRATH

AUSTIN, Tex.-(FP)-Notice to the
Grapes of Wrath" people: Don't come
to Texas.
A recent volume issued by the Natl.
Youth Administration in Texas re-
veals that 100000 cotton tenants and
sharecroppers in the state have an
average annual income of $200.60 for
themselves and their families. The
lowest annual income was $83.25.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

With no apparent connection with publishing business the
News Publishing company with offices in 3O National Bank
building IN Helena Mont and according reputable wit
ness dlsavowa made by officials the Anaconda Copper
Mining of its connection with the alleged publishing
company and their organization appears reasonable to as
sumo that the News Publishing company the blinds
used by the c. M to disguise its connection with
and control of of the daily state Another
probable angel the Fairmon company of OK
Broadway New York City which owner
percent the the Standard Publishing
company, publishers of the Montana Standard
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

SIN some states small legal docu-
mentary fee is required.
Typical references to the plan in
advertisements issued by the Chew
rolet, Pontiac, Odds, Buick, LaSalle
and Cadillac companies referred to
the New $50 Time Payment Plan.
Announcement and use of the plan
by General Motors, the findings con-
tinue gave that company such an adj
vantage over competitive motor car
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
BOARD OF EDUCATION
DEFERS ACTION ON
TWO RESIGNATI lis
Governor Declares That
cleaning at University !
tive Committee Commits
AHComplaints and Prote
to Board for January Me-
'ough House
rider. Execu-
! d to Receive
ur Submission

Posponemen action the designations of Professor
G.. Merriam and Professor A. Atkinson and the adoption
executive session. setting January Is
the date for hearing at Mssoua all complaints charges
concerning conditions at the State Uni
versty featured of the State Board of Education
held at Helena Monday The resolution made public
after the board recessed Mssoula yesterday to attend
gen meeting.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13
NEWS PUB. CO., FAIRM0NT
INVESTMENT co. HEAVY
DAILY PRESS ST0CkH0LD'S

News Publishing Co. in office of T. B. Weir,
Corporation Attorney. Fairmont Invest
ment Co.'S offices in New York; Lifted AS
Owners of One Percent or More of Stock in
Leading Corporation Controlled Dailies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

Simple. as A, B, c
A-Take Your Unpaid Balance
B-Add Cost of Insurance
C*-Multiply by 626-12 months
plan
(One-half of one percent per
month for periods more or less
than II months
That's your whole financing cost.
No extras. No service fees. No
other charges.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-13

Democracy Cannot Endure I'm
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold. Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Attorney Here Refuses
Comment on Separation

William Stix, an attorney here for
the National Labor Relations Board,
today declined to comment on re-
ports he and his wife, the former
Yaltah Menuhin, sister of Yehudi
Menuhin, the violinist, have sep
arated.
Mr.. Stix, at work at his Office, re-
piled, "I have no comment" when
asked about the reports.
Yaltah's mother, Mrs Moshe
Menuhin, in Los Gatos, Calf, last
night confirmed the separation, ac-
cording to the Associated Press. She
indicated the separation probably
would be permanent, but declined
to discuss its cause.
Mrs. Menuhin and Mrs. Silk ar
rived in Los Gatos last Saturday,
and Mrs. Menuhin said she brought
her daughter home because of her
health.
Yehudi and his father are how on
concert tour in the East, and later,
Mrs. Menuhin said, she and her
daughter will join them and sail on
February % for Europe, to remain
until May.
Yaltah and Mr.. Stix were married
in New York last June, when she
was Is. Her marriage followed that
OF her famous brother by only few
months, and a few weeks later, the
third Menuhin child, Hephzibah, 18
was married.
Evening star., 1939-01-05

there was apparently an increase OF
seismic activity throughout the
Pacific area, as indicated by the
registration of four strong teleseisms
in three days at the observatory.
"On November 2, two small rock
slides were observed at the north
wall of Kilauea crater, at 1:2O pm.
A slide at the same locality was re-
ported sos pm. November 3. No
slides were reported observed in
Halemaumau during the week.
"Of % concentric rim cracks
around Halemaumau measured No
vember a. three opened, four closed,
for an aggregate zero value. The
cracks associated with the hump
near Devils Throat opened is mil
limeters; others along Chain of
Craters road showed no change.
Shocks Timed Precisely.
"Thirty-three local seismic dis
turbances registered on the observ-
atory seismographs, of which one
was feeble and six were very feeble
earthquakes and 26 were tremors.
The feeble earthquake occurred at
1927 pm, November S, and was 3.8
miles distant,
Local seismic index for the week
was 1850. Microseismic motion of
the ground at the observatory was
light south by east"
While this may seem to the news
paper of the mainland press to be
rather poor news matter, to the
dweller in Hawaii Territory, espe-
cially the residents of the "big is
land and of Oahu, it is of the keen
est interest. The great majority of
those who are thus concerned in
these "Pele personals" as they may
be called, are interested merely in
the possibility of dramatic spec
tacle. But there are others who
have a decidedly material concern
in the possibility of an eruption.
For example, there are the ranch
ers, who at the first sign of a pos
sible eruption telephone to the
National Park Office on the crater's
rim in quest Of information. They
are eager to know where the zone
of danger lies and whether it will
be advisable or necessary for them
to move their great herds of cattle
from the pasture lands which lie
within range of a possible lava flow.
There is practically no property
interest within such a possible range
OF Pele's wrath beyond that of the
ranch owners and managers, except,
OF course. the City of Hilo, about 80
miles distant from Mauna Loa. For
the volcanic area of the Island of
Hawaii comprises very little i'm
proved or utilized space. There are
few settlements. towns or villages,
in the line of Pele's fire. Yet it is
always possible that the vast vent
may open in an unexpected quarter,
maybe in some wholly new zone, or
with destructive violence in some old
and supposedly permanently dor
mant quarter. The eruption of 1885,
which so gravely menaced the city
Of Hilo and was checked, 1t is be-
lieved, only by the dropping of air.
plane bombs. was an example of the
unguessable Vagaries of Pele. Doubt
less it was due to that recent out
break that the public concern felt
the other day in the performances of
the volcano was so keen.
A Fickle Performer.
But the eruption of 1885 was itself
one of the unguessable kind. There
had been several periods of activity
shortly preceding, in 1923, 1924, 1927,
Evening star., 1939-01-05
Jewish Community
Membership Drive On

Eventual solution of the relief
problem lies in the so-called char
acter- building institutions, Charles
M. Fyfe. director of the Boys Club
of Washington, last night told work.
ers in the Jewish Community Cen
ter's membership enrolment cam
paign.
While the drive did not officially
open until last night, several team
captains who had gotten a head
start in the drive brought in re-
ports of more than 200 members en-
rolled during the past week.
Burnett Siman, chairman of the
enrolment, presided, and in talk to
the workers stressed the Importance
of large representative enrolment.
He pointed out that the Washington
Jewish Center is considered
throughout the country as model
institution of its kind; that it MAIN
tains a camp for underprivileged
children a student loan fund and
other beneficent services. He said
that during the past year more than
300 non-Jews were enrolled as men,
bers of the center With the new
four-story addition to the building
now open, the center is prepared to
handle a greatly increased member
ship, he pointed out.
DR.. Ivy A. Pelzman, co-chairman
of the drive; Edward Rosenblum,
director of the center, and the heads
of drive divisions and team captains
spoke.
1t was announced that q organ
izations had pledged their support
to the center in the enrolment cam
paign. The next drive meeting will
be held Tuesday night and it is an
ticipated that more than 500 men,
bers will be enrolled by that time.
The annual meeting and election
of officers and trustees of the center
will be held Sunday night.