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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
By DICK HARTFORD

SAN FRANCISCO.-FP)-The sen
ate civil liberties committee com
pleted the first part of it's fnyestiga
ton Of west coast terrorism on De
cember 81 when the story of last falls
cotton strike was told.
Lieut. Col Charles Henderson, an
aide to Gov gilbert l.. Olson, swore
that he saw farmer-vigilantes armed
with clubs, pick handles, automobile
cranks and other weapons when they
attacked a group of strikers in Ma.
dera City park ON October 81. War
rem Ocheitree, an official of the Asso-
ciated Farmers, had previously denied
that the attackers were armed.
Elmer Joseph, a Negro cotton
picker, testified that vigilantes siezed
him. "They got out rope and said
they were going to lynch me- he said.
Later they told me. If you get out
of the county and don't say anything,
We'll let you 60.
Subpenaed documents and witnesses
revealed the close relationship be-
tween ginning companies and Asso-
ciated Farmers. Evidence showed
that the big ginning companies, which
control the entire cotton crop from
the time it is planted and keep wages
low, paid s6,601 to A. F. in 1887
The stout denial of California agri-
culturists that they had advertised
outside of the state for farm labor, as
described in The Grapes of Wrath,
crumbled when Frank Palomares,
manager of the Agricultural Labor Blu
reau of San Joaquin Valley, took the
stand.
II have never solicited, nor have |
been connected In any way with the
of out-of-state labor" Palo-
mares swore. A moment later he
turned bright pink when Sen. Robert
M. LaFollette produced records OF ad-
yertisements in Mexican newspapers,
telling of labor shortage" in San
Joaquin Valley.
San Joaquin county paid $2,175 for
munitions to break the cannery strike
of 1887, the committee was told. The
money was spent for 446 pick handles,
IL shotguns, IL rifles, l long range
teargas gun, 144 teargas shells, and
about 2,400 rounds of ammunition for
the rifles and shotguns.
Ironically, as this testimony was
given, two striking Filipino brussels
sprouts pickers were seriously wound
ed at Pescadero, 70 miles from here,
by a farmer with shotgun. And
Henry Strobel, A. F. executive under
subpoena Of the committee, hastily left
the courtroom In order to organize a
new unit of the A. F. In Pescadero
county.
The yigilantes In Stockton were
mobilized and unleashed against the
cannery workers despite a peace guar
antee made by ]. W. Southwick of the
Stockton Central Labor Council, 1t
uoo ravealad
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that is cinch.
When this truck line is developed
to the point that loads can be hauled
both ways a better showing than this
should be possible. A very good load
for going back would be cattle in the
fall months land perhaps wheat at
other times. The most of our wheat
goes east to be milled and the sad
part of it is that lot of our flour is
freighted back at high rates. We
farmers very often complain about the
high rate of freight and well we may
when one does a little simple aritha-
metic and finds that the freight ON a
train load of cattle is about s20,000.00
Complaining may do some little good
but direct action will do very much
more Even tho this is just after
Christmas l still say that there is no
Santa Claus and so you must do for
yourself the things that you want or
find that they seldom get done at all
and never get done the way you want
them. Until recently farmers thought
of only one problem, production, this
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According to Owens the president
said it was the policy of the federal
government to prevent anyone from
starving In the United States and to
provide work for those able to work.
He restated his belief that states and
local communities must take care OF
those unable to work.
White House Secretary Stephen
Early confirmed Owens assertion
that the president had promised to
send army soup kitchens to Ohio and
man them with WPA workers II the
state failed to meet It's obligations
to the unemployed.
when Gov. Bricker talks about
Immortality let him consider how
mora 1t is for murders, thieves and
criminals in our county jails and state
penitentiary to have meal allowance
three times larger than Is provided
for our hungry unemployed who are
mentally, morally and physically good
citizens and who have violated none Of
the laws of society,"" Owens said.
Bricker, in a speech to republicans
In New York City recently charged the
relief situation in Ohio was due to
politics" on the part of the WPA.
His speech was followed by letter
from Gov. James, republican, of Penn
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tractors bidding on state jobs, and
at that time, its affairs were financed
by the members paying percent of
the amount of the construction con-
tracts they happened to have with the
state highway department. In charge
of the Montana Contractors Associa-
ton at the time, was Miss Marian
Jawort, who is now Mrs. McKinnon.
At that time, Mr. McKinnon, was a
roomer and boarder at the residence
occupied by Miss Jawort and her
father Mr. McKinnon had discovered
also that Mr.. Jawort, his present
father in law had qualifications which
peculiarly fitted him for the position
in the highway department of direct
or of planning survey and had made
this appointment with an engineer as
signed to that department as assistant
director.
Evidence
1t Is reliably reported that Governor
Holt had in his possession evidence in
the form of sworn statements alleging
irregularities in the administration of
the highway department which
piOHiptSu uiLu ~ lChiOfC oCfCidi VI
the responsible officers, including Mr..
McKinnon. Shortly after the investiga-
ton by the senate committee, Cover
nor Ayers reinstated Mr.. McKinnon
as chief highway engineer the position
held by him at this time. The Cover
nor appears to have discounted all
of the charges made and ignored the
reasons which prompted previous
highway commission, headed by the
present national committeeman of
Of Governor Ayers party, which dis
qualified. Mr.. McKinnon.
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the Issuance of formal complaints and
he cited publication of the Inter
state Commerce Commission to slow
that for SO years the ice has been in
the habit of advance consultation
prior to the filing of formal charges.
In reviewing the testimony before
the Smith committee labor board Of
ficials said the significant items were
the testimony Of NLRB member VIM.
M. Leiserson to the effect that the act
should not be amended and the speech
made by Rep. Howard Smith Cd, Va)
chairman of the committee.
Smith, in radio address, admitted
that he had not voted for the act orr
ginally but said he had changed his
mind to the extent that he now be-
lieves the principles of the act should
be maintained.
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now will not give then decent living
Il. is imperative that they market their
products also. Co-operatives are the
answer. They can do the job
splendidly Give them a chance by
working with them. They are yours for
only using them. So far they are the
nearest to perpetual motion that has
been devised by man, give them start
and they go by themselves. Your tract
or would not do much good If you did
not use it, in fact it would rust down
to uselessness the same as a coop will
il it is not used. Buy coop, sell coop
think coop, and you will find that
most of your troubles were self i'm
posed. 1t goes without saying that the
present method has failed. We cannot
be worse off for trying another that
has for its basic principles those of
OF the Golden Rule. Do for your neigh
Dor what you would have him do for
you. Build security for him and for
yourself COOPERATE.
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town riled up so to start battle be.
tween them and the wabbles (prob-
ably meaning radicals.) To do this
we must have permission from Well
man Peck (San Francisco wholesale
house) to haul load Of canned goods
my one of our trucks instead of theirs
1t will only take one load to do the
trick"
Close cooperation between four
struck canneries and the sheriff's Of
flee was revealed when ex-sheriff
Harvey Odell of San Joaquin county
admitted that he had signed up 1000
farmers and businessmen as deputies
and equipped them with pick handles
Their purpose, he said, was to protect
employees of the canneries in their
right to work.
Previous technical evidence brought
out that a third of the states land is
farmland, though only $50 is in crops
There are PA kinds of crops, COM
pared with % main varieties in Penn
sylvania, the state with the second
largest number crops.
One-sixth of those gainfully en-
ployed In California work together in
agriculture. OF these 57@o are wage
laborers, against an average OF 27%
In the country as a whole.
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was getting low and he could begin to
plan In advance to help replenish it.
The guy came in while | was still
reading the letter and since he didn't
seem to mind much | asked him what
he was going to do about it, | didn't
get much satisfaction out of him. He
told me he had just talked to some
others that had received letters like
his. and all he got out of the confer
ences was a chance to listen to the
other fellows moaning about the
money. OF course, my hair-trigger mind
Immediately saw the lack of foresight
and planning on the part of the Of
ficers of the club. Why didn't they
send this out before Christmas while
the fellows still had dough and then
send the names-together with the
cash-in to Wheeler for a Christmas
present. That would have made bet
ter sense.
saw several of the glooms who had
received this letter, and believe me
they all deserved the title I'm giving
them. There wasn't smile in a car
load of them. OF course they were all
for Wheeler like / am since he got
over those radical notions he used to
have. but that hundred fish sure had
them worried. p. S. they're still wor-
ried.
l guess If 1t wasn't for the touching
portions of the letter. I'd been plenty
sore because l didn't get one since he
knows I've been real admirer of his
since he quit his communists notions
and saved the constitution and the
supreme court, But I'll get along with
feeling sighted since saw those guys
over at the capitol
Now / hope that all of my host of
readers realize that / have made a
beat on the news; scooped all these
big, fine Anaconda company dailies
in the state. i wouldn't suggest it for
the world. but yo4 could write a let
ter to the editor plimenting him on
his selection of wide-awake, enterpris-
Ing newsgathers. 1t might make him
easier to get along with.
Scoop sJake-that's me
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O: SONS AIDE TELLS HOW IF.
WGILANTES ATTACKED STRIKERS

| Southwick said that on the morning
OF April %, 1887, he had told Sheriff
Harvey Odell that II the strikers "are
not met with vigilantes armed with
clubs and shotguns, the workers will
open the canneries peacefully"
Odell denied remembering the con-
versation. Finally he seemed to rec.
ollect it, hazily. Said LaFollette: 'In
the face Of this you took no steps to
stop the posse from forming?"
They were already on their way.
couldn't reach them"
You could have prevented them
from forming"
Il thought it was best to let them
form and see what happened"
What happened was that workers
were attacked with teargas. Pic
lures were introduced showing Chas.
o. Cline, 82-year-old Waterman, being
slugged by three deputies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

was true that in 1898 the Morgan
partners (the house of Morgan) paid
no taxes on some $4,000,000 OF the
firms earnings. Leffingwell, without
a blush and apparently not noticing
the contradiction, said it was probably
true
He went on to explain that he thinks
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

I'VE ought to give the 10000 900
people in this country more rope
There were observers in the audience
who had the distinct impression that
the house of Morgan had done pretty
good job Of tying the American people
into knots with the amount of rope on
hand.
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The country is liberal. 1t calls for
liberal president and unless we
have as the head of the government
for the next four years man whose
chief concern is the preservation of
human rights we may run into an
internal situation that would be as
disastrous as the things that have
happened in the democratic nations Of
Europe"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

sylvania, charging the same thing.
WPA commissioner F. c. Harring-
ton challenged Bricker to substanti-
ate his statement with facts and
termed James letter "a good political
speech" Brokers speech was poppy
cock and rubbish" Harrington said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
DO BUSINESS WITH YOURSELVES

of the enterprises whose appears below is in
your community and you already patron you will
profit by investigating the advantages Of dealing with
the products which it handles You will that you can do
buness with yourself by patronizng the profits accr
from patronage will belong you and to any
other individual organization.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-Army soup kitchens to feed per-
Ohio unable obtain sufficient local relief
by President Roosevelt here according to John Owens
Ohio Go president after conference at the White House
Owens told president of the relief situation Ohio
charged Ceveand and Toledo the
examples John W. Brckers nhumany Despite
republican statement to the contrary
said the relief problem in Ohio is not solved
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

A Pittsburgh grand jury handed
down December Is true bill against
three officers of the Atlas Lithograph-
ing Co., charging them with counter
feiting and forging an Allied Printing
Trades Council Label
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27
PRESIDENT PROMISES TO
SEND j. S. ARMY SOUP
KITCHENS TO OHIO NEEDY

Ohio Go President Says President Roose-
welt Promised to Feed Persons in Ohio I'm
able to Obtain Sufficient Local Relief;
Bricker Recently Charged Relief Situation
In Ohio Due to politics"
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No Dull Moments


dress.
No Dull Moments
Representative Harry Routzohn,
Ohio republican, member of the NLRB
Investigating Committee, is not what
one would exactly characterize calm
individual. 1t doesn't take much to
get him into lather.
During one of the meetings he es-
sayed to questions Nathan Witt, board
secretary, and his sentences were
punctuated with shouting. banging on
the table, shaking his finger at Witt,
and other emotional gestures. Finally,
the excited Routzohn turned to Com
mittee Counsel Edmund Toland. who
had been doing pretty much OF the
questioning and told him to take over
the witness. r ~
Thanks, replied Toland, for. a
while thought that | was forgotten"
Making Faces at the Enemy
An incidentlof our high school Latin
class often comes to mind. One of the
pupils, translating from Julius
Caesars account of the Roman war on
the Helvetions, said, I'VE turned
around and made faces at the enemy"
instead of I'VE turned around and
faced the enemy" so go
This has strange parallel to the
situation on the western front. But II
the Allied and German. soldiers con-
tinue long enough to make faces at
each other instead of shooting each
other down, there is hope that the 30
n. cto WI
together and formulate a sensible mot
a punitive) peace. Maybe civilization
is advancing without our knowing It,
Liberals would Like -
Walsh-HeaIey Act Monded
Liberals would like to see the
Walsh ealey Public Contracts act
amended so that 1t would prohibit
awarding of government contracts to
companies which have violated the
Fair Labor Standards or National La
Dor Relations acts.
For example, they pointed to the
case of the International Shoe COM
pany, with headquarters at st. Louis,
Missouri, which has been awarded
contracts Under the Walsh-Healey act
since August l totalling s3.593,984-
part of the profits of which are used
to fight the New Deal.
Last May American Shoe Making, |
a trade journal. wrote: H. Edgar |
Jenkins, vice president Of Information |
al Shoe company, has informed re- |
gional office of National Labor Re- !
lations board that company does not |
intend to comply with a recent de-
cision and order of Labor board direct
ing company to disestablish the West
ern Brotherhood of Shoe and Rubber
Workers, Inc, as collective bargain
ing agents for workers in three of its
Missouri, plants"
The board charged that the Inter
national had fostered the "unaffili-
ated" Brotherhood In order to dis
courage membership in the A. F. of L.
Boot and Shoe Workers union.
International Shoe company, accord
ing to LaFollette committee reports,
had made use of the services" of
Burns and Pinkerton detective
agencies to spy against their workers.
Incidentally, the company also has
done rather we'll for itself in fields
other than government contracts In
the report filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission there is
a little space to be filled In, and the
little space is called "unearned con-
Lributions by communities" In 1886
The figure was $86,75S; In 1887, s54,-
D94.58; and in 1888, s27,65537. In
other words, what kind of offer will b
you make us if we, set up plant In
your town."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1939-12-27

"By strengthening agriculture,
rural identification strengthens
Americas backbone" Harry Slet-
terry, administrator of Rural Elect
trification, stated In a recent ad-
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fuses to cooperate. e
These former share-croppers are
now receiving a little help from the
Butler county relief agency, but food
whatever there is Of it, seems to be
limited to flour, meal, grits, and beans.
The tentative answer to the problem
is probably WPA projects for farmers
to include situations such as this.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

cussed 1t with me . year or 80 ago
! was prepared to give 1t sympa-
thetic consideration" DR.. Moulton
said. 1T falls so closely in line
with the general conclusions which
we have reached in some Of our
studies with reference to the vital
significance Of low prices In order
to realize the full advantages Of
mass production, that i am i'm
pressed with its soundness in prin-
ciple.
I'm relation to passenger trans
portation, I think such . plan might
prove Of very great significance. In
any case, it is worthy Of tho most
careful study"
The Hasting plan Is based on
charges by zones. Under it, for ex.
ample, transportation from Boston
to San Francisco, requiring q five.
zone route. would cost from IS h
$75. depending on the quality Of &C.
commQeations.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

faction" was declared to include
payment Of damages by Czecho-Slo-
vakia, acknowledgment Of respon-
sibility for the attack and punish
ment Of the individuals responsible.
The press followed up the reported
warning with dispatches like these:
BY the ofncial news agency
That 80 carloads Of "Ukrainian
terrorists" had arrived in the vicin-
ity Of Ungvar.
BY the newspaper AZ Est-That
Czech regular army" attacks on the
Hungarian line at Barkaszo were re-
pulsed, with several Czechs wounded.
BY other afternoon papers-That
there were six attempts during the
night by Czechs to cross into Hun
gary at Szernye and Ungvar, and
heavy Czech notwithstanding Of
Hungarian border patrols and other
villages.
None Of the reports could be con-
firmed independently.
Report Not Denied.
Tho Hungarian conditions for
normalizing relations along the
border, on which thousands of
Hungarian troops have been as
sembled and made ready for action,
were presented by . foreign ONCE
ofdcial to the Czecho-Slovak Lega-
ton In Budapest, the news service
said.
The Hungarian foreign ONCE made
no comment on Informacio's report.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
American Argument
In Jewish Settlement
To Be Given Hitler
Schocht Promises to
Place Plan Before
Government
~ the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Jan. 11.-Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht. president Of the Reichs-
bank, today promised American
omcials Of the 1ntergovernmental
Committee on Refugees he would put
their arguments for an agreement
on resettlement Of German Jews
abroad before "other members Of
the government"
This was taken to mean Chancellor
Hitler and Field Marshal Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, No. z NaM and
chief of the all-important four-year
self -suf1ciency plan.
Schacht and Karl Blessing, q d.
rector Of the Reichsbank, conferred
for an hour and half with George
Rublee, director, and Robert T. Pell,
another American oficial Of the
Refugee Committee, who arrived
yesterday from London via Paris.
Schacht unfolded his plan for the
emigration of Germany's Jews and
Rublee made counter-proposals Of
an undisclosed nature.
The Schacht plan, already outlined
to the Refugee Committee In . re-
cent London meeting, was under
stood to be designed to remove from
Germany between 400, 900 and 5o0,0 900
Jews over a period Of several years.
It was described as contemplating
two main moves by other nations In
return for German co-operation:
Raising of a large international loan
to be secured on confiscated Jewish
property In Germany and the lifting
of unohicial boycotts on German
goods to permit an increase in Ger
many's foreign trade.
An unstated percentage of the
income from such increased trade
would 60 to meet interest and
amortization Of the proposed loan,
which would be in the hands of those
who raised 1t and would be used for
resettlement Of Jews abroad.
If this scheme worked out Ger
many would get rid Of most of her
Jews, keep their fortunes within Ger
many and increase her reserves Of
foreign exchange as a result Of the
increased foreign trade.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
zoned Railroad Fare
Study Supported by
Brookings Head
Dr.. MouIton's Views Of
Hastings Proposal Are
Contoined in Letter

The plan to "postalize" railroad
fares rs worthy Of the most careful
study" in the opinion Of DR.. Harold
6. Moulton, president Of Brookings
Institution.
Mr.. Moulton's views were given in
. letter to Chairman Wheeler Of
the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee. It was made public yes
terday by John A. Hastings, former
New York State Senator, who has
opened headquarters here to push
the proposal.
Senator Wheeler, whose commit
tee shortly is to take up rail legisla-
ton, has expressed his interest In
the rate plan, and has solicited
opinions Of others.
This is q problem In which I first
became interested in 1908. and nat
urally when Mr.. Hastings first dis