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Front, the Bund, the Silver Shirts
and the host of other real Fifth Col
umn groups in the United States are
nonresident The League prefers to
direct it's efforts against labor unions
and liberals In this program it en-
ploys familiar slogans. It's Realistic
| Objective" for 1910 is summarized
thus: "Our Constitutional Republic
must be preserved! Reds on the pub
lie pay roll must be purged! That is
the issuei That is our goal!' In its
effort to purify this country of Reds, :"
the League carries on extensive work
in the fields of "Broadcasting, Re-
search, Literature, Speakers, Investi-
CATION, and Leadership Training" The
League also publishes newspaper
entitled Headlines" with the object
of presenting Observation-Disclosures
News"
accomplishments" of League
Specific activities of the League are
indicated in "a Record of Achieve
ment." This brochure proudly points
out that: with the advent of the
communist inspired and controlled
CLIO, the League -. assumed the
foremost position in the battle to Stop
Lewis and SMASH COMMUNISM.
During the campaign over 100000
pieces of literature were published;
one booklet alone-'Join the CIO-and
help build a SOVIET AMERICA
having a circulation of over 100000
copies" Another achievement boast
ed of is the campaign conducted by
the League against the NLRB in 1888.
AS a result of the Leagues efforts,
SAYS the brochure, "a wave of re-
sentiment against the NLRB followed"
A third example: when, in Novem- |
Der, the Red elements threatened to
halt the Dies Committee, the League |
began nationwide drive in its be-
half; secured over 100000 signatures
o petitions and deluged congress with
IN avalanche of letters and kilograms
rom aroused patriots. AS part of
his campaign, Commander Edward e.
5pafford, former national head of the
LSSlOl, anu Shdii iudA VI
he Leagues Award committee, an
bounced that Congressman Dies had
'een selected to receive the Ameri-
an Award of 1885," The brochure
emarks that the League work in 1889
Included such patriotic" efforts as
ampaigns directed against the WPA,
he American Youth Congress, the
.merican Student Union, the NLRB
nd the New Deal in general; attacks
n the Federal Writer'S Project and G
ne Federal Theatre Project are listed a
mong the most successful efforts t
f the League during this period. G
eague Leadership f
The Constitutional Educational s
eague operates under the guidance g
, Joseph p. Ramp. Ramp is an old o
and at distributing anti-democratic, 0
lti-labor, anti-Semitfc and pro-fascist a
He numbers among his
,sociates some of the outstanding t
merican pro-nazis. The League e
ould have to search far afield to find "
more fitting man to direct its activ- h
les. Ct
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
ANOTHER REASON WHY
SALES TAXES ARE BAD

KANSAS CITY, Mo- (FP) - Sales
taxes have been attacked for num-
Der of reasons, but never for the rea-
son given in a suit here.
Mrs. Virginia Trefz, former cashier
in cafeteria, has sued her former
employer for $4,000. She alleges that
handling of the zinc sales tax tokens
affected her health and led to her dis
charge.
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st. Ignatius, Mont,
August Is, 1910
Editor Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont
Dear Sir:-As an old man past 70
years of age, l feel deeply as l see
the course conditions are now taking,
hence, my reason for again sending
my views in the form of letter to
your paper as it is about the only
one we take that most nearly meets
my views Now it is up to your opin-
ion as to it's being published, and in
case it is consigned to waste paper
there will be no i'll feeling on my
part
Wishing your paper continued sue
cess in presenting the whole truth as
you and many more are coming to see
it, l am,
Sincerely yours,
E. B. SHIPMAN.
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campaign to round up the Midwest
farm vote, regarded by some as pi-
votal. :. Rep. Case, South Dakota:
1.-The American people will never for
give an administration that conscripts
men to fight and exempts industry to
work at high wages and guaranteed
profits. 4. -. Very definitely, there is
a move on foot to drive a wedge be-
tween President Roosevelt and the
Defense Advisory Commission.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
AN OPEN
LETTER
Baker, Mont,
August 80, 1910

August ~, l94U
Senator B. X. Wheeler,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Senator,
Are not American soldiers still
woefully underpaid for their serv-
ices? Isn't that the reason why the
men of our nation do not readily
Join Up" to the Army, Navy and
the Air Force? If they were to be
paid minimum wage, of say fifty
cents per hour, peace time basis Of
forty hour work week, with time and
a half for overtime, or double time
in time of war, it would not be nee
essary to conscript Tor force) men
into military service. Can a man
who is forced into military service
be as enthusiastic Cor should l say
patriotic) about his assignments
when he knows he is getting mere
pittance of wage, for super-dan-
gerous occupation? What prospect
have our fighters got to better their
living conditions when deprived
from taking part in the industrial
development of our nation by being
conscripted to build up a military
machine? After a few years of
tight-wad wages, not sufficient to be
worth saving and when the wars
stop these men are discharged or
'laid off, virtually left to rustic,
it will be hard to absorb these mil
lions of workers into peace time
industry. A good example Of this
was the bonus army which had to
be smoked out" of our nations
capital in Hoover's days. 1t is true,
our soldiers do get their board and
uniforms and tobacco money, but
out of this small wage nothing can
be saved In the days of Feudalism
the swordsmen were expected to
rustic their living, but, we are liv-
ing in a machine age, our soldiers
must be trained not merely to obey
and swing a wicked axe OF hurl a
spear, but they must be trained to
think as individual units. Now
what would an expert think of an
employer who conscripted him at
the munificent? wage of twenty-one
or thirty dollars per month and him
fighting like tiger and lodging
machine guns, bambs and other ex-
cretia from the air. | believe his
patriotism would dampen consider
ably when he draws THIRTY dol
ars at the end of months hell in
40 mans country.
Are we Americans a bunch Of
)ikers when it comes to paying a
lecent wage to the men we expect
o save our lousy hides and indus
ries? Sure when the big wars sub
tide we lay off the boys and throw
hem a few shekels as though we
brow bone to dog and tell
hem we are busy, to go lay down.
s this an American Way, or is 1t
hangover from Feudalism, an i'm
ortation from Europe?
No, Men, let's PAY the boys who
ye expect to protect our industries,
cts pay them wage comparable
D the efficient men employees Of
ur better industries, let's treat
hem like MEN, RED FLOODED
-MERICANS, not like slaves, we
ill have no trouble maintaining an
fficient, patriotic army of men who
-ould fight like WILD CATS to
ave a country so considerate of
lie welfare of their citizens.
Senator Wheeler, IL it must be
then let's conscript
LII industries of a public nature,
ot only during the dangerous times
war, but to give efficient serv-
Q in peace time. Let's make it
,mplete or not at ALL.
Let's really BUILD AMERICA.
Yours truly,
w. F. SCHULTZ.
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OPINIONS OF READERS


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degree at least
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opinions expressed. Letters submitted
and the subject matter discussed. to
August 81, 1910
Chinook, Mont,
Editor of The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Montana.
Dear Sir:
I just received your issue Of the
28th and notice on the front page that
you have run an article in regard to
certain questions that socialist nomi-
nee for President, Thomas, has adj
dressed to Willkie, particularly derid-
ing the CONSUMPTION bill and immedi-
ately underneath this you have an
article headed French Labor Organi-
cation Is Now Dead" The running Of
these two articles on the same page
in the same issue is good example
Of the assinine thinking OF you So
called radicals. Turning over the
paper then find an unfair, treason
able, traiterous editorial against both
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell
Willkie
l do not care to have a paper of
this character coming to me through
the United States mails nor one of
that kind in my home for my children
to read. You will therefor kindly re-
move my name from your list and you
may keep the change for the balance
of my subscription.
Very truly yours,
HARRY l.. BURNS.
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for CONSUMPTION because there exists
they VIGOROUSLY unAmecan offering sac-
flee much personally they ask of their fellow members
in democracy.
They stand convicted in public opinion in either
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are being lined up, and anything can
now happen. Some republicans, fear
full that they cannot get passage of
CONSUMPTION bill without "conscrip-
ton of wealth." are beginning to
doubt whether the present emergency
calls for peacetime conscription.
They are plenty worried. Most of
them already are committed to con-
scription. The head of their party
has now taken strong stand in
favor of it. But they know by this
time that the people demand "con-
scription of wealth" if there is to be
transcription of human lives" Be-
meath their breaths, they are cursing
the short-sighted policy of the indus
trialists for trying to create a profit
teers paradise out of the national
emergency, which they hold to be re-
sponsible for everything But they
can't talk out loud, AND THEY
CAN'T TAKE A VACATIONi
Build Planes On Fee Basis
Proposal Made to Government
A few large airplane manufacturers,
concerned over the public's resent
ment to the sit-down strike of Big
Business, have privately felt out the
government on a plan to build planes
on a fee basis, this column is in
formed
Under the plan, the government
would erect plants, keeping title to
them instead of giving them to the
private owners. The private manu-
facturers would then manufacture |
planes for a nominal fee, getting |
bonus on top of the fee when the |
ing risk of loss when costs exceed
estimates. The incentive would thus
be to keep costs down.
Because of the bonus angle, the
present eight percent profit limita-
ion repealed in the present House
excess profits bilD would have to be
epealed, but no tax amortization law
would be required The government,
However, would have to give the pri-
ate owners an option to purchase the
plants at any time
uring a five-year period-this as a ,
against the government op- A.,
rating the plants in competition with :,
rivate industry.
But it all goes to show that there
re few industriaiists worried, and q
re looking little beyond their noses. !
10 support for the above program, 9
owever, has been forthcoming from p
ither the National Association of n
or the United States n
hamber of Commerce, who do not u
salize that times and conditions are 9
i,
II can see danger ahead for bust il
ess if we let ourselves be led by Il
lie National Association of Manufac- v
rers," a large airplane manufacturer 81
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recently told a government spokes-
man.
A Case of "Sabotaue"
Sabotage in the war Industries
sometimes takes on some very pecu-
liar turns.
In one of the large airplane fac
tories, for example, workman some
months ago was caught painting
swastikas on bombing planes being
Grated for shipment to France. He
was carrying a bucket of red paint,
and had succeeded in painting large
red swastikas on the fusilage of three
or four planes that had already been
Grated.
Just a practical joke of mine," he
explained. Il can just see the aston
lshed looks on those Frenchmen when
they open these crates!''
The management evidently was
lacking in a sense of humor, for they
discharged the worker for sabotage.
Report has it that this particular
shipment of planes was later captured
by the Germans before the crates
were opened when the nazis overran
France They undoubtedly would
nave gotten quite a kick out of the
red swastikas had they been permit
ted to remain.
Current Capital Chatter
The nazi aerial blitzkrieg over Brit
ain, it is privately reported here, has |
seriously interrupted Canada's pro-
gram for training $4,000 aviators be-
cause of withdrawal of many of the
instructors for active service in the |
British Isles. Many persons in
Washington believe that Harry Hop
kins resigned as Secretary of Com
merce in order to take an active part
III the campaign to re-elect Roosevelt
With split having developed
in the Democratic National Commit
tee you can expect a campaign by
some of the New Dealers conducted {
more or less Independently of the
National Committee. .Rumor has |
t that the British are about to come '
'ut whit new type of fighter plane
equipped with a 1000 horsepower
motor and capable of doing better !;
han 500 miles an hour 1t will be i,
lnown as the Tornado. Virginia ,
Senator Byrd's and Georgia Repre-
Cox demands for a con-
ressional investigation of defense =
rogress can sbe definitely placed in
he current effort to embarass the
administration. :. II Senator Wheel
RS report on what Sir George Paish
old him is correct, then somebody
hould ask for a commitment war C
ant to send the aged English econ f;
mist to an institution for the feeble v
linded. OF all the persons in the "
'orld to boost that he was respon 6
ble for getting the United States n
ito the First World War and that he W
ltends to get the United States into pl
le Second World War! . Henry a
1allace, it is said, will confine large t,
iare Of his efforts in the present D
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
What Happens to Your Money in
War Economy

The following list gives the big corporation profits for the
first months of 1889 compared with the first months
of
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-06
DEMOCRACY IN HIGH GEAR
IN IMPERIAL COUNTY

1t is hard to remember an election
campaign in which the voters of I'M
perial county have been offered such a
a wealth of material for public service
as they are offered today.
The crackpots are decidedly in the
minority on the August 2Sth ballot In
sofar as strictly Imperial county offices
are concerned, they are totally non-eX-
istent
The worst that can be said truthfully
against most Of those we will oppose is
that their ideas and policies do not agree
with ours. In saying this, of course, we
exempt those perennial blights on any
ballot the Communist party candid
ates. The things we would like to say
against them would not be allowed in
printed matter which goes through the
mails
AS far as state and national offices
are concerned, there are few candidates
we believe would not be desirable under
any setup, in any circumstances. Ellis
<. Patterson, who is running for United
States senator, is a good example. Pat
terson is not and never has been real
Democrat, real Republican or real
Progressive He runs on strictly pro-
Patterson ticket. But he is due for such
a shellacking August 2sth that there is
little use wasting words on him.
1t is within Imperial county that we
find real reason for pride in our Demo-
cratic system, and in the way it is work
ing out in this particular campaign.
For once we can say truthfully that
we believe any man in that list could be
elected and would do a good job.
And for that reason alone We believe
it is up to the voters this year to make
the closest possible scrutiny of every
candidate, what he stands for what he
believes, what he proposes to do.
We believe, in short, that Imperial
county voters this year should vote for
the man, not the party. Party lines have
come. to mean little in the last four
years The Republican party of today
is almost an exact replica of the Demo-
cratic party of 1892 The Democratic
party of today, with its policy of fed
eral control, is what the Republican
party was eight years ago-but with
New Deal embellishments. The bewilder-
ed voter can do no better than to judge
candidates on their own merits.
Scarcely three weeks are left before
voters here must make up their minds
how to cast their primary ballots. 1t is
time they began gathering the data upon
which they will base their decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-06
THIRTY
YEARS AFTER
WalI Street Journal

Nearly 80 years ago we broke up the
tobacco trust of that day because it
violated the antitrust law. AS in the
case of the old Standard Oil Co. there
was a physical atomiZation of the trust
which was designed to split it into parts,
which parts were expected to compete
with each other. Now the Department
of Justic has charged that conspiracy
exists among them to fix prices and to
practice monopoly in violation of the
same law and to the detrlment OF tobacco
producers and all concerned IN the dis
tribution of the manufactured products
The department in its complaint charges
that the proceeding in 1911 did not suf-
flee to restore free competition and
that the 81 companies against whom 1t
has brought action are today violating
the law in numerous respects.
The merits of the departments case
against these companies will, naturally,
be for the courts to decide by measuring
their practices against the law, and lay
men have nothing to contribute to that
process. Nevertheless, there is an ire
sistible fascination for the lay mind in
all these antitrust cases because of the
existence of "no-man's land in the
concrete which the abstract principle of
the law seems unable to reach.
What we seem to be perpetually seek
ing in this antitrust matter is situ-
alton in which we shall have enough COM
petition to exclude monopoly but not
enough competition to create monopoly
by elimination.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-06
MURDER OF A WORD
(RiUerSide PreSS1

1t was such an attractive word, fifth
cOlumnist.'
America liked it so we'll that it took
the little word to its bosom and hugged
it to death. All in few weeks, too.
When it burst on the American con-
sciousness, fifth columnist" was used
in its original sense: that of the Franco
general who referred to the four rebel
columns converging on Madrid and add
ed that they expected great help from
the fifth column with the city, con-
sisting of Franco sympathizers who by
spying, sabotage and active fighting
would aid the attackers.
So we started spraying the new word
around with accuracy nversely proper
tional to enthusiasm. Jehovah's Witness
eS, Lndbergh, Socialists without scrap
of international connection, perfectly
patriotic manufacturers and equally pa
triotic employees on strike against them,
Trotskyites, even the president himself,
have all had the term flung at them by
the thoughtless.
So today the perfectly good, precise
word fifth columnist' has come to mean
little more than simply "a guy | don't
like"
In this connection, some other defin-
itions which are recent contributions to
the dictionary a la 1910 are:
Fifth columnist: A man who would
rather not fight in the army.
Communist: Any man of whom you
are suspicious.
Fascist: Any man whom you do not
like
Nazi: Any man whom you hate.
Alien: A foreigner who does not play
polo.
Democrat: A man who is afraid to
lose.
Republican: A man who envies Roose-
velt.
change anything.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-06

HOLLYWOOD, Aug 5ABehint
the screen: Authentic news is lack
ing about that long conference be-
tween Edsel Ford and Louis B.
Mayer. I know that Metro has been
figuring on film biography of
Henry Ford. Hollywood prefers to
believe. though, that Mayer was
asking whether the Dearborn manu-
facturer could turn out a thousand
Mickey Rooneys.
A suburban theater long closed
for remodeling, has resumed ope-
rations with a particularly unfor-
tunate billing on its marquee. The
picture is Opened by Mistake"
Warning to the Warmers You'd
better begin taking precautions now
against the double billing of Open
ed by Mistake" with Bette Davis
new picture, "The Letter"
Maurice Chevalier seems to have
lost every franc from his long and
thrifty saving, and Italians now are
enjoying his Hollywoodish villa at
Nice. But he'll find plenty of new
chances in American pictures. Her.
bert Wilcox wants him to co-star
with Anna Neagle in mo, No, Man,
ette." 3. Most of the finest play
erS, directors, and musicians of
France will be refugees in this coun-
try. Some are coming here on money
and low-pay contracts cabled by
shrewd talent agents.
The Marx Brothers picture, GO
West" has been hitting production
snags, especially in the budget reg
ion. The comedians are SO worried
about these money troubles that
when Harpo took his red wig out
storage the other day he found a
lot of gray hairs in it . Now that
Paul MUM has been rismissed by
Warmers, his boards are being cut
down to fit John Garfield.
Paramount bosses say they're
really mad at Don Ameche, who
walked out on picture after being
loaned for it by his own studio,
and that he'll be sued for about
SITS 900 in damages The west
ern star, Charles Starrett, hopes
he has found way to get out of
horse opera into heavier drama. He
bought ,Rocklen Stuart's novel,
Iron Men, about an immigrant
who becomes a tycoon Of Great
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-06
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

ton officials point out that most
of their borrowers are men past 81
and not likely to be classified as
available for immediate service"
1t seems likely that WPR would
continue relief payments to de-
pendents of men called up.
M-DAY
CHANGES
M-Day won't be quite as it was
planned, if congress agrees on peace
time military service. For one thing
the civilian effort" will be un-
necessary.
Goal of the Protective Mobili-
zation plan was 100000 recruits in
60 days. The first 60 days after
the United States entered the war
in 1917, only 100000 men enlisted.
M-Day planners did not expect
more enthusiasm from later gen.
Grafton. So they were going to
couple selective service with the
civilian effort specifically COM
mittees of leading citizens in each
wiz Wouio ~ PiohhOoN
recruiting . . give pep talks to
the neghborhood.
This "sell the war" campaign was
to get out volunteers during the
month or so which would elapse
before the selective service machin-
cry could be geared to wartime
speed.
According to present plans, a
peacetime selective service law would
bring more than 100000 young men
for military training by April, 194l.
Embarrassing question: Selec-
tive service questionnaires ask elect
ed officials who hold federal, state,
municipal and county jobs, How
much of your time is actually de-
voted to your position?" And i'll
an election year tool