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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
WRIGHT MAKES RECORD PROFITS As
WORKERS SET Overtime RECORD

with the U. S. department of labor
figure Of 73c average pay in the air
craft industry and testimony before
tn eTemporary Natl. Economic Com
mittee that the average wage in
Chrysler automobile plants is &c.
The Wright workers fatten their
paychecks but wear down their bodies
average about 10 hours extra, while
unskilled workers put in as much as
80 to- 35 hours in addition to their
regular week.
ut is common practice" one en-
ploye told me, "for some mechanics
to work all day Saturday and Sun
day, and it is still more common for
unskiled workers to work without a
day off. They get double pay for
Sunday, you see."
To prevent exhausted workers from
their pace during stretches
Of overtime, the company maintains
a speedup system based upon the
Bedaux method. And to keep wages
low and minimize the risk of union
activity, the company gets its new en-
ployes from a vocational school that
It helps to finance.
The training school condenses a
normal 2-year course into four weeks
If intensive instruction. ION gradua- !
ion," workman explained, these in
men are hired by Wright |
or soc an hour, filling places that |
night otherwise go to experienced |
mechanics.
After about two months the grad
lates are permitted to work overtime
nd to participate in the bonus system
hat is based upon the speedup. Six
1onths later they get sc raise, and
mother raise after another six
1onths. But their wages are low
nough to pull down those of veteran
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04

Why does Congress favor con-
scription bill which exempts all mem
bers of Congress draw $4,000
a year salary?
Why did the Senate and House COM
mittees refuse to hear military ex-
perts who oppose CONSUMPTION?
Write your U. S. senators and mem
Der of the house to kill CONSUMPTION
of men, till securities are conscriptedl
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
Workers and Farmers
Income Conscripted
For a Generation

The increase in the national debt
under the New Deal" has been about
$50, 000,000,000, and the total interest
on the national debt, much of it tax
exempt, is about s1,100,O00,000.
This interest would pay wages, and
for clothes, shelter and food for the
conscript army of 100000, which the
profiteers of America want, to grab
world markets, and to make the world
safe for American" investments, in
the Western Hemisphere.
In 1922, the top 1%o of the people
owned 21% of our national wealth,
and the bottom 1000 owned 52%.
In 1886, the top 10 of the people
owned $3.50 of our national wealth,
and the bottom 70%o owned only 1870
Both years, large proportion OF
the bottom 70% did not own anything.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
(This is the first OF two stories on
labor in the Wright aviation plants.)
BY HARRY HERTZ

labor IN the Wright aviation plants.)
BY HARRY HERTZ
PATERSON, NJ J.-FP)-Curtiss-
Wright Corp. is making millions out
Of the defense program, but most OF
the $4,000 workers in the four local
plants can't make a living except by
sacrificing sleep and leisure for over
time work.
The company had record profits for
the first six months Of 1940-a net of
$6,235,969, of which $2,599,989 was de-
rived from the local engine plants of
the Wright Aeronautical Corp, chief
subsidiary.
But that's only the beginning-the
big money lies ahead. The company
sold s46,838,891 worth of planes and
engines in the 6-month period, which
is pretty good business, but it had
untitled orders totaling $248,668,549 on
June 80 and the orders are still roll
ing in.
Talking with Wright workers in
their homes, l learned how the COM
pany has put as much ingenuity into
fighting unionization as it has de-
voted to perfection Of it's 1000 horse
power Cyclone motor for army bomb
ers. This key corporation in the de-
Tense program is out to defend every
possible dollar of profit in its quarter
billion-dollar business.
Employees talked freely on condition |
that their names be withheld Every |
worker is fingerprinted and photo
graphed. If reported by Wright spies,
they would be blacklisted throughout
the largely non-union aviation indus
try.
Skilled mechanics, not including
tool and diemakers, are paid from 55c
to 95c an hour, the great majority re-
ceiving somewhere near the minimum
figure. This makes base pay without
overtime from $24 to $50 a week.
Toolmakers, who constitute about $50
Of the employees, get 81 to $125 an
hour.
The typical Wright wages of 55c,
soc and Csc an hour may be compared
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
GRANGE CO-OPS TO OPEN
NEW FLOUR MILL

DAVENPORT, Wash.-(CLNS)-A
new five-story Coop flour mill and
warehouse building was opened here
August 81 by the Grange Milling Com
pany to replace a mill destroyed by
fire October, 1899 The new mill will
have a $50 barrel per day capacity.
1t is completely modern with ball
bearing rolls and new cleaning ma
chinery of the latest design. The
Coop mill was operating with in
creasing success before the fire last
fall. 1t was established five years
ago when the Grange Co-operatives
bought out the Big Bend Milling Com
pany.
DEM ND THE Union T,AREI. I
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
WORKERS SUSPENDED

NEW YORK OPP - Col Brehor
B. .Someryell, WPA administrator, has
suspended 100 -WPA workers because
they registered as communist voters
in the 1886 election. He said he was
MT interested in knowing whether
they had changed their views since
The Workers Alliance pointed out
that Wendell Willkie was democrat
in 1896.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04
IT'S A
GREAT SYSTEM!
Federated Press)
BY JOHN PAINE

Baseball fans are worried by the
charge that Wendell Willkie is near
fascist, as set forth by George Seldes
in his news letter, In Fact
If Willkie wins, the fans wonder
would he throw out the first bomb?
SAME OLD STORY
Testimony before the Nye commit
tee showed that DUPONT makes money
out of both sides in the war
The munition makers, suggests
David Dachs, still have their hearts in
the same place: deep down in their
pockets.
There is an unconfirmed report that
Henry Ford, in burst of patriotism,
ordered his service department goril-
las to wear red, white and blue enam-
eled, brass knuckles.
HoMING
John r. Chaplin postcards from Hol-
lywood that pigeon knocked itself
out trying to land on the branches
of tree painted on a backdrop for
Cecil B. DeMille picture
Which shows that just as mature
initiates art Oscar Wilde), so Holly
wood publicity yarns-if used often
enough-end up by being true.
LOST-Black twill skirt in taxicab,
Tues. eve. belonging to suit. Rev.
IS. 1907 Race St-Adv. on first page
of The Philadelphia Record.
John Paine offers SIS reward If the
young lady can explain why she didn't
miss the skirt until she got home.
TO BE CONTINUED
Peacetime CONSUMPTION has been de-
scribed as a page out of Hitler's Mein
Kampf.
If it passes, how long before we
get the rest of the book?
The way the big corporations are
holding up national defense until they
can be guaranteed fatter profits and
no losses makes Jesse James look like
a juvenile delinquent.
JUST WAIT
A correspondent who has read all
Of the publicity stories about the New
York Worlds Fair finally got huncn
IS to why the FBI is not pushing an
Investigation of Father Coughlin's
fifth column activities.
His theory is that the evidence was
buried in that time capsule, to be
opened in 5000 A. D.
The army's definition of democracy
IS mobocracy, which was finally elm
mated from one of the army manuals,
makes us wonder how the military
rain trust would define a labor I'M
ON.
Possibly as "a lawless band of po-
entail criminals, organized for the
purpose of overthrowing low wage
Gales"
HE LEGS HAVE 1T
Movie exhibitors have discovered
hat the public doesn't want to see
'ar pictures.
This aversion is based on sound
reference for Marlene Dietrich with
,gs rather than a soldier without.
We understand that the Gallup poll
as elected Willkie by about 3 to 2,
lie newspapers have given him the
ID by 10 to / and the Willkie ma
rity among employers is about SO
/.
The only person not heard from yet
the ordinary workingman.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-04

You cannot control what you do not
owni
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

the Roosevelt administration, the CCC observes its birthday for this of the first agencies given the breath of useful life by the New Deal.
 The physical accomplishments of the Corps are easy to see and appreciate, particularly in Alaska It would be interesting if could well the accomplishments of the CCC with regard to it's effect the personal life of many thousands of young men.
 Some one once said that the difference between derect and a man is job. Undoubtedly through the aid and training given by the CCC thousands of young have been able to increase their earning power. They have been able to make an honest living without resorting to relief the latter considered by many young a shameful ruin- ation
 The camp life of an enrollee is not unpleasant Plenty of exercise in the fresh air, regular hours of sleep and three wholesome meals each day are some of the things that help revive their hope and ambition.
 After seven years of activity as an agency for the conservation of youth and national resources the CCC is indisputably one of the most outstand- ing acts of legislation in our countrys history. Let us all work toward continued success of the objec- tives for which it created
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
200 YEARS IN ALASKA

Next year will be the 2O0th anniversary of the Russian discovery of Alaska On July 15 TAI Alexe Chirkof from the deck of the ship St. Paul sighted the Alaska coast at Prince of Wales Island The following day Vitus Bering Danish captain of the Russian expedition in which Chirikof was second in command sailed his vessel St. Peter in sight of Mount St Elias which he named A few days later Bering made landing Kayak Island near Con- troller Bay. He was, far as history shows, the first white to set foot on what is now Alaska.
 Alaska should plan appropriate celebration of this event. One who had such idea was the Rev A P. Kashevaroff who passed away this week His grandfather had come to Russian America in 1920 not so many years after the first explorers The family has been an Alaskan one since Kashevaroff himself lived 76 years in Alaska under both the Russian eagle and the Stars and Stripes His life brdged the historic span from the days of Russian occupation, through the purchase by the United States through all the long years of official neglect, slow growth and development, down to the present day of busy modern industrial Alaska.
 We may well look back next year the two eventful centuries since Berng's second Kamchatka expedition came in sight of a new land to the east Father Kashevaroffs idea of a grand Alaska cele bration and festival is a good Without him to recite the history, it will not be quite what it might have been But Alaska should hold it any way in honor and remembrance of glorious his torical past
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compel"
SATURDAY, APRIL 6

Until evening benefic aspects rule this day. The morning should be we'll disposed toward executives. It is a lucky day for women who seek employment. Good news of general interest is predicted for the United States.
 Heart and Home: Women are subject to stimulating influences which should help them to accom- plish a great deal in whatever vo- cation they follow. The rule of the stars is fortunate for housewives who should be able to obtain adequate returns from financial expenditures. Girls may anticipate romance to- day when young mems thoughts turn away from practical matters.
 Business Affairs: Building con- Struction will be active in many parts of the United States. Manu- lecturers will push work in many industries where labor conditions should be satisfactory. There is a sign which seems to indicate erec- ton of coasts defenses. The Pa cific coast to focus extraordin- ary notice.
 International Affairs: European dictators are to suffer illnesses or even death. Those who read the stars have discovered evil portents for Hitler, but there is a sign be- lieved to warn of the close of a rul- CTS career in another country. The year is to be marked by mortality among men in high places, those who influence human destiny.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good for tune to which happy domestic con- ditions contribute.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be highly intelligent and industrious. They may be exceed ingly witty and magnetic, command ing numerous friendships.
 Copyright, 1940)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
20 YEARS AGO frI% Ee EMPIRE
APRIL 5, 1920


 Big fulrigged "wndjammers American clipper ships Alaska north northern 
 High Schools convened in the Junior Assembly that tennis and vol ball court be built at the of the school building Hazei attending college hao prominent first Pacific Coast movement to combat the Americas colleges and universities
 Peter Vaon merchant and fur buyer e on the Alaska Cordova
 Housel Seattle business trip returned
 
 arrive on the AlasKa rom visiting atters Sowerby's
 McNuen candidate the Democratic National Seattle
 Weather: highest 3
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
Common Sense in Spain
(New York Times)


 The rulers of the Spain have done good days work for their sorely tried people in signing far-reaching trade treaty with Great Britain and in obtaining f2,000000 British loan. The unsleep- ing patrol of the Allied blockade has prevented Gen. eral Franco from repaying Germany in the form Of raw materials for help rendered in the civil war. No copper ore shipped from Spain since the out break of has reached Germany" the British Minister for Economic Warfare announced the other day. What is true of copper is also true doubt, of other raw materials which Germany needs and which Spain must sell to repair her shattered f- nances If Spain wants to trade she must turn else where.
 Now Spain has recognized the geographical reali- ties of her position by resuming her old business relations with Great Britain She will supply the British with expanded amounts of iron ore pyrites and fruit in exchange for British coal and manu- facured goods. Her decision to do is proof that General Franco is tackling the immensely difficult job of reconstruction at home instead of planning military or diplomatic adventures abroad. There is now less chance than that Franco's Spain will somehow become the ally of Nazi Germany in this war The specter of a Pyrenees front against the Allies has all but disappeared; the peaceful develop ment of Spain has been safeguarded If Spain tinues along this road, her War-weary people can look forward to a happier future.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
FUNERAL SERVICES,
 REV. kA5HEvAR0FF
 TO BE TOMORROW
Russian Services at 10 A. M.-PubIic Rites Set
 for Z p. M.

Last rites for the Rev. Andrew Petrovich Kashevaroff will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from Holy Trinity Cathedral
 Services will be conducted by the Rev. Basil Amitoff of Hoonah, and the Rev M zlobin of Sitka. They will be assisted by laymen Cyril Zuboff and w. Wanamaker.
 The Russian Church Choir will sing and Nina Solovieff will be solo, ist, Interment will be in the Pion- eers' plot of Evergreen Cemetery.
 The remains were removed from the Charles w. Carter Mortuary last evening to St. Nicholas Russian Church of which the Rev. Kashe- varoff was Archpriest. A continu- ous reading of the New Testament was started last night and will con- tinue until tomorrow morning when a 10 o'clock Liturgy and Memorial service will be conducted for the congregation and members of the family.
 Pallbearers for the public rites will include Harry G. Watson. Charles w. Hawkesworth, M. s. Whittier, George Tulitseff, H. L. Faulkner and H. I. Lucas.
 In respect to the Rev. Kashevaroff who was for twenty years Curator for the Alaska Historical Library and Museum, the Museum will be closed all day tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
FlODLKV LlIUULIIL ROBERTA LEE

maid suggests that go into adjoining wraps should do so? gloves but not your 
 When eating public where small butter pats are blade the pat when not 
 the plate, handle resting the 
 punctuation follow the salutaion in letter?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

OFTEN MISUSED: doubt the veracty of truth of that statement T doubt the maj Quality a correct.
 Pronounce the as in so 
 MISSPELLED: Temporary
 SYNONYMS: fault defect, impefection
 three times and it is yours Let us Today word second yabe) The hours of waiting nermnable"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
Test of Real War
Philadelphia Record)

NPnlaQelpnla IecOIQ)
 Everyone realizes that the war of blockade and interference with merchant shipping that is being waged between Germany and the Alles is hard on the whole population of each of the nations.
 Just how hard an economic pinches is now revealed Beginning March 1 Germany cut down 50 percent the brewing of Pilsener beer and 25 percent on the brewing of ordinary varieties It will not be long before the Germans will have to accept a proportional reduction in their beer con- sumption.
 France we learn, has had to cut out every other cup of coffee account of the war. The National Group for the Importation and Distribution of Golf fee in Time of War has apportioned just half the normal peacetime amount of coffee
 When the German gives up his beer and the Frenchman forgoes his coffee the war is real even if all the cannon are silent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

next week to join other inspectors at Seattle and transfer there to a wheel-equipped plane for the rest of the flight
 With other west coast inspectors, McWilliams will attend few days of conference in Los Angeles and return to Alaska about the first of May.
 Steve Davis, CAA flier who re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

fooling when he says flying is the way to travel
 The popular aeronautics official arrived in Juneau with his CAA Stinson seaplane from Cordova late yesterday evening to spend a few days here on routine business before continuing south to Los An- geles, just about 5000 miles away
 McWilliams will fly south early
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
HOSPITAL NorEs

After receiving medical care for a foot injury, Leonard Johnson, was dismissed today from St. Ann'si Hos pital. n 4 J 6a
 ns# Cyril Wilson was medical dis missal today from St. Ann's Hos pital.
 Mrs. Marie Peters and her baby girl were dismissed from the Gov ernment Hospital yesterday. Frank Edwards, Jr. was dismissed today from the Government Hos pital after receiving medical reat- ment.
 For today's news today read The Empire regularly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial
 Employment Service for this qualified worker.

CLOTHING SALEMAN OFFICE WORKER-Young college man, sin gle, age p. Trained in physical education, typing, and office work. One year experience as clerk in mems furnishings store. Also ex- perienced in warehouse work, jani- tor, and common labor. Call for ES 78.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
LOOK and LEARN s4y q GORDON

LOOK LEARN Q% A.-... What roots bind the soil with network of fbers and the wearing away? great history identified? 3. How quarts there in barrel? suggest postage stamp? Which the smallest of the Scandinavian kingdoms?
 ANSWERS Willow Moses and Joseph quarts. d813-1S9D.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

gently washed his ship out on q mountainside near Anchorage, is recovering nicely from his injuries, McWilliams said. and should re- cuperate fully"
 While in Juneau, McWilliams IS guest at tle Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
ENGINEER GOES OUT
 ON STEAMER BARANOr

James Truitt Jr, U S. Engineer. and son of Attorney General Tru- itt, sailed on the Baranof this morning for his Seattle offices after a quick trip to Sitka to in- augurate harbor improvement work
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

Senator Pepper of Florida sums up the Crom- well incident neatly: Perhaps he should not have said it, but I'm mighty glad he did"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
HAPPY. BIRTHDAY

The Civilian Conservation Corps is seven years old A few weeks after the seventh anniversary of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
CAA INSPECTOR FLYING SOUTH;
 STOPPING OVER

Civil Aeronautics Authority 1n- spector, L K McWilliams, isn't
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

TOTAL ......--..--.-....... $3 Ill, $50 20 United States of America, Territory of Alaska, First Judicial Divi- sion, sS.
 I. James w. McNaughton, Cashier of the above named bank. do sol- emnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. V
 JAMES w. McNAUGHTON. ,o.. ......, Cashier.
 J. F. MULLEN,
 GEO. E. CLEVELAND,
 Directors. CNotarial SeaD A Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of April, 1940, GLADYS M. OVERLY. Notary Public in and for the Ter ritory of Alaska. My commission expires December 10, 194l. ~
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05
SIMMONS BACK

Empire classifieds bring results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

The members of the Senior Junior High Schools conve the Junior Assembly and proposed that tennis court and ball court be built at the the school building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-05

Weather: highest sl, lowest 2e, clear.
Nogales international., 1940-08-31
Guard Gives
Good Accounting
In ManeuUerS

PHOENIX, Aug. 30-The Arizona
National Guard gave very good
account of itself" at the recent war
maneuvers, but it and all other
guard units are in need of much ad-
diticnal training to be prepared for
emergency which may confront us
in the very near future" Maj. Gen.
A. M. Tuthill, adjutant general of
the guard, said Monday upon his
return from Camp Beauregard, La,
where the maneuvers were held.
while many deficiencies were ex-
posed, feel that from reports I
have received, and from conversa-
tions with various officers, that the
45th division, and the Arizona Ma
tional Guard in particular gave a
very good account of ITSELF" Gen
eral Tuthill stated.
The guard chief said that no Of
ficial orders pertaining to further
training of the Arizona unit had
been received, but that he expects
all guardsmen, with exception of
the state staff, to leave about Sept.
Is for active duty at Fort Sill,
Okla.
General Tuthill expressed the
Nogales international., 1940-08-31

opinion that recent press dispatch.
es had misinterpreted officers who
were quoted as saying the guards
men could not take it," upon the
basis of their performances in
Louisiana.
What was meant, he declared,
was that the men were not hard
ened, and had found it difficult to
accustom themselves to army life
"You can't take man and hope
to make soldier out of him With
the limited training program that
has been in effect" he asserted.
The adjutant general said he was
very much in favor of every prep
aration being made tc defend our
country" Two years will be re-
quired, he declared, to give this ma
ton chance for successful de-
fense," and "at least five years is
needed to develop a complete de-
fense on land, sea and in the air..