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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
.Deportations
Protested by
Workers Alliance

The Great Falls Workers Alliance
is up in arms over efforts of the inn
migration authorities to deport four
of their members to Canada. These
four members are Canadian born
American Indians who have entered
this country since 1924. One is a mar
rfed woman who, if deported, would
be separated from her husband and
four small children the youngest a
baby, four months old.
If a fair decision is to be reached
in these cases their past history must
be considered. They are all Chippewa
Indians, are not members of any tribe
recognized by the government, nor are
they enrolled on any reservation. They
have failed to enroll on a reservation
for several different reasons: First,
they feel that this country is as much
theirs as the whiteman's and they are
entitled to the same rights as the
whiteman to go and come as they
desire; second, if they must go on a
reservation they feel they are entitled
to one of their own and not forced
on one belonging to Indians Of another
tribe and third, the conditions on
the present reservations are unbear-
able, in fact every bit as bad il not
worse than conditions in German
concentration camp.
Their parents were all born in this
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
KATHAN VISITS
FRIENDS In
CAPITOL CITY

! A. e. (Bert) Kathan, candidate for
the nomination for governor on the
democratic ticket, was a Helena visi-
tor today, stopping over for a short
time during the day, to visit friends
on his way through the city
Mr.. Kathan who was returning from
a trip over the eastern part of the
state, expressed himself to a repre-
sentative of the Voice as tremendous
ly encouraged and pleased by his re-
ception wherever he has visited. He
stated that the people appear to be in
the mood to demand change in the
administration of the affairs of the
state and that this sentiment will un-
doubtedly be reflected in the vote
this year.
He expects to be in Great Falls on
Sunday for a conference with the
membership of the Kathan for Gov
ernor Club which is handling the de-
tails of his campaign. Early next
week, after a brief visit to his farm
in Pondera county, he will again take
to the road" and will spend some
time in the western district.
Reports from every section of the
state indicate a growing sentiment
favoring his candidacy. His straight
forward manner, his reputation for
integrity and his sound
knowledge of the conditions in the
state and his clear-cut analysis of the
approach to remedy these con-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
SMITH C0MITTEE SCORED FOR
INVASION OF private RIGHTS

was repeatedly sustained by the SUI
preme court did not appear to arrest
the attention of the committee.
at placed all emphasis on certain
acts Of minor officials showing iso-
lated instances of bias and indiscre-
ton. The fact that the board had
to build up large organization very
rapidly with personnel which was
inexperienced, and that it faced and
was constantly harassed by the OBJ
structive sabotage of the Liberty
League, was given no consideration"
The incredible antics of the commit
tee, Vincent writes, included invading
the rights of private individuals and
organizations to Investigate" subjects
as distant from the purposes for which
it was set up as a production of the
init. Ladies Garment Workers Union
musical revue, Pins and Needles, and
The River and The Pillow That Broke
the Plains, governmental films on soil
erosion
Equality is an independent, non-sec-
tartan monthly journal, published at
512 Fifth Ave, New York, to defend
democratic rights and combat racial
and religious intolerance.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
Baldwin Scores
Report on Hoover's
Raiding Technique

NEW YORK (FP) - Whitewash-
ing of the FBPs Detroit raids in re-
port by Henry Schweinhaut, head of
the civil liberties unit of the depart
ment of justice, was criticized May 8
by Director Roger N. Baldwin of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
1T is to be regretted" Baldwin
said, that bureau of the depart
ment of justice, committed to the pres
ervation of civil rights, should take so
casual a view of practices usually
justifying the severest condemnation"
Baldwin pointed out that Schwein-
haut's investigation and report con-
firmed many of the charges made
against the Omen when Spanish loyal
list sympathizers were rounded up last
February. But instead of condemning
the strange methods employed by fed
eral agents, tn ereport offered excuses
and apologies.
Pointing to the a. m. zero hour
set for the raids, Baldwin noted that
Practically all of the defendants were
TeSlQe0LS OI DeLIOil lOl many JCoAo
and there was no reason to assume
that they could not be arrested at a
hour. Forty-six persons
were assigned to make the arrests of
II peoplel The responsibility for the
manner of the arrests rests upon Mr..
]. Edgar Hoover, chief of the FBI
who gave the instructions"
Schweinhaut hound, Baldwin com
mented, that the defendants homes
had been searched without warrants,
but he excused this procedure as Gin
full accord with the regulations of the
FBL"
The report also admitted that the
prisoners - subsequently freed - were
not permitted to get in touch with
counsel until just before they were
arraigned Use of handouts and
chain was likewise excused. Although
Baldwin maintained that this was
"inexcusable."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
PASSAGE OF FILA
Bill AT PRESENT
SESSION Seen

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
the long delayed bill to give additional
funds to the U. S. housing authority
passed by te senate last session, was
believed likely here as evidence of
new interest appeared
Nathan Straus, USHA head, told
reporters at the White House follow
ing a conference with the President
that he had been authorized to say
that the 1910 democratic platform will
contain a plank for extension of the
housing program.
Straus also said the President had
classified the pending bill for addi-
tional funds as must" bill at the
present session although indicating
that he would not be averse to re-
duction in the amount.
AS passed by the senate last year.
the bill provides the USHA with the
to issue up to $S00,000,000
worth of bonds to secure funds for
housing projects. Of this amount 256
was earmarked for rural housing
projects.
The measure was killed in the clos
ing hours of the last session of the
house but it is believed that favor
able action can be secured on pro-
posal to grant authority for 100000
600 worth of bonds with reduction
of the loan period from 60 to as years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
HIGHWAY JOB
NEAR town SEND
IS PULLED"

Declared unfair" by Operating En-
gineers Union Local No. 373, Team.
sters Union Local No. 666, Hold Car
riers and General Labor Local No. 254,
the action being concurred in by the
Helena Trades and Labor Assembly,
a section of highway construction I'M
der contract by Carl E. Nelson, was
pulled by the unions today.
The charge against Contractor Nell
son by the unions was that while he
employed some members of Montana
organized labor and paid them the 60
ing scale of union wages, he had "im-
ported" large number of unorganized
laborers from Utah, and refused to
maintain "closed shop standing and
employing organized Montana labor
only on the job.
Representatives of the unions which
determined on the action are in active
charge of the effort to compel the
contractor to meet the unions require
ments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
COOP REFINERY
WILL ENRICH
KANSAS PLAINS

PHILLIPSBURG, Kan (FP) = An
estimated 10000 persons gathered here
May for dedication of the first CO.
operative oil refinery in the U. S.
Pres. Howard A. Cowden of the
Consumers Cooperative Assn. told the
crowd that the refinery was "the first
one ever built to keep all the gas it
makes and all the money it makes
right here on the plains"
"Other pipe lines" Cowden con-
tinued, "have carried our crude oil
out of our region. Our pipe line
gathers the oil from nearby fields and
keeps it in our region. 1t pipes the
wealth right back to the people of the
plains regions who will use the gaso-
line and tractor fuel made from the
crude oil it carries"
Predicting that the $850,000 refinery
and pipeline would make money, Cow
den said that Sin making money the
cooperative refinery works in reverse.
Instead of sending the money it makes
to wealthy absentee shareholders in
distant cities, it will eventually send
the money it makes back to the peo-
pie who buy and burn the gasoline
So even when the gas in gone, there
will still be wealth accumulated by
this refinery for people who live in
our region"
The dedication was a symbolic GER
performed by Pres. Ralph
Snyder of the Wichita Bank for Co
operatives, one of the eight Coop
banking institutions of the U. S. An
old tankwagon, used for hauling kerr
osene in 1915 around Kirwin, Kan,
was drawn up before the speakers
platform Into the relic of horse-and-
buggy days Snyder poured vial of
gasoline from the new refinery.
Il dedicate this refinery to the serv-
Ice OF all the people, any one of whom,
Of race, color or creed, may
become part of this great and grow
ng movement" said Snyder. 81 ded-
cate it as a symbol of change which
eventually will bring humanity closer
% the ideal toward which men every
where are groping-the ideal of peace,
plenty, freedom and security"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
ERICKSON SAYS
UNEMPLOYMENT
is Permanent
Associate Justice Is Speaker
At Meeting Held in Great
Falls; Says Prosperity for
Capital Does Not Mean Pros
perity for Labor.

| The time has arrived to realize the
promise that unemployment is tenn
Iporary problem is false and also that
it does not follow that prosperity for
capital means prosperity for labor, &C.
cording to Associate Justice Left
Erickson of the Montana supreme
court, who Wednesday night adj
dressed an unemployment week mass
meeting in the Junior high school
auditorium. Erickson, however. be-
lieves there are many ways in which
the problem can be solved
The meeting was arranged by the
Mill and Smeltermen's union as the
concluding feature of unemployment
week The union co-operated with
veterans organizations and labor I'M
ions in observing the week.
John Clark of the Smeltermen's I'M
ion opened the meeting and intro
duced Randall Carpenter, past COM
mander of the American Legion, as
chairman. The latter declared that
millions of men are now engaged in
an economic war, lacking employment,
and asserted that it was sad COM
mentary on the richest nation in the
world that a man over 40 is regarded
as too old to work and that those COM
ing out of schools likewise cannot find
jobs.
Gordon Dial of the Smeltermens
union spoke on "Industry's Respon-
sibility to the Unemployed" asserting
that war between man and machine
in the production of wealth and the
speeding up of production are basic
factors of unemployment. ]. G. Hick-
man of the Eagles lodge explained
he extended efforts of the Eagles to
ward off problems now facing the
and to awaken leaders to the
necessity of action to correct condi-
ions. Hickman emphasized the eff
'ect of machinery on reduction of en-
1loyment. He likewise discussed the
I'D age pension and other security
measures of the lodge and urged per-
sons to vote against the issuance of
ponds to finance a county home for
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JAKE'S PUBLIC
SUGGESTS MORE
AABF MEMBERS

To Jake
Writer of Capitol Corridor Chatter
Oh The Peoples Voice Publishing Co.
Helena, Montana.
Dear Jake:
I have been reading with a great
deal of interest your column in the
Voice and am glad to know that the
Commander in Chief of the expedi-
ton forces has made public his fig
ures.
OH Yes about that balancing act;
the info that we get over here in the
sticks, via grapevine route is that
this is not a balancing of the budget
feat, but, instead budgeting of the
balance. Give the right guy bunch
of figures and he can do more tricks
with them than monkey can on
20 feet of grape vine, commonly re-
fered to as monkey business" Yes,
sir, some of the compiled figures con-
tain about as much information as a
Chinese laundry slip; remember the
ticket" you got from the Chink that
had the laundry down the alley when
you left your dirty shirts?
When stumbling around the capitol
corridor keep your eye open for those
guys that solicit funds for the ayers
for Governor club" Just a few years
ago this was a state wide organiza-
ton, but, I suppose this year it will
be open to state employees only; re-
member they give you a ticket" also.
The writer got caught in the last
slide" but will not be at home when
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
FBI Menace
TO LIBERTY,
NORRIS SAYS

WASHINGTON.-( FP) - Continue
tion of federal bureau of investigation
methods would mean destruction Of
human liberty in the U. S." Sen
George w. Norris Ind., Neb) de.
clared here May in three-houl
speech on the senate floor.
Norris reviewed in great detail the
arrest of IL persons in Detroit by the
FBI on charges of recruiting soldiers
for the Spanish loyalist government
He said he disagreed with the report
submitted by Attorney General Robert
Jackson concerning the FBPs part in
the affair.
81 disagree with his withdrawing
of what happened in Detroit as shown
in his letter." Norris told the senate.
1T is painful for me to discuss it and
disagree with one in whom | have
such great confidence as l have in
the attorney general"
After reading at length from the
submitted by the arrested
persons in the case and noting that
there was no dispute concerning the
facts, Norris declared:
eff you were arrested for splitting
on the sidewalk and the FBI had a
warrant for your arrest for that great
the first thing they would
do to you under this method of doing
business would be to put you in hand
cuffs.
"They would take you to an office
and strip you naked and search you.
They would ask you all kinds of ques-
ions about your life, about your fam
lily relations. They would look up
every step you had ever taken in your
ife and confront you with every error
you had ever made.
Such procedure cannot be per-
nitted to live if we are to have
rec country, if we are to have land
such as we boast of, where human
liberty is sacred, that kind of proceed
Ire must be outlawed and prohibited"
After Norris analysed the record of
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
PERKINS ASKS
BENEFITS FOR
MIGRANTS

WASHINGTON - Extension
of the. federal governments social
services to migratory workers was
suggested to the senate civil liberties
committee May as means of meet
ing the migrant problem by Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins.
Migration from one area to another
by families in search of jobs and bet
ter living conditions is increasing, she
said, and is likely to continue in
creasing.
Accepting this as a fact, she recon-
mended that "our social services
should be made available to those in
the migrant state of life" She pro-
posed that migrants be given the bene-
fit of the maternal and child welfare
aid given under the social security
laws.
Wage and hour legislation should be
extended to workers on industrialized
farms, she continued Social security
act benefits should be extended to
them, as well, and industrial farms
should be defined so as to make the
distinction between industrialized
farms and home farms clear.
III addition, she said, state work
mems compensation and general acct
dent laws should be amended to in
cIude agricultural workers.
81, myself, see no reason why some
of these people shouldn't SETTLE" she
declared. But they need leadership
and they need good land. They
should be assisted, probably, toward
a cooperative method of life"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-15
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. l. HARRIS

tionize American industry to compel
us to make the necessary alterations
in system that has shown itself in
capable of making adjustments to new
land efficient methods of production
without penalizing the most important
and largest element of our population
the workers.
Some are now asking: SIS the re-
ported discovery by Minnesota scien-
tist of U-235, an atomic power de-
rived from a chemical twin of common
uranium, destined to play that import
ant role?" One pound of U-235, it is
claimed, has power equivalent to five
million pounds of coal or three mil
lion gallons of oil, and can be con-
verified into steam by the simple pro-
cess of immersing it in cold water.
Because of its economy, it would make
our coal deposits virtually useless,
and might well nigh wreck havoc with
the oil industry. This would strike
at the very basis of the entire finan-
cial structure.
Due to obvious faultiness in our
method of wealth distribution, tech
biological unemployment in the United
States has been increasing with every
new discovery and invention which
makes possible production of more
wealth with less man-power. Hear
ings before the monopoly committee
should have the effect of forewarning
the people to the increasing serious
ness of a problem which has all the
earmarks of permanency, but it has
not as yet done so to any great de-
gree. We are doing relatively little
about it.
1t is planned to turn the secret Of
U-235 over to the government to con-
troll it's release for industrial use by
slow degrees to avoid catastrophe
effects on the system, or to put it
away for more or less permanent cold
storage. The secret, however, may
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Capitol Corridor
Chatter

1 don't often get a letter any Other
time than around the first of the
month, when some optimists send me
some kind of a bill with please re
nit" on it, and lately | haven't beer
getting many of them, because,
guess, they're getting tired of mailing
them. And since l got this job, and
the guys know that I pick up some
change now and then, they're getting
tough about insisting that | lay it
on the barrel-head, and there isn't a
chance for me to lay anything by for
the rainy day, at ALL
Well, the other day l got letter
from a guy that wants some informa-
ton, and of course he shows some
pretty good judgment by asking me
for it. He kind of intimated that the
governor had put the slug on him for
some dough to help out in the last
campaign, but I gathered that he did
MT intend to donate anything to the
cause this year. l hope he doesn't
because he talks like he'd make a
pretty good member of the AABF and
he'd just as well put the dough in the
treasury of the order.
going to put on any drive for any
donations to the campaign this year,
because he has got plenty of fish
sailed away, so he doesn't have to go
after any fingle-fangle potatoes from
the little guys. Of course last time
it was different. Then he probably
had to buy all his supplies. I don't
know if he was in the third degree
(three bottle) then or not, but if he
was, look what that cost him. This
time, he shouldn't have to buy any
thing at all.
Anyhow, that job Of governor is a
pretty cushy job and guy can save
I'D quite a little in it if he's careful.
Why-the governor must have saved
up enough in his first year for his wife
to pay off twelve thousand dollars in
some kind of mortgage they had
against them over where he used to
live. Of course / don't see how he
could stretch his wages that much,
so maybe he had saved up some of
the extra jack that he got from guys
to make the last campaign on.
1t looks to me like that shows that
a guy that can pay off mortgages like
that in less than year after he gets
a good job like the governors is a
regular budget balancer, and it's no
wonder that he has cut the mustard
like he has.
He probably makes quite a little
dough off his ranch, so maybe that
helps a lot. Like the first year when
he was governor, he nicked the high
way outfit for s1,290.60 for some kind
Of right of way for highway; sold
he outfit about IS acres the way |
figure it from report. | made a
rip through that part of the country
,ne time, and it looked to me like
he whole country wasn't worth that
much money. But then, don't know
much about things like that. | guess
f land belongs to governor, they've
got to lay it on the line for him.
But this goes to show you that he's
pretty smart fellow and can make
lay plenty. This guy that wrote me
;aid that out in his part of the coun-
ny they think maybe he's able to
budget the balance as well as balance
he budget. Maybe. This "balanc-
ng" talk has got me just about down
guess nobody but three bottle |
nan can understand all he knows
bout it.
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the Justice of the peace to examine
into the validity of the complaint, and
if the offense appears found to have
been committed, to issue warrant
and follow out further requirements OF
the law.
A hearing on the petition for a
writ of mandamus was Immediately
set by the supreme court for 10 o'clock
this morning, and it is expected that
the decision of the court will be
handed down at an early date.
Wants Time
The attorney for the complaining
witness in the action, first approached
the Lewis and Clark county attorney,
submitting to him certain evidence
that Clements had violated Section
1876 by holding high office in the
state democratic, political organiza-
ton while an appointive officer of the
state, to which the Voice from time
to time has called attention. The
county attorney, according to the at
torney for the complaining witness,
asked for time to investigate the situa-
ton, which was, of course, granted.
Later when it was understood that the
county attorney, if not refusing, at
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|FBI SHOPPERS
TAIL NLRB
examiner

WASHINGTON. - (FP) j. Edgar
Hoover's shoppers tailed an official of
the national labor relations board it
was indicated here May as a letter
from Hoover to NLRB chairman J.
Warren Madden was put into the rec
ord of the special house committee
investigating the board and act.
This revelation was made during
the examination of Herbert ]. Voght,
NLRB field examiner Committee
counsel Edmund M. Toland put Hoo
ver's letter into the record.
"voght is alleged to have been trav-
cling over the state of Iowa making
speeches in behalf of pardon for one
Archie Carter, former newspaper pub
Usher of Dubuque, Ia, who is present
ly serving a five year sentence in the
Iowa state penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son, Ia" Hoovers' letter said
1t added, at is further stated that
Voght made a talk at Keokuk, Ia,
about six weeks ago before trades
and labor assembly for the specific
purposes of soliciting funds for the
defense of Carter"
Voght denied the charges general
ly, specifically and particularly"
He said he visited Carter, formerly
publisher of labor paper in Dubuque,
in the penitentiary and left him some
If the facts were as Car
ter staed them, he said, he was con-
WINGED Carter was framed.
Later, in his capacity as private
ne appeared at a meeting
in Keokuk for the defense of Carter
and described his visit with the labor
publisher. He made no appeal for
funds, he stated, and expressed no
criticism of the Iowa courts.