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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-28
GREAT FALLS DISAPPOINTED WITH
RESULTS OF HONOR CITY, PROGRAM

tiers met another young lady from Mi
ami for whose appearance complete
arrangements were said to have been
Club of Miami, but she had the same
experience as the Great Falls girls.
Correspondence by the Cascade
County Trades and Labor Assembly
with the Bowes management was the
first move made to secure the selec-
tion of Great Falls as Honor City
for one of the Bowes programs, and
at that time the Assembly had in
mind the Collins sisters to represent
the city on the program, il one was
arranged for. Later it appears that
Mayor Wuerthner made trip to New
York, and APPARENTLY he made the ar
rangement for the program with Great
Falls as the Honor City" and also
for Major Bowes to plug" Mayor
Wuerthner's candidacy for the gov
ernorship on the program. The May
or's son was sent to New York to
represent the city on the program,
thus making it largely "Wuerthner"
program llSledu Ol GIedl diio Pr
gram.
Criticism of the present Major
Bowes programs is made because he
is apparently plugging" for amateurs
to come to New York for additions
and touting the fair, and it is believed
that he is more interested in getting
attendance at the fair than in giving
new, amateur talent break on his
programs. Since the Radio Guide
some months ago carried quite com
plete expose of the manner in which
the Honor Cities" for his programs
are chosen and why, great number
of people have their fingers crossed"
on his supposed interest in amateur
talent
The Collins sisters who failed to
get on the program after successful
addition, have appeared on radio pro
grams in Hollywood, Salt Lake and
in many of the cities of the state, and
appeared regularly for some time on
the Croxford programs on KFBB.
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FRENCH LABOR
ORGANIZATION
lis NOW DEAD

| The blackout of organized labor on
the European continent was made al
most complete with the death in
France Of the General Confederation
of Labor (CGT), one of the most pow
erful labor bodies in the world The
CGT died officially in Toulouse on
July 81, the French press reported
| recently.
At a meeting attended by only so
delegates, it was voted that the CGT
would become a government company
union similar to those existing in Ger
many and other totalitarian states.
Absent from the meeting was John
Jouhaux, who resigned after heading
the organization for many years.
While the CGT was committing sui
eide, Rene Belin, minister of labor
and industry, announced new legisla-
tion abolishing unions.
In the last decade the CGT reached
it's peak and attained a membership
of 100000 The big upswing of the
organization came early in the thirties
when French labor achieved unity
through merging of the CGT and
CGTU General Confederation of
United Labor Until that time the
relationship of the two bodies was
equivalent to that between the AFL
and CLIO.
In the summer of 1886 the CGT
won its outstanding victory through
a general strike which took the form
of sitdowns IN a number of the bigger
plants. Gains included nationwide
40-hour week, wage increases and i'm
proved working conditions.
Hardly had the French workers fin
ished rejoicing over their victory than
Generalissimo Francisco Franco, with
the backing of Hitler and Mussolini,
declared war ON organized labor IN
Spain and the government which it
had elected. The defeat of Spain, to-
gether with the growing wer bysteria
in France, weakened the morale of
French labor. The gains of 1896
were eradicated by the Daladier gov
eminent
In 1899 the CGT, in last stand,
conducted a general strike in protest
over Daladier's decree laws. The
government answered by conscripting
the strikers and smashing not only
the strike but also the backbone Of
the CGT.
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SOUTH TO
HAVE new
DRAMA SCHOOL

| The New Theatre League, nation
al organization of community and la
Dor theatres and drama groups
throughout America, will open Its
Southern New Theatre School al
Mena, Arkansas, on October 81.
The purpose of the school is to de.
velop students from the south in all
branches of theatre-acting, directing,
playwriting, managing giving them a
Thorough knowledg of the problems
involved in organizing and maintains
ling community and labor theatres
that can artistically voice the rich
folk culture of the south. Unlike
most theatre schools, the Southern
New Theatre School will offer special
courses in square dancing, folk sing
ing, and educational methods. for I'M
ions and other organizations.
The New Theatre League, whose af-
filiated theatres perform for audi
ences totalling more than one million
yearly, has successfully guided COM
,munity theatre work for the past ten
years, and has trained hundreds OF
active theatre workers now engaged
in educational work in unions and
other organizations.
AS one of the few resident theatre
schools in the south, the Southern
New Theatre School will operate with
la full curriculum for two terms of
Is weeks each, from October to June.
The spring term will be devoted to
touring the countryside with plays
written and produced at the school.
During the summer series of short
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| pie here in Wahsington-just why |
should like to know This Byoir rep
resents some mighty big financial
boys. During the past year or so he
has taken half dozen men from key
positions in the department of justice
to go to work for a Washington law
office at bigger salaries"
| In the House last week Patman
made the following charges against
Byoir, which he offered to prove by
positive evidence: that Byoir, within
few months after Hitler came into
power, accepted $4,000 in cash from
the German consul in New York to
spread nazi propaganda in the United
| States; that he sent George Sylvester
Viereck, well known nazi propagan-
dist now quite active in Washington,
to Germany to obtain a contract for
him; that Viereck, after an interview
with Herr Hitler, returned with con-
tract for Byoir for $4,000 a month for
18 months to work under the auspices
of the German Tourists Information
Office, a nazi front" organization;
LlaL subsequently, lie duu NlcICCh W
cupied the same suite of offices in
New York City, and that he repre-
scented the nazis here as late as 1888.
PATMAN INSISTS THAT THE
CASE BE REOPENED SO THAT HE
CAN PRESENT HIS EVIDENCE
AGAINST BYOIR AT A PUBLIC
HEARING. HE ALSO SAID THAT
THE WAR DEPARTMENT is IN
VESTIGATING THE CASE.
Lieutenant Colonel Byoir's defense,
Patman says, is that he was merely
travel agent for the German tourist
service. That kind of an explanation,
particularly for $4,000 month stip-
end, might sound plausible to naive
congressman, but could hardly get by
cub newspaper reporter with expe-
rience limited to collection of news
Handouts" Viereck is registered
foreign agent.
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FREEB0URN
ACQUITTED
BY FED. JURY

Just as The Voice is going to press,
news is received that jury in fed
eral court has acquitted Harrison j.
Freebourn, attorney general of charges
of evasion of payment of income taxes
on ST. 900 which the federal govern
ment alleged had been paid to him by
slot machine organization on the
west coast. The slot machine racke-
teers according to the charges, had
paid the sum to Freebourn for his
protection of their Illicit enterprises
in Montana.
The trial lasted four days and num-
erous witnesses appeared for both the
prosecution and defense. U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Tansil assisted by =
special prosecutor from Washington,
represented the government; Yelling
ton d. Rankin, assisted by deputies
in Freebourns office, conducted the
defense.
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Capitol Corridor
Chatter

| l think I'm either going to have to
quit my job or get next to stock
of Dutch courage if I'm going to stay
on. For while it was kind of peace
able around the state house while the
governor was campaigning and had
most all Of the highway patrol guys
out mailing up posters for him and
rustling votes along with most of the
other jaspers who were out on vaca-
ton doing the same thing.
But now, every once in while
almost stumble across one of those
patrol guys and have to duck around
and squirm until my back feels like
a corkscrew and it takes lot of blue
ruin painkiller to straighten it out.
And now, in addition to that, soldiers
are beginning to hang around and
while they aren't as bad as the pa
troll guys, just don't banker for real
close acquaintance with any gaffer
wearing a uniform. They generally
get lot of funny notions along with
their uniforms. Let them keep them
is my idea but / don't want them
to get a chance to keep me- I'm get
ting along good enough, keeping my
self
| hear that one of these patrol guys
has got steady job chauffeuring for
the governor. This sounds like a
cushy job to me, because they tell
me he is right at home at the gov
ernor's place, and look at the chance
cases of bonus" blue ruin, or sam
plies or whatever you want to call
them, as l understand the governor
has regular storeroom in the garage.
1t might be this guy that sort OF
haunts the state house. OF course the
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Lynch Threat
AGAINST F. j.
ORGANIZER

On August 81 word was received ii
the office Of the National Federation
for Constitutional Liberties from tn,
Civil Liberties Unit in the Department
of Justice that Clinton Clark, 33 veal
old negro organizer for the Farmers
Union in the state of Louisiana, hat
been released from the county jail
in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
and given safe conduct across the Dor
der to Texas.
On July II Clark had called Par
ish-wide meeting of tenant farmers
and share troopers in Natchitoches
Planters in the community prevented
their use of the Masonic Temple
which had been arranged. The meet
ing was finally scheduled to be held
in Baptist church.
Eight hundred farmers came on foot
and on horseback from the surround
ing country. On the morning of the
meeting Clark and another young man
went to the office of the mayor to
invite him to attend. He bluntly re-
fused and warned them to get out of
town. AS they left the Mayors office
to go to the church they were ar
rested. simultaneously six other men
were arrested at the church. These
men had been sent by their organiza-
tons, including the National Maritime
Union of New Orleans, to bring fra
ternal greetings to the meeting. All
Of those arrested were held incom-
and without charges all day
Sunday and Monday.
On Tuesday morning officials of the
Union were told that all of the men
had been released. 1t was later found,
however, that Clark was still being
held in Jail where he was subjected
to constant illegal abuses. Planters
were taken into the Jail and Clark was
pointed out to them. Ten charges
we're placed against him, all of them
accusing him of collecting funds for
the union under false pretenses.
Clark, being an official of the Farmers
Union, had collected dues for that or
ganization. 1t was charged that the
Farmers Union made promises, in So
letting dues, which it could not full
ILL., Union officials asserted that
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newspapers
DECLARE WAR
ON PEACE RALLY
By ALEXANDER L. CROSBY

The Emergency Peace Mobilization
Committee, which hasn't had much
luck getting any news of the Chicago
peace mobilization into the daily pa
pers, is rubbing its eyes.
On August 23 the Scripp- Howard
World-Telegram gave the story 33
inches, starting on page one, and on
opened up So inches-more than 4
feet-of it's columns to the peace rally
scheduled for Labor Day weekend.
And the Times story made the top of
page one.
The sudden liberality of two of the
foremost CONSUMPTION advocates is ex-
planned by the headlines. Labor Day
Anti-War Farley Is Reds Baby; Most
Nom Communist Pacifists Shun 1t,
said the World-Telegram, while the
Times headlined its main story: "Un-
ion Peace Front Splits CLIO Here"
Both stories represented as neat a
job of card-stacking as newspaper
readers have witnessed in many day.
Using the Dies committee technique
of calling names first and investigat-
ing afterward if at all, the World
Telegram proved to its own satisfac-
ton that the peace drive is commun-
ist-led by naming 16 individuals and
half a dozen organizations out of a
list of local and national sponsors to-
falling 165 names.
Strangely, the World-Telegram did
not call single one of these persons
a communist. They were all left
wing or commissioned" or
something, but the newspaper lacked
either evidence or nerve to call them
the real McCoyski.
Peeved by this piece of creative
writing, the Emergency Peace Mobil-
ization Committee pointed out to the
World Telegram that it's story was
false in stating that none of the long
established, highly reputable, unques-
tionably non-communistic peace or
CARNATIONS" had been invited to par
ticipate and that many of them con-
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Girls Selected by Many Or
CARNATIONS to Represent the
City Given Addition in New
York, But No Other Consid-
Grafton.

Two talented Fort Benton girls, the
Collins sisters, Gladys and Georgia,
sponsored by the Trades and Labor
Assembly of Cascade County, the
Great Falls Eagles and several other
organizations, were sent to New York
by the sponsoring organizations to ap-
paer on major Bowes" program,
several additional civic organizations
outside of Great Falls, contributing
to their expenses.
With previous radio experience and
possessing recognized talent, they
were given an addition at the New
York studios and complimented on
their performance, but were then told
that it might be more than two
months before they could get on the
program, and as it was impossible for
them to wait that long, their effort
came to nothing. Correspondence had
with the Bowes management before
starting, had led them to believe that
they were assured of place on
the program.
While in New York, the Collins sis
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anu failure 10 T0Iu0uy du1HlulSlTdtlVe
faults, lies, of course, largely at the
door of the present governor.
During the last session of the legis-
lature, record was established in the
rendering of reports by special COM
mittees which did not "whitewash"
departments, which because of the in
fluence of political considerations is
far too often the outcome Of investiga-
lions of legislative committees. The
select committee to investigate the
Liquor Control Board and the Welfare
Department may be cited as outstand-
ing examples of departures from the
ordinary methods of Investigating
committees and the reports of these
committees stand out as indicating an
honest effort to arrive at concrete
knowledge of actual conditions and
the disclosure of existing faults in the
administration of these two agencies
of the state government.
The Reports
In the reports of both of these COM
mittees, there was little mincing of
words. The liquor report, which has
been published in full in The Voice
asserts that because of the manner
in which this Ayers appointed liquor
control board conducted the states
business, it was we'll ON the way to
becoming a racket" and anyone
reading the complete record of the
proceedings of this committee and the
testimony adduced, must feel that the
committee in it's report was very cir
cumspect in it's choice of expression;
that there was little doubt that it
was already racket" and in view of
the obviously close personal associa-
tiOn of the governor with some of the
questionable characters and the prac-
tees involved in the conduct of the
liquor control boards affairs, he was
at least well aware of existing con-
ditions, if not an active participant in
directing them.
In the report of the select commit
tee which investigated the State We'll
fare Board, the administration of its
affairs is openly enough condemned
as inefficient and as not showing a
proper regard for its responsibility to
the unfortunates of the state.
The report charges top-heavy ad-
ministration with too many depart
ments, each of them stated by COM
plete complement of so-called special.
lists, charged with duties which are at
least closely related to the duties OF
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JERSEY KHAN
MERGES
With NAZIS

ANDOVER, N. j. (FP) - America
now has what might be called a Ku
Klux Klund, for the marriage of the
New Jersey Khan and the German
American Bund was consummated at
a rally of some 1900 members of
the two organizations at the Bund
camp here on August IS.
About two dozen hooded Klansmen
and somewhat larger delegation of
uniformed storm troopers gave Off
cial color to the proceedings. The
presiding officer was Arthur H. Bell,
grand giant of the New Jersey Khan,
who wore gold hood and a glitter
ing robe. August Klapprott, chair
man of the Bund's eastern depart
ment, was the No. 1 nazi leader pres
ent
Newspapermen were finally permit
ted to enter the camp, amid jeers and
cries Of Hell Hitler!" from the audi
ence. They were seated in a front
section of the amphitheater, sur
rounded by storm troopers and or
dered not to photograph anyone in
the gathering.
AS customary at Bund meetings,
the crowd hooted at the mention of
government officials and newspapers
and cheered speakers who made sour
rilous attacks upon Jews. A huge
fiery cross was lit when darkness fell.
The reason behind the fusion of the
Khan and the Bund is said to be that
the Jersey Khan was losing its pres
tige and power, and welcomed an OPP
portunity to climb on the nazi band
wagon. This required no particular
agility, since the Klan has always
been anti-Catholic, anti-negro and
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THOMAS ASKS
WILLkIE SOME
QUESTIONS
Socialist Candidate for Pres
ident Follows Up Wire Ask
ing for Public Debate With
Letter Wherein He Outlines
Proposed Discussion of Cues
tions of Interest.

| Candidate WILKES demand for de-
bate with President Roosevelt on pub
lie issues, having been ignored, he has
been offered an opportunity to pre-
sent his stand and arguments on ques-
lions of general interest to the public
| by Norman Thomas, socialist candi-
date for president. The socialist can
didate has addressed the following let
ter to Willkie:
August 81, 1910
Dear Mr. Willkie:
Following up my telegram of Au-
gust 9th, l venture to suggest to you,
and to the American people, some of
the questions that should be discussed
before them. Obviously, more than
one meeting would be required to
cover the ground. The method might
be an elaboration of the informal
method we both used when we ap-
peared before a class at the Town
Hall, rather than a formal debate
Here, then, are some questions:
1. Why do you think peacetime mil
itary CONSUMPTION necessary or demo-
cratic?
2. What further aid can be given
Britain which will be effective with
out impairing our own defensive
forces or being equivalent to unde-
clared war?
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Continental
PLANNING IS
MANDATORY
BY KAY ELLES

IL you are going to operate any SORT
of organization, whether educational
business or social, you must always
adjust your field of operations accord
ing to the basis of consumption and
resources upon which production de-
ponds. That is so with regard to any
activity of us humans, individually or
collectively.
In the pioneering days each family
was the unit upon which the consid-
erations of resources and consumption
had to be based, for each family was
mostly an economic unit of itself.
They lived in a house built from the
timber on their own land, cut and
hewn by themselves. They wore
clothing made from their own wool
and fabricated in their own home
They ate food practically all raised
and processed by members of the
family.
Money meant very little to such
people for they thought in terms of
sheep and cattle, grain and corn, or
horses and hogs. They could, and fire.
quently did, exist without any money
whatsoever. However that may be,
just how would you classify such an
existence? They were clearly con-
cerned practically with their own
existence. That word phys
ical' is really the key to the set-up.
With regard to man il means his urges
for food, clothing, shelter and biolog-
ical reproduction.
Now this family must have enough
area in which to operate to supply
their necessary wants; those neces-
sary wants being defined by the phys
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estate, the police held him for that
length of time on the flimsy pretext
that he might be one Newman, who
was wanted for fraud
1t is probable that the police would
have kept him incommunicado still
longer, except for the fact that his
failure to appear at the offices of the
Southern News Almanac for which he
is field representative. caused the pub
Usher to check on his whereabouts
after he finally was permitted to place
telephone call to the office but per-
mitted to say only that he was de
tanned"
A story of the occurrence written
and signed by the publisher of the
Southern News Almanac, Sam Hall.
relates how police powers are abused
in this southern city, and stresses the
need of vigilance against similar
things threatened elsewhere in this
country. The publishers story fol-
lows:
This is a story that want to rear
back and write. It's story of police
methods that slam Birmingham back
into the days when the rights OF hui
man beings meant nothing at all. It's
story of how Ordinance 1902 is used.
I'VE had heard plenty about this or
dinance here on the paper. We had
written editorials againts it, but last
Saturday it was brought home to us.
Gerald Harris, a man who is loved
throughout the ranks of small farmers
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check various departments of the state
which have under the scrutiny of select committees of
past sessions of the state legislative assemblies will disclose
that few efforts have been made by the responsible Of
cias remedy defects found in their administration of the
duties of their respective departments Since the of
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Qualification Needed
New Dealers say that Wendell Will
kie endorsed the principles OF the
New Deal in his acceptance speech
Republicans say that he did not.
Draft proponents say that .Willkie
endorsed compulsory military service
and hence the Burke-Wadsworth bill.
Senator Taft, opponent of conscrip-
ton, says that he did not.
The Roosevelt people say that Will
kie endorsed the Presidents foreign
policy. Isolationist Senator Nye says
that he backed up the position OF the
isolationists.
1t would be a very simple matter
for Mr.. Willkie to clarity the situa-
ton with just few simple words.
VIII he? Or does he prefer to be all
things to all men?
Patman Renews Nazi Charge
Against Army Reserve Officer
Representative Patman, Texas, lit
the fuse to what may prove to be
very powerful bomb when he alleged
in the House last week that a sub
committee of the Dies committee ex-
onerated Lieut.. Col. Carl Byoir OF
charges that he was a paid nazi prop
agandist without as much as calling
witnesses or examining testimony he
was prepared to offer.
The charges against the army re-
serve officer were made by Patman
in the early part Of June, when ne
referred to Byoir as the lobbyist for
chain stores-"the biggest lobby IN
the orld"-declaring that he nao
been on Hitler's payroll to dissent
nate nazi propaganda in America. me
Dies subcommittee, headed by Rep.
Dempsey New Mexico, on July 10
publicly exonerated Byoir OF the
charge.
Said Patman to this column: This
thing has some very mysterious an
giles. Dempsey told me that he was
told to lay off by some powerful peo-