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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-10

In the AABF for him to qualify for
while he is doing this dizzy balancing
act.
Anyhow this meeting of the AABF
has got to be held tonight and some
resolution passed that we disapprove
OF all this sleuthing. It's bad enough
to have a lot Of these regular cops
around prying into things without hav-
ing a lot of amateurs around. It's
getting 80 that we have to dodge
everybody and there isn't enough
corners around. Well have to put ON
a drive for octagonal buildings l guess
so there will be more corners with a
lot of windows to look through be-
fore we get inside SO we'll know who
Ia gurn-shoeing around. / tell you 1t
Isn't good Americanism this sleuthing.
l know that most of the big shots
don't like 1t either because it isn't
comfortable for anybody and guess
that's why the government business
SENS to be in sort Of state of "sus-
pended animation" while they're talk
ing about it.
These preachers weren't 30 smart to
get into this business either; I'll bet
IL they hadn't and had sort OF inti-
mated to some of these big shots that
maybe they'd listen to reason, they
wouldn't have had to worry about
nickels and dimes in the collection
plates for long time. They could
have collected hat-fulls right now. And
kept from, catching cold by being out
at night. sleuthing 1t doesn't seem
to be good Judgment.
Nor good business. JAKE.
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| some degree at least, ODJoCtlV6iy.
AYERS ON WAY OUT"
Dear Editor:
In reply to an editorial that ap
ipeared in Jerry O'Connell's seif-glori
fication paper called the Montana Lib
eraI (the only excuse for its beins
is to satisfy personal ambition and
selfish motive) wish to make the fol
lowing comment:
/ have been set out as one OF Roy
Ayers henchmen. l do want to con
fess that | supported Ayers for Gov.
ernor against my own better judy
ment, but at the insistence of many
other progressives In the state who
claimed they had Ayers bona fide
ding the political affairs of the state.
l have not been as much disap-
pointed in his administration as many
other progressive because have
known the man for some 80 years.
helped elect him county attorney back
In the early days and also supported
him for the bench, and during this
early period thought knew the mans
qualifications. / might add at this
point that I supported him for con-
gress to eliminate him from state pol
itics, as l always considered him a
menace in this position. thought II
we could bury him In the United
States congress, where he would be
only one in five hundred, he could
not do much harm In the state Of
Montana I strongly objected to sup-
porting him for the governorShip OF
the state, but | was prevailed upon
to do so and I am now willing to
admit that l made very serious mis-
take, as we'll as many other progress
sives and fair-minded individuals
our commonwealth. Let
me add that / am trying to rectify
that mistake and that my main effort
during the coming campaign will be
to defeat this said Roy Ayers and
put him on the political shelf where
we have set aside many so-called |
,tooges and would-be progressiyes |
who are only prompted to seek polit- |
cal jobs for selfish motive for them.
selves.
Regardless Of O'Connell's lies, the
general public knows where / stand
With reference to Roy Ayers. His
ecord will tell the story and l Ger
ainly believe he Is on his way out.
Perhaps l should thank the writer
# this editorial for designating me
n tbo ,,nouthpjo,o for tho Ctordard |
Ill Company in Montana. Ny past
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CONSTRUCTION WORK
BEGINS ON new COOP
REFINERY AT REGINA

REGINA, Sask-The Consumers Co
operative Refineries. Ltd, which be-
gan operation of the first consumer
owned oil refinery in the world in
May, 1885, is enlarging its refinery
facilities to more adequately supply
co-operatives throughout the province
which own and control the refinery.
Construction work on the new crack
ing plant of the refinery got underway
the first of March with the arrival of
a sixty-one foot bubble tower" which
is used to separate the crude oil into
the various petroleum products de-
sired The refinery is being enlarged
and modernized at cost of quarter
of million dollars and will be ready
for operation June 1. The present re-
finery will continue operation even
when the new refinery is completed
in order to keep pace with rapidly
growing cooperative business.
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Americans who don't want to go to
war was culled from his book by the
editors of Uncensored, snappy little
dope sheet out OF New York.
Cromwell, with a collaboration, three
years ago published a book called,
I'm Defense of Capitalism" in which
he says:
With the exception of the loss Of
life and the suffering enduring by our
soldiers and sailors, the people of the
u g., from 1917 to 1920, found war
q benefactiOn rather than curse.
I'm an effort to put the full produc-
tive capacity OF the nation behind our
armed forces and those OF our allies,
arbitrary restraints upon the flow of
money we're cast aside AS result,
production was enormously stimu-
lated, unemployment vanished, the in
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course at the present stage Of the
game.
Te best thought around here 10 that
Lewis is bargaining collectively, In the
best modern manner, with view to
preventing the new deal from col.
lapsing into the arms Of the reaction
aries. II the new deal 80 collapses,
there Ia no time like the present to
start a genuine opposition party.
Second item Of rather morbid In
terest Is the defeat In Milwaukee OF
socialist Mayor Dan Hoan That Hoan
was one of the best mayors In the
/ U. s. IL undisputed. The general ex-
PLANTATION OF his defeat that the peo-
pie Of Milwaukee wanted change
after "a years. -
Whether they wanted a change be-
cause OF sheer whimsy or because Mil
waukee citizens were, despite the ef-
forts OF Hoan. subject to the same
pressures OF unemployment, low farm
prices, and the growing bigness OF
DIX DubluObB no Otuol HOOPaO ID q ~ w
lem for the political scientists.
Last OF the three items of interest
to labor politicians Is the announce
ment by Rep. Abe Murdoch d., Utah)
of his candidacy for the U. s. senate.
He will run against Senator King d.,
Utah).
Murdoch richly deserves labor sup
port and he seems assured Of getting
1t. Az q member Of the Smith COM
mittee investigating the NLRB, he did
q magnificent Job In getting for the
board the few breaks 1t did get. AS
q member OF the house he has been
as able and energetic as anyone on
behalf OF labor.
Murdock's opponent, King. is a crus-
ty old sputterer whose chief interest
seems to have been In seeing that
and big business were not
treated too harshly before the tenn
porary national economic monopoly
An interesting angle on U. 8. min
lister to Canada James H. r. Crom
wells recent .indiscretion in berating
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come per year comprise 1920 of thu
total; they spent $110 per week fol
food, or about sc per meal per per
son; families receiving between $500
and $1,000 income per year comprise
275% of the total and they put. oui
$1.62 per week for food or about z " {
per meal per person. families draw
ing from $1,000 to $1,000 per year in
come, make up another 239o of the
total and they spend an average OF
s2.18 per week for food or approx
mately 10c per meal per person.
These three groups make up 64.7%e
percent of the total number of families
in the U. S. and they only have an
average per capita expenditure of 7 " C
per meal, approximately
Now here Is this man Perkins at the
head of government corporation,
dealing in urpluses-ab undance-tell-
ing about families, who can only
spend sc to 10c per meal for food;
and, mind you, he puts 1t forward as
serious problem as to how the hum
cry folks and the abundant grub pile
can be brought together.
Why what the OH oh,
that's right-just plain common old
horse sense won't do, for that would
not be good for business. l forgot
all about the rules of the Price Sys-
tenn game. So that's why we get
Food Stamps" and Cotton Stamps"
and issue regulations about their use
through the regular trade channels.
Business gets their cut that way and
then the government taxes some one
else to pay the bill. Sort of game
of rob Peter to pay Paul; but did you
ever stop to think that Peters and
Paul's combined income is not In
creased In that way?
In the course of Mr.. Perkins speech
at the Farmers Institute, he stresses
three causes for these conditions: |
first, the Psychological advance in
agriculture; second, loss of foreign |
markets, and third, industrial unem-
ployment.
chronological advance in agricul- |
ture is due to science and engineer
ing The loss of foreign markets is
largely due to the same advance in
foreign countries, again science and
engineering. Industrial unemployment
predominantly due to machines dis
placing men-again to science and en-
cheering.
So it is science and engineering ap-
piled to production that has got us
into this mess. Well, what's the mat
ter with using a little of that good
old farm "horse sense" and study how
science and its application through
Technology to the whole economic set
up. Who knows science might show
is how to distribute the abundance L
the has taught us to productivity
ELLES. X
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dividual bargaining power OF labor
rose to unprecedented heights, and 1t
seemed that poverty and scarcity had
at last been vanquished."
What happened after that, accord.
ing to Cromwell and his collaboration,
was that timid old federal reserve
board clamped down on the flow Of
dollars with the consequent curbing
of production. His implication is that
II the reserve board hadn't, we might
still be soaring the heights Of prosper
ity.
It's no particular revelation, Of
course, to learn that Cromwell and.
his ilk found the last war "benefac-
tion" There is the suspicion, how
ever, that Americans got their CUTS,
full Of those benefits and want mo-
more of them.
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never know where it's going to stop.
l knew something was going to hap
pen when they get guy like sta
nonka" Dewey out here with that
sleuthing disease he has. That kind
of thing is catching. can see how it
all came about.
Here this "Tanonka" doesn't only
bring that sleuthing germ out here but
he starts balancing the budget or
something with a lot OF figures and
everybody gets kind of dizzy and their
resistance breaks down 80 they catch
the sleuthing fever. See how 1t goes!
Now when l think about it, maybe
the governor caught it too. They
tell me that he's busy balancing this
budget thing and | guess he's got to
do some sleuthing and beating OF
bushes to scare up the figures to do
1t with. Well probably have to write
ritual for special four bottle degree
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record will show and the independent
oil men OF the state know all the
facts. That statement Ia another one
of the many silly and libelous out.
bursts that O'Connell has made in his
ballyhoo towards the people in the
political gallery.
Now q word with reference to the
utility company that control at Sun
burst, Sweet Grass and the Kelvin
field, This is very small corpora
ton with $4,000 shares OF stock issued
and with very limited number of
customers. and Is like operating a gas
line through an agricultural commun-
| ity and serving gas to farmers. While
O'Connell was on the Railroad Com
mission, he called hearing OF five
different utilities and dismissed them
|an with little consideration except
Consumers Gas Company, which con-
troll, which I believe WAS held back
on account of personal grudge. But
our records were clear and the profit
so enthusiastically small that there was
no justification for any reduction. s.,
Now with reference to the Montana
Gas Corporation that serves the cities
of Havre and Chinook. will say that
this company owns pipe line and de-
iivers gas to the city gates and pur-
chases said gas from several indie
pendent operators. We have nothing |
to do with the distributing system In
either one OF these towns. However,
/ will say that gas Is being sold to |
consumers in the city OF Havre at a |
cheaper rate than any other town of
Its size In these United States and the
people have had uninterrupted serv-
Ice for some 10 or 10 years and at |
this particular point there is no use |
for duplicate system except that the
promoting OF this duplicate plant
would make additional money for con-
tractors and local politicians at the
expense Of the consumers and the
general public.
In closing. let me add that II the
rank and file OF Montana voters, who
think comprise eighty percent, would Il
eliminate or purge, If yousw wish, many
If these so-called professional politi- II
,ians who never earned an honest dol
AT In their lives, and elect fair-minded
men who would inject honesty into
,olitics and give g. fair deal to all
Montana citizens, they would accom- I
'lish . real Job.
Very sincerely yours,
E. B. COOLIDGE,
Great Falls. Mont II
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S MILLION FARM PEOPLE
FORCED TO LEAVE HOMES

1t is estimated by Gov. Black that
five million farm people were forced
this year to leave their homes and
take their belongings out on the road
in quest of new living quarters during
the moving period which occurs an
nually at this time of year in the
south as leases are terminated Con
slant shifting of tenants is costing
landlords and tenants $50 million dol
lars year, to say nothing of the
impairment of human resources" he
added.
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LAF0lL ETTE Committee DIScL 0SES
NAMES OF FINANCIAL hackers
OF ASSOCIATED FARMERS, inc.

Evidence presented before the La
Toilette Civil Liberties Committee and
now being put into report form dis
closes that contributions amounting to
S178,542 were made to the Associated
Farmers, Incorporated, of California.
by banks, railroads, utilities, canneries,
and other non-farmer organizations.
The Associated Farmers, Inc, whose
activities terrorized the west coast,
had purported to be bona fide farmer
organization.
Contributions to the Associated
Farmers, Inc:
Employees Associations
Industrial Asso. Is. F.) ..---...-$15, 400
So. Cal, Inc. --..----.--.-.-..----..---.- 5000
Citizens Assn. of Salinas $500. $50
Grower-Shipper Pro. Assn. 49, 6
s22,O56
Can, Box and Lumber Cos.
Zinc. Amer. Can ..--............-...-..$3,45 $50
Continental Can ....--.-.-....-..-.---- 1850
Crown Zellerbach ..............-....-.. 1850
Fibreboard Prod. -.....-................. 2,750
Paraffine Co. ....-...---.-.-.----.-.-....-l ,000
Tractor & Imple. Club G.
s12,975
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These figures are reported by the
Lubin Society of California. which COW
cred the hearings and sent out tran
scripts of the testimony to newspa-
pers and interested parties
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ]. Dillon,
personal representative of AFL Pres
William Green, is to leave Toledo to
take over district in the east, 1t Is
learned here.
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CHICAGO. - (FP) Cooperative
groups in Chicago are contributing to
funds for assisting Finnish co-ops to
recover from war damage and disloca-
ton.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-01-26
PLANS LAUNCHED FOR THIRD
NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS
National Board of Congress Plans April
Meeting; Scores Dies Committee and XXX

NEW YORK The mid-wintel
meeting Of the executive board of
the Natianal Negro Congress which
met here Sunday completed plans
for the holding Of the Third Nation
a. Negro Congress in the city OF
Washington on April rs. n, IS,
1910. The Negro Congress body ai-
so scored the activity Of The Dies
Committee and openly charged Mar
tin Dies. the Texas Congressman VINO
is chairman Of the Committee with
covering up the un-American activi-
ties Of the Ku Ki.ux Klan.
The meeting Of Congress official;
was attended BY representatives of
more than score Of local councils
from the middle West, East and
South. A. Philip Randolph, national
president Of the organization, pre-
sided at the meeting and pledged bis
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-01-26
DIR. L. c. RIDLEY ADDRESSES
QUAR- RTERLY MEETING AT YWCA

DAYTON-In spite of the severe
weataher, nice crowd attended the
Quarterly meeting at the YWCA last
night. The detectives of the differ
ent departments were given BY Mrs.
Powell, chairman Of the Industrial
Committee, and Mrs. Tanner. chair
man Of the Committee Of Manage
ment. A summary Of activities n
each department. was given by ths
secretaries.
DR.. i. @. Ridley, pastor Of Allen
A.M.E. Church gave very inspir-
ing address on "How 70 End Happi-
ness Group singing was also i
part Of the program.
Mrs. Pugh, chairman Of the Nom
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-01-26
Gov. John W Bricker
Mckinley Day Banquet
Speaker at Miami Hotel
HIGH STATE OFFICIALS AND
PARTY LEADERS TO ATTEND

on Mckinley, Atty. Harry r, Jeffrey;
Lead Kindly Light, Mrs. Bessie
Goodnight; Good News from Wash
ington,' Hon. Harry n. Routzehn:
Address, Gov. John w. Brieksat;
America led by Mr.. Haines.
VISITORS EXPECTED
r. r. Bangham, Director Of Fin
ance, Jacob Taylor, Director of Ii
auor Contro; John Brown, Direetof
Of Agriculture; DR.. MarkWigh, Dl-
rector Of Health, Atty. Gen. Thomas
Herbert; Secretary Of State Earl
Griffith; State Chairman Ed schoIr;
Director Of Publicity Frank Rascfie.
w. G. Mccullough, speaker Of the
House; VIM. T. Blake, member in-
dustrial Commission, and Cylon Wal.
lis, State Auto Register
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White and black, they stood to-
gether and sang the songs which
they have transcribed into laho,
songs, the old Negro shouts and
hymns which now exhort workers IL
organize and mionize against i eom-
mon enemy, the farmer-land ord
Confronted with these hardy un
fortanates, their stories rang true
as one after. another, they recount
ed highlights 81 their miserable ex-
istence fol, the benefit of those who
had never seen d shareeropper. And
until you see i aharecropper and
hear his humorous athletic story. na
amount Of reading can adequately
express The plight Of these folk
Don Henderson, International Pre-
sident 1T the lTGAPAWA, said
People have TO learn to lead
themse YES il the south he said
This Is the first time III the history
Of the country any delegation Of this
kind and size has been To Washing
ton. And It ii not an effort to put
the government on the spot Gov
ernment officials as whole have
been fine with one exception.
I'VE are trying to organize three
groups. First, the migratory work
ers Of whom there are now 10000
OH strike; second, the sugar-beet
workers IN the Rocky Mountain area;
third the larger group in the South
engaged in agricultural problems
Because Of certain officials in the
Farm Security administration there
have been no evictions this year like
there were last January
From kas, Texas, Mrs Molie Rob-
inson, Of Rust County, a frail dark
brown skinned woman, seemingly un-
equal to the task to which she set
herself, was the next speaker.
"Thc problem Of the South needs
immediate attention. she said, ten
ant afrmers, sharecroppers and farm
laborers are being swept from farms
10 relief. Farmers are dispensing
with their services repidly. Families
which formerly worked the farms
are being supltanted by tractors and
machinery" \"
We stopped buying at their store.
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they call the commissary but we call
it the robhersary, because that's al
they do. And We organized our OWL
robbery charge and sentenced to IS
years iii pcnitentary, was also
speaker He told Of the threats Of
the XXX and made his audience
roar when he told Of the activities
Of the white-sheetcd mobs
THE ku klux Khan is watching
the Negroes he said they advised
colored residents Of the country, and
these Negroes came back with the
taunt, ''rhe Negroes are watching
the ku klux klan, too +
The Nuxers raided two meet-
ings, he went on, 'One the first
night they whipped i few heads,
that was all the damage they did.
But on the second night, they shat
down a member OF our meeting aud
put 33 Of us in jail That was all
they was Of us But they didn't
have nothing on us cept We washoid
ing meeteing there ia the woods,
so they had to let US go"
The first meeting held by this
group were held in the thickest
woods late at night when no white
person would be around to tdl the
sheriff or the landlords.
Landlords were trying TO find
ways TO frame Negroes and to keep
them on the farms at low wages,
said Mr.. Hart, they fought against
the WpA employment Of Negroes
SO they could work the farms for 40
and SO cents per day
On several occasions, Mr.. Hart de-
clared the sheriff Of the county
threatened his life
Ed Clark, Of Louisiana, told Of the
flagrant violation Of the wage and
hours acts in his section Of the
country, whore the minimum wage
for cane field workers was $f.50 for
nine hour work day. Bosses paid
Negro workers from rs to soc per
day and told them they ran Their
business and no government could
come IN and tell them what to do.
Whenever the union sought to aid
these workers, stool. pigeons told
bosses who represented the unions.
From Tallapoosa county, Alabama,
Josie Hart, brave organizer, whose
son had been framed on a highway
store which is now a going concern,
Clark asserted
Mr. Clark declared the workers
in his state had never received any
government checks for cotton con
servation and when he told them
they could get paid for it, they im-
mediatay wrote to Washington.
which in the past had been forbidden
by the white bosses on pain Of evic-
tion and even worse fates, Upon re-
ceipt Of their checks from the de-
partment of agriculture. irate white
bosses began taking steps for the
eradication Of the labor agitators.
Miss Elvira Dale, 63-year-old dele
gate from Arkansas, said white folk
| in her section Of the country think
more Of their dogs than they do Of
their Negro citizens. She has seen
hundreds Of grown Negroes in Crit
tenden county, sne declared, who
!, couldn't buy the cheapest dress and
had to wear dresses made Of flour
sacks. They had little food, and
even now the county and many
| others in the state are desperately
Fin need Of relief. Mrs Dale declar.
ed her life was threatened when i
was learned she was going to Wash
nigton to confer with the Officials
! there.
] The principal speaker, however
- {Continued ON page - "A
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organization to a ceaseless fight
aainst the hunger, joHessness and
lynch terror inflicted upon the Ne
gro People.
Congress officials cstannte that
5000 delegates viii be in attend
ance at their third national meet
ings. Previous Congresses IN Chi
eago have drawn between 800 anc
1000 delegaes as well as severas
thousand observers.
In q statement unanimously IL.
proved by members Of the national
board the National Negro Congress
gave the lie to Martin Dies accasa-
tions that the Congress was III.
American. The statement exposed
the fact that the Dies Committee has
consistently refused to permit Con
gress officials to testify.
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mating Committee gave the results
of the election for members to the
Committee Of Management as fol
lows: Mrs. O. w. Eyens, Mrs. Earl
Hampton, Mrs. LOWE Gay, Mrs. Az.
thur Goodnight, Mrs. George Tan.
ner and Mrs. Arletta Powell
The Nominating Committee for
1910: Miss Halle Douglas, Mrs.
Granville Winston, Mrs. Adah Fields,
Mrs. Claradean Wilkes and Miss
Ethyl Stewart.
A social hour followed the pro
gram when refreshments were serv-
cd. Mrs.Leota Rust presided ovei
this meeting