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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
RAILROAD UNIONS
join Fight ON
CONSUMPTION

WASHINGTON. Top officials OF
five important railroad unions added
their opposition to that of the AFL
and CLIO to the pending CONSUMPTION
BILL
In letter sent Sen Morris Shep-
pard 3D., Tex.) and Rep. Andrew May
Cd, Ky.), chairmen of the senate and
house military affairs committee, and
put into the record of Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler 3D., Mont), the railroad la
Dor chiefs declared the proposal "bor-
ders closely on the principle of die
tatorship."
The letter was signed by A. John
stone, grand chief of the Bro. of Lo-
connective Engineers (unaffiliated), J..
A. Phillips, president Order of Rail-
way Conductors (unaffiliated), D. B.
Robertson, president of the Bro of
Enginemen & Firemen
(unaffiliated), T. C. Cashen, president,
Switchmen's Union of North America,
(AFL), and A. F. Whitney, president,
Bro. of Railroad Trainmen (unaffili-
ated).
Patriotism, the letter declared,
sis not the monopoly of those who
are feverishly urging this CONSUMPTION
bill. We may rightly assume that all
citizens are patriotic and if given the
and impressed with the
necessity for their doing SO, they will
volunteer their services in defense of
our country"
Reading of the letter was followed
by a bitter exchange between Sens.
Rush d. Holt 3D., West Va.) and
Sherman Minton d., Ind) during
which each said highly uncomplimen-
-ary things about each other.
Holt attacked the CONSUMPTION bill
charging it was planned at meeting
N the Harvard Club in New York city
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

guess I'll have to start reading
this family journal myself so I'll know
if the editor takes any dirty cracks
at me. He showed me a letter today
from guy that sent in his subscrip-
ton and this gimmick said he wanted
to keep posted on what the "Amal-
gamated Association of Bar Flies and
the rest of the crooks" were doing.
don't like that rest of the crooks"
expression, and I'm going to tell the
AABF about it at the next meeting
and get them to boycott this paper if
it's calling US crooks; job or no job.
Maybe it's because most of the
how to be crooked, that we can't get
next to these free samples of blue
ruin, and we get to suffering from
long dry spells. If we don't all dry
up and blow away before these guys
that belong to the legislature get In
here this winter, I'm going to line up
with some of them and get law that
these sample cases Of blue ruin have
to be distributed around to deserving,
public spirited land when I say "spir-
|ited," don't make any funny cracks
organizations like the AABF. Just
think what a dozen or SO of sample
cases could do for us. 1t makes my
mouth water to think about it. OF
course it might make the governors
eyes water, if these guys pass law
like that Maybe then he'd like to be
president of the AABF. Well, maybe
then we wouldn't elect him.
Speaking of the governor, a guy
told me that he had heard that the
governor wanted to get another guy
to run for governor. When | asked
this guy what was the matter with
the bird that was running against the
governor, he said the governor was
afraid of him, and wanted another
gaffer in the race. This guy said the
governor figured that If there were
three running, he'd nose out maybe,
and that he might pay some chap
regular mopus to get in and run. !
kind of sounded the guy out If he
thought the governor might hire me,
but he didn't seem to thing ! stood
much chance, even though | might get
hundred percent support from the
AABF. Would those babies get out
and work to elect me so they could
get in smelling distance of those sam
pies anyhow. | sure wouldn't be as
tight about them as the governor is.
| think maybe the boys out at the
state house aren't any too hot for that
idea of the governor hiring somebody
to run along side him as a kind of
protection against the other fellow.
Some Of the guys are beginning to
wonder if they're going to be asked
to graduate from the one or two per-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
EFFORT TO
FORCE VOTE
ON BILL

| A petition to bring the Anti-Pol
Tax bill to the floor of the House OF
Representatives has been laid on tho
Speakers desk by congressman Lee
E. Geyer 3D., CALI When signed by
1918 members of the House the petit
ton will make the Geyer Anti-Poll
Tax bill, H. r. 1884, a special order
of business.
Prohibiting the requirement OF the
payment of poll tax as prerequis-
tie for voting at Federal elections,
H. R. 1884 was introduced in the
House on August 5, 1889. The bill
was referred to a subcommittee of
the Judiciary and under the chairman
ship of Francis E. Walters 3D., PENN
hearings were held in March, April
and May of this year.
The Geyer Anti-Poll Tax Bill would
make it illegal to require payment of
poll tax in connection with the cleo
ton of President Vice President and
Members of Congress. In eight south
ern states, payment of such tax is
a prerequisite for voting: Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South
Caroline, Tennessee, Texas and Vlr-
ginia
Largely because of the poll tax
said Mr.. Geyer, "75% of the adult
citizens in those states are denied &C
cess to the ballot. The amount OF
tax varies from $100 to $3.50 per
year, but in some of the poll-tax
states it is cumulative. That is, If
voter fails to pay his tax for one year,
he must pay two years tax at the
next election, and so on. A Georgian
who has not paid his poll tax for
seven years will have to pay $3.50
to vote. In Alabama his bill may run
as high as $4,000.
''In many sections of the eight poll
tax states hundreds of thousands OF
sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and
city workers have been disfranchised
because their low incomes do not per-
nit them to buy the right to vote"
In the 1886 Presidential election an
average of $3.50 of the adult citizens
in the 40 non-poll tax states voted
while the averages in the poll tax SUI
rrage states in that same election
we're as follows:
Alabama 20%
Arkansas 1870
Georgia 20%
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21

construction work for the state high
way commission.
The reason for the disqualification
was the unsatisfactory manner OF han
ding of what was called the Power
Dutton job, by the construction com
pany, known as the Larson Earring
Co. Bills filed against the company
were not paid until the bonding COM
pany finally took charge of accounts,
collected from the state what was
coming to the contracting firm and
paid off the balance of the bills which
had accumulated.
In addition to the unsatisfactory
manner in which it's accounts were
handled under Mr.. McKinnon's ad-
ministration of its affairs, charges
were filed against the company for
violation of the eight-hour day pro-
visions of the law, and fine of $500
was assessed.
When the criminal complaint, charg-
ing violation of the eight-hour day
law was filed, warrant was issued
for McKinnon, but it was not served
as he had gone to Washington, D. c.,
where he had secured job as engi-
neer on a PWA project by pulling
political strings, and it appears that
the payment of the fine of $500 dis
posed of the entire case, against Nc
Kinnon as well as his company.
After the Power-Dutton job, the
Larson company took on a paving job
in Miles City, still under the manage
ment and engineering direction OF NC
Kinnon, and failed, the bonding COM
pany having to complete the job. 1t
was then that Mr.. McKinnon left for
Washington.
According to testimony given by
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
NLRB CALLS FORD
FOR SIXTH Time

WASHINGTON-(F Hitting out
with language seldom used in official
government decisions, the national
labor relations board, on. August s,
directed Henry Ford for the sixth
time to cease his organized gang
sterism"
The order was issued in the case of
the Ford Co. of Dallas, Tex, which
employed hoodlums and thugs to car
ny on the war" against Ford work
ers.
Previously the board issued orders
against Ford in Sommerville, Mass,
Long Beach, Cal, Buffalo, N. Y, st.
Louis. and Dearborn, Mich. In addi-
tion it decided representation cases
in st. Louis and Richmond, Cal
Still pending before the board are
cases in Chicago, Kansas City and
Richmond, Cal
Regarded as the key to the labor
board cases against Ford is the Dear
born case, involving the main Ford
plant. This case has been argued al
ready in the sixth circuit court and
is awaiting decision.
The boards decision in the Dallas
case dealt with the most ruthless yio-
lence and terrorism of union men
shown by Ford in any of the cases.
The record showed that as soon as
the sign of a union appeared in the
spring of 1897, there was set system
of spies, with rowing commissions, to
track down and report back on these
activities.
Continued on page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
DAMNED
NONSENSE

NEW YORK.-(FP)-Hitler hasn't
landed his 'chutists in Queens county
yet, although anybody who heard
Borough Pres. George U. Harvey
speak before the Natl. Sign Assn
August IA might have thought so.
Free speech and all that damned
nonsense just provides an excuse for
letting those who want to overthrow
the government have their say Har-
vey said. "No man should hold pub
lie office unless he has met a pay
roll" he added.
Leonard Lazarus, local representa-
tive of the Workers Defense League,
has replied: st is damned nonsense
to continue furnishing $4,000 annual
salary to borough president who
continues to attack the provisions OF
the constitution and the bill OF rights"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
MExIC0'S LABOR
REVOLT is A
H0USECLE

MEXICO CITY. - (FP) - Hardly
were the Presidential elections over,
with an almost certain victory for
Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho, candi-
date of the workers and peasants or
CARNATIONS, when trouble threatened
in the oil industry, railways and sec
lions of the civil service.
Certain American papers, bitterly
hostile to the Cardenas regime that
appropriated the big oil companies
properties, gleefully reported that
Mexican labor was in revolt against
the government.
Final checking reveals nothing of
the sort There were many abuses
In all three of the organizations in
volved. After the oil appropriation in
March 1898 local union bosses were
permitted to overcrowd the industry
with useless relatives. When Car
denas handed over the railroads to
the workers they were already out
dated in equipment and bankrupt in
finances, like most railroads in every
country in the world The civil serv-
ants were given limited union rights
as an experiment forced by several
years of mass pressure
Politics, no more corrupt than in
the u. s., invariably thrust its hand
into each industry. The temporary
obstacles were formidable but did not
mean the original princi-
pie was wrong.
Within all three branches the OPP
position placed key men. Sabotage,
open and hidden, was the order of the
day for over a year. Sabotage in
creased the initial deficiencies. There
was practically no means of vigilance
or defense in the newly-organized ex-
periments.
Discomfort inevitably increased
among the workers. Certain locals in
the oil workers union and railroad
were induced to blame
conditions upon the
Mexican Workers Federation (CTM)
and its leader, Vicente Lombardo Toll
sdano, who has described himself as
the lightning conductor for the Re-
actions tempests."
IL is revealing that the labor re-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
Wagner Asks
Expanded Social
Security Act

| WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Expanded
coverage of the social security act
both in old age insurance and unem-
ployment compensation, was proposed
here August Ia by Sen. Robert F
Wagner 3D., NJ ", sponsor of the
present social security act which be
came effective August IA, 1885,
Under the amendments proposed by
Wagner, coverage of the old age pen
|sion provisions of the law would be
extended to an additional 100000
persons while an additional 100000
would be covered by the unemploy-
ment compensation provisions.
In addition, provision would be
made for a variable old age grant to
states which would enable poorer
states to pay pensions equal to those
paid in richer states.
The proposed amendments were re-
ferred to the senate finance commit
tee and it is not expected that any
action will be taken on them for some
time
Wagner said he was introducing the
bill at the request of the American
Federation of Labor and that it would
include under the old age provisions
of the social security act virtually all
those now without the acts protec-
ton.
Agricultural and domestic workers,
employees of state and local govern
ments, non-civil service employees of
the federal government, and en-
ployes of non-profit, religious, charit-
able and educational institutions were
among those listed who would be in
eluded in the old age provisions.
Changes in the unemployment COM
pensation sections of the act would
provide coverage for non-civil service
federal workers, employees of non
profit institutions and enterprises en-
ploying fewer than eight workers.
Important changes are made in the
section of the internal revenue code
which defines agricultural workers.
AS presently worded employees Of
large agricultural corporations are
excluded.
Wagner would define agricultural
workers SO as to limit the exclusion
to bona fide farm hands.
in recent months" Wagner said
the tragic lesson has been clearly
taught that ornaments alone cannot
make nation secure against the total
attack of wanton aggressors now de-
spelling a large portion of the civil
lied world
"Armaments alone cannot protect
nation weakened by insecurity and So
cial reimbursement. In our program
Of total defense there must be no ap-
basement of the enemies within our
gates, no relaxation of our drive to-
ward the progressive achievement of
social security for the men, women
ind children of America"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21

Willkie says that he believes a
mans heart is where his treasure Is
"a very potent reason indeed why
his proper place is as president OF
Commonwealth & Southern rather
than as president of the United States
of America.
PATRIOTISM C. o. D.: Build us
free plants; guarantee us handsome
profits; do not take any of our excess
profits away from US through taxa
ton; insure us against all possible
loss; see to it that we are not pros
ecuted for antitrust or any other law
violation, and we shall do our LITTLE
BIT in this present emergency.
RIGA Case Focuses Attention
On Source of Governmental Graft
Although the particular facts as to
how Radio Corporation Of America
obtained a continuance of an anti
trust case in 1882, as revealed in testi-
mony before -. Senate investigating
committee, is creating some spicy Cos
sip on Capitol Hill, the practice OF
corporation and others hiring lawyer
members of congress because OF the
behind-the- Influence that they
can WELD is a most common one. 1t
fact, it is a prolific cause OF much
governmental graft and corruption
and virtually nothing to date has been
done TO nut a stop to it.
In the case at hand, ex-Senators
George H. Moses and Daniel G. Hast
ings, republicans, are alleged to nave
been retained" by RCA to obtain con-
tinuance of the case in court, because,
as RCA's president, David Sarnoff,
said: "The case would have bankrupt
us If it had gone to trial Very
mysteriously, $4,000 check said to
have figured in the transaction, dis
during the past three weeks,
as has also a check-book stub which
contained some notations as to why
it was issued.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
CURTIS-WRiGHT
PROFITS UP 1857

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Curtis
Wright Corp, one of the two major
manufacturers Of air-cooled airplane
engines, during the first half of 1910
earned almost 2Oao more than it did
during the entire year of 1889, its
best year.
Profits for the second quarter of
this year were s3,S21,773 as compared
with s1,672,647 during the same period
of 1889, an increase of 1857.
The rest of this year is expected
to be even better with untitled orders
of s24S, 66S,549 on hand and prospects
of additional orders which would
make the total over s400,000,000 equi-
yalent to more than eight times the
shipping rate in 1889.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. l. HARRIS

/ There is some talk among congress-
men of legislation to make it a Grim
inal offense for any member OF con-
gress to accept fee to appear in q
case pending before federal depart
ment or a case in court in which the
federal government is interested. The
only law now dealing with the sub
Iject is federal statute which pro-
hibits a member of congress from ac-
cepting a fee in a case in which the
United States government is inter-
ested, but this statute does not pro-
hibit appearances in case in court.
Furthermore, there has never been
any great effort to enforce even that
statute. There is no law which pro-
hibits members of congress to appear
as attorneys in "private matters"
pending before any federal depart
ment.
With an overwhelming majority of
members of congress being members
Of the bar, and large percentage of
these making '1oose change" in the
form of attorney fees because of the
positions they hold, you can be GER
tain that legislation aimed at curbing
this kind of graft will never get
further than some committee pigeon
hole.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
FASCISTIC PROPAGANDA
APPARENTLY ESCAPING
NOTICE OF INVESTIGATORS
Booklet ''The Fifth Column in Washing
tom Published by So-Called Constitutional
Educational League Is Being Distributed
Together With Other Fascistic and Anti
Semitic Literature.

THE Fifth Column in Washington is being distributed
sold among other fascstc and anSemtc pamphlets
New York meetings of Joe McWilams pro-ter organza-
on the Christian Mobzer The recently published booklet
attacking the United States being hawked in the
breath with the forged Protocols the Men of
ana Fatner CoughHnS Social Justice. This is the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
EXECUTIVE HEAD Hi I!WAY
DEPARTM'T DISQUALIFIED
BY ONE HIGHWAY BOARD
Highway Commission With Worden As
Chairman, Disqualified McKinnon and
Company for Which He Was Engineer and
of Which He Was Member, Because OF
Failure to Pay Bills on Job.

peculiar conditions existing in connection with
the highway department. is that its chief executive officer
Chief Engineer MKnnon disqualified by previous com
mission of which O. S. Worden, Great Falls publisher was
chairman contracting company for which McKnnon
engineer charge and of which he also member
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21
Were Cards Stacked In
Fitzgerald Case?

Some rather alarming stories are
going the rounds of the conduct of
the trial Judge and the United States
district attorney in the recent trial
at Fitzgerald, Ca, of officials of the
Fitzgerald Cotton Mills Company, who
were acquitted of the charge of con-
spring to deprive their workers of
the rights secured to them by the
national labor relations act.
The case was an important one for
the government, since it was brought
as a test as to whether conspiracy
to violate the Wagner act was pun
Continued on page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-08-21

Economic Justice and Equality
Il the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack Of These IL a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity Of All.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-14
Last Rites For g.
Mrs. SchuSter
Held Wednesday

Funeral services were held from
the Methodist church Wednesday
afternoon for Mrs. M. Schuster, who
passed away at her home Sunday
following an attack of pneumonia.
She had been in i'll health for a
number of years. <~s-s @.,.
Lottie Schuster was born Febru-
airy %, 1873 at DeKoven, Kentucky.
In 1892 she moved to Indiana and on
September z, 1893 she was united in
marriage to Michael Schuster. To
this union was born ten children,
one of whom died at infancy. Mrs.
Schuster joined the Methodist
church at Fontanet, Indiana In 1894
and has been an active member
since that time. She was also a
member of the local Althea Rebekah
lodge. ,.@.s" E
Surviving her are her husband,
nine children, William, Cecil, Clar-
ence, Eddie and George of Portland;
Robert, Kennewick; Mrs. Myrtle
Ferrin, Portland; Arthur, Portland;
and Albert, KenneWick; one sister,
Mrs. Martha Stark, Portland; two
brothers, John and George Rich
ards, TerreHaute, Indiana and seven
grand children. =.
DR.. r. L. LaMott officiated at the
service with the Rebekah lodge In
charge at the cemetery. Interment
was made in River View Heights
cemetery. f..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-14
Al to Celebrate
Achievement Day
Saturday at TEL. S.

Alters viii celebrate their an
nual achievement day Saturday, NO
vember is at Kennewick high school.
The elimination of a year of good
service in worthwhile practices for
better homes and farms is reward
ed by this day filled with Interest,"
ing events. Margaret Smith, county
All president, will preside at cleo
ton Of county 4-H officers and the
club program to be given in the
morning. At noon Alters, parents
and interested friends will banquet
together. Miss Esther Pond, ex-
tension specialist in home manage
ment, will be the guest speaker.
A special show has been arrang-
ed for the afternoon. Ribbons will
be presented to the county win
ners of the meal p PREPARATION, dem
onstration, and judging contests.
The highlight of the day is the re-
ceiving Of pins by each club mem
Der, who has successfully completed
the club year and the granting of
special awards for unusually out
standing achievements.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-14
New Ten-ROOm
Hotel Now Open
i'm White Bluffs
Dining service to include
specials on Sundays
with a possible Thanks
giving day dinner

WHITE BLUFFS-White Bluffs is
going to have an up-to-date hotel.
Since the destruction by fire of the
old Commercial Hotel two years ago,
room and board accommodation here
has been on the catch as catch can
order, but now the new Oakley
Hotel Is opening Monday for bust
ness, under the management of Mrs.
Pearl Van Cleve. The hotel has ten
well-heated rooms with good beds.
The dining room will be open for
regular meels, with short order SER
vice from 6 am. to pm, but these
hours are subject to revision as
trade demands. g.. ~. H.
Mrs. Van Cleave opened the hotel
for inspection on Sunday after
noon, from to pm and on Mon
day morning it was open for regu-
lar business.
There is an increasing demand
that a turkey dinner, with all the
fixin's be served on Thanksgiving
day, and to this, Mrs. Van Cleave
has agreed, but asks that reserva-
tions be made as early as possible,
in order that she may know what
arrangements to make. Several
reservations have already been
bade. Requests have also been
made for the serving of chicken din
ners each Sunday, but as yet no
definite arrangements have been
made for this innovation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-14
WOmen's Club Entertain
Guests at Friday Meet

The Kennewick women,s club
entertained members of the Pasco
Richland, Highlands and Excolentes
clubs at the regular meeting which
was held in the Methodist church
parlors Friday. ~
Mrs. Earl Gown Of wapato, past
president OF the state federation,
was the principal speaker, her sub
ject being, why a Club woman?"
Mrs. Harry Fleming, Benton coun-
ty T. B. League publicity chairman,
Of Benton City showed reel Of
movies entitled, Let Our People
Live" Musical numbers on the pro-
gram were piano solos by Margaret
Smith and vocal solos by Thee
Lampson, accompanied by Mrs.
Reavis. ~.
An invitation was extended to
those present by Mrs. II. e. Cope
land, president of the Pasco club. to
attend a meeting which is to be held
in Pasco on November %. Mrs.
Frank II. Ludwigs, Washington state
president Of the Federation, will be
at this meeting.
Club hostesseS for the afternoon
included Mesdames J. r. Ayers, Geo.
Adams, r. F. Beste, e. J. Brand, Dan
Bicycle, M. @. Clark and o. w.
Engels.