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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-06-06
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

A WOMAN in our town, at
u ter nine childless years OF
L - marriage. adopted a baby
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-06-06

The real basic trouble is that such
girls make men too important. The
man knows it, and while it fatters
his secret pride, he goes for COM
Portable friendships to the other girls
those cheerful casual souls who don't
mind his seeing them with a cold
in the nose, with an old coat, with
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

Well got back on the job again
in spite of the editor. He wasn't
able to understand that a fine sensi-
tive nature like mine couldn't go up
against the rigors of one of these
political campaigns without some
stimulant, and tried to fire me when
wasn't even around. I didn't even
around the printing joint again, he
was over his mad, and was willing to
let bygones be bygones. / wish my
head would do that too.
started in good shape in the halls of
the Amalgamated Associated of Bar
Flies, and that some of the guys had
ben favored with a pretty generous
supply of sample bottles, jugs and
other containers full of blue ruin.
Some of the members felt sure that
if the Governor got the people to
put him back in again, he'd be willing
to take the presidency of the AABF
for while anyhow. Then later, we
got down to- the business of sampling
the samples. And l guess we did
job at that, because here we find out
about week ago that he didn't get
elected again. Too bad. He was
good guy in his place / guess, but the
folks didn't seem to think that he was
in the right place when he was gov
ernor Well, let 'em have it their
way.
| wish I'd got to know the jasper
l little better when he was governor.
I'd like to have job helping move
lis truck from the governors house
n Helena to wherever he's going. 1t
makes my mouth run a stream to
hink of all of the cases of samples
hat he's sure to have stored. But |
maybe he's moved them a few at a |
ime so he'd have them at his ranch |
n anticipation of long dry spell. |
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
Indiana C0-0PS
PURCHASE OFFICE
BUILDING

INDIANAPOLIS-The Indiana Farm
Bureau and it's affiliated co-operatives
have purchased 10-story office build
ing in downtown indianapolis and will
move in shortly after the first of the
year, according to H. E. Schenck,
president.
"Twenty-one years ago our effects
were carried in suit case" Mr..
Schenck declared. 1.-THE present eff
fects of the Farm Bureau and it's af-
filiated co-operatives will occupy five
entire floors of our new building"
The former Majestic building is To-
Gated at the corner of Maryland and
Pennsylvania streets. 1t is 85 by 102
feet; the street fronts are made of
Indiana limestone with secluded walls
of brick and interior finish of Italian
marble. The Indiana Co-ops own
their own oil refinery, fertilizer fac
tories, bank insurance company, chick
hatchery and flour mill in addition to
their own wholesale and retail as
sociations.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
INTER-PR0VINCIAL
COOP WHOLESALE
SET UP IN CANADA

REGINA, askatchewan-Inte
vincial Co-operatives, Ltd, a fedora
ton Of cooperative WHOLESALERS set up
to coordinate the purchase of coop
eratives in Western Canada, has re-
ceived dominion charter and will be-
gin operation Immediately, according
to the Saskatchewan Cooperative
Consumer.
Organized after more than year
of consideration, the Coop federation
of WHOLESALERS, is capitalized for $780,
900 and will include in it's member
ship the cooperative WHOLESALERS of Al
berta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
and the Consumers Cooperative Re-
fineries. And although in it's present
form it serves as a regional buying
federation, it's character enables it to
operate on a nationwide basis.
The offices Of the organization will
be permanently located at Winnipeg,
but for the first year at least it will
operate from Saskatoon where the
president, James McCaig and the sec
rotary, R. Mckay, have their offices
as president and manager of the Sas-
katchewan Cooperative Wholesale.
By centralizing the purchases of the
co.operatives in the three provinces,
the new Coop federation will make
large scale purchases, providing
greater savings to Coop members.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
7 GROUP HEAL TIL
PLANS GIVEN
APPROVAL STAMP

| NEW YORK.-(FP) - Certification
of seven group health plans for COM
| pliance with the 10 standards estab-
lished by the Group Health Federation
of America was announced here by Dr.
Kingsley Roberts, chairman of the fed
eration's accrediting committee.
The Qualifications were the first
since the standards were promulgated
last spring. A considerable number
of union members are subscribers to
the plans given the federation's o. X
The seven plans to which certifi
Gates will be issued are: Civic Med
zeal Center, Chicago; Farmers Union
Cooperative Hospital Assn, Elk City,
Okla; Greenbelt Health Assn, Green
belt, Md; Group Health Assn Wash
ington, ID. c.; Ross-Loos Medical
Group, Los Angeles; Trinity Hospital.
Little Rock, Ark; and Wage Farmers
Health Assn, st. Louis
Roberts explained that the fedora
ton is primarily concerned with the
honesty of purpose and quality of care
rendered by the group health plans
He said that "certification is assur-
ance to the public that the plans are
honest, sound, and that medical care
Of highest quality may be obtained
from them"
The operating standards of the
seven accredited plans were measured
from answers to a 23-page question
naire, embodying some 1,400 questions
on every phase of activity, and from
findings of inspection by members Of
the accrediting committee.
"Quackery and fly-by-night schemes
have no place in group medicine"
Roberts declared. Group Health Fed
Grafton Of America is seeking to aid
the public and the medical profession |
in combating these evils.
1T is not our purpose to standardize |
the types of service and the fees. We
recognize that community needs diff
fer, and that it is the privilege of |
and physicians to deter
mine just how much service they
wish But no plan will be accredited
unless it has the facilities and medical
staff necessary to serve its subscrib-
ers well. 1t must maintain patient
physician relationships and operate in
IN ethical manner"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
BY SCOTT NEARING

Ten years ago, when Japan fired
the opening gun in the present world
wide military struggle by her attack
on Manchuria, there was much argu
ment on the question of localizing the
war.
1t was not necessary to invoke
League of Nations action or to take
any other positive steps to coerce ia
pan, insisted the British, French and
other localizers. The important thing
was to limit the conflagration to the
locality in which it had originated.
In vain Maxim Litvinov, on behalf
of the Soviet Union, urged the indi-
visibility of pace. He was destined
to present his case year after year,
demanding collective action against
aggressor nations-all to no purpose.
After Japan, Italy was allowed to
play at aggression and Germany, re-
financed and rearmed at British
American expense, was turned loose
in middle Europe. In no case was
League action attempted. In no case
were sanctioned seriously imposed.
Each aggressive act was treated as an
isolated event that must be hushed
up, overlooked or forgot as soon as
possible.
Today the European world may
Judge between the advocates of local
lied wars and collective security; be-
tween those who promised peace in
our time and those who warned that
the fires of war, once ignited, would
3corch the entire planet.
BY 1886, war had spread to Spain;
N 1887, to the whole of China; in
1898, to middle Europe, in 1889, to the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
MACHINISTS'
CONVENTION
ENDORSES C0-0PS

CLEVELAND. - The international
Association of Machinists, meeting
here for it's recent annual convention
endorsed the principles of consumer
cooperation and urged its members
to participate in cooperative organiza-
lions wherever possible. The com.
plete resolution adopted unanimously
by the convention is as follows:
Whereas the Preamble of the In
ternational Association of Machinists
recognizes the fact that those who
toll should use their rights of citizen
ship intelligently, through organiza-
lions = activing along cooperative
lines; and
Whereas speculation is rife and
prices are being raised on consumer
goods as a result of the war; and
Whereas this renders even more
difficult the already existing problem
workers have in getting fair value for
the wages; and
Whereas we recognize the neces-
sity of controlling the prices of the
things we buy, just as we strive to
control the price of the labor we have
to sell; and
Whereas Consumer Co-operatives
offer tried and proven way of con-
trolling the price of consumer goods;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the International
Association of Machinists endorse the
principles of Consumer Cooperation
and urge its members to participate
in such organizations wherever pos
sible.p
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
LABOR PAPER
GIVES PICTURE
OF army LIFE

| JAMESTOWN, N. Y (FP) - The
| Tri-County Herald scored beat over
upstate dailies when it published a
straightforward description of the
life that awaits conscripts.
Featured on the front page of its
November 1 issue, the labor journal
carried an article written by nation
al guardsman in the 44th division of
Fort Dix, ~ J. For obvious rea-
sons" Editor Irving M Lichtenstein
says in an editors note, "his name
is being withheld" The letter reads
in part as follows:
There are not yet enough warm
wooden barracks to house all of us
II, 100 men during the raw nights.
Most of us must still huddle during
the eight or nine hours bunk fatigue
around stoves in the 'winterized' can
vas tents.
Carpenters are banging away all
pine and tar paper barracks. They
tell us that December Is is the dead
line to get the men out of tents and
into barracks. Cold weather, how
ever, appears to be winning the race
and it is questionable to this soldiers
opinion whether there will be bar
racks enough for all the draftees who
will soon be coming in droves-
''The biggest beef around here is
about the food. We get stew regular
ly for dinner and supper. Every day,
like clockwork, it's stew, stew, and
stew. Most of it isn't very well pre-
pared and it is rumored that the COM
panies did not receive adequate stores.
Most of the boys think they're in
for war. They are not quite clear
where it will be or why.
"Our first thought when we came |
Town to Camp Dix a few weeks ago 1
was that the army was going through |
| characterization process. We were
n for disappointment. The caste
system flourishes and is still the order
If the day.
"The National Guard officers are
business men chiefly from the upper
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
WAR DESTINED TO SPREAD UNTIL
VICTORY OR POPULAR UPRISING

west; in 1910, to the Mediterranean
and the Balkans When and where
will the plague be checked?
The present war will continue to
spread:
1. Until the masters of the domi-
nant British empire score decisive
victory as they did in 1918, or
2. Until the challengers of British
imperial supremacy defeat and dis
member the British empire, or
3. Until the masses in the warning
countries, FESTIVE under the pressure
of war losses, hunger and pestilence,
rise as they did in 1920 and over
throw the social system that breeds
poverty, unemployment and war
During the early stages of the pres
ent war there was a chance that it
might be ended by sudden, over
whelming defeat of the Allies. The
stubborn defense of the British Isles
has sent that chance into discard
1t now seems probable that the war
will drag on through months and
years of blockading, bombing, tor
pedoing, burning and strafing that will
bear most heavily on the civilian
population of both sides. Such an
eventuality cannot fail to produce a
broad popular movement for peace
bread and freedom, such as the one
which swept across Europe between
1917 and 1920.
AS that mass movement gathers
Roadway, it is of the utmost import
ance to have ready at hand a simple,
clear plan for world federation that
will avoid the League of Nations
weaknesses and that will be a work
ing model for planned, organized
world.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
FORD CONTINUES
BATTLE AGAINST
FREE: Speech
BY CARL HAESSLER

DEARBORN, Mich. - (FP) - The
Ford Motor Co.'S protested devotion
to freedom of speech and the press
was exploded November / when Dear
born police, controlled by the COM
pany, again arrested distributors of
union leaflets on public property at
the Ford gates. Those arrested were
union organizers and members of the
United Auto Workers (CIO).
When Judge Lila M. Neuenfelt
threw out the ordinance as unconsti-
tutional the day before, citing the U.
S. circuit court of appeals decision in
Cincinnati October 8, it was generally
believed that Ford would let the dis
tribution issue rest. This was be-
the labor board on one point in an
otherwise favorable decision that
blasted the Ford Motor Co. for re-
peated and brutal violation of the
Wagner act.
That one point in favor of Ford was
the courts ruling that the board had
no power to prohibit Ford from dis
tributing leaflets to his employees.
Selling on this, Judge Neuenfelt in
Dearborn municipal court declared
that if Ford had the right to do so
at the Ford gates then the union did
too.
The Dearborn prosecutor on hearing
that the JAW would distribute No
vember / hastily rendered an opinion
that the knocked out ordinance was
valid until final judgment had been
rendered by the highest court to
which it might be appealed. He told
Federated Press that he might appeal
to the U. S. supreme court and that
arrests would continue until it was
settled there.
Judge Neuenfelt on her part freed
the II distributors brought before her
by the police. The IA brought before
Judge Leo R. Schaefer, an open Ford
stooge, were released on s25 cash
bond and must stand trial on the
charges on which Pres. r. ]. Thomas |
of the UAW-CIO was discharged by |
Judge Neuenfelt the day before. The |
two judges have equal jurisdiction and
the city council ordered cases to be
brought before them in rotation.
The union leaflets told of the Neu-
enfelt decision and urged Ford work
ers to join the JAW. AS the after
noon shift poured out of streetcars,
buses and flivvers to enter the plant
through the tunnels and overpasses,
thp leaflets were handed TO them
They took them eagerly. Even when
police grabbed the distributors and
took the badge numbers of Ford work
afs accepting them-to have witnesses b
for the prosecution - the workers
crowded around to get more.
When cops and Ford servicemen
we're safely out of hearing the Ford I
workers would say: eve needed a
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
PRODUCTION
CREDIT RETURNS
MONEY TO u. S.

Return of $1,5O0,000 of its capital
to the federal treasury has been an
nounced by the Production Credit
Corporation of Spokane, unit of the
Farm Credit Administration. The re-
turn was in response to general re-
call of a portion of the capital origin
ally subscribed by the government in
many partly or wholly-owned govern
ment corporations, including units Of
the Farm Credit Administration.
Repayment of the capital by the
Production Credit Corporation af-
fected % of the 80 local production
credit associations throughout the
four Pacific Northwest states, Ernest
E. Henry, corporation president, said.
They were called upon to return por-
lions of the capital originally sub
scribed by the corporation. The re-
call Of capital from individual asso-
Citations ranged from $4,000 to $780,
600. Largest withdrawals were from
statewide production credit associa-
lions financing large-scale range live
stock operations.
The associations were in position
to return capital, Henry said, because
since they were organized, most Of
them in 1888, they have built up ST.
21,S95 in stock investment by their
members, and an additional $1,813,-
263 of earned surplus and reserves.
Members are farmer-borrowers who
purchase stock in the associations at
the time they obtain their loans.
In addition to this capital, however,
the associations will continue to have
the use of $4779,623 of capital sup
piled by the corporation-the amount
of the corporations original invest
ment which remains following the
present CALL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13

Legislation is introduced by a repub-
flican or democrat member. the forth
coming session may not differ radical
ly in the results achieved, from pre-
vious sessions.
With republican governor, it might
be assumed that even the most re-
dictionary republican member in either
of the two houses of the assembly
should give support to such remedial
legislation for the general public's in
terest as Sam Ford is surely going to
recommend and support This is, of
course, more or less academic"
supposition. It is predicated solely
on the assumption that the reaction
airy republican members may give
thought to the future of their party.
Even the most hidebound of them
must realize that their votes did not
make Ford governor. 1t is indeed
more than likely that the majority of
them voted for his opponent in the
election. They should know that in
the final analysis Ford was elected
governor not because he was repub-
lican but because the majority of de-
cent citizens of the state, put all party
aside, that his election
a hope for a cleanup of
the stencil in the public nostril, of
some of the aspects of the present
administration.
However, under our custom of nam
ing a state or national administration,
republican" or democratic" because
the executive head of the national or
state administration made the race for
on one of those tickets, the
republican members of the house and
senate must remember that if they
work against Governor Ford's at
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
ENERGY CONTROL
MUST keep PACE
with DEvEL0PM'T
BY KAY ELLES

Are you still looking out that win
dow where / caught you last time
And what? OH yes across the
highway and in the field beyond there
goes the neighbours hired man driving
a team and wagon.
The wagon sways and dips along
the rutted road, and reins dangle care
lessly from the hands of the DOING
driver. There is no apparent change
in the picture when the wheel huh
glances off gate post, with jangle
Of the neck-yoke and stay chains; the
team plods on toward the barn.
Let's size this picture up from a
Technologist's viewpoint The wheel
was one of mans first ideas and,
among other things, enabled him to
convert the energy Of animals, used
in transportation, more efficiently
than before. But still the rate of
energy conversion was SO slow THAT
is of such low order of magnitude)
that it does not make much differ
ence how the old farm team is con-
without any serious result; and
Wowl what's that roar coming down
the highway? A flash and rumble
that shakes the window as a huge
freight truck and trailer thunders by
at fifty miles per hour. We get just
a glimpse of the tense face of the
man at the .wheel-his eyes riyeted
on the black-faced road ahead.
What a difference we have here.
The man at the wheel and controls
of the truck must be intensely alert;
he must operate on a schedule; obey
and give traffic signals; be awake to
any developing motor trouble; in
other words he is disciplined by the
physical factors of his job. The hap
hazard lax control of the friedman
with his old farm team, will not work
here. Why?
Our rate of speed, our increased load
and efficiency - in other words the
rate of energy conversion and the ord
er of magnitude has been increased
and therefore demands a more rigid
technical control to avoid a smashup.
That railway train you hear whistling
in the distance is another example,
where you find the rigid, technical
control is still further increased in
to the greater energy con-
version and order of magnitude of the
problems involved. Expand this order
If magnitude to railway system, or
urther to the entire transportation
iystem and you must tighten the tech
lical control accordingly.
Take the early machines in fac
DRY and compare them with the high |
peed mostly automatic machines of
oday and you find the same general |
principles are applicable. AS you in
rease your rates of operation-your |
nergy conversion-or your order Of
magnitude, you must more rigidly ad-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-11-13
Three Families
Dominate Nation
Industrial Plant

Three families, the Rockefellers, The
duPonts and the MELONS, have share
holdings of almost s1,400,000 ,00(
which are $50 placed as to give then
considerable influence if not control
over fifteen of the 200 largest non
| financial corporations in the United
States, according to a report made to
the Temporary National Economic
Committee. Since the report limits
itself to non-financial corporations, it
does not deal with the holdings of
financial houses such as j. P. Nor
CAMS or the additional concentration
that results from pryamided banking
control.
Thirteen families. including these
three, are reported to hold stocks
amounting to $4,000 100000 which rep
resents eight per cent of the total
shares in these 200 corporations. The
20 largest shareholders in each of the
200 corporations averaged about a
third of the total stock, and the ma
jority voting power in these corpora
lions is found to be concentrated in
he hands of about one percent of the
stockholders.
These facts from the report were
given out by Senator O'Mahoney,
chairman of the Monopoly Committee
The report itself which was prepared
by the Securities and Exchange Com
has not been made public,
ond Canator O,ATobonaxy ov,,Ioipod fbot
he was citing these few finding from
the report only because "a Leak had
already occurred.
The report pulls the props out from
under the belief that stock ownership
is widespread and concludes that less
than 100000 individuals in this coun-
try hold even a single share of cor
porate stock. Most of these persons |
have only small amounts of stock and |
receive only a minor fraction of the |
dividends paid out.
Ten thousand persons, representing
zoos percent of the population, own
)ne-fourth of all corporate stock; and
5000 persons, representing 0.O6 per-
cent of the population own one-half
If all corporate stock outstanding. At
he other end of the scale, the report
inds that half of the stockholders get
tnnual dividends of less than 800.
less than half million persons de-
i've a substantial share of their in
ome from stock dividends.
Foreign investors at the end of 1897
leld common stock amounting to ST.
00,000,000 and preferred stock
mounting to $2OO,OOO,OOO in the larg-
st non-financial corporations in this
ountry