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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-17

The PTA met on Monday
night and presented the follow
irg program after the bushes
transaction: .'.''..'''
Negro Natl Hymn-congregation
Solo - Mrs Elizabeth Leftw!ch
Reading-Mrs. w. E Brown
Solo-A V Howard =.
Address-Asst. Supt. Watkins
Supt. Watkins spoke on 'Edu-
cation ard Democracy" He said
"In a democracy ignorance is a
calamity" :. .'.''''
Patrons and friends are asked
to visit the school land inspect
the feeding program during the
last week of school, May 2O-24.
Rev. McKoy, pastor of Galilee
Baptist church is i'll, but tn
Spring Rally was conducted sue
cessfully by Rev. Mckinley
Raymore preached a very in
terestirg sermon at the morning
sevices Rev. j w. Crockett and
the Young Peoples choir con-
Guided the program at the even
ing services The rally was very
successful. We hope for the pas
tor speedy recovery.
Fannie Sue Owens, a sixth
grade pupil who participated III
the regional contest held at the
Northfork high school, won first
place in spelling She will enter
the county contest this week at
WEIGH. ... ..
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-17

FIREMEN BUSY LAST WEEK
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-05-17

Last week the Keystone fire.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
THOUSANDS vow
"YANkS Are
NOT COMING"

NEW RK.-(FP)-Using the slo.
gan, "The Yanks Are Not Coming, F"
thousands of AFL and CLIO unionists
from coast to coast celebrated Peace
Day on April 6 and adopted resolu-
lions to keep America out of war.
In New York $4,000 persons assem-
bIed for a peace rally in Madison
Square. Ironically, 10 union men
were arrested for placing a wreath
at the eternal light in honor of those
killed during the last war.
Although the peace committee had
been assured that the park depart
ment's ban on wreath-laying would be
lifted for the occasion, police said
they had been instructed not to per-
nit the ceremony Greetings to this
demonstration, which !, was probably
the biggest, were received from Tom
Mooney, Sen. Gerald P. Nye (R., N.
d., and Rep. Lee E. Geyer d., CALI
In Los Angeles 5000 people gather
ed in the Olympic Auditorium shouted
Ave as Lieut-Gov. Ellis E. Patterson
finished reading a peace resolution.
In Cincinnati a big audience at
Emery Auditorium heard Rep. John
M. Coffee d., Wash.) call the de-
tense of peace "the highest form OF
patriotism"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
MEXICO AROUSED BY U.S.. PROPOSAL
FOR ARBITRATING OIL DISPUTE

While it is still uncertain that oil
money is actually behind the reaction
airy candidate, Gen. Juan Andrea Al
mazan, it is suspected that the issue
has been raised at this critical mo-
ment in order to bring pressure to
bear upon Manuel Avila Camacho, the
candidate supported by the Mexican
Labor Federation (CTM). Natl. Peas
ants Federation (CNC) and the Gov
ernmental party of the Mexican Re-
volution (PRM).
Pressure of this kind, it is believed
is being exercised through EXPIRES.
Emilio Portes Gil, recently special
government envoy to New York on
the oil problem, who is the bitterest
enemy of the CTM still within the
ranks of the Camacho supporters
With U. s. state department support
Portes Gil is expected to make Avila
Camacho "see reason" and cripple the
entire labor movement.
At a meeting addressed by promi-
nent representatives of the PRM and
CTM on April 5, strikes and even di-
rect action were threatened against
the so-called independent press which
despite lip-service to defense of the
appropriation, frequently accepts oil
company propaganda for spot cash.
A very serious effort is being made
to build up the workers militias into
force that can effectively counter
the various fascist private armies sup
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MEXICO CITY.-(FP)-Demonstra-
lions of national solidarity almost
equal in scope to those at the time of
the appropriation of the American and
British oil companies in March 1888
are being organized in reply to the
~. S. state departments reported sug-
gestion of international arbitration of
the oil dispute.
Even the large reactionary press
has been compelled to devote almost
all it's space to reports Of this un-
precedented outbreak of nationalist
feeling. In the labor press it is VIC
lently charged that there can no
longer be any question that the good
neighbor policy has now been per-
verted to frankly imperialist purposes.
Indignation has been aroused here
by the idea that arbitration" means
the submission of a purely domestic
dispute to diplomatic Intervention by
outsiders. The Mexican government
has always held that the dispute lies
between the companies and itself
since, under Mexican law, all foreign
businesses waive their claim to inter-
vention by their own governments.
Particularly sinister, in the view of
Mexican labor, is the timing Of the
new proposals. They come in the
midst of an election campaign in
which, for the first time since the
revolution began in 1910, principles
rather than personalities are face to
face
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
Mike RUSSELL
TELLS ABOUT
Steel and JOBS

WASHINGTON-(FP)-The story
of the strip mill and what it has
meant to the lives of thousands of
steel workers was told the Temporary
National Economic Committee April
IL by Philip Murray, chairman of the
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO), and Michael Russell, former
employee of U. S. Steel.
Mike Russell was worker in Car
negie Illinois Steel Co mill in New
Castle, Pa, he told the committee.
He had worked for u. S. Steel for
32 of his AZ years, the last 20 being
as a roller, highly skilled and at the
best rate of pay in the mill.
In November, 1887, Russell was
given a weeks notice. The rumor
went around the plant that the new
Irwin works would handle the produc-
ton for the company. About 1000
men in that mill, the entire working
force, were laid off.
In 1888, Mike Russell heard there
was work on the docks at Erie, Pa.
He and his son drove up there but
other men had taken the jobs by the
time they got there.
On the way back they saw sign
offering jobs to welders. Mike ap-
piled and was asked If he could han
d. {. welding torch. He showed them
he could and they asked how old he
was. He told them he was AZ.
"Hell, man, you're too damn old to
start working for this company now,
he was told. He didn't get the job.
Now Russell, who earned $4,000 IN
1887, is working for WPA. He gets
$48 a month. It's enough, he told the
TNEC, for food and rent but when
it comes to clothes and medical care
they just have to skip those.
Mike was reminded that Chas.
Hook, president of the American Roll
ing Mill Co. and ex-president of the
Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers, told the
committee the day before that about
half of the $50 hand mills were still
operating.
Mike said he hadn't heard of any,
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Capitol Corridor
Chatter

OF course any member of the AABF
| (Amalgamated Association Of Bal
Flies) is apt to have headache some
times like any other guy, but to have
| to prowl around the corridors of the
capitol these days, will give you a
| good one.
| What gets you down is politics
Most of the guys are as jittery as
these jitterbugs you read about. You
can't even get them to sit down and
talk about sensible things. It's get
ting so that even at the meetings OF
the AABF where this mob is pretty
well represented all the time, all they
want to do, seems like, is to talk
politics. They even seem to forget
the business in treir hands sometimes,
and let it get stale and warm.
They can't even stop with discuss
ing politics in the state but they get
going on national politics. Maybe they
know something about them, but I'm
lust about sold on the idea that they
don't know any more about them than
do; and | don't even want to know
anything about them. All this palaver
about balancing the budget" and
"cutting government expenses" and
those other things sound like lot
of hooey to me, and they spoil lots
of days that wouldn't be too bad if
lit wasn't for all that noise. And
when / look at some of these guys that
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. 1. HARRIS

| Also, they are in the path of well
oiled, thoroughly organized, reaction
airy machine, using the daily press, the
radio, the screen, the mails, and con
gressional smear committees to put
over their program; while a public
campaign to combat this is either non
existent or woefully Intellectual.
AS one congressman remarked, 81
receive 100 pieces of mail from busI-
ness groups and from individuals tell.
ing me why | should vote for the
Smith and Barden amendments to
every one piece of mail ! receive ask
ing me to cast my vote in the interest
of the public"
1t is thus not surprising that at
tendance at the weekly meetings of
the house liberal bloc has dropped
from about so at the beginning of
the session to Is at present, some
times even less. 1t is the few mill
tants who are still sticking to their
guns and fighting back.
"The American Way"
Bata Shoe Company, laying all of
it's difficulties with labor unions and
the immigration bureau to the fact
that it didn't understand how they do
things in this country, has decided to
adopt ''the American way"
The company, which brought lot
of workers to this country from
Czecho-S lovakia through phoney visi-
tor passport schemes and is now build
ing a s10,000,000 shoe factory and
company town at Belcamp, Maryland,
has hired itself publicity man, one
Don Kirkley.
Who is Kirkley? In the LaFollette
committee report, page 1873, exhibit
5772, one reads: don Kirkley 30,
former newspaperman from Texas
He went to Washington several years
ago and started petroleum news
service. Afterwards he. went to work
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
Southern Liberals
Renew Fight
On Poll Tax

CHATTANOOGA. - OPP - Home
ward-bound delegates from the second
Southern Conference on Human Wei
fare carried with them plans for in
tensifying the drive to eliminate the
poll tax in eight southern states.
During the conference the 1000
white and negro delegates sat together
in the Municipal Auditorium. They
were not harassed, as at the meeting
a year and half ago in Birmingham,
where police broke in and enforced
Jim Grow seating regulations.
Among the speakers was Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, who urged federal
aid to advance education in the south.
In question period Mrs. Roosevelt
said she opposed amendments to the
Wagner act.
THE program adopted by the con-
ference included legislation guaran-
teeing the sharecroppers' right to or
ganize, extension of social security to
farm workers, expansion of the Farm
Security Administration, full rights for
negroes and immediate pardon for the
Scottsboro boys.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
CANADIAN WORKERS
PROTEST PROFITEERING

WINDSOR, Ont.-FP)- War pro-
fiteering at the expense of the Ca
madam worker and his family is bit
terly protested in the Spark, the MINI
go weekly of the United Auto Work
ers (CIO), Local 1875, Windsor. 1t
says:
at was tough enough before the
war but since September things have
been getting worse and worse, with no
prospect of letup if we let things
drift.
"Prices on everything the, family
needs have been going up in spite
of the pious assurances from the pow
ers-that-be that profiteering will not
be tolerated Prices still go up and
no one is Jailed.
"If the past winter has been the
least bit tough, then the coming one
will be a h of a lot tougher, un.
less we do something about it."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
ROOSEVELT MUST
RUN AGAIN, SAY
HOSIERY WORKERS

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - OPP =
IDisagreeing with CLIO Pres. John L.
Lewis in his opposition to a third
term for President Roosevelt, the ex-
ecutive board of the American Fed
Grafton of Hosiery Workers (CIO)
called for nationwide labor support for
Roosevelt's candidacy.
Pres. Alexander McKeown of Phila-
delphia introduced the third term res
olution at the boards quarterly meet
ing. 1t read:
"Due to recent utterances regard
ing the question of third term for
President Roosevelt by certain Amer
lean labor leaders, the national execu-
tive board of the American Fedora
ton of Hosiery Workers has can
vassed the sentiments and opinions
on this question of the hosiery work
ers throughout the U. S. and in the
communities where their local
branches are located, and as result
thereof, find that now, more than ever,
it is the overwhelming sentiment of
the workers in the U. S. that Presi-
dent Roosevelt must be elected presi-
dent for a third term so that his
social and economic policies can be
carried forward.
''Now, therefore, be it resolved that
the national executive board of the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers reaffirms it's former position
that President Roosevelt be called by
the American people to be candidate
for president of the U. S., and again
calls upon the workers to strive to
the end that he shall be elected for
a third term"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
Local Press and
Associated Farmers
Take Count

TULARE, Ca1.-FP)-An anti-un-
ion campaign by the Associated Farm
ers and by the local press failed to
block unionization of the Arden Farms
Inc, a unit of one of the largest dairy
corporations in the country and said
to be controlled by the Standard Oil
Co.
The firm signed union shop con-
tract with the init. Bro. of Transfers
Chauffeurs Stablemen and Helpers
(AFL) after two weeks of picketing.
AS soon as the picket line was es-
tablished the A. F. interviewed, holding
meeting of farmers and farm workers
at which John Watson, banker and A.
F. member, pledged financial, legal
and moral support in driving the un-
ions out of the region.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24

>declaring to the voters that they
"never-never-never will vote to bring
this country closer to Europe's war"
The report classifies this as the
same baloney served up by both
parties in 1916" but suggests that
this time they know better; that a
majority of both houses of congress
know that we shall aid the Allies, if
the war continues long enough.
At the present the Johnson Act
which forbids loans to countries
which have defaulted on previous
debts to the United States, and the
Neutrality Law stand in the way, but
the magazine predicts that both of
these laws will be either amended
or short circuited."
Remarking on the struggle in Con-
gress last year to repeal the arms
embargo, 1t is the opinion of this
bureau that it would now be "push-
over" In the states where there is a
heavy Scandinavian vote and which
are ordinarily disposed to be pacifist
and were tremendously opposed to
Americas entry into the war in 1917,
it is believed that the pendulum has
swung the opposite way now, because
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
YOU CAN'T
SPEND $4,000
A WEEK
By SCOTT NEARING
Federated Pressl


Buyers keep goods moving. II there
service produced, an economic system
could run full time for an indefinite
period.
United States economy suffers from
shortage of buyers. Commodities
are turned out in such great quanti-
ties and at such steadily decreasing
labor cost that the market is almost
always oversupplied.
When this stage of oversupply or
glut is reached, mines and factories
shut down or work part time until
the glut is cleared up. During recent
dustries of the U. S. have been operat-
ing part time. Restricted production
leaves man power and money both
idle.
Buyers may fail to purchase the full
product of industry either because
their wants are all satisfied or be-
cause they lack purchasing power. In
the U. S. both situations exist. A
favored few have their wants over
satisfied. The vast majority lack
purchasing power.
A few Americans receive incomes
so large that they cannot possibly be
spent for the necessities and decencies
of life. Some of the over-paid are
property holders who obtain their
money from rents, interest and diyi-
dends. Others are managers and di-
rectors on regular salaries.
The SEC published the 1888 salaries
of certain business executives. The
highest paid official of General Foods
received $4,000 a week; of General
Motors, S2,35O; of U. S. Steel, $1,000;
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
PRESENT SYSTEM
HOLD SMALL HOPE
FOR The YOUTH
BY KAY ELLES

1t is to be hoped that the farm youth
of today; all youth for that matter,
will not swallow the glittering gener-
alities and specious arguments about
the glorious opportunities for employ
ment, which are now appearing in
Liberty Magazine" The name of
this periodical perverts the word Lib
erty" to mean license to present
totally false picture of present con-
ditions. 1t is cleverly written and
sugar coated with enough pats on the
back to induce the unwary to gulp
the poison. OF course it is just po-
litical pap; just a might more subtle
than other brands but all for the
purpose of allaying those fears, which
might stimulate inquiry into the real
condition of affairs. 1t is intended to
induce confidence. You know what
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doubt in their minds in regard to his
qualifications, his integrity and his
principles.
The membership of the organized
labor bodies particularly stress IN
their expressions, the pertinent fact
that while a member of the state leg
isIative bodies, Mr. Kathan, elected
from county where there is no or
ganized labor nevertheless shows 100
percent support for all measures ad-
vocated by labor. Many OF the let
tiers received express amazement over
this circumstance, and curiosity 10
meet Mr. Kathan personally, appar-
emily believing he must be some sort
of human phenomenon They have
been so accustomed in the past to
expect support from political figures
as a matter of expediency, that they
can hardly conceive that anyone would
ego down the line" on principle.
That Mr.. Kathan believes in and
has worked for and supported in every
way, the efforts of organized labor,
is only evidence of his integrity and
his disregard of eXpediency when MS
convictions and principles are IN
volved His sympathy with organized
labor goes back to his youth, when
member of organized labor in Chicago,
he went out on strike with his organl-
cation for an increase in wages, de-
cent working hours and some other
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CATLIN'S PICTURE.
TO SHOW I'm seven
MONTANA CITIES

Scarcity Through the Ages" Cat
Inns motion picture, picturing mans
struggle for existence, will be shown
for the first time in Montana at Butte
next Saturday and in the American
Legion Hall in Helena, Sunday eve
ming at o'clock, under the auspices
of liberal groups in that city. Advices
received this week are that the ex-
hibitor hopes to have an additional
film, showing the condition of the
farming industry for a first showing
in Montana.
On April 20, it will be shown in
Missoula in the Community Theater
at o'clock, p. M; at Thompson Falls,
April 80, at s o'clock, p m. at the
New Rex Theater; in Teton county
it will be shown under the sponsor
ship of the Farmers Union on May
and on May in Pondera county also
under the sponsorship of the county
Farmers Union. On May 3, it will
be shown in Great Falls.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
new JERSEY LNPL
IGNORES LEWIS,
ENDORSES ROOSEVELT

NEWARK.-(FP)-Despite sug-
gestion by CLIO Pres. John L. Lewis
to back no presidential candidate for
1910 Labor's Non-Partisan League OF
New Jersey at its fourth annual con-
vention Endorsed a third term for
President Roosevelt by a 1T to 1O1
vote.
The voting followed the reading of
a letter from Lewis and debate in
which officials of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers and Textile Work
ers Union backed the third term
move
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24

Debate on military appropriations III
congress definitely establishes the
fact that the United States pays
more for the same amount of defense
than any other nation on earth
Foe Power Politics
Routs House Liberals
Suffering one stunning defeat after
another. the confused and bewildered
house liberal bloc seems to nave lost
all effectiveness. 1t is unable TO cope
with the POWER POLITICS OF the
opposition.
At the outset of the session, fllper-
ais were able to muster but feeDle OPP
position to appropriations for the Dies
committee. Then appropriations 10
continue the Smith NLRB smear IN
yestigating committee were permitted
TO go through virtually by default A
strong stand was made against cut
ting appropriations for the NLRB and
the Wage-Hour division but to no
avail. And now the Logan-Walter
hill which reactionaries hope VIII
stvlmie all progress in this country,
was put over by a lop-sided vote.
What's going to happen when the
house reactionaries, feeling secure IN
their power, attempt to put over the
Smith amendments to the national Ia
bor relations act and the Barden
amendments to the fair labor stand
ards act? 1t is fortunate that I'D
eral-controlled senate stands in their
way, and that the president is re-
ported to intend to exercise his power
of veto should the above measures ana
the Logan-Walter bill come to MS
deski
The liberals, to be true, have Deeh
in most unenviabie position from
the very beginning. They stand pitt
fully exposed to the cross-fire OF the
AFL and the CLIO, which has pre-
vented them from forming a solid
phalanx and agreeing on program
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24

ty was created He was also one of
the original petitioners for the incor-
poration of Shelby. His farm, which
he still owns, lies midway between
Sweet Grass and Sunburst. While
still residing on his homestead he
married Anna Fearberg of Sweet
Grass. They have one son, now fly
ing cadet in training at Randolph
field, near San Antonio, Texas.
Like many other farmers in his sec
ton, Mr.. Mitchell after four years of
drouth, was compelled to seek en-
ployment and went to Butte. While
there he was one of the active leaders
in organized labor, and was business
agent of the Butte Clerks Union for
10 years.
Mr.. Mitchell is now serving his sec
ond term as secretary of state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
MITCHELL FILES
FOR REELECTION
SEC. OF STATE

Sam w. Mitchell, present secretary
of state filed for reelection on the
democratic ticket last Saturday, the
first on either ticket to file for that
office.
Mr.. Mitchell homesteaded in what
is now Toole county before the coun-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24

In generally cynical report the Washington Bureau of
Business Week ntmates that the only thing that deers the
present session of congress from permitting loans to bege
ents oans which on one would expect to be repaid
states the that this campaign year. and that
ddates of both parties will Sin beating their breasts
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
Aid in the Campaign.

surely glad that finally have candidate Tor gov
eno that we can get and work our heads off for with
clear conscience without mental reservations is an
excerpt from the flood of letters received daily by the
Governor Club This expression is typical OF all
of the letters all carrying the suggestion that for the first time
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
BUSINESS MAGAZINE SAYS
lit WOULD BE 'PUSH0VER'
TO REPEAL arm EMBARGO

Business Weeks Washington Bureau Sug-
gests That Only Thing That Maintains
Country On a Basis of Some Neutrality Is
the Coming Campaign and We Will See the
Same Baloney Served AS in 1916.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-24
farm and LABOR GrnaUPS
EXPRESS PLEASURE 5 OR
KATHAN'S CANDIDA Il

Response From Farmers and L = Groups
in the State Is Very Gratifying to the Kath-
an Campaign Organization. Flood OF Let
tiers Received Daily, All Promising Active
Aid in the Campaign.