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

modes designed particularly avoid the asking annual
appropriations for the financing of farm relief and
the farmer fair his products the wheat
certificate BILL s. 1896 being of particular interest
to Montana Another BILL S. $780, the debt adjustment bill
is of vital interest to Montana farmers.
The Debt Adjustment Bill opposed by the entire field of
private investment mortgage companies the
companies and the large banking interests
For the Farmers Union has fought place
the Farm Credit Administration under the Department of
culture and finally having Now bat
tie to undo the work of the Farmers Union and delegate
the administration of the Farm Credit to five
independent board Should these interests be
full will jobs for five busted bankers and the
credit operations will be conducted hardboed bankers
plan and policy.
The Farmers Union has contended that the Farm Credit
Administration should be operated the Department
Agriculture because it wanted cred policies land apprase
men etc. related to the Department of Agrcuture income
1t futile to have land values and land apprase
men based on looking backwards and in crystal bowl while
III another OF government the particular KINDS OF
administered deal with increasing volume, income
etc. in order that payments may be made in addition to living
expenses"
cleft handed" being made on the proposed
Debt Adjustment bill the administration of it's provisions
would be taken from the Department of Agriculture and placed
the hands of the five board the administration of
Credit Administration which proposed 1880
This would make the debt adjustment administration ie
tcay in the hands of private credit agencies certainly
the hands of five $4,000 year whose sympahes
not lie with the oppressed farmers but with their expoers
The daily of will stress that farm leaders,
such Edward ONea of the Farm Taber
master of the National Grange opposing the Debt Adjust
ment Bill These farmers of the farmers must have been
prompted voice their opposition by two considerations
their political appontees displaced recent
badly neede4 shakeup in the c. A. and the other
must be their close association with the financial that
ignore condition the small debt-ridden farmers It'll
must noted that 1886 organiza
lions testified AGAINST bill almost identical with S. 3480
which they supporting This S. 4OO3 Why the
change of heart?
This is addressed to organized labor The Union
is fighting ngehanded for the enactment of the Debt Ad
ustment Bill S. $500 and against the Gillette Bill (S3480)
The Farmers Union is the only farm organization which by
its national policy works with supports organized labor
Now needs support Will act to give it. Write
wire to Senator James Brnes chairman of the subcomm
of the Senate Committee Banking and Currency which
ho1Jip
opposition to it. Many of you have already comparatively
record for the enactment the Debt Adjustment Bill
for which the Farmers Union deeply grately This bill
would be rendered ineffective by the enactment of the Gillette
BILL and the entire debtrdden farm population of Montana
would suffer from its The repercussons would
reach the industrial laborers also.
PACKING THE LABOR BOARD
the early days of the New Deal the Supreme Court of
the United States helped the of the working people
By that law that meant for the good of the
unconstitutional stubborn majority
Supreme Court stood firmly the of help
workers the farm in the city. "
Finally President Roosevelt decided that the only thing left
add enough liberal members to the Supreme Court
that majority of the court would be the side of the
working people n
Wall Street and its friends up great howl This
isn't right they walled You must wait until the members
the Supreme Court either die off retire before
any members If add members that is 81
packing the court. p
They howl packing the Court that Pres
Roosevelt lost his fight Congress refused to give him
the right to any members. al
But there law that Wall Street and its friends do al
not like. That law is the National Labor Relations Act 81
Especially they do not like of the three members of the
Labor Board Those two j. Warren Madden and ga
Edwin S. Smith. These two deciding usually tn
for justice for the working people Between the two of
William Leserson who is not such
a good friend of the working people. tn
Wall Street has decided to add two men to the
these with Leiserson and ~
out Madden and Smith d.
This just way saying Street is plan
ming pack the Labor Board Only this packing that
is to hurt working people pI
It's funny thing don't hear Wall Street howl fe
ing how un-American is pack unit of the
This is the kind of packing they like because is S6
pac king that will hurt the working peopeThe Southern
News Almanac. "a
COOPERATION r
The editorial above which reprinted from of the all
liberal published in the SOUTH should appeal OF
militant Farmers Union membership in Montana, &C