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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-06
WINS
JUDGMENT I'm
SCHOOL. CASE

WOLF POINT, March Especial
| to the Voice)-Frank H. Livingston
for 81 years superintendent of the
Wolf Point schools, was awarded a
Judgment of $3.50 in district court
here, for salary for the year July 2
1899 to July 1, 1910, during which he
has not been allowed to head the
schools, and for legal costs incurred
during the year the local school fight
has been carried on. The court per-
mitted special emergency budget
for teachers salaries so that Mr.. Liv-
ingston could be paid Immediately,
since his salary for the year had not
been budgeted for.
AS part of the compromise settle
ment, $4,000 suit against the trus-
tee of District As, instituted my tax
payers of the district, J. A. Snyder,
realtor, was dismissed. This suit al
legged incorporation of school funds
when $4,000 of school money was
turned over toward buying materials
for the Roosevelt county courthouse
under construction. 1t was alleged
that the school board had no legal
right to turn over funds for a build
ing on ground to which the district
did not have ownership or even an
equity.
About three years ago a $4,000
bond issue was voted by the Wolf
Point district to go toward a commun-
ity building which would serve as an
armory, school gymnasium and audi
forum. After the bonds were voted
congress made an appropriation for an
addition to the Wolf Point school
building for gymnasium and class
rooms. Later when the county saw
the way clear to secure WPA prof.
ect for a courthouse with the ex-
penditure Of nominal amount of
money, it was decided that the $4,000
be turned over to be used in the pur-
chase of materials. This was con-
sidered desirable and expedient, and
about 40 or so business men signed
guarantee to protect the school board
in the event of any trouble. When
suit was filed against the board mem
DerS tney, III turn, 1lled cross coIn-
plant against these bondsmen.
About year ago Supt. F. II. Liv-
ingston was served with long bill
of complaints, being charged, among
other things, with making public the
school district financial affairs. An
was made to have the hearing
on these charges closed case, but
the taxpayers insisted on attending.
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

ers cannot be absorbed in private in
dustry
The above facts were revealed at a
conference last week of a group of
liberal congressman with WPA Ad-
ministrator Harrington. Colonel Har-
rington promised that the layoffs,
made necessary in order to remain
within the present fiscal year budget,
will not begin before April 1. The
present fiscal year WPA budget is
$1,447, 100000; the administration has
cut this down to $1,000,000,000 for the
coming fiscal year. present at the
conference were Representatives Mar
cantonio, New York; Keller, Fries,
and McKeough, Illinois; Coffee and
Hill, Washington; Hook and Tenero-
wiscz, Michigan; O'Connor, Montana,
and Geyer, California;
March Is is the tentative date for
hearings to begin before House sub
committee on relief appropriations. 1T
COMES AT A TIME WHEN SOME
PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON WHO
ARE WATCHING THE SITUATION
CLOSELY ARE BEGINNING TO
FEAR THAT WE ARE HEADING
TOWARDS A NEW BUSINESS RE-
CESSION.
Apparently, alls not going well with
this "war-prosperity" business!
Information given out by Federal
Reserve analysts mot yet announced
publicly shows that the index of in
dustrial production has dropped from
1923 to 107-and confidential reports
are that it is still droppingl
Unemployment, which had been de-
clining before the first of the year, is
steadily increasing, despite the trade
in war materials and ornaments.
A labor department statement says
that decline in non-agricultural en-
ployment during January totalled ap-
proximately 100000. While part of
this decline unquestionably can be
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dies HAS
TROUBLES OF
HIS OWN
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON REP. Martin
Dies 3D., Tex.), chairman of the House
committee allegedly investigating un.
American activities, is an exceedingly
busy man these days.
He has a half dozen bears by
their respective tails and no sooner
does he let go one of them than il
turns around and bites him.
Consider the strange plight of the
statesman from Orange, Tex
In the first place there is the ex-
tremely embarrassing matter of Viii.
liam Dudley Policy, anti-semitic, pro-
fascist leader of the vigilante organ
ization known as the silver shirts.
After a supposedly nationwide
search by the Dies committee for this
person, Policy voluntarily showed up,
testified for three days and now writes
articles in his publication thanking
the committee for wonderful time.
Pelley's game is clear but it is
nevertheless painful for the commit
tee, perhaps BECAUSE there is much
truth in the contention of Policy that
his organization and the committee
are soul mates and the time has come
for them to stand hand in hand be-
fore the whole world.
For example, Policy writes in the
February 81 issue of his magazine,
"All Jews and Jewish influences had
been cleaned off the Dies committee.
Martin Dies had stood up in Chicago,
held a glass of crystal-clear water
above his head in toast and said
to Chicago executives, Gentlemen,
give you a Christian nation This
was silvershirtism at it's best
The Policy affair began, in it's cur
rent version, with the insertion in the
Congressional Record by Rep. Frank
Hook 3D., Mich.) Of letters allegedly
written by Policy to David d. Mayne,
his Washington representative, dis
GUESSING his understanding" with the
committee.
Thereupon Dies became attached to
his second bear. Policy said the let
ters were forgeries, Mayne said he
had been paid for them and that he
had forged them and Hook later con-
coded they may have been forgeries.
But there the matter did not rest.
Dies and his cohorts announced that
this horrible business was going to be
turned over to the department of JUS
tice and the U. S. district attorney.
They wanted the business cleaned up
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that the problem of North America is
unique and requires a unique solution
The trend of events is compelling pub
lie realization of the nearness of an
era of abundance and leisure.
We are now in the 10th year of this
great depression and despite the bat
tie the government is waging through
pump printing, paliatives, destruction
Of food-stuffs, ETC., we are no nearer
solution of our economic ills than
in the beginning of this depression.
Technocracy Inc. has this solution.
Technocracy's analysis of present
events and explanation Of the new
form of social control now close at
hand will be presented in a lecture
by Fred Hockey of Section l, R. D.
12249, of New Westminster, B. c.,
authorized speaker for Technocracy
Inc. He will speak at Butte, March
II; Billings, March IA, Is and 16;
Great Falls, March II, 1S, and 10;
Helena, March % and in Missoula,
March 26. Attendance aAe previous
lectures Mr.. Hockey hag III de on his
present tour indicates thataAose wish
ing to be sure of hearing this dynamic
speaker should plan to come early.
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Capitol Corridor
Chatter

This job is going to get pretty tough,
| can see that right now. Here
am trying to get along with everybody,
and about every other one / run
across, has filed for some political job
and want me to vote for him. That's
not SO tough, but when you begin to
run across two or three fellows all
running for the same job and you have
to agree to vote for all of them, you
have some close figuring to do. And
you might not be able to figure out
how to keep the promises at all.
There is one ray of sunshine in the
clouds and that is that election day
when it rolls around finally, is a holt
day at the state house. So our head
Of the AABF won't have to be in the
office, and We'll have to hold a spe-
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-Viigilante On
Ford Payroll Tells
How Gang Operated

DALLAS.-FP)-First witness to
testify at NLRB hearings on unfair
labor practices at the local Ford
Motor Co. plant was James r. Long
ley, former employee, who described
his work as captain of a vigilante
squad ito beat the union out of the
plant"
Company attorneys had tried to 81
lence Longley by telling him that the
NLRB could not promise him immun-
ity in the state courts. But Trial Elk
aminer r. ~ Denham retorted that
the board could grant immunity in
both state and federal courts. A clash
on this point between board lawyers
and Ford attorneys occupied most of
the first day.
The vigilante squads, said Longley,
were engaged in watching for Clio
organizers at the bus stations; spying
on w. ]. Houston, CLIO attorney, day
and night; and beating up workers
suspected of union sympathies. He
described an attack upon Houston in
broad daylight outside downtown
drugstore.
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Is Cents Ar Hour
Asked For Tenants

WASHINGTON P)-Amendment
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
to provide for minimum wage of
25c an hour for sharecroppers and
tenant farmers was asked of Senate
subcommittee on agriculture here by
three representatives of the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union (unaffiliated)
]. R. Butler, F. R. Betton, officials
Of the union, and D. A. Griffin, evicted
sharecropper, charged that AAA bene-
fit payments had led to the eviction
of workers from the land and inten-
sified mechanizatiOn.
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to wipe out the OVerdra1C IN the Iunu
which existed when he took office.
Since that time, with steadily and
rapidly mounting receipts to the gen.
eral fund, he not only has failed to
wipe it out but as stated in last
weeks issue of the Voice, the average
monthly overdraft during his term OF
office has been S515,063.80.
When Mr.. Ayers took office on jan
uary 1, 1887, the general fund showed
an overdraft of $944,57103 At the
end of the first fiscal year during his
tenure of office-June 80, 1887, the
overdraft was 1881 ,39215. During
that fiscal year, the revenue accruing
to the general fund over the proceed
ing fiscal year was increased by $780,
1868.
"The Balanced Budget"
At the end of the next fiscal year,
June 80, 1888, was when the governor
and his apparently willing stooge, the
state accountant went on the air"
and told gasping world that the
budget was balanced" and the gen.
eral fund of the state was in the black
for the first time. Oddly enough at
the end of the following month, on
July 81, 1888, the general fund was
again in sin the p&" to greater
amount than it bad sheen preceding
that day of rejoicing on June 80, 1888.
During that same fiscal year ending
on June 80, 1888, which eliminated
:. in such. glory for the governor and
must have brought so much rejoicing
to his listeners, THERE HAD BEEN
AN INCREASE IN RECEIPTS OVER
THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR OF
$1,1O3,80360. Now, he began that fis-
cal year on June &c. 1887 with an
overdraft of 1881, 392.15. Assuming
for the sake of argument that the
overdraft had been paid during that
fiscal year and the account showed
cash balance properly on June 80, 1888
of $111,859,29 as so widely publicized
by the governor, then adding to that
the overdraft that had been paid of
1891, 1925 makes a total of $493,
25144 paid off that year. But the fly
in this particular salve of the gov
ernor's is that receipts during this
same fiscal year had increased over
the preceding year by $1,103,8O36O.
Subtracting the gain of $493, 251.44
from the increase leaves the puzzle OF
what happened to the remaining $780,
552.16 during this economical, bust
ness administration" Why didn't you
tell us that in your broadcast Mr..
Governor?
"Nce General Fund"
Again at the end of the next fiscal |
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INDUST. HYGIENE
BILL INTRODUCED
BY MURRAY

Sen. James E. Murray of Montana
made the following statement relating
to bill on industrial hygiene which
he introduced in the senate:
"The purpose of this bill is to aid
the states in the. control of occupa-
tional diseases, /. e., disabling condi-
lions from exposures encountered in
employment, by effecting better con-
troll of these hazards through main
tanning special industrial hygiene
units in state labor departments, these
industrial hygiene divisions to func-
ton "a by designing and applying
engineering control measures to exist
ing exposures, (2) by aiding in the
preparation of suitable rules and regu-
lations for prevention and by directly
aiding the enforcement agency charged
with the application of the rules and
regulations, 90 by aiding the state
adjudicating agency in the disposition
of workmen's compensation claims.
"Occupational diseases occur in all
As states. Although the extent of
damage to workers health as a result
of Job hazards varies according to the
nature and concentration of industry,
this is definitely a nationwide prob
lem.
mo industrial employment is free
from conditions capable of causing
sickness, disability and premature
death. The industrial workers life
is to 10 years less than
the population at large.
Most seriously exposed are the
estimated 100000 workers menaced
by specific, reoccurring, recognized
occupational diseases, /. e., lead poi
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DIES ANSWERED
BY HOLLYWOOD
MASS Meeting
By JOHN R. CHAPLIN
Federated Press)

|
| HOLLYWOOD (FP) - Presided
over by Donald Ogden Stewart, more
than $500 people gathered in Los An
geles' Philharmonic Auditorium to
hear Hollywood answer Martin Dies.
The mass meeting, under the auspices
of the League for Democratic Action
(ex-Hollywood Anti-Nazi League), was
sponsored by "A organizations, repre-
senting more than $4,000 southern Cal
ifornians.
Tone of the meeting was what Dies
may expect if he opens up on Holly
wood: wit, satire, and ridicule. The
committee on un-American activities
came out of the fray with little or no
dignity left.
Chief speakers in this first of a
series of meetings to tell Dies where
to get off, and to show him that we
don't have to take it," were: Herb
Sorrell, state president of Labors
Non-Partisan eLague and president of
the studio local of the Bro. of Paint
ers Decorators and Paperhangers
(AFL); Mary Mccall Jr., for the
Screen Writers Guild (unaffiliated)
Philip M. (Slim) Connolly, for the
CLIO; and Prof Frank Davis of the
University of California at Los An
geles. Wires were read from Lieut.
Gov Ellis E. Patterson of California
and Mrs. Halle Flanagan, ex-head of
the Federal Theater Project.
Sorrell noted that Willie Bioff, I'M
der Indictment for various infractions
of the law, also blames the producers
and the communists" for his predica-
ment. He said that he felt Roosevelt
was slipping bit lately and would
problems rather than European affairs
for it is hunger and misery, said
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"If foreign born, give country II
which birthplace was situated on Jan
uary 1, 1887" will be one of the ques-
tions in the coming census.
Oppose 1910 Census Questions
Reactionary senators and congress
men NOTABLY Senator Tobey, New
Hampshire, and Rep. Taber, New
York, are voicing violent objections
TO certain information sought by the
1910 census designed to give an &C
curate picture. Of the financial and
economic status of the American peo-
nle They call such inquiries as ex-
tent of mortgages and debts 'prying
into peoples private affairs
One gathers that they do not want
it revealed that only relative hand
full are really benefiting from this
countrys tremendous wealth and re-
sources, while the great majority OF
people are unable to attain security
under the present system. They fear
that public knowledge OF these facts
will result in demands for rectification
of glaring economic injustices.
unemployment Mounts; Liberals
Ask WPA Deficiency Appropriation,
Budget Revision, To Prevent Layers
With reports that the unemployment
problem is becoming more aggravated,
House liberals are urging President
Roosevelt to ask congress for an I'M
mediate s15O,OOO,O0O WPA deficiency
appropriation and to revise his WPA
budget estimates for the coming fiscal
year in the light Of new and unex-
pected conditions.
The deficiency appropriation is
necessary to prevent laying off OF
100000 WPA workers between now
and June 1; administration budget
estimates would cause 100000 addi-
tional WPA workers to lose their
jobs after June /. The business
barometer shows that these work
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labout a special job for himself and
the trip was made in a patrol car
with a patrolman at the wheel. Pre-
sumably to add weight to the pro-
posals of the governors son, he was
accompanied by the highly publicized
(by the A. c. M. press) "Brigadier
General Mahan, adjutant general of
the state, city attorney for Helena
and holding these jobs, still able to
carry on the private practice of law.
An instance such as this is not too
important perhaps, from the stand
point of expense to the state. 1t is
important however, as an indication
of the apparent attitude of the chief
executive of the state toward his re-
sponsibilities. 1t is also important IL
another agency of the state, the high
way patrol service, is permitted and
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LECTURER TO
SPEAK ON
TECHN0CRACY

With each upward step of national
debt, unemployment and destruction
Of foodstuffs and with each downward
step of interest rates, man-hours and
national well-being, public interest in
Technocracy has become more in
tense. Technocracy Inc. has stated
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Reports from reliable Helena the Voice show
that not only does the highway patrol provide frequent taxi
service for the but members of his family and of his
official family also enjoy the privilege of using the patromen
for chauffeurs driving patrol to transport them bust
definitely personal and having nothing do with the
business of the state.
These reports to the effect that day within the last
two weeks the governors made trip Mssoua to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-06
Spend Tremendous Sums.

While gradual in the overdraf in the general
of the state during the administration preceding the
Avres regime might excuabe of increasing
the development of the states in
the liquor distribution system without
cash replacement of expenditures for that
purpose to the the fund the present
erno valid those grounds for the failure
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-06
HIWAY PATROL APPEARS
TO RENDER TAXI SERVICE
TO STATE OFFICIALS

While There Appears To Be Nothing in the
Highway Patrol Law Providing for Free
Taxi Service To Favored State Officials,
This Organization Seemingly Takes On
These Accommodating Added Duties.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-06
GOVERNORS CLAIM TO AN
ECONOMY adj l:.vISTRAT'N
DIsPRovED By II'EcoRDs

The Argument for Rec ion Advanced by
the Governor in His Sta ent Accompany
ing the Filing Asserting ude Over Bust
nesslike Administration Appears to Have
No More Substantial Basis Than the Ability
to Spend Tremendous Sums.
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Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard Of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Il a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity Of All.
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Democracy Cannot Endure I'm
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
Evening star., 1940-01-15
Britain Reported
farrying Protests
On 'Safetyzone'
Note Is Described as.
Holding Neutrality.
Area UnenforceubIe
EN the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-British sources
stated today that Great Britain had
replied to the protest of 81 Amer
lean republics against violation of
their neutrality safety zone" by
taking the position that the zone
was unenforceable under interna-
tional law.
The British reply was in the form
of a note transmitted to the Pam
anna government for presentation
to the permanent Pan-American
Neutrality Committee, it was said.
Its contents were withheld.
Replies to the United States Gov
ernment on its protests against the
diversion of mails and the bring
ing of United States vessels into
Contraband control points in the
war zone are expected to go forward
soon.
The 81 American republics, in
cluding the United States, on Octo-
Der established a 300-mile safety
zone" around the Americas from
which it was desired to keep the
European war. On December %,
just 10 days after the battle off
Uruguay between three British
cruisers and the German pocket
battleship Admiral Graf Spec, the
Pan-American nations protested to
Britain, France and Germany
against violation of their zone.
At that time representatives of
the 81 nations also decided to meet
again for further consultations on
neutrality, and this meeting was
scheduled to open in Rio de jan
eiro today.
Evening star., 1940-01-15
Biggest A. F. |. Meeting
OF All Time Is Planned

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Jan. 15.-A 10-State
American Federation of Labor con-
ference here March "a, to be
larger by far than any convention
of the A. F. l.. in its SO years of &C
tivity," was announced yesterday by
George L. Googe, Southern A. F. L.
representative.
Mr.. Googe said A. F. L. President
William Green. Secretary Treasurer
George Meany and Secretary -Emer-
titus Frank Morrison would speak
and the majority of the executive
heads of the los national and in
ternational unions affiliated with
the A. F. L. would attend.
All Southern Governors. he added,
will be invited as guests and Presi-
dent Frank P. Graham of the Uni
versity of North Carolina will make
an address
The conference was called. Mr..
Googe explained, by State Fedora
tion of Labor presidents in Virginia
the Caro,inas, Georgia, Florida. Ala
bama. Mississippi, Louisville, Ten
nessee and Kentucky
He predicted an attendance.of at
least 5000.
Evening star., 1940-01-15
T. Y. A.
Continued From First Page.0

adequate service and protection to
all participants"
The land and water domain of T
v. A. in the six States, exclusive of
that in the Wilson Reservoir area
of Alabama. was listed in the re-
port as 97l 500 acres.
The Tennessee River lakes cut
through the heart of region al
ready rich in scenic and recreation
resources" the report said, "a region
containing the1Great Smoky Noun
tain National Park, the millions of
acres of national forests, the historic
battlefelds of Shiloh and Lookout
Mountain and the resorts of the
Asheville area
Creation of the T. " A. lakes had
provided, the board said, hunters
and fshermen's paradise. Highway
improvement. it added, have brought
tourists into the valley in increasing
numbers.
The report said that T. V. A. was
prepared to develop recreational
facilities and activities in the follow
ing territories:
Tennessee, 500 900 acres; Alabama,
252, 500; Kentucky, 100000 North
Carolina, 23,500; Mississippi, 1850;
Georgia, 1000.