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in support of the Marcantonio and
Wheeler bills would be carried on
throughout the country by the more
than $50 Community Peace Councils
that have been set up in 40 states in
the last two weeks.
The Marcantonio measure provides
that the Burke adsworth conscrip-
ton bill be repealed because compul-
sorry military training in time of peace
dislocates the nations economic life,
increases the cost of living, leads to
want and privation( and jeopardizes
the civil liberties of the people, while
at the same time not being justified
by any condition now facing this coun-
try.
The Wheeler resolution points out
that some large concerns important
to national defense have deferred ma
tional interests to monetary considera-
tions, by giving preference to foreign
munitions orders" while other vital
Industries have "close relations" with
German concerns, involving stock con-
troll, marketing agreements and patent
rights.
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cerned with their personal political
fortunes and wants them to remain on
the job and continue with their knit
ting.
What the republicans want to do is
for the democrats to take the respon-
sibility for any adjournment of con-
gress. This the democrats are not apt
to do even though Cactus jack Gar
ner is plugging hard for it. The new
serious turn which the foreign situa-
tion has taken also appears to have
killed all chances of adjournment.
Nevertheless, many of the senators
and congressman have been quietly
leaving for their homes to tend to
some toppled down fences. There are
now only about enough left on Capitol
hill to constitute a quorum-and it Is
likely to remain SO until after the
November elections.
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lis EDUCATION
FOR POOR FOLK
NOW Anarchy?

Current attacks on Commonwealth
college yesterday took the form OF
arrest, on charges of anarchy of Ma
than Oser, director, in Mena court.
house, while paying taxes on the col
lege property. Arrested by state police,
Oser was later released on $1,000
bond, must appear Wednesday before
Glenn Brown, justice Of the peace, in
Mena, Ark.
| Oser's arrest on the 25th followed
trial held the oath, of the Common
wealth College association on charges
of anarchy The trial was held by JUS
| tice Brown despite the fact that coun-
sci for Commonwealth had filed prop
erly attested affidavit for change of
venue, automatically removing the
case from Browns jurisdiction, ac-
cording to counsel.
"The college," stated Oser, did not
offer testimony or take part in the
trial of September "a, because aft
davit for change of venue had been
filed and properly justified. According
to Arkansas state law, Justice Brown
had no jurisdiction in the case, could
no longer try it, and the proceedings
were not binding. The case will be
taken into a properly accredited court,
and the college will then offer full
testimony and submit to judgment.
Commonwealth has never taught
anarchy, never believed in it, and has
always condemned subversive and an
archistic acts. Although the college
has been discontinued, it will not al
low these last-minute attacks to stand
unchallenged.
in the II years of its existence,
Commonwealth has gone about its bus
mess openly and directly. It's purpose
of providing education for people of
ordinary means who could not afford
regular college or university fees, has
been widely known and supported by
many outstanding citizens and educa-
tors The Library of Congress has
complete files of its publications, the
and the Commoner. Large |
such as the Universities |
of Texas, Chicago, and Michigan, have |
to and purchased Common |
wealth publications.
Throughout its existence, the &C
tivities of Commonwealth college have |
been legal. The Arkansas State Legis-
lature investigation of 1885 substan-
tiated that fully Our neighbors have
always found us friendly and neigh
borly. We have been welcome to visit
with them, and they with us.
"The present attacks can have only
one meaning deliberate attempt to
link Commonwealth with certain po-
Iitical parties, with which Common
wealth has not and never has had any
The attacks are not in the
execution of law and order, but are
directed toward stirring up public
sentiment of mass violence against the
school. Commonwealth requested pro-
lection of the authorities and was met |
with arrest. Those attacks have no |
legal or moral justification, and will
be fully contested"
Roger Baldwin, American Civil Lib
critics union hear has wired full sup
port of his organization in the de-
tense, Oser said. Protests against the
attack should go to Governor Bailey
Little Rock, Ark.
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LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF


| WASHINGTON. - Unionization Of
the Ford Motor Co., six times viola
tor of the national labor relations act
was pushed into high gear on Sept. Is
by a joint announcement from Clio
President John L. Lewis and President
R. ]. Thomas of the United Automo.
bile Workers (CIO). The Clio and the
JAW will each furnish $4,000 for
| the drive.
WASHINGTON.-Organized federal
workers can help make the govern
ment a model employer with standards
for private industry to follow, dele
gates to the first convention of the
United Federal Workers (CIO) were
told by their officers.
WASHINGTON.-Jo Possehl, gem
eral president of the International I'm
ion of Operating Engineers (AFL),
died suddenly Sept. Is while conduct
ing meeting of the unions executive
board.
WASHINGTON = A battle between
Sidney Hillman, labor member of the
National Defense Advisory Commits
sion, and his west coast representa-
tive, Harry Bridges, appeared possible
following reports that Hillman had
sought to reopen the turbulent ques-
ton of the proper bargaining unit for
west coast longshoremen.
NEWARK.-Fifty per cent represen-
tation on local draft boards for repre-
sentatives of the CLIO, AFL, railroad
brotherhoods and farm organizations
were urged by the New Jersey State
Industrial Union Council in letter to
Governor A. Harry Moore.
COLUMBIA, S. C.-The Ku Klux
Khan met double setback in this area
when Grand Dragon Ben E. Adams
took last place in the senatorial pri-
maries and the company union which
he headed at the Columbia Duck Mills
was beaten by the Textile Workers
Union (CIO) in an NLRB election
NEW YORK-A nationwide strike
of 10000 singers, actors and announc-
ers employed on sustaining radio pro-
grams was averted when the Ameri- |
can Federation of Radio Artists (AFL) |
and the major broadcasting companies
consented to mediation.
AMHERST, Mass.-Eight objections |
TO the Smith amendments to the Wag- |
ner act are set forth by AFL President |
Green in letter to Prof. Col
,ton E. 'Warne, chairman of the COM
nittee for the defense of the national
abor relations act
NEW YORK. Within few months
he AFL will start production here of
movie based on the life of Samuel
1ompers, Chairman Charles Sinnigen
If the local Union Label Trades De-
1artment announced.
RUTLAND, VT. - Faced with a
threatened strike of 1900 workers, the
Rutland railroad agreed to maintain
existing wage scales until the end of
he year. The strike, which would
lave involved Is railroad brother
hoods, was voted following announce
nent of new wage cuts of from 10
o 80 per cent.
NEW YORK-Boston's dailies failed
O carry a single story on five-week
trike of two ALL unions against Jor-
Ian Marsh Co., one of the city's big
rest department stores, the newspaper
PM reported Sept. 20.
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boards attempted to block them.
Recent Wage-Hour Decisions
Not Satisfactory to Workers

Some of the labor people in Wash
ington are concerned over recent set
Elements of cases pending before the
wage-hour division, in which the inter
ests of the workers seem to have been
sacrificed.
The reason is said to be desire on
the part of the division to clean up a
back load of some $4,000 cases. During
August, 5000 cases were decided. To
accomplish this, it is said that many
corners have been cut-and the work
ers generally suffered from the cut
ting of the corners.
Present case load is about $500 a
month. There are only about 600 in
spectors. 1t is felt that quality is be-
ing sacrificed for quantity.
Current Capital Chatter
The politically astute in Washing
ton are saying that Willkie made his
big mistake when he went to Governor
Stassen of Minnesota for political adj
vice rather than to House Minority
Leader Jeo Martin. Pending in
congress is an economy" bill to de-
crease the number of employees of the
government printing office by 1000.
A substitute measure will have to be
drawn to increase the number by that
figure. After sulking in his tent
in Texas for several months, Vice
President Garner has returned to his
lob of welding the gavel in the senate.
But he is lonely old man. Nobody
loves poor loser. . E. The question
they are now asking in Washington
is not whether Willkie has a chance
of winning, but rather whether he will
do better than Landon. -. Said Sena-
tor Norris, Nebraska, 1.-THE COP presi-
dental candidate, more than any other
man, is responsible for the tedious
years of delay and the millions of dol
lars of expense which the iva had to
meet" In Minnesota the repub-
lican state machine has captured the
State Democratic committee. When
you have plenty of funds you can do
things.
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You cannot control what you do not
UNI
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DEMAND THE UNION LABEL
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ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
Federated Press)
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON. = Archibald Mac
Leish, former editor of Henry Luce
magazine, Fortune, and currently Il
brarian of the Library of Congress
apparently believes that the United
States should go to war in the nea
future.
He is the author of an enthusiastic
advertisement for Henry Luce's NOV
ing picture, The Ramparts We Watch
which informs the audience that there
doesn't seem to be anything left bu
to fight it (the war; over again
"The great American postwar de.
lusion," he writes in the ad, twas moi
in fact, as it's apostles have pretended
a product Of the war itself, but rather
of our own failure, following the war
to act as men of courage should have
acted"
Back in June, 1885, MacLeish an
swered three questions for the maya
zine Modern Monthly. What will you
do when America goes to war? VIII
your decision be altered If Soviet Rus
STA is an ally of the United States In
a war with Japan? Would prospec-
tive victory by Hitler over most OF
Europe move you to urge U. S. par
ticipation in opposition to Germany to
prevent such catastrophe?
The first question MacLeish an
swered fully. The answer to the sec
ond and third questions was a cate
gorical mo"
Admission that war is justified on
the proper occasion, MacLeish says,
"implies that war is not the greatest
of human evils but that there are evils
worse than war. The danger OF al
anti-war program built upon that ad-
mission, historically sound though 1t
may be, is nevertheless obvious. For 1t
is precisely those deepest human emo
lions to which the propaganda ma
chinery always addresses itself in time
of war-of any war.
"The last war against Germany was
fought, you will recall, to make the
world safe for democracy. The next
war against Germany might very wen
be fought, as your third question sug-
gests. to make the world safe against
naziism.
with war in the offing the realistic
and skeptical journal is not read; the
newspapers echo the common cry; the
propaganda machine whirls up the
dust of it's own choosing.
''If enough people believe that
certain type of war might be 1ustlfi-
able then the war department will see
that they get that kind OF war-in
print. The kind Of war they have got
ten in fact they will discover for them
selves some years afterward."
1t is to be hoped that Librarian
MacLeish is no better at prophesying
events than he was at prophesying the
state of his mind five years hence
Election of Rep. John w. McCor-
mack 3D., Mass.) as house majority
leader reflects a profound change IN
the character of the democratic party.
It is the first time in the history OF
the present administration, and one OF
the few times in the history OF any
democratic administration, that rep
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-02
AUGUST EMPLOYMENT
UP DUE TO
WAR ORDERS

| WASHINGTON.-( P)-Total non,
agricultural employment in August
1910, exceeded all preceding August
figures since 1929 with the exception
of August, 1887, Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins reported here Sep
TENDER rs.
During the month, 100000 workers
were added to payrolls bringing Au-
gust employment up to 36,000,000, or
100000 more than year ago, the
report said.
The increases, figures shower, were
due almost entirely to war orders, the
biggest gains being in shipbuilding,
aircraft, engines, aluminium, machine
tools and explosives.
Other increases were in industries
related to the defense program such
as steel, sawmills, foundries, mems
clothing, electrical machinery and
WOODEN and worsted goods.
The department of labor makes no
estimates of unemployment
WASHINGTON OPP Large in
creases in the permit valuation of new
non-residential building featured Au-
gust building permit reports, Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins reported here.
The dollar volume of new nonresident
tial buildings showed a gain of II per
cent over July and was more than dou-
BILE the August 1899 total. Contracts
awarded under the defense program
for new manufacturing plants and for
war and navy department buildings
were largely responsible for these
gains.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-02

Daniel S. Gfllmor, publisher and edi
tor Of the national weekly Friday
located at ia E. 32nd street, New
York, has issued the following state
ment following w. J. Cameron's denial
of having written to Fritz Kuhn, a
letter which Friday" magazine fea-
tured on its cover of its Sept. 9th
issue.
I'VE have every reason to believe
that the letter to Fritz Kuhn which
Mr.. Cameron denies having written
was actually written to him. Friday
does not print material without first
making a careful check as to it's
source. The source of this particular
material is one which we consider to
be highly reliable.
Cameron is trying his best to duck
the real issue anyway. Cameron is
anti-semite. Cameron has not denied
that he has long been an executive of
the anti-semitic Anglo-Saxon Fedora
ton. Cameron does not deny that he
wrote the anti-semitic leaflet "Was
Jesus a Jew" Cameron does not deny
that his friend and superior Henry
Ford warmly received and still pos
sesses medal from the Jew-baiter
who outdoes even Cameron, Adolf
Hitler
will Cameron also deny that boss
Ford contributed to Adolf Hitler's
nozio in tho aar1u cto ooc re IIi+Ior,c
career? Will Cameron also deny that
he is an executive of the most vicious
anti-labor organization America has
ever seen?
Cameron speaks of forgeries. The
greatest forgery ever perpetrated is
the one he himself helped spread
through his Anglo-Saxon Federation,
the notorious Protocols Of the Elders
Of Zion"
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NEW YORK.-FP)-Four Spanish
youths who had fought in the republi-
can army escaped deportation to
Spain when the United American
Spanish Aid committee obtained Mexi-
can visas for them.
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l.. L. Benepe, deputy registrar Of
vital statistics, has reported August
births in Montana totaled 975 as com
pared with Asa deaths.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-10-02
USHA Program Stymied
By Shortage Of Funds

Unless congress takes favorable ac-
tion on the housing loan authorization
bill pending before the house rules
committee, the USHA will be unable
to undertake any new public housing
projects.
''All our money is now exhausted"
a USHA official told this column last
week. UNLESS congress passes the
loan authorization bill, we will have
to in the future content ourselves with
merely displaying demonstration hous-
ing projects That's all our program
will then amount to-"
The USHA loan authorization bill
originally was for $500, 100000, but this
was Whitfield down to $15O,000, 900
and even this is being held up.
Meantime reports come in that
housing conditions for workers in GER
tain parts of the country where de-
Tense industries are located are be-
coming critical, with profiteering on
the part of landlords rampant. Suffer
ing of many of the workers through
exorbitant rentals is great, because of
the generally low wages prevailing in
the defense industries. Seventy per
cent Of these workers are now receiv-
ing less than $1,000 year, including
their overtime, while the weekly wage
of helpers and laborers is less than
$24 a week.
Real estate people have led the fight
to sabotage the housing program, since
they do not want anything to interfere
with their profiteering. In each case
where the USHA undertook low-rent
housing projects the local real estate
Evening star., 1940-06-27

Parish grand Jury indicted Shirley
Wimberly, Louisiana Tax Commis-
sion member, and eight other men in
connection with "deadheading" on
State pay rolls.
Newly-appointed District Attorney
J. Bernard Cooke, after announcing
the most far-reaching indictments
returned in New Orleans since the
State political scandals broke year
ago. declared:
This is just the beginning. The
grand jury meets again Tuesday. We
are going to push our investigation
thoroughly"
Wimberly, B. w. Cason, former
State labor commissioner, and Carl
E. Durett. former deputy commits
sioner in charge of the Labor De-
partment's employment service, were
named in five indictments charging
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Irish Veterans Unit
To Plan for Convention

The National Officers' Executive
Committee of the Irish War Veterans
of the United States will meet at 8
o'clock tomorrow night in the An
napolis Hotel to discuss plans for
the national convention of the
organization here September 1921.
Among those to be present are:
Judge John j. Coyle of Philadelphia,
national commander: Chairman Ed
ward Haggerty of the National
Board of Directors; National Senior
Vice Condr. Joseph Deyaney of
Jersey City, N, Y; National Junior
Vice Comdr. George L. Cassiday of
Washington, and Comdr. Edward
Flaherty of District of Columbia
Post. No. II,
Evening star., 1940-06-27

ards Act, 1t was announced at the
Wage Hour Division.
The defendant, the Wage Hour
Office stated, was Lawrence F.
Fleshman Of Louisa, who was ac-
c,.sed of failing to keep adequate
records of the hours worked and
wages paid to the employees of his
sawmill and lumber yard. The in
junction, the Office said. restrains
Mr.. Fleshman from future viola
tions.
Similar suits will be filed soon
against other lumber dealers. ac-
cording to w. C. Cole, regional
wage-hour director in Richmond.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Woee-Hour Injunction
Issued in Virginia Case

Judge Robert N. Pollard of the
United States District Court in
Richmond, Va, yesterday signed the
first injunction against a Virginia
lumber concern in the current
Wage-Hour Division drive for COM
pliance with the Fair Labor Stand
Evening star., 1940-06-27

embezzlement Of public funds and
extortion.
Six others were named In indict-
ments charging they permitted their
names to be carried on Labor De-
partment pay rolls and received
money for services not rendered.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
leche Wins Acquitta|
In $4,000 Louisiana
Conspiracy Case
Orleans Jury Indicts Nine
On Charge Of Pay Roll
'Deodheodine'

By the Associated Press.
RUSTON, La, June 27.-Former
Gov. Richard w. Leche was ac-
quilted last night of State charges
of completely in a confidence game
Evening star., 1940-06-27

involving a $4,000 overcharge on a
State college building.
Leche, who resigned as Governor
of Louisiana a year ago today as
huge State scandals broke, was ac-
cused of conniving in raising "the
valid contract bid" by $27 900 in the
erection of "Leche Hail. Admins
tration Building at Louisiana Tech
here in 1887.
He has appealed 10-year Federal
sentence for mail fraud imposed on
him in Alexandria, La, earlier this
month in connection with a $3l, 900
"kickback" commission on a truck
sale to the State Highway Commits
sion.
NEW ORLEANS, June 27 R).-A
sweeping probe of political corrup-
ton in this city was promised last
night Immediately after the Orleans
Evening star., 1940-06-27

The Roman Catholic church
founded the University OF Mexico
in 1853.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
Organization Formed
 To Aid Allies Cause
Prominent Local Residents Join MOvement-State
 Branch Organizing in Hartford Today

A committee to aid the Allies was formed at the Y. M. o. A. yesterday. A group of 75 local persons organ iEed . Waterbury branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. F. M. Huntington Wilson was named honorary chair man of the committee and Charles P. Cook, chairman.
 Plans were discussed last night for . mass meeting to discuss the purposes of the organization and while they are being completed a petition will be circulated and pulp licity matter distributed throughout the city.
 Oh1cers Chosen
 Other officers chosen yesterday are: vice-presidents, Chase Kim- ball and Miss Elizabeth Curtis; treasurer, Harry II. Heminway; secretary, Walter L. Angle; assist- ant secretary, Mrs. Charles Hunger ford. The nominations were made by Q committee comprising Fred- erick s. Chase, Miss Curtiss and Herbert s. Smith.
 Today at the Hartford Club, the Connecticut branch of the national organization Of which William. Allen White is chairman, will be formally organized with President Charles seymour, of Yale, as honorary chair man and Walter E. Patterson, former mayor of Hartford, chair man. Florence l.. 0. Kitchelt is state secretary and c. Harold Welch, of New Haven Is state treasurer. Be. sides Hartford, New Haven, Dan- bury, New London, Putnam and Norwich there are active organiza- tions in 12 other towns and inform al work enthusiastically going on in many others.
 The immediate program of the national committee calls for the creation of an immediate and wide- spread understanding of the need of sending every material aid to the Allies short of actual participation in the war.
 British Veterans
 The British War Veterans, Can- adian Legion, Sons of St. George, Scottish clubs and societies and others will circulate the petition and posters will be placed in store windows and in factories in order to stimulate public opinion into the defense of America, first by aiding Britain and second only by arming ourselves.
 Among those present at yester. days meeting we're: MT. and Mrs. P. M. Huntington- Wilson, MT. and Mrs Clarence P. Cook, Mrs. Holden Will son, Mir. and Mrs. George Brown, Robison Boyd, Mrs. L. W. Warner, Thomas Cole, Mrs. Alfred L. Hart, Frederick s. Chase, A. P. Campbell, Mrs. Theodore Lilley, Harry H. Heminway, Miss Marion Scovill, MT. and Mrs. William Walker, Mrs. Con- rad, Robert Montgomery, Gordon B. Hurlhut, Harold Budge, Walter L. Angle, Miss Francis Anderson, Mrs. Arthur Reed Kimball, Miss Elizabeth Kane, L. D. Warner, Les-