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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

superior to the law.
We have repeatedly called attention
to the fact that ]. Burke Clements,
while holding the office of chairman
Of the state Industrial accident board
has also held the office of vice-chair-
man of the state democratic central
committee: is also precinct committee
man in Lewis and Clark county along
with some Of the employees serving
under him and is one of the officers
of the Wheeler-for-Presi Club. His
holding each of these offices while still
in the Industrial accident board con-
stitute violations of the law. Why
should he, more than any other citizen
of the state, be immune from the re-
quirements of the state law?
Similarly, Barclay Craighead while
running the state unemployment COM
mission, also holds the office of secre-
tary-treasurer in the Wheeler for-Pres-
ident Club and in the last campaign
is of record as having contributed
$500 to the Templeton campaign for
congress. Again, the Voice inquiries,
why is Craighead immune from OBJ
serving the provisions of the state
law?
Is 1t not pertinent for the Voice to
inquire why action is not taken
against these men and the many 9th
ers in the state who go on with their
illegal activities. 1t is not necessar-
lily the particularly duty Of the Voice
to prefer the charges against these
men and the others. We have dis
closed what they are doing. VIII no
one else or no other agency institute
action to enforce the laws? If not, 1t
may become the unacceptable duty of
the Voice to do SO.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

cash balance at the end Of two fisca
years land once while the Legislature
was in SESSION. and back again, deeI
into the ''red" one month later This
also, certainly disproves his assertion
that he has followed a "pay as you
go" policy.
For the fiscal year ending June 80
1884, the total income to the general
fund was $1,736, 1928; for the year
ending June 80, 1885, it was $2,661,.
36S.O9; the year ending June 80, 1886,
it was $3,1O6, S8O.O7; the year ending
June 80, 1887 ayers had been in Of
flee six months them the income was
$3,857 006.S6. For the year ending
June 80, 1888, the first full year of
Governor Ayers management Of the
state affairs, the income to the gen.
eral fund had increased over the pre-
yious year, $1,103, 80360.
1t was at the end of this year that
the governor and his state accountant
event on the air" through an cleo
trical transcription announcing that
"the budget was balanced" and that
the state general fund showed a cash
balance.
This transcription represented that
the governor and his state accountant
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
II MutilatiOns
Reported at Devils
Island of Texas

HUNTSVILLE, Tex.-(FP)-Notor
ious Eastman Farm, the Devils Island
of the Texas prison system, Is having
another epidemic of mutilations among
it's inmates, ranging from broken legs
and arms to actual amputations.
Recently IA such cases have been
reported among "incorrigibles" at the
farm, who are worked under intolera-
BILE conditions with little publicity
given to farm administration.
General Manager o. ]. S. Ellingson,
who has successfully weathered all
probes, said that despite the mutila-
tions, there will be no investigation
"as there is nothing to investigate"
In the past, prisoners have mutilated
themselves to escape the hard work,
which has sometimes resulted in death
from sunstroke, and to gain admit
lance to the hospital, where they can
obtain better food and more comforts.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
INNOVATIONS
ARE OPPOSED BY
PROFIT MAKERS

Are the barriers down on the ad.
vance Of Technology, the new ma
chimes that are displacing man hours
Since advancing Technology usually
means profits and profits being the
spark-plug of a Price System; there
is no longer resistance as long as the
new machine spells future profits 1t
is not as it used to be in the olden
days, when back in 1903 the nobility
|of Europe fought the advent of the
carriage; declaring that the race
would deteriorate with it's use.
Later in the early 1800's in our own
America the coming of the railroads
was opposed as a subversive influence
on the intellect, for people to see a
vehicle without horses and the asy-
lums would be full to OVERLOOKING;
that it would introduce commercialism
into the agriculture districts, bring on
vices and miseries untold.
Daniel Webster doubted it's ultimate
success due to mud and dust in sum-
mer and frosty rails in winter Others
held that a speed of over IL miles an
hour would squirt blood from the pas
sengers noses; that people would suf-
focate in the tunnels. Railroads were
likewise denounced as impious be-
cause they were not foreseen in the
Bible. The airplane met the same re-
sistence. The Wright brothers were
once arrested in Chicago as danger
Gus characters who advocated that
man could fly through the air.
That sort of resistance to Techno-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Natl. Guard Officers
Indicted for Wire
Tapping in Strike

TULSA, (FP)-Four more in
dictments were handed down March
% by a federal grand jury investigat-
ing overlapping during the recent
strike of the Oil Workers Init. Union
(CIO) against the Mid-Continent Pc
troleum Corp.
Those indicted were Col. Charles A.
Holden and Maj Charles r. Taylor OF
the national guard, which was on the
scene for the first six months of the
strike; d. G. Morgan, superintendent
of the struck refinery; and A. c.
Booth, a hotel engineer.
County Attorney Dixie Gilmer, for
mer Police Commissioner Floyd L.
Rheam, Police Detective William
Kelly and several others were indicted
on similar charges March 27.
Taylor ordered his men to perform
strange duties as national guardsmen,
1t was revealed during an NLRB hear
ing. Frank Munroe, one of the troop
ers, testified that upon Taylor's or
ders he sat in the basement of the
company administration building.
where a 24-hour overlapping service
was operated.
On another occasion Munroe was
sent to the Tulsa hotel where he had
to strip naked and climb through a
ventilator to install dictaphone for
recording conversations in the room
of Union President John L. Coulter.
Morgan supervised payment from a
large roll Of bills for transcripts of
the conversations.
The indictments were denounced by
Gov. Leon C. Phillips, who took an
anti-labor stand throughout the strike.
1T is the anomalous situation of the
government indicting officers for do
ing the thing that, within the last
year. the government has maintained
was right in the courts" he said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
|kICKBACK HALTED
BY INJUNCTION,
WAGE-H0UR Law

NEW YORK. - OPP A kickbacB
scheme under which the employees had
to pay the cost of moving a plant to
a site where cheaper labor was avail
able came to an end through an in
junction issued here by Federal Judge
Murray Hubert.
Obtained by the wage-hour division
of the u S. Department of Labor, the
injunction ordered the Belle Knitting
Corp, to refund more than $4,000 to
Il, 124 past and present workers and to
cease violating the wage-hour law
This sum represents, however, only a
small fraction of the amount collected
by the kickback before the law be-
came effective.
The story gaes back to 1885 when
the firm had plant in Lebanon, Pa,
a town of about $4,000. The company
decided-presumably to take advtnage
of a cheaper labor supply-to move
12O miles north to Sayre, on the New
York border. A village of about 1000
Population, Sayre was stranded be-
cause it's main industry had abandoned
operations.
Businessmen of Sayre and two near
by communities formed corporation
called Valley Industries, which bought
factory for 100000, built a three
story addition and dyehouse for $780,
900, and turned the plant over to Belle
Knitting Corp.
The businessmen were smart. Each
prospective employe of the new in
dustry was required to sign pledge
authorizing the firm to deduct $3.50
from his pay in order to pay for the
plant At first 10 per cent of the
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Smith Group Preparing
"Mystery" Report

Mystery surrounds the activities OF
the house committee investigating the
NLRB.
Word has filtered through that the
committee is preparing new report
this time an intermediate" report. A
few weeks ago the committee sub
mitted a preliminary" report, recon-
mending a number of emasculatory
amendments to the national labor re-
lations act.
1t appears that Representatives Muir
dock, Utah, and Healey, Massachu-
sets. committee members who pre-
scented a dissenting report, are not
in on the secret They are aware that
something is in the air, but they have
found the protective veil impenetra-
BILE; their inquiries remain unan-
swered.
Evidently the three reactionaries,
Howard Smith, chairman, and KEEP
resentatives Routzohn and HallecK'
do not want their liberal colleagues
sitting in on these deliberations;
they have no use for the advice Oh
fellows who insist on fair play.
Since the investigation of the NLhb
has not been completed, the obvious
purpose of the intermediate" report
is to smear the NLRB in order 10
strengthen the hands of those pushing
the vicious Smith amendments.
\
That worthy students are aided by
NYA is disclosed in a survey which
shows that these students, despite the
fact that they work an average OF 4O
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

hours month, attain higher than
average scholastic ratings
Farm Debt Bill Has
Good Chance of Passage
Thanks to the 1910 elections, the
| LaFollette Wheeler Jones Bankhead
| farm debt adjustment bill, which re-
duces Farm Credit Administration in
crest rates and provides for scaling
down of FCA farm mortgages in meri-
torious cases, may be enacted into law
by the present congress. Chances of
its passage appear better than ever.
This is something for which the
debt-ridden farmers of this country
have been waiting for many, many
years.
Principal hurdle is to get the bill
reported out favorably by the house
committee on agriculture, and to OBJ
tain rule from the rules committee
to bring it on the floor. Once on the
floor, it is difficult to see how it can
be defeated. Too many farmers eyes
are glued on their representatives in
congress just now, and with the cleo
tions in the offing these representa-
tives are reluctant to do anything that
will retire them to private lives.
In the senate, the bill is certain to
have easy sailing, since sentiment in
that body is overwhelmingly in its
favor
The decisive battle may thus be
waged in committee. Marvin Jones,
chairman Of the house committee on
agriculture, and co-author of the meas
ure, is determined to get it through
his committee with flying colors. He
is stimulated to his task by the shoddy
treatment the farmer received in the
house when the farm appropriation
bill was under consideration.
Although the committee on agri-
culture is closely divided on the
question, friends of the measure are
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Federal INCOME TAX
COLLECTIONS HIGHER

Montanans last week had paid the
federal government 35 percent more
in income taxes for this year than at
the same time in 1889, according to
the internal revenue department at
Helena. Collections from the first Of
the year had totaled s1,362,022, as
compared with s1,OOS,692 for like
period in 1889.
The increase in Montana indicated
that this state has enjoyed better bust
ness conditions than the average state,
as the national increase was only 25
percent. T. M. Robinson, assistant
collector of internal revenue at Hell
ena, said there was mo question" but
that substantial part of the increase
was due to improved business condi-
lions.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
BILLINGS TO WED

Warren K Billings obtained a IL
cense at Reno, New, on March % to
marry Miss Josephine Rudolph, the
woman who visited him in Folsom
prison for Is of the 20 years which he
served after being framed for the 1915
Preparedness Day bombing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
The VOTERS VOTE
ONCE In ST. PAUL

ST. PAUL--(FP) --Careles of
civil rights, huh? Listen: st. Paul
used voting machines for the first
time this spring. In each polling
place was installed model upon
which voters were allowed to
practice.
One voter, after a practice try,
turned to walk out. mot going
to vote?" asked a surprised judge.
Fixing him with a suspicious
eye, the man raped: 81 know my
civil rights, mister. You can't get
me to vote twice!"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

Montana's silver shirt-minded Rep
resentative Thorkelson classifies as an
internationalist anybody who believes
that Uncle Sam should make a sin
cere effort to ascertain the true eco
nomic condition Of the American peo-
nile
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
examination OF GENERAL
FUND INCOME DlSPR0vES
GOVERNORS ECONOMY
Tremendous Increases in Totals of Income
To the General Fund During Present Ad-
ministration Refutes All of Governor s
Claims To An Economical Administration

With the the general fund OF the state steadily
mounting the past with the greatest increases
accrung this period during Governor Ayers administration
cold figures all his bombasc unfounded claims to
administration when these figures show that
this overdrawn at the end of 35 months of
his administration and has only managed to have it show
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
'KATHAN'S FILING FOR
G0vERN0RSHIP R0USES
real. ENTHUSIASM

Reports received from the Kathanfor Governor Club
dcates real enthusiasm the part of the progressive elements
of the state evoked by Mr. Kathans filing for the nominal
for governor Letters expressing qualification that for
they will have candidate for which they may vote with
mental reservation being received by Mr. Kathan
from all the state in every mail
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

The Voice has waited any recogni-
ton by state officers of charges that they va
Sections 1926 and 10775 by holding offices in political
organizations while still holding their positions employees
of the state but forced to the conclusion that these
state officers consider that this law is written for the regua
ton of the conduct of others than themselves that they
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
VIOLATIONS OF State
Law BY POLITICAL JOB
HOLDERS CONTINUES

The Question Occurs to the General Public
Just Why 1t Appears to Remain Possible for
Men Holding State Offices and Violate Law
By Their Political Activities and Still Not
Be Held Responsible.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These IL a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
NINETY DAYS!

Beginning today and continuing for
feature on its front page warning under
the caption-'9O DAYS. The notice will
scrve to remind residents of Key West liv-
ing on streets wherein sewer laterals have
been installed that they must connect up
their house lines to the system within the
specified time limit.
Incidentally, The Citizen is glad to
correct a statement made previously in
these columns concerning this Ninety-day
limit. Our source of information proved
incorrect. The start of that warning
period was not to be until city officials had
published the ordinance by title.
On September twenty-third last, the
necessary legal notice was posted in this
paper. Now, it is mandatory for some one
thousand hOme-Owners to connect up their
sewer lines according to provisions of the
sewer ordinance. They must do so by De-
cember % or stand ir violation of this city
law
Key West fought to have this sewer
line installed. The Federal government
spent One Million dollars in bringing the
system to us, the while hundreds of Key
Westers were employed at work so badly
needed. 1t is quite without the pale of all
reason to think that, having been installed
and placed in running order, the people
of this city will not follow through with
provisions to use the sewers.
So, then-just a5 a reminder, The
Citizen will run this notice daily from this
time forward. 1t hopes that the time will
not be far off when the need for it will
have vanished into the healthy atmOs-
phere of a civic-minded cooperation on
the part of majority of residents who
will have made the necessary preparations
to abide by the law.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
WEATHER AND THE WAR

Not only England, but large part of
the whole world, is specializing on what
effect the coming of bad weather may
have on German bombing raids. 1t has
been generally believed that the storms
and f0gs soon to be prevalent over Britain
and the English channel will serve to ham,
per the German attacks.
1t has been observed, however, that in
some instances in recent weeks successful
German air raids have been made in spite
of heavy clouds and rain. British bomb
ers have also inflicted much damage on
the Germans at times when the weather
was apparently unfavOrable.
There is little likelihood that bomb
ing raids by either side will be discon-
tinued except temporarily because of bad
weather. but it will be difficult to do more
than attempt to reach Objectives through
blind flying and drop bombs pretty much
at random. Thus any damage done will
likely be at the expenditure of an enor-
nous amount of bombs in comparison with
the results obtained, and hitting i'm
portant military bases will be largely &C
cidental.
Because storms travel mostly from
west to east. the British will have con-
siderable advantage. as the weather Eng
land has one day will generally prevail
over Germany about "a hours later. No
weather forecasts are given out in England,
so the Germans will have little informa
ton as to what to expect until they run in
to it.
On the whole, England expects to gel
much relief from the fOgs and mists which
prevail from about October until March,
and these are hopefully awaited.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
FOOLISH STATEMENT AWARD

Of all the foolish statements attrl-
buted to foreign statesmen since the War
in Europe began, the highest award so
far as we are concerned, goes to Foreign
Minister Paul Baudouin, of France.
Undoubtedly incensed because British
warships, led by General de Gaulle,
shelled the West African port of Dakar
preparatory to landing troops, the French
Foreign Minister asserted, wounded as
she may be, France still is capable of de-
Tending herself and replying blow for
blow"
If this statement is correct, the logical
suggestion is that the French begin de-
Tending themselves against German ag-
gression and practicing the blow for
blow technique against the soldiers OF
Adolf Hitler who have Overthrown the
French Government and are the masters
of France.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02

PORTLAND. Ore. Oct. q
The blue bubbles that ride the
ocean currents from Japan 10 the
breakers of Oregon and Washing
ton may soon play out
The bubbles are glass net
buoys from three TO Is inches IN
diameter. They have been wash
ing ashore on the American
north Pacific for Is years. 10 the
delight Of vacationists and collec-
tors.
Source OF the bubbles long was
4 mystery. Finally the family of
Mrs. Elizabeth Olsen Of Port
land, which collected hundreds Of
them, wrote the US. consul al
Tokyo. Mrs. Olsen suspected the
bulbs were buoys Of some sort
and guessed that they washed
across the Pacific.
Information came from Consul
General Arthur CARRIES. VINO
said that japanese fishermen be-
gan using glass net buOys about
% years ago, but that cost pre-
vented their general use until
about 1925. Since that time fish
ermen along the islands Of Hok-
kaido and Sakhalin, the KAN
chatka peninsula and the Ok
hotsk sea have purchased about
100000 of them annually When
nets are lost. net buoys break
free.
For several years japanese
glassblowers blew the trade char
acters of the fishing companies
into the glass.
Fishermen use the glass buoys
mainly on drag nets. A neck
lace" Of glass is affixed to the
upper edge of the net, heavy
weights to the lower. Thus the
nets move through the water sub
merged several feet. a wall of
mesh to trap the fish. Larger
glass buoys mark the net posi-
ton.
But soon, wrote Carries. the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
ARTHRITIS BOTHERS
POOR BEARS, TOO

(AssoeInfed Press Feature Serviee)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Some
queer queries come to DR. Roy
Chapman Andrews, director of
the American Museum of Nat
ural History Here are some of
them and the answers he gave in
Natural History. the museums
magazine:
Do bears suffer from arthritis?
Yes.
Is it true that herd of horses
the size of police dogs lives in the
Grand Canyon? No.
Is it true that a spark of cleo
tricity from skunk's fur can set
a barn on fire? A superstition.
Do flea-ridden foxes take a
piece of wood in their mouth,
then jump in stream so that the
fleas viii take refuge on the
wood? No.
Is il true that IS billion per-
sons have been born since the
world began? Probably closer to
80 billion
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
UNITED WE STAND"

Editor. The Citizen:
l have returned to this city
after an absence of nearly two
years. I find the conditions OF
cur streets almost impossible Ir
manv instances ruts are ten inch
es deep.
90 not know whether it IS the
tropical influence with its intense
heat or aggressive Indifference
sometimes wonder if II is going
to take a blitZkrieg to awaken
our slepeing civic pride.
Do we admit we want only
Federal aid to help restore our
city? Have we forgotten the
FERA Help Those Who Help
Themselves If we desire addi-
tional revenue from winter trade
we must act at once. l have talk
ed with many people and I was
amazed to find prevalent indif-
ference to our county and city
administration. The day must
come into our community when
family relations do not inter
fer.
The holes made in the side
walks by the WPA are in many
instances patches of weeds four
and five feet nigh The highway
is badly in need of repair-where
has the gasoline tax gone?
We can feel bitterly ashamed
Of Bayview Park, today it pre-
sents the appearance of a shaggy
bear. The use of Federal assist
ance seems to have demOraliZed
initiative in our community. The
citizens of Kew West are purely
Indifferent and l challenge them
to prove otherwise: because if the
pride aroused years ago existed
they would arouse themselves
from their lethargy.
Where are our city council and
county commissioners? / hope the
local administration is not enjoy
ing a prolonged siesta.
I was ashamed when / read in
the paper only recently that the
navy had refused contracts tc
two local firms because of unsani-
tary conditions.
Are We interested in a Federal
dole. political gratuity and loca,
indifference? Winter is here. al
least almost. and our street.
look like We have had an air raid
Where is the Chamber of Com.
merce and the Junior Chamber
1t always has been known thai
= great part of our inhabitant:
did not know the meaning Of
civic pride. Buildings have re
manned implanted for fifty years
I am leaving the city in the
near future. I would welcome
the opportunity to address oul
City Council. United we stand
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-10-02
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight tor progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
puolic welfare; never tolerate corruption or
il Justice; denounce vice and praise virtue,
commend good done by individual or organ
lLation; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle