The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-08
MONTANA NEWSPAPERS

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MONTANA NEWSPAPERS
Another glazing piece evidence
petence of Montana daily evidenced the fail
of them all to give publicity to the convention of
the CIO held in Billings Sunday and Monday of this week
The Billings Gazette the propaganda instruments
the Montana corporations the opening session of the
convention short story inside in its Monday issue
The second day of the convention not mentioned.
The CIO in Montana numbers membership of 10 or IL
thousand workers. but the deliberations of their
resentaves in convention not only played down. in
the Gazette but completely ignored by the other sub
supported the people they the only
available though the sheets apparently utterly unconscious
of any feeling of responsibility to the public
On Monday of this week. most of them carried front
stories with CUTS of the head of the Rotary Montana
repete ad nauseam with ulsome fattey Similarly week
every daily in the state carried front page pictures
and euoges of the retiring head of the c. and the
taking his place But convention of representatives of work
the state and what they do isn't to the prostuted
press of Montana.
THE REAL CONCERN
the April of the "Ouook Security Markets
a Wall Street financial bulletin read the following:
"Many American individuals and corporations have in
in the Allied countries much larger the
investments in Germany which they have largely
written off, and Allied defeat might that these
investments face the fate"
In the Kplinger Washington letter of April 13 read:
Credits to Allies EVEN NOW under discussion
within government There various plans and
schemes"
If the in Europe continues any appreciate
length of time, is obvious that the profit making in
to find of defeating the provisions of
the johnson law and the conditions under which sales of
erias to beigerent nations be madethe cash and
dy plan Already there have been tentative discussions of
using the Bank the RFC other
men financial agency extend credit to the Allies Super
realism evident the expressed opinions of peerless
leaders, that there probability that such loans would
be repaid
There evident slight congeang the part the public
sympathy for the democraces Englands deserton
of Norway after finding the job of ousng the Germans
of undertaking than had been expected has had tendency
deate her prosed standing champion and protector
of democracy and has caused the American public
tinize Englands motives closely
This does not stop the controlled of the country in it's
efforts to build sentiment however 1t has job do
and is doing the best way has discovered far 1t still
pirates about democracies England and France
where fact there scarcely the slightest democratic
processes remaining.
But while the suborned daily feeling it's about
to find the best to build sentiment growing
Der of independent publications publishing such statements
reprinted above and calling attention to the fact that
their who stand to profit immensely from getting this
country involved in the
be borne mind, that the industries
of the profits will bring Them going
any stone unturned to involve The increasing profits
Turing the first quarter of this year, has only whetted their
ppettes They dream hopefully of greater profits
carnage easily obtained if this
rolved.
What the people of the United States should mind
that should permit ourselves to be dragged the M
it will be far costly to this country than the last h
which 80 billions of dollars than years total in
for all of the United States Are you willing let your