The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-04
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ness with anyway! Doesn't he thin
the same as they that organization
, of workers are dangerous things An
! do they not both believe that democ
racy is all the bunk! And common
people do get spoiled when you Civ
them too much of the good things o
life, the same as childrenl
That's why fervent appeals to ma
tional unity leave them quite cold
they see no real need for it. To b,
sure, they are willing to go along OF
program Of national unity for a con
misunderstanding of labor and lib
eral laws and fat government con
tracts with the sky the limit as tt
profits and little to pay in taxation
but they are not willing to sacrific.
a thing, to pay price, for nationa
unity.
Short-sighted? Yes. But history
throughout the ages shows that spe
cial privilege is short-sighted. It's an
age-old malady for which no cure
seems yet to have been found-a NAL
ady that sometimes proves fatal.
Labor-Haters Sound Off
The Vultee Aircraft Company strike
in California afforded the labor-haters
like Georgia's Congressman Gene Cox
the opportunity to get the old ak out
acts as a strike in defense industry
declared an act of treason-so far as
the workers are concerned, of course.
Without attempting to condone any
thing that seriously disrupts the de-
Tense program, it is to noted that Cox
and his tory crew in Congress were
quite reticent when business, deaf to
all pleas of patriotism, held back with
going ahead with defense contracts
until guaranteed its pound of flesh
in the form of new plants at govern
ment expense and exorbitant profits
with no risk involved whatever They
showed that the only kind of patriot
ism that they understand is patriot
ism for profit. That was the noble
example" that they set for the coun-
try. If it wasn't treason, it was
mighty close to the borderline of trea-
son.
What did Cox and his comrades on
Capitol Hill do when Big Business
pulled out a gun and held 1t at the
temple of Uncle Samuel? They helped
them convert the national emergency
into golden harvest of dollars for
the Wall Street crowd. But it's a
different situation when workers ask
for decent standard of living.
Labor is never guilty of profiteer-
ing. In every emergency, whether at |
home or on foreign battlefields, it is
abor that always makes the sacrifice. |
And after the smoke of battle has
cleared, labor is rewarded" by being
'orced into bread lines and soup kitch-
sns when postwar economy produces
ISN'T 1T ABOUT TIME THAT
THIS SACRIFICE SINESS
BOTH WAYS?
The reactionaries on Capitol Hill
re talking about the government TAX
ng punitive measures" to prevent
urther strike occurrences. Punitive
measures against whom? Labor, of
curse.
There always will be differences
etween labor and management as
ing as the job is left to private
"-differences that will re-
ult in difficulties which will impede
ational defense. The Big Owners are
lterested in one thing only, the reap '
lg of profits, and they believe that q
\ enlightened labor policy is not con- f
stent with that interest Workers @
re not human beings to them but n
T
France begged down and finally col +
psed because it relied on private | +
lterprise" to do the job of turning T
1T the essential materials needed for Fl
,fense. Britain begged down for the
me reason, but finally saw the light +,
not too late, it is hoped. When will n
merica see the light? Sooner or +,
ter the government itself will have n
step in and take over the vital de- h
nse industries the government
cans THE PEOPLE. @.
irrent Capital Chatter a,
Regardless of whether there is a CT
ion contract calling for more than SC
40-hour week without overtime, the N
DIVISIONS of the Wage-Hour Act pro- CO
ling for pay and a half for overtime tn
mains in effect, according to ruling de
lde last week by Wage-Hour Ad- re
Fleming. -. The Italians tt
main the principle opponents of a tn
r of movement-either way. fe
mber of young men who are able tn
continue their college and univer- w
y training during the present AGA to
mic school year as the result of up
"A jobs total more than 10000, err
A Administrator Aubrey Williams sa
+. Gene Cox, Georgia, go
uted reactionary brains" OF the I'M
use, says that he always got a a
oral cleansing" when he mixed" VIC