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Evening star., 1940-12-09
Washington Observations
Democrats Follow Up Campaign PIonk With
Efforts to Learn Ills of Small Business
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Twenty thousand small
asked to tell Congress their troubles Qeionnaes
the special committee appointed problems acting
under authority conferred October as direct
platform The intent to anauguae factfndmg research
determine (a just what the problems
assistance relief through remedial legislation
clearly promptly simple question as
noinior situtatf aneedSo Of
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Doc Survives Bomb

Thirty-siX hours after delayed
action lomb had destroyed a four
story house in London, dog which
had lived on the top floor scrambled
vnharmed out of the heap of debris.
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Duce Advised to Be Patient

Although Duce determined to
Albania his military advisors
spring The main Albania
reduced to asheas is the of Durazby the
The
Medua and has facilities to receive large
supplies.
add
intend to intensive bombadment
The whole country will now be the mercy
The appointment of
Army is not likely to change the general situation.
Cavaero
chief
which was then commanded by Gen. Daz
He showed himself
closely Badoghos instructions.
Cavaleo placed II the retired list 1910
When the Duke of Aosta appointed Ethiopia
that Cvao be appointed his
The
Africa.
Evening star., 1940-12-09

OplnlOn constitute the needs OF small
business. to list them in the order
of their Importance, and to say
why each phase is important. The
QUESTIONABLE is addressed to whole
salers, retailers, manufacturers, trade
associations and chambers of COM
merce. Replies are coming in at the
rate of go and 70 day. They are
being classified and digested for
report to the new Congress. The
survey comprehends efforts to bring
the forgotten men of trade and ind
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Germans L.ouqh at PIiqht

While Cavalero doubtful
whether
laughing their the Italian pedcamen They
MsSoS concern that the situation might translated
tragedy for II Duce
Neutral observers Rome Communist revolution
excluded radically
italian
Mussohn and trusted until recently But they do hate the
Evening star., 1940-12-09

HE opinions OF the iurterS this page their on
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort all sides
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-12-09

BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.
How do you explain it?" asked a
civilian observer who recently made
tour of our Army camps. IT
thought national defense was the
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outstrps planes
industrial ceners and
History of the c. c. c.
Conservation the stellar
New Deal vivid history of has been
entitled Now
Are wealth OF human
dottng State the Union and
volume dedicated the late Robert Fechner Great
him director from
introduction
Eeder Administrator
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This Changing World
ItoIions Losing Faith in MussoIini;
Plight Made Worse by Lock Of Food
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The situation in Italy resulting the defeat the
Greece has taken tragic for the
Despite censorship the italian
the defeat suffered troops losing
the ability of
The bombardmen Of the Italian cities making things
The British concentrating their Naples
IN the south where the population is and exctab
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become active now. Their pr

principal allies
The 1now the we'll
There German Italy
military
the Fueher those there
that airplane being
section OF Germany
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Intolerance
Hampers Aid
For Starving
Few Defenders Seen
For Any Proposal
To Feed Europeans
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

There is peculiar intolerance in
the air, which, for a nation sup
posed to be at peace and Jealous
for the preservation of democracy's
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Ships, Ships and More Ships

When Yankee Admiral Sims reached London in April 1917 while
ebb. Uboat
shps Admiral Jicoe
Evening star., 1940-12-09

where Fascism is not as deeply i'm
bedded as In the north.
Besides the inconvenience of the
British air raids, the internal situa-
tion is becoming gradually worse be-
cause of the lack of food.
The Germans are sending one
train every 20 minutes into Italy.
but the carloads contain only coal
for the Italian war industry.
So long as II Duce could hold be-
fore the Italian people the mirage
of great empire providing the n
tho paOr1lo uroro uill;pO m x;ohtov, ~,
Evening star., 1940-12-09
Pays After 81 Years

A firm in London has just re-
ceived $50 from the attorneys of a
customer who was unable to pay
his account 81 years ago.
Evening star., 1940-12-09

Streamlined styling in stunning. deep
maroon finish! For easier, faster, more
convenient cleaning. Unique features in
clude Swirlator motor-driven brush, head
light, 2-speed motor, no-spill dust bag.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
WACE-HOUR
ACT EXTENDED BY RULING

The first judgment in this region
permanently enjoining watch serv.
ice" from violating the provisions Of
the Wage and Hour Law was filed
in the federal district court in Min.
neapolis.
Davies Protective Patrol Service,
Inc, 40 Melbourne ST. Minneapolis,
a firm engaged in supplying watch
men, patrolmen and janitors to plants,
warehouses, yards and other concerns
engaged in interstate commerce or in
the production of goods for interstate
commerce, consented to the injunction
signed by Federal Judge Matthew NJ
Joyce.
The judgment directs the company
to make restitution to its employees
Of unpaid minimum wages and over
time. The Division has estimated that
restitution will amount to approx
mately $4,000, to be paid to some 81
persons.
The complaint filed by Donald NJ.
attorney for Region XII of the
Wage and Hour Division, u. S. De-
partment of Labor, which is comprised
Of the states of Minnesota, North and
South Dakota and Montana, charged
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31

that the company failed to keep COM
plete, accurate and adequate payroll
records and daily hours records for the
persons in it's employ.
The complaint also charged that the
company failed to pay the minimum
wage of rs cents an hour, fixed by the
Fair Labor Standards Act, during the
first year the act was effective. and
30 cents an hour since October "a,
1899 Failure to pay one and one-half
times the regular hourly rate of pay
to its employees for all hours worked
in excess of A per workweek for the
first year of the act and in excess
of AZ for the time since October "a.
1889 was also charged.
l.. A. Hill, acting regional director,
said the benefits of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1888 are not limited
to those actually engaged in physical
work on goods produced for interstate
commerce, but include employees en-
gagged lin any process or occupation
necessary to the production thereof"
Therefore, benefits of the statute are
extended to maintenance workers.
watchmen, clerks, stenographers. mes
sengers, etc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
PM PUBLISHES
GROUP HEALTH
SURVEY RESULTS

The results of a critical survey on
the working of Group Health plans
in America, currently conducted by
DR.. Henry E. Sigerist, world famed
medical historian, are being published
in a series of articles in PM, New
Yorks new daily paper.
Written directly from the field of
study, the stories, realistic, factual
and statistical, appear in PM exactly
as DR.. Sigerist writes them, unedited
and without comment
The examination of Group Health
and disqualification programs is TAX
ing DR.. Sigerist through many Of
Americas largest industrial organiza-
lions, business offices and unions
where prepaid medical service pro-
grams are in operation. Basing his
reports on a check of histories and
current operation of the individual
programs, DR.. Sigerist is giving full
to the varieties of serv-
ices offered, the different per capita
costs, the assorted benefits, the wide
spread social influences.
Dr. Sigerist, professor of History
of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. is a member of Is learned So
cieties, contributor to numerous
and author of II authori-
tative books on medicine. He is now
at work on four-volume definitive
history of medicine and two-volume
work on the sociology of medicine.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
Federal FIGURES
SHOW need FOR
DEBT-ADJUSTMEMT

WASHINGTON.-That farmers are
| in need of debt-adjustment is shown
by the fact that 204,776 applications
were made to Farm Security debt
adjustment committees as compared
with 1926 last year. The FSA
points out that voluntary adjustment
cannot be attained in large number
of cases.
The records indicate that 11S,479
cases were adjusted i'm the year end
ing March 81, 1910 as compared with
$4,000 last year.
AS of January l, 1910. it is stated
that 29.S percent of the land bank
commissioner loans outstanding were
either delinquent or extended along
with 22.5 percent of the federal land
bank loans.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
WILLkIE may
CLAIM TO BE
STRONG FOR Clio

| Observation-Disclosures
Willkie has said and will probably say
again that he was the first big utility
man to sign a CLIO contract.
That's true as far as it goes, but
lit goes only a fraction of the way
toward the whole truth. For the rest
of the facts, the voter who wants to
test the much advertised Willkie lib.
eralism should read the NLRB report
of Case No. C-790, decided Nov 8,
1888.
The labor board report says that
on June 8, 1897, Willkie did sign a
contract with CLIO Pres. John L..
Lewis. This agreement covered the
employees of Consumers Power Co. of
Michigan, biggest moneymaker in the
Commonwealth & Southern utility
chain that Willkie headed until he be-
came the republican powerhouse
Almost Immediately after the sign
ing of this agreement, the NLRB
found, Consumers Power Co. en-
ployes in Jackson received a mimeo-
sraphed letter signed by the Consum-
ers Power Employees Committee. The
abor board couldn't find out who COM
posed this committee, but there was
10 doubt about the sentiments of the
etter.
The letter advised the employees to
purn "the existing labor organiza-
ions" (the AFL and CIO), whose rep
esentatives would be interested in
hing mainly of pecuniary char
cter." Instead, the letter advised, |
he employees should "band themselves
ogether in a solid, loyal and truly
representative employee organization
rec of any outside influence
A membership application card was
1t was to be returned to
Dom 306 of the Consumers Power
o. building, which happened to be
-oreroom Next door was Room 307,
10 office of Supervisor Haroldson, di-
sctor of gas sales and directly en-
loyed by Commonwealth & Southern.
Other executives of the parent util-
y had offices on the same floor. A h
lantity of the returned cards was /
'und in the office of General Fore Il
an John Markle, who later served g
Continued on Page Three) Z
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
Rap Detroit Council
For Attack On
Minority Rights

| DETROIT.-(FP) = Denial of polit
zeal rights to the communist party and
some other minority groups, as unani
mously recommended by the city
council of Detroit, drew fire from the
Civil Rights Federation in a letter to
the council by Pres. owen A. Knox
la Protestant clergyman.
The city council went on record to
remove the party names from the bal
lot and to deny the rights of a free
and Independent political party" to the
organizations in question.
Knox wrote:
"These attacks on the rights of mi
norities, which have become intensi-
fled in this period of war hysteria,
must be stopped at once, If we are
not to strangle democracy with our
own hands to prevent its possible de-
struction by others"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
MINUTES OF The MEETING
OF PROGRESSIVE COUNCIL.
Meeting Was Held in Helena, July %, 1910
In One of the District Court Rooms With
A Fair Attendance of Delegates

Chairman Spiegel called the meet
ing to order at 10 a. m and appointed
the following committees: Resolutions
Pat c. Sullivan, chairman, Donald
Mundy, Eleanor Petek, Carl Ahlgren
IT, U. Bishop. Constitution, Robert
Brown, chairman, Stella Zorn, R. E
Norm, Henry Mernin, James Leary
Credentials, Lee Metcalf, chairman
Eleanor Smole, Glen Zorn The secre-
tary read the minutes of the previous
meeting held in Great Falls on June
9th, which were duly approved. There
upon the meeting recessed until l pm.
The Credentials committee reported
and the report was adopted without
objection. The Resolutions commit
tee introduced the following resolu-
tons: Resolution No. 1 Opposing con-
scription of men without similar con-
scription of wealth. Resolution No. 2,
Protesting the abandonment of the
Wagner Act or the Wage-Hour Law
under the guise of strengthening de-
Tense. Resolution No. 3, Declaring
that the first line of defense was the
of an American standard
of living for American workers. The
three resolutions were duly adopted.
1t was moved, seconded and carried
that copies of these resolutions be sent
by the secretary to the senators and
from Montana and to
William Green and John L. Lewis.
1t was moved that Ed Mason be
expelled from the Montana Progressive
Council in accordance with the provi- /
sion of Section 3 of Article VII of the
Constitution which provides:
Section g. The following shall be
grounds for suspension or expulsion:
(a) Action contrary to that of the
Council in regard to any legislation,
'b) Support of any candidate in op-
position to one nominated or endorsed |
~ the Council, (c) Action designed |
o disrupt the activities of this Council |
n any of it's affiliates." After some |
discussion Mr.. Mason was found gull |
y of violating this section and ex-
elled A roll call had been requested
nd the vote was as follows: 16 voted |
o expel, voted against expulsion, 7
,assed, and 1 absent.
Thereupon it was moved and sec
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
"WHY FARMERS
Are POOR"

| Agricultural exports have already
dropped by PAT percent since Septem-
Der, 1889, when the war began.
That foreign markets have been
shrinking in a longtime trend, greatly
intensified by the present war, is
shown by Anna Rochester in her latest
book, why Farmers Are Poor" (317
pp., illustrated, s225). Today there is
no prospect of such a farm boom"
Jas accompanied the first World war,
the author indicates When that war
was over and prices collapsed, farmers
were thrown into the agricultural cri-
sis which still persists.
Farm products from Canada, Argen-
tina, and Turkey have been given pre-
ference in the British market. Block
AIDES and the German advance have
cut off former outlets on the contin-
ent of Europe. Only war products are
going abroad in increased volume.
These trends as affecting American
agriculture are analysed in "Why
Farmers Are Poor" which is study
of the farm crisis in this country.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
MANY STUDENT
|C0-0PS MAKE
PROGRESS

! Cooperative living is finding its
place in higher education i'm Montana
through the Student Cooperative Asso
Citations organized both at the State
college at Bozeman and the State uni
versity at Missoula. The houses al
Bozeman have been operating for
three years, but at Missoula the CO.
operative buying-club for patching
students has been under way only one
year. In September, this buying-club
with two new houses will become the
new Student Cooperative Association.
During this last year the Bachelors
Buying Club served about ninety
patching" students through collective
buying. AL Schmitz, manager and
purchasing agent, Bill Artz, student
accountant, and Connie Edwards, in
formation manager, conducted the bus
mess activities. Kenneth Bangs, pres
ident, Kathleen Tuott, vice president,
and Betty Mullikin, secretary, were Of
ficers of the club which carried on
informal social affairs as well as meet
ings.
Business for the year reached about
$1,000. Purchasers concentrated on
fresh vegetables from a truck farm
near Missoula and on canned goods
in case lots. Other staple goods were
purchased, and bread and meat de-
livery were contracted for with Mis-
soula firms
These Montana student co-operatives
are part of the growing nation wide
of campus co-operatives.
On the Pacific coast these groups
have built organizations that are MAX
ing significant contributions to higher
In June, AL Schmitz, man
ager at Missoula, and Lyle Miller, sec
at BoZeman, attended
he Pacific Coast Student Cooperative |
at Eugene, Oregon, to dis
,uss problems and share experiences
With many other groups Students !
ire finding that campus co-operatives
serve three main purposes of lower
ng living costs, increasing opportun-
ty for more adequate education; and |
lffording training in self-reliance and
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Native Fascists
Praise Hitler In
The Free Press

Fascist propaganda in the American
Northwest is being continued by Syt
d. Pierce and Harriet A. Pierce, editor
and publisher respectively of 1.-THE
Free Press" a virulent sheet period
ically cotton out at Bend, Oregon. The
masthead of the newspaper is adorned
with pictures of two United States
flags and one torch of liberty. thanked
by drawings representing George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but
underneath the title the following
motto is printed: Every Pure Aryan
American at His Post to Save the
Country from the Enemy Within Our
Gates"
The paper attacks American democ-
racy, CLIO and other labor unions, and
complains that it has been called pro-
nazi for denying nazi atrocities in Po-
land whereas in its praise of Hitler
it merely tries ito follow the Golden
Rule" Typical of its Golden Rule"
stand ON the nazi reich is the follow
ing paragraph from a recent issue of
The Free Press:
"And then, there is Germany under
the rulership of Adolf Hitler, discred-
tied by propaganda, but verified by
parties who return home
from visiting the country-each tells
how Germany is getting along with
out money and usury."
The native fascist paper advertises
that ifs office also sells hooks nv such
American blackshirts and friends of
nazis as Elizabeth Dilling and Newton
Jenkins In New York and other east
ern points it is being distributed by
such pro-nazis as the self-styled Lieu
Count V. Cherep-Spir-
dovich." Sgd d. Pierce laments the
from which he and his
wife allegedly suffer in the town of
Bend for their views and activities.
lie writes:
while Mrs. Pierce has been par
tally paralyzed for some years, it is
he belief that the persecution we have
Undergone since we came to this city |
las aggravated (sic) her health until
t is well nigh unbearable."
Nevertheless, not everyone in the
orthwest seems to be the foe of the
uper-Aryan and pro-nazi Pierces.
.mong the advertisers in The Free
'ress we find, rather surprisingly,
UGH well-known concern as United
rewers' Industrial Foundation and
he Pacific Greyhound Bus Lines.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-07-31
FISH OF new
YORK OPPOSES
CONSUMPTION
In Speech Before Mammoth
Gathering of Townsend
Movement Delegates in Con-
vention at St. Louis Declares
Frankenstein Will Be Gre
ated by Measure.

Congressman Fish, speaking before
the delegates to the National Town
send Convention at ST. Louis, which
had already adopted resolutions
against the entry of America into any
foreign war, expressed himself as "un.
|alterably opposed to universal military
CONSUMPTION of the American people"
and creation of a great military ma
chine which would inevitably dominate
the Congress.
Mr.. Fish said in part:
81 do not believe in bringing over
to America any of the foreign forms
of dictatorship and creating a dicta-
torship in our own country.
"But l come to you today to speak
on an even greater issue, the greatest
of all issues, greater than the repub-
lican party, greater than the demo
cratic party, greater than all parties
combined, that is, the question of war
or peace. What is it that all the
American people are thinking about?
What is it that the American people,
sitting around their breakfast table
discuss or read about in the news
papers, or listen, as we say in the
state of New York, over the radio? 1t
s question of war or peace, whether
We are to preserve the peace of this
Continued on Page Four
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. I. HARRIS

Philadelphia? 1t took some good
sized checks that didn't have any rub
Der in them.
/ Stassen: Don't get excited. What's
going to prevent guy from sending
in $4,000 for every one of his office
assistants, clerks, stenos = and even
for each and every one of his poor
relations. And then there are the
John Does and Richard Roes. Get the
idea! Just a publicity stunt.
Willkie: Say, Harold, you're a
smarter guy than | ever thought you
I'm beginning to see why you took
those darn Farmer-Laborites to the
cleaners.
Stassen: And you can take those
darn New Dealers to the cleaners if
you follow my advice. Don't make
this campaign against the democra-
tic party. Organize democrats who
will come over to your side into a
committee of, their own. There are
lot of them who are sore at this New
make it look like that's the reason
they are boiling. 1t must be for
high and lofty purpose. You have the
issue handed to you on silver plat
ter-the threat of violation of the
third term tradition.
Willkie: But look at the record of
those democrats who are coming over
to us! There's Burke = he's wide
open. And Reed-he doesn't look so
hot. l mean for a liberal campaign. |
Suppose the New Dealers begin to |
show them up? 1t won't look like it's |
the third term they are sore about.
Stassen: The papers are on our
side and they'll help. to put the third
term stuff across. They'll crowd |
everything else off the pages. And
another thing, call the New Deal a
political machine run by left-wing
racketeers. II you repeat that word
machine" and "racketeers" often Il
enough the people will begin to be-
Continued on Page Three.)
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onded that Mr.. Tom Caverly also be
expelled under the same provision.
The motion carried.
This being the date set for the cleo.
ton of officers the following were
nominated and elected by acclama.
ton: Chairman, Sam SpiegeI; vice
chairman, Glen Zorn; vice chairman,
H. H. Hess, and secretary-treasurer,
Lee Metcalf
Nominated for the executive board
members were: Pat c. Sullivan, J.
U. Bishop, Eleanor Smoley, Ernest
Burns, Mrs. ]. B. Bentley, William
Davey, Sylvester Graham. After bal
loting on the nominees, Pat c. Sulli-
van, Eleanor Smoley, J. u. Bishop.
Mrs. ]. B. Bentley, Ernest Burns, Will
liam Davey were elected.
There being no further business the
adjourned at D. m.