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The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Poll Tax Keeping
Workers From
oils, House Hears

WASHINGTON.-(F = Blistering
attacks on the poll tax as an instru-
ment for preventing workers from
having a voice in national and state
governments were heard by sub
committee of the house Judiciary COM
mittee April 8.
DR.. G. Vann Woodward, visiting pro-
fessor of history at the University of
| Virginia, described the history of the
southern states, and charged that they
were the result of a successful effort
to disenfranchise a whole class of
people.
Over three million negroes in the
south are denied the right to vote,
John p Davies, national secretary of
the National Negro Congress, told the
subcommittee but four million negroes
elsewhere in the country do vote and
hold the balance of political power in
16 states and 124 congressional dis
tricts.
"They join their voice to the voice
of labor, youth and the farmer in
asking this committee to reflect the
democratic will of the people by abol-
ishing poll tax laws at this session
of congress" he warned.
Paul Scharrenberg legislative rep
resentative of the AFL, Rev. H. c.
Nixon of Maryland, Ala, Henry Col
Inns, representative of the Descend
ants of the American Revolution, and
Robert Mills, business agent of the
National Maritime Union (CIO) at
Newport News, Va, also in support
of the bill introduced by Rep. Lee
Geyer 3D., Calif).
The bill would make it illegal to
require the payment of poll tax as
"a prerequisite for voting or register
ing in any election for federal Off
GERS.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
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the Scandinavian nations have been
invaded, and the Senators and Rep
Iresentatives from those states will not
be bound by any mandate of their con-
stituents against voting for the United
States entering the war.
In summing up, the report gives 1T
as fairly certain that 1t will be hush
hush until after election" but that paw
ing the way for loans to the belliger-
ents may be looked for when Congress
convenes next January mo matter
who is elected in November"
Inasmuch as Business Week Is read
widely by capitalists and industrialists
and executives of the large corpora
tions, its reports are generally based
on quite sound. inside information In
Washington, and are worthy of atten-
tion and analysis.
The voters of Montana should GER
tainly bear these things in mind this
year.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
GARNER BLACkED
OUT IN WISCONSIN
and NEW YORK

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Virtual
eclipse of a "whiskey-drinking, poker
playing, labor batting evil old man
whose name is Garner" as a power in
the forthcoming democratic national
convention was voted by the people
of Wisconsin and New York April q.
Primary results in those two states
showed President Roosevelt winning
nearly four times as many votes as
Vice Pres. John N. Garner in the DEM
ocratic primaries. In Wisconsin. New
York's district attorney, Thomas
Dewey won a majority of the repub-
lican convention delegates.
Incomplete returns from Wisconsin
showed Roosevelt with 215,588 votes
to Gamers 66,972 votes. 1t appeared
likely that the president would get
21 of the democratic delegates to the
convention with the other three going
to Garner.
In New York the test was ir two
congressional districts in which dele
gates pledged to Garner were shell
lacked by delegates pledged to Roose-
velt
Republicans took heart from the
Wisconsin figures which showed the
total republican vote near that of the
total democratic vote. They argued
that much of the democratic vote con-
sisted of members of the Farmer
Labor Progressive Federation who are
not regular democrats.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Mont. Progressive
Council Meets and
|Reorganizes

With delegates from 26 labor and
farm organizations present, the Mon
tana Progressive Council met In Hell
ena last Sunday, and reorganized for
action in the coming campaign. Posi-
tions on the executive board of the
organization, made vacant by resigna-
tions, were filled, some minor amend
ments made to the constitution
adopted and general discussions OF
policy carried out.
The executive board of the organl-
zation is now composed of the fol-
lowing: Sam Spiegel, chairman; Ar
chic Mcleod, vice chairman from the
second district; Art Quinn, vice chair
man from the first district; Lee Met
calf ecretary-treasurer. The follow
ing are board members: Sylvester Ora
ham. H. H. Hess, Mrs. ]. B. Bentley,
Ed Mason, Tom Caverly and VIM.
Davey.
Associate Justice Left Erickson,
Enor X. Matson, candidate for the
office of associate justice and Phil
O'Donnell addressed the meeting, the
secretarv's minutes of which appear
elsewhere in this issue of the Voice.
The next meeting of the Council
will be held in Great Falls on June
9. when candidates for the various
state offices will be considered and
endorsements made.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
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confidence" is don't you? You hear
the politicians, the big business ty-
coons and the bankers all talking
about it. What they mean by Con
fidence" is best told by famous en-
gineer, who described it thus:
public confidence under a Price
System is that state of mind desired
by every chiseler, wherein the
sucker public has forgotten the last
time it was trimmed"
The fear that the sucker public may
be induced to do some thinking and
thus graduate from the sucker class
has the big shots worried; hence the
torrent of tripe we are now getting
from the press, the billboard, the
screen, the platform and the radio.
So before you strike out from the
old farmstead get a few facts about
the real conditions you are bound to
buck up against, such as: 1t is esti-
mated that the seasonal labor require
ments for California crops range from
48, 900 in March to $4,000 in Septem-
ber; but California is squawking loud
ly that she already has 35O,O0O mi
grant workers and has called on the
u. S. government to help care for
the surplus.
The mayors of all the large indus
trial centers have been bombarding
congress with pleas for more relief
money to care for the growing army
of unemployed, which has increased
over 100000 during one month from
the last part of December, 1889 to the
middle of January, 1910; when reces-
sion number (what is it now any
way?) set in. Anyway every estimate
of unemployment, from Big Business
to the CIO except the Statistical
Doodlers" Arthur Krock and Dorothy
Thompson, agreed to a figure averag-
ing above 100000 for January 1910.
Incidentally I'd like to lay a little
wager that these estimaters will all
get a shock when the census figures
are in
Do you contemplate a job on the
railroad? Listen to j. II. Parmelee
testifying before the Wage-Hour COM
mittee, where he showed that between
1928 and 1889 that employees engaged
in roadway and structure mainten-
ance work had been reduced in num-
bers, due to mechanization by 49%O.
Well surely more and more auto
tires are and will be made; there
should be plenty of opportunity there?
In 1920 the Morgan and Wright tire
factory, now the U. S. Rubber Co.,
produced 10000 tires a day with 10000
employees working to 10 hours per
day; BUT NOW new machines make
it possible to produce $4,000 tires per
day with only 5000 employees working
only 6 hours per day. And the day
is not far distant when this process
will be mostly automatic; hiring just
a few operators.
FACTS! FACTSi FACTS! You'll
find TECHNOLOGY is replacing men
in every line of endeavor. There is
no use in sticking our heads in the
sand ostrich like. Let's know the
facts. We will never get anywhere
them. We must study these
'acts and the causes and forces behind
hem: and too the interference of our
present Price System, which is pre-
renting scientific technology from re-
easing us from the slavery of toll.
In the mean time get out the old
,veralls and let's break that south
orty this spring. Youth stay home
md study.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Come Out From
Behind That
Southern Accent

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Any doubts
Representative Barton (R., N. Y.) may
have had about the feeling of his con-
stituents on amendments to the wage
hour act were rapidly dispelled recent
ly when Rep. Graham A. Barden 3D.,
N. c. went on the air with speech
in support of the amendments which
he has proposed.
Shortly after the speech Barton be-
gan receiving numerous telephone
calls and messages berating him for
Barden's stand
One constituent wrote, "Why don't
you have the courage to come clean
and not try to disguise your voice
with a southern accent?"
Patiently Barton tried to explain
that it was not he but Barden who
was sponsoring the amendments and
who had made the radio speech.
In the meantime he's getting some
idea of what the constituents of his
silk stocking district think about the
law and his colleagues proposed
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Bridges Tries to
Prejudice Case,
Jackson Charges

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Sen. III
Styles Bridges (R., N H., pretender
to the republican presidential nomina-
tion, was the subject of one of the
bitterest attacks ever made against
a member of congress by a govern
ment official here April IA.
Attorney General Robert Fl. Jack
son, in a formal statement charged
that Bridges "violent partisanship and
his determination to inflict his own
candidacy upon his party and the
country has caused him to threw over
board even that elemental sense of
possession of the facts usually exer-
restraint and caution that men not in
else"
Bridges recently charged Jackson
with soft-pedaling prosecution of left
wing groups while pressing cases
against right wing groups like the
II Christian Front members now on
trial in New York on charges of plot
ting to overthrow the government.
Senator Bridges political attack on
me on the senate floor is based on
cases pending in the courts" Jackson
said. "He even includes discussion
of one that is now on trial before a
jury and his speech is well designed
and was no doubt intended to pre-
judice the governments case.
"If Senator Bridges feels no ethical
restraint, l am not at liberty to de-
scend to this level, even in self-de-
fense"
Bridges full name is Harry Styles
Bridges but he has dropped the
Harry" to III" because of fear that
he might be mistaken for the west
coast longshoremen's president.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Mark Derr Out
For Judge In
Fourth District

Assistant Attorney General Mark
H. Derr has announced his candidacy
for district Judge of the fourth judicial
district, comprising counties of Mis-
soula, Sanders, Mineral Ravalli and
Lake. Derr has always shown deep
understanding of labor problems.
While in Mr.. Freebourn's office, he
wrote many labor opinions, one of the
most important being that holding
Professor Keeney was entitled to per-
manent tenure at the university. Derr
later participated in the trial of the
Keeney case and had his opinion up
held by Judge Padbury in the district
court. Derr's name appears in many
of the relief cases submitted to the
supreme court. He was formerly
county attorney of Lake county, a
graduate of the law school of the State
University at Missoula, and is World
war veteran.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
West L. Powell
Files for Railroad
Commissioner

West Powell, engineer and business
man of Montana for the past 10 years
has filed as a candidate for the re-
publican nomination on the Public
Service Commission.
He is the head of an industrial and
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

MINNEAPOLIS.=(F good
old days" promised by Gov. Harold e.
Stassen (R.) during his 1888 campaign
are here. Labor people in st. Paul
and Minneapolis have plenty to say
about how the old-time republican
prescription is working.
Latest episode was the granting of
an Injunction to the Northern States
Power Co. to prevent a scheduled
strike by the init. Bro. of Electrical
Workers (AFL), after the union had
complied with all the requirements
of the new anti-labor law, Labor in
functions were practically unknown
during the Farmer-Labor administra-
ton of former Gov. Elmer A. Benson,
the predecessor of Stassen.
Ironically, the injunction was
granted while representatives of the
union and the company waited IN
Stassen's office to hear the report OF
a fact-finding commission. The re-
port said that the union had observed
the waiting periods prescribed by law
after filing notice of intention to
strike, and that the company had
stalled in negotiations.
Moreover, the commission found
that the company had violated several
provisions of the previous contract,
while only one violation was charged
to the union. But these findings did
MT bother the power company law
yers, who obtained temporary restrain
ing orders and gave them to deputies
waiting for union officials to leave
Stassen's office.
In a new effort to settle the dispute
by direct negotiations, Inu. Vice Pres.
NJ. j. Umbrella Mike) Boyle of the
IBEW came to st. Paul on April
and began conference with company
representatives. Hearings on the tenn
porary restraining orders were set for
early dates.
The dispute centers around failure
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

A recent issue of "Steel" coyly
stated Farm employment is likely to
decline further in 1910, but increased
use of machinery will maintain pro-
duction levels"
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

NEW YORK-(FP)-Fines totaling
S1,744 were levied in March against
253 employers who neglected to carry
workmens compensation insurance.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
minnesota LABOR GETS TASTE OF
GOOD Old INJUNCTION DAYS

to reach a new contract. Stumbling
blocks are the union shop, SO wage
increase and the right to negotiate
on other matters covered under the
phrase "other conditions of employ
ment" The company wants this last
phrase stricken out.
That the closed shop is more or
less a formality is evident in the re-
port of the fact-finding commission.
The union has organized all but 3
workers of some 700 in st. Paul, 900
out of about 975 in Minneapolis and
lab out of 166 in st. Cloud and Still
water, the. report noted.
The commission recommended set
tlement on what labor observers see
as the unions terms, except for the
wage increase. Arbitration was sug-
gested on that issue.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
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talk about them that l know pretty
we'll, I know they're just putting on
dog. because they don't know any
more about those things than | do.
Some of them can just about pro-
nounce the things and that's all.
About every day now, there's new
candidate for governor and from what
[ hear, the present one is going to
have to balance lot of things beside
the budget if he's going to get back
and get to be president of the AABF.
This week there were two new ones
came out for the job; governor |
mean. | don't know what kind oil
president of the AABF either one OF
them would make. One of them
doesn't want the job for any other
reason than to serve all the people,
he says, but I guess the means to
get paid for it anyhow. He doesn't
say Well, that should mean that the
AABF is included too, when he says
"all the people" so maybe he Will be
willing to take the job of president
of the AABF if he is elected.
There's only one thing that helps
and that is the mob out at the capitol
are so busy talking politics that this
week they didn't even mention the
editor of this great gazette, and
guess this won't please him much
either. He's getting so used to belng
cussed out that he feels kind OF lone
some | guess when they ignore him.
Rut it saves me the trouble of defend
ing him anyhow
| haven't been able yet, to locate
this guy that gives a quart OF blue
ruin with an accident policy. lie
works at the liquor warehouse on the
side. they tell me, so it must be on
that side that he gets supply OF sam
pie quarts to pass out to his insurance
customers. l still think it's a fine
idea, and I'm working on some OF the
members of the AABF to get them in
terested. I'm going to be little
cagey though and watch when they
get several carloads of cheer into the
warehouse so there will be lots of
sample cases for the guy to use. Then
I'll spring this wholesale business on
him. And talk membership in the
AABF to him too. Well make him
contributing member.
Next week, I'll have something good
to write about, if they don't paralyze
me with politics.
Or something else. JAKE.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL !
The people's voice., 1940-04-24
Farm and Labor

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general betterment of working condi-
tions. He learned then, the bitter les
son that labor had to fight against
almost insuperable odds to obtain any
Justice. He lost his own job; was
not re-employed. Since that time, his
sympathies have rested with labor.
His inflexible principle and purpose
has been to assist 1t.
The people's voice., 1940-04-24

engineering firm with offices in Great
Falls and Butte.
He is a graduate of Schools of En-
gineering of Nebraska and Northwest
ern university.
He is married, has two children,
owns his own home at 3008 First
avenue north in Great Falls.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
This Weeks Features

MONDAY: WMAL-Rochester Civic
Orchestra, 9:35; National Radio
Forum, 1890. WRC-Alfred Wal
lenstein Symphony. $3.50. VOL
. Romance and Rhythm, 10:45
WJSV-Radio Theater, g.
TUESDAY: WMAL-Cavalcade OF
America, 8. WRC-Fibber McGee
and Molly, $50. WOL--Laugn n
Swing Club, $50. WJSV-Amer-
leans at Work, 1915.
WEDNESDAY,: WMAL-Remember
the Met, 11:05. WRC-Kay Kyser's
music, 10. WOL-Music by Percy
Faith. $50. WJSV-Star The
ater, 8.
Thursday: WMAL-Ehot Junior
High School, 4; Town Meeting,
$50. WRC-Bing Crosby's Va
riety Show, 10. WOI-Henry
Webers Concert Revue, 10:45.
WJSV-Columbia Workshop, 10:15.
FRIDAY: WMAL-This Amazing
America, 8. WRC-Frank Black S
Concert, 8. WOL-Alfred Wallen-
STEMS Sinfonietta, 8:45. WJSV-
First Nighter. drama, $50.
SATURDAY.: WMAL-Metropolitan
Opera, 2; Cross Roads Theater,
7'30; N. b c. Symphony, 10.
WRC-Death Valley Days, $50
WOL-Barn Dance, 9:15. WJSV-
Hit Parade, 8; Public Affairs, 1915.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

Todoy's High Lights
(An Times Pm. unless indicated !,

(All Times Pm. Unless lndicated.)
IL noon-WMAL, one-hour version
Of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammer-
moor" is the operatic presentation
of Music Hall OF the Air.
12:30-WRC, dramatization of a
theater usher's work is presented
on On Your Job.
2:00-WMAL, "Pelleas and Nell
sande," by Maurice Maeterlinck Is
the Great Plays drama.
2:30-WRC, "Archbishops Look at
America" is the subject under dis
cussion at the Chicago Round
Table.
3:00-WJSV, Igor Stavinsky is guest
conductor of the New York Phil
harmonic Symphony Orchestra.
Programmed are three of his
works: Suite from "Petrouchka, !"
suite from ''L'Oiseau de Feu,"
lie Sacre du Printemps."
3:15-WMAL, Postmaster General
James A. Farley is the featured
speaker at the Tuskegee Insti-
tute celebration.
3:45-WOL, Paul Myers is narrator
with the male quartet singing
maritime songs at the Haven Of
Rest.
4:30-WRC, THE American In
ventor" is the title of The World
Is Yours broadcast, featuring dra-
matization of Thomas Jefferson's
work as an inventor.
4:30-WJSV. Rex Ingram is pre-
sented in biodrama of Booker
T. Washington as one of the high
lights of Pursuit of Happiness.
7:0O-WOL, Alfred Wallenstein
conducts the Bach Cantata series,
featuring Genevieve Rowe, sopra-
no, and other singers.
7:30-WJSV, Ginger Rogers and
Fred MacMurray appear in the
Screen Guild Theater version of
"Vivacious Lady"
8:OO-WMAL, DR.. Frank Black con-
ducts special musical program
honoring the birthday anniver-
sary of Reginald de Koven.
8:OO-WOL, S. Theodore Crank
presides over the American Forum
of the Air debate. A studio audi
ence is invited free to the Inte-
rior Department Auditorium.
8:30-WJSV, Raymond Paige is one
OF the guests being quizzed on the
So You Think You Know Music
program.
9:00-WJSV, the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conduct
ing; Winifred Heidi, mezzo-so-
prano, guest artist.
Overture to The Sicilian
Vespers' torchestra) Verdi
''Serenade" miss Heidi.
Second Polonaise (orchestra) - List
..rh. 1oschest,s. aEssr.a.. s.o r Granados-Byrne
miss Heidi, chorus. orchestral Stults
"Humoresque" ORCHESTRAL - Tschaikowsky
The Bundle Bee"
April" - Homer
Tarantella, Ohio Meneche" miss
Heidi and orchestral Giannini
Overture to ''Oberon" torchestra) Weber
Rise; Ny Soul tensemble and
10:00-WRC, Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney is honored as the woman
OF the week on Hour of Charm.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Toduy's Short-Wuve

1900 noon-PAR1S, news, "a meg,
1888 m.
$3.50 p.m.-BERLIN, Voice Beauti-
full. DXB, 96l meg, 31.2 m; DUG
6.02 meg, 49.8 m.
100 p.m.-BUDAPEST, Hungarian
Overture, HAT4, 9.l2 meg, 1928 m
1880 p.m.-LONDON, news, GsD
Ills meg, 25.5 M; Csc, 9.58 meg.
$3.50 p.m.-BERLIN, dance music
DXB, 9.61 meg, 312 M; DUO, 6.02
meg, 49.8t m.
$3.50 p.m.-VATICAN CITY. news
and comment. 9.5 meg, 3106 m.
$40 p.m.-TOKIO, japanese music
JZK, 1915 meg, 1877 m.
$40 p.m.-ROME, music, 2RO3, Is
m; 2RO4. 25.4o NJ; 2RO6. 1851 m
9:l5 p.m.-PARIS, French drama
introduction in English. TPB1l
1l.88 meg, 25.2 M; TPA4, I'LL
meg, 25.6 m.
1000 p.m.-LONDON, religious serv-
ice, Csc, 9.58 meg, 31.3 m.
1880 p.m-PARIS, news, TPB11
l1.88 meg. 25.2 m; TPA4, I'LL
meg, 25.6 m.
1:35 a.m.-ROME, news and music
2RO3. 31.15 M; 2RO4, 25.40 m;
2RO6, 1851 m.
800 a.n.-MOSCOW, English Pc
riod, RV96, 1924 meg, 1877 m.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

Refer programs published daily for changes
In these Ntings notes features OF outstanding
presentations, and foreign nep pariety
stcal periods.
Evening star., 1940-04-07

ToDAYS PROGRAM APRIL
AN IMAAL, $50 k.l WRc $50 kWoL l230 klWJsv 40 k
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
5000 TAX BILLS
ARE MAILED OUT
First of $4,000 to Be
Sent Out By City Tax
Collector

Three thousand tax bills, the first
of an eventual total of almost $4,000
are already in the mails, it was an
nounced at the mayors Office today.
The bills are being prepared by the
tax office staff, under supervision
of Tax Collector Humbert Mangini.
The work of preparing the tax bills
is more difficult this year, because
charter. amendment now re quires
that delinquency in taxes of previ-
GUS years be noted on this years
bills. The amount overdue is not
listed, but the person billed is told
that he owes taxes for other years
and can learn the amount by in
quiring at the tax office.
The first inStallmentS of the taxes,
on the grand list of 1889, are due
and payable May l. Mayor Vincent
A. Scully is confident of heavy rev.
enues during May, which will make
unnecessary the borrowing of any
money from special city bond funds.
The 1899 grand list totals 1851, 1885,
5O7, which Is almost $700,000 higher
than expected when the budget for
this year was being prepared. Esti-
mates of tax collections, now limited
to 90 per cent of the taxes on the
estimated grand list, are $4,978, $50,
but actual collections are expected
to go far beyond that total. Col
lections last year we're almost 96 per
cent. :
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-10
Germany Admits Loss Of Cruisers
But Still Holds Command In Norway
Claims More Hits Upon
British Warships Than
Are Credited to Nazis
BY FREDERICK OECHsNER

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Berlin, April 10.-(UP)-Germany
admitted today that she had lost
two cruisers in furious naval and
air fighting still under way along
the coast of Norway.
1t was announced that the TO-
OO0-ton heavy cruiser Bluecher,
completed only last year, had been
seriously damaged by Norwegian
coastal batteries and later had
struck mine field and sunk, and
that the 5000 ton cruiser Garlsruhe
was sunk while covering the landing
Of German troops at KriStiansand.
The high command claimed, how
ever, that German planes had scored
three hits on each of four British
battleshipS, one hit on each of two
British battle cruisers and other
hits on two British light cruisers. It
was announced that late yesterday
German planes had attacked and
beat to destruction British warships
and transports intended to be used
in landing troops in Norway"
Advances in Norway
In spite of attacks on the Ger
man positions in Norway by "su-
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