The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-06

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that he cares little whether he stepi
on the toes of the fat boys. The yer,
name of Henderson gives them tht
filters.
Facts Dispute Lewis's
Charges Against Administration
There are obvious Interior motives
behind John L. Lewiss charges thai
labor isn't properly represented in the
defense setup and that Sidney Hill
man isn't doing anything for labor
We looked over the list of labor rep
resentation in the defense setup, and
it is rather imposing. For example
on the Labor Policy Advisory Commit
Harry Bates, president of the brick
layers; H. w. Brown, president of the
machinists; John Coyne, of the build
ing and construction workers; George
Lynch, of the pattern makers; Charles
| MACEDONIAN, of the boilermakers !;
steamfitters; and D. W. Tracy, former
president of the electrical workers and
now second assistant secretary of la
Dor. For the CLIO on the same COM
mittee we find Van A. Bittner, of the
mine workers; S. H. Dalrymple, of the
rubber workers; Clinton Golden, of
the steel workers. Allen Haywood, di-
rector of organization of the CLIO;
Samuel Hogan, of the marine engi-
neers; Emil REEVE, of the textile work
ers; and R. j. Thomas, of the auto
mobile workers. Among the labor
well-known ALL names as Joseph
Keenan,, John Beckham, Ewing Mac
donald, James Brownlow, Joseph
Green, Michael Finn, Charles ellis,
Mark Hurley, Matthew Burns, Norman
Blumberg, James Meehan, George
Plambeck, and Ernest Quick, and such
well-known CLIO names as John Owens,
Thomas Burns, Delmond Garst, w. S.
Pollard, Gail Smith, George Roberts,
and Henry Adams. Space does not
permit publication of the entire list of
labor representatives on the various
committees. Of course, there is al
ways room for more labor representa-
tion-the greater the representation
the better it is both for labor and for
government-but it is of more than
passing significance that all three
members of the National Defense Me-
diation Board, as well as their alter
mates, are strongly pro-labor men who
believe in enforcement of all labor
laws on the statute books. And Hill
mans division has done a mighty fine
job, under very trying conditions, in
gathering factual data disputing
charges of the Capitol Hill reaction
aries against labor while this crowd |
was trying to blacken labor in order |
to put over restrictive labor legisla-
ton; in looking after the welfare of /
labor in negotiations for industry sta
bilization agreements; in organizing
labor supply which prevented serious
labor dislocation and in labor train
ing for defense jobs.
1t serves Mr.. Lewis's purposes very
much that Hillman is holding down
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no matter how much he does, there
is still more that can be done. That
makes him vulnerable to attack, espe-
cially from fellows who are out to
smear him and don't care much about
The means they employ to do it.
Destructive Logging
Foresters here say that the timber
at Weyerhauser and others
lave been inserting some very mis-
eading ads in newspapers and ma
ional magazines, urging the use Of ]
wood in place of metals for defense ]
Ind other purposes, on the ground !
hat for every tree cut down nature !
s seeding and men are planting new t
rees to take its place" 1
This would be swell, these foresters {
ay, if it were true Unfortunately, I
hey point out, it is not. The fact 4
5 that the stimulation of defense
riders has led timber men to back {
Tide from many of the good forestry i
racticeS which numerous operators 7
dopted under the MIRA and in more n
ecent years, reverting to the needless F
nd shortsighted form of destructive +
ogging and forest devastation of the A
asst. n
[
rked by thine" Article /,
Some of Secretary of Agriculture's d
Vickard's subordinates are not at all Il
leased with the frontispiece picture C
their chief that appeared in a re- Il
emit issue of Thine" magazine. They Il
ny that it makes him look too much p
Ike Russian commissar, rather than b
n up and coming Hoosier farmer who d
nows his way around a big town. al
lso, they disagree sharply with the W
nor of the three-page story on Wick 81
I'd and the Food Defense Pro al
ram in the magazine, branding as 81
.terly without foundation the state a
ent that farming will now be Sc
ought wholly under control as pl
he rate of decrease has speeded
firth per thousand population il