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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
STOCK HAS
RIGHT-0F-WAY
between SIGNS
Attorney General Rules on
Relative Rights of Automo-
bile Drivers and Livestock
Owners on Highways Be-
tween Stock Crossing Signs.

In an opinion rendered at the re-
quest of Colonel Charles L. Sheridan,
supervisor of the Montana Highway
Patrol. on the relative rights of auto
tomobile drivers on the highway and
livestock owners driving stock across
highways between stock crossing
signs, Attorney General Bonner has
held that the rights of the livestock
owners are paramount.
The attorney general called atten-
ton to the fact that when lands for
right of way for highways are pur-
chased without condemnation by the
highway commission damages for
segregation are taken into account by
the parties. These damages for segre-
CATION, or compensation for damages
to adjoining lands not purchased, If
stock passes or stock crossings are
allowed are usually diminished and
the stock owner, according to the
opinion, has the right to expect that
the state will keep faith with him by
maintaining stock passes and stock
crossings.
The attorney general held:
That the rights of livestock owners
are paramount to those of the motor
list when the livestock owners are
driving their livestock across the
highway between stock crossing signs
and that it is the duty of the motor
list to, at all times, recognize this
right of the livestock owner and that
therefore, the motorist must drive his
car in careful and prudent manner
when he sees such stock crossing
signs so as not to cause injury to the
livestock which are crossing or might
cross the highway between the said
stock crossing signs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
American lsoIationlsts
Nazis, Greatest Asset

All investigations, both government
and private, of nazi propaganda both
here and abroad, establish the fact
that American isoIationists are the
nazis best asset and they are utiliz-
ina them to the very hiIt-even those
who are hostile to their cause. The
recent trials here of DR.. Auhagen,
small-time nazi propagandist, and
Transocean, nazi propaganda news
service" merely lent substantiating
evidence to the above.
Senator Wheeler. the Montana $50
lationist, and Charles Lindbergh, the
ex-colonel, of course, are their CHER
bets. They also make use of small
fry like Senator Nye, but Nye doesn't
begin to get the play that Wheeler
and Lindbergh do in nazi and nail
controlled newspapers. The nazis are
smart fishermen; why waste too much
time with the minnows when mamma
and papa fish are grabbing for the
bait?
For quite some months, Transocean
has been carrying all of Wheeler's and
Lindbergh's speeches and press re-
marks in full, especially to it's clientel
in Central and South American coun-
tries. The impression that 1t seeks
to create is that these two men rep
resent the true sentiments OF the
American people, not President Roose-
welt, and that the great masses OF
Americans are violently opposed to
the administrations foreign policy.
This column is convinced that
Wheeler is not a nazi, neither ideo-
logically nor by utilization. 1t is our
guess that he isn't deriving any great
amount of pleasure from knowledge
that he has become a nazi darling;
it is more than likely that it has given
him more than one sleepless night.
But we wouldn't say the same for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
SMITHS Term
ON NLRB BOARD
OUT SOON
Reappointment of Edwin S.
Smith Friend of Labor on
the National Labor Relations
Board Is Urged by Organi-
cation; Vital to Cause.

On August 81, 1941, the term of
Edwin s. Smith, one of the three
members of the NLRB, expires.
Mr. Smith is the only member
of the present board who has served
continuously since its formation in
1885. Prior to that he served on it's
predecessor, the national labor board.
Before coming to Washington, Mr..
Smith had been commissioner of labor
and industry in Massachusetts and
had specialized in problems of indus
trial relations.
Mr.. Smiths record as a member of
the NLRB is so exceptional that he
is generally regarded as labor's best
and most courageous friend In the adj
ministration. Recent developments in
more imperative than ever that he re-
main on the board as the only anthem
tic voice of the true spirit of the Wag-
ner act. He has fought for vigorous
enforcement of the MIRA and for
more expeditions handling of cases.
He has consistently opposed the re-
dictionary tendencies of the new board
In case after case he has
from decisions In which the
majority has permitted the so-called
rights of management to prevail over
the basic rights guaranteed to labor
by the Wagner act. His dissents, al
ways thoroughly consistent with the
purposes and policies of the act, have
heartened both the AFL and the CLIO
who see In many recent majority de-
cisions a negation of those purposes
and policies. AS private citizen,
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30

pickets as a result of their
reckless driving and deliberate
attempt to run down the pick
cts. The injured picket, an
elderly union member, was
taken to the hospital at White
fish. The extent of his injuries
is not known as yet.
Other strike breakers, to the num-
Der of about %, gathered at the scene
of the trouble, but made no effort to
go through the picket line until Flat
head County Sheriff c. A. Robinson
and Deputy A. B. Yuill arrived on the
scene to maintain order Several
strike breakers voluntarily agreed
not to go to work and left.
Officers of the union report that
every effort will be made to maintain
peaceful picketing, but that sufficient
men will be kept on the picket line to
assure adequate protection against
any further violence. About 40 men
were on the line this morning in in
direct answer to efforts of the Stoltze
company manager, j. G. Hendrickson,
to further back to work move" by
sending out a form letter by regis
tered mail to the striking employees
last Friday.
The letter follows and readily in
dicates that the company is making
every effort to break the union:
F. H. STOLTZE
LAND AND LUMBER COMPANY
Columbia Falls, Montana
July 25, 1941
Dear Sir,
This is to advise you that the plan
ing mill of the F H. Stoltze Land
and Lumber Company is now open
and work In certain classifications is
now available.
If you are available for work, please
report at the office Of the Company |
at Half Moon, Montana, within three |
days after receipt of this letter, CIV
ing your qualifications and If places |
are vacant for you, we will put you
on We will understand from your +
failure to report or advise US within
the specified time that you are no
longer interested in employment with
the company.
Yours very truly,
F. H. Stoltz Land and Lumber Co.
BY J. c. Hendrickson, Vice Pres.
The union has replied to the letter
informing the company that there will
be no individual bargaining for jobs
by union members. Charges against
the company are being filed with the
National Labor Relations Board by ;
the union.
The prospects for an early settle ;
ment are reported doubtful, due main
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
EMBARGO ON SHIPMENT
OF GRAIN TO terminals
ANNOUNCED JULY Is
Car Service Division of Assn. of American
Railroads Issues Notice of Embargo On
Shipments of All Grain to Terminals for
Storage Unless Shipper Proves to Railroad
That Storage Space Is Available.

On the recommendation of the to acquire and
disseminate information to facilitate the handling storage
of grain embargo notice. directing all railroads refuse
to accept all shipments of grain to st Paul. Minneapolis
Duluth Minnesota and Superior Iasca Wisconsin,
issued by L. M Belts of the service division of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30

Eeonasnic Justics and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity Of All.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
SEN. MURRAY
URGES need
FOR UNITY
Stresses the Danger Facing
America in Case Hitler Is
Victorious in Russia and Has
the Opportunity to Establish
Bases in Siberia.

Broadcasting over national radio
hookup, Senator James E. Murray
spoke before an attentive and applaud
ing audience of about $50 people at
the Helena Civic auditorium last eve
ming on the need for national unity
and the dangers threatening the
United States under present world
conditions. Earlier in the day he had
addressed the Rotary Club and tomor-
row night will broadcast over the
Great Falls radio station.
Discussing the criticisms leveled at
the President by the isolationists. the
senator declared that the foreign pol
icy of the administration was not de-
fined by the President but had been
developed by the acts of the United
States congress with the advice of the
army and navy departments, and rep
resented the combined, considered
opinion of a majority of the people
of the country, expressed by their
The senator expressed the confident
nope tDdL IL huS5id couiu uolu i1itlei
in check for the rest of this year,
British and American aid would make
it possible for Great Britain to secure
control of the air and come out victor
in the war, and that American and
British bombers would pulverize Ger
man industry"
Associate Justice Morris presided
at the meeting and e. G. Toomey,
Helena attorney introduced Senator
MURRAY
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-30
LUMBER COMPANY AT
0LUmbIA FALLS TRIES
TO OPEN WITH SCI IS

COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont-July 28.-The nine weeks old
strike of Sawm Workers Local 2797 at the Half
Moon plant of the H. Stotze Land and Lumber Company
flared into early this morning strike breaking
scabs endeavored crash the union picket line with
automobile One picket and the two occupants
of the automobile considerably manhanded by other
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1941.
AGGRESSIVE JOB PROTECTION

Small plants, accounting for more
than go per cent of our industrial
workers, represent the balance OF
power in the world conflict" FLOYD
B. Odlum, head of the OPM Contract
Distribution Division, said recently.
1--WE will make vigorous effort to
see that no large order goes to any
firm that does not agree to farm out
a reasonable part of the work." Odlum
promised in a speech broadcast from
Washington.
Labor will of course be highly
pleased if the vigorous effort" prom
ised by Mr.. Odlum is made and will
be even more pleased if it is success
full. From the beginning of the de-
Tense program, the American Fedora
tion of Labor has insisted that work
must be spread to small plants.
The Seattle convention took strong
and constructive stand on the matter,
recommending that any plants not CO.
operating with the defense program
or refusing to seek defense contracts
be taken over by the government for
defense operation. The convention re-
garded pressure of this kind as i'm
portant to bring many recalcitrant
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
MAINTAIN 4O-HOUR WEEK

There has been talk recently OF
lengthening the work week as a meas
ure to speed defense production. No
basis can be found for such a move
at the present time. There are still
100000 unemployed Several million
more are threatened by priority un-
employment, and will be leaving ci-
william industries to find work in de-
fense production. Also, some three
million more persons who do not
usually work for pay can be drawn
into the labor market With such a
labor reserve, approaching 100000,
this is no time to lengthen work
hours.-American Federation of La
Dor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
GREEN URGES POSTAL
EMPL0YE PAY RAISE

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS) President
William Green of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, while supporting a
request of postal employees for wage
increases, told a meeting of the Ma
tional Federation of Post Office Clerks
here "there can never be" a strike
against the government by civil service
employees.
American Federation of Labor con-
vention resolutions call for $20-per-
month increase or a bonus for gov
ernment workers to meet increased
living costs.
Green declared: 81 don't think any
civil service employe who understands
the priceless heritage of liberty, free
dom and justice that is ours ever will
belong to an organization which would
strike against the government. (He
referred to what he said was such a
threat by c. |. O. union.)
"You ought to have had that pay
raise a long time ago." he said eve
will never fail you. Any member of
Congress who votes against the bill
for civil service pay raises will be
classed as an enemy by the American
Federation of Labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
BAD PLAN UP AGAIN

The proposal for hiking social Sc
curity taxes, to make wage earners
pay perhaps as much as 5 per cent,
is up again, quite likely as trial
balloon" to test the public's reaction.
If the public knows what is good for
it, the proposal will get hostile re-
ception. 1t is now advanced primarily
as a means of preventing imitation, by
taking the money for taxes that might
otherwise go into the purchase of
goods and products for civilian use.
One of the ideas apparently behind
the scheme is that the wage Garner
will be making more while the defense
effort is under way and therefore will
be in position to pay more in social
security taxes. This ignores the facts
that rising prices may largely nullify
higher pay and that great numbers
of wage earners with fixed salaries
will receive little or nothing in the
way of pay increases. In addition ev-
eryone, whether his pay rises, falls or
is stationary, will pay much more in
federal income, sales and other taxes.
Furthermore, as was said editorially
here recently: ITO increase social Sc
curity taxes to prevent imitation or to
help pay for government expenditures
is to attempt to make the security
system serve a purpose for which it
was never intended"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

Patrick Henry said it better-said it
as it should be said:
"Give me liberty or give me death. =
American workers can be proud that
the American Federation of Labor, in
its Seattle convention, joined with
Patrick Henry Everything we have
for defense. Hitlerism must be de-
stroyed!
Japan will nudge into the mess, too
maybe has, by now. Japan, looking
for the jackal's way in-biting at the
heels while Hitler engages the front.
Italy and Japan have something in
common. Italy came in when she
thought it was case of picking up
the wreckage. Italy now would be
very happy to get out.
One would wish the Italian people
could get out-but that Mussolini
could not!
There's an observation about Japan:
The Samurai had a great code of
honor. A man dishonored chose death
and particularly torturing death.
But what is one to say about the
honor of Japan today?
The Chinese might have some in
teresting opinions on that score.
Japan, like Italy, is the victim of
ruthless leaders bent on conquest.
Germany Italy-Japan. While they
stand together the world must link
them together as standing for the
same thing.
That's the way it is. We didn't
make it that way-but we will have
to help unmake it,
The Wheelers, Lindberghs, Nyes,
etca just haven't made a case, though
they have made lot of confusion.
But eventually the American people
do their own thinking and make their
own decisions.
1t must be evident that the Ameri-
can people HAVE made up their mind.
When there is a right thing to do
and wrong thing, the decision goes
for the right thing.
The time for dissension is pastl
&C. M. w.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
Carpenters Not To Demand
Label During Emergency

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS) The United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and join
ers, A. F. of L., will not demand the
brotherhood label on lumber handled
by carpenters during the national de-
fense emergency, William Hutcheson,
brotherhood president, declared here.
Hutcheson, here for the American
Federation of Labor convention, also
said that the Carpenters membership
will not boycott non-A. F. of l.. lum-
Der products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
WHAT NEXT?

Mechanism is about to invade sugar
beet growing A new beet combine
that does the entire harvesting job,
topping, lifting, and loading the beets,
reducing hand labor to minimum
has been developed. 1t is an average
sized machine hauled and powered
from Diesel tractor. Combines here
tofore developed have been too elab-
crate and costly for the average
grower.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

War is a fact for the United States.
Some don't think so, but it isn't a
case of thinking. 1t is a case of fact.
At this writing we have sunk one
German U-boat; Germany has crippled
one U. S. destroyer, with loss of II
men.
Did someone ask when Shooting
war" is to start?
Peace probably will be long time
coming. Maybe three years; maybe
five.
YOU will live lot harder be-
fore it's over.
Things to remember: Taxes will go
up; housing will be scarcer; food will
cost more, but will be available; cloth
ing will be available, but will cost
more.
Financially, we have hard row to
hoe.
But we never looked at the issue
that way. 1t is liberty against slavery.
Someone once said ''there never was
a good war or bad peace"
The saying became somewhat pop
ular, as half truths often do. 1t was
the bunk.
ANY peace with Hitler is a bad
peace. Any peace that sells out mems
souls and leaves them spiritually and
physically in bondage is bad peace
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
ChiIds Strike Averted
By Wage Increases

New York City (ILNS) = Agree
ment on terms of a new contract pro-
viding wage increases of $350,000 for
employees of the Childs restaurant
chain here averted threatened strike
of 1920 workers. Through the efforts
of the State Mediation Board, the pact
was made after ten days of almost
continuous conferences between rep
of the management and
the Chain Service Restaurant En-
ployes' Union, Local %, A. F. of L.
The agreement calls for pay in
creases of So to $3.50 a week. 1t will
run for one year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

and social progress. First and fore
most, however-and this was the fun
damental impulse for his selfless work
he was man who had immeasurable
sympathy with the sufferings of his
fellow men. Many labor officials who
had to flee from the Nazi terror in
Germany and Austria will remember
him with deepest gratitude
'sIn numbers of cases, Klein made
superhuman efforts to rescue individ-
uals from the horrors of the concen-
tration camp. The tragedy of his life
was that he was himself victim of
the concentration camp. The news of
his martyrdom will strengthen the
wills of those whose cause he SO
courageously and indefatigably cham
pioned, to resist the evils of Nazi-
ism, and to impel them to action when
the hour strikes. The international
trade union movement will give Rob-
ert Klein due honor as one of its best
sons"
Disastrous effect of German occupa-
tion of Paris on child welfare is in
dicated by a dispatch reporting that
the child mortality rate in the city
has increased by nearly one-half over
the pre-war normal. The facts are
given in a report of the public health
council of the Seine Department which
summarized the situation as one OF
prolonged famine"
The council gives the latest death
rate of children under 10 as 45 pei
cent above the last five-year average
while the mortality rate for the total
population rose 9 per cent.
The report predicted one infant in
every 10 born this winter would die
and it introduced "armistice skinni-
ness" as a new medical term.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
$500 Hotel Workers
Win Pay Increases

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-A strike
of $500 employees of Is leading Wash
ington hotels was averted when rep
resentatives of the Hotel Workers
Joint Council and the Hotel Owners
Association reached an agreement in
the Office of John R. Steelman, director
of the Cancellation service Of the De-
partment of Labor.
The agreement involved an increase
of 100000 annually, heaviest being
in the lower brackets
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
WAREHOUSE UNIONS IN GAIN

Seattle, Wash. .ILNS-. = Reports
made during the recent Western Con-
ference of Teamsters indicate that
membership of warehouse unions in
the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters increased more than so per
cent in the last year. Report showed
615 new warehouses organized, bring
ing some 1000 new members into the
Teamsters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
CONFERENCE VOTES TAX

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS-. The West
ern Conference of Teamsters, which
has just concluded its annual conven-
tion here, will hold its 1912 meeting
in Salt Lake City next June. The pol
icy committee voted 1-cent per
capita tax monthly to defray expenses
of the gathering.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

Another distinguished European la
Dor leader has become victim of
Nazi barbarity and joined the ranks
of many other labor men who have
perished in Hitler's concentration
camps.
Latest victim is Robert Klein, lead
ing trade unionist of Czechoslovakia,
news of whose death in the Buchen-
wald concentration camp has just been
received by the International Fedora
tion of Trade Unions. The |. F. t. u.
says it is known that Klein was meted
out unusually harsh treatment at Bu-
chenwald, so much so that, although
he was a powerfully built man in the
early SOS, he has met martyrs end.
In the trade union movement of his
own country and internationally, Klein
was an active and able worker He
made his organization, that of the non
manual workers, into a modern trade
union and he was particularly inter
ested in social questions like pension
insurance for non-manual workers. To
his efforts was due the introduction
in many districts of the Sunday day
of rest in the retail trade. In eco
nomic matters, he sought to increase
the influence of the trade unions.
internationally Klein was active as
member of the general council of
the International Federation of Trade
Unions. He was also vice president of
the international Federation of Com
mercial, Clerical and Technical En-
ployes, in which he was an energetic
worker from its formation.
In tribute to the dead leader, the
| l. F. I. y. bulletin says:
Klein was modern trade union
ist, to whom the trade unions were
an instrument of rational economic
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
SHOE WORKERS MINIMUM PAY

Washington, D. C.-The Wage and
Hour Division of the U. S. Department
of Labor issued an order, effective No
vember 3, establishing 40-cent-an-
hour minimum wage in the shoe in
dustry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
WISDOM

The future of democracy on all con-
tinents as well as here in the United
States lies largely in the hands of
labor William Green.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

employers or those doing little to pro-
tect workers jobs into line Of an ag-
gressive policy for employment pro-
lection.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1895 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31
NEVADA sTRIKELEss, FOR YEAR

Reno, New. ILNS).-State officials
say that Nevada has record of not
having one authorized work stoppage
because of striking workers in more
than a year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

Make yourself comfortable-if pos
sible.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-31

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