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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
PRIN Ting
COSTS TOTAL
Real DOUGH
Committee on Printing Has
Made Rule That Members of
Congress Must Announce
Projected Cost of "Exten-
sion of Remarks"

Congress- joint committee on print
ing has been striving for some time
to find a painless method of curbing
the expensive prediction of members
of both housse for seeing-and letting
others see = their remarks in print.
The Congressional Record costs $45
a page to print, goes under govern
ment frank to more than 10000 per-
sons on a free list. In addition to
speeches made on the floor which
are usually more or less relevant to
the problems of legislative body,
members may, by unanimous consent,
relegate extensions of their remarks
to the appendix. Such extensions in
cIude speeches, campaign, radio and
just plain speeches, their own and
other peoples newspaper and maya
zine articles, propaganda handouts
and poems contributed by the folk
back home.
A courtesy custom makes it prac-
tically unheard of for senator or
representative to object to such ex-
tensions. Thus uncurbed, members
have been growing more loquacious,
their remarks more extended. The
cost of printing the record of the
seventy-sixth Congress was $1,795,000,
almost twice that for the seventy
fifth. Shocked by that startling fig
ure, the committee has now decreed
that members contemplating extern
sions of their remarks that will run
more than two pages must announce
the projected cost when asked unani-
nous consent to insert them. The
theory is that members will blush to
declare several hundred dollars worth
of their own speeches, and that other
counting the cost may oc-
summon courage to object.
We trust so, but it seems too gentle
a measure to curb the more deter
mined members.-New York Herald
Tribune.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
COOP WHOLESALE TO
ERECT ADDITION

SUPERIOR, Wis.-Due to ever-in.
creasing business, the Central Coop
erative Wholesale is about to erect
an addition to its main building in
Superior, which will cost about $780,
000 The addition, which was author
lied by hte Cow board of directors
at their recent meeting, will be con-
Meeting link, 40 by 120 feet, between
the main building and the feed mill.
1t will have a basement and three
stories, each Of which will comprise
an extension of the corresponding
floor in the main building.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

of the Judiciary from other states had
been selected by the board to serve
on the Railway Mediation Board
which is to convene in Chicago next
week.
The Montana supreme court having
recessed for the summer, Justice
Erickson was able to accept this op-
portunity to serve the national agency
and he and his family expect to leave
for Chicago next Monday night. JUS
tice Erickson states that he does not
know how long the mediation board
will be in session.
The board is called to adjudicate
matters which have arisen between
the carriers and employees, and the
length of time the board will be in
session depends on the number of
cases to be heard.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
ANTI-LABOR
LEGISLATION
IMAM ERIcAN
Vice President of Newspaper
Guild Charges That Anti
Labor Legislation Is Blow
Directed at Bill of Rights,
Guarantees of Constitution.

DETROIT = Anti-labor legislation
now pending in congress today was
assailed as un-American by Morris
Watson, provisional secretary of the
National Labor Committee Against
War, an affiliate of the American
Peace Mobilization.
Watson, who is in this city for the
convention of the American Newspa-
per Guild of which he is a vice presi-
dent, said that talk of democracy had
"a hollow ring on the lips of those
who were striving to enact laws strik-
ing at labor's basic rights"
Labor needs to make an all-out
effort to preserve its hard-gained
rights from attack by government of
ficials, legislative, judicial and execu-
tive" Watson declared.
Important for all Americans to
remember is the fact that while anti
labor bills seem specifically to be
aimed only at labor, they are in real
ity focused against the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution" he asserted.
Among the bills listed by Watson
which labor and other progressives
must unite against was the Vinson
Bill CHR 4139), which would repeal
the Wagner Act, freeze wages and
conditions of work and break strikes.
Watson also dashed at the Hobbs
Camp Bill CHR 81,
which he said provided for nazi-like
of foreign born.
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Estates attorney general to State
Attorney General Bonner on
the last day of the hearing of
fered the services of the fed
eral government as an inter-
venor to cooperate with the
waters users and the state wat
er conservation board, and
when advised that the hearing
was closed, then offered to CO.
operate in the preparation of
briefs, an offer which was
gratefully accepted.
The federal governments interest
in the case stems from the fact that
the Missouri river is considered a
navigable stream and the further fact
that federal money was used in the
construction of the Toston dam.
Offers of proof that the Missouri
river had been and was still consid-
cred navigable stream were made
by the attorneys for the water con-
servation board and the Broadwater-
Missouri Waters Users Association
but denied admission in the form of
testimony by the referee. Similar
offers of proof were made by the state
to establish that the Power Company
had constructed the dams without Sc
curing from the state rights held to
the stream bed of a navigable river.
Testimony and evidence to this effect
were also denied admission by the
referee.
Governor Ford, called as a witness
was asked as to the intention of the
State Water Conservation Board with
respect to use of water through ir-
rigation development, as such use
might affect the Montana Power Com
pany power plants downstream. The
offer of proof was made
by counsel according to the record:
"The defendants offer to prove, by
the testimony of this witness, that
If permitted to answer the question
put to him, the witness would say
that as chairman of the State Water
Board he knew that the
board had considered the question of
the use of the waters of the Missouri
river with respect to the use which
be required by the Broadwater- Mis-
souri, Irrigation Development. That
the board had also considered the
question of the use of water made
through the plants of the Montana
Power Company, and that it was the
Continued on Page Four)
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CROP OUTLOOK
CONTINUES

(Issued Jointly by Agricultural
Marketing Service and Weather
Bureau.)

The week ending July was ex-
tremely hot in its first two days, but
thereafter turned quite favorable
again when cooler temperatures and
widespread rains prevailed. It's close
found the growing seasons total rain
fall since April 1 ahead of that Of the
corresponding period in 1910, by about
a half inch, and with a much more
favorable distribution of the moisture
than was the case year earlier. 1t
now appears, as was indicated last
week, that the hot weather of June
% to % caused some firing of crops,
especially in parts of north-central
Montana, but subsequent rains and
cooler temperatures limited the dam
age The weeks rainfall quite gen.
orally interferred with haying and
shearing, but was otherwise both time
ly and beneficial.
Winter wheat is filling rapidly I'M
der weather which at present is very
favorable, although some damage may
have occurred as result of the ex-
IRENE heat week ago. Spring grains
are generally headed out and the next
two weeks will see them passing
through a critical part of their filling
stages when extremely high tempera-
lures or hot winds could cause serious
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WPA WORK
STOPPED in
80 COUNTIES
Smaller Counties Will Get
No WPA Assistance Due to
Cut in the Federal Appropri-
alton; Commissioner Holds
No Hope for More Relief.

A letter addressed by Senator Muir
ray to the Commissioner Of the Works
Project Administration last week, pro-
testing against disseminating of WPA
operations in 30 of the smaller coun-
ties of the state brought no encourag-
ing response, the commissioner says
that the reduction in Montana in WPA
is less than In other states, and is the
best that can be done with the appro-
priation available.
Senator Murrays letter to the COM
missioner and his reply follows:
Washington, d. c., June "a, 1871
Hon. Howard o. Hunter,
Commissioner
Work Projects Administration.
Dear Mr.. Hunter:
I have just received information
from the Work Projects Administra-
tor for Montana informing me that
WPA operations will be discontinued
in thirty counties in Montana, effec-
tive June 30. If this drastic curtail-
ment of your program occurs in Mon
tana, the results will be disastrous.
1t appears to me that official Wash
ington fails to recognize the fact that
Montana, along with few other
Western states, has received practic-
ally nothing from the millions being
expended on the National Defense pro-
gram. | realize that your appropria-
ton for the next fiscal year has been
reduced and that your quotas must be
reduced proportionately However, 1t
is my contention that Montana should
where millions in federal appropria-
lions are being expended for National
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CONFERENCE
MEETS in BUTTE
Annual Meeting for 1941 of
Representatives From Typo
graphical Unions Held in
Butte Saturday and Sunday;
Elects New Officers.

Recommendation that Governor
Ford be requested to declare state
wide union label week" and that the
president Of the International Typo
graphical Union be urged to assign
a permanent representative to the
Montana district to prevent "deterior-
alton of morale, unity and militancy,"
the Montana Typographical Confer
ence closed it's two day deliberations
last Sunday afternoon.
The sessions the first day were
largely taken up by reports of the
officers for the past year, Of the or
ganization, President Baker of Kalis-
pell and Secretary Martz of Missoula,
and the appointment of conference
committees. President Graeme Baker
appointed Howard Wheeler, M. Scan
lon and Archie McCallum as a Gre
dentials committee. Fred Zeh, Arthur
Hansen and o. J. Magill were named
on the auditing committee and the
resolutions committee was composed
of the following: Andy Tiller, w. Car
rington, A. V. Biallis and D. G. Peter
son.
General discussions of matters of
interest to the organizations featured
the sessions on Sunday. Resolutions
presented by the committee were
adopted. Stress was placed on the
desirability of close cooperation be-
tween the officers of the conference
and member unions.
The following were elected as Of
ficers for the ensuing year: Ray Dem
ton OF Anaconda, president; o. ].
Magill of Butte, vice president and
Don c. Peterson of Helena, secretary
treasurer.
The delegates enjoyed a delicious
raviola dinner and dance Saturday
night as guests of the Butte Typo
Union at Meaderville.
Patronize the Cooperative in your
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to make a study OF the state
structure and make recommen-
dations based on the findings.
The Griffenhagen organization will
start work in Montana on July 81 and
expects to be ready to make report
about a month later. At the present
time, the organization is conducting
a survey Of the Louisiana government.
It has previously studied and made re-
ports on the state governmental struc-
lures of California, Ohio, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan
and Wyoming. The report made by
the company on the Montana govern
ment will be the basis Of the report
which Governor Ford will make for
improving the governmental structure,
to the legislative assembly Of 1913.
Detailed Report
A detailed report by the Griffen-
an exhaustive research into the opera
lions of the state government, includ-
ing the accounting systems practiced;
budget making and administering;
control of revenue and receipts and
expenditures; purchasing; contracts;
property control; insurance; employee
transportation; office procedures. The
report submitted to the governor and
the board will embody recommends
lions for remedial changes which may
effect economies and greater eff
cheney in the service of the state
government for the people.
Each department, all boards, COM
missions, officers and all state instf-
buttons will be examined and ap-
praised according to the agreement.
Executive Orders for Change
When the report is received by the
state reorganization committee, such
changes as are approved by the COM
mittee and can be Immediately made
by executive order Of the governor,
will be made by him, 1t is said. If
any changes are recommended by the
organization which cannot be accom-
plished by executive orders, the rec
concentrations will be presented to
the next legislative assembly for &C
ton.
Present at the meeting of the COM
mittee with Mr. Griffenhagen here:
w. E. Dowlin of Billings, chairman;
Fred Bennion of Helena, James N.
Dougherty of Elliston and Senator
Charles Mahoney of Jordan.
The Griffenhagen organization will |
be paid s16,500 for making the survey
and study.
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ACCOUNTANTS
outline
POL IclES
Five Point Program for Re-
tail Co-ops Outlined by Ac-
countants at Conference; FL
nancial Policy in Critical Pc
riod Vital Consideration.

INDIANAPOLIS.-The National So.
ciety of Cooperative Accountants
meeting for their annual conference
here June 10 and 90 mapped out a
five point financial program for re-
tail co-operatives which will be sub
mitted to the national board of The
Cooperative League for recommends
ton to local co-operatives throughout
the country. The five point financial
program will embody the following
proposals:
1. To collect outstanding receivables
and restrict credit.
2. To maintain normal inventories.
8. To avoid spending money to ex-
pand facilities unless absolutely nee
essary.
4. To use any available cash to re-
duce debts.
5. To conserve cash by paying cash
rebates only if the co-operatives has
no debts.
A recommendation to the national
board based on these points is being
worked out by committee appointed
by the board of the N. S. G. A.
About 35 accountants representing
serving co-operatives in
nearly every section of the country
took part in the two-day deliberations
which considered problems Of taxa
ton as effecting co-operatives and
general accounting matters as well as
the five point financial program.
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Labor Research Directors
Discuss National Problems

DISCUSS lNdllOfidi O0iCbfo
The Bureau of Labor Statistics OF
the Department of Labor last week
held its second annual conference
with research directors of national
labor unions to discuss labor prob
lens growing out of the national emer-
gency. The conference could well
have been called Symposium on
Current National Problems Here
are some of the facts presented to
the conferences:
Regardless of wage increases, rise
in the cost of living will more than
eat up these wage "hikes", and In the
end leave the worker on the short end
of the deal. With food becom-
ing as essential as munitions, produc-
ton of agricultural products will have
to be increased to the maximum. /.
The danger of initiation Is 80 great,
that even the most drastic efforts on
the part of the government may not
be able to prevent it. Opinion OF ex-
perts is that our economic order Will
not be able to survive period OF
Initiation such as followed the last
World war. =. /. At least 100000
more workers, both skilled and I'M
skilled, will be needed in the defense
industries under the program already
contracted for" and this program is
being enlarged and increased daily.
Number of apprentices in industry
has inceased % percent during the
past six months, the number now tot
alling some $1,000. The defense pro-
gram, however, will require some 5oo'-
900 apprentices, or 10 times the pres
emf number. Charges that the
labor unions are impeding the pro-
gram Of apprentice training are false
and vicious, the exact opposite being
the case. Government officials say
that they have received the most
wholehearted cooperation In that re-
gard from labor, with apprentice quo
tas having been raised very literally.
When the defense program gets
under full speed. many skilled work
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. I. HARRIS

ers will have to be drawn from non
defense to defense industries. +.
Economists say that the greater the
plant expansion undertaken now, the
less will be curtaiment of durable
consumer goods as we'll as less dis
location of the economic system.
Present expenditures for defense pur-
poses is about II billion dollars a
year. To obtain the needed effort,
this may have to be increased to 40,
or As, billion dollars yearly. We're
the national income raised to ITO bill
lions yearly, which some say is pos
sible there would be no extreme eco
nomic dislocation.
A survey discloses that there is a
lot of idle plant capacity which has
not been brought into the defense
picture, because some Of the big boys
insist on hogging all the profits and
refuse to let out sub-contracts. /. :.
Despite all efforts "to take the work
to the workers rather than the work
ers to the work." we will face tre-
mendous problem of stranded work.
ers when the defense program comes
to an end, unless solution to the
problem is found now. Another
problem that will have to be tackled
now is that of unemployment which
the country will face in the postwar
period No one doubts that it will
come up on us like raging torrent
and I'VE won't have any democracy
if millions of our workers are indef-
initely out of jobs"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
MONTANA
JUSTICE
H0N0RED
Left Erickson, Associate JUS
tice of the Montana Supreme
Court Asked to Serve on
National Mediation Board
Converting in Chicago.

Associate Justice Left Erickson of
the Montana supreme court was to-
day notified by Robert Cole, secre-
tary of the National Mediation board
that he together with four members
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Contributions to the fund for the improvement of
the property of the Educational Cooperative Publish
ing Company have been received from the following in
the last week:
A Friend Through D. L. Manning)
Mr.. Kline
Alvin Dahlqust
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Leading refiners and marketers of
petroleum products throughout the
country were asked in a letter sent
them June 10 by Administrator Hen
derson not to make any further adj
vances in prices except after con-
sultation with OPACS.
Announcement of the letter was
made by Mr.. Henderson June 10 in
an address before a group of oil in
dustry representatives at meeting
called by Petroleum Co-ordinator
Ickes.
The letter also points out that at a
recent meeting between OPACS and
from northeastern
and mid-Atlantic states, it was gener-
ally agreed that no further substantial
Increases in gasoline prices in the
East are called for unless basis con-
litions change.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Hearing of testimony before Referee Toole in the
brought by the Montana Power Company bar the
water Water Users Association from using any the
of the Missouri for farm irrigation purposes closed Saturday
after three weeks of hearing evidence by presenting
the views of the issues involved both for the plaintiff
ton and the defendants telephone call from the United
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

reorganization committee authorized by act of
the legislative assembly to make study of the state
ernmenta setup and make recommendations for it's stream
lining by Governor Ford in his to
the assembly its meeting held last Monday authorized the
employment the O. Griffenhagen organization of Chi
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
Would Tax "IntanglbIe Property"
To Increase Pay of Soldiers

Rep. Patman, Texas, proposes that
pay of soldiers be increased 500 a
month, the taxpayer to be raised not
by Increasing the burden of the COM
mon taxpayer, but rather by taxing
"intangibe property" which now es-
capes its just share of taxes.
Patman's plan is incorporated In a
bill introduced in the House last week
The bill would give each soldier, in
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CHICAGO firm EMPL JED
TO MAKE SURVEY AID
STUDY OF STATE CT 1T.

Will Make Thorough Investigation and
Appraisal of the Functioning of the State
Government AS 1t Is At Present, and Report
On the Results Late in August of This Year
To the committee.
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TESTIMONY IhTIMATES
power co. HAS NO RIGHT
TO MISSOURI Waters

Broadwater-M Missouri Water Users Associa-
ton and State Water Conservation Board
Contends That Montana Power Company
Lacks Right to Waters of Missouri Because
1t is Navigable Stream.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02
REFINERS
PRICES May
BE CHECKED

Refiners and Marketers of
Petroleum Products Must
Talk to Henderson Before
They Try To Jack Up Their
Prices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-07-02

Patronize the Cooperative in your
communicates there to serve you!
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kss@ssaie JUatiss and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard Of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Il a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
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f~ a b~~ : fsf-'2rsf 49, e.-~-@
Democracy Garnet Endure Un-
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold, Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
Evening star., 1941-07-10

dependent in the past, when
dealing with labor legislation, and
has put through several measures
which the Roosevelt administra-
ton frowned upon, among them
amendments to the Wagner La
Dor Relations Act. But what it
will do with the May bill remains
to be seen. 1t has its chance,
however, to strike out at least as
severely as the Senate did against
strikes in national defense plants.
Had the May bill come before
the House a few weeks ago, when
strikes in major defense indus
tries were more prevalent than at
present, there is not the slightest
doubt that the House would have
voted for the bill. In the last few
weeks, strikes have not been so
much in the public eye, although
they still continue. The entrance
of Soviet Russia into the war
against Nazi Germany, too, has
served to take the attention from
strikes. And the Communistic
forces in the country have been
less active-perhaps in fomenting
strikes.
Evening star., 1941-07-10
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The State Departnen is
watching intently developments
in the Far East, where the situa-
ton, although it appears dormant
on the surface, actually is full
OF dynamite.
From all available information,
it appears the Japanese have
decided not to attempt anything
against Siberia for the present
and plan to continue their South
ward expansion. Japanese leaders
apparently feel there is too much
risk in attacking Soviet forces
In Siberia. Despite the bitter
struggle in European Russia,
Siberian defenses are untouched.
The army, the mechanized divi-
sions and especially the air.
force are as strong as they were
a year ago. Toxic feels that an
untimely attack against the force