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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
Strong Union
Supports Aid
To Beat Nazis

A significant example of labor unity
on one of the most vital issues of
the day-support for all aid to Great
Britain, the Soviet Union, China and
all other nations fighting Hitlerism-
was the favorable vote last week by
delegates to the annual convention of
the United Electrical, Radio & Ma
chine Workers of America in Camden,
N. J. Only five delegates of 1872 dis
sented
In the convention report recon-
mending such action, the three top
officers of the unon declared:
tThe united might of the British
and Soviet governments, backed by
the United States and supported most
of all by the hatred for fascism that
is bred in the bone of every worker
such combination can hardly fail to
rid humanity once and for all of the
very fountainhead of world fascism,
the nazi government of Germany.
To-day all groups in labor may de-
clare, and do declare, to the world
that they are unanimously supporting
every step necessary to crush Hit
lerism. 1t is labor which knows how
to fight fascism 1t is labor which
will fight hardest and the longest. 1t
is labor which intends to see this
thing through to the end and to vic
tory"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
|ANGL0-S0vIET
UNIONS I'm Tie

British labor took a positive step
toward strengthening British-Soviet
collaboration against Hitler last week
when, at its annual convention in
Edinburgh, it adopted proposal to
establish a joint Anglo-Soviet Trade
Union Council. The aim of this body
is to provide means for utmost CO.
operation between Soviet and British
labor in the war effort against Hitler
Members of the joint council would
include an equal number of repre-
sentatives from the general council of
the British Trades Union Congress
and the ALL Union Central Council of
Trade Unions of the Soviet Union.
Meetings would be held regularly, ac-
cording to the proposals adopted, al
ternately in Great Britain and the
Soviet Union.
The convention also passed a reso-
luton acclaiming British American
collaboration as outlined by the
Churchill Roosevelt conference held
recently somewhere in the Atlantic
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
WAGE-H0UR
DRAWS LINE ON
WORKING Time
Employment of Children
Under Is Limited to Three
Hours Per Day, Is Hours
Per Week During School
Periods, 1t Is Warned.

With the opening of the Fall term
of school. warning was issued today
that the full-time employment of chill
dren under the age of 16 during school
periods is contrary to the child labor
provisions of the Fair Labor Stand
ards act.
L. A. Hill, regional director of the
Wage and Hour division, U. S. depart
ment of labor, whose inspectors as
sist in enforcement of the child labor
provisions of the Wage and Hour law,
pointed out that the basic minimum
age established by the act is 16. How
ever, regulation No. of the bureau
provides that minors between IA and
16 years of age may be employed in
certain COMMUNICATING and non
mining occupations outside of school
hours, but limits such employment to
three hours per day and IS hours per
week while school is in session. Dur
ing school vacation periods, the hours
may be extended to eight per day and
total of 40 in one week Working
hours of children of these ages, in
general, must be between a. m.
and p. m.
Mr.. Hill said that while these pro-
visions are more lenient with respect
to children employed in agriculture.
they do apply to minors employed
during the periods when they are
legally required to attend school.
The act itself makes provision for
parents or custodians of children to
employ their own children under 16
years of age-the basic minimum age
set in the actin occupations other
than manufacturing or mining.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
COOP HOUSING
developing
RAPIDLY NOW
New Coop Housing Projects
Completed in Minnesota and
Nova Scotia; Stand at What
Once Was "The Doorway
To the Continent"

NEW YORK.-Co-operative housing
projects in Minnesota and Nova SEQ
tia made news this week giving fur.
Their evidence that people can apply
cooperative principles to large-scale
projects once individual members
show sufficient determination, The
Cooperative League announced.
In St Paul Minnesota, the Cooper
alive Housing Association has com
pleted the first 81 homes in its hous-
ing project and will start working on
another homes in the immediate
future. The project is located on the
eastern edge of st. Paul. A similar
project in Minneapolis has completed
construction of "a homes. Two large
scale contractors built most of the
houses, but the cooperative is itself
acting as contractor for the remain
at low cost from the state to which
it had reverted for non-payment of
taxes. One architect was hired to
draw up the plans. Purchasing OF
material was under the control of the
Co-ops. The houses were insured and
financed under the Federal Housing
Administration plan and private con-
tractors built the homes under cost
plus-stipulated-sum contract. Large
savings were made in the wholesale
purchase of materials and in the pur-
chase of land comparatively.
The fourth cooperative housing
project in Nova Scotia reached com
pletion when Coop members moved
into IL new modern homes at Whitney
Pier in Cape Breton early in Septem-
Der. The cooperative project is
known as the Macarthur Cooperative
Housing Association and is located at
Princeville looking over Sydney har-
Dor Three years of persistent and
logged endeavor led to the compile
ton of the IL homes which grew out
of housing discussion group at Whit
ney Pier four years ago.
The Provincial Housing Commission
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
STATE HAS
SUBSTANTIAL
Cash BALANCE

In a report by State Auditor John
Holmes on cash balances in the prin-
ciple funds of the state on August l.
the following amounts were shown:
general fund, $90,692.19; university
millage fund, $18S,24759; public
school general, $284,714.42; state high
way, $429,262.24; liquor, 1926, 977.36;
trust and legacy, 1855, 551. 40; common
school interest and income, $685.
560.32; highway trust, $1,244, 251.61;
unemployment compensation trust ac-
count, $4,9O9,O66.7O and interest and
sinking fund, $951,714S2.
On Aug. 1, 1910, Montana's bonded
debt was s$1O,576, 224.75; this year,
August 1, it was $3.50, 72475; its
investments August 1, 1910 were $751;
1853, 2S126; this year $18,427, 698.93;
the inventory last year was $19,492,-
572.73; this year s2O,110,O87.29. The
net cash balance in all funds last year
was $14,675, 577.53; this year it was
81, 699, 701.73
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
CROPS ON TAX DEED LANDS
BELONG TO GROWER ONLY
Attorney General Rules That County Has
No Interest in Crops Grown on Land Taken
Over for Taxes Where Former Owner or
His Successor in Interests Grew the Crop.

Ruling on whether or not the coun-
ty had right to part of the crop
grown on lands on which the county
had taken tax deed, If the original
owner or orc to whom the original
owner had given a quit claim deed
and the holder of this deed offered
to redeem the land, the attorney gen.
eral ruled last Friday that the county
may not claim or recover any Of
attorney general holds, as to the orig
inal owner, if he plants crop on the
land he has had and offers to redeem
the land before the time fixed for
public sale.
The formal opinion held: where
and continued in possession and crop
ped lands, county is not entitled to
share of crop. Former taxpayer,
owner or his successor in interest may
at any time before the date fixed for
public auction sale repurchase by pay
| ing county full amount of the taxes,
penalties and interest due on the
lands at the time of taking such deed.
Such purchase and payment may be
effected by an installment contract,
such sale subject to reservations as
provided in Section 2 of Chapter III,
Laws of 1941"
Transportation of Children
In an opinion rendered on the re-
quest of County Attorney Stafford of
Cascade county for a ruling ON the
question of claim by parents having
children of school age in a district
where the trustees have closed the
school and the amounts fixed by the
trustees as payment for transporta-
ton of the children to an available
school, that the amounts offered are
insufficient the attorney general held:
Where the board of school trustees
exercises discretion in closing school
in district and amount offered as
transportation is not sufficient to pay
actual cost, then county superintend-
ent may alter schedule and increase
payment with consent of state super
intendent of public instruction in ac-
cordance with part 80 of Section
of Chapter 1852, Laws Of 1941."
Finance Companies Not Dealers
Ruling on whether finance COM
pany which has repossessed a car
must have a license to dispose of the
car the attorney general held: THAT
any person or corporation whose pri-
mary purpose is the loaning of money
and who secures title to an automo-
bile in the process of collecting the |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
COOP INSURANCE
BIGGEST IN 5 STATES

COLUMBUS, Ohio. - Cooperative
auto insurance is already leading the
caravan in five states where it holds
position as an automobile
insurer from the standpoint of auto
mobile premium income, according to
a report released this week by the
Farm Bureau Cooperative Insurance
Services.
The Farm Bureau Mutual Auto In
surance Company and the Farm Blu
reau Mutual Fire Insurance Company
stand at top rank in the following
states: Maryland, N. Carolina, Penn
sylyania, Delaware and Ohio. In the
state of Vermont, the co-operatiyes
rank second; in West Virginia, third
and in Virginia, they are seventh on
the list.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. 1. HARRIS

man, and the other members merely
as appendages.
We do not know whether any one
of the half dozen of the more than
900 employees il Henderson's division
named by Dies as having Communist
sympathies or of being affiliated with
| Communist-front organizations is a
Communist, a Communist sympa-
thiser, fellow traveller, or had ever
carried on a love affair or a platonic
/ friendship with a Communist; but you
can bet your last penny that that
doesn't worry the clustering Texan in
the slightest, so long as he has sue
ceeded in embarrassing Mr.. Hender-
son and in hurting the chances of
passage of the price fixing bill.
With hard fight forecast over the
bills passage, labor is getting set to
take an active part in pushing it
along, according to indications here.
Support for the bill is beginning to
come from all sections of the labor
lllO i<dOOl iOciiLOo thO Ueiii
gers of initiation and increased living
costs, and knows that these always
keep ahead of wage increases, so that
real wages become smaller and small
Ter.
The danger sign of the rising living
costs is not only the steadiness but
the recent accelerated pace of the
rise This is borne out by an analy-
sis of studies made by both the bu-
reau of labor statistics of the de-
partment of labor and the national
industrial conference board.
The bureau of labor statistics uses
as it's living costs index base the
average living costs for the years
1859 In June, 1899, the living costs
were thus 1856 percent of that index.
It's index for July, 1941, was 1852,
an increase of 81 percent since the
beginning of the war. At this writ
ing, the bureau figures for the month
of August have not yet been released,
but indications are that they will ex-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
APPLICATIONS
FOR PARITY
PAYMENTS MOUNT

Seventeen thousand ninety-three ap-
plications for parity payments repre-
Isenting approximately $2,195,924 paid
to Montanans under the parity phase
of the 1871 Triple-A program had been
certified for payment by September
| IL, R. j. McKenna, state Triple-A
committee chairman, announces.
This number of applications repre-
sents about 70 percent of the 23,786
we expect to receive this year." he
continued. Zone application, how
ever, may include several individual
payees as in the 1910 program when
41,742 payees received checks totaling
s3,134,000 on 1854 applications Esti-
mates are that this years payments
will total about $3,285,347."
"On the basis of these figures a
payment of about $13S will be made
on each 1871 parity application as
compared with an average payment
of about s133 on each 1910 applica-
ton" he added
Parity payments are made to
wheat producers cooperating in the
Triple A program to help them
achieve equality between the prices
they receive for their grain and the
prices they must pay for things they
buy" McKenna explained. This year
the payment is 10 cents a bushel on
the normal yield of the farms acre
age allotment To be eligible for a
full parity payment a farmer must
comply with the wheat acreage allot-
ment established for his farm"
Farmers have until December 81,
1871, to file applications at their coun-
ty Agricultural Conservation associa-
ton offices for a parity payment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
| Weather
DAMAGES
SOME CROPS

| Below normal temperatures through
out the state during the week ending
yesterday was reported by the Agri-
cultural Marketing Service and the
| Weather Bureau Some snow fell in
the higher mountains and frosts
raised havoc with gardens in scat
tered communities.
Several days of good weather dur
ing the period permitted resumption
of harvesting and threshing of late
grains in the east while elsewhere
unfavorable conditions further delayed
such operations. Additional damage
occurred to uncut grains and grain in
shock by bleaching, sprouting, shat
tering, etc. Further damage also oc-
Cured to beans, alfalfa seed, and
down hay Peas and beans were
turned in some areas to allow dry
ing. About 10 days of good weather
will be required to complete harvest
ley, spring wheat, mustard, etc.
Sugar beets and potatoes continue
generally in good condition although
the cold, cloudy weather has retarded
their progress toward maturity in
some areas. Corn harvest continued.
The apple crop in the Bitterroot Val
ley is considered to be of exceptional
good quality and quantity.
Additional fall blowing and seeding
of winter grains was done where
weather conditions permitted and soils
had dried sufficiently. Winter wheat
planted before the recent good rains
has made splendid growth, and mois-
ture now in the soil generally should
guarantee an early termination of the
wheat yet to be seeded
Ranges and pastures are very good
generally and have shown new growth
in many areas. Livestock continues
in excellent condition. Movement of
stock to market has begun with
weights of early marketed cattle being
above the average. Supplies of water
in reservoirs, streams and water holes
are generally very good.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
Dies Aids Fat Boys
In Price-ControI Fight

IN PriCe-COntrOi right
You can always depend on that
Texas gentleman, Martin Dies, to car
ry the ball for the fat boys on pinch.
And just when everybody thought
that he was deader than King Tut
himself, Dies suddenly comes to life
with a blast at Leon Henderson, the
price administrator, that made the
front pages of all the big city dailies.
The Capitol Hill reactionaries, who
regard Henderson as a very danger
Gus man because he refuses to take
his orders from Wall Street, have
been engaging in a very dirty game
TO discredit him. They started out
with whispering campaign against
the price chief The whispers said
that Henderson was not his real name
at all, but Horowitz. Then they got
bolder. Finally, Georgia's Gene Cox,
the reputed brains" of the house re-
dictionaries, made a speech in con-
gress in which he inveighed against
the aliens that President Roosevelt
had appointed to high office, and
"that person with the alias in charge
of price control"
Once this campaign got into the
open, however, it was easy to meet
ii headon, with the result that it back
fired very quickly on its authors.
Henderson's ancestors, it appears,
came to America long before Cox's
ancestors set foot on these shores,
and they carried the name of Hender-
son when they landed in pre-Revolu-
tionary days-and when they fought
in the Revolutionary, Civil, Spanish,
and World wars.
So, on the eve of further consldera-
ton by a house committee OF the
pending price-fixing bill, 1t was
deemed necessary that Mr.. Dies fetch
out the old red herring and throw
it at Henderson. He did it without
authority of his committee, but that
is nothing new for Dies, since be re-
CARDS the committee as a one-man
institution, with himself as the one
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
RAILR0ADERS
DEMANDS
JUSTIFIED
Cite Increased Efficiency,
Rise in Cost of Living,
Huge Profits Piled Up by
Nations Leading Railway
Companies.
BY ALBERT H. JENKINS
In "Kenosha Labor"

The railroad workers are asking for
wage increases and vacations with
pay. The railroads have flatly re-
fused these requests. have count
cred" them by demands which would
destroy the working conditions
achieved by long years of negotiation
between the rail labor unions and the
carriers, and have launched an expen-
siye publicity" campaign to tell the
public that the railroad employees re-
quests are unjustified and would cost
fantastic sums.
Before the public makes up its mind
on these issues, it is entitled to know
the facts on railroad labor's side. Here
are some of them;
1t s good American doctrine that
man should be paid in proportion to
his efficiency, measured by his pro
duction If railroad workers were
paid on that principle, their wages
would have doubled In the past 20
years, but in all that time they have
received only one slight increase, in
1887.
Taken From ice Reports
All that is evident from official in
terstate commerce commission re-
ports, which show:
That the number of railroad en-
ployes has been cut squarely in half,
from over 100000 in 1920 to little
more than 100000 now.
That the railroads and their EN-
ployes have so increased their eff
cheney that they are carrying as much
traffic now as they did 20 years ago,
when there were twice as many rail
workers.
Obviously, therefore, the average
railroad worker is producing twice as
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17

thoroughly case-hardened IN
their attitude of support of the
special interests. This attitude
is best indicated by the pas
sage of an amendment to the
committee bill lowering income
tax exemptions from $4,000 to
$1,000 for married persons and
$500 to $3.50 for single per-
sons while removing a 10 per-
cent tax on corporations and
permitting separate returns by
man and wife, which has been
estimated to save the wealthy
between three and four hum
bred thousand dollars annual
ly.
Twenty three senators voted against
the amendment lowering the income
tax exemptions, but except for the
five who stood pat and voted against
the bill for final passage, this vote
may be considered one for home
consumption" and to give them some
thing to boast about among the folks
back home" Except for the five who
voted consistently against the not
only vicious bill as whole but also
against the amendments question
Of sincerity of attitude on their vote
against the amendments must also lie.
The vote on the amendment lower
ing the income tax exemption follows:
Voting for the Amendment
Democrats-34
Andrews, Bailey, Bankhead, Bilbo,
Bunker, Byrd, Caraway, Connolly,
Eastland, Ellender, George, Gerry,
Green, Guffey, Hatch, Hayden, Her
ring, Hill, Johnson (Colo.), Lucas, Ma
loney, O'Daniel OMahoney, Overton,
Peace, Schwartz, Smathers, Smith,
Spencer, Thomas (Utah), Tydings,
Van Mugs, Walsh, Barley.
Republicans-9
Austin, Barbour, Brewster, Bridges,
Burton, Butler, Holman, Taft, Wiley.
Against the Amendment
Democrats-13
Adams, Bulow, Clark (Mo.), Down
ey, Hughes, Kilgore, Lee, McCarran,
Mcfarland, Murray, Roster, Russell,
Tunnel.
Republicans
Aiken, Brooks, Capper, Danaher,
LANCER, Nye, Thomas (Idaho), Tobey,
Vandenberg.
Progressive
La Toilette.
Pairs
Chandler, democrat, for the reduc-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17
SOIL BUILDING
PRACTICES
DEADLINE SET

"Soil-building practices carried out
under the 1871 Triple-A conservation
program must be completed before
September 80 for payment this year."
Chairman r. ]. McKenna of the State
Triple-A committee today reminded
operators.
"Triple-A participants who have
not yet earned all their 1941 soil-build-
ing allowance have only short time
to do so before the program year
ends,p he pointed out. There is
still time, however, to seed various
grasses, if the seeded is prepared, or
perform certain other types of con-
'servation work Soil-building prac-
tees completed later than September
80 will be paid for under the 1912
program"
Payment of a farms soil-building
allowance is dependent on the soil
building practices completed by the
operator" McKenna explained. 'Un-
der the 1910 program Montana farm
ers and ranchers earned half the max
imum payments determined for their
farms. Soil-building practices were
performed on 80 percent of farms in
the state included in the program
with an average of nearly two prac-
tees completed on each farm"
Under the 1910 conservation pro-
gram approximately s6,106,000, includ-
ing adjustments for small payments,
was paid to Montana co-operators,"
he added.
Information on how much of the
1871 soil building allowance may yet
be earned on any farm is available
at county Agricultural Conservation
association offices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17

by the board. Late advises in
dictate that he will not make
his decision today, but will
spend tomorrow in further con-
sideration and make his final
decision on his return to Evans
ton, Illinois.
The offer of the presidency to sue
coed DR.. George Finlay Simmons, was
made to Dr. Melby after special
executive session of the board held
last Saturday for the purpose of de-
of a new president, following inter
views of Dr. Melby and two other
candidates for the appointment held
at the regular session of the board
of education on Monday and Tuesday
of last week Dean c. W. Leaphart
of the university law school has been
acting president since DR.. Simmons
left office
Melby said during his visit here
last week that, if he took the
post as head of the university, his
policies would include close co-opera-
ton with other units of the university
system and development of the school
along the lines of greatest service to
the public.
Dr. Melby, so, has been head of
the education department at North
western since 1884 and is the author
of four books on educational subjects
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17

loan is not dealer as defined by the
Motor Vehicle Act and need not have
the license provided for in either Sec
ton 1850 or 1885, Revised Codes Of
Montana, 1885, in order to sell the
said automobile"
Dental Examiners Restricted
The Montana State Board of Dental
Examiners cannot legally appropri-
ate moneys from the treasury to in
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-17

Accompanied by Governor Ford and the Very Reverend
Emmett T. Riley member of the state board of education Dr.
Ernest o. Meby dean of education at Northwestern university
who has been offered the presidency of the university today
looking the physical plant of the state university and
meeting talking with various faculty members preliminary
his decision of accepting refusing the appointment made