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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-06
new farm
PUBLICATION
AVAILABLE
"Facts for Farmers" Form
erly Published in Washing
ton Now Published in New
York City; Will Be Monthly
and Among Farmers.

Volume 1, No. of new Facts
for Farmers" published by Farm Re
search Coop and edited by Charles J.
Coe, liberal writer, hos now appeared
and will be published monthly. Else
where In this issue of The Voice will
be found an advertisement Of the new
publication, which we are glad to rec
ommend to our readers.
In its statement of policy in the
first issue, 1t says.
Facts for Farmers will report and
discuss the key events most closely
affecting the lives of farm and rural
people. In Analysing farm legislation,
issues, or proposals, it's point of view
will be that of the family-sized farm
ers.
I'VE do not feel that any justifica-
ton of this point of view is needed.
In the last five years, 715,OO0 farms
disappeared, according to the Census
count, even though the total acreage
in farms climbed to a new peak II
is the family-sized farms that are be-
ing pushed out of commercial pro-
duction and swallowed up'-the very
farms which have so long been rec
ognized as the backbone OF Amer
lean democracy"
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WAGE-H0UR
RESTITUTION
MADE BY BANK

The first completed legal action
brought by the wage and hour divi-
sion, against any bank resulted in
payment of restitution to five en-
ployees of the First National Bank of
ST.. Charles. Minnesota, it was re-
ported on Monday to General Philip
B. Fleming, administrator of the wage
and hour division, U. S. department
of labor.
Payment was made under the terms
of consent decree, signed by Judge
Matthew M. Joyce in the U. S. district
court in Minneapolis on July s, per-
manently enjoining the firm from
further violations of the fair labor
standards act Judgment was entered
after Frank ]. Kramer, president of
the bank, waived defense to com
plant filed by Donald M. Murtha, re-
gional attorney for the division which
charged that the firm had failed to
comply with the overtime provisions
of the law since 1t became effective
in October, 1888 and had kept mac
curate and inadequate records Of
hours worked and pay received by
its. employees
That the workers involved were
covered by the federal law was un-
questioned, as they were engaged in
receiving and transmitting in inter-
state commerce checks, notes, drafts,
commercial paper of various kinds,
and evidences of Indebtedness and
other instruments of commerce and
relative to transfer of
tangible and intangible property in
other states. While the total amount
of restitution involved was only 1913,
this case is significant as an action
based on the Interpretation that banks
whether large or small are engaged in
interstate commerce within the mean
ing of the law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-06
FARMERS URGED
TO ARRANGE
wheat STORAGE
Experiment Station Suggests
Plan for Temporary Storage
Which Are Comparatively
inexpensive and Offer Some
Reasonable Grain Protection.

BOZEMAN.-With a critical wheat
storage shortage situation already at
hand and with near-bumper crop
being harvested in Montana, farmers
who may be caught without adequate
permanent storage facilities in eleva-
tors or on their farms are urged to
provide temporary storage that will
protect their grain until it can be
moved later to permanent storage.
This was the recommendation of
officials of the Montana agricultural
experiment station and Montana ex-
tension service at meeting held this
week at Montana State college to sur
vey the present storage situation.
1t was pointed out that many farm
ers who do not have permanent stor-
age available are planning to pile
their wheat on the ground on the
assumption that it can be moved with
in 80 days or so to permanent storage.
However, the officials say, there is
no assurance that such piled wheat
can be moved in 80 days, and leaving
it unprotected in the open offers too
great risk.
A number of suggestions are made
for temporary storage space and, of
course, the ingenuity of farmers will
result in other methods.
One of the most practical Of these
is the fashioning of circular cribs or
bins out of woven wire field fence.
A double layer of fencing arranged
on wooden platform in circular
shape with heavy building paper Or
tar paper between the thicknesses of
wire will make fairly grain-tight bin.
A heavy gauge wire, preferable or 10
gauge, should be used and the ends
securely wired together. After it is
filled the bin should be covered with
heavy paper and straw.
Such bins can be made in various
sizes and following are the approx
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PRICE FIXING ON farm PRODUCTS
DRAWS STRONG OFFICIAL PROTESTS

held last month at which representa-
ton was limited to producer groups:
1--WE oppose any federal policy by
the executive. or by congressional en-
actment, which is designed to place
maximum prices upon commodities,
particularly those of agriculture, until
such time as agriculture is on an
equal footing with industry and labor,
and we further oppose rigid price fix
ing under even those conditions, but
suggest policy of sterilization rather
than price-pegging.
"In the execution of its price policy
program the control of and maniten-
ance of agricultural commodity prices
should be retained in the department
of agriculture and should not be trans
ferred to any other branch of the gov
eminent"
The price fixing legislation which
was introduced In both the house and
the senate last Monday drew imme-
date fire from the representatives
from agricultural sections and though
sponsors of the legislation were anx-
ious to make appeasement conces-
sions, the ones offered did not satisfy.
The provisions In the bills would
prohibit the president from establish
ing any price ceiling below ITO per-
cent of parity or below the market
prices on July 20. Parity prices as
defined are such as would give farm
ers the equivalent income from their
products in terms of other commodi-
ties, as the products would have
brought during a designated base pc
riod, in most cases, 1909-14 Many
objections are made to this method
of computing parity prices"
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Strike Bulletin
and "Scab" List
Editors Note: Published by re-
quest Of organized labor in Flat

Editors Note: Published by re-
head county,
Columbia Falls, Montana
August 2, 1871
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers and Joiners of America, one OF
the oldest and largest labor organi-
cations in the world has the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers as one of its
branches. Organizing work among
the lumber workers of Montana has
been in progress for more than three
years. AS a result of this organizing
effort some fifteen hundred men in
western Montana are now members of
the Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union.
Collective bargaining with employ
ers, through negotiating committees
elected by the membership, has been
progressively carried on by local I'M
ions at Libby, Troy, Kalispell, Mis-
soula, Poison, Hamilton and in sew
eral logging camps. This collective
bargaining in good faith has resulted
in THE ACCEPTANCE OF UNION
SHOP working agreements as the
best method for democratically ham
ding labor problems.
Majority opinion both among the
workers and among the major en-
ployers has unquestionabIy expressed
itself. UNION SHOP agreements are
now operating to the mutual advan-
tage of employer and employee in the
above named Montana communities.
The lumber industry is booming, with
night and day shifts quite common in
most mills.
But have a look at the situation at
Half Moon, where Lumber and Saw
mill Workers Local 2779, organized
since 1888, Is now on strike against
the F. H. Stoltze Land and Lumber
Company Months of negotiating eff
fort on the part of the union COM
mencing last winter, were of no avail
as Local 2797 endeavored to carry for
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1.-THE state now claiming that
they should have been can
celled with the unearned pre-
MUM computed on a pro rata
basis and not on the short term
rate basis.
Mr.. Bonner's letter to the insurance
company follows:
August A. 1941
Pearl Assurance Company, Ltd.
80 Johns Street
New York City, New York.
Gentlemen:
Demand is hereby made upon you
for the sum of $39,SO942 together
with interest at the rate of six per
cent per annum from the second day
of December, 1886, said sum repre-
senting the difference between the
short rate earned premium and the
earned premium on a pro rata basis
on your policy of insurance No.
4263441 issued to the State of Mon
tana, which policy was cancelled as
of December 2, 1886, by the agreement
dated March Is, 1887.
This demand is based upon the
ground that the State of Montana
was entitled to the return of un-
earned premium computed upon pro
rata basis rather than short rate
basis upon the cancellation of said
policy.
In the event of your failure to pay
this amount within a reasonable time
from the date of receipt hereof, suit
will be instituted against you for the
collection of said principal sum and
interest.
Very truly yours,
JOHN w. BONNER,
Attorney General.
&C. O'Connor e. Farber
Attorneys at Law
Attorney General Bonner's demand
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that the Rural Rehabilitation
program be abolished anc
needy farm families be put or
WPA. The Tenant Purchase
programs of the FSA would
also be turned over to the State
Extension and Soil Conserva-
ton Services and administered
by the county agents whom
they control.
Having put through the 18th Con-
gress the measure to provide for in
creased government loans on cotton
and other farm products over the OPP
position of President Roosevelt and
officials of the Department of Agri-
culture. the Farm Bureau now seeks
the destruction of the only agency OF
government that has given any help
to the little man of the land.
In Alabama, which is the home of
Edward O'Neal, national president,
the Farm Bureau is arousing consid-
cradle sentiment in favor of abolition
of the tenant program. The Farm
Security Administration is charged
with interfering with labor and ad-
ministering it's program in such way
that landlords are unable to secure
farm hands to work on their planta-
tions for little or no pay
Two-thirds of the farm families IN
Alabama are tenants or sharecroppers
and one out of every ten is client
of Farm Security Administration. The
Alabama Farm Bureau claims mem
bership of $4,000 while FSA has 3l,O0O
families on its program. The big
landlords are organized while the FSA
clients and 275,OO0 more farm families
lust like them are unorganized. The
Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
which is now being extended to all
southern states, is just beginning or
ganization in Alabama.
The Farm Bureau started out as
landlords organization prior to the
last world war and was formed local
ly to secure the services OF trained
agricultural expert in each county, "A
County Agent" Often the members
of the Farm Bureaus put up his en-
tire salary. The County Agent was
usually the ecretary-treasurer OF the
Bureau or held another important Of
flee.
Indirectly sponsored by the depart
ment of agriculture, meeting OF varl-
ous state declarations was held in Chi
caeo in November of 1919 and ma
tional organization formed. In 1883
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Nazi "Peace" Offensive
Ready for Launching


There is more than mere talk to
these reports of a Nazi peace" Of
fensive in the making. Informed quar-
tiers here know that certain British
appraisers already have been given
the terms of the "peace" offer, and
that these appeasers have been hold
ing secret meetings with Nazi repre-
sentatives helping to map out plans
for the offensive. Nazi dupes and ap-
peasers in the United States and
other countries also are said to be
in on the grand strategy.
Of course, it's a gold brick that the
Nazis are offering, but it is being
wrapped in a most attractive package
to make it easier for the goldbrick
statesmen to peddle NOT ONLY is
BRITAIN TO BE TOLD THAT SHE
CAN SETTLE THIS AFFAIR WITH
HER EMPIRE VIRTUALLY INTACT,
BUT SHE is EVEN TO BE OFFERED
GUARANTEES FOR HER FUTURE
SECURITY, according to some very
reliable information. Just how Hitler
and his regime can offer guarantees
against future aggression in which
anybody can have confidence is not
quite clear, but something is being
Matched up to fool a lot of people.
Reports are that Churchill and his
government will not be fooled by the
Nazis bogus "peace" statesmen and
their high-pressure talk, regardless OF
the steam that will be applied by the
appeasers of his own country and the
rest of the world. Nothing short OF
the overthrow of the Churchill regime,
it is believed in official circles here,
can bring about British-Nazl peace
conference They know that all that
the Nazis want is time to consolidate
their European conquests and make
the New Order Of Europe going
concern. Hitler believes in one step
at time.
Nevertheless, the Nazi peace
bandwagon is being fitted out to take
the road-and in the drivers seat you
will be able to recognize some we'll
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-06
BAck-WAGEs
HUNTING 900
EMPLOYEES

MINNEAPOLIS-An extensive man
hunt is underway in the northwest
today to find more than 900 workers
| to share in some $4,000 made avail
able to them as result of what prob
ably will be one of the largest back
pay agreements obtained in this re-
Eion by the Wage and Hour Division,
U. s. department of labor.
The workers sought are former en-
ployees of four railroad servicing
firms which operate extensively in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illi-
nois, North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington and other
states. Under a consent decree signed
in u. S. district court here last week,
present and former employees are to
receive back pay checks ranging from
few cents, for itinerant workers, to
sizeable sums, for veteran employees.
The restitution checks will represent
back pay for overtime work performed
for the firms since the Fair Labor
Standards Act (Wage and Hour law
Some checks also will represent pay
ment to bring the rate of pay of the
workers up to the minimum of rs
cents per hour which existed during
the first year of the laws operation,
and 80 cents per hour since,
The firms making the restitution
the the Addison Miller Company; Ad-
olson Miller, Incorporated, Mime
sofa corporation; Great Northern Ic-
ing Company, a Washington corpora
ton; and Addison Miller Inc, Ill)
an Illinois corporation. The firms
perform services for railroads, such
as coaling, watering, icing of refriger-
ator cars, etc.
L. A. Hill, Minneapolis, regional di-
rector of the Wage and Hour division,
pointed out that responsibility for To-
eating former employees so they may
be paid off rests upon the firms.
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REPORT SAYS
farm PRICES
ON INCREASE

The general level Of farm prices in
Montana in mid-July was up 2 points
over that of month earlier, accord
ing to the U. S. department of agri.
cultures monthly price report. At 10S
per cent of the 1909-1914 base period
the July index was also up % points
compared with year earlier Meat
animals and poultry prices led an adj
vance that found other groups apa-
thetic, the grains, fruit, and miscel-
laneous products showing no change
for the month, while dairy products
slipped back a point. While the farm
product price index rose points, the
index of prices farmers pay rose 8
points thus leaving the ratio Of prices
received to prices paid practically I'M
changed for the month.
The general level of prices received
by farmers at local markets during
the month ended July rs advanced Z
points to continue a rise that has to-
tailed 90 points since March Is, the
U. S. department of agriculture re-
ported today. At 1875 per cent of the
1904 average, prices of farm prod
ucts were higher on July Is than for
any month since March 1887. On July
Is, last year, prices were only So per
cent of the pre-war level.
The price advance was quite gen.
eral, with all groups of products ex-
cept fruit and truck crops sharing in
it. The cotton and cottonseed group
was IA points higher on July Is than
a month earlier; meat animals 10
points higher; chickens and eggs were
up points; dairy products 8 points;
and grains points Compared with
year ago all groups were higher.
Meat animals were up a points; cot
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and their indebtedness to Russia is
both deep and sincere, even today.
AS late as this spring, | talked to
large numbers of Spanish workers
who even looked to Russia for their
ultimate deliverance from Fascism,
though they were not themselves gen
uine Communists. Their trust in their
former ally was almost pathetic. They
would speak up eagerly, even in
casual street corner or safe CONVEX
sations, once they learned l was an
American and the ice was conse-
quently broken.
Trust Russia to Save Them
What of Russian" they would ask
in low, confidential tones, eyes shin
ing Russia is big and strong; Russia
will save Europe before this war is
over" So earnest was their faith, and
so feeble their information on this
subject, that | did not have the heart
TO disillusion them as to Joseph
Stains role in power politics.
The remaining Spaniards who re-
joice at the new turn of events are
the few. They are the Falangists who
control the government, plus the
minority groups of Carlists, conserva-
tive churchmen and upper class Right
lists. who made war on the so-called
Spanish Reds.
Diversion Was Badly Needed
These Fascist groups were greatly
embarrassed when their ally, Adolf
Hitler, signed a non-aggression pact
with Stain; and their relief three
weeks ago when Germany marched
eastward was explosive. Falangists
surged through the streets of the ma
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. I. HARRIS

known American appeasers and iso
lationists. Also, you will be able to
recognize some of the Nazi dupes
from nominally neutral and allegedly
free countries Portugal, Swe
den, and even some of the countries
below the Rio Grande. Their cry will
be: "The Communists are the only
ones who stand to lose by this peace;
why should the world fight to save
Communism ?"
How soon will the peace" offensive
get under way? No doubt, the troubles
that the Nazis have experienced in
their eastern campaign have delayed
it's start But if you watch the utter
ances of our appeasers and isolation
lists who are ON more or less speak
ing terms" with the Nazis, both in
and out Of congress, you won't have
any difficulty knowing when it's
started.
Price-Fixing Bill
Does Not Include Labor
Reactionaries on Capitol Hill are
not taking kindly to the fact that
wages of labor are not included In
the Administrations price-fixing bill.
Labor would regard such a provision
with the greatest of misgivings, and
undoubtedly would have fought the
bill had the fixing of wages been in
cluded. The bill also seeks to remove
farmer opposition by providing that
the prices of certain farm products
cannot be fixed below parity. Parity
prices is what the farmers have been
fighting for for years.
Although there is going to be lot
of vociferous opposition to the bill
on the part of those who fear any
kind of government control over bust
ness, nobody doubts that it will pass.
The chief fight win be over whether
price-fixing shall be largely one-man
affair, with Leon Henderson as price
car, or whether prices shall be fixed
by a commission. The conservatives
do not like Henderson because he is
far too liberal for them, and they fear
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TENANT FARMERS
have new
PUBLICATION
Southern Tenant Farmers
Union Starts Publication of
Official Paper in Memphis,
in May This Year; Devoted
To Improvement of Farmers.

Printed on slick" paper in tabloid
form, the Southern Tenant Farmers
Union is now in the field with an Of
ficial paper Of the organization called
1.-THE Tenant Farmer"
The new publication which is well
coined into the fold of liberal farm
journals, is geographically pleasing,
and well edited, and voicing as 1t does
effectively, the interests of a strong
organization, it should have a distinct
beneficial effect on remedying condi-
lions of living among the tenant farm
ers and sharecroppers of the county.
The best Of success to it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-08-06
Peace Offensive
BY Ray Brock, writing from Ankara'
Turkey, for the New York Times:

Turkey, for the New York Times:
Germany's long-awaited peace or
fensive will not be postponed until
the end of the so-German war Du'
already has been started In the neu
! trail capitals of Europe 1t is known
that a certain German diplomatic
personality admitted nervousness
over the outcome of the Russian cam
paign, emphasizing that In his opinion
German failure to crush the Soviet
could only mean revolution through
out Europe, with Bolshevism trium
phant upon the continent.
The German press and radio, 1t is
reported, have been instructed to con-
centrate more and more upon anti
Bolshevist themes anr less and less
against Britain. German army leaders
in their private conversations are rep
resented as expressing open admira'
ton for the courage of British air
men, British troops and the British
civil population under German air
raids. This courage proves, the Ger
mans have told neutrals, that Britain
and Germany have the racial link OF
Nordicism, that two such peoples
must have an equal hand in the man.
agement of Europe and that only
some negligible differences in politi-
cal philosophy stand in the way of
Anglo-G German cooperation against the
perils of bolshevism.
Becomes a Real Campaign
One of the foremost diplomatic OBJ
servers has expressed the conviction,
based upon this information from Ger
many and the occupied countries and
an analysis of the German press and
radio in recent weeks, that this tech
nique is being employed in the most
perfected German pattern as the open
ing wedge to a second German pro-
posal for peace with Britain.
He expressed the belief that Berlin
is now engaged in campaign ex-
tending throughout Europe to pro-
mote through radio, press and the
spoken word-dinned into neutral
diplomats and travellers and directed
toward British ears-the proposition
that only an end to the Anglo-German
war and a common front against the
Soviet can save this hemisphere from
revolution and chaos.
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Commissioner of Agriculture fol
Montana, Albert H. Kruse this weeb
added his protests to those of the
agricultural officials of most of the
other states, against any price fixing
on agricultural products, until the
plans for price fixing of the products
of all other industries are more clear
ly defined In response to a request
from the chairman of the senate com.
mittee on agriculture, asking for his
opinion on price fixing proposals, Mr.
Kruse sent the following telegram:
Helena, Montana
August 2, 1871
Senator E. d. Smith,
Chairman, Agriculture Committee,
u. S. Senate,
Washington, d. c.
/ am of the opinion that the farmers
of this state are opposed to fixing
prices on farm commodities until such
time as they know what the general
plan is for industry. 1t seems unfair
to me to place a ceiling on farm
products now when the farmer has
been receiving below parity for years.
Advantage should be taken Of the OPP
portunity at this time to place a min
imum price on products Of the farm
preferably at parity.
ALBERT H. KRUSE, Commissioners
Agriculture, Labor & Industry
Fast Telegram.
Various organizations have also ex-
pressed their opposition to price fix
ing on agricultural products. Among
them, the National Cooperative Milk
Producers Federation adopted the
following policy at national meeting