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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

part democratic organiza-
tons, Economically run in the
interest of their members
II this is true, then it is also
true that anything which tends
to undermine unionism in Amer
lea tends also to undermine
Democracy in America. Unions
protect the ordinary men and
women Of our country in their
daily life and work. So does
Democracy. Unions protect them
against dictation by their en-
ployers, just as Democracy pro-
tects them against dictation by
their government. Unions strive
constantly to raise the standard
of living Of the American people,
just as democratic government
in America tries to do the same
thing. Essentially the only differ
ence between Americas unions
and her form of government is
a difference in size. Unions are
smaller democracies within the
one great Democracy. America
is herself really just one big
union, which includes and pro-
tects all Americans.
Anything that harms our unions
harms our democratic way of
life. An attack on a union is an
attack on the democratic way OF
life that union members have
fought to win for themselves.
There have been many signs
recently Of renewed attacks on
unions. Congress- is full of anti
union legislation these days. Pro-
posals to emasculate the Wagner
Act. Proposals to limit or kill"
the Wages and Hours law. The
professional smear committees
are always busy trying to dis
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I'''|''~> No ~ 80 7~s~t'ts OOJOCtiSCty
WE THANK OUR FRIEND MERNIN
Butte, Mont, Feb. IA, 1941
The Peoples Voice,
Helena, Mont.
Dear Mr.. Bruce
have been reading The Voice for
some months, and, although I do not
agree with everything that is printed
in the paper, l do think it is indie
pendent.
At the start of this session of the
legislature Mr.. Byrne, the majority
floor leader Of the house attacked
''The Peoples Voice" and for about
ten minutes tried to tear it apart.
Rep. Henry Mernin, liberal member
from Silver Bow, stood on his feet
in defense of The Voice and in my
opinion done a very good job.
Mr. Bruce, | think man who stood
by you and your paper, should at
least be thanked in print by The
Voice.
Hoping you will give this matter
your consideration, l am,
Yours truly, J. S.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

Missoula, Mont, Feb. II, 1941
The Peoples Voice Pub Co.,
Helena, Montana
Dear Sir and Brother:
The Peoples Voice is coming to my
home every week. l am reading the
paper with a great deal of interest,
these days especially to get the low
down on what the legislature is doing
Let us pray that there will not be too
much undetermined low down during
this session.
The governors message a m e
through over the radio in grander
style than anything have heard from
Helena heretofore. 1t sounded so true
and good that to some of us it might
almost serve as another emancipation
proclamation May it prove to be
really that, and not a Missoula Com
promise.
With best of wishes, | am,
Fraternally yours,
CARL H. CHRISTENSEN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
PRooFREADER's MISTAKE

1887 Elm Street
MissouIa, Mont,
February 9, 1941
Editor, The Peoples Voice
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr.. Bruce:
In my letter in the Issue of Feb
ruary 5 the printer slipped In one
typographical error which amounts
TO change of sense and one which
amounts to grammatical MAYHEM.
The word "congenitaI" became "con-
genial" and the phrase ito Director
Crane and me" somehow became ITO
Director Crane and l." | don't much
mind the former, but the latter puts
me in something of a cold sweat.
ITO Crane and ~ is as indefensibIy
wrong as ito Crane and to 1" or
simply ito ~; no matter how YOU
say it, the pronoun remains the OBJ
ject of the proposition. shall be
abJectly grateful If you will print
this correction. Quite possibly only
one reader in several hundred would
notice the error or know that IL is
an error; but that one is precisely
the reader to whom | should dislike
to seem iIiterate. | am sure you
appreciate the point.
Thank you for the otherwise very
fine job on the letter and on the
excerpts from the letter to TIME.
The opportunity to make known the
facts contained in them Is vital to
me and to my family. For eighteen
months now have had the weird
experience of being bIackIIsted, of
seeing my children deprived of
every elementary condition Of a de-
cent and self-respecting existence,
on the say-so of two or three ineffa-
BILE political bawds who have set
themselves up as the final author
tiles on my mind and character al
though have never worked with
any of them for even one minute,
and have talked with the one best
known to me exactly three times In
my life.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN STAHLBERG.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
Reactionaries Attack
Supreme Court Decisions

Two decisions handed down by
the supreme court the past week
brought forth volumes of denun-
citation from the conservative press
and the conservatives on Capitol
Hill, coupled with charges that the
new deal supreme court" is out to
destroy the constitution.
One of these decisions upholds the
constitutionality of the fair labor
standards (wage-hour) act and also
reverses, in so far as Interstate COM
merce Is concerned, an old decision
of the court holding the child labor
law unconstitutional. The other says
that the Sherman antitrust act is not
to labor disputes. Both de-
cisions are far-reaching and in the
public interest.
Matter of fact, law is not - and
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five to three court held that such
legislation (passed by the District
of Columbia for the protection of
women) violated the sacred" right
of liberty of contract
In the Adair case, the court, by
six to two vote, held the Erdman
act unconstitutional This act pro-
hibited public carriers from dis
eliminating against union members.
And in the Truax case, five to
four court held that a state has no
right to pass law prohibiting the
use of injunctions in labor disputes.
The legalistic reasoning of the con-
servatives on the bench in their eff
forts to maintain the social and eco
nomic status quo, has not always fol-
lowing the same pattern. While the
court, in declaring the Trip1e-A act
based it's decision on
the contention that agriculture is a
state rather than a national problem
which it is manifestly not-in the
well known second Coronado case it
held that the Sherman act was ap-
plicable to a local mine strike because
it was a national and not state
problem.
One of the real achievements of
the new deal is that it has given us
a supreme court preponderantly lib
eral, in harmony with the spirit of
the time, not bent on destroying the
but rather making the
what its trainers in
ended - an instrument Of progress,
lot of reaction.
Current Capital Chatter
The Journal of Commerce and Com
nercial, mouthpiece of Wall Street,
las this sour comment to make OF the
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stated that he had made up his mind
as to his decision in advance of the
hearings. Repetition of this error
makes the misrepresentation "delib-
crate" The witness said no such a
thing.
The minority report also will fur
nish evidence to prove that Smith
and his friends were out to smear
the NLRB, and did not even make a
pretense at fairness.
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Unions Are DemOcracies

credit unions or the
democraticaIIy electc
leaders.
But the most dangerous
attempt to smash a union
is the proposal to use the
Draft to break strikes. IT.
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Fairview, Mont, Feb. IA, 1871

Fairview, Mont, Feb Ia, 1871
Peoples Voice, Helena, Mont.
Dear Sirs: Inclosed find two dollars
for which please advance this sub
scription one year.
Mrs. R. W. Erps, Sidney, Mont. Also
renew my subscription one year. We
need such papers now as never be-
fore. If only every state in the union
could have peoples Voice" like
ours, for only "The Truth will make
us Free"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

IHIS HeduIHg, uOeS hot Imply that the
pinions expressed. Letters submitted
and the subject matter discussed, to
has ever heard of the Social Security
Old Age Assistance.
Keep on giving us the low down and
it is to be regretted that your circula-
ton is not larger and here's hoping
that it won't be long before every
voter in the state will be reading
1.-THE Peoples Voice."
Yours 10000
PARK LEA.
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Butte, Mont, Feb. Is, 1911
Peoples Voice
Helena, Mont.
My dear Cap:
Find enclosed 81 to renew my sub
scription for the coming year and
more power to you.
| am wondering if "Byrne, of Toole"
is as big a d fool as he appeared
on the Friday broadcast or is he try
ing to make a fool of us?
His statement that anything over
$25 or $26 in pensions would have to
be made up by the state" is an insult
to the intelligence Of any person who
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

II HAVE often said that
Americas unions are
one of the founda-
ton stones of Americas
Democracy. | still think
so. ! think SO because
unions are for the most
cort dsmocrafic or6aniZa-
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Sincerely yours,
S. E. FROMDAHL.

Brackton, Mont, Feb. IA, 1941
Peoples Voice Pub. Co.
Dear Sirs:
I am enclosing dollar bill for my
subscription for another year.
You have done great work through
your paper, although l do not agree
with some of it.
But l wish the best Of luck to The
Peoples Voice.
Yours truly,
G. A. QUALLEY.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
MRS. H. E. DICKEY.

Wolf Point, Mont, Feb. Is, 1941
The Peoples Voice
Helena, Mont.
Dear Mr.. Bruce:
Inclosed find a $1.00 bill please
renew my subscription for another
year, to a paper we believe people
can not do without. Your worthwhile
paper is read from cover to cover.
More power to you and the entire
staff
Sincerely yours,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

Current Capital Chatter
The Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial, mouthpiece of Wall Street,
has this sour comment to make of the
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OPINIONS OF READERS

Publication Of communications under
Voice agrees or disagrees with the 0
for this department should be brief
some degree at least. effectively
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
Today

These lines are written in St. Paul, Monday morning
Yesterday the the radio that Pearl Harbor
the fields in Honolulu had been attacked without
warning by Japanese bombing planes and extra editions OF
the later the day carried the that Japan had
declared the United States
Today undoubtedly the United congress will de-
clare Japan, which actually of dec
laration of against the axis The complete man
power and industrial facilities will be mustered for the de-
Tense of the sovereignty of our country.
Now that the die appears to have been rrevocaby cast
there is choice the news reports SO Tar received are
authentic factua outrage has been committed against
nation which cannot be condoned Our country will strike
back and must believe will do effectively and destroy
the threats national territorial integrity
have consistently believe opposed drift into
Policies and events have shaped themselves along lines
that precuded our staying at peace fo taken by various
have shown clearly that the American people did not
Today, believe that the majority with real
appraisal of the conditions existing, while still abhorrng
will that must fight 1t has become matter
sedeense Our citizens have been wantonly killed with
warning territory. There is choice
Let us however the might of the allied
nations make of this short war; it will still be for costly
costly than be measured in terms of loss of
nsensate things in in husbands brothers, IN
gush of souls sorrow, tears
Featured one the morning papers of Minneapolis
today picture taken yesterday of mother sitting
before radio leaning forward toward the instrument
listening with set features to the story OF the attack Pearl
coming the arwaves. This mother had son
there This morning she does not know whether he
alive picture have been posed but the
expression the mothers face not posed Anxiety and
clearly written there For her. probably the
eral implications the little if anything
comparison question of whether her sons life had
sacrificed the individual who has loved in the
that will always be the There CLAM
our of in the casualty lists.
There can question of disunity among the people
nation We defend land, homes and
our institutions fight together do that But
the hectic sorrowladen days ahead let give thought
be after the is Let think of the
faults in the social political and economic systems of the
lions the world which breeds There fundamen
for which should be removed Let plan
that that when sembance of peace again established
start building for possible lasting peace Tor all OF the
of world
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10

rency Let them stand Winston you can't get them back and
Iif you could the hurt would still be done II person
stuck red hot poker neck he might pull the poker
back but the burn would stay.
These high persons have to be demagogues in a
while Churchill and many like him bitterly
regret that they allowed their demagoguery to goad them into
saying what they did.
Dear reader remember Russia has only taken back terri
tory she had before the AS to the Firms Russia took
the Karean isthus Hangoe and land that lay close
railroad north 1t that Stain wise
If Finland held Kareian sthmus the Germans would
have had open door into Russia
Since the first world Europe has produced states
of the order Mustapha Renal Pasha of Turkey the
next in line is Joseph Stain
And gentle reader (f still with me let jog
your memory No matter how much they Stain in the
United States is still only Sunday school text to what they
said recently Herbert Hoover and Wendell Wie yet
they seem be pretty good citizens.
Let thoughtlessy condemn old friend Russia
She and England from recognizing the
southern Conederacy during Civil The Russians
brave and kindly people, They struggling successfully
to build order freedom in the place of desposm and
ranny They allies. Remember that the Press
and the politicians have to not Russia
It might be you and me-
A PEOPLES VOICE SUBSCRIBER
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The Conventions In St. Paul

Convention of the mammoth cooperative business insti
buttons of the Farmers Union being held this week Farm
stockholders and directors of local affiliated
operatives gathered the four northwest states Mon
ana North Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin, to hear the
the and boards of the Farmers Union Grain
Terminal Association the Farmers Union Central Exchange
the Union Livestock Commission Company their
organizations and plan for the future services of these
situations
New and greater problems for consideration by these
stockholders at these conventions have been raised for them
by the incidents of Sunday which has precptaed the
try of against In their planning
the immediate future their decisions must be based not
only the interests of their cooperative Institutions but
the relationship of the institutions themselves to the
try whole That these typfying the most subsan
tial elements among people, will do this without
saying
There than note of seriousness in the de-
these bodies this year These farmers who have
their intelligence by their ability organize these great
institutions work together for their mutual good
the solution of the perplexng problems which they
be depended to make the most real
buon the needs of the country actual emergency
They fought economic battles against great
posing interests and have thereby built institutions which in
ownership and control and services typy to the
highest degree the fundamental essentials of democracy
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-10
Life Must Go On

1t WILL perhaps be hard for many of to think about
everyday problems for time to The stunning
effect of incidents which led into will not
wear off" very quickly.
We should, must make the effort to preserve our
sight of the important fact that the work
do the thoughts think and individuals,
contribute aggregate of all that makes up the life
the nation 1t is responsibility to keep heads and
do the work that have to do efficiently
Many contend that it unmely to stress, at this
time the Chores have hands to do in
of Montana insist that the time above all
when should give serious thought the inter
Of the common people in our state
Next year is election year. The people will then
representatives who will in session. from next
January laws existing laws and repeal per-
haps those statute books And these laws
new or will affect ALL That is important to
member.
Unless the by that tme the need for calm
sane responsible representatives thoroughly mbued with
responsibility toward the people of the state and their
welfare important than before There
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the treasury from the deposit &C
counts created under number l.
The percentage of the discount
would be the percentage at "cost of
production, which the value of cur.
rent agricultural SURPRISES bore to the
total agricultural production. In the
case Of articles consisting only in part
OF agricultural raw material the dis
count would be allowed only on the
value of the agricultural content of
the article in question.
4. Upon notification by the secre-
tary Of agriculture that SURPRISES of
domestically produced agricultural
commodities over and above normal
inventory requirements, have ceased
to exist, the secretary of the treasury
shall withdraw the unexpended bal
ance, If any, of the. above mentioned
special deposits still standing to the
order of the treasury and shall sus-
pend the operation of the discount.
The surplus currency so withdrawn
shall be retired.
So, Mr.. Editor, you see that foreign
competition in agricultural production
would cease.
Yours truly,
H. G. B. COLvILL.
The following adoption from Robin
son Crusoe might be appropriate.
"Oh Parity" where are the charms
That thousands have seen on thy
cheek.
When the men who work hard on
farms
Should get only one fifty week.
How much better to make us a law
That Cost of Production be paid
For everything raised there by Paw,
Nav, Jimmy and Sister the maid.
The Taxpayer can never object
If the plan / enclose, you adopt,
While initiation we'll sure be subject |
If Parity pays for what they have
cropped. H. G. B. G.
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ON OUR
DOORSTEP
BY PARKER t. ANDERSON


Our war economy is reaching deep
into the uttermost recesses of the
nation. 1t is being brought home to
tycoon and yeoman what sacrifices
are necessary to barricade our shores
against the enemy regardless of the
color of his skin or the mockery of
his pretense. The cost doesn't weigh
heavily against he moral and
spiritual issues involved if Woodrow
Wilson'S dream of real league of
nations with police powers can be or
ganized in the end.
The postoffice department has
started out to make retrenchments In
the service of rural carriers. In many
communities this can not be done
without seriously impairing mail de-
liveries. For many years the big flat
country which is roughly 40 miles
long and half as wide has had three
carriers whose tasks were arduous in
winters of heavy snowfall. During a
recent visit of an inspector one carrier
was eliminated at a saving of 5000 to
the department. Thrice a week one
carrier must now make round of 55
miles which precludes resorting to
Dobbin and the one-horse sleigh. Part
of this route is through rough country
innocent Of dragline or grader. When
roads are blocked ranchers may ex-
pect mail once or twice a week. I am
if urban mail service is
being curtailed SO drastically.
The American people have long
been looked upon as MASTERS. The
splendid forests of the United States
were cut and slashed without the
effort for conservation and
priceless oak, walnut, ash, poplar,
maple and white pine was rolled into
leaps and burned as rubbish. Only
slightly more than two-thirds of our
coal is extracted from our mines. The
is inextricably interlocked
n Stag and rubble. Our gas and oil
ields present vivid examples of Law
sh waste and we have just begun to
urn the flood waters of our rivers
nto the sinews of industry The most
DEVASTATING waste of all during the
ate depression was man power. Now
he government is teaching lesson
n thrift by setting people to work
scrap metals. A little fore
light would have conserved these re-
ourceS over a period of wears in
tead of selling them to alien ma
ions to enable them to arm against
s.
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In OTHER
WORDS
By JOHN sTAHLBERG

This is written on the evening Of
December 7th.
During the past few hours the little
men of Tokyo have answered many
sincere but unhappy doubts, and have
adjourned all minor disagreements
among American citizens 1t is too
bad that we must have the slaughter
and insane suffering of war; but
when nation is attacked it fights,
and that is all there is to 1t.
On this Sunday evening, two and a
half weeks before Christmas, there
seems only one thing to say, and 1870
million Americans are saying it to-
gether in one way or another:
They've asked for it. They've
started it. Okay; let 'em have it,"
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may be extraordinary then the part of hyerca
people and organizations for laws which completely negate
democratic principles The industrial organizations in
the state with their ownership of the ordinary channels of in
formation the daily papers, may take advantage of the
dton of the public mind freedom exploit
the workers and the of the state The
pie must not forget that if they protect what they have
they must be their guard They will certainly take advan
age unless the people their rights Be that the
representatives select next will YOUR in
teres No one but you make the selection.