The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-12

Pin. the primaries only after he
has been approved by the ma
chine politicians who always
participate in and would con-
troll all conventions as they did
in the past.
Showing its true colors and control.
the lower house this week killed two
bills of outstanding public interest
One of these was House Bill SO which
would have provided for the continu-
ance of sponsorship of work relief
projects by cities and counties; the
federal program which has brought
about construction of county roads,
the improvement of city streets, the
building of school houses and other
public buildings with the aid of fed
eral funds throughout the state and
has relieved the municipalities and
counties of tremendous burdens by
making it possible for the victims Of
unemployment in private industry to
earn a living by useful work on these
public projects. The roll call vote
on this measure is carried elsewhere
in this issue of The Voice, and GER
tainly every reader will be interested
in finding how his representative
voted. A vote for the measure, in
simplest terms, would be a vote for
federal government dollars for your
city or county and a saving to your
city and county on its relief load. A
vote against it means that your rep
resentative helped to deprive your To-
cality of the possibility of securing
needed improvement with the aid of
federal funds and saddled the entire
relief load on your community.
The other measure which was de-
feated was House Bill "a which would
have placed the responsibility for the
payment of compensation to victims
of silicosis on the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company, instead of on the
taxpayers of the farms and business
institutions of the state as is true un-
der the provisions of Senate Bill
which the company machine rushed
through both houses with greater
speed even than the rapidity with
which the feed" bill is ordinarily
passed.
1t is, of course, obvious that silicosis
can be contracted in Montana only
In its mines and smelters, but the
dominance of the company was clearly
indicated when this bill passed. In
he record of the roll call vote on lib.
"a, which is published in this issue of
The Voice, will be found the names of
from counties which
nave no mines of any sort, but who
took orders from the cor
his measure. AS an example of this
breed, may be mentioned Representa-
i've Lippard of Chouteau, an agrfcul-
.ural county, who not only voted
against placing this responsibility
upon the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company, but is reported to have
taken the floor in support of the COM
pany's interests. In his particular
case from observation of his general
attitude, he was quite Gin character"
IN doing so. The farmers in that
should remember this in 1912,
as should the ordinary taxpayer in all
remember the name of every
who voted against this
measure in this session
Revenue Measures
With various measures for addi-
.ional revenue to carry the load of
adequate old age pensions and other
measures of necessary relief, none Of
hem have, up to the time this is writ
en-, been reported out by the revenue
and taxation committee where most of
hem are under consideration.
Their appearance on the floor of the
house will be the signal for the be-
ginning of the battles of the session."
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