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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10

pected to enable 100000 students to
continue their education during the
1941-42 academic year, NYA Admin
istrator Aubrey Williams announces
Government funds have now been al
located for 111,383 new homes for de-
Tense workers and enlisted men in the
states of Massachusetts, California,
Alabama, North Carolina, Nevada,
Illinois, Ohio, and Arkansas. =. Sen
ator LANCER, North Dakota, wants the
government to establish and operate
plants for manufacture of power fuel
from surplus agricultural products
and from Ignite, both as a method
for aiding agriculture on longtime
basis and for helping to relieve the
current gasoline shortage on the At
lantic seaboard. A bill introduced by
him last week asks for an appropri-
alton of $100000,000 for establishing
such plants under the supervision of
the Secretary of Agriculture, and pro-
poses that law be enacted making it
mandatory that not less than 10 per-
cent of volume of motor fuel be alco-
hol manufactured from agricultural
products. The aircraft industry
soon is expected to set aside frac-
ton of their plants for manufacture
of planes for the Soviet Union. 1t is
in this connection that the new Rus
sian mission, which flew to this coun-
try via Alaska, arrived here last week.
The planes will not be paid for from
Lease-Lend funds. Movement of
iron ore on the Great Lakes for the
month of July reached an all-time
429 $500 long tons. /. Earle
Clap, acting chief of the U. S. Forest
Service says that most of the cutting
of timber to meet defense demands is
of the destructive variety. He de- |
mands nationwide regulation of tim
Der cutting. -. 1t is generally recog- |
nized that the civilian defense pro- |
gram, of which Mayor La Guardia is |
the head, although not flop, is badly |
tagging. President Roosevelt |
makes no effort to conceal the fact |
that the small business man has not |
been taken in on the defense pro- |
gram, but says that this condition will |
be speedily corrected. The fat boys |
have hogged all the defense contracts |
for patriotic" motives. Labor |
here is making determined fight |
against the new tax bill, particularly |
against the lowering of exemptions |
for income tax for married people to
81 500, and for single persons to $3.50.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
MONT. WORKERS
GET BACK PAY

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. ga total OF
$S,0S3.51 in backwages was secured
for 80 employees of firms in Montana
during July and August, L. A. Hill,
regional director of the wage and hour
division, U. S. department of labor, an
nounced today.
The amounts paid were adjustments
for various payments below the mini
mum wage or overtime standards set
by the Fair Labor Standards Act of
1888, and in the majority of cases
were made voluntarily without the
necessity of legal action, Mr. Hill said.
Firms in Billings paid s3,O53.32 to
20 workers. The other establishments
were located in Great Falls, Hamilton,
Kalispell, Basin, Missoula, and Laurel.
Gold mines, creameries, auto parts
firms, and other business establish
ments engaged in interstate commerce
came into compliance after inspection
by local wage and hour representa-
tives.
The regional total of SAL, 1898 was
obtained for 1854 workers. OF this
amount, Minnesota employers paid
$25,205.41 to 74O workers; North Da-
kota, $S,062,53 to 1873; South Dakota,
S5,515.77 to 125.
These figures are comprised only
of cases closed by the regional office
during July and August and do not
include settlements agreed to or or
dered by court but NOT VET maid Re-
stitution to be made by the Addison
Miller Company, st. Paul, Minnesota
and affiliates, as a result of legal ac-
ton in July, and involving payment
of from 100000 to $15O,OOO to be
made to some 900 workers through
out the northwest, is not included in
the two months summary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
Trespassing-
Continued from Page One)
dence will be given the committee


Aircraft Industry Asked
To Go On 7-Day Week
In an effort to speed up production
of warplanes, the government has pri-
yately asked the airplane companies
to go on 7-day week, 24-hour day
basis, this column learns.
Most of the companies at present
are operating on 5-day week, 24-hour
day, basis, although a few are doing
some overtime work. Chief obstacle
to going on 7-day week basis i'm
mediately, the aircraft companies con-
tend, is shortage of supervisory per-
sonnet, although the question of short
age of materials, particularly alumni
mum, also enters the picture. How
ever an increase of work days is ex-
pected to be worked out gradually.
Concentration of effort is conferred
on increasing the output of bombers,
both medium and heavy, especially
the latter, although an increase Of all
craft also is wanted. Some of the
medium bombers are able to reach
Berlin from Britain in air raids, car
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
STUDENTS TOLD
TO CONSULT
DRAFT BOARD

Registrars who contemplate resum
should first consult their local boards
to ascertain approximately how soon
they may be called for military train
ing, e. NJ. Birely, state director of
selective service, announced today
While deferments from military
training are being granted students
who are preparing to enter certain
occupations in which shortages of
manpower exist or are indicated, Di-
rector Birely said, there are no group
or blanket deferments. Each case
must be acted upon individually by
the local board having jurisdiction,
and unless student can qualify as
IA necessary man" under selective
service regulations he is liable to be
called for induction when his order
number is reached. He said:
ut is the policy of the selective
service system to be as lenient as
possible within the law in cases of
young men who are earnestly pursu-
ing educational opportunities. Where
such men have entered in good faith
upon an educational course, we will
endeavor not to interrupt their studies
during quarter or a semester even
if they are not seeking to qualify for
an occupation that is exceptionally
important for national defense
my advice to these young men,
therefore, is to consult with their To-
cal boards and find out when they
probably will be called to qualify for
military training If the probability
is more remote than month or so,
they may begin their studies with
the understanding that they can at
least complete quarter. In the same
way it may seem probable, according
to their order numbers, that they can
complete a semester or a full school
year"
The general policy Director Birely
said, will be one of cooperation with
the object of not causing a sudden
of studies or financial
loss to the student through inability
to continue through a quarter or SEM
ester for which tuition has been paid
This, he said, can be accomplished
by the local board granting a stay of
induction until the end of such period
to student who is called for mill
tary training.
There are number of specialized
Director Birely said, for
which students who give reasonable
promise of becoming acceptable prac-
titioners are being deferred on rec
of the Office of Produc-
ton Management. Procedure for the
deferment of such students has been
worked out by the American Council
Of Education in collaboration with Ma
Lional Selective Service headquarters.
It is set forth in Bulletin No. 10, is
sued by the council, and provides for
getting into the hands of the local
board of Student Statement of In
concerning his status and
plans, and an affidavit by his college
Dr. university in which the college
officials testify as to his standing, |
courses and occupational detectives, |
ogether with a general evaluation of |
he student as a necessary man" for |
deferment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
Preparedness


Continued from Page One)
sent out for the registration of farm.
ers, professional men and others with
out social security numbers.
The state office contacted every
concern in the state that has license
to sell coal, urging them to cooper
ate in trying to get every householder
and business block to store their win
ter's supply of fuel during the sum-
mer months so railroad cars now used
to haul coal will be free for the han
ding of defense material during the
winter months. The response to this
appeal has been very good.
Secretary Albert H. Kruse, who is
also the commissioner of agriculture,
is working on project that should
be a big benefit to dairy farmers of
| the state by attempting to get the
government to put watts for cheese
making on priority basis to that all
creameries interested can secure the
necessary equipment. He is also
working through the commission to
seek a technical man to come into
the state and instruct the dairymen
in the latest method of making cheese
so it will meet the specifications for
government purchase.
Secretary Kruse urged farmers
through contacts, talks, and with
newspaper and radio publicity to
build wheat storage bins ON their
farms in order that they could take
care of the bumper wheat crop and
come under the AAA program for
wheat loans as loans ON wheat will
not be made If stored on the ground
Wonderful response was met on this
Meat packers of the state were
called to Helena to meet at the COM
mission office to see what could be
done in the way of assisting them.
1t was determined that the getting of
federal inspectors at all packing
plants so they could take federal con-
tracts for meat grown and processed
in Montana was needed. The state
railroad commission is helping in an
effort to get better freight rate on
meat products to the coast as there
is discrimination in freight rates
against Montana packers in favor of
Chicago and other eastern packers at
this time. A hearing on the applica-
ton for new rate will be held SOON |
The state commission is composed |
of II members as follows: Gov. Sam
c. Ford, chairman; Claude C. Gray, |
vice chairman, Big Timber; Albert H. !
Kruse, secretary, commissioner of
agriculture, Helena; r. E. Towle, |
Helena; o. S. Warden, Great Falls;
e. J. Kelley, Butte; T. J. Hooking, |
Glasgow Grant E. Haugen, Great |
Falls; Mrs. Donald NJ. Heller. Mis-
soula; d. w. Columbus, Red Lodge; |
Sen. r. S. Mutt, Sidney. Each county
has commission consisting of three |
residents who do most of the field |
work under directions of the state
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
|C0LUMNIST
is FASCIST
SPOKESMAN

Anglo-Saxon Destiny is the official
magazine of the Anglo-Saxon Fedora
ton, a pseudo-religious fascist organi-
zation which specializes in distribut-
ing such anti-Semitic literature as the
forged Protocols of Zion. Key officer
of the Federation and former editor
of its magazine, Destiny, is William
| j. Cameron, Ford executive, whose
Jew-baiting proclivities were first ex-
ercized in the notorious Dearborn In
dependent.
The most recent issue of Destiny
carries on its rear cover an advertise
ment for the national convention of
the Anglo-Saxon Federation, to be
held in the Civic Auditorium, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, on October II, IS,
and 10. According to the advertise
ment, Boake Carter, columnist and
radio news-commentator, will be fea-
tured as a speaker at the conven-
ton.
This will not be the first time that
Mr.. Carter has been closely associated
with the anti-democratic movement in
the United States. We pointed out in
an article on January 81, 1910, that
Mr.. Carter was at that time giving
large amount of favorable publicity
to Maj.-Gen. George Van Horn Nose
ley, would-be U. S. Fuehrer. Among
other friendly gestures toward Nose
ley, Carter devoted one of his news
paper columns to eulogizing the fifth
columnist hero and to supporting his
nazi-style proposal that all refugees
be steriized. Carter wrote: For
humanitarian reasons alone, for their
protection as refugees, as well as
Americans, he (Moseley) suggested
they be sterilized."
Fascists throughout the country
have reprinted and widely distributed
Boake Carter's writings. The Chris
tian Front refers to Carter as "great
American" Henry George Curtiss,
editor of the subversive American
Bulletin, published an article on Car
ter entitled Our Side" commencing
the fact that "Mr. Carter still man
ages to maintain a clear, historical
view of the European conflict in his
daily column for the Hearst chain"
and declaring that Carter was perse-
cuted for his failure to toe "the Bar
party line" Joseph
e. McWilliams, egocentric New York
naziphile, describes Boake Carter as
Radios Fearless News Editor"
1t is evident that Boake Carter
speaks in language that the U. S.
fifth column understands and enjoys.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
SET A NEW STYLE

Is OPM and mass training correc
from a military and economic stand
point?
To answer these two questions In
telligently, we must be in position
to first, evaluate the lessons laugh
in the European war and the posi-
BILE extent of it's duration and second
whether our foreign policy is to be
an aggressive participation in World
War No. 2 or a neutral one taking 6
defensive stand only.
Regardless of the possible duration
of World War No. and the part we
are to take in it, the "OPM program
is deserving of some criticism.
The utter disregard for long range
planning in the production of alumni
mum, magnesium, steel, copper and
other essential raw material by neg
lecting plant engagements in facing
an enormous increased demand for
these basic metals of which we have
an abundance if properly exploited is,
to say the least, colossal blunder
whether it was meant to stabilize the
price level or through ignorance of
the real situation.
Another item which may prove to
be of grave Importance is the pre-
vailing practice of tying up congress
sional appropriations by giving an
overwhelming aggregate of defense
contracts to a small number of large
10 fIA Il nf,~i,,, ont ~
smaller concerns able to Immediately
work on parts of the contracts now
tied up in backlog of untitled orders.
This, in conjunction with priority
orders for raw material, compels the
closing of many plants throughout
the country throwing hundreds of
thousands of skilled workers, as well
a sothers, out of work without max.
ing any plans to put them back at
work in defense industry or for the
common good. This has weakening
effect on National Defense" and has
a tendency to weaken National Nor
ale."
MASS training" may also be a par
tial failure under given conditions.
Drafting millions of civilians into
training camps with inadequate equip
ment for training and housing, up
setting many domestic and business
arrangements, is apt to cause more
havoc than any compromising advan-
tage gained, especially with no danger
of invasion for years, if ever, to come.
If half of this present expense was
utilized in training and mechanizing
a less bulky army and unified air.
force, we could make more brilliant
showing and cause less havoc. Take
the lesson Of France for instance. Five
million soldiers trained and equipped
in orthodox style, now obsolete, made
poor showing against Hitler's $780,
900 blitz-krieg troops followed by a
million mechanical infantry. While
the French soldier was gathering |
mould in the Magtnot line, and Eng
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
FACTS FROM
THE FIELD

Surplus food for the thousands OF
undernourished sharecroppers and
cotton pickers in the south is the de-
mand of the United Cannery, Agri-
cultural, Packing and Allied Workers
of America (CIO). 1--WE are fighting
for bread for workers in the field
said V.P. Rev. Owen Whitfield. God
in Heaven intended that all people
should eat"
Farmers will support the campaign
for 100000 signatures to a petition
addressed to Roosevelt, Wickard and
Perkins, requesting a modified stamp
plan which will fit the pocketbooks
of these shamefully exploited work
ers" and will assure distribution of
needed foods without landlord inter-
ference or discrimination.
Secretary Wickard and congress
are said to support the Farmers I'm
ions demand that a congressional
committee determine the overall
aims of the farm program, map post
war needs, and determine South
American relationships as they affect
the agricultural economy"
The August 9Th issue of the Oregon
Grange Bulletin shows the growing
anti-fascist sentiment amongst farm
ers. OF axis-member-Japa it says,
if Japan insists upon carry
ing forward her present ambitious
program, the time will come when she
musth be checked by forceful meth
DDS"
A conference called by the National
Cooperative Milk Producers Fedora
ton denounced price-fixing until
perfect balance" is established be-
tween farm prices and industrial
wages. No mention was made of
reaching a perfect equality with in
dustrial profits!
A farmer in Wisconsin was evicted
from his farm in 1896 by mortgage
holder, whose action was backed by
law, unanimously passed by the
United States supreme court, rules
such a dispossess Illegal. Isn't six
years long time for a county judge
to be defying the law of the land?
1t is interesting to note that more
wheat was fed to live stock on West
ern Canadian farms last year, than
was fed to the entire Canadian popu-
lation.
The soybean grower and tie cotton
farmer have Joined hands in a new
defense measure. Workers i'll the
mines, construction jobs, and defense
industries can now have safety he'll
NETS made from farm crops. USDA
tests indicate these plastic helmets
could serve in place of metal helmets
to prevent accidents.
From Facts for Farmers
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10

land was singing britannica Rules
the Waves" Germany and the USSR
were mechanizing their armies as well
as boosting their airfleets, neither
could afford to turn General Mitch
ELF down. Panzer divisions and air
craft outmoded the old style fight
ing and scrapped costly Notifications.
Napoleon scrapped military text
books and set new style, Hitler
went one better and now it's up to
the United States to invent radio
controlled aerial torpedo" and round
out the -Four freedoms" by working
on the "Freedom from Want" The
eyes of the World is turned on USA.
A. E. ANDERSON,
Butte, Mont, Sept. 6, 1941.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
COOP TRADE MARK
UPHELD IN COURT

CHICAGO-National Co-operatives,
Inc, the national purchasing fedora
ton of consumer co-operatives, has
been notified by its copyright attor-
neys that the COOP trade mark has
been upheld in court.
On August 2, Judge ]. W. Clancy
of the U. S. district court, New York
City, signed a decree enjoining Con-
sumers Mail Order Co-operatives Inc,
from using the trade mark, COOP.
National Co-operatives, Inc. had de-
MED to that organization the right
to use the trade mark. 1t is believed
to be the first time the property
rights to the trade mark have been
tested in court.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
DIGEST OF
BRIDGES CASE
PUBLISHED

NEW YORK.-The most menacinl
theory of the prosecution in the Harr.
Bridges case is one which, if upheld
and made grounds for deporting Mr.
Bridges, would wipe out the frater
nifty of organized labor" This state
ment appears in digest of briefs IL
the Bridges case, pamphlet, III
the Matter of Harry R. Bridges'-193s
and 1941," published by the Citizens
Committee for Harry Bridges.
Pointing out that Bridges freely adj
mitted in his 1899 deportation hear
ing presided over by Dean James M
Lands of the Harvard Law School
that he had accepted help from the
| Marine Workers Industrial Union in
the 1884 strike, the pamphlet quotes
Dean Lands findings on this action:
Persons engaged in bitter industrial
struggles tend to seek help and as
sistance from every available source"
yet in the present proceedings, "
the Citizens Committees digest points
out, "the department of justice seeks
, to deport Bridges on the distinct
ground that he, in behalf of his union,
accepted help in 1884 from union,
actual membership in which in that
same year was not considered grounds
for deportation. =. $.
at is a theory which if made into
law by the deportation of Bridges,
constitutes a threat to the entire
American trade union movement.
Under that theory, an alien need not
be member of an organization con-
sidered 'subversive' to become subject
to deportation. :.
The department of justice prosecu-
tors charge that another single
ground for deporting Harry Bridges
is his former membership in the
IWW, freely admitted before Dean
findings on this quoted: Eat that time
Q921) he also became a member of
the I. w. W., but within a few months
terminated his relationship with that
organization because he disagreed
with their views"
Except for testimony on two recent
strikes, with which Mr.. Bridges had
no direct connection, the evidence
presented before eDan Lands covered
the same sort of events occurring in
the same period of time as that pre-
scented in the latest prosecution of Mr..
Bridges, the Citizens Committee PAM
phlet declares.
'The defense of Harry Bridges" it
concludes, "is the defense of labor's
right to organize and fundamental
American institution and liberties"
Members and sponsors of the Citi-
zens Committee for Harry Bridges in
clude Prof F. o. Matthiessen of Har-
ward 'University; Robert Morss Low
EFT, government secretary of the Vir-
gin Islands; Dorothy Parker, Clifford
Odets, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw,
Dudley Nichols and other writer's;
Father Jerome A. Drolet of New Or
leans; the Rev. John Howard Melish
of Brooklyn; Rockwell Kent; Paul
Prof Fred Rodell, Yale Law
School; Prof Mitchell Franklin, Tu-
lane Law School; DR.. Max Lerner,
Williams College, and DR.. Downey L.
Harris, noted pathologist of ST. Louis,
and many others.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
Bv "IJNCENsORED"

Following is an editorial entitled
american Aid" from the Economist,
London, for July 26, 1871:
There should be no room in the
pattern of world economic warfare for
the absurd use of Lease-and-Lend to
import vitamin powder into this coun-
try as a civilian necessity only for
1t to be manufactured for re-export
This has been reported. 1t has been
complained about. But it must surely
be untrue; and, if true, the amounts
must have been minute.
CONSERVATION has also been caused
in American oil circles by the re-
quest that an additional 100 Ameri-
can tankers should be placed at the
disposal of Britain. Fifty American
flag tankers have already been trans
ferred in recent months, and are now
being employed to transport oil from
Caribbean ports to the Atlantic sea-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-09-10
COOP WHOLESALERS
| ARE MERGED

AMARILLO, Tex Several months
ago the two consumer cooperative
purchasing associations serving local
retail co-operatives in the Lone Star
state, Consumers Co-operatives As
sociated and Producer-Consumer Co
operatives with headquarters in Am
arillo and Dallas respectively, merged.
The combined organization took the
name of the older of the two asso-
Citations, Consumers Co-operatives As
ISOLATED and uses Amarillo as head
quarters with Dallas as a branch Of
flee.
In July. Consumers Co-operatives
Associated reported a total volume of
business of more than S13S,000 as
compared with $4,000 in July 1910,
an increase of 600 percent.