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RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-03-20

nika II radnickom pokretu, cuva
cd dodira socijal;,t-2. smesta kris
talizovati okolo toga nuznog mi
nimuma 1ndustrijalne Organizaci-
je. Radnicka klasa bi tada bila
organski konsolidovana. Dalji ma
pori u smislu mirnop merenja
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-03-20
New York & Adjacent Territor.
WOW, New York City:

The National Office has contracted
for series of addresses to be broad
east over Station WOW, New York Ci-
ty, terminating May 4.
These talks will be broadcast every
Sunday afternoon from 2.45 to 3 pm.
WOW operates on 100 kilocycles,
with power of 10000 watts. This station
may be heard in all of New Jersey,
Connecticut, Rhode Island in southern
Massachusetts. northeastern Pennsylva-
MIA, the Hudson Valley (N.Y.) and all
of Long Island.
WOLF, Syracuse, New York Section
Onondaga County is conducting a se-
ries of six radio talks on Sundays. to
March %, over Station WOLF, from
1880 to 12:45 noon (E. S. T.). WOLF
operates on a frequency of 1900 kilo
cycles.
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-03-20

broja = sto ga Industrijalna Ju-
Mia bude postigla. Ako bude po-
stigla nuzan minimum, tada &c sc
onaj klasni nagon proletarijata,
ma koji Marx uputuje socijalista
kao ma oslonac, a koji kapitalis-
tieka klasa, preko svojih poruc-
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-03-20

1902. godine, u vreme velikog ug-
ljokopackog strajka, iii onom OF
1894. godine, u >vreme pulmans-
kog strajka Americke zeljeznitar-
ske Junije. Sta onda? 1shod &c
tada zavisiti potpuno cd stepena
razvitka - u smislu kakvoce i
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RADIO TALKS
Michigan.

VICAR, Pontiac, Michigan, Section
Wayne County is conducting radio
program on Sundays, over Station VIC
AR, from ! to lis p. m. (E. s. T.)
This station operates on 100 kilocy-
cles.
Funds are urgently needed to carry
on this work. Please mail help to See
ton Wayne County Treasurer, Antho-
nv Koss, 20lS LaBele Ave. Detroit.
Michigan.
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HAMILTON, ONT:
sabirna lista, broi 1895 sakupio '.
Dzakula: V. Dzakula $lO0, I. n. Sia
rolf 25c, G. jamie 25c., NJ. Lekic 23c.,
V. G. zoe, VIM. Wilder soc, NJ. Patio
$l.OO, +. Radjenovic $l.10, G. PaItic
soc, Joso Zoe, s. S. 25c., A. Nukovic
o5c., s. Piskuric l0c., J. N. zivanovic
$l.00, NJ. Mrdjenovic o5c i J. Graovhc
$l.00. Ukupno -. -. $500
Svega II ovom broju ........ Sll'oo
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DoBRovoLJC1 MA RADu.
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CHICAGO, ILL:
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l: P. Cotic /; J. Crkvenac l; VIM. Sab.
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Baljak Radjenovic q; N. Baliak 2; P.
Bogdan l Bogdan- Galovic 49,. 49,. l
LUZERNE, PA:
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NEW YORK, N. Y:
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YOUNGSTOWN, O.:
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ANGOLA, N. Y:
Sabirna lista, groj 1897: Geo. Raka-
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NEW YORK.
LeaTet- Distribution.

Distribution regularly, from 6 TO $
.. m. as follows:
Mondays, 42nd st. and 9th Ave.
Wednesdays, 23rd ST. and 7th Ave.
All members are asked 10 cooperate
with the committee in this important
work.
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Vecerinka u Akron, o.

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Lecture Filler Distribution.
Every Friday, 10000 p. m., Saith
st. and sth Ave. l.. F. Guillotte in
charge
Every Saturday, "a p. m, 42nd st.
and 9th Ave. Also literature sales.
Every Sunday. 12:30-2:30 pm, 42nd
st. and sth Ave. y. Dershowitz in
charge.
All available members Of the three
Sections expected TO participate.
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GREATER NEW YORK.
Lectures.

LECTURES.
A series of public lectures on Socla-
lism, is being conducted every Sunday
afternoon, at $3.50 p. m, at the Capt.
tol Hotel, 5lst and sth Ave, under the
auspices of the Greater New York Pro
paganda Committees:
March 23 "American Labor - The
Hope for World Peace Speaker, Aa-
ron N. Orange.
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SkupStina u Youngstown. O.


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RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1941-03-20

Literature Sales for the Three Sections.
Every Thursday, 1870 p. m. Town
Hall, 43rd st. between 9th Ave- and
Broadway. Alex Merson in charge.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
COOP REFINERY
REPORTS BIG
EARNINGS

N. KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The strik.
ing achievements of co-operatives
when consumers move into production
is demonstrated in the fact that the
Consumers Cooperative Association
reported earnings of quarter of a
million dollars ON its productive ac-
tivities during the past fiscal year.
The cooperative refinery, built at
Phillipsburg, Kansas, at a cost OF
sS50,000 two years ago, showed saw
ings of $204,314 during the year. The
Cooperative Oil Producing Associa-
ton and Cooperative Pipe Line Asso-
citation, both owned by GOA, made
savings of 1924 and $4,000 respec-
lively.
The Consumers Cooperative Asso-
citation, owned by $4,000 Individual
members of 504 co-operatives in nine
mid-western states, broke all previous
records in both business volume and
savings during the year It's whole
sale volume for the fiscal year ending
August 81 was ss7,234,506, a gain Of
40 and its savings were S173,652, a
gain of $40 over the previous year.
The combined earnings of the whole
sale and it's production enterprises
were $423,898 or almost three times
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
HEARING OPENS
TO DISCUSS Debt
BILL

Hearings have opened before the
house committee on agriculture on the
debt adjustment bill, HR 1886, de-
signed to scale down farm mortgage
debts and limit interest charges to
81 %. Farmers have long been urg-
| ing passage of this measure, which
they contend is now particularly
needed if they are to finance the crop
increases and shifts required by the
farm defense program.
At Secretary Wickard's recent con-
ference called to offset any specula-
tive farm land boom, such as that
which doubled the farmers debt load
two decades ago, the bankers went
out of their way to denounce the debt
adjustment bill. S. M. Waters from
the Mortgage Bankers of America, rep
resenting 100 life insurance companies
and rs banks, led the attack.
In the face of such opposition farm
ers favoring passage of the debt adj
justment bill should lose no time writ
ing to their congressman or to Rep
Hampton p Fulmer, author of the
bill and chairman of the House Com
mittee on Agriculture, House Office
Building, Washington, D.C.-Facts for
Farmers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
POLITICAL
FREEDOM IS
BEFORE COURT

Stating that in agreeing to review
the case of William Schneiderman the
United States supreme court will con-
slider questions of citizenship affecting
every naturalized American, t h e
American Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born, 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York, N. Y, today commended the
writ of certiorari granted Monday to
the case by the court.
The Schneiderman case" the Amer
lean Committee for Protection of For
|eign Born stated, presents an issue
which is of vital concern to all Amer
leans. That issue is the sanctity of
legally acquired naturalized citizen
ship.
"Unless all citizens are secure in
their lawfully obtained citizenship, a
way is opened up to establish a cate
CORY of second class citizens, and
those who hold progressive and pro-
labor opinions imperil their citizen
ship status. If naturalized Americans
can be penalized for their views by
the revocation of legally-acquired citi-
zenship, then the citizenship rights of
native born Americans are endan-
gered.
"At time when millions of natur-
allied Americans are devoting their
fullest energies to the defense of their
adopted America against the menace
of Hitlerism, the threat of second
class citizenship in the Schneiderman
Continued on Page FourJ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29

abolished was approved by the COM
mittee. This office was instituted
under the Ayers regime and the in
cumbent was paid 5000 monthly by
the highway department and the same
amount by the water conservation
board to perform duties which prop
erly should have been performed by
the state department of labor. Other
recommendations which would effect
economies were consultations of vari-
Gus positions in the Helena shops and
general consultations of office pro-
cedure, all of which were approved by
the state committee.
Board of Equalization
The plan submitted by the firm for
reorganization of the state board of
equalization brought tie vote in the
committee and then was referred to
the board for preparation of plan
for the creation of seven divisions,
and submitting the plan as drafted by
the board for the consideration Of the
committee at it's November meeting.
The seven proposed divisions as
outlined in the plan would be: income
and corporation license tax; gasoline
tax and refunds; general assessment;
cashiers; accounting; auditing, and
legal
The committee on Monday approved
a recommendation of the firm that the
board enlarge it's present efforts to
obtain more uniformity in local prop
erty tax assessments in comparison
with actual valuations and that the
essential studies to bring this about
be carried on in cooperation with the
department of agricultural economics
in the Montana State College at Boze-
man.
Gasoline Taxes
The committee approved recommen-
dations of the firm requiring reports
from truckers of unit shipments of
gasoline and that board rule to that
effect be made pending any change
in the law.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
WAGE-H0UR
OFFICE NOW
in BUTTE

BUTTE October 24.-This date is
one of significance to many millions
of workers in the United States and
ago, on the Gath of October, 1888,
| the Fair Labor Standards Act became
effective. That is the law which puts
floor under wages and ceiling over
hours for employees engaged in inter-
state commerce or in the production
of goods for interstate commerce.
For Montana employers and EN-
ployes the Wage-Hour birthday has
taken on added importance with the
announcement by L. A. Hill, regional
director at Minneapolis, that new
field office has been established here
to help them solve their problems re-
lative to the application of the law.
The new office is under the direction
of Senior Inspector William G. Ma
loney and is located in the Lewisohn
building, (Room 303), 2S West Granite
Street. Arrangements are being made
so that very shortly there will be
someone in the office at all times to
give information or to make appoint
ments for Mr.. Maloney.
1.-THE occasion invites a backward
glance to see how far we have come"
Mr.. Hill said, land today, | think, we
can take satisfaction in the knowledge
that considerable progress has been
made. Hundreds of thousands of
American workers who once got so
little for their labor that they could
not live without subsidies in the form
of charity or relief have been made
self-supporting. The wages of mil
lion men and women have been raised
to more than 80 cents an hour, the
present general wage floor, by indus
trial orders. Responsible employers
who pay fair wages have been prac-
tically freed of the competition of ir-
responsible employers who would not
pay a living wage. More than hun
dred million dollars additional is being
paid to labor this year because of this
law than otherwise would have been
paid. This money is going into the
mass purchasing power of the nation
that enables manufacturers, merchants
and farmers to sell more food and
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
HISTORY REPEATS
ITSELF, trade
treaty SIGNED
By JEANNETTE RANKIN

| On Tuesday, October IA, the gov
ernments of the United States and
Argentina concluded a trade agree
ment that is to remain in force for
three years or until one or the other
country repudiates it.
| In the treaty, Argentina makes con-
cessions to American fruits and ma
chinery and We in return, reduce the
import rates on flaxseed, canned
corned beef, coarse woods, casein, tai
low, cleo oil, sunflower oil, hides and
skins, and stearin. The duty on meat
which was &c per pound, by this
agreement, has been reduced to &c
per pound. The day after ratifica-
ton of the treaty, according to Buenos
Aires press dispatches, the price of
canned meat advanced &c per pound
in Argentina. This means that Ar
gentine packers, who sold canned
corned beat to the United States, prior
to this time, at a reasonable profit,
will now make &c more per pound
It has been stated that United
States packers are financially inter-
ested in Argentine packing plants
Representative of our livestock in
dustries expect a depressing effect
on our domestic market because pack
ers are likely to buy and process beef
in Argentina and refuse to buy our
own in increasing quantities.
We hear little about tariffs at this
time because the war has created a
scarcity in all necessities, but once
the war is over and the mad scram-
BILE for markets is under way, the
tariff will again be a major issue.
This will be particularly true in this
country where we have the best mar
ket in the world and can produce an
abundant supply. All countries will
concentrate their efforts to capture
our market.
Those who remember the first
World war recall that on March IA,
1917, President Wilson ordered Amer
lean merchant ships armed and 35
were sunk with a loss of So men,
Twenty three days later, he asked for
a Declaration of War. Many war
agitators hope that history will repeat
itself.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
COOP HOME
OWNERSHIP
EXTENDED

NEW YORK.--A plan for co-opera-
tive home ownership by workers
which may soon multiply by many
dwelling units in the country has been
initiated by the defense housing di-
vision of the federal works agency.
Known as the Mutual Home Owner
ship Plan it will enable workers in
specified defense housing projects to
acquire group ownership of their
homes through monthly payments and
to operate the projects in accord with
established cooperative methods. Five
hundred families of shipyard workers
are being housed in the first project,
Audubon Village, already completed
at Camden, N. ]. Funds have been
allocated to house more than 1000
additional families in similar projects
in Clark Township, N. j., Philadelphia,
Dayton, o., South Bend, Detroit, Dali
las, Alcoa Tenn, and another in the
Camden area. These projects alone
will more than double the total num-
Der of comparatively owned dwelling
units in the u. S.
One hundred percent of the original
financing under this plan is provided
by the government, as has been the
case to some extent in large-scale CO.
operative housing in Holland and
Sweden. However, there will be no
rental subsidies, the projects being
self-liquidating. General features of
the plan are explained in the Septem-
Der issue of the Labor Information
Bulletin, by Col. Lawrence Westbrook,
director of the Mutual Home Owner
ship Defense Housing Division of the
federal works agency. 1t embodies,
he says, some of the principles which
have been used successfully by hous-
ing co-operatives in Europe and the
experience of mutual insurance com
panies in the U. s." Representatives
of the division also conferred with A.
e. Kazan, manager of the Amalgam-
ated Cooperative Apartments, largest
existing cooperative housing develop
ment, in setting up the plan, and some
of its features are the result of these
conferences.
The bylaws of the Audubon Mutual
Housing Corporation, a non-profit |
body set up to operate the only prof. |
ect opened thus far, provide for the
Rochdale principles of one member, |
one vote, and no proxy voting, al
though the word cooperative is not |
used. The original directors of the |
are appointed by the gov
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29

Waues, Profits, and Living Costs
Here are some interesting facts and
figures relating to wages, Industrial
nrofits. and increased living costs
which Capitol Hill reactionaries do
NOT care to have called to their at
tention. since they do not bolster their
contention that wage increases are re-
sponsible for increased living costs,
and hence should be fixed by law:
Curiously Cor is it curious?) those
who are doing the loudest yelling that
wages of workers must be fixed by
law, aren't saying a thing about fix
ing the profits of the fat boys. or
course, that claim is lot of hooey
Prices increase before wages increase,
almost without exception. Further
more, only about 16 percent of the
total cost of manufacturing in this
country goes into wages of workers.
Even if no greater efficiency results
when workers are better paid = and
better paid workers always work
more efficiently - an increase in
wages of 10 percent would mean only
an increase of 1.6 percent in the cost
Of the manufactured product.
The output of labor per man hour
has been increasing steadily in recent
wears. In the steel industry, for ex-
ample, the output per man hour this
wear is IS percent greater than it was
in 1897. Thus the labor cost per unit
of production, even after the latest
increase in wages, is 5 percent less
than it was four years ago. The steel
industry is not an exception to the
rule. but represents rather the rule it
self. The per man hour output in
American factories in May of this
wear. according to the bureau of Labor
Statistics, was percent greater than
it was in May of last year; S.5 per-
cent greater than it was in 1889, and
16 percent greater than it was in 1897.
To ascribe increased living costs to
wage increases is either downright
ignorance or false, vicious propaganda
to injure labor.
While wage increases have not been
sufficient the past year to meet the
increased living costs for the worker,
let us see how industry has been far
ing during this national emergency!
The profits of the % leading COM
panies for the first half of 1941, in
GLIDING such firms as General Motors,
u. S. Steel, and Dupont, were $l49,-
100000, as compared to profits OF $751;
100000 for the first half of last year
an increase of 81 percent. That's
not hard to take. At least, its ample |
for the Big Owners of industry to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29

cation committee DeIOfe acIlOn
is taken on the recommends
tons.
A total of 81 recommended changes
in the highway department were sub
mitted by the firm making the survey,
many of these involving Capitalization
and reorganization of mechanical serv-
ices. more economical methods of
maintaining road machinery and
equipment Most of the recommends
lions made by the firm, were ap-
proved by the state committee on re-
organization yesterday and the ap-
proved recommendations submitted to
the state highway department for it's
action.
No Diversion of Funds
The firms recommendation was
that in the interest of economy and
propriety" there be no more funds
used for state publicity by the high
way department than are used at pres
the title of the public relations direc-
tor be changed to public relations sec
rotary and improving the service by
giving functional rather than admins
trative supervision over public rela-
lions matters, including port-of-entry
stations to this officer.
Feeder Roads
Measures to remove the threat of
being deprived of federal aid to high
way construction in Montana were
recommended and will undoubtedly be
made effective. These will include
the obtaining of valid agreements
with counties to assure maintenance
by the counties of feeder roads built
with state and federal funds, and pro-
visions for taking suitable action by
the state to collect for such mainte-
nance of the feeder roads from the
counties in case the roads are not
cared for in conformity with federal
requirements.
Labor Co-ordinator" Goes
recommendation by the firm that
the position of labor co-ordinator be
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
MISSISSIPPI TEACHERS
PAID $3.50 PER week

Accoring to figures recently made
public by the Mississippi Education
Association, the average weekly sal
airy OF white school teachers is S1O.23,
while that of colored teachers aver
ages only $3.50 per week in the 81
counties.
The MAE. is seeking a fund of 49,
100000 and proposes to raise salaries
of both negro and white about $3.50
per week. The salaries will then be
"equalized to $3.50 for white teach
ers and S5.75 for colored. Salaries in
some OF the richer counties are higher
for both groups.-Tenant Farmer.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29

County commissioners epotism:
Held: Where there is no legal duty
on the part of board of county COM
missioners to terminate contract of
employment entered into by former
board, there can be no violation of
the nepotism act by the newly elected
board in retaining such person in said
employment, where said person hap
pens to be related to the newly
elected commissioner. The nepotism
acts prohibits only the appointment
and not the continuation of appoint
ment previously made.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
FARM LABOR MAY GET
SOCIAL SECURITY

An announcement has just been
made in Washington that President
Roosevelt will soon send message
to congress recommending an expan-
sion of the Social Security law to
include all farm labor as well as self
employed farm operators.
According to the report, the Presi-
dent will also recommend that Old
Age Pensions be increased and that
larger grants from the federal treas
ury be made to states having low
income.-Tenant Farmer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29

Silicosis-public appropria-
ton insufficient-emergency. what is:
Held: When facts presented to the
board of examiners by any department
of the state, show an unforeseen and
unanticipated emergency to exist as
contemplated by Chapter 40, Laws of
1897, and the appropriation made to
said department will be insufficient
said board may, under said Chapter
40 permit said department to expend
an amount in excess of the appro-
priation made, in an amount the board
may deem sufficient for the fiscal
year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-10-29
Standard for sale of butter:

Held: That the standard measure
for the sale Of butter in Montana shall
be 16 ounces avoirdupois weight to
the pound, exclusive of the wrapper
or container, and all butter sold or
offered for sale in paper containers
or wrappers shall be in packages of
one or two pounds.