The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-03-19

year ago, but it managed to obtail
postponement of it's trial through va
rious court motions until recently
Two stable contracts were given tn
company during the time the court &C
ton was pending, on the theory tina
''the company has not had its day II
court" That, however, was not tru,
of the new contract award.
TNEC Expires On April 8
The life of the important Temper
airy National Economic Committee ex
pires on April 8, and at the COMMITTEES
offices in the Federal Trade Commits
sion building the office staff is bus,
Grating things up and getting read,
to vacate.
Senator O'Mahoney, chairman O
the committee, feels that the com
mittee has done the job assigned tt
| it-and done it we'll, most people
think-and even though there is still
much more work that can be done
request that the life of the committee
be extended must come from sources
outside the committee He himself
will not ask the Senate to make pro.
visions to continue the work, and ha,
ordered the winding up of the com
mittee affairs.
| The boys who enjoy special eco
nomic privileges would like to see
| this committee, of all committees, die
q po+uro1--or rnnoturo1- dootb II
| has given them plenty of headaches,
and one can't exactly blame them
self-preservation is the first law of
life. But liberals see a very good
reason why this work should be car
ried on, under it's present able leader
skip, through the emergency and into
the postwar period. They are urging
the White House to request contin-
nance of the committee with ample
funds to carry on.
The TNEC has brought to light
some alarming trends in American
financial and economic life, present
ing factual data on the vast and grow
ing concentrations of wealth and
monopoly control It's most recent ex-
posure the shortage of aluminium for
the defense production = a shortage
brought about through the policy of
the Aluminium Company of America in
restricting production in order to keep
up exorbitant domestic prices for it's
product This shortage, which has
seriously retarded the defense pro-
gram, was at first denied by some of
the dollar-a-year business men in the
defense setup.
Spooks on the Loose
Reactionaries on Capitol Hill see
very little in either the domestic or
the international picture to give them
cheer, even though business men
these days (the big fellows, that Isl
are reaping a golden harvest.
One of the current fears-it has the
proportions of nightmares that
President Roosevelt may have a hand
in shaping the future world at tn.
peace conference table-and they are
quite certain that the kind Of a world
he would help shape would not be
one to their liking. They wouldn't
care much to live in it.
What they are charging is that FDR
already is conniying with Ernest
Bevin, British minister Of labor, to cut
Il world out to a socialist pattern.
They accuse him Of using the i'm
minence of war and the plight OF
Britain" as one of the conservative
spokesman put it, las weapons with
which to attack private enterprise and
slide the country into socialist or
der" Another alleges that Roosevelt
is a potential revolutionist"
All of which, of course, makes
good many people smile.
Current Capital Chatter
Greed of industrialists is the chief
reason why capitalism today is on
trial throughout the world" Rep.
Usher Burdick, North Dakota, told his
in the House last week
Wendell Willkie is reported to have
told some of his friends recently not
to expect Britain to emerge from the
war the Britain of old-that there will
be semi-socialist government in
which measure of private enter
prise" will be retained but in which |
no individual will be permitted to
imass great wealth, and that the mon
archy will be retained purely as a
symbol. If you want to engage
n good, indoor sport, see il you can
get two persons to agree on the mean
ng of the word, fascism. Somebody
IN the Hill tried it and the definitions
anged from dictatorship of any kind
o castor oil" government. The
lation's poor during the month OF
January consumed $7,000,000 Of the