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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
CIVIL LIBERTIES UNDER CONSTANT
THREATS NOW BY LAB0R'S ENEMIES

$500 workers in trades which have
for years been organized by the ALL.
Blandy warned the workers about
Tabor agitators" and added, If you
are approached by any Of them | hope
you will ride them out of town on a
rail as If they were wearing swastikas
on their sleeves"
Recently one of the federal detec-
tive services recommended rejection
Island, Cal
The grounds were that he opposed
fascism, is interested in the running
of cooperative and other subversive
organizations" opposed an anti-labor
proposition on the recent ballot in
workers "as one whose ideas range
from very liberal to ultra liberal
and is apparently" anti-war.
A congressional committee revealed
the fact that the FBI had seen fit
to report to a mans boss that he had
studied anthropology and had spent
vacation in Mexico
The record OF the department OF JUS
tice with regard to overlapping has
been given much publicity. 1t has
been revealed that the FBI tapped
wires after instructions not to do so
had been issued by the attorney gen.
eral
Judge Charles E. Sears, a special
examiner for the department of JUS
tice, reported that the FBI had tapped
wires of labor union official in Au-
gust OF this year and on October
Attorney General Francis Biddle told
a press conference that he intended
to authorize overlapping in certain
cases despite the refusal of congress
to authorize such overlapping.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
GE0RGIA'S
GOVERNOR
SAID ''CRAzY"
Union Leader in New York
Says He Thinks Governor
Talmadge "Crazy" Because
He Compares Himself With
The Apostles"

ATLANTA. - (FP) - Gov Eugene
Talmadge, who recently upset the
states educational system by purgine
university regents on his suspicion
that they favored equal educationa,
| opportunities for negroes, has now in
terested himself in freeing six Ku
Klux Klansmen serving prison terms
for flogging union organizers.
| Talmadge called hearing after ex
pressing sympathy for the men, whose
motives were excellent though their
conduct bit rough, in the governor
| opinion. He recalled that he himself
had once whipped negro, and de-
engaged in floggings.
Clemency was opposed by Asst
Solicitor Dan Duke and number of
leading clergymen. Talmadge re-
served decision.
The convicts are Henry Cawthon,
Dan Edison, Walter Forster, w. T.
Walton, Raymond Bryan and George
Cameron. They are serving terms of
one to three years, imposed in 1910.
Cawthon led a gang that kidnapped
Pierce S. Toney, a local organizer of
the Textile Workers Union (CIO) at
the Scottdale Mills near here, in Au-
gust 1888. Toney was whipped, tarred
and feathered after Cawthon's gang
had broken into his home under the
pretense of being officers of the law.
The Scottdale Mills are controlled
by the Georgia Savings Bank C Trust
Co. of Atlanta.
Atlanta newspapers had pressed for
action on the floggings after an esti-
mated 100 citizens had been attacked
by the klansmen and one of the vic
Tins, Ike CASTOR, barber of East
Point, had succumbed.
NEW YORK. - OPP = Vice Pres
George Baldanzi of the Textile Work
ers Union said that "it's pretty hard
to comment on the conduct of a pub
lie official who compares himself with
the apostles
1.-THE very nature of our political
system he added, makes it possible
for refugee from an insane asylum
to be elected to high office. l think
this man is crazy, what with his book
burnings, school purgings and now his
effort to condone floggings.''
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
|FTC COMPLAINS
AGAINST MAIL
ORDER HOUSE
Montgomery Ward Charged
By Federal Trade Comm.
With Misrepresentation in
Advertising Fur Garments;
Not From Animal Named.

Montgomery Ward and Company
Inc, Chicago, is charged with mis-
representation in the sale of fabric
garments, in complaint issued by
the Federal Trades commission.
In advertising matter circulated in
commerce, the complaint alleges, the
respondent has employed descriptive
phrases or words containing or re-
sembling the names of animals well
known as being used extensively in
the manufacture of fur garments,
combining such phrases with the word
fabric" Among and typical of such
descriptive names given to various
garments, the complaint continues,
are "Ombre Kerami Fabric" "Krim-
mer Fabric" "Broadtail Fabric "Nu-
Seal Fabric" Persian Fabric" I'm
ported Persian Lamb Fabric" Finest
Imported Black Persian Lamb Fab
ric," Hudson Seal Fabric" and
Persian Lamb Fabric"
According to the complaint, the
fabrics used in making the garments
are manufactured to stimulate, and
have the appearance of being made
from, the peltries of the various desig-
mated animals or from their hair or
wool. However, the complaint alleges,
these fabric garments are not made
from the fur or peltries of animals,
nor from fabrics composed of the hair
or wool of the animals mentioned by
the respondent in describing the gar
ments, but from fabrics composed Of
various combinations of rayon, cotton,
silk and ordinary wool fibers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
Captive Mines Dispute Settled
Through Sidney HIIman's Efforts

Captive Mines Dispute Settled
Through Sidney HiIlman's Efforts
The story hasn't yet been told, but
the person most responsible for settle
ment of the Captive" mines dispute
was none other than O.P.M.s Sidney
Hillman, whom John L. Lewis hates
more than any other single individual.
That fact, when Lewis finds it out,
is certain to give him more than one
sleepless night.
The day before the president sent
his final appeal to Lewis and the
steel industry representatives, in
which he proposed arbitration as one
of two propositions, conference was
held at the White House, this column
learns, in which the president, Hill
man, Secretary of Labor Perkins, and
Mediation Board Chairman Davis par
ticipated.
The subject, naturally, was what
move the administration should make
next in the serious situation produced
by the fast-growing coal strike.
Hillman, knowing that knock-'em-
down, drag 'em-out fight with Lewis
would most certainly result in passage
of drastic anti-labor legislation, in
sisted that the president make an
other appeal to the mine union chief.
Hillman had a bunch that another
appeal would be productive of results,
although some thought it would be
futile. Hillman argued that Lewis,
sensing that the CLIO. convention was
"cold" to his strike, even though 1t
gave it formal support, would choose
a way out, if the opportunity were
presented to him. And 1t was he that
made the specific arbitration proposal
which Lewis accepted.
Were it not for Hillman, 1t is very
questionable whether that final letter
of F.D.R.'s would have been sent. Had
it resulted in a real clash of strength
between the president and bushy-
browed Lewis, it's a mortal cinch
that the latter would have gone down
to 'ignominious defeat to the
delight of a goodly percentage OF our
citizenry.
It's no secret to say that Hillman
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON OPP = Evidence
accumulates that watchful eyes are
needed to prevent barbarians from
robbing the American people of their
rights while their attention is turned
elsewhere.
In November, U. S. District Attor-
ney William F. Palmer of Los An
geles, an appointed official subject to
the control of the department Of JUS
tice, asked the federal bureau Of in
vestigation to investigate Methodist
leaders for criminal interference"
with the draft law.
The son of Methodist minister
had made a conscientious objector
plea which was rejected by the draft
board and the appeals board. The
Southern California-Arizona Confer
ence of the Methodist Church had set
up a Conscientious Objection Com
mittee in accordance with regulations
of the selective service headquarters.
The committee contended that
there had been "a gross miscarriage
of justice somewhere along the line"
and declared it would do its utmost
to secure for the director "the right
accorded by law to serve his country
in some other field of national import
ance."
District Attorney Palmer asked the
FBI probe declaring that such state
ments would have bad effect on
public morale" and we've got to put
a stop to such conduct. This is
no time to defy or obstruct the gov
eminent of the U. 81
A few days later Rear Admiral W.
H. p Blandy, chief of the navy's bu-
reau of ordnance, spoke at the dedi-
cation of new navy ordnance plant
in Macon, Ga. The plant is to employ
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
GOVERNOR FORD REPLIES
TO COOLIDGE CHARGES
Declares That Coolidge Laid Down
Impossible Conditions Under Which He
Would Accept Appointment to Highway
Commission.

Replying to the charges made by
E. B. Coolidge of Great Falls against
him in letter published elsewhere
in this issue of The Voice, Governor
Ford today released to The Voice, for
publication, his reply to Mr.. Coolidge
letter. The governors reply is printed
in full below:
Decebmer 2, 1941
Mr.. E. B. Coolidge
Ais Ford Building
Great Falls, Montana
Dear Ed:
Your letter of November 26 has
been received in which you give your
reasons for declining appointment as
a member of the state highway COM
mission. Under ordinary circum-
stances would not reply to the many
charges made by you, but since you
have seen fit to send copies of your
letter to large number Of the news
papers throughout the state, with the
request that it be published, l do not
feel that | can let these charges and
incorrect statements go unanswered.
The day following your appointment
you called at my office and advised
me that, unless | summarily removed
the five members of a certain state
board and appointed at least three
men named by you, you would not &C
cept the appointment. | promptly re-
fused to accede to your demands.
At later date you demanded that
l remove Commissioner Wheeler from
the highway commission and appoint
Judge O'Hern Of Miles City. l adj
vised you that member of the COM
could be removed only "for
cause" and as far as l know, no legal
cause existed for the removal of Mr..
Wheeler; that | could not and would
not attempt to remove him or any
other public officer upon gossip and
street rumor. l also advised you that
Mr.. Wheeler had intellectually CO.
operated with Mr. Holmes and the
other members of the highway COM
l refused your ultimatum.
1t was then you definitely rejected
the appointment.
You charge that Mr.. Wheeler pre-
vented the construction of the Hunt
ley road, when the facts are that the
old highway commission and highway
engineer, Mr.. Mckinnon, not Mr..
Wheeler, selected one route which was
not approved by the bureau of public
roads. 1t is a fact known to all that
Mr. Wheeler did not control the COM
mission. Indeed he was at odds with
The highway engineer and a majority
Of the board on most occasions.
Further, the delay in the construc-
lion of this road did not result in the
oss of single dollar to the state.
/ am in complete accord with your
statement that we have a fine high
way engineer in Mr.. Holmes, and for
your information l want to add that
ne has received splendid cooperation
rom the highway commission.
/ have no intention of condemning
,r criticizing the old commission but
can say to you that whatever con-
lition existed under it, today the de-
)artment is being operated on the up
ind-up. There is no graft, no kick
packs, no commissions, and no other
activities detrimental to the best IN
erests of the state; and furthermore,
hat condition will continue as long
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. l. HARRIS

would shed no tears-not even croco-
dile-at seeing Lewis slapped down
good and plenty But Hillman didn't
want labor to pay the price for this
slapping down.
Not everybody can forget his own
personal feelings for the sake of a
bigger cause!
RecaIcitrant Cudahy Company
General Philip B. Fleming, wage
hour administrator, as everybody who
has ever met him knows, is very
mild hammered, reserved and patient
individual But even saints patience
sometimes becomes exhausted.
| And Fleming's patience has just
about run out in the case of Jack
Cudahy's Cudahy Packing company,
which for quite some time has adopted
a studied policy of harassing the
wage-hour division Fleming says that
the Cudahy company is one of the
trying to thwart the efforts of his
division at every turn-and by the
most mean and picayunish methods.
Last week, Fleming called attention
to the fact that a federal district
court for the third time, has held that
the Cudahy company must comply
with a subpoena by the wage-hour
division for production of records to
determine whether the firm is COM
plying with the wage-hour act.
Almost without exception, Fleming
points out, these records are made
available to the division by the large
companies. But the Cudahy company
continues to come into court with OBJ
structionist and technical procedures
whose only purpose can possibly be to
harase and delay.
The last court to order the COM
pany to produce these records was in
Southern California. Courts In Louisi-
ana and Minnesota have ruled like
wise.
But while Jack Cudahy's company
is trying to defeat the wage-hour law,
which assures not more than mig
gardly standard to the workers,
Cudahy himself is trying to convince
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03

blast Saturday in a letter to the
state welfare administrator
called attention to the COM
plants made and to formal
rulings of his departments that
such statements were not in ac-
cordance with the law:
Mr.. Bonners letter to the admins
traitor is published in full, below:
November 20, 1941
Mr. j. b. Convery, Administrator
State Department of Public Welfare
Helena, Montana
Dear Mr. Convery:
During the past few months this Of
applicants for Old Age Assistance as
well as recipients of assistance adyis-
ing that they have been informed by
the case-worker or investigator for the
county welfare department that when
Old Age Assistance is paid it creates
a lien against the property of the re-
cipient Another common complaint
is as to information given that the
applicant must transfer his property
to the county or state before he is
entitled to receive a grant. These
complaints and inquiries have been so
numerous and persistent and come
from many of the counties, that
deem it advisable to call it to your
attention. This office has on at least
two occasions issued official opinions
on this subject and held contrary to
the alleged information given out by
the welfare workers throughout the
state. (See Opinion No. 1872, Vol. IT;
also Opinion No. 263, Vol. 49,.
Just few days ago / received a
letter as follows:
"The investigator, Miss --,
has been very courteous to her (the
applicant for Old Age Assistance).
The other day she told my mother
that lien must be placed against the
the small home that my parents have
so hard to pay for. She
said that after my parents death. the
place must be sold by the county to
satisfy the amount my mother has re-
ceived and that my brother and l
could not pay up the amount, which
may be only few dollars, and redeem
the place"
can well vision the effect of such
statements. Old people,
eligible and needy, who may have a
small home would be reluctant to
make application for a grant. The
policy of the welfare act is not to
the eligible needy from re-
ceiving grants, but rather to extend
this most humane and commendable
protection provided by our laws to all
Of those for whose benefit the legis-
ature enacted the law.
The law on this subject is very
plain. No lien is created on property
Of a recipient of Old Age Assistance,
nor has the county or state authority
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as l am governor. You know that
despise crooks and grafters as much
as you do and under no circumstances
will permit them to operate in any
state department.
You must know that ! do not have
the power or authority to call grand
jury. Under the Constitution and
laws of this state that power is vested
Continued on Page Four)
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the American people that this gov
eminent should lend its efforts to
bring about peace with Burglar Hitler
on terms that will permit Hitler to
remain in possession of a large part
of the globe that his legions have sue
ceeded in overrunning. Perhaps Hit
Ter has assured Cudahy that there
would be no wage-hour law in any
country that he rules.
Labor Girds for Battle
If the anti-labor bloc in congress be-
Continued on Page Three)
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RECIPIENTS OF old AGE
PENSIONS NOT required
TO RELINQUISH PROPERTY
Atty. Gen. Bonner Issues Instructions That
Case Workers or Investigators for Welfare
Department Are in Error If They Advise
Applicants for Old Age Assistance That
They Must Transfer Property

Prompted by the number of complaints received from ap
pcants for old age assistance that investigators
workers for the Welfare Department representing
pcants that if they receive the assistance
they would have to transfer ownership of their homes they
Them the county state Attorney General Bonner
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
COOLIDGE GIVES REASON
FOR NOT ACCEPTIl q HIWAY
COMM. APP0INTM lit
States in Letter to Governor Srd With
Copy to The Voice That H' Squirrel
Removal of Wheeler of Billil-,~ From Board
AS Condition for Acceptance; Claims Big
Sums Of Hiway Funds Misappropriated.

Taking with that the had stated
that he had given him refusing the appointment
highway commission from his district B. Hardrock
Coolidge has forwarded The Voice copy letter written
b him to the governor and also letter to the
graduating appointment of A. E. Kathan of Brady
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03

to take the position which he
had refused.
Mr.. Coolidges communications, as
received by The Voice follows:
COOLIDGE REFUSES
HIGHWAY APPOINTMENT
Helena, Nov. 25.-(AP)-Gov. Sam
C. Ford announced today that after
conference with E. B. Coolidge of
Great Falls the latter had refused ap-
pointment to the Montana highway
commission.
1.-THE governor said Coolidge, named
to the board under provisions OF a
1941 statute increasing the member
ship to five from three, gave no rea-
son for refusing the appointment. =
Great Falls Leader.
November 26, 1941
Mr.. Sam G. Ford
Governor Of Montana
Helena Montana
Dear Mr. Ford:
On my return home from Helena
Yesterday, L lOullQ IL Wdo oIdIOd 49,
the Great Falls Leader that | gave
you no reason for not accepting the
appointment on the highway commits
sion This, 1 believe, is just another
one of the many stories you have told
since you filed for governor of this
state. You know the exact reasons
why 1 did not accept.
l asked you point blank If you
wanted me to go on this board and
help clean up this department, which
the public has suspected of dissipat-
ing funds for the last several years.
l did not want to serve with Mr..
Wheeler of Billings, whose resigna-
ton, l understood, was available to
you. My reason for not wanting to
serve on the commission with Mr.
Wheeler was on account of his activ-
ity in behalf of the building of road
on the south side of the Yellowstone
river between Billings and Huntley.
Both Mr. Winkler, chairman of the
commission, and Chief Engineer
Holmes told me about this road. My
understanding is that it was being
promoted by a group including Rock
wood Brown, and Merle Fagg, some
of whom controlled acreage which
would benefit by it's construction.
The building Of this road has been
held up several years because the
government made an investigation
and did not approve this south road.
This cost the state of Montana, | am
told, some $180,000 in matched funds.
1 refused to serve on the board with
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The OBSERVERS
COLUMN
By HI BINDER

L, 6f6ul5 LlOfC cO faPAQiJ thol
often it is too difficult for the aver
age citizen to keep pace with them.
In the hope that all of us may be able
to keep ourselves better informed on
some of the important things going
on, especially in Helena, the editor
has kindly consented to allow me to
start this weekly column dedicated to
the interests of all Montanans.
ONE EVENT that should not go un-
heralded is the appointment of Bert
Kathan to be a member of the Mon
tana highway commission 1t is in
deed gratifying to note that Governor
Ford has recognized the ability and
integrity of Mr. Kathan by placing
him on this important commission.
And, don't let anyone get the idea
that the highway commission isn't i'm
portant or that progressives are not
needed there. Because of the vast
amounts of revenue derived from the
gasoline tax, the highway department
has come to be one of the largest of
state agencies. Thus, we can all be
happy that in the ALLEGATION of con-
tracts, in the settling of disputes, and
in the management of general policy,
a man with the business experience
and political sagacity of Bert Kathan
is to play leading part.
The MONTANA highway depart
ment during previous administrations
has been a political set-up used by
certain interests for their own selfish
ends. Investigation after investiga-
ton revealed shocking abuses proving
that definite changes were needed.
Legislative sleuths showed how roads
were built which because of faulty
construction went to pieces soon after
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Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of these Is a
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity Of All.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03

Democracy Cannot End re I'm
der Economic Systems Which
Cause Hunger, Cold, Poor
Housing and Unemployment to
Millions.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-06
BrawIey Mans Father Discovers
Process TO Make Wood Hard as Steel

A new chemical process, which
will convert wood into a substance
as durable as steel. was discovered
recently in the laboratories Of the
U. S. Forest service in Wisconsin
by w. K. Loughborough. father Of
Sheldon Loughborough, Brawley
high schools head coach. Il was
learned in FL Centre Monday.
The new process. known as plas-
ticizing was discovered By Lough-
borough, u. S. Forest service chem
ist, while he was experimenting With
chemical methods of seasoning wood
The process. government experts
believed, might revolutionize U. 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-06
Five Cars Smashed
bvFreak Accident
In Early Morning

Not one, not two, not three but
five automobiles were cracked up
in Ell Centre early Sunday morning
in freak accident in the 700 block
on Commercial.
AS a result, Horace c. Tice, 81
year-old lettuce packer, was fined
$3.50 on a drunk driving charge
and ordered to pay 5000 car damage
or serve so days in jail,
Police reported that Tees car
struck four machines parked or
Commercial. They belonged to B.
J. Thompson, c. L. Lowell, Charles
Freedman and George Furukawa.
The crashes as Tice'S car caromed
from one machine to another were
loud enough to awaken Thompson
and Lowell, asleep in their homes.
Tices car finally came to rest
when it struck tree.