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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19
Opinions Of
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duct as Labor Co-ordinator.
Now comes the Griffenhagen G. AS
sociates with recommendation that
the Labor Co-ordinator be discon-
tinued at once. The State Reorgani-
cation Committee adopts the recon-
mendation and requests the governor
to issue an executive order to that
effect. Therefore, the workers on
Montana highway construction may
have to strike and picket to get a
square DEAL
1t is true that the reorganization
committee recommends that the
Commissioner of Labor do the work
of the Labor Co-ordinator. Here is
the joker in the recommendation. The
last session of the legislature cut the
appropriation of the Labor Commits
sioner, so that there is no money to
do the work. Besides the Labor Com
missioner has no power by law to be
of much value to labor.
Two members of the reorganization
committee who were members of the
appropriation committee of the house
that cut the appropriation for the
department of labor and two senators
who were members of the finance and
claims committee of the senate that
concurred in the house appropriation
committee action, are members of the
reorganization committee. Labor is
not getting a square deal from the
Griffenhagen & Associates or the reor-
ganization committee.
Generally speaking, Montana labor
has little complaint to make against
Montana contractors. 1t is the out
side contractors who underbid the
Montana contractors, that labor has
complaints against, as these contrac-
tors to make the contract pay carry
out policy of gyping labor. With
the discontinuance of the Labor Co
Montana contractors will be +.
subjected to unfair practices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19

nutrition Is first in Importance as al
element of our economic security
Government is becoming nutrition
minded but SO far it has lacked thu
foresight to set up total machiner,
to properly deal with it. We mus
evolve a scheme for attaining pro
duction for use with free flowing dis
tribution before we can attain abun
dant diets for all our people. We
must cut down on middlemen's prof
its by bringing the producer and con-
sumner closer together and the mos1
effective way to do this is through
the medium of the cooperative
agency. There is nothing to fear in
the cooperative movement, as some
people seem to think, for it is founded
upon the most democratic processes
known to modern man. And although
| it is gradually spreading out and be-
coming larger in scope it could be
given a tremendous impetus by gov
eminent boosting and substituting.
Through the cooperative the consum-
er would not only increase the buying
power of his dollar by narrowing the
spread between producer and con-
sumner but the dangers of a cataclys-
mic initiation would be avoided, for
unbridled profiteering would be ef-
fectively check-reined
Whether we win this war or not,
now that we are in it, may or may not
depend upon a well-fed people but it
is certain that unless we build a So
Getty with more equal advantages
among all groups we are going to
follow the tragic example of those
countries which have broken down
from within. The world has been in
fected with disease, disease as
malignant as cancer for now, in its
most acute stage, it is destroying man.
Shall we in America have the depth of
conscience to diagnose the disease
honestly and apply the correct rene
dial measures or will it take bombs
and guns to awaken us? Shall we
become super-race by at long last
giving the forgotten man and his chill
dren a chance to grow and develop
as nature intended they should? Or
shall we go on as we have in the
past allowing the profit system to
suck their life blood until in perhaps
another generation we shall have
not a race Of super-men but-a race of
Okies ?-M. E.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19

resulted from publication in the Octo-
Der 81 issue of a "rogues' galley" of
IL labor leaders, including Van AIRS
dale with such targets of Westbrook
Pegler as George Scalise and Willie
Bioff.
CHICAGO.-Frank w. Skultety, a
member of the Steel Workers Organ
izing Committee (CIO) who was ac-
tive in the 1897 Little Steel strike, is
serving 2-year term in Leavenworth
penitentiary because he refused to
join the army Reason for the heavy
sentence was that Skultety was "un-
disciplined and wild" U. S. Judge
William H. Holly said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19
ON OUR
DOORSTEP
By PARKER t. ANDERSON

Il
In the old monarchies of Europe the
king was permitted to claim about
everything that wasn't spiked down.
Pillaging the country was a pastime
and pilfering the poor was a fine art.
The late Gear Nicholas of Russia was
one of the largest owners of real
estate in the world and his only merit
was the fact that he was born into
the royal household of the Romanoffs.
Kaiser Wilhelm was no piker when 1t
came to self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT either.
He was the owner in fee simple of
vast lands and hereditaments aside
from his prerequisites as emperor.
Just buy a man at his true worth
and retail him at his own appraisal
and you have a fat chance for profit.
In line with these kingly habits is
the age old tradition that the rulers
of country hold title to the wild
life great and small. When the kings
of England made grants of vast acre
age in the new world to colonists and
favorite subjects the control of wild
life was always retained as a privi-
lege of the crown. In practice how
ever the control extended only to the
words of the charter for in those days
men on the land made their own game
laws. Incidentally the squirrel hunt
ers of the Virginias and Carolinas dis
tinguished themselves as dead shots
in the Revolutionary, Mexican and
Civil wars.
So the Montana game laws bark
back to the historic greed of royalty
and farmers are fed up on them. Each
annual open season the Milk River
valley is the Mecca for hundreds of
city sportsmen who keep the farmers
lodging and brawls and arguments
are commonplace. Boys and men I'M
accustomed to the proper use of fire
arms bang away recklessly and there
are numerous incidents of injury or
obstruction of livestock. When the
del and every irrigation ditch grown
high with sedge and willow becomes a
potential ambush. The state tells the
farmer to post out the hunters and
then gives them license to get in.
In the meantime the rancher feeds
and protects the pheasants, quail,
grouse and sagehen $50 days in the
year to bring upon himself this an
nual retribution.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
By Federated Press

WASHINGTON.-A the National
Defense Mediation Board had recon-
mended continuance of the open shop
in the captive mines, CLIO Pres. Philip
nedy of the United Mine Workers re-
signed from the board, asserting it
had "outlived its usefulness"
WASHINGTON.-A Activity by local
unions to assure the spreading of de-
| tense contracts over as wide field
as possible was again urged by the
ALL in it's November survey of bust
ness.
WASHINGTON. = Lengthening of
work hours and conservation of ma
terials were asked by President Roose-
welt in a proclamation setting aside
November 11-16 as Civilian Defense
Week
WASHINGTON.-A 5000 increase
in membership of the Pattern Makers
League (AFL) during the past seven
years, bringing the total to 10000,
is announced in the November issue
of the Pattern Makers Journal
DETROIT.-A strike of almost one
year against the Detroit Coca Cola
Bottling Co. was won by the Init.
Union of United Brewery Flour Cereal
& Soft Drink Workers (AFL sus-
Dop1odl xrbap tba oor,papx ooroad IN,
NLRB proceedings to reinstate Fl
men with back pay and abide by the
results of an election.
ST. LOUIS.-Almost 1900 delegates
to the 21st convention of the Init.
Bro. of Electrical Workers (AFL)
have returned home after marking the
5Oth anniversary of the founding of
their union.
HARRISBURG, Pa. = The $4,000
members of the United Mine Work
ers (CIO) who conducted a strike
September to October in protest
over increased dues and assessments
are entitled to unemployment COM
pensation, Labor Commissioner Lewis
G. Hines ruled November 5.
MINNEAPOLIS. = "The right to
strike is the right to life," asserts
the Minneapolis Labor Review, ALL
paper, in a front page editorial "Fas-
cist-minded Americans are coming to
the surface. CARRIED in the robes of
patriotism, they would curtail the
rights and liberties Of organized work
ers."
DENVER. = Secondary picketing is
constitutional, the Colorado supreme |
court has ruled. Reversing a lower |
court ruling, the high court voided |
an injunction restraining Local 10,
Init. Bro. of Transfers Chauffeurs |
Warehousemen & Helpers (AFL), |
from picketing the Buckingham Trans
portation Co., which insisted on driv-
ing its trucks through a picket line
at an auction company's warehouse.
CHICAGO.-Flatly rejecting the rec
of President Roosevelt's
board, which the railroads
had accepted after shedding a few
crocodile tears, the five operating
announced here that
hey will strike at 1:45 p. m. on De-
cember 5, The IA incorporating un-
ons will take similar action.
NEW YORK.-Insurance agents en-
Dloyed by the s5,O00,000,O0O Pruden-
.ial Life Insurance Co., Americas
second largest insurance corporation,
voted by 3 to l for Local 80, United
Office & Professional Workers (CIO),
n State Labor Relations board cleo
ion Nov. 6.
NEW YORK.-A 100000 libel suit
vas filed against Life magazine No
rember by Business Manager Harry
1an Arsdale Of Local 8, Intl Bro. of
Electrical Workers (AFL). The suit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19

BLAIR, Nebr.- Following protests
by organized labor, the Chamber of
Commerce of this town of 2,791 has
apologized for an anti-union promo
tion leaflet and agreed to withdraw
it from circulation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19

MINNEAPOLIS.-(FP-A Minneso-
ia State Committee to Free Earl
Browder has been set up by unionists
and liberals. Meridel LIE Sueur, the
writer, is secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-11-19

Patronize the Cooperative in your
communicates there to serve you!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Radically New
Tank Destroyer
Units Organized
Stimson Says Army
Gearing Itself to
60 MPH War

WASHINGTON, July 3
(UP) - Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson said today
that the army is organizing
% tank destroyer" battal-
ions, and has developed radical
new type Of division combining
mechanical and armored equipment.
Stimson said the two moves were
part of the army's program to de-
velop hard-striking units in the era
of 6O-mile per hour blitz warfare.
The % new anti-tank units,
which he said he believed were the
first used by any army in the
world, will be created out of pres
ent artillery outfits. OF these, IA
will be attached to infantry divi-
sions. The other eight will be at
tached to the army CHG or corps
headquarters, SO that they can be
moved about easily to meet any
possible attacks.
He said the army is developing
various types of self-propelled artil-
lery which can be used for tank
destroying purposes. These consist
of self-propelled guns, including the
rs nm. cannon, and will carry pro-
lection against aircraft attacks.
Stimson said the motorized in
fantry-armored division S being
formed experimentally, and will be
given its first battle" tryout in
the large-scale maneuvers in North
and South Carolina from Nov. 3 to
Nov. 30.
The unit is being formed by re-
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03

Be careful and you won't be sor-
.,ry was the warning issued Thurs
sday as officials prepared to cope
with the hazards of a three-day
Fourth of July vacation.
Gov. Olson in a last-minute mes
sage to city, state, and county Of
= ficials declared Saturday morning
a half holiday.
Drive carefully and repeat last
years deathless July holiday"
Sergeant Cliff Reed of the Califor-
mia Highway patrol advised mo-
toriSts."
Anticipating unusually heavy
traffic over the July 4 period it
was deemed wise to cancel leaves
and days-off for the long weekend
and keep patrolmen on duty and
busy handling traffic. Take special
care and caution and avoid traf-
fic tragedies"
"A lot of noise doesn't necessari-
ly indicate patriotism" Fire Chief
C. S. Reed of Ell Centro said Thurs
day in urging residents of the city
to be cautious and avoid creating
fire hazards with fireworks" Be-
] sides we need gunpowder in home
defense. Why waste it on fire
crackers which every year kill,
glind, and injure many children
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Vegetable Shipper
Fined $4,000
Over !. Y. Produce

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8 (UP)-
Federal Judge Martin I. Welch to-
day fined Justman e. Company,
New York vegetable shipping firm,
$2l 900 for filing false claims for
rebates against the Southern Pa
cific company.
Justman & Company was tn e
first of four eastern shipping COM
panies held for trial on false rebate
charges. 1t was convicted by a
federal court on ii counts.
The government contended the
company falsely submitted rebate
claims to Southern Pacific on
grounds shipments of lettuce and
carrots were frozen in Southern
Pacific freight cars enroute from El
Centre to eastern terminals.
Actually, the government said.
the lettuce and carrots arrived in
good condition in New York and
were sold on the vegetable markets
there at the full price. The COM
pany had alleged it was forced to
take a lower price for the ship
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Be Careful on
July Fourth

and adults In the United States?'
Sheriff Robert w. Ware and his
deputies and all police departments
il, the county made plans to handle
celebrants and do everything pos
sible to avoid the tragedies and
accidents which so often mar an
otherwise joyous holiday celebra-
ton.
AS a result of the holiday proc
lamation of Gov. Olson all city,
county, and state offices will be
closed all day Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. The Imperial Irriga-
ton district in general also will OBJ
serve the three-day holiday. r. H.
Maddux, business manager, said
Banks and title companies also
will close for the trhee days.
There will be a general closing
of all business, professional and
mercantile establishments in I'M
perial Valley on Friday but the
mercantile establishments, retail
stores, and similar concerns will be
open for business on Saturday,
Postoffice will close on Friday but
open Saturday on the usual Satur-
day schedule. The Post-Press will
publish on schedule both Friday
and Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03

than the public believes.
LAS this report is submitted the
possibilities of year ago have be-
come dangerously near the proba-
bilities today, and it is vital to the
security of the nation that the
hazards of the present crisis be
fully recognized Marshall said.
What has happened is history"
"Cf grave concern today are the
contingencies of the present and
future. There are legal restrictions
on the use of the armed forces,
which should be removed without
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03

'dTOuIlQ COllSUl uCClOll VI d PioPooSo
underpass at State street and later
on Main.
State Highway Commissioner Bert
Vaughn of Jacumba appeared be-
fore the council Wednesday even-
ing, explained that lack of funds
makes an underpass plan impossible,
outlined a highway improvement
plan in its stead involving an al
ternate Highway 80 route down
Adams avenue, across the railroad
at Commercial and out a Commerce
ial extension to connect with the
present highway.
AUDIENCE FIREWORKS
Vaughn proposed to use an un-
determined part of 100000 allocated
originally by the highway COM
mission for the underpass and sug-
gested that the city contribute $685.
900 in gas tax funds and rights Of
way toward the proposed street
widening and improvement.
Chief fireworks at Wednesday
nights meeting was supplied from
the audience. Ten citizens expressed
themselves, four of whom offered
no criticism of one kind or another.
Those who expressed themselves
as generally favorable to the plan
were j. T. Edgar, c. L. Collins, M
O. King, W. H. Rhodes, Ole Kaiser,
Robert Hays. Opposing one phase
or another were George Kennedy,
Bert Hamburger, A. L. Herzog, Hen
ry Harris.
Boiled down, objections fell into
two categories:
l. Claims that no traffic problem
exists on Main street and therefore
no need exists to relieve traffic
with alternate routes
2. Requests for definite assurances
on exactly where new highway
routes would run and which would
be alternates and which not.
DEFINITE DECISION
Kennedy requested a definite de-
cision of what would be done so
that his company (Firestone) could
make improvement plans, charged
Just because the state has this
money is no reason it should be
spent here; Hamburger (SearS,
Roebuck) said he believed Main
street could handle the traffic ad-
equately for years to come.
Proponents remarks were best
summed up by those of Ole Kaiser,
who remarked:
IF you've got chance to get
a good road, take iti"
Other proponents, among them
Hays, qualified their approval with
suggestions that Main street ex-
tension, suggested by Vaughn as a
part of the plan, be included as
well as two Highway 80 routes
Continued on Page 6: Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Registration Of
21.Year.0Ids
Falls Far Short
County Produced Total
OF 318, Half of
Number Expected

Registration of prospective
selectees in Imperial county
fell far below preliminary
estimates, draft boards an
nounc'ed Thursday as they
began sorting cards filled out by
young men who reached the age
of q years since the first registra-
ton last fall.
Total for the county was 3l8, ap-
proximately half the number eX-
pected to be signed up Tuesday.
The total for the southern part
of the district was 1919 and that for
the northern district was 1l9.
Staff at selective service head
quarters in Ell Centro and Brawley
Thursday began sorting new cards.
They will send to proper headquart-
ers the cards of all men belonging
in other. districts but who hap
pened to be in Imperial county
Tuesday. The. cards of Imperial
county men who registered in other
districts will be forwarded to Ell
Centro and Brawley headquarters
and included in the totals for the
two districts.
1t. is expected that these absen-
tee registrations will change the
total only slightly Outside regis
trants. probably will about balance
the absentees.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03

The German high command re-
ported the fighting power of the
Red army now seems broken. as
the Russians retired all along the
1900 mile front. But Moscow dis
patches said the Nazi panzer thrusts
had been checked" in fierce battles
still in progress on the central front
before Smolensk and Moscow and
on the Tarnopol front guarding the
Ukraine.
The communiques of both sides
indicated that the Germans had
penetrated into the main line de-
fenses on pre-war Russian soil only
IN the Borisov sector east of Minsk
and perhaps in the Shepetovka area,
east of Tarnopol, on the Ukraine
frontier.
On the central front-MoScow re-
ported that repeated German at
tempts to cross the Berezina river
east of Minsk and on the road to
Moscow had been checked by the
Red army. The Nazis claimed they
were hopping up the remnants OF
Russian army estimated by the
Berlin press at 100000 men trapped
west of Minsk in the Bialystok Sec
tor.
On the south front-The Red army
reported that two Nazi drives via
Luck and Lwow toward the Ukraine
had been checked in severe fight
ing that is still in progress in the
Tarnopol area. The Germans were
headed toward Shepetovka, 25 miles
inside the Ukraine, and Kiev, ITO
miles further east. The Germans
reported they had smashed across
the Pruth river on the Rumanian
frontier.
On the north front-The Moscow
communique failed to mention the
Murmansk sector, where the Russ
ians previously had been reported
putting up fierce defense of the
big Arctic port. Unofficial and frag-
mentary reports via Helsinki indi-
Gated that Germans had pushed
close to Murmansk and possibly had
cut 100 miles across Soviet territory
south of the port to the shores of
the White Sea.
The Germans were using many
parachute troops but the Soviet in
formation bureau said that they
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Arrests Urged to
Conserve Fuel

WASHINGTON, July 3 CUP)-
Defense Oil Coordinator Harold L.
lckes today urged city and state
highway patrols throughout tn e
East to make few "judicious ar
rests" to encourage conservation of
gasoline and oil by motorists.
Ickes said he proposed to send
such a recommendation to eastern
seaboard authorities in an effort,
as he put it, to drive fuel-wasting
Jack rabbit" starters and oil-burn-
er automobiles off the highways.
He already has ordered such a CAM
paign in Washington's parkways.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Stain Admits
Huge Gains Made
By Nazi Armies
Calls Upon Russians
To Fight for Lives
And Liberty

MOSCOW, July 8 (UP)--
Josef Stain admitted to the
Russian people today that
the Germans had made huge
gains, warned them that they
were fighting for their liberty and
their lives and called on them to
fight to the finish. ! 4
Stain said at the start OF ma
tional radio speech which was an
extraordinary appeal for total war
fare, that the Germans had cap
tured Lthuania, considerable
part Of Latvia, the western part Of
White Russia and the western part
of the Ukraine. (The Russians re-
fer to Sovietized Poland as west
ern White Russia and western
UkraineD
But he said that the Russians
already had smashed some of the
finest German divisions, that their
main forces were only now coming
into action, and that the national
resistance was just beginning to
grow in strength.
Stain instructed the people to
remove or destroy every animate
or inanimate thing, every utensil.
every bit of grain or Oil or ore, in
the German path, to leave nothing
eatable or useable, to fight individ-
ually and collectively with every
weapon and by every means anu
to harass the Germans in occupied
areas.
He said that the Nazi war ma
cine could and would be smashed,
that the Russian peoples had the
sympathy of the finest people of
Europe, America and Asia, includir g
the finest German people, that the
Russians would have loyal allies in
the peoples of Europe and America;
that this would be a united front
against despotism, and he expressed
the countrys gratitude for American
and British pledges of aid.
1t was Stalin's first radio speech
to the nation since the promugatipn
OF the Russian constitution in 1896.
His voice showed his deep emo
ion throughout.
(The United Press listening sta
ton reported that during the Tass
agency broadcast in English of Sta
Inns speech, a radio station broad
casting in German sought persist
emily to jam the transmission.)
Calling on the people to under
stand the full immensity of the
danger that threatens our country"
Stain said Russia was fighting
cruel and implacable enemy who
"iS out to seize or lands, watered
| Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03

when he emphatically denied that
the navy has been fighting German
surface or submarine craft In the
Atlantic.
Sen. Robert A. Taft, r., o., an
isolationist like Wheeler and Nye,
said Mr.. Roosevelt should explore
the possibilities of peace.
Wheeler contended that the SOON
er Hitler obtained peace and turned
to the difficult job OF administering
his vast empire, the sooner that
empire would fall apart because OF
internal weakness and dissension,
when the stress of war Is over
he said, Hitler will face a task
far greater than directing ann!es.'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-03
Peace Urged to
Defeat Hitler

WASHINGTON, July 3 CUP)-
Non interventionist senators re-
sumed their campaign for a nego-
tiated British peace today
despite POPULATIONS of such sug-
gestionS here and in London.
Sen. Gerald P. Nye, r., N. D.,
proposed that President Roosevelt
make his July 4 home defense
speech plea for peace. Sen Bur-
ton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, said a
negotiated peace would be the
quickest and surest way to defeat
Hitler
Some of the fire was taken out
of the effort to obtain senate
naval affairs committee investigation
of Secretary of Navy Frank Knox