The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-22
Common Sense On the Wars Progress

structed and cost US the lives of many
fine American on these valuable
island bases.
| l think that year ago at General
MacArthur's suggestion, the admins
tration notified congress that 100000
men were needed to defend the Philip
pines. The ones who are now snip
h ing at the way the war is being con-
Quoted are the same crowd that re.
sisted CONSUMPTION and opposed Mac
Arthur's call for a half million we'll
equipped men.
If this war gets its correct name,
then it will be easy to differentiate
such as are intellectually for its
prosecution to victorious finish by
the United Nations, from the snipers
from inside our lines. Perhaps even
the President in calling it the WAR
of Survival has not chosen the best
phrase. From the point of view of
the United Nations, it is the
WORLD WORKERS WAR
The Soviets are a Farmer-Labor
government. Not every laborer is a
farmer, but my youth on a farm as
sures me that nine-tenths Of the farm
ers are hard workers. The Chinese
are the Understanding race on earth.
Our workers to a man and to woman
took hold the day after Pearl Harbor
But, 26 of our capitalistic corpora
lions secretly kept shipping oil, chem
icals, and equipment to Germany and
Japan Through South America) I'M
til they were stopped in April by
Thurman Arnold and his threat Of
treason trials. After Japan sank the
Panay two years ago, the workers
press Of this country forthwith cried
out against further shipment of scrap
or oil to Japan and against sale Of
Japanese bonds to foolish American
investors by our New York bankers.
nanced Japan's war against China.
Longshoremen struck against loading
scrap iron for Japs French, English
and American bankers financed Ger
man rearmament
Labor is submerged deeper in Japan
than in any other industrial nation.
A Japanese private soldiers pay is
SO cents the month. Children six
years old are working twelve hours
a day for less than cents in the
Mitsui mills. Girls are sold by their
parents to Bagnios in Tokyo. Mini
mum wage and maximum hours limits
are unknown to law or custom in the
land of the Rising Sun. Public schools
for workingmen's children are not yet
even talked of by the Elder States
men, From national pride all Amer
leans want us to win the war. But
there are some Americans who do not
want us to win it so quickly or con-
clusively as to prove the inefficiency
brook Pegler Heaven to perish from
the earth.
Come closer home. When you real
ize that this is the Workers War,
it is easy to see why the Montana
Standard and its six satellites in Bill
lluSS, I10l0ld, IulSSOuldy 0IC., dlO COA-
sniping at the administration.
They blame Washington for losing the
heroic men on Bataan and Corregidor.
The Isolationists, usually labor-bait-
ers, were the direct cause why we lost
the Philippines 1t was certainly the
wish of Hitler that our men get trapped
there. Hamilton Fish, Wheeler and
Rankin were lending their franks to
Viereck for mailing of German prop
uganda, while the Chicago Tribune,
the Montana Standard, etc., were put
ting out editorials headed Butcher
Stain" telling us Japan would never
attack us, that German warfare could
never reach our east coast, front-pag-
ing Lindbergh, Wheeler, Fish and
Nye as these gentry poohpoohed Mac
Arthur's call for half million men
and the Presidents call for lend-lease,