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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
MARKET ON
GRAIN
Unsettled
Grain Markets Continue To
Show Easy Tone; Moderate
Liquidation of Holdings
Takes Place and Meets With
Slow Demand.

Grain markets showed feeble resist
anc eto only moderate selling during
the week ended May 30, according to
the Department of Agriculture, and
prices dragged lower with general
tone of the market decidedly unset
tied Trade reaction to the senate
approval OF the agricultural bill which
permits disposal of 125,O00,000 bushels
of wheat for feed or Industrial pur-
poses at less than parity price was
bearish but this feeling moderated
considerably with the realization that
the plan would afford considerable re-
lief to the congested storage situation.
The permit system for grain ship
ments to Minneapolis and other term
mails in effect last year was again put
into operation beginning May 20. For
the time being only grain intended for
storage after reaching the terminals
will be affected by the order. Grain
shippd for sale will be handled as
usual until further notice.
WHEAT: Farmers will be permit
ted to redeem farm stored wheat held
under loan to the Commodity Credit
Corporation through June 80, 1912, at
feed wheat prices, the department an
nounced May 20. Where the feed
wheat price is determined on the basis
of the Corporations release price for
corn, the redemption price shall be
the corporations release price for
corn at the producers delivery point
but not less than 93c per bushel.
Where the feed wheat price is deter
mined on the basis of the 1941 wheat
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS
(CONTRIBUTED)

! In Helena on Tuesday representa-
tives of the Office of Price Admin
istration regional office in Denver met
with business men of this state and
explained procedures. The new price
regulations are designed primarily to
prevent initiation and they will be en-
forced by public opinion as well as by
paid investigators. Glen Collins, re-
gional administrator, announced that
personnel of the Montana office would
be named soon. In Havre, Sen. James
E. Murray indicated that Havre would
be the site of sub-office of the state.
There was no indication In Helena
concerning the state administrator or
the staff that would be set up.
Governor Ford approved requests
of sugar beet growers for Japanese
laborers, and plans were started to
import them into four counties where
the labor situation was considered
acute. Broadwater county requested
6S Japs; Valley county, 155; Blaine
county, 800; and Phillips county, 1913.
These workers were to be brought
into the state under local option"
agreement. The workers are to be
returned to the federal reception cent
ers as soon as the work is completed
or when ordered to do so by the gov
ernor or the county commissioners.
The political situation remained rel
atively quiet during the week. Rob
ert Patterson, Hayre ex-service man,
filed for congress in the second dis
trict, seeking the place now held by
Congressman O'Connor. Senator Muir
ray was making a tour Of northern
Montana and expected to be in Mon
tana until the first Of June. In Wash
ington, the Truman committee criti-
cized vigorously the administration
handling of the rubber program and
called for a vigorous revamping of
machinery to handle stockpiles and
synthetic production.
Gen. George G. Marshall, chief Of
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

pose in 1888 was $265,800,000
which will be paid the own
ers.
Regional boards to determine the
value OF the coal lands, on the basis
of their yield in the next Is years,
will complete reports within two
years and the owners will be paid off.
Where valuation has been agreed
on, 1870 will be paid Immediately.
Where valuation has not yet been set,
owners will receive one and a half
times their last years income as a
down payment
II is estimated that the number of
owners Of coal land Is around 1000
including trust companies and the
church. The number of mines is
estimated at 1857 run by IA collery
proprietors who operate under a lease
After July 1, 1t was stated, the gov
eminent will collect the royalties
to SC ton, setting aside
the money for operating expenses and
purchase of the lands. When pur-
chase of the lands is completed the
royalties will be abolished II was
stated.
Acquisition of the coal lands, it was
indicated, will simplify the govern
ment problem of increased coal pro-
duction. 1t has been charged that
some owners have been Withholding
their best seams from production to
assure profits after the war.
The Natl. Council on Labor, COM
posed of representatives of Trade IN
ion Congress, the British Labor Par
ty and the Co-operatives, has proposed
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
BY RADIO
FROM EUR0PE'S
DUNGEON

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS follow
ing items were recorded heer by radio
listening posts Of the U. S. govern
ment:
Germany disclosed a gigantic plan
for the permanent enslavement of
European workers "after the German
victory"
Under a plan announced by Chief
of Cabinet Biegiebel of the German
labor ministry, the German govern
ment would form pool of labor in all
European countries so that workers,
men and women, might be shifted
anywhere as it desired.
After the German victory there
will be no unemployment in Europe"
Biegiebel said. mo country will be
allowed to deal with its labor prob
lens Independently. Excess of labor
will be Obliged to shift to places
where there is lack of labor. Foreign
workers must have the same rights
and obligations as natives, and the
problems of wages must be solved"
Surprisingly, the German radio
broadcast the plan without realizing
its implication to men and women
who would be torn from their coun-
tries and homes.
IF only European labor would work
according to PLAN" Biegiebel said
What colossal economic power it
would represent"
A May-day message from trade I'M
ionists In occupied France to the free
workers of the world has just been
released here by the Free French del
egaton. The document was smuggled
out to London for the International
Federation of Trade Unions and for
General de Gaulle by French trade
union leader. 1t was then cabled to
the Free French delegation in the
u. S.
The message was addressed par
ticularly to English, American and
Russian workers on whom rests the
heaviest burden in the task of deliver
ance." 1t read
Our country is despoiled and be-
trayed by a pitiless adversary who
steals our machines, our food, our
work. Our liberties are dead. No
longer have we any means of express
sion, any free unions, or social Sc
curity. We do not ask you to
pity us but we do ask that you keep
your confidence in US. We are not
accomplices in the treason. 1t is by
force, by the threat of taking away
our food, that we are compelled to
work for Germany. They try to
make you believe that we are with
the invader and his henchmen. On
the contrary it is in you, comrades,
who work to free US, that we place
our confidence.
We are ready to go as far as we
can in helping you sabotage produc-
ton for the enemy; to submit to justi-
fable bombardment of the factories
that work for Germany; to follow to
the letter any order which you may
Continued on Page Fourl
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
AGRICULTURAL
EMPLOYMENT
HAS RISEN

Notwithstanding scarcity of sugar
beet workers there was an increase
in the number of farm women and
children at work on the wartime job
of food production In Montana on May
compared with employment on the
same date last year, the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture reports. Except
ing March, every month this year so
far has shown farm employment that
was noticeably above the same month
in 1941. Farmers, however are using
more women, children, and relatively
inexperienced help for many opera
lions previously handled by expert
enced male workers.
There were 1000 more persons en-
ployed on farms on May 1 this year
than year ago. April weather was
mostly favorable for field work in
most sections of the state. This, to-
gether with the extra work of plant
ing increased acreages of many crops,
led farmers to make somewhat full
Ter use of available family labor.
A total of 10000 persons we're en-
ployed on farms on May 1. This was
approximately 5000 more than the
number employed on April l, an in
crease that was about usual for this
time Of the year.
Family farm workers on May to-
tailed $4,000 or 1000 more than a
month earlier. From April to May,
the number of hired workers In
creased 1000 persons, an increase
that was less than usual for hired
labor at this time Of the year.
U. S. Farm Labor Summary
Total employment on farms on May
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
BY A. I. HARRIS

agricultural budget all funds for gath
er;ng statistics on farm labor supply.
This activity the Division of Agri-
cultural Statistics) was of great value
in helping to formulate agricultural
policies and programs. 1t had been
under the Agricultural Marketing
Service, but last winter was turned
over to the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, where the scope OF Its
program was enlarged.
It's work at the present time would
have been of great value to Paul NC
Nuts War Man Power Board.
Reactionaries hate the Bureau OF
Agricultural Economics about as much
as they hate any of the progressive
governmental setups. The bureaus
'scrime" is that it is more interested
In the small man of the soil than in
the big fellow. And that's pretty
close to being capital crime.
Nationwide Gas Rationing2
1t looks as though nationwide ra-
tioning of gasoline is In the offing
when present sectional rationing ex-
pires on July l.
Present system is meeting with
grumblings from many quarters, espe-
cially from affected districts. Rep.
Fitzgerald, Conn, speaks the senti-
ment of affected districts when he
says that he will insist on equality
of inconvenience for all sections from
the standpoint of improving national
morale.
Fitzgerald himself has refused to
accept the unlimited X-cards handed
out to all members Of congress, and
has put up his car for the duration
of the gasoline emergency" It's
more important" he says, that auto
mobiles be used to convey defense
workers to plants than 1t Is to con-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
LAB0R-CO-OP COUNCILS
BEING FORMED

COLUMBUS, O.-(FP)-A plan for
the creation of local Labor o-opera-
tive Councils was formulated here at
the second annual congress of the
Central State Co-operatives.
The plan, which calls for the setting
up of Central States Labor-Co-opera-
tive Council which in turn will set
up local groups in Industrial areas,
developed out of panel discussions
which stressed the necessity for closer
ties between the two movements.
The proposal received the unani-
nous and enthusiastic approval Of the
$50 delegates
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

tons officers. Inc DOarO OF
directors held it's regular quar-
terly meeting here yesterday
and today.
In recent months, the National
Farmers Union has been frequently
asked about its attitude toward or
ganized labor More recently and
particularly, such inquiries have re-
ferred to the widely publicized intent
of District so of the United Mine
Workers of America to finance, direct
and promote the organization of
union of dairy farmers. This state
ment is an answer to both types of
inquiries.
"The National Farmers Union has,
since its formation in 1902, been
friendly and cooperative toward or
ganized labor Our members and Of
ficers have been and are sympathetic
with labor's aspiration to achieve
democracy in the economic and in
dustrial fields commensurate with
that assured by law in the political
field. The National Farmers Union
seeks the same extension of democ-
racy in the field of agriculture.
To-day, engaged in the worldwide
war to defeat and crush the power
and the idea of fascist slavery, we
recognize that the Nations success
in it's war effort depends upon the
strength of day-to-day democracy. We
can win only as free men working
and fighting together-sacrif1cing to-
against the common enemy.
In the industrial field, democracy
calls for the continued operation Of
labor organizations; in agriculture,
for the continued operation of farm
organizations.
American workers are today doing
their assigned part in speeding up
war production. Their organizations
volunteered for this war for the dura-
ton. They gave up the strike, labor's
most effective tool in bargaining for
fair wages and working conditions.
Long ago they offered practical pro-
posals for increasing war production |
They pleaded to be allowed to help In |
the planning and conduct of war pro-
duction This they were given in a
measure when Donald Nelson set up |
the plan for laborindustry production |
committees in war production plants.
They volunteered to help pay the |
costs of the war week by week
through the War Bond payroll allot-
ment plan and, in the Treasury's new
drive for one billion dollars month,
labor is to be given joint responsible
ity with management for installing
and operating this plan in the Ma
tons plants.
Labor has not and, in my judg-
ment, cannot give up the right to bar
gain for wage adjustments necessary
to keep up in fair measure with rises
in living costs, using all bargaining
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
LEGION COMMITTEE
is PR0BED

BALTIMORE (FP) As result
of complaint by the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO), the War Pro-
duction Board is investigating phony
production committee set up by the
American Legion at the plant Of the
anti-union Glenn L. Martin Aircraft
Co.
Charging that the Legion committee
is company-dominated, CLIO Regional
Director Frank ]. Bender said it had
been set up to evade WPB request
for the setting up of genuine labor
management committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29

WESTINGHOUSE )-Nationalizatio of Brain's coal
lands agreed by parliament in 1888 will be put into effect
July of this year. by the British press
service reveals On that date the will take
from present of the coal lands claims upon
which the operators paid royalties Authorized the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
matt. PRESIDENT PATTON
FARMERS UNION States
Attitude TOWARD Lew
Declares Support by Organization OF
ganized Labor But Deplores Activit <
District SO of United Mine Workers to
Organize Dairy Farmers; Farmers Know
Own Problems, Must Organize Themselves

DENVER, Colo, May 10.-Support during wartime of or
ganzed abors bargaining rights short of the strike and
that farmers should be organized by farmers not
by labor big business highlghts of statement
labor policy today by James Patton president of the
Union with the approval of the organiza
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-05-29
National OF
BRITAIN'S COAL LANDS
TO BECOME effective

War Forces Hands of Government To Make
Action of Parliament Four Years Ago
Effective in July; Charged That Owners
Withheld Best Seams From Production To
Assure Profits After the War.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Pantry Palaver

Chefs Hints: You can prevent bacon
from curling at the edges when cook
ing by notching the edges with scis-
sorS.
To make mocha fudge use leftover
coffee in place of milk in your regular
fudge recipe.
You can use up stale bread by cut
ting with a cookie cutter, dipping
pieces in melted butter and top seal
loped vegetables or recipes calling for
bread crumb topping.
Heat lemons before squeezing to
obtain more juice.
Sponge and angel food cakes are al
ways baked in ungreased pans. Cakes
made with butter or shortening are
baked in well-greased pans.
A little butter added to water in
which rice is cooking will prevent boil
ing over.
If custard has accidentally curdled
it will become smooth again if beaten
with rotary beater for few minutes.
Make leftover mashed potatoes into
small balls, roll in bread crumbs and
fry in hot fat
Mash an avocado, blend in a little
lemon juice, dash of Worcestershire
and mayonnaise and put between tea
sandwiches. You'll have them guess
ing.
Avocado, grapefruit and shrimp
combine heavenly for a first course or
a salad.
Since roquefort cheese is becoming
more difficult to buy try stuffing celery
with snappy cheese blended with chilli
sauce and a few nut meats finely
chopped.
If the children won't eat their
prunes combine them with grapefruit
sections-they1l go over big,
Have you used nutmeg on succo-
tash? Try it. Incidentally, nutmegs
are becoming scarce due to the war.
Why not lay in supply of whole ones
and a nutmeg crater, and CRATE as
needed.
Speaking of graters or grinders, do
you have pepper grinder and freshly
grind your pepper as used. Worlds of
difference in the flavor.
Whole boiled onions, followed out
and stuffed with cheese and served in
white sauce will call for second help
ings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Painters Waive Pay Rule
To Aid Civilian Defense

New York City (ILNS).-As a con-
tribution to civilian defense, District
Council of the Brotherhood of Paint
ers, Decorators and Paperhangers of
America has agreed to waive a rule
calling for double pay on night work
in doing emergency blackout painting
for department stores, public build
ings and other structures in which
most of the work has to be done after
business hours.
Union officials said that their will
ingness to accept night shift rate of
1925 an hour, instead of the $500 an
hour that would be required under the
regular scale, would apply only to
buildings in which it was impracticable
to carry on the major part of the work
during the day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
PRESIDENT SIGNS
BIG HOUSING Bill

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) .-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has signed a $512,-
100000 war appropriation measure de-
signed largely to provide housing,
school and sanitary facilities for GEN.
ters of defense production.
The bill carries $3o0,O00,OOO for
more than 10000 housing units and
$3.50, 100000 for schools, water sys-
TENS and other types of community
facilities
1t also provides funds for the relief
and defense of civilians in America S
war-torn territories and possessions,
and those where the war may strike at
any time.
The housing funds brought total ap-
preparations for this purpose to $780,
100000. Appropriation for other COM
munity facilities total $300,000,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
FOR
WOMEN
.
Keeping
Ahead of
the Times
By Mary Moore

season for picking lists of ten-ten
most famous women, ten best books,
ten best plays, ten most useless Christ
mas presents and so on.
Comes COMMITTEE of educators"
of Webber College, with lest of ten
outstanding young American women"
for the year. What do we get. We
get lawyer, a singer, playwright
a couple of singers, to be accurate
about it, and couple of writer's.
One of the women listed wrote a
book called Fashion is Spinach" And
this list also is spinach.
1t all works out we'll for Webber
College. Like great many stunts Of
this kind we suggest that maybe it
was all figured out to get the name of
the college in print. From that stand
point it is a good stunt-and from
no other.
Not labor woman on the list. Not
social service worker; not an econ
omist-nobody who has contributed
anything to the righting of wrongs
and the progress of the human race
The list is said to be one of young"
women, but it isn't stated how young
woman has to be to be classified as
young. Some of the names-not to
be catty-don't sound too young.
The whole thing is just little bit
silly in this time of tremendously Sc
rious things. We could do without a
"Wagnerian soprano" if we could find
in the list instead the name of some
young woman who really has done
something to help bring the world
out of it's mess.
AS matter of fact girl running
a machine in shop making war ma
terials probably will rate as more val
liable, in the long run of history, than
any woman named in the list pro-
nounced by Mrs. Roger Babson's Web
Der of finance and business for women
Wonder who her press agent is?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Directors' Election

Ballots will be in the mails soon for
selection by members of five directors
to serve for a term of three years.
Members of the nominating committee
Morris G. Taylor, chairman; c. J.
Dyer, William Gibson, Charles Koehler
and Frank Gerhart, will nominate ten
members, from whom the membership
will select five. The five receiving the
highest number of votes will be elected
to replace William Wolf, Judge P, P.
Boil, Herman L. Kutter, Alexander
Thomson, Jr., and Howard Sloneker,
whose terms are expiring.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Small Seasonal Job Losses
Seen In n. Y. Factories

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS). - Prelimi-
nary tabulations showed that the num-
Der of workers employed by New York
state factories declined O.6 per cent
from the middle of October to the
middle of November. Total payrolls
dropped or per cent. This marked the
first time in the past year and half
that net reductions in both employ
ment and payrolls were reported. Ac-
cording to Industrial Commissioner
Frieda S. Miller, the losses in Novem-
ber were small and chiefly caused by
seasonal factors, usual to November
Over the past 27 years, the average
changes from October to November
have been losses of 0.6 per cent in
forces and of 1.2 per cent in payrolls.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Lumber Accident Rate
High, Says Labor Dept.

Washington, D. ca survey by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, u. S. La
Dor Department, shows that in logging
about one in every six employees suf-
fered a disabling injury in 1910; in
sawmills about one in every twelve
was injured; in planning mills the ratio
was about one injury to every fourteen
employees. Causes of accidents include
lack of proper safety training, lack of
adequate supervision, and lack of suit
able and effective mechanical guards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE NEWS
Civilian Defense

Opening of the Hamilton Civilian
Defense Volunteer Office in Room 200
of the Rentschler Building has brought
new impetus to the work of getting
Hamilton prepared for any possible
dangers born of the war. Hamilton
ians now have the opportunity to take
places in the defenses of their home
community, forming second and sup
porting line behind Uncle Sans fight
ing forces. In addition to registrations
being taken in the volunteer office,
workers in Hamilton industries are
enrolling in various phases of the ci-
william defense set-up within their
plants.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-09
Dog Tag Sale Goes Into
Slump, Says r. Ell. Smith

Reports from the office of R. H
Smith, Butler County auditor, dis
closed that the sale of 1912 dog IL
censes has slowed considerably.
Two weeks ago, when the annual
sale was opened, number of dog
owners promptly obtained the new
tags. Auditor Smith suggested others
not wait until the last day or SO, when
the unavoidable congestion means de-
lay and inconvenience.
The sale of tags, without penalty,
closes January 20.