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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-12
NAzISMAkE
SOME GAIN,
One SECTOR
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hitler's command today asserted
German, Rumanian and Croatian
troops have driven back the Rus
slams on the Donets River front
where Red armies have been storm
ing the gates of Kharkov and other
key cities.
The Nazi command said mixed
Axis forces continuing their at
tacks, threw the enemy further
back despite stubborn resistance"
1t was one of the first times In
many weeks the Germans claimed
they again have taken the initia-
tive, although Soviet front line dis
patches this week have noted a
gradual stiffening of German re-
SiStance.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-12
Junior Auxiliary
Meets After School
Friday Afternoon

Members of the American Legion
Junior Auxiliary will hold their
regular business meeting tomorrow
afternoon after school at the resi-
dence of Mrs. w. j. Manthey, adj
wiser for the group, in the Way
nor Tract.
Following the business to be
taken up a short time will be spent
informally in knitting or discuss
ing business of the organization.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-12

BUY DEFENSE BONDS
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-12
NAVY Tells
OF SINKING
OFF JERSEY

NEW YORK, Feb. 12-The Navy
Today announced the torpedoing of
the Standard Oil Company tanker
w. L. Steed off the coast of New
Jersey on February 2.
Three survivors of the crew OF
SO we're landed. One survivor said
The sub fired one torpedo and
finished off the ship with II
shells.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1942-02-12
SONS OF NORWAY

Regular meeting, Sat, Feb. IA, at
8 pm. Social and refreshments for
members after the meeting.
GERTIE OLSON,
adv. Secretary.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
ORGANIZER KIDNAPPED
and BEATEN In
Dies DISTRICT

WASHINGTON (FP) "A sharp
protest at the beating and illegal ar.
rest of CLIO. Field Representative H.
F. Mitchell by police Of Port Arthur,
Texas, was sent to Attorney General
Francis Biddle by Allan S. Haywood,
CLIO. national director of organiza-
tion.
Haywood's wire after pointing out
that the CLIO. representative, who is
attached to the Oil Workers Inter-
national Union, was beaten and seized
by the police while engaged. on
peaceful and legitimate activities"
demanded full investigation by the
civil liberties unit of the Department
of Justice.
81 suggest that Martin Dies, whose
clamor about un-Americanism fills the
public press; should do something to
repudiate and condemn the anti
American activities in his home dis
trict by the Port Arthur police. Such
fascist tactics as those employed by
the police Of Port Arthur are an
ominous sign In the midst of our
country's war to defend democracy
and spread the four freedoms" Edwin
S. Smith, director of the Oil Workers
Organizing Committee IC.LO.), com
mented.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27

Farm Coop reports that Ed ONea president Of
the American Farm Federation boosted brazeny be-
fore the senate committee of which Senator Byrd arch
tionary from Virginia chairman that IT tell farmers they
can't on any Of the organizations they should join the
Ku Kux Kan This organization has recently charged
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
new BOOK ON
CONDITIONS
In RUSSIA
Caldwell and Noted Wife
Known as Margaret
Burke-White Publish Book
On Russia; More Interested
In Ideas Than theology.
By ALEXANDER Z. CROSBY

A lot of Americans have been won
dering why they must regularly hunt
for news of Russian gains on page
II, 8 or 13 of their daily paper. The
same people are curious about what
is really happening inside the Soviet
Union.
They are skeptical of the pure
stream of praise from Communist
authors, and they are equally dubious
about the yawpings of the red-baiters.
What they want is the report of a
curious American like themselves
ideas than theology, who studies tho
people rather than proletarian prin-
ciples.
Erskine Caldwell is the man. In his
new book, About on the Road to
Smolensk (Duell, Sloane and Pearce,
New York, $3.50, he presents 230-
page portrait of Russia that answers
a thousand questions. And 1t makes
the best reading you will fin1 any
where this month or next.
Caldwell was smart enough to get
into Moscow on May IL, 1871; he re-
manned as the correspondent of Life,
CHS. and PM until October With
his wife, Margaret Bourke- White, he
visited the front lines, talked with
guerrillas and German prisoners,
doused incendaries across the street
from the Kremlin, mixed with Mos
COW residents In the AFRAID shelters,
and found out everything he could.
His conclusions are all the more
important because of the traditional
censorship imposed by American
newspaper publishers on straight talk
about Russia.
On the outcome of the war, Cald-
well is certain that Hitler -cannot beat
the Russian people. The Russians are
simply unafraid of the Nazi army.
Furthermore, they know how to work
and to fight.
No less remarkable than the
achievements of Red troops and guer-
rillas is the story of the Peoples army
behind the lines, which works with
clocklike precision to fill in bomb
craters-even to relaying streetcar
tracks and repaving with asphalt
all in the space of few hours.
WI at of economic conditions?
There was plenty of evidence to
prove that the big 194,000,000 per-
sons living in the Soviet Union were
fairly well-fed and housed" Caldwell
writes. There was no superabundance
of anything for anybody, except for
privileged state workers, but there
was no dire want and poverty among
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
SIR RICHARD ACLAND SAYS BRITISH
BIG BUSINESS ENDANGERS VICTORY

Editors Note The article below, il
a speech delivered recently in the
House of Commons by Sir Richard
Acland, member Of parliament. 1t is
reprinted from IN FACT published
at 10 University place, New York
City.
| would like to make 1t plain, with
out bitterness and certainly without
any trace of personal animosity-but
non the less firmly-that l am OPP
posed to the policy that is being pur-
sued by this (the ChurchilD govern
ment. Far from my believing that
any attitude of mine would create
any effect contrary to the maximum
war effort, l believe there are many
people who will feel relieved that
some Of their views are being ex-
pressed definitely here.
The governments policy will fail
either OF see us through long war
or to deal with the problems of re-
construction, If by good fortune we
can face those problems at an early
to understand what is happening in
the world today. Those who move
with the great forces of the world can
win wars and conclude lasting peace.
Those who do not cannot. see today
not only failure to move with the
great forces of the world, but posi-
tive desire to struggle against them.
What is really happening in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27

world today? The battle between Nazi
Germany and Soviet Russia; yes. The
battle between Nazi Germany and
something bigger than that. This
struggle is the result of a process
that has been going on for many
years now, namely the complete
breakdown of the existing order. The
order that is breaking down is the
order that has been openly and
avowedly based on the assumption
that we could create prosperous and
harmonious world by setting each
man to pursue his own Individual
self-interest.
That system, by a series of FORUM
ate accidents served us well enough
for $50 years, or, if you like, for 300
years. OF course, it was at all times
in diametric opposition to the teach
ings of Jesus Christ. He said that ma
terial wealth could not be the end
and goal of human endeavor This
system said that it was. He said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
myself" We said, Look after your
own interests" There was a clash of
diametrical opposites, and today that
system Is breaking down. At this
moment we are working under kind
of mongrel system. 1t may be de-
scribed either as public control or
private ownership, or, l think more
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ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
BY HENRY ION

WASHINGTON - Washington 80
sicety, of which your correspondent
has fourth-hand knowledge at best, is
reported to be stirred up as seldom
before by two related events recently
The first event was the suggestion
by President Roosevelt at his press
conference on Feb. II that there ex-
listed in Washington "Cliveden set"
The second was the publication of an
article in The New Masses, weekly
magazine, entitled "Appeaser's Who's
Who" which also charged existence
of "Cliveden set" and named some
interesting names.
"Cliveden set" was the name given
to group of powerful English poll
ticians surrounding Neville Chamber
lain who gathered regularly at Give
den, the country estate of Lady Nancy
Astor. The term was first used by
Claude Cockburn, formerly a CORE
spondent for The Times Of London in
news letter, The Week, which was
suppressed following England's entry
into the war.
Cockburn charged that it was at
the parties at Cliveden that the poll
cies leading to "non-intervention" in
Spain, to- Munich, and to ganging
up on Russia were formulated.
In an article In The Saturday Eve
ming Post, Lady Aston Indignantly de-
MED the existence of such "set,"
claiming it was all just Communism
fiction.
The president, by his use of the
term, indicated his refusal to take
Lady Astor's protestations at face
value. Returned correspondents who
were stationed in Great Britain dur
ing the regime of Chamberlain con-
firm his evaluation of Lady Astor's
denial.
Reporters at the presidents con-
ference asked if he would identify
those whom he designated as mem
bers Of Washington's "Cliveden set"
He said he was too polite to do SO,
that the correspondents knew who
they were as well as he.
Not SO polite, apparently, was The
New Masses which had it's piece on
the press before the president spoke.
Signed by Bruce Minton, Washington
editor of the publication, the article
Continued ON Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
USEL.ESSNESS
OF DIES COMM.
SHOWN BY FBI
Testimony of FBI Director
Hoover Proves That Dies
Committee Appropriations
Not Effective in Discovering
Subversive Activities.

WASHINGTON. -(FP)- The use
1essness of alleged evidence gathered
by the committee headed by Rep.
Martin Dies 3D., Texas) was made
plain here by F.B.I. director ]. Edgar
Hoover in testimony presented to
the house appropriations committee,
publication of that testimony here re-
vealed.
Hoover, submitting figures on the
manner in which 100000 given him
to investigate government employees
was spent, showed that out of 656
cases investigated by the department
since October, 1941, only II produced
sufficient evidence warranting dis
charges.
The Dies committee has submitted
a list of 1921 names, Hoover dis
closed, of whom 100 work for the
War Department, Navy Department
or District of Columbia and are thus
out of the F.B.I.'s jurisdiction.
In 305 cases, over one-fourth of the
number submitted by Dies, the per-
sons were members of organizations
not yet declared 'subversive by the
department" There are 686 names
on the Dies list still to be investigated.
Hoover's testimony also indicated
an apparent lack of respect for his
department on behalf of other depart
ment heads in the government.
Prior to October, 1941, Hoover
testified, it was necessary for the
F.B.I. to get the approval of the de-
partment head before launching an
investigation of government en-
ployee. The F.B.I., between June and
October, 1941, submitted a list of
1897 names to department heads for
an authorization to investigate. In
only 1913 instances was the authorize
ton granted.
Change of policy on Oct. %, 1941,
which permitted the F.B.I. to pro-
coed without authorization by depart
ment heads, produced the following
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. /. HARRIS

Ilished, started out we'll with blast at
the politics as usual played on Cap
litol Hill. Tom Amlie, former con
gresham from Wisconsin and well
known liberal, haeds the bureau
You'll hear a great deal more about
the "politics as usual" boys from this
office, because Amlie knows the ways
and habits of this species as well as
anybody.
Here are few things that the pol
itics as usual" boys are doing:
Daily sniping at the administration,
with pointed hints that the admins
tration is not capable of winning the
war This sniping extends to the
First Lady, who is doing more for our
country than all of these fellows put
together.
The attack by Senator Byrd's joint
congressional economy committee on
Farm Security, to be followed by at
tacks on other agencies. This is part
of a general campaign by reaction
aries to cripple or abolish all New
Deal agencies.
The attack on OCD over the ap-
pointment of Melvyn Douglas, motion
picture actor, to position, without
pay, for which he is eminently fitted.
Demand that Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, who unquestionably has been
doing a swell job, be made comman-
der-in-chief of all U. S. forces-a pure
ly military question. This is part of
campaign to build Macarthur up for
a 1914 Presidential candidate. Mac
Arthur must resent this cheap politics
played at this crucial time.
The effort, under the guise Of ma
tional emergency, to restore the pre-
New Deal era, and wipe out labor, lib
eral, and farmer gains made under
the Roosevelt administration.
The above, in fact, constitute the
war aims" of the reactionaries In
congress. They are interested in
these aims far more than they are in
terested in the principles of the At
lantic Charter. And they are out to
win these war aims" NOW y while
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27

Appraisers Rule Roost
If ever a situation presented itself
for propaganda exploitation to arouse
the French against their nail mast
ers, it was in the war guilt trials
that opened at Rom last week
But the American short-wave to
France will keep mum about that SIT
uation because
THE STATE DEPARTMENT HAS
ORDERED THE OFFICE OF CO-OR-
DINATION OF INFORMATION TO
LAY OFF MENTIONING THE RON
TRIALS. This is the office that pre-
pares propaganda material for short
wave broadcasts to Europe and Asia.
The Vichy regime brought these
former French leaders to trial, but
the real prosecutors are the naz1s,
who ordered it.
1t is evident that the State depart
ment, still pursuing its policy of ap-
peasement towards the Men of V1chy
and there is evidence that SPANS
Franco also is being appeased = is
fearful of hurting the feelings OF these
French traitors.
1t is hard for ordinary mortals 10
understand this policy of the State
department. The dividends OF ap-
peasement consist Of long and end
less record of bitter defeats for the
democracies.
A short time ago, Undersecretary
of State Welles told newsmen that
this government has definite informa-
ton of the part that Vichy has played
= and probably is still playing-in aid
ing the nazis in their campaign IN
North Africa. When will we get
down to some realism and holiness
in dealing with Vichy?
"PoIitics AS Usual" Boys
A great deal has been said about
the business as usual" boys, but lit
tie attention has been paid thus far to
the politics as usual" gentry, who are
every bit as harmful to our war eff
fort.
The Washington Bureau Of the I'm
ion for Democratic Action, just estab-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
FOOD PRICES 25%
ABOVE PRE-WAR

WASHINGTON. Up Sharp ad-
vances at retail for many foods adj
vanced the family food bill by 2.7%
between mid-December and mid
January, the bureau of labor statis-
tics reported. Prices of almost all i'm
portant foods were substantially
higher in all of the cities covered by
the bureaus survey.
Large increases for beef, pork, po-
tatoes, bread, milk, and sugar fol-
lowed the substantial earlier adj
vances in wholesale markets. Egg,
orange and carrot prices declined
seasonally.
At the mid-January level, the BIS.
index of retail food costs stood at
1922 of the 1858, average the
highest level reached since December
1880, 1880 higher than a year ago,
and nearly $3.50 above pre-war levels.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
EDUCATORS
DISCUSS
EMERGENCY
Program Outlined by High
School Section at Education
Meeting on Service in
Interests of National
Defense and Youth.

The place of education in this ma
tional emergency as it involves the
proposed six day school week was
discussed by the high school section
at the progressive education meeting.
And in an effort to cooperate to the
fullest extent with the request made
by Governor Ford the following reso-
buttons were drawn up:
1. WHEREAS the question has
arisen as to the manner in which
the schools of the state may best
serve the interests of national defense
and at the same time protect the best
interests of the vast majority of
school youth of the state;
NOW, THEREFORE,, BE 1T RE-
SOLVED that each school community
be urged to make an immediate ap-
praisal of the help that may be given
through an early release of high
school and elementary students, or
by some other method of securing
satisfactory results.
In considering this problem 1t is
recommended that the following
points should be carefully evaluated:
1. The number of students who
may be gainfully employed as COM
pared with the total number of stu
dents in the school.
2. Seasonal and occupational diff
ferences in various sections of the
state.
8. The effects on the social morale
and health conditions of dismissing
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
BILLINGS
TO SPEAK
in BUTTE
Mass Meeting To Be Held
In Butte at Miners Union
Hall To Hear Billings Speak
On Behalf of National Free
Browder Committee.

Warren X. Billings, imprisoned for
almost 25 years with Tom Mooney,
will speak at a mass meeting In
Butte at the Miners Union hall on
Tuesday, March 10th at pm. Butte
will be one of his early stops in a
countrywide tour on behalf of the
National Free Browder Congress to
be held in New York City on March
% and 20.
Mr.. Billings tour will take him
through the Pacific coast, the north
west and the middle west. Last Sep
TENDER, Mr.. Billings had stated that
while he does not share Browder's
political views, his own experience led
him to make thorough study of the
Browder case, and he was firmly con-
WINGED that the incarcerated mans
sentence of four years had little to do
with the charge against him. He
urged the entire labor movement and
all just-loving Americans to join in
the campaign for Browder's freedom.
Mr.. Billings recalled that Earl
Browder was always we'll in the lead
of the fight for the freedom Tom
Mooney and myself during all the bit
ter years of our Imprisonment. 1t is
to remember that it was
Earl Browder in 1916 who organized
one of the first trade union commit
tees east of the Rocky Mountains for
the freedom Of Tom Mooney and War
rem K. Billings. We must have the
of Earl Browder 30 that he
may concentrate his clear reasoning
and help US all to pitch in and crush
this malicious totalitarianism Our
country needs us--and we need Earl
Browder."
This will be Warren K Billings
first visit to Butte for the purpose of
addressing a mass meeting. From
Butte he will go east and attend the
Free Browder Congress.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-27
LABOR'S NEWS
In BRIEF
BY Federated Press

WASHINGTON.-T of drastic
acceptance of the Natl. War Labor
Boards decision by the Federated
Fishing Boats of New England &c New
York Inc. Ending a lockout of mem
bers of the Atlantic Fishermen's I'm
ion (AFL), the employer agreed to
pay premiums for war risk insurance
pending final settlement of the dis
pute.
WASHINGTON. = Draft Director
Lewis B. Hershey has issued an order
allowing deferment for "registrants
who are key men in the maintenance
of harmonious Qabor) relations and
who are employed for that activity
by the government, by industrial or
CARNATIONS or by local, national or
international labor organizations"
WASHINGTON.-P Roose-
velts bill ealing for $300,000,000 to
raise state unemployment benefits for
men thrown out of work during the
conversion Of plants to wartime pro-
duction was shelved by the house
ways and means committee in 16
to 8 vote.
WASHINGTON-Use of fake la
Dor paper to attack the Init. Ladies
Garment Workers Union (AFL) in
violation of the Wagner act was
charged by an NLRB trial examiner.
The paper, Progressive Labor of
Knoxville, attacked the ILGWU dur
ing its campaign to organize the
Standard Knitting Mills. The COM
pany bought 700 subscriptions.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas. Still
weak from a beating administered by
Port Arthur police, Field Rep. F. H.
Mitchell Of the Oil Workers Organic
ing Campaign (CI.O.) ignored warn
ing to get out of town within "a
hours" by speaking the next night at
another organizing rally. The attack
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ESTIMATES OF
farm LABOR
NEEDS URGENT
State Pool Movable Workers
Considered by Commissioner
of Agriculture; Farmers in
Each County Urged to
Register with u. S. Service.

All Montana farmers are gain urged
to register their probable labor re-
quirements for the coming session
with their local agricultural labor
committee, of which the county agent
is a member, or with the local office
Of the U. S. employment service, an
nounced A. H. Kruse, state commits
sioner of agriculture, yesterday.
The first step is to get an accurate
picture of the labor requirements in
each county. said Mr.. Kruse; then
wa can go ahead and make suitable
plans to meet the need. In some coun-
ties about enough local labor is in
prospect; In other counties it will be
necessary to put on special recruit
ment drive to build up a labor pool
from youth of high school age and
older workers who have not previous
ly been available for farm work.
1t seems certain that there will be
fewer migratory workers this year
than formerly, on account of tire and
car shortages and the desire of other
states to hold workers, so we must
know at once how near each county
can come to taking care Of its own
labor problem.
We intend to have a state pool of
movable workers, Kruse announced,
from which we can direct numbers
wherever the need is greatest. But
every county that can make plans to
meet it's own farm labor problem will
be In the safest position, since no
one can predict how many migratory
workers will appear in the state.
In any event, the first step is for
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