davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
SALES SHOW GAIN

Packard reports total sales OF
automobiles. service parts. marine
engines and billings for aircraft
engines under eest-Plgs-fixed-fee
contracts. etc. amounted to $780,
SIT, 403 as compared with total
sales of 1926. 1863 in 1910.
Packard is now 100 per cent on
war work. il was stated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Detroit Stock EXCHANGE

.O1 RLNIliltu oIllTl
.1Oa Warner Aircraft
.15a Wolverine Tube
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-31
Strength Depends on Intelligent Guidance

wei be assigned a major role
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
NAILS REORCANIzING
N0RWAY'S C0-OPS

STOCKHOLM-Norway's National
Consumers Cooperative association
(the NKL) is now to be reorganized
in line with the principles of the
Nasjonal Samling Norwegian Nazi
party, according to still uncon-
firmed message reaching Sweden. It
Is said that the Quisling party will
see to it that the NKL does not
become political instrument which
might work against the New Order"
For this reason the Nazi party will
appoint several commissars and SUI
pervisors. Aside from this, no fur
Their steps will be taken against the
organization.
What Is happening in Norway's
Consumer Co-operatives is something
which has long been expected. A
powerful attack against the peoples
liberties and right to self-government
is going on In Norway. Why should
such typical expression of free CO.
operation, such an important element
in the democratic process, as the
Consumers Co-operatives, therefore
escape the lawless actions of the
present terror-regime? No one should
delude himself into believing that this
attack on the co-operatives will be
limited merely to the appointment
Of comfnissars.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
By SCOTT NEARING

Explosive is the word used by Price
Administrator Leon Henderson to de
scribe the present general price stu
alton In the U. s. The danger is
still chiefly potential, Henderson said
because 1t has not been touched
off"
There are several basic factors in
the price situation:
1. The cost of living is advancing
steadily and relentlessly about 1 per
cent a month. This advance con-
tinued through most Of 1941 and all
of 1912 to date. Both ALL and CLIO
officials have pointed out that the
cost of living increase during the
past year has already cancelled most
wage increases obtained in the sum-
mer and fall of 1941. If it continues
it will progressively lower the stand
ard of living.
2. Wholesale prices have risen
much more rapidly than retail prices.
The department of labor combined
index for wholesale prices advanced
from 779 on March 30, 1910, to $40
on March 90, 1941, and 97.4 on March
20, 1912. In the past year this in
dex has riven 10 per cent. During
the same year the wholesale prices
advanced from 77.9 on March 80, 1910,
to 800 on March 20, 1941, and 97.4
on March %, 1912. In the past year
this index has risen 10 per cent. Dur
ing the same year the wholesale
prices of % basic commodities adj
vanced "a per cent. In the ordinary
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
FASTER PRICE RISE Seen UNLESS
There IS LARGE SCALE CONTROL

course of events higher wholesale
prices are passed on to the consumer
in higher retail prices. Unless the
government fntervenes, the rate of
retail price advance will be greater
during the coming six months than
it was during the six months Just
passed.
3. The most threatening aspect of
the price situation lies, not In the
prospect of drastic shortage OF con-
sumner goods.
Many Customers But Nothing to Buy
War production board orders have
curtailed or stopped production of
such durable consumer goods as
autos, bicycles, radios and refriger-
ators. Production Chief Donald M.
Nelson states that by June 1 the
production of durable consumer goods
will have practically ceased. There
will be customers, with money Tn
their hands, ready and anxious to
buy, but the store shelves will be
empty.
People in the U. s. have not had
such an experience since the Civil
war. Always there have been more
goods than consumer. Now there will
be more customers than goods.
Anew tax bill is being framed in
congress that will take part of this
surplus purchasing power In taxes.
Henderson and Secretary OF the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau agree
that the new taxes will account for
little more than half OF the excess
Continued ON Page Three)
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Your daily paper
missed" this story.

General Electric company, was
one which resulted in:
1-Monopolizing the American mar
ket.
2-Limiting production of much
hard metal composition and tools con-
tanning same.
3-Cutting off American imports
and imports.
4-Dividing up world markets be-
tween American and German interests
by cartel agreements.
5-Permitting since 1886 the Krupp
company to decide who should become
American manufacturers.
6-The fixing and maintaining of
uncomfortable and prohibitive prices
and resale prices Gas high as s453 a
pound) throughout the U. s.
Despite an Indictment handed down
by grand jury in August, 1910,
Levin said the patent licensing sys-
tenn continues In effect and is ready
at hand to be utilized again.
AS late as December, 1889, after the
outbreak of war, he showed, American
companies were making plans to ex-
tend their agreement with Krupp until
after 1850, and letter from PIERCE,
foreign representative of General
Electric's subsidiary Carloloy COM
pany, to this effect was introduced In
the record.
They are quite anxious that the
krupp name be kept out of any cor
particularly kilograms,
that might reach improper hands"
he letter said, "and therefore I shall
'efer to them in the future either
Is the European licensors under Car
'oloy contract or simply as DIR.
louis"
Levin noted that cemented lungs
en- carbide, which Is the best mate
'ial yet discovered for making cut
ing edges of machine-cutting tools
md WITHDRAWING dies, has been pro-
luced abundantly in Germany where
t has been extensively used by Nazi
Industry at low prices.
German manufacturers have sold
pproximately IL times more of the
METAL than American manufacturers
ave sold in the same period for al
lost the same financial return"
.ewin told the committee.
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
FOOD PRICES UP
POP IN YEAR

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-The family
food bill was 1.5% greater in mid
March than in mid-February, Acting
Commissioner Hinrichs Of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics reported here.
Retail prices of many foods rose
sharply. The increase in average food
costs resulted especially from large
increases in prices Of pork, fruit, and
canned vegetables. Substantially
higher prices were also reported for
lard and other shortening, coffee, tea,
rice, and rolled oats.
Butter and eggs were seasonally
lower, and several fresh vegetables
dropped as new supplies came on the
market.
1t required s1.20 on the average to
buy the same food supplies on March
II as could be bought year ago
for s1.00.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
BOY EXECUTIVE
DRAWS GOOD
living WAGE"
American Investors Union
Magazine Carries Article on
Exorbitant Salary Increases
Paid Officers of Corporation
Getting Fat on Contracts.

NEW YORK-(FP)-When news
papers make the unfair comparison
of the soldiers $21 a month with the
wages of war production workers,
they never mention what the corpor-
alton executives are dragging down
every month.
II they did, the public would learn,
for example, that the young son of
the president Of the American To-
bacco company draws S230,179 a year,
which is almost 26 times as much
as Gen. Douglas Macarthur receives
and three times as much as the presi-
dent of the United States gets.
These and other pertinent facts on
corporation salaries are contained in
What Price Management" an article
In the April issue of Your Investment,
the official publication of the Amer
lean Investors Union.
When workers demand wage In
creases to meet rising living costs.
the management invariably drags out
the chestnut about protecting the
stockholders" How is this for protec-
tion:
I'm 1941," the magazine says, "13
top executives Of Loews Inc. received
total remuneration of s3,483,41O. Of
this sum Louis B. Mayer, who is not
a director, received the not insignifi-
cant sum of s704,,425 The net pro-
fits Of the corporation during this
period were s11,134,593. So this top
group received a sum equivalent to
about 80 per cent of the net earn
ings of the corporation"
Donald M. Nelson, as head of the
biggest industrial enterprise In the
entire world-America's war produc-
.ion-draws an annual salary of s12.-
200, which is just one-fifth of the
$4,000 salary given the president of
he st. Joseph Lead company. Ever
lear of It?
Most of the fat boys have given
themselves raises since the war be-
San, the A. I. U. article says. For
the executives of the Nash
<elvinator corporation, raised their
Continued on Page Four)
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RECORD Year
REPORTED BY
COOP Wholesale

SUPERIOR, Wis.-Central Cooper
alive Wholesale climaxed its 25th An
niversary celebration here April 1914
| by reporting a record volume for the
past year of s4,792,257 with net earn.
ings hitting an all time high of s141,.
sos.
Organized during World War l, July
80, 1917, by delegates from nineteen
local co-operatiyes in the Great Lakes
area, with an original capital of $3.50
Central Coop Wholesale now serves
11S Coop stores in Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, and northern Michigan and has
a net worth of s563,10 In addition
to the wholesale at Superior and a
branch at Virginia, Mimi, the Co-ops
own a feed mill, coffee roastery, bak-
cry and printing plant.
Looking to the future A. ]. Hayes,
general manager, warned the dele
gates: war time regulations, short
ages, price fluctuations and withdraw
al of employees to the fighting forces
and war industries will increasingly
affect all of our organizations. Up to
the present time, COW has lost COM
paratively few employees because of
the draft; now we are starting to lose
more of them, many with special skills
who will be hard to replace Secur-
Ing and training replacement person
mel will be one Of the real problems
Of the entire movament
Chief speaker at the two day SEES
sion which was attended by over 400
delegates, was Murray d. Lincoln,
president of The Cooperative League
If the USA.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24

was reelected in 1886, and again be-
comes a candidate to succeed him.
self.
During his eight years in the SEN
ate, he has taken a strong liberal
position, and has consistently support
ed the Roosevelt administration. He
is the ranking member and next in
line to become chairman Of the pow
erful education and labor committe.
He has seniority membership on the
committee on foreign relations, mill
tary affairs, and public lands.
He is Chairman Of the important
special Committee on Small Business,
and the senate recently paid him and
his committee a high tribute when
they passed, by vote of 81 to 0,
the bill introduced by Senator Murray
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General Electric In CahoOtS With Krupp
DOCTORS VOTE
FOR GROUP
HEALTH PLAN

DETROIT-(FP)-The conspiracy
of the medical aristocracy to put the
non-profit Michigan Medical Service
out of business by doctors boycott
was given serious setback when
Wayne county (Detroit) physicians
voted overwhelmingly to continue to
participate in the group plan.
The doctors were asked by clique
OF corporation physicians, higher
priced surgeons and those controlling
hospitals to vote on whether or not
to participate in the Michigan Medi-
cal Service, which has fixed scales
for medical care, with clients paying
SO much a month in advance on a
group basis.
In Wayne county 733 doctors voted
in favor of participation and only 215
voted against. But in Oakland county
(Pontiac) and Genesee county (Flint)
the medical clique had better luck
and the boycott is in effect, though
not binding on all doctors. General
Motors Is the dominant corporation In
both those counties.
The clique does not want to kill
group medical care altogether because
1t fears that outright state medicine
with the doctors on the public health
payroll would then be demanded by
the workers and put in effect. They
want to cripple 1t as much as possible
and one such way is to make 1t un-
workable by demanding higher fees
han the group scale permits, in the
case OF clients with low income
On this line of attack the aristo-
'rats hooked a big majority of the
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
C0-0PERATIVES
TO PLAY PART In
Rehabilitation
Editorial in Christian Science
Monitor Urges Backing of
Washington and Allies of
Co-operatives' Participation
In Reconstruction.

BOSTON, Mass. - The Christian
Science Monitor In feature editorial
March 25 entitled 1.-THE Co-operatives
Can Help" praised the formation OF
the International Committee for Co
operative Reconstruction describing II
as willing ally in the tremendous
task of postwar rebuilding"
After describing the set-up of the
committee and the extent Of co-opera-
tive development throughout the
world before the war, the Monitor
editorial declared that represents
Of co-operatiyes in and out of exile
deserve the backing of Washington
and the allied governments as repre-
senting thousands of men of good
will will know how to pick up
the skeins of democratic livelihood
when peace returns to the war areas"
The editorial in full is as follows:
Formation In New York of the
COMMITTEE for Co-opera-
tive Reconstruction calls attention to
q willing ally in the tremendous task
Of postwar rebuilding.
1.-THE problem Of reconstruction
among the tangled economic ruins of
Europe is so huge that governments
will need all the popular assistance
hey can muster. They can well use
he idealism and the experience in
production and distribution of the con-
Jumer co-operatives which claimed
-00,000,000 affiliated families In thirty
line countries before Hitler invaded
Austria. The new committee, COM
,osed of resentatives-in-exile from
Poland Estonia, France, Czechoslo-
aka, Germany, Denmark, and other
will cooperate closely with
he International Cooperative ALI |
nee in London and the Cooperative |
sague of the U. S. A.
"In pre-war years the success of
in solving farming and
istribution problems and their leav-
ming effect in the strife for indus
rial democracy was an oft-told tale.
tut the war largely wrecked the CO.
peratives Of the occupied countries.
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
RATI0NING
OF SUGAR
next MONTH
Applicants for Sugar War
Ration Books Must Declare
Amount of Sugar in Their
Possession and Coupons
Equivalent To Be Removed.

There is still time for persons who
have accumulated large supplies of
sugar in their homes to avoid the
Inconvenience of failing to get ration
books when they register for sugar
rationing next month, Glenn w. Col
Inns, regional director of the office
of price administration, declared this
week
Registration for war ration book
No. l will be held throughout the
nation May 4, 5, and 7. All per-
sons will be required to declare how
much sugar they have In their pos
session. If the amount is more than
two pounds per person, coupons
equivalent to the surplus will be re-
moved from the book before it is
given to the registrant If the sur
plus is more than four pounds per
person, no book will be issued
In order to obtain a ration book
after the registration dates, the ap-
plicant will have to go before his
local board, satisfy the board that his
sugar stock has been reduced to the
required minimum and that the re-
1uction of his excess stock has taken
place at a rate no greater than the
allotted rations for the intervening
period.
Collins emphasized that all persons
Who do not apply for ration books on
he specified registration dates can |
'btain books later from their local |
boards only if they prove that it
vas impossible for them to apply
uring the specified period.
1T is both good sense and good
atriotism to dispose of excess sugar
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Going After Social Justice

Going After Social Justice
Attorney General Biddle is one Of
those persons who is slow to gel
angry, but once he is mad he Is
mighty tough hombre.
Biddle is a stickler for preserva
ton of our civil liberties, which he
regards as the cornerstone Of our de-
mocracy That has led some people
to their misfortune-to the erroneous
conclusion that he is SOFT" he isn't.
His action in having second class
mailing privileges for Social Justice
revoked is proof of that fact.
But there is far more to this case
than mere revocation of the mailing
rights of a magazine-more than ap-
pears on the surface.
If the charge that Social Justice has
violated the Solutions Act of 1917 is
sustained at the hearings scheduled
for April 29, then those in charge
of directing that magazines policy
also are guilty of violating that act
guilty of sedition.
There is little doubt, in the opinion
of persons who have followed the case
closely, that criminal action is in the
offing. No other course is open to the
attorney general.
And those who know Biddle person
ally predict that no stooge, or under
ling, of somebody higher up will be
permitted to come in and take the
rap. The higher up, whoever he may
be, will be brought before the bar of
justice, these persons say
Biddle has been slow In taking &C
ton against those who, under cover
of free speech and free press, are
conducting a vicious campaign to in
jure the country's war effort.
And now that he has started, he
will not be satisfied with token vic
tories.
Big Business is determined to sit |
in the drivers seat, regardless of |
whether the republic wins the war or
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

not. Labor must be put in strait
jacket. This column learns that Sen
ator Byrd and his crowd are planning
to attach rider to an appropriation
bill putting a ceiling on wages. These
fellows are waging war all thei1
own-and it isn't war against Hit
Ter.
Gets Wings Clipped
A few weeks ago this column re-
ported that Jesse Jones, Washington's
greatest bottleneck," soon was to get
his wings clipped-in the interest OF
national defense.
The wing-clipping occurred last
week when the president, by execu-
tive order, directed the board of eco
nomic warfare to take over procure
ment of strategic war materials-rub-
Der, etc.-and to build up stockpiles
of these materials.
Jesse Jones, as head of RIG, had
charge of building up stockpiles of
these materials-and failed miserably.
He did far better job at computing
interest rates. Jones waited for a
buyers market" and refused to buy
rubber and other materials because
the price didn't suit him.
Jones is still waiting for that "buy-
er's market" But Hitler and the Japs
didn't wait, 30 Jones was left holding
the sack-for Uncle Sam.
Jones is through as an important
figure in Washington. But his exit
came with very bad grace, on his
part. He showed that in addition
to being complete flop, he was a
poor sport First he blamed the presi-
dent for the rubber shortage. When
be couldn't make that stick, he
blamed the British, then the Dutch.
And, to cap it all, he INDUCED in a
fracas with Washington publisher
who had the temerity to say that he
wasn't good sport. The two met
1T swanky club, to which both be- |
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
MINING MACHINERY
GIVEN HIGH PRIORITY

Manufacturers of mining machinery
and there are many of them in the
Rocky mountain west-have been
given top priority rating to enable
them to get the many critical mate
rails they need in their production
in order to enable them to supply
a steady flow of equipment and re-
pairs to the essential mine and smelt-
ing operations providing minerals
vitals to the war effort.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-24
Sen. C0NNALLY
CHARGED
With LYING
Workers Defense League
Secretary Accuses Connally
Of Lying When He Inferred
In Speech That Factories
Were Limited to 40 Hours.

A charge that Senator Tom Con
nally of Texas is deliberately lying
on the forty hour week issue was
made by the Workers Defense league
In letter to the senator signed by
its national secretary, Morris Mil
gram.
The letter, which quoted Senator
Connally's public statement Of March
18th, "The lives of our men must
not depend on factory closing down
at the end of 40 hours" declared
that lying is the only word to de-
scribe such an attempt to present
a false picture of 1abor's productive
effort, when 1t is well known that
the only question is the payment Of
overtime for hours worked above
forty, not the closing down of fac
tories after forty hours"
Mr.. Milgram pointed out that "even
Paul V. McNutt, federal security adj
ministrator, himself no special friend
of labor, has publicly stated that ma
chine tool workers are putting in
Sc hours a week, shipworkers 81, and
men building steam locomotives 81
hours. Mr.. McNutt pointed out in
his address at the Pittsburgh ALL
CLIO rally that 'anti-labor propaganda
lists try to give the impression that
a worker on a 40-hour week stays
On the job for 40 hours and then goes
home, leaving the work to take care
Of ITSELF That puts Tom Connally
in the ranks of antilabor propaganda
lsts."
A comparison of Senator Connally's |
lying" with that Of the Hearst press
IN the subject was made by Mr.. Mil
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to congress within the next rev
days in messages from the
President, according to news
dispatches from Washington.
Probably anticipating the organized
opposition on the part of capital and
industry through their watchdogs In
the congress, the President will lay
his program before the people Of the
country in a nationwide, radio broad
cast after the messages outlining the
demands of the program have been
presented to congress. That bitter
opposition to the enactment of legisla-
ton to enforce the provisions Of the
program will develop, is certain, and
realistic appreciation of this, has
probably prompted the President to
take it before the people of the nation
for support. Z
1t is expected that the President
will not make any specific proposals
relative to curtailment of profits and
limitation on salaries, but that the
United States Treasury may later do
so, and it would then be considered
by the house ways and means COM
mittee in connection with the pro-
posed $7,6O0,0O0, 900 tax bill. New
legislation is required for only these
two features of the program proposed.
Price Ceilings
The price ceilings, it is said, will
Continued on Page Four)
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PHONOGRAPH RECORD
PRODUCTION CUT

In order to conserve shellac, which
has innumerable uses in the produc-
ton of materials for war, the WPB
has ordered the output of monograph
records and radio transcriptions re-
duced to approximately 80 per cent
of 1941 production. The curtailment
of course, is accomplished by linn
CONTINUED on Page Four
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LATE ORDERS
ISSUED BY
The W. P. B.
EQUIPMENT FROZEN"
NEW PLUMBING

In order to prevent the dissipation
of existing plumbing and heating
equipment stocks, the war production
board has frozen all such stocks, ex-
|cept for retail sales of SIS or less, or
for sale on priorities orders. The
order covers all new plumbing and
heating equipment, including any
equipment, fixture, fitting, pipe or
accessory of type used in or con-
nected to a water sewer or gas sys-
tenn, or any primary heating unit or
accessory designed to provide build
ing warmth.
The order does not cover used
plumbing and heating equipment, or
tools used for installation and re-
pair, or hose, sprinklers and similar
devices commonly attached to out
door faucets.