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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
GUARDIAN
SUSPENDS
PUBLICATI0

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla - The
American Guardian, famous weekly
which waged a 25-year fight against
war and the abuses of the profit sys-
tenn, has suspended publication after
abandoning it's anti-war stand and
dropping from the masthead the name
of its founder, Oscar Ameringer.
Established in 1916, the paper went
to 10000 readers in all parts of the
country.
When the final issue was published
December Is, full support of the war
was advocated Ameringer's name
was absent from the masthead.
Il took my fathers name off the
masthead without consulting him.,
explained Siegfried Ameringer, the
business manager. II know that he
has been opposed to all wars. The
paper was reorganized last Septem-
Der as the James Higgins Foundation
There was no announcement of this
until we decided to come out for
war"
of readers quit because of the papers
shift to pro-war policy Explaining
the decline in circulation, he con-
tinued:
Working against us also was the
fact that the Guardian until the very
last, worked against war Far more
dropped the paper because of their
fears in receiving an anti-war paper.
We were hurt mainly by the fact that
our 5000 Minute Men (volunteer can
became afraid Of urging 9TH
ers to subscribe to an anti-war paper
Il am sure that the change in pol
icy did not influence our readers to
feel embittered toward us in any way.
What happened was that these men
and women who worked nearly an en-
tire life time against war were simply
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CONCESSIONS BY EMPLOYERS
NEEDED If UNITY Is TO prevail

to hire, fire and profiteer at will.
Another issue of great Importance
is the virtual government guarantee
Of profit to business with no CORE
spending guarantee of livelihood to
labor Hundreds of millions have
been turned over to private business
concerns for the construction of new
plants and for the extension of old
ones. Billions In contracts are being
handed around with the understand
ing that in their execution the con-
tractor will make a reasonable profit.
But in an industrial center like De-
troit, where the shift from peacetime
to wartime production is being made,
more than 100000 have been suddenly
thrown out of employment by the de-
crease in automobile output. Rubber
shortage is producing a similar re-
suit in Akron
Although billions are poured into
business Golfers, relief appropriations
have been cut to the bone Where
will the disemployed in Akron, De-
troit and other cities turn for their
rent and groceries?
Unity Is a word to conjure with at
the moment, but if it is to go farther
than paper declaration, the conces-
sions under any agreement between
conflicting groups must be mutual.
Organized labor has offered a pro-
gram under which even the right to
strike will be suspended for the peri
cd of the crisis. Will business recip-
rocate by giving up economic free
booting?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07

lWPA, the CCC and NYA, and
slashing of the Surplus Mar
keting Administration Good
stamp plan) in order to save
an estimated 81, ,075, 900.
Sen. Robert M. La Toilette prog.
Wis., was the only member of the
committee to dissent. He filed his
vigorous minority report after the ma
jority issued its declaration without
giving him advance knowledge.
The committee proposed abolition
of the Farm Security Administration,
cancellation of the FSA's loan author
ization, abolition of the farm tenant
program, and cancellation of the ten
ant programs loan authorization. The
total cut amounted to s247,622,0O0.
LaFollette, in his dissent, noted that
mo other agency in our government
has more impressive record of help
full service to the people of this ma
ton than the FSA."
He declared that as a result OF the
FSA's rehabilitation loans to more
than 100000 low income farm fam
lilies, these families were able to In
crease their annual net income by
$3.50 over the preceding year. In adj
dition, he said, they have increased
the total value of their belongings
219o.
Noting that the FSA has the re
markable record" of repayments Of
$3.50 of principal and interest due
on June 80, 1941, LaFollette said that
elimination of the activities
Of the organization Stands In direct
contradiction to the consistent and
steadfast policy of the senate and the
congress In extending aid to low in
come farmers"
The proposed s500,000,0 900 cut in the
appropriations of the WPA and the
Surplus Marketing Administration,
said, would take away from
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AUTO WORKERS
FACING LONG
LAY-0FFS
Conversion of Automobile
Plants to War Production
Forecasts Long Period of
Unemployment; Independ-
ents Best Prepared.
By CARL HAESSLER

WASHINGTON. = (FP) - Virtual
abolition of the automobile industry
by OPM order January l caused such
excitement that the government i'm
mediately began to administer seda-
tives
President Roosevelt led off January
70 with an opinion that auto workers
would be unemployed only tw o
months during conversion of plants
to war production. No auto execu-
tives or experts could be found to
agree with him.
Pres. K T. Keller of Chrysler had
just estimated that tooling for his
80,000-army truck order would take at
least three months. The corporation
is already in the truck production
business and retooling would be at a
minimum, it was pointed out The
truck order is 30 of the annual auto
mobile industry output.
OPM Associate Director General
Sidney Hillman announced another
conference to deal with the emer-
gency.
The industry will be permitted to
manufacture 100000 units in January,
double the former quota, but after
that production of passenger cars and
light trucks for non-war use ends.
While some critics found fault with
the doubled January quota, it was
generally considered better than
stringing out production longer.
Among the reasons are:
l. Workers will get larger weekly
wages, which will be reflected in in
creased unemployment benefits after
the shutdown.
2. They will earn all possible wages
in quicker time, get benefits sooner
and possibly get war work earlier.
8. Plants are more easily converted
when shut down than when still part
ly in operation.
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BY SCOTT NEARING

Representatives of industry and OF
labor have conferred In Washington
at the request of President Roosevelt
The conference was called to work
out unity agreement that would
eliminate production stoppages for the
duration of the war.
Presidents Philip Murray of the
CLIO and William Green of the AFL
both took part in the conference. For
the first time in five years the two
chief labor organizations of the coun-
try supported single policy and adj
vocated a common program.
President Roosevelt urged the con-
ferees to reach an agreement within
"a hours. But unity turned out to
be no simple matter. The closed
shop issue was the chief stumbling
block. After days of fruitless effort
the conference agreed on a formula
that bitterly disappointed employers
who had hoped to freeze the status
quo.
The closed shop is not the only
bone of contention between manage
ment and labor Other factors stand
in the way of unity. Probably the
chief one is the determination of
business leaders to continue the old
economic free-for-all in search Of
private profit.
The speeches at the recent Natl.
Assn. of Manufacturers meeting in
New York made it very clear that
u. S. big business intends to preserve
free enterprise-the right OF the boss
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
LIBERTIES
Are NOT
Threatened
American Civil Liberties
Union Optimistic About the
Future Insofar AS Liberties
Are Concerned; Attitude of
Fed. Agencies Heartening.

NEW YORK.-(FP)- In reviewing
civil rights in 1871, the American
Civil Liberties Union expressed optim-
ism about the future, despite attacks
ON the right to strike.
"Unfavorable developments during
the year were largely confined to the
conflict over the right to strike, to
mob violence against Jehovah's Wit
nesses and to an extraordinary
sedition prosecution by the federal
government against Socialist Work
ers party leaders in Minneapolis" the
report said.
Despite these events, violations of
civil liberties in 1941 were relatively
few, and liberty In the U. S. has
never rested upon firmer legal foun-
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TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

fact, the nazi party runs the German
government rather than the German
government the nazi party. The gov
eminent is thus merely an adjunc1
Of the nazi party.
But legal minds go in for finer dis
tinctions than do lay minds.
Greater Plant Conversion
To Speed War Effort
It looks as though we will now &c
in for much greater conversion of ex
listing plants for war production pur
poses, rather than construction OF
new plants.
Greater conversion of existing
plants to war production, it is pointed
out, could have speeded up our de-
Tense program and saved lot Of du-
plication. Some new plants, however,
may still be needed
Of the % billions in defense con-
tracts that had been awarded by Dec.
1, about half was for new plants and
facilities, of which less than 2 billions
worth had been completed. Much
valuable time was wasted dilly-dalling
about the terms of the contracts.
However, many of these new plants
soon will come into production.
Too much attention was paid to
business opposition to conversion of
existing plants; the owners wanted
to get new plants out Of it.
Disposition now, however, is to ride
rough shod over these selfish objec-
lions.
The President is said to be thor
oughly disguised with great many
things that have happened, and, If
necessary, may take personal hand
in the situation to see to it that Amer
lean industry does the kind Of job
of which it is capable.
More attention now will be paid to
getting defense contracts to manu-
featuring firms employing from 20 to
100 workers. These have been beg
ging for defense contracts, and get
ting only few crumbs in terms of
sub-contracts from the fat boys. A
lot of bitter feeling has been engen-
dered as result
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
father FIRES
HIS DAUGHTER
PAYS PENALTY

NEW YORK. - (FP) = o. Henry
might have written the story. II
happened in New York, just after
Christmas
Katherine Margolis, comely 23-
year-old blue-eyed blonde, took the
witness stand before NLRB Trial Elk
aminer James G. Paradise. She told
how she had been fired from her s25
job as an editorial secretary at Ii
quor Publications inc the day after
her employer learned that she had
joined the union.
Miss Margolis spoke calmly, factu-
ally, for As minutes. Barely six feet
away sat her former employer, the
president of Liquor Publications Inc,
publisher of the Wine & Liquor Re-
taller, the American Wine & Liquor
Journal and Liquor News
The boss was William Margolis,
Katherine's father.
The witness continued with her
story. She and another. girl had
Joined the Book & Magazine Guild,
an affiliate of the United Office &
Professional Workers (CIO). Two
weeks later she told her father, ex-
planning to him that 1t was matter
of principle.
Margolis was indulgent. He had
sent his daughter through Duke uni
versity, so maybe it was just one of
those ideas. Besides, he was liberal
himself-a man who believed in I'M
ions.
"All l want to be sure Of" he said,
lis that you just want to belong to
the union. l don't want any contract.
can't have union trying to run my
business"
Katherine pointed out that If the
union got a majority among the eight
bargaining would follow.
That was too much for her father.
The next day, July 10, 1941, Kath-
crime and her friend were fired. Mar
COILS advised his daughter to leave
home. She did.
Before Katherine took the stand,
Margolis' lawyer had said that an
amicable settlement could not be
made. The lawyer conferred with his
client when the stepped down. Leon
ard B. Boudin, the unions attorney
Joined the huddle.
Result was a reinstatement offer
which both girls declined because
hey had obtained better jobs. The
case ended with payment of $3.50 in
back wages to Katherine and $3.50
o her friend
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07

The merger was first voted by
the farmers executive council
and was then ratified by IA
district meetings. Ralph H.
Marlatt, newly appointed di-
rector of organization for the
United Dairy Farmers Division
of District so, took a leading
part in the negotiations.
Marlatt is former editor of a local
edition of the United Automobile
Worker A dairy farmer himself, he
produces milk from his farm near
Flint.
The action of the Michigan farmers
is only a prelude to nationwide or
ganizing drive among 100000 small
farmers, District so News said Mich
igan Regional Director Ray Thoma-
son of District SO emphasized that
there will be determined effort to
boost the incomes of farmers.
There people are the basic pro-
ducers of America and their problems
are one of the major problems of
America" he said. If any group
ever needed organization, it is the
American farmer His exploitation
began shortly after he laid down his
arms after winning freedom in 1776.
"The American farmer has had
constant struggle to maintain his
freedom and, in the past few years,
we, instead Of nation of free farm
ers, have practically become nation
Of bonded farmers.
These people need the power of
the CLIO and the members Of the CLIO
need a greater understanding among
the farmers. This will be our pur
pose in bringing CLIO into the country
districts.
"This utilization with District so
was granted after careful considera-
ton of the petition presented by these
farmers They requested membership
in the CLIO under the direct leader
ship Of John L. Lewis.
eve knew that, to undertake the
organizational drive necessary, funds
will be needed The United Mine
Workers have those funds and they
are willing to use them in bringing |
freedom to any unorganized group"
A novel scale of initiation fees and
dues has been agreed upon. The mi
tiation fee is 10c cow and dues are
&c a hundredweight. Thus the owner
OF herd of 80 would pay SO for mi
tiation and estimating the average
COW at 900 lbs.) $50 in dues.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
REORGANIZATION
COMMIT TEE TO
Meet SOON

The state reorganization committee
will meet on January 26 to consider
a report made by the Griffenhagen
and Associates company on the adj
ministration of the states finances
The committee is expected to remain
in session for about a week
Other reports by the company to be
considered by the reorganization COM
mittee will be those on the Greater
University, the office of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
the Orphans Home at Twin Bridges,
the deaf end blind school in Great
Falls, the department of public well
fare and the unemployment compen-
sation commission.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
Law To Catch Up With
n.Janu Propaoandists

Law To Catch Up With
"Jap" Propagandists
Most of the king-pin nazi propagan
dists in this country have been taken
care of gin accordance with law" The
most of these propagandists is await
ing trial.
Now comes the turn of the Japa'
nese propagandists.
The department of justice is known
to have been conducting a quiet in
vestigation of these propagandists for
several months, and it's safe bet
that action against these gentlemen
soon will be taken.
And when this action comes, it will
be found that these propagandists OF
Nippon are of white skin-in other
words, Americans who have acted as
fronts" for the Japanese, employed
by them to do their dirty work here.
Department of Justice attorneys
are said to be up against knotty
problem in prosecuting Hitler's agents
here.
There are two statutes that can ap-
ply. There is the law relating to reg
istration of foreign agents. All pros
ecutions OF nazi agents thus far have
been conducted under that statute. 1t
provides imprisonment up to two
years and fine up to $4,000. The
other is an older statute, under which
agents of a foreign government can
be prosecuted for failure to notify the
Secretary of State This statute pro-
vides a much sitter punishment-im-
prisonment up to five years and fine
up to $4,000.
The question has arisen whether
nazi agents cannot be prosecuted un-
der the latter statute, so that they re-
ceive the punishment they deserve.
This would depend on whether it can
be proven that the nazi party and the
German government are one and the
same thing.
The lay mind would hardly be
troubled by that question.
The nazi party is the only political
party in Germany All state digni-
taries belong to the nazi party. In
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07

482 divided by % equals 81 bu.
3341 divided by 20 equals 14.5 bu.
average to insure 1913 bu
14.5 75% equals 1913 bu insurable
To make this illustration more sim
pie, it will be assumed that insurance
was in force on the farm all through
the 23-year base period, though it was
actually in force only in 1899, 1910
and 1941'
BY totaling all the per acre yields
during the period and dividing by %
an average yield of 145 bushels per
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REACTI0NARY PAYTRI0T'
Committees REPORT IS
BLASTED BY LAF0LLETTE
Flags Report Recommending Slashing of
Appropriations for Services With Social
implications; He States That Agencies
Attacked Have Had Tendency to Make
Democracy Reality in America

-(FP)-Congressiona ''let 'em eat cake"
advocates bowed in again the heels of 0000 900 900
military appropriation with proposal for cutting government
social services to the bone The advocates formed into
joint congressional committee non-defense expenditures
cutting of the Farm Security Administration the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
united DAIRY FARMERS
OF MICHIGAN affiliate
With Clio 0RGANIzATI 81
Extending Its Organizing Activitif gS he
United Mine Workers Has Accept fRhe
Affiliation Of 5000 Dairy Farmer cd
This Is Said To Be Prelude to Nat :Swide
Drive Among 100000 Small FAIRS.

DETROIT-(FP)- board extension of its organizing
activities of the United Mine Workers CO) has
added 5000 Michigan dairy farmers its ranks Affaton
of the Dairy Farmers with John L. Lewis powerful
union was the January of District 50
nublshed at Washington the UNIV
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07

Economic Justice and Equality
Is the Real Safeguard of De-
mocracy. Lack of These Is q
Challenge to the Intelligence
and Sincerity of All.
Evening star., 1942-05-05

(see AFTER DARK, Page BID
Evening star., 1942-05-05

1t must have been q moment filled
with tenderness and Joy when the
professional entertainer discovered
for the first time that an audience
loved to participate. Indeed, the
dawn OF audience participation must
have affected the original Athenian
Joe Blow the way Stokowski's reali-
zation Of his hands affected him, as
Oscar Levant once suggested. After
all, it gave the performer something
everlasting to work on and from,
that innate urge Of the paying Gus
toner to leap figuratively or literally
from his chair into varying degrees
Of spotlight .-.
That the phenomenon has passed
through the centuries with only
added emphasis is an obvious con-
clusion to be formed by listening
to the sometime yammerings OF the
radio set, or the murderous ener-
vescence Of major and minor thea
ter house "Hellzapoppins," or in
domitable Night Club Row. The
latter being our only excuse for
scrambling madly up and down q
newspaper column, we have made 1t
our chore to note the several mani
festations of good old audience par
ticipation In local night resorts. A
service rendered gladly apd without
extra charge.
Magicians, it would appear. have
exercised. greatest liberty in the field
of cultivating audiences. Many. Tor
example. are the patrons who have
stood sheepish and happy before
the likes Of Giovanni while their
pockets have been picked in the
public Of the Troika. Or Of Russell
Swami, who invites innocents onto
the floor to be guillotined or to have
sundry objects appear from behind
the neck. The audience would
never roar half so loudly II either
of those gentlemen or their confreres
were to perform on mere nand-
picked stooges. Even the ttme-worn
command to Pick card!" seems to
have a coy appeal when 1t Is kveled
at some table occupant, and not 1T
the magician's self.
Then there is the type Of D.. p.
motivated by dancers. The Bala-
laika goes in for this form most
Justify. Typical Is the one whereby
some one like Dena Larena spins
across to . ringside table, whisks
the nearest glass Of raisin cider from
under its owners pleased nose, and
capers with it for q minute or two
on the parquet. The capering done,
Miss Larena then stalks back to, the
table, motions the deprived customer
to his feet, and instructs him to
swallow the drink whole. as the
music appropriately reaches fren-
zied pitch. If the trade tires Of
Evening star., 1942-05-05
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
BY the Spectator.
Trade Mark Registered. q. s. Patent once

that, which 1t hasn't yet, there IS
the Filtration Polka. This involves
such members of the Balalaika cast
as Ivano1, Lola Lolick and Alec
Sereda, who gaily hop about to a
polka beat, then suddenly drop their
professional partners and bowingly
| request the nearest patron to come
on out on the floor and increase the
blood pressure.
A quieter sort Of dancing entice-
ment is that in which Clarissa,
Troika's attractive, popular Mexican
showpiece, indulges. Her dance is
a carnation dance, but she wears
most of the flowers on her tray, not
in her hair. Thus. Clarissa will
stink from ringsider to ringsider,
batting them up with a carnation
to follow her as she retreats until
the flower is within grasp, where
upon the boys give their best imi-
tation bow and retire more or less
proudly to their chair.
OF course, for the mass effect,
there are always the conga line,
the c'mon-let's-all-sing. and Deep
in the Heart Of Texas" which makes
people clap four times quickly
Characteristic of the aforementioned
IRE those Of Del Rio, led by Maurine
and Norva plus "Estalella," and Of
Crossroads, where Songstress Carol
James leads the stomping pack. In
Restaurant 1923, community sing gets
the gustiest workout and there isn't
a spot in creation where the re-
sounding four-claps-quickly cannot
be heard. Although, a somewhat
added treat is that afforded by
Evening star., 1942-05-05

Anchor Rooms Matt Windsor who
invariably interrupts his piano to
get in his four hcks, too.
Come to think Of 1t, who In the
first place ever questioned the valid
ity Of audience participation
As an unexpected and altogether
pleasant surprise, to this depart
ment .at least, Enric Madriguera 8
Orchestra is divulged as the Del
Rios next outfit, to open Friday.
MAdriguefais is band that always
has stuck to our preferred list, from
the dim days when he used to score
There Goes My Heart" and That S
Love" to the more recent of "Vereda
Tropical" and Moon in the Sea-
played them as they never have
been played before or since. That's
nostalgia, perhaps; but no one can
question the distinctiveness of his
music, whatever the vintage.
Madriguera plays violin himself
could doubtless have been q con-
Evening star., 1942-05-05

making the tools our forces need. Millions Of wheels
singing the rails taking those tools and supplies
to men who use them in the name Of Freedom!
With American industry on full war footing. rail-
road transportation assumes greater responsibility.
Add the American railroads for years have been