The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-01-07
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Poll Tax Statesmen and Labor

Il
Will you bear with me again while give out with my
violent prejudice against the Southern Democratic olgarcy
The Southern Democrats in the house. who enjoy office
by virtue of political closed shop last Wednesday
the repressve anabor bill drawn by Smith of Virginia
to that this the most noxous bit of South
ffronery the Fugitive Slave Act of $780,
would face the difficulty of enforcement got
by the senate and the White House. which probably
The members of this Southern olgarchy might wave the
Gallup poll reflections of public hysteria labor
Tense production but their real defense Their
is the Gripping Of the organized
both AFL and CO. which they inevitably expanding
the south wping competitive advantage of ex-
ploitaton.
The Poll Tax Influence
Don't forget the fact the Southern ogarchy in
does not the Southern people, because the
vast majority of those people dsanchsed by the poll
or other forms of the color ban.
Of the 129 Democrats who voted for the Smith BILL 80
them from louisiana North Carolina South Carolina
Texas Arkansas Tnnessee Alabama Georgia. Florida Vir-
gnia and Mississippi.
1910 elections in which the SO congressman from
these IL states elected 36056O0 voters participated
worked out the figures myself, because didn't
get agency and trust they are
right At the time shed in the returns
and found that in the 1910 elections other
ers elected only IA representatives to congress.
Compared With North
The districts picked comparison industrial and
metropolitan regions in Illinois, Indiana New York, Ohio
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island These districts the g.
61580O voters who participated in the election Dem
ocrats to and these IA Democrats voted the
Smith BILL but they match for the 80 sent
up by 3,6O5,600 voters from the south.
AS read these figures, that average the
vote of the privileged Southerner who allowed
lot is about and onehaf times influential
of Northern industrial worker.
In other words two Southern real estate operators who
interested in retaining the sous competitive advantage
of low and exploitation much weight sol
rubber workers in Akron 13 auto workers Detroit
steel workers in Pittsburgh.
A Word From Senator Walsh
If you like extreme figures only 1890 partci
pated in the election that sent Ford of Mississippi
but Mr.. Fords vote the Smith bill nuled the of
Schuetz OF Illinois, whose election 100000 voters
northwest side Chicago participated.
BY coincidence the day that these patriotic gen.
and hghmnded critters from the South
in their shoes "emancipating labor the
rapacious racketeers who lead labor Walsh
of the senate naval affairs committee declared
terrible day of reckoning lay ahead of of the
profits that were being made ships and apanes
Also on that day. when the closed shop political
0garchy of the south aboshng the labor
he United States the mail brought copy that mpeccab
respectable magazine Business Week. this magazine dis
,ussed industrial wages. | quote:
"The national average of hourly earnings resumed it's
limb in September However, the real wage figure which
obtained by dividing the hourly earnings by cost
# living declined again September for the
i've month
I'm short the increase in the of living is wiping out
ecent gains in hourly earnings" k
There is the picture another day Washington Pm
lot trying to sell goods The figures
from the Congressional Directory speaks
hmse and the mpeccaby respectable Business Week
he oracle of the Suburban Express =
To it adds up ths-that when sober history oil
times recorded will be apparent the Americana
vorkng stiff well endowed with foritude that this
blessing the naon-Edwn A. Lahey In the Chicago
aily News.