The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-10
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on that tribunal openly usurp powers
of the legislative and executive
branches as they had increasingly
done for so years previous to Mr.
Roosevelt's bold challenge.
There are many who credit the
President with foresight in 1888 thai
the best alliance for our political de
mocracy in the coming clash with fas
cism would be the social democracy
of the mighty Soviet Union. At any
rate, against the rabid rantings Of the
section of the press Chicago Tribune
Hearst papers, and their satellites)
now engaged In oblique obstruction
of the war effort, one of the early
acts of Mr. Roosevelt was to recog-
nize, and send an ambassador to,
Russia.
This brave policy sowed the seed of
our present alliance with the Soviet
Union. But for this alliance, England
| land Ireland) would by now be I'M
der Hitler's heel, and we, after losing
millions of young men, would see
Martin Dies Nazi Duke of Texas and
Wheeler Duke of Montana During
World War I, an Austrian, prominent
in the mining life of Butte, boosted
that when Germany should win, he
would be Duke of Montana.)
At Chicago five years ago, the
President told us all to prepare for
war. Out rang the cry of our later
American Firsters: "He is a war
monger'." AS if physician should
announce that impure water should
be chlorinated, and then be blamed
for typhoid epidemic that he pre-
dicted from a bad water supply.
Labor is somewhat immobile. 1t
has cherished customs, rights and
privileges, in political democracies
like ours or Australia, and in social
democracies like Switzerland, Sweden
and Russia, and some rights even In
capitalistic democracies like England
under Chamberlain, the appeaser. But
capital has no flag, except jolly
Rodger of international piracy.
At a recent congressional investiga-
ton in Washington, it was proven
that the Standard Oil Company (N.J)
had three years ago discovered in its
American research laboratories a
cheap process for making synthetic
rubber, a product in many respects
better than rubber made from Grade
A Para Gum. The assistant attorney
general of the United States testified,
before an investigating committee a
week ago, that this formula had been
disclosed to large German chemical
and to the House of Mitsui
many and Japan was permitted by |
contract Of the Standard OIL, BUT |
DENIED TO AMERICANS.
The next day In flash headlines, the |
corporation press reported that the
president of the Standard Oil swore
that his company had never been dis
oyal to the United States" This
5hifty witness did not deny that the
Jap-German contracts had been made.
He said the formula had been offered
he United States government and re-
fused. Quite plausible!
Then comes the cross examination
If this unworthy citizen. He ADMITS
THAT OFFICIALS OF THE STAND
ARD OIL HAD NOT DISCLOSED
THE FULL PROCESS to a repre-
sentative (chemist) of the Navy sent
o examine it. They tried to cheat
,ur Navy with phony formula that
hey knew would be turned down if
he Navy chemist was learned man,
" swindle on the United States if
he Navy bought it.
The TRUE FORMULA for making
airly cheap, good, synthetic rubber,
discovered by Americans, was denied
o our government by the Standard
i'll Company of New Jersey. This
cal formula was sold or given by the