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The people's voice., 1942-08-21
r. u. RAPS
ANTI-LAB0R
PROPAGANDA

WASHINGTON (FP) - Lashing
out at partisan hog-trough" tactics
by the wealthy farmers lobbyists to
push up retail food costs, Pres. James
G. Patton of the Natl Farmers Union
declared August 10 that farmers had
already achieved parity in farm
prices.
Our big problem" said Patton, lis
not to get higher farm prices but to
cut the millions of under-employed
low-income farmers into full war food
and fiber production. That must be
done by expanding the very Farm Sc
curity Administration program so bit
terly opposed by Pres. Edward A..
ONeal of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. Unless it is done and
done quickly, food rationing will be
necessary. The day is past when the
big-shot farmers can hide behind the
poverty of our low-income farmers
who lack production resources rather
than prices.
"Such misrepresentation about par
ity hurt the war effort to the extent
that they divide the American people,
setting farmers against labor and the
entire consuming public against the
farmers"
The Farmers Union head said that
many state units of the Farm Bureau
Federation and the Grange are op-
posed to O'Neaps high price through
scarcity program.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
WINTER wheat
CROP BETTER
Than LAST
For the week ending
Tuesday, August IS, 1912

Combines appeared in large num-
bers in Montana grain fields during
the past week when warmer, drier
weather prevailed generally, broken
by only few showers in the northern
and eastern counties. Day tempera-
lures were high, reaching the 10O-de-
gree mark in some northeastern coun-
ties where such weather was favor
able for ripening spring grain crops
and checking rust damage to flax. On
the other hand, nights were cooler
with below freezing temperatures in
some of the higher mountain sections
of south-central and southwestern
Montana with local frosts, but no i'm
portant damage. Continued dry
weather, however, will be needed to
dry out grain crops for combining,
the Weather Bureau and Bureau of
Agricultural Economics reported.
Winter wheat harvest has made
good progress with reported yields
continuing to run well above those Of
1941 Some seeding Of winter wheat
has started where harvest of the 1912
crop has been completed and where
soil moisture conditions are favor
able. Harvest of dryland feed grains
and spring wheat continues with the
later spring grain crops maturing
favorably.
Corn, potatoes, beans, and sugar
beets are progressing favorably with
generally adequate water supplies in
the irrigated sections. Second crop
alfalfa is making good growth. Seed
crops are somewhat spotted and while
it is yet too early to appraise yields,
the setting of seed promises fair to
good yields provided later weather
conditions are favorable.
Grasshoppers are doing spotted
damage to late green grain crops and
some flax in scattered localities.
Farm labor continues acute and in
some counties crop losses are ex-
pected unless more help is found.
Meanwhile, all available farm family
labor as we'll as town labor is being
used where other supplies are made
quate. Weather will be factor in
the farm labor situation according as
to whether or not it will permit the
spread of harvest work over longer
period of time than usual
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
Federation
QUESTIONS
DIES DELAY

NEW K-(FP)-Why has Rep.
Martin Dies waited until the q. S.
has been at war more than eight
months before turning over to Presi-
ldent Roosevelt list of 1900 nazi
sympathizers, the Natl Federation OF
Constitutional Liberties asked Aug. a.
Demanding that a federal grand
jury investigate Dies delayed reac-
ton to the dangers of nazi activities
/ and his repeated shielding OF
fascist propagandists, including many
since indicted for sedition," George
Marshall, federation chairman said:
"Dies boasted to the house January
I3, 1941, that the nazi movement was
smashed Yet he now discloses that
he possesses the names of 1900 nazi
sympathizers and agents.
Martin Dies January 8, 1941, re-
port has never been repudiated by
him. 1t declared flatly: The very
first exposure which our committee
undertook in the summer of 1898 was
that of the German-American Bund.
l. The German-American Bund has
been thoroughly discredited. By
our exposure, we smashed that nazi
movement even before it was able to
get under way
Have Dies 1900 suspects risen
like Phoenix from the ashes? The
answer is obvious. The bund was
not smashed Dies knew the facts.
Dies once again has apparently with
held vital information from the gov
ernment.
"Dies seems particularly concerned
about Walter Kappe, sought by the
department of justice since July 25
when the nation was warned that
Kappe might be in the country bent
on sabotage.
"Dies knew Kappe had been an Off
cial of the Ausland (Foreign) Insti-
tute at Stuttgart, Germany; Dies
knew the bund was not dead; Dies
has shown it all along. Why didn't
Dies turn over his 1900 names to
official government investigatory
bodies years ago? Why did Dies wait
to make this information available to
the government until after the trial
and execution of the six nazi spies %
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
BY SCOTT NEARING

U. S. national income will increase
by an estimated $11, 00,000,000 in
1912. A part of this increase is due
to the advance in prices, but in the
main it is the result of expanded pro-
duction.
The income will be shared between
the civilian population and the gov
ernment. The government will take
what it needs, through rationing,
priorities and taxation. The civilian
population will have what is left over.
During peace times the govern
ment's share is a small one-around
169s in 1888. In 1912, however, it will
be more than half of the total in
come.
The shares of the different groups
in the civilian population vary consid
erably. In the pre-war year 1888 26%
went to manufacturing and transport
1870 to trade and finance, 1870 to var
ious kinds of services, and go to agri
culture. Thus more than half Of the
national income went to the business
world.
In the world Of business there are
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
MANAGERIAL GROUP SCHEMES TO
GRAB MORE OF NATIONAL INCOME

three chief claimants for incomes.
property owners, officials and wage
earners. 1t is not possible to give a
completely accurate statement on the
division of income between these
three groups, but in 1898, of a total
national income of S65, 900,
81, 900, 100000 were paid as rents and
royalties; $S,3OO,000,O0O as dividends
and interest; and $1O,500, 100000 as
profits.
A part of these profits represented
returns for property ownership, and a
part were returns for management.
But rents, interest dividends and
profits accounted for 32ae of the ma
tional income.
Salaries and wages totalled $4O,4OO,-
600 900, or two-thirds of the national
income. The proportion between the
two was roughly salaries and wages
s, or 1870 and 4595 respectively OF
the national income.
A nationwide campaign is now un-
der way to freeze wages. If the cam
paign succeeds, it will turn the ma
tional income increase over to the
salaried and propertied. 1t has been
estimated that two-thirds of the in
creased national income in 1912 has
gone to those receiving 5000 or more
week. If this is correct, then it is
evident on the face of the returns that
the wage earners are getting the
worst of it.
The managerial group has been
making a vigorous bid for power dur
ing recent years. One measure OF its
success was the extent to which exec
utive salaries were maintained and
even advanced during the great de-
preston of the 1905.
Another measure is the increase III
executive bonus payments and retire
ment funds that is now under way
Efforts to freeze wages and limit farm
incomes are aimed at giving the man
agerial group free hand to scoop up
still larger gobs of the national in
come
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
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tives of all the groups involved early
this fall and that such a gathering
would lead to better feeling and
better understanding between the two
groups.
Closer working relations between
the two groups on all matters affect
ing their common interests in the flu
ture is the object.
The Silver Star Farmers Union 10
cal is meeting with other farmer
groups in the Jefferson and Madison
valleys and carrying on educational
work in cooperative principles under
the leadership Of Miss Thelma BRAZIL
Workers Service Group leader. The
local is laying plans for the establish
ment of cooperative creamery al
Whitehall.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
MARCANTONI0 WINS
ALL THREE PRIMARIES

NEW YORK. = (FP) - Rep. Vito
Marcantonio won all three congress
sional primaries in the goth New York
district August IL. He defeated F.
]. Ricca for the democratic nomina-
tion, 5,247 to 1929; A. C. Mucciolo
for republican, 2,7S4 to 291; and Muc-
ciolo for American Labor, 2,O49 to
234.
The state committee of the ALP
and the COP and democratic officials
opposed Marcantonio on the grounds
that he was an isolationist prior to
German invasion Of the Soviet Union.
Marcantonios supporters contended
that man who had supported col
lective security, China and loyalist
Spain, and was the most outspoken
foe of the Munich policy in congress
could hardly be called an isolationist.
His voting record was consistently
pro-labor
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
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ing the period of postwar reconstruc-
ton.
Students especially qualified for
necessary advanced study, research
work, or as faculty requirements may
be recommended by the institutional
authorities as to continue their
studies beyond graduation.
Likewise, according to word re-
ceived from Gen. Lewis Hershey, di-
rector of the selective service, stu
dents who are pursuing courses in
certain fields in which specialists are
needed such as accountants, chemists,
economists, geophysicists, mathema-
ticians, meteorologists, psychologists
or statisticians, may be given consid-
GRAFTON for deferment by their local
draft boards.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

changed range of &c under to the Sep
tember price with No. dark northern
quotable at sc to &c under. Thirteen
percent protein brought 1c additional
premium over the base; 14qo protein
4c over base; 1870 protein SC over
base; and 1879 protein 1Sc over base.
Wheat coming from the Montana ter
ritory and falling into the higher pro-
tein brackets brought &c additional
premium over the generally quoted
range. Inspections indicated 72 cars
of winter wheat and 296 cars of dur
um in the weeks receipts The aver
age protein content of the hard red
spring wheat tested during the week
was 13.679o compared with 13.94% for
the corresponding period year ago.
Minneapolis September wheat closed
Friday, August IA, unchanged from
week ago at S1.101s. The trading
basis on No 1 dark northern spring,
ordinary protein, at the close of the
week was S107 1s to $110B COM
pared with a loan value of S1.32 per
bushel for this grade of wheat.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

tell.
General M o t 0 r s
has put out CONNER
cial shorts for years
absorbing one-reel- L
ers whose advertis-
ing angle was al
most imperceptible
to the naked eye.
Jam Handy made
them in Detroit.
This P + e C ! o u s
Freedom is no short,
and it's no plug for
motor cars. 1t is a
dramatic imagina-
tive feature about a
war worker who
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

WASHINGTON-(FP)-The cost of
living in large U. S. cities increased
an average of 0.4% from June 2 to
June Is, the Bureau fo Labor Stats
tics announced The advance in the
price of unregulated food was chiefly
responsible. Clothing prices decreased
O.7%.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

EAST ALTON, Ill.-Seizure by the
War department of the Western Car
fridge Co. ''in order to prevent STOP
page of work which the company is
agitating" was demanded by the exec
utive council of AFL unions in the
plant.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

NEW YORK.-Faced with a threat
ened strike of $4,000 AFL building
trades workers on all New York navy
construction jobs, the Navy depart
ment signed an agreement with the
Building e Construction Trades Coun-
Gil under which the $4,000,00O Fort
Schuyler navy construction job will
be completed by union men at union
scales. The WPA men employed un-
til now win be shifted to other prof
ects
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
HOLLYWOOD
LOT
BY TED TAYLOR

new producing company has come
into the Hollywood picture-General
Motors. 1t has announced no plans
beyond the picture now shooting, This
Precious Freedom, but you never can
The people's voice., 1942-08-21

The U. S. has appropriated 14S bill
lions for war since Pearl Harbor,
about twice the total for all the other
wars in our history.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
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forced to fall back toward the eau
casus mountains for lack Of the war
materials these workers could turn
out.
The people's voice., 1942-08-21
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the critical year of 1912. If he ig-
nores the mounting rebellion against
sabotage and confusion, he win join
Bill Knudsen.
The Tolan committee pointed out
these notorious facts, known for
months to unionists in every section
Of the country:
1. Conversion is still just getting
under way.
2. Durable goods industries are still
producing more civilian goods
than munitions
8. Peak production is not scheduled
until the end of the year.
4. Small firms are still excluded
from contracts.
There has nowhere been evidence" !"
said the committee, "of any intention
on the part of the responsible Off
cials civilian or military to regard it
as their job to demand maximum out
put or to move heaven and earth to
get it,"
AS usual, labor has been right in
putting the finger on the weaknesses
in Americas war product on effort.
Trouble is, labor is usually right
about II months ahead of the process
sion. 1t takes that long for the big
wigs and brasshats first to pooh-pooh
labors constructive suggestions, later
to bury them under miles of red tape,
and finally, to adopt them grudgingly.
By that time labor has moved on to
the next step.
It's about time that the administra-
ton abolished the labor advisory
committees" which adorn many war
agencies in Washington. It's time to
take labor into the full counsels of
the nation. AS a result of the Knud-
sen-Nelson fiascos, it's up to Amer
ican trade unionists to advance to the
table where the decisions are made,
and take full responsibility for seeing
that the nations factories produce.
The dollar-a-year men and the brass
hats can't do it. Labor can.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
| e++ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

III HE EDlIOR.
DEERE J. HUSS of Interna-
Il tional News Service asserts
Detroit will be bombed within
the next two months. Huss was
bureau chief for ms in Berlin
for eight years. so there is no
doubt he knows what he is talk
ing about.
Detroit. the defense manufac-
turing center of the world. with
out anti-aircraft guns and not
prepared in any way TO meet
those bombers. Sounds silly,
doesn't IL? But it's true.
The President of the United
States should send a special
group of military experts to map
out the defense of Detroit.
Let us plug the loop holes and
move in the right direction.
HENRY AUGUSTA,
1891 Medium avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
War Closer TO California,
Eastern Visitor Discovers
BY DAMON RUNYON

keep few old employees and let
them work up to the time they
have TO lam for their homes.
Many of the aliens have gone to
Chicago and other inland cities
where the curfew does not apply.
The Japanese, of course, have
no such alternative. They must
go to the evacuation camps.
1t gives one rather a far
away feeling to read out here of
various activities in the East
and elsewhere that have been
suppressed in these parts-for
instance, horse racing. That in
cludes the Kentucky Derby,
which you remember is usually
a hot topic in New York at this
season of the year. / am told
it used to be rather hot here,
too, about now, but that was
when Santa Anita had disclosed
something in horseflesh that
seemed to have Derby posi-
bilitieS.
This year the southern Cali
fornia racing fans scarcely know
the names of the contenders in
the 1912 Derby that may be the
last Derby on the old-time scale
until the end of the war.
/ do not like TO sound this
note of alarm TO my friend,
Col. Matt Vim. but he probably
realizes it better than any one
else. The rubber that usually
carries so many thousands TO
Louisville may not be available
in future years. if there is no
other consideration.
IT HAS been my custom to
L give my readers the probable
Derby winner about this time,
a holdover from the habits of my
sport writing days and 1 see
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22
Hard Job Well Done

THE difficult job of federal price administration, which
intimately and often unpeasantly affects the lives
of all the American people, is being managed with COM
mendabe skill by Mr.. Leon Henderson.
This is substantial vindication of the judgment of
the President in appointing Mr.. Henderson as federal
price administrator last February and of the Senate in
confirming the appointment without dissenting voice.
There had been suspicion in certain quarters
of the supposed "radcalism6 of Mr.. Henderson
In fact, the Dies Committee at time stated that
there more than 90 employees OF the price admins
traton with radical affiliations, backgrounds or SYM
pathies.
DUT the President and the Senate did Mr. Henderson
- the high credit of discountng these matters far
as they concerned him personally.
And Mr. Henderson has amply justified and repaid
their confidence
He has been neither radical nor the hand-boy of
radicals in the vital matter Of price administration.
He has been consistently and constructvely liberal,
and pansakngy considerable in decisions and acts which
influence the welfare and comfort and security of the
American people.
The circumstances in which Mr. Henderson has
worked have been not merely difficult but harsh because
the has exacted sacrifices of the people and his task
has been in large degree the exacon of those sacrifices
Where the national interest has been plain, he has
not hesitated to recognize and meet it.
XYIHEN of his recent orders had the effect of
w benefting workers at the apparent expense of
others, he said blunty:
THE national interest and not the convenience Of
the war worker, was the governing factor
When certain pressure groups recently sought a
privileged position IN the matter Of price administration
he answered:
"The plain arithmetic is that as one group of prices
advances, the cost of living increases and other prices
go up II is merely changing price tags without benefit
to any consumer and with grave threats of disaster to
the country a whole"
Mr.. Henderson has had too the disadvantage of
inadequate legislation.
He has been buffeted by self-interested and self
seeking pressure groups and the subserient politicians
representing them.
But he has done amazingly well in this hard task
and consequently there has been minimum Of public
Inconvenience and hardship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22

no reason to abandon the Gus
tom now. The horse is Apache,
a steed belonging TO Belair Sta
BILE. The last edition of the flu
ture book that reached me
offered odds of something like
II to l against Apache winning
the Derby. 1t ought to be that
kind of a price that he does not
60 to the post. Indeed, il ought
be be that kind of price against
any horse nominated going TO
the post, such are the viccisi-
tudes of horse racing.
Devil Diver is my second
choice, which is not difficult to
make in view of the fact that he
beat the mighty Whirlaway at
keeneland the other day.
Alsab is one l must string
with for some part of the money.
Alsab was the greatest 2-year-
old of 1871 but did not have
much luck as a 3-year-old in
Florida. You may disregard his
winter form. He will come again.
Whirlaway has just the same
kind of history.
The new racing barons of
southern California who stocked
up in a hurry a few years ago
on horseflesh and found them
selves stocking idle hayburners
all the past winter have shipped
their steeds to the various rae
ing centers Of the East and Mid
die West. Some of them shudder
il they even hear a horse nicker
because il reminds them of the
feed bills.
Copyright, 1912. by King Features
Laugh and the world laughs
with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must
borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its
own. Wilcox.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-22

7 OS ANGELES, April %. -
- The war seems much closer
to one out here than it does in
New York or probably anywhere
else in the country. Perhaps it
is only natural because this
region is in the "theater of war;"
with fast moving interceptor
planes not uncommon overhead
and searchlights frequently prob
ing the night skies. and with the
population in a philosophical
state of mind that accepts
blackout as quite a matter of
course.
But there are many little
things that keep reminding you
of the war aside from these
manifestations, and men and
women in uniform and the big
evacuation of the Japs, and
army jeeps, beeps, creeps, or
whatever they call EN-, dashing
through the streets.
At dinner time in some
restaurants you perhaps notice
the absence Of familiar faces
bending over your table and you
learn that many foreign-born
walters are affected by the
curfew.
They have TO be in [ h G n
homes by s p. m. and remain
there until 6 a. m, the former
hour eliminating their value as
servitors at dinner. They may
live too far from their places Of
emplo ent 10 reach their
homes inside the deadline unless
they start early. The same thing
applies to quite number OF
Kitchen employes-Italians and
Germans.
MOST of the restaurants that
NA employed aliens have re-
placed them with citizens. Some