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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
BY SCOTT NEARING

The house of representatives has
passed an appropriation bill that to
tailed 100000 100000, an amount eighi
times the entire receipts of the fed
eral government In the prosperity
year 1928. The bill was passed un
animously after a few hours of per
functory debate.
The present rate of congressional,
appropriation will push 1912 federal
spending above 100000, 100000, OF
more than three times the anticipated
federal income for the year. The ad
ministration is proposing to meet
these skyrocketing expenses by add
ing another s7,000,000,000 to taxes
and by piling up $50 to $40 billion
in additional public debt.
State and local taxes reached 49,
900, 10000 In 1941, an all-time high.
Federal taxes increased from $5,500,-
0O0,OO in 1910 to $780, 100000 in
1941.
The federal budget submitted to
congress January s, 1912, called for
taxes of $4,000, 100000 in the fiscal
year 1912 and $4,000, 100000 in 1913.
There is every indication that the
1943 tax figures will be still further
increased by the present congress, bot
as they stand, 1943 taxes will be three
times those for 1910.
True, the tax burden on U. S. citi-
zens has never been so high as that
on Europeans. But in that very fact
has resided one of the most important
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
NATIONAL POVERTY LOOMS AS
SEQUEL TO HEAVY WAR DEMANDS

| American freedoms. Arms races and
wars have regularly eaten up a big
segment of European income, raised
living Of the entire continent.
The U. S., on the other hand, spent
far smaller proportion of its income
for armament and enjoyed lower tax
rates and. higher living standards than
the average European nation.
The present administration program
calls for 1942-43 federal expenditures
seven times those of 1887 and 16 times
those of 1928. In this one year, 1912
43, taxes will be treble those of 1910
and the national debt will be in
creased by more than twice the total
federal debt of 1929.
"Never mind the figures" comes
the answer, both inside and outside
congress. This is rich country"
True enough. But there are certain
economic principles that apply to the
rich as well as to the poor. If man
or nation, no matter how rich, con-
tinues to spend his income, it is only
question of time before he will be
poor
But" the doubter argues. ''The
government can increase taxes and
borrow more money" True again. But
each increase in taxes costs some
farmer his farm and some city-dweller
his home. And borrowing adds to
public debt that is already too high.
so what?" the doubter insists. I'VE
may have to pay the taxes, but we
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS

Albert H. Kruse, Montana commits
sioner Of agriculture was scheduled
to deliver an address on "The Promise
of. Agriculture" before the graduates
of the short course in farming at the
State College in Bozeman.
Employees Of the state of Montana
residing In Lewis and Clark county
pledged over $4,000 per week for de-
tense bonds and stamps in the pledge
campaign carried on there this week.
Walter Coombs, assistant secretary
to the governor and pledge drive
chairman announced that the results
were very satisfactory" and that
many of the state offices were 100%.
Tom d. Caverly, state rationing
officer, announced that plans for the
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
new BOOK ON
MIGRATORY
LABOR COMING
Follows Up "The Grapes of
Wrath" and Factories in
The Field" and Shows That
Migratory Labor Problems
Exist Outside of California.

Across the broad acres of Amer
ican agriculture, shadow has been
llengthening. 1t is the shadow cast by
an army of migrant farm families up
Irooted from the land, which here and
there, merges with moving shadows
cast by PROFESSIONS of migratory
workers following one of the estab-
lished cycles. Although the number
of families making up this migrant
army has been rapidly increasing, 1t
has only been Of recent years that
public attention has been focused
upon the problem which they pre-
sent" is what Carey McWilliams,
author of Factories in the Field"
has to say in his introduction of his
new book I'll Fares the Land which
Little, Brown & Co. will publish on
March 70. His first book took up the
problem of migratory farm labor in
California alone and his new book
"Ill Fares the Land presents the
problem as it exists all over the
United States, state by state.
In 1899, Steinbeck's "The Grapes of
Wrath" blew the lid off the problem
of American migratory labor. Before
the disturbing picture presented in
that novel could be brushed aside as
fiction, Carey McWilliams' Factories
in the Field" appeared to buttress 1t
at every point. Both Of these books,
however, left most of the country feel
lar to California alone. Mr.. McWil-
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
MURRAY May
BE OPPOSED BY
FORMER PAL
From THE YELLOWSTONE"


Washington, DC, February 18, 1912
Special correspondence to the Yellow.
stone from its Washington bureau.
Your reporter has just come from
the regular daily press conference
held in the office of Montana's hand
some and distinguished congressman,
the Honorable James F. O'Connor.
Congressman OConnor received the
representatives of the press in his
spacious private office and, with coat
off and in truly democratic spirit,
answered the many questions pro-
pounded to him.
What" said one reporter, "do you
think about the conduct Of the WARP"
Il thank you for asking that ques-
tion," said Congressman O'Connor, 81
am not military expert but have
devoted many hours to the study of
the science Of warfare and, In all
modesty, l presume few men, save
perhaps small group in the army,
are better qualified to discuss the
subject that l, especially in its broad
er aspects. OF course, you under
stand | am against war In fact l
probably did more to keep this coun-
try out of war than any other living
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
|SCHNEIDERMAN
HEARING IS
POSTPONED
Case Involving Naturalized
Citizenship Rights Will Be
Heard At Later Date by the
u. S. Supreme Court on
Request of Solicitor General.

Hearings before the United States
supreme court on the appeal of viii.
liam Schneiderman, California Com.
munist leader, have been postponed
from the March to the April calendar
according to Miss Mini Carson, nation
lal administrative secretary of the
Committee for Citizenship Rights.
Miss Carol King, New York attor-
ney member of the Schneiderman
counsel forwarded the information
upon receipt of communication from
Charles Elmore Cropley, clerk of the
supreme court.
Requested by the United States So
licitor general the postponement will
afford more time to reply to the brief
filed by the American Committee for
the Protection of the Foreign Born
acting as a friend of the court Crop
ley stated.
Schneiderman is seeking reversal of
the lower court decisions revoking his
citizenship. Wendell Willkie will rep
resent him without remuneration
when the case is argued before the
supreme court. Willkie sees in the
case a vital test" of fundamental
principles of civil liberties affecting
not Schneiderman alone but every
naturalized citizen.
Brought to this country when but
three, Schneiderman at the earliest
legal age, 21, became a naturaliZed
citizen. Raised as any American boy
he sold newspapers to provide money
for his education including two and
one-half years of university study. 1t
was thirteen years after the original
grant of citizenship that court rul-
ing deprived him of his citizenship
status. Action was based upon the
fact that Schneiderman was 3 mem
Der Of the Communist party at the
time of naturalization. He has com
mitted no crime and has been charged
with none
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
PRICES FOR
repair PARTS
TOO HIGH
Farm Machinery Workers
Union Urges 1920 Reduction
In Prices Charged for Farm
Machine Parts to Help
Farmers in Food Production.

Proposals to the u. S. department
of agriculture, to the Office of Price
Administration, and the newly created
War Production Board in Washing
ton by the Farm Equipment Workers
Organizing Committee, CIO (FEWOC)
have urged the adoption of a plan
for increased production of war ma
terials while, at the same time, meet
ing the machinery needs of the farm.
ers who are producing the food for
Victory.
An essential part of FEWOC plan
was the proposal for 40% reduction
in prices of farm implement parts
to the farmer. FEWOC said farmers
report that, after five years of use,
the need for new equipment arises
not because machinery is completely
worn out but because parts to repair
the implements are so expensive. Life
of farm machinery, then, the FEWOC
maintains, can be extended If the
price Of parts is reduced.
400 Cut Needed
The basic problem recognized by
this plan Is: How can the farmers
machinery needs be met with the
smallest possible demands for new
implements, thereby releasing facili-
ties of the farm equipment equipment
and road machinery industry for war
production?
With this in mind the FEWOC made
a study Of the farm tractor. They
found that $1,000 tractor, If bought
one part at time, would cost $4,000
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13

come exemptions.
The old sad yarn about de-
priving widows and children
of livelihood will undoubtedly
be dug up and busted off and
extensively used by fat con-
gressmen declaiming against
Morgenthau's proposals to in
crease the taxes on insurance
companies, which have been
more successful in escaping taxation
than any other enterprise in the coun-
try This is shown by the record that
in 1899, insurance companies with
assets of $3O,OOO,OO0,OOO Chats bill
lions, not millions) and with earned
investment income of $1,000,000, 900
Chats billion, not million) paid a
total income tax of only $459,000.
HAVE ANY OF YOU READ THIS IN
YOUR CORPORATION CONTROL
LED DAILY NEWSPAPER"
Tax Exempt Securities
The secretary suggests that exemp-
tions be removed from all outstanding
and future issues of state and local
securities as the taxsexempt option was
removed last year from future fed
eral securities offering as recommend
ed by the treasury department. Nor
genthau estimates that this would
bring the tidy sum of S200,000,000 to
the United States treasury. To be
sure it should bring that but some
means Of avoiding some Of it would
probably be worked out by the tax
dodgers.
Joint Returns
The secretary's program would COM
pei the filing of joint returns by man
and wife. The filing of separate re-
turns has been one OF the major loop
holes for escape from taxation by the
rich in the past, and has resulted in
estimated losses to the treasury of
$300,000,000 annually. The tightening
up Of gaps in estate and gift taxes,
included in the program is expected
to produce $330,0OO,0O0 in taxes which
have hitherto been avoided.
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
MONT. HIGHWAY
ENGINEERS
OFFERED TO U. S.

| In an effort to have Montana s
highway department facilities used by
the War department in the construc-
tion of the Alaska highway, Gov. Sam
G. Ford wired Secretary of War Hen
ry L. Stimson offering to the War
department engineers the full COLA
boration and cooperation of the $50
technical experts of the state high
way department.
In the telegram the governor stated
that these experts, familiar with the
terrain the highway would traverse,
would be able to give experienced as
sistance. Laboratory facilities, field
equipment, and state contractors abil-
ity could be made use of, the gov
ernor said.
The Alaskan highway has been con-
sidered strategic road for the past
few years, but up until last week,
despite repeated urging on the part of
Montana's governor, nothing was be-
ing done about it. With the Japanese
attack on the Pacific possessions it
was quickly realized that Alaska
needed more transportation facilities,
and for that reason government en-
gineers went to Edmonton, Alta, to
survey the prairie" route. This
route which would extend from Fort
st. John, Alta, north through Daw-
son and thence into Fairbanks would
provide an all-weather route serving
as complete transportation link to
Alaska, now served only by water and
air transportation.
Montana authorities pointed out
that Montana will be greatly bene-
fitted from the location of the road
and the facilities of this state were
Immediately placed at the disposal of
the War department.
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
Dies Committee Proved Using Plagiarism
Training Courses
For Coop Jobs
Offered This Spring

NEW YORK. - Rochdale Institute
national training school in consumer
cooperation, has announced its Spring
1912 Coop personnel training program
April 6-May 30th with courses geared
to meet war emergency requirements
for trained workers In the expanding
cooperative movement
The Institutes students are render
ing constructive service in many fields
of cooperative work including: food
store operation, insurance, farm sup
plies, credit union and health group
organization, gasoline co-ops and gov
ernment work with the Farm Security
and Rural Electrification Administra-
tions.
The course In food store operation
will be directed by the Council for
Cooperative Business Training COM
posed of representatives from the
Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, Con-
sumner Distribution Corporation, and
Rochdale Institute; the Credit Union
National Association Is also collabor-
ating with Rochdale Institute in its
credit union training program. Draft
exempt men and women are especial
ly sought for this wartime Coop train
ing program conducted at Rochdale
Institute by faculty composed of
leaders and executives in all fields of
cooperative business and education.
A catalog and application form de-
scribing Rochdale Institutes Coop
training courses and job opportunities
in the Cooperative Movement may
be secured by writing the Registrar,
Rochdale Institute, 167 w. 18th street
New York, ~ Y.
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
Story Of Condemned
Told in Pamphlet

A new pamphlet, "All for Mr.. Davis,
which tells the story of Odell Waller,
the negro sharecropper under death
sentence in the Virginia state peni.
tentiary, has just been published by
the Workers Defense League, the or
ganization which is appealing his case
to the United States supreme court.
The pamphlet. written by Miss
PAUL. Murray and Murray Kempton,
describes in almost poetic prose the
Virginia community, where ''the sky
is smooth; the little shoots on the
tobacco hills are green in the sun
shine and the people are sure in their
manners and rich in their laughter
-Gretna, Virginia, where Odell Wal
Ter and his father before him worked
hard to make a living off the land
1t tells the story of economic oppres-
sion, of deprivation and of fear which
led to the shooting by Odell of Oscar
Davis, his white landlord.
DR.. Frank Graham, president of the
University of North Caroline, has said
in a preface to the pamphlet, "It re-
veals and stirs intelligent interest in
negroes, white and negro sharecrop-
pers, the tenancy system, dispossessed
human beings, and emergent demo-
cratic hopes. This packed PAM
phlet with its information, analysis,
and democratic sympathy, is in the
front line struggle for democracy In
The pamphlet may be ordered from
the Workers Defense League, 112 E.
18th Street, New York City at five
cents each. Orders in quantity: IL.
Soc; 30, $1.00; 100, $3.50; and 500,
$1,000.
The people's voice., 1942-03-13

CREDIT CHANGE
ANNOUNCED
Federal Reserve Bank
Announces Requirements for
Larger Down Payments and
Shorter Time for Installment
Buying.

Instalment credit maturities will be
reduced from IS to is months on
many items and down payments will
be increased effective March 23, Mr..
J. N. Peyton, president Of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, an
nounced today. A new amendment
to Regulation w concerning consumer
instalment credit has been issued by
the board of governors of the Federal
Reserve System. In addition to re-
ducing maturities and increasing the
amount of down payments on articles
previously covered by the regulation,
bicycles, lawn mowers, clocks and
watches, silyerware, Photographic
equipment, and floor coverings have
been included with listed articles. All
dealers selling any of the newly in
cluded articles on instalment terms
are required to file a registration
form with the Federal Reserve Bank
before June 1, 1912, if they have not
already done so. Forms may be OBJ
tanned from the Reserve Bank at Min
neapolis or its branch at Helena, Mon
tana.
Mr.. Peyton explained that the OBJ
jectives of the regulation are Q) to
reduce the demand for goods where
the supply is limited because of war
necessities; (2) to help eliminate the
sharp increase in prices which might
follow a heavy demand for goods with
a limited supply; and (3) to conserve
borrowing power now so that the con-
sumer may have credit to use after
the emergency is over.
Major changes effected by the new
amendment to Regulation w are:
The standard maturity is reduced
from IS to Is months for all credits
subject to the regulation, except cred
its for building modernization, plumb
ing, furnaces, water heaters, water
pumps, and pianos, all of which may
still be for Is months.
The down payments are increased
from 20 percent to 33-1/3 percent on
refrigerators, washing machines, IRON
ers, vacuum cleaners, electric dish
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
No Change of Heart

No Change of Heart
Many still are wondering how II
came about that the same house
which a few months ago passed
vicious anti-labor bill by an over
whelming vote, last week rejected an
other anti-labor bill by an even more
overwhelming vote. Both measures
were sponsored by Rep. Howard Gun
dertaker) Smith of Virginia
Liberals would be foolish to assume
that the house anti-labor bloc has
undergone a change of heart. Here
is what happened:
Day before the BILL which would
have wiped out all labor gains under
the New Deal, was slated to come up
for vote, everything was set for its
passage. Labor again faced hostile
combination of southern Tory Demo
Gratis and northern corporation" Re-
publicans.
Then some Of the boys who pull
the strings on Capitol Hill from the
direction of Wall Street got worried.
# became obvious that the bill could
not be put over without a counter
campaign for limitation of war profits.
This is where the fat boys are vul-
nerable. So word was sent out to
vote against it.
But the anti-labor bloc is going to
try again-this time, in all likelihood,
to suspend collective bargaining for
the duration" Such a bill may be
introduced in the near future.
Meantime, the reactionary campaign
against New Deal agencies is continu-
ing without letup. Rural Electrifica-
ton Administration is the latest that
has come in for attack. Charge is
that REA, in constructing transmits
sion lines to compete with private
utilities Chats the "crime"), is vast
ing copper needed for national de-
fense.
Again, the super-patriots are mem
bers of congress who, before Pearl
Harbor, couldn't see adequate defense
measures for dust. There is little
doubt that the instigators Of the at
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
REV. DANIEL S. McCORKLE
REAPPOINTED TO BOARD

The reappointment Of Rev. Daniel
S. McCorkle of Conrad to the Public
Welfare Board for term of three
years has been announced by Gov
ernor Ford.
Rev. McCorkle was appointed by
Governor Ford early in 1941 to serve
until March l of this year. His out
standing work as a member of the
Board was recognized by the governor
by his reappointment for three years.
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. 1. HARRIS

| tack on REA are the private utilities
who maintain very slick and power
full lobby in Washington.
Francois Friend In Court
The man probably more responsible
than any other single individual for
our disgraceful appeasement policy to-
ward Francois Spain, Ambassador
WeddeIl, is now home, ostensibly re-
porting on what is happening in that
country-and whether Franco soon is
to join Hitler in an attack on Gibral-
| ter
1t is said that Weddell, with tears
in his eyes, is pleading not only for
continuance of this appeasement pol
icy, but for increasing the flow of ex-
ports to Spain-meaning the flow OF
war materials that Adolf Hitler needs
SO badly.
Reports are that Weddell isn't hav-
ing too much luck. But we shall keep
our fingers crossed until we find out
that his mission has definitely proved
a failure. The state department rec
ognition of Free French control over
New Caledonia and other Pacific is
lands and the Raj bombing of in
dustrial plants near Paris may be in
dications of the way the wind is
blowing.
Subcontractinq Still Laos
1t is hoped that Donald Nelson's
order abolishing competitive bidding
will result in a broader letting Of de-
fense contracts.
Although the volume of subcontract-
ing has been increasing steadily, this
increase has not been by leaps and
bounds. The small fellow is not par
ticipating in our war effort on size
able scale.
WPB is demanding that prime con-
tractors farm out part of their work,
but it is not breaking down the orders
itself and handing out contracts to
the small fellow. Small manufactur-
ers who come to Washington seeking
defense orders are told to contact the
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The people's voice., 1942-03-13
M0RGENTHAU'S new TAX
PROGRAM DRAWS HEAVY
fire FROM PRIVILEGED
Raising Of Surtax Rates On Individual
Incomes, Increasing Corporation Taxes and
Plugging Loopholes for Escape From
Taxation by Wealth Horrifies the Fat Boys
And Their Stooges in Congress.

Cloak congress hummng with criticism of Sec
retary Treasury Morgenhaus proposal double the
the brackets 100000 by raising surtax
boosting the corporation urtax to 81 percent higher
above all for his failure give admin
istraton support to tax the lowering
The people's voice., 1942-03-13

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Th The great expose of Japanese
espionage activities in this country made recently by the
mee headed by Rep Martin Dies d. Tex swiped from
SIS year newsletter service published in Los Angeles Cal
Rep Vito Marcantono AmercanLabor N Y revealed bere
Marcanono made public photosats showing
The people's voice., 1942-03-13
DIES Committee GETSITS
Information FROM LOS
ANGELES NEWS LETTER

Marcantonio Shows Congress by Photostatic
Copies That the Dies Committee Swiped
Its Report on Japanese Activities in This
Country From a California News Service
Published Some Time Ago.
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n people tonight the complexities of
world which he might refer
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-08-13

the winners. The "Y" Old Tim
ers league was won by the Muir
phys Market. They too receiv-
ed team trophy and medals.
The East End Wildcats copied
the Boys hard ball league by
downing the West End Panthers.
Each member of the winning
team received a Y emblem. The
tennis team ended their season
Thursday The Y Senior league
and the Y intermediate leagues
continue until the 25th and Goth
of this month. A new program
has been set-up for the fall and
winter. Thomas Denney will
succeed Len Wilhelm who has
held the present position for the
summer months. Mr.. Denney
halls from Delaware, Ohio.
BUY DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS
Ben Bernie's show is first s.
a-weeker to be beamed to AEF.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-08-13

The business firms and individuals adver-
tising in the Classified Guide Page are reput-
able and offer services and merchandise that
can be depended upon More than that they
they give ABSOLUTELY FREE, THEATRE
TICKETS which can be used at either the Mid
land and Auditorium theaters in Newark. All
that you have to do is carefully read the adver-
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-08-13

tisements on this page each week. If you find
your name inserted in any of the advertise
ments, call at the Newark Leader office and you
will be given two theater tickets-FREE-wit
the compliments of the advertiser in whose ad
your name appeared Patronize the business
men and firms represented in the Guide Page
and be assured of quality merchandise and the
best of service.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-08-13

tw Not everybody with dollar
IS to spare can shoot a gun
EXS straight-but everybody can
M shoot straight to the bank and
VA buy War Bonds. Buy your
~ 1919 every pay day.