The people's voice., 1942-02-27

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Dear Editor:
The recent capture Of Singapore by
increase in the activities Of the
Wheelerites in Montana With brazen
boldness they snipe at the govern
ment, and attack the shipment of
airplanes and tanks to the Soviet
Union and other nations united with
us in the fight against the fascists.
"Fill our own needs" is their hypo.
critical slogan.
The Anaconda Copper press has
been publishing one editorial after
another along these lines. 1--WE think
that our production Of ships and
planes and guns" says the Butte
Daily Post on Feb 20, SHOULD first
of all go to fill our own needs; that
we should protect our own shores,
and get aid to our own men fighting
against overwhelming odds in Luzon
before proceeding to the help of
other nations" That tidbit was in
cluded in their editorial protesting the
new billion-dollar loan to the Soviet
Union which alone is succeeding in
taking the offensive against the
fascist with the help of American
tanks and planes.
The brother paper of the A.C.M.,
the Montana Standard, hastened to
correct this giveaway language of the
Post, and in It's Feb. % issue de-
clared, Would it not be better if we
declared a temporary lull in lend
lease deliveries to all except Russia"
Woe to our country If its military
author of that peace. Stop supplies
to China, to Australia, to India, to
all others who have signed the dec
laration Of the United Nations. That
is the advice of the company press.
That is precisely the new tactic Of
the appeasers, of the Wheelerites. If
you can't split the anti-fascists one
way, split them another way. If you
can't split them through opposing aid
to Russia, split them through oppos-
ing aid to everybody except Russia
First object to sending munitions to
the Soviet Union where the fighting
is decisive and hits at the core of the
alliance. Then take ad-
vantage of the mistakes of British
misconduct of the war to spread dis
unity in that direction. Above all use
the fact that Britain has failed to
organize and arm the colonial peo-
pies. Use the fact that English Tories |
are refusing the people of India, Ire
land and China the rights they de- |
serve, as a tool to split the United |
Nations That is the decade-old
weapon of Hitler.
That is what the arguments of the
lppeasers, of the American Firsters,
If Burton X. (Whistling) Wheeler, of
lis stooges in the ranks of labor, of |
lis friends in the top circles of the
A.C.M., amount to.
That policy on the political field
las its effect on the industrial field.
Tor the Anaconda company carries on
n the industrial field what Wheeler
loes together with the Washington
Friendship Set" and the press of the
A.C.M in the political field How else
.an we explain the fact that less cop
,er was produced in Montana in 1941
han in 1910. Three million pounds
# copper less when our country was
nobilizing its manpower and its in
ustrial power to beat off the threat
# the greatest enemy of civilization
n the history of man. The CLIO. Is
Jews reports copper production for {
941 in Montana as 255,00O,000
ounds. The Minerals Year Book re-
orts Montana's 1910 copper produc- +
ion as 258 million pounds.
Further reports are that the I
A.C.M.'s copper production in Mon {
ana was $500 tons less per month t
4 that last six months of 1941 than Y
I the first six months of that year. s
1t was precisely in the last six s
lonths of 1941 that Hitler attacked II
he Soviet Union and the greatest t
truggle against fascism developed. |
Sincerely yours, 8
LEO GARNET, q