The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-05
THE WORKER GETS THE BLAME

as hindrance to production the pro
fascist slow down at the Brewster Air
, craft plants where according to Amoi
Landman number of the foreman
were outspokenly pro-Hitler.
mot while government bureaus
created to meet an emergency thai
has ended-continue to grab for them
4 selves money needed for ornaments,
says Mr.. Leach.
Mr.. Leach does not mention the
grabs" by big firms made possible by
patents, cartels, and monopolies
These must be regarded as needed;
these are emergencies not ended"
| He does not tell us as does Mr..
Hutchinson that through cartel, Ger
many even after the European war
started, "got royalties on war planes
sold to England by the American ear
senal of the Democracies."
mot while an army of federal press
agents clamors to promote and per-
petuate activities that have no pres
ent need or value"
If the author refers to the cartel
arrangements between the duPonts,
the Standard Oil, the Dow Chemical
company and aluminium trust on the
one side and the l. G. Farbenindustrie
of Germany on the other side where
by necessary war materials have been
curtailed and manufacture delayed,
the author has by now hit upon an
idea.
The author, except for the other
statements, might be thought to be re-
ferring to the reasonable cartel
whereby the manufacture Of synthetic
rubber was practically stopped in
America through the selling for
consideration to the nazi |. G. Farben-
industrie the patents to the process
and hence the right to manufacture.
"At the direction of German inter-
ests," Mr.. Arnold charged before the
Truman committee, Standard Oil re-
fused to license independent produc-
ers in the United States for the pro-
duction of synthetic rubber.
Except for what he otherwise has
said, Mr. Leach might have referred |
% the International activities" of the
Dig boys that induced them Gas dis
closed in a congressional hearing) to
leliver petroleum to the Canary Is
ands as late as 1941 for eventual use
If submarines tried repeatedly to
Freak the British blocade; and that
t tried to sell its Hungarian proper
ties to Germany for $24,000,000 in
,old in August 1941.
But Mr.. Leach probably refers to
he new deal efforts to relieve the
distress of the poor-FSA, WPA, old
ge assistance and other attempts of
social character.
mot while congressman clamor for /
actories and contracts as if war were s
great gravy train"
For whom has war always been a l
ravy train? e
mot while strikes hamper war pro-
uction, despite a solemn promise I
nat they would stop" 7
Does the author wish to infer that d
lie minor delays by strikes which are 6
oW negligible are bad and that the :
elays and curbs due to monopolies, {
artels, and patents are good? e
mot while the 1ife-and-death need t
n Uninterrupted production is used +
) weapon to put over the closed 0
lop." h
Does Mr.. Leach wish to infer that Il
Dor made the right to organize a
)ndition Of his defense of democ- "
ICY? o
The struggle for the right to organ "
e and unionize is not new. That o
Dor sought to defend the gains al fl
ady made is granted 1t may be adj g
tilted too that some leaders may
we appeared unduly concerned, but fc
face of the terrific and vicious at Il
mpt to use the war as a means of B