The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-04-03

| cheney by reason OF fat1gte- On No
vember Is, 1917, General Crozier
stated (Gen- Order No. 1877 that TN
Idustrial history proves that reason
able hours and proper wage scales are
essential to high production" Furth-
er, when Britain increased the work
ing hours, after Dunkirk, production
fell off due to the fact that fatigue
caused by long hours at high tension
lessons efficiency.
Then why all this sudden "bally-
hoo" for the abolition of the 4O-hour
week?
others who have taken this attitude
I am sufficiently charitable to con-
cede that 1t comes from sincere but
mistaken Impressions, but the fact re-
mains nevertheless that in adding
your voice to the demand you are
giving aid and comfort to the labor
batting industrialists toward whom I
do not feel SO charitable, because they
have access TO the facts brought out
| by scientific research and therefore
should, and do, know that abolition of
the 40-hour week would no increase
the productive efficiency of the ma
ton. Their interest is simply to des-
troy the wage scales, lower the stand
ard of living and create a class Of
slave labor Gas Hitler has done) sole
ly for the purpose of increasing their
own already exorbitant profits. That
| type of labor-baiting industrialist has
no patriotism and is motivated only
| by desire to coin the life blood and
suffering of humanity into profits for
himself. 1t is from this type Of "fifth
columnist" that we may expect the
real threat to American democracy
and American Institutions 1t is up
to every one to see that we do not
inadvertently aid him In his un-Amer-
lean activities
Let me remind you further that you
cannot instil patriotism into a people
by flag-waving, oratory or compulsion
If you want the citizen to honestly
feel that he has the best government
on the face of the earth there is only
one method of getting that result
give him that kind of a government.
1t has been said that comparisons
are odious and in some cases odorous
but let me again remind you that So
c1alist Russia has accomplished that
very thing. Regardless of what you
or | may think of the Russian gov
eminent or It's adaptability to our
American democracy, the maIigned
Bolshevics have given Russia some
thing that the Russian people quite
evidently believe is worth fighting for
and the results speak for themselves.
Let me add also that Russia did pre-
pare for war with standard work
ing day and week. She provided rest
periods for high tension industry. She
also had no unemployment, no WPA,
no artifically created scarcity pro-
grams, and no labor-baiting Industrial
lst in Russia is making a profit from
the life blood and suffering of her
workers and soldiers
Very truly yours,
LEVERNE HAMILTON.
Missoula, Mont, March 29, 1912
Editor, The Muscular
Dear Sir:
For some time the Muscular has
devoted space in both news and edi-
.orial columns to an attack on the
fO-hour week and other provisions Of
he labor laws. Muchs of this argu-
nent was fallacious and many of the
premises erroneous.
On March % l wrote a letter to
you pointing out the fallacy of the
argument and the errors in your con-
Illusions, hoping thereby that you and
he reader might be given the facts.
tut up to the present you have not
permitted this side of the argument
o see the light of day.
Having myself been in the news
'aper business in small way l real
20 that an editor seldom enjoys hav-
ng an outsider tell him how his news
aper should be operated but when
aper conducts an open forum it is
natural assumption that those col
INNS are intended to provide an OBJ
ortunity for full and free discussion,
nd that readers comment, SO long
s it is neither libelous nor imprint
BILE should find expression in that
ortion of the paper regardless of the
act that it expresses views opposite
, those held by the management or
of the paper.
Since my letter of the 22nd was
REF, was neither libe1ous nor often
We Except possibly to some reac-
onary enployers), and 1 assume full
,sponsibility for the facts therein
sntained, I am wondering if your
'ason for failing or refusing to pub
sh it was that you disagreed with the
atements, desired to suppress the
cts or, simply as you stated on a
'evious occasion regarding a matter
fecting labor that you must have
,tten up on the wrong side of the
ID that morning"
1t is unnecessary for me to do a
eat deal of bordering" for l realize
at with the ownership of the Mis-
being what it is (the
rgest single employer of labor in
ontana) the management has very
tie enthusiasm for the dissemina-
IN of facts concerning labor and
Dor legislation and even less do they
sire those facts disseminated
rough the columns of their own
wspapers, but don't you think that
paper which conducts an open for
l, thereby creating the assumption
full and free expression of opinion,
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