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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
By SCOTT NEARING

BUFFALO-(FP)-A month of trav
cling around the U. S. A. has given
me some sharp impressions of a rap
idly changing America. Many of the
changes are economic. The most i'm.
portant ones are in the attitudes of
people.
The country is prosperous. The
business activity index is at an all
time high. Everywhere men are
working in shifts, seven days week,
and alternating between day work and
night work. This has disrupted home
life and social life, but there is little
complaint. People may not like it,
but they can take it and ask for more.
Railroads are busy. Long freight
trains are moving over the lines. Sta
tions are piled high with mail and
express. Passenger trains are full
and sometimes crowded.
There is big unemployment back
log in all of the cities that l have
visited. Two chaps went just outside
of Chicago in answer to an ad. 1t
was IS below zero, and they thought
that they would be the only ones in
line. When they reached the plant
they found huge crowd of men, some
of them without overcoats, stamping
their feet, beating their hands and
trying to keep from freezing.
In Buffalo a plant advertised one
job. The next morning the employ
ment office was damned and the
street was over-run by the crowd look
ing for work.
Many plants that are running part
time while they get ready for war or
ders are holding their good workers
by giving them two or three days
work week. If these men try to go
they are refused recon-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN take IT.
BUT They WANT The TRUTH

mendation, and without some creden-
tial 1t Is almost impossible to get
good job at the present time.
The cost of living is up sharply
especially the cost of food. Many
items of clothing are scarce. Tools
and certain kinds Of hardware are al
most unobtainable, and when they
are for sale the prices have sky
rocketed.
Most people who think about eco
nomic matters want to know why
men in the army should get a dollar
a day while men in the shop get a
dollar an hour and the contract job
Der and profiteer get dollar a min
ute. They see no sense in it and
think something should be done about
it.
Everyone is talking about Russia
How is It," people ask, that the
Red armies have been able to stand
off the nazis? The papers have told
us that Russia is disorganized, di-
vided and all but helpless. We ex-
pected to see Hitler walk over that
country as he walked across divided
France, but nothing of the kind hap
pened.
Instead Of nazi pushover, they
now tell US that the Red armies are
driving the Germans back toward
Berlin. Is this a miracle, or has
somebody been lying to us?"
The people with whom I have
talked are neither discouraged nor
afraid. They are quite willing and
anxious to do whatever has to be
done. But they do not like to be
gypped or double-crossed and they
hate to be lied to.
They want to know the best and
the worst. They feel that as full
grown men and women they are able
to stand the truth.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
FARMERS SCRAP
IRON NEEDED
FOR STEEL

'War production demands every
pound of scrap metal that can be col
lected from the farms and ranches
of the nation" Chairman R. j. Nc.
Kenna of the Montana USDA War
Board stated today. "Our campaign
to get the scrap moving from rural
areas into regular trade channels is
meeting with general success but it
should be augmented and speeded
wherever possible"
1--WE have been informed that many
small steel plants throughout the
country have been forced to slow
down or suspend operations because
of a shortage of scrap iron, an essen
tial ingredient in the production of
STEEL" McKenna said. "The million
and a half tons of scrap estimated
to be on the nations 100000 farms
is one of the largest available sources
of this material. County USDA War
boards are being urged to use every
effort to get every pound of scrap off
the farms"
The total amount of scrap avail
able on American farms is estimated
to be sufficient, when mixed with
other materials, to build 139 $4,000
ton battleships or one million 81 nm.
anti-aircraft guns or 100 million 100
pound aerial bombs. Roughly, 500
of the steel used in these ornaments
can be made from scrap and on this
basis mere 25 pounds of scrap iron
is all that is necessary to combine
with other materials to make a 100
pound aerial bomb.
Minimum prices which dealers
must pay for scrap iron and steel and
maximum prices at which they may
sell these metals have been estab-
lished," Chairman McKenna said.
This guarantees that no one is going
to make any great profit out of get
ting the metal back to the steel mills
but insures the farmer reasonable
return for his effort in collecting and
in the scrap.
Farmers should be especially care
full to remove all disable gears, bolts,
nuts, scrap iron and other parts from
any discarded machinery before 1t is
sold as scrap because these things
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
ORGANIZER
OF TENANTS
ATTACKED

CARRUTHERSVILLE, Mo-A VIC
lent mob attack on meeting Of share
cropper members of the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union here on Friday
night, January 10th, threatening the
life Of union organizer w. M. Tanner,
brought immediate protest by union
officials and the Workers Defense
League, and has resulted in an in
vestigation by the Civil Liberties Unit
of the Department of Justice
The meeting Of about 60 farm la
borers was in progress in a hall be-
longing to the International Union of
Operating Engineers, ALL, when 1t
was forcibly broken up by the mob.
W. M. Tanner organizer and member
of the general executive board of the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union was
threatened with death if he returned,
according to union officials.
Union officials notified Frank Nc
Callister, southern secretary of the
Workers Defense League, who called
federal officials in Washington by
telephone from Atlanta headquarters
and received assurances from the u.
S. Department Of Justice that an in
vestigation would be launched at once.
Another attempt to hold meeting
in the same hall was announced by
the union for January 23rd. The
mayor of Charlottesville, the Penis
cot county sheriff and Gov F. G. Don
nell were informed of the pending
meeting and asked to protect the
rights of these people to assemble
peaceably.
NEW YORK. = Morris Milgram,
Workers Defense League national
Continued ON Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
LABOR BOARD
GETS FIRST
big CASE

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins dumped the
biggest labor case since the start of
war labor board February 6 few
hours after she was notified that
further negotiations were fruitless.
The case involved the Bethlehem
Steel Co. and 10000 members of the
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO). Directly affected are another
100000 workers employed by Republic
Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and
Inland Steel
Employees of the four companies
are asking 81 day increase and
union security provisions. None of
the companies has union contract.
1t was believed here that Bethlehem
will be the only little steel" company
to go before the NWLB and will serve
as test case for the other companies.
This belief was heightened by the
report that union negotiators dealing
with another of the companies finally
demanded to know if the company
was merely stalling to see what Beth
lehem would do. Company officials
answered, "Yes."
Negotiations with Bethlehem were
begun September 16, 1941, after the
union won national labor relations
board elections in the company's ma
jor plants
They were stalled shortly thereafter
by the captive mine dispute in which
Bethlehem was the chief holdout. Ne
gotiators twiddled their thumbs wait
ing it's outcome.
Following settlement of the captive
mine dispute, negotiations were again
halted by the labor-industry confer
ence which resulted in the establish
ment of the NWLB. They dragged
along until the personnel of the
NWLB was announced and then bog
ged down.
Republic, Youngstown and Inland
also started at about the
same time, followed the pattern of
the Bethlehem negotiations and both
sides were fairly sure the cases would |
eventually got to the NWLB.
The procedure that will be used by |
the NWLB in handling the Bethlehem |
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
THE
WASHINGTON
SCENE
BY HENRY ION

The best way to tell how fast
thing standing still. Look, for In
stance, at December and Pearl
Harbor.
Since that time many basic policies
affecting the life of the nation have
been adopted Virtually every Amer
lean life will be affected by them.
Uncertainty is giving way to certain
ty.
American industry, in that time, has
been ordered to drop the manufacture
ing of luxuries and report to battle
stations. How swiftly the order will
be obeyed is debated but the order
has been given.
Priorities are changing the nations
habits. Rationing of food and other
commodities has become a reality.
The search is on for substitute mate
rails. Labor, In many places, is
working around the clock.
Thus far the surface has only been
scratched. The substance below the
sui Lace 10 yCL " W PioSOooSu iulO
fighting weapons.
The President, in his speech to con
gress, indicated how many weapons
are to be wrung from the richness OF
the country and the power of the ma
tons workers.
In 1912 there are 10000 planes TO
be made, there are 10000 anti-air-
craft guns to be fashioned, $4,000
tanks are to be put together, 100000
tons of shipping is to slide down the
ways. The year after 125,000 planes
are to be put in the air, $4,000 tanks
to rumble from the factories, and TO-
100000 tons of shipping to be put on
the seas.
The country started to work build
ing these things right away. On jan
uary 16 the President scrapped the
OPM and established the War Produc-
ton Board headed by Donald Nelson.
The heat was on.
Man-hours worked in the aircraft
industry in December increased 1,500,-
900 over November, breaking all rec
ords for total man-hours and the
rate of monthly increase.
The value of contracts cleared, for
the week ending January 81, totaled
almost 100000. The largest
previous monthly total was s4,720,000
CONTINUED ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
Legislators Excited
Over War Profits

Our lawmakers on Capitol Hill are
all hot and bothered over current rev.
Citations of huge war profits, but 1T is
hard to fathom this sudden excite
metlt. Every elevator boy and steno
on the Hill has known about these
profits for quite some time = every
body, 1t seems, except the members
of congress themselves.
Latest sensation in that field was
testimony last week before the senate
naval affairs committee of James
Barnes, Washington representative
dobbyist) of the Todd Shipyards Cor
poration. Barnes asked the privilege
of appearing before the committee to
straighten out his statement made
some weeks ago before the senate
Truman committee that "if 1t hadn't
been for taxes, we couldn't have nan
died our profits with a steam snovel.
He was referring to World War l
and not World War II when he maze
that observation, Barnes explained.
But he indicated that things were al
most as bad now, since his company
was making profits of so percent on
its invested capital through govern
ment contracts.
Just why Barnes made that confess
sion isn't quite clear. Perhaps it was
because confession is good Tor the
soul. Barnes is 68 years old.
But the august and SNUG senators,
who like to blame everybody put
themselves for everything that goes
wrong, including their own refusal to
vote funds in the past for adequate
defense preparations, got the shock Oh
their lives when Barnes put the rem
edy right in their own laps-taklng
the profits back through taxation
They didn't like it at all.
Soon there will be lot OF heated
debate in congress when the new tax
bill comes up, and some of this de-
bate, at any rate, will be on the I'M
pleasant subject of taxing the profits
out of war 1t doesn't take prophet,
nor the son OF a prophet, to predict
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13

ethis week from the board
through its secretary-attorney,
in order that the public may
be fully informed.
The letter follows:
February 10, 1912
H. S. Bruce, Editor
The Peoples Voice
Helena, Montana
Dear Captain Bruce:
In your February 6, 1912, issue OF
The Peoples Voice, under the title
IN. p. RY. FLOUTS ORDER OF r. r.
COMMISSION STOPS RED LODGE
TRAIN SERVICE" you have made
certain statements which appear to be
made without knowledge of all the
facts. Knowing your sense of fair
ness / am sure that you will be glad
to get further light on the subject.
In your article you say the Attor-
ney General insisted that when the
order of the Railroad Commission for
restoration of the Red Lodge train
was not obeyed the next proper step
was to have asked the Attorney Cen
eral to institute an action in district
court as provided by Section 1906
The answer to this is: ~, that the
N. P. Railway Company did obey the
order of the board and did restore
the trains and, hence, no action In
the district court was necessary and,
(2), that If an action had been brought
in the district court such action would
not have resulted in the restoration
of the trains until the lawsuit had
run its course In the courts, includ-
ing the supreme court, because the
issue, as raised by the railway COM
pany, was the question of the I'M
Piled power of the board to make
tain the consent of the board before
taking off trains.
You will note that | have used the
phrase Implied power" because our
statutes do not grant such EXPRESS
power to the board. | shall not de-
tail the various orders and steps TAX
en- by the board as it would take too
much space, but the result of the
board exercising it's own power, in
stead of going into court, was: "a
the restoration of the trains between
Billings and Red Lodge and, (2)
virtual admission by the railway COM
pany, for the time being at least, of
the boards implied power to require
railroads to obtain the consent of the
board before disseminating trains.
Thus, you will see, the board by the
procedure it followed did not become
begged down In wrong procedure"
but accomplished in IL days what
might have taken II months or more
In court.
Now l will admit that it would have
been most spectacular thing to have
jumped into court and
lot of publicity would have resulted,
Continued on Page Four)
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teeWOman, and all Officers OF
the state committee, and mil
itantly worded resolution, evil
IDENTIFY foreshadowing some in
ternecine warfare in the Re-
publican party, was adopted.
The committee also planned for a
meeting of the Young Republican or
ganization in each congressional dis
trict and for state convention be-
fore the primary, at which new Of
ficers of the organization will be
elected. The meeting in the first con-
gressional district will be held in Mis-
district meeting will be held in Miles
City Both meetings are scheduled to
take place before April 1.
The resolution as adopted follows:
1--WE, the Young Republicans, in ex-
ecutive committee and state director
session do hereby declare:
'The first duty Of every citizen of
the United States is to give his all
for complete victory, against the
forces of aggression. There are no
politics in total victory.
Total Victory requires positive
aggressive, efficient, leadership. That
leadership must come from the rep
resentatives Of the people. We do
not depend on dictator. We do not
need communism, or state socialism.
1--WE charge, the New Deal Con-
gress, working under theory Of
spend and spend, tax and tax, elect
and elect - and pass a pension for
themselves-are not qualified to OBJ
tain total victory. We need the the
DRY of produce, save, and develop.
"'Only the strong can be free, only
the productive can be strong Our
small mines, small lumber mills, sugar
beet producers, dairymen, livestock
men, farmers, small businessmen, and
labor must be self sustaining. Pros
perity can't be borrowed-it must be
produced. We can't win the war by
extravagant expenditures we must
save, produce, and work.
1--WE advocate immediate elimina
ton of all non-essentia] non-defense
governmental activities. We advocate
reduction of taxes in state, county and
municipal government.
1--WE disdain do nothing policy
as well as borrowed prosperity
1--WE are going into the 1912 cleo
ton campaign as free Americans to
present and work for candidates
worthy of the job.
1--WE believe the first step in new
leadership should begin at home. We
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
"Y0UNG REPUBLICANS
Demand new STATEgz
OFFICERS FOR part
State Executive Committee Witt ! her
Young Republicans in Attendar at a
Meeting Last Saturday Makes Militant
Demand for designations of All State Party
Leaders, Plan Several Other Meetings..

Basing proposals ack of harmony and too
fractional disputes the Republican party of Montana and
that complete reorganization and aggressive leadership i'm
nediatey necessary the state executive committee of the
Young Republicans last Saturday demanded the removal OF
committeeman Whetstone the national commit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13

Protesting that The Voice in the story carried last week
corning dcontnuance train service Red Lodge in
of orders previously issued by the state Railroad
Public Service Commission did not have all of the facts
case asking that the boards side of the controversy
published print below the full text letter received
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. l. HARRIS

that most of these shocked senators
will vote to saddle additional tax
burdens on that part Of the population
least able to pay, rather than voting
for real excess war profits tax law.
Meantime the attorney generals Of
flee has stepped into the picture with
creation of a War Frauds unit, to
make the excess profit boys go bit
careful. Thurman Arnold, a tough
guy who doesn't know how to pull
punches, and who doesn't appear to
care much where his wild lawmakers
land, heads the new unit.
Just how much Arnold, or anybody
else, can do is question.
The department Of Justice, this col
umn is informed, went through the
recent Truman committee report with
a fine comb, but little if any evidences
of fraud were uncovered. There is
hardly any need for fraud when firms
can get defense contracts with most
liberal terms.
Getting most favorable defense con-
tracts from the government, especial
ly when you have few friends in the
right places, is as easy as falling off
a log. It's like taking candy from
baby. No wonder private enterprise"
likes bigger and better national emer-
genciesi
Offered Cabinet Post
AS this is being written, Sidney
Hillman is trying to make up his
mind whether or not to accept the
job offered him by the President as
Secretary of Labor There is no sec
ret that the job has been offered him.
Hillman rejected the offer when
first made. The idea of working with
of labor bureaucrats, some
of whom have been there for long
time, doesn't appeal to him, he has
told his friends. You can't teach old
bureaucrats new tricks any more than
you can teach an elephant new tricks.
Also, he feels that the job would re-
strict rather than enlarge his activi-
CONTINUED ON Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13
State BOARD OF R. R.
Commissioners DEFENDS
PROCEDURE In Mp. CASE

Presents Argument Methods Employed in
Connection With Compelling the Northern
Pacific to Maintain Train Service at Red
Lodge Was for the Benefit of Residents and
State, Brought Minimum Loss of Service.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-02-13

NEW YORK. = Morris Milgram
Workers Defense League nationa
Continued on Page Three)
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Eastern Brook, Loeb
LeUen Egg Harvest
Finished in State

The state fisheries department has
completed its annual harvest Of east
ern brook and Loeb Leven trout eggs,
but will continue taking sockeye
salmon eggs for few weeks, Elmer
G. Phillips, fisheries superintendent.
said
He said the harvest of eastern
brook trout eggs, taken from Lake Al
word, near Troy, totaled 2,779,348 eggs
as against 100000 taken last year.
The Loeb Leven take, from the Madi-
son river. was 2,884,584 eggs, as COM
pared to 6.195 900 in 194l.
Phillips explained that due to gaso-
line and tire rationing, which would
prevent anglers from making trips to
the more remote streams and lakes,
his department planned to hatch
fewer fish this year, but to plant
larger ones in streams closer to centers
of population. He said the federal fish
hatcheries at BoZeman and Ennis also
were operating on greatly curtailed
schedule this year, and accordingly
did not need the number of eggs ordi-
narily supplied by the state.
The sockeye salmon egg take at
Flathead lake, Phillips said, was de-
layed several weeks this year by
weather conditions.
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War Depletes Ranks
Of Montana Teachers

War has depleted the ranks OF Mon
tana teachers, cut enrolment at jun
ior colleges Is percent and completely
reorganized school curricula, Elizabeth
Ireland, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, said after returning
from a tour of state schools.
Miss Ireland asked that any college
graduate or normal school graduate
willing to accept a teaching position
contact her office to obtain certifica-
ton. She said that there is great
need" for additional teachers through
out the state.
She added that enlistments and
labor needs in war industries have re-
duced senior college enrollments from
is to 40 percent. Junior colleges are
operated at Glendive, Miles City
Lewistown and Havre.
Curricula in nearly all schools, she
said, have been changed to feature
mathematics, science and mechanical
work as war training in favor Of
academic subjects, Enlistments from
high schools in the state have beer
slight to date, she said, as compared
with those from colleges.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-12-18
Lawmakers Will Haze
EnOuqh TypelUriters

State institutions and agencies have
offered to loan sufficient typewriters
to see the 1913 legislature through and
the lawmakers-H they can get SUI
ncient help to operate them - may
write as many letters and bills as they
desire, attaches Of the state board Of
examiners disclosed.
Board attaches said the State uni
versity, which offered to loan ID ma
chimes, and the college, which offered
Il, were the largest contributors to
the legislatures typewriter pool.
The loan offers were to be turned
over to J. e Henry, state purchasing
aoont, for selection Of the best ma
chimes.
Tia board Of examiners, In its role
- state furnishing board, asked the
81 state departments and agencies to
han what machines they could, after
Harry rsported he could not rent or
IN typeWfite9s for the session - IN
oeh8 yoa3s. Tia hoard aaked fer %
nAel1nss, - - than TIE 10 usod
~ - HI soslen.
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