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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02
HIGH SCHOOL
VICTORY CORPS
TO BE ORGANIZED

| WASHINGTON-Cr of a war
inspired high school victory corps, .
open to all Of the 100000 students
in the nations $4,000 public and pri-
vate secondary schools, was an
nounced today by War Manpower
Chief Paul V. McNutt.
Established to give every high
school student in the United States
the opportunity to take a definite
place in the national war effort
through a voluntary enrolment plan, .
the corps will be headed by Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker, aviation leader
and flying ace of the first World war.
Simultaneously with the announce
ment here, state school superintend-
ents throughout the country were
asked to call on school boards and
officials to launch the program locally
as soon as possible.
A manual recommending methods
Of organization was sent to all school
superintendent and high school prin-
cipals along with this statement from
the national policy committee for the
corps, composed of army, navy, educa-
ton and civilian aviation men:
"a realistic appraisal of our need
for trained manpower, both in the
armed forces and in war production,
makes it evident that the high school
can't go on doing business as usual"
Two aims of the corps were set
forth as: First, immediate, acceler-
ated and special training of youth for
that war service they will be expected
to perform after leaving school; Sec
ond, active participation of youth
while still in school in the commun-
ity's war effort"
Detectives to be pursued, both in
side and outside the classroom" were
given as: Guidance of youth into
critical services and occupations war
time citizenship training to insure
better understanding of the war, it's
meaning, progress and problems;
fitness; voluntary military
drill for selected boys; competence
in science and mathematics; pre-flight
training in aeronautics for those pre-
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By SCOTT NEARING

Washington dispatches report Chair.
man Paul V. McNutt of the W ar man
power commission as stating that the
conscription of labor in the U. S. is
inevitable McNutt was testifying be-
fore the house committee on defense
migration.
A subcommittee of the commission
is studying the problem of labor con-
scription, McNutt stated, and is pre-
pairing the necessary legislation. The
exact form of the legislation and the
time for presenting the measure to
President Roosevelt and congress
have not yet been determined.
Probably, McNutt declared, the law
would prevent workers in essential in
dustries from leaving jobs without
government permission. Also it might
authorize the government to transfer
workers from job to job.
This statement regarding the plans
of the Washington administration for
labor CONSUMPTION follows the pattern
that is being worked out for federal
employees, who cannot transfer from
one department to another without
special permission, but who according
to a recent executive order may be
transferred from job to job at the di-
rection of the administration. The
type of labor control now effective in
the federal service, under the pro-
posed measure, would be extended to
industry generally
McNutt advanced four reasons to
explain the need for labor conscrip-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02
SENATOR PEPPER
ASKS STUDY
OF MANP0WER

WASHINGTON-(F P)-Sen Claude
Pepper September % introduced a
resolution calling for the creation of a
special committee of five senators to
study and investigate in cooperation
with the manpower commission of the
manpower resources of the United
States.
The committee would investigate
how such manpower resources should
be employed to the best advantage in
agriculture, industry, the armed serY-
ices and other activities as consistent
with the spirit of our institutions and
| the national emergency best to pro-
mote the war and victory for our
cause"
1.-THE whole country is confused in
regard to Selective Service demands"
said Senator Pepper. Everyone
wishes to see an intelligent occupa-
tional deferment policy worked out
with the needs of the army for man
power The conflict of authority must
be scrutinized carefully before we at
tempt to solve our present problem
by arbitrary means"
Senator Pepper said that a crisis
in manpower distribution was ap-
preaching. A method must be found,
he said, to provide for an orderly dis
tribution of farm labor.
Industry likewise is now required
to hire many millions of new work
ers," he said. But at the same time
management is uncertain whether the
Selective Service drafts will withdraw
skilled and semi-skilled labor which
they need so urgently. 1t would ap-
pear that early study and considera-
ton must be given to planned with
drawals of manpower from industry
for the army At the same time it is
clear that our training programs must
be reviewed and additional effort be
given to their coordination and ex-
pansion."
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ON THE
CAPITALS CUFF
By VIRGINIA GARDNER


The war manpower commission is
going ahead with its program of job
sterilization despite the obvious fact
that unless some plan for migrating
manpower and production is carried
out it will not solve production. The
chaotic system obtaining today, with
multiple agencies competing among
each other, was indicated by Rep.
John H. Tolan d., Calif.), who hear
ing testimony by selective service,
manpower and war production chiefs,
said:
"The committee was unable to find
out with whom responsibility for de-
tailed production scheduling for each
war industry rested. 1t was not clear
whether the war production board it.
self through group of production
engineers or whether the armed serv-
ices or whether the industries them
selves would be responsible for the
detailed scheduling of war production
in the plants"
The WINGS labor-management com
mittee at its weekly meeting approved
VINO Chief Paul v. McNutt's request
made to the President for more power
to compel government contractors to
obey its edicts on employment prac-
tice. The labor members, however,
objected to the wording in VINO Dep
uty Commissioner Fowler Harper's
memorandum which stated the re-
quest was an interim" measure pend
ing national service legislation. That
had a slightly ominous sound and
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>Nicollet in Minneapolis Sep
TENDER % for the first war
time congress of U. S. cooper
atives. "Then and then only
will we begin to achieve full
freedom-freedom to consume,
which implies freedom to pro-
duce and freedom to exchange.
"The foundations of the consumer
cooperative movement must be laid
in every community" Mr. Bowen con-
tinued 1T is on these foundations
that we are able to build our large
wholesale warehouses, factories, mills
and refineries."
The Cooperative Leagues general
secretary challenged the movement to
diversity its activities to meet the
shortages of many goods due to war
time conditions. Primary in this pro-
gram of diversification he held to be
the enlargement of grocery distribu-
ton, particularly by co-ops new spe-
cializing in petroleum products and
farm supplies Mr. Bowen reviewed
the great steps forward into produc-
ton the co-operatives have made in
the last two years" and declared that
production is the life blood of the
cooperative movement. We have
gone into greater production of feed,
fertilizer and petroleum as we have
built up enormous volumes in retail
and wholesale distribution of these
commodities" he declared and
pointed out that "the financial results
have been truly phenomenal"
Mr.. Bowen warned the co-ops
against credit trading, urged the build
ing of strong financial reserves and
the creation of a cooperative banking
system to strengthen the movement
for possible postwar collapse of our
national economy. He pointed to ex-
IRENE danger in building excessive in
ventories and said "the rise in prices
is usually slow and steady, but the
break is PERCEPTIONS and allows no
time for any except the insiders to get
out from under.
1.-THE primary task for which the
cooperative movement
was organized is to realize the fourth
decentralization from want. From
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RESIGNATION
OF WARDEN
ANNOUNCED

The resignation of Dudley Jones as
warden Of the state prison at Deel
Lodge was announced Wednesday By
the governors office. Governor Ford
accepted his resignation effective De
cember /.
The governors appointment of Jack
Henry, the present state purchasing
agent to succeed Mr.. Jones as warden
was also announced, as was the ap
pointment of R. E. Shaw of Missoula
to the position of purchasing agent.
In accepting Mr.. Jones' resignation
the governor paid tribute to his work
as warden in the following letter.
September 30, 1912
Mr.. Dudley Jones
Warden, Montana State Prison
Deer. Lodge, Montana
My dear Dudley:
1t is with extreme regret and reluct-
ance on my part that | accept your
rendered resignation as Warden of the
Montana State Prison, effective De-
cember 1, 1912.
/ cannot let this occasion pass with
out commencing you for the many
outstanding Improvements that have
been made at the State Prison during
your incumbency as Warden. Espe-
cially impressive have been the in
creased farm production, the improve
ments and additions to the beef and
dairy herds-all part Of the general
plan to make the institution self-suffi-
cient The human qualities you have
exhibited to the prisoners and the
treatment they have received at your
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ALIENS CAN BIZ
NATURALIzED
If SERVING
immigration Commissioner
Clarifies Naturalization
Laws for Aliens in the
Armed Forces of This
Country.

All non-citizens in the armed forces
who entered the United States legally
can become naturalized American citi
zens 80 days after being inducted
regardless of whether or not their re-
naming in the United States after en-.
try was legal, according to an inter
probation of the provisions of the
Second War Powers Act sent to the
American Committee for Protection of
Foreign Born by the Hon. Earl G.
Harrison, United States Commissioner
of immigration and Naturalization.
Non-citizens who entered the United
States legally as students, seamen,
visitors ETC., may become citizens as
result of service in the armed forces
under the Interpretation by Commits
sioner Harrison.
Commissioner Harrison, in his let
ter to Irving Schwab, chairman of the
Committee for Naturalization of
Aliens in the Armed Forces, of the
American Committee for Protection
of Foreign Born, states:
| acknowledgment is made of your
letter of August IS, 1912, requesting
information as to the Interpretation
of Section 7O1 of the Nationality Act
of 1910, as amended little x, Section
1901 of the Second War Powers Act,
1922.
1T Is the view of this service that
Section 701 of the Nationality Act
comprehends any alien who has
served or who hereafter serves honor
ably in the military or naval forces
of the United States during the pres
ent war, who has been admitted to
the United States for lawful perma-
mitted as a non-immigrant under any
of the subdivisions of Section 8 of
the immigration Act of 1924 or as a
student under Section 4(e) of the
same Act.
1.-THE law is specific in its statement
that an alien eligible for the benefits
of Section 701 of the Nationality Act
must have been lawfully admitted
to the United States. Persons who
have entered the United States Illegal
ly, therefore, are not eligible for the
benefits of Sections 701 and 702 of the
Act of 1910. However, if
otherwise eligible, applicants whose
entry was originally lawful but whose
in the United States after
the expiration of the period for which
admitted has subjected them to de-
are eligible for the benefits |
Of the statute"
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why NOT C0NSCRIPT CAPITAL
INSTEAD OF LABOR, NEARING ASKS

liOu.
l. The existing system of persua-
sion and voluntary agreement is not
effective. An acute labor shortage
already exists in Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Buffalo, Detroit and 80 other
production centers, and during the
next Is months the war effort will
require the placing of 100000 per-
sons on new jobs.
2. Labor continues to migrate need
lessly.
3. Labor pirating is widespread, one
employer offering special inducements
to get workers away from other en-
ployers.
4. Discrimination against the en-
ployment of women and of certain
minority groups is general. This is
particularly true in the case of ne
groes, who make up a tenth of the
country's population.
The war manpower commission is
having hard time to find the needed
manpower, McNutt insisted. These
difficulties make its task still harder
There is no way out except the con-
scription of labor.
McNutt evidently has not consid-
cred a second possibility: the con-
scription of capital. If bosses are
pirating workers and discriminating
against the employment of women
and negroes, why not take over the
offending industries and operate them
as public enterprises?
A vigorous move in this direction
might easily correct abuses and obvi-
ate the need for labor CONSUMPTION.
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SPECTATORS
ENCOURAGED
BY CONGRESS
Grain Trend Strengthens
Slightly; Another Week of
Rain and Snow Causes
Further Damage To
Unthreshed Grain.

Trade reaction to the recent trent
in farm price legislation which fav
ored higher parity rates brought abou
sufficient buying interest which in the
face of small offerings raised the
wheat market about 2ac during the
week ended September %. Flour
buying. was also stimulated by this
news and mill demand for both bread
and durum wheat was active. The
other grains all tended to follow the
lead of wheat except rye which
showed hesitant action and declined
for the week. CCC loans on 1912
wheat covered 157, 52S,OO0 bushels as
of September 49,
WHEAT: Weather in the spring
wheat belt was unfavorable for COM
pletion of harvest operations during
the week Rains and SHOWS delayed
threshing quite generally and there
was considerable damage to grain still
out in the shock In the principal
winter wheat belt, the preparation of
soil mostly made satisfactory progress
with seeding progressing in the more
northwestern and western portions;
it is we'll along in the southwestern
plains with early seeded grain coming
to good stands.
A government purchase plan by
which farmers may. sell for feed pur-
poses wheat damaged by fungus or
sprouting was authorized by the Sec
rotary of agriculture on September "a
The CCC will purchase under the pro-
gram such wheat grading No. 8 or
lower and containing not more than
145% moisture at base price of 13c
below the 1912 loan values An addi-
tional discount of lie will be made for
each Ia damage in excess of 10 total
damage. Wheat so purchased will be
re-sold as feed grain
CASH WHEAT: Receipts of cash
wheat were considerably smaller than
the week before and amounted to g.,
59S cars at Minneapolis and 1,674 cars
at Duluth. Demand averaged good,
for all dry, sound wheat
of protein test. A large
share of the receipts continued to
show high moisture, damaged quality
and although these grades were well
cleaned up from day to day at pre-
vailing discounts, buying interest in
them was slow and was centered
mainly on sound grain. Ordinary pro-
tein No 1 dark northern was quoted
at &c under to the December price,
and No. 2 dark northern ordinary at
&c to &c under, the December. Thir-
teen percent protein brought 1c over
base; 14@o protein, &c over base; 1870
protein, SC over base; and 1870 pro-
tein, 13c over base. In addition to
these ranges, wheat from Montana in
he higher protein brackets brought
&c more. Bids for diversion point Of
ferings ran 1c to &c higher than those
for local unloading but covered only
OTIS showing 1870 protein or better.
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CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS
CONTRIBUTED

Universal gas rationing is scheduled
to go into effect in the nation Novem-
Der %, and all Montana motorists
from then on will be restricted to
approximately four gallons of gas per
week. In a letter to Price Admins
traitor Leon Henderson, Gov. Sam c..
Ford called attention to the tremen-
dous distances in Montana and urged
that more gas per person be allotted
to Montana motorists in order that
farming, livestock, mining and other
industries would not be severely cur
tailed.
The governor called attention to the
fact that Montana's highways are
built, maintained and repaired from
and if that source were removed the
highways would soon become virtual
ly impossible. The governor wrote:
"That in the event nationwide gaso-
line rationing becomes a reality as a
measure to aid in the successful
be excepted from the general plan and
our people granted substantially
greater allotment of gas. We seek no
special favors to which we are not
entitled, but it is clear that conditions
in a state with the vast distances of
Montana render different treatment
vitality necessary, and where our peo-
pie are so dependent upon motor
transportation, it will be grave error
to restrict them to the point where
curtailed agricultural, mineral and in
dustrial production will be the newt
able result"
Selective service state headquarters
announced during the week that Mon
tana's draft quota would be substan-
TALLY decreased for the next few
months This was brought about, it
is said, by voluntary enlistments
which have ben extremely numerous
and which are being given credit by
national headquarters. Enlistments
in the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard, Air Force and Army are cred
tied to the state and reduce the num-
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organizing for medical care
the first practical steps were
taken only a dozen years ago
In those twelve years, however,
six pilot plans have gotten into
operation, and are now begin
ming to open up the practical
possibilities that lie before the
cooperative movement in this
field.
Two of these pilot plans" are well
known to co-operators. One is the
Farmers Union Cooperative Hospi-
tal," founded in 1929 to serve the
widely scattered farm families around
Elk City, Okla. The other is Wash
ington's famous Group Health Asso-
citation" set up in 1897 for government
employees.
Three others, "Co-operative Health
Association" of ST. Louis, Group
Health Mutual of st. Paul, and
Group Health Cooperative" of New
York, are of more recent origin, while
the last, the surgical and hospitaliza-
ton plan of the Farm Bureau Mutual
Insurance Company" was announced
only a few months ago.
These plans fall into three general
categories, each of which has it's own
particular virtues and defects. Elk
City and Washington exemplify GO
H.,
sumers' society arranges with full
time staff of doctors to serve the
members as an integrated medical
group. This lis the type of organiza-
ton advocated by DR.. Kingsley Rob-
erts and the Bureau of Cooperative
Medicine" The combination of sal
aried physicians and group practice
reduces costs materially and in many
cases makes for a more scientific
brand of medical care than individual
practitioners can achieve. 1t is OBJ
vious that in such plan great care
must be exercised in the selection of
doctors, especially the medical direc-
tor, and in operating the plan so that
the service does not become mechan-
ical and impersonal. The main prac-
tical difficulties are the legal barriers
that exist in a number of states, and
rather a large amount of capital re-
quired to set up the group clinic or
hospital. Until the antitrust trial of
the American Medical Association,
medicine made yet further
for cooperative medicine,
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FARMERS UNION
FORMS estate
so. DIVISION

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-(FP)-Mem-
bers of Farmers Unions from Arkan-
sas, Louisiana and Mississippi organ
lied the Mid-South Division of the
Farmers Educational & Cooperative
Union at a convention here September
1929.
The new organization, which re-
places separate unions in the three
states, named its basic principles:
production to win the war, preserva-
ton of family-type farms, and coop
Grafton with labor unions, churches,
government agencies and others hav-
ing similar goals.
Co-chairmen of the meeting were
Pres. James G. Patton of the Natl
Farmers Union and Tom w. Cheek,
Oklahoma City, chairman of the ma
tional board of directors. Little Rock
will be permanent headquarters of the
Mid-South Division.
The organization voted in favor of
stabilized farm prices, wages, salaries
and profits, as set forth in President
Roosevelt's April 81 message.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-10-02

wheat growing states, and repeatedly
expressed at their state and national
conventions:
Mr.. Thatcher's Statement:
The National Farmers Union stands
with labor in full support of the Presi-
dent on the three great issues now
under consideration by the congress:
l. The immediate sterilization of
farm prices, wages and salaries and
profits to business, with parity of sac
rifice placed on every group in the
nation.
2. The immediate inclusion in the
tax bill of the Presidents specific re-
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DIES EARNS
JOB AGAIN
With HITLER

NEW YORK OPP = Martin Dies
in renewing his smear campaign
against government employees Septem
Der "a proved again that Vice Pres
Henry A. Wallace was right when he
said the effect of Dies lying propa.
ganda would be less damaging If Mr..
Dies were on the Hitler payroll" the
Natl. Federation for Constitutional
Liberties asserted September %.
1--WE note" the federation said,
that Mr.. Dies appropriated 1 " hours
of the valuable time of our war con-
gress for an unprincipled attack ON a
group of loyal, hard working govern
ment employees. The false charges do
not merit an answer.
only three weeks ago Atty. Gen.
Francis Biddle reporting on charges
made year ago by Dies, which were
investigated by the FBI at great
expense of time and money, notified
congress that most of the charges
were clearly unfounded' and should
never have been submitted for investi-
CATION
Mr.. Biddle also pointed out that
waste and disturbance of morale
among loyal employees should be re-
moved Disturbance of morale is the
inevitable result of the charges made
yesterday by Dies.
His attack on the federation falls
within the same category 1t is pure
and simple retaliation for the docu-
mented charges of the federation,
which have long been public informa-
ton, that Dies and his committee
have shielded agents of the Axis, in
GLIDING many of those indicted in July
1912 for sedition; that Dies and his
jeopardize national unity;
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FARMERS UNION
ASKS PARITY
OF SACRIFICE
Overall Sterilization of
Prices Urged by nj. w.
Thatcher Before Banking
And Currency Committee
In Washington.

Following is the text of state
ment made by M. W. Thatcher chair
man National Farmers Union Legis-
lative committee, to the joint senate
and house banking and currency com
mittee, at Washington, D. c., Septem-
Der II. This statement represents
the view of the farmers in the north
west, particularly, and in the midwest
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FOR FREEDOM
WRITE A LETTER

The house of representatives
will probably vote on the anti
poll tax bill October 18th. Write
today to your congressman, ask
ing him to vote for the Pepper
Geyer bill, so that millions of
Americans may exercise their
democratic right to vote.
Write today to Sen. Frederick
Van Mugs of Indiana, chairman
senate judiciary committee, and
tell him that you want Senator
Peppers anti-poll tax bill re-
ported out for vote-NOW.