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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-12
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL
By A. l. HARRIS

term for the Axis nations. It's Civil
ians Crusaders.
Repetition of An Old Story
With the big boys in the timber in
dustry having refused to build up
large stockpiles of lumber, and de-
mands for lumber for war purposes
far exceeding previous estimates, a
situation faces that industry similar
to that which prevailed in steel and
aluminium, where selfish financial in
terests declined to expand their plants
to meet anticipated war needs.
Last winter, it was estimated that
35 billion feet of lumber would be re-
quired In 1912 for the war effort. Steel
and aluminium shortages, however, as
we'll as other causes, have thrown
greater burden on lumber, with the
result that 1912 lumber needs will ex-
coed 80, and possibly 40, billion feet.
Here are few of the new war uses
for lumber: Replaces steel in truck
body frames, tank cars, and army
crete in war plant construction. Com
pressed wood which they have now
got down to the hardness of soft steel,
is being used for airplane propellers,
and wood is entering more and more
into aircraft construction, especially
in training planes Also, the Army
expansion program, which is greater
than anticipated, calls for increase in
the amount of lumber, 1900 board feet
required for each soldier in camp con-
The U. S. Forest Service is working
out plan to meet the situation be-
fore any actual shortage in lumber de-
velops. The plan involves govern
ment contracting with both large and
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$70,323,b59 Net Profits by Reported ACM
: : ST MINUTE
!. ILINGS FOR
UBLIC OFFICE

= Eight last day filings for public Of
flee brought the total candidates to
81 and presented strong list of pros
pective officers competing in the pri-
mary election. Congressman James
F. O'Connor of Livingston, submitted
his petition for reelection on the dem
ocratic ticket. Hugh Adair, Helena
lawyer, filed for associate justice of
the Montana supreme court, the place
now held by Albert H. Angstman, who
filed sometime previously. Edmond
G. Toomey, veteran Helena legislator
and attorney, sought the republican
nomination for congress from the first
congressional district. R. S. Murray,
Clancy, was last minute aspirant
for the job of railroad and public serv-
ice commissioner now held by Horace
Casey of Butte. John Claxton, Butte
lawyer, announced his candidacy for
congress on the democratic ticket and
David Ryan filed for associate justice
of the supreme court on the non-parti-
san judicial ticket
Many contemplated filings failed to
materialize at the last minute. Tom
Davis, often mentioned as possible
republican candidate for the United
States cenate, failed to file as did
Bailey Stortz, mentioned as a likely
candidate for congress.
Sen. James E. Murray, junior SEN
ator from Montana, will be opposed
on the democratic ticket by Joseph
p Monaghan, former congressman
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manufacture OF synthetic rub
Der and for other war pur-
poses.
Howard A. Cowden, president of
GOA, said technical men will be en-
gagged to carry on experiments in the
production Of synthetic rubber, using
alcohol from farm products as base;
and research on lowering the cost Of
alcohol for blending with gasoline in
order to step up octane rating to the
point where the use of tetra-ethyl lead
will not be necessary in carrying on
these and other experiments. Other
co-operatives and agencies friendly to
co-operatives, will be asked to part1-
cipat in the program.
1--WE are finding that the petroleum
industry, and agriculture, are becom-
ing chemical industries more and
more. Cooperative leaders long have
felt the need of research organiza-
ton which would use and supplement-
information now obatinable from pub
lie agencies, such as the regional lab
oratories of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, the Bureau of
Mines, the Bureau of Standards, and
the laboratories of land grant col
leges," Cowden said. when discov-
cries of value are made in any field"
he continued, "they will be offered to
co-operatives and others on reason
able royalty basis. 1t will not be the
policy of such research laboratory
to make discoveries of value and then
withhold them from the market. Such
research institute, we anticipate,
will more than pay its way"
The federal government will be
asked to grant materials for construc-
ton of the plant and to license its
operation as quickly as figures can be
assembled The resolution of the
board was wired to Sen George w.
Norris of Nebraska.
Future economic policies within the
United States and perhaps large
measure of future control over con-
sumers in this country teeter in the
balance now before the power-alcohol
subcommittee of the senate committee
on agriculture.
This power-alcohol fight is one bat
tie front, perhaps the most important |
one Immediately, in great war. The
big broad issue involved is scarcity |
and its beneficiaries and servitors, |
monopoly and economic dictatorship |
as opposed to plenty and economic |
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CONFERENCE
SCHEDULED AT
STATE univ.

On July l and 2, there will be a
conference at Montana State Univer.
sity on the subject of Democracy
Citizenship and Character" The aims
of the conference have been described
as follows:
"A conference dealing with the bas-
ic principles of democracy, the train
ing for intelligent citizenship, and the
building of character, will be held on
July l and 2. The aims of the confer
ence will be to bring to light the
broad detectives and underlying ideals
of all groups dealing with the guild
ance and training of youth and the
development of character, and to slim
ulate more effective thinking on the
educational, religious, and social proc
esses by which good citizenship is
produced and democracy strengthened.
Through panel and forum discussions,
educators, ministers, leaders of scout
and camp fire organizations, repre-
sentative of parents groups, and all
other vitality concerned with young
people will participate in the inter-
change of views. The special prob
lens Of morale in the present war
will be considered against
the broader background of values of
democratic civilization"
Mr.. John Barton Of the university
of Wisconsin, and Mr.. Frederick Re-
defer, director of the Progressive Edu-
cation Association will be among the
speakers present at the
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POOR DU POINT
INDICTED A
SECOND TIME
Charged With Nation Wide
Monopoly Price Fixing on
Commercial Explosives and
Blasting Supplies; S Other
Companies Also Indicted.

PHILADELPHIA OPP e. |. du
Pont de Nemours & Co., indicted in
May for conspiring with the Nazi
chemical trust to maintain a world
wide monopoly over dyestuffs, was in
dicted for second time June 4.
This time the big company is ac-
cused Of Drice-fixing through nation
wide monopoly over chemical explo-
sives and blasting supplies.
Indicted along with the dupont COM
pany were five other powder manu-
featuring companies and 10 officials.
DUPONT and the others were ac-
cused of having entered into conspir-
acy as early as 1898 and until now
have engaged continuously in unlaw-
full combination and price fixing.
The whole country, the indictment
says, was divided into identical geo.
graphical zones in which customers
were sold at identical prices.
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.0BJECT|VES
OF DEMOCRACY
OUTLINED
Patton, Natl. President of
Farmers Union Outlines
Detectives Which Must Be
Reached to Translate Free
dom Into Modern Terms.

GUNNISON, Colo.-(SpeciaD-"We
must, as sacred obligation, see to
| it that every member of the armed
services returning to civilian life is
given opportunity to become trained
and skilled in peacetime occupations, :"
declared James G. Patton, president
of the National Farmers Union in a
commencement address to the West
ern State College here last week.
Until lately" Patton continued,
too many of us have taken our free
dom as much for granted as the air
we breathe. We, the people, the
farmers, the wage earners, the little
business men, the professionals, the
housewives and the youth, have been
too much inclined to leave everybody's
business to the attention of few.
eve have agreed that democracy
is the best form of government yet
devised, but we have shrugged off its
demands upon our brains, time and
energy. We have accepted it's priv
ileges, evaded its duties. Now we
are willing to fight to save it. We
must also accept the need to think,
work and live for it,"
Patton then proceeded to outline
eight detectives which he declared
must be reached for the translation
of freedom into modern terms:
1. The right to work; full employ
ment through the productive years at
usfeul and creative occupations; not
at made work"
2. Decent pay for every citizens
products or his labor; enough to buy
not only the necessities of life but
some of the goods and services not
now available to the great masses
of the people in cities on the farms,
adequate amounts of food,
clothing, shelter and medical care.
3. Scarcity; freedom from fear of
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tdollars for every one of its
capitalization.
These astronomical earnings were
made in 1941 despite the plea of the
company last year, that any increase
in wages granted to the workers in
their negotiations with the company
would result in ruination, with the
price of copper pegged at IL cents a
pound by the government.
However, as related previously in
The Voice tissue of January 30) the
Metal Reserves Company, the govern
ment metal purchasing agency, in fix
ing the price of copper, had thrown
down most of the bars against an in
crease in its provision that copper
produced in excess of the 1941 pro-
duction would be recognized as Sur
plus" production and a premium of
five cents over the pegged price
would be paid for those amounts.
At the time, union officials in Butte
declared that production in the Butte
mines in the latter part of 1941, had
declined 1000 tons a month as COM
pared with the average monthly out
put during the first half of the year.
This decrease, without doubt repre-
scented a deliberate showdown of pro-
duction in anticipation of the increase
in price of the surplus" for the COM
ing year. Responsible officials Of the
Butte Miners Union estimate that the
company can produce as much in the
first six months of the present year
as it did during the entire year of
1941. II the company doubles its out
put this year. it is certain to more
than double the amounts of its profits
in 1941, considering that half of its
production volume win be at the rate
of lie per pound for the copper.
OF the total Of the net profits, aside
from the dividends to the stockhold-
ers, the sum of S21,890000 was set
aside for the payment Of indebted
ness-and s5,000000 for a contingent
fund, the purpose of which is wrapped
in mystery The Indebtedness amount,
includes probably the tens of thou
sands accruing from losses in the pub
LEGATION of their daily propaganda or
gans in Montana
In the event that the next session
of the Legislature should be inclined
to propose some new or additional tax
levies on the company, it will be in
teresting to hear what its defense
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Demonstration
DISTURBES TAX
DODGERS HAVEN
Laborers Have. Temerity To
Protest Wages of Soc a Day
On Air Field Construction
Job; Make Unreasonable"
Demand of ST Minimum.

NASSAU, Bahamas. = (FP) = This
swanky British tourist resort off the
Florida coast, where American mil
lionaires have set up dummy corpora
lions to evade U. S. taxes, was the
scene June 2 of demonstration of
1000 negro laborers against a wage
scale of SOC day at the air field
construction job.
British soldiers as we'll as local
police were called out and the Duke
of Windsor, governor of the Bahamas,
| flew back from Washington. Two of
| the demonstrators were killed and
several were wounded. Some of the
fashionable shop windows on the main
street were smashed.
The demonstration occurred after
local government officials told the
workers that the wage scale, set by
an agreement between Great Britain
and the U. S., could not be changed
Immediately.
New Providence, the island on
which Nassau is located, is one of
thO LII Idol pOooCooiOuo ou UhiSh tuC
U. S. is building war bases.
Back of the demonstrations in
Nassau, Bahamas, which killed at
least two workers and sent the Duke
Washington are the same conditions
that bred Quislingism and defeatism
in Malaga and Burma.
Warnings of social unrest were
made by labor and progressive leaders
in Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana
and Antigua year ago when the us.
began building bases in these Carib-
bean islands vital to our defense.
From reporter who was in Jamai-
ca in 1871, the statements of union
officials and the newspaper of the
Peoples Natl. Party of Jamaica, Fed
Grated Press has learned that stark
poverty, near starvation and unem-
ployment are prevalent.
To age-old exploitation of native
workers has been added the refine
ments of Girdlerism and Jim Crow
ism by U.S. contractors building the
bases.
All the mistakes the British made
in Malaga and Burma are paralleled.
Political freedom is generally denied.
The natives are not permitted an army
of their own. Progressive leaders are
even though they have sup
ported the war effort since 1899.
When the U.S. contractors arrived
they made two things clear, according
to the Jamaica Trade Union Council:
They intended to pay no more than
the highest prevailing wage-80c a
day-and they would have nothing to
do with unions. Workers were COM
PEELED to sign yellow dog contracts.
II a worker took a grievance to a I'M
ion, he was fired
White us. workers were imported
at much higher wages than those paid
the West Indians For example,
skilled negro carpenters have to work
for s1.02 day alongside us. car
penters drawing s14 day.
Pres. A. A. Thorne of the British
Guiana Workers League warned au-
thorities March %, 1871, that vol
cano is in action ready to overwhelm |
this colony as a result of the govern |
ments' action agreement by the US.
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SMALL BUSINESS
MOBILIZATION
Bill. PASSED
Murray-P Altman Bill Provid-
ing for Setting Up Smaller
War Plants Corporation in
War Production Board Gets
Congress 0. K.

! WESTINGHOUSE the acceptance
of a conference committee report zap
proved Wednesday in the house, the
senate placed final congressional ap
proval today upon the Murray-Patman
bill IS. B. 225O) providing for the
mobilization of small business con-
Germs in the war effort. Passed first
by the senate on vote of so to 0, 1t
was amended and passed by the house
on a vote of 344 to 0, the bill now
needs only the Presidents signature
to become law.
1t was introduced in the senate Feb
ruary 5 by the senate committee on
small business (Sen. James e. Murray
of Montana, chairman, and members
Maloney of Connecticut, Ellender of
Louisiana, Mead of New York, Stew
art of Tennessee, Capper of Kansas,
Taft of Ohio. II was introduced in
the house by Chairman Wright Pat
man of the house committee on small
business of which the members are
Bulwinkle of North Carolina, Kelly of
Illinois. Fitzgerald of Connecticut, Hal
leck of Indiana, Hall of New York and
Ploeser of Missouri.
The bill sets up within the War
Production Board corporation to be
known as the Smaller War Plants Cor
poration with capital of $50 million
dollars endowed with powers to pro-
vide money and facilities for the con-
version of small concerns to war
work, and also the power to take con-
tracts from the procurement divisions
of the armed forces as a prime con-
tractor and to sub-contract to small
concerns throughout the country.
Thus is eliminated the old run-around
where small concerns could not get
contracts because they could not get
financed, and they could not get H.
nanced because they could not get
contracts.
The corporation will be under the
control of board of five directors
to be named by Donald Nelson, and it
is designed to become an aggressive
d5CuSy hlOu5H WHlCu buidll manu-
featuring concerns which have been
unable to secure war contracts may
now be utilized in the about war eff
tort.
The bill further provides for the
of deputy to Donald
Nelson who will be responsible for
the welfare of small business con-
Germs, and whose duty it will be to
lid them in every way to secure fair
treatment ON priorities, contracts, al
ocations, etc.
The bill writes into law the Presi-
lent's Executive Order authorizing
he procurement divisions of the
armed forces to guarantee loans by
banks to small concerns. This same
power is given to the smaller war
plants corporation itself, and the plan
s for the corporation to utilize it's
so million dollars capital as a revolv-
ng fund to get small concerns estab-
ished in war work, after which the
will be able to turn its
oans to the banks and other private
igencies and reuse its capital.
The bill accomplishes a number of
,ther fundamental detectives. 1t
,roadens the lending powers of the
REC. and eliminates certain restric-
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Meeting
is CALLED OFF

Due to war conditions, the curtail-
ment of tire use and the threatened
nationwide rationing OF gasoline, the
annual meeting of the Cooperative
Business Enterprises Association,
scheduled for Great Falls June Is and
16, has been abandoned for this year.
A. E. Kathan, president of the state
wide association, after a survey and
canvas of the member companies,
found that it would be possible to
have only a very small attendance
due to travel conditions, and it was
thought advisable not to attempt to
hold the meeting this year.
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We Have These Kind

we Have heSe Kind
The labor section of the Office of
Civilian Defense, this column learns,
is investigating report of civilian
air raid meeting during which Navy
officer, lecturing on the use of gas
masks, charged very bluntly that the
labor unions were responsible for the
downfall of France.
The meeting was held few weeks
ago in Montgomery county Maryland,
where the rich still hunt with hounds
to drive Dull Care away.
The speaker demonstrated three
types of gas masks which he had
with him-an. American World War
mask, a Navy civilian mask, and
French mask.
Holding up the French mask, he is
reliably reported to have said:
"See this label (pointing to union
label on the mask. This tells the
story of the downfall of France. 1t
is a union label 1t wasn't the nazis
that defeated France. 1t was the
French labor unions"
Inc meeting was coniposou ioi Soy
of the so-called "better elements" but
they weren't prepared for anything
like that. A hush fell over the meet
ing. Finally, a well-dressed,. well-fed
looking individual got up and said:
Commander, l think we should give
you a hand for that last statement
There still are people in this coun-
try who would like to believe that 1t
isn't Hitler and Hitlerism that we are
fighting, but rather labor, the New
Deal, and other things of progress
sive nature.
If you tune in your short-wave radio
set on Berlin, you will notice that the
ma III hrnadca aters haYa adnnted a new
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-12

Net profits of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company for
year according the New York Times otaed $70
323 659 nearly three times the stock reported outstand
ing 1885, then estimated of value of twenty-five million
dollars OF this according to the report $43 $50
paid in stock dividends representing nearly two
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-06-12
CAPITOL
HICHLICHTS
CONTRIBUTED

The Montana supreme court during
the week held that Howard Gullick-
son was legally entitled to act as at
torney general of Montana during the
absence of John W. Bonner, and up
held the validity of Chapter Al Of the
laws of 1941 which provided leaves of
absence for state officers entering the
military service.
Howard W. Hazelbaker, state SEN
ator from Lake county and now To-
Gated in Missoula, announced that he
had resigned his position in the state
senate to seek the republican nomi-
nation for congress in the first dis
trict Another Hazelbaker, Frank,
announced from Missoula that he
would be a candidate for reelection
to the state legislature from Missoula
county.
State insurance matters occupied
the attention of the state board OF
examiners for the forepart of the
week The board is making a careful
appraisal of all state-owned property
in an effort to evaluate the states
insurance requirements. When the
appraisal is finished bids will be adj
vertised and the insurance in various
categories will go to various state in
surance men. Prior to this system
the state has been giving all of its
insurance to the Pearl Assurance Co.
Candidates for clerk of the supreme
court submitted their filings during
the week. Seeking the democratic
nomination are John w. Mountjoy,
former secretary of state; w P. Pill
geram, former state representative;
and Frank Murray of Butte. The re-
publican aspirant is the incumbent,
Peter NJ Rigg, who was appointed by
Gov Sam c. Ford to fill the unex-
pired term caused by the death of
Arthur Porter. Rigg, formerly of
Havre, and an attorney, is former
member of the state Legislature.
The state highway commission is
scheduled to meet June "a, to consider
bids for the construction of a high
way in Saltwater county linking the
chrome properties there with the rail |
road The project includes one bridge |
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COOP TO BUILD PLANT
TO MAKE ALCOHOL and
RUBBER FROM GRAINS

Consumers Cooperative Assn. Establishes
Coop Research Agency Employing Tech
nical Men to Experiment With Production
OF Rubber From Alcohol Produced From
Farm Products; Will Build Immediately
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N KANSAS CITY, Mo-A five year program of co-opera
tive calling for expenditure of $4,000
voted unanimously by directors of Consumers Cooperative
Association meeting in Scottsblu Nebraska, May 1928
Directors voted at the meeting to build plant for max
ing alcohol farm products the alcohol to be used in the
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|ACM PROFITS FOR 1941
NEARLY Three TIMES
TOTAL. CAPITALIZATION

Mammoth Corporation Closes l94l Show
ing Nearly Double the Profits Made in 1910
Which in Turn Were Double the Earnings
OF the Company in 1880; Now Operating
With Higher Prices for Surplus Production
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If you tune in your short-wave radio
set on Berlin, you will notice that the
nazf broadcasters have adopted a new
Evening star., 1942-06-14
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