davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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semblance of reliable foundation"
Other attachments of the Ber-
lin -dupes rumor corps have
been shoveling their stuff at back
breaking speed in efforts to con-
vince Americans that the Nazis
and japanese r too strong to be
beaten. In fact, says this assert
ment Of plain and fancy lies, the
u. S. is being attacked on all sides
while the Governments trying to
keep it a secret.
Have you had someone side up
to you with news supposedly hot
off the boat? There are many peo-
pie who, at bars and sometimes
while going over the orange sale
at the corner grocery, pass along
such items as: "The Philippine
Islands were attacked one week
before Pearl Harbor and the news
was kept away from the public.
I heard this from a lady who had
it from a relative whose son was
in Bataan." And another flash be-
ing shot around says: "The Pan
anna Canal has been attacked It's
wrecked, clogeed so badly that
, 1942-11-25

we can't get any shipping through
it."
United States military intelli-
gence, at the request of someone
wise enough to know when he's
being kidded, looked into those
rumors and branded them: "Not
only false but absurd"
Has anyone SMILED in your
neighborhood? And has some
wiseacre remarked knowingly
that the Germans have planted
bronchitis in this country-and
that we'd all better stay home and
worry? If you haven't been
troubled with that rumor, you're
lucky because it's all over the
country, just as it was in the
last war.
Again, just as in the last war,
there isn't a germ of truth in
it. Said DR.. G.. Lynde Gately,
health commissioner of the City of
Boston, where gossip probers ask
ed for the truth:
The rumor's fantastic. We have
no reports to indicate that there
is any undue prevalence of acute
bronchitis at the present time.
There is, however, an epidemic
of common colds, just as there is
every other year at this season,
but its proportions r in no way
unusual. Furthermore, the COM
mon cold is caused by a virus,
not a bacillus, and consequently
could not be planted"
BUTTON UP YOUR LIP !!!!
, 1942-11-25

Here they are from Boston's
Naval Public Relations Office:
"Rumors as to the great num-
bers of student aviators being
killed at a high rate at a flight
training center are but another
example of statements put out by
some elements seeking to create
lack of confidence in the minds
of American parents. The fact of
the matter is that the casualty rate
in service aviation is extremely
low.
Accidents are bound to occur
in aviation as in practically every
other branch of the military or
naval service, just as they occur
in civil life. But the percentage
of such accidents, in proportion
to the personnel involved, is sur
prisingly small"
Shown the death at naval sta
tons" run1or, a Navy aviation
officer who had returned from a
southern flying center reported
that the same kind of gossip was
heard all over the country and the
rumors were simply without
, 1942-11-25
NAZ IN
u. S. EXPOSED

The Yanks landed O. the coast of North Africa a little While
ago. There were a lot of Yanks. Their guns fired. Their tanks rolled.
Their equipment was top-notch Their vessels were ship-shape. Their
morale was of the best. Their cannon didn't fall apart when they sent
shells towards the coast.
No, it's not news. You know all about il, if you've read the
headlines. But it's important to keep in mind because when the
American troops blasted their way onto III anti-Axis brdgeheads,
they blasted a hole in the ranks of the rumormongers-German and
native-who had been Pumping all over the L. S. for the cause of fear.
The panic brigade in this country, led by Berlin agents and
followed by some easily frightened and loose-tongued American dupes,
has been trying for years to cripple civilian morale by convincing
a good section of the public that its sons were dying by the thousands
in army camps; that Navy pilots were killed like wingess eagles
because of faulty planes; that there ws nothing left of the Army at all
As with every rumor, calm analysis has exposed the lack of
any truth in the "our Army and Navy are dying in camps" stories.
Recently there were so many rumors floating around the nation
which followed the outline of There r. hundreds of students killed
daily at X naval aviation center" that the Navy Department decided
to arm Americas anti-rumor corps with the facts.
, 1942-11-25
Mo>sz9o~sew
County 2>s&1<4h<1
Union Council
NozsA---
Christmas Bonus

Somewhere the sun is shining,
and somewhere people shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville,
mighty Casey has struck out!
Casey may have disappointed a
large number of people, but our
organization, batting for a number
of workers at Gebhart Box Com
pany, hit a home run for the
workers. It has been reported
to the Council by Fred Fudge, Go
Representative, that the workers
at Gebhart will get two weeks
pay at Christmas time. MOI q
, 1942-11-25
Organization

The Montgomery County Coun-
Gil is here to serve the workers
of every organized and morgan
lied plant. If there are any groups
of workers who seek the benefits
of Union organization, they are
urged to contact the Council. The
Council stands behind the program
of the CIO, adapted at the CLIO
Convention in Boston. To organ
ize the unorganized to serve the
organized!
4 Unity and Sacrifice .! x
The Army urges qualified me-
chanics, ages Is to A, to enlist in
the Army Air Corps.
, 1942-11-25
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Sport Stuff
BY Bus Bennett

The CLIO Athletic Council is 60
ing ahead with plans for the
formation of our second basket
ball league. The hopes are high
for an eight team league, and at
the present time six teams are
entered. The league will be OPP
Grated under the auspices of the
City, with the games probably be-
ing played at the Wayne Ave.
Market House. All the facts of this
sporting project will be told in the
next issue of the Dayton Union
News.
In our CIO Bowling League, UE
Local 1853 team still leads the
field. They enjoy a six game lead
over the second place opponents
JAW Local 648. However, these
bowling games are hard fought
battles, with everyone having a
good time regardless of whether
they win or lose, and we want to
60 on record as saying, that the
good nature of some of our fellows
helps to keep things moving at a
fast clip.
THE STANDINGS
, 1942-11-25
HyIand Machine

Jack Holt, International Repre-
sentative of the United Auto
Workers, reports that Hyland has
been organized and turned over
to his International by the CLIO.
Negotiations are in progress.
, 1942-11-25
National Bakery

The National Biscuit Company,
Cone Bakery Local ITO, through
negotiations with the company
have agreed that women may be
hired to fill mems jobs, but only
if paid the prevailing wages for
men. This the company agreed
to do in agreement with the Com
mittee and CLIO Representative,
Fred Fudge.
, 1942-11-25

bad start for a shop that is new
ly organized.
, 1942-11-25

Unity and Sacrifice !
, 1942-11-25

BUTTON UP YOUR LIP ~! :!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13

To do them well, to do them co-opera.
lively, means to do them in such a
way that rapport will be increased.
Without a vision, a feeling for coop.
Grafton as way of living. you would
have only bylaws, only the frame of
the house. You would not have a
home in the best sense of the word.
We have tried and in large measure
been successful in making Forley
House home, and so long as homes
stand, so long we hope the spirit
built up at Forley House will stand,
whether or not the mere mechanical
relationship remains the same. That,
we think, is our greatest achievement.
We live as a family despite our ex-
IRENE differences of opinion, our CON
trasting cultural, religious, and eco
nomic backgrounds. We think of the
world as such a family, and we are
building for the day when that world
can again take shape.-Rochdale Co
operator
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|
the Republicans.
Late returns revealed one victory
which labor will applaud = that OF
young Will Rogers Jr. over the reac-
tionary, labor-baiting Rep. Leland
Ford (R, Cali, in the 10th California
| district.
Reassuring reflections which will
strengthen administration support and
help stiffen the backbone of the dwin-
ding progressive forces in congress
include those of Reps. John Coffee
and Warren G. Magnuson ID, Wash.)
and Rep. John Tolan d., Calif.)
Others in the same category were
Rep. Mary Norton d., MD, chair
man, house labor committee; Rep.
Thomas D'Alesandre d., Md, Reps.
Vito Marcantonio ID, R. & ALP
Emanuel Celler d., ALP and Samuel
Dickstein 3D., Alp New York.
Not all the Republicans elected are
appeasers, obstructionists or anti-la-
Dor, of course Outstanding example
of one who has made real contribu
ton in legislation furthering the war
is Rep Joseph Clark Baldwin (R.,
N.Y..
Backed by ALL and CLIO, Rep. Ray
mond McKeough d., I'LL, outspoken
New Dealer, lost to the defeatist, Chi
cago Tribune stooge Sen. G. Wayland
Brooks Another friend of labor, pro-
gressive Rep. Joseph Casey ID, Mass.)
lost to Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge.
A real blow to labor was the defeat
of Sen. George w. Norris Qnd., Neb.),
who wanted to retire but was per-
suaded by friends to enter the cam
paign late. He had the Presidents
endorsement The S1-year-old Nebras
ken was defeated by Kenneth Wherry,
Republican. A third man, a Demo
crat, in the race helped defeat him.
One of the bitterest pills for labor
to swallow is the defeat of Sen. Prem
tiss Brown d., Mich.), who was de-
feated by Circuit Judge Homer Fer
guson, Detroit Republican.
Labor supported Gov. gilbert L. Oh
son was beaten in California by Attor-
ney General Earl Warren, Rep. New
York state saw Republican Tom Dew
ey of the Herbert Hoover school win
and issue on winning the bold, forth
right statement, 1--WE are all Ameri- |
cans together" He also said he would
support the President in the war
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
SUGAR COMPANY
INDICTED FOR
PE0NAGE

TAMPA, Fla. - OPP - The u. S
Co., its personnel manager and three
of its camp superintendent have been
indicted by a federal grand jury on
charges of holding negro sugar cane
workers in conditions of peonage, u.
S. Dist. Atty. Herbert S. Phillips an
nounced November 4.
Sheriff Jefferson Virgins of Glades
county also was indicted by the same
jury on charges of having used county
prisoners on his own plantation with
out pay in violation of the u. S. anti
peonage and civil rights laws.
Negro field workers were injured,
oppressed, threatened and intimidated
to prevent the free exercise of their
rights under the 18th amendment to
the constitution, one count of the in
dictment said. Another was that the
negroes had been held in involuntary
servitude and that the anti-peonage
statutes had been violated.
Vice Pres. Jay M. Moran of the U.
S. Sugar Co. vociferously denied exist
ence of peonage or forced labor condi-
tions on any of the company's II
plantations in the vicinity of Clewis-
ton, Fla.
This company" Moran stated, "al-
ways has maintained the highest
working and living standards for its
workers"
Individuals indicted are: Personnel
Mgr. M. E. Won Mach; Supt Evan
Ward Mcleod of the Bear Beach
camp; Supt. Oliver Shepard of the
South Shore camp; and superinten-
dent named Neal whose first name
Phillips did not have.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
FASCIST LEADER
SCOUTING Venom
AT OFFICIALS

CHARLESTON, w. Va. = OPP =
George Deatherage, former leader OF
the fascist knights of the White Ca
melia, is on the loose again, helping
to form a new fascist organization
and blaming his dismissals from jobs
involving army and navy work on a
Jewish plot"
Speaking before the Charleston Elk
change Club, Deatherage attacked
Pres. Sidney Hillman of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers (CIO), OPA
Administrator Leon Henderson and
Manpower Director Paul V. McNutt
as key figures in what he called a
Jewish Communist Socialist domina-
ton of the U. S. government.
1.-THE brains of the manpower act"
Deatherage asserted, lis not beautiful
Mr.. McNutt but David K Niles, Rus
sian Jewish revolutionist In Wash
ington today, man for man, the gov
eminent is controlled by co-ordi-
mated nationwide force of Commun-
lists, Socialists, pinks and liberals. .
''The whole aim and purpose is
destruction of capitalism-your bust
ness, your investments and your prop
erty."
Deatherage revealed that he had
just returned from Atlanta, Ca, where
he helped the recently defeated polit-
ical machin of Gov. Eugene Talmadge
to form Vigilantes Inc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
FASTER SCRAP
COLLECTION
is URGED

William r. Rae of Havre, chairman
of the Montana Salvage committee,
has returned to Helena after a weeks
trip through western Montana to spur
the scrap harvest program which
he described as "an immediate, urgent
program which demands the co-opera-
tion of every farmer to save the lives
of our boys doing the fighting for u.s."
Mr.. Rae issued a special appeal to
Montana farmers in which he said it
appears that "it is going to be up to
the farmers to keep the steel mills
going this winter"
"They now have their crops out of
the way and should take the time to
gather all scrap metal and rubber ON
their ranches" he said.
IF the farmer is unable to haul
the scrap to town at this time, he
should pile it handy to a road as the
shortage is so serious 1t may even be
necessary to pillow out roads to get 1t
in this winter
Farmers, however, are urged to get
their scrap to official salvage depots
If possible Immediately. Every farm
er should remember that it may be
mis- scrap that will save the lives of
the boys from his county"
accomplishing the urgent need for
scrap, Mr.. Rae announced some Off
cial War Production Board figures
comparing production of the United
Nations and Axis countries before the
war and at present The figures
showing percentages of world produc-
ton are:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
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Grain Market
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/
good root system. Rains were also
quite helpful in the Pacific Northwest
but came too late in some places fo1
seeding which has been delayed be
cause of dry weather Spring wheat
will be substituted for winter variety
in many of these sections.
Approximately 341,500 contracts
have been written by the Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation on the
1943 winter wheat crop, covering
about 100000 farms. This report COW
ers the period through September 80,
final date for acceptance of applica-
lions for insurance on winter wheat.
Spring wheat growers have until
March Is, 1913, to apply The total
announced today compares with 1884,
600 contracts, covering $4,000 farms
written on both winter and spring
wheat for 1912 Upon completion of
the 1943 spring wheat insurance sign
up, it is expected that participation
will equal or exceed that of 1912, de-
spite the fact that growers taking part
in the insurance program this year
are required, for the first time, to sign
up for a three-year period. This
means that growers who have signed
up for insurance in 1943 are under
contract to insure their 1914 and 1916
wheat crops also. Up to September
80, total of 67,076 indemnities tot
aling 7,357,0S6 bushels had been paid
under the 1912 Wheat Insurance Pro-
gram.
CASH WHEAT: In addition to the
gain in the basic futures, premiums
on cash wheat at Minneapolis espe-
cially on the higher protein lots were
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
UNDERPAID farm
WORKERS DUE
FOR RAISES

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Military
and lend-lease buying Of food will be
increased by so per cent next year
and civilians will eat more food, too
Agriculture department officials said
November 1.
| In broadcast over the weekend
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R.
Wickard indicated raise in wages
of underpaid workers on essential
dairy, livestock and poultry farms.
They are to be frozen in their jobs
by recent announcement of the War
Manpower Commission workers
classified as necessary men" will be
deferred by Selective Service.
Under the new program the depart
ment of agriculture is directed to
make wage studies and take steps to-
ward stabilizing wages, with the aim
ito help farmers obtain and keep an
adequate supply of labor" he said.
Farm labor is subject to widely
varying wage rates, some of them
"still too low" Wickard understated
the case.
Naturally any well rounded pro-
gram for stabilizing farm employment
has to take wage standards into ac-
count, and include steps to bring them
more into line with each other and
narrow the gap between them and in
dustrial wages" he said
If a skilled operator is on farm
too small to qualify as essential (de-
fined as farm with IL or more COWS
or the equivalent in other animals,
such as 81 hogs) the department will
help him locate on a larger farm and
get more cattle. This will be done
through Farm Security Administra-
ton or other agencies.
Department officials estimate agri-
culture may need 100000 new work
ers next year, most Of whom will be
women and children reaching working
age.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
COMMUNICATIONS
REPORT BY FEC
Withheld

WASHINGTON (FP) = Pres. 10
seph P. Sicily, American Communica
lions Assn. (CIO), charged report
of a federal communications commits
sion probe into the telegraph com
munications industry was being with
held from the public.
The industry organ Telegraph and
Telephone Age" Sicily said in letter
November 2 to FEC Chairman James
L. Fly, revealed that the report
showed a serious breakdown in com
munications. The union had urged
the need of the probe before the 21a
months survey by FEC.
"Ugly rumors are circulated to the
effect that the company lobby in
Washington is exercising its influ-
ence to prevent the report from reach
ing the public" Sicily wrote.
The industry journal was quoted as
saying 1.-THE FCC's staff report is
understood to have concentrated on
the labor shortage and low wage
scales of the industry"
1t went on to say the report
stressed it's main remedy as a sub
stantial increase of wages so that the
present employee turnover in the in
dustry can be arrested"
Saying, 1.-THE public will not toler-
ate either business-as-usual or politics
as-usual in this vital war industry"
Sicily asked immediate publication of
the Fees findings and action on the
AGA 5-point conversion program adj
vanced by CLIO Pres. Philip Murray
August 26.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-11-13
What DOES nam
MEAN BY FREE
ENTERPRISE?
By SCOTT NEARING

Free enterprise" is one slogan with
which big business spokesman end
every appeal to the public. 1t is like
wise among the freedoms that polit
ical leaders are promising to defend
But neither businessmen nor politi
clans explain what they mean by free
enterprise.
Free enterprise economy a s
reached ripe old age in Holland,
France and the British Isle. 1t is
somewhat younger but not much
sturdier in the U. S. During its life
time thas passed through four stages
that may be compared roughly to the
childhood, youth, maturity and old age
of human beings.
Stage 1. European craftsmen and
traders broke away from the restric-
lions imposed by feudal lords and
guilds. North Americans chopped
and dug their way into the wilder
ness. 1t was almost but not quite
every man for himself In North
America particularly the free enter
priser had to work or starve.
Stage 2. Free enterprise economy
was firmly established among crafts
men, traders and some farmers. Big
European estates and big American
plantations were worked by serfs and
slaves but millions of little men en-
gagged comparatively in agriculture,
manufacture, transport, finance and
trade.
CfoO hn
aggressive, greedy and INSCRIPTIONS
little men crushed or swallowed their
competitors and grew big. They in
corporated their businesses, and
through land ownership, franchise
and patents established partial mon
opolies until few powerful Industrial
trusts, railroads, banks, department
and chain stores and mail order
houses employing millions of men and
women wage-earners controlled the
bulk Of the business There were
still little businessmen but big bust
ness dominated.
Stage A. The leaders of big business
got their lawyers and other agents
into government posts and obtained
tariffs, franchises, subsidies and tax
exemptions. When this relief failed |
to pull free enterprise monopolies
through depressions, businessmen and
politicians linked government and |
business together and ran both from
the same set of Offices
The economy of every industrial |
country in Europe and North America
has reached Stage 4. The youthful
free enterprise of competition has
aged into joint monopoly of big bust
ness and government.
When the Natl Assn. of Manufac-
turers advocates free enterprise, does
it mean to give up land, franchise and
patent monopolies, inter-trust agree
ments and contracts with big bust
nessmen across the frontiers? Does
it propose to unscramble huge organ
izations into a multitude of little, in
depedent concerns? Not for a mo-
ment. 1t demands freedom to con-
tinue its monopolies.
Free enterprise in the sense of an
opportunity for young men and wom-
en- to set themselves up and manu-
facture, transport and trade on their
own has reached doddering old age
in large sections of western economy.
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strong to 1c higher. Minneapolis re
ceived 1928 cars during the week
while Duluth unloaded LAPS Practi
cally all diversion point wheat went
via Duluth as bid premiums were
stronger from that direction, following
the release of some ore boats fol
carrying of grain cargoes down the
Lakes. Because of the stronger basic
option price along with firmness in
cash premiums, government buyers
found it necessary to take less of the
line grade, ordinary protein, lots OF
No. l Dark Northern since 1c under
to the December price was bid by
mills which figured higher than the
government bid price of $1.16 per
bushel. Fourteen percent protein No.
Dark Northern brought sc over the
December price; 1879 protein 10c over
the December; and 16% protein 16c
over the December. However, cars
showing 1879 protein or higher were
rare, amounting to only about one-half
dozen cars per day. The government
bid price of S1.16 still furnished the
base for ordinary protein Nos. 2 and
3 Dark Northern wheat. Inspections
indicated 33 cars of winter wheat and
440 cars of durum in the weeks re-
ceipts. The average protein content
of the hard red spring wheat tested
during the week was 1920 and the
durum 1920. Minneapolis Deem
Der wheat advanced 1Ac for the
week, closing Friday, November 6, at
$1.18B.
Durum wheat prices were up about
&c for the week with the December
option at Duluth closing Friday, No
vember 6, at SLY. AS in the case of
bread wheat, the advance in the mar
ketfound less wheat going to govern
ment buyers. Mills paid &c over the
December figure, or around $1.20 per
bushel for the good to choice milling
quality of hard amber durum com
pared with the government bid price
of $1.16 for No. 8 Hard Amber durum
or better. The line grades and unde
sirable milling types were absorbed
by the government buyers under the
wheat for feed program on a basis
of S1.16 for No. Hard Amber durum
or better; $114 for No. Amber dur
UNI or better; $11O for No. 3 Amber
Mixed durum or better, and S1.07 for
No. Durum or better. Nos. 1 and
Red durum nominally were called
s1.13 per bushel at Minneapolis or
Duluth.
Cash wheat at Kansas City followed
closely the action of the futures, reg
stering gains of 2c-3c. The premium
basis was steady to slightly higher. |
Receipts increased moderately over
he previous week despite the election |
lay shortened week, but open market |
offerings were not representative of |
he daily receipts and at times de-
nand was not fully satisfied espe- |
,ially with regard to the medium and
high protein grain. The average pro-
Elm content of the wheat tested at t
Kansas City during the week was
-2.86%. At the close of the period
No. i Hard Winter wheat, 1870 pro-
elm, was quoted at s121 Il S1.22H
md 1870 protein at s1.24% S126A.