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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
MINNESOTA UNI0NISTS
and COOP MEMBERS
TO CONFER ON WAR

MINNEAPOLIS.-(FP)-A confer
ence between Twin City consumer
co-operatives and labor unions will be
held late in March under the sponsor
ship of the Cooperative League of the
US.A, the Minnesota Farmer-Co-op-
erative-Labor Council and the Twin
City League of Unions & Co-opera-
tives
This was decided after a planning
session between labor and coop rep
resentatives. The Rev. James Myers
of New York, industrial secretary of
the Federal Council of Churches and
a director of the Cooperative League,
described other conferences recently
held In New Haven, Kansas City
Ithaca and Racine between consumer
co-ops and labor groups.
Purpose Of the conference, said
Gene Larson of the AFL milk wagon
drivers, is to determine what organ
lied consumers and labor can do joint
ly to speed the victory effort and to
work in closer alliance for mutual
detectives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
BY SCOTT NEARING

Swinging around the U. S. A. this
winter has left one very clear i'm
preston: many people who work for
living are disgusted with the lead
ers of business and contemptuous of
their attitude. AS one carpenter put
it: "As far as / can see, all that the
big boys are doing with this war is
to make money out of it."
Men who work on war construction
jobs report that the contractors are
needlessly running up costs. And
why shouldn't they? They are in
business for profit, and the bigger
the cost, the bigger the profit on a
cost-plus basis.
from peace production to war produc-
ton, the government pays, SO why
hurry? And in the test periods, when
costs are being determined as basis
for figuring profit, foremen and de-
partment managers warn the men to
take their time. Once the costs are
fixed, however, the old speedup be-
gins again with vengeance. There
is more profit in it that way.
The revelations of profiteering pub
lished In the report of the house naval
affairs committee occasioned no sur
prise among those employed on war
work. Say, if you think that's prof
lteering, I'd like to tell you a real
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
MORE WORKERS
wanted In
THE STATE

Merit examinations for five classes
of positions In the Unemployment
Compensation Commission, the De-
partment of Public Welfare, and the
State Board of Health were an
nounced today by Melvin P. Martin
son, state merit system supervisor.
Applications must be filed on or be-
fore April 1, 1912, and examinations
will be given as soon after that date
as possible.
The classes of positions included in
this examination program are: junior
clerk, intermediate clerk, junior stem
ographer, intermediate stenographer,
and junior caseworker. Basic require
ments for these positions are: junior
college graduation, with
no restriction as to major field of
work; intermediate clerk and steno-
grapher-h school graduation plus
one year of clerical or stenographic
experience; junior clerks and steno-
graphers-high school graduation. APP
plicants who are not high school grad
yates will be accepted for clerical and
examinations If they
have had sufficient related expert
ence. High school and college SEN
Continued ON Page FOUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
NAVY ORDERS
FIRING OF
DEATHERAGE

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-D Discharge
of George Deatherage, head of an or
ganization called The knights of the
White Camelia and author of plan
to set up a military dictatorship in
the U. S., from any work connected
with the U. S. Navy was ordered here
by Secretary Of Navy Frank Knox.
Knox's order was issued after it
was disclosed that Deatherage was
boss engineer on a $25,000,O00 Navy
construction job in Norfolk, Va.
Under prodding, the Navy decided
that Deatherage was an undesirable"
person and ordered the contractors,
Doyle & Russell, to give him the gate.
Earlier the Navy said it could not act
because "a mans job is at stake"
In number of instances the Navy
has ordered summarily discharged
persons suspected of Communist lean
ings. One of these persons had en-
listed in the Navy.
Deatherage's employers declared
Deatherage has done "a splendid job"
and expressed regret at the order for
his dismissal.
In his brief appearance before the
Dies committee, Deatherage refused
to answer questions and he was left
The disclosure that Deatherage was
on the Navy job was made
by the New York newspaper, PM.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
WORKERS REVEAL CONTEMPT
FOR Attitude OF BUSINESS

one!'-and the worker spins a tale
from his own experience that makes
the printed figures look sick.
Then came the year-end reports of
stock-sales to establish losses as
basis Of income tax evasion. A mid
December issue of The New York
Times financial section begins its
stock market story: Dealings in low
priced shares to establish losses for
income tax purposes continued yester-
day to dominate trading in the New
York Stock Exchange"
There you have It," a worker COM
ments. Boys in the army at S21 a
month. And these tax-dodgers, with
their tens of thousands of income,
playing cheap tricks.
Their skins are safe enough, so
you'd think the least they could do
would be to part with a few filthy
dollars. But no. They talk patrio-
tism and sacrifice to US, while they
beat the government out of tax mon
ey"
Then, to cap the climax, every
worker in the U. S. who has read a
newspaper or listened in on news re-
ports knows that the same business
crowd that is profiteering and tax
lodging in the U. S. today was only
yesterday making profit by selling the
Axis gasoline, scrap iron, copper,
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
"PLANT FOR
VICTORY" Week
SCHEDULED

Montana will join in nationwide
campaign to encourage about pro-
duction of Food For Freedom in 1912
by observing Plant For Victory Week
March GIG, the Montana U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture War Board
announces.
"This highly important week will
begin appropriately with national
broadcast by President Roosevelt,
Vice President Wallace and Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard beginning at
7:45 o'clock the evening of March g."
Chairman R. ]. McKenna of the Mon
tana board states. This broadcast
will mark the ninth anniversary Of
the National Farm program, as well
as the beginning Of concentrated
drive to secure 1912 record produc-
ton of agricultural commodities
which thi sand others of the United
States must have to bring the war
to successful conclusion"
The Plant For Victory Week will
be further featured during the week
through series of Triple-A district
meetings to explain the 1912 Farm
Defense program. Triple-A county
committeeman, secretaries and coun-
ty extension agents have been asked
to attend the meetings and partici-
pate in discussion of all phases of the
farm program and it's correlation with
the national victory campaign. Chair
man R. ]. McKenna of the Montana
Triple-A committee will head group
of Triple-A personnel, as well as Ex-
tension workers, who will conduct
meetings at Billings, March 9; Miles
City, March 10; Wolf Point, March
IL; Great Falls, March 10; Missoula,
March IA, and Bozeman, March 16.
Triple-A men who will assist McKen-
ma at the meetings are Burotn B.
Brewster, state committeeman; Har
old Abel, statistician, and Charles
Grouse, information assistant.
County War Boards at several of
these places are making plans for
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
GROCERY CO-OPS
PUSH PROGRAM
OF NUTRITION

CHICAGO Consumer cooperative
grocery organizations will make a
further drive in educating their mem
bers on nutrition and in further de-
velopment of the grade labelling pro-
gram launched two years ago, The Co.
operative League of the U.S.A. an
nounced today.
Consumer minded dieticians helped
to shape these decisions in the three
day session Of the Grocery Commit
tee of National Co-operatives, Inc,
held here January 23 to 25. National
Co-operatives is national purchas-
ing agency buying for consumer CO.
operative stores from Vermont to Cal
ifornia Mrs. Almer Armstrong, d.
rector of the Home Department of the
Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative AS
ISOLATION; Mrs. Wanna Bramblett,
graduate home economist and former
test kitchen director for the Eastern
Cooperative Wholesale; Miss Ali
Jalonen, grader for the Agricultural
Marketing Service; and Miss Helen
Johnson, graduate dietician in charge
of Central Cooperative WHOLESALERS
Testing Kitchen, were the consult
ants.
The grocery committee in their SEES
sions placed an emphasis on the nee
essity for providing cooperative con-
sumers with reliable information on
problems of nutrition. Mrs. Bran
blett was directed to develop a series
of articles which will be helpful to
housewives in knowing the facts
about vitamins and economical home
menu planning in practical and
easily understood manner. This series
of articles will be made available for
publication through the various CO.
operative newspapers.
A National COOP Cook Book con-
tanning not just conventional recipes
but helpful information on nutrition,
plus some statements of cooperative
methods of checking and testing foods
will soon be available for distribution.
This book will probably sell for 25c
each. Tentative orders totalling So
600 were turned in at the meeting.
The grocery committee voted to
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
MURRAY SEEKS
RELIEF FOR
AUTO DEALERS
Bill Introduced by Junior
Senator Provides That
Dealers May Sell Frozen
Inventories to r. F. c. or
Borrow On Them.

WASHINGTON = Financial relief
to retail dealers in automobiles and
other rationed articles is proposed
in a bill introduced in the senate
today by Sen James E. Murray Of
Montana The measure Is sponsored
unanimously by the senate small bus
mess committee, composed Of Senator
Murray, chairman, and Senators Ma
loney of Connecticut, Ellender of
Louisiana, Mead of New York, Stew
art of Tennessee, Capper Of Kansas
and Taft of Ohio.
The bill provides that dealers may
either sell their frozen inventories to
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, or borrow money from 1t to help
carry their investment. The bill ap-
plies to dealers whose business is
chiefly confined to the goods that are
frozen by government rationing or
ders over a period of six months.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration is authorized to sell at public
or private sale, with or without com
petitive bidding, commodities thus
bought from dealers. During period
of year and thirty days such Recon
struction Finance Corporation sales
be made only to dealers in the partic-
ular commodities concerned.
This measure" Senator Murray
said, would give year and thirty
days within which time dealers may
complete arrangements with the Re-
Finance Corporation for
loans or for the purchasing outright
by Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton of the dealers stocks. On the
other hand if the rationing authority
did not release the stocks within this
one year and thirty day period dealers
would not be compelled carry their
investment in them any greater
length of time"
The senator said that the provision
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06

piece OF the copper company
in the state, which shows a re-
duction from existing debts a
few years ago of one million
dollars to the comparatively
small amount of 1892, 935.19.
The other exception is the Ga
zette Printing Company of Bill
lings which this year shows ex-
listing debts of only $57,023.82
which is reduction of a con-
siderable amount over that
shown some years ago.
1t is interesting to note that the
two Helena dailies are saddled with
the biggest load of Indebtedness and
just how they operate with appar-
emily good credit rating is a secret
between the publishing companies,
the Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany and the banks with which they
do business, which will not be brought
into the open without an investiga-
ton by the legislature.
The following, taken from the re-
ports, provide an interesting study for
credit agencies and auditors and a
subject for speculation, if they so de-
sire, of how these publishing com
panies operate with apparently good
credit standing.
The Gazette Publishing Company,
publishers of the Billings Gazette, has
a capital paid in of s92.250. Its ex-
listing debts on December 81, 1941,
were s57,023.82.
The Standard Publishing Company
of Butte, publishers CT tbe-.aJa- tue,
Standard, has a paid in capital of
100000 and existing debts amounting
to $392,935.19. On the board of this
are ]. H. Dickey Jr., who is
understood to direct the policies Of
all of the company newspapers" and
whose offices are on the sixth floor
Of the Hennessy building in Butte
which is also the location of the ACM
offices. d. G. Stivers, who has In
he past, been rumored to be chief
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
few WAR JOBS FOR
WOMEN IN N. Y. AREA

NEW K.-(FP)-Wome look
ing for war production jobs in the
New York area face two big handi-
caps, the U. s. Employment Service
warns.
First, there are practically no jobs.
Second, the pay is lousy. The federal
agency didn't say lousy" 1t said
relatively low" which means that
more than half of the unskilled oc-
equations pay 35c an hour "or less"
For semi-skilled workers, the median
offer was only 40c.
Less than half of the 500 war con-
tract holders in the New York area
with so or more workers employ any
women, survey showed. OF the
365 which have no women workers,
only two plan to change their policy
For the nation as whole it is
estimated that 100000 women will
find jobs in war industries before the
end Of the year. In New York, the
prospects are that only 5000 additional
women will be hired in the first six
months of 1912.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
PRODUCERS
benefited BY
COURT OPINION
Opinion by Frankfurter of
The u. S. Supreme Court
Prohibits Primary Grain
Markets From Having Dual
Rates on Grain.

A decision of far reaching benefit
to Montana grain producers and mill
ers is contained In an eight to one
opinion delivered by Justice Frank
furter of the United States Supreme
Court on January 5, 1912. This de-
cision upheld orders Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission which prohib-
tied Kansas City, Mo-, and seven other
primary grain markets having dual
rates on grain and grain products.
This subject of many years stand
ing is an attempt of Missouri River
Millers and grain dealers, including
those at Minneapolis, to obtain transit
privileges on grain and grain products
when moving between primary mar
kets on proportional rates.
The complaints of the Kansas City
and Omaha markets were directed
against the rule for the application
of rate-break combinations on ship
ments of grain and grain products
through the rate-break markets as
prescribed by the Interstate Com
iiCi &c SOlHiuicolOLs liz liiiACho u
Minneapolis and dealers in wheat at
Missouri River markets have been
very persistent in attempts to obtain
privilege that would permit Minnea-
polls millers to obtain through transit
manipulation to mill at Minneapolis
wheat produced In Nebraska, Kansas
and other states in the southwest at
rates applying from Missouri River
markets such as Omaha or Kansas
City to Chicago in lieu of rates into
Minneapolis and proportional rates
from there to Chicago on the prod
ucts.
The board in cooperation with the
grain growers of the state has con-
sistently and vigorously opposed this
privilege, because 1t would give Min
neapolis millers rate of 81a cents
from Minneapolis to Chicago for that
portion of the through transportation
as compared with a rate of IL cents
that Montana millers would have to
any flour they might ship. Thus by
of transit balances"
millers would be enabled
to substitute southwestern wheat for
the products of Montana wheat and
ship in competition with them at the
lower rates, district disadvantage to
Montana interests of Az cents per
100 pounds.
This privilege was condemned in
six decisions Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and all efforts fail
ing in that direction an attempt was
made to enact law that would as
sure millers and grain dealers at pri-
mary markets this privilege through |
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
new Deal SEEKS
300,000,000 TO
AID WAR J0BLESS

WASHINGTON.-( P)-Appropria
ton of $3OO,O00,00O for the WPA will
be sought by the administration as
an alternative to additional appropria-
lions for unemployment compensation
for displaced workers, already re-
jected by the house ways and means
committee, it was indicated here by
Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn
DsnTex.).
The WPA could use the $500, 100000
for the establishment of training
classes and it would pay benefits to
displaced workers equal to the bene-
fits contemplated under the Presi-
dents proposal for added unemploy-
ment compensation, Rayburn said.
Rayburn's comments were made
after CLIO Pres. Philip Murray de-
clared that Tabor is profoundly
of the house ways and means commit
tee to provide benefits for workers
thrown out of jobs because Of war
dislocations."
This act" Murray said in letter
to Rayburn and Rep. Robert L.
Doughton 3D., MO-, chairman of the
house ways and means committee,
has given American workers the i'm
preston that congress holds of little
value the men and women who turn
out the nations arms when it will
not provide sum amounting to two
tenths of one percent of war appro-
priations in order to help unemployed
workers over the period of CONVEX
SION"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
LABOR HITS
CANDIDACY
OF SMITH
Butte, Mont, March 1, 1912

-
Editor, Peoples Voice:
Under date of Feb. 9th, an item
appeared in the Montana Standard
"copper" Sheet informing the public
that one Sherman Smith of Helena,
has aspirations to become the repre-
sentative in congress form the First
Congressional district. Part of the
article is rather loose statement of
principles which Mr.. Smith would ad-
vocate in the event of his nomination
and election.
| am not SO much concerned with
Mr.. Smiths political aspirations as
am with the circumstance that under
date of February 26th, much of the
same article, accompanied by a pic
ture of Mr.. Smith, appeared in the
Montana Labor News, official organ
of organized labor in Montana. The
appearance of the article and picture
in that paper might lead the unini-
tiated to the belief that Mr.. Smith
has the backing of labor for the office
which he seeks. He may have some
friends within the ranks of labor; but
it is to remove any existing fallacy
that Mr.. Smith is friend of labor,
that l am herewith forwarding his
record for the two sessions that he
served in the state legislature.
In the twenty-fifth session (1937)
Mr. Smith voted against the following
measures: establishing a
minimum state rate of interest on
loans; creation Of separate depart
ment of labor; repeating plan No. 2
Of the Workmen's Compensation act;
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
SMITH FORMS
INNER CIRCLE"
I'm DETROIT
Former "Silver Shirter" Key
Appeaser and Agent of the
u. S. Cliveden Set, Launches
New Campaign to Obstruct
u. S. War Effort.
BY "THE HOUR"

The Hour learns that Gerald L. X.
Smith, former lieutenant of the late
Huey Long and now national chair
man of the fascist Committee of One
Million, is forming in Detroit, Mich,
secret group called The Inner Cir
Gle. This group is to serve as brain
trust for the anti-democratic, disrup-
tive program with which Fifth Col
umnist Smith seeks to undermine
American morale and hamper the war
effort of this country. The slogan
Of The Inner Circle will be: Christ
First!'
We have in our possession a letter,
sent out by Gerald l.. X. Smith from
his Detroit headquarters on January
"a to a select number of his followers,
which tells of the creation of this In
ner Circle. The recipients of the let
ter are invited to join the newly or
ganized cabel. Smith writes:
g.. after much thought and plan
ming, have decided to establish what
we shall call THE INNER CIRCLE
LeJ uS FiSudliIc tuS COulullLLeo VI OuS
Million as gigantic wheel Then,
let us think of The Inner Circle as
a wheel, within wheel. The pur-
pose of this letter is to invite you to
become close consistent co-worker,
and be listed as a member of my
inner circle. By filling out
the blank at the bottom Of this letter
and mailing it to me at once, your
name will be recorded on this special
list. Kindly consider this invitation
a personal matter"
Smith and Americas CIiveden Set
The Detroit fascist mentions in his
letter that he has discussed the for
nation Of The Inner Circle with GER
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06
new PAMPHLET
TELLS STORY OF
JAPAN'S CAREER
By ROBERT L. CRUDEN

When the AL Capone of Asia slugged
Uncle Sam at Pearl Harbor we found
out belately that our attacker had a
record even before he joined the nazi
syndicate.
In 1895 Honorable Thug stole the
great island of Formosa from China.
In 1905 he hijacked from Russia the
strategic territory of Kwantung on
the Asiatic mainland, which the car
had stolen from China.
In 1910 this acquisitive gent walked
off with Korea. Playing safe in World
War I, he swiped the inundated is
lands in the Pacific from Germany.
And there is the long record of crime
beginning with, the invasion of Man
churia in 1881.
What about the home life Of the
Nippon thug? How does he treat his
wife and kids? Does he pass on his
take to the gang he serves as trigger
man?
These questions, and many others,
are answered simply and factually In
a little booklet, Knwo Your Enemy:
Japan, written by Anthony Jenkinson,
a top-flight British newspaperman,
and published by the Institute of Pa
cific Relations, 129 e. 52nd ST., New
York, at &c copy.
We find out, for instance, that while
Thug apologies that he's
been forced into life of crime to
feed his folks, the more he gets
abroad the less the folks get to eat.
A leading Japanese economist esti-
mates that in the last four years the
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-03-06

A Stitch in Time
WPB's Labor Division is taking
steps to see that no "bottleneck" de-
velops in the labor supply problem for
defense industries.
Program is being perfected for
training of 100000 "straw bosses" in
connection with the divisions within
industry training program" Each
STRAW boss" will have the job OF
giving instructions to about 10 work
ers in defense. work.
Sidney Hillman, head Of the divi-
sion, is anticipating the need for
skilled and semi-skilled workers in de-
Tense industries, and is not waiting
until shortage develops before doing
anything about it.
The boys here are doing much spec
ulating about who will head the new
man mobilization for war board which
the President is expected to name in
the near future Names most fire.
quently mentioned are Paul McNutt,
Sidney Hillman, and Francis Perkins.
Only active campaign for the posi-
ton seems to be conducted by friends
of McNutt-and many close to the
scene are confident that he will get
the nod Labor leaders are opposed
to McNutt because of his record as
governor of Indiana, although since
coming to Washington he has been
talking and acting like liberal.
There doesn't appear to be any or
ganized compaign for Hillman, and II
he is named it will have to be ION
the natural"
But whether Hillman actually heads
the board or not, it's certain that he
will hold an important position on 1t
in charge of the industrial mobiliza-
ton phase. This is principally be-
cause of the good job he has done in
training workers for defense indus
tries-one of the bright spots on the
entire defense program.
Army, Navy, and agriculture also
will be represented on the board.
No "White Mans Burden"
This war in the Far East, in which
the white man is engaged, is no