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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02

William Moscrip ]. Seneca Jones'
profess to be talking for certain Co.
operative Associations, formulated a
legislative program and attempted to
mislead the public into believing that
this legislative program would put la
Dor organizations under the same gov
Associations, by:
l. Requiring that they could not elect
officers unless a majority of all
their members were present in per-
son; (The coop laws only require
20 per cent of the members)
2. That no person who had been a
member of a labor organization
within the past five years could
hold the office of State Labor Con-
ciliator; (The administrator of the
coop laws has always been a
farmer);
8. That no labor union could act for
employees of an employer outside
the corporate limits of the place
where the union has its principal
office;
4. That an employer could not enter
into the type of agreement that he
desired with his employees;
5. That all existing contracts between
employers and employees become
null and void by the insertion of
the following: can employer re-
CARELESS of any provisions in any
labor contract or working agree
ment shall at all times be the sole
Judge of the number, character and
qualification of employees
in the doing or performing of any
work and the manner, order
or sequence of the doing or per-
forming of such work" con many
Jobs, life and safety of a worker
depends on the knowledge and abil-
ity, and number of other workers.
6. Prohibiting unions from contribut-
ing to any candidate for public Of
flee;
7. Prohibiting one labor organization
from assisting any other organiza-
tion or group of employees desir-
ing to organize or maintain their
organization;
g. Prohibiting any contribution to any
organization that advocates men,
bership in labor union;
9. Requiring that labor organizations
be licensed by the Secretary of
State and said Secretary may re-
quire that all their records, minutes
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
AMERICAS LAND
I'm HANDS OF
CORPORATIONS
Postwar Planners Face
Problem of Returning
Americas Land to the
People; Now Held by
Absentee Landlords.

One of the major and most perplex
ing problems of the postwar planners
is how to return the major portion Of
Americas land to the American peo
pie and get it out of the hands of the
mammoth insurance companies and
other corporations.
A study made of the triple-A, con-
servation and parity payments in four
of the country's greatest farming
states discloses that insurance COM
panies and absentee landlords drew
top payments in all of them. The tab
ulation made follows:
Ohio-Union Central Life Insurance
company, Cincinnati, $49,153; Wiscon-
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, Milwaukee, $47,517;
Life Insurance com
pany, Des Moines, $33,41S; Missouri
General American Life Insurance
company, St. Louis, $52,170
In Mississippi, the largest payment
went to an absentee landlord, the
British owners of Delta and Pine
Land company, Scott, Miss. The prop
erty is managed by former AAA
official, Oscar Johnston. The pay
ment was $5O,141.
Highest payment in Illinois went to
the First Trust Joint Stock Land
bank, Chicago, $29,152. Highest in
Nebraska went to the Federal Land
Bank of Omaha, $77,605, while the
same thing was true in Minnesota,
where the largest payment, $75,761,
went to the Federal Land Bank of
St Paul. The land banks hold lot
of property as result of mortgage
in the lean years.
Largest payments in the four larg-
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
CASE AGAINST
SEARS R0EBUCk
UP TO COURT

| The submission of testimony was
completed last Saturday in the in
junction proceedings brought by the
Office of Price Administration against
Strain Brothers as selling agents for
Sears, Roebuck and Company. With
in Is days transcripts of testimony
must be submitted to the court fol-
lowing which is 10 day period for
rebuttal before the judges decision
will be rendered
The case brought out one difficult
ty which price control, under present
Legislation, has to contend with. To
prove violation of price ceiling reg
ulations a number of related facts
must be established The failure to
prove one of those facts is a victory
for the price violator
For example in the Sears case it
was necessary for the OPA to prove
that Sears knew the regulations, that
they knew their closest competitor
was chain store on the order of ]. G.
Penney Company or Montgomery
Ward and not a local independent,
that the quality of their merchandise
was lower than the quality offered by
competition for similar merchandise
for the same or comparable prices,
etc.
With grade labelling of work clothes
or any other consumer goods, specific
quality standards should be set up
and clearly indicated on the garment
or food as the case might be. A par
ticular price could then be designated
for a particular grade of merchandise
and the problems of control could be
greatly simplified in that an ordinary
individual could under
stand what quality he is buying with
out resort to a laboratory technician
and an expert.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
NO TAX NOW
ON TOWING
AUTOMOBILES

Garages and service stations have
been relieved of the necessity for pay
ing transportation tax on charges
made for towing wrecked or disabled
automobiles, under new ruling by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The
revenue act of 1912 levied a tax on
the transportation of property and the
Internal Revnue Bureau ruled that
this would apply to the towing of
automobiles. This meant not only adj
ditional expense but reams of paper
work for stations rendering service
to AAA members.
The American Automobile Associa-
ton, represented in this state by the
Montana Automobile Association, inn
mediately appealed this ruling and
first secured partial and then a
complete repeal of the decision. This
now applies only to a person engaged
exclusively, or primarily in the opera
ton of a towing service.
DEMAND THE Union I,ABEI,t
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02

Railroads of the country will have earned enough during the
first five months of 1913 after and taxes to fixed
interest charges and for the entire according to
recent estimate of the Wall Street Journal the report
continuing with this exuberant statement Railroad sats
these days overwhelmed by the good earnings reports
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
Japanese Youth to Work
Longer Hours

In an announcements disclosing the
removal of ceilings on Japanes work
ing hours, the Tokyo radio disclosed
that the working hours of boy and
girl workers under 16 had been raised
to IL hours daily. The only conces-
sion made to their youth, according
to the broadcast, is that they may
not be worked between 10 p. m. and
5 a. m.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02

WASHINGTON.-Hasty cancellation of the Standard Oil
Navy department which would have
monopoly control of the tremendously valuable naval oil
Elk Hills in Southern California will stop
vestigation of this latest oil-monopoly deal.
Congressman j. Hardin Peterson, chairman of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
RAILROAD PROFITS and
WORKERS DEATHS MOUNT
TO new TOP IN Year

Facts Brought Out in Hearings Before
Emergency Board of the National Railroad
Labor Panel on Question of an Cent an
Hour Increase for i, 100000 incorporating
Rail Employees and 300 Raises for Others
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
Nazi Scare Propaganda in
Occupied France

Nazi propagandists in occupied
France have introduced a new twist
in their campaign to chill widespread
hope for an Allied invasion of France.
The nazis are now telling Frenchmen
that if the Germans have to retreat,
they will carry out "scorched earth"
policy that will leave the country in
ruins.
In a recent domestic broadcast, the
Incorporated Paris radio declared:
do you think that the occupying
army, in panic, would run away with
it's arms and baggage in such hurry
that it would not even have time to
carry out all the destruction which a
routed army generally perpetrates to
slow down the advance of the enemy
and hamper his supply? That would
be to underestimate badly the Ger
man soldiers, whose courage and stub
bornness in defense as well as in at
tack nobody, even the enemy, can
contest"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
INSIDE THE AXIS

The broadcast cast that men fac
tory workers have a comparatively
greater number of hours required of
them" but it did not specify how long
these hours were. AS far back as
1889, however, the working hours for
adult males were fixed at 10 to II a
day, so it is probable that the new
hours are IA or more daily.
False Window Displays
In Germany
Nazi authorities have again ordered
storekeeper in Germany not to create
false impressions" by displaying mer-
chandise not already in stock and
available for immediate sale, accord
ing to a recent dispatch published in
the German press. The press report
said deep cleavage" had been Gre
ated between retailers and customers
because of the "illusion" set up by
storekeepers in an attempt to attract
customers.
Nazis Still Seek Details on
Stalingrad Casualties
The nazis apparently still have not
completed the compilation and break
down of German casualties at Stain
grad, according to a recent DNB agen-
cy dispatch for home consumption,
which indicated that government au-
thorities are being besiegned with in
quiries by anxious relatives.
ut is again pointed out that relia-
BILE news, as soon as it is possible
to give it, will be available only
through the Stalingrad office staff at
tached to the Wehrkrise,' the DNB
dispatch said Relatives should first
apply with the documents in their
possession to the local military reg
istration office"
Later, the dispatch said:
"All relatives of Stalingrad fight
ers who have meanwhile received
news through the soldiers former
unit, superior officers or fellow sol
diers to the effect that he was wound
ed, killed or is missing are urgently
requested to fill in the special form
at the local military registration Of
flee, passing on the news which they
have received"
Poiteness Campaign
With German war nerves somewhat
frayed at the edges, the nazis are
conducting politeness campaign to
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02

Nazis Conduct Japanese-Appreciation
Campaign in France
The Germans have been conducting
a propaganda campaign in France to
increase French appreciation for Jap
an, far eastern branch of the Axis.
In recent article, the nazi-controlled
Petit Parisien told Frenchmen:
Before the war, who knew Japan
Very few people. Since 1910, who APP
preciates her at her true worth? No
body, or very nearly. Radio Paris
wished to set this matter right. For
several weeks it has been making
a special transmission every Sunday
on the Japanese. Japanese music is
strange indeed-and what admirable
poems "a whole civilization is ex-
pressed in them, one that was born
long before our own, and about which
it is good to think in these days"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
ELK HILLS OIL SCANDAL
May INVOLVE OFFICIALS
and ARMY and Navy MEN

Expose of New STE e.. A.... ~dal Leads to Can
collation. of Standass9's sasa ct; Voorhis
Exposure of Deal Made Fms Congress
And Then to House Committee on Public
Lands; Big Oil Men in Dept. of Interior.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
Politeness Campaign

With German war nerves somewhat
frayed at the edges, the nazis are
conducting a politeness campaign to
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-07-02
Is 1t the Function Of Cooperative
Associations TO Destroy or
Make Ineffective Labor Unions?

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
Randolph Gray
Is HOnOred
By COntnlUt0tOr

Randolph Gray, recently elected
financial secretary of Local II,
was honored by the gift of a pen
and pencil set from the Toledo
Standard Commutator Unit in APP
preciation of his services to the
Unit prior to his elevation to his
present position.
Chairman John Keplinger of the
Commutator Unit, in presenting the
set to Brother Gray, spoke of the
feeling of appreciation for the work
done by Gray and said that it was
the wish of the Unit to present him
with a token of its esteem for past
services.
Brother Gray expressed his
thanks for the gift, told the Unit
it had been a pleasure to serve it
and wished it success in its future
activities.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02

spoke at a banquet honorlng his
administration. Sponsored by the
Akron Industrial Union Council,
It was attended by representatives
of all CIo, AFL and railroad
unions in the area.
Praising labor's wholehearted
desire for complete cooperation
with management for maximum
war production, Harter pointed out
that labor in Akron is willing and
ready to settle arguments by ways
Of reason"
He contrasted with this the ac-
tions of Eddie Rickenbacker and
otrers whose utterances, he said,
accomplish no good purpose ex-
cept to incite those upon whom we
depend for production"
"The rowing Rickenbackers who
seek to divide class against class"
the mayor declared, "could ac-
complish more for the war effort
If they attached governors to their
Adams apples and sought a place
alongside willing workers in pro-
duction.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
u. s. Steel
Subsidiary Sued
For z Million

PITTSBURGH -- The Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corp, accused before
the Truman investigating commit
tee Of selling defective steel to the
government, is faced with a civil
informer's suit filed in federal dis
trict court here March "a claiming
more than $2,000,000 in damages.
The suit, filed by an agent of a
Chicago attorney, Herman M. Co
gan, was entered under a Civil
War law which was sustained by
the u. S. supreme court in a re-
cent decision.
Complaints Asks Double Damage
Estimating the damages to the
government at 81, 100000, the COM
plant asks for double that amount
under the informers' statute, with
the judgment TO be divided equally
between the government and the
lnformer. The lawyer is also ask
ing an additional $4,000 penalty
for each individual violation.
The complaint, using many of
the exact words Of witnesses be-
for the Truman committee, charges
that the U. S. Steel subsidiary had
shipped badly laminated and piped
plates TO the U. S. Navy and TO
the U. S. Maritime shipyards and
did supply defective steel on U. S.
Treasury lend-lease orders"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02

may desire as an individual, but
| do challenge your right to make
such statements while wearing the
uniform of the American Legion.
Take off your Legion cap end put
on the uniform of the NAM.
"If you are the man and citizen
that the American Legion pictures
you to be, you will resign as ma
tional commander of the American
Legion and cease fomenting dis
unity, intolerance and ella 5
hatred"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
An+i-Lobor Forces
Urge Passage
Of House Bill 1913
Continued from Page One.

nessmen's Association both spoke
in behalf of the bill.
Attorney Snow gave a vicious
talk in favor Of the bill and earned
the sobriquet Of "Pegler Junior"
from the union representatives who
attended the hearing to listen in.
Herbert Albright claimed he was
a manufacturer, although none OF
the Toledo people knew him, but
refused to say what business he
was in, testified and showed about
the same brand Of dislike for labor
as that demonstrated by VIM. Snow.
Labor To Testify Later
Labor which had sent its re-
presentatives to Columbus to testi-
fy at last nights committee session
was not given time to present its
side Of the case but will be notified
by the committee Of a date later
on, probably next week.
Investigation by the Toledo
Union Journal shows that Herbert
Albright who claimed to be a
manufacturer is association with
the Dealers Auto Radio 240-13th
st. which does not manufacture
radios or anything else; but re-
pairs and installs radio sets.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
Come Helps
Workers TO Get
Proper Diet

NEW YORK (FP)-A game that
is amusing in itself and at the
same time helps the average family
to balance its diet is being dis
tributed through community or
ganizations and labor unions, with
the approval of the Office Of De-
fense Health and Welfare of the
Federal Security Administration.
II is called Vita-Min-Go and is
produced on non-eommercial
basis. More than a million copies
already have been distributed
through schools, boards of health
and other agencies.
Prices for the game range from
10 cents a single copy to $40 3
thousand. They may be obtained
by writing Vitamingo, Inc, l75
Varick St., New York.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
CIO Wins
Port Clinton
EEe eS%ion
Continued from Page One.

Continued from Page One.
but / am certain you have lost a
lot of friends, subscribers to your
paper, by the stand you took dur
| ing the contest at Standard Prod
ducts Co."
Celebrating on his statement to
Publisher Krupp, Crowley said,
II feel that Mr.. Krupp got his an
swer in the overwhelming vote
given us at the Standard Products,
and have no doubt he will get the
second installment on April when
the Matthews Co. employees hold
their election.
Boosters Held Contract
For the past several years, the
Boosters Club, so-called indep-
endent union has held the contract
at the Standard Products. In the
last election the Boosters won the
right to bargain for the employees;
but a growing distrust and dis
satisfaction with the company
dominated union led to its decisive
rejection in the Thursday election.
While the contract held by the
Boosters is still in force, James
Crowley indicated that contract
negotiations would begin in April.
Mr.. Crowley said, "there are many
things that we intend to do for the
Standard Products Co. workers
which the Boosters never even
tried to do. We are going to get
the workers real contract with
some changes that will give the
employees real protection, grievance
procedure, better wages and other
advantages to which they are en-
titled.
The election was in charge Of
Bernard Samoff Of the Cleveland
office of the National Labor Re-
lations Board who supervised the
balloting and counting Of the votes.
Employees Are Jubilant
Employees of the Standard Prod
ucts Co. were jubilant at the out
come Of the election. Members Of
the UAW who have worked to win
were enjoying the obvious efforts
of Publisher Krupp to get back in
the good graces Of the people who
subscribe to his paper and against
whose interests he had been work
ing.
One of the union committee COM
menting on the outcome of the
election said, A." imagine our friend
Krupp trying to explain why his
face is so red. It's going to take a
long time for Krupp to win back
the confidence Of the people of Pt.
i Clinton, if he ever wins it back"
All the employees who belong to
the UAW are looking forward to
the contract negotiations with plea
SAINT anticipation, because as one
Of them put it, "there are a lot Of
adjustments we want made at the
plant which we never could get
under the Boosters club.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
Scale Union
Takes II
On The Chin?
Continued from Page One.

NOIIllutu lIOiu rage OHCs
ruary and that under its terms,
seniority could now be obtained in
three instead of six months as for
merly; but that since it was not
retroactive in its provisions, all EN-.
ployes of the company not in de-
partment more than six months
were not covered.
Company employees who voted
for the company dominated union
are beginning to suspect that all
is not we'll, some of them even 60
ing so far as to, say they suspect
collusion between the company and
the union.
When Alma Harmer was con-
tacted by the Toledo Union Journal
she said that when she was paid
off, the company had her sign a
paper which she did not read be-
fore rehiring her into the Ordi-
nance department. The paper OBJ
viously was waiver of whatever
time she had accumulated before
being fired and rehired.
Its Great System"
Harold Billheimer, an employe
Of the Toledo Scale Co. comment
ing on the layoffs said, "it's
great system. The company waits
until an employe is about to es-
tablish his seniority and then, un-
der one preteXt or another pays
them off. Then, because they know
the employees still wants to work
they rehire them, first taking care
to get the employe to sign off.
Most people will sign off, some
knowingly, and many unknowingly
in order to get another job with
out loss of too much time"
Toledo Scale Co. employees are
having their eyes opened to the
real significance of a union which
openly admits that "there is moth
ing it can do about it," and VIII
takes it on the chin; but appar
ly doesn't seem to mind the
ishment.
Considerable talk is going
around the shop about the socalled
independent union which many EN-.
ployes of the company now believe
is not independent, is not union
and is working hand in glove with
the company, the same as company
unions all over the country have
done in the past and still continue
to do.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
UCAPAWA Aids
Aufo Workers

LIMA, O., March 27 Especially
Evelyn Marks, member of the
Lima Industrial Union Council,
spoke here last night over the Lima
radio station on behalf of the
United Automobile Workers, who
will be on the ballot at the Lima
Locomotive Works election, Tues
day, March 30. Miss Marks is vice.
president of the UCAPAWA which
recently was granted wage in
crease by the NWLB.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
WilIkie Declines TO
Arbifrofe Dispute

DETROIT - OPP - Wendell L,
Willkie, former president of the
Commonwealth e. Southern utility
holding company, declined to arbi,
trate dispute between the Utility
Workers Organizing Committee
(CI0) and Consumers Power, q
subsidiary Of Commonwealth, de-
claring It would be Inappropriate
for him to serve as arbitrator ir
view of his former close connec,
tions with the company.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
Food Costs Up 35eo

NEWARK, N. J.--FP) - Food
costs rose over $50 between jan
uary 1912 and January 1943, ac-
eording to a survey by the New
Jersey cIo Council, Irving Abram-
son, council president, charged in
a letter TO oPA Chief Prentiss M.
Brown.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-04-02
Legion Leader Reps NationaI
Commanders Anfi-Labor Speeches

MINNEAPOLIS-Jack R. Car
rier, past commander Of Minneap-
oils largest American Legion post,
has written Natl. Legion Com
mander Roane Waring, taking
him to task for departing from the
Legion constitution to attack or
ganized labor.
"The daily press" Carrier wrote
Waring, currently carries stories
of speeches made by you i.
saying that all strikers should be
shot, etc. 1t seems to the writer
that you have strayed long way
from the preamble of our consti.
tuition and the stand of the Legion
as inundated at the Cleveland
convention.
Resembles Nazi Tactics
"In fact, your rantings smack a
great deal of the diatribe currently
being put out by Hitler, Goebbels,
ct al. Their move was to destroy
the organized labor movement in
Germany, and your mouthings bear
a startling resemblance to their
tactics.
mo one denies you the
right to do or say anything you