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The union times., 1943-07-17
As We See It. by The Staff

(Continued from Page One) blocks long. It's the fault of that pig Laval. But oh we'll, let's eat.''
 His wife then said: ''There's not very much to eat tonight. l went to the market, but the line was so long l couldn't buy anything. It's all the fault of that dog Laval.''
 Her husband turned livid with rage, and replied: ''I'm going to kill Laval. can't stand him any more.''
 Three hours later he was back. Did you kill Laval" his wife asked.
 ''Well, I went there, but I could mt get near him.''
 ''Why not," asked his wife.
 The line was too long,
 ONE YEAR AGO IN The Union Times: Conn. Federation of La bOr Will Hold Its 57th Annual Convention in New Haven"; ''Rail- road Brotherhood In New Haven Prepared To Work With A.F.L. For The Election Of Win-The- War and PrO-LabOr Candidates In The Fall ElectiOn"; Kentucky Federation Of Labor Urges liberalization of Unemployment Compensation" l; ''Final Plans Are Completed For Local 443, Teamsters', Testimonial Ball In Honor Of John Allen And John Pisano"; s'Peter Bernard Re- cOmmends Michael Minotti, Brick layers No. 2; Thomas Murphy, Teamsters, 19l; And Sadie Sulli- van, Corset Workers, as Labor Rep- resentatives On Bridgeport Ration ing Boards"; ''Three Texas Univer- sity Instructors, Who Defended Un- ions, Are Dropped"; "Organized Labor in St. Joseph, Mo-, Forces Mayor To Abandon Attempts To Destroy A.F.L. Fire Fighters Un- iOn''.
 HARRY FEINMARK. president of the New Haven Central Labor Council, this week sat as the labor representative on two VILE. panels. One was the Rockbestos case in New Haven and the other was the final hearing on the Yale & Iowne controversy, held in New York.
 GIVING FIVE SONS to his coun- try isn't enough for George Par kins, former railroad engineer and member of Local 84, Building Serv- ice Employes Intl. Union, in Fort Worth, Texas. He wants to get in the scrap himself. At present Par kins is working as janitor for the Fort Worth school system but he has felt the urge to get into the fight. He presented himself to the proper authorities and told them he wanted to run an engine again. Where? He wasn't particular. He told them he would go to China, or
The union times., 1943-07-17

REP. ALBERT J. ENGEL (R. Mich.) is sore because on his re- cent tour of mid-western war plants he found girl making $65 a week. We know lot of people who get sore because some congressman get paid at all. If you measure their pay in terms of their contribution to the war effort, certain representa- tives and senators would owe the government money. Of course, it would probably take logarithms to figure it Out-astrOnOmical figures are always little unwieldly for the layman.
 JUST TRY to figure out, for ex- ample, what Martin Dies would owe the American people if they charged him for damages to the war effort. Hitler never would get through paying the bill.
 OSCAR DIMWIT: I think they ought to let Herbert Hoover run the nations food program.
 JOE UNIONMAN: Yeah. Run it into the ground.
The union times., 1943-07-17
LABOR VIEWS THE NEWS

Out in Flint, Mich, the Buick plant doed itself up, kept men overtime to paint and sweep, and gave 2ay ayo
 whole shift they could appear industrious productive one day later All because General Motors officials coming to visit One version has that the preest women workers were put right frOn too, in shapely of Pulchrtude But CM officials passed all by cody There only one kind of figures which interests guys like It's great system!
The union times., 1943-07-17
ed to the U. s. Treasury $4OO, 900 he made on big army contract.

ed to the U. s. Treasury $4OO, 900 he made on big army contract.
 LeROY DOWNS, former con- gressman from the Fourth district. whom organized labor in Bridge port wants as director of the War ManpOwer Area, was this week re- ported as awaiting final physical examination for service in the miIi- tary government of occupied cOun- tries. In addition to publishing his NOrwalk paper, Downs is now sery- ing as comptroller for that city.
 
 BRITISH air-sea rescue experts have invented an air-borne IifebOat that can be dropped by parachute and with own power can carry II men 100 miles.
The union times., 1943-07-17

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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
SUPREME COURT FINDS
HIGHWAY DEBEnTURE
BILL IS UNLAWFUL

Holds Measure Unconstitutional in Some
Respects and in Contravention of Some
Existing Laws and Making Possible State
Tax on Gasoline of III Cents: Ruling of
Court NuIlifies the June 8 Election
The people's voice., 1943-05-21
Mine LABOR
| POLICY IS
MADE CLEAR

INGTON-Charles E. Wilson,
executive vice chairman, war produc-
| tion board, has communicated to Sen.
James E. Murray, chairman senate
| committee on small business, an inter
| pretation of the governments labor
policy affecting the domestic mining
industry which says that "the scarcity
of labor at this time or in any partic-
ular mining district will not be an in
fluencing factor in guiding our policy
to bring In new mines which produce
metals so necessary in our war eff
fort"
This Interpretation is regarded as a
marked departure from the position
which the WPB has followed since
the injunction of the strategic raw
materials question into the war policy
equation. Apparently, it also throws
down the gauntlet to the war man
power commission, which has hereto
fore shown no indication of relenting
DIN it's policy of sanctioning no new
domestic non-ferrous mining work in
sections where labor shortages exist.
Touching on this point, the inter-
probation by Executive Vice Chairman
Wilson contains this significant re-
ference: "The miners required in pro-
ducing these metals will be made
available from some source"
The people's voice., 1943-05-21

: The court evidently found
the measure passed by the re-
cent assembly very much of a
muddle and its wording not
clear and specific in regard to
the manner of payment of the
existing bonded debt and the
payment of the one it was pro-
posed to create. Moreover,
while it may not have been the in
tent of the assembly to increase the
state gasoline taxes to that extent the
manner in which the measure was
worded made an II cent gasoline tax
possible
Strong opposition to the measure,
had it been found constitutional by
the court, had been developing and
an organization, actively participated
in by organized farmers to campaign
against its passage in the election had
been formed, of which Sen. Herbert
II. Haight of Fergus county was chair
man. In a statement made by him
after the decision of the supreme
court had been made public, Senator
Haight said:
"The action of the court in throwing
out the ill-advised measure certainly
meets with popular approval of the
majority of qualified voters in Mon
tana. The referendum proposed to
have the state, in this critical time
of war, to abandon the sound pay-as-
you-go policy of road financing, and to
take on unnecessary debts and to lay
on unnecessary taxes to provide funds
that could not be spent until after the
war. With the exception of group
of well-meaning, but short-sighted good
roads boosters, virtually all of the vot-
ers in Montana were not in favor of
the big-debt, high-tax proposals.
Because the unconstitutional pro-
posal focused public attention upon
served a useful purpose in awakening
the taxpayers to the dangers in grand
lose plans for needless borrowing,
spending and taxing for highways.
Because of the better understanding
by the people of Montana of dangers
of excessive debts and taxes, it will
be long time before another such
ill advised proposal will be introduced
in the legislature. And it will be a
still longer time before the legislature
submits any similar big-debt, high-tax
to the people.
sfNom that the cunrpma rOurt rp-
flecting the public opinion in Mon
tana, has declared the measure uncon-
the state should take steps
to pay off its present debentures and
come out of the war with a clean
slate. Unhampered by heavy debt,
the state will be in sound financial
position. That is the best and most
sound postwar planning that can be
made now" concluded Mr.. Haight.
The people's voice., 1943-05-21
RESOLUTION May
BAR C0-OPS
FROM The AIR
"Plan for a Storm(y) Shell
ter" Variety Warns Radio
Industry on Latest Move;
Natl. Assn of Broadcasters
Amendment Affects Co-ops.

| NEW YORK.-The National Asso
citation of Broadcasters at its recent
convention in Chicago adopted a res
olution which Variety magazine inter.
preted as a rear guard action follow
ing the controversy between the radio
networks and the co-operatives last
| fall
| Using the headline "PLAN FOR A
| STORM (Y) SHELTER" Variety de-
clares in it's May 9Th issue that the
| inspiration for the amendment came
| from the fact that NBC and CHS ran
| into troubled waters last year when
they turned down transcription cam
paign offered by The Cooperative
League of the USA. Variety points
out that the amendment would bar
such movements as organized labor
from both sponsored and sustaining
time on the air and asks, ''Is radio
to become an exclusive privilege of
the merchant"
The Variety editorial is as follows:
"The members of the National Asso-
citation of Broadcasters might do well
to reconsider a resolution which was
adopted amid the drowsy insouciance
of late afternoon session during last
weeks convention in Chicago. The
resolution concerned a seemingly in
nocuously-worded amendment to the
associations code. The amendment
was of network origin and reads thus:
Solicitations of memberships in
organizations, except where such
memberships are Incidental to the
rendering of commercial services such
as an insurance plan either in respect
to casualty to life or property, or for
membership, in the American Red
Cross or like organizations engaged in
charitable work, are deemed to be un
acceptable under the basic theory of
the Code and therefore time should
be neither given nor sold for this
purpose
Implication of that amendment are
ominous. The masterminds of the
NAB have, in essence and by a single
rap of the gavel, served notice on the
American people that our broadcast
ing system is no longer open to any
form of commercial solicitation unless
it involves something like the transfer
of can of soup or cake of soap
across the counter. Gould it be that
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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
MONTANA TYPOS HOLD
ANNUAL CONVENTION

The annual convention of the Mon
tana Typographical Conference was
held in Great Falls, last Saturday and
Sunday, and elected officers for the
ensuing year. o. j. Magill of Butte,
former vice president was elected
president, succeeding Ray E. Denton
of Anaconda, who resigned in April
because of ill health; Fred Smith of
Helena was named vice president and
Andy TilIer of Lewistown succeeded
Don Peterson of Helena as secretary
treasurer.
The benefits of social security were
presented to the conference by Mr..
Cullerton, federal officer and Jack
O'Briep outlined, and discussed the
Importance of the work of the Office
of Price Administration.
The Great Falls Typographical I'm
ion was host to the conference at a
banquet held on Saturday evening
Visiting ladies were entertained by
the Great Falls ladies auxiliary.
The people's voice., 1943-05-21
WHAT'S WHAT
In WASHINGTON
CONTRIBUTED

This column has already commented
on the iniquitous Connally anti-strike
bill which passed the United States
senate over liberal opposition and is
now on its way to the house This
bill as passed authorizes the govern
ment to take over plants whose pro-
duction is interfered with by strikes
or other labor disturbances, prohibits
strikes while the government is in
possession, and provides statutory au-
thority for the war labor board.
The one saving virtue of the bill is
that it permits the war labor board
-To provide by order the wages and
hours and all terms and conditions
governing the relations between the
parties" The board will thus be
given legislative authority to continue
its maintenance of membership prac-
tice, and checkoff agreement The
United States Chamber of Commerce
is fighting this provision and is spon-
soring an amendment which would
provide as follows: Providing that
the board shall not have authority to
require that any person must become,
or remain, a member of labor or
or pay dues thereto as a
condition of employment.
This matter is now before the house
affairs committee. Montana
has no representative on this import
ant committee, our representatives
having been placed on such divergent
groups as Indian affairs and foreign
relations. At any rate, the votes of
the two Montana congressman should
be watched carefully. This amend
ment should be opposed because it
ties the hands of the war labor board
and gives the forces of reaction an
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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
wheat PRICES
Weakened BY
CROP PROSPECTS

Greatly improved crop prospects in
the winter wheat area following wide
spread rainfall weakened wheat prices
during the week ended May IA, ac-
cording to the Department of Agricul-
ture, and other grains showed a some
what easier tone in sympathy. Mill
buying of wheat futures was lacking
which took place, and prices declined
more because of limited buying sup
port than any pressure of offerings.
Weakness in the futures tended to
dnsettfe the. trading basis in cash
grains as well. Arrival of additional
cargoes of Canadian rye and oats at
United States markets had an unset
Ting Influence on these grains. Flax
continued to show Independent
strength as an excellent crusher de-
mand prevailed for the limited offer
ings.
WHEAT: Stocks of wheat in all
positions in the United States at the
first of April were estimated at 900,-
$4,000 bushels, an increase of 90,-
074,00O bushels over April 1, 1912,
stocks. Comprising this seasons total
were 327 1910 bushels on farms;
1891 900 in country mills and ele-
vators; 212,131, 900 in commercial
stocks; 123, 900 in merchant mills;
and 62,712,000 bushels owned by the
Comodity Credit Corporation in steel
and wooden bins and in transit April l.
More favorable temperatures pre-
vailed for wheat in Eastern portions
of the belt and beneficial rains oc-
CURED in southwest sections. Wheat
in the Ohio Valley responded favora-
bly, to the warmer weather and ldi-
tions ranged from fairly good to eJod.
The crop is reported from to 10
inches high in Illinois and Indiana
III the area extending from northern
New Mexico and eastern Colorado
eastward to Arkansas and Missouri
generous to excessive rains effective
ly relieved the drouth. Rains espe-
cially timely in southern Kansas
where the crop is heading and much
is expected in Oklahoma
wherever wheat survived the drouth
and greenbugs. Spring wheat seeding
was nearly completed in North Da-
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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
NATIONAL LEGISLATION LETTER
HOW TO REPEAL THE POLL TAX

HOW TO REPEAL THE POLL TAX
Consideration of H. R. 7, the Mar
cantonio bill to abolish the poll tax
as a prerequisite to voting in federal
elections, is scheduled for Monday
May "a. This was assured when 21e
members of the house of representa-
tives signed the petition to discharge
the judiciary and rules committees
from consideration of H. R. Z, and
bring it out on the floor for a vote.
But lot of work has to be done
to make sure the house passes the
bill. To recapitulate:
1. There is danger of parliamentary
manoeuvers to prevent consideration
of the bill. This danger will be met
by the coalition of members backing
H. R. 7.
2. There is serious danger of abb
senteeism on the part of members of
congress, acting under pressure from
the poll takers. This might result in
the presence on the floor, during de-
bate and vote, of more opponents than
supporters of the bill.
3. There is danger of the bill being
loaded down with crippling amend
ments, or of moves to substitute a
weaker, Intellectual, bill, by amend
ment.
Therefore: every organization and
individual must write or wire THEIR
OWN. .CONGRESSMEN, insisting:
1. That they be present on the floor
Of congress throughout debate on H.
2.iThat they vote against every
amendment which may be offered.
STRATEGY of the opposition will be,
in part, to offer amendments of such
nature that some congressman will
hesitate to oppose them because they
favor their content; but each amend
ment will be calculated to bring pres
sure on certain group to vote
The people's voice., 1943-05-21
TRICkERY May
Defeat POLL
TAX REPEALER
Warming that trickery and pressure

Warning that trickery and pressure
will be used by supporters of the poll
tax to defeat passage of the bill tc
establish poll taxes as prerequisite
for voting in federal elections was
sounded today by the international
Labor Defense.
Representative Vito Marcantonio
| (ALP, N.Y., author of H. R. 7, the
poll tax repeal bill, is national presi-
dent of the l. L. D. On May 7, 21S
tives having signed a petition to bring
fH. R. to a vote, the petition was
filed Under House rules, debate on
| the measure will start May "a.
"a public campaign much more in
tense than has yet been developed is
necessary between now and May "a,
to defeat plans of the poll takers in
congress to scuttle the BILL" the In
ternational Labor Defense said.
"The opposition is desperate and
will stop at nothing Their strategy
will include attempts:
81. To prevent consideration of the
bill on May "a, by parliamentary man
oeuvers;
"2. To intimidate congressman with
a view to make the vote against the
bill, or not show up for the vote The
key positions on house committees be-
fore which bills important to various
congressman must come gives them
powerful lever for this kind of pres
sure.
"3. To load down H. R. with
amendments which will ALLEVIATE vari-
Gus groups of representatives so as
to defeat the bill on the final vote
"In this situation, the most power
full campaign of public pressure on
congress is essential, to counteract
the poll takers plot.
Every union, every organization,
every individual, should write or wire
his own representative insisting:
''That he be present on May "a and
25, and on the floor of congress; that
he be present to vote down every
no matter how desirable
its contents might be as a separate
that he vote for passage of
H. R. 4 that no absenteeism at any
time during the debate will be ex
cusable for supporter Of poll tax re-
peal"
The poll tax repeal bill would re-
move voting disability from six mil
lion white and four million negro citi-
zens in seven southern states. At
present, the representatives from the
seven states are perpetuated in office
by a vote averaging less than go of
the population. Many are elected by
10 or less.
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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
|C0NNALLY BILL
OPPOSED BY
FARMERS UNION

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. G. Patton
president of the National Farmers Un
ion, has sent the following message
to the president of the senate, the
| speaker of the house, and the major
lity and minority leaders in botf
| houses:
"The National Farmers Union, al
autonomous and Independent organi
zation of working farmers which fol
forty years has consistently stood
with labor against those who seek to
divide and exploit both labor and
working farmers, is opposed to the
Connally bill, the Smith BILL or any
combination of the two that, while
purporting to give the President and
Commander-in-C additional power
alleged to be needed to insure con-
tinued production necessary in war,
is in fact wholly unnecessary dupli-
eating legislation insofar as the Presi-
dents war powers are concerned.
1--WE deem it significant that this
legislation has the support of the out
standing labor-baiters of this country,
of men and groups who are always
in favor of shooting workers out of
the plants breaking their unions, and
shooting them back into the plants
on the employers terms.
"The effect of such legislation
would be the destruction of collective
bargaining, the weakening and de-
struction of union organization, and
the substitution of force in the han
ding of labor relations. In the past
ten years, management and labor have
made great progress in solving COM
mon problems by orderly negotiations
rather than by spies, tear gas, picket
lines, lock-outs, strikes, bloodshed
and, to put it in legal language, OBJ
struction of interstate commerce. Be
fore and after Pearl Harbor, manage
cooperation in war produc-
tion, manpower, and transportation
have, on the word of Donald Nelson,
Paul McNutt, and the Tolan, Truman,
Pepper, and Kilgore committees, made
major contributions in speeding pro-
duction of ships, planes, tanks, and
other weapons. Free men have made
the weapons that have freed North
Africa and Tunisia.
"It is unthinkable that this free
dom, our greatest strength in this
war, is to be abridged because of
studied defiance by one labor leader,
one who has yet to subscribe to the
unconditional surrender
declaration. His strength today-and
it is considerab ble-is not of his own
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The people's voice., 1943-05-21
GOVERNOR FORD
PROTESTS
father DRAFT

Gov. Sam c. Ford today disclosed
that orders have been received al
State Selective Service headquarters
in Helena authorizing local draft
boards in Montana to induct into the
armed services fathers who are en-
gagged in non-deferrable occupations.
The governor stated that he had wired
his protest against this action to
Washington authorities. The order,
based on directives issued by War
Manpower Commission Director Paul
" McNutt, is the first indication to
Montana Selective Service headquart-
ers, the governor said, that married
men with children born before Sep
tember l, 1912, could be inducted
In his telegram opposing the order
and urging its rescission, the governor
said: Until all single, non-deferred,
physically fit men are called in other
states, it is unfair to induct Montana
fathers. 1t is absolutely essential that
the home be safeguarded as long as
possible, and | am firmly opposed to
breaking up homes no matter if the
fathers are in non-deferrable occupa-
tions so long as other states can fur
nish single men,"
According to the governor, only in
those counties where the local boards
have scraped the bottom of the bar
rel" and have no other men to in
duct will fathers in non-deferrable oc-
cupations be inducted. The governor
added that he has asked 1t. Col. S.
H Mitchell, state draft director, to
scrutinize carefully every case where
a father is called for induction to
make sure every legal right and pro-
cedure has been guaranteed
The people's voice., 1943-05-21
MONT U.
HAS VICTORY
DRUG GARDEN

Drugs for victory is one of the pur-
poses the school of pharmacy at Mon
tana State University has for con
tinuing its victory drug garden this
year.
The purpose of the garden, which
was started last year, said Charles E.
F. Mollett, dean of the school of phar-
macy, is to produce drugs for use by
tn EARNED services, Red Cross and
general civilian practice, in addition
to providing material for experimental
tion in the improvement of quantity
and quality of drug plants.
Over so various drugs will be found
in the garden this year and they will
furnish work for advanced and under
graduate students.
Last year work in the garden was
mainly with three drug bearing plants
and will be continued this spring and
summer. These three drugs are afro
pine, volatile oil drugs and insecticide
drugs.
Atropine bearing plants furnish
drug used in eye diseases, and in
broad clinical use of atropine sulfate,
tincture belladonna. The principal
effects of the drug cause action on
the central nervous system and on
smooth muscle and secretory glands.
Volatile oil drugs now are scarce
since many came from the tropics.
They are used in condiments and cos
metics as well as in medicinal prep
arations.
Insecticide drugs, always in demand,
kill insects.
A new specie of foreign drug, never
before cultivated in this country, will
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