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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
Sen. MURRAY
DEMANDS USES.
BE OvERHAULED

WASHINGTON. Declaring that
farmers of Montana face heavy losses
of their crops due to labor shortages,
Sen. James e. Murray requested a
complete overhauling of the United
States Employment Service in Mon
tana. In letter to Arthur S. Flem-
ming, the executive director of the
war manpower commission, Senator
Murray pointed out that heavy crop
losses were sustained last year and
that further losses face Montana food
producers this year unless an employ
ment service competent to recruit la
Dor is established.
In a letter to Secretary of Agricul-
ture Claude Wickard, the senator
pointed out facts with relation to the
Food for Victory program in his home
state, and advised the secretary that
he had lost confidence in the EN-
ployment Service in his home state
and its ability to function efficiently.
He urged the secretary of agriculture
to take steps Immediately to insure
the farmers and ranchers of Montana
their minimum labor needs so that
they may plan their production season
with confidence that the crops can be
tended and harvested.
"Steps must be taken Immediately
to develop sources of agricultural la
bor," the senator advised Director
Early last year l urged
the Employment Service to explore
the possibilities of obtaining agricul-
tural labor in Mexico to meet the de-
mands of Montana beet growers. The
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
TELLS HOW TO
CONSERVE
NEWSPRINT

| The following resolution was unani.
mously adopted at the last regular
meeting of the Missoula County Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council:
Whereas, reports from Washington,
D. c. indicate growing shortage of
newsprint with possible rationing of
this commodity, and
Whereas, almost every issue of the
Muscular and Sentinel carries an
editorial opposing the 40-hour week
or condemning high wages or over
time pay for labor, and
Whereas, these editorials are re-
markable principally for their endless
repetition and their lack of logic, and
Whereas, such ceaseless repetition
of statements having no verification
in logic or in fact ultimately grows
wearisome to the reader and likewise
consumes much newsprint which
could be devoted to better or more
sanitary purposes, and
Whereas, readers of the aforesaid
papers are, or should be reasonably
familiar with the position of the own
ership, management and editorial pol
icy of the Muscular and Sentinel
regarding labor questions; now there
fore, be it
Resolved, by the Missoula County
Central Trades and Labor Council,
that we suggest to the management
OF the Muscular and Sentinel that in
the interest of conserving the time
of the reader and much otherwise
useful paper that these two papers
could greatly simplify matters by car
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
UNI0NISTS
ACTIVE in
C0-0PERATIVES

| CHICAGO.-Trade union members
of both the ALL and CLIO are acting
on resolutions passed by their nation
al organizations and taking an in
creasingly active part in the co-opera-
tives in the Central States area ac-
cording to the education department
of the Central States Co-operatives,
which has headquarters in Chicago
and serves local co-operatives in Hi
nois, Indiana, Ohio and Southern
Michigan.
Specific action on the part of trade
unionists in various localities are
cited as follows:
South Bend Consumer Cooperative
Services is located in the United Auto
Workers Local hall, uses the Stude-
baker Employees Federal Credit I'm
ion as it's depository, and buys the
coal it sells through the st. Joseph
County Farm Bureau Cooperative
Association. The society operates
one of the most modern small self
service food stores in the city.
Mishawaka 0nd) Cooperative So
ciety is made up of number OF mem
bers of the United Rubber Workers
(Ban Brand employees and is located
downtown in the URWA hall.
The Cooperative Society of East
Akron is made up of employees
(URWA) of most of the large rubber
manufacturing companies in Akron.
The Calumet Coop Buying Club,
Hammond, Ind, a recent addition to
csc, is located in the United Oil
Workers Union building in Hammond.
Since the buying club was opened this
summer, it has outgrown its quarters
three times.
The Hesseville Buying Club in Ham
mond is also made up of active mem
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
FROM
WASHINGTON
Compiled by Farm Research, Inc.

Compiled by Farm Research, Inc.
"Farm" Bloc and Od-Line Farm
Leaders Map Program to Undermine
National War Effort
Immediately after congress con-
vened, the farm" bloc held caucus,
presided over by Senator Thomas of
Oklahoma, and mapped out its STRAIT
egy for the current session. While it
did not go so far as to endorse the
call for negotiated peace, which
Rep. Sumner raised and which leaders
Of the National Association of Manu-
facturers put forward at a closed
meeting Of their resolutions commit
tee, the farm" bloc adopted plan
designed to undermine vital parts of
the war economy. It's program calls
for:
1. Release from the army of farm
workers who have been drafted
and deferment for others.
2. Attack on the price control pro-
gram. Upward revision of price
ceilings by giving additional
weight to labor costs and by shift
ing the parity base to 1929 in
stead of 1904-14 No subsidies.
3. Cut in wages by eliminating over
time rate of pay for hours in ex-
cess of 40 Allow overtime rates
of pay only for work in excess
of 81 hours.
This program was endorsed by Of
ficers of the American Farm Bureau,
the National Grange, National Asso-
citation of Commissioners, Secretaries
and Directors of Agriculture, the Ma
tional Council of Farmers Co-opera-
tives and the National Milk Producers
Federation. Senator Thomas told re-
porters, in explaining how the caucus
came to be held, that the leaders of
all these organizations just happened
to be in town on other business.
The farm" bloc is aware that no
proposal calling for the wholesale re-
lease of farm workers from the ranks
of the army is likely to get very far.
The army cannot be expected to carry
out the Presidents promise 'to strike
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
MONTANA HIGH
In VICTORY
FUND DRIVE

Final tabulation of results in the
United States treasury departments
great s12,926, 100000 December Vic
tory Fund Drive today disclosed that
Northwest sales aggregated S249, 046,-
900.
While the northwest record of APP
proximately 2 per cent of the nation
al total is about in line with long
established findings as to the share
that this area normally produces in
any such campaign, John N. Peyton,
chairman of the Ninth District Vic
tory Fund Committee, expressed con-
fidence future drives will produce
even better results.
The next great campaign to sell
government securities to finance the
war is tentatively set for April. "At
that time" Mr.. Peyton said, "volun-
teer Victory Fund Committee mem
bers will redouble their efforts to
get greater number of individual
subscriptions.
Il know the general public will CO.
operate by placing an even greater
proportion of their savings, idle funds
and earnings in government securi-
ties, over and above what they are
already investing regularly in Series
e War Savings Bonds"
In the December Victory Fund
Drive, Mr.. Peyton disclosed, banks
and the general investing public in
this federal reserve district made the
following purchases, by states: Michi-
gan Us counties) 6,362,4O0; Mime
sofa, S203,869, 100; Montana, $26,15S,-
200; North Dakota, s26,O33, 300; South
Dakota, s19,925,S 800; and Wisconsin
(26 counties), S12,331, 100.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
REFINERY
PURCHASE:
APPROVED

| kilograms and letters from officials
of cooperative organizations all over
the country have been coming into
! the desk of e. A. Syftestad, general
manager of the Farmers Union Cen
trail Exchange, expressing approval
and support of the action of the
board of directors and the stockhold-
ers in voting to secure it's own refin-
cry so that it can produce its own
gasoline and other fuels.
In extending congratulations, Pres.
" A. Fogg of the big GLE Co-opera-
tive with headquarters at Ithaca, N.
Y, declared: "Years of cooperative
experience has proven that best serv-
ice and maximum economy is only OBJ
tanned by controlling or at least set
ting the pace of each process from
producer to consumer. By the pur-
chase of refinery you are taking
over one more of the most important
of these controls. We commend you
on your ability to manage your or
ganization to a position where the
purchase Of refinery is possible"
A. ]. Hayes, general manager of the
rapidly growing Central Cooperative
Wholesale at Superior, Wis, declares
that the action shows the determine
ton that today we must press for
ward not mark time"
From the Consumers Cooperative
Refineries at Regina, Canada, the or
ganization which established the first
cooperative refinery in the world,
Secretary II. L. Fowler writes: "Our
own experiences have laugh us that
this move will be an exceptionally
wise one. Increasingly all of us must
extend our activities into the manu-
featuring and production field"
Chairman Tom w Cheek of the
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
DEMOCRATS
Map POSTWAR
PROGRAM

House and senate democrats met
last Saturday to discuss their party
program in the light of the present
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29

passed with only II members
registering a "No" vote on the
ineQuitable measure.
The argument by the bankers who
had been in the capitol in force for
the past week, entertaining at dinners
and other functions, many of the mem
bers of the house, was that there was
little demand for loans; that the mon
ey lay in their banks, inactive, and
consequently the profitable operation
of their institutions we're curtailed
and they could not afford to pay as
high taxes as formerly. Apparently
the bankers found willing and sym
pathetic listeners among the mem
bers whom they had royalty and ex-
pensively entertained at social func-
lions. The paradoxical argument that
they could not pay the same taxes
as formerly because they had too
much money, won the day for them.
The small automobile dealers about
to go out of business, the small and
large merchant unable to continue in
business because of the shortage of
goods for consumer demand, the farm
ers, many of them with back taxes to
pay, apparently had not thought their
particular problem through and up to
now, at least, there has appeared no
tax reduction bill to benefit them.
While the bill was rushed through
the lower house in an unprecedented
manner, it may take a more le1surely
journey through the senate, the body
being smaller and perhaps they will
feel less likely to revolt.
Obviously enough, the purpose in
rushing the bill through was to avoid
news of the move reaching the people
of the state and pressure against vot-
ing for the measure being brought
upon the members by their constitu-
encies. This same consideration may
speed the progress of the measure in
the senate also.
We publish below, the first record
vote of this session. We ask you to
note how your representative voted
on this inequitabIe measure:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
CONTROL OF
PRICES HOLDS
DOWN COSTS

AS an indication of how price con
troll works to keep the cost-of-livine
at reasonable levels, the following fig
ures were RELEASED to The Peoples
Voice by A. T. Peterson, state direc
tor of the Office of Price Admins
tration. Figures are from U. S. de
partment of labor statistics.
Percentage Increase
GROUP Nov. II to Dec is, 1912
ALL FOODS observation-disclosures 2%
Under control by OPA
on Dec. 18th ---...-.-.-----.----...--.---0. 5 %
Under control on May IS, 1912 O.4%
Placed under control after
May 18th -.--......,-..-....-,.........0. S%
NOT UNDER CONTROL by
OPA on Dec. 18th ...-...,..--------.7.0%
These statistics show that all food
prices had risen 1.2ao in the period
but the large part of that increase
was due to the increase in price of I'M
controlled foods which rose 70% dur
ing the month.
Uncontrolled foods used in comput-
ing the food cost index include fresh
fruits and vegetables, fresh fish and
peanut butter.
Taking a longer period from May
18th to December 18th, 1912, the de-
partment of labor figures show that
foods placed under control on May
18th rose in price 1.2qo in that seven
month period. Uncontrolled foods
rose $3.50 during the same period.
These figures show that where
price controls have been applied very
definite results are being attained. AS
OPA is instructed to bring the I'M
controlled foods under price ceilings
similar sterilization of their prices
will result.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
CONTROVERSIAL issues
APPEARING In BOTH
HOUSES OF THE ASSEMBLY

Influence of Privileged Groups Manifested
More and More AS Session Lengthens; Bill
For Repeal of Provisions of State Income
Tax for Next Two Years on Senate's Boards,
introduced by Campbell of Missoula.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
BANKERS s.. :. H., g.. .IEF BILL
PASSES HOUSE II
Senate APPROVAL SURE

Republicans in House With One Exception
(Holie) Vote for Measure Reducing the
Classification for Taxation of Moneys and
Credits, Moneyed Capital and Shares of
Banks From 80 to 7 Per Cent
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29
RADIO STATIONS
SELECTED
FOR BROADCAST

NEW YORK. - The Cooperative
the selection of 80 key stations from
coast-to-coast which will carry its
dramatized radio program on the OPP
portunities in the postwar world
Here Is Tomorrow
Among the stations selected are
eight affiliates of the National Broad
casting Company and six Columbia
stations. Ten stations affiliated with
the Blue network, two Mutual stations
and four Independents complete the
list announced today. Several addi-
tional stations may be added before
the program goes on the air for its
13-week series starting Sunday after
noon, February H.
All broadcasts will be Sunday after
moons. Time of broadcast varies from
station to station in sorder to secure
the best available time on each sta
ton.
Station-City Network Time
KSTP- Minneapolis, Mimi NBC IL: As
WJSV-W Washington, d. c., Col. 1870
WHDH-Boston. Mass, Blue 2:45
WELI-New Haven, Conn, Blue 4:30
WTRY-Troy, N. Y Blue 2:45
WQXR-New York, n Y, Ind $3.50
WSYR-Syracuse, N. Y, NBC 300
WFII-Philadelphia, Pa, Blue 2:S0
Harrisburg, Pa, Col 2:45
Pa, NBC 1:15
WHKC-Columbu Ohio, Nut. 400
WING-Dayton. Ohio, Blue 4:45
WSPD-Toledo Ohio, NBC 200
WINS Ironwood Mich, Nut $50
Calumet, Mich, Ind 1890
Marquette, Mich, Ind. 1:15
WIND-Gary, Ind. (Chicago) Col. 6:15
WISH Milwaukee, Wise, Col Ito be
announced
WTAQ-Green Bay, Wise, Col. 5:15
Mimi, Blue 200
WHILE Virginia, Mimi, Blue 200
Mimi, Blue 200
WDAY-Fargo, N. d., Blue 3:45
WNAX-Yankton, S. D., Col. 4:30
KGNC-Amarillo, Tex, NBC $50
Tex, NBC Ais
Angeles, Cal, Ind 2:45
Jose, Cal Blue 4:30
Wash, NBC 3:45
Ore, NBC 1:45
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-29

Appearance of the anticipated for repeal of the
state and passage of bankers relief
by the lower house hghghted the 18th legislative assembly
the past week and indicated trend which many appre
hensive will continue to the sessions continue Also
following traditions of the several past sessions bill for the
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11


-Heine
HrRNE. Switzerland September 2
4 ALE. MARIE GIRAUT, thirty-nine
n ~ wears old and known To students of
HVh tho Latin Quarter as The Laughing
Laundrese" laughs no longer.
The lady. who once chartered like a turn
ing mill lost her merry head the other day
on the gnlotnc in tho gloomy courtyard OF
the petite Roquc'tc prison, Paris.
The carcfree creature, who had been con-
victcd on twenty-sevcn counts OF procuring
abortion is the first woman since 1852 10
have her neck shaved at Paris by The Ma
tonal Razor
During her trial at the Seine Assizes
Mare BETRAYED no emotion when the public
prosecutor waxing indignant dilated upon the
enormity Of her misdeeds, called her a child
1uurderess and compared her 20 that ancient
imp Of wckcdncss. Queen Fredegonde Of
France
Indeed. the washervoman remained so
calm and looked so gentle throughout the
peroration Of the Procureur General that she
seemed 10 "exhale sympathy" 20 quote one
Paris journalist present at the trial
To tell the truth Mile. Giraut was ratu-
rally and simply criminal with a sort of open
faced candor Horribly bland and frank in her
infamv she peacefully bore her crimes as an
apple tree bears fruit
During the court proceedings, she con-
fessed her crimes with an engaging smirk
and told at length tho story Of her checkcrcd
and adventurous career
Born in the Sarthc she left the country
in her teens. came 90 the capital, and al first
found nnihinG= there hA4i= I4li=ass9l- -===-=
For a while she washed clothes for a liv-
ing. lodging in q "hotcl earn Of the Maubort
Quarter. whore life appeared TO her like
foretaste Of tho Inferno
After a variety Of struggles and privations
the woman really seems 60 have had moro
than fair share of misfortune the laun-
dress. impatient Of poverty and Of the sour
atmosphere Of dirt in which she dwelt decided
that honesty was not the best policy.
Eager for gold, the ambitious girl-who
was plump and well made began to traffic
in her charms, and soon became popular
figure in those haunts Of dissipation which
dot lie Pays Latin.
Here one day, she fell in with a horrid
beldame whose business il was TO exploit
the vanity OF gay young women on the boule-
-varas-,eito- Dreaded the 'disfiEuremcnt or
childbirth.
For years Nile. Giraut helped the hag in
her Illegal operations and, for her unlawful
labors, received handsome pay
But-altAnIfA- she had -e+44+4e-- ftf -e5riiirC.
Marie still continued TO take In washing
especially the lingerie of denii- -nlondaincs
ami also continued 10 frequent the bars and
balls Of the Left Bank whore she gained the
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AT what do you laugh ?" asked the execu-
toner
Because you are forcing me into another
crime" said Marie.
Another crime? What
"Bgamy" laughed she.
you are wedding me to death and dark
ness"
And she was still laughing when the blade
fell
Despite her bravado. the washerwoman's
face was as white as a bed sheet Her let
black hair too was found white at the roots
under the scissors of the prison barber-a
phenomenon that often occurs when a con-
demned man or woman. seized with fright
visits the prison coffcur a few minutes be-
fore going 10 the guiIotlne
The execution took place at dawn In the
prison courtyard, with nobody present but
few officials and newspapcrmen, for after the
scandal of Weidmann's decapitation at Yer
sailes before bowling, drunken mob public
==%eetrtt0TIs are taboo according 10 a decree
Of 1897.
Since 1857, women condemned 10 death in
France have al been pardoned by the prosi-
dents, and their sentences generally COM
mutcd 20 life Imprisonment
The execution of Marie Giraut aroused no
little criticism in the capital although the
guillotning was not public for Paris has not
forgotten me Shdmctul comedy that was en-
acted here January 2l, 1852 on which date
Madame Pichon was proclaimed the winner
in the Lottery of Saiut-GuiIl0tine
Madame Pichon VINO had signalizod her.
self by stranglng her little girl. cutting mp
the corpse and consigriug the pieces 60 the
Seine fell dead OF fright IN her cell when The
Master of Ceremonies giant named
Hendrch. with rings in his cars-came To
fetch her
Officials, for while were in pretty
qusudary AT length they decided that tho
show must 60 on, and permitted Heindrich
20 decaptate the dead woman SO as not 10
-aisaPpaiH= spectators who had DC0n
standing for hours in the cold outside the
Roquettc Pris0n
Thirtv-fve years afterwards IN 1857 an
other scandslous gullotining occurred IN
France when Georgcttc Thomas guilty of
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

What is sublimer than the mys-
terry of birth. than the living poem
OF maternal love %" shouted tho
public prosecutor who happens
to hc "A bachelor THE most touch
ing thing IN the world rs the suf-
fcrng and the JOY of a woman who
gives birth To- q child"
Then, pointing the finger of
scorn AT the culprt before him he
cried out that Marie had desc
-rr1trTf ? iIc -SaUCUItv OF human
hfc and demanded the death pen
atty for her misdccds
Thr court. with majestic pune
tiliousuess accordingly condemned
the washcrWoman 20 die ON the
gu1lotinc. despite the fact that
Maric's lawyer with the eloquence
Of Victor Hugo declared that
France was degraded by the gull
lotmc
Confined 20 a sordid cell in the
prison Of The Petite R6quetTe
which has been described as Tho
He'll Of Women" and The Sewer
Of Every Sin Mile Giraut lin
gered there for six long months
before she went 90 her execution
During this time the laundrcss
lived up To her reputation of being
gay. and kept her cellmatcs roat
ing with laughter az her jokes ln
fact. everything furnished hvr with
an opportunity for mlrth, whether
WIS rrc TUTrUf mus rI8IcUlous
p faces Of The guards. the prison
fare which would have cut tho APP
petite OF a shipWrcckcd sailor. or
the rats and other vcrmn that
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

burning her mother alive, lost her head
To die quickly is a privilege, says the
proverb. but this privilege was not granted
Georgette, whose execution lasted more than
an hour.
The Official blood-spiller and his helpers
had a hard time preparing her for the journey
from this world TO the next, for she fought
with all her might and main. To get her TO
the scaffod, they found it necessary to bind
her hands and feet, causing newspapers Of the
epoch to remark that she was tied up like
a sausage"
The guillotining, during the French Revo-
luton, of Madame Du Barry, favorite of King
Louis XIV, also turned out to be a shocking
spectacle.
At first she tried to ''vamp" the execu-
toner, who was grave and silent a bird of
darkness. and flung her arms. which had con-
quered a king, about his neck.
When the "bourreau" brushed her aside
without ever deignIHg 70 look at her On
Barry, wild with wrath, attempted to bite his
hand
Then, as last recourse, she endeavored
to excite the sympathy Of the crowd, and cried
out;
Good citizens. free me! am innocent,
ann Of the people. good citizens, do not let
them kill me-"
To the very last second. the former favor
fc struggled on the scaffold. and shrieked like
fury because the eXecutioner exposed her
breast as he placed her head beneath the knife
Marie Antoinette, on the other hand
seemed resigned 10 her fate when she went
20 her death. Indeed, the Queen mounted the
scaifold, the Place de Ia Revolution. as ma
jcstcally as if the steps Of the guillotine had
been those Of the grand staircase at Versailles
- While the -eXee4tieHeF and hts assistants
a..
She exclaimed IN a loud voice:
Farewell, my children: l am going 20 join
your father
After she had been guiotined. the execu--
toner, Charles Henri showed the head of the
Queen TO the crowd Her body was placed In
coffin of common wood and burnt In quick
lime IN the Cemetery Of La Madeleine. Her
clothing was given 10 the poor
Lovely world isn't IL?
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

n a m e o Z IT h e
Lau ghin Z Lsun-
dress "
The girl sought
happiness IN vice
and CRIME bat found
mischance for last
S pring she was
picked up by police
inspectors and
throw n m prison
charged with having
caused tho death of
tw entY seven uu-
born babes, not 20
mention the death
Of several women.
who, like Marion
peleFme the eeie-
brated courtesan.
died because they
had refused an un-
desirable maternity.
In a nr Ernnrr-s 4
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

former regime the laundrcss would have prob
ably escaped with short prison sentence. but
under the present Petain government she
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September ~, 1913