The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-10-15
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
The Fight For Food
By MARTHA MILLET in Fraternal Outlook

AS bigger and better headlines by military
advances the question of food looms before the
nation.
To make food count most for battle; make
for the peoples of occupied Europe whom
feed Free make food count most for the
second front the continent America needs correct
policies and programs.
Remember-when the Nazis overran the Ukraine the
USR holding most of Her armies at bay lost 400 of her
best productive land and food output Our endease food
helped Army wallop the Nazs Stangrad Ore
Belgorod and Kharkov.
Emergency food to the Africans
Sicians 1t is giving them muscles with which to fight
alongside for the freedom they've been denied long
Trickery in he News
Food front these days The housewife wants
whats cooking. She has family maintain and
her home front job to do The farmer to know
how he out in the battle of feed prices food
prices worker wants know why it's tough the
food he needs to produce to the limit.
But smokescreens drawn the answers like the
which John L. Lewis broke the front pages He
drop production unless the miners could
buy more food Lewis tells us that he was Just using
problem close to the heart and stomach of the people to
camoufage his anti-Roosevelt anti-war policies
Smokescreens the of the reactionary
real problem Of food These papers play
up $415 expenditure to correct typographical in
food pamphlet But they clever play
of the Hoover forces who pushing de-
rucve food policies in order to wreck the administration and
the
Food "Firsts"
One of the cries of the Hoover caba is starving Amer
ca With this they hope stagger the people and
them from their firm backing of the
policies of Roosevelt
CONTROL taxes political matters dealing with other
angles of the That's why the best way the people
the Hoover hysterapreades is by sweeping action
the political above ALL We know the second front
won't happen unless put such political behind
FDRs announced policies The goes for food
Here's what work for through organization:
Subsidies for farmers This will the small producers
the wherewha to produce and it won't jack prices
Eight hundred million dollars available in
the Reconstruction Finance Corp and the Commercial Credit
Corp
Roll back prices by stopping super profits.
Ceiling prices all farm products
teeth for OPA, to control check up enforce and
prosecute.
More labor representation local price and ratoning
AS of August 49, there only IA labor people
such boards in New York. 1876 in Detroit This is far from
dequate Check and do something about your situation
lowers Brood
With our eyes on positive food programming, our
leeves up action let's take look the
fight to make food the wonderful it be for
he United Nations
Chief spokesman of Americas foodpower saboteurs is
Gannett odguard republican, upstate New York pub
sher of powerful chain of newspapers. Gan
masquerades representative of the farmers
reality brain man the farm" lobby-a small infu-
group huge producers who hell bent swell their
profits without regard for the Much of the pro-
and backing for the farm bloc the INSIDE gang in
1ngres from this farm lobby Pushed through the
hopper Gannetts program the
,rm of dangerous legislation
Back January, before congress met the National +
American Farm Bureau Federation National Council
Farmer Cooperatves and National Milk Producers FEEDER
the big ~ Of the farm lobby had weelong session
18th Gannett They birth to program which soon
myseriousy appeared different ways congress- spon
red by farm bloc congressman The program had such
tanks as week industry with overtime ended
rohbiton of the closed shop any shop
arp upward revision food prices subsidies
Id elimination of the Farm Securities Administration Il
It was no coincidence than way the INSIDE