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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
big STEAL
FORMULA" FOR
aluminium CORP.
Alcoa Through Its Friend
Jesse Jones, Gets Enormous
Allotment of Capital for
Construction of Aluminium
Plant in Canada.

For several months the National
Farmers Union has been striving with
all its power to secure congressional
legislation which would enable mil
lions of working farmers to convert
to about war production. This pro
gram includes among other things:
Liberalization of farm credit war
crop insurance, preservation of the
AAA, the FSA and the Commodity
Credit Corporation.
1t has been a desperate battle.
Strangely enough, the most bitter OPP
ponents have been the so-called farm
bloc" and the leadership of the "big
four" farm organizations. This group
has fought the continuation of the
feed wheat program, incentive pay
ments, subsidies, liberalization of
credit. They are out to cripple the
Department of Agriculture and with
it the 1943 farm production program.
Subsidies for farmers! No, says the
"far mbloc"-at least the only sub
sides they are in favor of are small.
Incentive paymentsl The same reply
from the farm bloc" And so on
down the line.
Thus, millions of working farmers
cannot convert = cannot receive the
credit to go about.
In the meantime certain big indus
tries can operate on the big steal
basis, and there isn't a peep out of
the farm bloc" or Ed O'Neil. We
believe that we know why there isn't
a peep out of these gentlemen, but
that is another story.
Incentive Loans for Monopoly
A good example of the big steal
formula comes to light in the expose
made recently by Drew Pearson in
Continued ON Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16

Pin order to place before the SUI
preme court the decision as to
whether the appropriation can
be drawn against for salaries
to janitors, watchmen, utility
men, engineers and carpenters
employed in the Capitol.
The state board of examiners on
April 10, refused to approve the pay
roll of the Is men employed as work
men in the custodian's department,
because of the wording in the appro-
priation measure passed by the last
Legislature, providing that the money
was appropriated for the payment of
wages or salaries fixed by law" and
the wages of such workmen are not
fixed by law but are decided upon by
the board of examiners.
The state auditor, Holmes, refused
on the advice of the attorney general
the salaries of the workmen, and the
state treasurer, on the advice of the
attorney general asserts that he does
not believe that he has the authority
to pay any warrants should they be
issued by the state auditor.
The question of payment of the
workmen at the state capitol is one
of the issues that may require a spe-
cial session of the legislature to be
called to correct its blunders should
the supreme court hold that the state
board of examiners have no authority
under the law as worded to approve
the payrolls. The other, is of course,
the failure of the 2Sth assembly to
make adequate provision for the main
tenance of the state institutions for
the balance of the present fiscal year
the relator, Ernest krona, VINO is
represented by former Associate JUS
tice Albert Fl. Angstman, has until
Saturday of this week to file a brief
in support of his petition for a writ
of mandate and the state has until
next Tuesday to file its brief in sup
port of the stand of the officials. The
court will hear verbal arguments next
Tuesday.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
RI MANAGEMENT
WASTING
MANP0WER

WASHINGTON.-A F. Whitney, of
Cleveland, president of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen, largest
llof the railroad operating unions, test
lifying before the senate's Truman
lcommittee, invited the committee cor
any other investigating body" to probe
the waste of manpower by American
railroads.
Appearing before the committee by
investigation, the hard-hitting leader
of the men who handle the trains be-
hind the locomotives in the yards and
on the rails, Mr. Whitney dashed out
at the carriers, who he said were at
tributing their alleged manpower
shortage to restrictive rules of the
operating crafts.
He asserted that the railroad man
lagements were wasting more man
power through their own methods of
operation than any other industry.
Referring to a labor-management
Investigation into manpower and its
relation to full crew laws in New
York and California, Mr.. Whitney
said:
$50 far as the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen is concerned, we
would welcome a thoroughgoing ma
tional investigation of the whole man
power situation on the railroads.
"The investigation would show that
tens of thousands of train and engine
service men are lying around at away
trombone terminals hours at a time:
ten, twenty, thirty hours or more,
merely because of the arrangements
inability to manipulate its properties
in a manner that a maximum use
may be made of the manpower avail
able to it.
eff this committee or any other in
yestigating body ever goes to the bot
tom of the issue of railroad manpow-
er, it will uncover one of the major |
scandals of the war"
In the course of his prepared testi- |
mony, the white hair labor leader re-
ferred to the "featherbedding charges
which have been IeveIed at the oper- |
ating railroad crafts in the manpower
emergency
He declared that the operating
crews, under existing rules, were Civ |
ing the railroads twice as much of
their time without compensation than
the railroads were paying the men for
time paid for but not worked" He
attributed what he called half truths"
a hout railroad Ia hor rulpc IN ctafic
teal reports of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which periodically L
contain a listing of time paid for
but not worked"
81 hope" he said, "that if this COM
nittee finds occasion to go into this
question of railroad manpower and
wages, it will have some responsible
of the ice come over here,
and ask him why it is that the com {
mission does not compile for public
a similar set of statistics 4
which would be headed: thine of
workers used but not paid for
ITO my knowledge there are no It
on this aspect of the bust q
less which would tell the real story It
# the life of road service man. lit
would say that there is more man. {
,ower wasted on the railroads of +
AMERICA than in any other industry q
While it is true that some of this idle |
ime put in by our men is the I'M I
.yoidable result of conditions of op- i
Continued on Page Three) ii
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
MONTANA STANDARDS FAKE
HUMANITARIANISM

We have been deeply interested in
the editorials of the Montana Stand
ard protesting against penalties i'm
posed on eight Butte restaurants
caught boarding coffee that they
failed to declare according to the ra-
tioning program. The editorials shed
crocodile tears about the poor miners
deprived of their coffee because the
government clamped penalties on the
law breaking restaurant owners. We
have seen year after year of dire
poverty striking at nearly every min
er's home in Butte and every smelter-
mems home in Anaconda during the
long years of depression and many
miners entire family went hungry.
not for the luxury of coffee, but for
every necessity of life, and the Mon
tana Standard and all the rest of the
propaganda papers in
the state FAILED TO EVER UTTER
A WORD OF PROTEST AGAINST
the starving conditions of the work
ers of the entire state of Montana as
well as the rest of the nation. In
fact, the only person responsible for
the feeding of the starving workers of
Butte and Montana and the rest of
the nation was Franklin d. Roosevelt,
and ever since he took office the Mon
tana Standard, fake democratic par
ty organ, has done nothing but ridi-
Guile Roosevelt and all his supporters
for FEEDING THE HUNGRY. Every
attempt by progressives in Montana
to take decent care of the
poor people of the state-the aged,
nfirm, silicosis victims, state institu-
ional patients, etc.-has been de-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16

feated by the selfishness of the cor
poration's lobbyists in Helena and
their stooi-pigeons in every branch
of government in the state.
If the Montana Standard is SO in
terested in the food rationing, as well
as the coffee question, why hasn't it
exposed the price increases in the
hundreds of items needed by every
working man in Montana? Did the
paid editorial writer ever think of pro-
testing the rapid rises in prices paid
for food? No. And you will never
see any mention made of the gouging
made by landlords on rents, or the
excessive prices paid for lights and
gas in Montana. Also did the Stand
ard ever advocate decent wages to
the workers to meet the increases
in living costs that the editor so con-
veniently ignores while he means
about the loss of cup of coffee. No,
and he never will yell for decent liv-
ing standards for the workers. cup
of coffee is the editors ideal living
standard for the miners of Butte now.
which shows small degree of i'm
provement in humanitarianism over
his depression years attitude. when
he even disproved giving cup of
coffee to the hungry when the store
houses were packed to the ceilings
with it. Maybe, if the light of reason
continues to filter through his prof
its-first" skull, the editor may one
day also advocate that doughnuts be
added to the daily menu of the hard
miner.
DENNIS RYAN.
Anaconda, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
1913 CROP MAY
BE SMALLER
Than 1912 CROP

The April / outlook for the Mon
Itana winter wheat crop was for &
production of 26,548,0O0 bushels com
pared with 34,731 900 in 1912 and the
1924 average of 1888, 900 accord
ing to a report issued by the Stats
tics division of the Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics. On that date il
was still too early to determine the
survival Of the full planted acreage
but it was evident that abandonment
would be much larger than for the
preceding two years when winter
weather was unusually favorable.
The April 1 condition of the crop in
Dictated yield per seeded acre of
1875 bushels which while below the
1912 average of 224 bushels was con-
siderably above the 10-year or 1882
Al average of 1877 bushels. Moisture
conditions were generally favorable
on April 1 but temperatures were
still too low for growth Since April
growing conditions have improved
considerably.
On April l Montana farms held con-
siderably larger stocks of corn, wheat
and oats compared with a year earlier
and average. Corn stocks at 401, 900
bushels were Is per cent above those
of April 1, 1912 and more than double
the average stocks for that date dur
ing the preceding 10 years. In the
case of wheat the farm stocks of 49,
056,000 bushels were a new record
for that date being 40 per cent larger
than year earlier and almost times
larger than the 10-year average stocks.
In the case of oats similar situation
was noted where the April 1 farm
stocks of 9,956,000 bushels were Sc
per cent above those of year earlier
and almost three times their average
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
Adm. WALLING
DISCUSSES


While there may be no simple cure
for absenteeism in industrial plants
community cooperation will go far
toward solving this wartime problem
This opinion was expressed by l.
Metcalf Wa1ling, administrator of the
Wage and Hour and Public Contracts
Divisions of the U. S. Department of
Labor, speaking as the guest of AL
! bert N. Dennis on the 453rd consec-
utive weekly broadcast of his Labor
News Review" oldest program of its
kind in the world, over WJSV of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, Wash
ington, Saturday. The overtime pro-
visions of the Federal Wage and
Hour law, Mr.. Walling said, are also
operating as an effective force in
keeping down absences in industry.
Absenteeism, the federal admins
traitor pointed out, thrives on poor
housing, flourishes where transporta-
tion facilities are inadequate and fire.
quently results from poor personnel
policies. With some six million wom-
in war plants by the end of 1913 to-
gether with the prospect that another
twelve million women will replace
men in non-war jobs, the problem be-
comes all the more serious, for the
nation still depends upon these work
ers to also maintain the American
home. The percentage of absences
among women is greater than that
a. Of thof 10Th
centage springs from the fact that re-
tail and service establishments have
failed to adjust to the needs of the
war. The woman war worker must
leave her job to shop for the familys
necessities unless the stores in her
city or neighborhood remain open at
hours when the days work is done.
Mr.. Walling pointed to the city of
Washington as an example of the
need for community adjustment, with
of government departments
and agencies now working overtime
schedules and remaining at their
desks until or p. m. every day
except Sunday. If it is necessary for
stores to serve their Gus
toners by opening at noon and re-
open every weekday night, |
they should be prepared to do so. If |
it is necessary for them to remain
open on Sunday in order to meet with |
The wartime work schedules of their |
customers that would be but a small |
The need for shopping |
hours geared to wartime work demand |
Is all the more acute because house
wives are still learning about the
point rationing system and spending |
additional time to secure maximum
return from rationed foods,
with minimum expenditure of points
Continued on Page FOUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16

know what it in their cans,
stood resolutely and belliger-
emily behind a thin line of
smear and innuendo and half
truths to prevent the consumer
from knowing.
AS this is written, consumer repre-
sentatives are appearing before a
house committee on agriculture to in
sist on honorable, sunlight business
policies where nothing will be hidden
by deceptive phrases and adjectives.
Just short time ago, they appeared
before Prentiss M. Brown, OPA adj
ministrator, to urge him to stand fast
for honest grade labelling, a cause he
declared for a few months ago.
Make no mistake about it-this is
an all out struggle. The immediate
issue is over canned foods. But the
real issue is far greater than that.
The real issue is presented by the
rise of the consumer city workers
and farmers, and by their growing de-
do with business practices which at
least one large advertising agency and
many business men admit are corrupt
ing. The fight is between those who
would hide behind the phrases "busi-
ness as usual and within the law"
and those who insist on frank and
candid and honorable business ethics
of which no business man need be
These are statements made before
the house committee:
1. Several years ago, the Atlantic
and Pacific adopted a policy of Sin
formative grade labelling and since
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
DIR. MELBY IS
APPOINTED
CHANCELLOR
Board of Education at Meet
This Week, Selects Present
Head of the State University
To Head All Six Units of the
: Montana Institutions.

Filling a vacancy which has existed
since the 1888 session of the legis.
lature so amended the law providing
for a chancellor for the Montana in
situations of higher learning that ap-
preparations of funds for the office
was prohibited, this prohibition being
removed by the last session, the state
board of education on Tuesday ap-
pointed DR.. Ernest O. Melby to the
position Mr.. Melby is to assume the
position on July 1 this year at a salary
of $4,000 annually.
The position carries with it, control
of general policies and supervision of
all of the six units of the higher in
situations of learning maintained by
the state. DR.. Melby came to Mon
tana and assumed the presidency of
the State University at Missoula on
October Fl, 1941, having previously
held the chair of Dean of Education
at Northwestern University.
Increases in the salaries of the pres
idents of all state educational insti-
buttons was authorized by the board
at its session this week The salaries
of the presidents of the State Univer-
sity and Montana State College were
increased from $4,000 annually to S.
800, with the president of the State
University to be provided with resi-
dence in addition. The salary of the
president of the Montana School of
Mines was increased from $500 to
$4,000 and the president of the North
Montana College at Havre is to re-
,eive $500 while the presidents of
he Montana Normal College at Dillon
md the Eastern Montana Normal Col
eye at Billings will each receive S.
100 annually instead of the $500,
heir present salary. The salary of
4eif Fredericks, director of the state
department. of vocational rehabilita-
ion was advanced from $3,40O to So
40.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
STATE EMPLOYE HELD
CHARGE OF LARCENY

Charged with grand larceny in an
information filed in the district court
OF Judge A. ]. Horsky in Helena, ].
r. Miller, chief accountant of the
Montana liquor control board was ar
rested last Tuesday, and his bond
fixed at $1,000 by the court.
Miller is charged with having ap-
propriated to his own use 5000 of
state money received as liquor license
fees 1t is not known if a complete
check of the accounts of the liquor
control board has been made up to
the present time.
The following are listed as wit
nesses in the information filed: It.
H. Mcdonald, Ray Vail, George Girls
pin, j. H. Benjamin, Matt Kakala,
Florence Smith, F. E. Williams and
Viva Smith.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
JANIT0RS BRING ACTION
TO COLLECT THEIR WAGES
FROM State OF MONTANA
Petition Supreme Court for Writ of Man
date Directed To Board of Examiners, State
Auditor and State Treasurer, Ordering
Them To Draw Warrants for Payment of
Salaries For the Month of March.

petition for writ of mandate filed in the Montana
supreme court yesterday by Ernest Krona anor the State
Capitol building asking that the board of examiners the state
auditor and the state treasurer be directed to draw
the appropriation made by the legislature
of his salary for the month of March The action brought
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16
FOOD PACKERS FIGHTING
TO keep FROM HAVING TO
SHOW GRADE =, ssh. ::.. s.: '''::'t;
Consumer Representatives Appearing
Before House Committee on Agriculture
Insist on Honest Labelling of Goods
Showing Grades; Some Packers Insist That
Honest Labelling Will Slow Production.

WASHINGTON-Food packers, inspired by dominant
groups the profit canning and wholesale ndusrynot all
advertising nteressnot all advertisers
themselves departments this week
about fight against honest grade labelling Packers
expressing willingness let wholesale and retail distributors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-02
Chief Says Defense Council
May as Well Disband

Because Of the reorganization Of
civilian defense here, the District
Civilian Defense Council may Is
well disband. Leonard l.. Tucker.
council chairman, said last night at
. meeting OF the Police and Fire
Protection Committee Of the FEEDER
alton Of Ottizens' Associations In the
Bond Building.
Mr.. Tucker said that neither he
nor any other member Of the council
had been consulted on the proposed
Reorganization.
An inquiry, Mr.. Tucker said, also
allowed that not one Of the chiefs
Of the volunteer services Of the Of
nee Of Civilian Defense had been
consulted.
The speaker said civilian defense
work would be unsuccessful in the
District until citizen committees are
allowed to coordinate activities in
each area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-02
| Col Waller Is Nominated
10 Be Marine Broader

Col. Littleton W. r. Waller, 1r.,
Marine Corps Reserve. yesterday
was nominated by President Roose-
welt to be q brigadier general. When
confirmed, the Washington oflicer
will be the first Reserve ofilcer ever
raised to that rank in the corps
Col. Waller, q resident Of the
Shoreham Hotel, is in charge OF
Marine Corps target practice. He
participated in Ave major engage
ments In the World War as
member of a machine gun battal-
ion. He holds the Croix de Guerre
with palm, among other decorations.
He resigned his rank Of major In
1925 and was given q commission
In the Reserve Now IS years old,
he is probably the first marine on
Ger shot down by German or Italian
forces after the United States
entered the present war. Early in
January, l941 he was riding as an
observer in British bomber when
1t was struck by anti-aircraft shells
in the desert. The plane crashed
just inside British lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-02
Non eferrobIe' Jobs Listed
FomiIy Men Must Transfer to War Work
Or Foce Droft Coll April

Boothacks.
Bus boys.
Buffers.
Charmen and cleaners.
Cosmeticians.
Custom ta1lors.
Custom furriers.
Dancing teachers.
DishwaShers.
Doormen and starters.
Elevator operators passenger and
freight, excluding industrial freight
elevators related to production).
Elevator starters passenger and
freight.
Fortune tellers, including astrol-
oyer, clairvoyant. mediums, mind
readers, palmist, etc.
Gardeners.
Greenskeepers.
Groundskeepers.
Housemen.
Hairdrcssers.
Lavatory attendants.
Messengers, GRAND boys, ONCE
boys
Newsboys.
Night club managers and en-
ployes.
Porters (other than in railway
servtce)
Private chaufeurs.
Soda dispensers.
Ushers.
Wallets.
Walters tother than those In
train service).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-02
IN Army Air Bose

The Eagles Gather" by Taylor
Caldwell.
"sandhog." by Borden Chase.
And Then There Were None. ]"
by Agatha Christie.
THE Citadel" by A. J. Cronin.
The Brothers Karamazov," by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky tdoscow papers
please copy.
..Bugles Blow No More" by Cliff
ford Dowdey.
THE Cloak Of Monkey Fur" by
Julian D1gutd.
Erie Water" by W., d. Edmonds.
Ellen Rogers" by James r. Far
rell.
And Now Tomorrow BY Rachel
"children Of God" by Wards
Fisher.
Tender Is the Night" BY r. Scott
Fitzgerald.
The Case Of the Silent Partner, /"
BY Earl Stanley Gardner.
Robbers Roost," the Lost Wagon
Train" and .Dode Of the West" by
Zane Grey.
Jude the Obscure" by Thomas
Hardy.
Random Harvest" by james
Hilton.
HE Looked for q City" by A. s.
N. Hutchinson.
Soldiers. Sailors and Dogs" by
Peter B. Kyne.
"Babbitt," by Sinclair Lewis.
How Green Was My Valley" by
Richard Lleyellyn.
Assignment In Brittany" by
Helen Machines.
Troubled Range" by Edward
Beverly Mann.
Magic Mountain" by Thomas
Mann.
THE Evil Chateau" by Sidney
Horler.
Hallway House, by Ellery Queen.
THE Seventh Cross" by Anna
Seghers.
"Kindling." by Nevil Shute.
"Peking Madness" by J. Van Dyke
(Frederick Anthony Edwards).
Money for Nothing" by p. G.
Wodehouse.
The Web an dthe Rock" by
Thomas Wolfe.
Song Of Bernadette" and the
Heart Is a Lonely Mountain" by
Franz Werfel.
Iron Rations.
What, no Shakespeare? But. Of
course, that's no mystery. It's q
cinch that Shakespeare and the
Bible and Emerson and Tennyson
and Browning and Keats are being
read by soldiers at that air base, too.
But such volumes, In Army life ~
we'll as civilian circles, are not Dor
rowed for a days reading; they are
cherished IS permanent possessions.
They are not for the camp library.
They are the iron rations" Of good
reading. They 60 with the troops
into the field. Three books by Zane
Grey and two by Franz Werfel were
borrowed by soldiers At that air base
In one day. But its a cinch that
tent inspection that same day In
camp would have revealed, under
more or less cover, dozens OF Bibles
and barrowful Of assorted volumes
by w. Shakespeare.
tkelessed b. the Bell Syndicate. Incl