The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-06-04
rs NATURALIZATION OF
INDUSTRY In PROSPECT?

evolutionary process.
Headed, "Did You Ever Hear Shell
Speak Japanese?" the body of the
pamphlet contains such gems as the
following takes copper to make
shells-lots of copper. You're lucky.
Your country has rich copper mines.
But it requires the operation of great
smelters, refineries, and fabricating
plants before copper ore can be turned
into shells" Ga nice little pat on the
back for the M.P.'s old side-kick and
partner in legislative iniquity the A
C. NJ ITO operate these, it takes
electric power - A LOT OF ELEC-
TRIO POWER T. The group of
companies associated with YOUR
ELECTRIC COMPANY furnishes all
the electric power used to produce
1870 of all the copper mined in the
United States" YOUR ELECTRIC
COMPANY" 1t is to laugh. Where
did John Q. Citizen, of Montana get
himself an electric company? Ninety
eight per cent of the stock of the
Montana Power Co. is owned in Wall
Street, and if John Q. Montana wants,
or even looks like he was thinking
about wanting to acquire an electric
company, he's a cock-eyed radical try
ing to overthrow the government
Take his ration book away from him
and throw him to the Lions (club).
You don't believe it? Then read on:
To-day this (electric) system is adap-
ting itself to the temporary regimen
tation made necessary by war, But Ca
large sized Butt there are some agi-
tators who would seize this opportun-
ity to regiment you and your indus
tries on a permanent basis to re-
place American business enterprise
with national socialism" you can
stop this threat now with your vote
etc, ETC."
An excellent example of capitalist
filters. The handwriting on the Vail
is becoming visible to even the dumb
est of capitalist dumb-bells. Inspired
by patriotism? Well hardly In Mis-
soula stronghold of corporation CAPT
talism) there are about 700 tons of
steel rails property of the Montana
Power Coz sticking up through the
pavements of the principal streets, do
ing no one any good and making the
main thoroughfares hazardous drive.
BUT = YOUR ELECTRIC COM
PANY' hasn't shown any patriotic en-
thusiasm on the matter of salvaging
that steel to provide a case of in
digestion for the Japs
And is Socialism such a fearsome
and impractical thing? Russia, that
ignorant and illiterate nation
has under the primitive form of So
cialism advanced to the point where
she became the bulwark of civiliza
ton. Russia HELD THE LINE for
two years against the fascist hordes
while our Capitalist Democracies were
beginning to get ready to fight" If
a nation as underprivileged, as litter
ate and as backward as Russia adj
was just score of years ago
could accomplish such a feat under
the primary stages of socialist econ
omy, what could not a nation with
our superior advantages accomplish if
given the opportunity. Such thoughts
through the mind of John
Q. Citizen drive the capitalist into a
frantic hysteria, and chill him to his
very marrow. The student of eco
lomic progress and intelligent read
sr between the lines" will shortly find
more similarly amusing indications of
he approaching Capitalist Saint Vitus
lance taking place all over the globe.