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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

foreign countries home find they have work and
cury? When President Roosevelt insisted in his radio
address upon provision for aordng jobs security
they mustered from the services after the
the republican national committee went weeping onto
the radio crying that the the chief executive
of politics!
Pray what would Republican Spanger have the chief
ecuve of the nation tell the in the armed forces Would
that intellectual bankrupt have the president tell the
men they could expect to home to sell apples the
street coners Would he have the president tell them their
future would duplicate that of
with sabres from their miserable shacks Pennsylvania
Washington D. c. by the soldiers of Hoover
Arthur? Can the returning service only hope
other President of this land will make pronun-
did the Calvin Coolidge spanked
follows when hundreds of thousands of without
jobs unemployment is natural consequence
We think that the people of these United States
service great debt We do not think payable few
pary dollars 1t should be paid the President has
gesed in job and security If the little Spanglers, and
Vandenberg the Landon and the of that k
upon the Presidents suggestion let them do it. President
Roosevelt has monopoly making suggestions about how
give stake that should be theirs returning
after they have fought the Unfor
tunaey Roosevelt be the only important public figure
who is interested in that problem
If have gone war, without having something
fight for and if they return from that with redemp
ton of the promise made for better life in their country
will be bad situation and those who have brought about
best beware of the wrath of millions of and
they have duped.-Western News
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
Verboten-To Look For a Job

Despite law passed by congress workers
the counties where they have established residence
and white farm workers leaving the south in nceas
ing numbers migration under which may
the exodus the industrial centers of the north and
which took place during the First World War.
The migration of farm labor most advanced in south
Missouri farming largely mechanical
In the cotton growing counties that make the Missouri
boohee there prior to 1912 at least twice
farm workers could be employed four to six months
The length of employment 125 days at $125
day. D1sregardng the oversupp OF labor these
plantation doing all they stop the north
ward flow of workers They fear that depletion of the ranks
of cotton pckes might force them to higher
Local and state police forces Missouri have been
stop the migration Truck drivers hired transport work
have been arrested Plantation in Arkansas
tried keep their from leaving by making sign
contracts which bind them to the land for the duration of the
Recalcrans face eviction and loss of their share of
draft boards have been impressed into service Plantation
promise defermen to farmers willing to remain and
work for low Rationng boards also by
fusing to issue gasoline and tires.
These conditions may be laid directly congressional
ton Originally had appropriated $260000OO
supply farm in of shortage But these
defeated by the provisions of the Pace
which fobd the transportation of farm workers with
the of the local county agents of the Agriculture
Extension Service whose hands the administration of the
farm labor supply rests Plans developed in the Department
Agriculture for the transfer of 900 farm workers
eminent able to furnish imported from Mexico the West
Indies and Central America This restriction will therefore in
crease the oversuppy of labor in the south
Perhaps the effect of the Pace amendment the
centve it has given plantation lower the prevail
ing wage of 80 hour for 10 hours work.
originally by the Farm Security Administration plantation
Carksdale Mississippi who failed to obtain work
at the rate of So for hour day applied to the War
partment for the Italian prisoners from nearby intern
Sixty prisoners sent to the plantation the
army rate of 80 cents day The Southern Tenant Farmers
Union protested this prisoners while the
received that prisoners will not be used to
with free native labor steps taken
the basic of useless labor congestion
that plantation will attempt to make further
oads the standard of living in the southThe New Re
public.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
In The Clear

Reports current that the State Hospital at Warn
Springs by doing considerable trading and wangng wealth
through the last months the last fiscal with
out using of the funds advanced by private individuals
for order to avoid the calling of special session.
that hospital stretched the limits
their authority and to degree probably the plain prov
of laws but done and the funds adj
by the greatheaed savior of the legislature have
been refunded to them
However, the simple fact remains that the legislature left
the institution without to through the last
months without scrmpng and fenagng and that record
only of the failures with which be
charged 1t has legitimate ab for leaving institution
that kind in the position where it must cut
scrmp and Even with the best intentions the
world this will place the position where their
efforts stands chance of reacng the and
feeding and general treatment of the patients Montana does
do that responsibility and plain duty
provide facilities of the best for unfortunate fellow
citizens institution through no
fault of their
isn't the fault of republican legislature" Bad it
have seen democratic legislatures here which
just the last did, with other consdera
ton apparent than follow the the corporation
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
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$1.25 per hundred pounds for picking
the 1943 crop. Mitchell continued by
saying, eff the plans worked out by
the National Cotton Council and Ex-
tention Service officials are put into
effect this fall, wages of cotton pick
ers will be cut more than 100 per cent
over the rates paid last year."
The Tri-State Farm Labor Commit
tee agreed that there was plenty of
local labor available to harvest the
crop, nevertheless, numerous meet
ings have been held in various delta
counties and cotton planters are de-
manding that the War department set
up temporary camps for housing pris-
oners of war to be used in picking
the cotton crop. According to Mitch
ell if the government permits the war
prisoners to be used by the cotton
planters, they will hold down wages
of free Americans to the soc per day
paid war prisoners under Information
al law.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
There Must Be a Stake In This Country
For Our Service Men

Reports from Sicily the effect that the inhabitants
of that unhappy delrous their welcome
lean British soldiers who taken the big island
from the Nazi and Fascist armies
The arriving this country point out that inhabi
tants of Sicily nefaby They possessed lux
ues wealth and owners of only the
sites. Food almost exhausted They had stake
the Axis winning the the arrival of the Allies could
least hope for Them nothing else Certainly they
Iron Heel.
Is it any wonder the Scians welcomed conquerng
troops?
If people possesses stake in the war, they not
likely help such conflict with considerable
This reminds of the plight of many of country
This writer recalls boys from western Montana
pondered what they individuals could expect
the nation that they engaged warriors defend
Some these young had had real job Their
cities hoped for chance
a living through work The WPA blessing to them al
though many among the ranks of Americans mistakenly looked
upon those who could labor except from WPA
When the war will our boys fighting for in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
A Constructive Substitute
For Wholesale Subsidies

"Roll-backs" of food prices do mo-
involve two billions in subsidies.
This would cost about $50 per fam
| ily-and increase taxes.
They would be paid by interest
bearing bonds, and cost nearly twice
the subsidy
While the farmers share of the con
sumer's dollar is falling = marketing
margins on food are soaring. They
jumped 1870 in three months this
year Price levels have increased one
fourth in two years.
If present policies continue, they
will increase third more soon.
Efficiency suggests the following
substitute for subsidies:
l. Direct farm production and pay
farmers, directly, for excess produc-
ton costs of essential foods, and have
government buy major crops.
2. Make professors and distributors
of farm products, at least of foods,
agencies of the government with
margins, and hence profits, fixed-zand
ration. Britain does these with sue
cess.
8. Revive and expand the Food
Stamp Plan for families with low in
comes, as proposed by Senators Aiken
and LaFollette, and members of the
house.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
We Make The Postwar
World During War

Over year ago, the British Labor
Party, advocating immediate socia
ownership of major industries, stated
1--WE have to choose NOW, because
the character we give to the remain
ing period of this conflict, itself de
termines the character of reconstruc
ton, domestic and international"
The Kilgore subcommittee of the
senate committee on military affairs,
in its recent report on war mobiliza-
ton, stated about our war program
"Only full mobilization can success
fully counterfeit business-as-usual and
labor-as-usual attitudes which have
been, and are now retarding war pro-
duction."
Here is practical program:
1. Profitless war production, under
government control.
2. Payment of major portion of war
costs through current taxation, ex-
empting the minimum income essen
tial to health
3. Government direction of farm
production, and control of processing
and distribution of farm products, DUR
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

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Mr.. Editor
Perhaps you can be patient with
what modern economists will call the
questioning of an old fool but l am
curious to know even yet at my age
the answers to my mental question
ing.
Morgenthau says an international
conference should be called to provide
postwar sterilization of money, prob
ably on basis of gold standard as of
the past.
Now the question would seem, is
money a common commodity? If so,
can it be made stable by use of any
specific standard? Can it be stable
demand? Can it remain stable and
be at the same time subject to private
ownership and depend upon private
distribution and circulation while it's
value is based on speculative value by
private owners of the money itself,
and not be in danger of initiation and
deflation of its purchasing power the
same as any other commodity?
Under private ownership and dis
tribution of money, could a uniform
exchange. value be maintained be-
tween all industries and commodities
at all times and all circumstances?
Could its purchasing power remain
uniform without a controlled uniform
flow between all industries and in all
transactions if controlled by private
ownership in it's circulation?
Now they tell us the government
can't own it's own money and attend
% it's distribution, circulation and
value, but present war conditions
prove that the government CAN CON-
troll prices on NEEDED COMMOD-
TIES by applying rationing control
md distribution to individuals in all
Industries. Why not apply the same
o flow of money and to it's measure
If values?
But they say to change such long
system of private owner
hip of money to government sys-
EN- would be hazardous. Now would
change from modern methods of
warfare and to modern implements of
warfare be safe? Could we rely on
Military tactics, methods and equip
nent of World War 1 as a standard
or victory today? Are present meth
DIS in line for best possible good of
uture?
Would monetary system for con-
rolling distribution, circulation and
alue of our medium of exchange,
wned and accepted by ALL PEOPLE
S public utility work a hardship
n common people who constitute a
reater part of our population? Would
overnment control of distribution
nd flow of money not provide safe,
1uio anu oloOiO Pui CuooluS POWCl "
eet actual needs after this war is
yer?
Some will say government owner
Zip and control has and always will
, failure. If that is true then the
,ntrol at the present time must end
a loss of this war Can a nation
vn the resources of our nation, the
yes of its manpower, control the dis
ibution of the everyday needs yet
1t be able to own and control it's
vn currency and can under no con-
lions protect it's people with a sound
able measure of values in time of
ace?
Are people who think it can be done
E. B. SHIPMAN.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
SPECIAL RATION COUPONS

Individuals who require special ra-
ton point allotments, such as persons
in isolated areas who must buy large
quantities of rationed foods at one
time, are to be provided with a new
type of red and blue food ration cou-
pons, according to OPA. They will
be used the same way as stamps, but
will be good at any time. Ration cou-
pons may be issued by local boards
and OPA offices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
Lobby's Secretary Warn Presidents
Postwar Plan for Soldiers Futile

Asserting "the Presidents broad
cast plan for employment of return
| ing soldiers, helps explain why he is
| called the last of Presidential fulfill
tarians on economic policies" Ben
jamin c. Marsh, executive secretary
the Peoples Lobby, Inc, in recent
statement, holds unless while war is
being waged, American adopts an eco
nomic system under which full en-
ployment is ensured, instead of many
millions being insured merely against
starvation from unemployment = the
eight or nine million demobilized from
the armed services, and the ten or
twelve million discharged from war
production, will suffer as great dis
illusionment as the people of Italy
and Germany, under their New Or
der" Mr. Marsh states:
"That the program of the Presi-
dent and other economic royalists, to
make private enterprise provide en-
ployment at wages to permit hero's
standard of life isn't practical, is
proven by the New Deal decade of
esoteric economics, which, before the
war economy, made little dent on the
army, inherited from the
old Deal"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
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arming axis powers.
Since 1899 corporations have in
creased their holdings and wealth
enormously, largely due to war on the
axis, including Russia's war.
At the close of the war, corpora
lions can live on their fat much longer
than the unemployed can live on gov
eminent handouts from Treasury
stuffed with IOUs.
That gives the big corporation en-
ployers of labor the postwar whip
hand.
The Presidents program of post
war salves for the victims of the scar
city economy cancer of unemployment
would produce an American Hitler
in a hurry.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
Town and Farm
CONTINUED from Page one)

agricultural counties and civilian
groups in most large cities have the
machinery for enlisting volunteers.
Recruitment of workers is handled
locally by the agricultural extension
workers and the U. S. Employment
Service. Volunteers are paid estab-
lished wages.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
CARS TO KEEP RUNNING

Americas 100000 motorists have
been assured by WPB that sufficient
new and reconditioned parts will be
made available to keep the nations
essential cars rolling through 1914.
Even the country's 100000 vehicles,
ten years old or more, will be kept
on the road by necessary replacement
parts
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

fuence and leadershp with the disregard for human
values and the desire protect
of the larger taxpayers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

a continuation of last years pro-
gram" the VIA said recently. Last
year more than $4,000 tons of dried
prunes and raisins were released for
civilian consumption.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
WHERE THE FUEL GOES

1t takes 1880 gallons of gaso-
line to train one pilot.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

ing the war-economy.
4. Immediate planning for such
postwar world economic policies, as
will reduce the danger of another de-
preston and another war-to a mini
mum.
The fact the init. Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (AFL), the Textile
Workers and the Auto Workers. exec
utive committee have recently de-
clared for major social ownership is
most significant.
Presidents Budget Statement
Forecasts Initiation
The President in his recent Budget
Statement gives estimates for the
fiscal year ending next June Goth, in
millions:
Federal expenditures excluding debt
and trust fund disbursements 100000
Net receipts ....-............... $4,000
Deficit barring new taxes. $4,000
For the present fiscal year, the
President estimates total war expendi-
lures at 100000 as follows:
Munitions and construction" $72, 900
"Other, including military pay, sub
sistence travel and agricultural lend
lease" .-.-...-......-........... $4,000
Interest on the public debt. 2,7O0
General and special accounts, in
Guiding refunds -...-..-.--..-...--..--.. 1896
Government corporations net of
receipts 1,167
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
MORE NURSES NEEDED

Many American hospitals cannot
maintain normal standards of service
today because of the lack of nurses,
according to reports made to the U.
S. Public Health Service of the Fed
eral Security Agency. A year from
now America will need $4,000 nurses
Or 100000 more than are now avail
able. OF this number $4,000 will be
needd for military service and 293 900
for civilians. Because of limited ia
cilities, the maximum that can be
trained within this period is $4,000.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
OPINIONS OF
READERS

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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27

SET ASIDE DRIED FRUITS
Dried fruit packers must set aside
for government procurement their en-
tire holdings of raisins, prunes, ap-
pies, apricots, peaches, pears and cur
rants during the 1943-44 season under
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
TO USE NYA EQUIPMENT

Vocational schools which were u.s.
ing National Youth Administration
equipment or buildings on June 80
have been advised by Paul V. McNutt,
chairman, War Manpower Commits
sion, to file applications before Octo-
Der II with the regional offices of the
Procurement Division, Treasury De-
partment, if they wish to continue
using these buildings, tools, and ma
chimes for training students during
the war
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
SEED FOR POTATOES

To help potato growers get reliable
seed for 1914 paintings, a new seed
Observation-Disclosures Approved Seed
has been created, the War Food Ad-
ministration said recently. War APP
proved Seed will identify that part of
the 1943 late crop that is valuable for
seed but that has a higher tolerance
of defects than certified seed. Price
ceilings, to be announced later by
OPA, will be placed on both types.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-08-27
CLOTHING CEILING

Retail and wholesale ceiling prices
for women's, girls, children's and tod
dlers' fall and winter dresses, suits
coats, blouses, and other outer cloth
ing have been provided by OPA at
levels equal to or lower than those of
last fall, in Amendment No 1 to Maxi
mum Price Regulation 800.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
The Great Game of Politics
Congress Shifts From White House Subserience to
independence in SIoshing Agriculture New DeoIism

ing piece Of reputation is that of
the Farm Security Administration.
This was the most radical of all the
New Deal agencies, strongly sup
ported by the CLIO and often &C
cused of Communistic and collectivist
tendencies. A desperate admins
tration fight to preserve it was made
and the decisiveness with which 1t
has been chopped down is measure
of the revolt.
An effort to have the FSA restored
In the Senate will be made. but the
prospects are poor and the spirit of
Its defenders very damp. The signi-
f1cant feature of all this is that the
killing Of these New Deal agencies
was done neither by the Republicans
nor by any combination of anti-New
Deal Democrats and Republicans.
1t was done by the vote of Democrats
who, in the early days, had rubber
stamped every administration pro-
posal-taken their White House
orders and gone straight down the
line.
Was Not Involved.
The change from complete con-
gressionM subserviency to an almost
unprecedented independence of the
White House Is very great. But what
makes the revolt-and 1t is correct
to call 1t a revolt-really remark
able is that 1t has nothing whatever
to do with the war. The House sup
port OF Mr.. Roosevelt's war policies
and foreign diplomacy is as strong
as opposition to his domestic policies
is pronounced.
Usually the House, composed of
1876 men, never more than 10 months
away from an election, either gen.
eral or primary, is the best barom-
eter of popular opinion. It is gen.
orally indicative of feeling in the
country. If such is true of its pres
ent attitude toward the admins
tration's domestic policies, then, in
deed, "the monkeys dead and the
shows over"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26

there was the House action last week
in killing large part of those costly
and radical experiments In regimen
tation and regulation which, in the
early days of the Roosevelt regime,
it had enthusiastically Endorsed.
Perhaps it is the war, but it Is
strange that more was not made of
the murderous blow, which fiattened
out whole flock of agencies created
when Vice President Wallace was
Secretary of Agriculture, and his
Under Secretary, the ebullient DR..
Rexford Tugwell, colorfuNy pro-
claimed the New Deal intention ITO
make America over"
The contrast between the Congress
which then swallowed with scarcely
a gulp an administration philosophy,
which ran contrary to common
sense, and this Congress, the popu-
lar branch of which has just repudi-
ated that philosophy, is striking, in
deed. That the reputation was
effected without the least evidence
of public disapproval makes the
whole business explainable only on
the ground that the tide that ran 50
long in one direction really is run
ming now in the, other. 1t was an
undoubted reflection Of the change
in public sentiments widespread
desire to be rid of amateur reformers
and their dubious schemes to cir
cumvent natural economic laws.
slashes Agriculture Programs.
What the House did was to slash
the Agriculture Departments next
years budget 100000 900 below the
Presidents recommendation. It did
this deliberately, well knowing and
well warned of the consequences.
Among these may be listed:
l. Under House action, about $70,-
000,0 900 in direct payments and loans
which farmers otherwise have re-
ceived is now denied them.
2.7Tfle Farm Security Administers
ton, particularly dear to the Tug
wellian school and primarily estab-
lished to aid the down-and -out
Share cropper" Of the South, about
whom 50 much has been written and
spoken, has been wiped out
abolished.
3. The crop insurance" idea, de-
signed when Chester Davis was AAA
administrator, to protect the farmer
against weather and reimburse him
for damage by drought, has been
abandoned.
4. Various international, promo
tional and inspirational programs
have been ordered consolidated or
eliminated.
| OF all these things the outstand-