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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26

Do selfish business and financia
interests really try to cultivate a ha
tired among farmers and city workers
No one who reads the propaganda Of
Big Business could doubt that millions
of dollars are spent annually for this
purpose.
For twenty-five cents year, these
selfish interests send to the farmers
their propaganda magazine, THE
FARM JOURNAL. The subscription
price does not pay for the paper, ink
and postage costs of the magazine;
its real returns come from creating
among farmers a hatred for city work
ers. Although many propaganda pub
locations profess to represent the
farmers, no one more closely resem-
bling a farmer than Chamber of
Commerce gentleman farmer" or a
southern plantation owner enters
their editorial offices.
In railway wage movements, farm
ers are told that lower wages for rail-
way workers will benefit the farmers,
yet in all history the railroads never
based claim for lower wages on a
promise to reduce freight rates for
farmers. And farmers know how
railroads levy geographic tariffs
against them.
Farmers Not Helped
A few years ago during wage
movement it was brought out that
10 per cent change in the wages of
all railroad labor would amount to
mere twelve hundredths of one cent
on a sack of flour shipped from Mimi
eapolis to Chicago. But the import
ant consideration is that farmers
never benefit from any savings that
are taken from the pockets of indus
trial workers.
Our entire economic history proves
that prosperity for the farmers and
the workers go hand in hand. Like
wise, depression for the one group in
evitably means depression for the
other group. The workers are the
farmers customers and the farmers
are the workers customers. made
quate purchasing power of either
means low incomes and inadequate
purchasing power for the other. In
the nature of things, the welfare and
interests of the farmer and city work
err are identical. Neither group has
the power to exploit the other. The
exploiters of both are selfish finan-
ciers, manufacturers and distributors.
It is they who bravely say to the
farmer and city worker, Lets you
and him fight"
If the farmers and the city work
ers achieve a common basis of coop
Grafton, economically and politically,
they will vote their exploiters out of
power. Although the farmers and in
dustrial workers have accomplished
far too little political cooperation, the
consumers cooperative movement by
passes the exploiters. Through this
movement farmers and industrial
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26

workers are learning they have no
antagonistic interests.
They are also learning about the
Lets you and him fight" technique
of their exploiters.
How 1t Works
AS proof of how effective the selfish
interests have been in this regard one
needs only to glance at the statistics
for the depression decade of 1930-1940.
There was a comparatively small drop
in prices of such things as steel and
farm implements, produced by monop-
olies, but tremendous drop in guam
tity produced. The situation respect
ing the farm industry was the re-
verse that is, there was a compare
lively small drop in the quantity of
farm production, but tremendous
drop in prices of farm products.
BY organization the monopoly indus
tries were able to maintain their
prices even in the face of tremen-
dous drop in demand, because monop-
olies have the effect of abolishing the
economic law of supply and demand
But the farmers, who are not effec-
lively organized, are still subject to
the ravages of the economic law of
supply and demand. Although their
production volumes were substantial
ly maintained, their prices dropped
By such methods, the peo
pies exploiters realize their goal of
cheap food and fibre for cheap labor.
Thus do the selfish Wall Street con-
trolled groups exploit farmers and
city workers, while trying to make
each believe that the other is his
economic enemy.
Next: City workers want farmers
rewarded adequately for their work
and skill.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26
ANACONDA TRADES &
LABOR ELECT OFFICERS

At a recent meeting OF the AnacOn-
da Central Labor Council the follow
ing officers were elected for the en-
suing year:
Joseph Doran, president; Harold
Erickson, vice president; W. d. Wag-
ner, secretary; R. F. Thomas, treas
urer; Roy o. Brandt Jr., sergeant-at-
arms; E. A. Barnett, A. j. Barney,
and Fred Barrett, trustees.
Following the meeting on February
%, 1943 the council enjoyed a social
session topped off by motion pictures
of a primitive area southwest from
known as the Pintler area
The program was greatly enjoyed by
all present.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26
Committee Reports

which to build, such tumble of ill
assorted structures to be termed an
institution, combine these with an at
titude of put them out of sight keep
them out of mind, cut appropriations
to the bone such an attitude as has
been displayed for years past by our
Legislators and our people generally,
and you have what we call the Mon
tana State Hospital. The accepted
notion all through the state of what
Warm Springs represents-a correct
notion largely-is that of place to
herd together lot of poor nuts, lock
them up and leave them"
Specific Recommendation
The committee in summing up its
detailed report urges that the follow
ing specific things should be kept in
mind as prime necessities:
l. Increased rather than decreased
appropriations for current need of the
hospital.
g. Modernization of the buildings at
the earliest possible time.
8. Making the superintendent the
sole administrative, executive and re-
sponsible head.
A. That the institution is under
stated
5. That better salaries and wages
should be paid.
6. Stressing Of psychiatric treat
ment.
7. Close observation of incoming
patients to make sure they are insane.
s. Wedding out the patients who do
not belong in the institution.
The committee was composed of the
following: House members: John
Oliver, E. A. Wenger and Charles A.
Bovey; senate members: ]. Fred To
man, Sam Wallander and Arthur A.
Baker.
The complete report of the commit
tee will be published in a later issue
of The Voice.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26
Farner-Labor-


Gil, to serve until January 1, 1914
ceeding year, and elections to be held
at the last regular meeting of the
council each year hereafter.
Articles 3, and define the duties
Of the elected officers.
Art. G. Executive oBard: The execu-
tive board shall be composed of three
| 80 members of organized labor and
three members of organized agricul-
ture, to be presided over by the presi-
dent or vice president who shall cast
the deciding vote in case of a tie,
but shall not otherwise have vote
in the deliberations of the executive
board.
| Art T. Election of the executive
board: The representatives of labor
on the executive board shall be elected
by a majority vote of only the repre-
sentatives of organized labor at reg
ular meeting of the council. The rep
Iresentatives of the farmers shall be
elected by majority vote of only the
Representatives of organized agricul-
ture at regular meeting of the coun-
Gil
Article s. Duties of the executive
board: The executive board shall be
the governing body between regular
meetings of the council, subject to
the approval of the council. The
board shall keep minutes of all its
meetings and submit them to the
council. The executive board shall
appoint officers to serve for the rest
of an unexpired term in any office in
which a vacancy occurs between reg
ular elections, unless the filling of
such vacancy is otherwise provided
for in this constitution.
The executive board shall serve as
an auditing committee.
Art. 8. Committees: All committees
of this council shall be prompt and
signed to them, as upon the work of
it's committees depends, in a large
measure, the welfare and progress of
the council. 1t is important that com
mittees be prompt in reporting the
result of their work back to the coun-
Gil, and no committee shall be deemed
to have completed its work or be dis
charged until it has so reported to the
council
Section
Art. 1. General discipline: Roberts
Rules of Order shall govern the pro-
ceedings of this council in the alb
sence of any rules not herein pro-
vided
Art. 2. Decorum: No member may
indulge in personal attack upon any
other member during the meetings of
this council, nor shall any member
accuse another of unworthy motives
simply because he may differ with
him.
Section 4
Art. l. Meetings: This council shall |
meet at least four times each year.
Art. g. Time of meetings: The date, |
place, and hour of meeting shall be |
set by the council in regular meeting |
assembled, except that the council |
nay delegate this duty to the presi- |
lent, executive board or other com
nittee.
Section
Art. l. Funds: Because the finan-
,ial needs of the council will be small,
t shall be dependent upon the volun-
airy contributions of the organizations
represented in it for funds
Art 2. Soliciting funds: The secre-
shall solicit the con-
tituent organizations for funds only
When such action has been ordered
" approved by the council or its
Executive board and in on case shall
e ask the organizations so solicited
or any epecific sum. He may, how
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26
The Farmer and the City Worker
Industry Spends Millions to
Create Imagined Friction
\ F. WHITNEY, President Railroad Trainmen

CThis is the second of four articles)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26

DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26

Next: City workers want farmers
rewarded adequately for their work
and skill.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-02-26

An Alabama farmer, with a 654-lb
dead hog on his hands, remembered
the fats salvage campaign and tele-
phoned the state rationing officer,
who made arrangements to have the
animal rendered down for explosives.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Nurse Sponsor Mary Jane Maher
To Become Marine

MISS ALICE NICHOLS,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. r. f.
Nichols, will entertain tomor-
row in the Nichols residence in
honor Of Miss Mary Jane Maher,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam A. Maher of Grandmont,
who will leave shortly for Hunt
er's College, New York, where
-she will train to become a ma
rlne.
Miss Mahcr recently returned
home from Fort Lauderdale,
Fla, where she has been vaca-
tioning with her mother.
BETTY DOSTAL gave a pref
tily appointed tea in her home
in Birmingham to honor Laurie
OToOle.
Miss O'Toole departed
Wednesday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John O'Toole of
Clifton road. Birmingham; her
brothers, John and Frank, and
her sister, Chick. for Syracuse,
n. Y. where they will make
their future home.
THE MICHIGAN COUNCIL
of the National NemaH,s Party
will hold its monthly meeting
at 7:30 p. m. today at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
She's First Army Officer
TO Christen Ship

WILMINGTON, Cal, March 19
QNS)-For the first time an
army officer has sponsored the
launching of a navy ship.
The l., 900-ton hospital ship u.
s. S. Comfort slid down the ways
yesterday at the Consolidated
Steel Yards-the first vessel of
its type to be launched on the
Pacific Coast-wtih an army lieu
tenant in the sponsors role.
But the tradition that only
women may sponsor ship launch
ings was not broken. The officer
was 1t. Eunice HatChitt of the
army nurse corps, who survived
the battle of Bataan and was
evacuated from Corregidor two
days before the Rocks fall.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Big Party
Planned for
Shields Boy

AMOS r. SHIELDS JR.. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Shields OF
Northlawn avenue, will leave
Monday to enter the service.
Saturday night a large party
will be given in his honor in the
Shields residence, with patriotic
decor prevailing and many OF his
senior classmates from the Uni
verSity of Detroit High School
attending.
Mr.. Shields date for the eve
ming will be Miss Peggy Ken
yon and other couples will be
George Reichanbach- and Mary
Burkhardt; Jim johnson and
Margaret Grogan; Edward
Fisher and FTancie Carpenter.
Frances Welsh and Mary Sho-
walter; Jack Theodore and
Ethel Moilanen; James Laws
and Carol Mitchell; Robert Cain
and Veora Lowe, and Vincent
Meagher and Dave Riordan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Mrs. Shelley Meeting Old Friends

THOSE POPULAR former Detronels. Mrs. James
Shelley and shirley for the TowarRode wedding
. and have been house guests of Mrs-Albert j. Towar
have been meeting all their old friends at mpromptu little
parties
Some of Mrs. Sheleys friends who have been seeing
good deal Of her Mrs Richard Thornton Brodhead and
Mrs. Edward a. Batchelor....
Shirley who was only sub-deb when she left here
has blossomed into and Glamorous young girl
Every one is so impressed with her charming
Mrs Shelley and Shirley leaving today for their home
in Louisville, Ky.
En- route they will visit Mrs. Ellis Travers another
former Detroter. in Cincinnati.
Mrs Travers lived New York for time before moving
to Cincinnati.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Mrs. R. w. Ward Here

MRS. ROBERT WELLESLEY
WARD Betty Cooper and her
small son. Charles Edgar Ward,
have arrived from Santa Fe.
n. M, for a two-month visit
with Mrs. Wards parents Mr..
and Mrs. Edgar Bailey Cooper
of GraYtOn road.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Mrs. G. R. Murphy TO Be Hostess

MRS. CHARLES K. MURPHY in Balfour road, Crosse
Pointe will hostess. TO Sigma Gamma members
April D.. for the spring meetng....
important effort projects will be discussed at
that time.
Among those who, il is expected will turn out for the
gathering Mrs. Ford Baantyne Jr.. Mrs John
Mclaughlin Booth Mrs. Ernest T. Baker Mrs Daniel
Goodenough Richard Jackson Mrs. Edward Metzen
~ Mrs Hugh Mcmillan. F.. :. Mrs Jerome Remck Jr.. and
Mrs. Robert Stoepel...
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Rails Girls
-Four in New Jobs Tell How
Men React

CHICAGO, March 10 ms
Marjorie Hickey, 81, one Of four
pretty young women pressed into
service by the Illinois Central
Railroad as ticket collectors and
station callers observed today
that:
. Young men like TO flirt.
. Older men like 10 give advice
on how 10 handle the younger
men.
. Women shoppers often prove
crabby.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Dorothy Phillips Wins
Gold Key al j. Of D.

The University Of DetroitS
Magic Gold Key, awarded for ex-
ceptional scholastic ability, went
today TO Dorothy Phillips for her
better than 3.5 average over a
three and half year period.
Selected last year by journalism
students as the "Scribes' Belle, y
she is the second woman in the
university's history 10 win the
award.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
A. n. Scots in N. Y.

Mr.. AND MRS. A. II. SCOTT
Of the Lee Plaza are staying at
the Hotel Pennsylvania while
visiting friends in New York
City. They will 60 later to Palm
Beach, Fla. to spend their va
cation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
County Opens Risk Bids

Forty-two bids from insurance
Companies seeking 10 insure The
county building for $4,000 and
It's contents for 500. 900 for two
years were 10 be opened today by
the board Of auditors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
June Smith Bride-to-Be

MISS JUNE SMITH. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.
Smith of Glynn court, will be-
come the bride of Alvin c..
Rosen, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Rosen, March %, in Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
William John Moore Promoted

Mr.. AND MRS WILLIAM VAN HUSAN MOORE have
Just received word. that their William John Moore
. who with the American Ambulance Serv-
ice. =. has been made a lieutenant.
Lit Moore enlisted in this volunteer service. long before
the United States declared
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Pointers Club Supper

ROXANE WHELDEN If Mer-
riweather road will entertain
the Pointers Club of the Crosse
Pointe Unitarian Church az sup
Per Sunday evening.
The group viii discuss Post
war City Planning for Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Capt. Blumberg on Leave

CAPT. HERBERT c.. BLUM
BERG of the army signal corps
is visiting his parents, Mr., and
Mrs. Oscar Blumberg of Glynn
court, while on leave.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Sgt. Rinek Fefed

SGT. WILLIAM RINCK. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. B. R. Rinck of
Marlborough, is being much
feted while on a weeks leave
with his family.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Jeanette Kind 10 Wed

Mr.. AND MRS. SIMON
KIND Of Buena vista announce
the engagement Of their daugh-
ter, jeanette. 70 julius Berger,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. a. Berger
OF Cortland.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

Woman's City Club. Speaker
of the evening will be Prof.
Preston II. Scott of Wayne Uni
NprSity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Mrs. D. R. Mitchell ST. Louis Bound

MRS. DONALD r. MITCHELL is leaving tonight for
St take her 3year-od granddaughter Donna
has been with her for the last several months
"a. back to her Mrs. Russell H. Riley.
Before returning Detroit Mrs. Mitchell will visit her
sister in Shreveport, La.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Stephen Bertushes 60 TO Florida

Mr.. AND MRS. STEPHEN BARTUSH of Oak drive
have gone Miami Beach. to their Addison
who is in training in the army air corps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
In N syfea.!.iir

JOHN DONNELLN OF William Minon DonneIy
-. has lust been made a lieutenant, hear.
expected homo this weekend from the antiair-
craft school a, Camp Davis, y. c..
1t Bill DonncIy who here with the 1S2nd Field
Artillery was graduated month from Fort Sill
-. and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19
Mrs. Paul Jackson Giving Up Home Here

MRS. PAUL JACKSON. is giving up her apartment in
Hbbard next Tuesday and going to Toledo to join
Jackson who has been transferred there
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-19

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-03
A Thought for Today
The Great Whatsis

Having in mind that official inStruc- tions must be accurate even at the expense of clarity, probably it would be difficult for Treasury experts to express more com prehensibly the requirements of the in- come tax law they t1nagled Congress into enacting.
 So it is to the law, rather than to the administration, that we must look for relief from such verbiage as this, which is intended to tell taxpayers whether or not they have to file an estimate September IS of the tax they will owe December 31.
 "A declaration must be made by every citizen or resident of the United States if he comes within any of the following groups
 CD Single or married but not living with spouse at the date prescribed for the making of the declaration (whether or not head of family) if he had for 1922, or reasonably expects to have for 1943-
 "(a) gross income of more than $2,700 from wages subject to withholding; or
 "(b) gross income of $500 or more from all sources if more than $100 of such income is from sources other than wages subject to withholding.
 "(2) Married and living with spouse at the date prescribed for the making of the declaration, if he had for 1922 or req Sonably expects to have for 1943-
 "(a) gross income from wages subject to withholding which, when added to his Spouse's gross income from such wages, exceeds $3,500; or
 "(b) gross income from sources other than wages subject to withholding which, when added to his Spouse'S gross income from such sources, exceeds $l00, and also his gross income from all sources exceeds $624 for 1943 or the aggregate gross income from all sources of both spouSeS amounts to $1,200 or more for either 1922 or 194S.
 "(3) Individuals, regardless of marital status, who were required to file an in- come tax return for 1942 and whose wages subject to withholding for 1943 are reasonably expected to be less than such wages for 1942.
 "The foregoing rules apply also to resi- dents of Canada and Mexico whose wages are subject to withholding. Other non resident aliens are not required to file declarations"
 Well-do you have to file, or don't you? Why? Are you sure?
 Senator Walter F. George is interested in suggestions from the public for clarifi- cation, simplification or other improve ment in the internal revenue statutes, including the income tax law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-03
Setting the Trap

The New York Journal of Commerce has published a special issue devoted entirely to discussion of property val uation of public utilities. It has done so because, in the opinion of the editor, What is being done to the public util- itieS today could well become the general policy of government over all industry" He states that the American business pub lie should know the full significance of the changes in utility regulatory poli- cies that are taking place. Actually, he underStateS the case; not only the buSi- ness public but everyone should be per- mitted to view the inside of the technical maze of utility rate regulation and see what is being done in this country by lot of bureaucratic legal experts, drawing pay as public servants, to change our form of government.
 Many people feel that such compli- cated matters as utility rate-making have nothing to do with individuals busy making living and fighting the war at the same time. And yet today, the very freedom they are fighting to preserve is in deadly danger from this very source Just as few years ago the people finally sensed danger in excessive private flnan- cial manipulation, they must now sense danger in the legal manipulations which various agencies of government are ap- plying to Industry in an effort to squeeze legitimate profits out of private enter. prise, in order that whole industries will automatically be forced into government ownership.
 The process is most clearly demon. stTated in the utility field. The electric industry, as a regulated public utility, threatens to fall an easy victim to the reyolutionaries skilled in peFvertlng the lev. By change in the method of valu- Ing the property Of an electric company, they can destroy that company as far as It's owners lgeneEAlly thousands Of small stockhOlderg) are concerned, just as effectively as dropping a bomb on it. Rates are based on plant valuation. The lower the value oi q certain property, the lower the rates charged consumers. Un- Ger the 'i0riRlnal cost" theory as set forth a laie rulings Of the Federal Power Com Hla*ion, the Securities and HKehapge e1muleafon and other aaene|ee fhe s'He ef Ni'''|Y properties. cad Ee@a'f7nf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-03
Keep "Digging"

Harold L. 1ckes, Petroleum Admins trator for War, has said that: we must keep digging to find as near billion and a quarter barrels of new oil each year as possible" But the plain fact is that we are not digging" and this nation which is geared to the use of huge quan- titles of oil, faces dangerous crude oil shortage.
 Main reason for new well shortage can be found within the government. Re- strictions on material and equipment, together with inadequate crude oil prices set by government officials, are threat ening our oil supply.
 John M. Lovejoy, president of the Sea- board Oil Company, alarmed at the com placency of authorities, shows that wild cat" drilling, far from being sufficient should be immediately more than tripled He warns that: If new discoveries are to keep pace with withdrawals, which is a reasonable desideratum, and assuming a continuation of the percentages of hits ard average size of new fields as shown for the years 1941 and 1942 .. more than 10000 wildcat wells should be drilled in 1943. Any statement carry ing the implication that currently equal ing 1942 exploratory activity is sufficient, is misleading and will not bear even cas- ual analysis" Oil men know the facts about oil resources. Their advice should be needed