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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-05-14
Wake Me Early Mother Dear
For | am to be Queen of the May!

Don't for believe we're not taking the matter
seriously enough there aughable angle to the current
farm program argument raging the agriculture depart
problem children Extension sevice and its
county agents. in trying of all agricultural
handling remind nothing much Hollywood sweat
er girl ormng studio lot because other sweater
girl was given closeups in the script
Extensions side of it. They exist because
ago congress decided should engage in agricultural
research results thereof to farmers And to
give credit the agricultural land grant colleges have done
good job, at times exceptional job IN this field
But mans thinking changed, and along came the need
for action the socaed action agencies designed to Crap
pie with existing problems problems they should
occur things they thought and the things they did
dynamite Extension fascinated yet had too
long the world of the pampheteer to be able to remodel
it's thinking Meanwhile the action agencies began speaking
themselves telling the public what they were doing what
they hoped to do and why AAAs elected community and
county committeeman along and direct aconists that
farmers began talking straight across the BOARD TO h
electors about farm problems The democratic principle in
voved course that the people should be informed OF
what's going peoples program That the
gram protected misunderstanding and at the same time
the people protected from censoring and distortion
In order how to present and speak on the
radio committeeman sought the advice of people trained IN
that work And whenever subject OF Importance arose.
voices all the naoncrisp busnessIk pro
fessona laying cold hard facts before other
farmers.
watched fascinated 1t stared first at its ranks
of solemn pamphlets then headlines bannerng the
comphments other agencies Finally the present
Washington arose with various oily groups gathering like CAD
pick the harased Agriculture department to pieces
this Extensions chance, and into pending Legislation
thew clevery provisions which would passed.
Wipe out state and regional AAA information advisers
g Prevent committees freedom OF speech IN
their relations with newspapers and radio stations.
appontve county agents. who pay little heed to the
us Department Of Agriculture, the county spokesman
for all agricultural regardless of whether they
take part in running these programs
Provide Extension with half OF AAAs total administrative
funds (more than ST. 0OOO00) with which to build of
the greatest rural propaganda machines IN history
Let's ponder the third and fourth. Wouldn't all like
to lifetime whitecoar job and in addition be allowed
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0RGAN IZATI0N
OF c0-0PS URGED
ON WORKERS
Lincoln of Coop League
Tells Workers That Co-ops
Are Potent instruments
With Which to Fight
Initiation.

DETROOIT, MICH. - IF you have
the courage to invest your own res
sources in your own business and buy
from yourself yon can demonstrate
that democracy can do the things we
have all along expected it to do"
Murray d. Lincoln, president of The
Cooperative League of the u. S. A.,
told 1000 enthusiastic delegates to
the Michigan Conference of the Unit
ed Auto Workers, CLIO, here May 2.
Lincoln urged the Auto Workers
delegates to take concrete action in
the organization of consumer coop
eratives as the most PRACTICAL immedi-
ate step in fighting initiation. He
pointed out that if rs per cent of the
consumers were organized in coop
eratives price control wouldn't be nee
essary. "You will get further by doing
things for yourself than by govern
mental legislation" Lincoln declared.
your labor unions cannot be com
pletely successful unless it's paralleled
by consumer organization through CO.
operatives"
Lincoln praised the recent estab-
lishment of the consumer division of
the UAW-CIO as historical and said
it may well set pattern for co-ordi-
mating producer and consumer inter
est. Working as producers, farmers
and workers will never get together,
Int as buvers or consumers thew can
work out their problems. Organized
as producers only, labor is fighting
with one arm tied behind its back.
Consumer cooperative organization
will bring the other arm into action.
Why is labor asking for voice in
when through consumer
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TOBACCO CAN BE
SENT TO PRISONERS

U. S. war prisoners and civilian in
ternees held by Germany and Italy
can receive cigarettes, cigars, smok-
ing tobacco, or chewing tobacco sent
by relatives and friends under pro-
gram worked out by several govern
ment agencies and the American Red
Cross. The plan will be extended to
include persons held by Japan when
ever facilities are available for rout-
ing the products to them. Under the
program, the next-of-kin of each iden-
titled United States war prisoner and
civilian internee will receive without
asking for it, two tobacco labels every
so days These are to be forwarded,
with money order, to tobacco man.
ufacturer, who will send the tobacco.
No postage or federal excise tax need
be paid. Each label is good for three
cartons of cigarettes, or IL packages
or one carton of two-ounce packages of
smoking tobacco, 100 cigars, or ap
proximately "a ounces of chewing to-
bacco. Smaller amounts of mixed
packages cannot be ordered.
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>will be subject to review by the
state board of examiners be-
fore actual expenditure is in
CURED.
This action was taken to OBJ
viate the necessity of conven-
ing the state legislature in spe-
cial session to rectify one of it's
failures, the regular session
having arbitrarily reduced the
appropriation requested and neces-
sary for the operation of the institu-
tions and the care of their unfortu-
nate inmates up to the end of the
present fiscal year, June 80
The resolution by the board, did not
authorize the transfer of funds to the
accounts of the institutions but d.
rected the purchase of supplies and
care of the inmates. The chairman of
stated that the funds to be used for
the institutions, have not been ear
marked for other purposes, and that
there would be no diversion of funds
from the old-age assistance, aid for
the needy and aid to dependent chill
dren.
DIR. B. L. Pampel, superintendent of
the state hopsital at Warm Springs
and Howard Griffen, head of the train
ing school at Boulder, were present
and presented formal request for the
funds to the public welfare board at
its meeting The heads of the institu-
tions had previously requested the
board of examiners for additional funds
to carry them through until June 80,
and the requests had been denied.
DIR. Pampel had then brought an ac-
ton for writ of mandate asking the
supreme court to direct the state
board of examiners to authorize the
expenditure of the additional neces-
sary sums for the operation of the
institutions until June 30. The SUI
preme court denied writ of mandate
and held that the board of examiners
could not authorize expenditures in
excess of current appropriations; that
conditions at the institutions did not
constitute an unforeseen emergency,
the legislature having been fully ap-
prised of the need for the additional
funds.
Whether or not the state board of
examiners will approve the expendi-
ture of the state welfare funds in this
matter is not known, as up to this
time the question has not been sub
mitted to the examiners for review.
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american
LEGION PROVES
LAB0R'S CASE

| The American Legion, in its recent
| ly renewed demand that the Austin
Wadsworth bill be passed, did so on
| the plea that 1t would, in effect, make
it impossible for any civilian, wheth-
err employed In a mine, factory, office,
or farm, to strike.
This action today brought request
from the Workers Defense league that
an additional statement be inserted in
the record of the hearings of the SEN
ate military affairs committee. Point
ing out that this attitude on the part
of the American Legion is no surprise
to the labor movement, the statement
says This bald statement of purpose
behind the Legion's pressure cam
paign for the passage of the Austin
Wadsworth bill let's the cat out of the
bag. We have long contended that
one of the effects of the adoption of
this measure would be the destruction
of a free labor movement. That such
is the intention of at least some of the
groups urging its passage, is now evil
dent. There can be no free trade union
movement that has no power to main
tain its rights. Removal of its only
weapon, its right to strike, makes of
the labor movement a mockery
labor movement that belongs, not to
the workers, but to the state, as in
totalitarian countries. Thus the Legion
is proving the case which labor has
made as one of its objections to the
adoption of the Austin adsworth
hill -
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C0-0PS IN US.
DISCUSSED BY
China LEADER
Outlines Balance Sheet of
U. S. Coop Progress AS a
Result of Observations Based
On 3,OOO-MiIe Tour of Grass
Roots of Co-ops Here.

NEW YORK.-Shi-Chi HUI, secretary
of The Cooperative League of China
has completed a 3,000-mile tour of the
u. S. co-operatives making speaking
appearances before more than 10(
local coop meetings in the middle
west. He took this opportunity to see
co-ops at work at the grass roots and
talked to several thousand coop mem
bers, coop directors and managers. In
this way, Mr.. HUI has achieved a
unique experience among cooperative
leaders from across the water, he being
the first person in recent years to
spend time actually visiting local CO
operatives as a major part of his tour
of u S. co-ops.
On the basis of his experience, Mr..
HUI predicts that within five or 10
years the achievements of the Ameri-
can cooperative movement will be well
nigh unbelievable. He looks to the
American co-operatives to become a
beacon light of the world.
In making a balance sheet of his re-
actions to the U. S. co-operatives, Mr..
HUI said that on the debit side he
would point to a provincial attitude on
the part of few co-operators who are
merely members of co-ops and have
not seen the full national picture of
the scope and power of the American
movement as whole.
The second item on the debit side is
the fact that educational directors and
field workers throughout the move
ment are overworked and there is a
great need for educational work which
is not satisfied because of the lack of
trained paid personnel. The
third part of the debit side is a pre-
dominance of producer philosophy in
some of the consumer co-operatives.
On the encouraging side of the ledg-
or, Mr. HUI points to the independence
Of the American cooperative move
ment as a feature which sets it aside
as unique in the world cooperative
A second feature which
makes the American co-operatives I'M
usual is their educational technique,
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PLANS FOR
EXTENSION OF
REA UNDER Way

Following conference with rural
identification administration officials
here yesterday and today, Senator
nounced that plans are being pre-
pared to make electricity available at
cost to virtually every farm home in
eastern Montana and western North
Dakota. The plan discussed at the
meeting by Senator LANCER, Admins
traitor Harry Slattery and Art Gorth,
chief, application and loans division
of the rural identification administra-
ton, and Oscar Nesvig, attorney for
the western REA co-operatives and
now under consideration is to secure
electricity from the Fort Peck dam
near Glasgow, Mont, for several new
REA projects.
This service will also be made avail
abel to small towns and airports with
out central service. The construction
of the cooperative electric lines will
be financed entirely by the federal
government.
The strong organized demand among
the people of the northwest for cleo
trio services together with the coop
Grafton of the federal government as
sures successful completion of several
REA projects.
Several privately owned electric
companies have offered their plants
for sale to the local REA co-opera-
tives. If such options are exercised,
it will contribute towards establish
ing unified electric services at cost
to all consumers in this western area
Senator LANCER is ardently advocat-
ing a wide expansion of the REA pro-
gram for the unelectrified rural north
west
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i. D. BOARD
CONDEMNS kerr
COMM. ACTION

Condemnation of the action of the
Kerr subcommittee of the house ap-
preparations committee in sutaining
charges made by Martin Dies against
Da Goodwin Watson and DR.. William
E. Dodd as unfit for government
employment, was expressed in a reso-
luton passed at meeting of the
national board of the International
Labor Defense last week. The resolu-
ton called for support of the position
of the federal communications COM
mission, in which Watson and Dodd
are employed, in defying the actions
of the Dies and Kerr committees.
Full text of the LID resolution fol-
lows:
TIL action of the Kerr committee in
charging that DIR. Goodwin Watson and
DR.. William E. Dodd are unfit" for
employment by the government be-
cause they belonged to organizations
opposed to fascism is vigorously con-
demned. In issuing its report and rec
ommendation the Kerr committee has
established itself as a rival in I'M
Americanism to the iDes committee.
Its finding that DIR. Dodd's entertain
ment of Harry Bridges at a cocktail
party is grounds for his dismissal
from government employment is as
vicion and un-American as anything
that the Dies committee has ever
done. It's placing of any organization
which assisted the Spanish loyalists
fight Hitler, Mussolini and Franco in
the class of the "subversive" is an
expression of pure fascism, and cal
culated to subvert the whole war eff
fort.
The action of the federal commune
cations commission, by which Watson
and Dodd are employed, in refusing to
accept the recommendation of the Dies
and Kerr committees, and in repudiat-
ing their reports, is to be highly com
mended.
The national board of the interna-
tional labor defense calls upon all or
CARNATIONS and people to fight against
the small minority of disrupters of the
war effort at home whose efforts are
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labor movement. Since congress
opened in January, the obstruc-
ZIONIST poll taxer bloc have
filled the records with inaccu-
rate, misleading and disrupt
ing anti-labor speeches, and in
troduced literally dozens of
bills to hamstring and destroy
the labor movement, thus dras-
tically hindering war produc-
ton. Damaging and misleading slo-
gans such as "absenteeism, feather
bedding" "racketeering," etc. have
been given prominence in congress.
The house naval affairs committee
gave the green light to work or fight"
legislation. The house just passed
land the senate is now considering)
the Hobbs so-called "anti-racketeer-
ing" bill, widely recognized as a thin
Unveiled attempt to cripple and des-
troy labor leadership and the organ
lied labor movement.
On the contrary, the lack of congress
sional action in putting into effect the
presidents 7-point economic stabiliza
ton announced April, 1942), or even
to respond measurably to the presi-
dents recent call to hold the line,"
has opened up advantageous opportu
mites for every pro-Axis demagogue.
Congress has harrassed and hampered
practically every essential govern
ment war agency; has mangled the
tax BILL has already passed danger
Gus farm bloc" amendments which
will increase the cost of living; has
repealed the salary limitations on in
comes of $4,000 or more.
New Angle-Newest manifestation
of the growing anti-labor. anti-war
production drive was the senate pass
age, Wednesday, May 5, by GO to 16
vote of the Conally bill, S. 796. This
bill, as approved by the senate, %
directs the president to take over an
establishment where strike or labor
disturbance threatens production This
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|0PA ISSUES
Statement ON
new PROGRAM

Highlights of the new dollars-and
cents ceiling price program are sci
forth in a release from the Rocky
mountain regional office of the price
administration. The sheet also states
what is required of the stores.
The statement follows:
The new dollar-and-cents commu-
nifty ceiling prices are the top COM
munity prices for every retail seller
except retail route sellers.
These ceiling prices have been es-
tablished for the market areas of
about 127 principal cities and indus
trial areas, including 16 cities in the
Rocky mountain region. A market
area consists of the zone in which all
full service wholesalers in the com
munity deliver all food items without
additional charge for delivery or trans
portation.
Market areas have been defined by
the district offices of the OPA which
also were given authority to select
brands and package sizes for pricing,
collect basic cost data, compute retail
community prices, and issue commu-
nifty price orders.
Following is list of the commodi-
ties for which community ceiling
prices have been issued
Shortcomings, coffee, frozen fish,
cooking and salad oils, evaporated and
condensed milk, flour, macaroni and
noodle products, sugar, poultry, butter,
eggs, fluid milk, bread.
On May II price ceilings will be
announced for a second group of foods.
This is in line with the plan that until
all the major foods are included, a new
segment of commodities will be added
to the list at regular intervals All
major foods could not be included in
the original list because of the lack of
time.
In setting community prices, OPA
selected brands and package sizes that
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review OF
A week OF
The war
BY owl

Observation-Disclosures three allied
columns driving forward to pin the
Axis armies in North Africa on the
shores of the Mediterranean, Secre
tary of War Stimson announced last
week that the German and Italian
forces at bay there will probably fight
| to the bitter end.
The secretary made his announce.
ment three days after American troops
rolled up a 15-mile advance toward
Bizerte and capped this advance with
the capture of Metaur. A later for
ward drive by American troops in
creased the pressure on Bizerte by
capturing the Djebel Cheniti range of
hills, the last high ground before the
great naval base. To the south the
British First army captured the bat
tle-scarred Djebel Bou Aoukaz, the
first formidable barrier west of the
plain leading to the capital of Tunisia.
The northernmost column, made up of
French troops, was reported to have
driven to the plain lying northwest of
Lake Bizerte.
Weather Hampers Planes
According to Secretary Stimson, al
lied planes have continued their
pounding of enemy positions in spite
of unfavorable weather conditions.
The secretary said that German planes
have stopped seeking combat with al
lied craft, with the result that German
air losses have declined. Earlier in
the week Mr. Stimson revealed that
allied planes were running up score
of approximately 4 to against the
enemy in the Tunisian battle area.
Further American successes in the
air were reported in widely separated
theaters of action. From London came
the news that United tSates bomber
Antwerp and all returned safely. This
was the first time in 10 raids that
the United States eighh air force had
not lost any of its heavy bombers.
In China the United States army air
forces have destroyed Japanese air
craft at the rate of 10 to l in air
combat and at greater ratio in the
aggregate, according to Lieut.. Col.
Herbert Morgan, assistant chief of
staff and operations officer for the
18th air force. In making his an
nouncement in Washington, following
his arrival there from China, Col Nor
gan said:
We've destroyed better than 10 to
| of their planes in the air and, count
ing aircraft destroyed on the ground,
about II or Is to 1, with emphasis on
he higher figure"
Jap Submarine Menace
Following an unsuccessful air raid
IN Darwin, the Japanese began sub
marine campaign against allied ship
ping east of Australia, General Mac
asst week With the evident intention
If cutting supply lines from the Unit
ID States, the Japanese underwater |
lttack was launched Sin some force,
communique revealed.
The attack on Darwin was made
~ 81 enemy bombers and fighters. A
pokesman for MacArthur's headquar-
ers declared that outnumbered Spit
Tres, manned mostly by British and
Australian veterans of the battle of
Britain, inflicted far heavier damage
o the enemy than they received them
elves"
This revelation came as General
daily communique report
d the destruction of four Japanese
ircraft in an attack on the Koepang
irdrome of Timor by long-range al
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SPECIAL SESSION NOW
|AvERTED BY AN ACTION
OF STATE Welfare BID.

Resolution of Board Authorizes Expendi-
ture of $4,000 Out of Its Contingent Fund
For Purchase of Supplies and Payment for
Care of Inmates at State Hospital at Warm
Springs and Training School at Boulder.
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DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
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WHEELER'S
ATTITUDE
.CENSURED

A letter of acknowledgement by
Senator Wheeler, of receipt of a copy
of a resolution adopted by war mo-
Utilization meeting held in Butte on
April 28 and forwarded to him, stirred
the sender to resentment of the Sena-
tors attitude toward the president,
quite plainly indicated by his designa-
ition of President Roosevelt and Win
ston Churchill as "our war lords"
The senator's letter of acknowledge
ment and the sender's reply to it fol-
lows:
United States Senate,
May 6, 1913.
Mr. William A. McMurphy,
1856 West Granite,
Butte, Montana.
My dear McMurphy:
am in receipts of copy of resolu-
ton which you say was adopted by
the citizens of Butte, assembled in
Carpenters hall the 2Sth of April,
1943, urging a second front.
In reply would say that this is
matter which is entirely up to our war
lords, Winston Churchill and President
Roosevelt. / assume that they know
when and where a second front should
be started.
With best wishes, | am
Sincerely yours,
B. K WHEELER.
156 Granite Street, Butte, Mont,
May IL, 1913.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
United States Senate,
Washington, d. c.
Dear Senator Wheeler:
Your response to the resolution
adopted by Butte citizens assembled
in Carpenters hall April %, has been
received and you may be sure that
those interested will be informed of
your views.
While l am not authorized to speak
for any large group of Montana citi-
cents, it is my personal opinion that
your attitude toward the win-the-war
forces in the country, led by President
Roosevelt, is exactly the attitude of all
defeatists, appeasers and pro-fascists.
Such an attitude certainly does not
represent the thinking of the people
of this state and | think it is not only
but outright treasonous.
No doubt you are fully aware of the
role you are playing, however, and
that your unpopularity has reached
such heights in Montana that even
the ACM press hesitates to headline
your fifth-columnist spoutings.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM A. McMURPHY.
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resolution authorizing the expenditure Of $4,000 of
general and contingent funds for the purchase of supplies
and payment for of inmates at the state hospital for the
Warm Springs and the state training school at Bou
der passed by the state board of public welfare at its
meeting held last Saturday stated that the expenditure