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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
w. H. OLDENBURG.
500 3rd Avenue S.W.

500 3rd Avenue S.W
Great Falls, Mont, Dec. 10, 1912
Forum or Wastebasket
Great Falls Tribune
Editor, Labor
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
AS constant reader of The Tri
bune l take considerable interest in
your editorials as we'll as common
taries by syndicated columnists.
Attention rivets on the comments
of Raymond Clapper and causes some
people to wonder if The Tribune sub
scribes to the same sentiments.
Mr.. Clapper, in print December 10,
pears blissfully ignorant of the fact
that railroad engineers and firemen
have never received a proportionately
daily wage with other skilled mechan-
les. 1t is reliably reported that me-
chanics' helpers on defense contracts
draw as much as $4,000 per month
and prices have always sykrocketed
just ahead of the highest paid work
ers. The raise of 91a cents that rail
road men received year ago was
smothered under an avalanche of
price boosts before the first pay check
carrying the award was handed out
l don't know why the banker re-
ferred to by Mr.. Clapper should re-
ceive more salary than any one else,
but l do know that there aren't many
bankers going railroading. In fact, one
of the troubles with the transporta-
ton industry is labor shortage be-
cause other defense industries pay
higher wages.
Mr.. Clapper speaks very glibly
about pinning back the ears of labor
Well, he may have something there.
Labor does sort of resemble a jackass
with ears hanging down over it's eyes,
so if the ears were pinned back, it
may well be that it's eyes would be
opened.
The business of slapping labor
around may come to a sudden halt
some day
l wonder what line of tripe Mr.
Clapper will use in a few years, when
the smoke begins to roll away and the
light of truth dawns on many of our
present day practices, as may very
well be possible, but men like Mr.
Clapper don't care about that
write this merely in the hope that
the general public will not be de-
ceived by one of Americas No. 1 anti
abor columnists.
Yours,
F. 3. HARRINGTON. |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08

was to follow. And what followed
was the founding of an empire, prod
ucers and produced, mines, mills,
cities, towns with all its homes and
happy home folks. The way led by
the miner.
1t is the miner who earns the basic
monies that fills the life veins OF
trade and commerce, without which
this great Montana would at the best
be sheep or cattle ranges.
1t is the hardy miner that possesses
the courage to face underground dan
gers that Turk and without word or
warning, claim him as a casualty to
his calling.
Pardon my repeating please, it was
the miner, his pack on his back, sweat
on his brow, salt of the earth, was
the nucleus that gave life and sup
ports life in this glorious Rockies
when he becomes casualty, don't
let him down.
1t does seem to the writer that this
puny thirty dollars per month, grudg
ingly donated by the last legislature
for the care and keep of the miner and
his family, is a living everlasting dis
grace to the unthoughtful legislature
that gave it.
The cemeteries, bear sad testimony
to the ravage of the disease known
as miners silicosis.'' The thousands
of widows and fatherless orphans are
a sad but silent pail that tries to hide
the frightful facts from the public.
Nor is this perjury a necessity in
a state that has yielded some five
billions in wealth, major portion of
which goes out Of the state to alb
sentee landlords, some of which, re-
side in foreign countries.
We the miners, respectfully ask the
state Legislators, to examine the an
nual reports of say, the Anaconda
Mining Co. Compare that the small
amount that would be required to pay
each silicosis casualty, say the small
sum of $4,000 per month, for the care
and keep of his family, with the
scores of millions paid in net profits.
Please compare this sum of $4,000
per month with Mr. c. F. Kelley
president of the AC.M) last years
salary of $16S,974.OO; c. R. Hobbins,
$S2,524.00; Robert Dryer, $64,797.00
land on down the line of half and
quarter parasites).
In natural resources and inherent
wealth per capita, the state of Mon
tana is the richest state in the union,
yet her legislature of two years ago,
granted to its silicosis casualties, only
about one half of the amounts granted
by other states for the same casual
ties.
The writer of this article, does not
to the idea that the tax
payers should shoulder all this ex-
pense. But rather that they should
shoulder the responsibility together
with a small portion of the cost
meshed in with the industrial acct
dent maintenance setup, and largely
maintained by those responsible, that
benefit by the miners labor. An
equitable plan can easily be devised.
| thank you.
ALBERT L. HOUSTON.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08

Then, let us congratulate you, Judge,
on your ability and your willingness
to come down from the realm of mys
terry and the lawyers jargon to us
common people and to talk to us in
our language. 1t is a rather beauti-
full language as it is used by you in
this opinion, and it renders with clar-
ity ideas as they progress from be-
ginning to conclusion.
| think that most of us have come
to accept the dictum that language is
employed by lawyers to conceal
thought, or even that they use such
language as they do to hide their in
ability in the employment Of thought
itself. Personally, | had long come to
agree in this matter with the char
acter in Dickens who observed, "The
law is ass, and let it go at that!
But now you, Judge, in your revolu-
tionary technique, have changed all
that I'm afraid that now and here
after l shall be turning to legal briefs
and opinions for information and even
for pleasure.
You have reminded me also of one
other great Judge. Some years ago
U. S. Supreme Court Justice Brandeis,
in introducing an opinion on the con-
stitutionality of certain social legis-
lation, made the observation that
what we know as men we cannot
ignore as judges" If this simple and
human axiom had been observed in
the recent majority opinion of your
state body-you and your honorable
confrere, Judge Erickson, dissenting
to your great honor = that majority
would not have held, as they did, that
lottery is not lottery when practiced
by the theatres. Surely these men
must know better as men, if not as
judges.
w. H. OLDENBURG.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08

employees and officers of powerful corporations leave to
hold dominant positions in the government.
While there will undoubtedly be powerful bloc of
dictionary republicans and democrats formed fight all social
legislation and protect the selfish monopoly interests at all
times be that this coalition of reacionares may
hesitate to the military with plenary powers civilian
life The of their sincerity for the effort will
then be determined by their support of legislation for civilian
democraticay formed that will make effort
effective the degree possible by removing
tapping divided, confusing authority
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
1913 Taxes

It won't be long now before millions working people
will feeling the burden of taxes personally and
directly than they imagined.
Beginning in January will be locked by cent
to meet the msnamed victory tax Their March Is in
will for millions of owpaid workers
who paid them BEFORE and those who paid small in
before will be liable for considerable of
And that isn't all.
Before long congress will considering legislation
additional billions of dollars to finance the and
combat initiation This will mean new threats to small pay
envelopes
Every wageearner will have to become tax-conscious
he and in ordinary times For taxes
have just direct effect living standards have
wages and prices.
Greatly increased taxation obviously necessary win
labor is the first that everyone should
pay his fair share.
But it isn't only matter of getting enough money
Ships planes tanks sound program of huge
proportions also to prevent initiation and to
ate healthy economy for all the people.
The caused tremendous cut in the production
of all civilian goods. the amount of available to
purchase goods also reduced initiation will result
working people will be the first to suffer from it.
Taxes, however, only of meeting this sit
Equally important universal system of rationing
available consumers goods and effective price control par
cuary living necessities workers not be prevented
high prices from buying what they must have to
their health and productive efficiency.
By the token, taxes which fell heavily lowin
groups prevent their purchasing sufficient living
necessities defeat the whole of sound tax
These of the why the CLIO strenuous
opposes tax socalled individual profits
and other similar proposals which congressional Tories
ire cooking up for the 1913 tax bill.
The sales the unfair tax there 1t falls most
those who least spend and most need to
)uy while it has little effect the purchases of the
)erous.
The so-caled individual profits tax would fall
owpaid workers whose earnings have increased
ince the and most particularly those who
Employed part-tme previously.
The spendings proposed by the u S. treasury would
arer than the sales tax the victory tax This tax
be applied the difference between income received
income saved would permit of exemptions for the
ow-paid and deductions for living necessities At the
me would permit of progressively higher taxation high
+ incomes, does the income tax.
Similarly with proposals for compulsory minimum savings
he CLIO insists that sufficient allowances be made for lown
groups without enough funds to buy living necessities
argues that higherncome people be compelled
1ore proportionately than those with low incomes ID
At the time the CIO its demand for the
Juggling of oopholes through which the rich still avoid
aging their share This be done by compelling joint
returns for married coupes by taxing tax-exempt
ecures raising normal and suraXes corporate
least 55 per cent and by increasing gift and
eliminating special depletion allowances for mining and
il companies n
Finally CIO regards the social security system
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
To the Editor of The Voice
Helena, Montana

| 10 the Editor OF Inc voice
! Helena, Montana
Sir:
I am much alarmed at statements
appearing in The Voice which would
indicate that certain progressives are
| favoring the sedition indictments
which were returned recently against
some % alleged America First protag-
onists
l have no sympathy for America
First, but sedition charges are serious.
In the past, the cry of sedition has
been raised against labor leaders,
against liberals; against any man who
spoke out against intolerance, injus-
tice, racial discrimination, and pow
erty Today, even though sedition
charges may be well-gounded, liber-
ais must be careful not to fall into
any traps that may be spread for
them.
In your last Issue Attorney General
Biddle is praised for indicting on sedi
ton charges some % America First
ers, but he is damned vigorously for
arresting Michigan state senator,
Stanley Nowak, on charges amounting
to Communism. Are not these two
indictments parts of the same cloth?
Are not our essential freedoms in dan
ger when charges of sedition and
Communism may be made freely? If
this is the case who can tell where
the next blow will strike? If we set
a precedent for the department of JUS
tice to return indictments for sedition
today, may not that same department
of justice in the years to come re-
turn indictments for sedition against
the progressive leaders who so ably
the cause of freedom today.
Freedom of thought and of speech
must be guaranteed No matter how
much we disagree with what is said,
| submit that we cannot support sedi-
ton charges unless there is actual
evidence of treason.
Very truly yours,
c. ]. CARLSON.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
HE WAS A MINER

TIE WAS ~ MlNER
Over the Continental Divide, came the
hardy Son of Man,
His home upon his back, in his hand
Golden Key,
Hope was in his heart, and Colours
in his pan,
He POUNDS an EMPIRE, Brother-Com-
rades, for You and Me.
A. L. H., Galen, Mont.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08

the withdrawing money from circulation dur
while at the time building up backlog OF
security for the workers in the postwar period
urges further security taxes with corresponding IN
in social security benefits including old benefits
naturalization of unemployment compensation and the IN
sitution of a health observation-disclosures Labor News
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
December 20. 1912

December 20, 1912
Editor, The Peoples Voice:
JUDGE ANGSTMAN, THE TOWN,
AND THE LAW
First, let us congratulate you, Mr..
Editor, on giving us all the benefit
and the pleasure of Judge Angstmans
contribution to jurispru-
dence in his opinion on what consti-
tutes a town.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-01-08
OPINIONS OF READERS

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Evening star., 1943-04-18

Uncle Sam will keep 'em flying, If
the spirit of his citizens will keep
EN- buying-bonds.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Vote on D. {. Budget
Expected Tomorrow
House Hopes to Send Bill
To Senate Quickly

Representative Mahon, Democrat,
Of Texas, announced last night that
the 1914 district appropriation bill,
with a green light" in front of it,
would be considered by the House
tomorrow and probably passed and
sent to the Senate in a few hours.
Plans for bringing the measure
before the House late yesterday we're
sldetracked suddenly, as debate con-
tinued without an indication of an
immediate let-up over controversial
features of bill providing appro-
priations for the Agriculture De-
partment.
Mr.. Mahon, who was chairman of
the subcommittee which drafted the
District bill, said he had been as
sured by House leaders it would
have the right-of-w way" at tomor-
rows session.
There is nothing controversial
IN the bill" Representative Mahon
said, and its approval by the House
IN few hours is virtually certain. :"
The measure would provide a total
OF S54, 1894 to operate the NUM-
clpal government in the new fiscal
year beginning July l. The full
appropriations committee, on rec
ommendation of Mr.. Mahon's sub
committee, favorably reported it to
the House Friday.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
us SPARS 10 Reside
In Rand|es Boys School

Randles Boys Preparatory School.
which for many years has been
preparing boys for the Naval
Academy and Coast Guard, will be
taken over May Is as a residence
for IT'S enlisted SPARS, the women's
auxiliary OF the Coast Guard, it was
announced yesterday.
B. w. Randles, principal of the
school at 1923 N street NV, ex-
planned that the institution will be
discontinued as preparatory school
Tor the duration of the war. The
students now in school have been
asked to finish their years work
three weeks in advance, in order to
vacate the building by May IA.
The SPARS will live in manv Of
the large rooms now used as dorm
itories for the boys, and also will
take over, after renovation, several
larger rooms which have been used
by instructors.
The SPARS already have occupied
a residence at 2O01 kalorama road
NV, 1t was announced.
1t. 1neva Myer Of the SPARS
also is trying to find living accom-
modations for the rest Of the 2o0
SPARS to be stationed here this
summer. The residence will be
run under Navy discipline, she said.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

president Of the Catholic Associa-
ton, is the only United States men,
Der of the seven composing the
1nter-American Juridical Commit
tee.
The Ethics Committee statement
concerns itself chiefly with the in
depreciation of the declaration in
the resolution that mo State may
intervene in the internal or external
affairs of another.
Undoubtedly the signatories tc
the resolution intended to prohibit
only such intervention as would be
unreasonable and would constitute
violation of international rights,
the Ethics Committee declared
although, "the precise intent and
scope" of the article in question
might with advantage have been
clarified"
Evening star., 1943-04-18
COP in Fine Shape
For 1914, London Says
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. April 17-Alf
M. Landon. 1886 COP presidential
nominee, told a press conference to-
day the Republican party is in bet
ter shape for the 1914 campaign
than it has ever been"
After a meeting with Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey of New York yesterday Mr..
Landon stopped off here for a chat
with Gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio.
Both Gov, Dewey and Gov. Bricker
have been mentioned as possibilities
for the 1914 Republican nomination.
and IN answer to questions regard
ing them, Mr.. Landon said:
Il believe Gov. Dewey was serious
when he said he planned to serve
his full four-year term as Governor
OF New York. About Mr.. Bricker
well, the people of the United
States do not think the people of
Ohio are dumb. And Mr.. Bricker's
three-time election as Governor bv
the people of Ohio is taken all over
the country as a good Endorsement
OF his ability as an executive"
Questioned on the possibility of
a fourth-term attempt by President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Landon said: 1T
is obvious the President will never
leave the White House voluntarily
and that is not a wholesome situa-
ton"
Mr.. Landon offered "Why not?"
to a question whether he believed
Mr.. Roosevelt would be a candidate
in 1948, should he be elected to a
fourth term in 1914.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Employees to Give
Days Work Free
To Speed Ships

by lne Associated Press.
SOUTH PORTLAND, Me, April
17.-Only one-third of the New Eng
land Shipbuilding Corps employees
are scheduled to report for work to-
morrow, when a new six-day week
becomes effective, but the other two
thirds will be there, too, donating
their efforts to help win the war.
At departmental meetings in the
Sprawling yard, the men and wom-
en- building Liberty ships decided
last night to go to work tomorrow
without pay-and the executive
board of Local so. CIO Industrial
Union of Marine and Shipbuilding
Workers of America, approved.
Timothy C. Cream, executive Sec
retary of Local so, said several
thousand workers would be "donat-
ing their time in the interests of
the war effort to speed the building
OF ships which are bringing supplies
to our sons and brothers serving
in the armed forces of the United
States"
Evening star., 1943-04-18

Serrtce Wallets.
sI25 10 IS
Shoe Shine KITS.
fIa5 10 81
Dufei 5Ges So 4 $3.50
Fitted Cases 81 to ffs
2-Sutter Cdrrp-diis,
s2a50
Leather Empty Kits IS
Evening star., 1943-04-18
D. {. Heads Expected
To File LIST Of Key
Men Wednesday
Departments Requests
For Draft Deferments
Studied by Committee

Action probably will be taken
Wednesday by the Commissioners on
the number of District employees
who should be granted draft defer
ment on the grounds they hold "key
positions, under which necessary
services would suffer if the men
were taken into the armed services.
Members of the recently created
District Draft Deferment Commit
tee spent hours yesterday review
Ing requests from various District
departments for classification of
their employees as holding key po-
sitions. The report of the commit
tee, which is headed by Budget
Officer Walter L. Fowler, is expected
to go to the city heads early this
week.
The Commissioners are required
to submit their recommendation
to the War Manpower. Commission
not later than next Saturday.
Out of the approximately $500
District employees, department ex-
ecutives are said to have asked that
some 3,700 positions be classed as
key positions, but some of these
jobs now are held by women and
others by men outside Of the pres
ent l8 to 38 age draft calls.
Some municipal personnel off,
cials heretofore have estimated that
probably draft deferments will not
be sought by the Commissioners for
more than 500 city workers except
for trained policemen and firemen
Heads of the Police and Fire De-
partmentS have asked that all their
men be exempted, as a means OF
maintaining adequate protection.
Some officials said late yesterday
they had found no reason to change
their outlook, although neither the
deferment committee nor the Com
missioners has reached any final de-
cision. 1t was said the Commits
sioners probably would give the
most favorable consideration to de-
ferment requests for policemen and
f1remen. One official said that as
to other requests, "the mortality
rate may be expected to be quite
high"
School officials have asked that
key position classiflcations be given
for school house engineers, for
teachers in technical and profess
sional fields, such as chemistry and
physics, and vocational education
and military science.
AS OF the first of the year, one
official said, the District payroll in
cluded 3,700 male workers between
the ages of 18 and 38. 1t was added
that more than 1900 District gov
erment workers already have been
nducted into the armed services
Evening star., 1943-04-18
10Th 5hipyard We|deI
Seized in Baltimore
On 5 Sabotage Charge
Ex-BethIehem-FoirfieId
Worker Had Police
Record, FBI Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY lne Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 1.-THE Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation an
nounced today the arrest of tenth
Baltimore shipyard welder on a
charge of sabotaging vessels by doing
defective welding.
E. A. Soucy, agent in charge of
the Baltimore FBI office, identified
the man-ninth to be taken in Gus
tody within the last two days-as
Lester Bishop, q, native of War;
fordsburg, Pa.
Mr.. Soucy said Bishop was ar
rested after he returned to Baltimore
by train from visit to Garrison,
KY. Bishop formerly was employed
at the Bethlehem-Fairf Ship
yard, Inc.
Eight others were arrested yester-
day, and one man-jailed by the
FBI several weeks ago-already has
been convicted on charge of violat-
ing the wartime sabotage statute. He
is to be sentenced Monday, while
the other eight are to be given
IA CAACl 1lCdl lllSS 1llul Sudy DclOIe
a United States commissioner.
Bishop will be given a hearing
Monday.
Mr.. Soucy said Bishop, who had
been employed at the Bethlehem
Fairfield yard since July IA, was
charged with sabotage in a warrant
filed before United States Commits
sioner James K. Cullen Wednesday.
However, he was not apprehended
until today.
The FBI agents also said the
bureaus records showed Bishop was
sentenced to five years in the Mary
land State Penitentiary December
13, 1888. for robbery and sentenced
on March 16, 1888, to two years in
the Maryland House of Correction
for carrying a deadly weapon and
assaulting an officer. He was re-
leased in September, 1899, Mr.. Soucy,
added.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
Choose Gifts He'll Really Use,

Pipes $3.50 to $3.50
Buddy Kits--f2.50 & So
SeDtrp Kits--ff.s5 to 50
Socks SOC to Use
Manhattan Shirts So
Service Robes f5.95
Furlough Bags tf.75 TO IS
Money BeltS---sI to So