Montana labor news., 1944-10-26

organized and morgan
professional people associated
reserving and forwarding our
mt as intended by the trainers
that is that our government
pile and of the people.
drawn the greatest extent Of its mem
bership and active support from labor,
farm and pension groups,
Within the past few years a number
Of business and professional men have
become acquainted with the develop
ments of other states and regions as a
result of friendly cooperation between
such states or regions and federal agen-
cies or authorities. These people have
taken note of the fact that through such
cooperation, cheaper power, irrigation,
I soil conservation, recreation and refores-
tation were in part or in whole achieved.
That under such development the inter
(. ests of the local people and local condt-
/, tons were taken into consideration.
These people saw the wartime devel-
q opment Of the West, stimulated by fed
t eral assistance. They also read the
: propaganda written by the eastern mon
opolistic interests and distr ibuted
f through the local business establish
e ments of eastern absentee owners, such
as the locally named but New jersey
, incorporated company, and locally situ-
! ated chain stores, by enclosure with their
: monthly bills. This propaganda showed
= that big industry's postwar program con
templated removing all restraints on
monopolistic business practices, remov-
ing all social legislation from our
n statute books, impairing the legal stand
ings Of all labor and farm organizations
and placing all enterprise at the mercy
- and direction of the large financial
brokerage and absentee owners in Wall
N street.
A fear was stimulated in the readers
- that the eastern money interests were
intending to obtain an even greater
- domination over our future. Such people
= could wildly recall the industrial shut
u downs in the West and the financial
~ embarrassment Of thriving business and
y, stockmen Of this state caused by the
- liquidation of sound western loans by our
70 national banks as a result Of the Hard
!, ing administrations Federal Reserve
Bank orders Of the early twenties.
Many stockmen and small bank di-
%rectors, who have only too recently re-
as cuperated from these orders, have no
desire for a repetition Of such a dis
aster.
Unite with Farm-LabOr
The fear Of a repetition in the West
ng after World Wa II Of the conditions
lat that existed in the West after World
ma War ], a desire for a free political and
is economic state and a full, orderly and
gn timely development Of our state in CO.
operation with other states and the ma
ton as a whole and not under the domi-
nation Of the money interests of the
eastern seaboard states, caused many
people to think in harmony with the pO-
Htical and economic efforts of the yari-
Gus liberal groups of this state.
Organization for P. A 1914
On organization Of the liberal groups
in Montana for the 1914 political cam
paign, many business and professional
people offered their assistance and active
support in the furtherance of a program
to develop Montana for the benefit Of
the state as a whole and as a part Of our
nation and not just as an addenda to
the ~monopolistic interests of the eastern
seaboard states. Thus in the organiza-
tional meetings of January and March Of
1914, the liberal groups Of our state, de-
termined that in organizing for political
action this year that they should or
ganize on a purely individual basis in
order that these unorganized people Of
liberal thought might have equal rights,
thought and expression with individuals
ms from organized groups. AS a result Of
ire such action the Montana Council for
Progressive Political Action is now strict
" an individuals organization, consist
ing of members from the Railway Broth
erhoods, the Farmers Union, the ALL
IS organizations, CLIO organizations and
pension groups, together with many
members and supporters from among prl-
ms vate business and professional people.
NC for PPA Is Not New or Foreign
in Therefore it is to be seen that the
emit Montana Council for Progressive Political
Action, is neither new nor foreign to our
Re- state, but is a child Of the economic and
social development Of Montana, con-
her ceived as a result Of the exploiting and
md retarding Of orderly development Of Mon
ex- tana's natural resources by absentee
the owners, nurtured in the deep mines, tall
forests, mountains, rivers, and wide
files plains Of Montana, given birth by the
ter realizations of working men and women
arly the producer, farmer, independent bust
few ness and professional men of this statt
all that there was a movement afoot to con
lion denim Montana after this war and for
ma ever to the continuous status Of a co
.alls lonial possession Of Long Island, instea'
uns Of taking advantage Of the momentum
ton possibilities, that our state has, if 1t
lted orderly and timely developed, Of becom
,uns ing a place for our returning service pee
hen pie, war workers and present inhabitant
war to have work, arms and businesses an
build permanent homes.