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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
SHOULD CO-OPERATIVES PAY
AN INCOME TAX

try to disprove the value of the
Co-ops. In both cases 5000 was actu-
ally the price paid for this tractor
How can you by any stretch of the
imagination refer to this 500 as in
come or profit in connection with the
first sale and not with the second
Now suppose you bought repairs,
or gasoline for your farm operations,
from your Coop for 81 1000 and again
got 800 back as patronage dividend,
certainly it's only right that you pay
an income tax on this 500, not be-
cause its a profit from your Coop, but
| because the government exempts you
from paying income tax on money
spent for these items, and you actual
ly only paid 5000 not $1,000 You had
been over charged 800 which was ce-
funded to you as patronage dividend.
Now let's say you sold 1000 bus. of
wheat to your Coop elevator and the
price at all elevators in this town was
$100 bu., but at the end of the year
you received an additional sc a blu.
from your Coop elevator as patronage
dividend. This raises the price for
you from $1.00 to $1.05, of course you
should list this SC patronage dividend
as profit when paying your income
tax, but not as profit from your Coop,
but as income from your farm opera
tons. You didn't earn the SC a bu.
by selling to your Coop elevator, you
earned it when you raised your wheat,
but you did save it by doing business
with yourself.
If private business thinks the Co-ops
are so privileged by not paying this
profit tax, then why don't they get |
in the same boat. l will let them in
on the secret of how they can get |
around paying this profit tax. Re-
CARELESS of what law they are incor- |
porated under, it isn't necessary for |
them to pay one cent as profit tax.
They can also be exempt if they will |
abide by the same law that the Co-ops
do; by paying all profits back to their
customers as patronage dividend It's
as simple as that.
l doubt anyone will deny that coop
eratives practice 1000 economic de-
and you must have economic
democracy to have political democ-
'acy. l think most people will also
agree that the most democratic coun-
.ries in Europe are the ones where
he cooperative movement was the
most developed before the war. The
movement is also one of
he worlds greatest peace movements {
It's also a fact that one of the first
tets of the dictators after getting
,ower was to destroy all co-opera- t
ives. | am asking in all sincerity,
an it be possible that it's the fascist t
clement here who are carrying on 6
crusade trying to destroy our coop a
ratives. Is there a tendency of re-
lanting the fascist philosophy here
While destroying it overseas? You i
now DR.. Goebbels has made the a
tatement that the Allies might van
uish the German war machine, but
he fascist philosophy will engulf the
ictors. Let's hope and do everything
4 our power to prove that he was 4
1rong.
GONIUS LAURSEN. II
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
The Candidates

The Peoples Voice believes that the Montana Council
Progressive Political Action has used splendid judgment
impartial investigation its choice of candidates for
1t has fault to find with its action and
entire slate is elected the State whole
will benefit
possible Montana did not have the closed pr
mary law the organization might also have endorsed
the Republican ticket However,
have the closed primary and the council found qualified
acceptable persons candidates for state office
the democratic ticket it would obviously not have been good
procedure for the organization to scatter its endorsements
in the primary election.
We slate of candidates to all of the
Voice
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23

One of the immediate dangers tt
the expansion of the Coop movement
is the possibility that congress ma,
repeal the law exempting them froG
paying income tax. For this reason
think it's important that it should be
clearly understood just why it would
be not only unfair, but also unjust and
unreasonable, for them to be com
PEELED to pay an income or profit tax
| | feel certain that many congress
men, most business men, and possibly
many co-operators as WELL think the
Co-ops are income tax exempt be-
cause our government favors the
building of co-operatives, and that's
why they are now enjoying this, which
they consider, special privilege or adj
vantage Nothing is further from the
truth.
should be exempt from paying an in
come or profit tax is only and alone
because they never make any profit
They are not and should not enjoy
any special privilege over private en-
terprise and they ask for none.
In past years the annual audit re-
port generally stated, $50 much gross
profit and so much net profit" In
recent years it has been classified as
earnings. The one is almost as far
from being correct as the other, it
however, is a saving and should be
classified as such. It's nothing more
nor less than an overcharge on goods
bought and an underpayment on pro-
duce sold When you buy or sell
through Coop you are doing bust
ness with yourself and it's impossible
to make profit on yourself,
Most Co-ops endeavor to pay or
charge, as the case may be, the same
price as private concerns do, then at
the end of the year, after all overhead
has been deducted, the remainder is
paid back to the customer as so much
overcharge, if goods have been bought
Or under payment if produce has been
sold. Certainly this can not by any
stretch of the imagination be called
profit, nor even earnings, but it Is a
saving and should be listed as such.
It's also said the reason Co-ops
should be exempt is because. the GUS
.omer must pay income tax on his |
patronage dividend and if the Coop
also pays then this would be double |
axation. But patronage dividend is
n reality a rebate and does not rep
esent income and subject to income
ak. If it does it is income which has
previously been deducted as expense,
II income from your farm operations
which was not previously included as
income, it's not subject to income tax
IS profit from your cooperative. It
is not profit when your cooperative
as this money certainly it can't
hange its character and become prof
just because it's paid back to the
customer as an over-charge or under
ayment.
Suppose you bought tractor from
our Coop and paid $1,000 for it and
on received 800 patronage dividend
n this purchase; or in other words
GU were given refund of 500, that |
eing the over charge. It's exactly
ne same as though your neighbor
-ent to private dealer and this
aoIa, ont tho prioa 91O0 in ordor 70 |
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23

SIT,
Enclosed find my renewal coupon
also $3.50 for the paper, 1.-THE Peoples
Voice"
It's getting near election time and
a person should be informed of what's
going on SO he can judge and govern
his vote, and l think person can
find out more in your paper than in
any corporation owned paper.
With best of luck and success.
l remain,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
Legal Advertising
NoTICD TO CREDIToRs

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deceased.
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Date of first publication June 2, 1914.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
DANES SABOTAGE
ACTS EFFECTIVE

Many Danish workers practice eff
fective sabotage, the Danish Informa-
ton Service says. Landslides occur
constantly during excavations, and
sugar is mixed into cement used for
bunkers. Thirty workers were recent
ly discharged from German airfieId
because they had not worked one hour
for two weeks-but had been playing
cards in a nearby forest glade. A
farmer carting gravel for the Germans
received daily wages for six loads I'M
til the Nazis discovered that they all
were the same load.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23

force the farmers onto the band
wagon whoopng for higher retail milk prices and seeking
to wreck the whole price control program
Despite the obstructonist tactics of the nfaonsscarc
y forces the farmers of New York have worked hard and
long, in the have farmers other parts of the
country to back their boys in the Armed Forces They
have desire fighting return home to
scarcity after the for they recognize that scarcity
in peacetime is just senseless in wartime.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
CUBAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT u 8

CUBAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT u. S.
Cuba's newly-elected President, Grau
San Martin, announced adherence to
the United Nations and inter-Ameri-
can solidarity and urged unified ma
ton, the CIAA Daily Information Bull
letin reports. The President-elect is
expected to visit the United States
and Central America before assuming
office
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23

that time And believe also that the people going
demand efficient administration of the liquor monopoly
and going to teeth into the pro
lection of the rights of the individual citizen means
cutting the profits of the dealers
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-06-23
Squeeze-Play

The game has been to keep pushing the feed prices
charged dairy and poultry farmers while blocking the
position any rigid price ceilings feed and meanwhile
scare-buyng This squeeze supposed to
The CIO news., 1944-05-22

same time assure solidarity.
These rumors have for the most
part been the reason for the lag
In applicants for membership.
These rumors have been run
down, and have q solid fOunda-
tion. For proof Of this assertion
the following data Is submitted:
"In three contacts with man.
agement, the c0mmitte was told
at various times, that member
ship totals were stretched, that
there was no real interest for o
union among the workers, and
agement, the committee was told
finally that the union had reached
Its peak and was going on the
rocks. On two occasions the man
agement cited membership fig
ures as members paid I'm full,
with others having applications
partly paid for.
"From the foregoing statements
It can readily be seen that there
was O bad leak within the Or
ganization, and substantiated the
belief that a member was play
ing O dual role. With the aid Of
q person engaged in the same
sort Of work, the double dealing
Of the company detective was ex-
posed to the complete satisfac-
ton Of the committee. Our In
fOrmant was always known for
honesty and integrity, and there
fore his statements were received
as findings In fact.
"The man under suspicion has
been for a number Of years en-
ployed by O Cleveland detective
agency rs q service man. or
spotter. For this he receives
$17.00 q day. An effort to secure q
copy of the dicks report to COM
pany was underway. But as inn
mediate action Is necessary for
the well being of the entire men,
bership, I am recommending Inn
mediate suspension Of Detective
+. w. DENNIS, from the union,
until such time as the union may
set time for trial on the charges
preferred against the defendant.
The sentence then pronounced
will be effective"
The recommendation was SUBJ
mitted by the agent for the union.
to the entire executive board, and
the mention Of the name that was
an active union worker,
came as a bomb shell to all present.
(NEXT ISSUE: Detective Dennis
ls exposed and charges proven. The
union grows In strength and num-
bers0
The CIO news., 1944-05-22

duilLhiSILdIlOH Oh tne program.
Mr.. Kopp has every expectation
that the funds will be granted to
continue the present center.
NO EXPANSION NOW
However. Cumberland Is not suf-
ficiently "war-impacted" for any
new centers to be opened in the
coming year, Mr.. Kopp points out.
Although 1t Is admitted that the
need for day care Of young chill
dren is very great in other local
neighborhoods, the law is rigorous
in its requirements and the time
for expansion has not yet come.
Night care Is another innovation
that will have to wait, either until
the federal government relaxes its
restrictions or until some local
group is found which is willing to
institute such care.
OLDER GROUPS NEED CARE
Funds are badly needed for af-
ter-school care of children 6 to ii,
and for extension of playground
service during the SUNNI er
months. the Labor Unity Confer
ence and the Allegany County Co.
ordinating Council have both
pointed out. Lanham Act funds
are supposedly available for ex-
tended school services but no ap-
The CIO news., 1944-05-22
Kelly Recap
Workers Vote

Determination of a bargaining
agent for the recap and retread
workers in the Kelly Service
Station on South Mechanic
Street, Cumberland, will take
place in an election before June
z, announces the regional office
Of the National Labor Relations
Board.
The question has hung fire since
last year.
Great clouds of smoke rolled
through the Kelly plant May 9
when a fire in the heat treating
department caused damage which
shut the shell line down for two
shifts. None was injured.
More than 1000 individual
bonds with q purchase value Of
$21,731 were delivered to Kelly
employees in April, reports Por-
ter ID. Collins of the War Finance
Committee. Total bonds issued
to Kelly-Springfield employees un-
der the payroll savings plan now
represent q maturity value Of
$26O,O00.
The CIO news., 1944-05-22
Must File Claim

Men and women 65 years old or
more, who formerly worked in COW
cred employment and became fully
insured under Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance provisions Of the
Social Security Act. can claim
their benefits, even though they are
now employed in a job with the
government or in some other occu-
patton that Is not covered by the
law, say Henry M. Millhouser, man.
ager of tn Cumberland Office of the
Social Security Board.
The CIO news., 1944-05-22
Fruzier Leads
LocoI Typos

w. Henry Frazier, popular con-
tributOr to the local labor press,
was elected to the presidency Of
International Typographical Un-
ion Local 244, oldest trade union
I'm Allegany County, at q special
election meeting of the local May
IL.
Frazier Is former organizer
for the AFL and former secretary
of the Allegany Trades Council,
AFL. At present he Is secretary
treasurer of the Maryland Labor
Unity Conference, and fraternal
delegate to the Western Mary
land Industrial Union Council,
CLIO.
The CIO news., 1944-05-22
Child Care Center
Seeks More Funds

Mothers OF young children looking anxiously
Whener the federal funds will be forthcoming for another years
operation OF the Child Care Center which operated
September in the West Side School building Lanam Act funds
were secured after campaign in which Labor active
part
Inc Center has been growing gradually the result of
acon OF mothers with its operation and has 80 regis
tran with average attendance "a says Charles L.
kopp Superintendent of Schools who general charge the
The CIO news., 1944-05-22
From fhe Files OF an Organizer
Kelly Worker
Kelly Deceive
BY w. HENRY FRAZIER

Unlon-hang was customary the part Of large corpora
tions in the early days of the New Deal and the NRA
The Key-Springfed Tire of Cumberland Md proved
cepion and efforts unonze this plant with all the rebu
practiced by labor-hating employers.
In the early days of the organized labor movement at the
Kelly the winter of 193334 the firm sought gain rsthand
information of uionzaon activities by planting in the union
as Kelly employe what really company detective
This dick really his WELL and for three
months moved m and active part Of union activities f. W.
Dennis active in fact that chairman
OF the infant organization
hs charter Of Federal Labor Union 1907 stated in previous
article the meeting which
flow attendance and resulted 100 applications membership
At the second meeting 1894 committee
set of John Hendley writer
The CIO news., 1944-05-22

set up, composed of John Hendley
the agent for the union. This
grievance committee was instructed
to contact management immedi-
ately, for the purpose of settling
grievances and to bargain with the
company on conditions of employ
ment, etc. Accordingly a letter was
sent to management, which read
in part:
"A committee from the United
Rubber Workers Union, No. 1907
(Employes OF Kelly-Springfield
Tire Co., Cumberland) will call
upon you Friday afternoon at
1880 o'clock. This committee is
composed of John Hendley, John
L. Evans and w. Henry Frazier,
the last named being the local
representative Of the union. The
object Of this meeting Is to seek
q mutual understanding In pro-
cedure Of settling grievances and
working conditions for the mem-
bers of the uni0n."
The meeting was held as re-
quested by the union, and then the
work of the company stooge enters
the picture. The company at once
disputed the figures Of the rep
resentative involving membership,
and cited enough pertinent data to
arouse suspicion in the minds of
the committee that there was
something wrong. Accordingly, the
representative and an investigat-
ing committee was instructed to
run down the rumors then preva-
lent throughout the plant that a
company dick was at work In the
union set-up.
AS such things are generally very
hard to prove, the committee
worked quietly and speedily. Con-
facts were made locally with reput-
able citizens, and some vital in
formation uncovered. Armed with
this data the union agent visited a
large mid-western city for more
facts. and then on his return, called
a meeting of the executive board
to hear his report. To quote from
the report verbatim:
"T0 the Executive Committee,
Federal Labor Union No. 19007,
(Kelly Rubber Workers:
Herewith Is submitted my re-
port of activities far past two
weeks. BY personal contact with
numerous fellow workers, 1t was
imperative that all was not well
I'm the organization, and there
fore the first duty was to correct
the existing evil. To get at the
root Of the evil, contacts were
made with individuals employed
the plant, and some outside Of
the plant, and some out-of-town
persons.
"The findings are not pleasant
reading, but nevertheless they are
facts, and demand immediate &C.
tion, If we are to hold the good
will of our membership. Rumors
cannot he allowed TO circulate
among the members, and at the
The CIO news., 1944-05-22

plication has gone in from West.
ern Maryland.
The Valley settler., 1944-08-04
AUGUST l.S4 1

CHURCH SERVICES, AUGUST
 The Valley Chapel Rev. & Mrs. II. E. Beyer, Pastors Church School--------lO lO:OO a. n. Morning ship--------ll:00 a. r. Preaching Service----- 500 p. IT. Wed. Evening Service--- 8:OO p. m.
 Wasjlla Conrnuni ty Church Rev. Herman Bever, Pastor
 Sunday Evening Servi s-e:OO D. m.
 St. John's Lutheran Church Rev. Woodrow Kurtb, Pastor Sunday School--------lO -lO:LO a. |. Morning Worship------ a.
 United Protestant Church Rev. Victor Alfsen, Pastor Morning Worsni p-------l1:l0 a. |. Young Peoples Meeting 7:0O p. [. Evening Worship------- 500 p.
 St. Michaels Catholic Church Rev. Father Snead, Pastor TCyr h0 nsG
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
|U. $. ARMY SAID |LIBERATORS OF
 ITALIANS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-(AP) President Roosevelt is saying that the American army entered Italy, not as conquerors, but as liberators, it has been reported.
 He promised the Italians that they would be free to work out their own destiny under a gov ernment of their own choosing.
 When the allies defeat Germany the United Nations are determin- ed to take every possible meas ure to aid the Italian people di- rectly and give them an oppor- tunity to help themselves.
 The President stated these things last night in a radio ad- dress from the White House, di- rected to a meeting of the Amer ican Labor Council of New York, in acceptance of the councils four freedoms award.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
FURNACES MUST BE CHECKED BY 

The approach of the cold wea- ther season prompts the Alaska Rent Director, Earl P. McCarron, to remind landlords that now is the time to have furnaces exam ined and repaired. Delays invar- iably result if an emergency" is allowed to arise that could be avoided by preseason checkup and reconditionmg.
 During the recent summer months numerous complaints re- ferring to defective heating plants and lack of hot water were received in OPA field offices. Because of the seasonal angle and other more urgent issues to be handled these complaints have not been investigated very wide ly.
 However, the rent regulation in Alaska, as in the States, provides that landlords shall maintain as a minimum the same type, quality and quantity of essential ser vices as were given on the date rents were frozen, March 1, 1922.
 Failure to keep that essential equipment in repair can also re- suit in a rent directors order de- creasing the rent" stated MT. McCarron.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
ROOSEVELT TO START ON TOUR OF SPEAKING

ALBANY, N. T., Oct. 13.-(AP) Urgent supporters of President Roosevelt keep punching at Gov. Thomas Dewey, who has pre- pared a new invasion of the West which may lay down the heaviest barrage attack on the Roosevelt administration, it was reported today.
 President Roosevelt is back at his desk in the executive man. sion after viewing the annual Columbus Day parade in New York, where he accepted for the University of Michigan, bust of himself.
 With his wife, the President registered 10 vote.
 The chief executive is due to leave Sunday on a major cam paign address in St. Louis on Monday evening. He heard the head of his college alumni assert last night that only by keeping punching could he win the Presi- dency. J. K. Gould stated that that kind of action wins.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
l, SHEETS SCENE
 OF BATTLE BY U. $. INFANTRY

LONDON, Oct. 31.-(AP)-The American infantry fought from the streets in the northwestern factory district of the bombed and burning Aachen, II was reported today.
 The Germans rolled up heavy force of armored units in an eff fort to relieve the city, which was Charlemagnes capital.
 The appearance of fresh Ger man armored divisions, which were shifted from the Arnhem sector in Holland, stirred the ex- pectation that there will be ma- jor tank battle soon at Aachen.
 The town is dissolving under the weight of U. s. bombs and shells, but there is no sign of break as 1900 to 2O00 Nazis s. s. troops fought in the rubble and sewers in the northeast part of the city.
 Hidden by smoke, the Germans mounted a heavy counter-attack in the Bardenburg area and the fighting also was intensified at Wurslen Haaren, where the allied spearheads are crowding the twin escape hatch toward Cologne.
 One AP correspondent at Whitehead reported surprisingly little resistance in the outskirts of Aachen.
 The allies have improved their positions in Holland, although signs appeared that Marshal von Runstedt is preparing stiff de- fense in southwestern Holland.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
NUNS BOUND FOR KODIAK

SEATTLE, Oct. 13.-(AP)-Ob- viously excited in their great adventure, five grey nuns from Philadelphia, landed in Seattle Thursday, enroute to Kodiak, where they will assume the man. agement of the Griffin Memorial Hospital.
 Father Edgar Gallant, director of the Pious x Mission in Skag- way, came here to accompany the sisters north.
 They will travel by boat to Juneau and then fly to Kodiak.
The Nome nugget., 1944-10-13
WAR PLANES RENEW ATTACK ON FORMOSA

UNDATED - American war planes renewed the attack on Formosa today, it has been re- ported.
 A Jap Imperial communique reported this in broadcast which was intercepted by the Federal Communications Commis- sion.
 The broadcast said that enemy planes which made a thousand plane raid, struck again on Fri day morning, Japanese time, and was still fighting up until noon.