Montana labor news., 1944-08-10
Sportsmens Association
Officer Raps
Game Commission

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sportsmen of the state Of Montana:
Whereas. The rank and file OF our
people have sons and daughters serving
with the armed forces of our govern
ment and
Whereas, during the past two years
the Montana Fish and Game Commits
sion has received more money from the
sale of hunting and fishing licenses and
from the federal government under the
provisions of the Pitman-R Robertson Act,
and other sources than many of its pre-
decessors, and
Whereas. our sons and daughters when
home on furlough are only here for a
few days. having only limited financial
resources. they should not be required
to purchase hunting and fishing licenses.
Now. therefore, Be 1t Resolved, that
due to these facts We the executive
board Of the Rocky Mountain Sports
mems Association go on record request
ing the Fish and Game Commission to
issue our boys and girls a courtesy license
during the period they are home on fur
Tough:
Be It Further Resolved, that we go
on record as being opposed to any in
crease in the price of hunting and fish
ing licenses as is now advocated by Ger
tain individuals
Be 1t Further Resolved that We go on
record asking organized labor ana
.,portsmen to endorse this resolution by
expressing their sentiments directly to
the State Fish and Game Commission.
GARFIELD BISHOP,
Chairman of the Board Of Directors
We have received a good many answers
from various groups throughout the
state and all have enthusiastically en-
dorsed our resolution. No reply how
ever. from the Montana Fish and Game
Commission, except that a request Of
like nature from the Great Falls Sports.
men was turned down by the Commits
sion
The sportsmen want uniform laws
uniform bag limits; preserves that arr
well posted; a commission that takes al
active and well-meaning interest in al
sportsmen's organizations; a commission
whose one object will be to place Mon
tana where she rightfully belongs il
fish and game. Have we such com
mission?
I will ask a few questions and yol
can be the judge.
Has the present Fish and Game Com
mission made any effort to co-operat
or visit your organization?
DO you believe that the closing of tn
Game Farm at Warm Springs and Bill
ing, and creating a new hatchery o
federally controlled property was for tn
best interest of the sportsmen?
Do you believe that the spending
vast sums of money on so-called SUI
veys in state as large as Montana
whose fields and streams are free Of po
luton and vermin to be for the pe
interest of all concerned?
DO you believe that their refusal
Sized big game animals during a critic
and severe winter period is justifiable
DO YOU believe that our big game an
mails should be commercialized and the
carcasses SOLD to restaurants, hotels al
what not as they we're in the winter
1912 and l943 by the Fish and Can
Commission? Or. do you believe that
would be preferable to give these I
game animals a sporting chance to eX
through a program of winter feeding
Is being carried on by all our northe
-. a,saoaptral states?
DO you believe the Fish ana va
Commission is justified in attempIlhe
raise the price of hunting and 1lsh
licenses?
IF the sportsmen are not satisfied W
the present Fish ana Game ComnniSsi'
If Won farmers and trappers do not WI
the fur industry taken over by the sta
if the majority of our citizens are
satisfied with the way our problems
beine handed, there is an eXtreIf
satisfactory and lasting solution, ana
home that YOU will take heed and gov
Yourselves according
Az the next general election cha
the present administration by reVuIl
70 civil life the head of the present
and Game Commission, Governor
c. Ford. .r,op
Chairman, Board of Director
Rocky Mt sportsmen's ASS
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