The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-26
The Postwar Plans


ago. Pabs Brewing Company offered prizes
reacshg total of $4,000 for postwar plans Last week.
the prize winners of the contest announced the first
prize being $4,000 and the second $4,000 These two prizes
where by two of the bright men, holding positions
in federal agencies in Washington.
AS be expected the winner of the first prize had
submitted plan which in its general outline conformed fairly
closely the Baruch plan patiently giving prime considera
ton to industry and capital and only incidental and
less casual discussion of plans to provide employment
The winner of the second prize, was less specific and
assured in APPROACH questions involved
contributed plan slightly "es in tone Perhaps
this contributor didn't feel certain that private industry
depended upon provide full employment
Neither of the plans submitted provided for disposition
of production plants and surplus goods paid for by the
the country not by capital and industry which have
been subsidized also by the people through the government
all of Transforming from time to production
the benefcaries of
materials at tremendous profits
speech recently delivered before the Peoples Lobby
Conference by Donald Montgomery counsel of the
United Workers of America these issues without
and determination of which postwar plan
incomplete and ineffective discussed and made
print in full below in the hope that the readers
of The Voice will read it carefully and thoughtfuIy:
story f America Sas the isaS THAN i
m ~o GysF At ea hope they Will
Just help them should they run across the faded prints Of dsap
pared Peoples Lobby let me put down this war plant question what
pass for facts to-day but to Rem q o willing can " no more than an
which and nevertheless
prices of million dollars
p 0osssh @ i fs n s1m once
like but dwaed now by amounting no more than two months
that only
about oned Of them easily made ready for pe@eme
time serve no purpose but produce for war ALI of this may be
teaches seldom n inquire n and never believe without proof
It is said too that present private operators of most Of these plants
b. have GD as9 acquire them se The gs they as @ ? 20 50
One more thing about them they employ about million pie
mats M ~ nappenS 10 De n same WI W.
produce
again? enepsers don't discover
for the grandchildren contains proposals currently offered what do
T the most aG % t ci u f' tb Iat % @ %
sb almost before the ink is dry on the treaties or the blood Casino
dispOsing
getting them
ways proposed government get of
Sell their
dus will produce goods than the market
Them period if they entrusted
TO D0rd WITH no danger OF producing G too much
considered
substantial the
policy
free competitive full
these but
That is to say he would find new use for these plants
which
Ruher that strategic plants semimOnopOy
have lease them to private condition
socially commodities dIt!ss at fair
America The Textile Workers Union of Americas demands P b
industrial
welfare all the b
pamphlet
possible
tors observe wage standards to utilize all equipment at full capacity and
prospect this productive capacity r.
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purchasers W
would
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the operator fee for keeping the plant
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