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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14

SlNO-JAPANESE WAR
ANNIVERSARY

ANNIVERSARY
The Japanese Information Boart
last week issued a communique or
friendship" 1t was all part of an
intensified propaganda drive launched
by the Japanese in conjunction with
their military offensive in China's
Honan and Human Provinces.
| The Information Board commune
que, which reiterated the stock Japa
nese word picture of the "Greater
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and
professed Japan's friendship" for the
Chinese, was timed to coincide with
China's big 7" anniversary-the end
of the seventh year of the war with
Japan, which broke out on the sew
enth day of the seventh month July
y in 1887
AS Japanese troops advanced on
Chinese soil, the Tokyo radio laid
down an incessant barrage designed
to persuade the Chinese that the
troops were merely seeking to ''pro-
tect" them from "the evil designs of
America and Britain" Tokyo held
up the Marking puppet regime of
Wang Ching-wei as an example of
what Japan had in mind for China,
and urged more Chinese to coop
crate"
The propaganda used by the Tokyo
radio was not new, but its shrill pitch
at this time indicated how much the
Japanese are banking on their Honan-
Human drive. In his anniversary
speech to the Chinese last week, Cen
Chang Kai-shek did not at
tempt to minimize the gravity of the
offensive, but he pointed out that il
had been undertaken by the Japanese
to assuage their home front and to
insure themselves against an Allied
offensive against their own mainland
from the Asiatic continent.
Chang said that the Allied advance
in the Pacific, combined with Japa-
nese plane losses and a severe ship
ping shortage, had made it necessary
for Japan to divert the attention o;
her people from the gathering plight
Of her own front" He also said that
Inc japanese mad three military OBJ
iectives in mind:
L. To reduce Chinese forces before
the offensive against Japan begins.
q To destroy Allied air bases along
he Canton-Hankow and Human
Kwangsi railways to minimize the |
LANCER of an air offensive against the
Japanese mainland.
g. To gain control of the Chinese
runk line as an avenue of retreat
Tor troops now in Burma. French
ndo-C China, Thailand, Malaga and the
South Sea islands.
These detectives, Chang said, have
lot yet been attained.
w.
JAPANESE SABOTAGE
While active resistance against
PREMIER Hideki Tojo's government is
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
WHERE BLOWS THE WIND?

emulate the tactics of the enemy. We
Of wrath in his direction-keeping the
fire from our own homes. Surely our
own people are as entitled to pro-
lection as those who exulted in the
bombing of Coventry?
Not cruelty but justicel Not ven
geance but the immutable laws of
lifel The wind blows in their direc-
tion-may it sweep clean that free
men with naught to fear, men of good
will to all, may stand strong again
and work to rebuild-not the old ha-
treds, but the new world of peace for
all
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
Maternity Benefits

The coverage proposed is too linn
tied. The persons covered are those
working women who are covered and
eligible for temporary disability bene-
fits. Thus, only mothers working for
wages are entitled to maternity bene-
fits. The British Beveridge Plan &C
cepts the sound social principle that
a housewife is a working mother"
entitled to social insurance protec-
ton, just as much as mother who
works in industry. The Beveridge
Plan recognizes that when a husband
and father works in industry and his
wife takes care of the home and chill
-dren, she also contributes to the main
tenance of the home as an economic
unit. To provide maternity insurance
only for mothers who work for wages
is to subject the majority of mothers,
who are housewives, and their work
ing husbands to the economic burden
of maternity. 1t is clearly in the ma
tional interest that both parents be
helped in meeting the special eco
nomic burdens of maternity.
We recommend that lump sum
maternity benefit, substantially equal
to the minimum economic cost of ma
ternity, be paid to mothers who are
housewives and are dependent upon
persons covered and eligible for tenn
porary disability benefits. This cost
would not include medical and hospi-
tai expenses, since these would pre-
sumably be supplied by the medical
and disqualification provisions, but
would cover cost of-layette, extra food
and nursing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
The Public Assistance Program


1. The Necessity for a Completely
Federaized Public Assistance Pro-
gram Integrated with the Federal
Social Insurance Program. The plan
OF federal grants-in-aid to states for a
unified public assistance system, pro-
posed by the bill, raises some funda-
mental questions of social policy.
The NRPB, surveying the made
quacy of public assistance as admin
istered by the states, concludes:
I'm recent years our people have
increasingly accepted the RESPONSE
bility of the federal government for
the economic welfare of it's citizens.
1t has become more widely accepted
that, if other political units do not
or will not take effective action, the
federal government must, because
of the consequence of inaction upon
the life of the whole nation and
upon the stability of our social
economy We believe that the
country must be prepared boldly to
recognize that the national govern
ment has responsibility for all
Americans, and that it should work
towards the goal of assuring access
of minimum security for all our
people wherever they may live"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14

in the cost of living. Nothing less
would assure access to minimum Sc
curity for all our people wherever
they may live"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
CATTLE WALK TO PARIS

The Stockholm Aftontidningen de-
clared recently that Allied bombings
and patriot sabotage had so disrupted
Nazi communications in the Paris
area that slaughter cattle from
neighboring departments must now be
driven to Paris on foot"
after a march of so kilometers
(37 miles," the paper said, "the cat
tie often arrive in the Paris area in
good condition"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14

considered small, there have been
some reports of sabotage in Japan. A
rigid Japanese censorship would pre-
vent the leaking out OF such informa-
ton through ordinary sources, but the
Chinese Communist paper Hsin Hwa
Jill Pao has declared that Japanese
communists have committed acts Of
sabotage at the Kawazaki shipyard,
the Aichi watch factory in Nagoya
and the Shibaura war plant in Tokyo.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
THAI INITIATION

According to reports from Japanese
dominated Thailand, initiation there
has sent prices skyrocketing to the
point where the That's have to pay
500 per cent more for pork and 1000
per cent more for a mans suit than
they did in pre-war days.
Everyone is naturally dissatisfied
with the amount of goods that can
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
Analysis of the

Editors Note: We present below
the last installment of a compre-
hensiye analysis by the National
Lawyers Guild of the Wagner-Mur-
ray-Dingell bill, which will be pub
lished serially. We urge our read
ers to read each installment A
sound and thorough understanding
of the measure will result)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-14
INSIDE THE
AXIS

(This material is prepared by the
Office of War Information from in
formation contained in foreign broad
casts and foreign newspapers, and
from other data received by Owl
through various overseas channels)
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-06
Survivors Say Boat
 Exploded

Washington, D c. (R)-The War Shipping Administration announced that it had been in- formed by the Navy that the Liberty ship John Straub, pre- iously reported to have broken it's back at sea resulting in the loss of 65 lives, was actually destroyed "as a result of violent explosions of undetermined orl- gin" Her cargo was highly in 1ammable and consisted of high octane gasoline and oil bound for the Alaska theatre of war.
 The VISA statement was based on navy interviews with the 12 survivors. The survivors reported that the first blast was apparently followed by others and was accompanied by bril- liant flashes of white flame and rolling clouds of smoke.
 The survivors reported un- animously that faulty construc- tion was not a factor in the sink ing. As matter of fact, they stated, the sea was smooth and the night was clear with only a light breeze on the ocean.
 "The official investigation has thus far not been conclusive as to whether the explosions were external or internal" in the sink ing off Sanak Island, the VISA said.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-06

Captain Horace R. Thomas, provost Marshal, who has been transferred, is being succeeded by Captain Frank E. Barry. it was announced this week.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-05-06

Mrs. Mary Walsh King, wife of Maurice King, widely known Alaskan flier, died in North Bend, Wash, this month on her way home to Alaska after re- ceiving medical attention. Be fore her marriage she taught in schools at Ruby, Candle and Kodiak.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

Continued from Page One)
of different colors to distinguish
among various groups
"a blue circle" the paper said, was
used for the 'anti-sociaP group, red
marked the political unreliable, while
those not belonging to either CLASH
fication bore a green circle"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
Pipelines of Thought"

In considering fighting to preserve IN our
ask courteous attention while queue
from recent issue of the "Co-operator:
cat the convention of the American Newspaper Guild
Mr. Morris L. Ernst wel-known civil liberties lawyer sub
mitted the following information
Tt my considered judgment that about 80 people or
corporations dominate the pipelines of thought to
the American people
sThe movie field dominated by five companies and
The five companies theaters winch take
in 70 per cent of the box offices of America
'There are radio stations Four networks dominate
them Seventy per of the income of OF the big net
works advertisers and SO cent OF the income
of another network 10 big advertisers Three hum
ded stations America dominated by newspapers and
12O cities the only newspaper also the only radio
station. -
the newspaper field the number of daily papers has
sunk from 1910 to less than 1000 l94O When by
normal growth present number should be nearer Oo
Mr Ernst could added that go chains control
of the daily circulation and onehaf the Sunday crcua-
ton of the country) -
THAT the making apparatus is beng
into obvious from the dfcuty apor
has to get hearing and by the battle winch coop
eratves waged to buy time
AS typical American family there many times wnen
we turn to one of modes of recreation Tor stlmuauo
only TO be affronted by the fare have to accept
Perhaps it would we'll to and ask ourselves
daily lives the of that fascism for when we are
sacrificing our chdren?-Mrs William Hamilton Brunswick
Maine in the Christian Science Monitor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
Danger

predict that it is going require all the
vigilance and all the ability of the LIBERAL Independent and
progressive members of the Forthcoming Montana legislative
assembly prevent the passage into law of contrary
the public interests but favorable to the interests of the
corporations and other privileged groups
More than likely there will be introduced nnocuous
appearing bills with we'll concealed jokers in them the
crafty minds of hghpowered corporation attorneys de-
wise only the careful scrutiny and study disclose
1t fortunate that the members whose principal
will be the best interests of the people of the state as
whole there will be qualified by training to evauate
these and discover their real intent
1t appears certain that concerted effort will be made
place the state record for instance against the proposals
for Missouri Valley Authority and this only be defeated
state made clear to their representatives in the assembly
also possible that efforts will be made to in
legislation collaborating with the of the National Tax
Equality Association the big business organization having for
its prime motive the injury and possible destruction of the
cooperative movement in the country.
In previous sessions various have been intro
duced innocent enough appearing, but having for their pur
the reduction of taxes levied against certain large
and powerful will be recalled that of those
cevery drawn and presented by influential
Der of the house would have had the effect reducing
rally the taxes the Western Life Company and
the last session relief from taxes banks sought
which failed to become law We may look many
similar attempts in the coming session.
recognized by the last legislative assembly that
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
Monopoly

statutes there law against restraint of
trade restraining monopoc practices in price fixing
other things opposed to the public interest But the law
apparently other and just damaging forms
and practices of monopoly.
instance in this state, the Montana Power Company
claims priority rights for all practical purposes all of the
of the Missouri river 1t has made effort to establish
these priority rights in the federal courts and failed
Why should be free to take such action which
completely contrary to the pubic interest without mpug
nation? The fact that federal law has been written, max
unlawful for combinations of capital and industry to
take certain action deemed contrary public interest indicates
that the danger of monopoes is recognized 1t would
reasonable then that further step should be taken prohibit
action which might lead to conditions adverse to the
public interest The pubcs interests should be the criterion
for the standing of action in the courts elsewhere
that the Montana Power Company has failed in the
federal egaze its claims to the waters of the Mis-
souri, river is the opinion of thinking people in the state
that the will make effort to obtain legal
1t is opinion that the court is
presently constituted will not undertake such action How
fairly reports of certain activities being carried
by officials of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and
the Power Company lead to the conclusion that they
are laying groundwork for efforts to
changes the personnel of the Montana court in the
distant future Whether they succeed will prob
ably determine the companys action whether not they will
make effort to egaze their attempted appropriation
of this natural
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

It's new problem confronting the
United States on account of its enor-
nous magnitude and the effect it will
have on reconyersion, business situa-
ton, labor and the coming post war
unemployment crisis Reconversion,
full time employment and the disposi-
ton of the nations war plants are so
closely correlated that unless they are
properly handled we stand chance
to face the biggest panic of all time.
If this panic is allowed to develop,
possibly one-third of the national
wealth will switch over to the over
flowing Golfers of those who own
most of it now.
Under a more advanced social or
der the situation would present no
problem at all and the plants would
be turned into an actual asset, now
they are loaded with explosive dyna-
mite and no telling what social up
heaval they may cause. Could we
find some sensible way to put them
to work building up devastated Eur
ope and Asia we may weather the
SlOIm WitHOut any Social unrest DuL
its a ticklish proposition. We could
write off the plants as a total loss
and still get by if we develop some
Twas but the mighty Power Trusts
are going to put up terrible fight
there too, so it seems like we are in
for some nasty, the most terrible we
ever faced, there to.
A. E. ANDERSON.
Butte, Mont, Nov, 1914.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
Prospects

With President favorng the establishment Of
centralized authorities for the development of all major rivers
United States the outlook for the creation OF missouri
Valley Authority is encouraging The influence of Presi
congress be said to be far effective at the
beginning of term than in the last year or two
members of the horizon Tor
advantages from possible political alignments
are, of certain congress- who Tor
another will fight the MVA proposals to the
bitter They will invoke method fair and unfair
and defeat it. Gripping amendments shrewdy drawn
camouaged will be introduced and endeayor made
to provide oophoe ION the fence members of the
gress remain there and position noffensve to
some degree to both sides of the controversy
So far present session, the MVA proponents led by
Senator Murray appear to have than held their 1t
up understanding and progressive people of Montana
to back our limit this fight flood of letters
and supporting the MVA should be directed to the
from individuals and organizations He should have
daily reminders is fighting aone that the people
back of him to the limit that they realize he
is fighting their battle for better future
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
Free Enterprise

Just this ree enterprise that the leaders of our
capitalist talk much about? Do they mean free
restraint for individuals of individuals
exploit fellow and the nations for their
personal advantage? Do they freedom from all
employ for their personal gan discovery
which might something to fuller life for all of the people,
restrain production order to promote its scarcity
and possible for charging the public exoronate
for the product Do they the right for group
with similar in other countries in licensing and
prcexing agreements accomplish this excessive price and
profit gouging the international markets? Do they
individuals and shall have the right to completely
ignore the pubics interest?
At what point according to their concepts does free
enterprise become anarchy? We'd like to have the line OF
demarkation established.
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of all the postwar planning that is being DONE
expected that the transition from to
economy will be accompanied by critical amount of unem
ployment.
Still fresh in the memory of America the evils of a
period unemployment The bidding of hundreds of workers
single job inevitably leads cutting, often below
health subsistence The skilled workers laid off,
They take Jobs porers dshwasher Mattresses
acceerang the trend toward lower in these
The standard of living reduced and the demand for
the of the factories decreased adding afresh TO the
roll Of the unemployed and involving the entire czenry IN the
downward spiral
One way to alleviate the problem is bottom below
which cannot fall The legislature that passes MINI
only throws life to the marginal
breakwaer for the citizen
when economic storms attack structure In other
words wheels keep turning only workers can keep
spending.
Where Protection Begns-and Ends
this postwar period approximately I'll million work
rs will have the federal Fair Labor Standards
which will their being cut below 40 cents
an hour An of SIG for 40-hour week is hardly
luxury maintenance but would have been bonanza to
millions the depression when people grabbed at jobs
paying cents and less These federaypro-
tected workers those occupations
additional 32 million workers not
covered by this federal law protected by state minimum
wage laws.
BUT and this must be focal point, estimated H.
600 600 additional workers. those under state
minimum wage laws unprotected Because their work
the field of interstate they must
pend legislation unless and until the federal const
tuition is amended to permit the whole minimum level
federal responsibility AS yet only 70 or signify
more than half the states the Union have any minimum
wage law of two of these Connecticut and New
York. apply to and women Inc othefs apply TO women
only, to women and minors. 49,
To those who are convinced all labor is living off the
fat of the land of much pubczed high
and should laying enough to tide depression at
tenon is called to that thousands of people in the
United States working for less than ~ Genus an hou
many than 80 Constitutional Consumers League
Bill
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conditions at the State Hospital Warm Springs sorely
need of remedyng joint committee of the two houses
reported that proper food and housing not being
provided for the unfortunate mentally i'll citizens confined in
the institution But the assembly apparently dsregarded the
and while small increase the appropriation for the
hospital made still inadequate to provide for
tens they obviously should be provided for if the ns
tuition should program of healing rather than to be
incarceration of mentally afflicted until mercfuly
released by death
We hope that the people of the realize the import
of keeping their eye' the forthcoming legislative
assembly.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
States Rights and States
Responsibilities

That hardy perennial of American debate the question of
rights promises flourish this enriched by
new conceptions of the needs of the people.
Wendell Wlke in his series of articles prior to the Re-
cautioned against fighting behnd out
of rights in conjunction with those who
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
THE GOVERNMENT WAR PLANT
IIA1u LIN On A ccET

THE GOVERNMENT WAR PLANTS
LIABILITY OR ASSET
Will the thirty billion dollars worth
of the nations war plants be post
war headache or can some sensible
way of their post war disposition be
arrived at? This is vital problem
and deserves careful analysis. There
are three different ways they can be
utilized or disposed of.
1. The nation could convert them
to peacetime production in full-time
employment, creating an abundance
for all, which, of course is out con-
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that mask social and political advance or those
others who by of for the rights of the states
really seek to weaken the federal government
We this point call attention to the fact that the
shield which carries the slogan Rights side, carries
the word Responsibilities on the other.
AS yardstck for measuring how far the states have
and how much remains to be done buwarkng against
poaton threat only the health and welfare but
also the purchasing of the American public let
consider four necessary statutes state minimum laws
8hour day and 48hour weekly limit womens hours;
equal pay for equal work for and and minimum
age of 16 for children leaving school to to work
No of these laws written into the code books of all
48 states At the tally by states stands follows
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States
with without
Minimum wage law for women 26 %
Eght-hour day and 48-hour week for
women in manufacturing II SO
Equal pay for equal work for men
and women -...--....- 5 43
Minimum age of 16 for leaving school
to go to work -------------------- IL SO
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sidering our present system of pri-
vate enterprise.
2. They could be turned over, on
credit, to unions or co-operatives for
them to operate, which is not likely
to happen with the larger plants even
if some of the smaller plants are
turned over that way.
3. The government could scrap
them or turn them over to the big
corporations at a nominal figure, for
them to operate or destroy in the
business-as-usual method, which is
most likely what will happen.
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