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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
COLOMBIA
EDUCATOR AT
UNIVERSITY

Former minister of education in
Colombia, German Arciniegas, will ap-
pear on the campus of Montana State
university as visiting professor dur
ing the 1914 summer session, Walter
A. Anderson, director, announces.
The university is securing the South
American through grant-in-aid from
the Office of Co-ordinator of Inter
American Affairs in Washington, DC.
Professor Arciniegas will arrive on
June IL and will remain for five
weeks, teaching in the educational
workshop, Spanish, and history
classes.
Professor Arciniegas came to the
United States in 1912 as a visiting
professor at Columbia University in
New York City. He has been visiting
professor at the University of Chi
cago, Mills College in California, and
University of California.
The Latin American received his
doctor of law degree from the Univer-
sidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia.
From 1933-9S he was professor of So
GEOLOGY at that institution. Prior to
his arrival in the United States he
served as minister of education in
Colombia.
Author of many books, Professor
Arciniegas has written three books
since his arrival in this country. They
are "The Knight of Ell Dorado, Ger
mans in the Conquest of America"
and "The Green Continent"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
REPORT OF WORK
lin SUPREME
COURT FOR Week

DECISiONS:
May 3rd-Tony Elich v. Industrial
Accident Board. Appealed from Mus
selshell county, Rounday. Unanimous
opinion of the court prepared by JUS
tice Left Erickson.
Facts: Elich was injured while
working for Jeffries Coal Mining COM
pany and applied to the Industrial
Accident Board for compensation. He
was allowed S21 a week but the num-
Der of weeks the payments were to
extend was not determined Later
the board and Elich entered into an
agreement in which it was agreed that
the claimant would receive total of
3121a weeks. After the last payment
had been made Elich made applica-
ton for the payments to continue for
the full 500 week maximum allowed
by law The board refused to enter
tain the application and based their
refusal upon the agreement.
Held: On appeal it was held that
the agreement was Intellectual since
the board by law must pay the claim
ant all that he was by law entitled
and an agreement wherein the claim
ant agreed to take less was not bind
ing. The cause was sent back for
trial on the issue as to whether the
claimants injury entitled him to the
maximum of 500 weeks allowed by
law
May 5th - B. kesselheim Inc. v.
Samuel j. Cocklin and others. APP
pealed from Wheatland county, Har-
lowton. Unanimous opinion of the
court prepared by Chief Justice How
ard A. JohnsoEe
Held: In a quiet title action in
which the plaintiff claimed to be the
owner of an undivided one-half in
terest in the minerals and mining
rights by virtue of tax deed, it was
held that the tax deed was invalid be-
cause of failure to observe the man.
date of Section 2212, Revised Codes
1885, requiring the filing of an affi-
davit with the county treasurer show
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
MONTANA
H0LSTE1N COWS
TOP PRODUCTION

BRATTLEBORO, vt. = Two Mon
tana herds of registered Holstein-Frie-
sian cattle are among the top-produc-
ing Holstein herds in the nation for
the official herd test year closed Sep
TENDER 80, 1913, announces The Hol-
stein-Friesian Association of America.
Recorded in Volume Is of the Red
Book, compiled annually by the ma
tional association, is the average pro-
duction for these herds.
The highest producing herd of the
two is the 4-cow herd owned by A.
J. Schwalger, Billings, which is high
est in the classification for herds of
Is COWS or less MIXED twice daily
with the production ofc620I pounds
of butterfat from 1856 pounds of
$3.50 milk
The other high producing herd is
the 40-cow herd owned by J. c. Stein
er, Billings, which is highest in the
classification for herds of $3.50 COWS
MIXED twice daily with the produc
ton of 1891 pounds of butterfat from
1896 pounds of $3.50 milk.
The per COW average for the AT
herds on official test during 1943 was
1895 pounds of butterfat from II, 435
pounds of 1880 milk.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
PROG. POLITICAL
ACTION COUNCIL
In Lake COUNTY

PABLO.-At a well attended meet
ing held in the local school hall, pro-
gressive minded people from every
section of Lake county gathered on
April Goth to form county unit of
the Montana Council for Progressive
Political Action. All of the various
farm and labor organizations of the
county had representatives in atten-
dance. E. L. Swan of st. Ignatius
was the temporary chairman, and
Isaac Rognrud of the Mission was the
temporary secretary.
After a vigorous address by Jerry j.
O'Connell, former Montana congress
man and vice chairman of the state
organization, the people in attendance
voted to form and complete the Lake
County Council for Progressive Polit-
ical Action, and selected their perma-
nent officers and committees. Peter
Rorvik, veteran progressive leader
and former state senator, was elected
as chairman; Isaac Rognrud, st. Ig-
natius, vice chairman; and Mrs. Ray
Carey, Charlo, was named secretary
llGdSuIG I
The following executive committee
war chosen: Dave Anderson, Poison;
C. C. Clayton, ST. Ignatius; William
Alfred, Round Butte; Leroy Johnson,
Moiese; and William Leishman, st.
Ignatius. The legislative committee
consists of William Owens, Poison;
Tom Dwyer Arlee; Ed Beaulieu, st.
Ignatius; d. L. Manning, Poison, and
George Frazier, Rollins. The follow
ing finance committee was set up:
Ray Carey, Charlo, Frank Lockwood,
Roman, and Tom Moore, Pablo.
The second meeting of the group
was held at Leon on May 4th, and
plans for the coming elections were
laid, with particular stress laid on the
defeat of Representatives Mcdaniel
and Atkinson, whose records were
1000 in behalf OF the vested interests
of the state.
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Yellowstone
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political drive in the coming elections.
The first order of business will be a
spirited campaign to get all people
registered to vote The council will
eventually select and endorse candi-
dates for county offices, with particu-
lar stress being laid on the legislative
offices to be filled.
A permanent organization was COM
pleted at Fridays melting, and the fol
lowing permanent officers were
chosen: Charles Banderob, Huntley,
chairman; Bert Price, Billings, vice
chairman; Glen E. Lewis, Laurel,
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, sec
rotary; and Jerry Gass, Laurel, Oil
Workers Union, treasurer. The group
also elected from the floor the follow
ing committees to serve for the re-
mainder of the year: Executive: Pete
Thompson, Laurel, Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen; F. M. Fennel Bill
lings, ALL Electrical Workers; Har-
old Gerke Farmers Union, Billings;
Mrs. Joe Cormier, Blue Creek, Ladies
Auxiliaries, and Grin Stevenson, Bill
lings, United Steelworkers, CLIO. Leg
islative: c. S. Rothwell, Laurel, Rail
road Brotherhoods Rudolph Bender,
Billings Bench, Farmers Union; Or
vile Anderson, Billings, Oil Workers
Union, CLIO; John Newman, AFL, Bill
lings; and Mrs. Grin Stevenson, Bill
lings, Ladies Auxiliaries. Finance
committee members chosen, are Mil
ton Israel, Billings, Farmers Union;
Jack Romeo, Laurel, Railroad Brother
hoods; E. H. Helterbran, Billings,
ALL; Russell Barr, Laurel, Oil Work
ers Union, CLIO; and Mrs. Russell
Barr, Laurel, Ladies Auxiliaries.
o'connell Speaks
Jerry J. O'Connell, former Montana
congressman, and vice chairman of
the state group was the principal
speaker of the evening, and outlined
the Importance of the county group
in the crucial 1914 elections. He urged
all groups to forget their past differ
ences and unite for concerted action
in the coming campaigns. He re-
ported on the progress of the work
already completed, and predicted that
every county III Montana would have
such a unit functioning in the very
near future. He laid particular stress
on the functions and Importance of
each office that was to be filled this
year, from the Presidency down to
precinct committee men and women.
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it pays per cent. 1t is probable
that il the capital structure of the
company were put on an actual valu-
alton, with the tremendous volume of
watered stock eliminated, the in
debtedness of the company could be
refunded at a very substantial saving
to the company.
The Effect On Rates
When the actual valuation of the
Montana Power Company is set up
on its books, there will be an oppor-
tunity for the Montana Public Service
Commission to establish a rate struc-
ture based upon the prudent invest
ment valuation theory set down by
the U. S. supreme court. According
to the member of the Federal Power
Commission there will be ample rev.
enue received to take care of all re-
quired dividends and obligations of
the Montana Power Company under
the reduced values at rates that will
be considerably under those now paid
by the utility company's customers.
That matter will be up to the public
service commission for final determi-
nation.
The member of the commission said
that the informal offer of settlement
came before any of the facts found by
the Federal Power Commission in its
investigation have been brought out
at the public hearing. The hearings
are now in progress. He indicated
that the power commission might be
willing to sit down with power COM
pany if they so desired However at
the present time nothing has been
agreed upon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
NEWSPAPER GUILD
HEAD, PRAISES
ANTI-HITLER FILM
Paramount's Sensational
Picture, "The Hitler Gang, !"
Receives High Praise From
Labor Previewers.

NEW YORK CITY.-John T. Nc
Manus, president of the New York
local of the American Newspaper
Guild, made the following statement
about the Paramount motion picture,
"The Hitler Gang" after witnessing
preview screening:
"Paramounts The. Hitler Gang is
the most exciting, explicit, and effec-
tive expose of Hitler and nazism ever
produced in America. A great film
that calls a spade a spade and lays
low the ghosts of Jew-baiting, labor
batting, and red-baiting. Has to De
seen by every trade unionist."
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Workers.

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three speakers of national and inter-
national reputation will be furnished
by the Workers Education Bureau OF
America and other similar agencies.
The outline of the proposed pro-
gram as reviewed by the joint COM
mittee meeting in Missoula April 30
includes the following points:
Labor History, Labor Economics
and Post War Problems, Labor Press
and Public Relations, Problems of Col
lective Bargaining, Union Procedure
and Collective Bargaining Technique
Labor as others view us Speakers
from farmers and business men
groups). Social affairs will also be
as time will permit Treas
ure State Labor Journal.
DEMAND THE UNION LABEL!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12

ing service of notice of application for
the tax deed.
ORDERS:
May 9Th Petitions for rehearing
were denied in the following cases
which were heretofore reported in
these releases:
John BeedIe v. r. w. CaroIan, from
Rosebud county, Forsyth;
Nick Andrews v. City of Butte, from
Silver Bow county, Butte;
Thomas Woodward v. John E. Per-
kins, from Powell county, Deer Lodge.
Prepared and released by:
PETER MELOY, Marshal
Montana Supreme Court.
Have you registere dto vote
yet? IF not, do so NOW!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12

CLEVELAND, Drank ]. Lausche,
foreign-born mayor of Cleveland, has
announced his candidacy for governor
in the coming primaries on the demo
cratic ticket. In his announcement,
Mayor Lausche said he would stress
the need for sympathetic support of
the country's effort and determination
to win the war and the peace"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
Legal Advertising

DEMAND THE UNION Label
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nazi Belgians who had fought with
the Germans in Russia:
I'm the cinemas, there was recently
presented a newsreel on the fighting
in Cherkassy, made by Capt. Leon De-
grelle. The newsreel was greeted by
a profound silence. Then somebody
had coughing fit The cold, which
was apparently contagious, spread
throughout the audience. Soon there
was storm of laughter, murmurs
and snorts."
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a whole year,
An effort will be made by poll tax
democrats and Rankin republicans to
knock FEPC appropriation out on a
point of order, the excuse being that
there is no legislative authorization.
The point of order is so much baloney
if majority of representatives in
sist on keeping the appropriation in.
Representative Mary Norton has an
nounced her labor committee will con-
slider on the 9th or 10th of May
whether to hold hearings on the Daw-
bills for a permanent
FEPC.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-05-12
slDE-NoTE ON DIES COMMITTEE

SiDE-NOTE ON DIES COMMITTEE
In its report" on the CLIO Political
Action Committee, the Dies commit
that if it (the Dies committee) could
be discredited, it would be accepted
generally that it is politically danger
Gus to indulge in the sort of Hitler
helping shenanigans which have been
its specially. (The committee didn't
so describe its un-American activities,
but most people who know the score
will agree with the description.)
This week it began to look as
though they knew what they were
talking about for once Joe Starnes,
veteran member of the Dies commit
tee, who has acted as its spokesman
during Dies almost complete alb
sences from his job in Washington,
was retired from active politics by
his electorate in the Alabama demo
cratic primaries. One down, six to
60 Congressman Eberharter, eighth
of the committee, disagrees
on everything with the other seven)
TRACES OF MANKIND" REPORT
Five white supremacy representa-
tives, three southern democrats and
two republicans, joined on April Is in
q report, as a subcommittee of the
house committee on military affairs,
which is one of the most disgracetul,
documents ever, issued
in this county. This is the report on
the pamphlet Races of Mankind
The papers told about it, but not
the half of it. Now the report is
printed and available.
Races of Mankind" is the pamphlet
explaining scientifically why Hitler
racial theories are wrong, and how
their dissemination breeds disunity il
United Nations ranks; how Hitler
uses these theories as weapon
against us. 1t is the pamphlet OF
which the army ordered $4,000 for
use in orientation courses, then |
litched them when Chairman May Of
The Military Affairs committee de-
bounced the pamphlet and anyone |
who would distribute it as "Commun-
SITS" (The report is that the Com
nunist" organization that bought up
he $4,000 copies discarded by the
Army was the YMCA.)
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
Foef VS.. Fiction

This discrepancy between fact
and the BIS Index IL again due
to BIS failure to survey other
than the largest cities, to failure
to survey more than the centers
OF those cities studied, to ignor-
ing the smaller and medium
cities and even the outskirts of
the big towns, and to a failure
to reflect declines In repairs that
landlords used to supply.
On top Of this, the BIS Index
resolutely refuses to survey rent
costs in boarding houses, trailers,
rooming houses, etc.-despite the
fact that hundreds of thousands Of
workers are living in such places
today.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

and other commodities) evasion OF
ceiling prices.
AS an example of how inadequate
the Index Is, the report shows that
Its clothing findings are based on
samples from only four stores in
each of the "a cities surveyed with
one exception-five in New York;.
In place of this slipshOd
method, the CIO-AFL study Is
based on an examination of
Sears oebuck and Montgomery
Ward catalog prices during the
three year period 1941-1944, on
U. s. Dept. Of Commerce figures
of value and quantity of clothing
sold, and on consultation with
workers and housewives as well
as on detailed studies Of quality
deterioration and q careful trail
Ing Of the vanishing "low-end"
or cheaper items.
Here's one example on clothing
quality. 1t Is based on a Consum-
ers Union study of shirts, which
showed declines of 10 percent in
thread count, 10 percent in tensile
strength and 10 percent in con-
struction and inspection. At the
same time, these lower quality
shirts are selling at 20 percent
higher cash price, plus the Is per-
cent hidden increase in the deteri-
Grated quality.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
Shades Of
Mrs. billing

Chicago. Jan. 20 (FP)-Sale Oh
pamphlets of the British Library
Of War Information has been
banned az "subversive" by the Chi
cago Library Board.
For protesting the ban' Board
Member Leo Lerner, liberal pub
licist whose protest was backed by
the Chicago Public Library EN-
ployes Union tCIO), was removed.
Reviewing "Hitlerite tendencies
in the board, the Chicago Indus
trial Union Council 10 demanding
at least two labor representatives
on the board.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

Nest week, The CIO
NEWS iCW carry a special
supplement- on the cost Of liz
ing study made public BY X. j.
Thomas and George Meany
this week. The supplement
,cM carry fill details on the
,cay your food and livime bud
get has jumped far beyond
the official figures.
CIO is also publishing the
fnH test Of the report on your
cost Of ivine. Watch for 1t
and place your order nov
,cifh the Publicity DEPART
menf, CIO. 7IS Jackson Place,
". w., Washington 6, ID. C..
Get your order in early
there's a paper shortage.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

certain foods-many that enter
into the cost Of living are left
out. The OPA and the subsidy
program now In effect control
prices of these Undiscovered
foods only; the others are al
lowed to run away pretty much
on prices as they please.
The result, as the report points
out, Is that the costs Of foods not
priced by the BIS have risen
twice as fast as :he prices of the
priced foods" yet they are rot
taken into account In the Index.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

House furnishings show the same
picture of inadequate Index meth
DDS failing 10 reveal the actual in
crease in costs. According to the
Index, the rise has been 27.S per-
cent. According to the joint ClO-
AFL report, the actual rise Is 81
percent.
Once again, inadequate SAM
ping. failure to note quality de-
clines, ceiling violations, ETC., are
the cause of the discrepancy be-
tween the Index and the actual
state of affairs.
In concluding the report, first
overall study to show the real
bite that prOfiteering has put on
the workers income, the authors
list briefly such factors as black
markets, wartime changes in
family OUTLAWS restaurant meals,
for example), expenses Of NOV
ing to war jobs, maintaining dual
residences, increased taxes and
the like, as factors untouched In
the BIS Index.
And in the final clincher on Lit
tie Steel, the report says: Your
committee finds that since January
1871, living costs have risen 43.5
percent, and that there Is dis
crepancy of 2s5 percent between
the rise in living costs and the
wage adjustments allowed under
the Little Steel formula"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

Grade B eggs, get bad vegetables,
are cheated in a thousand and one
ways on quality. Every housewife
knows this, but the BIS doesn't,
for. as the report points out, the
BIS Index takes no account OF
downward quality changes In mer-
chandise.
This Is true not only OF food;
Il is particularly true OF cloth
ing and house furnishings. Ac-
cording to the BIS, the price Of
workers clothing has gone up
ss.7 percent. According to the
facts In the labor report, the
actual rise Is 72.2 percent.
This Is more than double the
amount shown by the BIS index
and again the deficiency Is due to
failures of the Index to cover
enough cities and stores and to
take into account quality deteriora-
ton, disappearance of cheaper
brands and items, and Gas in food
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And, according to the OPA, shoes
have deteriorated in quality from
a minimum of 10 to a maximum OF
40 percent; one brand, sold at a
certain price in 1871, cost the
equivalent of AZ percent more In
1943, due to lower quality.
Even rents. which have been
widely advertised as the most
stable of all cost Of living items,
have risen far more In fact than
the BIS Index sh0ws-by Is per-
cent instead Of the Index figure
Of three percent.
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f!}ak:If

Nazi threats about a startling
secret weapon" to be used soon on
the Allies remind US Of a passage
from king Lear:
Il will have such revenges on you
both
THAT all the world SHALL will do
such things
what they are. yet I know not,
but they shall be
''The terrors Of the earth"
King Lear, when he made THIS
speech, had become completely in
sane.
The sinking Of the Nazi battle
ship Scharnhorst off Norway has
given the Germans definite COM
mand Of half the seattle bottom
half!
The ALL has refused to partici-
pate In the world conference OF
trade unions, to be held in London
In June, thus following an isolation
LIST policy that smacks Of the
"Gompersism" Of the 1920s. The &C
tion inspired the following:
The trouble with the AFL.
And on this point I'll bet.
IL that little Willie Green
Amt outsrown his Gompers yet!
The way the political situation
currently IL shaping UP, 1t looks as
though FDR will get his fourth
term and the Republicans their
fourth trim.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31

These are the cold, hard facts
about the increase in the cost Of
living since the Little Steel wage
formula date was fixed as Of three
years ago. They are revealed in
the report made jointly by the Clio
and the AFL to the Presidents
Committee on the Cost Of Living,
made public today by r. ]. Thomas
for the CLIO and George Meany for
the AFL.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
Steel Formula Out

They knock the Little Steel for
mula, and the Labor Dept's Bureau
of Statistics figures on which 1t
was based, for a complete loop. AS
the CIO-AFL report mildly says:
an view Of the fact that the
cost OF living has actually risen
by Mt least ass percent since
january 1941, whereas the BIS
Index shows o rise of only 2S.4
percent, we conclude that the
BIS Cost Of Living Index Is UNI
reliable as . basis for wage
adjustments during the war
period.
sole reliance upon 1t will result
in continued serious injustice to
wage earners and lower-salaried
workers"
This is how the BIS Index, used
as the base for the Little Steel for
mula, errs on the side Of under.
statement.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
BIS Figures Wrong

Take food. According to the BIS
Index, food costs have gone up
since the Little Steel base date
(January, 194D by 4o.2 percent
Actually, as the CIO-AFL report
shows, the increase has been 74.2
percent.
How come this difference be-
tween the BIS and the study
made by the labor movement?
The answer lies, as the report
shows, In the deficiencies Of the
BIS method, in the failure to
sample enough cities and enough
foods, and the connected fact that
price control has worked only
on the inadequate number OF
foods used In the Index.
The BIS Index In limited to
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
JAW Victory

Cleveland, Jan. 2S-The CLIO Unit
ed Auto Workers Union this week
won by a 81 to / margin an cleo
t,on held at the Klaas Machine Co.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-01-31
Changes I'm Quality

And another deficiency: Every
housewife knows that quality on
foods land everything else) has
gone down, while the price stays
up. You pay Grade A prices for