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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
EMPLOYERS
ChISEL ON
Minimum wage

MINNEAPOLIS-As a senate sub
committee conducts hearings on Sen
ator Peppers resolution to declare
as substandard, L. A. Hill, regional
director of the wage and hour and
public contracts divisions, u. S. De.
partment of Labor, points out that
more than half of the current inspec-
lions by the Minneapolis regional of
flee disclose violations of the mini
mum wage and overtime provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards act
Wage-Hour records show that from
October 81, 1943 to October 81 this
year s7S1,S73 in unpaid wages and
overtime was collected or ordered
paid to 2O,472 workers in region 10,
which comprises Minnesota, Montana,
and North and South Dakota.
This represents the amount of re-
stitution due as result of violations
of the Accent minimum wage and
overtime provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards act, according to HILL
Although in this region in the last
six years there has been a gradual
in compliance with the
wage and hour law, it is evident from
these figures that there is still appar-
ent 1axity on the part of some en-
ployers," he said.
Completion of six years of opera
ton of the act finds considerably
more than million American work
ers still being paid less than 40 cents
an hour. More than a million of
these are in agriculture and domestic
service and million in industry and
retail and service trades outside the
acts provisions"
Another 3 million workers not in
agriculture or domestic service make
between 40 and so cents an hour, and
another ~ million get from so to 60
cents an hour, Hill said.
Restitution figures for individual
states in the last year in region 10 |
'ollow: Minnesota s56S,676; Montana
;13,430; North Dakota 1884, lao; and |
South Dakota S145,627.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

Council, indicates that a concerted
drive for funds for the propaganda
work of the committee was probably
made simultaneously with and as a
part of the political campaign by per-
sonal contact which the organization
carried on in the main streets of pref
ty much all of the larger cities and
culation by mail of it's literature
which was made up of half truths
seasoned with plenty of falsehoods.
Its line of propaganda followed out
in the main, the pattern set by Attor-
ney Wilmington D. Rankin in his voci-
Sidney Hillman and the Political Ac-
ton Committee of the CLIO and his
dire predictions that Sidney Hillman
and Earl Browder were planning to
take over the state government, i'm
plying that they would do so if Ford
were not reelected. On its letter
head, this little but probable neo-fas-
cist organization carried this line:
Opposed to Sidney Hillman's Polit-
ical Action Committee"
According to it's report, it had di-
vided the state into IL districts and
had fixed budget which totaled $12,-
1872 and assigned specific quotas to
be raised in each of the districts. The
report lists total receipts of $6,905
from ten of the districts. Strangely
enough-or is 1T. B. Weir appears
as the heaviest contributor to this
also with T. B. Weir
listed as contributing 500 and Taylor
B. Weir $500. Evidently he still han
died the purse strings of the corpora
tons even though Wellington D. Ran
kin may have been crowding him for
first place as attorney for them.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
By /. L. D.

On election day Phelps Adams, Gym
ically horse and buggy political col.
umnist of the New York Sun, pre-
dicted cheerfully that:
Gwen in the event of a Roosevelt
victory, which would give the Demo
Gratis mathematical majority of the
representatives, the coalition now
operating between republicans and
southern democrats +. would still
continue to hold sway
This is the "unholy coalition whose
existence has always been denied by
Joe Martin and John Rankin, his Mis-
sissippi democratic co-leader of the
republicans.
Since the election, Adams hasn't
had so much to say along those lines.
Actually, the figures on representa-
tives elected Cat this writing demo-
Gratis 244, republicans 1876, prog. l.,
American Labor party /, undecided A.
are in themselves tremendously en-
couraging. The southern democrats
didn't gain those seats. The new
oCdJo dlC nClu II Jill MI III
ern and western states. And on top
of that a number of the most out
standingly bad democratic representa-
tives from the south have been elm
mated and replaced by men who at
least won't hold seniority committee
positions
But the picture is even brighter.
From many parts of the country DEM
ocrats have been elected who were
backed by labor, have regulations for
honesty and progressive policies. And
a number of the outstanding isola-
ZIONIST, defeatist republicans from the
north have been voted out too. So
that the story isn't in party figures
really. 1t is only understandable in
terms of WHO specifically was
elected, and WHO was defeated
From time to time we will be able
to give much more detail on the as
pect of the 10Th congress, again in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
THE NEW CONGRESS

terms of who Is there and who is
missing. 1t is now very encouraging
Chances are 1t will look even more
so as the details come out more
clearly.
Another thing: Congressman who
were undistinguished in the 18th con
gress have had a lesson from the de-
feat of some of their fellow-members.
the election of progressives supported
by labor. And so, brother, have the
real bad onesi
Another most important factor is
the tremendous development of pop
ular activity by labor and professional
people in the course of the 1914 cleo
ton. 1t was UNNECESSARILY greater
than at any previous time. And it
wasn't just an interest in the election.
One important development is that a
huge number of people of Influence
in their communities have become in
tensely interested in the political
processes which determine the destiny
of our nation. And millions of rank
and filters are behind them-pushing
They are all going to keep on doing
something about it. Congress realizes
that; its individual members will
realize is more clearly every day.
AS for labor, its political activity
metrically month by month. Con-
gressmen know that too.
All in all, we can look forward to
a fruitful year of development toward
full national unity, with victory and
a victorious peace as the bright goal.
The Lame Duck Session
Congress met on the 14th of this
month, with no intention of doing
anything ION the floor at least) for
at least ten days; with the further
intention of going home by December
10. 1t is going to have plenty to do
during that time, with social security,
the Presidents war powers and half
a dozen other pieces of major legis-
lation outside the particular field Of
the l. L. d. But there are a few inn
portant matters in our field on which
action should be taken, or to which
consideration should be given.
G. |. Assault Bill
There is, for example, S. 1927, the
G. l. Assault Bill, which would provide
the protection of the Department of
Justice and the federal court to sol
diers, sailors, and Marines. At pres
ent, if a member of the armed forces
is assaulted or killed by civilian,
the local prosecutor can decide wheth-
Continued on Page Three
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
PATTON FIXES
HIGH STANDARD
FOR RURAL LIVING

Americas postwar goal must be a
standard of living for all Americans
so high that it means a minimum in
come, expressed in money, of $500
a year per family, whether on the
farm or in the city, Pres James G.
Patton, OF National Farmers Union
told delegates to the unions national
convention.
Not only does the nation have the
forts, and luxuries for all people on
this high level, but it must do so, Mr..
Patton said
1t is high time; it is intolerable that
Al per cent of our farm boys, and %
per cent of all boys, were below the
minimum health standard for war
service he said
1.-THE penalty for delay or failure
in a remedial program is another and
worse depression chronic mass unem-
ployment, chronic dispossession of
farm people, and another war"
The National Farmers Union is sup
porting legislation in congress to
maintain the nations economy at a
two hundred billion dollar yearly level
by bringing government loans and
government public works, when
needed, to supplement private indus
try.
Mr.. Patton declared for:
A flat guarantee of life tenure of
his farm and home for every family
type farmer who makes a reasonable
at good farming and at con-
serving the SOIL
A farm production goal thatis based
On satisfying the full wants of all our
Continued on Page Three)
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advertisements which were TO
be seen in practically all Sec
tions of the state and is known
to be one of the more expen-
sive forms of advertising. 1t is
generally believed that these
billboard advertisements rep
resent special donation by
the large corporations of the
state as a tribute to their
friend.
According to the reports filed with
the secretary of state, the Republican
State Central Committee expended
1861 in the general election cam
paign, the Ford for Governor Club
S13,5OO and the Montana Citizens
Council $6,879.59, to make up the total
of $52,612.54. 1t may be assumed on
the basis of statement reported to
have been made by the chairman of
the Republican committee that the
principal object of the committee was
Ford's reelection, that the bulk of
the expenditures must have been
made for that purpose.
1t is interesting to observe that T.
B. Weir, counsel for some of the
largest corporations in the state was
the heaviest individual contributor to
the Ford for Governor Clubs exche-
quer. Others contributing fairly large
sums were: Chas Colbert $500; J. H.
~
N B. Hotter $500; w. M. Nichols
$500; w. L. Cliff $780, Fred Heinecke
$32569 (probably an assessment lev
led on employees of the First Nation
al Bank, Helena; Geo. Jacoby $500
and A. M Hotter $500.
The report of the Montana Citizens
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

GERMAN LEADERSHIP

GERMAN LEADERSHIP
The speculative possibilities on the
present condition of Adolf Hitler are
numerous. He may be dead, ailing, a
prisoner, perverse or coldly calculat-
ing. Nevertheless, his continuing
mysterious invisibility at a time of
acute crisis has not been followed by
any conclusive evidence that his SUI
preme leadership has been assumed
by any man or group of men in Ger
many.
Four high-ranking nazis are current
lysharing the headlines in the German
domestic press-Gestapo Chief Helm
rich HTimmler, Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels, SA (Storm Troop
Gen. Wilhelm Schepmann and Martin
Bormann, head of the nazi party chan
cellory.
Before one concludes from this fact,
however that Himmler is ruling Ger
many as a substitute fuehrer or that
new ruling quadrumvirate has been
set up, it is noteworthy that the new
prominence given the four nazis arises
not from an assumption of brand-new
power, but rather from the relation
ship between their particular func-
tions and Germany's present total
mobilization drive.
Nazi press dispatches over the last
several months have shown official
pre-occupation with at least three
major campaigns, all related to the
last-ditch defense of Germany: Q)
total mobilization of available mate
rial resources and manpower, (2) or
ganization of a Peoples Army con-
sisting of all males 16 to 60 and prac-
tically anybody else willing to volun-
teer and (3) establishment of closer
between the nazi party
and the army.
The four nazis repeatedly men,
toned in the German press are
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| WAR
BONDS

This material is prepared by the
Office of War Information from in
formation contained in foreign
broadcasts and foreign newspapers,
and from other data received by the
owl through various overseas chan
nels.)
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COLOR SCHEM {

The dimensions of Heinrich Hmm
ler's reign of terror in Germany
reached the point last August %
where no less than 10000 persons
were concentrated in the Oranienburg
camp alone, according to the Schaff-
hansen Arbeiterzeitung. The Swiss
paper said that those incarcerated at
Oranienburg were marked with rings
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

Reports filed by the Republican State Central Committee
the Club Ford personally and the Montana
Citizens Council which waged cleft handed campaign for
Ford Also the expenditure of total of $5261254 but
search accompanying the reports failed to
disclose accounting for the number of Ford billboard
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01

CHICAGO (CLNS)-The Coop Centennial Congress- at its
session here aked out enough work for the
alive to keep busy well into the second century
of cooperation.
After the intensive debate of the congress- the dele
gates referred the board directors The Cooperative
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
REELECTION OF FORD
EXPENSIVE ACCORDING
TO REPORTS FILED

Indicated That the Cost ,stssHis ;as Support
ers Far Exceeded Salary an ss1'' a'asss' Library
Which He Will Receive for the Four IS
OF Service; Also Some Items Of Expense
Apparently Not Accounted For.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-12-01
international COOP
TRADING and mfg. ASSN.
PROGRAM FOR FUTURE

Coop Congress Maps Out Action To Start
Second Cooperative Century; Resolutions
Adopted Covered Programs of Domestic
And international Action; Denounced
Efforts To Tax Savings of Coop Members.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

aud daughter -lay, Mr., and Mn
m. and Nm. Harry III. IJaser have
as their guest Mrs. Jager's mother
Mrs. Eugene A. Hawkins Of Crescent
City, Fla. b
Mr.. and Mrs.. Chris 4. Chappcll art
entertaining as their guest Mrs
Chappell's sister -in-law. Mrs. H. B
Webb Of Waynesboro, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlow G. McCofd
are spending the week end In New
York.
Mrs. Robert Beatty left Friday foi
Elmira, N. Y, to visit her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. +. E. Grinnell.
1t. and Mrs. j. Harry Miles. jr.
are visiting 1t. Miles parents. Mr.
and Mrs. j. Harry Miles, in India.
napolis.
". and Mrs. FRANKLIN Lee VIII
hanson are visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bailey
Williamson.
Evening star., 1944-10-01
tanned Thursday At luncheon and

tanned Thursday At luncheon and
bridge.
A bridge party and luncheon wa
given Wednesday BY Mrs. Frank
Ham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Atkinson Of
New York are the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Pippenger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh Lawrence have
as their guest Mr.. Lawrence's
mother, Mrs. j. H. Lawrence OF
Franklin, Va.
Mrs. Augusta E. Romig Of Pitts
burgh Is the guest Of her SON. in law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
H. Mccall.
Mrs. Robert N. Patterson and her
daughter. Miss Priscilla Patterson
have as their guest for the week end
Miss Dorothy Clarke Of Sykesville.
Mrs. Charles G. Clark of St
Joseph, Mo-, is the guest of her son
Evening star., 1944-10-01
Chevy Chase Neiehborhood News
EDening Parties Are Popular;
/ House Guests add to Interest

who will entertain at supper in
compliment to their daughters, Mis-.
Patricia Wohlgemuth and Miss Joar,
Wohlgemuth. in celebration OF their
birthday anniversaries.
Last evening Mr.. and Mrs. James
H. Pugh entertained at buffet
supper.
A dinner party, followed by bridge
was given last evening by Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick M. Nettleship.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Sutton were
hosts at supper and bridge Friday
evening.
Mrs. Maurice v. Dawson enter.
Evening star., 1944-10-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Pitt will enter
tain this evening at dinner in honor
of Chief Yeoman william Crewe
who has just returned from Nor
mandy. "A
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gregg Keal
also will entertain this evening
when they will be hosts at a supper
for Capt. Willis Cleaves, U. s. N.
and Mrs. Cleaves. who are bere from
Florida, and Comdr. and Mrs
Thomas Sisson, who have returned
to their home after an absence Of
two years.
Other hosts this evening will bt
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Wohlgemuth
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Ex-Mury|ond Trooper Pilots
11O-Mission Bomber Home

Rumania and German fighter fac.
tories in Augsburg to smashes al
enemy strongpolnts in Tobruk.
She used up 10 engines, a couple
of pairs of wings, and her fuselage-
still the originals pitted with
more than $50 fax holes, but moi
one Of the 250 men who have flowr
1,058 combat hours In the four.
engined plane has been killed O,
wounded.
"She has the best safety RECORD
OF any ship in the Mediterranean.
her pilot, Maj. Ralph P. Thompson
or Galena, Ohio, once a MARYLAND
State policeman, said with pride.
After she has completed a tour O,
plants which contribute parts TO,
Llberators, of which the Miami fac.
tory is one, she will be flown to Fort
Worth, Tex, where engineers will
tear her down and study her skeIe.
ton for stresses and metal fatigue.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Increased Mail TO Troops
Is Urged by Dr.. Puqh

Urging persons at home to write
oftener to the men at the battle
front, the Rev. William Barrow
Pugh, chairman of the General
Commission on Army and Navy
Chaplains, yesterday declared the
men need mail to bolster their
spiritual ties with home.
He spoke at the evensong service
at Washington Cathedral, sponsored
jointly by the Washington Fedora
tion of Churches and the Cathedral
DR.. Pugh, who has toured the zones
said he had found Jewish, Catholic
and Protestant chaplains working
side by side doing wonderful work
to sustain the spirit of the men ir
the armed forces.
A choir of 110 midshipmen from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis
sang. Also participating in the
service were the Rev. Arthur S
Devan, director of the chaplains
commission; the Rev. j. Herbert
Garner, pastor of Sixth Presbyterian
Church, and the Rev. Robin Gould
pastor of Francis Asbury Methodist
Church.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Bomber Limps Home
with Eight Wounded
|And Enqine Dead
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORoKINA AIRFIEID, Bougain-
vile, Jan. Delayed About all
the Blessed Event had left when
she limped away from Rabaul was
her name and grim will to live.
One engine Of the big Liberatol
had conked out, another was vir-
tually useless. Her left rudder had
been shot away, the landing gear
blasted, the radio and electric sys-
TENS disrupted and the instrument
panel punctured.
But 1t. Harry p. John of Crowley
La, 140-pound pilot OF the 40-tor
ship, finally brought her down or
the Torokina airfield where she
rasped along the landing mat anc
came to rest on the edge Of the
strip.
Eight Of nine crew members were
wounded, and the 10th man was
dead.
Together, they had downed four
japanese planes and probably three
more in a blazing 40-minute fight In
their first mission over the enemy
New Britain stronghold.
The No. 3 engine failed about
five minutes away from the target
1t. John said, "but we decided to 60
Evening star., 1944-02-21
By the Associated Press,


MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 21.-Employes
Of the Consoidated-Vultee aircraft
plant here will meet the crew and
count the flax holes today in the
Blue Streak" one of their chicks
that has dropped half a million
pounds Of explosive eggs on Axis
targets, sunk 3 ships and downed %
enemy fighters.
A radio message received over
the Atlantic diverted the Liberator
bomber from Boiling Field, WASH
ington, her destination when she
left Naples for home pastures, and
caused her to alight at Miami's
Thirty-sixth street airport yester-
day with 10 happy crewmen, 2 COM
bat cameramen, and Hal BOYLE,
Associated Press war correspondent.
Most of the crewmen kissed and
patted United States soil when they
tumbled from the plane. They will
be given leave after telling aircraft
workers of their SO bombing mis-
sions.
The Blue Streak" made 11o raids
on targets ranging from the furious
attack on the Ploesti oil fields in
Evening star., 1944-02-21
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. - A.
MONDAY. FEBRUARY y,

Allied beachhead below Rome. Some
submarines have been fairly active
there. Allied headquarters has said.
Sixty-seven survivors we're picked
up after two Of the U-boats were
destroyed and some more were
saved after q night attack on q
U-boat that crash-dived.
During two nights Of the 11-day
period three large conveys passed
through the strait without inter-
ference, a joint Admiralty and Air
Ministry communque said.
Evening star., 1944-02-21

|on in At least 20 Zercs pounced
on the crippled Liberator. One burst
demolished the instrument panel
$50 the crew couldn't tell their speed
|or altitude. A
Second 1t. Raymond e. Green,
Sayre, Okla, the co-pilot, who was
nicked In the arm, said the Zeros
made more than 20 passes from all
directions. Some hurled aerial
bombs at the Blessed Event, but
none hit. The bomber jettisoned its
load and turned for home.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
|Christiun Science
Lecture Thursday

Judge Frederick c. Hill, G. S. B.
Of Los Angeles will deliver lecture
on Christian Science, entitled
Christian Science: The Science
Which Demonstrates Mans Eterna,
Identity" at 1910 pm. Thursday al
the National Theater.
The lecturer is d member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church Of Christ
Scientist, Boston.
Evening star., 1944-02-21
|CIO News to Publish
Servicemen's Edition

The Congress Of Industrial Or
ganizations began publication today
|of servicemen's edition of the
CIO news, the unions official paper.
The edition, to be published on a
monthly basis, will be distributed
through relatives and friends" the
CIO said.
Evening star., 1944-02-21

MIANI-vICTORY SHIP HOME FROM WARS-The famed
Lberator bomber Streak decorated with 110 stars rep
resentng raids against the Axis and swastkas depicting
enemy planes and ships destroyed brought heroic crew
here yesterday after 800e flight Naples Left to
right front row. It. Jose Felz r bombarer Bedford
Mass It. Wayne E. Hakkinen co-pot Gardner, Mass. Mai
Rapn r thompson pilot Galena, Ohio; Maj John Craig
commander 9th Combat Camera Unit passenger It. Thomas
w. McGrain navigator Detroit Standing: Crewmen Tech
sergt Ivan Schwartz Stanton Nebr Staff serg Joseph
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Three U-Boats Destroyed
Trying 10 Pass Gibraltar

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 2l.-The Admi-
rally has announced that three
enemy submarines Of a pack which
tried to slip through the Strait OF
Gibraltar into the Mediterranean
were destroyed by British planes
and warships and several others
were damaged.
The pack tried for II days to slip
through, perhaps under orders to
attack Allied shipping around the
Evening star., 1944-02-21
Students Get Milk

Instead of the midday meal of a
bun, children in 80 Dublin schools
are to be given sandwiches and
milk during the winter.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Stocks Advance
To Best Levels
Since Late 1887
Saturday Volume Tops
Million for First
Time Since lo4l
BY BERNARD 8. O'HARA,
Associatsd Press Finaneiai winter.

NEW YORK, June 1.-THE stock
markets invasion boom continued
at full speed today under q new wave
Of buying that sent the Associated
Press 60-stock composite to the
highest recorded since late 1887.
With volume at l,064, ,400 shares,
first quarter -million Saturday since
December, 1871, many leading IN
dustrials and rails extended the
weeks advances by fractions to
around 2 points.
The carrier stocks were Uniform
ly strong Steels, farm equipments,
coppers and specialtics were nearly
as good, but some other issues fav-
ored In the earlier stages felt the
force OF profit taking. Chrysler
showed another gain and Douglas,
up "a points, was the strongest OF
the aircrafts.
At its closing level OF $50 the go
stock average was up 3 Of q point
ON the day and up % points on the
week for the widest six-day rise
since early January, l942, when the
market rebounded from the Pearl
Harbor slump.
Bonds had some strong spots, par.
ticularly among rails.
The weeks surging advance on
the stock exchange verified predic-
tions heard In Wall Street In re.
cent weeks that q successful In
vasion Of the European continent
would release great amount. Of
pent-up security buying.
The broad character Of demand
reflected confidence Of an early VIC
tory over Germany, confidence
which was later bulwarked by the
bombing Of YawatA and other heavy
attacks on japanese positions.