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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
WHY The LUMBER AND SAWkiILL
WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE

and prices, this loss of overtime should
not be borne entirely by the workers,
| it should not constitute increased
profits to the employers.
Bureau of labor statistics figures
show that lumber prices have in
creased from an average of $1,000 per
thousand in 1871 to an average of
slightly more than SAB per thousand in
1914. Thus lumber has been increased
in cost to the consumer more than
double its prewar price, while wages
in the Montana area were increased
by the war labor board only X cents
per hour go cents per day..
Reliable production figures show
that one major Montana lumber COM
pany produced II million feet more
lumber in 1914 with 400 employees
than it did in 1871 with 600 employees.
These figures prove, beyond doubt,
that the demands for wage increases
to the workers in the lumber industry
are fair and reasonable; yet to date,
an eight-week strike, very few counter
proposals have been made by the en-
ployers. This is perhaps due to the
fact that the strike LOSSES of the maj
or companies are being paid by the
public in reduced excess profits taxes
for the balance of the year 1916.
The lumber industry in the state of
Montana is largely absentee-ownoi
and controlled Out of the profits
made from the trees, which should be
enjoyed to the fullest possible extent
by the public at large in the areas
where the trees are grown, only the
payroll of the workers employed re-
suits in benefit to the businessmen,
merchants, farmers, and to the general
prosperity of the community. There
fore, the communities should sup
port the lumber workers in their strug-
gle for a fair and decent wage that
will result in payroll of benefit to
the community as a whole. Should
the worker lose, his loss would be
shared by the community; his gain
will be the community's gain.
ROBERT C. WELLER,
SERIOUSNESS Agent.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
STATE TB ASSN.
WAGES FIGHT
AGAINST DISEASE

Once a year you are asked to buy
Christmas Seals to prove that you
want the Montana tuberculosis Asso
citation to continue its fight against
tuberculosis. In buying and use Christ
mas Seals you are enlisting in a
planned campaign to make our state
safer place in which to live.
Last year SO of the 1877 Montana
residents who died of tuberculosis
were under 25 years of age. The cam
paign for the prevention and cure of
the dreaded disease continued with
20,194 tuberculin tests being given
throughout the state in 81 counties
during 1914. Groups included in this
testing program besides school chill
dren were school employees, food
handlers, industrial workers, miners,
etc. Approximately 1890 X-rays were
taken for positive reactors. A very
important part of the longrange pro-
gram is the observation and subse-
quent periodic denomination of indi-
viduals who have either reacted posi-
lively to the tuberculin skin test or
whose first X-ray examinations re-
vealed some abnormal shadows in the
chest. Five hundred eight new cases
of tuberculosis were reported in the
state during 1914
Throughout the year, films and talks
were featured in the educational pro-
gram of thee Montana tuberculosis
Association. In 1916 the proceeds from
the annual Christmas Seal sale, which
is the sole financial support of the
association, will not only enable the
association to maintain its usual ac-
tivities, but to introduce mobile x
ray unit to be used in the constant
effort to prevent, control and cure tu-
berculosis, international enemy of
youth
That the value of the work of the
Montana tuberculosis Association is
is amply evidenced by the |
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| HELENA SCHOOL
BOARD SILENT In
EASTMAN CASE

Editors Note: The court action
instituted by Miss Violet Eastman
against the Board of Trustees of
School District No. 1, which has at
tracted national interest, and organ
lied labor's efforts to secure a
peaceable settlement of the case, is
reviewed below:
April oath, the Helena School Board
refused to renew their contract with
Violet Eastman to teach in the schools
of Helena, refusing to give their reas-
ons for so doing, although Miss East
man was an efficient teacher and
there is shortage of experienced
teachers in the state
Miss Eastman commenced action in
court to force the Helena School
Board to reinstate her with pay for
all time lost, claiming that the Board
had not acted according to the laws
of Montana in resembling her contract
On September 9th, a committee,
representing the Helena Trades and
Labor Council accompanied by James
D. Graham, president of the Montana
State Federation of Labor, Graham
being chairman, appeared at a session
of the Helena board and requested
the school trustees to meet them as
a collective bargaining committee to
discuss the merits of the Eastman
case, with a view of settling the case
out of court and presented a petition
signed by over 600 residents of Lewis
and Clark county requesting the
school trustees to reinstate Miss East
man as teacher.
Floyd Young, actuary for Western
Life Insurance Company, chairman of
the School Board, laid the subject be-
fore the trustees. A motion was made
and seconded that the petition be ac-
cepted, acted upon and made part of
the records. The motion was carried.
A discussion took place between
the members of the board and the |
chairman of the committee. Mr.. |
Young, chairman of the board stated |
that all the members of the board |
were not present and that it was de-
sirable that all should be present be-
fore the subject of reinstating Miss
Eastman was acted upon. This was
discussed by members of the board |
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exercised over the Fascist-Nazi en-
slavement of Europe? And if he feels
so deeply concerned over the enslave
ment of Europe, how did he come tc
be known as the leader of the isola
zionist forces in congress-and else
WHEREBY
How does the senator propose that
we ''let her know once and for all"?
He would call "a real peace confer
ence,' he says, with or without Rus
sia's participation. How REAL does
the senator think the peace" would
be without Russia's participation? If
Russia does not participate, what
then, senator?
"No one wants war with Russia
insinuates Montana's great peace
lover. Such talk has the effect of
coming out of both corners of his
mouth at the same time. One corner
says: we do not want to fight Russia.
The other says: but we are not afraid
to fight her; Russia must come
across" or else.
Does the senator propose peace by
intimidation? Apparently he does
For in the same speech he approves
international control of the atomic
bomb patterned" he adds, "after the
Truman-Attlee-King formula" Notice
that there is no Russian name in the
formula Notice that it is an Anglo
American formula for the information
al control of the bomb, not a formula
arrived at and subscribed to by an
international agreement (as provided
for in the San Francisco Charter,).
Notice that one of the partners to that
agreement is now engaged in sup
pressing independence uprisings in
Indo- China and in Java. owe must
quit appeasing Russia" says the SEN
ator.)
Every Montanan probably agrees
with his senator: we ought to have
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
WAR AGAINST
CANCER In
SOVIET UNION

Many scientists believe that X-ray
except in cases where surgical aid is
feasible, is of little value in the treat
ment of lung cancer often shortens
the patients life.
Professor Jacob Dillon, a Soviet sci
enlist, recently came to another con-
clusion. Working in his special elm
ic in Moscow, Professor Dillon treat
ed 1000 persons suffering from lung
cancer. He divided the affected area
into small sections and upon each OF
these he directed an X-ray beam OF
low power. The combined power of
the rays on 35 or 40 such sections
cured the lung without having a de-
structive effect upon the body as a
whole Five hundred out of 1000 can
Ger cases kept under observation have
been completely cured.
A great offensive against cancer is
now under way in the Soviet union.
On the initiative of Foreign Commits
sar V. M. Molotov leading scientists
drafted comprehensive plan while
the war was still going on. Peoples
commissar of health of the USSR,
Geeorgi Minerev, heads the group
which includes specialists in the field
of cancer research and treatment.
The plan calls for wide network
of cancer dispensaries, radium-treat
ment stations and hospitals Many
young doctors now completing medical
school are entering cancer research
institutions, and thousands of physi-
clans are taking advanced training
courses. In addition to the $4,000 can
Ger sections in general hospitals, 15,-
900 more will be built to provide hos
pital accommodations for all cancer
patients from the moment the dis
ease is diagnosed. One hundred and
fifty radium-treatment stations will be
opened during 1945-46. These facili
ties will guarantee to every person
suffering from the disease the bene-
fits of early diagnosis, treatment and
observation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
DANGER OF anti
LABOR Bills
PASSING

The legislative drive to crush la
Dor has reached a peak in the nation.
capitol. Coming to the floor for vote
from the reactionary rules committee
are three measures intended to de
stroy workers rights:
1. THE GWYNNE BILL OH. r
27SS) provides a one year statute Of
limitations ''for the recovery of wages
penalties and other damages, actual
or exemplary, pursuant to any law OF
the United States" This vicious leg.
islation would place the one-year limi.
tation on suits under the wage-hour
act, the Wagner act, the Walsh-Healey
law under ALL federal laws benefit
ing workers. 1t is patiently discrimi-
natory because it places no such limi-
tation on businessmen and other citi
zens who sue under federal statutes.
This bill was okayed by the rules COM
mittee on May I'd for early house ac-
ton.
2. HOBBS BILL III r. 32). Dis
guised as an misunderstanding act, the
bill Provides for a 20-year Jail SEN
tence and $4,000 fine for any person
or persons who through intimidation
OF by threat of violence interfere with
interstate commerce.
This section is intended to place in
the hands of reactionary courts who
have often interpreted peaceful pick
citing as intimidation, the power to
Jail and fine all pickets, break up all
picketing and destroy the workers
right to strike.
Another section defines extortion as
Of property with consent
under color of official right" which
may be interpreted by courts as out
having the union shop since collec-
ton of dues could be held to be ex
tortion. Sam Hobbs, an Alabama poll
taxer, makes no bones that the bill is
at labor, claiming he is
against labor racketeers." 1t strikes
at the heart of all labor activity.
8. ARENDS SMITH CONNOLLY
BILL ((H. R. 3937). The bill amends
The old Smith-Connolly act to elimi-
nate the strike votee provision. 1t
outlaws all labor political activity,
making it illegal for labor to collect
and use any funds for independent po-
itical action. 1t goes far beyond the
I'D Smith, Connolly provision barring
by unions to campaigns,
aking away all rights to use any
unds in any manner to advance un-
on political interests, in primary as
we'll as final elections.
A second section takes away collec-
i've bargaining rights for one year
rom any union which strikes when it's
contract provides a no strike clause
md allows of strikes against inclu-
ion of no-strike provisions in con-
racts, the section goes farther than
ny anti-labor law yet proposed in de-
troying collective bargaining and the
lights of workers. !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

| The Is Montana Lumber and Saw
mill Workers local unions, having a
membership of more than 1000 work
Der area, went on strike September
"a, 1915 because of the absolute refus-
al of well-organized employers in the
Montana lumber industry to grant a
wage increase, or even to make wage
proposal to the workers in the 1um.
Der industry. Today after two months
of strike the outlook for settlement
is becoming brighter but the end is
not yet in sight.
The wage demands Of the workers
were not new nor were they exorbi-
tant. They were exactly five cents
per hour greater than wage demands
which were served upon the employers
on October 20, 1912 and have been
under discussion and attempted nego.
tiations ever since that time. In spite
Of tremendously increased profits and
the ability Of the lumber industry to
ell every board that it could produce
Euring the war, the employers have,
ever since 1912, steadfastly refused
to consider increasing wages and have
denied all wage requests. For three
years every form of mediation and ar
bitration was tried, while the lumber
workers continued to produce lumber
in the interests of the nations war
effort.
Following the end of the war, the
United States secretary of labor APP
pointed special three-man commits
sion to attempt to mediate the dispute
and prevent the threatened work stop
pages which the employers were fore
ing to showdown by their stand-pat
attitude on wages. The employers ig-
nored the efforts of the secretary of
labor and refused again to offer even
one red cent of wage increases-this
in spite of the fact that the lumber
workers, who had been working long
hours during the war, were facing an
early loss of the overtime pay which
was largely supporting their families.
AS pointed out by President Truman
in his message to the nation ON wages
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

Montana's master headline-hunter
Senator B. K Wheeler, read four
hour speech to the senate, November
9th 1t is now the senator's inning
and he is making the most of the
brief interval between wars. Press
reports of the speech show that the
senator is helping to make the third
world war inevitable if not imminent.
This time Montana s. chronic opposi-
zionist promises to break the ranks
of the isolationists. eve must quit
appeasing," he warned the senate.
(The date is 1915, not 1881 1t will
be remembered that those who called
for an end to appeasement in the
'thirties were labelled "war-mongers,
were said to be Fastening the nations
down the road to war. But this ap-
peasement is different: 1--WE must quit
appeasing Russia" says the senator
The senator might in all honesty
have said that we must stop provoking
Russia too. The unjustifiable inter
ference of America with the course OF
the Chinese undeclared civil war, the
presence of American troops in North
China, the concentration of American
aviation in China, its transference
from Burma and India: what do these
things mean to Russian? Perhaps
the senator should himself stop being
so self-righteous, so smugly American:
let him think Russian. We might not
have to appease if we stopped provok-
ingl
1--WE must quit appeasing Russia"
Suppose Russians start saying, eve
must quit appeasing America" Or
the French: I'VE must quit appeasing
England" What then, senator?
What must be our policy toward
Russia? Says the senator confident
ly: We must "let her (Russia) know
once and for all we did not fight this
war to let her enslave the people of
Europe" (Was the senator greatly
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
MONT. MVA ASSN.
URGES SPEED
lin PETITIONS

With hearing on S. 555 (the Murray
MVA bill) scheduled to be set very
soon by the senate agricultural com
mittee, the Montana MYA Association
urges increased activity in securing
names on petitions asking for imme-
diate passage of the act. 1t is man.
datory that the quota of petitions for
Montana be secured at once.
Counties in which extra effort is
required Immediately are: Broadwa-
ter, Carbon, Garfield, Granite, Jeffer
son, Meagher, Musselshell Petroleum,
Powder River, Powell, Prairie, Rose
bud, Toole and Wheatiand.
Signed petitions should be forward
ed directly to the Regional Commit
tee for MVA, 257 Aquila Court Build
ing, Omaha, 2, Nebraska. Progress in
getting signatures should be reported
to the Montana MVA Association, Box
729, Helena, Montana. Assistance in
the way of speakers for meetings, can
be secured by writing to this address.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

= REA engineer OF St. LOUIS.
Featured speakers on the program
were Mr. Bigelow and Mr.. Walker.
Mr.. Bigelow discussed technical ques-
tions pertaining to the REA and Mr..
Walker explained the proposed plan
of development the Bureau of Recla-
nation had outlined and encouraged
interested co-operatives to file their
applications for service at an early
date.
Following the talks by these speak
ers, the question of what the State AS
sociation of REA Co-operatives should
do regarding the proposal for develop.
ment of the Missouri valley resources
by a Missouri Valley Authority.
After some discussion, the follow
ing resolution was presented and
adopted by the unanimous vote of the
REA Cooperative representatives:
Whereas: The Missouri Valley is
subject to floods, droughts and devas-
tation created by an uncontrolled riv.
er, and
Whereas: The measures undertake
en- so far have failed to produce salts
factory results for the 100000 resi-
dents of the valley, and
Whereas: A Missouri Valley Au-
thority promises the full development
of the vast potentialities of the re-
gion and promises the coordination
of measures for flood control, irriga-
l., Ill
servation, reforestation, watershed
preservation of all
phases of wild life and aquatic life
under direct management of
the respective states, development of
resources, industrial develop
ment and the full utilization Of the
power potentialities of the Missouri
River Basin, with resulting low rates
for people in the region, and
Whereas: The establishment of a
Missouri Valley Authority can mean
the Transformation of a declining agri-
healthy balanced and prosperous in
dustrial agricultural-economy, and
Whereas: The establishment of
Missouri Valley Authority in the pres
ent session of congress offers asur-
ance of economic security to many
thousands of returning servicemen, de-
modified war workers and farmers
Therefore Be 1t Resolved That this
composed of representa-
ives of the Montana State Co-opera-
ives do hereby endorse and urge the
establishment of a Missouri
Valley Authority; an autonomous
BOARD directly responsible to the presi-
lent and the national congress.
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! Pattern

Last week turned telescur- of Fort Peck's
physical features takes fairly powerful telescope to
all of artificial lake having shore line longer than that of
Continental United States likewise fairly active imagination
to the necessity for 10 million feet of storage
stream where the total of annual flow only about
four million feet Now lets turn the telescope down the
main stem Missouri where five proposed Pick plan
about 80 of the valley floor
through two states, into series of lakes
Average annual flow of Missouri river at Yankon Con
South DakotaNebraska ne somewhat less than Is million
feet Reservoirs which would provide
control this flow
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF
MONTANA RE-. ASSN.
ENDORSES MvA PROPOSAL
Representatives of r. E. A. Co-operatives in
State, Unanimously Adopt Resolution
Urging Immediate Establishment of a
Missouri Valley Authority, Asserting That
1t Means Balanced Economy.

The annual convention of the Montana Rural Electrified
ton Association attended by of all of the REA
cooperatves in the state held in the Park Hotel in Living
on October 81 Also Tove Karkanen of the
State Water Conservation Board John R. Walker of the United
States Bureau of Reclamation and W. B. Bgeow Regional
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07
MONTANA'S CONTRIBUTION TO
THE THIRD WORLD WAR
By PAUL MEADOWS

below personal opinions of the writer
the attitude
the subjects discussed
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-12-07

PROJECT and LOCATION G.
Lower Canyon, Livingston, Mont
Boysen, Thermopolis, Wyo.
Fit. Peck, Glasgow, Mont.
Garrison, Garrison, N. Oak.
Owl Creek, Mobridge, S. Oak.
Oahe, Pierre, S. Oak.
Fort Randall, Wheeler, S. Oak.
Gavins Point, Yankton, S. Oak.
:
Totals.
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