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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
AN OPEN LETTER TO
GOVERNOR SAM C. FORD

Dear Governor Ford
When you made your radio talk KGHL Monday
night told the people of the state which you
that the proposed Missouri Valley Authority
have almost mitess and would dictate the economic
and social life of the state, words to that effect
Why Governor, did you tell them where you got the
authority for such statement? Why Governor did
cite the language of the Murray Bill and point page
section wherein it would almost unlimited powers? Why
did not tell the people of your state how it possible
for the to corporation than
body itself possesses?
Why Governor? Because you couldn't do it, you can't
do it, and you know it.
Why Governor, when you declared that the rates
electrical cheaper at Bonneville and Boulder dams
than the Tennessee Valley did you not tell the people
cheaper they all than the charged ordinary
the Anaconda Copper Mining Company-jut
ordinary folks-n Montana?
Why, Governor when you praised the Army Engineers
did not make slight mention of the millions
millions of dollars they have spent in the past $50 in
ineffective flood control efforts? Why didn't tell the
people that the Army Engineers considered interests
but their own until threatened with an MVA?
Why, Governor, did not tell the people why the
Bureau of Reclamation its offices in Washington should not
be looked federal though in 1912 it had
5000 employees and will have employ 100000 if
trusted with the job should out whereas
Authority, it's activities limited to the Missouri valley, with
offices the valley instead of Washington should be looked
upon "outside agency?
Why Governor you prefer to have this project
Washington than FROM say Billings other city
in great west?
Why Governor did you not tell the people that from
the time the law providing for Bureau of Reclamation
until the end of the fiscal 192930 go years.
the farmers reclamation projects able to toll
the less than 20 cent of the charged
against their land by the bureau?
Why did not tell people that the Bureau of
has generated kowatt of electric
in Montana in the years it has been in existence?
Governor you attorney and good one, but Mon
day night you talked like lawyer with very
extremely conscious of the fact You should be
fight for Montana instead Of for the American Power
Light Company
Respectfully
Montana MVA Association
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
JAW HEAD BACKS KAISER'S BID
TO KEEP F0NTANA STEEL PLANT

! built Fontana steel plant and to ac-
quire the Willow Run bomber plant
when it is released by the army.
Following a 2-day tour of the Kaiser
shipbuilding, cement and magnesium
interests, Thomas said he thought
Kaiser should definitely get Fontana
and take over Willow Run. He said
he urged Kaiser to enter the automo-
bile field producing light passenger
cars.
81 am thinking in terms of the ma
tional economy to create new jobs and
activities benefitting the country di-
rectly and auto-workers indirectly"
Thomas said, urging speed in recon-
version planning. He will go to De-
troit by way of Chicago and then to
Washington to take up questions arts
ing from the conference with Kaiser
here.
Kaiser is now negotiating with the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. to re-
adjust his Indebtedness. He built his
500 million Fontana steel plant with
RFC funds and now wants authorize
ton for a private loan of $50 million
to convert the plant to civilian use.
After meeting with Thomas, Kaiser
stated: "a million auto union mem
bers Is a tremendous instantaneous
market. The uncertain status of Fon-
tana hampers plans for the market of
civilian products, including autos and
airplanes." Kaiser said he has SIS
million eastern orders for steel prod
ucts contingent on Fontana CONVEX
sion.
Research by my organization
shows that if my hospital and med
ical facilities were duplicated on
nationwide scale they would produce
three million jobs" Kaiser said. 1.-THE |
fields of prepaid health insurance,
highway development, transportation |
and housing would provide 80 mil
lion"
Declaring that unemployment bene |
fits for war workers are merely a |
stop gap, Thomas predicted more I'M
from shipbuilding and |
war plant cutbacks than has been Off |
cially prophesied 1.-THE automobile |
industry must be expanded 60% to |
supply the demand" he said
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08

today. Sidney Hillman, who has beer
chairman of the organization since its
inception last summer, becomes hon
orary chairman, DR.. Kingdom said
Mr.. Hillman remains head of the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
PAC.
Other officers of the national com
mittee include Jerome Udell, New
York businessman, treasurer; James
H. McGill, Indiana industrialist, comp
troller; and Clark Foreman, president
of the Southern Conference for HUI
man Welfare, secretary.
A leader in the Farmer-Labor Dem
ocratic Party of Minnesota, Mr.. Ben
son has served not only as governor
but also as United States senator, a
position to which he was appointed
in 1885 to fill out an unexpired term.
In Minnesota, where he now operates
his own farm, he has also been state
commissioner of banks and state COM
missioner of securities. AS a mem
Der of the executive committee of the
NC PAC, he took an active part in
the campaign last year to re-elect
President Roosevelt.
1--WE have an important task ahead
of u.s." Mr. Benson said in accepting
his new post. 1--WE must mobilize the
people of America for progressive
political action In order to maintain
progressive government, the people
must realize that voting is not
quadrennial affair limited to presiden-
tial elections. The people have a
stake in the local and state elections
and most certainly in the biennial
congressional elections"
The committees program for 1915,
calling for non-partisan support of
President Truman in his endeavors
for world peace and full employment
was also released. The objective of
the committee, according to the pro-
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Predictions that light vote the second congressional
district would bring about the election of DEwar the
dictionary republican candidate for the congressional seat made
by death of OConnor borne out with
DEwar chalkng total of some 1000 votes more than
his democratic opponent Grayb received With returns
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
APPRAISAL PLAN
FOR FARMS
SUGGESTED

Advocating federally sponsored
farm appraisal system from which
anyone at any time and at reason
basis an appraisal of a farm which
he wished to buy or sell, VIM. r..
Myers, dean of the Cornell College of
Agriculture, told the National Agri-
cultural Credit Committee, meeting in
Chicago recently, that such an ap-
praisal system should be available If
for no other reason than its educa-
tional value. at would tend to in
crease stability of land prices in good
times and in bad and it would help to
get across the idea that ordinarily the
value of farm is determined largely
by its expected earning power over
series of years. Too few people ap-
preciate that fact, particularly in the
present market. They tend to look
at prices of commodities for the last
few years and perhaps for the next
few years and not think of the long
period it usually takes to pay for a
farm from earnings he emphasized.
"a federal appraisal system would
make available to individual buyers
some of the knowledge which lenders
with an appraisal system have avail
able to themselves. 1t should not be
considered an emergency measure to
control the present advancing market
in farm real estate" said Dean Myers,
"but an educational move sorely need
ed in this country. 1t would in no
way interfere with the appraisals
made by the trained appraisers of the
insurance companies and others, but
it would make appraisals available
to those on the other end of the bar
gain - the buyers. 1t also could be
used by individual sellers and small
not having trained ap- |
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
SMALL VOTE IN SECOND
DISTRICT DEFEATS The
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE

A Rainy EleetesssD't0i sa ss Library ined With
Apathetic Attitude of the cople Toward
Election of Congressman to Represent
Them, Brings Victory to the Reactionary
Republican Candidate.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
NAZI INDUSTRIALISTS PLOT
TOESCAPE WAR UNSCATHED

around the outskirts. American pre-
cision daylight bombing had as its
principal target not complete de-
struction Of all factories, but care
fully selected critical or bottleneck
plants. Destruction of one such tar
get might shut down a score of other
plants that had been untouched by
bombs.
Moreover, during years Of air at
tacks, the general staff Of German
industry developed the art of quick
repairing. | visited plants in Schwein-
furt which had been precision bombed
many times but each time repair
crews had patched them up so they
could go operating, even If on re-
duced scale. Finally, many German
plants were planted underground.
Two small /. G.. Farben plants in
the Frankfurt area were damaged
but not put out of operation. Two of
the company's plants at Ludwigshafen
and Leuna were substantially ruined
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BY HERBERT A. KLEIN
FTP War Correspondent

Supreme Allied Headquarters (de-
| Iayed) - While the German military
Headers get themselves in the spot
light, trying to cast blame for theil
nations war policy and deeds of hor
ror upon the top nazis, another power
full group has kept safely in the back
ground as it maneuvers for a come
back
/ In 1918 It was the Kaiser who fled
while the generals stayed. This time
the danger is that after the top nazis
are gone, by suicide, mutual murder
or execution, and even after some of
the generals and the admirals are re-
moved the directors and managers of
the super-corporations may stay on at
their old stands.
Every man, woman and child in the
United Nations has an interest in see
ing that this bloody conflict does not
end with the men whose dirty work
the nazis did pulling a comeback for
another try. The picture is not com
plete, and many things may change it.
especially an aroused public opinion
in the victor nations. But here are
a few facts l have picked up from my
own observations in Germany and
conversations with other correspond
ents:
L. Top men of German industry,
notably those tied up with big indus
try across the channel and overseas
by means of cartel agreements, CO.
ownership and inter-locking director
ates-these men expect that in the
areas occupied by Americans and
British they soon will be able to re-
sumo production and profit making,
more or less as usual. This applies
especially to the powerful chemical
trust, I. G. Farben Industrie.
2. Most of these economic lords of
Germany today are living in comfort,
well housed, well fed, well served
They are not too much worried about
what "die Amerikaner" will do, al
though most of them were admittedly
nazi party members and all of them
were among those who benefited most
from nazi policies and guided the
nazis in those policies.
8. AS evidence of their goodwill to-
wards their recent enemies, they are
all set to turn over substantial ac-
sumulated dividends from German
war industry to American and British |
For instance, the lucky |
holders of /. G. Farben stock can fig |
ire on receiving more than 400 ac-
,umulated dividends = very tempting
If the l. G. Farben directors can
wrangle permission to transfer funds |
hey assertedly have long had ready |
or this purpose. This is a thinly |
disguised attempt to bride.
A. Spearheading the drive for re-
'toration of German production and
Profits will be the heads of many big
whose plants have been
damaged little or not at all, in spite
If the air assault on Germany. There
ire many of them. Despite thorough
devastation of many towns, probably
wo thirds of the plants of the biggest
orations-chemica trust, automo-
lille, coal, etc.-are in shape to oper-
tie, with little fixing here and
here
British flyers, bombing mostly at
light generally dumped their bomb
pads in the centers of towns-and in
1ost German cities, the factories are
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
BACK WAGES PAID
in MONTANA

More than $4,000 in Illegally with
held wages was paid by northwest en-
ployers to 1,199 employees in May
in Region 10, which comprises Mime
sofa, Montana, and North and South
Dakota, according to L. A. Hill, re-
gional director of the wage and hour
and public contracts divisions of the
U. S. Department of Labor.
Of the total S22,554 went to 1,120
employees in Minnesota, $2,861 to CT
North Dakotans, $1.016 to nine South
Dakotans, and $3.50 to three employees
in Montana.
Total restitution in Region 10 for
1916 up to June 1 is $156,492.
"All such payments were made vol
unfairly by employers after our in
spectors had explained the violations
and indicated the amounts due" Hill
said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08

tabulated in SOL out of 754
precincts, D'Ewart had 23,648
votes to GraybilPs 19,846.
Robert Yellowtail of Lodge
Grass, running as an independ-
ent had polled 1927 and E.
Spriggs of Wyola, filed as a
socialist candidate had 179.
The total vote in the sol pre-
cincts reported was 1850.
The precincts not yet tabulated
Thursday morning are small, scat
tered ones and returns from them
will not materially affect the total
vote of the two leading candidates.
Since the total number of regis
tered voters in the second district is
124,752, the votes cast in the SOL pre-
cincts tabulated represents just a
fraction over 37% of the total vote
and it is practically certain that when
the returns from the remaining pre-
cincts are tabulated, the total vote
cast for congressman from the dis
trict will be less than SO per cent
of the total number of registered
voters.
A rainy election day last Tuesday
provided an excuse for more than 60
per cent of the voters to fail to dis
charge their obligations as citizens
of a democracy by voting for their
choice as their representative in con-
gress. While in the remote outlying
districts, muddy roads probably made
it difficult and in some cases impos-
sible for the voters to get to the
polling place, this certainly does not |
provide a legitimate excuse for any
total of the so per cent |
who failed to go to the polls.
Observers were convinced that the
Montana Power Company would make
sure that every possible one of its
supporters would cast his vote for
D'Ewart who has been and will con-
tinue to be a willing tool for it's
practices.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
FREEDOM DEAD
IN ARGEN TINA,
IS CHARGE

NEW YORK-(FP)-La charges
that the fascist Argentine govern
ment's suppression of democratic
rights has become even more drastic
since her admission into the United
Nations conference were fully sub
stantiated by a sensational report
from Buenos Aires in the New York
Times June 1.
Struggled out of Argentina to evade
mangling by censors, the news story
by Times Correspondent Arnaldo
Cortesi declared that things have
happened in Buenos Aires recently
that exceed anything that this cor
respondent can remember in his II
years experience in fascist Italy"
1.-THE Argentine government had no
sooner declared war on Germany and
Japan and signed the final acts of
the Mexico City conference than it
deprived the Argentine people of what
small remains of freedom they still
possessed" he reported.
"Under the pretext that in wartime
anyone who did not approve of the
government was traitor to his coun-
try, the government embarked on
campaign of intimidation by whole
sale arrests of prominent citizens and
severe measures against the news
paper that dared to raise it's voice
in protest. At the same time political
censorship was resestablished in the
vain hope that. news of what was
going on could be kept from the out
side world"
Ironically, even story he wrote on
of State Edward R. Stettin-
ius' declaration that Argentina was
obligated to carry out effectively all
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URGES AFT. ENTRY
into WORLD
ORGANIZATION

SAN DIEGO, Calf. - (FP) - The
powerful San Diego Federated Trades
& Labor Council has gone on record
for ALL participation in the World
Trade Union Conference.
Delegates Endorsed a resolution urg-
ing the AFL to enter the new world
labor organization by an estimated
two-thirds voice vote following a spir-
tied debate. The resolution, urging
the participation of the ALL in the
recently organized World Labor Con-
gress so that labor the world over is
united and will have a strong, unified
voice in the making of the peace"
originated with the Norfolk, Va, Cen
trail Labor Union.
1t is before all central labor bodies
throughout the U. S. as the spear
head of a rank-and-file AFL move
ment to join the new world labor or
ganization, despite the opposition OF
the ALL executive council.
Action on the resolution in San
Diego came shortly after ALL Pres.
William Green spoke here reaffirming
the opposition of the AFL leadership
to the World Trade Union Conference
on grounds that it is not a bona fide
association of free unions because
Soviet labor is included. The resolu-
ton, which was presented to the
council by the resolutions committee
with no recommendation, will be for
warded to Green.
SEATTLE-(FP)-The Washington
Teamster, newspaper of the Washing
ton State Council of Transfers (AFL)
in a front-page editorial declared that
the transfers union lis in complete
agreement with the refusal of the
AFL to have anything whatever to
do" with the World Trade Union Con-
ference. The editorial was based on
a report of Dave Beck, head of the
Western Council of Transfers, on his
return from a meeting in California
with ALL Pres William Green and
other ALL leaders.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
BENSON new
CHAIRMAN OF
n. c. P. A. c.

Elmer A. Benson, former governor
of Minnesota, has been named acting
chairman of the National Citizens Po-
litical Action Committee and head of
the committees national executive
council, Dr. Frank Kingdom announced
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
By MIRIAM ALLEN deFORD

OAKLAND, Calif.-(F P)-Pres. r..
J. Thomas of United Auto Workers
(CIO) and Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser
have conferred here on plans for
Kaiser to keep his huge government
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DEFENSE WITNESSES
ASSERT PETAlN HAD
AIDED FRENCH CAUSE

PARIS, Aug. g. Up Defense
witnesses asserted today that
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain
approved a secret anti-Nazi re-
organization of the French Air
Force after the Franco-German
armistice and set up special
secret fund for French agents to
supply the Raj with information
about the Luftwaffe.
AS the former Vichy chiefs trea-
son trial went through its 18th day,
members of the 24-man jury said
they had received threatening let
tiers. The streets of Paris were lit
tered with leaflets attacking writ
nesses who had testified against
the old soldier.
Four generals, one admiral and
an engineer appeared before the
court today top testify on Petain' S
behalf and fill in details of Pc
tain's actions as chief of the Vichy
State, all of which, they said, were
aimed at alleviating French suffer-
ing. helping the, Allies and frustrat-
ing German efforts to win Frances
collaboration.
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WESTERN POWERS
SIGN TRIAL PACT

LONDON, Aug. 8 - up - The
four great Western powers today
signed a pact to establish an In.
ternational Military Tribunal for
speeding mass trials of Germany S
war criminals to demonstrate that
aggression leads "to the prisoner S
dock rather than the way to hon
ors.
The legalls-unprecendented docu-
ment established the Tribunal S
seat in Berlin, but provided speci-
fically that the first Major trial
one expected to bring more than
Is Nazi chieftains together in the
same dock-shall be held in
Nuremberg, shattered citadel of the
party glory.
There will be no appeal from the
Tribunal, and defendants apparent
ly will not be allowed to call de-
tense witnesses under the sweep
ing master plan signed by the
United States, Britain, Russia, and
France.
The Tribunal will have the pow
er to punish by death and to pre-
vent buck passing" by Nazis who
might attempt to fasten RESPONSE
bility for their acts upon Hitler.
The Tribunal itself will set the
date for the first trial at Nuarn-
berg.
The 30-article plan for the trials
is based primarily upon proposals
advanced by Supreme Court Just
ice Robert H. Jackson in report
to the President after he was NAM
ed chief war crimes prosecutor for
the United States.
But Jackson himself declared
the document represented mutual
concessions designed to blend
American standards of justice and
protection of defendants with the
continental system, (which Ger
mans themselves have en-
ployed and understood.
Primarily, tri-pronged defini-
uon OF war crimes was established
as the basis. This specified Grimes
against the peace involving plan
ing and waging aggressive war
ana violating international treaties;
war crimes which violate rules or
customs of war, and crimes against
continued on Page IL; Col. 81
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MOSCOW BROADCASTS
HIT FAMILIAR NOTE
TO LONDON AUDIENCE

LONDON, Aug. 8.-R)-Patriotic
songs and martial music accom-
panied the Soviet declaration Of
war as broadcast by the Moscow
radio.
Late tonight Moscow b-oadcasts
heard in London struck the
familiar pattern of the many vic
torious orders of the day that
came from Generalissino Stain
during the European war.
Immediately after broadcasting
the declaration of war the radio
swung into program of rousing
regimental marches of guards
units, interspersed with patriotic
songs.
The numbers featured "The
Song of the Fatherland" and the
"Voroshilov March, Named for
former Defense Commissar Mar.
shall Klementi Voroshilov,
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MACARTHUR'S MEN
SINK MANY SHIPS
BY JAMES HUTCHINSON

MANILA, Thursday, Aug. 9-R-
In more than 400 sorties from
Korea to Malaga and the. Indies.
Allied planes sank or damaged %
ships ana SO small craft Sunday
night and Monday. They also de-
stroyed four Japanese planes,
which made the only interception.
General Macarthur reported the
blows in communique which told
also of continued hammering of in
dustries, airstrips and military in
stallations.
The major single raid Monday
was by more than 40 Mitchells of
the Fifth AAF, which sank gum
boat and four small freighters,
left 5000 ton freighter burning
and damaged three small vessels.
They damaged further two 5000
ton freighters which previously
had been disabled.
One bomber was lost as the
medium bombers, fighters and pa
troll planes damaged waterfront in
stallations, bivouacs and defense
areas, rolling stock and vehicles
and started numerous fires.
Five Japanese planes attempted
a predawn raid at Okinawa Mon
day. Antiaircraft fire destroyed
one and probably two more.
Night patrols ranging to the Ash
attic coast bombed military targets
at Shanghai and industrial targets
on Maxine Island, off Southern
Korea. Fighters shot down four
japanese planes while attacking
air-field on Saishu Island.
Twelve freighters, eight still on
the slipways, were destroyed or
damaged on the Malay coast.
Australian fighters attacked per-
sonnet areas, gun positions n d
watereraft along the West coast of
Borneo in support of Balikpapan
ground forces. Navy patrols dam
aged a freighter and two coastal
vessels off Bandjermasin.
Eighteen cargo craft were knock
ed out in Makassar Strait and the
Molucca Sea by Seventh Fleet and
Australian bombers. Other strikes
wrecked trucks and coastal install
Citations in the Halmaheras. A
freighter was damaged OF the
Kangean Islands.
New Zealand medium and fight
err bombers cratered roadways on
New Ireland, bombed and strafed
Japanese positions on BoUgainville
and with Marine planes sealed
several tunnels and damaged mo-
tor transport near Rabaul.