The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-08-03

> state, and OF those being releases
, from armed service, only one in ST
is returning to Montana to live here
When these travel abroad, they ar
ashamed to name Montana as thei
place of birth for fear of being rid
: culed as hailing from a state which
! has placed the buffoonery of Senate
Wheeler in the eye of the nation.
A good sixty-five per cent of thu
voters of this state have honest inten
ton when voting. If they could ever
learn the methods the allied corpora
tions use to deceive them, 1t might re
suit in Montana's again rising from
colonial status to statehood. Butte and
Anaconda, with closeup view oil
company methods, does, on secret
ballot, usually vote strongly against
the company, though where the vote
of person can be found out i.e., in
jury service, 1t is otherwise. There
has not been verdict against the
Anaconda Company in Butte in forty
years, (The company lawyers believe
this due to their brilliance).
Hitler said, eff you repeat lie
often enough, people will believe it,.
That is true of human nature in Mon
tana, as well as in Munich.
Excepting the Great Falls Tribune,
the daily press of the state is run on
perennial deficit, made up by some
large corporation. This means Bill
lings Gazette, Livingston Enterprise
Helena Independent-Rec Montana
Standard, Butte ably Post, Daily Mis-
soulian. An uncertain rumor goes
around that since Scanland died, the
former Miles City Star is still being
printed The Great Falls Tribune is
fearless, but always in doubt. On the
Missouri Valley Authority, for instance,
following the little girls definition of
some politicians, it has it's mug" on
one side of the fence, it's "wump" on
the other.
This great organ of publicity is kept
a mugwump by feeling of gratitude
for ancient and now long repaid finan-
cial favors extended by Great North
ern Railway interests. Great North
ern answers the goose call of the
Butte Gestapo. Twelve years ago,
Veazey, counsel for Great Northern,
took a suit against Montana Power.
His employment by Great Northern
ended quickly. He moved. His adj
mission to practice in California was
long delayed What secret force
worked against him there? He was
outstanding for ability and integrity.
Even humble laborer three weeks
ago, after litigating for compensation
for injury in Butte mine, was fired
by Great Northern from watchman's
job He was shown letter from
Butte requesting his dismissal.
The Gestapo of Hitler never outran
the Swastika. But our Rustling Card
System in Butte can be, and when
miners outnumber jobs is, information
al-blighting a young miners career
in Chilli, Mexico, Peru, as well as in
Arizona, Nevada and elsewhere. The
sons of miners in Butte, on advice of
the fathers, leave the state rather
than enroll in the records of our local
Gestapo, mildly called Labor Blu
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printed, but what young American
wants to change his name to apply for
work in Arizona?
This system is one cause why there
are 3,400 empty residences, apart
ments, business places in Butte. It's
records supply names for $40 day
heelers that canvass the unsuspecting
voters from Plentywood to Thompson
Falls for company candidates. They
work outside. In Anaconda and Butte
their work is laughed at.
Last summer all over the state, a
company stool pigeon would drive to
a ranch house. He would pretend he
was labor organizer. He would in
solently demand to talk with the har-
vest crew. The rancher quite natur-
ally would answer that his men had
no time to spare-were hard pressed
to harvest his crop. The stool pigeon,
on leaving, would retort: well, when
Erickson is elected you will change
your tune. Erickson's election would
not have tended to organize farm la
Dor any more than Ford's election did. |
But whole counties of farmers were |
turned against Erickson by this tech
nique in which the stool pigeons were
tutored before started out from Butte,
and Ford's headquarters in Helena !
and Great Falls. The angry farmer
forgot inordinate freight rates, rural
that company meddling
has set back twenty years the colleges
for his children, that Ford has helped
saddle on the farmers compensation
for miners silicosis.
Every big ranch owner at some time
needs large credit in the bank. Last
year several three-column letters
signed by such Pumping for Dewey
and Ford, appeared in the company
press from Miles City to Missoula
They were composed by "ghost writ
ers" in company employ When