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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
The Progressive

LaFoette's Progressive frequently gets BEAM
1t opposes reaction but with equal bitterness assas all other
snper at the during the past 10 years
itself recent issue by loudly condemnng the search
by American troops for in the homes of that part of
Germany occupied by American troops which resulted in
several thousand arrests The foray made safety
measure guard against the possibility the organization
of underground resistance by the remnants of nazism well
know nto be in existence there It part of the
its elimination but the Progressive calls the greatest
Cesapo raid in history degrading exhibition and asks:
"Where is the nations conscience? Where the liberals
love of liberty? Where Americas contempt for those who
the oathng of arrogance and
wratul Indignation for the Hitler doctrines of total hate
and total ntolerance?"
is quite difficult to try make of the Prog
ressves Nominations We have had tough with the
nazs and they have shown themselves to be sinister and
eacherous Some of them have already said that they will
try again. We hope to get such ideas of their heads
and educate them into democratic IDEALS but experience
teaches that the first thing to begin that
is to take their from them You can't much
with nazi who has
What especially to distress the Progressive that
nobody else has its point of vewf it be called that
says "But perhaps the pfu all was the silence
American press great dailes which comes
office only one-beeve not the arch reaconary
Chicago Trbunehad the to speak up of Americas
shame"
feel that the Chicago Trbunes sentiments are
prompted by something other than 1t is the prin
cpal mouthpiece of American fascsm this country
its utterances have been frequently quoted by Goebbe and
embodied in naz propaganda Germany But according to
the Progressive ITSELF the Tribune has found kindred
soul in the Progressive They that forces in Ger
should not darm the Germans The Progressive grow
that liberals not liberal enough but itself agrees with the
Tribune Is the Tribune liberal paper?
The papers of the United condemn the dis
rmng of the Germans TO rthe that they did
condemn Eisenhower and Patton attacking them Per-
haps should consider ourselves lucky that Progressve
condemnation too late to greatly naz morale in
Germany.
The chances that the American forces in Germany
will continue to be intolerant of naz with guns It
worthy that of the found the
rifles the of which had merely gone and
aiken off their uniforms and donned working clohesCapta
Press (Oregon1.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
Atomic Bomb Death Blow To i. S.
Isolationists Thinking
By JOHANNES STEEL in New World

releasing energy has in fact harnessed the
that makes the stars rotate in the skies You have
heard about the real physical this discovery
will have The implications and consequences it will have in
the of science philosophy and religion less sig
nificant.
Today know what have suspected since Enstein
first established his theory of relavythe material world
that grandfathers found solid and comfortable
illusion
The ultimate constituents of matter material at
ALL constitute form of energy. This energy being
released by atomic dntegraton achieved result of the
ransmuaon of the elements This mans bodest dream
of scientific alchemy
The release atomic energy was course the death
blow isoation thinking may have remained in
country might easily certain symbolism in the
that Hiram Johnson died the day that the
of the atomic bomb told to the world.
The isoationss who will have to take refuge in the
of rampant American Imperialism have already during
past "a hours engaged in number of specuatons
the changed power position for instance the Angoaxon
powers relation to Russia They have begun to
in position to TELL THE RUSSIANS-or else!
they should advance these arguments is not surpr
ing view of their obvious intellectual limitations, which
impossible for them to fathom the real meaning of the
world in which we live
of ALT not known whether Russia has succeeded
similar experiments although known that she has
the worlds most substantial uranium deposits which
energy Beyond that considering the state of Russian science
fields far ahead of that of science
America Great Britan safe to say that it
still secret to the Russians, it won't be for long
The salvation for mankind by competitive
the part of the respective 1t the de-
veopment of international which will enable the
people the world participate in the benefits from this
discovery If the world does unite it may
well be that the released will destroy civilization
as completely as the tides engufed Atlantis
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
Who Are "WE"?

1t has been reported that governor has various
that we Montana opposed to the
posal to establish Missouri Valley Authority would be
interesting the tell in detail just who the we
that he is speaking for, consist of.
We know that the Montana Reclamation Association is
part of we and that the Montana Power Company and
the Anaconda Copper Mining Company also included.
But many individuals in each of these organizations
a part of the ''we"?
the supporters of the proposal for MVA the
plural asserting support they know they speak
the entire membership of the Montana Farmers Union
that organization nationally, for the membership of
the of Industrial Organizations state and national
the membership of the American Federation of Labor
and national They speak for millions of citizens
than speak for thousands The only difference
and danger the that the thousands control the
major of information and have unlimited funds while
millions" lack BOTH But the millions have the most i'm
portant thng-the vote Let them it.
We congratulate the Montana Federation of Labor for
going record at their convention, for the Missouri
Valley Authority 1t large and important segment of our
citizenship Incidentally quite number of its membership
presently employed by the Montana Power Company We
the company likes it. Not at ALL venture to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

he has manned the Presidency hour of great crisis
but for the most extreme critics of the New Deal adminsa
ton suddenly acclaim Mr. Rooeves Democratic
and 1914 their very tre confusing
The most consistently hostile unyelding opponents of
President Rooveset and the New Deal certainly the
spokesman of the National Association of Manufacturers For
their spokesman euogze President Truman and his
prospective administration certain to please the Jack
and Pat Hason and dpease the CO and the New
Dealers have but of three explanations Either they
have information not available to others of Mr. Trumans
sentative intentions they have been msed to the
ing of the Presidents public declarations they have become
persuaded that continuation the substance of the New Deal
policies is spirit of political good will will be all right
whats your guess?)
In a 12-page memorandum prepared by Walter
Chamb Jr executive director Washington office the
National Association Manufacturers business under
man. that feel very much at The Pre
appauded capable handling job" and
is given that he won't have truck with newfanged
IDEAS"
"Hes been lot" the N A. M. report continues
He in the trenches in France officer in the last
But his travels and his elevation to high office have
not changed his viewpoint He just paid off the mortgage on
his mothers home after he became president And he
still looks at things as to how they will affect the folks back
home in Missouri.
He the type of who likes to associate with
and the type who appealed to the New Deal
ogarchy The New Dealers planned him for the
four he would hold office But they are in utter
misery
Mr Truman spent years paying off debts incurred in
business rather than take bankruptcy which showed
he not sympathetic to the Hansen idea of deficit spend
Mr. Chamblin that President Trumans political
views will be sufficiently sympathy NAM that
Americanism.'
In the judgment of most Washington correspondents, Mr.
showing sign of departing the orbit of the
largest detectives of his predecessor although his pursuit of
these detectives will differ mood and Obviously
Mr. Truman faced with the political equation which
confronted Mr. Roosevelt for IL Southern Democracy
needs northern labor to win national office and Mr. Roosevelt
the Democratic party of the south labor constituency
could obtain by itself expected that
Mr. Truman going to offend seriously constituency essential
to his election.
Of course it is conceivable-although easily
ole-that the NAM has to accept either willingly or
Enthusiastically the essential of the New Deal long
longer the chief New Dealer for Mr.
Chamb makes exceedingly significant remark when he
writes: c
Those groups which feared because of fear
have nothing fear unless they fear the
will of majority of the people speaking through the
md the chief executive" e
Not to such fear would good democracy
Of course entirely possible that President Truman
not testing when he remarked off the cuff to the testers
,b of Kansas City earlier this month When hear Repub
leans saving that doing all right know well that
am wrong "-Chrsian Science Monitor. c.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
TRUMAN ASKED TO
STOP TRAINING FOR
STRIKEBREAKING

WASHINGTON (WDL) President
Truman has been asked by Workers
Defense League chairman Aron S. Gil
martin to take public action to dis
avow army strikebreaking exercises
held in Toledo, Ohio recently.
Rev. Gilmartin pointed out that the
Army had been training MPs from
Camp Perry, Ohio, to break strikes
during a basic training course for
military policemen held in Toledo,
Ohio, under the direction of Captain
Paul Gillis
During the exercises, Rev. Gill
martin wrote President Truman
troops were operating against snip
ers' who were referred to by Captain
ellis as strikers, and as the exer-
cises continued, it was obvious that
the soldiers were being trained not for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
SHOULD WE KEEP TROOPS IN
JAPAN

SHOULD WE KEEP TROOPS IN
JAPAN
Now since the war with Japan is
what to do with Japan as how to
keep her from re-arming and start
another war. If this can be accom-
plished without landing an invasion
force, what is the object in sending
la million men for occupation troops
SO long as we don't intend to ferret
out the war criminals and put Hiro-
hito on trial for his misdeeds?
With his navy scuttled, his airfleet
grounded and mostly destroyed, the
Kwantung army safely in Russian
prison cages and all his outside con-
quests isolated from his homeland,
Hirohito with all his home population
is absolutely under the domination of
the allied blockading fleet. With no
oil, but little fuel and shortage of
food, the home activities will be de-
pendent on the will of the blockading
fleet.
After a lost war the pent-up emo
lions of the losing side generally man
ifests itself in a revolution and a
change of government, especially if
the people were misgoverned as in the
case of Japan. This is exactly what
may happen in Japan whether we like
it or not
Outside of a few American individ-
ual holding the ones who would be
most effected by nation with revolu-
ton are the numerous population on
the one side and the four families
with Hirohito on the other and, re-
CARELESS of the final outcome the peo-
pie could not be any worse off than
they are now.
Knowing this to be the case and as
Stunning that the people themselves are
in part to blame for the predicament
they are in now, would it be wise for
us to interfere if they feel like clean
ing house themselves?
China, Russia and ourselves are
very much interested in seeing that
Japan don tsatrt any more war man
euvers and it is our place to see that
it does not happen again but now,
since both China and Russia are safe
from Japanese aggression, United
States with it's superior navy and
atomic bomb can now easily protect
itself from any future Japanese in
trusion
This being the case would it not
be more business like to have the
boys home sightseeing or wedding
Victory Gardens and paying them
while doing it? The war is over, the
and all the armed forces did
a good job, to force them, against
their inclinations to do patrol duty in
Japan is not fair nor is it to the best
to themselves or the country
at large.
If the Japa Observation-Disclosures let
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

nomc changes promised by the Labor party Great Britain
generally force and have been Nor
do hear complaints about unemployment in Russia
Apparently the Soviets able to take everything in their
stride without stopping According to reports rehabilitation
of their wadevased country proceeding without delay and
without any st-down strikes in their industry.
Perhaps it might be we'll for the American indusralss
consider what happen they continue their strikes too
long, long enough for Russia get its production to
goods production and perhaps becomes able to
ply it's neghborng countries needs Wouldn't that be hard
on the hopes for profits for American tycoons?
that Russia is living in progressive future while
many Americans want to back reactonary past
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
Postwar Problems

While there may be a sound from technically
legal viewpoint for the sudden cessation of endease to Great
Britain distinctly possible that President Truman
acting the advice under the influence of powerful
in this country who wanted to make tough for the
labor government which definitely facing tremendous
problems. The government has had time to bring
about orderly changes planned in the economy Of the
country, and it is only by making such changes that it
bring about the bettermen the life of the British people
promised during the campaign which placed it in
control.
noteworthy that loud complaints over cessation
of has not been heard from Russia
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

war duties but for anti-labor activi-
ties at home"
Press Associates, it was reported that
Toledo labor was aroused by the in
cident. Gilmartin in his letter to the
President said that Toledo labor feels
that Camp Perry has adequate IA
cilities for all necessary maneuvers,
and that the action of the Army in
holding the demonstration in Toledo
near the Acklin plant shows that the
Army is giving the workers a not too
subtle warning of things to come"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

them go to it, they have raised hell
long enough outside, let them raise
some at home now That retribution
If we can keep million men in
Tokyo cussing Uncle Sam, we could
keep the same number in Butte, at
less cost, singing his praises.
A. E. ANDERSON.
Butte, Mont, Aug. 25, 1945.
Whitefish, Mont, Sept. 1, 1915
The Peoples Voice
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taking The Peoples Voice is that they
haven't got time to read. But it look
as though they will have lots more
time from here on for a while now
that our, supposed to be servants in
congress have turned things over to
the same bunch of banksters and
gangsters that brought on the last
compression instead of depression. |
call il compression because it was
bound to come under the present sys-
tenn management. l hope l am wrong
but that is the way it looks to me-
Say Mr. Bruce they tell me that they
don't have any unemployed in Russia.
Can you please tell me why? | be-
lieve the biggest victory we the peo-
pie won in this war was the defeat
of Churchill and his gang.
Yours for MVA and all good things.
]. P. CAVANAUGH.
PIT R. r. ST.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

From the vantage point of Washington correspondent
the layers of glowing praise heaped President Truman
too early and too large.
Not that Mr. Truman doesn't deserve high esteem the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-07

Patronize the Cooperative in your
is there to serve you!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Planes Over Reich Again

London, Feb. 23.-CUP)- Alie& bombers famed out over Germany again today following paralyzing record-breaking assault by 9O0O planes on the Reich yesterday.
 Nazi broadcasts reported one fors nation over northwest Germany aI3a preaching Hanover and Brunswick & second over Saxony and Q third flying north from Italy.
 A brief Eighth Air Force am nouncement confirmed that BritS ish-based American Flying Fortress es were among the raiding Armadaau Targets were not disclosed 1mmed@ lately.
 The RAF capped yesterdays maSp Sive offensive with block-busteG raids on Berlin, Bremen and Trs furt by fleets of swift MoSquitQ bombers during the night. One nighe raider was lost.
 WarplaneS from all the air forces in the European theater made ~ the greatest air fleet in history for daylight attacks yesterday on eveEY primary and secondary railway linA in western Germany, as well a@ other railways, canals and highways in Austria, Italy, YugoSlavia, Hols land and Denmark.
 One air force official said tho unprecedented strike was aimed at "crippling German communications for a considerable tirne." Allied Sus preme headquarters in Paris said the results had been good to supers ior."
 The offensive was believed to hayG snarled German railways serving the western front at time when Allied armies were preparing for q massive offensive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, February 23.-UP) - American Marines cap tured Mt. Suribachi, volcanic peak commanding the bloody island of Two, and edged northward today in a new frontal drive against the cen tral air field.
 A Navy communique raised the casualties for the first 58 hours of the battle of Two, the toughest in the history of the Marine Corps, to 5,372. It estimated the American dead at 644, the wounded at 4,168, and missing at 560.
 A group of Japanese swan around the western end of the Marine line across Two under cover of darkness last night and landed in the Amer ican rear. The Marines mopped them up after dawn.
 Marines of the 28th regiment scored their biggest tactical victory of the invasion when they scaled 554-foot Mt. Suribachi, at the south- ern tip of Two, and sWarmed over the northern, eastern and western sides of the crater at noon.
 From the summit of Suribachi the Marines looked down on the entire island. It was foregone conclusion that guns were being rushed to the peak to turn the tables on the Jap anese who from its heights had been plastering the Marines since H-hour.
 Assault teams with flame throw CTS still were hunting out Japanese hidden in several by-passed strong points on the slopes of the VOL cano. The drive to the summit was covered by Marine artillery fire.
 A communique reported small gains" in the renewed drive on IWo's central air field. The Marines storm ing the Qualifications before 1t chopped their way slowly north ward. They were advancing through heavy artillery and mortar fire.
 For the fourth straight night American warships off Two shelled Japanese positions on the island. By
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Reds Drive Into
 Forst And Guben
(NEA Telephoto)
Bv ROBERT MUSEL

London. Feb. 23 - (U.PO-Power.. full Soviet armored forces have driven into Forst and Guben, two of the main anchors of the Neisse river line southeast of Berlin, Nazi broad casts said today.
 The report came as the SoViets reached or approached within six miles of 8 60-mile stretch of the Neisse, last water barrier before Berlin's Spree river, in what Mos COW said was prelude to frontal assault on the German capital.
 A German communique acnoW- ledged 8 Soviet crossing of the Neisse but said ground temporarily lost" west of the river was retaken in counterattacks.
 Marshal Stalin Spurred on his forces with an order of the day pro- claiming that final victory was near" and announcing that 1,150,- GOO German troops had been killed or captured in the first 40 days of the Soviet winter offensive.
 Ernst Won Hammer, military com- mentator for the official German DNB Agency, said that exception ally strong" Soviet artillery and tanks forces had penetrated Guben, on the east bank of the NeisSe B miles southeast of Berlin, and the east bank portion of Forst, 13 miles south of Guben.
 Fierce Fighting
 Particularly fierce fighting fol- lowed, Won Hammer said, and he added the customary claim that the Soviets were thrown out again, suffering heavy losses" Latest So- viet reports had placed the First Ukrainian Army within two miles or less of Guben.
 Won Hammer said minor Soviet units had crossed the Neisse for the second straight day, but were checked and wiped out" by power full German armored counter-at- tackS.
 Stalin's order of the day report ing the death or capture of 1,l50,- 900 German troops in the winter of fensive was issued in commemora- tion of the 27th anniversary of the Red Army today.
 The bag averaging 28.750 Nazis a day - boosted the number of Ger man troops killed or captured in three years and eight months of the war on the eastern front to 9,740, 900 by Soviet account.
 The Red Army together
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
TurkeyOkoys
 WorOn NoziS
(By United Press)

The Ankara radio reported that the Turkish National assembly to- day voted approval of a declaration of war against Germany and Japan.
 A broadcast reporting the declare tion of war was recorded by the EGG. Another Ankara broadcast quoted by the British radio said the declaration would take effect next Thursday.
 Earlier dispatches from the Mid dle East quoted reliable sources as saying Turkey was declaring war against the Axis today.
 A Cairo report said the decision followed receipt of a note from the big three that any country not en- tering the war by March would not get seat at the peace confer ence.
 The dispatch, quoting unofficial but reliable sources, said there were strong indications that several mid dle eastern countries would declare war soon.
 Cairo said two aims prompted the expected declaration by Turkey - that of making certain that the Dardanelles remains Turkish. and any attempt to obtain various Dode- canese islands which the Turks re- gard as vital to the defense of their coaStline.