Montana labor news., 1945-08-30
PUBLIC LACK OF
SELF CONFIDENCE
By LowNDEs U

Montana have lost confidence in them
selves" He added that our population
will continue to dwindle until this is
restored. 1t cannot be regained until
we find out how, when and why we lost
it. self confidence Of the pioneers x
plored the Northwest. Then political
corruption, long ago in Congress, there
after. continuously for so years in Mon
tana, permitted the absentee lords OF
finance, from the vast natural resources
here, first to skim the cream, then like
the advent of the rotary milk separator,
take all the futter fat; starve the youth
of the state, and insult them like calves
for being so lean, that they leave in
hatred and disgust, never to return lex
cept to condone with their parents and
bury their dead.
Fifty-one year ago (my first as a resi-
dent, the Anaconda Company, by the
use Of money, came within 1900 votes OF
placing the permanent capital at Ana
conda. Clark, by equally lavish use of
money, delayed this open control of state
government. I say delayed" since
CLARK achieved with money! his politi-
cal ambition, a seat in the United States
Senate, the Anaconda Company's politi-
cal influence in Helena has exceeded any
that we expected would arise from plac-
ing the capital on its prlyte property. in
Anaconda.
In forty years, Franklin D. roosevelt
(and squalid famine) is the only candi-
date who has carried this state against
the wish of the Anaconda. The pro-
gressiye element were gloriously fooled
in Word. Il, among other dupes, sup
ported him). Our law office was his
Butte headquarters. In two months after
getting in" he showed his true colors.
He approved a bill placing compensation
for silicosis victims of mining on the
general tax payers. He has been a COM
pany whip night and day now and for
four and one-half years; to such disgust
of u young generation that, over and
above military inductions, ten per cent
of u population has departed the state,
and of those being released from armed
service, only one in six is returning to
Montana to live here.
When these travel abroad, they are
ashamed to name Montana as their place
of birth for fear of being ridiculed as
hailing from a state which has placed the
.bufoonery of Senator Wheeler in the eve
of the nation,
A good sixty-five per cent of the voters
of this state have honest intention when
voting. If they could ever learn the
methods the allied corporations use to
deceive them, it might result in Mon
tana's again rising from colonial status
to statehood. Butte and Anaconda, with
a closeup view of Company methods
does. on secret ballot, usually vote
strongly against the Company, though
where the vote OF a person can be found
out, i. E., in jury service, it is otherwise
There has not been a verdict against
the Anaconda Company in Butte in Al
years. CThe Company lawyers believe
this due to their brilliance)
Hitler said, IF you repeat a lie otter
enough. people will believe it." That Is
true Of human nature in Montana, as
well as in Munich.
Excepting the Great Falls Tribune, the
daily press of the state is run on peren-
NAL deficit, made up by some large cor
poration. This means Billings Gazette
Livingston Enterprise, Helena Recor'
! Herald, Montana Standard, Butte Dali,
4 Post, Daily Muscular. An uncertain
rumor goes around that since Seaman
Il died, the former Miles City Star is sti
4 being printed. The Great Falls Tribun
is fearless, but always in doubt. On tn
4 Missouri Valley Authority, for instanc
h following the little girls definition (
some politicians, it has its mug on or
side Of the fence, its 'wump' on the othe
This great organ of publicity is kept
mugwump by a feeling Of gratitude fl
u ancient and now long repaid financi
. favors extended by Great Northel
= Railway interests. Great Northern al
swers the goose call Of the Butte &c
tapo. Twelve years ago, Veazey, coui
sci for Great Northern, took a 81
against Montana Power. His emplo
ment by Great Northern ended quick
He moved. His admission to practice
California was long delayed. What secI
force worked against him there? He W
outstanding for ability and integrit
Even a humble laborer a short time az
after l~itigating for compensation for
Jury in a Butte mine, was fired by Gre
Northern from a watchman's job. J
B was shown a letter from Butte reque'
- ing his dismissal.
, The Gestapo of Hitler never outr
the Swastika. But u Rusting Ca
system in Butte can be, n when mi
ers outnumber jobs is, international
~blighting a young miners career in Oh
Mexico. Peru, as well as in Arizon
Nevada and elsewhere. The sons
miners in Butte. on advice of the fathe
leave the state rather than enroll
the records of u local Gestapo, mil
called a Labor Bureau. Applicants
not vet finger printed, but what vol
American wants to change his name
apply for work in Arizona?
This system is one cause why IN
are s,4OO empty residences, apartmei
business places in Butte. Its reco
supplv names for $40 a day heelers
canvass the unsuspecting voters fl
brentwood to Thompson Falls for CE
many candidates. They work outside
- and Rntte their work