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Evening star., 1946-06-22

dents should write to their county
recorders and residents Of WASH
ington should obtain absentee bal
lots from their city clerks or county
auditors.
All of these States have primaries
next month.
The union times., 1946-05-18
AS WE SEE IT

selves in land where racial or re- igiOus discrimination is allowed to flourish, he said:
 ''The workers of America must fight anti-Semitism at every turn of the road, not only because it leads to subjugation and slavery for those who toll, but more basil cally because it is wrong and con- tradiction of every civilized phiIoso- phy for human good which recog- nizes the existence of a Divine ruler. Anti-Semitism is not only anti-labOr, anti-demOcratic and anti-social-it is anti-Christian and anti-Cod.s
 HOUSING shortage is SO bad in New York that mating pigeons try to steal radio antenna off the Roosevelt Hotel to build nests with.
 PLEADING firms that settled wage problems with JAW generally report an upward trend in per-man production Chrysler noted an employe output gain immediately after it granted an l81ac per hour pay rise." Wall Street Journal. Surprise! Water runs down hill! Food dulls hunger! People are happier when they get paid more! For all the red hot news, read the Wall Street Journal. In view of the surprising results from an 18hc raise, maybe the auto corporations would have been smart to grant the unions BOG demand, after all.
 THE progress of a city, as de- scribed in a story in the Cohesion (Tex.) Tribune recently:
 ''The antiquated balloon method of measuring the height of cloud ceilings at Galveston airport is to be substituted for the modern photo-electric ceilometer, it was an- nOunced today"
The union times., 1946-05-18

we'll as a plan calling for a separate veterans organization for union veter- ans.
The union times., 1946-05-18

will be held May 23-26 in the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, Chairman George C. Danfe1d announced here Delegates from AFL, CIO and rail unions will attend along with repre- sentatives from veterans groups all over the country.
 Advance reservations indicate this will be the largest annual meeting the group has ever held. Plans to broaden the scope of the conference to include union veterans of all veteran organizations will be introduced as
The union times., 1946-05-18

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 PetaIunna (Cal.) Argus-COurier FOR SALE: 3 good farm horses.
 broke like farmers want them. Must be sold before Sunday to
 pay pew rent.
 OsfOrd (Pa.) Times TYPIST-PBX OPR. Bust type.
 5 day wk.
 Chester (Pa.) Times FRICIDARE, butane. brakes.
 special tires, sleeps four.
 Ne,U Orleans La.) Iten, FORMER first class private re-
 organizing construction conn
 pany. Opening for colonel
 with snappy uniform bearing
 as elevator boy, doors open
 from sitting position; also
 opening for ex-major as office
 boy, must be able to dust. Can
 use few privates in vital posi-
 tions.
 Dallas (Tex.) Morning Ne,Os THE American people are again going into debt by signing time payment contracts, borrowing from banks, and running up their charge accounts at stores, it was reported this week.
 As a result, they already owe SC, 100000 for everything from houses to fur coats," and their total debt is rapidly climbing. The same sort of thing happened back in the l92O's, when time pay ment contracts, alone, rose from about $2,OOO,OOO,OOO to $8,OOO,- 100000.
 That was one of the reasons for the ''boom'' before 1929, and the 'sbust'' which came then. People have to stop buying when they have borrowed all they can.
 FIFTY-SIX out of every 100 people in the U. s. believe that big industries could raise wages with out increasing prices, according to a recent nationwide survey of the National Opinion Research Center. INTOLERANCE, and particular ly anti-Semitism, is sharply con- demned in a recent statement by George Meany, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor.
 Warming that workers cannot have or hold freedom to help them
The union times., 1946-05-18

 In Washington
By BRADFORD P. CARTER
 LPA COlumnist

Whenever strikes of major pro- portions break out Congress re- spends automatically by erupting with rash of legislation aimed at curbing strikes and curbing unions. Washington is currently in the thrOes of such an epidemic. It may be added parenthetically that the deliberate withholding of goods from the market by profit hungry business men evOkes no similar re- spOnse although it can be proved statistically that such legal black mail has been much more effec- tive brake on production than are strikes.
 The ingredients of these anti-1abor proposals are pretty much stereotyped largely because their packers really are ignorant about labor relations and therefore have to resort constantly to the well worn anti-labor grab bag for their ideas.
 The first ingredient of the anti labor formula is to weaken or crip- pie the effect of the unions strike weapon. This purpose is usually implemented by requiring cool ing off period or the filing of a 60 or 30 day notice. Some pro- pOsals go so far as to ban strikes completely in specific industries. STRAIT-JACKET
 Another prominent element in the proposals to strait-jacket the unions is to bar the inclusion of particular provisions in collective agreements. In the Case bill the idea was to put a legislative ban on anything which in terfered with something known as "managerhent prerogatives." Of more recent vintage in the formula is the proposal to deprive foremen of the right to bargain collectively with their employers through unions of their own choosing.
 Finally there is always the pro- pOsal to restore the unlimited ri ght of the Federal courts to grant in- functions in labor disputes which was sharply restricted in the Nor ris-LaCuardia Act. What sponsors of this kind of legislation want is the injection of the police power of the Federal Government to break strikes.
 If the history of labor relations is any guide to what is likely to happen if these proposals were ever made into law, we may say with complete assur- ance that conflicts between workers and employers would become again the violent outbreaks that they had been for century or more.
 Much progress has been made in peaceful labor relations in the last ten years or so. Basically this pro greSS can be attributed to the fact that there was a National Labor Relations Act on the books; that the act made it possible for unions to function more or less freely.
 COMPARE!
 If you doubt that it has been prog ress, compare the 1946 strike wave with the upsurges of 1919 and 1937. In the later period millions of work CTS were on the picket lines with only few incidents" to mar the general orderliness of the strikes. Contrast this to the wholesale violence and ter rorism which marked the, strikes of 1919 and 1887 when employers and the local governments massed all of their armed power against the strikes. Is Congress marking back nosta1gica11y
The union times., 1946-05-18

How To Get Butter And Roast Beef

"yYIOU1D You Like Some Butter W of Manufacturers latest fupage adve which just rid of oPA and will have all the ad get cell s their production and drive what is produced into the building propaganda lie big that people begin to ''''''' Want Butter?
 It's lie that oPA behind the butter shortage Reason for both the e the industry dving milk supplies into cheese ice T % n ee @ op but n ,a sss d5 % se S 5 s year, increasing profits % .s % % s @ @ nd which i . removed remove VI Day through industry pressure.
 Or Roast Beef? coming OPA snh sss e csase dserns supplies o T y ss: r G s s s s sss es % s we believe that if price controls eliminated the cost es1'ss ss 'ns oPA people spite of Why leave then legitimate black market of today they want Whose Millions? m M the @ the o dss suit" e SsM % @ And it's the Het isn't that holding production but warehouses hope that their campaign end price control will against OPA. ss95 NAM estimate and close $i million accord ing the advertising industry But according to the of let
  without the cripping amendments backed by indus oes The people don't have millions of dollars for ads but they will this unnakable Will Congress lis ten to the millions of people the millions of dollars?
 LITTLE LUTHER
 Mi. made directors of the US Chamber of I'll I do."
 "Reds?" Little Luther asked, bewildered
 the NU YOrkTi Times: Bargaining Upheld by US Chamber'' probably Held Up.'"
 No1s the I'm & son. m said % his father her, They really Responsible gave
  Atlantic City, recommending peal of the Wagner act."
 "n be coming in favor of and electric lights said Little Luther "Jus think of thaand people tried burn Calico for saying the earth moved"
 said Dilwoh, they consideration the looks of the thing The points would have been embarrassing they'd against the fy after having pledged themve We believe in the principles of collective bargaining. enough wake up said Little Luther Tha might be news "Oh mpetuOus yOuh." said Mr. Dlworh "You to bite a dog day."
 said Little Luther, "you the facts of life hold of the Chamber of the seat of the pants and won't let go."
 Ouch!" ad Mi. Dilworh.
The union times., 1946-05-18
Labor Vets List
 Meeting In NY.

CHICAGO (FP)-Seventh annual meeting of the National Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires, represent ing union veterans from coast to coast,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
iva PLANT and Developments
BECOMING "W0RLD CLASSROOM"

representatives from other countries
who, in an almost endless procession
have been going into the seven-stat'
area for study of the work of TVf
Most of them have said they conside
the program a model for the develop
ment of their own lands.
A section, as large as England, hai
become sort of world classroom.
On one day this year persons from
six countries came to Knoxville tt
learn first-hand about the iva. FRS
they discussed the authority's pro
gram with top officials; then they
were taken to dams, demonstration
farms and other projects.
Chinese Group
Chinese engineers have spent
months in study of the work, hoping
for Harvesting of four major streams
in China and industrialization of that
vast nation.
Six Mexican engineers were des
ignated by their government to learn
more about multiple purpose regional
They studied for six
months in the water control planning,
power, design and agricultural rela-
lions departments.
A representative of Honduras spent
eight months in study of construction
operations and maintenance of the
system.
The Greeks sent a delegation and
a spokesman said that IVA methods
would help in reconstruction.
Lieut.. Peter j. Doanides of the Roy
al Greek navy was especially interest
ed in housing and malaria control.
Many Greek villages, he said, were
wiped out by the Germans and re-
building will be "a terrific job"
Miss Carolina Haslett, an adviser
for the British government, sees IVA
as an example for rehabilitation in
China and Europe.
81 mean rehabilitation in a new
way, changing the living conditions
Of peoples" she said. ut might even
solve some of the political problems,
f say, the Danube had IVA and
Ill the countries had to work together
% utilize a great river
British Get Idea
One British delegation was inn
pressed with the possibilities of pre-
Continued ON Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
RECLAMATI0N'S
METHODS NOT
effective
BY GwYNN GARvIN

The information gathered at meet
ing of the commissioners of the Mis-
sion Irrigation project in Lake Coun
ty is the best argument for a rive
valley authority | have heard. The
meeting was attended by the commits
sioners, their attorney and commit
tee from the Grange and Farmers I'm
ion
The land belonged to the Indians
and the project to start with was fl
nanced with Indian tribal funds. About
1916 this plan was changed and is
now financed by appropriations from
congress. At this time the white peo-
to sign new contracts. Under this
contract the government was to com
plete the project and turn it over to
the water users.
The original project was to embrace
$4,000 acres at a cost of s65 per acre.
The reclamation service have now
spent the $65 per acre on the 13S,000-
acre project but only have about 1867
600 acres under the ditch. The prof.
ect also has a hydro-electric plant
that serves the towns as we'll as the
farmers in this project, with the cost
of this plant included in the cost of
the project.
The sale of electricity from this
plant has produced 100000 In reve-
nue. which is the approximate cost of
the power plant. This 100000 is in
the United States treasury not aIo-
Gated to any project.
The people in this project think
that as the land is Indian land and
said land had a water right when
bought from the Indians, the entire
cost of the project should not be as
sessed against the land.
But, the interior department is go
ing to start collection of the cost of
the project, probably next spring. The
project will not produce enough reve-
nue. to pay living expenses, taxes, up
keep, etc. The project needs about
$4,000 in repairs. AS the limit of |
sos per acre has already been spent
the reclamation service can not make
the needed repairs.
There has been a bill introduced |
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04

DIN the orange nall IN POrUIanQ
attended by 33 delegates rep
resenting nearly that number
of groups of the four states.
Many Groups Active
Among the organizations represent
ed at the Portland meeting were Co
lumbia River Development League,
Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Washington State Grange, Montana
Farmers Union, Oregon State Fedora
ton of Labor, Oregon State Grange.
Columbia Power Trades Council, Ore
gon Farmers Union, Washington Re-
sources Council, Oregon Committee
for Public Ownership, Idaho-Washing-
ton Electric Coop, Washington Public
utilities Association, Railway Brother
hood.
A second meeting for the benefit
of number of eastern Washington,
Idaho and Montana groups who were
unable to send delegates because of
transportation difficulties, will be held
in Spokane or at some other point in
that section shortly, with a general
meeting before February l to be called
by the temporary officers elected in
Portland Saturday. These officers are:
Neal Jones, president; Gus Jaspers,
vice president; Norman Mackenzie,
treasurer.
Broad Aims Cited
In the bylaws adopted by the league
the purpose in substance is stated as
promoting such eva legislation as
will advance the interests of agricul-
ture, labor, forestry, water power, ir-
rigation and related activities in the
field of natural resources, to protect
collective bargaining, business enter
prise, and otherwise function "for the
good of all the people"
Herbert M. Peet, Seattle, repre-
senting United States Senator Hugh
B. Mitchell, explained the outstand-
ing feature of the eva bill in its pres
ent form, explaining several rewrit-
ten sections. Peet was advised dur
ing the Saturday meeting that hear
ings on the measure would be started
soon in the house rivers and harbors
committee and also that hearings will
be held in the Pacific Northwest
Program Under Way
The leaders in the league movement
announced that there would be a COM
prehensiye educational program on
he purposes and claimed advantages
If Columbia Valley Authority, to
,e carried into every county and most
If the towns throughout the northwest
CONTINUED on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
Lake COUNTY
POPULATION
SHOULD GROW

Population of Lake county Montana
can be increased so per cent within
the next ten years, with additional ir
rigation water, new pulp mill and
an expanded tourist trade represent
ing the principal opportunities for de
velopment, according to a countrywide
survey just completed by the Bonnie.
vile Power Administration in cooper
alton with local residents.
Located on the Flathead river, one
of the main tributaries Of the Column
bia, this western Montana county is
the most recent area to be examined
by the Bonneville staff with the OBJ
jective of determining future power
markets.
Population Of the county, which was
1890 in 1940 declined by about %
percent during the war years, the
Bonneville study estimates. POSSIBLE
tiles of increasing population by 1855
to 17,125 il only the more immediate
opportunities are developed, or to 20
1926 with an aggressive program of
resource development, are discussed
in the 80-page report entitled 1.-THE
Economic Base for Power Markets in
Lake County, Montana"
Almost 400 new jobs in agriculture,
more than 900 in forest industries,
and nearly 1000 in service industries,
including the tourist trade, are listed
in the report as possibilities in the
next decade.
The fertile Mission valley, which
has already placed the area first
among the counties of Montana in
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
ELEC. COMPANIES
HUNT LOWER
WAGE LOCATIONS

| The General Electric company and
Westinghouse Electric corporation are
abandoning" Is government fac
tories valued at $132,000,000 and at
the same time are building new plants
in small towns and rural areas where
wage standards are low" charges the
| clio United Electrical Radio and Ma
chine Workers. The claim was made
as the union pressed its demands in
Washington for congressional inves-
tigation of the radio and electrical
manufacturing industry which UE
charges with "a deliberate hold-back"
Of electrical appliances.
James j. Matles, UE organization
director, said that the industrial units
which are being abandoned, including
entire plants as well as plant addi-
tons, could have been converted
speedily and have produced tens of
thousands of radio, refrigerators,
washing machines and other electrical
appliances for an appliance hungry
public"
Conversion of the Is government
built structures, Matles declared,
could also supply sorely needed prod
ucts, such as small motors, generators
and wiring devices for other indus
tries whose reconversion is hampered
by failure to obtain such products. He
revealed that the General Electric
company has purchased or will build
a total of 80 new plants, while the
Westinghouse company has purchased
or will build seven new plants and
has purchased two others through sub
salaries.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
COMPANY HAS ONE GOOD POINT
AND THINKS OF EVERYTHING

from the Company's intention. Rath
er it is in support and protection, be-
cause, believe it or not, there have
been cases in the past when the com
petition and rivalry, due to jealous
ambitions of fellow member of the
Reporting Gentry. You can take this
diagnosis or leave it, always remem-
bering that the Company thinks of
everything, including new ways of in
creasing income and limiting outgo.
s We have a suggestion to make to
the Operating Authority on the Sixth
Floor: When the old Thornton is
renovated and ready for the employees
as a recreation center, why not have
a grand opening and dedication cere-
monies?
A musical and song program, and
top-notch peddler of the breeze,
would be appropriate to the occasion.
The ceremonies should open with
the singing of Hail! Halt The Gangs
All Herel"
Followed by introduction of the
Hon. Buzz Wheeler of Washington,
D. c., and Lake Mcdonald, formerly
of Butte, the capital of the ACM.
The subject of his address should be
I'm Nobody's Fool or Tool"
After the ceremonies have been
blessed by Mr.. Dan Mutacious Kelly,
the assembled pot-pourri will sing 'In
the Days of Aud Lang Syne."
Such a program would dispense the
iconoclasts and isolationists, and
might solve such imponderables as
Does the Leopard Change His Spots?"
1t might also set an example for the
gentlemen guiding the United Nations
and rebuke those pessimists who say
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
&! MsxMAk.
SS 4 y2<~es

At the recent meeting of the Inter
national Labor Organization in Paris
we were all impressed with the broad
democracy of the organization itseli
and with the total lack of prejudice
personal or social, with which the
delegates dealt with each other.
Three languages were regularly
spoken in the conference: French
English, and Spanish; Italian and Ger
man often, and occasionally Persian
Chinese, Hungarian, or Slav dialect
Every color of skin and racial physi-
cal characteristic known to man was
present on the conference floor, in
the corridors and hotels. People of
very diverse religions mingled and
worked together tremendously in the
general acceptance of the principles of
social justice as a basic ethical and
political objective.
Not only Jews and Christians, to
whom we are accustomed in the Unit
ed States, mingled in full cooperation,
but every variety of Christian was
represented in the delegations = Ro-
man Catholics, Greek Catholics, East
ern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Church
of England, Lutherans of the Scandi-
navian countries, and a great variety
of the sects which flourish particular
Iy in the British Isles and the United
States. And then there were Buddists,
Confucianists, Hindus, Mohammedans.
There appeared fine opportunity
for tense differences of opinion, for
ancient prejudices, and modern Jeal-
ousies to reach a boiling ooint. But
the contrary was true. 1t was a real
inspiration to those who believe that
men can live and work together with
out regard to race, creed, or color, to
observe the extremely friendly rela-
tions that existed between the various
types working together for the adop-
ton of resolutions which will have
the effect of making better working
conditions, more stable employment
and a high standard of living in all
parts of the world.
There were women, too, in many of
the delegations. They seem to have
been chosen in their respective coun-
tries, not particularly for the purpose
of flattering the women of the coun-
try, but because the particular woman
was a well qualified person for the
particular piece of work she came
to do.
One of the most effective workers
in the American delegation, selected
by the state department because he
was the best expert in America ON
social conditions in dependent terrific
ries, was young negro scholar, DR..
Ralphe Bunche A state department |
man of considerable experience and
well trained in state department meth
DDS and disciplines, he is also one of
the few people who have made real
firsthand study of social and working |
conditions in various parts of Africa
where the native populations work
under great foreign companies: Eng
fish, American, French, Belgian,
Dutch, etc. He has specialized for the
CONTINUED on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-04
By BRUCE SMITH,
Butte. Montana.

A reader has informed us (person
to person. that we were slightly in
error in stating that the Company
bought the old Thornton Hotel and
was refitting it as a recreation center
with money withheld from the miners.
He said part of the money was with
held from the Queen of Holland. He
may be right, but to settle this matter
definitely, and determine the percent
age each party involuntarily contrib
uted we have turned the matter over
10 the Federal Bureau of Indignities.
We confess an inclination to lean
backwards in favor of the men of
denim as against the men of broad
cloth.
AS a. matter of rectification, and to
re-establish ourselves not too far left
of center, we give you the following
report (not authenticated) that the
Company not only is using money but
the latest in scientific marvels in the
refitting of the Neutrality-suspicious..
This latest brainchild of the scien-
tific minds is an inconspicuous record
ing instrument which can be placed
in the walls and other unsuspecting
places. Reports have it that the in
strument is so sensitive to sound
waves that it will record anything
from a mere whisper to the below
of a demagogic politician (past tense)
defying the Copper BarOns.
The uncouth and the uncultured
will at first blush, jump to the con-
clusion that the Company plans to
supplant the old land not always re-
liable) system and create unemploy-
ment in the ranks of the Order of
Faithful Stoolpigeons. That is far