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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

slng TO close SHOP II controls are
not lifted Immediately; howev-
err, | believe there is more of a
political tinge to the uproar than is
generally suspected. Many of our con.
gressmen and politicians know thor.
oughly well what price control means
and know something about initiation,
yet continue to play politics with the
country's economy and destiny.
The American Meat Institute ad.
mits that meat and dairy products
would increase 40 per cent over night
if controls we're lifted Now let's ask
ourselves, what would happen to the
40 million people in this country if
controls are lifted? Would lifting of
price ceilings increase the meat sup
ply. and what effect would lifting OF
meat ceiling have on our economy?
Your dollar, we will assume for
practical purposes, is now worth 100
cents. If meat prices advance so per
cent, your dollar will be worth SOC
in purchasing power. This would mean
that every person on retired pension.
whether railroad employee, school,
college, or corporation employee, will
see his income shrink.
Every widow living on income left
by her husband will see that incomes
ability to buy food, clothes, and shell
ter shrivel Every federal, state,
county and city employee, and teacher
will have great difficulty having his
salary move up when the value of
dollar goes down.
Every enterprise with fixed, invest
ed capital will have its investment
evaporate with initiation. Strikes for
increased wages to meet the rising
cost of living, slowing up of recon
version, and plain industrial chaos
would follow.
Price rises would not increase meat
supplies, it would only encourage
growers to hold their cattle, feed them
more grain, and then sell them later
at heavier weights. In the meantime,
there would be less meat and higher
prices. Fewer people would be able
to buy meat, and a serious black
market in grains, due to an abnormal
profit margin when fed to animals,
would result. The only way to then
get grain off the farm would be to
increase the price of grains.
A rise in meat prices would affect
he whole sterilization program. Meat
alone takes more than 10 per cent of
he money the average family spends
or food. No one can predict with any
legree of certainty how far meat
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
H0-HUM, 'BK'S' GENERAL STAFF
BESET BY CONTRADICTIONS

campaign and more nconss-
Wheeerophes
senior
pointed few weeks that state
chairman committee Winn had time
Washington lobbying Bulwnkle bill
the railroads antitrust proceedings the courts About the same
Bailey desperately to keep
begging assuring the editors
fierce opposition the Bull
honorable Bailey The Voice that
with the administration in its battle
to what happened-the
argescale sockgrowe the dairy
all subsidies
products lifting price control
billion additional
this by the when
vote on pending extenon legislaton).
recall the H. H. Hess,
Farmaor Council that his council had
candidacy
the Wheeler
sta limelghts in the Havre region.
Confusing exactly considers
disposition
all individual
"od man" in this matter of rapdfre color changing
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

day, there is another shipping
story that might more accu-
rately be called treason lying
in congressional archives and ship
owners financial statements.
1t is the story of how American
shipowners during the war fleeced the
United States treasury of billions OF
taxpayers money in what Sen. George
D. Aiken (R.-Vt.) has called the great
est plundering of a nation the world
has ever seen.
The plumber was carried out with
the collision of government officials
in what may be, when fully re-
vealed, the nations greatest scan
dial since Teapot Dome. SO far
the shipowners' lobby has managed
to keep the story quiet and prevent
the congressional investigation de-
manded by the maritime unions and
a number of congressman.
Under the national emergency pro-
claimed in 1889, all privately owned
United States vessels were liable I'M
der the merchant marine act of 1896
to requisition for title or hire by the
Maritime commission. Their owners
are guaranteed "just recompensation
under what is known as General Or
der "a, which provides for payment
equal to the cost to the owner, plus
cost of improvement, minus deprec1-
alton at the rate of per cent a year
which is the way ships are valued
on their owners books.
mo Enhancement Clause
A ''no enhancement" clause pro-
vides that the value of the property
must not be enhanced by the causes
necessitating the taking or USE" But
the Maritime commission and the War
Shipping administration ignored the
law and let shipowners charge them
up to Is times the book value of the
ships needed for war. For the total
$50 ships bought from their owners
between 1910 and 1945 it is estimated
that taxpayers lost a cool 800 million
in sheer war profiteering.
Obsolete hulks, originally bought
from the government at SIS ton, were
sold back 10 years later at $50 ton.
For example, in 1943 the Waterman
Steamship corporation sold seven
ships which it had bought originally
from the government at s471,744 for
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
Deception Is Used
By Opponents
ofCo-ops

Having failed to find any weakness
in the house small business commit
tee report that could be turned to
their advantage, anti-Co-op forces are
now trying to offset that 43-page com
pilatiop of facts and sound reasoning
with a Sword quotation from the
Hon. John w. Flanagan Jr., Virgin
ia congressman and chairman of the
house committee on agriculture.
The conference of American small
business organizations has revised its
postcard attack on congress accord
ingly. The new card quotes Congress
man Flanagan on one ide, as follows:
''If farmers get together and form
Cooperative to further their bust
ness interests, the Cooperative so
formed should be taxed just like any
other business enterprise is taxed
There is no economic justification for
any business enterprise, including Co
operatives, that has to depend upon
tax exemption or tax evasion for its
existence"
On the other it expresses agreement
with Flanagan, disagreement with
the "Patman committee report" and
asks the senator or congressman to
whom 1t is addressed ito urge that
the ways and means committee hold
hearings on this urgent problem i'm
mediately, and that justice be done
for the thousands and thousands of
taxpayers and voters in your district
and state against whom the Patman
report discriminates."
Anti-co-op Letter Campaign Growing
Washington reports indicate that
the new anti-Co-op card and letter
is growing in volume, and
it is significant that this news is ac-
companied by renewed predictions
that some hearings probably will be
held this year on tax-exempt organi-
cations. There is every reason to con-
clude that farmers and Coop leaders
have allowed one favorable commit
tee report to IuI them into a false
sense of security.
The supporters of farmer Co-opera-
ives far outnumber the relatively few
competitors for the farm
rade, but it is the voter who has an
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

hydro-electric field.
Allied with this opposition
will be the chamber of COM
merce and similar business organiza-
lions additionally opposed to such
agencies.
Additional opposition will be forth
coming from the army engineers and
bureau of reclamation, jealous of their
rights; from contending
irrigation interests; from railroads
fearing competition of river naviga-
ton, and from miners who do not rel
ish the idea of further competition
from hydro-electric developments.
These interests regard the MVA is
sue as quiescent and not moribund.
They expect that the question will
arise again and again in congress
and are prepared to oppose it on the
grounds that congress already has
an adequate program for
developing the basin.
The present plan under which the
basin is being developed represents
a reconciliation of two separate plans
submitted to congress by the army
engineers and the bureau of reclama-
ton
Supporters of a Missouri Valley Au-
thority describe the agreement of two
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
All For m..t... Power Co.

OMAHA June 8-The basin interagency commit
ee composed four Missouri basin states and
resentaves of federal agencies working Missouri basin de-
velopment will inspect construction work the Garrison
North Dakota with June ~
meeting in Bismarck
So says the press Garrison of the engineers
main-stem dams that will result in flooding 85 per cent
Missouri River Valley its winding through two states
of five grandiose projects that will provide storage
capacity 35 million water nearly
three the average annual flow of the Missouri River
from South Dakota into Nebraska This does not
cude storage on tributaries as planned by
reclamation existing Fort Peck engineering monstro
M another project that succeed only in producing
minimum development, out of maximum expenditure
Yes Garrison is of those army conceptions of
lower flood control scheme that than 80
cent of the storage for Montana and wyoming waters down
the bottom the Dakotas basement and Montana and
Wyoming of natural heritage of than billion dollars
worth Of future This without adding one cent of
development due the Dakotas any other
state further down the stream.
Garrison dam flood control project so far down the
stream that neither controls effects flood third
half, of all river stretches that are above
DAM totally storage irrigation
Garrison DAM darling of the private power companies 1t
will begin stabilize the stream far that only 10
Is cent of its great of moving be convert
ed into hydroelertfic power.
Power Trust Will Probably Benefit From
Garrison Development
Garrison dam another Fort Peck, where only minimum
quantities of can be generated and this will probably
be turned for operaona purposes to segment of
national power may clean up another million
dollars per year, with no investment.
Presumably, Montanas Gov S. c. Ford will sit in at, and
have prominent part in the coming Missouri Basin Inter
Committee meeting He is one of the four governors
the committee Mr. Ford knows all about Garrison and the
other four engneerproposed projects in the Dakota
told of these things letter addressed
to by Montana MVA Association, weeks ago. So far
Mr. Ford has replied either directly
Indirectly to that letter The only truthful reply that be
made is; "guilty on all counts.
No less guilty political partner
Wheeler candidate the opposition party ticket Sen
Wheeler knows better than how and why the
built how and why the Montana Power
company taking practically all the financial rake off, how
why the tactics be repeated at Garrison DAM
power trust projects that the distinguished
mitteee will look over (perhaps overlook is better word
on June 2Oth-DSP)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
Capital City Unions
Moving Into Their
Labor Temple
Recently Purchased Moose Hall
Being Converted Into
Labor Edifice

Representative of 1900 Helena
Trade Unionists affiliated with the
Helena Trades and Labor Assembly
this month are establishing headquar
ters in the recently purchased Helena
Labor Temple at 10 North Warren
The building which for the past dec
ade was the home of the Helena
Moose, was purchased by the Helena
Assembly last month from the lodge
for $4,000.
Funds necessary for the financing
of the building are being raised
through the sale of series of bonds
to local unions and individual mem.
bers. The bond sale has met an en-.
thusiastic response in labor circles
with more than $1,000 of the $4,000
total already having been secured.
Management of the Temple has
been delegated by the Trades and La
Dor Assembly to the Helena Labor
Temple association, a board of con-
troll made up of 10 directors from the
various local unions.
Temporary members of the control
board who have been responsible for
the incorporation of the association,
purchase of the building, and other de-
tails of establishment are:
Louise Peterson, Hotel and Res
taurant Employees; Jack Hackman,
Carpenters; William Swenson. Paint
ers; Willard Moe, Clerks; Fred Guet-
tier, Plumbers; MILFORD Gunstone, La
borers; John Clausen, Brewery Work
ers Henry Smith, Butchers; Violet
M. Eastman, Teachers; Earl Roberts,
George Cline, Electro
clans; Jack Kline, Sheet Metal Work
ers; William Day, Plasterers. Helena
attorney, Lester Lobe, has assisted
the temporary board on legal matters
to the Incorporation, fl
nancing and purchase of the building.
The new temple, when ready for oc-
cupancy, will include one large meet
ing hall and two smaller halls. union
offices, and basement and club room
which the board of directors hope to
have in operation within short time.
Besides serving as a place of business
Tor the score Of unions affiliated with
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

$4,3S5,500 The book value according
to GO. "a was $301,566.
Chartering Chief Graft Source
However, ships bought outright rep
resented the least evasion of the no
enhancement clause Main evasion was
by chartering the ships rather than
buying them From July 1, 1941, to
Dec. 81, 1912, approximately 1900
were chartered. Their book value was
$37,900,000. Charter fees were $780,
767, 1852. If the ships had been taken
over outright by the commission in
stead of chartered, it would have
saved the nation more than $3.50 mill
ion in IS months. With ships valued
at $29,100 chartered at a cost of ST.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
RANKIN UNDER FIRE

Cong. John M. Rankin (D.-Miss.)
this week was charged by the Vet
Grams League of America with selling
down the river" the men of World
War H. He was accused specifically of
having "emasculated" legislation i'm
proving. veterans life insurance.
Rankin countered with the claim
that the attack was part of po-
litical scheme to beat him for re-
election.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
SIG, 100000 COOP dream CITY" OF
1000 HOMES TO BE BUILT near
MINNES0TA'S Twin CITIES
Construction of First Homes VIII Be Completed About
January 1st; VIII Have Complete Business
School, Recreationa Facilities

we'll known Twin City co-operators--
". S. Peterson. director of the Twin
Cities council of consumer co-opera-
tives contractor, and Steenberg and
Thomas F. Ellerbe, architect who
has pioneered the development of
modern streamlined coop food stores,
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
Iinge Of Politics Suspected
In Uproar For Killing All
Controls Over Meat
Decontrolling of Meat and End of Subsidies
To Boost Cost of Living Three Billion
Dollars Per Year Experts Contend
By TED sCHOENBORN, Helena

Support for disseminating meat and price
gained by the most reckless Misrepresentation of the by
the American Meat Institute NAM and its representatives
who play the creduly of the sockmen
distributor We have in state been reading widely
pubcised items of restaurants and distributors threaten
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
Strong Lobbyist Opposition
Plaques MVA Plans For
Basin Development
Unholy Combine of Power Trust, Government
Bureaus and Chambers of Commerce, Is
Fighting All Overall Authorities
By CECIL HOLLAND,
Chicago Sun Washington Bureau.)

Powerful and Influential forces will oppose any to
Missouri Valley Authority The opposition will be
stronger than last when the issue before
gress weinanced private lobby has been set
Washington and may be expected take the lead openly
extension of federal activities the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14
Shipowners Fleeced Nation
OfBillions In War Period
Senator Aiken of Vermont Contends Owners
Acts Were Treason Against United States
And Demands Thorough Inquiry
By BETTY GOLDSTEIN

NEW YORK-As the big guns of the United States gov
eminent and commercial press boom their propaganda
charge of treason against the nations merchant who
are threatening to strike for living wage and eighthou
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-06-14

Democracy in order to
live -. must make men and
Il EHqnen, whose devotion it
!, seeks, feel that it really cares
for the security of every in
dividual -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Evening star., 1946-10-13

FIRST ACTOR credit for his cartoons,
Mel Blanc is the behind Americas No. muncher,
Bugs Bunny Mel is also the voice for Porky Duck,
Elmer Fudd Tweedie, Beay doesn't
know how he gathered why
peacefully volnis COMEDIAN tuba
Evening star., 1946-12-15

One result Of John L. Lewis IT.
day soft coal strike was that the
Nation began to take stock OF its
substitute sources Of heat and
energy.
Coal, the abundant fuel which
first powered the industrial revolu-
ton, has long been considered
slightly old-fashioned but indis-
pensable. Certainly, no effective
substitute is now available in sufi-
cient quantity to replace 1t. How
ever, its pre-eminent position is
being challenged.
Tankers continue to ply the sea
route from the Gulf Of Mexico to
Eastern ports with cargoes of fuel.
Oil and hydroelectric power have
become mighty contenders. The
great Tennessee Valley Authority,
with its abundant electric power
that the 1930s made available to
homes. and factories in the South
Central states, was first to show
what could be done. Similar prof.
ects in the Columbia River basin Of
the Northwest as well as in other
sections of the West follow in its
footsteps, while the Missouri River
|harnessing proIect-Still awaiting
Evening star., 1946-12-15

a move to release coal stocks for use
in the East. Even when operating
at their peak, however, the pipelines
were counted upon to provide only
enough gas to equal 1900 tons Of
coal daily Normally, the Nation
burns /, ,400, 600 tons Of coal day at
this time of year. But the inch
lines dramatically demonstrated
that King Coal may be something
less than the almighty monarch he
was Is years ago.
Atomic energy, according to DR..
Charles A. Thomas who is directing
conversion Of the Oak Ridge, Tenn,
plant to nonmilitary uses, viii some
day be able to drive giant ocean
liners for more than a year without
|refueling- It's peacetime develop
ment is still a promise, though. Dr..
Thomas said that even now atomic
|pewer plants can be constructed on
the Eastern seaboard to compete
economically with those using coal If
bitnminous prices rise as high as
$40 q ton.
However, he added that atomic
energy never would completely wipe
out the coal or oil industries.
tDistribated hy the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1946-12-15

to prepare a study on the tremen-
dously complicated subject of car
tells. She was receiving a salary
OF $1,000 a year, or less than $40 q
week. The job she turned out was
not regarded as perfect, but It was
good enough to bring her the offey
Of another position in private In
dustry with more than twice the
salary.
Under the reorganization the 20
or more senior specialists" now
being hired will get salaries Of $1o,-
600 year, the highest compensation
received by Government employees
for this sort Of work.
DR.. Grifith said some time ago
there was q strong possibility that
the change Of so many governments
from democracy to dictatorship In
dicates fundamental weaknesses In
Evening star., 1946-12-15

able to call upon scholar research
and counsel at least equal IN compe-
.tence to the research and counsel re-
lied upon by those who appear
before congressional committees.
Neither the representatives OF Amer
ican business nor the representatives
OF the various departments Of Gov
ernment should be able to draw upon
expert opinion superior to the ex-
pert opinion available to the Con-
gress."
Congress authorized $550000 for
the service for the fiscal year ending
next June 80, $650,000 for the next
fiscal year and $3.50, 900 the year after
that. Actually only about $478. 900 is
being spent this year.
When discussing inadequate ap-
preparations, DR.. Grifiith likes to
relate the "incredihle" incident Of
the staff member who was assigned
Evening star., 1946-12-15

Insofar as it will provide legisla-
tors with impartial, accurate and
comprehensive information on any
subject under the sun-the facts on
which to base decisions-its func-
tions are among the most important
of modern democracy.
Director Ernest S. Grifith, Rhodes
scholar and record holding noun
tain climber, told this reporter
the expanded service will supply
"facts, not fiction" and will give
Congress, for. the first time, parity
with executive agencies and private
special-interest groups.
Z The need for such equalization was
expressed by the former librarian,
Archibald MacLeish, and has been
reiterated by his successor, Luther
Evans. Mr.. MacLeish said, In re-
quest for more funds for the service:
Members Of Congress should be
Evening star., 1946-12-15
By George III. Hall

Members Of Congress with no pre-
tentions to learning have sometimes
astounded the folks back home with
the vast erudition they display In
speeches at the Capitol. Constitu-
ents blink and decide their man Is
q good deal smarter than they had
thought.
Possibly he is. but it happens often
that he simply was being intelligent
enough to make use of the legislative
reference service Of the Library OF
Congress.
This remarkable institution, which
has been called the Congressman's
brain trust, has been growing slowly
for a long time, but now has en-
tered a period of expansion under
the terms of the La toilette Mon
roney reorganization act.
Evening star., 1946-12-15
Strikes Draw Attention
To School Teachers Pay
Shortage of Instructors, Growing Glasses,
Low Salaries and Deficient Facilities
Stir Up Unrest
By Dapid Taylor Marke

California, the State Legislature
authorized increases. In New York
City, teachers were voted . $250-a-
year increase, which is not consid-
cred wholly satisfactory by i've
teachers organizations.
In Railway, N. j., new salary
schedules providing graded increases
not to exceed $500 a year were
adopted, and in Hillside, N. j., the
Board OF Education has agreed to a
$500 increment for teachers, effec-
tive February /.
Average Only $1,000.
While there is general agreement
In the profession that most school
systems lack funds, that teachers
are underpaid and stats under
manned, there is division on what
to do about it.
DR.. Francis Brown, executive sec
retary of The Presidents Commission
on Higher Education. and special
commission OF the NEA, both point
out that there are 127 900 teachers,
mostly in one-room schools, who
make $500 a year or less. Even
counting in the city teachers, the
average salary barely reaches $1,000
a year. The loss of $4,000 school
teachers to other professions since
the war started has increased the
load of the remaining teachers.
Minimum salaries, NEA says,
should be $2,400. This would mean
increasing educational funds in the
United States as much as 81, SOC, ,000,-
600. Conditions soon will be aggra-
waited, the NEA maintains, by
Evening star., 1946-12-15
By Robert ~. Cool

congressional action-promises even
greater strides toward regional mod
ernization.
The coal strike brought renewed
discussion of the st. Lawrence
Great Lakes seaway and power prof.
ect which some day may provide
electrical energy for much of New
England and the Middle Atlantic
region. This mammoth program,
designed to be jointly developed by
the United States and Canada, was
winning wide support in Congress
when the war intervened. A bill
to implement the scheme is ex-
pected to be brought up in the next
session.
Meanwhile, as Northern plants
were shut down and homes grew
Geld, the Sll5, 900, 600 Big and Little
Inch oil pipelines, which were con-
structed during the war from Texas
to New Jersey. came again into the
news. Interrupting discussion as to
their eventual use, they were pressed
into coal strike service for conveying
natural gas. The fuel was funneled
into Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky in