Montana labor news., 1946-11-14

Bv MARTY SOLOW

In the World-Telegram. New York
outlet of Press Lord Roy Howard. an
editorial on Oct. ~ praised the forma-
ton of American Action Inc. referring
to il as "A concentrated. organized ef-
fort of sound Americans everywhere
The World-Telesram forgot that on
March IL Eugene Segal. in a series
written for the Howard chain of
papers. said that American Action is
"a new nationalist movement led by
old hands in the business of fomenting
political and economic d%issension
in the L. S"
It's October ~ editorial also failed
to disclose that this new l.000et pa
.triotic group contained such sponsors
as Merwin X. Hart. a Franco propa-
gandist. and Robert NJ. Harriss.
Coughlinite leader in Queens county.
y. Y.
Neither did the Telegram state that
the group was financed by reactionary
businessmen such as Sun Oil magnate
Joe Pew, the violently anti-labor steel
baron. Ernest r. Weir. and Col. Rob
ert II. Mccormick. midwest publisher
whose Chicago Tribune was a source
Of comfort to Adolph Hitler as our
armies cut through nazi Germany.
Lewis Haney, who calls himself an
economist and conducts a regular
column on economics in Hearst's
newspapers. wrote on Oct. IS: "Or-
ganized labor has been able to get the
largest part of the excess supply of
currency. for wages have gone up
more than prices
IT'S A LIE, The Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported on October % that
weekly earnings of workers in manu-
featuring industries (where greatest
raises have taken place. have risen
approximately 10 per cent since VI
Day while consumer prices have gone
up 13 per cent.
Bureau Of Labor Statistics figures
do not take into account the scarcity
of low-priced goods and quality deter
ioration of goods which actually send
consumers costs up wen higher.
Prime Example Of Press Fakery
George Seldes' weekly In Fact points
a prime example Of press fakery
in the October 81 issue. Says Seldes.
"The press frontpaged the news that
the great APP food chain had been
found guilty of monopoly.
During the trial it had been testi-
fled that the housewives of America
had been cheated OF S21.714.O0O by the
APP through short weights, over
charges and price boosting. This news
was almost totally suppressed.
The explanation is known to every
one in the business. The monopoly
news on page l would not drive away
a single A&P customer. But the news
of cheating housewives would offend
APP. might lose advertising money"
Some More Fakery
Remember when Americas gutter
press Ca stable portion of the press)
splashed headlines across their front
pages last winter about a so-called plot
afoot involving reds" and foreigners
who were trying to swipe the atom
bomb?
Well. there's no plot. Those front
page stories about the foreign" and
red spies were strictly phony. Here's
the proof, which was buried deep in
side the New York Times on Oct. %:
washington, Oct. 23.-(UP-Johr
s. Wood Of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities said today
that a years investigation had failed
to bring to light any evidence OF a
foreign atom bomb spy ring at work
in this country" Most Of the press
gave the story similar treatment OF
failed to run it.
That's the way our free press" han.
died this story which blasted the
original front-page sensation as lies.