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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
A PASSENGERS FLOWN
 BY COASTAL AIRLINES

Alaska Coastal Airlines carried the following today to Ketchikan, Mike White, Otto Nelson, w. D. Gish, L. J. Tortorelli and A. R. Lehne; to Wrangell, Woodrow Wat son; to Pelican, L. Jacobsen and Rose McGee; to Hoonah, MT. and Mrs. Charles Fawcett.
 Yesterdays passengers were: to Hoonah, E. G. Whitehead, Hilda Schoonover, Ruth Jackson, Harry Douglass, James Osborne and Charles Metz; from Skagway, Vio- let Gibbons; from Hoonah, James Houston, Helen Houston, J. w. Me Kinley, E. G. Whitehead, J. K. Smith, Fannie Burdette and James Johnnie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
pAA HAS 20 INBOUND, EIGHT OUT FOR SEATTLE
 YESTERDAYS FLIGHTS

Pan-American Airways yesterday brought in the following IT passen- gers from Seattle:
 Frances Began, Dorianne Barnes, Joyce Williams, John Williams, Frank Phillips, Dorothea Ferg, Les Nachtweih, Ralph Ward.
 Bette Beaugard, Lindley Durkee, Evart Clayton, Louis Hague, Will liam Miller, Richard Fenton, Mrs. Phil Bryan, Ernest Knight, Carl Stolberg.
 Incoming passengers from Fair banks were Rae Hoopes, Robert Hoopes and Gordon Wildes.
 Leaving for Seattle were the fol- 1 lowing Olaf Aase, Elaine Aase, Elene Aase, Raymond Wiseman Gary Wiseman, Iva Wiseman, Nich- alos Rauch, Kathryn Robinson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
Harold |. Iekes Now
 High Paid CoIunlnisi

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Harolo L. Ickes, the "old curmudgeon," to- day turned newspaper columnist.
 The recent Secretary of the h. terior signed up with the New York Post Syndicate at a price which a syndicate said placed him among the highest paid columnists in the country.
 Ickes will column three times a week, the syndicate announced with his maiden effort appearing on April 1. His work will appear in various papers throughout the country, according to the announce ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
Indian Troops 10
 Leave lndonesia

LONDON, Feb. 28.--A Reuters dispatch from New Delhi today quoted Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck British Commander-in- Chief in h. dia, as saying the withdrawal of Indian troops from strife-torn h. donesia will begin tomorrow.
 Auchinleck made his statement in an address before the Council of State-upper house of the h. dian Central Assembly, the dis patch said.
 Indian Nationalist leaders have been critical of the use of Indian troops against Indonesia National ists, whose aspiration for indepen- dence have won expressions of sym pathy in India.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28

He joined the Forest Service as skipper in 1906 and retired in 1886 He lived in Douglas until 1889 when he came to Sitka.
 Survivors are son Charles Pe- terson of Sitka; daughters, Mrs John Gushing, Mrs. Nick Triers- chield of Sitka, Mrs. Sid Bredwik of Lakewood, Wash. sisters, Mrs John Cushing. Mrs. Nick Trier- schield of Sitka, Mrs. Sid BredwicE ther Herbert Peterson of LaCenter Wash; eight grandchildren, one great grandchild.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
GEORGE PETERSON
 FOUND DEAD, SITKA

SITKA, Feb. 28.-George Peter son was found dead of heart at tack this morning at his desk with pen still in his hand. It is believ- ed he died late last night
 He was born in Chicago in De- cember 1872.
 In 1899 enroute to Nome he broke a rib and left the boat at Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-28
ROBERT HOOrEs ARRIVES

Among members of the Legisla- ture who are arriving in Juneau to attend the special session is Ro- bert Hoopes, Representative from the Fourth Division, who came in from Fairbanks by plane yesterday, accompanied py Mrs. Hoopes, who was formerly Rae Stevens of Ju- neau.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
Montana Building Is
Drastically Cut

Non-housing construction in Mon
tana was sharply curtailed this week
by the federal CPA orders for deep
slashes in everything except home
construction, Montana CPA Manager
Jerome G. Locke reports.
According to Mr.. Locke these new
orders mean that only % per cent of
pending Montana applications, valued
at S4,000,000, can be approved. This
new building cut has been brought
about by the large volume of construc-
ton previously authorized and the ma
tion-wide shortage of materials.
Under the latest CPA orders only
five types of construction are to be
permitted in the months ahead. These
are: ~ construction vital to the pub
lie health and safety; ~ structures
which will increase production of criti-
cal products; (3) those designed to
increase food production or food pres
ervation; (4) provide minimum COM
munity facilities which are absolutely
essential for new residential areas de-
veloped as part of veterans housing
program; 90 construction that will
provide urgently needed veterans edu-
cational facilities, and will provide es.
sential, non-deferrable maintenance
and repairs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
EDITORS OF life
HERE is YOUR
ANSWER

Montana wheat farmers gave a
humping answer to the charges put
forth by the editors of Life magazine
last week by oversupplying the states
emergency wheat quota one-half mil
lion bushels, Bob McKenna, state di-
rector of production and marketing,
has reported to The Voice. Montana
had quota of 9,250,00O bushels, and
estimates place the amount actually
in elevators May %, or sent to market
by track loading" to be just under
the ten million bushel mark
Many Montana farmers will recall
that Life magazine, issue of May 6, in
an editorial entitled Greed On the
Farm" severely castigated the wheat
farmers of America and inferred that
their love for their fellowmen in this
period of worldwide hunger was over
balanced by their anticipation of
greater return per bushel
Life magazine has its answer. Mon
tana farmers have again shown that
when completely informed on situa-
ton, they are ready to cope with it
successfully, and to deliver the goods,
despite the press of spring planting,
farm machinery shortage and all of
the other heavy seasonal work which
keeps them occupied from before dawn
until way after dark in this season
of the year.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
An1e~;ca In Danger of Industrial Serfdom
WHEELER DENIES HEARINGS ON
DRAFT LABOR BILL

WASHINGTON, May 25.-S
chairman committee the
tonight President Tru
condemnation
headed Murray, Montana
to the joint session. Barke reported have asked Murray the
submitted
replied
bill without delay Barley
would handle the bill
Wheeler replied bill
committee, the bill
be a o
Education Labor of the
assaing bypassed
Labor committee.
better things to do with time than
committee which
he said 81 hereby submit resignation
the Education and Labor committee of the senate"
bill the committee this
without consideration
succeeded True his Wheeler
committee hearings held
controversy
o.
drafabor bill anticipated
broherhoods will meet to reconsider their action
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

own organizations, set their own STAN
dards for admittance to their own
profession The failure of educators
to recognize that there is an newt
able divergence of point of view be-
tween labor and management (teach-
ers and administrators) has been a
prime reason for the Intellectual char
acter of most teachers organizations.
Teachers are employed to teach.
Principals are employed to help them
do this well. In spite of all attempts
to obtain democracy in administration
of schools, the decision that an incom-
petent teacher should be fired must
be made by the principal. The newt
able fixing of responsibility for this
decision on the principal is never for
gotten by the teacher The principal
is the boss. Attempting to put all of
the bosses and all of the bossed into
one big association has produced a
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emotion, the National Farmers Union
must denounce President Truman's
messages and speech in the settle
ment of the railroad strike, and the
bill he has proposed, as naked, open
fascism.
"The fact that the bill now before
the senate carries provision for the
confiscation of profits of seized plants
does not in any way mitigate the adj
ditional fact that the bill, for the
first time in American history. pro-
poses to use guns to coerce free citi-
zens to work. Nothing can condone
that. Hitler himself also confiscated
business profits when it was expedi-
ent to do so.
Military Coercion Must Not Be
1--WE stand at a crossroads. far
graver in its import than any we have
faced before in the workings of our
democracy. Our whole national exis-
tenet stems from the refusal of farm
ers and workingmen in 1776 to put
up any longer with military domina-
ton and coercion.
we nave just louBht announcer war
on behalf of the same principle. In
order to fight that war our sons were
impressed into service. Now many of
those same sons will be ordered to
force their fellow citizens to work
whether they want to work or not.
Those boys were not taken into the
army for that purpose. Neither con-
gress nor the president has the moral
right to turn them into the agents of
fascism
"Nor can the limitation Of the bills
provisions to emergencies and essen
tial industries condone what amounts
to an essential change in our democ-
racy and an essential change in our
economy of free enterprise. An "emerg-
ency' can be declared whimsically by
any president Any industry can be
termed essential by any president.
Every citizen who values his liber-
ties, every citizen who venerates the
men who staked our lives, our fortune
and our sacred honor to found this
Republic, should rally to combat this en-
actment of brutality into legislation"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

| ly wages for January, 1916, were 10.
per cent below those of January, 1916
During the war period of 1912 t.
1913, average annual corporate prof
it's were $2z.7 billion, or more thai
FOUR times the average of the pre-
war 1869 period. Department o
Commerce figures.)
And even after deduction of taxes
the annual average was 1914 billion Of
21a times the comparable average fol
1868. Department of Commerce.)
Let me be brutaIIy specific. The
greatest fomenters of strikes today are
the rrofiteers who see in a period o.
short supply-the natural aftermath
of the war-a grand and glorious OPP
portunity to fatten their profits at the
expense of the American people.
PeriIs Labor
Will cooling-off periods and facts
finding commissions bring down the
cost of meat and butter?
Will measures to take collective
bargaining into the courts and to tie
down unions by endless litigation pre-
vent profiteers from violating legally
established ceiling prices?
No, Mr.. President. Such anti-labor
proposals as these are not designed
or intended to cope with this primary
cause of conflict between capital and
labor. Their only purpose is to weak
en- labor organization and thereby
strengthen the monopolistic interests
in this country that have carried on
the fight against Price Control in
America.
The answer to the rising cost of
living is clear. On the one hand, we
need an extension of the Price Con-
troll act for an adequate period of
time, without Gripping amendments,
together with adequate funds for adj
and enforcement.
Extend Wage Laws
On the other hand, we need extern
sion of the Minimum Wage law, with
out inflationary amendments, to al
low those now receiving substandard
wages to come just a little bit closer
to catching up with the cost of living.
A second cause of labor disputes,
in my opinion, is the rapid growth
Of monopoly and concentration of bus
mess in the hands of a small group
Of industrialists and financiers.
What is the connection between mo
nopoly control and labor disputes?
o First of all, monopoly control
means higher prices = prices that
drive the wage Garner to demand high
er wages.
q Second, monopoly prices means
higher profits for the privileged few. .
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
big BIz'MAGAZ!NE
TAKES Nam.
TO TASK

When business magazine slaps the
knuckles of the National Association
of Manufacturers. that's a man-bites-
a-dog story. Modern Industry, an in
dustrial magazine, did just that this
week. The issue: MANS opposition to
the OPA and to Price Control.
The charges: NAM has used poor
public relations sense in fighting OPA;
MANS top leaders are undemocratic.
Acknowledging MANS right to take
any position it wants, the magazine de-
clared: "We do not object to the way
NAM arrived at its position"
NAM failed to poll its members on
the Price Control issue, the magazine
says. Instead it surveyed only 10 per
cent of its members on the question:
do you believe that Price Controls
hamper the production of manufac-
tured goods?" The reply was over
whelmingly in the affirmative. But,
Modern Industry points out. "it is i'm
proper to assume, as MANS leaders
apparently did, that every manage
ment man who knows that Price Con
trolls have been hampering production
also feels that the solution is to throw
all controls out the window"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
TOOTH anniversary TO
BE Celebrated BY
FORT BENTON

FORT BENTON, May 30.-Fort Ben
ton will mark the Tooth anniversary
of its founding in the spring of 1876
with frontier celebration on Satur
day and Sunday, Aug. "a and rs.
The program will include Indian
ceremonials, frontier parade, from
tier races, special fireworks, histori-
and planned pageant highlighting
the century of history behind Mon
tana's greatest river port.
Maj Alexander Culbertson rounded
the post in 1876 but it was known as
Fort Lewis until Christmas Day, 1850,
when it was renamed in honor of Sen.
Thomas H. Benton of Missouri. Sena-
tor Benton had saved the trading Ii
cense of the American Fur company,
for whom the post was founded, by
his legal advice and influence. For
many years Fort Benton was the fur
company's uppermost Missouri river
trading post and one of its richest,
since it carried on extensive trade
with the Piegan Indians and others
in the Blackfoot Confederation
The town prospered, and at its
height in the 1905 and 1905 was
the commercial center of Northern
Montana, with trade influence extend
ing to Helena Judith Basin, the Rock
les, the Musselshell river country and
even into Canada. From 1869 to 1880,
the old trading post was used as a
fort, from where American troops ope-
rated to subdue Indians and placate
complaining white settlers.
The first days program will include
Indian ceremonials and frontier pa
rade, followed by six frontier races
and the historical pageant, directed by
L. w. Upshaw of Great Falls,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

Teaching is not an attractive way
to earn a living. For this teachers
must share some of the blame. They
and their organizations have made
half-hearted, ineffective attempts to
improve the situation There has been
little or no result. A new type of or
ganization and new program are
needed.
ORGANIZATIONS a Hodge-Podge
Present organizations of educators,
with a few marked exceptions, include
those who teach, those who admins
ter, those who supervise and those
who establish policy. Some include
statesmen of educational materials, en-
ployees of commercial radio stations,
reporters for newspapers and any per-
son who possesses the small sum nee
essary to pay the annual dues. An or
ganization which is such a hodge
podge of conflicting interests, ideas
and activities can never have uniform
ly supported policies nor can it deyel-
CD a program of vigorous action.
Educational organizations are Meth
err fish, flesh nor fowl. They claim to
work to improve the lot of teachers
and yet they admit the managers OF
schools and school systems to mem
berghip and to positions of control.
They claim to speak for teachers and
yet they do not require their member
ship to abide by established points OF
view. They claim to influence local,
state and national legislation but the
long record of their failures to obtain
proper legislation to eliminate inequi-
ties in the financial support of schools,
to improve educational opportunities
for youth or to make major changes
in the organization of states into dis
tricts refutes this claim.
New Organization Needed
They are neither professional or
CARNATIONS, labor unions nor political
organizations. A new organization or
an almost complete change in exist
ing ones is needed.
The new organization should estab-
lish high qualifications for member
ship. Teachers should have adequate
professional training and should pre-
sent evidence of this when applying
for membership. This evidence should
be passed upon by local examining
committees, which should consider the
quality of the courses studied, the
quality of the institution offering them
and the grades received by the
teacher.
This local examining committee
should also consider the personality
of the candidate, his character and his
attitude toward his profession. When
it is satisfied that all qualifications
are met, it should certify this to the
national organization which would
then issue credentials of membership
in the profession of teaching.
Membership in the professional or
ganization of teachers should be open
to them alone. Administrators, super
visors and other managers Of schools
and school systems should not be adj
mitted. They should establish their
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31
STATE WIDE ERICKSON SENATORIAL
COMMITTEE IS ANNOUNCED
Many Leading Veterans Businessmen Trade Unionists
Farmers, and Public Officials, Are Actively
Participating In Campaign

With outstanding representatives
from every walk of Montana life in
Guided, the statewide Erickson-for
Senator committee was announced
early this week by campaign head
quarters here in Helena. Chairman of
the committee is Lou Boedecker, Deer
Lodge, 35-year veteran Milwaukee con-
ductor, World War veteran, and
formerly head of the Montana High
way Patrol system. Secretary of the
committee is Lester Lukkason, Poison,
World War II veteran, and holder
of the bronze star for action in the
Southwest Pacific.
Members of the committee are as
follows:
veterans-L. S. Labbitt, finance Of
ficer, Yellowstone Post of AMVETS,
Billings; John Dolan, Helena; E. ].
Liptals, Great Falls Walter Milan,
Helena; DR.. W. E. Harris, Livingston;
William Duane, Anaconda; Lester
Lukkason. Poison; II. S. Bruce, Hell
ena; Andy Lopach, Helena; Francis
J. Dolan, Helena; Bob Hanshaw, Hell
ena; James e. Dolan, Helena.
Railroad therhoods-Phflip P.
Dolan, Helena, Brotherhood of Rail-
way Telegraphers; Pete Kirwan, Deer
Lodge, Order of Railway Conductors;
F. B. Byrne, Alberton, Brotherhood Of
Railway Photographers; Charles Sykes,
Billings, Brotherhood of Railway Tel
egraphers; Louis Schofield, Harlow
town, Brotherhood of Railway Tele-
graphers; George F. Barwise, Wolf
Point, Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers; John G. Mackedon, Deer
Lodge, Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers; Lou Boedecker Deer Lodge,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

Order of Railway Conductors; J. c.
McIntire, Roundup, Order of Railway
Trainmen; W. N. Trudeau, Havre,
Brotherhood of Railway Photographers.
Ernest Burns, Whitefish, Ben Proc
tor, Lima, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers; Lee J. Thompson Jr., Great
Falls, secretary Brotherhood of Rail
way Carmen; Roy V. Veach, Great
Falls, Brotherhood of Railway Tele-
graphers; G. P. Smith, Glendive,
Brotherhood of Railway Telegraphers;
Roscoe o. Lewis, Kolin, Order of Rail-
way Trainmen.
Labor Unions-Bruce Steinmetz,
Great Falls, president Cascade Trades
and Labor Assembly, ALL; w. G.
Radke, Helena, LA. of Machinists;
John Obstarczky, Great Falls, ALL;
Pat C. Sullivan, Butte, secretary State
Association of Plumbers, AFL; Harry
L. Billings, Helena, Technical Engi-
neers, and International Typograph-
ical Union (Printers), AFL; Lester
Gardner, Cut Bank, Clio; Frank j.
Noble, Cut Bank, CLIO; Robert Ora
ham, East Helena, CLIO; Virgil James,
Helena, Clio; Bert Price, Billings, CLIO,
Jack Clark, Great Falls, CLIO.
Public Officiols-F. e. Baker, Lib
by, former Montana representative;
George Montgomery, Wisdom, former
Montana senator; r. A. Parker, Sun
River, Montana representative; Fred
J. Butcher, Lewistown. sheriff's office;
Bert Lind, Lewistown, sheriff's offire;
Emil G. Bjorneby, Kalispell, former
Montana representative; William Mel
son, Barber, Montana representative;
George S. MsKenna, Geyser, Montana
CONTINUED ON Page Three)
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Real Reasons Mn, Workers Go On Strike
Are Pointed Out by Senator Murray
Rising Prices Monopoly Control, Lack of Job
Security, Low Health Standards, Are
All Contributing Factors

E. Murray last Friday again proved to be
truly farsghted members of the house he
with his colleagues deeper understanding of the
real causes behind the nationwide unrest of Americas
workers.
Washington reports indicate that the speech by Montanas
junior senator hghight of the dramatic Friday
son running into the night in which senators friendly
to labor pleaded the president in the final
before the president went the air. to under
stand what were the real causes of today's crises.
Murray Speech because of its wealth OF facts on the
fundamental behind postwar abormanagem diff
culties should be read by every Hghghs of the
the several proposals the senator makes to ensure
industrial peace, follows:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

ent in the labor-manageme disputes
which are rocking the nation.
Nevertheless, ever since the debate
opened, the situation has grown stead
lily worse. The reason for this develop
ment is that the underlying causes Of
the crisis have been ignored. We are
attempting only to attack the symp
toms, and we are approaching them
in the heat of excitement and emotion
Used as Excuse
f. the American people want a
realistic and comprehensive program
that will deal with the real causes OF
conflicts between capital and labor
and usher in a period of cooperation
and peaceful prosperity and expan-
sion
Cause No. has been the rapid in.
crease in the cost of living. AS a result
of the war, the cost of living has gone
up "a per cent since 1941, and II per
cent to Is per cent since October,
1912, when wage sterilization went
into effect
Average weekly wages for all manu-
featuring have gone up only 81 per
cent since October, 1912. In fact, they
have not kept pace with even the Of
fetal cost of living. And they have, of
course, fallen far short of the actual
rise in living costs, if black market
prices and deterioration of quality are
taken into account
Moreover. take-home pay has been
dropping rapidly in recent months. AS
a result of reduction in both hourly
pay and weekly hours, average week
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

time-keepers and the like who
walked out in sympathy with
the miners. The action of the com
pany is alleged to be in direct viola
ton of the Wagner act which forb1ds
use on the part of employers OF the
old economic whip" black-balling en-
ployees for participating in the efforts
of workers to better wages and work
ing conditions Trade unionists see in
the action of the company a serious
threat to all workers of Butte and
Montana If non-union employees can
be refused their jobs because they re-
fused to work during strike, the eco
nomic freedom of all who work for
wages is seriously endangered. Realiz-
ing this, Butte organizations are send
ing authorized delegates to take part
in the program of the Montana Anti
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-05-31

Discrimination League. Further the
unions are contributing to fund set
up by the league to provide financial
relief for the workers who were de-
MED unemployment at the end of the
recent strike The Miners Union led
in the establishment of the fund by
contributing $4,000. Donations are be-
ing received from unions. AT this writ
ing many checks have been written
for the Disseminated men,
ACM Refused Mutual Fairness
Agreement
At the termination of the recent
strike the ACM refused to sign a mu-
tual fairness agreement similar to
the one signed at the conclusion of
the 1884 strike by both the union and
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