The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-22

nann s nartcu1ar candidates to public office Look
ing back the last dozen or so years. Progressves
must admit that electing such farsighted men as jim
Murray is the exception rather than the rule We must
work increasingly and unswervingly to elect men, IT.
respective party who will first last and all the time
have the interests of all the people at heart
AS to point two-durng recent campaigns Montana
Progressives have had to hitch their fortunes to the
democratic party not much because that party S
leadership thoroughly imbued with the ideals OF
Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson and Thomas JET
ferson, but because of the utter lack OF liberalism
amongst the top men of republican party AS will
be noted in article elsewhere in this ISSUE lifelong
democrat, Attorney Lowndes Maury of Butte, gives
voice to the thoughts of many Montana Progressives
he places certain state democratic leaders on the
Suspect list Montana Progressives must begin now
to build strong trustworthy leadership within their
ranks rather than relying leading politicians from
either party who at best only lukewarm, and in
all too many cases are thoroughly reactionary
Point three is equally important if so than
the two previous points This conclusively
during the recent campaign. Despite strenuous eff
forts adequately inform the electorate on the vital
issues of the day, the of what free press
there the state was entirely too limited to out
weigh the well organized and well financed campaign
of smear, prejudice and appeal to petty grievances
At present there is hardly dozen LIBERAL labor
progressive farm papers being published within the
state The calculations of these publications should
be materially increased in order to more comprehen
sively fulfill their purpose.
With fascsm, through the medium of monopoly,
gradually creeping upon nation like slow paral
yss longer just desirable that the people have
to vital and issues of the day-it is man.
datory if democracy is to survive. The large daily
press state not to be trusted rather, for the
part the forces behind it to be feared equally
much the world feared Hitler just few years
The people of state-the worker the farmer, the
independent business and professional menmust have
to the facts rather than to the propaganda dis
pensed by the corporate-owned daily press news.
That these people who the real life and substance
of state such it seems logical that
informed liberals should do all they to make such
available AS starting point, suggest that
you always pass your Voice other independent
to neighbor-or better stil-join in the campaign
of doubling the circulation of The Voice by every read
getting reader. We've got big job to do, and
do it with your able assistance.
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Everett Lofgren Helena lawyer and for eight years
attorney with the Unemployment Compensation Com
mission has prepared objective booklet "Ten Years
of Social Security and Unemployment Compensation.
Purpose of the booklet is to explain, in everyday Ian
the operation and intent of the federal and state
laws. Since. revision of the state unemployment law
will be of the important matters the docket
of the 1947 legislative session. and in view of the very
objective in which Mr.. Lofgren reviews the
law and its workings this booklet prove of immense
value to both members of organized labor and to Mon