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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-06
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

Oct. 3rd-Jessie league, Guardian
v. Buddy Alfred. Appealed from Mis-
soula County. Unanimous opinion pre-
pared by Justice Edwin K. Cheadle.
Held: The court affirmed judg
ment refusing to grant annulment o
a marriage, where the girl was owe
the legal age of consent GIG years.
and under the age of majority, an(
consent of parent or guardian was no
obtained either to issuance of license
or to the marriage.
October. 16th-State ex rel. Nesbit
v. District Court. Original proceeding
arising out of facts from Silver Bow
County, Butte. Unanimous opinion Of
the Court prepared by Justice Edwin
K. Cheadle.
Held The court granted a peremp
tory writ of supervisory control in q
case involving the question as to
which party was the successful party
on a prior appeal and therefore en-
titled to costs of such appeal. The
court held the respondents were the
successful party on the appeal.
Oct. 23rd-Robert L. RoWell v.
Agnes RoweII. Appealed from Cascade
County, Great Falls. Unanimous opini-
on of the Court prepared by Justice
Edwin K. Cheadle.
Held: The Court affirmed judg-
ment in a real estate partition action
in which Agnes Rowell was the sue
ortrr inf 0c
in some detail the law of the passing
of after-acquired title, in a case where
the grantee received the title pur-
ported to be conveyed, but subsequent
ly lost it by foreclosure of lien ex-
listing at the time of the grant 1t also
involves the effect on joint tenancy
of destruction of title of the joint ten
ants.
Oct. 28th-State ex REL Van Horn v.
Lyon. An original proceeding arising
out of facts occurring in Toole County,
Shelby. Main opinion prepared by
Justice Hugh R. Adair Chief Justice
Lindquist and Associate Justices Nor
ris, Angstman and Cheadle specially
concurring.
Held: The Court granted peremp-
tory writ of injunction against the
clerk of Toole county restraining him
from delivering certain absent voters
ballots to the election judges. The
case involved the right to deliver bal
lots to persons other than the elector
making application to vote same, the
right mail or deliver non-military
absent voters ballots to anyone at any
time prior to 80 days before election |
day, and the validity of ballots deliver
ed to third persons or voted at a time |
more remote than 80 days before the |
election day.
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the story stated that he was actual,
interviewing Hitler and dressed it u
to appear like real news item.
The result Rogge said, was one o
the most successful pieces of naz
propaganda ever directed at this coun
try. The Hearst papers and the Wash
ington Times Herald, Chicago Tribune
and New York Oily News, all part O.
the McCormick-Patter press, prom
inently carried Won Wiegand's story
George Sylvester Viereck, No. 1 naz
propagandist in the U. S., succeeded
in getting ex-Rep. Jacob Thorkelson tc
insert the interview in the Congress
sional Record and had 5000 copies
mailed out under his frank.
Hans Fritzche, another top nazi with
whom Rogge talked in Germany, had
this recollection about Won Wiegand:
'I received from very old and we'll
known American journalist telegram
from China in which he made an Of
fer to work with us for money, and
| transmitted it to Brauweiler, then
press section man, and Goebbels. Goeb-
bells showed it to the Fuehrer, as he
knew the man. I think this man was
Won Wiegand."
Although the Won Wiegand episode
is the most startling example of how
the Germans used the American press,
actually the lies and distortions ground
out by the nazi machine turned up in
papers here almost every day. thanks
to the effective short wave radio,
broadcasts and propaganda corps of
agents, congressman and paid writer's.
"The files of the German Foreign
Office show" the Rogge report says,
that whenever possible an attempt
was made to influence the respectable
American press, and in some cases
were kept up with cor
as, for instance, in the
case of Miss Ray Beverage, Hearst
and guest of Ulrich Won
Gienanth during the Nuremberg Party
Day of 1897. In 1886, suggestion was
submitted to the Foreign Office to
make lump sum payment to her for
Ter services. At some later date, she
received a small payment. The files
llso contain small payments to from
10 to $100 to UP, AP and ms"
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the newly created district. The new
board in counties where there is only
one school district will function on
school matters much as the present
board of county commissioners on
other county matters.
8. The commissions pr5iished re-
port gives no figures on the total
amount Gf~money needed to run the
s nools each year An elaborate sche-
dule is listed, however, showing the
amount that will be guaranteed per
pupil ia the state providing the legis-
lature will dig up the money. For an
elementary school having twelve or
fewer pupils and designated as ''isolat-
ed" the district will receive $4,000 plus
5000 per pupil. 1t is well to be aware
of the distinction between school
and district" under the proposed set
up. There is no assurance in the re-
port that the money earmarked for an
isolated school will be used by the
trustees to maintain that school. The
report goes on to say that school
district having more than rs pupils
will receive a maximum of 1910 per
pupil with a decreasing rate of 80
cents per pupil sntil total of so
pupils has been reached when a furth-
err reduced rate takes effect for larger
For a school district of
more than 300 pupils, which will be
the case in most districts created by
the proposals, the maximum amount
received from the state per pupil will
be $145. This latter amount is judged
sufficient (by the Governors appoin-
-ees) to finance a type of instruction
meeting the standards of Foundation
Program cited in the report as a mini
mum program consistent with modern
living. Transportation costs and money
or servicing the debts of the district
ire not included in the S145.
Figures Don't Check
Cost of educating each elementary
child in 1915 was about STAT, so it was
said, and included transportation and
debt service money. 1t is thought by
the commission that the margin there
by created would give each new dis
trict additional money since it is
hoped transportation and debt servic-
ng will be cared for by other funds
o be made available by the legisla-
ure. ct required $3.50 per child when
and high school pupils are
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acts. The statement as given
the Associated Press and pub
llished in full in the Spokane
DAILY Chronicle, follows:
I The history of the labor injunction
prior to 1882 is a sordid one Con
gress in 1914 recognized that by pass
| ing the Clayton act, and again in 1892
by enacting the Norris-LaGuardia act
The latter act in plain language which
any intelligent citizen can understand,
provides that
"No court of the United States
shall have jurisdiction to issue
any restraining order or temporary
or permanent injunction in a case
involving or growing out of labor
dispute :"
The United Mine Workers are in a
dispute over working conditions in the
mines which, in our opinion, spells
nothing else but labor dispute. The
Clayton act and the Norris-LaGuardia
act clearly enumerate certain tradi-
tional union activities which shall not
be restrained or enjoined by any court,
among them being ceasing or refus-
ing to perform any work or to remain
in any relation of employment, and
the giving of publicity to the facts in
volved in any labor dispute
Asked for Conferences
On October 81 this union asked for
to discuss our grievances.
Outstanding among these grievances
which cries aloud for immediate adj
iustment is the deadly, brutal 54-hour
work week underground in American
coal mines. Our miners work at the
operators option, nine hours per day,
six days per week, which is a longer
work day and work week than pre-
walls in the mining industry of any
civilized country in the world. These
disputes over working conditions in
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has been said about the condi-
lions under which miners must
work, the extremely dangerous
nature of their work, their
struggle to obtain a living
wage, etc.
Here's something of background
picture that you may have a better
understanding of the why's, not only
for this current strike, but for the
several strikes of the UNIV during
recent years:
Base pay per hour in this most
dangerous of all industrial occupa-
lions is 81 per hour. At the option of
the operators, the miners work 81
hour week. In the two monthly pay
periods, the average miner will find
S12 to $24 checked off for his COM
pany owned shack. Company houses,
according to the standards of most
American families, are not fit for hui
man occupation. These shacks are
frame, with no basement, coal stove
for heat, no toilet, an outside tap for
water supply. They represent, in gen.
eral $3.50 investment with negligible
upkeep over the years. Most of them
represent 100 per cent return on the
company's investment in less than
three years.
The miner must pay a coal fee of
$3.50, whether he needs coal that
month or not-this is checked off from
his earnings before he receives his
pay check. When he does need coal,
there is an extra 81 hauling charge
on every ton hauled to his shanty.
He has an electric power bill of
about SIS monthly, company doctor
checkoff of So to So; disqualification
fund of $1.75 to SO and 1878 for COM
pany life, insurance policy. Many
miners have SOC per month checked
off for burial as well.
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the mines were not resolved and the
representatives of the United Mine
Workers determined that the so-called
Krug-Lewis agreement was preached.
The representatives, after a period of
rs days, on November Is, notified the
secretary of the interior that the con-
tract was terminated as of November
goth.
The agents of the government, in
what we believe to constitute viola
ton of both the Clayton and the Nor
ris-LaGuardia acts, applied for tenn
porary restraining order which this
court granted without notice and with
out hearing.
This court has now ruled that the
Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts do
not apply to this controversy. That is
a matter for legal counsel to appraise
and evaluate.
But above and beyond those statutes
there is federal Constitution binding
on all, even upon the government, and
that Constitution guarantees to the
miners, as it does to all citizens, free
uohi VI speech, freedom OF press, free
dom of assemblage and freedom from
involuntary servitude.
Your Injunction, sir, respectfully
submit, deprives the miners of these
constitutional rights. As citizens the
miners and I stand upon the rights
guaranteed in the Constitution. This
is iabor's traditional position. For the
purpose OF acquainting the court with
the historical position taken by the
American Federation of Labor, permit
me to read a pa graph from a report
unanimously adopted by the American
Federation OF Labor at its 1919 con-
vention:
constitutional Rights Violated
me fate of the sovereignty of
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Nov. 1st-State ex rel. WestIake ,
District Court. An original proceedin
out of facts occurring in Lewis an
Clark County, Helena. Majority opini
on of the Court by Justice G. F. MOI
ris. Justices Angstman and Adair dis
senting.
Held: In a case involving the con
stitutionality of the law providing TO
a license tax on oleomargarine be
tween a store operator and the com
missioner of agriculture, it was hell
that certain dairymen and butter
makers could intervene in the actor
in the lower court.
| Nov. 14th-James j. Milne v. Joseph
inc Leiphart. Appealed from Ponders
County, Conrad Unanimous opinion o.
the Court prepared by Justice Albert
H. Angstman.
Held: The Court affirmed a quiet
title judgment involving allegedly void
deed proceedings which concerned %
claim that the land was exempt from
taxation because it was Indian trust
patent land, and (2) a claim that no
tice of application for tax deed was
not served in the manner required by
law.
Nov. 14th-State ex rel. Williams v.
Henry. Original proceeding arising in
Powell County, Deer Lodge, Unani-
nous opinion of the Court prepared
by Justice Albert H. Angstman.
Held: The Supreme Court denied
the relief sought by Williams, now i'm
prisoned in the State Penitentiary, in
a habeas corpus proceedings. The
point of law involved was whether the
sentence imposed by the lower court
was in excess of that prescribed by
law
Nov 16th-State ex rel. GraveIey v.
District Court. An original proceeding
from Powell County, Deer Lodge. Ma
jority opinion of the Court prepared
by Justice Albert H. Angstman. JUS
tice Hugh R. Adair dissented.
Held: The Supreme Court directed
a writ of supervisory control to issue
to vacate an order of the District
Court which had given a divorced
wife the right to remove the children
Of the marriage from the state of Mon
Lana, the basis of the decision being
that there was no showing that it
would be to the welfare of the child
zen to have such removal from the
state.
Nov. 16th-In the Matter of the Es-
ate of Edward Graft. Appealed from
Silver Bow County, Butte. Unanimous
opinion of the Court prepared by JUS
ice Edwin K. Cheadle.
Held: The Court affirmed an order
the objections to the ap-
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propaganda lies is COlQ D5
former Asst. Atty. Gen. O
John Rogge in his suppressed
400-page report to the Justice
Department.
The fake came at time when Hit
ler's troops were marching on Paris
in 1910 To neutralize American opin-
ion the nazis decided that phony
interview with Hitler, stating that
Paris would not be occupied, that Bri-
tain would not be attacked and that
Germany had no designs on U. S. ter
ritory should be planted abroad
Chosen for this task was Karl Won
Wiegand, who was chief foreign cor
respondent of Hearst newspapers and
Intl News Service Their choice was
a natural. Hearst papers had been
carrying signed stories by Hitler, Rib
bentrop, Goebbels and other nazis for
years. Won Wiegand had visited sever
al times with Ribbentrop.
Phony Interview
Background of the purported inter-
view with Hitler, dated June IA, 1910,
was described for Rogge by Paul K.
Schmidt. "The subject for the inter-
view between Won Wiegand and Hitler
originated with DNB German new
agency who sent on the questions Won
Wiegand was to ask" he said. 1.-THE
questions came to Hitler by way of
Otto Dietrich of the Propaganda Min
istry.
"Ribbentrop's liaison man, Hewell,
heard of the project and sent the
questions from Hitler's headquarters
to Ribbentrop. AS l recall, there were
20 questions. The interview was then
processed in the American Committee
of the Foreign Office which set up the
answers to the questions. Hitler
changed the draft of the Foreign Of
flee. He struck out some questions and
others and the final draft was
an interview with eight questions and
eight answers. Hitler then gave the
to Dietrich for publication |
and he also gave it to the Foreign Of
flee for transmittal to Washington"
Won Wiegand In Action
Won Weigand took this fake docu-
nent, dated it with the German
Armies nearing Paris" and throughout
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The government Withholding tax
also takes another bite out of his pay
envelope. With what is left the miner
must feed and clothe his family and
equip as best possible the bleak
shanty, that it may be endurable.
Most of his shopping is done at the
company stores which are in the camp.
Besides charging steep prices, in ca
boots with the other stores in the area,
the company stores encourage buying
against the next pay check by issuing
scrip, good at company stores only
and thus foreclose any great amount
of labor turnover since the beleagured
miners seldom ever have a chance to
get ahead of the game.
If the miner has any money left, he
is welcome to spend it at the company
movie house, the company pool hall,
or If his only suit needs pressing the
company tailor will do the pressing.
The lot of the coal miner, like the
lot of the southern share-cropper, in
most sections of the nation, is little
Detter IMAM that OF being feudal serf.
For most of them, from birth to death,
their lot is one of squalor-unable to
improve themselves because they are
chained to the pits through seldom
having enough money-the education,
or the training, necessary to re-estab-
fish themselves in happier commune
ties.
These men 100000 strong are
striking for the right to live like other
Americans-to secure some tangible
part of the highly-vaunted, superior
American way of life. Can any one
deny but that they are just as en-
titled, as is any other American, to
a decent standard of living, security,
and chance to give their children a
few breaks" which they themselves
have never had?
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from the local district to the Of
flee of the state superintendent
of public instruction in Helena.
That much was apparent at recent
meeting of county superintendent in
Helena where members of the Govern
or's commission discussed the program
with the county school officials. The
county superintendent raised some
serious questions regarding the plan
namely: Who is going to control our
schools7 And will the rural child be
properly educated if the proposals are
adopted?
What Are The Problems?
Almost everyone realizes that the
Montana schools are badly in need of
money if anything near adequate edu-
cational opportunities are to be pro-
vided for our youngsters. There is
growing realization, too, that our
present school financial structure is
confusing, expensive, and inefficient"
as the report indicates. Lack of suffi-
cient qualified teachers and admins
traitors, little provision in all districts
for adequate building and equipment
facilities, inequality in distribution of
money for education, and no guaran-
tee that every child shall receive a
minimum of training consistent with
the ideals of democracy-these are
some of the criticisms justly Ieveled
at our school system.
What is Proposed?
Not all of the recommendations can |
be listed here. Chief among them are
these:
/. The entire state will be redistrict- |
ed, creating fewer and larger school |
districts than now exist. The present |
number is LILO The discussion at the |
county superintendent meeting in
Helena led by members of the govern
)r's commission was based on the as
sumption that there would be one or
two school districts each in most of |
the counties in the state. The guide to |
he size of the new school districts is |
% be the taxable value of the property |
n the area and the number of children
o be educated. At least one high
ichool is to be maintained within the
lew district.
2. Each reorganized district is to |
AVE board of trustees consisting of
even members, four to be nominated
rom special trustee areas and elected
It large in the district and three to be
nominated and elected at large within
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TEACHERS FIND UNITY
PAYS Big DIVIDENDS

II may be bit time-worn, but
ain union there is strength" is still
pretty appropriate expression
6 or at least you'd have quite a
time of convincing any teacher in
the Minneapolis school systems to
the contrary.
Minneapolis teachers, like teach
ero all over the rest of the nation
including Montana were mlser-
ably underpaid, and finally were
driven to organizing themselves
into local of the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers (AFL).
Results were not Immediately
forthcoming, until the teachers de-
cided to go on strike. Then things
happened-the following results
were achieved - and the strike
was averted:
Basic salaries for 1e48 will be
boosted $4,000 per year;
A flat $500 payment will be
made to all regular classroom
teachers In 1947;
Reconsideration of all teachers
will be made according to settle
ment proposal which provides:
% Salaries from $4,000 to $4,000
for teachers with bachelors de-
grees; (2) $4,000 to $4,000 for mas
ters' degrees; ~ $1,000 to $4,000
for doctors degrees, and ~ ST.
400 to $500 for those without
degrees.
Annual increases will be at the
rate of 5000, enabling instructors
to achieve the maximums within
~ years.
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"In 1929 and 1880, most thorough
investigation of lobbying was made by
| a Senate committee Shocking
practices by the private-power inter
ests were exposed in those hearings
and the lobby organizations . quick
| ly dismantled their sumptuous offices
:. and silently left the city 80.
Five years later, in 1884, another
Senate lobby investigation committee
|. i. was directed to look into the mil
lion dollar lobby opposing the passage
of the utility holding company bill
That bill, which was designed to break
the stranglehold of that utility mono
poly on the American people, was a
direct result of the findings of the
Federal Trade Commission investiga-
ton One of the leaders of that
lobby was later convicted and sent to
the Federal penitentiary for malad-
ministration of the funds of his trust
ing investors.
Remarkable Parallels
fThere is a remarkable paral-
lei between the aims and methods
of the electric utilities at the close
of the two world wars. In 1919, the
National Electric Light Association
launched a nationwide propaganda
campaign to block further municipal
ownership, prevent multi-purpose
dams and government development
and sale of power on the Colorado,
Tennessee, Columbia, or other rivers
=. The ETC officially reported it to
be probably the greatest peacetime
campaign ever conducted by private
interests in this country
"Now again at the close of World
War II, these same monopoly in
terests in the same fashion as in
1920 have inaugurated a like power
full propaganda lobby effort to block
(any further extension of the IVA
idea or the development and public
marketing of public power.
" 1t is =. :. campaign highly
financed and unique only in that
the power interests have summoned
to their aid more outside organiza-
tions than ever before.
g.. In February the junior senator
rom Washington (Mr MitchelD in
reduced an authority bill for the |
Columbia River Basin. Hearings on
hese measures (MVA and CVA) were |
n prospect and temporary water
obby went into action
No Longer A Reclamation
Association
''The gentlemen (of this lobby
formed co-ordinating committee
of five to represent the group
before Congress . On this COM
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Who Shall Have Control OF
Public School Systems
OfMontana?
Proposed Reorganization Would Give Highly
Centralized Powers To Governor And
The Forces Behind Him

By LEONARD KENFIELD Montana Farmers Union
Not only adequate financing but control of the state public
school system of the issues growing of the current
discussions education in Montana.
commission appointed by the Governor researched
proposals that if written law would
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Power Lobby Plots To Blk
Public Nationally
Planned
Lobby Evil In Capital Is Likened 70 Similar
Pressure Outfits That Operated In 1919
And Again In 1884

"The lobby evil today than any time during the
twentieth century, So veteran Congressman SABBATH quoted
speech by Senator Murray which together with addresses
by Senators Aiken and HILL provide the material for u
mating Congressional Record report titled The Power Lobby
of 1885, Every citizen interested in informing himself Of the
strength of the forces bent throng the will of the people
their efforts to better nations should read this
factual document. The senator's say part
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cattle handled
Commission September 122 head Of steers
$3.50 $500
Union Gilbert cattle salesman,
knobIe
Co.. Billings, Montana
operated
Phillips, r. j. Thoron r. j. Heaiow and