The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-11-22
British Wages Hit New
All Time High
By ALLIED LABOR NEWS

BY ALLIED LABOR NEWS
London.-Average weekly earning!
of British workers have reached an all
time high of $40, the ministry of labor
ANNOUNCED this week. The figure rep
resents an increase of 500 over 1888
One reason the average has shot VI
in recent months is the large scale
withdrawal from industry of women
who in many cases get as little as 500
of the pay given men on the same
jobs.
cracy and a Christian nation, which is
not true, and I challenge anybody to
prove that we are. Talk about demo-
cracy, when there are seven states,
with population of more than twenty
and half million, in which the poor
both black and white, are disfranch-
Used by tax laws enacted for that very
purpose. eve are Christian nation;
yet in several states no Catholic, Jew
or even near descendent of an i'm
migrant can be elected to office
A slave does not need to think, all
he has to do is to carry out the orders
of his master. The person who goes
into a polling booth and votes as his
father and grandfather would, does not
need more than sufficient mentality to
mark his ballot. Yet even in this adj
vanced age, there are those who do
that very thing. There are millions of
Americans, thank heaven, who are
both fitted to think for themselves and
to govern themselves there are other
millions who are too mentally lazy
and otherwise Indifferent to intelli-
gently participate in their government.
These either stay away from the polls
altogether, or vote with minds which
have been poisoned by the lies, smears
and libels of those who have their
own selfish interests to serve, either
politically or economically.
Erickson Crucified BY Character
Assassins
At the election held in Montana, on
Nov. 5, Judge Left Erickson, one of
the states outstanding citizens in both
and ability, was defeated for
u. S. senator as result of campaign
of lies and smears, the like of which
I have never seen in the more than 55
years in which l have observed Ameri- |
can elections. Had the states citizen
ship as whole, thought out the issues
Of the campaign for themselves, in
stead of accepting as true the utter
ances of the character assassins who
sought his defeat, the results would
have been different.
Oh! Yes, the citizen of most states
nay aspire to office but if he is OPP
posed to granting special privileges to
certain groups, as Judge Erickson is,
lie will almost certainly get out of the
'unning with his reputation besmeared
With all the dirt INSCRIPTIONS oppon-
ms can hit him with.
Yes, 1--WE are the richest nation on
,arth'; yet we have millions of fam
lies who live in sub-standard homes;
who never sat down to a
teak dinner, nor in fact to any other
lecent meal. Uh huh, we are the
freest people on earth. Even the in
labitants of our slums and shacks are
rec to breathe the air; free to use
he streets; free to send their ragged
md hungry children to the public
and free to perform labor for
hose who are only willing to pay them
wages. which make opportunity for
hem and their families an utter inn
These people are as free"
s the "untouchables" of India, but not
much more so.
The Best System-But We Don't
Make 1t Work
If men are fit to think for them
elves, they are fit to govern them
elves. All over the world, government
l readjustments are being made by
ifferent nationalities of varying de-
rees of civilization; yet not one of
hem is accepting our government as a
pattern. Our form of government is t
o doubt the best in the world; yet 7
ecause we fail to make it work in the t
est interests of the great masses of
ur people, it is rejected by other peo- \
les who are cropping for better 7
ystem than they have previously had ?
The people of England, France and
Their countries who have recently '
cted on choice of governments, |
moving full well the results obtained
ON our "capitalistic democracy" have a
loved farther away from our way of o
ding things related to politics and a
economies. How long the great cor
through their control of our t
hief sources of information, can in t
uce us to continue their management
{ our affairs, political and economic,
l their own interest and to the dis
dvantage of the great masses of the
eople is, in the light Of present world :
lovements very uncertain problem r
nd one Americans must decide for Q
f
Somehow, just here the thought
nee expressed by one of the worlds a
reat statesmen comes to mind ooh, 6
liberty, what crimes have been com h
lifted in thy name"-E. H. MANSON n