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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
Reviewing "A RECORD OF
OUTSTANDING SERVICE

The Republican platform speak in glowing Of the record of
legislature This is of the garden variety
For the past several weeks samples of the kind
rendered This political
highly platform
journals of the State of Montana
that zales Ectons
legislation protection working man.
constantly
against such The Voice has not all the evidence
has available this but let point to some the subantng docu
mented proof already published
wage scale or women Inns ho1 f interest all working women
placed his sign child labor
voting against legislation prohibiting the sale of goods manufactured
195) plead
Department of Labor in the state
protect their rights and seeking approval for this referendum
zales Ecton voted NO to the proposal sB O
Econ outstanding work
be presented in later issues of The Voice
the privileged the state could always
standing service.
the 1897 session he voted against recurring public utilities such
taxation and for rate base purposes As it was then and still is the
valuation for rate base made to the Public Service commission
double the valuation reported to the Board of Equalization
Levying special by
Pacific equaze competition of that class production
deep incidentally
service the state it.
In pplauded with affirmative
the low incomes lowering the
ba 1898 Gales cton willing stooge of the financial in
ees and corporation allied
limiting interest rates on borrowed (sB A.
In the which would
in the Western Life
Glib 131)
vote which the climax support
the Montana Power Company monopoly in the
to r. being killed. This bill would
this monopoly the absolute control of all
O of the Missouri
Space prohibits here "out
standing special interests of the state However the
all of the the
complete the review published
up to
In
andh homes up o of $4,000 Glib -
asked for legislation
chiselng by the refneres marketing
therbe voted against it, Glib 175).
call his outstanding record We
cbalen them For Whom?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20

1--WE may not like what Russia does
in eastern Europe" the secretary said.
"Her type of land reform, industrial
appropriation and suppression of basic
liberties offends the great majority
of the people of the United States
But whether we like it or not, the
Russians will try to socialize their
sphere of influence just as we try to
democratize our sphere of influence"
Wallace mentioned the danger of
war in the near east in a criticism
of Gov Thomas E. Dewey, the repub-
lican governor of New York, for favor
ing a defensive alliance between the
United States and Britain.
Must Stop Pulling Britain's chestnuts
Out Of Fire
1--WE must not let British balance
of-power manipulations determine
and when the United States
gets into war;" he said.
In the far east, Wallace asked for
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
| LIVINGSTON OPA MEMBERS RESIGN IN
PROTEST AGAINST INFLATI0NARY
DEC0NTROL BOARD POLICIES

Three members of the Park county
price panel have resigned from the
local board in protest of what they
termed a government policy of freez-
ing wages while permitting prices to
"get out of line"
Members whose, designations have
been accepted by l.. NJ. A. Wass, state
director of the OPA with headquart-
ers in Helena, are w. J. Priest, Joe
Maier and Sam Larango, Jr. All mem
bers of organized labor.
These designations were submitted
August Is, but announcement of their
action was withheld pending receipt
of acknowledgment from Director
Wass.
Thomas w. Gleason, chairman of
the local board, said today no replace
|ments have as yet been selected al
though the matter of increasing the
panels personnel to its former level
will be considered at meeting SEIZED
uled for Thursday night.
The letter of resignation, signed by
the three former members of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
Stock Market Slumps Continuing To Hold
Attention of American People

happened We forgot what our real
wealth is. In short year. since the
war ended. we have started to kid
ourselves again. We have been told
that dollars are real wealth. We have
gone so far that we think dollars alone
can buy the support of nations abroad
and dollars alone can buy security
and stability here at home We have
even been kidding ourselves that if
we had initiation, we would have more
dollars because everything would be
worth more dollars; and out of that
childish reasoning, we have figured
we would be richer but that is not
wealth. Any farmer can tell you that.
The wealth of happy and prosper
Gus people is based on the things
they can use. 1t is based on things that
are grown or raised or made-not on
dollar bills.
What is, Real Wealth?
"Our wealth is grain and meat and
iron and steel. 1t is houses and homes
and clothes and machinery and fac
tories and farms. A $4,000 farm that
sells for $4,000 produces no more
wealth just because it was sold for
twice as much. AS a matter of fact
a farm is not worth cent The grain
and meat and milk that come from the
farm is the wealth of that farm. I'm
less, of course, we rig up some gilt
edge security and call it Farm Stock
n ,ryIa
people can speculate with it, then it
is just a gambling game-betting that
you can sell piece of paper for more
than you paid. The real wealth comes
from the farms and factories and of
fices. 1t is still there whether the
stock market in Wall Street goes up
Q billion, down billion, or lock its
doors for good
Maybe that is what Fiorella La
Guardia was driving at in Copenhagen,
Denmark Last Thursday, he told the
United Nations Food and Agricultural
Organization that it ought to put
every grain gambling exchange out
of business" Those are LaGuardia's
words Put every grain gambling ex-
change out of business" OF course, a
lot of grain operators do not like that
remark. LaGuardia said, in effect, that
grain is grain. 1t should have stable
value and not be subject to the whims
Of grain gamblers. Maybe he has
there, even if the Chicago
Board of Trade does not approve Its
president, you know said that La
Guardia's remarks were, to quote the
"scurrilious and perhaps
Iibelous" He said he was going to tell
President Truman about them. But
you farmers can judge for yourselves.
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wheat and milk and meat, just as
much iron and steel and aluminium
and coal. No buildings are swallowed
up. No skyscrapers disappeared The
landscape looked no different. But
what people are saying makes it seem
we have turned back the clock and
Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon
are back in the White House. The ex-
perts, in and out of the government,
are still puzzled The Securities and
Exchange Commission is still puzzled.
The New York Times takes a deep
breath and says with owl-like solemn
ness, mo single piece of news seemed
sufficient to account for it. The fun
damental inflationary situation has
not changed. The amount of money
and bank credit in existence is still
more than three times the amount
before the war Production, employ
ment and national income are at rec
ord peacetime levels" That is the
New York Times.
ut would have been easier to say.
I'VE don't know what happened eth
err" hut any farmer can tell you what
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
MONTANA power GETS U. S. JUICE
CHEAP, SELLS 1T HIGH

sale of power from the giant Fort
Peck DAM which. cost the public
Silt 100000 to build.
Up to June, 1915, it sold 100000
kilowatt hours of electricity from
Fort Peck lin 1945) to Montana Power
Company for an average of rs cents
"a cent? per XVIII or a total of $685.
000 In the fiscal year of 1914, Mon
tana Power Co. sold a little less power
., 739, $50 KWH-to REA co-opera-
tives and charged them $94,412 for it
-four times as much for almost the
same amount of power.
Present"-Unending
Besides the three small public au-
thorities, which have to pay the bur
eau twice as much for their wholesale
supply as the big company, there is
one other commercial customer at
Fort Peck-the Montana-Dakota Uti-
lities Company. Things are looking up
to it. The bureau has just build 138-
mile transmission line from Fort Peck
to Glendive, Mont, and the bureau
has announced that "for the present"
the power will be sold to the private
company, Montana-Dakota Utilities,
whose officials inspected the new line
before they would accept Irrational
Union Farmer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20

Americas daily press and radio
or the extreme left wing ele-
ments of the country.
However, it is of little matter who
was pleased or displeased. The point
at issue is what did Secretary Wallace
say that aroused such storm?
Taking sharp issue with the current
American policy of seemingly follow
ing the lead of the British foreign Of
flee, Wallace warned that the "Brit-
ish imperialistic policy in the near
East, combined with Russian retalia-
ton, would lead the United States
straight into war unless this country
formulates a clearly defined and real
istic policy of it's own.
"To prevent war and insure our
survival in a stable world, it is essen
tial that we look abroad through our
own American eyes and not through
the eyes of either the British foreign
office or pro-British or anti-Russian
press" Wallace declared.
I'm this connection, l want one
thing clearly understood he contin-
ued, 81 am neither anti-British nor pro-
British-neither anti-Russian nor pro-
Russian. And just two days ago, when
President Truman read these words,
he said they represented the policy
of his administration"
"Get Tough" Policy Won't Work
In dealing with the Soviet Union,
Wallace said this nation is reckoning
with a force which cannot be handled
successfully by a "get tough with
Russia" policy.
'The tougher we get, the rougher
the Russians will get" he predicted.
Wallace asserted that the United
States wants peace with Russia but
1--WE want to be met half way" On
our part he declared, we should rec
ognize that we have no more business
in the political affairs of eastern
Europe than Russia has in the political
affairs of Latin America, western
Europe and the United States.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
Meat Trust Held Responsible for Scarcity
Now Confronting Nations Consumers

minds of the farmers by the packers
that substantially higher prices could
be received during the price control
holiday.
The facts are that during this peri
cd, in spite of a headline prominence
given to higher prices, the farmers
actually received, for the vast majority
of cattle coming into the market,
prices at or below previous OPA com
pliance ceilings. The result of this
flood of livestock will be extreme
meat shortages in the immediate fu-
ture. The removal of price control at
this time can not change this situa-
ton.
Not The OnIyfWindfalI
This union has always stood for the
proposition that the interest of the
public generally requires that infla-
ton be avoided and it consequently
stood for real price control, and still
does. We believe that the American
public needs the protection provided
by controls from the unrestrained
profiteering in which Big Business
would indulge. In this connection 1t
is important to note that during the
perod of the so-called free market"
the Big Packers had substantial in
ventory increases resulting from un-
loading meat at profiteering prices
from livestock brought under ceilings.
CONTINUED on Page Three)
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| The Department of Interior, which
has recently talked" a liberal public
power policy. has had a power policy
for some years and the Montana
Power Co., one of the famous corpor-
ate "Gold Dust Twins" of that state,
simply loves it.
The company buys Bureau of Re-
clamation power in Montana for Il
cent per kilowatt hour, and sells it to
REA's a little way off for four times
as much-more than 1 cent per kilo-
watt hour
And the Bureau is even now rush
ing work on an $11,0OO,000 dam which
has little use except to generate power
for Montana Power Co.-the Canyon
Ferry dam. The dam is No. 1 on the
bureaus list in Montana, although
others will serve the area and the peo-
pie of the state far more. The bureau
fears the corporation might otherwise
interfere with its work on other pro-
jects.
REA's Pay More
Three little public authorities" get
power from the Bureau in Montana
and they have to pay .496 mills per
XVIII for it-twice as much as the
private power company.
The Bureau of Reclamation handles
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20

Good evening from GIA.
"You won't find any Wall Street
operators listening in on this farm
broadcast, and between us all, we
would be lucky if we could scrape to-
gether enough Wall Street stock to
paper a hen coop. But just the same,
let's all look in on Wall Street. The
stock market down there went thru
some funny tricks last week. Like
Humpty Dumpty, it took an awful fall
the worst in 16 years-and all the
kings horses and all the kings men
were not able to pull it together again.
The Wall Street medicine men, who
are supposed to know what makes
business tick, were baffled. They
went around with dazed look. They
knew what happened, that for sure,
but they did not know what caused it.
What happened was that the stock
market had a severe case of economic
Indigestion 1t had business cramps.
"The stock market in Wall Street
and all the little offices ali over the
United States have been acting up for
two weeks. Then, on the day after
Labor Day, the stock market took a
real nose dive. 1t shook out II billion
dollars in paper profits in one day, ac-
cording to one financial writer. If
that writer knows what he is talking
about, then the profits that went down
the drain in Wall Street in a single
day amounted to almost as much
money as 26 million farmers in the
United States made last year or the
year before, and more than four times
as much as these 26 million farmers
made at the bottom of the depression
when President Hoover and Andrew
Mellon kept issuing statements that
business is basically sound" But
most of the other conservative esti-
mates set the loss for that one day
1.-THE day after Labor Day. at closer
to 5 billion dollars. Even that is big
chunk of change to disappear out of
money still than 26 mil
lion farmers made in a whole year at
we know that this money is
mostly paper profits-marks on big
black board, shouting and screaming
and selling, all done with paper.
Where did it go and why? That is
what we ought to find out.
Inventories Are Unchanged
According to Wall Street, this
country is billions of dollars poorer
because some gilt-edge paper does not
bring the same speculative price, but
in this country, the inventories are
There is just as much |
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elections, hoping to delude the Amer
lean people into believing that it
would prevent initiation.
Trust Destroyed Marketing Balance
The tactics of the Meat Trust, in
order to make its lobbying more eff
fective, was its sit-down strike during
which it refused to purchase live
stock. The Meat Trust, in its intense
greed for unrestrained profits, had
determined to rid itself of price con-
trolls. By so doing it destroyed the
marketing balance-the result, unpre-
cedented supplies of livestock coming
to market during the July and August
price control holiday. Livestock which
should have been reserved for breed
ing or further fattening was rushed
into the market as a result of the i'm
preston Intentionally created in the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
WHO PAYS THE BILL?

indicate that the Republican Cen
ambitious radio campaign during these
backoom the grand old make
rawmen slate of candidates
ticket.
indicate committee plans of 20
mnue roadcasts ninestaion hookup These stations
Billings Miles CITY Falls Bozeman Sidney
Helena Kasp At approximately 1925 broadcast this
the
This include time
backing Rankin
this billboard advertising
daily which the
$4,000 conservative
do well to the question who the bill for
he
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
Biz Group Predicts
Bust I'm l947

The recent stock market filters has
all the experts guessing as to what il
means.
Now come the economists, with
their analyses.
Some of our top government econo-
mists, according to the newspaper
PMS Washington bureau, see the tum-
bling stock prices as in indication of
things to come.
The New Council of American Bust
ness has released a pamphlet called
Operation Boom-Bust" This pamph-
let declares:
Sometime in 1947 the economy will
suffer severe but short setback.
This brief but violent bust will threat
en- every Independent business in
America, will destroy thousands of
businesses today making comfortable
profits"
A prosperity period of several years
is expected after the bust. Three
basic elements of initiation which are
said to be contributing to the uncer-
tainty to the stock market are:
l. Inventory accumulation which
will result in a cutback of orders.
2. Resistance by consumers to ris-
ing prices, with many families being
priced out of the market.
3. Tapering off of construction as
costs soar.
Unless good business practices are
used to meet today's tempo, the ex-
perts say, there is no reason to be
certain that the crash of 1920 which
made tens of thousands of businesses
bankrupt in few short months, will
not be epeated.-Farmer Union Her
aid
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
70 Hold Bar Exams
In October

Frank Murray, clerk of the Supreme
Court, this week announced that the
Montana State Bar examination for
prospective aspirants for admission to
practice law in Montana will be given
in October this year instead of being
given in September as has been the
custom for many prior years.
The examination will be conducted
by the Montana State Bar Examiners
commencing 900 a. M, October 2Sth,
Clerk Murray said.
Former applicants must file their
notice of intention to participate in
this examination not later than Sep
TENDER 26th which is also the closing
date for new applicants to file petit
tons according to Clerk Murray.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20

being responsible for the short
age, whereas the facts of the
situation do not bear out such
propagandizing. The following
statement by Ralph Helstein,
president of the United Pack
linghouse Workers, provides
abundant evidence that the big
meat packers themselves are
largely to blame for your dim
ner table undergoing numerous
Imeatless days. (Note-we sug-
gest you pass this on to your
Ineighborhood butcher for his
edification.)
Statement On Meat Shortage
BY Ralph Helstein
Following the return of price con-
troll on meat, there has been rising
tumult-almost approaching hysteria
over the "meat famine" which con-
fronts the consuming public. 1t is not
our purpose to minimize the meat
shortage which faces the nation. All
shades of opinion and points of view
are in agreement that for some weeks
ahead meat output will be down, far
below normal.
The present situation is not the re-
suit Of price control 1t is rather the
result of action engaged in by the
Meat Trust earlier this year Congress
was willing tool for the packers
greed by failing to extend the former
OPA bill, permitting a two-month price
holiday, and by enacting the present
zombie price control act. The Meat
Trust sowed the wind in the spring
and the American people today are
reaping the whirlwind.
The reactionary majority in control
of congress perpetrated fraud in
passing a bill which it intended as a
public relations job for the November
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20

panel, follow:
I'VE the undersigned, became mem
bers of the Park county OPA board
with the distinct understanding the
prices would be held in line by the
OPA, thus conforming with the then
present wage levels, which had been
partially adjusted to meet the price
level increases, already in effect.
"A reactionary congress scuttled
the OPA and President Truman con-
CURED by signing that bill.
'The new OPA set-up is now sec
ondary in setting prices and instead
of freezing prices to former levels
the present policy seems to be raise
prices" while wages are the only thing
frozen.
The undersigned, members of or
gained labor, cannot go along with
this line of thought and therefore,
after due deliberation, we are com
PEELED to tender you our resignation.
effective today, August Is, 1916, as
members of the Park county OPA
price panel Enterprise.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
CASCADE F u BACKING
UP CLERKS in STRIKE
AGAINST STORES

Resolution passed by Cascade Coun-
ty Farmers Union:
In view of the interest among our
members in the current controversy
tail merchants of Great Falls, men,
bers of the Cascade County Farmers
Union passed the following resolution
after much deliberation in meeting
attended by over 200 farmers last
night at Our Lady of Lourdes
Church.
Whereas, A community of interest
exists between the laboring man and
the farmer as shown by Secretary of
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Want May Tried As
Common Crook

Action of the Charlo Farmers Union
local in demanding that Rep. A. ].
May of Kentucky be tried as COM
mon criminal for war fraud will hit
2 responsive note among thousands
OF Montana parents of sons who
served in the armed forces during the
war. The following resolution by the
Charlo local has been forwarded to
The Voice by Thomas FELTON,, chair
man of the legislative committee:
Resolution
Whereas, Andrew j. May, was
elected as a representative of Ken
lucky to act as a congressman in a
straight and honest way.
Whereas, Rep May holds interest
in certain companies, that put out
defective ammunition, which was
shipped over to our boys, fighting in
the front lines.
Whereas, the F. B. l. has the goods
on Rep. May, showing that there were
excess profits made in the factory.
Therefore, Be it Resolved: That we,
the members of Ridgeway Local of
the Farmers Union, request that the
hearings, be carried to higher courts,
and that Rep. May be made to return
all excess profits to the United States
treasury, and that he be prosecuted to
the fullest extent of the law, the same
as any common criminal of the lowest
type.
Signed,
Legislative Committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
Wallace { =: :;,s:. Is, s'TempestIn
Teapot By Spe,~h On
Foreign PoGcy
America Should Develop Own International
Relations, Rather Than Following Lead
OF British Foreign Office

Thursday Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace
speech policy which created the greatest
teapot to stir America since Walter Reuther of
CIOUAW winter demanded that General Motors it's
fact finding board Significantly the
Wallace speech pleased neither the of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
President of Packinghouse Workers Points To
Activities of Large Packing Plants In
Bringing On Meat Shortage

During recent the American Meat Institute and its
fraternal members-Swft Armour Wilson, Cudahy etc.
very busy spreading lot of false information to
the American public general and to meat dealers IN par
the of the current meat shortage Heavy
emphasis has repeatedly lain at the door of the OPA
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-20
F. II. C. T. A. Public Relations Official Delves
Into Causes, and Effects of Break" On
26.OOO,0OO Farmers of Nation

The following radio address given September by Gordon
Roth director of public relations Farmers Union Grain Term
Association of the cearest explanations of the
bondolar filters of the New York stock market that
has been put into print We suggest that you read it.
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"The strongest bond of hui
man sympathy, outside Of
the family relation, should
be one uniting all working
people, of all Nations, and
tongues, and kindreds."
Abraham Lincoln