The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-03-22
FALLS LABOR
CURRENT

1t goes without saying, that the cor
porate political campaign, must of ne.
cessity, be conducted slyly and by in
direction So the unconfirmed rumor
that certain Longfellow school teach
er is conducting secret meetings for
selected audience of the Longfellow
Parent-Teacher association, would If
confirmed, be nothing more than true
form.
This is the simple plot which you
may look for in your own PIT A.
district. Some teacher, the fair-haired-
one of corporation-domina school
board, will quietly gather a picked
group within the PIT. A. and retiring
to the school house, will hold cozy
little informal meeting behind locked
doors. There, over the card tables all
sorts of insinuation and false propa-
ganda may be dispensed under the
auspice of that popular hostess, Dame
Gossip.
Ibid you know that the other can
didate mot mentioned by name) ia
vors a school on the outskirts of the
district-along side of those awful
warehouses;" Did you know that the
other candidate is a HIGH-BINDER
by religion? Wouldn't it be awful if
we had a member of the HIGH-BIND-
Err church on the school board?" etc.
Demand Open Meetings
There is one alternative for the ac-
tive and sincere elector when he or
she runs into this plot. Crash the
party and ask that the opposing can
didate be invited to the meeting. In
sist on open doors and open meetings
in public buildings not specifically
rented to a private organization. If
you are a member of the group and
were not invited or informed of the
publicize the fact
There is but one way to break cor
porate control, and that, all eligible
must register and vote not only in the
general election but in the equally inn
portant school elections. Vote for the
candidate who is a member of your
own economic class-there are quail
fled men for every public. office in
agriculture and labor. Nominate and
elect them.
From a letter sent by Sen. B. X.
"You may rest as
sured that | shall not favor any legis-
alton which is going to be highly det-
rimental to labor
Sir, sincerely trust that the inter-
probation of the word, favor means a
recorded vote against any revised YER
sion of the Case bill and all other
bills, present and future, whose pur-
pose and design, is to make it illegal
'or wage earners to strike against
heir employers.
This must be the stand of all men
md women who honestly think right
II pretend to believe in, the principle
f social equity for each man, woman,
ssociation, organization or institu-
ion. For it is not a working principle
social equity to pass legislation,
r even suggest it, making the labor
trike illegal without, at the same
me, making all other kinds of strikes
legal.
I think you will find, that the re-
orts, of finished goods inventories,
rowing so large as to create crisis
4 warehouse facilities are all too
rue.
What do you think, Mr.. Wheeler,
f this commercial strike the with
folding of goods from the market, by
he nations manufacturers in order
0 force OPA to their terms?
Do you think it morally right for
Industrial labor to be deprived of it's
lost important and effective bargain
lg weapon, while industrial capital
! allowed the retention of this same
weapon FRAY GRAHAM.