The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-04-19
FALLS LABOR
CURRENT
BY RAY GRAHAM


PROTEST PRICE BOOST OF BREAC
"The best accredited fact is but
caricature of the TRUTH" says copy
book on formal logic. The validity Of
this statement was demonstrated II
an assembly discussion of the pro
nosed 10 per cent cut in the size Of
a loaf of bread without of course
similar cut in the price and the pro
posed 25 per cent cut in wheat ano
flour deliveries.
The peoples of Europe are starving
or near starving, and therefore, we
must cut our wheat consumption, that
is the statement of fact given us by
our leadership in Washington.
But what of the many other facts
that do not square with this? That
many people of Europe do not cal
white or wheat bread, and with some
white flour bread is akin to a pastry
eaten only on festive occasions. WHAT
of the known fact that hard wheat
flour is not used to make the paste
products consumed by such as the
Italian people. And if the people OF
Europe are hungry, what is the mean
ing of the advertisement appearing in
the New York Times by Netherland
Brewing company offering for sale,
beer brewed in Holland?
These and many other related facts
would seem to discredit any humani-
tartan motive behind the surprising
eagerness of milling and baking COM
panies for the 10 per cent cut in size
without the corresponding cut in price.
OF course we are talking of prob
lem of humanitarian relief. 1t wouldn't
be fair to bring up OPA or a sugges'
ton of initiation.
The Bakery Workers asked and the
assembly concurred in the request to
protest this 10 per cent cut suggested
by Washington.
You can talk farming but unless
you work the land there is no crop.
You can talk about going to work in
some factory or shop but unless you
grab hold of the tools there is no pay
check. You can talk political action
but unless you work the political land
and take hold of the political tools
there is no harvest; there is no pay
envelope of political returns. Mr.. Wage
Worker and Mr.. Farmer, you cannot
win unless each and every one does
social work as well as industrial and
agricultural work.
And thus it seemed in the school
election of Cascade County District
No. 1. Many desired the vintage but
few would work in the VINEYARD. Vot-
ing and canvassing the election are
political tools Too few would pick
up the tools. The school election COM
mittee of the assembly could muster
no extra workers to watch the polling
places wherein our opponents held
sway, and while most precincts were
in and counted an hour after the polls
closed Roosevelt schools election
judges were still shuffling the ballots
at 1870 pm. 1t seems a host of ir-
were INDUCED in, ballots
had the faculty of straying and be-
coming lost. (And it appeared that
Candidate Rebal was slowly being
counted out as his once comfortable
lead, like the SHOWS of spring, seemed
melting under the power of corpo-
rate SUM-
Civic centers Operators Negotiate
Pay Boost
The Motion Picture Operators, hav-
ing asked their international for a
strike vote in Great Falls, report
that they have been able to reach an
agreement with the Independent Civ
ic Center) theatre in their negotia-
lions for wage increase, the first in
IS years, which means that the en-
tertainment public shall have access
to motion pictures in the event that
the Intermountain Fox Theatres be-
come strike bound.
No monopoly is more successful in
their economic tyranny
than that of the motion picture in
dustry which makes the operation of
a truly independent theater impossi-
ble Independent capital invested in
the theater business must at the out
set become beggars for scraps from
the Hollywood film table. They have
been given only second-run and B.
class pictures and the huge financial
combine with it's great backlog treas
ury generally manages to maneuver
the independent into receivership
or merger.
Because of its educational and prop
uganda nature, the motion picture in
dustry as monopoly, is perhaps the
worst disease that affects the body
polite. All genuine progressives ought
to consider the wisdom of creating
and competitive movies
at the production source.
Much of the self-centered and anti
social attitude found among the peo-
pie is due to the influence Of the
The workers and the farmers
are too often depicted as subservient
tools of some industrialist. In another