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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
MEAT PACKERS FEAR
BLACK MARKET
RETURN

-(FP)-Renewal of price
controls on meat brought Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde statement Aug. 20 from
the American Meat Institute, propa-
ganda voice of the big meat packers.
On its goody-goody side, the AMI
said: "Of course, the legitimate meat
industry will do everything it can to
make restored price controls work. "
But it greatly feared-and here nasty
Mr.. Hyde came close to the surface
that renewed price ceilings would only
| lease on life and create new short
ages
Consumers, livestock producers and
the entire meat Industry from the farm
to the table will suffer if this should
come about when the industry was
well on the way to getting the coun-
try's meat distribution and supply
systems restored to pre-war effici-
ency,," it said piously.
What the AMI conveniently forgot
was that it's boosted return to ''pre-
war efficiency was costing consumers
as much as 1000 more than June 30
OPA prices on meat, that the short
ages it was worrying about were
created by the big packers themselves.
Reports by OPA officials, the Natl.
Farmers Union and United Packing
house Workers (CIO) show that the
shortages under OPA were caused by
refusal of the big packers to buy live
stock. The amount of beef in cold
storage on May l, while meat packers
hopefully awaited the death of OPA,
was almost as high as one year before
and total meat of all kinds in storage
amounted to 669, 445000 pounds, about
55 million more than on May 1, 1915.
ANY talk of the return of the meat
black market is strictly phony," COM
mented UPW Pres. Ralph Helstein on
the AMI statement. 1t has "all the inn
plications of a threat by the big pack
ers to go back to their sitdown strike
on meat production" he said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06

amount three and a half millions was
approved, and the rest turned down
Montana, with its less than 40 per cent
approval is leading the nation in
amount of non housing construction
! denied, since most of the other states
have run about $3.50 on approvals and
ldenials.
Despite drastic cuts in non-housing
construction, and great increases in
the output of materials, conditions are
not improving. There are several rea-
sons for this. Foremost probably being
that the rigid priority system was set
up about 80 days too late. Had such a
system been set up in January, instead
of late April, much non-essential con-
struction would not yet have been
started. Such construction, whether
theatres, cocktail lounges or saloons,
which was started before April 80, is
not under the control of CPA, except
as items in short supply are added
to the "HH'' priority list. Result is
that much badly needed material for
homes and essential industrial and
commercial enterprises. had been
used up on non-essentia1 building.
Black Market flinders
Another big hindrance has been the
large-scale black market operations in
building materials. While authorities
are gradually stamping out such
operations, much work yet remains to
be done. In this connection, the I'M
precedented demand for construction
of all kinds-the heaviest in our ma
TONS history-has led many prospec-
tive builders to buying materials
wherever they could get them, regard
less of costs.
Still another drawback to the entire
program is the shortage of equipment |
such as sawmills, bull dozers, etc. The
army apparently has huge reservoirs
If all types of heavy construction
but at the present time
seems reluctant to release any ap-
1reciable amount for civilian use.
Coupled with these other causes has
)een the spiraling cost of living. Con
'b"hbiJ mi So'iiS ~ tSCo VI SfNtJ
hing wage earners buy without pro-
)ortionate wage increases have led
o much industrial unrest with strikes
n major industries such as steel, re-
ulting in the nations construction
Program being thrown months behind.
Another obstacle which in the i'm
Mediate months ahead will make it.
elf felt is the inflationary rising cost
f homes once they are completed.
,osts have been booming so rapidly
hat it will be impossible for most vet
Grams and other civilians to buy land
ay for) homes once they are avail
BILE. For example, houses which are
ow selling for $1,000 here in the
tate, before the war could be built
or $4,000 or less. II
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
SERVILE SIX Defeat
WAGE BOOSTS

Members of the Butte
city council Wednesday
evening voted against
granting the modest wage
increases requested by the
city's policemen and fire
men.
The following six alder
men in the face of skyrock-
citing living costs, voted
favorably on continuing
the present extremely in
adequate salaries, as is:
Aldermen Stresses, Leary,
Curran, Haggerty, Lind
quist and Renauard.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
NTEA BOYS SCRAMBLE
OFF AhTI-C0-0P
WAGON

Chicago Strong evidence that
NTEA is very sick was seen here this
week as its high priests began a mad
scramble to switch their emphasis
from coop taxes to something else
anything else!
Headlining the weeks developments
was the arrival on the desks of bust
ness executives of a new weekly
Washington letter bearing the mast
head "Vernon Scott and Loring Schulz
er, Organization and Industry Counsel
lors" This confirmed the National AS
ISOLATION of Co-operatives' announce
ment of last February that "some of
it's (NTEA's) top hands have held
themselves out as promotional speci-
alists and have solicited other promo
tional jobs"
Although the text of the new "let-
ter" was copyrighted this hardly
seemed necessary as it was devoid of
character either as to style or con-
tent, ranking far below the usual
NTEA drivel. 1t did, however, stimu-
late no little speculation as to it's true
1t happens that although Scott has
been listed on NTEA stationery as its
vice President" and Schiller is well
known as high alchemist of NTEA
Doison-pen propaganda, Scott and
Schiller, the "Counsellors" now let it
eak out that NTEA is only one of
heir clients
1t happens that the new letter"
was sent free to business executives
IN the NTEA mailing list.
It happens that the new publishers
proceeded by deft inference to throw
whole buckets of ice water on any
,ody who imagines that the new con-
,ress will proceed at once to inflict
leavy tax penalties upon co-ops for
laring to do business without profit.
Finally, and get this, it happens to
brow a man-sized scare into anybody
Who thinks he can contribute to a
obbying organization in the future
having his name and the
mount of his contribution made
natter of public record.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06

assembly mas Deou lighting W
bring democracy once again
into the Helena schools.
1t will be recalled that approxima-
tely six months ago District Judge
Taylor of Anaconda handed down a
decision favoring Miss Eastman over
the Helena board. The board has
served notice of appeal to the state
supreme court, and final decision is
expected within the near future.
Financial standing of the case at
present includes a total donation from
labor unions and individuals from
throughout the state, of $S77.50. Dis
bursements totalled $1,305.57. The
Montana State Federation of Labor
has made up the deficit of $42S.07 in
Cured by the Helena council.
Follows is Mr.. Teddy's letter to the
various contributing councils:
Dear Sirs and Brothers:
We enclose herewith a statement of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06

Cl0nal building items nave DeeH
added to the "HH" priority
list. This brings the number OF
items considered as extremely
critical in supply to 80.
In reviewing the building situation
in general and the veterans preference
housing problem in particular, the
Montana manager pointed out that
the government has goal of 2,700,0OO
new homes by the end of 1947, of
which, 100000 are supposed to be
under construction before the first of
the year. At the present time there
are over 100000 underway, and it is
hoped by the most recent drastic cuts
on commercial building, to reach the
1916 goal by the end of December.
At the present time, here in Mon
tana, the building of $500 veterans
homes has been authorized and con-
struction on most of this number has
been started. However, due to short
age of essential materials construc-
ton on between so and 60 per cent of
these houses has been halted. The
only chance that most of these homes
will be finished and ready for occu-
pancy by the time &80w flies, lies in
additional materials being made avail
able as a result of this weeks further
drastic cuts in commercial and indus
trial construction
Montana Leads Nation
Reporting on the four months since
ng last April 30, Mr.. Locke pointed
out that he and his advisory board
lad handled applications for approx
nately nine million dollars worth Of
commercial construction. OF this
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06

productive time, :" that an employee
could be at work even though his
service at the particular moment was
not directly productive !" and that
such travel time was necessary if the
company was to carry on its opera
tons, since without workers it would
be impossible for the company to con-
duct its business.
The meat Of the decision follows:
plaintiff Walling is entitled to
an injunction against the defendant,
restraining and enjoining it from viola
lions of the provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, through failure
to include within the 40 hours of each
work week, the time spent by it's en-
ployes at work in riding from camps
to their place of work and returning
therefrom, and failing to compensate
the employees for such work y
He further held that There is a
clear distinction between company
owned towns where all facilities are
provided, and in this case where men
were forced to live apart from their
families -
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06


Judge Brown handed down his deci-
sion in the case of L. Metcalfe Wall
ling, administrator of the wage and
hour division of the U. S. department
of labor, VS.. Anaconda Copper Mining
Company. Walling had contended that
the ACM was in violation of the Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1898, 20 U. S.
c. A. Sec 201 Eft Seq, for having re-
fosed to pay 129 employees at its Wood
worth Powell coonty) logging camp
for approximately 80 minutes time
per day spent in going to and from the
camp to the scene of logging opera
tons. The plaintiff asked, and re-
ceived an injunction from Judge
Brown to restrain the defendant COM
pany from continuing this practice.
Judge Brown, in arriving at his de-
cision, used as precedents the rulings
of the United States supreme court in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
AFL TO FIGHT LEA ACT

Chicago.-Attorneys for Pres. James
c. Petrillo of the American Fed. of
Musicians (AFL) filed a motion in
federal court charging that the Lea
act violates four amendments to the
constitutions. Petrillo was earlier
named defendant in test case of the
law. If found guilty,
Petrillo faces a maximum penalty of
one year in prison and $1,000 fine.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
Vol g 81 3 IN Case Status
Reported 10 Various
Labor Groups
Helena Assembly Gives Highlights Of Year
Long Fight To Revive Democracy In
Capital City School system

Status of Violet Eastman VS. Helena school board
recently disclosed to all Montana trades and labor
bes by Lewis Teddy secretary of the Helena Trades and
Labor Assembly Mr. Teddy also each council with
detailed financial report of the donations of
the Helena council during the than year the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
Labor Shackling Measures
Roundly Criticised By
Mike Mansfield
Voted Against Infamous Case Bill Four Times
Points Up Hungry Horse AS Cornerstone
OF Western Montana Development

Congressman Mike Mansfield, Montanas youngest G. of
World and outstanding liberal legislator analysed
the policy of toward labor legislation in the four
years he has been Montana's congressman
stated that the Smith Conay Act passed during the
war period only antiabor but WELL
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
Commercial Construction Is Cut Another
25Per Cent By era Order

Industrial and commercial building has been ordered
sashed another 25 80 per by the Civilian Production
administration Jerome G. Locke Montana CPA
nounced this This will reduce the nations commercial
construction ALLEGATION per week from approximately $48 mil
lion to $35 million. Mr. Locke also announced that so add
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06
Federal Court Judge Decides Travel Time
Must Be Paid By Logging Industry
Judge Brown Rules AC In Precedent Setting Decision For
Timber Industry Company La Violation of Fair Labor Laws

Travel time from logging to the of logging
operations must be paid for at overtime rates when such time
not included the 40hour work week prescribed by the Fed
era Fair Labor Standards act for Interstate Commerce. Judge
R. Lewis Brown ruled in federal district Helena Aug
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-09-06

"The strongest bond Of hu.
man sympathy, outside of
the family relation, should
be one uniting all working
people, of all Nations, and
tongues, and kindreds-"
Abraham Lincoln
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
The Iron Curtain
These DaysSSSf sSfsi ss0' ''tt'85s58tIS%; s 5ozo1;%

! pating in International agencies OF
various kinds. An area OF agree
ment may be possible. Interna.
tional agreements on the right to
collect information within any
country and TO export 1t TO other
countries should apply 10 both
governmental and private agen-
cies. -"
Do you get TT
This 10 the Soviet view OF free
dom OF the press as reported by
DR.. Mahahor:
"In the Soviet Union. where all
power 10 In the hands OF the toilers
OF the cities and villages repre-
sented by Soviet deputies, q Judi.
cial right 10 issue their own maya
zines and newspapers is guaran.
teed by supply ying toilers and their
organizations with paper. printing
offices, buildings, communications,
and other commodities. Every.
thing is guaranteed by the Soviet
constitution. Upon this foundation
the exceedingly strong growth Of
the press became possible"
In other words. Russian freedom
OF the press consists in letting
newspaper have a building ana
some paper. But the American
people want full report and they
want 1t from numerous sources, so
that they can reach their own con.
clusions. They do not expect any
reporter to possess the godlike
qualities OF omniscience, omni-
presence and perfect, irrefutable
understanding and complete and
unerring truthfuless. But they do
expect that dozens OF honest men.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
Glee Club to Give
Concert For Public

Ann Arbor, Mar. 20-The first
public concert Of the season will be
presented by the University of
Michigan Mems varsity Glee Club.
comprised this year Of over 90
voices, tonight, $50 p. m, in
Hill Auditorium.
Eugene Malitz, baritone, and Ken.
meth Pool, organist. will be the fea-
tured soloists on the program.
The recital, which Is open 10 the
public, will include sacred and clas-
steal selections, renditions by n
male quartet, and community sing
ing.
The male chorus, which Is wide
ly known throughout the country
because OF its tours, is under the
direction Of Professor Davis Mat
tern. Accompanying the singers
will be Marry Mccain, assistant d.
rector, and Mr.. Pool.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
The Iron Curtain

As long as a large part OF the
world is closed TO American re-
porters. II is impossible for the
American people to know the truth
OF occurrences. The recent i'm
prisonment OF American reporters
in Manchuria-politely, believe.
called a detention in their hotel
rooms-is characteristic OF an era
in which governments deceive not
only their own people but all the
world.
II shoHld be American policy. fiX-
ed by law, that when n nation does
not permit American newspaper
men to send. In time OF peace. un.
censored accounts OF whatever they
believe the American people ought
to know, and which refuses TO per
NIT free access to~news in any part
OF their country to bonafide Ameri-
can reporters, the reporters OF that
country should be excluded from
the United States, and telegraph.
telephone and wireless facilities
should be withheld from them.
This sounds drastic, but II free
dom Of the press, the radio, photo
graphs, is ,Iorth lighting for, the
battle must be sharp and hard. The
American people are entitled to the
news, truthfully and fully convey
ed 10 them by reporters In the EN-
ploy OF American newspapers, news
agencies and radio companies. Mr..
Roosevelt and latterly Mr.. Byrnes
agreed to keep them away from the
news. Neither had any legal ana
constitutional right to do that.
Actually they failed to keep the
news out OF the press, because
competent reporters got the facts
which they published as rumors,
guesses and gossip. That is not
good enough.
The State Department hired DR..
Arthur w. MacMahon, not a news
paperman but a consultant on ad-
ministration, TO write a "memoran-
dunn on the postwar international
program OF the United States"
This memorandum is designed to
justify huge expenditures by the
American government TO send news
and propaganda to all nations on
the ground that modern interna-
tional relations lie between peo.
pies. not merely governments"
That statement is, of course. un-
true because most OF the peoples
OF the world are only permitted 10
know what their governments want
them to know. Precisely what 20
the peoples OF Russia, Polane.
Spain. Hungary. Germany. China,
Japan and most other countries
have to say about what their gov
ernments do? That statement was
thrown in to satisfy American pub
lie opinion without regard to the
facts.
And there is another paragraph
in this report which wanders ali
over the map but misses the salient
point that months after VI Day
the American people are excluded
from the truth. Read this and see
what It adds up to:
&C.. Similarly, the United States
could hardly expect (as some ex-
treme advocates OF freedom OF IN
formation have seemed to hopeD to
secure assent to agreements thar
would bar governments like those
OF Grea. Britain and the Soviet
Union from conducting or partici-
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
By ERICH BRANpEls

More than 400 of the school
teachers in Paterson, N. j., failed
to report for duty "on account of
illness.
Their illness was premeditated
and prearranged. 1t was organized
at q meeting for obtaining q cost
of-living bonus, and q parade to
the City Hall had preceded the
fake epidemic.
Schools had to be closed, and the
teachers had given neither super
visors nor parents an opportunity
to loo; after the children for the
day.
am very much in favor OF ade-
Quate pa for teachers. | believe
that, as a whole, they are under
paid, Just as preachers are under
paid.
But what on earth are we com
ing to II the very people who are
supposed to be the leaders and
guides OF our coming generation re-
sort to lies and fraud to gain their
end?
How can these teachers ever ex-
pect to have the respect and conf
dence OF their pupils again?
How dare they prate to their
charges about Lincoln and Wash
ington who couldn't tell a lie?"
II we're a kid and my teacher
had done that sort. OF thing I
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20
SYNOPSIS

Eisonors Lawrence, Air Raid
Defense worker in Sweetsburg-
town humming with war industry
and rumors of saboteurs - has q
secret assignment from the Coun-
ter Intelligence Corps which ex-
planned that one Of its agents.
planted in a group of aliens nearby,
was having difficulty getting his
reports TO C.I.C. headquarters. The
coded messages were TO be left
in discarded cigarette packets near
the Lawrence home. Eleonore
agreed to retrieve and mail them
TO a certain address. The Lawrence
household consists of Grandma"
Lawrence; Sukey, Eleonore's small
sister; and Mamie, maid of all
work. Eleonore's brothers, Arthur
and Eben, are in the Navy and
Coast Guardrespectively. Eleonore
was the recipient of several spy
expose books, and secretly hoped
the anonymous sender might be
William Steuben. who had visited
the Lawrences months ago, but
from whom she had heard nothing
since. The adjoining Wolfe es-
tate has been leased by B. Stead
Jones of New York. and Eleonore
noticed an attractive blonde on the
grounds as she and Roof, her police
dog, returned from their daily
search. At home she found the
distinguished looking Jones visit
ing Grandma. He explained that
his wife is an invalid and that he
is interested in hunting Fifth
Columnists". His offer for rental
of the Lawrence house is turned
down Jones warned Eleonore
against walking along the lonely
mountain road because of the
rough crowds employed at the rub
Der factory nearby" A week later,
Roof disappeared. -. Unknown to
Eleonore, Bill Steuben is a c. 1. c.
agent. After successfully posing
as a Nazi sympathizer in New
York, he was sent to the school of
sabotage now being conducted at
the Jones mansion by the mysteri-
Gus Carlotta. Bill recalls his first
meeting with the Nazi agent,
Baalah Jones, who disclosed that
Carlotta, "a very demon of a wom-
an" was seeking a more secluded
locale for her Tower of Learn
ing" Bill suggested the Wolfe
estate.
CHAPTER NINE
G-2 hadn't known much about the
Tower Of Learning; neither had
the Federal Bureau. Steuben's us.
Intelligence chiefs were exultant
over the chance to plant" him
there, and they had had Baalah
Jones followed when he made the
deal for the mansion in the Berk-
shires.
On his trip from New York, a
eolored lad sat beside Bill the dis
tance between two stations. Later,
in the washroom, Bill read the pa
per which the boy had pressed into
his hand. The places where he was
to drop the reports were carefully
indicated. One detail Of the in
structions made him turn alter
nately hot and clammy: A girl who
lived nearby had consented to be
the link between him and G-2.
II could be only one girb-Eleo-
more Lawrence! He wished that he
hadn't told Osborne Of his friend
ship with the Lawrences. G-2 was
insistent that no love interest divide
the purpose Of their man, and he
had given that pledge. He recalled
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1946-03-20

tions of this Maxi spy school within
n few days.
Herr Friedrich, humorless and
grim, was a Prussian disciplinarian,
and when his pupil stumbled in
identifying harbors, fortifications,
types Of war vessels, submarines,
airplanes, tanks, artillery or other
weapons Of warfare, his reproofs
were caustic.
New photographs Of recent fortih-
cations in the Canal Zone, the east
coast, the west coast, were brought
in almost daily TO supplemenethose
on hand. A gigantic network Of
treachery was spread before him
that chilled his blood. II had grown
unchecked so long that the task Of
extirpation seemed almost impos-
sible.
Directing this part Of the sinister
mine, with secret tunnels leading to
nests Of other termites, was Car
lotta, the "demon Of q woman" Her
unseen presence pervaded an eff
cient and evil organization. The
Tower Of Learning, they called her
spy school. The Temple Of Black
Magic, a better namei A poisonous
mist was in the air he breathedi
Suddenly a muffled revolver shot
shattered the silence and his grim
thoughts. Then another.
Steuben stiffened. Some poor
devil who hadn't made the right
answers7
Careful, something told him, or
you'll be liquidated, too.
ITO be continuedl