The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-11
FROM EDITORIAL COLUMNS
On Freedom .

register affects freedom press was
graphically revealed couple of weeks ago city, Indian
apos Ind when the indianapolis Council of
No SO tried to promote unemployment of veterans by daries
department stores etc.
The Council prepared advertisement calling upon the
public to have Delivered The ad refused by every
daily in Indianapolis grounds of lack of
1t was carried in the weekies of the
The ad titled "Give Veteran Jobi" follows "On No
vember all wartime restrictions all types of home dev
cries rescinded by the federal government.
That you won't have drink stale milk any longer
You have delivered fresh doorstep
1T also that you won't have wrestle bulky pack
home from the department crowded buses and
streetcars
words the bars raised by the govern
The The wartime necessity of conserving
manpower and equipment longer exists.
n fact the necessity has been reversed During the
your patriotic duty milk delivered every
other day. to packages home spite of the ncon
venence.
Now is your patriotic duty to demand that you get your
milk fresh every used to before the
patriotic duty to tell department store clerksHave Dev
ered!"
By insisting the which you
rghu accustomed before the war; you will be provid
ing jobs the returning who used to deliver your
milk, your bread, your laundry and your packages
The government told them they would get their jobs back
if they survived the ordeal of combat
"Bu how they get their jobs back if diaries and de-
parmen refuse to expand their delivery system to their
prewar status of service to their customers?
"More than 100000 members of the Transfers Union
climbed down off their trucks throughout the country and fell
into ranks during the emergency.
Some $4,000 of them off milk trucks department
store trucks and other the homes of the
nation.
What are they supposed to do now? Stand around and
draw unemployment compensation?
"They their jobs back! They entitled to them.
But their former employers in many instances prefer to
retain the profits they piled during the by forcing you'll
to drink stale milk and lug your packages home.
Dd these stores and diaries reduce their when de-
livery costs cut in half eliminated entirely?
"Oh mol They charged you every nickel the OPA would
them charge They did share the savings with you
Now have the opportunity to get the service for which
have been paying and to eliminate the you
suffered You also have the greater opportunity give
veteran job by insisting that all purchases be
vered promptly and that your milk be fresh morning
''It is very simple. Al you do is say
"Have it delivered'
That the ad the teamsters wanted in the daily
in Indianapolis Do anything
with it? Certainly it not belous is it Justification of
the facts
merely explanation of facts with appeal to the
public to aid in the unemployment of veterans.
The newspapers did not have space they said, to
The But they did have space patent medicine ads
galore they did have recently to the ads
Inserted by General Motors corporation regarding the strike
True freedom of the giving the public all
sides of conroversy-not just side. 1t forgetting
the cash regser-(Vaey City TmesRecord)