The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-03-15

this historic spring of 1916. For, sell
dom in the domestic history of our
country has the worker, the farmer,
and the millions of other little peo-
pie" who comprise the true spiritual
and physical wealth of our nation
been in greater peril of hanging sep
arately."
Over the radio, in our newspapers,
our magazines, the din raised by paid
propagandists grows constantly loud
er as more and more "oil'' is applied
in the proper places. Daily we hear it,
daily we read it-"Labor is deliber-
ately trying to bring on initiation"
certain farmers groups are financed
from Moscow" "the taxes on industry
must be cut; preserve this last re-
naming island of free enterprise"
And so it goes, and the theme behind
it all is divide and conquer'-you
know, the old hang separately" prop
osition
Personally I don't know of single
wage boost granted these last few
months which could really be classed
as inflationary when it is considered
that for four years American workers
wages were frozen" under Little
Steel while, through "upgrading,"
quality deteriorating" and other
forms of chizzling, prices were allowed
to hike approximately 46 per cent.
Likewise, the threadbare scare cry
of financed from Moscow" is so worn
out that only the most unthinking of
people place much credance in such
kept press" tommy-rot these days
l see by the daily press that that
great and good corporation which
thinks only of the welfare of the Amer
lean public-General Motors, as we'll
as five other "public-minded" corpora
lions just this week have been charged
by federal grand jury with con-
spiracy to fix prices in the ball-bear-
ing industry The other five bulwarks
OF free enterprise" which have been
charged with being in cahoots with
GIN. are: ski Industries, Philadel-
phia (the American branch of the
Swedish concern ski which was ex.
posed some months back as being the
biggest source Of ball bearings for the
nazi war machine), Marlin-Rockwell
Corp, jamestown, NJ Y; Fafnir Bear
ing Co., New Britain, Conn. Federal
Bearings Co., Poughkeepsie, N Y, and
Norman-Hoffman Bearings Co., Siam
ford, Conn. According to the indict-
ment the defendant corporations ex-
ecutives for the last IL years had been
holding secret meetings in various
swank clubs of New York to fix prices
charged manufacturers. More than go
such n-the-public-interest" meet.
ngs were listed in the Indictment
Bearing products of the indicted cor
)orations have an annual sales vol
lme of $200,000,000, and include every
hing from refrigerator for the
to combine for Montana
wheat farmer. Able Assistant Attorney
General Wendell Berge, through the
particular "shake-down" Of the Amer
can public.
In more of personal vein. These
asst few days we've had number of
cry interesting people drop into The
voice while in the capital on business
latters. Among these were oliver
.odahl and Alloys Wutz, successful
HEAT farmers of the Havre area, and
)ng-time Farmer Union members
With them was the latter's son-in-1aw
nd daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Blackwell.
If. Blackwell for number. of years
as been an engineer on government
irways construction. Then there was
lat enjoyable "bit of the ole sod'
addy Sullivan of the Butte Plumbers
MON and director Of the Education
Coop Ira Siebrasse, another direc-
'r of the Coop and member of
reat Falls Carpenters Local 286, was
for couple of hours discussing
lie increasing interest in The Voice
the Falls area Wyman FeItis, of
eerless over Daniels County way paid
s annual visit to the office Mr..
eltis has leased his ranch and for
me time has been extremely busy
illing wells in the Peerless region.
L. Manning, first president of the
iucational Coop, and Walter Good,
esent president, dropped in together
their way from Poison to Great
Ills where they will attend the an
al meeting of all managers of coop
alive enterprises in the state Also
sitors were o. C. (Oz) Murray,
rmers Union Central Exchange
Id man, st. Paul, on his way to his
me In Missoula, and Don Chapman,
esident OF the Montana Farmers
lion.
While it didn't appear in the com
ny" press of Montana, the following
7ss release about another great and
ID corporation and its "contribu-
n" to the recent war effort is of
Il news value to all Montana citi-
IS. We quote: WASHINGTON-T
aconda Wire & Cable Co., has set
claims for $1,626,OO0 by the Unit
States government in connection
n irregular manufacturing prac-
IS of wire and cable during the
r. Atty. Gen. Tom c. Clark an
lnced Feb 28." 1t will be recalled
t as result of this bit of skull
'gery several high officials of this
M subsidiary cooled their heels for
he months in the fedara1 oIinIx