The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-07
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days but that some trade association or other
decides to embark on crusade to save FREE enter
prise for America?
Il think the answers are pretty clear. We got the
reputation we have because, by and large WE
EARNED 1T. How? Well DECLARED WAR on
collective bargaining We actually OPPOSED increased
taxes for education We FOUGHT health and safety
ordinances. The record proves that BATTLED
child labor legislation We WIPED and YOWLED
against minimum wage laws. We STRUGGLED against
Unemployment insurance We DECRIED social secur-
ity and currently kicking the out of legis-
lave proposals to provide universal sickness and acct
dent insurance.
I'VE did all these things without making one SIN
GLE CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTION which would as
the American people of OUR desires to achieve
the same results for them basis which would be
MORE BUSINESSLIKE and LESS POLITICAL. Where
on the record is there single example to show that
big business ever INITIATED legislative program of
benefit for the workers? Is it not clear that thew
have always waited until they were ASKED or FORCED
to do something? OF course, I recognize that there
have been isolated exceptions but they merely serve
to accentuate GENERAL DERELICTION
We did all these things and then sit back and wonder
why people don't like big busness foregoing
emphasis Luckmans)
And What Do We Find Here in Helena?
Possibly, more appropriate would be to say "What
don't we find :" Be that as it may we find we
have lobbyists apenty particularly from AC-Montana
Power octopus. And what they in Helena for?
Well Lets look at the record it may help us to draw
q few parallels and a few conclusions:
l. An 'anti-closed shop" bill has been noticed" bv
couple OF rural representatives 1t is doubtful that
either has anything more than faint notion what
closed shop is except what they may have learned
from the ACMcontrolled Billings Gazette Success of
such bill would certainly sound the death knell of
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
couple of weeks ago, under the able CD steward
ship of such fine philosophical legislators Majority
Leader Armstrong, lib 67 and lib 68, both meant to
alleviate the deplorable economic condition of disabled
industrial workers, defeated by better 2to1
votes. This certainly blow to greater SOCIAL
SECURITY for very hard hit segment of our
people
3. Another parallel may be drawn in the field of
EDUCATION. We have proposed 81 million increased
ness coming forth with any generous suggestions to
aid in financing, through reasonable corporate
3reases? I think nOt-rather-rom out of "no where"
has come a proposal that per cent sales tax be
larnessed on to Montana people.
A. Another parallel may be drawn the subject of
unemployment compensation revision. Naturally, if
zig biz the least bit gifted with vision, as Luck
nan infers it wouldn't fight this wonderful program
md its expansion which much to the
If capitalism, because of tending to eliminate the
lows in capitalistic economic sprals Yet revision
ills which to have the greatest chance of pas
age embody merit rating provisions, which in final
alton system. Again, it is a reasonable assumption
hat these company" lobbyists not here to work
GAINST the proposed merit experience rating pro-
isions in bills before the assembly.