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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26

turns out not to be water for both, a
lot of money will have been thrown
away.
The Army Engineers are confident
they can stand on their constitutional
priorities and take entire flow of the
channel.
The Reclamation Bureau says it is
confident that it's rights are protected
by a congressional provision which
gives irrigation the priority in the
event of conflict with navigation.
Engineers Have Whip Hand over
Reclamation Bureau
Since a statute of congress doesn't
amend the Constitution, the Army
Engineers seem on the face of it to
have the advantage here.
But if there is only enough water
in the Missouri river for either the
navigation channel or the irrigation
project but not for both as the
known facts indicate one of the
agencies will have to give way.
If the Reclamation Bureau wins, the
people will lose the $33S,000,000 or
more they had spent on the 9foot
navigation channel.
If the Army Engineers win, the
people will lose the $29S,000,000 or
more they had spent on irrigation.
But in that latter event the people
will also lose something more pre-
cious than money-the financial sta
bility and productiveness and wealth
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26

of vast area which irrigation alone
can sustain.
Plainly, the 9-foot channel isn't
worth what it would cost in water.
Is the channel worth what it would
cost in money? The Army Engineers
have made only one documented study
showing how much it would cost to
maintain and operate the channel and
how much it would save in shipping
charges.
Soundness of Proposal Questioned
BY Col. SpaIding In 1888
This study shows that the channel
would cost $2,5O0,OOO a year more for
maintenance and operation than it
could save in shipping charges-to
say nothing of the cost of building
it. And that would be every year,
$2,500,000 down the drain. Little
wonder the Missouri river division
engineer of the Army Engineers, Col.
George r. Spalding, said in 1888: ST
am unable to convince myself that
the undertaking is sound"
Plainly, the 9-foot channel isn't
worth what it would cost in money
either
The course Of wisdom, is seems to
us, would be to use the present chan
mel as much as it can be used without
robbing irrigation of water, and to
abandon this scheme for a 9-foot chan
mel, which has been discredited by
every authority, including those same
Army Engineers who are now spend
ing millions of dollars on it.
There is another thing that is as
plain as day on the face of the facts.
These agencies-the Army Engineers
and the Reclamation Bureau-do not
commend themselves to public con-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26
Historic Convention H III
ByFULivestock Grou 5

awe shall probably anything like i long
ve, John Bollingers description of the annual
meeting of the Farmers Union Live Stock Association held
the Lowry hotel ST. Paul Dec IL and r. Mr. BoIlinger
who reelected the presidency of the board of directors
referring mostly the afternoon session Thursday when
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26
COP's Initiation Plan Won't
Work Senator Murray

Branding the Republican voluntary initiation control
for what it is-a sham and fraud the American
peopeSenaor James E Murray last week condemned
which order for big business
unremttng drive stamp all smaller independent
petition Murays fortnight senate
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26
WALLACE TO SPEAK
MONDAY NIGHT

Henry A. Wallace will speak
over National and Mutual net
works Monday night (9:3O),
at which time he will give his
views on the issues involved
in the 1913 Presidential cam
paign.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-12-26
Army's Q-Foot Channel Plan Not
Feasible, Says Post Dispatch

The ostDpatch believes that the time has come for some
plain the 9oot navigation channel the Army Eng
propose build in the Missouri river under the Pick
Sloan plan.
big questions about the 9oot channel The
first: enough the Missouri supply it
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Washington
LaborReport
BY Bradford V. Carter
LPA COlumnist

The Taft-Hartley Act is now
in operation little over one
month. AS was anticipated,
not much has been added to
illuminate the kind of inter
pretations which the act will
be given. Here and there,
chiefly through the extra-cur.
ricular observations of Cen
eral Counsel Robert Denham,
it has been possible to CLEAN
a few insights not available
before.
In an official,way, as every
body knows at this time, Den
ham has ruled that all mem
bers of the executive bodies
of the AFL and CIO will have
to sign the anti-Communist
affidavits before any affiliated
international and its subordi-
nate locals will be able to
utilize.
There are some glimmerings
that a majority of the mem
bers of the Board do not
share Denhams interpreta-
ton. If this is true then they
agree with everybody who has
any understanding about la
Dor matters-that both the
AFL and CIO are federations
of autonomous international
unions.
DEFINITION
Except with relation to a
handful of federal unions in
the case of the AFL, and local
industrial unions in the case
of the CIO, neither the AFL
nor the CIO are unions" in
any meaningful sense Of the
term at all. The AFL and ClC
do not bargain with emplo,
ers, call strikes, collect due
from individual members, or
ganize picket lines, or do any
thing else that a union does.
There are $50 years of la
Dor history rooted in the fact
that the AFL and CIO are not
unions at all, but organiza-
tions OF unions. The theory
which Denham seeks to inn
pose is repugnant to the la
Dor movements idea that in
ternationals are autonomous,
and 1t would seem in contra
diction TO the self-imposed
task of democratizing the
unions which the Taft-Hartley
Act assumed.
Perspective on how Den
ham will interpret other pro-
visions of the Act can be
found in his rather instructive
speech before the American
Bar Association. Denham says
he is not going to permit the
NLRB to become a bargain
counter for employers seeking
injunctions. Employers will
have to prove that the alleged
unfair labor practices by the
unions will have an impact
in a substantial way, on the
PUBLIC at large"
SELECTIVE
On the so-called featherbed-
ding provisions of the Act,
Denham says that the term is
generally given a much broad
er Interpretation in common
usage than is implied in the
Act itself. He singles out
standby crews" who get paid
when they don't do any work
as clearly coming under the
ban Of the act. Denham inn
plies that such common prac-
tices as call-in pay, paid holi-
days, etc, will not come un-
der the Act.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
From The Desk
Melvin Schultz
President
Local Il UAW>ClO

The history of unonism is one of the
most interesting and least known of any other
organization in America today.
The first chapter began in 1875 with the
binding together of the thirteen original col
ones. After the Revolutionary War, workers
began banding together in groups of two to
ten who happened to work for one employer.
AS industry progressed, so did the attempts to
organize. In 1915 the right to organize was
recognized by the courts
The second chapter lasted for one hundred
anG eleven years, 18151926, during which
time workers could organize but in most cases
would not be recognized
Chapter three began in 1926 when the
Railway Labor Act obligated the railroads to
recognize unions. This obligation was eX-
tended to other industries in 1885 by passing
the Wagner Act.
In this short period of nine years known
as the blacklist page in the annals of the labor
movement, during which time labor leaders
became gangsters, and corporations hired
thugs and murderers as strike breakers the
civilization of the need for workers union
was recognized.
Then the Committee for Industrial OrganL
zation was formed where all workers, regard
less of skill, could belong to a union and be
represented at the bargaining table, Thus the
free fight gave way to collective bargaining
and ends Chapter three.
Chapter four began with the Johnston
Green-Murray Charter which contains four i'm
portant principles:
1. The right of labor to organize and
gage in collective bargaining.
2. The rights of management to direct the
operation of an enterprise shall be recognized
an6 preserved;
3. The highest degree of production and
chronological advancement shall be constantly
encouraged;
4. There shall be an economic system for
the nation which will protect the individual
from the hazards of unemployment
We were still in this fourth chapter of labor
history until the passing of the TaftHartley
Law which marks the beginning of era
The UAW-CIO is the largest democratic
union in the world today and it owes its sue.
cess to one fact-Democracy within the Union
This union founded on the same basic prin.
ciples as the United States Government .
a union of the workers, by the workers, and
for the workers"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
It's News
To Me
By O. ]. Pecord

Happy October customers and did ever see duler
contest for the office of city council?
Despite couple of people to stir up issues
the two big people poticiansthe councilmanic
is about exciting hen squang on her eggs
fulfilling her biological for exsance
Not the Democratic Republican argument to inject
paranshp into this Council seems to have excited
or impressed the that because
such remarkable system of partisan
find of such diversified talents Ad Thacher
Mayor Lloyd Roue getting their endorsements from the
same party -. -, .,oo, 60
keep and thereby add factor to
mysterious and confusing they shuttle and count the
What the critics of the PR system have been saying for
submergng issues in municipal issues has been
of silence the real issues
to the point which actually been daggd out
large intestine sproutng beard
AS citizen taxpayer-and that's the usual wheeze
everybody takes when they want to raise little Hellt
to that we completely wrong in waiting until 50
days before election to and excite the people
when there questions seeking solution throughout the entire
That's thing International UAwcIo Execu-
Board could teach the two big Ps-the people and the
politicians wit that constantly be raised
throughout entire of office It's wonder that
bers the UAWCIO work like Trojans to get themselves
elected delegates to their unions convention and then fail
their people out to vote in municipal state and ma
Another important difference union and
c government is that candidates for union office must advo-
cate program the bettermen of the
union, whereas the policy of city
any than be avoided above ALL not to
say do anything that will interfere with their election
Look at my old pal Ad Thacher Does he get under
Does he make anyone mad at he constantly
trucuent voice Council either for against the
people darned rghthe doesn't And will Ad Thacher
elected again next month for the uneenh time? You're
WILL with without the blessing of Harry
Hansen.
SAD PART
And the sad part of all this municipal sweetness and light
indifference of the people particularly the
though of the gentlemen who candidates for election
election have labor records with slight odor attached
the registration figures for this year and will
that it's the best argument in the world against the PR
system.
the records of Mayor Lloyd Roulet of
the other boys during the past two and how
they voted against the desires the CO AFL and
MESA Are those issues in this years campaign? OF
you wouldn't think way all the
remaining from the Board Elections in
large numbers.
then, when the CIO AFL MESA members stay at
and toast their hn the fresde election day.
though the be shining and when Councimen like
their during years they
expect writer's like fill sharp type
the councimanc jerks pieces their
sins of omission and commission.
Frankly, I'm fed with people, the people in
union when they work their fanneS off in their
politics and they fail their chair
election day I'm disgusted with complain of
high reactonary managements Taft Hartley re
ent Homer and then their grpes by failing vote
Zach November.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
Regional

By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B, UAW-ClO

One of the most important issues to come
before the CLOS national convention in Boston
this month is the question of whether the union
complies with the Interpretation of the Taft
Hartley law and agrees to sign affidavts of
noncommunist membership.
Another new angle has been injected into
this argument in this that the CIO is not
union but an association of unions each of
which is autonomous in its own organization.
The national CIO does not hold any contracts
with any industry does not conduct collective
bargaining or in any way carry out the func-
tions which are part of the regular activities
OF its affiliated Internatonals.
If this be the case, and it certainly appears
to carry a lot of weight, even NLRB Counsel
Robert Denham should be willing to concede
a trifle and amend his ruling to the point
where he would accept non-communst affida-
Wits from International unions should these in
dividual organizations decide to give them.
RETREAT
This does not affect what occurs at the CIO
Boston convention unless Denham should de-
eide to retreat from his position to the point
of making it possible for each international
union to make its own decision. The NLRB
counsel could not possibly suffer a loss of face
should he do this and it would make the issue
easier for the CIO convention to solve.
Nobody knows what will take place in Bos-
ton but it seems to me that we must sooner
or later find some way to use the NLRB along
the lines for which it was set up. Eventually,
we must cease marking time and move or else
find ourselves the victims of so-called indie
pendent unions which taking advantage of
their opportunity to gain membership.
If the time comes when membership in a
minority group spells permanent damage to
our union and its membership, it is my belief
that those who stand in the way should have
the decency to step aside.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
The Community Chest

Many employees in CI0 plants have
already been solicited by representatives
of the Greater Toledo Community Chest
in the annual fund drive TO maintain AZ
civic agencies which contribute TO the
health and welfare of thousands of To-
ledoans.
Some CIO members have already
given, some generously, and others spar
ingly, to one of our really worthwhile
civic undertakings. To those who have
given as generously as their means will
permit will go the thanks and gratitude of
those who will reap the benefits of the
freely given donation.
To those who have not yet given, or
who have perhaps given grudgingly, we
sincerely urge that they consider the
value of the services supported by the
Community Chest and remember that
they themselves may have occasion to call
upon one or more of the Chest agencies
in the year which lies ahead.
II is easy to say no or to give niggardly
to the Chest, but those who realize that
none Of us are sure that we, too, may not
need the facilities of the Chest agencies
will not stint in aiding and maintaining
the Community Chest as a great instru-
ment for community welfare.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03
zs7I1
II
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Cruelty To Ideas
BY Ruth Taylor

Have you ever been against
an idea just because you
didn't like the person who
promulgated 1t?
This heinous offense is
known as cruelty to ideas and
/ reckon there have been
times when you've been as
guilty of it as I have been.
For, as Don Marquis used to
say, an idea isn't responsible
for the people who believe in
1t.
Did you ever try watching
your own prejudices for one
day? / did once. / kept a list
OF every instructive bristling-
up, and it was pretty illumi-
mating. When / analyzed my
list, my opinion of myself
reached a new low!
Here are some of the things
/ found out:
Prejudice against ideas Is
too often prejudice against the
people who sponsor them. An
idea may be so good that even
a bad man will accept it
to say nothing of the people
who just want to climb on the
bandwagon. Make up your
mind for yourself-study the
situation, and draw your own
conclusions. What's the use
of being an adult if you can't
make your own decisions?
PREJUDICE?
Prejudice against indivi-
duals is too often a mirror re-
Election. You see in them
some manneriSm, some shad-
ing of expression, some tone
of voice, some characteristic
of someone whom you have
perhaps just cause to dislike
and you group the two to-
gether. You generalize-when
really your likes and dis
likes should be based only on
the individual himself.
Prejudice against groups is
too often either a hangover or
a misconception. Either II is
based on a careless statement
overheard in childhood and
accepted as a fact, or it may
be an alibi-often unrealized
by the holder-against some
one else'S ability. 1t is much
easier to say il is a group"
against you than to admit
personal shortcomings. The
first defense of the incom-
petent is to incriminate.
Prejudice against the un-
tried and the different is too
often defense mechanism.
We fear the unknown. We dis
like it because we don't want
to admit our own ignorance.
We don't like to feel inferior,
so we just say that what cant
come within our ken is no
good.
The best cure for all pre-
judice is knowledge-for the
cause of all prejudice is ig-
norance. We wouldn't ever
Intentionally be cruel-even
to ideas. SO let's get wise to
ourselves!
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-03

Republican Pres d ntial
Hopeful Thomas e. Dewey of
fered to give" Montana 50,-
900 of New York States Com
munistS, whereupon Gael Sui
livan, director of the Demo
cratic National Committee,
charged that "the Republicans
have joined the Communists
as the press agents for third
party in l948." We've got
news for Dewey; the strategy
won't work. It's practically
set that the Communists will
nominate Abbot and Costello
for their ticket in 1948.
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13

Continued from Page y
ing l94s The ls47 Officers have
been headed by the Rev. Robert
l. Brady Jr.. pastor of the
Greater King Solomon Baptist
Church.
This Is The most important
meeting Of the year" Brady
told the TRIBUNE. and every
member should turn oni 10
help choose the officers of the
association.
We arc q mighty and influ.
ential group, and our voice is
heard with respect by public
officials sut our influence is
directly proportional 10 the in
tereSt our own members take
in our affairs. There is no better
way 10 demonstrate our strength
than 10 have a good large turn.
out al the annual election meet
ing
DR.. James J. Mcclendon.
past president Of the associa-
iion. will preside al the meet
ing. Chief business will include
reports OF officers and com
mlftee chairmeH. and then the
election will be held.
The procedure is for the NOM
mating committee TO bring in a
suggested slate Of officers. fol-
lowed by the voting
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13
WALCOTT
LOSES

(Coniinued from Page II
Walcoit another shot al the
crown. this Summer on a 1920
basis. The rest of the take goes
to the promoter and 10 other
costs
The purse at Fridays fight
was split 4S-lS. II Is believed
that Waleoit may hold out for
bigger share of the purse.
because Of the good showing
he made. There is also the
possibility that Felix Bocehle-
chic. Camden promoter. who
owns exclusive rights 10 Wal
coti'S services. may force a
$3.50 split of the receipts.
The rematch which was APP
proved by the athletic commits
sion. Will probably take place
in June al Yankee Stadium II
IS expected TO draw two
million dollar gate
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13
ORDERS

Continued from Page u
Jars Each wear she mus; get
net alftola legs becsuse She
IS gtowrg The legs cost $3.50
fstt year
I have lost faith in every
hing" Moore told q TRIBUNE
reporter. You asked me If I
hsve been 10 the church for
help7 What good will that de7
The Rev. Roosevelt Lattimer
put me- out Of his house the
day before Thanksgiving. He
didn't want children in the
house.
While walking around look
lne and asking people the
whereabouts ~ shelter for m,
family met a man VIII,
brought me 10 my present dwell.
ing ! gave him Sl50 for show
ing me the place The landlord
wife was sorry for US and CAV,
us one room on the third floor
and one room on the f0urti
floor ] stay on the fourth floo
with the oldest boy Robert wh,
is 10 years old
The rest Of my family lives
on the third floor. We pay x7s
every two weeks for The rooms.
My wife cooks In the kitchen
which Is shared by everyone
on that floor. She does her
laundry in a little pail for The
baby and dries them on the
radiator.
4 wish there was some wa,
that can get : place fo m,
family TO sHy I'm ill and AZ IN
present cannot work Christina
season, We can't even thinl
about that because we don
know II We viii spend IL insidl
q house or oui In 'front.' Of one
This iS the worst OF four sucl
stories Investigated this week
n there IS something anyon,
can DO please contact the TRl
BUNE.
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13
|''ChronicIe"
Hit By ITU
| Walk Out

CHICAGO. - The Michigan
Chronicle was hard hit this week
by the spread Of the typographi.
cal union strike 10 the plant OF
the Chicago Defender. Plans were
said 20 be under way TO produce
the Defender and It's Detroit and
Louisville subsidiaries by photo
engraving typewriter copy.
The Defender plant was
struck on Saturday. The union
notified the management thai
il voted 10 increase its weekly
wage scale TO sloo or'daY- time
linofypers and Sl06 for night
side operators.
The management Responded ny
announcing it abrogated an ar
ranRement reached the week be-
fore and would pay the scale IN
effect before Nov. %,
All Chicago dailies, except the
Tribune. are now publishing with
out the use of linotype operators.
they have employed typlsts to
prepare the copy. which is then
photographed and reproduced by
the use of photoengraved plates
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13
ANN ARBOR-
LconiInued from Page v

CONTINUED from rage -
Guild points out that refusal
of barber service is clear vi.
olaiion Of the Diggs Civh
Riqhis law. which specifically
mentions barbershops.
Petitions are also being circu'
lated among students and towns
people. in an effort TO bring pub
lie opinion TO bear on the discrl-
minatine BARRIERS.
Business at the four pIcketed
shops was virtually at stand
still. the pickets reported. They
carried signs that said. Jim Crow
Must Co" "a Law Abiding Cit-
zen Obeys the Law. The Law
Saws. No Discrimination IN Bar
Der Shops. "Diggs Law. and
This Shop DiScliminateS.V
One OF the barber shop propri-
etors announced that the picket
ing had improved his business
The Detroit tribune., 1947-12-13
UNIT Week PROCLAIM alton
Opposed BY Committee

Governors aud mayors We're
urged last Sunday 10 refuse
American Legion requests tor
proclamatlons setting aside Jan.
6.l2. ls4S. as Universal Military
Training Week
In letters Go elected officials
in Northern cities and states.
Grapt REYNOLDS and A Philip
Randolph national chairman and
N easurel respectively OF the
Committee Against Jimcrow In
Military Service and Training
cited rccnt conference with
CHAIRMAN Walter G Andrews
~ the House Armed Service
Conlm.liec AndleNS was quot
al as stating TIE Va Depart
nent plans separate White an
Negro oataillons unccl Uni
Legislation and ! favor this pei
icv az limited segregation
II. r. 427s. the UNIT bill
which was hastily approved
by the House Armed Services
Committee. provides no pro
ieehon against racial sesress
iion aud discrimination. the
letters charged. The proposed
legislation is silent on equality
for Negro youth.
In conference on MondsN
Dec Ia the prc>cnN 3, 'Wo
negro veterans anc ine uadef.
,snea Chairman Watci q An
q eNs az 'he Hou,e Amcf SctN
zoos Congiitec co;eeo icalN ~
fused - cupcn 2ca.l-s Do
O. 1r 81 tfa e>t.roH io'n
Negro eaae 8nl Neg oils
VINO cNpc r1gr0 me hAn-l,'ioh