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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Mucl s ntilnent For
MY s At Hearing
I'm Dillon

Dillon. A remarkable showing of
sentiment in favor of the Missouri Val
| ley Authority was made at the meet
ing at Dillon, September q, which
opened Sen. James E. Murray's in
formal hearings on the MVA bill.
Two-thirds of the audience signed
slips on which they checked their at
titude on MVA Fifty-six of those
signing said they favored MVA, while
only six said they opposed it, and
four stated that they needed more in
formation before they could express
themselves.
There was some opposition ex-
pressed at the Dillon hearing but it
was almost altogether based ON mis-
information and answers were given
by Senator Murray and his aids which
knocked out these misconceptions.
These doubts were expressed by some
cattle and sheep grazers. They dealt
mostly with protection of water rights
and allowable areas for irrigation
After the critical views were expressed
it developed that the critics had looked
at an old form of the Murray MVA bill
(S.555) and had not seen the one now
pending in congress (S.1156) the lat
ter embodies a number of safeguards
that had developed out of past dis
cussions.
Typical of what occurred was the
action of Floyd Kenison, a rancher,
who appeared as spokesman for the
Dell Farm Bureau. He announced that
he had a number of questions that he
wanted answered, and it was quite ap-
parent that his attitude was doubtful,
if not hostile. However, Murray and
the senator's associates carefully an
swered his queries, one by one, and
he took a copy of the present bill
When the slips were counted after
wards it was found that Kenison had
signed as favOring MVA.
Actually, the views expressed at Dill
Ion were heavily in favor of MVA.
Among those present were a delega-
ton of II representatives of CLIO I'M
ions of employees of Anaconda Copper
Mining Co. There were six from the
miners union at Butte and five from
the smeltermen's union at Anaconda
Several of them spoke in support of
the Murray bill.
These included Dan T. McKittrick |
of Anaconda, president of the union |!
there, who told of the beneficial re-
suits of operation of the Tennessee
Valley Authority and related how the
same thing could be expected from |
MVA Others who spoke were: John |
Emmons, state representative, Ana !
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How Plush Bottomed Doctors Knife Public Health..

health program. Seemingly, these OPP
ponents hardly dared to attack the
sane and wise provisions of the bill
itself-the idea was to smear it with
words.
Here it might be mentioned that
S: 1920 1--WE have copy, like preced-
ing bills sponsored by progressive con-
gressmen, proposes setting up a ma
tional health program to be available
to all those who work, together with
their dependents, regardless of race,
color, creed, residence or economic
status. The plan envisages general
medical services, dental care, home
nursing, hospital service, and medical
research-all this to be administered
by state and local boards, under the
general supervision of a national board
and an advisory council, within the
orbit of the Federal Security Admin
istrator The plan is to be financed
by approximately three percent
tax on the wages Of those receiving
benefits under the plan. (The bill is
necessarily long and complicated, and
very carefully worked out in detaiD.
ANA Attempts To Brighten Public
If it were not so tragic, it would
be amusing to not how far the expen-
sive pamphlet of the Physicians COM
mittee goes in its attempts to brighten
the public about public health pro-
grams. The thing even quotes the
New York paper, PM, at considerable
Continued on Page Four)
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conda, financial secretary of his union,
who urged MVA as a guarantee of
steady employment for the region; and
Harry Baird, of the Butte miners, who
said: 1--WE think MVA would stop a
lot of bad things in our working con-
ditions because it would give oppOsi-
ton to ACM, which controls the state
now There are all kinds of minerals
in this state which never have been
touched for the reason you can't get
power at price you can afford. If we
could get power at the same price as
TWAS, untold amounts of ores would
be brought out.
Most of the witnesses told in one
way or another about what they called
the domination of Montana by Ana
conda Copper and the Montana Power
Company They all demanded MVA
as the only way to get enough electric
power in the state, at a price which
industries and farmers could afford,
to bring to life new sources of work
and products and give effective COM
petition to- ACM and the power COM
pany. H. Lowndes Maury, the we'll
known Butte attorney, talked about
1.-THE umbrella of corporate interests
over Montana" and said Montana was
not state but only a colony controlled
by eastern financiers. He told about
the discrimination against Montana in
freight rates and power rates, the lack
Of public information due to the COM
pany press, and the lack of public
benefit from Fort Peck dam. MVA,
he said, would give ACM some real
in phosphate fertilizers.
Difficulties in getting enough power
from Montana Power Co. for the Vigi- !
Continued ON Page Threei
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Evidence of Attempts to Foist on the
American People Compulsory Health
Insurance." And Unpublished by the
National Physicians Committee, IS
East Wacker Drive, Chicago, ILL.," On
one of the front pages is an extended
ouote from the words of Ernest E.
Irons. MD, Chicago, president, Amer
lean Medical Association.
"Ah, yes" we thought, wonder
why they've spent so much dough for
this lob" So we dipped into the thing.
There were 191 pages, all very instruc-
tive-instructiv in showing just how
far our more prosperous physicians
will go in their determined effort to
heat down any public health plan.
Attack is Against Any Public
Health Measure
This particular pamphlet attacks the
v-Wagner-Dingell bills, in gen
eral. and the fourth revision of this
hill in particular, as introduced on
November 10, 1915, following a special
message to congress by President Tru-
man, recommending adoption of a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03

heard from during these hearings
both opponents and proponents.
Among the more distinguished propon-
ents were Murray, Wagner, Pepper,
Reps Dingell, Fiorello LaGuardia, Har-
old Ickes, Geo. Adde's of the Auto
Workers, James G. Carey of the CLIO,
and many others. Opponents included
R. L. Sensenich, MD, chairman board
of trustees, ANA, Edward H. Cary,
MD, Chairman board of trustees Ma
tional Physicians committee, Rt. Rev.
Monsignor John O'Grady, secretary,
National Conference of Catholic Char
tiles, Geo. Baehr, MD, president New
York Academy of Medicine, and many
other physicians.
Opposition In Absence OF Logic,
Relied On Smears
The attacks against the bill by these
are all of a piece; consist
ing of the use of smear words, such
as Specialization" bureaucratic con-s
trl of the medical profession" "polit-
ical Recommendation promotion of for
eign idealology," and so on, at great
length, together with feeble attempts
to promote the idea that there is no
necessity for public health programs;
that the American people must be pro-
tected in their God-given right to be
sick and without medical attention;
that control of sickness, in any event.
is and must be the sacred prerogative
of the private physician; that the peo-
pie themselves do not want public
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National Health program. SO the
pamphlet is a little out of date, be-
cause there is now later senate
bill, S. 1920, described as the National
Health Insurance and Public Health
Act of 1947, introduced last spring by
Senators Murray, Wagner, Pepper,
Chavez and Taylor. However, S. 1920
is Just the latest revision of earlier
bills co-sponsored and theoretically
pushed by the progressive senator
from Montana. Senator Murray, and
his progressive colleagues, so the par
ticular revision under attack is not
important-the attack is, of course,
against ANY measure proposing pub
lie health program.
Following long diatribes against the
Murray sponsored bill, the. pamphlet
gives extended quotes from the hear
ings on the bill held before the senate
committee on education and labor,
chaired by Senator Murray himself,
beginning in February, 1916. 1t ap-
pears that host of witnesses were
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Lewistown Meeting

For the finest, most complete re-
portorial job done by any Montana
daily on the MVA proposition, honors
must be extended to the Lewistown
DemOcrat-News which on Tuesday
gave top billing and almost three col
umns of space to covering the hear
ing in LewistOwn. The Democrat
News story, in part, follows:
LewistOwn.-Th welfare of Mon
tana and the west is tied with the
proposed Missouri Valley Authority,
according to II witnesses who spoke
Monday at the hearing here on the
subject conducted by Sen. James E.
Murray, sponsor of the MVA bill.
Criticize Corporations
Charges were hurled against the
Montana Power company, and the Ana
cOnda Copper company and its string
of newspapers through the state, by
veral of the witnesses.
Eddie Williams, manager of the
REA Cooperative, was hardest on
the power companies.
"Private utilities don't want to see
an MVA," he said, because they
are getting power from the govern
ment for practically nothing and
selling it at a good profit to their
consumers. Many utilities keep
electricity a scarcity to justify their
high rates. call this bleeding for
all the traffic will bear"
William added, 81 do know today
that the Montana Power company is
short of power here" and predicted
that an MVA would correct many of
the abuses"
He told the listeners that the Mon
tana Power company was operating
under the laws of New Jersey, and is
a foreign corporation.
AcM Attacked
The cooperative manager also at
tackled the Anaconda Copper company,
stating it Seems to have its fingers
on the phosphate business in Montana. |
Turning this fertilizer out as a by
product, it gives us poor grade. With |
cheap power, a much better grade |
could be manufactured by others.
GAS I see the pictures" Williams |
concluded, "if the people of Montana |
can't get an MVA they are going to (
demand a change in state laws that |
will take over the Montana Power
Shipman On MVA
Richard Shipman, president of the |
MVA Association, attacked the Pick
Sloan plan, and added:
1.-THE almost haIf-century history
of efforts to harness the Missouri is !
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centralized control in Oklaho-
m, and as to whether forced
consolidation has affected edu-
cation favorably, or Adversely.
A letter of inquiry has been adj
dressed to Rev. Charles R. Murray,
now located at Edmond, Oklahoma.
Rev. Murray will be remembered by
Montanans as former educator and
pastor of Billings, Montana, and a
man who, earlier, had wide experience
as missionary under the American
Board in Iran. In his reply, Rev. Muir
ray leaves it to the school men of
Oklahoma to state the effects of in
tensified over-crowding of classes I'M
der forced consolidation, and confines
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Mortsana Schools Can LearnLesso From
Oh homa Reorganization Experiment

By DANIEL S. McCORKLE, Conrad, Mont.
Compulsory school reorganization has become effective
Oklahoma and the schools of that state being operated
legislation almost identical with that proposed Mon
Bill No. 1874 Great Importance
question whether Montanas lawmakers right
refused pass the controversial bill last winter
find the about setting
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the history of faiIure-the policy of
the private utility corporations, to
the Anaconda Copper company, and
the people be damned"
eve here in Montana are and al
ways have been little more than a
colonial dependency of an eastern alb
sentee ownership" the Brooks rancher
insisted, adding that cit is the willful,
deliberate and carefully planned con-
spiracy of the corporations to keep
all Montana business, Industrial, min
ing and power development within its
own tight grip and thereby preventing
new business, new industry, indepen-
IDENTIFY owned new mining, oil and
power developments from taking
place"
Less Conflict
Earl Weiser, LeWistoWn grocer,
though president of the LeWistoWn
chapter of the Associated Industries
of Montana and director of the
Chamber of Commerce, explained
that he was speaking only for him
self when he argued for the MVA.
applied here, it would encourage
industries, conserve timber and soil
resources, and improve living" Weiser
said "It would avoid present inter
agency conflicts, and keep the Mis-
souri, development out of politics.
There are also too many conflicting
interests now between states
Weiser felt an MVA program would
help level out depressions, and con-
Guided Though l am deeply inter
ested in the development of Lewis
town and Montana, l believe we must
submerge our own interests for the
common good of the entire BASIN
Herbert H. Haight, Suffolk stock
man and Fergus county Demo
cratic senator in the legislature, spoke
in favor of the MVA.
81 would like to see more electricity
on our farms Haight said, "and pri-
vate capital has not seen fit to pro-
vide it. There may be some develop
ment under the Pick-Sloan plan, but
[ think there would be much more
under an MYA."
Haight said that many of the pa
pers of Montana did not give the
MVA side of the story, which caused
Senator Murray to remark that the
Lewistown paper had been fair to
him, giving both sides of the story.
81 won't enter into that discus
son," Haight replied, but if the
Lewistown paper can really be run
as non-partisan one, he (the pub
Iisher) is doing hell Of big job
Hungry Horse
James McKenna, Lewistown attor-
ley, told Senator Murray that he !
could not understand why there is OPP |
position to the MVA. Adding that the
argest papers of the state were most
v controlled by the opposition to the
ill, he said he could not understand
Why the power company was opposed |
o the MVA.
Continued from Page Three)
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Slush Fund of 100000 Already Spent By
Medical Fraternity To Beat Murray Bill
Bv WILLIAM MASON, IMM&

MASON INM&SW Board Member and HAL BRIGGS
attention of
We "sck
letters "Conpuon The Key To colecvsn
hand he hand
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Also noticeable at both meetings
was the trend of many who had
formerly been opposed to an MVA, to
go away from the hearings supporting
the proposal, following the clearing up
of much misinformation and distortion
of what a Missouri Valley Authority
would actually embody
Mote: For a comprehensive report
on the Dillon meeting see column 81
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-10-03
Need For More Information
Shown al MVA Hearings

Reports from Dillon conducted
those cities last
Murray Indicate
Missouri
its establishment % community to
Evening star., 1947-12-17
Cost Figures
Cited by Clio 10 Show
Need for Higher Pay

The CIo has interpreted the lat
est Government figures on the cost
Of maintaining q modest" budget
as proving that higher wages are an
economic must"
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
yesterday presented . congressional
committee with a study showing that
family of four in Washington as OF
last June needed $3,458 = year to
pay the bills. From 2 to 4 per cent
should be added to meet the in
creased cost of living since that
time, the bureau said.
Emil Rieve, administrative chair
man Of the CIO Full Employment
Committee, said the statistics fur
nished proof that not only higher
wages but better social security
benefits and full employment guar
antees" are needed.
Budget Called Toe Low.
Thus it itAppeared likely today that
the survey, most extensive of Its
kind ever made in the United States,
would be an arguing point for 4 long
time to come In labor-management
relat tions. The CIO already has
come out for . third round" OF wage
increases.
Mr.. Rieve said his group thinks
the budget too low, declaring 1t al.
lows nothing for savings or insur-
ance which would provide cash bere-
fits during an illness. He added:
The food budget, which is set At
40 4 week, actually allows only "A
cents q meal for each of the four
members of the family. The diet
would be modest, to say the least,
with only six loaves of bread week,
nine pounds of meat and II quarts
Of milk.
The present gross average earn
ings in manufacturing industries are
only $1.25 an hour. But to achieve
this BIS family budget, the father
would have to earn from $l.55 to
Sits an hour for 30 weeks Of 40
hours each to achieve this budget at
current high prices.
Up ! Or Z Pet. Since June.
It is obvious that millions OF
family heads earn q lot less than
this-a lot less than even the aver
age gross hourly wages. A large
number of workers do not work
every week, due to layoffs, shortages
or illnesses"
The bureaus figures put the cost
Of living last June at 33,458 COM
pared to $2,s85 for March, 1916.
Evan Clague, commissioner OF
labor statistics, told reporters that
about 2 to 4 per cent would have to
be added to bring the figure up to
date from last June. He later told
q congressional committee the ad-
ditional tigure probably should be
about 4 per cent, however. A 3 per
cent increase would make the total
$3,561.74 and 4 per cent more would
make it $3,596.32. The Star yester-
day gave the first figure incorrectly
as $3,661.74.
Evening star., 1947-12-17
900 Children Give Up
Condy to French Town
~ the Assoejoted Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Christmas
candy donated by 900 children of
Locust Valley, Long Island, was
to leave La Guardia Field
today by Pan American Always
clipper for London on the first stage
Of its journey for delivery to the
French village Of st. Mere Eglise.
The Normandy town, one of the
first to be liberated by Allied forces,
has been adopted by Locust Valley
under Its new community project
known as Operation Democracy"
The candy. traditionally given to
the school children by Locust Valley
residents, was sent instead overseas
at the request Of the Locust Valley
children.
Evening star., 1947-12-17

about 500 children viii be Ut the,
party.
A total of 32e new men was taken
care of at the mission during Octo-
ber and November, Mr.. EberhardtI
reported. He also noted that during
that period lodgings were provided
for 2,804 men, 6,57l meals were
served and 2s7 garments were given
out.
Evening star., 1947-12-17
Mission Spurs $500 Drive
To Get Shoes for Children

A $500 fund drvie to provide shoes
for an estimated 100 children who
will be in the Emergency Home OF
the Central Union Mission during
the year is now under way, accord
ing to the Rev. Herbert e. Eberhardt,
superintendent Of the mission.
1t also was announced that the
annual Christmas party for children,
to be held starting 2 pm. Saturday
at the mission, will be televised by
Station WMAL-TV. It is expected
Evening star., 1947-01-19
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