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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-22
Let's Clear It Up Governor

In speech Miles City, Governor Ford il
reported to have made the statement that having
evidence of legal graft the states Igor department should
the attorney general And he made according
the report definite statement that e liquor department
has been carried out without any graft.
Assuming for the sake of argument that the
criticism this department his administration
Moreover when he makes the that h liquor
parmen has without graft he
limiting his assertion only the taking money by the
personnel for the granting of ordinary privileges
certain individuals organizations
liquor transactions privileges certainly contemplated
the original liquor control legislative act Certainly it is
reasonable suspect that these individuals organizations
made return for the favo granted them by the liquor
control board.
refer to the known fact that an organization said
be largely of Helena men-gamblers, liquor deal
and bankers-operated less competition
whoesaing liquor liquor board of
the state For time the basement of of the Helena
banks provided the storage for the liquor purchased by
this organization from the dsters with the apparent
ment of the liquor control board denied that this
ganzation governor
on weak limb when he iners that the LIQUOR control board
has followed the law meticuousy administration of
the state law during his administrations that definitely
intended that the state should conduct the sale of liquor as
monopoly responsibility being carried
such has been and his during his administration
something that
how clever he may be.
The governor remember the effective in
srument he had in campaign for the governorsp the first
time in 1910 the report of the committee which had made
effective investigation of the evidence of graft in the liquor
sep in the Legislative session of 1899 Had this committee
had funds and time would have undoubtedly been able
to Outstanding" citizens the Deer Lodge
AS it the committee did discover and disclosed in its
such damnng facts that the people of the state
manded change in the state administration and Ford
elected
When he claims that there graft the state
liquor seup during his administration which he in his plat
form in 1910 said would be basis
drive rackeeer there will be at least two questions that
the people of the state will want answered They
L. How did the organization previously referred per-
mission operate liquor wholesale established competition
with what was intended state monopoly by the legislation
passed?
2. Who responsible for the tremendous volume
chases at high prices of Mexican Tequila how
loss was taken by the liquor control board in its sale
appreciabe quantity of it sold dumped?
Perhaps will call this just capous criticism Governor
but if actually have any embance of the high moral
standards which profess hold will know that there
nothing that neds house cleaning least thorough
going over than the which the state liquor
opoly has been conducted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-22

happened IN Helena last week
when Tom Clark spoke in
the Civic Center.
Republicans may silently
chuckle and say, well, look
who was talking, and then
point gloatingly to the crowd
of almost 1000 that heard
Tom Dewey on the beautiful
afternoon of September 20.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-22

Political apathy would seem to me to be
at new high when even the Attorney Gen
eral of the United States fails to draw
crowd of over $50 people. Yet, that is what
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-10-22

attendance. This may have been the gracious
act on the part of the other members of the
state senate. However, he was paid mileage
for 484 miles which he never travelled as
state senator amounting to $685. And
there is no record Of his ever having paid
that back to the state of Montana.
Do you call that honesty on the part of a
public official? | don til. S. BRUCE
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

crossed $1S5,0O0, working a 40
hour week on four Chicago sta
tions.
About 400, 900 juke boxes are in
operation in the US today, and
their annual "take", in nickels, ran
over $230,000,000 in 1916, all on
the basis Of the work Of musicians
making records presumably design
ed for home monographs. Juke
boxes have made fortunes for re
cord companies as well as for Their
owners.
Startling indeed are Diamonds
figures on the employment Of musl-
clans by record corporations. RCA
in the first half of 1945, for ex-
ample, hired total Of only 1890
olive" musicians, and their aver
age weekly wage was about $27
By 1916 that picture was ever
worse. Decca employed 1862, ex-
cluding leaders, and paid them an
average weekly wage Of $S.S5. And
it is only the better bands, as
rule, which record.
New developments, such as cleo
trical transcription, which carries
whole radio shows, and wired music
services, have similarly displaced
musicians.
Despite the opinion Of the Fed
eral Communication Commission
"that the listeners interest is en-
HANGED by the knowledge that the
artist is performing simultaneously
with the reception in his home" no
governmental action to protect the
musical profession has been forth
coming. Less than 20fo of radio
time in 1915 went to local musical
performances. One radio station
which told FEC in 1898 when ap-
plying for it's license that 64.5Ge OF
its time would be devoted to "live"
shows, by 1914 was actually carry
ing such programs during less
than 1870 of the time.
In 1915 radio stations gave jobs
to 2875 statesmen, but only 22OO
full-time musicians. They spent
$50 of their income on musicians,
despite huge returns on their CAPT
tai investments. Most bands which
broadcast from hotels and casinos
receive not a cent from the broad
casters.
Contrasting the displacement OF
the musician with that of other
craftsmen, Diamond remarks: "The
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

New York (LPA)-While Presi-
dent James G. Petrillo of the AM
erican Federation of Musicians
AFL was busily engaged last week
in working out pay scales for un-
ion musicians who will be playing
on television programs, the unions
general counsel, Milton Diamond,
published the most thorough de-
fense of the oft-attacked Petrillo
policies that has appeared in a
long while. 1t is the lead article in
the current issue of international
Musician, AIMS magazine.
Petrillo and his fellow leaders
of the Musicians Union are not
modern King Canutes trying to
hold back the tides of chronological
progress, Diamond writes. "But
musicians are also aware-more
keenly than the casual observer
that these wondrous accomplish
ments have implicit in them the
seed of destruction of musician
ship. The phonograph record press
can reproduce a single musical
performance until infinity."
Unregulated expansion of facili-
ties for transmitting music "have
the actual and potential effect of
eliminating the very performers
on whom they rely" Diamond
points out. If the public realized
that the union seeks to preserve
the profession, and to bring "live"
concerts into small towns as well
as cities, it may recover from the
repeated doses of employer inspir-
ed publicity which have made Pet
rillo's name a nasty word in many
homes, the AIM counsel asserts.
Diamond cites the fact that be-
fore the introduction of "talkies'
there were $4,000 musicians en-
ployed in motion picture theaters
in the US. Almost Immediately
after the introduction of sound
films that figure declined by $4,000.
Only few of the displaced receiv-
ed jobs in Hollywood, and hardly
any got full-time employment as
instrumentalists.
The radio station "disc jockey"
has replaced many a man who
learned his art over many years OF
hard and expensive schooling. The
unions lawyer reveals that some
stations earn 40 to 1870 of their
income from jockey shows, and
that one disc tosser last year
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
Alabama Court Says
UniOnistS Can't
Go On Picket Line

Montgomery, Ala. (LPA).-The
Intl Brotherhood Of Teamsters is
expected to appeal an anti-picket-
ing decision handed down last week
by the state supreme court. The
court approved granting of an in
junction against picketing asked by
the Alabama Carriage Co., whose
employees are on strike.
The supreme court decision held
that members of a union which
has a no-strike clause in its con-
tract with an employer cannot pic
ket even as individuals, since the
right to picket is "private, indi-
vidual right which may be waived
and was waived by the individuals
constituting the union by entering
into the contract"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
THE CHERRY TREE

Recalcitrant children can be
spanked and put to bed, sometimes
without supper.
But you can't do that to adults
who are on the rampage. No, you
have to shoot them down, when af-
fairs are on big scale, put them
in jail when things are on a small
er scale.
The harmless spanking for chill
dren grows into mass homicide for
adults.
If there were psychiatrists en-
ough, perhaps all the crazy people
could be set straight and we could
get out of our worldwide mess.
But there aren't enough. And any
way, how would you force Joe
Stain to take psychiatric treat
ment?
1t isn't in the cards.
And there are some others, here
in the United States, who might
be righted by such treatment, but
how could you get them to sub
NIT :?
Now, it looks as if the world
must go on its destination in its
crazy way.
What the destination is to be
nobody knows and probably no one
can make even a half way intel
ligent guess.
Well, let's get back to Henry
Wallace. Henry is, in many ways,
very wise man. He has made a
success in business, which means
he has a certain acumen. 1t doesn't
prove too much, but it indicates
at least a brain that isn't fuddled
all the time.
How did he get the way he is
politically? That's a tough one.
Maybe it's an indication of frus-
tration. He didn't get to be vice
president a second time and so he
didn't get to be president.
That's pretty fine for the rest
of US, but maybe it got Henry's
thinking all warped. Such things
happen all the time.
But what all the mess means to
most of US is that most Americans
have got to do some mighty
straight thinking, if this nation is
to survive and grow into place
that gets constantly better as a
place to live and as the home of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
Employment Firm
During February

Washington, ID. C. QLNS)-The
employment situation continued
fundamentally steady in February
and early March, despite a sharp
rise in unemployment and part
time work, Evan Clague, Commits
sion of the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics, said here. Unfavorable
weather and shortage of industrial
fuel curtailed operations and fore
ed lay-offfs in some important
fields, but at the same time other
lines were able to expand activity
in preparation for the Easter sea-
son, he added.
"No significant signs of weak
ness or of any wavering of employ
ment reports" Claque said. while
there were some indications of in
creased caution by businessmen in
making commitments, much of this
appeared to be favorable for the
long rum"
With outdoor activity and some
of the heavy goods industries for
ced to mark time during February
the number of persons actually at
work and the number Of man-hours
put in on the job fell sharply, the
BIS head reported.
"Construction and the automo-
bile industry" he continued "were
the hardest hit. Construction en-
ployment, however, was above Feb
ruary a year ago and exceeded
considerably the February levels
in the years just before the war
Similarly, automobile employment
remained close to the record level
of a million jobs. The pre-Easter
expansion in the textile and ap-
parel industries brought employ
ment in those fields to a new all
time high"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
The Case For The Musicians

wood engraver is not needed be-
cause we have found a better way
to print pictures and to meet the
public desire for rhetorical news.
But who has devised any alterna-
tive means Of performing music
except the personal artistry Of the
musician 2" chronological displace-
mcnt can result in the drying up
of music teaching in all but the
few centers in which the industry
Us becoming centralized - New
York, Chicago and Los Angeles
"The profession will contract To
the point Of vanishing"
To meet this threat the AIM
created thru its contracts with re-
cord companies, its Employment
Fund. The fund was used solely to
promote musical culture thru the
employment Of live musicians" In
1947 alone, 10,347 performances
were financed by it-in hospitals,
teen-age dances, military recruit
ing drives, parades, public schools,
park concerts. Concert orchestras,
martial bands, dance bands all
sorts Of musical organizations were
utilized. Only after a bitter fight
with the recording companies was
this fund established. 1t was dur
ing this struggle that the anti
Petrillo publicity campaign reach
ed its heights.
The Lea Act, passed by Congress
to prevent the union from protect
ing its members jobs in radio, and
the Taft-Hartley act, which term
mated the Employment Fund at
the end Of the 1947 contracts, are
the only interventions Of govern
ment in the musical industry.
Meanwhile, the high cost of living
has hit existing musical organiza-
tions, displacing still more artists.
There is indeed a need for legis-
.lation, Diamond concludes, "but not
for laws fostered by those who
would erect fortress against the
musicians legitimate claim to sur
vival. Rather the need is for laws
that would create the tools by
which unauthorized use Of the
musicians efforts might be, con-
trolled; laws which would permit
the continuation of the principle
embodied in the Employment Fund
contracts; laws which would make
of the machine the servant, not the
master of musicians"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
Rent Rules Shaped
AS Landlords Plan
To Control Set-Up

Washington (LPA) - For the
first time, tenants can actually
check on whether or not their area
rent control boards are represent
ative" as required by law. While
the fight over whether present rent
control staff would be retained de-
spite landlord lobby pressure, and
whether Acting Housing Expediter
Tighe Woods would draw up a
water-tight definition of "adequ-
ate and substantial evidence" he
will require before allowing rent
boosts, this much was clear.
A Representative" board will
be made up Of one landlord spokes-
man, one tenant spokesman, and
three 'public interest" representa-
tives, or members in these proper
tions, Woods has ruled. Woods has
started survey Of all boards to
see if they meet requirements; if
they don't, he'll notify the govern
or, who is expected to make ad-
justments; if the governor doesn't
act in 80 days, Woods will make
such appointments.
"The tenant representative" the
rent control head has ruled, ms
person who can present effectively
the viewpoints, problems and needs
Of tenants. Generally, such per-
son will be the leader Of a tenant
or consumer organization or other
organization concerned with ten
ants problems in the area. 1t may
be that in certain localities no
active tenant or consumer organ
ization will be in existence. In such
a case the tenant representative
should be a person who had identi-
fed himself as being interested in
tenants problems.
"The public interest representa-
tive are persons who represent the
viewpoints Of the public at large.
In this group are to be found in
dividuals such as leaders Of veter-
ans organizations who are con-
cerned with housing problems Of
returned GI's, industrial or bus
mess leaders, professional men,
newspaper publishers or editors,
educators, public officials, leaders
of organized labor, and leaders Of
wQmen's groups and civic organ
izations. Persons who qualify as
landlord representatives or tenant
as well as persons
or indirectly connected
with real estate operations or ten
ants groups cannot qualify as
public interest members"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
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Wonderful world, Isn't it?

Wonderful world! Isn't it?
You can answer that question
any way you want to answer 1t.
The air is full of rumors-rumors
of war, rumors of bluffing-rum-
ors.
Believe what you like.
However, one thing seems fair
ly sure. Henry Wallace has a lot
of communist support. What a
strange duck he is!
A few years ago Henry had a
lot of liberal support, or progress
sive support, or call it any other
name you like.
Now Henry's supporters are, by
and large, found way, far over to
the left, starting where the pink
begins and ending where the red
gets very deep-and sinister.
How on earth can any Ameri-
can afford to monkey around with
the commies in these parlous
times? Now, there's the $64 ques-
ton. Henry doesn't seem to ans
wer very clearly.
What a change has come over
America since Steve Brodie jump
ed off the Brooklyn bridge!
Or, to push the picture up a
bit tighter, since the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
Here we are with Henry Wallace
on our hands-and also with John
l.. Lewis on our hands-and we
scarcely know what to do with eth
er of them.
What a world!
There are days when it seems as
if the whole world had gone crazy
and maybe it has
SO many things are muddled and
all mixed up. There's Palestine and
there's Iran and there's China.
And, lowering like a menacing
shadow over all, is Russia. Not
the Russian people but, as in the
ages far back, a ruling clique push
ing around the Russian masses mil
lions of whom are just too darned
dumb to even suspect what it is
all about.
We are in devil Of mess, a
stew, conglomerate of fears and
greeds and unholy ambitions-and
with a divided labor movement
here in our own house.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
NLRB Backlog
Still Growing

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
has been breaking records ever
since the Taft-Hartley law was
passed, but unfortunately for or
ganized labor the record is for ac-
cumulated, undisposed cases. When
February ended, the board reveal
ed last week, there were 946S
cases pending disposition at var
ious points in the boards machin-
cry. At the end of January, 1897
were on hand.
February saw 1923 petitions fill
ed with the board, 51a6 more than
in January, which itself was re-
cord month. Over 1870 of these new
cases called for board-conducted
elections-3564 union shop polls,
629 petitions for collective bar
gaining agent ballots, and "a re-
quests for decertiication elections.
Of 301 charges of unfair labor
practices, 232 were brought against
employers, 90 against.
Union shop authorizations polls
conducted in February added to
the evidence that organized work
ers intend to stick to their unions.
OF valid votes cast in 1473 cleo
tions, $50 were for the union shop,
resulting in union victories in 1890
Of the elections. Over 10000 work
ers participated in collective bar
gaining agent elections, and 74as
Of those recording valid ballots
voted for a labor union.
The board issued eight formal
complaints during February-six
against employers, two against
unions. The top fve-man NLRB
acted on 429 cases in February, Ia
more than it covered in January,
the first month under its new
three-man panel hearing system.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

Chart from AFL publication abos Monthly Survey Source OF
the fguers is the U. s. Dept of Commerce
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08
Guild Head And
Russians Clash
Over Free Press

y Geneva, Switzerland (LPA) -
Z Charges that the Russian press is
government-contr were made
last week by Harry Martin presi-
dent of the American Newspaper
Guild. Martin, who is a delegate
to the UN Conference of Freedom
of Information, read to the commit
tee on the reception and publication
of news, the Soviet law which
places full control over all news
papers, periodicals, photographs
radio broadcasts, lectures, exhibi-
tions and films in the hands of
the Peoples Commissariat of Ed
ucation.
In answer to the attack, Soviet
Representative Jacob Lomakir
charged the American press with
attempting to spread "pornagraph-
ic literature and pin-up girls"
abroad. Earlier in the week, Lom-
akin had charged that the United
States press is under "secret cen
sorship." Martin referred to this
attack as irresponsible and er-
roneous."
The ANG head is leading a cam
paign to remove Czech Communist
Georg Hronek from his job as sec
retary general of the Int'l Organi-
zation of Journalists and remove
IOJ headquarters from Prague. He
has accused Hronek of participat-
ing in the Communists purge OF
Czech journalists.
The UN conference adopted over
! Soviet opposition Philippine re-
solution urging governments to
encourage the freest possible
movement of foreign correspon-
dents in the performance of theil
functions"
Meanwhile in New York, the
Newspaper Guild announced that
the Russians, who have opposed
the CARE program int heir satellites
in Europe, are now apparently
fighting the ANG campaign to pro
vide food for European journalists
1t was reported that the German
news agency, DENA got a slap
ping around because CARE food
parcels had been shipped to DENA
employees by the ANG.
The Guilds CARE program
which has been carried on by The
Guild Reporter, has sent 300 food
parcels to Europe, to be admins
tered on the basis of need and
not on political considerations
"The idea," said the Reporter, "was
to provide food for as many hungry
journalists as possible.
Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-08

What is estimated to be the
worlds largest rose bush is 10
Gated at Tombstone, Ariz. A
white Banksia about 80 years old,
it has grown from one trunk over
40 inches in diameter and has an
estimated 10000 blooms cover it
in May.
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aid The Rich"
Tax Bill Law Over
Presidents Veto

Washington (LPA) - By well
over the required two-thrids ma
jority, the S0th Congress last week
overrode President Truman's veto
of the $4.8 billion income tax cut.
The Senate vote was n to TO-
while the House balloted 81 to SO
against the President, against the
testimony of organized labor,
against anticipated increased de-
fense requirements.
Truman's inability to hold his
own party's representatives in Con-
gress to his program was clear
from the votes in both Houses. In
the House of Representatives 81
Democrats voted to override, only
"a to sustain their party's nominal
leader. Democratic Senators, south
erners predominating, rebuffed
Truman 27 to 10.
In his veto message the Presi-
dent had said the bill would "un-
dermine the soundness Of our gov
ernment finances at a time when
world peace depends on the
strength of the U. S." He added
that it will encourage initiation
and bring greater hardship, not re-
lief to our people,"
The bill lifts the armed income
exemption from $500 to 5000. But
while it reduces the income tax to
a $25OO Garner by $7S.40, it knocks
S2OO1.26 off the $4,000 mans
tax, and 69,535.96 off the mil
lionaire's bill.
Organized labor has opposed any
reduction in the tax rate on upper
bracket incomes and advocated
greater relief for poor families,
and sufficient revenues from excess
corporation profits taxes to com
pensate the treasury for the reduc-
ton it has urged in lower bracket
income taxes. None Of these pro-
posals received serious considera-
tion from the 80th Congress.
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WISDOM

Words are the most powerful
drug used by mankind.-Rudyard
Kipling.
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the free.
We've got to be on guard for
freedom, on guard against silly
conclusions and against actions
that can deliver us to defeat.
We've a big job ahead of us.
It's a live or die sort of job. Can
we do it?