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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
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servience of Montana to eastern
monopoly and urge immediate pas
sage of legislation creating both
Missouri Valley authority and a CO.
Iumbia Valley authority and elimi-
nation of discriminatory freight
rates."
The party favors Sustained yield
cutting practices in the national for
ests of this state, but insists that these
agreements be free from monopoly
and in the interests of small oper-
ators" The proposed agreement be-
tween the U. S. forest service and
the j. Neils Lumber Co. of Libby for
certain cutting rights in Lincoln
county were opposed.
Delegates voted disapproval of a
sales tax, parking meters and "sim-
liar nuisance taxes"
Note: A more complete report on
the Progressive platform will be car
ried in subsequent issue of The
Voice.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
CONSUM Err CO-OPS
ONLY ANSWER :.

The answers might be summed up
as follows ~ the experts are fearful
that monopoly has secured an I'M
breakable grip on America; as a rule
the experts still believe in the efficacy
of antitrust laws and government
police, but their faith is not nearly
as strong as it was ten years ago.
They propose that the antitrust laws
must be strengthened and that in
some manner the consumers of the
country must be aroused to save the
country from despotism. There is far
more interest now in the statement
that consumer co-operatives are the
only effective answer to the monopoly
menace
The factual statements are as fol
lows:
l. About $500 independent manu-
featuring and mining corporations
that is a minimum estimate - were
swallowed by monopoly from 1910 to
1947 From 1919 to 1929, almost 1000
similar independent" corporations
disappeared, and in the years up to
1947, it is estimated that 1880 such
corporations went into monopoly's
nav 1915
2. During the last three months OF
1947, the merger movement was at
greater rate than in any comparable
three months of any year since 1881,
with the exception of one year, l945.
ANOTHER so SWALLOWED
3. The independent corporations
swallowed during the war had capital
assets equal to more than per cent
Of all such assets held by all manu-
featuring corporations.
4. In at least one third of all manu-
featured products, four companies
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
THE SPIRIT OF LAWLESS
IGNORANCE
BY LOWNDES MAURY

! The West has been kept in colonial
status by the northeastern capitalists
by unfair freight rates, chain banking,
press propaganda, etc. by the same
forces which have arrayed poor whites
against negro workers-have kept the
South in actual bondage.
Some visitors in my house last week,
who live in South Carolina, informed
me that in their county there were
10000 people; that the only hospital
of any kind in the county was a little
cottage in a doctors yard; that until
last year 1000 children went to school
in an old church, until the roof fell in
Industry manufacturing is kept
from the South by eastern bankers, in
all parts, except where the Tennessee
Valley Authority has built it up
The highest percentage of syphil-
itics in the induction for War II was
in the South. The victims among the
negro youth were only little bit
more numerous than among whites.
l was born and raised in Virginia
l love my southern people. But due to
economic bondage of SO years, many
of them are so fanatically ignorant
that when Henry Wallace was telling
them that it was better to spend four
billion dollars for industry, education,
medical aid, in the South then send
five billion to Chinese grafters, they
threw eggs at him.
The outburst was not so serious,
but the spirit of ignorant fanaticism
was the same that fired the shot at
Lincoln, that assassinated Garfield,
hat murdered Mckinley, that fired
he shot at Franklin Roosevelt but
struck and killed Mayor Cermak, who
vas in the car with Mr. Roosevelt.
| have heard few very few in
Montana, praise the "brave" conduct
II these southern hoodlums.
Senator Murray's medical aid bill
would compete with the doctors little
cottage hospital (among $4,000 peo-
)le). He too might be insulted if he
we're to speak in South Carolina.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10

Reprinted from Rural Electrified
ton magazine published by National
Rural Electric Cooperative Associa
tion.)
Washington.-Co Golfers magazine re
vived long subdued worry about the
domination of Americas press by spe
cial interest groups recently when it
executed what seemed to be com
plete reversal of policy regarding the
u. S. power situation after profit
utilities had exerted their pressure.
The magazines original stand was
taken February % when Golfers
published an article by A. G. Mezerik,
Our Lights Are Going Out" which
dramatically presented the critical
power shortage existent in many parts
of the. nation. This article was a di-
rect contradiction of the statements
made by profit power leaders that
there was no power shortage.
Utilities Heap Censure
Profit power spokesman immediate
ly registered violent objections and
Golfers began backing down from
what had seemed to be definite
stand. Letters condemning the article
and the author were printed in sub
sequent issue, while no letters of
praise or congratulations were pub !
lished although the latter were num-
erous.
Taking a step further, Golfers |
which reaches almost 100000 homes,
fired Andre Fontaine, the associate |
editor responsible for the publication
of the article, according to nationally |
known news sources. Both Time and |
Newsweek Immediately attributed the
firing to profit power pressure, Time
reporting that Golfers was simply
following the line of least resist !
ance.' Newsweek declared, "The I
power interests contended that the
story was slanted in favor of public
against private power, and damned
both the article and author in bitter
to Golfers"
New Article Lauds Utilities
This trend of events started con- ]
over the domination of a t
powerful magazine by special in
crest group which was heightened S
when the June Is issue of Golfers hit y
he newsstands. That issue carried
III article, Homemade Boom in
Dixie, which praised G. Hamilton {
Noses as savior of the south. Moses,
president of Arkansas Power and Y
light was exposed by Drew Pearson {
ust after the war as offering nylons, |
hen scarce and almost invaluable, to Y
wives of senators in an attempt to in
luence legislation s
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
GOLFERS MAGAZINE BOWS TO POWER
MONOPOLY, fires editor

The Golfers article mentioned
nothing of Moses fight against rural
electric systems in the past, or the
Irole that these systems have played
in the revitaIizing of the south. In
siders accepted it as an open attempt
to soothe the profit utility tempers
stirred by the previous article.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
MONOPOLY IN POSITION TO TAKE OVER
Little Businessmen Should
Do Some Sober Thinking
By JOHN CARSON,

BY JOHN CARSON, Coop News Service
Washington D. C.Monopoy-or 70 gigantic United
corporaonsnow has sufficient liquid
buy so cent of the socaed independent
corporations which have than a dollars
Monopoly has such large of liquid capital that
ment experts think the monopoly corporations will
depression and be strong enough during the depression to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
new YORK POSTS
l'APPEAL TO REASON"

AS the Progressive Party's success
in winning a place on the ballot of
the major states evoked ever harsher
diatribes on the editorial pages of the
nations press, editor and publisher
r. o. Thackrey of the New York Post
issued can Appeal to Reason. Lash
ing at the "dirty red" and ''fooP'
phrases flung at Wallace, Thackrey
wrote in the Post on August Is:
1--WE cannot afford these blind and
automatic attitudes; they destroy
reason and enthrone emotion at the
very time in the critical history of
our democracy when we can least af-
ford hysteria.
"They are an indication of the ex-
tent of the success of the current
effort to identify all progressive
thought, all criticism of our present
course, all demand for reforming our
legislative and administrative pol
icies, with Communism; and then to
damn all protest by presenting Com
munism as the only enemy of democ-
racy at home and abroad.
Indeed, in some society," the hys
terra has grown to such proportions
that the entire New Deal under
Franklin D. Roosevelt, every social
reform, and particularly Henry Wal
lace's advocacy of a program for eco
nomic abundance is regarded as
traitorous Communist plot to sell us
all down the river to Stain 4. >.
"WalIace is deeply devoted to po-
liticaI freedom, to a system of pri-
vate profit, to capitalism freed of
monopoly, to production for peace,
to an economically free world, and
to action through the United Ma
tons to bring it into life as sub
stitute for national economic and
military rivalries.
"He clearly disavowed belief in the
theory that the system of
private profit is self-defeating, while
to denounce those Commu-
mist party members who have de-
cldT6u Jn6lT lnIonLlOH OIL FOIluS lOi
him and supporting his candidacy
"He believes his program will
make Communism unpopuiar-but it
will also make fascism, militaristic
nationalism, and international private
impossible.
at is possible to oppose Mr.. Wal
lace's candidacy on sincere and reas-
oned grounds: believers in the theory
that the boom and bust cycle is in
and desirable can make a |
case; those who prefer sovereignty |
by military means at home
and abroad can find reason enough |
o deplore his program.
Thus far, however, the cutlery
Lgainst him has been confined to the
liant that he is a fool (Which his
amy business successes alone would
end to belize or a traitor-a charge
readily sustained against Lincoln or
roosevelt
at is time for us to emerge from
the stimulated red fog into the pure
air of reason"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10

. w ljiON eio liid1ii tlIOiC VI VIC
independent businesses" as
monopoly wants.
1t is a monopoly" entrench-
ed through high prices and
high profits and now with a very fat
purse which is revealed for the Co
operative News Service by govern
ment experts. The recent warning to
the United States Congress, sent by
the Federal Trade Commission, begins
to bite as the picture is revealed.
The commission warned that "our
country has only a short time to
choose between collectivism and bon
afide free enterprise" And for the
first time in its history, the commits
sion pointed a finger at the financial
and industrial monopolists and ac-
cused them of causing "collectivism"
in the United States.
ALL I'M ONE GULP 49,.
These monopoly giants" - the rs
corporations-have more than ten bill
lion dollars in liquid capital That is
more than twice the liquid capital
they had in 1889 The commission
points out that 80 per cent of Amer
lean manufacturing corporation with
assets of less than million dollars
and these usually are looked on as
the independent free enterprise"
businesses-could be bought with less
than ten billions of dollars The
monopoly NAV is big enough there
fore to swallow the Independents"
and in one gulp. The current assets |
of the monopoles are three times |
their current liabilities. They own |
government bonds which alone exceed |
in value all of their liabilities.
Most of the government experts are
not free to tell their stories and their |
fears because the men and women |
who have fought in the trenches |
against monopoly throughout the last
score and even more of years are not
permitted to speak for their agen-
cies" That rule is justified. But
these are the real experts" who have
learned their story in the hard way.
They will talk, when they talk as
citizens and when they are not
quoted.
The Cooperative News Service
asked them for general picture,
and their opinion about the menace
of monopoly" and what are we going
to do about it."
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10
Know Henry A. Wallace
GREAT DAYS OF THE
NEW DEAL

The generation of Americans who grew
up in the 10 years of the New Deal will
think of Henry Wallace in the midst of
the marching words of the Roosevelt era
Bank Holiday The Little Pigs
Dust Bowl +. Triple-A Plowed Under
Sit-down Strikes Free School
Lunches Supreme Court Packing
. Boondoggle Ever-Normal Gran
airy Food Stamp Plan +. Landon
Sunflowers Brain Trusters The
Blue Eagle-the words that meant FDR
was pulling us through and the hurtwords
of the Economic Royalists. Henry Wal
lace was in the thick of the scrap with
his forelock bristling.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-09-10

SEPT. II LAST DAY TO REGISTER
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
Employers Urged To Give Handicapped
Persons A Chance At Cainful Work

There are today in the Roanoke Rapids some
81 people who looking for jobs because they want
to 90 to work and become useful citizens.
Of course, 81 workers out job are nothing
to consider insofar employment problem is con-
cerned however these potential employees are slight
ly different from the average In that these 81 nave
some physical handicap or othr.
Employers whole want to hire people VINO
are 100 per cent physically fit because in their own
minds they regard people who have bad eyes or Who
are hard of hearing who are missing limo as
incapable of doing job we'll.
Unfortunately that prevailing attitude is likely
to be mistake because it puts two strikes on the
worker and loses good workers for employers who
need them All these people have been certified as
"employabe' by the North Carolina State Employ
men Service and such they certainly deserve the
chance to show what they can do.
This week has been set aside by proclamation as
National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week
in effort to bring to the attention of the public
in general and the employers in particular the abl-
tiles of these workers.
Actual figures prove that the handicapped work
err is the safest worker in any job because he has
learned to be careful. 1t stands to that man
who has lost leg many of them war casualties, and
has job seated at machine will be a lot more
careful to to it that he retains both his hands
than worker who has never had to undergo the
pain and anxiety that accompanies a lost limb.
1t is also reasonable to assume that worker
job, if not better one, detailed work where his
sense of touch in manipulating unseen parts is the
all-important factor
The people for whom employment is being sought
in this Immediate area are workers; they want to
continue being workers and not public charges Most
of them have made their comeback from physical
disability by sheer determination to become useful
productive citizens.
These people deserve a chance to prove them
Selves and the chances are that the employer who
finds job for them will get himself better
poyee than if he reaches into the grab bag and hires
worker just because he has no physical handicap.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
PEGLER
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESIbkOOh PEGLEh
Copyright, 1913, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Washington, Oct. 6-At the
time of the l. w. WIS anarchy
in Bisbee, Ariz, in 1917, Newton
Baker, President Wilson's Sec
rotary of War, was yelling his
head off for copper production.
The constitution of the l. w.
w. Industrial Workers of the
World) said: ga struggle must
go on until the workers take pos
session of the earth and the ma
chinery of production and abo-
lish the wage system"
Secretary of Labor Wilson
later said that President Wilson
had been very much disturbed by
the l. w. WIS interference with
the production of.copper.
Meanwhile, Ta Money and
q Warren Billings had been con-
victed of killing lot of
people with a time bomb at a
preparedness parade in San F
cisco. They were sentenced to
death. Their sentences were com
muted to life in prison under
political pressure from Russia APP
piled through Washington. Fin
ally they were released from pri-
son, although trey were still le-
gally guilty of the slaughter.
Theodore Roosevelt tore into
Felix Frankfurter. He said he
had failed to disclose material
information about the Bisbee de-
portations in his report to Pre-
sident Wilson. The Bisbee
sheriff, Harry c. Wheeler, elect
ed by the labor vote, justified his
deportation of about LOO men
on the ground that he had
statutory power and duty to use
all necessary force in the pre-
sence of a threat to the peace.
Most of them were Mexican Viii
listas and German and Austrian
enemy aliens.
After Felix Frankfurter had
done his stuff as counsel for a
Mediation Commission" he
wrote a report which Theodore
Roosevelt attacked. On Dew. 10,
1917, T. R. wrote to him that
"you are taking on behalf of the
administration an attitude which
seems to me to be fundamentally
that of Trotsky and other Boil
sheviki leaders in Russia. Your
report on the Bisbee deportation
is as thoroughly misleading a
document as could be written on
the subject. No official, writing
on behalf of the President, is to
be excused for failure to know
and clearly to set forth that the
l. w. w. is a criminal organiza-
ton. To ignore the fact that a
movement such as its members
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
Pegler Says Frankfurter
Sided With Reds For Years
PEGLER

made into Bisbee is made with
criminal intent is as foolish as
for a New York policeman to
ignore the fact that when the
Whyo gang assemblies with guns
and knives it is with criminal
intent. The PPresident is not to
be excused if he ignores the fact,
for, of course, he knows all
about it.
when no efficient means are
employed to guard well-behaved
citizens from the most brutal
kind of lawlessness, it is inevi-
table that those citizens shall try
to protect themselves. When the
President, either personally or
by representative (meaning
Frankfurter), rebukes the men
who defend themselves it is ne
cessary sharply to point out that
far heavier blame attaches to
the authorities who fail to give
the needed protection, and up to
furter) who fail to point out the
the investigators (again Frank
ganization against which the de-
cent citizens have taken action.
Here you are engaged in
excusing men precisely like the
Bolsheviki in Russia who are
murderers and encouragers o f
murder, who are traitors to their
allies, to democracy and to civil
lization and whose acts are never
theless apologized for on
grounds substantially like those
which you allese."
Frankfurter put the finger on
his own jugular in his reply.
Referring to the Monney-Bill-
ings affair, he blandly admitted
that the attention of this (Wil-
son's) government was directed
to the alleged preversion of JUS
tice in these cases, through Rus
STA"
That was true. When the Boil
shevik revolution exploded, in
October 1917, bricks sailed
through the window of the Am
erican embassy in Petrograd.
David r. Francis, the ambassa-
dor, heard voices in the mob
shouting: Free Tom Money"
A few days later, George Crell.
commanding the governments
war propaganda machine, got a
cable from Francis asking:
who is Tom Money!"
Now let us resume Frankfurt
ter's reply to Roosevelt and try
to learn what his attitude toward
Communists and terrorists really
is.
1.-THE circumstances surround
ing these persecutions"-he
calls the legal trials and SEN
fences upon these murderers
prosecutions" -''were among
the strongest of certain incidents
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
TUCKER

WASHINGTON, Oct. Or
ganized labor's supposedly can
ny politicians are waging one of
the most stupid and inept cam
paigns in their attack on the
Taft-Hartley Act in a political
contest which may set record
for that sort of thing. Although
their major error has been point
ed out to leaders here, they stub
bornly refuse to remedy their
blunder.
The Craftsmanship of the House
Committee on Education and La
Dor, where the TIL Law originat-
ed, is obviously key outpost in
this battle. The present head of
the committee, Fred A. Hartley,
Jr., of New Jersey, is not rum
ming for reelection. Labor main
tains that it drove them out of
public life, but the jaunty Fred
cracks that he is walking out
under his own steam and colors.
Next in line for the chairman
ship stands Gerald w. Lands of
Linton, Ind, and after him stalks
the fearsome, apoplectic figure
of Clare E. Hoffman of Allegan,
Mich. Both have been support
ers of labor's hated law, but
there is no comparison in their
attitude toward the question of
unions status in the nations
economy.
VIOLENT: There would be
no unions of any kind in the
United States, if Mr.. Hoffman
had his way. He is regarded as
the most violent labor batter"
on Capitol Hill, sometimes
shocking even his most conserva
tive colleagues by his remarks.
A labor leader who wears
a red tie, in his opinion, is ipso
facto and per Sc, a valet of the
kremlin. Whereas even Mr..
Hartley agrees with Governors
y" ~ oAAo w dIi Gil lIldI 1OSSlDle
lnequlties in the law should be
eliminated at the next session,
Mr.. Hoffman would make it still
more stringent.
CHOICE: Under these cir
cumstances; it would seem that
labor would pull it's punches or
land them where they would
be most effetclve. In a practi-
cal choice of two evils Mr..
Lands represents the less men
acing. 1t would be smart to let
him win lest the Michigan man
gain control of this important
committee.
On the contrary, the A. F. of
L., the c. I. o. and the Railway
Brotherhoods are concentrating
on the defeat of Mr.. Lands.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
Commissioners Hitch-Hiking Ban
Is Viewed As A Good Ordinance

The ban imposed on hitch-hiking on Roanoke
Rapids City streets passed Tuesday by the City Com
missioners strikes us a good one
We have heard complaint from many motorists
about Youngsters, an yes some older people,
standing out in the streets thumbing rides from one
end of town to the other
The practice had become traffic hazard
There was rarely time when we were going
up town that wasn't standing on the corner
of Third Street and the Avenue 'thumblng rloe
At night the practice was particularly harza1d-
ous not only from the motorists standpoint but from
the standpoint of the person seeking the ride
Apparently the corner best suited for the prac-
tce has been the Third street corner but the curb
stone didn't feel the footprints of the hitchker ne
usually was standing almost in the middle of the
street
We congratulate the commissioners and thank
Police Chief T. j. Davis for bringing the matter to
their attention in such way that he was given au
thority to stop the hazardous practice
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-10-07
involving our national life which

involving our national life which
were made the basis of prejudi-
cial propaganda against US
in Russia. If affected unity of
our Russian ally and the rela-
ton OF Russia to this country"
To me that means that he
might tolerate murder and N.
archy by Communists In 10
United States to obtain politfsaA
effects in Communist Russia.