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The Nome nugget., 1948-01-12
In Politics
(By Victor Riesel)

(By Victor RieseD
 FBI MEN have gathered enough evidence in those neat little notebooks of theirs to prove that the labor chiefs have deliberately broken the TafHartley law.
 And in the White House. the Presidents shrewd and quiet adviser Clark Clifford is wondering whether to suggest that Mr. Truman order the justice depar criminal division to start the year with flock of indictments
 The G-men have visited CIO headquarters three times in the past six months and may be headed for Michigan That's the state, should you have for gotten which famous for Walter Reuther as it is for automobiles And you don't know the tense, - tense redhead if you think he's going to bypass and national politics. He's not In fact, he's already taken the political action committee of the auto unon which gives him of the most flung polit ical machines in the country.
 And he's going to put the auto union into politics Taft-Hartley Taft-Hartley
 Walter Reuthers politics is going to be anti-Repub can and nt-Communst of course And the auto union again will become the Democratic party of Michigan
 AS matter of fact that's about the story for the of labors politics in 1948 Virtually all the unions AFT and railroad brotherhoods and independents which are about to raise some IS million dollars for potikng next year (more than both the Republicans and Democrats will spend) for Harry Truman's reelection. Just look at the who conferred in Bill Greens ancient |, AFL Washington headquarters recently.
 They the shrewdest labor politcos in the coun- try and virtually all Truman. Two of them, David Du binsky and the Hatter'S Alex Rose were among the handful of labor who helped Harry Truman cam pagn for the vice presidency in 1914 recall the after noon Mr. Truman arrived at the New York Democratic headquarters in the Hotel COmmOdOre-Only Dubnsky Rose, this cOlumniSt and photographer greeted him. It Dubinsky Rose and the veteran Matt Woll who last week drew up the final plans for the 8mon- dollar AFL political campaign, and submitted the strat- egy to husky AFL secretary George Meany. This doesn't mean by the way, that they think they can swing the AFLs million members over to the Democratic party They reasts. What they plan to do is set up central headquarters with thirty forty regional offices to link the top group with the AFL 10000 locals They're not planning building their Labors Educational and Political league into perman- ent machine Nor do they think they can get an official ndorsement of MT. Truman.
 Instead they plan to divide the league up into four five departments such public relations Congression activity etc. and have all of them fight merely to get out the vote So it's Harry Truman tickish job to de-
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-12
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AN ECHO TESTIFIES


 gested that price controls might have to be used to meet the pres ent emergency. Here is a bit of history. It is an echo from gov, ernment managed economy that keeps on testifying to the ill ef- fleets of government managed economy. During the war the gov ernment kept prices of crude oil at an abnormal low. This column called attention to that fact then. indicating there would be a future shortage of oil.
 Wildcat operators and small companies find most of the new pools and sell much of the crude, oil. But prices during the war kept wild-catters from buying adequate equipment. It didn't pay. Machinery and wages kept going up, but the price of oil was held low. Instead of buying new rigs for new wells, oil men re- moved old rigs from low produc- ing wells that would have been kept in production if the price of oil had been favorable.
 How 10 Stall Industry
 There was less searching for new fields, because oil prices were so out of line with cost of labor and machinery. The risk was too often losing proposition. This un- wise control continued so long that grave shortage developed in oil field equipment, in oil we'll pipe lines, and even in refineries Now we are reaping the harvest. Many will go cold this winter. Gasoline may be short in some areas and industrial fuel scarce.
 One big operator said to me during that period: ITO help win war I am operating present equipment at full capacity. But I am making only about M of per cent profit on my investment. Consequently, I am not spending new money for expansion of my business. A man can't risk his cap ital when there is only a chance of M of 1 per cent profit even if the venture proves entirely suc- cessful, and 100 per cent loss if it fails, as many of them do in the oil business.
 Sad Picture Now ...-
 On November r2 Oscar l.. Chapman, under-Secretary of in terior told the American Pe,role- um Institute in Chicago: We face critical times, critical for all of us, and for the competitive freedom of the petroleum industry. This winter for the first time in its peace-time history, the oil indus try will be unable to meet the full needs of the American people"
 The oil people may come through with another miracle as they did during the war. They may actually meet the demand, even though this wellinformed government official thinks they cannot. am awfully slow to put limit on what free men in free country can do. But it must be said that the present threat of fuel shortage results from the abnor- mally low price that government maintained on crude oil during the war and thereafter.
 The Danger Is There
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
SPEAKING
ST billion for what?

get a place to stay. Their
changing faces tell me Of bet
ter use for Sill billion than
building up an army.
Down South there are white
and Negro kids who can't get
adecent education because their
states are too poor to support
adequate schools. Citizens
everywhere are crying for low
cost housing. Many thousands
of Americans die every year
because they haven't got the
money to pay for medical care.
THAT'S where we ought to
spend that $11 billion. It's the
best way I know to build a
real democratic way of life. But
what we'll probably do is spend
the money for war preparations
and keep the evils we want to
protect in the name of democ-
racy. And just who are we arm
ing against? It's against people
who are trying to do the things
we ought to, such as giving Sc
curity and peace and equality
to all.
Of course Harry Truman re-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
Frank |l5,|:Il I|:UE|

allies there are some things
wrong. Maybe at heart he'd like
to correct the evils of Jim crow
and initiation and super-profits
and bad housing and poor
health but just isn't smart
enough to know how to go about
it.
When he asks for advice, he
goes to the Wall Streeters who
collect millions because these
evils exist, and to the generals
and adnirals who depend upon
war or the threat of war for
their jobs. Since too much DEM
ocracy would tear down their
play houses, they tell him to get
$11 billion for war instead of
using the money for domestic
peace.
WHATS worse, the $11 bill
lion is only for the armed serv-
ices section of our military bud
get. The nearly 81 billion adj
ditiona1 asked for the Marshall
plan has to be included in the
military budget, for after all
the Marshall plan is intended to
war against an idea: the idea of
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
WI E could do an awful lot
w to help America in gen.

WI E could do an awful lot
w to help America in gen.
eral with the 81 billion our
President has asked for the
armed forces under the guise
of protecting "our democrats.
way of life"
OF course our democratic way
of life has been mighty kind 10
Harry S. Truman. His story
entitled From Haberdashe- 10
President" is a Horatio Aiger
yarn come true. But we can
have only one President at
time.
For every Haberdashe- Harry
who hits the political jackpot,
there are several million in Dbl
history who have ended up
merely as statistics at census
time. I've a belief that many
thousand mems shop proprie-
tors went to the Big House BE-
fore one finally landed in the
White House.
so IF I'm going to be objec-
tive, 1 can't take his freak case
as representative of our nat1e n.
There are millions of Americans
who have been crushed by this
democratic way of life" which
has been so kind to Harry.
I see many of them daily on
the streets wondering Tow far
they can stretch this weeks
paycheck; / run across theE1 in
the grocery stores, shaking their
heads at high prices; l overhear
others, plaintively asking if
anybody knows where they can
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

ting as prosecutors and judges
against the very persons they
had egged on TO war and with
whom they had plotted to di-
vide the spoils."
And then there was that col
umn by Milbutrn Pete) Akers,
Sun-Times political medicine
man-who deserves a dose OF
his own medicine. Akers turn
ed himself inside out, in a pain
full attempt to prove that Com
munists dominate Pea and
Wallace's Third Party. Said
Akers:
mo Communist influence in
the Pea convention; no Com
munist influence in the Wal
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

We are told that only by put
ting our Marshall money into
the hands of the right" people
and this phrase is so true!-
in Western Europe will these
nations be saved from Ole Debil
Stain. If Western Europe goes
communist, say our Washington
soothsayers, our own "democ-
racy" will be isolated and even
tually we, too, will fall. The
recipients of our favors are
supposed to kick out the COM
munist elements in their gov
ernments, and keep them out.
Frankly, I don't like the idea
of keeping Dixie sharecroppers
in ignorance and poverty or
ChicagoanS living four or five
to a room because the money
which could be spent to better
their conditions is given over
to preparing for war against
apostles of a belief that would
do away with sharecropping
and slums. And if this be trea-
son, let whoever will make the
most of it.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

lace Third Party? Well, what's
this:
"The Pea convention, in
adopting statement of princi-
Piles, declared:
eve propose that American
immigration barriers be re-
moved so that the victims of
Nazi and Fascist persecution
who desire to come to this
country may do So
Tine. We're in favor of
that" says Akers. But we're
also in favor of admitting the
victims of Communist perse-
cufion Because of Commu-
mist influence the Pea refrains
from saying 50: limiting. ap-
parentlY. its sympathy for dis
placed persons to victims of
Nazi and Fascist persecution"
Come now, Petey. Everyone
knows the victims" of Com
munist persecution" were the
Nazis and Fascists.. /. If Petey
is in favor of admitting them
to the us, who can be domin-
ating Petey???
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
Column, review
Column review
Lands tells a story Of secret
Intrigue us. diplomats forgot

WHEN a breath of fresh
w air is needed in the world
of columnists, Sun-Times' man
Kenesaw M. Lands II is sell
dom out of breath.
Landis was right there =
Johnny on the : spot - this
week, when he was needed to
huff-and-puff away the clouds
obscuring the real issues around
the sensational Stalin-Hitler
pact"
Zone of the peculiarities of
our time" wrote Lands, "is
the righteous indignation now
being manifested over the Sc
cret treaty that Russia and
Germany signed six days be-
fore Hitler invaded Poland.
FOR six years everyone has
known that Russia and Ger
many had secret arrange
ment to partition Poland in the
event that Hitler attacked, and
tina arrangement was carried
out. A lot of Americans were
later glad that Stain had the
forethought to provide himself
with such buffer against Ger
many.
"But now when this old stale
arrangement is made public for
Sta tie Department purposes,
our newspapers go into trans
ports of outrage at what the
New York Times calls secret
intrigue N k ed conquest
cynical disregard for world
opinion
History does some interest
ing flip-flops in the course of
80 years. It has been just that
long since the New York Times
was accusing the Bolshevists
in connection with secret trea-
ties. What was their crime
them"
lands then went on to
describe an unending chain Of
so-called secret treaties:
/. In. the first year of World
War I, Great Britain and
France agreed in a secret trea-
ty to give Czarist Russia all of
Poland and also Constantine
Ople. France was to control
German territory to the Rhine,
and Great Britain was to get
the bulk Of the German colon
les.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

2. In 1916 another secret
treaty gave Russia central and
northern Armenia. France got
southern Armenia, and the Sy-
rian coast from Tyre to Alex
andretta in full sovereignty.
Great Britain got lower Meso-
potamia, and a protectorate
over all countries south of the
French sphere.
And so, ad infinitum, Lands
scored the secret treaties of
World War I.
BUT" concludes L andis,
"this merry-go-round Of plum
der ended in 1917 when the
Bolshevists came to power in
Russia. One of their first acts
was to publish secret treaties
they found in the archives, to
declare them null and void,
and to demand a peace without
annexations or forcible con-
quests
What did the New York
Times have TO say about these
secret treaties? In a scathing
editorial in December. 1917. il
denounced their publication by
the Bolshevists as an act of
dishonor'."
Exempting Lands, the COL
umnists' world this week was
deadly one what with
Hearst's vitriolic Westbrook
Pegler on vacation-and most
of the tribe frittered away time
taking pot shots at "those Reds,
durn 'em anyway"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

end and you'll
have a good COM
|parison to go by.
Here in Amer
;ica the m e a t
|p a C k Ell rs held
their stocks and
created a phony
shortage. T h ey
should have been
h a u lie d into a
federal court for
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07
FOR EXAMPLE. the Daily

FOR EXAMPLE. the Daily
News long winded Dorothy
Thompson had her say about
the Russo-German pact, con-
Guiding on a note which makes
us wonder which side Dotty is
on. Or wasn't Russia our ally
in World War II after all? We
quote:
What battles the inteli-
gence :. is why our govern
ment continued to 60 through
with the United Nations char
ter, whose whole premise for
peace is permanent Gre t
Power agreement; and why we
proceeded with the Nuremberg
trials, with the Russians sit
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

rn.,.;, hauled into a
federal court for
practices in restraint of trade.
But the government, being run
by big business, preferred to
cave in and pay the holdup
men their price. Your pocket
is where it came from.
FRENCH big business didn't
hoard meat. 1t sailed away
hard money" gold and for
eign CURRENCY in banks abroad.
The Paris government, like
the Washington one, is tough
with labor but soft on these
gents. Instead of ordering
them to bring their profits
back where they were made,
it now proposes to bride them
by paying all the francs they
wish.
The "OPA" killed in Paris
was the init. Monetary Fund,
created at the Breton Woods
conference as part of Pres.
Roosevelt's postwar recovery
scheme The fund did not want
free enterprise" in any coun-
try to penalize workers at
home Cby depreciating the
money in their pay envelope)
in order to undercut competi-
tors goods abroad.
US. WORKERS may lose
jobs by this devaluation, be-
cause US. investors will find
factories cheaper to operate in
France than here.
But Wall Street stands to
gain and therefore approves.
Its dollars can now buy more
francs than before, and it can
take any profits it makes in
France out of the country =
which was impossible under
previous laws.
Now that the franc is free"
the British pound will have
hard time holding up. This is
the way it works.
BRITAIN is still on the Off
cial exchange that makes its
pound worth $4.02 in American
money and 1854 francs in French
money.
But now a dollar can buy all
the francs If can fetch. $40 by
fodaY's free market rate. Null
tiplY that by $4.o2 and you get
1870 francs, which buys not one
British pound but more than
one and half. So all you have
to do to get more pounds for
your us. money than the rate
allows is 10 buy francs first.
The Wall Street Journal
points out that consequently "a
Frenchman can import a Brit
ish product and re-export it to
to the us. at a lower price
than the British can"-so long
as the British stick to their own
rate.
The paper omits to say that
American big business, which
has more money than all
Frenchmen put together, can
queer British economy COM
pletely by operating through
Paris.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-02-07

New franc
threatens
workers
y EMEMBER

II EMEMBER when price
II control died in the US?
When you read in the pa
pers about the franc devalua-
ton in France, think of OPA's
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22

Plaintiff
ioRNll.I.E HlTCHcpN, Defendant
Thu state Of Montana sends Greet
ings to the Above Named Defendant.
fou are hereby summoned 10 answer
tho complaint IN this action. which Is
filed in the Office ~ tn. cle-k Of this
Court. Il copy OF which y herewith
served upon YOU and to file your am
swsr and serve a copy thereof upon
plaintiff attorney within twenty days
after the seryic. Of this summons. OK
elusive Of the day Of service, and in
swer, judgment viii be taken against
you by default for the relief demanded
IN the complaint
piaintiff complains ard for cause II
faction ALLEGES
Tha, plaintiff and defendant herein
int.rmarried nj Arlington virginia. on
or about tie goth day Of June 1915.
and ever since have been and now are
husband and wife.
That plaintiff has been an actual
hona-iid. resident Of the state Of Mon
rana for more than one year last past
and Immediately preceding the CONF
mencement Of this action to-wit the
I-th DAY Of April. 1915.
That no children were born as issue
Of said marriage
That defendant has been quilts o
Wilful Neglect Of and toward plaintiff,
in this. to-wit that for more than one
year last past AMI Immediately proceed
ing tn. comm. nrenrent OF this action
,o-wit the eth day Of April. 1919. IN,
said defendant has wilfully failed. neg
l.cted and refused to provide plaintiff
with the common necessities ot If,
to-Wit: food. clothing and shelter. an,
this irr-sp.ctiv. Of the fact that d.
PENDANT IL a strong able bodied maj
and fully capable Of earning sufficien
money with which to support plaintiff
but by reason OF prOfli49cy and dts
sipa;ion has failed to do So
Plaintiff prays for An absolute di
vorce and for the restoration Of he
! maiden name.
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
NOTICE ro n

Estate ~ SANDER ARTHUR LARSON.
als, SHOWN ~ ARTHUR ) LARSON.
as N.THIE LARSON. and as ART
LARSON. Deceased.
Notice ls hrrrbr given by the under
signed administrators Of the estat" Of
sander Arthur Larson. also known as
Arthur : Larson. As Arthur Larson.
and ~ Art Larson. deceased. 70 the
creditors Of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased. to
exhihit them with the necessary
vouchers. within four months after the
first Publication ~ this notice TO the
said afmiristrafDr at the office OF her
attorney. Howard \ Johnson. First
National Hank Building. Butte ion
iAua. The same h-lng the place for the
transaction ~ The business Of said
estate ln Tie county 81 silver Bow,
STATE - Montana
AGNES LARSON ADMINISTRATIVE
Of the Estate 81 Sander Arthur
Larson. also known rs Arthur $.
Larson. as Arthur Larson. and az
Art Larson. Deceased.
Dated l'ntt. Montana. this 6th day OF
Nprl laiN
lrirst publication Npril Is. l9is-4t
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NV.
Estate of NORMAN BETSON, Deceased.
Notice Is hereby given by the under
signed, Administrators with the Will
Annexed of the estate of Norman Bet
son, deceased; to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against he
said deceased. to exhibit them. with the
necessary vouchers. within -four months
after the first publication of this notice
to the said administrators at the offices
Of Gen2berger & McGan. 1904 Levi
sohn building. Butte. Montana, the
same being the place for the %transac-
ton of the business OF said estate. in
the County Of Silver Bow, State of
Montana.
MINNIE Il. BETSON, Administrative
with the VIII Annexed Of the Estate
of Norman Betson. Deceased.
Dated Butte. Montana. this 27th day of
March, 194S.
GENZBERGER 4 McGAN
Attorneys-at-law,
203-4 Lewisohn Bldg, Butte, Mont.
Attorneys for Administrative with
the Will Annexed.
First publication April /. l94S-ft
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22

Printing Pressmen-nests 20 Wed Of
mo. At Carpenters hall. John H. Null
ligan, pres. 120l Fir st.: Adolph Rich
ards. 81 IA ". Granite at. sec.
Sheep Shearers No /. AFL-l4 W. Plat
mum. LaVor Taylor, pres. .sec.-treas.
Phone 2-iss3. Pc. Box 1872.
Stationary Engineers No. - Of the III.
Of NJ. II. 4 SWEETS every Thurs.
Miners hall. Box IS. John Gilbert.
pres: f. 6. CRANE. v.p.: John f.
Riley. rec. sec. Henry Young. sec
Teachers-Meets lst and 3rd Wed. 7:3o
Butte H.. s. Charles Davis. pres.
Louise Thompson. lin. sec. Mrs.
Helen Weber. rec sec.
Teamsters-Meets Thursday at IN +.
Park st. Lee Varcan men. pres: Ken
meth Davis, v.p.; ". j. Mcintosh. sec
treas: [. II. Bradley. r~ec.-sec.; Frank
J. Birmingham. bus. agent: Arthur
Speraw, Art Rosar and Frank J. Biz
mingham. trustees Frank ]. Biz
mingham. George brown and Frank
Maiyevac. delegates to Butte Build
ing Trades Council.
Butte Stage Employees 4 Operators
Union, Local SID Curran. pres.
Earl Wiles. " Carl Fredericks
treas; Denny sullivan, 7zs N. Excel
SiOr, 9ec'y., Rene fOuleau, Az w
Park, bus. agent. Union meets 2ne
Tuesday each month 1t Musicians
hall.
Observation-Disclosures "a Sun. Of mo. q
Carpenters' hall Roy Nelson. pres.
$40 ". Qalena. G.. F. AultmAn. sec.
40s ". Quarts.
Women's Protective-AArgaret Har
rington. pres: l. AattAusch. sec.
treas: Martha Youchim. bus. agent
Phone 676S. Meets LIST and ID Fri,
pm: "a and last Fri. $50 p.m.. Car
penteYD' hall.
Worktngmens' Union. FLU, 1885 =
! Meets Let and I'D Aon- II ~ z. Parl
st J. D1scoll. sec. Pc. Box ITS.
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22

For further particulars see am.
plant on f3l. herein
witness my hand aud the seal of
said 'ourt this 18th DAY Of April. AID
lfis ELMER SHEA. CLERK
,Cnurt BY ROBERT MCCORMICK.
Seal' Deputy clerk
.CoYLE & NEAHRA.
~ SILVER Bow Block, Butte. Mont
Attorney for Plaintiff.
First publication April IL. ls4s-it
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
NOTICE

NO. l3lS}
In the District Court of the Second
Judicial District of the State Of
Montana. in and for the
County of Silver Bow
In the Matter OF the Estate of
CORA L. CAVANAuGH, Deceased.
Petition has been filed by the Ad-
ministrator of the above entitled estate
for an order of sale of real estate,
to-wit. A one-sixth undivided interest
In the Tiger Quartz Lode Mining Claim,
patented, survey No. 1882, and an un-
divided one-fourth interest In the
Saved Quartz Lode Mining Claim. pat
ented. survey No. 1883. both in Silver
Bow County. Montana.
The petition is set for hearing in
Department No. | Of the above entitled
court for the 18th day of May. l94s. at
$3.50 o'clock AN. at which time and
place all persons interested in the said
estate may appear and contest the
same.
Dated this 25th day OF March. l94s.
NJ r. COUSE. Administrator Of
the Estate OF Cora a. C~avanaugh.
Deceased.
First publication April /. lost
Montana labor news., 1948-04-22
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS

Estate ~ PATRICK n. KENNY. also
knoHn AS y II KENNY. Deceased.
Notice Is hereby given By the under
signed administrators 81 the estate Of
Patrlcs n Kenny. also known as +. n
h-nut deceased. to the creditors
81 and al! r~rsonS having claims
agalnst tho said decreased. 10 exhibit
them. with the necessary vouchers.
within four months after the flrst pub
LEGATION ~ this notice 10 the said ad-
mini4trafor At the office OF Emmett
Lyons. Public administrator Of silver
Row county. Montana. Court House.
Butte. Montana. The same being the
place for The transaction Of the busi-
ness ~ said estate. in the County OF
silver Row. stat. Of Montana.
EMMETT LYONS. Public
administrator and Administrator
~ the Estate Of Patrick II
kenny. also known as =. II.
Kenny. Deceased.
l,a,ea Nuf'-. Montana. this sth day Of
Nprli l'fs
First publication April Il. ists-4t