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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16

no prerequisite scholastic standing is
necessary.
Eight four-hour sessions will be con-
Quoted on the course by the Ana
conda teachers. These will be held
Friday evenings and Saturday
mornings.
Much Interest
Approximately 80 Anaconda people
attended the Introductory session of
the class in Anaconda junior high
school building Those in attendance
were representative of labor, the
school board, teachers and the clergy.
The opening session was under the
leadership of Dr. John Wolfard, pro-
lessor of economics at the state uni
versity, Missoula. Dr. Wolfard set
forth the historical background of the
labor movement as well as number
of points on the chronological progress
of mankind.
Arrangements for conducting the
course were under the direction of
Miss Kathleen Mcclure of the ana
conda local, and president Of the Mon
tana Federation of Teachers.
Secretary of the school is T. F.
Arensmeyer of the AFT education
committee. -
Texts that viii be used in studying
the course include Testers Econom-
les of Labor.
References: R. r. r. Brooks-When
Labor Organizes; Commons & Asso-
ciates = Labor and Administration
Perlman & Taft-History of Labor in
the U. S., VOL 4, History Of Trade
Unions, A Theory of the Labor Move
nent; Walsh-CIO Industrial Union
SIN in Action.
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JAW ABAND0NS
HOPE FOR PRICE
R0LLbACkS

Detroit forlorn hope of
a rollback in prices, either through
congress or industry itself, has final
ly been abandoned by the United Auto
Workers (CIO) and lines are being
laid for an industrywide wage raise,
beginning with General Motors Corp.
President Walter p Reuther flayed
both old parties January 6 saying:
Failure of the government to curb
the initiation Americans are suffering
under today can be attributed directly
to INSCRIPTIONS political maneuvering
by both Democratic and Republican
parties. The failure of both govern
ment and industry to stop initiation
leaves labor no choice but to demand
and win further wage increases"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16
RECORD TURNOUT FOR
ANNUAL MvA Meet
IS EXPECTED

A record size gathering Of Mis-
souri, Valley Authority enthusiasts
is expected to attend the annual
meeting Of the Montana MvA Asso-
citation in Great Falls on January rs,
to hear the annual report and to
plan for the coming years activities.
Benton Stong, chairman Of the
Regional MVA Committee will be
one of the featured speakers. MIR.
Stong will be in Great Falls for
three days during the week of jan
uary 1925, to lead in discussions of
insurance problems at the state Of
ficers' school of the Montana Farm
ers Union which is being held dur
ing that week. It is expected that
nearly all Of those attending the
Farmers Union gathering will re-
main for the Montana MvA Asso-
citation meeting, the day following
the closing of the school.
jerome G. Locke who is doing en-
cheering research on existing plans
for Missouri river development and
working out detailed plan and pre-
pairing maps Of an alternate MVA
plan for the Regional committee
will be one of the featured speakers
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the sale of assets in the hands of Their
competitors at prices dictated by Wall
Street. This especially applies to
British and French assets here.
4. For all food relief handed out
Truman's plan calls for the granting
to the USA of vitality needed war ma
terials in short supply such as atomic
uranium, metals, etc. For example,
we are demanding that If we send
grain to Belgium, Belgium must give
us materials for atomic bombs from
the Belgian Congo. Ditto with Fran
co.'s colonies, etc.
S. Each relief" country must re-
duce its tariff barriers to permit the
dumping of American goods inside
that country. This hits the sterling
bloc" nations under Britains dOmina-
ton. Both England and her domin-
ions must abolish or reduce the tariffs
protecting their home markets.
g. Each RELIEF country must sign
an agreement with the USA agreeing
to permit the Marshall Plan agent to
examine all internal economic affairs
of that country, and to propose which
commodities shall be given priority
in home manufacture and in trade
with any of the other sixteen relief"
Truman's message also said
that they must agree to make other
which he didn't specify
UNDER THIS PROVISION Amer
len industry will be able to curb the
advance of industries competing with
it or with its dollar-dominated indus
tries in the German Ruhr. The idea
is to make all the relief countries"
dependent upon German industry by
the building up Of their
own. This applies to raw materials
and grains as well. In France, for
the Marshall plan groups
have agreed to a decline in French
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16

wheat growing to permit the sale OF
American wheat. Ditto with French
films, etc.
7. Each relief" country must open
its doors to private American finance
with all private investments to be
guaranteed by the American govern
ment against loss through Nationalist
| ton, taxation, etc.
| 8. Each relief country must agree
| that the USA can reduce or halt all
relief shipments, loans or grants at
any time that the State department
| in Washington sees fit to do so for
political reasons. Truman emphasized
in his message that the entire II bill
lion dollars is not in any sense an
economic recovery plan pure and sim
pie but a part Of our foreign policy
THUS, in its official form, the Mar
shall Plan is admittedly plan to
benefit not its "relief" clients but to
permit the economic and financial
penetration of Europe by Big Bust
ness, to revive the German Ruhr as
the l-political-military base Of
Wall Street in Europe. 1t is a plan
to dictate the economic life Of each
nation. Thus, it is a plan to override
the independence of each nation. It
imposes upon nations conditions and
strings which we in the United States
would never submit to from anyone
else.
Thus, the Marshall Plan does not
aim at the economic recovery of Eu-
rope in the sense that it seeks indus
trail revival everywhere: rather it
aims at special kind Of recovery"
in which the profits of the trusts will
be frozen at low levels, and political
reactionaries will be placed in power
to act as quislings for Wall Street
investments.
Hence, when French labor strikes
for higher wages it is not because it !
opposes recovery, but because it OPP
poses that kind Of Hoover-style ire
covery" which is measured in higher
profits at the expense Of lower wages.
New World, Seattle.
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ed by the State University Extension
Service, and carries three hours credit
which may be applied toward an adj
vanced degree, if desired, or it may be
audited and visited by anyone inter-
ested in labor economics.
Curricula Of the course will cover
the origins, development and current
status of the labor movement; union
structure, functions, ideologies, eco
nomic aspects of labor problems, etc.
To obtain college credit, those TAX
ing the course must have had at least
union scholastic standing; however,
for those not seeking college credits,
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~eNAAA'
But they're all there, Enthusiastically,
as the relief countries will find out if
they haven't already.
1. Every country getting relief
must pledge not to Ego communist
In State departm ent-Wall Street terms
this means that they must not even
have the Roosevelt-type of mild New
Deal reform, not to speak of real
Communist movements seeking the
national ownership of the industries.
2. Each country must set up fund
in it's own currency equal to whatever
relief it receives. This fund will be
spent as the United States dictates
through the Marshall Plan agent in
that nation.
8. If the country has assets, outside
its boundaries, whether they be bonds,
gold, dollars, or, some experts say,
even colonies, then these assets may
have to be sold to the USA to help
pay off for the relief. Thus, Wall
Street financial interests will be able
to use the relief pressure to force
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16
SO, 800, 900 Requested For
Hungry Horse

A telegram from Congressman
Mike Mansfield yesterday stated
that the President had requested
the congress to appropriate So
100000 for construction on the
Hungry Horse dam in Northwest
Montana during the fiscal year,
starting July I, 1948.
Letters urging favorable action
on this appropriation by our en-
tire delegation, are in order.
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panies lower rates only when compe-
tition forces them to do SO. That is
why the utilities and reactiOnary con-
gressmen fight SO hard against gov
eminent money being used for power
During the first session Of this con-
gress long string of bills was intro
duced to cripple co-Ops and deny cheap
power to farmers. One of the worst
of these is Rep. George A. DonderO's
(R., Mich.) bill(HR 3O36), which will
probably be reported favorably out OF
committee around the first Of the year
This bill would prevent the sale of
power from War department. dams ex-
cept at the dam and would transfer
the marketing of electricity now hand
led by the Department of interior to
the War department. If this bill is
enacted, the only way that co-ops
could obtain power from War depart
ment dams would be to build transmits
sion lines up to the source. Upfortun-
ately co-ops do not have the capital
required for such construction.
Reduce Coop Funds
During the first session this year
power lobbyists were instrumental IN
reducing REA loan funds from $3.50
to 1925 million for this fiscal year
Due to the great increase in demand
'or electricity, this sum has proved in
adequate, and the REA program has
1ogged down. Rep. DEwart voted
against increasing REA funds to $3.50
million, Rep Mansfield voted for the
BADLY needed increase. Ed
The utilities put pressure on con
sress to slow down work on needed
lydro-electric power projects. Bur-
eau of Reclamation officials report
hat the Central Valley, Calf, and the
Jolorado-Big Thompson projects will
% out of money by the first Of next
year (194S); Grand Coulee shortly
after the first; and Davis Dam by
next spring. According to Bureau of
Reclamation estimates, if these prof.
ects are kept going, 100000 additional
acres can be brought into production
n 1948, and under an accelerated pro-
,ram five million acres can be brought
nto production by the end of 1852.
that would produce cumulative total
+ % million tons of food during the
ext five years.
Today more than one-thrd of the
American farmers have no electric
ity, and millions of other farmers
have an insufficient supply or have
to pay such high rates that they
can't economically operate power
equipment.
The policy of the private companies
to electrify only heavy population
reas, where they can obtain higher
rofit on their capital, and it seems
3mmon sense that congress should
money so that electricity
ay be brought to every farm in the
ATOMS. D. Flu. NEWS, as reprint
from New Republic.
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cheap power and water 20 farmers IN
dry areas and they have put pressure
Lon congress and state legislatures to
deny electric co-operatives the right
| to build their own generating plants
and transmission lines.
Lobby Shows Hand
The most recent activity Of the
power lobby was the testimony pre-
scented at hearings before the House
Surplus War Property sub committee,
on the sale Of the government owned
Chouteau, Oklahoma, electric-steam
plant to the Grand River Dam Auth
ority The steam plant was put up
for sale by the War Assets Admins
tration The Public Service company
Of Oklahoma bid $2.5 million, and the
Grand River Dam Authority offered
S3.5 million.
AS soon as the Public Service com
pany found out that the GRDA's bid
was higher, its officials set up a great
howl that the bidding was unfair, that
sale to the authority was socialistic
and that it would like to have the bids
re-opened so it could raise its offer
This situation was called to the at
tention of Rep. Ross Riley (R., Okla.) |
chairman of the Surplus War Prop
erty subcommittee who started the
on December 8, appar-
emily in the hope of putting the heat
on the WAA in order to throw out the |
GRDA bid and sell to the Public Serv- |
ice company.
Congressman Worries
Ridley suggested several times that |
he sale of power by public agencies
was against the policy of congress. !
When a witness said that the sale to
he GRDA would be for the benefit of |
Ill the people, he replied that opera
ion of power plants by public author
ties might eventually put private cleo
.ric utilities out of business complete |
y.
Witnesses for the Public Service
company denounced the government
built plants as unfair; and attacked
which authorized the creation of the |
JRDA. The attorney for the PSC /
United that legal action would be taken
o stop the sale
Utility companies in other states are
rying to prevent farmers from OBJ
aiming power. Last summer the Ala
anna Electric, Cooperative was for
ime blocked by the Alabama Power
The company at first re-
used to sell it's power to the coop at
H. Then when the coop made a sur
ey and submitted plans to the REA
) obtain an ALLEGATION for the con-
trucion of steam generating plant, i
le company made an offer to sell its a
over at high rates. When the coop IL
till went ahead, the company lowered c
S rate to about what it would cost the q
0-op to generate it's own power. Ia
Try To Cripple REA n
These are old tactics. Power COM e
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16
Marshall Plan Loaded With Prohibitions
By MILTON HOWARD

The Marshall Plan is not gift We're giving anything anybody for
something back return they don't get it, they'll shut off the ref
a nj
Of
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Telephone Rate Hearing
February 9, 1913

The Montana Public Service
Commission has announced the
calling Of a public hearing for
February 9 at 10000 ann at the
state capitol in Helena, for the
purpose Of determining If rate
increase asked by Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph,
is justified.
Unless strong opposition de-
velops the blanket increases re-
quested are likely to be approved.
It's up to Montana citizens to
speak up February 9.
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Anaconda Teachers
Open Labor SchcI:


Nxerest In thu sme last ayniqh
Of
held Mssoua
delegates the Importance Of establishing activities
possible
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16
Corporate Profits Hit All-Time
High

Corporate profits after taxes for.
1947 are estimated at $171a billion,
compared to $40 billion in 1943 and So
billion in the boom year of 1929
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16

HIS TOPICAL SOCIETY
OF MONTANA
Power Shortage Fault
OF Private Utilities

Electric companies blame for the TIM
refusing extend lines into asey populated
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-01-16

November indeed rainy
Having lead the fight eventually
labor Taft has
influence people,.
along senate,
taken the leadership Of the NTEA taand
destroy
many millions Of eligible
Evening star., 1948-04-07

Eisenhower and have as little real
information to 60 on.
One thing they have done: They
have rechecked Southern opposi-
ton which has been reported as
weakening. and they say it is not.
A part Of that story is that the
Presidents gay companion, Missis-
sippian George Allen, has been as
signed to take over the Southern
sector from National Chairman Nc
Grath and make peace.
Physician or Jester?
Regarding this one Southern Sem
ator commented: Some people
send for a physician when they
are sick; others send for a jester"
1t appears also that Senator Nc
Grath has annoyed the Southern
ers afresh in a defense Of President
Truman in Butte, Mont, in which
he compared Southern attitudes to-
ward Negro voting with Russia IS
treatment Of the Czechs and Firms.
That will be placed in the Congress
sional Record with appropriate
comment, one Senator promised.
The present trend among the dis
senters is to soft pedal the Eisen-
hover talk and wait until close to
convention time. They appear to
believe that as the Russian situa-
ton gets tougher, the Eisenhower
boom will take on an air of in
evitability.
A part Of the Eisenhower legend
in the Democratic camp now is that
he is tremendously opposed to Gen.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Problem of Tactics
Anti. Truman Democrats Over Nation
Attempting to Make Convention Plans

Macarthur As President. There Is
no proof, but they repeat it con-
stantly and their argument runs
that as the international situation
gets worse it improves Gen. Mac
Arthur's chances and makes II
easier to draft Gen. Eisenhower
to run against him.
Porter Believes In Delay.
Among those that believe the
best hope Of snaring Gen. Eisen-
hover lies in delay is Paul Porter
an influential voice in Americans
for Democratic Action. ADA Chair.
man Leon Henderson has been
veerfnga toward immediate indorse.
ment' Of the general.
This question will bs thrashed
out Sunday in Pittsburgh when
chairmen Of the State chapters
meet to reconsider their position
There will be no voices raised in
Mr.. Truman's defense; the prob.
lem will be one Of tactics.
The Presidents circle processes
to be unworried and describes pres
ent agitation as "only big blow
They can point to . stand-off ir
the big cities: Maj. Frank Hague
of New jersey. pro-Truman. against
Chicago's Jacob M. Arvey, anti.
Truman. Except for the South.
erners, the Democrats in Congress
are quiet. The White House also
Is profiting from q feeling in some
circles that 1t is unwise in view oi
the international situation to wage
a contest which would damage the
prestige of the President of the
United States.
Evening star., 1948-04-07

pldy IledIlS Aehfs ucLcmofcs
but one thing--loose-living, ex-
travagant men who do not work
for living and do not care about
the problems of the world.
Let us consider one of the men
who to my mind was pilloried, Karl
Hoblitzelle. A picture implied that
his chief concern IN life was buying
$4,000 automobiles. The truth Is
that Mr.. Hoblitzelle's chief concern
in life is philanthrophy. Texas has
produced few men who have given
more both in money and energy
toward the betterment of their
citizens. 1t is absolutely true that
Mr.. Hoblitzelle is rich, but 1t is
Just as true that he made 1t the
hard American way by work and Is
spending the evening years Of his
life by giving it away to those who
need 1t most. Repeatedly through
the years, Mr.. Hoblitzelle has been
recognized by the entire Southwest
as one OF its really worthwhile men.
Crime TO Have Fune
Two OF the men in this unfair
estimate Of leading Texans were
Col. E. E. Buddy Fogelson and
Mr.. Dick Andrade III. These two
men probably got the roughest
treatment of all. They were shown
at g. table in the Cipango Club
about to eat crepes suzette and were
labeled as millionaire playboys.
There Is no denying that both Mr..
Andrade and Col. Fogelson enjoy
life, but when did it become a crime
for man who has worked hard
for his money to have a little fun
spending It?
When I flrst knew Col. Fogelson he
was an oil field laborer who was
usually searching his pockets for
an overlooked quarter. Today he
Is still an oil field worker. He took
his CANDLES and won them. What,
Is lln-American about that? Moth
ing. That's what this country was
founded on and what it rests on
today. Col. Fogelson's war record
isn't too bad either. He had Ave
years Of it and was so much of a
playboy that he served with SHAEF,
was a member Of the Moscow Rep
arations Commission, served as an
adviser at the Potsdam Conference,
and before that was Herbert
Hoover's first assistant on Finnish
relief. So much for playboy Fogel-
son.
Mr.. Andrade came to Texas Is
years ago with q hundred dollars
In his pocket. Three hundred days
a year he's in his Office by $50 in
the morning and quits around 9.
The people who know him from
Evening star., 1948-04-07

opponents Of the Constantine Brown.
regime and blackmailing others who
attempt to remain nonpolitical
citizens. Most of the prominent
members of the Nazi Iron Guard
have been accepted with open arms
by the government, which is doni-
mated by the Moscow-trained Com
munist, Anna Pauker.
The officers Of the new army in
Romania have been trained either
in the u. S. s. r. or in Romanian
schools packed with political COM
missars. Very few old-time officers
have kept their jobs. They were dis
missed from the armed forces and
are earning pittances as porters or
peddlers of black market goods.
Underground Arises.
As in other states behind the iron
curtain, a strong underground has
arisen in Romania to plague the
Communists. It's activities are con-
fined principally to smuggling out of
the country those who are able to
pay-in dollars or Swiss francs-the
price Of getting out of the country.
This has brought into the organ
ization a number OF ex-convicts and
criminals who charge between 81 200
and $4,000 for transportation from
Romania to the western Allied
zones of Austria.
The number of persons attempt
ing to get out of the Communist
heaven averages about 300 a day.
But less than 10 per cent ever
manage to reach safety. The others
are captured and summary exc
cuted, either in Romania or Hun
gary. Yet any one who has man
aged to hoard hard currency from
the days before the iron curtain
descended prefer to take the chance
Evening star., 1948-04-07
This Changing World :.
95 Per Cent Romanian People Reported
Suffering Under New Red Order Rule

rather than die slowly Of starvation.
The economic reconstruction" OF
Romania Is proceeding full speed.
Before currency reform the dollar
was worth 3.00o,oo0 lei. Then the
great financial coup occurred, un-
beknown even to the Communist
minister Of national economy.
On orders from Moscow the. cur
rency had to be exchanged for new
paper money. valued at 14o lei to
the dollar. Every one had to turn
in all old currency. but the national
bank allowed each person to ex-
change only 100000 lei of old
currency-s1 worth-for new cur
rency. The unredeemed part Of q
persons wealth-regardless Of how
many billion lei 1t totaled-remains
temporarily in the hands Of the
government for safe keeping"
This measure hit not only the
landowners and merchants, but also
the millions OF peasants who had
just sold their crops to government
buyers at high prices, not knowing
that the ak would fall soon after
they completed their transactions.
Estates Divided.
Estates--large and small-were
divided up among the peasantry.
The trouble was that the parcelling
out of land gave the head Of each
family not more than five acres.
And with only 140 new lei--the
maximum they could get in cur
rency reform-they did not have
sufficient funds to buy seeds, fer
tilizer and agricultural implements.
Romanian farmers can satisfy
their needs, however. on credit from
the government, provided they join
the strictly Communist-controlled
co-operatives and thus adopt the
new system Of production as 1t is
practiced in Russia, where crops
must be surrendered to the govern
ment, which decides how much the
peasant can keep for his own up
keep.
Since the currency reform the
cost of living has increased consid-
erably. The 140 lei allowed each
citizen can purchase a meal in one
Of the good restaurants, which still
exist for the benefit of the Rus
slams, the few foreigners who COM
prise the diplomatic corps and the
members of the Communist Party.
Communication between foreigners
and Romanians is strictly forbidden,
unless the Romanian agrees to be-
come secret police spy. Arrests
and deportations to Russia continue
with monotonous regularity. As in
the U. S. S. r., it is dangerous to
inquire as to the whereabouts OF
friends who disappear.
Evening star., 1948-04-07
Bricker Due to Address
Masonic Lodoe Tonioht

Senator Bricker, Republican, of
Ohio, will discuss freemasonry and
its relation to world conditions at
a meeting Of Barristers Masonic
Lodge at 7:30 o'clock tonight in
Stansbury Temple, Georgia and
Missouri avenues NV.
The Washington Centennial Lodge
will hold a banquet at 7::30 o'clock
tonight in the Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street and New York
avenue NV.