The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-11-04
SHORT SHOTS
By WILLIAM J. PRIEST
Livingston, Mont.

for your children in Montana same
as in New York State? Number of
teeth decayed, missing or filled in
Newburgh, N. Y, declined from 21
| per 100 permanent teeth, to 14.8
While the Children in Kingston, N. Y,
where no flourine is added to the
drinking water still showed 21.3 de-
cayed, filled or missing per 100 per-
manent teeth, reports DR.. David B.
Asst, director of the State Bureau
of Dental Health, N. Y. State Health
Dept. Why not ask your city fathers
to cooperate by obtaining DR.. Asts
report.
Senator Byrd complains that the
post office dept. has 526,634 en-
ployees and the expense in August
was running at the rate of$125, 1884,
600 month. Senator Byrd objects
to the raise in the postal employees
pay but he did not protest the in
crease to Senators, which is also ex-
empted from Federal Taxes. All Sen
ators have increased the number of |
employees in their offices, to handle |
increased business. Post office de- |
partment increased personnel for
same reason. 1t costs us $4,000 a |
year to keep Senator on the job, and
he only works months. Paid vaca-
lions etc. nice deal.
The Missouri Pacific strike end
ed after a 46-day complete tie up.
This was 40 days longer than any
one expected it to last. The "Big
Four" of the Railroad Brotherhoods
are the most conservative Unions in
The United States. Thompson, the re-
,eiver of the Mo. Pac. must have been
IL advised, when he compelled them
20 strike to obtain the same bene-
its they enjoy on all other railroads
n the United States. Not even a
land car operated during the strike
md the rails on the main line were
| streak of rust Caused by the rain
md sunshine).
On Oct, 18th US Steel Corp. re-
ported net income $39,171,144, equal
o S1.26 per common share, for the
hree months preceding the strike.
directors ordered SO cents a share I
lvldend, the same as declared three l.
1onths ago. Their refusal to pay a c
lst pension to steel employees can Il
OF be justified on the grounds of t.
perating in the red. n
Albert j. Fitzgerald, international =
resident of the CLIO united Elect "
cal workers has been expelled from
is own local union because he lead
left wing slate at the National Con-
ention in Cleveland a month ago. n
fitzgerald will still hang onto his job I,
5 the Unions International President u
hich pays $1,000 year. His union u
18th 1900 members with over a
lousand voting) is one of the largest
the JEW. attended the CLIO Con- "
ention in Portland over year ago M
Id | predict at the CLIO National p,
invention in Cleveland this week,
at the CLIO will purge all Uuions
no donot conform to the policy of re
e executive committee of the CLIO IT
nom the members themselves elect. CT
Republican Senator Hickenlooper az
Iowa has secured permission from til
'ngress to print and distribute, at cE
overnment expense, $4,000 copies ell
his minority report on the Atomic ca
lergy Commission. You remember
e majority denounced his charges ha
unfounded and partisan. But, Hick- Sc
Topper is running for Senator again ho
1850 and this makes good cam M
ign literature, as the majority re- be
TT will no doubt fail to be enclosed. =
In st. Louis, Oct, 25th, the men,
RS of Clio Communications Workers
America, Division 20, insisted that
uthwestern Bell Telephone Co. is
: outstanding telephone producer /
revenue, yet wages of employees /
zee 1889 have Jagged Is cents an
hour behind adjustments won by
Ter organized workers. The Union
IS for increased wage rates, improv-
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