The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1949-05-13
SHORT SHOTS
By WILLIAM j. PRIEST
Livingston, Montana


Helena to rent to store it in. Do
you wonder why Governor Bon
ner stated during the campaign
that the liquor setup has to be
cleaned up and that the legislature
gave Attorney General Olsen $780,
10000 to help out in cleaning up
sore spots in the state. Five bucks
case being split, who all got their
cut? It's a real chance for Mr..
Olsen to make the headlines with
APT
England has nationalized the big
steel industry. They have also ma
tionalized railroads, telephone and
telegraph, postoffice, health care,
old age pensions. All the promises
the Labor party made to the voters
are being kept.
Big Business like the Bourbons of
France, never forgets not does it
ever learn. The pendulum swings
as far to the left as to the right. The
NAM and the Chamber of Commerce
in opposing collective bargaining,
high wages, national health insur-
ance, increased social security bene-
fits, a 75c minimum wage law, are
forcing unions in the United States
to form a straight labor pattern after
that in England. We adopted her
monetary, modelled our government
after her parliament and laws. We
will also be forced to win on the pol
itical field that we cannot gain in
the economic field. Big Business
forgets that the Political Action COM
mittees set up by the Rail brother
hoods, AFL, CLIO, the Independent
Machinist union, can swing into joint
action in twenty-four hours with
100000 members and three de-
pendents, giving them a potential
voting strength of 36,000,000. Don't |
forget we lost more on the political
field in one year, 1947, than we
gained on the economic field in 20 !
years The old adage-"where you
lose them, that's where you win them
back, is very applicable.
was asked the question, what
do union men mean by the state
ment "He is only a card carrier.
Well, a good union man is a good
citizen. He is registered and
votes, while a card carrier just
pays his dues, never attends meet
ings, is not registered and prides
himself on not voting, and they
have no record of him and his fam
ily at the court house, so he pays
no taxes.
We all know Governor Bonner is
leaning over backward to save the
state money, but when Governor Ford
made numerous trips in opposition to
an MVA-aeroplanes to South Da-
kota, Denver, Omaha, and at the
present time Governors Nicholson,
Sd; Aandahl, ND; Peterson of
Nebraska, go to Concordia, Kansas
to oppose the MVA, it seems to me
that not alone Governor Bonner, but
of our supreme court should
accompany him to Washington at the
expense of the state to insist that
MVA and eva are "musts" to en-
able Montana to secure new indust-
ries, through a comprehensive plan
Of many dams and cheap power.
Senator Murray and Rep. Mans
field are entitled to the help of the
Governor, supreme court justices,
and secretary of state, who should
appear before the committee in
Washington.
Governor Bonner does not know
what you want unless you tell him.
He is the first peoples Governor in
Montana in years, and we appreciate
he fact he is earnestly trying to
.ure the patient who has been sick
or fifty years. He cannot do it in
| day or without your help. BACK
Inn UP!
Senator Wherry of Nebraska,
boasts he repealed OPA. Con-
gressional Record shows Wherry
Bridges, Taft and Ecton, voting
shoulder to shoulder.