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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10
IMPOSITION OF TAFT-HARTLEY ON COAL MINERS
RAISES PROTEST BY PROGRESSIVE PARTY

Simultaneous protests to Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman and Montana's
Democratic congressional delegation
this week were wired by the Progress
sive Party of Montana and the Cas-
cade County Progressive Party.
In protesting, both groups empha-
sized that resort to the "slave labor"
law g.. is blow against all labor"
and urged the immediate resembling
of this action by the President. They
also called on the President and Mon
tana's congressional delegation to re-
double their efforts to secure repeal
of Taft-Hartley at this session of the
congress.
In announcing the action of the
Progressive Party, State PIP secre-
tary, Chef Kinsey, and Cascade PIP
chairman, Bill Davey, asked all labor
groups to join with them in condemn
ing imposition of the acts legal ma
chinery against the United Mine
Workers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

The nations coal miners are locked
in a life and death struggle with a
bloc of the toughest employers in the
country. The UNIV has time and
again during the past year attempted
to arrive at decent contract with
the employers, but, have found the
operators far more interested in un-i
ion-busting than in negotiating in
good faith. At the moment, 100000
coal miners are carrying on the fight
of all labor against imposition of the
hated against involun-
tary servitude being thrust upon not
alone them, but all workers, should
the occasion arise. They need the
support of all unions now against the
combined strength of employers, Gov
eminent, including Denham, and
public opinion. Please
act now. Please contact our congress
sional delegation Immediately de-
revocation of the President
ial order putting the Taft-Hartley
Act into operation, and at the same
time, urge immediate repeal of that
nefarious piece of un-American leg
slation.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

Q. Wasn't there change made
for sawmiIl workers?
A. There is no change for saw
mill workers, but the amendments
do provide a new exemption for
workers in logging and woods OPP
erations, away from planning mills
or sawmills where such products are
processed However, this exemption
applies only if the employer has no
more than II workers engaged in
such woods operations.
Q. Just what is the change made
in the law for telephone switchboard
operators? Are they still exempt?
A. The Wage-Hour Law originally
provided an exemption which could
be applied to telephone switchboard
operators in exchanges with not more
than 500 stations. Under the amend
ments, this exemption is broadened
to apply in the case of switchboard
operators in telephone exchanges
with not more than $50 stations.
0. understand that the amend
ments give the government the power
to sue an employer to collect back
wages for a worker. Does this mean
that workers no longer can sue for
back wages themselves and collect
double?
A. Workers still have the right |
to sue for back wages due under the |
Wage-Hour Law, and the courts still |
can award them an extra amount
equal to such back wages, together
with attorney fees, and costs. But
the amendments provide two more
methods for the recovery of back
wages. One of the new methods pro-
vides that the Administrator of the
U. S. Department of Labor's Wage
and Hour division may supervise the
payment of back wages due to work
ars. Under the other new method,
he Administrator may bring suit in
certain cases to collect back wages for
Both of the new provisions
'equire that the worker give his
consent to the Administrator, and
provide that the worker in such cases
valve his right to any court award
# double time payment, such as is
possible when the worker sues him
elf.
Q. Can such action be taken at
my time?
A. No. Action for recovery of
pack wages brought by the Admins
rator are subject to a 2-year statute
# limitations, as is action brought
" a worker himself t
Q. How can | make sure of my :
lights under the law?
A. You can receive information by
communicating with the nearest re-
.ional office of the U. S. Department
f Labor's Wage and Hour division.
uch offices are located in Boston,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10
Taxes Take Less of Output
Than In 1905

Harvard Economics Professor Sey-
mour Harris reminds the economizers
of an important fact:
In the 1905 the cost of federal,
state and local governments totaled
one sixth of the nations output. To-
day that proportion. is only one sew
enth.
That doesn't seem to indicate that
the federal government has taken
over everything as the Tafts, Ectons,
Capeharts and Donnells maintain.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10
Logan Talks eva

S. R. Logan, Charlo, Montana, has
been speaking on behalf Of a Co
lumbia Valley Administration at
Grange, Farmers Union and other
community meetings in western Mon
tana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

Asst. Att'y.-Gen. Bergeson points
out: Whenever we have found
monopoly, we have also found that it
was selfishly used for private bene-
fit, rather than public good."- WJP
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

criticism, but by all means fight for
the fundamentals of the Columbia
Valley Administration.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

1t will be noted that the bulk of the
taxes go for war and foreign affairs
The bankers have steady and sure
"take" Of 10 per cent. The welfare
state" gets only a small fraction.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10
WHO GETS FEDERAL SUBSIDIES?

While the farmers are being told that subsidies and price supports
that
and transportation have been the chief benefaes of federal aid
The the protecting industry
largely the of agriculture and the billions being paid out
Marshall the cod
subsidies direct Indirect special interests
particularly industry and topgh financial circles
NONFARM SUBSIDIES PROVIDED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
million of land the railroads.
the following thirteen states
South Carolina,
Maryland New Delaware
RhodeIs Island, and Connecticut
the period 1e344s, of which represented
16,
paid of RFC funds losses the
sale of rubber and rubber 193448 Dur
of the Budget
subsidies to following 9344s
cording to the of the Budget
Copper, Lead and Zinc (ACM, etc. $350859,000
Coal 63115,000
Petrol nd Pet Product
Building Materials
made their investments unaxed during the hreeyear
period,
The House Ways and Means Committee recently
ed had
companies whereby they might only 500 million in
for the thre-year and
against reopening of federal claims
FACTS FOR FARMERS 80 Corlandt ST.. New York T.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10
YOUR FEDERAL TAX
DOLLAR

Press releases say us. federal
tax dollar will be spent somewhat
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1950-02-10

Observation-Disclosures 5957515151575151515I
Evening star., 1950-01-20
First Woman Named
To High Patent Job

For the first time in history a
woman has been appointed a
primary examiner in the Patent
Office. She is Miss Excellenza l..
Morse. 230 Arlington Village,
Arlington.
Miss Morse is to be in charge
of Division IS of the Patent Of
flee, which passes on applica-
tions for patents having to do
with electrical conductors, con-
duits, insulators and connectors
and illumination. Miss Morse
Joined the Patent Office in 1925
as an examiner. She said that
her interest had been aroused by
a classmate in college whose am
bition was to enter the office.
She was graduated from the
University of Vermont in math-
ematics in 1921 and obtained her
M. A. in physics at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology in
1923. While employed at the
Patent Office she attended George
Washington University Law
School and got her law degree in
1882.
John A. Marzall. patent COM
missioner, said he believes women
should have top positions in the
Patent Office and other places
where they have qualifications
such as Miss Morse possesses.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Borbershop Quartet Strikes
Riqht Chord for Army Proqrom

request yesterday from Gen.
Kelley, asking that one of the
society's quartets be sent to Japan
to instruct the troops.
Society officers, after meeting
with Gen. Herren at the hotel
today, said they will send singers
to Japan in March, probably for
three months. Final plans have
not been completed, but officers
say they know of half dozen
groups which would be glad to go.
AS Gen. Herren stood in the
room, the Antlers, who played
third in the international COM
petition in June. gave out with
Alabama Choo-choo."
Gen Herren smiled and said:
You didn't know 7 was from Ala
bama, did you?"
The Antlers were to sing at the
White House at $3.50 pm. today.
1t seems they sent Gen. Harry
Vaughan, the Presidents military
aide, three of their records recent
ly. But when they arrived they
were broken. The Antlers are one
OF more than II quartets here for
the society's midWinter meeting.
Another reason for their tuning
up this morning was that they
Will record for the State Depart
ment's Voice of America program.
The society's meeting, which be-
gan today, will end Saturday with
songfest at $3.50 pm. in Con-
Stitution Hall.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
U0PWA Denied Order
10 Prevent Clio Expulsion

Judge Burnita Matthews of Dis
trict Court yesterday denied a
plea from the United Office and
Professional Workers for a tenn
porary restraining order to keep
the CIO from moving against the
union on charges of Communist
domination.
Judge Matthews said she would
decide other issues-including a
plea for a permanent injunction
to keep the CIo from booting the
union out within a few days"
The UOPWA is one of the 10
unions now under CIO investiga-
ton, accused of following the
Communist Party program rather
than CIO policies.
The union sought the temporary
order to black the CLOS investi-
cation and action by the CIO Ex-
ecutive Board, meeting here Feb
ruary ID.
Hearings on the charges against
UOPWA were held December 10.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Supervised Freedom Urged
For Neglected Children

Supervised freedom without too
many rules for children from bro
ken homes was stressed by Miss
Alice R. May, consultant for in
stitutions of the Associated Cath
olic Charities of Baltimore. at a
meeting yesterday of staff and
board members of children's in
stitutions here.
Speaking to representatives OF
10 organizations, Miss May point
ed out that 80 per cent of the
children now in institutions are
from broken homes and are not
orphans, as was true years ago
She said these youngsters should
be given as much freedom as pos
sible-"w within limits"
The institute. held at Hillcrest,
a children's home, 4119 Nebras-
ka avenue NV, was the first in
series of six sponsored by the
family and child welfare section
of the United Community Serv-
ices here.
Among the institutions repre-
sented at yesterdays meeting
were st. Vincent's Home and
School, st. AIMS Infant Asylum,
Industrial Home School and st.
Johns Parish of the Washington
Church Orphanage Association.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Durr Denies Secrets
In Lawyers Guild
BY the Assoeioted Pres.

= Clifford j. Durr, president of
the National Lawyers Guild, said
yesterday a congressional demand
for an investigation of the guild
as a possible Communist front is
an "old, old story"
Representative Nixon, Repub-
lican, of California said Wednes-
day night the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee should
conduct an inquiry to determine
"the truth or falsity" of charges
that the Lawyers Guild is being
used to foster communism in the
United States.
Mr.. Nixon said Earl Browder,
former chairman of the Com-
munist Party in the United
States, testified before the COM
mittee in 1889 that the guild was
a transmission belt for the Com
munist Party. Mr.. Nixon also
said that several defense lawyers
in the New York Communist con-
spiracy trial are guild members.
Declaring there has never been
anything secret about the guild
or its activities" Mr.. Durr said
IF. however, the (House) COM
mittee should want to know about
individual members of the guild
then it will have to take up the
matter with them personally, as
the guild requires no fngerprints
or blood tests as condition to
membership:
mo loyalty oath is required ex-
cept that required of all lawyers
on their admission to the bar
which includes an oath to sup
port the Constitution of the
United States"
Evening star., 1950-01-20

The Antlers, top-f1ight barber
shop quartet from Flint, Mich,
walked into a room at the Hotel
Statler this morning during an
Executive Committee meeting of
the Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in America
They raised their voices in song:
Here's to Gen. Herren-hell II
never be bored with a barbershop
chord-oh Lord"
This was the society's way of
telling Maj. Gen. T. w. Herren,
chief of the Army's Special Serv-
ices, that the quartets will CO.
operate in an Army program to
bring barber shopping to it's
troops throughout the world.
Gen. Herren started a program
to develop quartets among troops
last June after hearing the soci-
ety's singers compete in an inter-
national contest at Buffalo.
Singing is a good means of rec
reation for soldiers" the general
said, as he discussed progress of
the program, especially in the
Far East.
Already, he said, SO quartets
and B choruses have been Or
ganlzed in Japan under Brig. Gen.
Paul Kelley, an ardent barbershop
singing fan and head of Special
Services in the Far East Command.
Gen. Herren said he received a
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Mrs. Mary {. Becker
Dies in Boston at 90

Mrs. Mary C. Becker, who was
born in the District 80 years ago
last August and lived almost all
her life here. died Wednesday at
her daughters home in Boston, it
was learned today.
Mrs. Becker, who lived at 113
Thirteenth street Sc, had been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. George
j. O'Shea, wife of a Marine Corps
colonel, since December 10.
A member of an old Georgetown
family, she was the daughter of
Timothy D. DAILY, who was in the
wholesale and retail butter busi-
ness there for many years. She
attended st. Vincent's Parochial
School.
Mrs. Becker was the widow of
William M. Becker, who operated
several cigar and newsstands here
a number of years ago. He-died
in 1923.
She was formerly active in the
Sodality at st. Joseph's Church,
Second and c streets NE.
In addition to her daughter,
she is survived by two sons, Fran
els j. Becker, employed in the
Agriculture Departments produc-
ton and marketing division, with
whom she lived, and William T.
Becker, Justice Department at
torney, of 1926 Rittenhouse street
NV, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Monday morning in the Holy Com
forter Church, Fourteenth and
East Capitol streets. Burial will
be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The
time of the services will be an
nnIIncnI 1ator
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Maragon Asks Court |
To Dismiss Indictment
As Inadequate, Illegal

John Maragon, prominent figure
in the congressional ''flve-per-
center" inquiry, today in District
Court asked dismissal of an in
dictment charging that he lied to
a Senate subcommittee in the
course of the investigation.
Maragon, who pleaded not
guilty at his arraignment two
weeks ago, listed five points in the
motion which was filed by Attor-
ney Albert Goldstein. He claimed:
The indictment set forth INSULT
cient fact stating an offense
against the United States;
The grand jury which indicted
him was illegally constituted in
that IA of the jurors should be
disqualified because they are Fed
eral employees.
The indictment fails to allege a
quorum of the Senate subcommit-
tee was present at the time he
committed the alleged perjury;
The indictment was insufficient
because it appears that testimony
given by Maragon was not mate
rial to any matter then pending
before the subcommittee;
1t was not specified that the
indictment was a true bill' of the
grand jury which returned it.
Accompanying his motion, Mar
agon, former friend Of Maj. Gen.
Harry H. Vaughan, presidential
military aide, filed motion for a
bill of particulars.
In this paper, he asked that the
prosecution be required to show
him what Government business"
he was alleged to have negotiated
between 1945 and 1949. He also
wanted the Government to show
the amounts of money he allegedly
received for negotiating Govern
ment business" as we'll as any work
allegedly done by him in connec-
ton with the Government during
the 1945-49 period.
Maragon faces trial February 20.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Gen. Meyers Counsel
Asks Permission 10
File New Appeal

|. Counsel for Bennett Meyers, for
mer major general now serving a
20-month to five year sentence for
inducing perjury before a Senate
subcommittee. today urged the
United States Court of Appeals to
allow a second appeal to that
court.
Attorney Robert T. Bushnell
argued before the appellate judges
that Meyers was denied his consti-
tutional rights to a jury trial when.
the subornation of perjury case
was heard before District Court
Judge Alexander Holtzoff and a
jury in 1948.
Some time ago Meyers won an
appeals court reversal on a con-
viction that he induced a witness
before the Senate subcommittee
to lie on October 6, 1947. The
present case stems from a second
charge that Meyers suborned
perjury on October 4, 1947 before
the same subcommittee.
Attorney Bushnell said today
that the appellate court should
allow this appeal under habeas
corpus proceedings. He charged
that a question of constitutional
rights was involved because Judge
Holtzoff. by refusing to let the
trial jury study all the elements
of the crime charged, in effect,
had deprived Meyers of a jury
trial. So s. .-ss..ss,e
The lawyer pointed out that
Judge Holtzof refused to let the
jury consider the element that q
subcommittee quorum was present
when the alleged offense was COM
nniftpd Frr->t
Evening star., 1950-01-20

cago, she moved to Asheville, N. c..
as a young girl and was educated
there. She came to Washington
in 1908 and trained for nursing
at Children's Hospital. The for
mer Miss Nancy Fisher, she mar
ried DR.. Sparks in 1912.
In addition to her husband, she
is survived by a daughter, Sister
Mary Emily Ann of the Sisters
of Holy Cross, a teacher at Holy
Cross Academy here; son, Will
liam Clark Sparks. jr.. of Seattle,
and three grandchildren. Four
sisters, including Mrs. G. w. Buch-
holz of Parkfairfax, and a brother,
also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
9 am. tomorrow at st. Martin S
Catholic Church, 1900 North Cap
itol street. Burial will be in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Drulft
Continued From First Page.)

unless overruled by higher au-
thority.'
Secretary johnson, in urging an
extension of the draft, said its
termination could we'll be inter-
prcted abroad as an indication
that this country does not con-
slider the international situation
as serious as previous argument
in favor of the foreign military
aid program and the North At
lantic Pact Indicated"
There also is possibility that
failure on our part to extend the
act might seriously undermine the
position of the military establish
ments of other signers to the
North Atlantic pact who are main
tanning mandatory national serv-
ice over considerable political
opposition within their own coun-
tries" he declared.
That statement brought a
charge of Inconsistency" from
Mr.. Vinson as he pointed out the
Marshall Plan and the military
and defense programs were being
reduced land you don't always
spend the money we give you"
Mr.. johnson denied that the
appeal for the draft extension
was inconsistent and said he would
like to stress that there were more
men now in fighting units and
ready to fight than in recent years.
eve seek in all fields sufficient
strength for the security of Amer
lea and regard Selective Service
as prop for that security" the
Secretary declared.
The present law expires in
June. Chairman Vinson has in
troduced a bill to extend the act
until June, 1858.
Another compromise mentioned
earlier in congressional quarters
and in the Pentagon would take
the form of a Skeleton draft"
Machinery Would Be Kept.
Draft machinery would be kept
alive. But provision would be
made that no one would be in
Quoted unless an emergency arose.
Secretary of State Acheson is
scheduled to support the extension
before the committee Wednesday.
Proponents of extension of. the
act in it's present form antici-
pate a rough time. There is op-
position to the move in the House
committee itself and election
conscious Congress is not eager to
vote peacetime draft.
Inactive Since 1949.
However, one member said he
had been against enactment of
the 1948 draft, "but the military
representatives presented such a
good case that I voted for it.
want to see what they have to
say now"
The present draft has been in
active since January, l949. in fact,
only about 10000 men were called
up under it since 1t was passed in
the summer of 1948. Voluntary en-
listments took care Of military
needs.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Spy Trial
Continued From First Page.)

the FBI about Miss Coplon's plans
to come from Washington to New
York to meet Gubitchev. The
defense contended that the FBI
learned of these trips by listening
in on her telephone conversations.
FBI witnesses admitted that
they put taps on Miss Coplon's
office and home telephones, the
telephones of her parents in
Brooklyn and Gubitchev's phone.
They said. however, that their
case was based on information
from Mr.. Foley. from "confiden-
tial informant" and on observa-
tions of Miss Coplon's and Gubit-
chevs movements by FBI agents.
Defense Lawyers Archibald
Palmer and Abraham Pomerantz
got the FBI witnesses to admit
that the term confidential in
formant" sometimes means wire
Taper.
Judge Ryan said the defense
motions. to throw out the indict-
ment on wire-tap grounds may be
reconsidered "in the light of the
Governments proof as developed
in the trial"
Evening star., 1950-01-20


moved to Silver Spring as child
and was educated in Washington
and Montgomery County schools.
Managed Grill A Years.
Mr.. Fling had been manager of
the Grotto Grill for four years,
Previously he was manager of the
beer division of the Montgomery
County Liquor Dispensary sys-
tenn, and for IA years, assistant
manager of the Chevy Chase Lake.
An active worker for the Demo-
cratic Party in Montgomery Coun-
ty, he also belonged for IA years
to the Silver Spring National
Guard Service Company and was
a member of the Silver Spring Elks
Lodge and the Izaak Walton
League.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Ruby E. Fling; three daughters,