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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
The C0PPERDUST SHADOW OVER MONTANA
"a Corporations Grip On Press, Government"

Thus sheaded fupage article the ACM Press in Mon
ana in the Sunday April 6, DENVER POST.
The article written by Post Staff Writer Thor Severson fol
lowing several weeks nvesgatory work in Montana is
good-objectvely reports the facts censorship om
sion, and the 'OWersn-sprng hfe-amOng-th -Eskimos
editorial policy of the kept press
Newsman Severson cites number of examples of editorial
doing thorough job omission including
the payngdown of facts about the Compensation Initiative.
particularly pertinent example censorship
and how all mention the resolution putting the council
y omitted from the wire written by Helena independent
Record NOTE In neither the mining and smelling
panels the full meeting of the council did ACM officials
single word of protest this resouton
Another example, taken Associated Press Denver files
November IT, 1851 story the holdings of the Ana
conda not only Montana but throughout the wOrd-ncud
behind the iron curtain Although this story pub
shed throughout the nation did show single Mon
tana newspaper everson of this story will be found
elsewhere in this issue under title ACMs Holding Sagger the
Imagination.)
The Post in editoray noting that this the first of
articles Montana characerzes state the ast
post in America of euda journalism The five remaining
tcles will deal with CD An appraisal by
tce of the ACM press 2) Is the Montana legislature vassa
state of ACM? 81 The cooper Curtain politics. (4
ACM answers the Kelly shaft project and ACMs public
relations policy; (5) Butte, the city.
Every MOntanan interested in Montana political
nomc life the influence exercised by the company press
public opinion etc. should attempt the full
They be obtained from DENVER POST Sunday editions
starting with April 6.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
ACM'S HOLDINGS STAGGER THE IMAGINATION

pany-each important industries in
themselves.
Others include: Anaconda Sales
company, Montana Hardware COM
pany, North Lily Mining company,
the Tooele Valley Utah Railroad com
pany, the Butte, Mont, Anaconda &
Pacific railway.
Its foreign subsidiaries are led
by Chile Copper company, 80 per
cent owned by A.C.M., whose Chu-
guicamete, Chile, property high
in the Andes is generally believed
TO be the richest copper deposit
known.
1t also owns, or controls, the Andes
Copper Mining company, a Chilean
railway, and the Greene Canamea
Copper company, whose properties
in Mexico produce copper molybde-
mite, gold and silver.
BEHIND IRON CURTAIN
Anaconda also controls a company
in Polish Silesia-which owned
large group of European zinc, lead
and coal deposits and smelling plants.
This property, however, now lies be-
hind the iron curtain.
Through all these affiliates, Ana
conda mines copper, lead, zinc, silver,
gold magnese and other metals. 1t
has copper smelters or refineries at
and Great Falls in Mon
tana, at Port Amboy in New Jersey,
and at Miami, Ariz. 1t has electro
lytic zinc refineries at Anaconda and
Great Falls, Stag Tuning plant at
and lead smelter plant at
Tooele, Utah.
Its subsidiaries have metal fab
ricating plants at Ansonia, Water
bury and Torrington, Conn, at
Detroit and Muskegon, Mich, at
Kenosha, Wis, New Toronto, Cam
ada, Great Falls, Sycamore, ILL.,,
Anderson and Marion, Ind, two
in New York, and one in Orange,
Calf.
1t also owns phosphate mines at
Jonda, Ida, and processes the prod
let at Anaconda into phosphate fer
ilizer.
And, of course, the A.C.M owns the
i've Montana newspapers which fan
irculationwise from the western
o the eastern border of the state.
1t is not information which should
AIRY do-not-print tag. You can
ind it in the Encyclopedia Britain
lea, in financial papers, in engine
ing journals.
But as one Montana attorney put
!: =. 1t wasn't published in the
-.C.M. papers | read"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
COMPARE THESE STORIES
Montana Federation of
Butchers Joins State Group
From ACM's Helena Independent
Record

From ACM's Helena Independent
Record
The Montana Federation of Butch
ers (AFL) today joined the state
federation of labor and urged it's
local unions to do the same.
The 35 representatives of nine loo
al unions endorsed the strike of about
Is meat cutters from as many Bill
lings shops. Six or eight other Bill
lings butcher shops are understood
to have signed new contracts, FEEDER
alton Secretary John Mogus of Ana
conda said.
Speakers included James S. TIMBER
Of Missoula, president of the Mon,
tana Federation of Labor.
The butchers group will elect Off
GERS at its annual meeting in Helena
or Missoula during August.
Delegates were from Havre, Great
Falls, Helena, Missoula, Anaconda,
Butte, Livingston, Kalispell and Bill
lings.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

your fellow man-if you are a Re-
publican. If you are a Republican,
one line of thought runs, you can do
it without the slightest fear of being
investigated, slandered or maligned.
An overheard statement went thus:
"Of course they damn everything for
the wrong reasons, but as long as they
are doing the job guess it isn't too
important about the reasons"
There is a boy named Chase who
has been talking nightly against the
Farmer-Labor Silicosis Initiative.
Reports are that he is a member of
the law firm of Jardine, Stevenson &
Chase of Great Falls. If that is so
that baby can afford to talk against
il, betcha. He eats that way. That
law firm used to include the name
of Roy Glover, recently elected a
vice president of the Anaconda, and
his offices are now in New York City.
He is presently sojourning in South
America straig thening up a little diff
ficulty down there. Too bad Glover
sn't twins.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
Taxes An Item With Coop
Creamery In Great Falls

Although the NTEA crowd con-
stantly harps about Coop taxes, they
aren't kidding Manager Carl Here
sen or any of the patron-owners of
the Farmers Union Coop Creamery
IN Great Falls.
County property taxes paid by this
farmer-owned business totalled ST.
371.86 last year. City property
taxes were $155.95; state corporation
license tax, $500, and federal in
come tax, 1857.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
THOR SEVERSON, Staff Writer
The Denver Post

THOR SEVERSON, Staff Writer
The Denver Post
A.C.M.'s farflung empire has
assets in the neighborhood of 500
million. 1t has major metal mining
and fabricating operations in thir-
teen states, and in South America,
Canada and Mexico.
1t owns the Butte Water company,
a big Montana hardware firm, and has
important stock holdings in such af-
filiates as Inspiration, Consolidated,
Butte Copper and Zinc company, Park
Utah Consolidated Mines, and Basic
Magnesium, Inc.
It's two biggest fabricating subsid-
iaries are American Brass company
and Anaconda Wire and Gable COM
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
Question

When is the Montana Taxpay-
ers Association going to come out
in favor of the Workmen's Com
Pensation initiative which, if en-
acted into law, will save the tax
payers of Montana over 100000
per year in Public Welfare funds?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

The contention persists that We'll
lington D. Rankin will get into the
western district congress
sional race.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
RUM0R-TIcS

The widest rumor this past week
un-American committee into action.
From several different parts of the
state they are saying that a frantic
effort is being made by the fronts"
for our beloved and benevolent ACM
to goad certain Veterans group to
demand an investigation of the Off
GERS of the Montana Industrial Health
Committee by the un-American com
mittee. The most heartening rumor
came yesterday afternoon when it
was reported that that Veterans
group flatly refused to be party to
the plot. There have also been reports
that one veteran of prominence in
the state flatly refused to remove
his name from the Silicosis petition
upon DEMAND from a frontier.
Many citizens of the state are find
ing that their hearts are being brok-
generous, docile Anaconda, into
kissing, uncompromising, no-more-
love-and- kisses-if-y you don t. jump-now
reptile. There are rumors that those
who have known little except the woe
them, wine-them, and win them, tao
tics of the unrelenting Anaconda, are
staring in horror at that creature in /
the process of coiling, and their feel
ings are being hurt. IF the un-Amer-
lean committee goes into action as it
is rumored it will within the next
week, many are saying that it may
we'll be a clear indication that the
is still cracking the whip
over the boys it steered around in
he legislature.
The contention persists that We'll
ington D. Rankin will get into the
western district congress
ional race.
There is considerable talk going
he rounds that the left-wing politi-
al thinkers are considering a ''join t
he Republican party campaign
here they say, you can say anything t
on like. There seems to be a gen. i
raj belief that there is no limit on |
ne damnation you can heap on your c
overnment, there is no limit to the '
you can heap on the /
ar in Korea, there is no limit to the I
riticism you can heap on the demo-
ratio processes, there is no limit to f
he heresy you can expound about i!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
FOR THE RECORD

On the controversial Tdeands oil BILL whereby the states
or Texas and Louisiana hope gain
beyond the low tidewater which all the neone
both Senators Murray and Ecton voted kill the
On the Hill "Oi for the Lamps of Learning" amendment
Murray voted FOR the amendment AGAINST Had
THIS amendment been successful approximately $50 billions
Of oil would have available education of Amer
lean children
This bill has passed both houses in conference
committee for reconcement Senate and House differences
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

The compromise version will undoubtedly pass both houses
To this largest all oil all
cans Presidential veto is Have you written the
President requesting a Veto
TO Keep The Record Straight
The present Workmens Compensation Law exemps farmers
from its provisions The Compensation Initiative alter
that exemption clause.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11
TO Keep The Record Straight
NEWS SUPPRESSION?
Butchers Join State Labor
Federation
From GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE

From GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE
HELENA, April = The Mon
tana Federation of Butchers -(AFL)
today joined the State Federation of
Labor and urged it's local unions to
do the same thing.
The 35 representatives of nine loo
al unions endorsed A MONTANA IN
DUSTRIAL HEALTH COMMITTEE
PROPOSAL TO AMEND, BY THE
INITIATIVE METHOD, THE STATE
WORKM NE MS COMPENSATION
ACT.
They also endorsed the strike of
about 15 meat cutters from as many
Billings butcher shops. Six or eight
other Billings butcher shops are I'M
derstood to have signed contracts,
federation secretary John Mogus of
Anaconda said.
Speakers included James S. TIMBER
of Missoula, president of the Mon
tana Federation of Labor.
The butchers group will elect Off
GERS at its annual meeting in Helena
or Missoula during August.
Delegates were from Havre, Great
Falls, Helena, Missoula, Anaconda,
Butte, Livingston, Kalispell and Bill
lings. (bold face emphasis by P.V)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

There talk going that proponents compen-
satlon initiative usurpng the power of the legislature
Of like much other being pedded
days about this important initiative measure this lust
talk Initiatives integral parts of the democratic process
There is much deeper underlying why the
saton ntlaveand at least three other initiative
are beng presented to the people for signatures There
the two bond Initiatives to raise money for long
proVemens at overcrowded mental institutions
Springs and Boulder There the initiative raise the
line tax cent gallon to provide amount Of
funds to cope with pressing highway problem There
been movements institute initiatives but the crowded
field has prevented it there NAV vet he one more
What is the for the people Montana going via
the initiative route these important matters
Montana legislatures which the Denver questions as
"a vassa state of the ACM to face up to these
along with many other issues
When legislature fails to function then there is but one
recourse left to the people of govern
mental improvements and that the initiative method
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1952-04-11

QUESTION: What would be the the ACM daily ed all
the Compensation Initiative from this Associated story?
Evening star., 1952-10-30

PS TO THE LADIES' Men have letting things slide and forgetting
them! So get es Combination Package yourself surprise gift him
YOU'LL delighted with his looking handsome appearance
Evening star., 1952-10-30
No General Order
Can Solve Problems

don't much care what the
reason is. I know that the
business Of Democratic Govern
ment is serious and difficult and
complicated. I know the only
way that business can be car
ried on in a democracy is by
facing the issues, by having
differences of opinion about
them. arguing about them, and
voting on them. We have to
reason together, as the Bible
says. and when we have come to
conclusion we have to work to-
gether to carry out our de-
cisionS.
No general order is going to
eliminate our problems. No
superman is going to solve our
difficulties for us. And any,
body who poses and talks like a
Superman Is a fraud.
I stated at the beginning, and
I wish to state again, that I
have the gravest apprehension
about the future course of our
country If the Republican Party
Is returned to power.
AS far as our internal prog
ress and prosperity are con-
cerned, the Republican Party
has not changed from it's 20
years OF blind and selfish oppo-
s1tion. Behind the bland as
sertions Of their candidate turks
the same old hatchet crew.
Their clear and announced pur-
pose Is to hack and hew away
at the New Deal and the Fair
Deal, to limit and restrict the
Evening star., 1952-10-30
All Farm Problems
Not Yet Solved

Now let's take the problem of
agricultural policy.
Here We poor Democrats have
been talking and studying and
planning for years about price
supports. farm credit and
conservation payments. While
we've made tremendous prog
ress. we admit we still haven't
solved all the problems.
But it is easy for a Republi-
can candidate, especially if he
Is a general.
All he has to do is say that
he will mobilize the best brains
of agriculture to work out long
range policies and programs,
adding. after more of the same,
most important we must be
prepared to do the right thing
at the right time"
There you are-there's your
farm program. No fuss, no
mess, no dishpan hands. And
no questions asked-or answered
just do the right thing at the
right time. But what is the
right thing and right time from
the Republican standpoints?
Now take small business.
The Republican candidate says
Whatever I can do to help small
business and to provide diver
Sifled industry in each locality,
that I shall do" Applause,
cheers. Everybody goes away
satisfied.
You see how easy it is to be
a Republican candidate.
Now let us take some even
harder problems.
1t would be hard for met
would be hard for most of us, I
believe-to make the Korean
conflict partisan political
issue.
I think of the fact that this
whole Nation was practically
unanimous on June 26, 1850,
that we must stop aggression
in Korea. ! think how that fight
Evening star., 1952-10-30

things government can do for
the average man to return the
control of our economy to selfish
private interests.
And as far as our hopes for
peace are concerned, I think
the prospect under the Repub-
licans would be even worse than
in the case of domestic prob
lens.
There are men in the Re-
publican Party who are not
iSolationiSt. But they are not
in control. Across the country
as whole, they are in the mi
nority. In the Congress-, they
are few in number and lacking
in seniority.
The old isolationist wing mas
the seats of power. the posts of
leadership.
The aim of the Old Guard is
what it was in 1946-to reduce
taxes They will slash anything
that stands in the way of that
objective, including our national
defense and our foreign policy.
If you want proof of that, look
at what they have been doing
in the Congress in recent years.
If you add to this controlling
group a Chief Executive who is
experienced only in the military
profession, the results may well
be disastrous.
If you take as Chief Execu-
tive a man who believes that
! negotiation is appeasement, and
give him a Congress that wants
to reduce the size of our de-
lenses and the strength of our
alliances, you have a formula
for disaster. Tough talk and
weak defense spell war and de-
feat.
The leadership we need is not
military. The leadership we need
Is one that will knot our people
together, strengthen our belief
in our deepest spiritual values,
and help us understand our
great responsibility under God,
to lead the world to lasting
peace.
We will get that kind Of lead
ership from Adlai Stevenson Of
Illinois.
Evening star., 1952-10-30

doesn't expect his audiences to
think either.
Everything is simple for the
Republican candidate, especially
if he happens to be a general.
Sometimes I think it would be
lot easier to be Republican
candidate for President, than it
is to be campaigner for the
Democrats.
Take this issue Of prosperity,
for instance. We poor Democrats
have to think and talk about
wage rates. and take-home pay,
and price supports for farmers,
and income distribution, and
business investment, and how to
keep all these things working
together for a higher national
output and a bigger national
income.
But the Republican candidate
doesn't have to bother with such
petty details, especially if he is
a general.
All he has to do is to say:
"Our pledge is this: We will en-
list all the resources of the
Federal Government to insure
that this great Nation is never
again paralyzed by a great de-
preston.
And that takes care of the
depression problem. You heard
what the General said, didn't
you? Depressions are hereby
abolished.
1t certainly is easy for these
Republicans.
Now take the problems of
civil rights.
That has been with us for
quite a long time. We Demo-
Gratis have studied it thorough
ly, we have made improvements
through the States. and through
activities of the Federal Gov
ernment.
Have worked to enact fair
employment practices legisla-
tion against Republican and
Dixiecrat opposition. We are
going to keep on working for
that legislation until we get 1t.
But we know it will be a tough
fight.
1t is much easier than this
for the Republican candidate.
He says II will confer with the
governors of the 48 States.
will urge them to take the lead
ership in guaranteeing the eco
nomic rights of all our citizens.
II will myself be at their dis
posal."
What is sorely needed to deal
with the problems of race re-
lations to provide equal oppor-
tunities and to end racism is
Evening star., 1952-10-30

outright aggression in Korea
and we have stopped it, in a
long, hard, bloody struggle. BY
that sacrifice, we have saved the
free world and ourselves, and
we ought to be proud of what
our brave men have done there.
But we face a continuing
problem. The danger is still
there-the fighting continues.
There are only three possible
ways to handle this problem.
One is to give up, and pull
out of Korea. That would be dis
honorable and dangerous. 1t
would weaken the alliance of
free nations, and endanger our
national security. We won't
do it.
The second way is to go on
from Korea to a bigger war, at
tacking China and Russia, ex-
panding the theater of conflict
to include Japan, the Pacific,
and possibly the whole world.
We have rejected that alterna-
tive. AS the third way-and the
rightsway-is to build up more
support from the United Ma
tions, as we are doing-and to
apply every pressure to bring
about an honorable truce, as we
are doing AS a Nation, we
will be able to bring this about
if we remain united. and firm
in our determination to build
up our defenses and see this
thing through. This is a hard
way to end the Korean conflict
but it is the only way that will
not involve us in far graver
dangers.
Now, before he knew how
easy it was to be a Republican
candidate, the general had just
as much trouble as the rest of
us in finding a quick and easy
way to end the Korean con-
f1ict. In June of this year he
said "There is no clean-cut So
luton to the Korean war"
But today he has found out
the privileges and prerogatives
Of his new position. Now he
can find a solution for any,
thing. Now he can handle the
Korean problem easily. Now
he says II shall 60 to Korea.
Evening star., 1952-10-30

That is my pledge to the Ameri-
can people"
AS a Republican candidate,
that appears to be all he is re-
quired to say. That's the an
sWer. Nobody asks what for?"
Nobody says What will you do
when you get there" Nobody
says "Are you sure you're that
much better than our old COL
leagues Gems. Bradley and
Ridgway and Van Fleet, and
Collins and Clark and Vanden-
berg?" All of them have been
to Korea and none of them
found how to bring about what
the Republican candidate ap-
pears to promise IAN early and
honorable end" to the fighting.
And when somebody does sug-
~.gest that perhaps the answer
to Korea lies not in Korea itself,
but in the plans Of the Kremlin
IN Moscow, and in the combined
and growing defenses of the
whole free world-and then the
Republican candidate handles
that by shouting "appeasement"
which, of course, it isn't.
I have been wondering for
some time how the Republican
candidate is able to solve all our
gravest problems in this simple,
easy way. Not every Republi-
can can get away with it. I
have come to the conclusion
that there is a special element
in his case. I think it may lie
in his military training. And
what they call the habit of
command.
This habit is well developed
in some generals. During the
war they used to tell about an
order posted in some Of our
overseas areas that said, "On
the following day the sun will
rise and set at such and such
times-by order of the COM
manding general"
You see, If you have that kind
of training, you can solve any
problem-nothing's too tough.
Just give an order. The only
trouble is that the orders posted
on the bulletin boards don't
always have the desired effect.
In the Army, you don't talk
Evening star., 1952-10-30
President Finds
Lincoln Qualities
In Stevenson
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 3O.-The fol-
loiCing is the prepared tert OF
President Trunlan'S speech last
night at a dinner meeting of the
AFL Cook County Labor League
TOR Political Education:
It is a very great privilege for
me to be able to speak tonight
In the home State of Adlai
Stevenson.
Once before in an hour Of
crisis, the State of Illinois gave
us a great President. Abraham
Lincoln did not campaign by
trunpeting abroad that he was
more virtuous. more honest and
better fitted for leadership than
ordinary men. He presented
himself as he waS-a man who
had tried to serve the people
faithfully in his own community,
and to walk humbly with his
God.
Those basic qualities of his
character stood the test of fire
in our Civil War, and saved the
Union.
I feel that those same quail
tties of integrity and humility
that made Lincoln great are
present in this other citizen of
Illinois, who is now the Demo-
cratic candidate for President.
He did not seek the nomina-
ton.
He did not believe that a man
should thrust himself forward
to seize the greatest honor and
greatest responsibility that ex-
lists under our form of Govern
ment. The Democratic Party
turned to him spontaneously
because he was the best quail
fed candidate. He was nomi-
mated without commitments and
without any strings attached.
Here in Illinois I do not have
to tell you about Adlai Steven
sons career,