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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09
CUT IN APPROPRIATION
CONTINUED from page one)
AND
CANCELLATION

The reorganization commission on
state government, in its report to the
Legislature with recommendations mas
suggested the adjustment of the Ar
bitration and Cancellation Board.
1t is true that this board has not
functioned in recent years. Partly
because no governor of late has APP
pointed the three members of that
board. However, there may be some
day in the future when legislation
will be enacted which will place this
board in a very important position
with relation to labor, management
and the people of Montana.
Since it has not been functioning,
it must also be true that it has not
cost the taxpayers of Montana one
cent. This law was enacted in 1907
and amended from time to time. Evil
IDENTIFY it has served a useful pur-
pose. If proper conditions exist, 1t
can again serve useful purpose. The
law, as it now exists, is very well
written but upon careful inspection
could stand some revision. 1t would
be much better for the interests of
labor if this law remained on the
books rather than have no such law.
At some future date, it could easily |
mean a solution to insure labor-man-
agement peace in addition to the
federal labor legislation that already |
exists. Much of the present federal la
Dor legislation applies only to inter
state occupations and businesses. In
rastate occupations and businesses
iced, in many instances, the same
ype of arbitration and Cancellation
o settle labor-management disputes.
ACCIDENT BOARD
CUT
The state controller also cut the
budget of the Industrial Accident
Board to $1S1, 1920 from the re-
quested $48O,1O4. This is only
$90,66O for each of the next two
years.
For board which handled 1897
rood of Helena, secretary of the COM s
littee, will receive entries. u
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09

Physical restoration services are
designed to remove or alleviate a ply
steal disability which operates as an
impeachment to employment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09
LETTERS TO the EDITOR

Democracy is based upon the con-
viction that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary peOple."-
DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09

FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Great Falls, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING co.
Fairview, Montana
LAUREL COOPERATIVE ASSN
Laurel, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOP ASSN
Cut Bank, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY /.
Baker, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOPERATIVE
Miles City, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Havre, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Lindsay, Montana
F. U. GRAIN & SUPPLY co.
Billings, Montana
FARMERS SUPPLY COOP.
of Conrad, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
OF Geyser, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09

EQUITY COOPERATIVE ASSN
of Geraldine, Montana
Flu. OIL & SUPPLY COMPANY
or of HinsdaIe, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
: ~ q of Nashua, Montana
FARMERS UNION SUPER SERVICE
of Chinook, Montana
FARMERS UNION EXCHANGE
KaiispelI, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of PlentywOod, Montana
FARMERS UNION COOP OIL co.
of Richey, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Joplin, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING co.
of Butte, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Circle, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Townsend, Montana
FARMERS UNION TRADING co.
of Richey, Montana
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-01-09

FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Sidney, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
Lewistovvn, Montana
EQUITY COOPERATIVE ASSN
of Brady, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL & SUPER
SERVICE STATION of Glasgow
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Belt, Montana
of Chinook, Montana
FATtMERS UNION GRAIN co.
of Peerless, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of Wolf Point, Montana
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
of Rudyard, Montana
SIDNEY COOP MARKET, Sidney
Observation-Disclosures
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR co.
Wolf Point, Montana
FARMERS UNION OIL COMPANY
of GIendive, Montana
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wood of Helena, secretary of the COM
mittee, will receive entries.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
= Lowell NeHet-
@@>We1| Be Hearing of CAV, KAW
One Represents Demand for Guaranteed Annual Wage,
The Other a Labor Slogan, Keep America at Work

dorsed a proposal Of the
unions president, Walter
Reuther, made to the Presi-
dent last spring. that a con-
ference of industry, labor,
agriculture, consumers and
Government be held to make
plans for full production and
employment. At that time the
President replied to Reuther,
II firmly subscribe to the
principles of the Full Employ
ment Act" and saying it 're-
fleets a determination on the
part of the American people
to see to it that the stupidity
of mass unemployment never
again visits this land"
This statement of the Presi-
dent reveals how far the United
States has Travelled in it's
thinking during the past 20
years. The belief is now wide
ly held that it is possible for
this country to so organize
its economy as to forestall
business depressions and seri-
Gus unemployment. It didn't
used to be like that. Cycles
of booms and bustS were con-
sidered inevitable, the working
out Of some natural law. Her.
bert Hoover, taking Office dur
ing boom times. did declare
there was no reason our pros
perity should not be perpetual,
but when the national economy
blew up in his face he was in
clined to consider it an act
Of God or, at least, the result
of conditions elsewhere in the
world.
During the Roosevelt regime
economist and evangelists of
a new day undertook to demon
Strate that nation could at
tain and retain prosperity by
the use of its brains. Experi-
menting boldly in various di-
rections, succeeding with one
thing and failing with another,
the effort on the whole was
fairly successful, but it re-
ouired a world war, and a. CO.
lossal national debt, to pro-
vide full employment and gen.
eral prosperity.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

for instance. would be the ac-
tivities of a revived Citizens
for Eisenhower m ov e m n !,
which would presumably go
into the primaries and help
punish Republican Senators
and Representatives who had
refused to be rubber stamps.
The idea seems to be de-
veloping hereabouts that a
President is a kind of benev-
olent dictator and that Con-
gress is a sort of subordinate
agency of the Government
which hasn't much knowledge
about what the people want,
anyhow. Omniscience is sup
posed to reside chiefly in the
White House secretariat, which
strives hard to give the i'm
preston that the Republican
Party as such is somehow
without respectability and
needs something called Glib
eralism" of the leftish sort
to give it a majority at the
polls.
The belief persists that
Eisenhower can by some magic
convert many of the Steven
son and Truman followers and
make up for the loss of con-
servative votes-those who
started out sponsoring Taft in
early 1852. But, as the facts
of political life and con-
gressional reality come into
view, it will be found that
the Democrats who stuck by
Stevenson and Truman for the
most part cannot be weaned
away. They are too far over
to the cleft" in the Northern
States to be drawn away by a
pseudo liberalism" as they
call it. Just why a Democratic
Congressman should vote for
all the Eisenhower program
and go before his constituency
as Democrat next time seems
not to have occurred to those
at the White House who are
looking for Democratic votes
in Congress to offset all Re-
publican defections.
Any attempt to force Re-
Evening star., 1953-12-17

present, when nationalism is
growing by leaps and bounds
everywhere else in the world,
the American approach. ap-
pears innocent" to say the
least, to our hardbitten friends
and foes.
We went far to convince
France of the necessity of be-
coming Germany's bedfellow.
Everything we say to bring
about such a union is full of
logic and good sense. But these
two attributes have little cur
rency in the world today. The
French people would rather
listen to the TRADES from Mos
cow, praising Frances military
and cultural grandeur of the
past and harping on the last
ing enmity between the two
neighbors on the Rhine, than
to the sensible words of their
American friends and bene-
factors.
We have been mildly trying
to convince the British Con-
Servative government, as we
did the Laborites, of the ne
cessity of settling the dispute
with the Egyptians over the
Suez Canal. We took the stand
that this step would help the
world. The answer from Lon
don is: Does it help Britain
and her prestige?" And no
progress is made toward the
settlement of that troublesome
matter.
We got into the good graces
Of the Italians last October
when we announced that
Trieste would be returned to
them. This tickled the nation
alism of the Italians to such
an extent that even the Com
munists were compelled to get
into line. But if we don't de-
liver what we promised, our
name will be anathema in that
country.
Hundreds of millions of dol
lars Of official and private
funds are being spent in this
country to educate the Ameri-
can people to the essential
need of entrusting to the
United Nations and affiliated
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Democrats in Role Of Rescuer
Minority Party Sees One Major Task in Next Session
The SAVING of Eisenhower From His Own Teammates

that many of them honestly
resent what they feel were
slurs on the patriotism of Mr..
Truman and that they fear
Mr.. Brownell's partial use of
secret FBI files to prove what
they regard as essentially a
political case.
Some Democrats definitely
plan to appeal to the political
survival instincts of their COL
leagues, if possible soaring
them to fight back against
both Brownell and Mccarthy.
1t is probable that this battle
will always be an individual
matter. with the minority di-
vided as are the Republicans.
The Communists-in Govern
ment issue of course has a
strong pull on the timid and
slothful who dread the work
and the def1nitive positions
entailed by the effort to enact
a positive program.
Within the Capitol, where
the more or less permanent
staff and press hold forth, the
atmosphere with respect to
the Eisenhower program is
distinctly bearish. Not every
body is as cynical as the re-
porter who thought the Presi-
dent would find that the con-
gressional side of his team
would prove to be "a blind
horse with staggers" so far as
his program was concerned but
few anticipate much positive
action.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Fletcher Knebel-
Potomac Fever

Republican leaders legislative
program. Some candidates want umbrella" program
plenty in for those don't know
of the rain.
The CIO and AFL mo raiding" agreement. Things
were getting bad that union didn't dare
accident until he'd joined the ambulance drivers union
Ike says he doesn't mind being called Ike Presidents who
get ncknamed seldom get their nicked.
The allies thank the Eisenhower administration for offering
to share atomic secrets About the age secret
left is whether any will be.
DR. Einsten he advised engineer
gresSlonal Investigators This is two of Ensten
OF relativty-don tell nobody nohn relatives
Former Representative Ramspek congressman ought
get $4,000 The idea the lawmakers so
they can afford to take longer vacations
Ike says juvenile delinquency the fault parents
parents today aren't smart they used be-udgng
some of the kids they pick
Evening star., 1953-12-17

knows. Take, for example, o.
year-old Dolores McClosky.
She heard the family car
early yesterday outside her
Twentieth street apartment and
looked out the window to see a
thief drive off with it.
Without waiting 10 put on a
coat, Mrs. McClosky ran out
and grabbed cab. She trailed
her car block after block as it
twisted and turned and ran red
lights in lower Manhattan.
Finally the thief abandoned
the car. Mrs. McClosky called
Evening star., 1953-12-17

publican members Of Congress
to swallow the whole Eisen-
hover program without cross
ing a st" or dotting an "i' will
be met with the same defeat
that other Presidents have en-
countered when they tried to
bulldoze or purge" members
Of their own party.
Gen. Eisenhower can try for
the help of Democrats in
Congress. but he would be bet
ter advised also to find the
common denomination Of Re-
publican strength and mold
his policies accordingly. For
in an election year most of
the opposition members of
Congress will say they favor
the principle" but they want
to see certain amendments"
adopted and if, as usually hap
pens, these are not accepted by
the administration in power,
then its opponents will vote
against the measure on final
passage.
Bipartisan voting may be
expected on labor legislation
and on farm legislation but
on not much else. On other
questions, the Democratic
Party lineup is likely to hold
tightly. Republican defections
are probable because of local
situations. A story is told.
about President Harding, who
vetoed a soldiers bonus bill in
the '20s and in conference with
a Republican Congressman
urged him to uphold the veto,
but back came this reply:
I'm sorry, Mr.. President, I'd
like to please you, but unfor-
tunately you don't vote in my
district"
That's the practical side Of
any presidential program of
legislation and it will decide
the fate of the Eisenhower
program, too. Public opinion
throughout the United States
still decides elections-not a
few theorists in the Washing
ton bureaucracy.
Reproduction Rights Reserved)
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Life in the u. S.
Parking Meter
Clocks BdIk
hFreeze-Up
BY the Assecioted Press

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Dec. II.
Springfield had some frozen
assets last night. 1t was so cold
-8 degrees above zero at 8 pm.
that scores of parking meters
froze throughout the downtown
area and would not function.
John Carter, the city's meter
man, said the clock works in the
meters were filled with conden-
Sation by a warm sun in the
afternoon and the moisture froze
when the mercury plunged in
the evening.
Today, Mr.. Carter will arm
himself with a blow torch and
start the stream of parking
nickels flowing again. He collects
the nickels. too.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

organizations many of our
problems of today and to-
morrow. Strenuous efforts are
being made to prime the mind
Of the youngsters in this coun-
try with the blessings of in
ternationalism as against the
evils of nationalism. Highly
responsible American leaders
announce emotionally that we
should no longer trust our
ability to cope with our own
problems but should reSy on
alliances such as NATO. The
U. N. still is frequently de-
scribed as the only panNcea
for all world ills.
During this reporters recent
10-week trip through Europe,
he never heard such state
ments. Abroad. stories about
the U. N. are found in news
papers only in the shape Of
reports from New York. AS
to NATO, there seldom is any
favorable mention.
We recently signed an agree
ment with Spain for the pur-
pose of bolstering the defense
of free Europe. Yet nothing
but uncomplimentary COM
ments appeared in the West
ern Europe press and actual
verbal blasts from the political
leaders, who accused us Of
dealing with Spanish fasciSm.
We are unqueStionably ahead
OF our time in the approach
for the solution of world prob
LENS. We are advocating in
ternational cooperation and
would like to see the reign of a
supreme international body in
the present intensely nation
alistic world. Many of our
present political leaders are
suggesting the breakdown of
tariff barriers in a world which
wants free trade abroad and
protectionism at home.
No wonder that the many
conferences we have been
rushing into since the end of
the war have produced no
other result than a further
confusion and a marked
deterioration of international
conditions.
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Public Opinion Decides Elections
One Eisenhower Problem Is How to Enact Program
Thot VIII Elect Republicans to Congress Next Yeor
David Lawrence

Or President Eisenhower faces
q problem in practical Govern
ment which no amount Of
: theory can solve. 1t is how to
: get a legislative program en-
s-acted that will rebound to the
credit and benefit of the Re-
publicans who are up for elec-
tion in the 1854 congressional
campaign.
80 The theoriStS-among them
['the amateurs who have been
telling the President it's just
a little matter of freezing out
areactionaries" and going to
qthe cleft" or to the "Nberal
oside"-talk as if a congress
9'sional election and a presi-
DENTAL campaign are one and
the same thing.
1n Actually there is no sharply
defined cleavage inside the
Republican Party which can
be characterized as cleft" and
right" There are some Sena-
tors, for example, who are
more conservative than 9TH
ers. but that's the situation
Inside the Democratic Party,
TOO.
The fact is that there can
be no generalizations on q
legislative program. There will
be one lineup on amendments
to the Taft-Hartley Labor Re-
! lations Act and another line
up on increasing Social-secu-
''tity benefits. There's to be one
kind of vote on a new farm
program which, in lineup. will
not resemble in the slightest
the vote on increasing or
r., diminishing economic aid
abroad.
lna The fallacy in White House
: thinking-that is, the thinking
: of those who seem to pour
their theories into the Pres
: ident's ears-seems to be that
the President must assert his
Leadership" by bludgeoning
2 members of his party and
Threatening them with some
d, form of reprisal if they don't
toe the mark. The reprisals,
Evening star., 1953-12-17
y
Doris FIeeson-

Is When Democrats in Con-
. gress look ahead to the session
starting next January 6, they
predict that a large part of
their work will be the rescue
of President Eisenhower and
his program.
: . Democrats confess a moral
obligation to support the Pres
ident's internationalist foreign
policy, which is based on prin-
ciples they themselves hold
= and acted upon in their days
In power. They rather expect
IN fact that they will be more
. solidly for it than the Repub-
: hcan majority.
-+f" All they have heard about
The Eisenhower domestic pro-
gram so far makes them feel
that they will like it better also
than their G. o. P. colleagues
ado. They will not necessarily
support it just because the
right-wing Republicans don't,
s1but they anticipate that they
will have to vote for much of it.
S.5S1 This, of course. cramps the
r. style of Democratic leaders
looking for some issues with
: which to make political capital
: IN the next six months. At this
S'point they have found only
fone-the rise in the national
debt limit which is now inevi-
" table.
.ti That relentless economizer,
Senator Byrd of Virginia, has
: said he will fight any increase
ettn the debt limit because to
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Results Of international Por|evs
Talks Between Heads of Nations Since War Have Led
To Few Lasting or Constructive Accomplishments
Constantine Brown

international conferences un-
der present-day conditions
tend to weaken further the
ties between the free nations,
instead of strengthening
them.
Very few lasting or con-
structive decisions are ever
taken at these gatherings. The
result of most of them is
usually negative. But since
parliamentary governments
must give their peoples
good account of their steward
ship, the failures are camou-
flaged by official communiques
in gobbledygook language.
There has been a rash of
such international conferences
since the end Of the war. An
impartial examination will
show that their net result has
been an increased deteriora-
ton of world conditions.
1t is easy to understand why
the conferences between East
and West yield no positive re-
suits: the Communists are
using them as sounding boards
for their propaganda. They
are not interested in finding
solutions to lessen the present
world tension. But it is more
difficult to discover why the
parleys between the nations
which speak the same ideologi-
cal language are usually such
colossal fops.
One of the reasons which
may be advanced is that while
America approaches interna-
tional problems from an inter-
nationalist point of view, world
trends are toward a stronger
nationalism than in the pre-
war days. Our allies are
anxious to serve only the
interests of their individual
countries and seldom give
more than lip service to our
concept of international CO.
operation on the "one-world"
basis.
The American one world
philosophy may become justi-
fled in a more or less distant
future. after the Red cancer
has been eXtirpated. But at
Evening star., 1953-12-17
Lowell MeIIett-

Two new sets Of initials
seem likely soon to become
familiar to the American eye.
They are GAW and KAW. The
first stands for the guaranteed
annual wage, which some labor
organizations are now seeking
from employers: the second
for a slogan, Keep America
at. Work." directed at employ
:ers. the Government and the
country at large.
Three big CIO unions. those
dealing with the automobile,
steel and electrical manufac-
turing industries. have indi-
& Gated their intention of max
ing the guaranteed annual
wage a part of their collective
bargaining when present con-
4tracts expire. They have not
formulated, or have not made
= known, any concrete plan as
yet, but they do have the an
nual wage as a definite goal
and have so advised employers.
; The most they are said to ex-
$ pect Immediately is the setting
up of joint labor management
. councils at the company level
! AS we'll as on an industry-Wide
basis to study the problem.
Even this proposal. however,
is sufficiently radical to arouse
alarm in some circles.
The Keep America at Work
slogan was unloosed on
Washington at an unusual
conference held here to pro-
mote full employment. One
thousand delegates. represent
Ing a million and a quarter
members Of the United Auto
Workers, participated in the
conference. Among the men,
'bers represented, it was re-
ported. are a quarter of a mil
- lion at present unemployed.
A good part of these are
workers in the agriculture
implement industries.
"A resolution was adopted
: calling for a comprehensive
program Of Federal and State
action to aid the unemployed
= and to provide full employ
ment. The conference In
Evening star., 1953-12-17

allow it will be an encourage
ment to extravaganza. Demo-
Gratis hope he will talk a long
time about the extravaganza
possible in an Eisenhower ad-
ministration.
They recognize, however,
that, as Senator Capehart put
it last summer, if your wife
buys a fur coat, it may be an
extravaganza but you have
got to pay for it. What they
want to do is to give the ad-
ministration as little as pos
sible so that it will have to
come back at least once more
with a debt-limit request be-
fore the presidential election
in 1856.
They will. of course, vir-
tuously defend their niggard-
illness on the ground that to
give the administration "a
blank check" will only encour-
age it to "extravagance."
1t is a little early to tell the
effect in Congress of Attorney
General Brownell's attacks on
the Democrats and former
President Truman for their
attitudes with respect to the
Communist issue. Up to now,
Democratic members of the
House and Senate have dis
played little disposition to
fight on the issue of Commu-
nists in Government.
They are beginning to
realize that their survival as
individuals and as a party may
be at stake. It is fair to add
Evening star., 1953-12-17

police while the cab driver fol-
lowed the thief.
The police and Mrs. McClosky
took only a few minutes to find
their quarry, walking along the
street with the cab trailing him
like bird dog.
After he was booked, Mrs.
McClosky suddenly remembered
her husband, Joseph. and her
4-month-old daughter Susan.
AS she bade the cops adieu, the
relentless Mrs. McClosky told
them:
"I've got to get home. Joe
doesn't know how to take care
of the baby"
Evening star., 1953-12-17

T. Morris of the Buffalo Pub
'lc Library recalled yesterday
that returned books have pro-
duced pay checks, gas bills,
school report cards, and of
course, pressed flowers.
But, Mr.. Morris said, the
piece de resistance-apparent-
ly left by a reader hungry for
more than knowledge-was a
fried egg and a strip of bacon.
Evening star., 1953-12-17

Labor's economists, some Of
the country's best, are aware
of this last fact, but they are
convinced nonetheless that
given a disposition of all ele-
ments to cooperate, work can
be provided for all citizens,
willing and able to work. They
are prepared to battle for their
belief. And SO we get the de-
mand for GAW and the slogan,
KAW,