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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
STRIKE DEADLINE AUGUST 81, UNION and A.C.M.
RESUME NEGOTIATIONS This week

With the August 81 strike dead
line less than two weeks away, nego-
tiations resumed the middle of this
week between officials of Anaconda
Copper Mining Company and the In
ternational Union of Mine, Mill &
Shelter Workers. The ACM has Of
fered wage increases of 81 to 6 cents
| per hour compared with 9 cents and
more by other major non-ferrous
metals companies, such as Kennecott
American Smelling & Refining, and
Phelps-Dodge. ..
The old contract between ACM
and Mine-Mill expired June 80. ese
The Mine-Mill policy committee
has voted to call out workers at ACM
and its subsidiary, American Brass,
as we'll as at a number of other OPP
erations on August 81 unless "these
companies come through with a set
Element in line with the 9-cent pat
tern already established in the in
dustry."
Already approved by the policy
committee, which is the unions high
est BARGAINING group, are settlements
with AS&R, Kennecott, Phelps
Dodge and U. S. Metals.
Ratification of the Phelps-Dodge
agreement was made Subject to a
satisfactory settlement in the Ell Paso
property" of that chain. A two-day
strike of Ell Paso P-D workers has
since ended with 9-cent settlement
in line with the agreement which had
been made earlier for P-D workers
in Arizona.
The AS&R settlement provided for
an Il cent wage increase across the
board, plus an additional half-cent in
fringe benefits for total of 9 cents.
At AS&R's Perth Amboy, NJ, plant
an additional ~ cents was applied
to wage rates of all workers, num-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
CONTINUED FEDERAL
ATOMIC CONTROL URGED
BY LELAND OLDS

WASHINGTON-CNS-The fed
eral government should maintain
complete control over electric ener-
gy produced by atomic power, Lee
land Olds, former Federal Power
Commission chairman, said here last
week.
Cong. w. Sterling Cole (R., N.Y.
chairman of the joint House-Senate
atomic energy committee, had asked
Odds for his views. Olds, now Pub
lie Affairs Institute consultant here,
gave them in letter.
"Private u Utility monopolies
should be prevented from streng-
thening their predominance, Olds
said, "and from gradually elm
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21

bering about 500, engaged in contin-
uous operations. This gain, granted
in lieu of premium pay for Sunday
work as such, is the first concession
made on this issue by major COM
pany in the industry.
The Kennecott settlement called
for ross-the-board increases of
from 90 to 9.89 cents in Nevada,
Arizona and New Mexico, and an
8 IL cent general wage increase plus
AZ cents in Utah to make up for in
tra-state inequities.
. Workers throughout the industry
voted by heavy majorities, July 16-
IT, to back up their wage and con-
tract demands with strike action, if
necessary. In the eight properties
of the Anaconda chain, the vote was
1873 per cent in favor of strike. Sim
liar majorities put other non-ferrous
metals companies on notice that the
workers were prepared to strike if
they had to-.
The National Wage Policy Com
mittee, which includes the unions en-
tire international executive board
and elected rank-and-file delegates
from every section of the industry,
voted to throw the whole weight of
the international Union behind any
locals which go out on strike.
A $1-a-week assessment on every
member of the union for whom set
Elements have been reached, was vot-
ed as one part of the support prog
ram. Workers at the Hegeler Zinc
Co. plant in Danville, ILL.,, are al
ready on strike.
"There's no question about the
ability of Anaconda and these other
companies to meet the industry pat
term" conference delegates reiter-
ated eve intend to make sure they
do"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
Those Off-Shore Oil Lands

BY e. j. PARKINSON, Great Falls
The Congress of the United States
passed bill to the effect that a. emile
to 10 mile strip of off shore land
along our coast line, and any oil or gas
that it might produce, belongs to the
State adjoining. Whether this was
merely Qualification of a title al
ready existing, or so-called give
away" might be highly debatable.
1t is claimed by some people that as
q "giveaway'' it was unconstitutional
and therefore of no force and effect.
AS a layman [ am not competent to pass
on it's legality, but assuming for the
sake of argument that it might be un-
constitutional, there are some angles
to it that are very confusing to me.
For instance:
l. What authority did Congress have
to give away hundreds of craft of all
kinds to our allies in World War II?
2. What authority does Congress
have to give away billions of dollars
of taxpayers money in foreign aid each
year amounting eventually to more
than the total possible value of all off
shore lands granted the adjoining
states?
3. During the early part of this cen
fury, by what authority did Congress
give away in Montana alone about
100, 900 square miles of land under the
homestead act?
A. Compare that with the approx
mately 5000 square miles of off shore
land along the entire coast of Cali
fornia.
5. What authority does Congress
have to give anything away? Such as
money to flood and drought sufferers,
conservation payments, etc. Sound
like silly questions don't they?
What I am leading up to is this:
California's off shore lands granted
her by Congress probably equal just
about 5000 square miles. Montana's
school lands granted her by Congress
also equal just about 5000 square
miles
On a population basis, Montana's in
terest in CALIFORNIA; off shore oil
would be less than 0.04 of per cent.
Montana's interest in the oil under
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN "THE BusIHEssy-
CONTINUED from page one,

Continued from
exceedingly good investment stockholders and
tive stockholders)
One thing is apparent Either the gas division
ready paying its very well without the per
increase or else electrical customers of Montana Power
paying right through the IT, as the commission
found the division without ACM contract paying
its way and therefore entitled to increase the commits
sonf it would act in good faith with people
should have ordered the monopoly to drastica
it's electrical rates.
This quoting of chapter and could go
additional columns, but this enough this
how completely the duleected Public
Montana dsregarded the public interest when officials of the
monopoly in for permission to legally plumber the
pockets of $4,000 customers of another $1,000 each
Next winter, doubt many gas consumers pocketbook
will feel the pain of increased rates acuteyand
they'll decide to do something about in coming elections Re-
member it's Middleton 1854 Young in Sc and Henry in '58
Power officials repeatedly referred how much items
1882, Therefore,
that
had only 8.3
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
HARL0 WTON EDITOR MUSES. OVER HOW he WOULD
POLITIC If HE "WUZ" A CONGRESSMAN

situation with the high salaried, big
operator class who can call hotel
suites, fancy cuisine, a round of
drinks for everybody in the house,
as legitimate business deductions.
I'd look at run down sidewalks,
shot to heck highways, shanties which
pass for homes, crowded schools, Woe
begone communities without ade-
quate livelihoods for the people; lit
tie kids without decent shoes or
clothing and oft-times poorly fed.
And I'd wonder if we should try
to rehabilitate Korea, Pakistan, Iraq,
Italy and their ilk, by dumping food,
millions and expert advice on their
none too grateful citizenry, or should
a passing thought be given to Ameri-
cans.
I'd wonder if we should open the
gates to countless new immigrants
or take care of our own-should
wounded American veteran be an
also ran for a job, or should it go to
a newcomer?
think I'd spend some time ponder
ing on how to help Americans first,
before l sought to indoctrinate a
world, much of which is hostile to us,
and democracy and free ideas.
I'd rather spend money on agricul-
tural experiment stations, reclama-
ton projects, flood control methods,
old age pensions and help the needy
of these United States. l think I'd
like to put my own house in order
first. b4afs 49, a
But = reckon that kind of new
tangled Congressman couldn't hold
onto his job for long, since the pres
ent fashion seems to favor the give
away variety of solon.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
LETTERS TO the EDITOR

her school lands is 100 per cent, or 27O
times as much. OF course in both
cases she would get only One-eighth as
much in royalty.
If CaIifOrnia's off shore lands
grant is unconstitutional. then is
MOntana's school lands grant.
A substantial part of Montana's
school lands worth billions of dollars
are within the boundaries of the Wilt
ston Basin, now recognized as the
greatest oil field ever discovered in
the world. Do we want to even take
a chance of losing them?
Attorney General Olsen, placing his
judgment and knowledge of law above
that of some 500 or 600 members of
our nations Congress, many of whom
are very able attorneys is, trying to
take our school lands away from us
by cooperating with other states in
attacking the constitutionality of the
grant to the coast states. Is he willing
to jeopardize Montana's title to her
school lands including the oil under
them, in an attempt to use them as a
vehicle to ride to political preferment?
He has already cost us millions of
dollars in school land bonuses and rem
tails. Should he be told to go way back
and sit down? What do you think?
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
LOOSE TALK is NOT
CHEAP
ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
Editorial,

Editorial,
1t is good that a San Francisco
jury has awarded Fern Bruner, a
school teacher, SIS, 125 in damages
because a radio commentator and
gossip magazine publisher had call
ed her Communist. We draw sat
isfaction not out of the penalty inn
posed on the man through his
purse, but because the verdict
should be salutary warning
against widespread and reckless
use of word which these days can
do unknowable injury to reputa-
tions and incomes.
1t must be clear by now to all
except those suffering from an in
credible political blindness that the
kremlin seeks to use Communist
parties everywhere fo.' its own ag-
grandizement. Membership which
once might have been an ideolog-
ical protest now comes under
strong suspicion of disloyalty, con-
spiracy and sabotage. This has
been made clear by federal 10y
atty boards, state security statutes
and more than one congressional
investigation.
Yet many people have fallen in
to free and easy use of the word
Communist. Man-on-the-street
interviews have revealed divergent
notions as to its meaning. The
word has been applied to Congress
men voting for welfare appropria-
tions, to aggressive labor leaders,
to non-conformist clergymen, to
Peace-advocating lecturers, to poly
syllable college professors, to dis
cussion group organizers-in fact
to just about everybody with whom
given individuals disagree or whom
they cannot understand.
Miss Bruner is a case in point.
She was called a reported Com
munist or Communist sympathiz-
err" because she Joined the United
World Federalists and because two
women told the gossip publisher
they considered the aims of the
Federalists to be contrary to those
of the United States. By that
standard. there are a few Commun-
lists in Congress.
In radio or in the movies or in
some school systems, Miss Bruner
might have been dropped as
soon as the word reached her SUI
periors. Fortunately, she was
backed up by the California Teach
ers' Association and the verdict
was won against the gossip man
and also his station manager. This
is not the first decision of its kind.
SO the idea may get through to the
emotional and the reckless that
loose talk can be expensive talk
expensive to them.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
By HAL STEARNS, In Harlowton
Times

Times
If | wuz a Congressman I'd leave
Washington when the session ends
and fergit attending Stockgrowers
meetins, labor union conclaves, serv-
ice club conventions and such like
I'D barely pass the time of day with
Chamber of Commerce big shots or
SIGH like.
Instead I'd head for the small
towns and the rural areas and talk
to some ordinary folks. I'd give
more than a casual time of day to
these run of the mill citizens and
learn what they're thinking.
I think I'd think twice after hear
ing about the plight of man with
five kids having to bear the tax bur-
den he's laden with and contrast his
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21

mating the competitive force of
municipal or coop power sys-
TENS"
Olds suggested that Atomic Energy
Commission function as publicly
financed corporation, specifically en-
powered to carry forward the devel-
opment of the atomic age in this
broader peacetime field"-including
electric power production as we'll as
other uses.
He said legislation similar to the
federal power act, conserving the ma
TONS water resources for the gener-
al welfare, should govern peaceful
atomic development. Olds suggest
ed that public power agencies and
rural electric co-ops get preference
in the development and marketing of
atomic-generated electric energy.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
Union, Electric Co-ops Build
Scouf Camp Line, Free

CARBONDALE, Ill.-Rural cleo
trio co-ops and the international
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
(AFL) together brought power to
the Boy Scout camp on Little Grassy
Lake near here. Three co-ops> gave
poles, line and hardware. IBEW
members worked free on Saturdays
to build the lines.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
MAJOR INCOME TAX INEQUITY HITTING WORKING
MOTHERS SHOULD BE REMEDIED, METCALF

after she was deserted by her hus-
band. Her wages are the sole sup
port of two small childrn. She can
not work unless she hires someone
to look after her children. She can
not deduct this child care expense
from her income taxes. And if she
doesn't work, she becomes a county
charge.
1t is estimated that there are nine
million married women in the labor
force. Many wives, particularly the
younger ones, are forced to work to
help meet the high cost of living and
to prepare for their children's fut-
ure.
The motherless home of a wild
over with children needs a full
time housekeeper if the children
are to be cared for while the faith
er is working. To provide such care
is certainly as necessary an ex-
Pense as belonging to two country
clubs.
can see no difference-but there
is under our income tax law-be-
tween a secreatry who keeps an of
flee going in the absence of her en-
ployer and a housekeeper whose
services are necessary to permit a
mother to work outside her home.
The salary of a working mother, en-
ployed as a secretary may be deduct
ed by her employer as a necessary
business expense. But she may not
deduct her housekeeper's salary.
Without secretarial help the business
man might be handicapped in earn
ing his income. Without child care
help, the working mother or the
widower is handicapped in earning
income.
The extent of this handicap is il
Illustrated by some figures compiled
here. The average day care of
child is $25 to $50 a week. The
mother employed as a secretary is
paid $50 to $40 a week. After de-
auctions for taxes and social security,
and after paying for care of her
child, the working mother has less
than half her salary with which to
support herself and her family.
The bills I've studied provide pro-
per safeguards against abuse. They |
specify that such deductible expens-
es shall not exceed $40 per week. 1t
is further provided that such de-
duction cannot be allowed any tax
payer whose gross income exceeds
$4,000 plus $500 for each child und
er Is for whom he is entitled to de-
duct Ordinary and reasonable"
child care expenses.
One of these bills should be con-
,idered by the Ways and Means Com
nittee early next session. hope
hat I shall have the opportunity to
yote for it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
By CONG. LEE METCALF


Democratic members of the Senate
and House have taken the lead in
introducing legislation to correct an
inequity in our income tax law
They have introduced more than
twenty bills to permit working
mothers and certain other employ
ed parents-heads of families
to deduct expenses of child care
or dependents care from their in
come for Federal tax purposes.
The present law permits deductions
to other groups for legitimate expens-
es in connection with their business
ses or professions. Statesmen may
deduct entertainment of customers.
A professional golfer may deduct for
tournament equipment. A farmer
may deduct expenses necessary to
create his income. An architect may
deduct the cost of membership in
two country clubs. A wholesaler
may deduct the cost of Christmas
presents for buyers. Business firms
may deduct for entertainment of en-
ployees. A laborer may deduct for
his factory clothes. A lawyer may
deduct club dues for clients enter
tainment.
But the present law does not
cover child care deductions for
parents who have to hire help in
order to work outside the home.
There are more than one million
widowed, divorced or separated
mothers now working to support
their families. These women are not
working to indulge themselves. They
are working to keep their families to-
gether And in most cases they have
to pay for child care in order that
they may earn a living.
An attorney friend of mine in
Montana writes of case in point.
He re-hired his former stenographer
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21

Democracy is based upon the con-
vfctiOn that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary peOple."-
DIR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21

The Commodity Credit Corporation
made $40 million on its farm price
support operations in 1852. = GTA
Digest.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21
SUMMON =

No. 23S7O
MARGARET e. HEREIN, Plaintiff
VS..
HENRY G. HEREIN, JR., Defendant
THE STATE OF MONTANA Sends
Greetings to the Above Named Defend
ants, and to Each of Them
You are hereby summoned to answer
the complaint in this action which is
filed in the office of the Clerk of this
Court, a copy which is herewith served
upon one of you in each County where
in any of you reside, and to file your
answer and serve a copy thereof upon
the plaintiffs attorney within twenty
days after the service or this Summons
exclusive of the day of service, and in
case of your failure to appear or an
swer, Judgment will be taken against
YOU, by default, for the relief demand
ed in the complaint. This action is
brought for the purpose of securing
an absolute decree of divorce by the
plaintiff from the defendant on the
grounds and for the reason that de-
PENDANT for more than one year prior
to the commencement of this action
has been guilty of wilful neglect in
that he has neglected to provide for
plaintiff herein, his wife, the common
necessaries of life he having the ability
to do So
Witness my hand and the Seal of
said Court this goth day of July, 1853.
DAVID r. KEMP, Clerk.
BY GLADYS LeFORS, Deputy Clerk.
COURT SEAL)
GRAYBILL, BRADFORD e GRAYBILL
10 First National Bank Building
Great Falls, Montana
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Aug. IA, 81 2S, Sep. 4, 1858
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1953-08-21

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF
THE STATE OF MONTANA, IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF LEWIS &c
CLARK
Evening star., 1953-12-08
Two Held on Charge
OF Hauling Whisky

A District police tipoff led to
the arrest of two truck drivers
who were charged with illegally
transporting whisky into Mary
land from the District.
Detective Sergt. r. A. Pear
son of the Prince Georges County
police said District officers spot
ted the men in a Washington
liquor store.
Sergts. Pearson and John C.
Siddall, of the county force, and
E. G. Husk and Frank Baggett,
OF the Hyattsville town police,
stopped the two in Hyattsville.
Sergt. Pearson said they had
seven f1fths and a pint of hard
liquor and a bottle of wine.
State law limits a person to
have possession of one quart of
liquor not packaged by Mary
land.
The two men, booked as Ed
ward j. Kroupa, 38. Baltimore,
and Woodrow E. Sprinkel, 80,
Pasadena. Md, were freed on
$100 bond each pending pre-
liminary hearings January II in
HyattSville,
Evening star., 1953-12-08
Woodward Named Democrats Treasurer

mans trips to Mexico and Brazil
in 1947 and in the spring of 1850.
received the Canadian assign
ment when Ambassador Lau-
renee Steinhardt was killed in a
plane crash.
He was one of the officials
closest to President Truman and
he and Mrs. Woodward enter
tanned the Trumans at Cole.
Mr.. Mitchell announced the
appointment after predicting at
a news conference that the DEM
ocrats will win a margin of 40 to
so seats in the House next year
on a platform pegged TO national
security, fair treatment for the
farmer and lowered living costs.
He said the Senate elections pose
a harder problem.
Evening star., 1953-12-08

Stanley Woodward. former
Ambassador to Canada, and a
White House intimate in the
Truman administration, has
been named national treasurer
of the Democratic Party.
The appointment of the 54-
year-old diplomat to the key
political post was announced
last night by Stephen Mitchell.
national chairman, who is in
Philadelphia for regional party
conference this week end.
Mr.. Woodward, a Pennsyl-
vanian by birth and long time
Virginia resident, succeeds
Dwight R. G. Palmer. chairman
of the board of the General
Cable Corp, who resigned the
Embarrassing job several months
ago.
The Woodward home, Cole, is
an estate on the outskirts OF
Charlottesville, which overlooks
Jefferson's Monticello.
Quit Post in January.
A career diplomat with Is
years service, Mr.. Woodward was
the first chief of mission to quit
when the administration changed.
He relinquished the Ottawa as
signment January Is. before
President Eisenhower inaugu-
ration.
He told President Truman at
the time that he wanted to go
back to private life and "as-
sumo the privileges and RESPONSE
Evening star., 1953-12-08
Girls Body Found
In Grave, Head Gone
BY the Associated Press

PAMPLICO. S. c., Dec. g.
The decapitated body of a 15-
year-old high school sophomore
girl was discovered in a shallow
grave near here last night.
A search for the head of Betty
Clair Cain and her missing COM
panion centers about dragging
operations today at a fish pond
2 miles from where officers
found the girls body near the
Pee Dee River.
Sergt. Roy Williams of the
South Carolina Law Enforce
ment Division said a bloody un-
derShirt found in a tobacco barn
near the pond led officers to be-
lieve the girls head and possibly
the body of Harvey Allen, %.
the girls companion, may be in
the water.
The shallow grave was uncov-
Evening star., 1953-12-08
Press Under Red ConfroI, ,
McCarthy Backer Says
By the As,oeintsd Pres,

OTTAWA, Dec. 8.-United
States Senator McCarthy's de-
fender in the Canadian House of
Commons, John Blackmore of
Lethbridge, said last night that
most United States and Cana
dian newspapers are under the
control of Communist influences.
Mr.. Blackmore, a member of
the Social Credit Party. has de-
Tended the Wisconsin Senator in
two recent speeches in the House.
He said on the Canadian Broad
casting Corps Press Confer
ence" program last night that
Red money and influence are
behind many papers in North
America.
However. he excepted the Chi
cago Tribune from this category
and added there might be others
free from Communist domina-
ton.
Mr. Blackmore was asked if re-
ports of his speeches in Com
mons appearing in Canadian
papers had been fair and ac-
curate.
He replied they have been,
but 9" it is what happens to these
speeches after they reach the
papers" that disturbs him.
He said he has found news
papermen men of integrity"
but when editorial writer's have
finished writing about the stories,
reporters must be "chagrined."