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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

Net income of American Tel.
& Tel. jumped from $358,493,204
in 1852 to $421, 4S5,570 in 1853,
due in large degee to substantial
rate increases granted by various
state public service commissions
during the year.
Part of the increase in telephone
monopoly profits resulted from in
creases granted the monopoly's
mountain states subsidiary, Noun
tain States Tel. & Tel, by Montana
Public Service Commission last
August. AS a result of favorable ac-
ton by Commissioners Henry, Mid
dleton and Young, MST&T was
permitted to raise its rates by
twenty to thirty per cent, for an
increase of net income in Montana
of approximately one million dol
lars per year.
The Montana rate bump, along
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
HIGHER MONTANA RATES HELP SKY-R0cXET
PROFITS OF TELEPHONE MONOPOLY

with increases granted MST&T by
other mountain states public SER
vice commissions, resu t in
MST&T increasing it's net profits
by ten per cent in the final quar-
ter of 1853, company president w.
X. Koch announced some weeks
back. This net profit increase re-
suited in common stock dividends
soaring to a record high of $1.65
per share for the final three
months of 1853.
Eighty-seven per cent of the
stock of Mountain States is owned
by American Tel. & Tel.
The August, 1858 rate increase
fourth rate boost in five years
granted by the Montana Com
mission is currently being contest
ed as Unreasonable and unjust"
by Attorney General Arnold HI.
Olsen.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

local President Joe Mason Tuesday
of this week refused to serve on the
proposed board.
On Tuesday, February 16, Judge
McClernan had set up the board and
ordered it to conduct a secret refer
endum vote cat the earliest possible
date" that the $500 Butte Miners
could determine which union they
desired to represent them as bar
gaining agent.
Named by the Judge to act on the
board in addition to Mason for CLIO
Steelworkers Local COOL, was Glen
Zorn, president Butte Miners Union
No. l; and three public members,
including two employees of Silver
Bow county and the secretary of
the Butte Employers Association.
In refusing to serve on the board
Mason and his union contend that
the U. S. Government will not recog-
nize any results of an election con-
Quoted by the Judges board since
federal labor law (Taft-Hartley Act)
has jurisdiction over labor matters
of an Interstate nature. Such an cleo
ton would only delay a determine
ton of the question of which union
is to represent Butte miners.
The Mason group further contends
that the NLRB would not certify
any union winning such an election
as bargaining agent, and that the cleo
ton would no sooner than be over
when the loser would petition the
the NLRB for another election and
"we'd be back where the judge start
ed" This is 'stall technique" say
the Steelworkers.
Between the time of Judge Nc
Clernan's order for an election and
Mason's statement Tuesday the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board has
announced that board election will
be held in Butte and Anaconda on
March % to determine which of the
unions shall represent the
Butte Miners and the Anaconda
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
LARGE DELEGATION OF MONTANA PEOPLE
PLAN TO ATTEND NATIONAL FARMERS UNION
CONVENTION In Denver In MARCH

Benson has also been invited to at
tend the convention, but, as of this
week he had neither accepted or re-
jected the invitation. In inviting Ben
son, NFU President James G. Pat
ton, advised the Secretary that many
Farmers Union people care not in
agreement with your attitude and
policies on agricultural matters f.. /.
Some members of Farmers Union are
=. In keeping with the traditional
policy Of Farmers Union, it is our
desire to have all points of view and
facts presented which will be help
full to the delegates in determining
National Farmers Union policies for
the coming biennium."
More than 1000 delegates, men,
bers and visitors from the upwards
of 40 states in which Farmers I'm
ion is organized, are expected to be
in attendance at the biennial get-to-
gether.
Conferences will be held on power
and resources; livestock, dairy prod
ucts and other perishables, and on
basic commodities and feed grains.
Besides reports from Farmers IN
ion officers, other scheduled speak
ers include NJ w. Thatcher, manager
of Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Association, and Emil Syftestad,
general manager of Farmers Union
Central Exchange. Charles Bran
nan, former secretary of agriculture,
and Leon Keyserling, noted econo-
mist, are also scheduled to speak.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

Indicative of the increased con.
Germ among rural people over farm
prices, public power and the gen
orally declining national economy are
reports that several score of Montana
farmers have already made plans to
attend the SIND annual convention
of National Farmers union in Den
yer, March 1919.
The convention will be held in the
Shirley-Savoy Hotel.
One of the stand out events of this
years convention will be the pre-
sentation of the NFU biennial award
for outstanding service to agricul-
ture, to Norris E. Dodd, former di-
rector-general of the UN's Food and
Agriculture Organization. Dodd, a
former undersecretary of agricul-
ture, is the second FAC director-gen-
eral in row to be accorded this NFU
recognition. At MUS golden jubilee
convention in Dallas two years ago,
Lord John Boyd-Orr of Scotland re-
ceived the award.
Dodd is scheduled to make his &C
ceptance speech the night of March
16. A native of Iowa. Dodd has lived
in both Dakotas and currently op-
crates a 2,000-acre irrigated farm in
Oregon. He grows wheat, barley, hay
and pasture, and makes speciality
of raising fine Hereford cattle. He
was head of FAC from 1948 to De-
cember, 1853, when he was succeed
ed by DR.. P. V. Carbon.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
JOBS I'M Lead and ZINC MINING OFF
40 Per CENT FROM 1858 PEAK

normal markets for metals and metal
goods"
The Union calls attention to the
large quantities of lead and zinc
which have been dumped on the u.
S. markets by companies which OPP
crate in other ports of the world, but
are owned or controlled by U. S.
corporations.
"Metals which normally flow from
Mexico, Australia, Canada and AT
RIGA to England and the rest of West
ern Europe have been backing up
into the U. ST." it says.
To-day, copper coming from
abroad threatens to engulf this
market, too" the Union says, and
adds:
"Now a new and dangerous ele-
ment has shown up. The demand for
nonferrous metals in the U. S. has
started to shrink. Brass workers are
being laid off. Stocks of unsold
metals are mounting. Untitled orders
are on the downslide A general eco
nomic decline is spreading through all
basic industry"
The tabloid calls attention to the
reassuring statements from the Eli
sonhower administration that "every-
thing will eventually adjust itself, :"
and suggests that "Maybe that's why
miners standing in long rustling lines
are wisecracking about President
Eisenhower"
The Unions analysis rejects the
proposals of the U. S. companies
which "want to build a Maginot Line
of high tariffs against imports. :"
These negative" proposals, it says,
"all seek to adjust to small markets
while trying to make these smaller
markets as profitable as possible"
Summarizing the Unions program
for meeting the crisis, the tabloid
declares.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
T. u. CENTRAL EXCHANGE
CONVENTION DELEGATES
TO HEAR SEN. MORSE

ST. PAUL - (CNS) - Senator
Wayne Morse (Ind. -Ore.) will speak
to hundreds of local coop delegates
from Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Da-
kotas, Montana, and Wyoming when
they assemble here for the annual
meeting of Farmers Union Central
Exchange, March "a.
A. E. Syftestad, FUCE's general
manager, said 1853 was the regional
co-op's greatest year" from the
standpoint of both sales and net saw
ings for local co-ops. During the
year, FUCE refunded So million in
cash that local co-ops earned on their
purchases in 1914 and AS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

DENVER-The non-ferrous metals
industry is the victim of a crisis in
which "many areas are suffering just
as seriously as in the darkest days of
the grim thirties," the International
Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Work
ers declared this week in the first
of a series of special tabloid supple
ments to its newspaper, THE UNION.
The first supplement, titled "The
Fight for Job Security" points out
that while the nations top econo-
mists have been debating whether
employment will drop by 5 or 10
per cent in the u. s. this year,
jobs have already declined by 40
per cent from the peak of 1859 in
lead and zinc mining.
And, it adds, copper seems head
ed down the same steep slope along
which lead and zinc have been sliding
for many months"
The special supplement, material
for which was gathered by the I'm
ions Research Department, is intend
ed to spell out the details of a pro-
gram to overcome the metals crisis,
adopted by the Mine-Mill Interna-
tional Executive Board last Novem-
Der.
The basic cause for the non-ferrous
metals crisis cited by the 4-page sup
plement is traced to government
policies which have worked to vastly
increase our supply of metals" at the
same time working "to shrink our
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
WANT PROGRAM TO SAVE
SMALLER OPERATIONS

eve say, let's give the industry
an emergency blood TRANSMISSION
through a premium price subsidy
bill. That will save the smaller and
marginal mines from being wiped out
Immediately. Mines are not like fact
cries. They can't be shut down today
and reopened next year. Mines fill
up with water. Underground timbers
rot. Ground caves in-and valuable
resources are lost forever. That's
why we need the special help of a
subsidy to keep them in operation.
1--WE say further: Let's work to
expand our markets to take care
of the worlds expanded supply
of metals. This part of our pro-
gram doesn't apply only to the
nonferrous metals industry. 1t APP
plies to our whole economy. 1t
recognizes that we can't solve the
problems of this industry apart
from what's happening elsewhere
in the nation and the world. Our
specific proposals are aimed at
building up every possible market
at home and abroad"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
iva PROVES GOVERNMENT
NOT ALWAYS Inefficient

CHICAGO -(CNS)- Enterprise
is where you find it, and it isn't al
ways private, the Tennessee Valley
Authority's chief said here, February
IT. "The record doesn't support the
too-often accepted myth that any
thing the government does is inef-
ficient, corrupt, and wasteful," said
Gordon r. Clapp, IVA board chair
man.
TWAS plant to serve the gigantic
Paducah, KY, Atomic Energy Com
mission works was built cheaper and
faster than private utilities Joppa,
ILL.,, plant, serving the same factory,
Clapp said. iva put its first unit
in operation in 27 months, while
smokestacks across the river were
still clean and cold" Costs per in
stalled kilowatt at Joppa were 1884;
at TWAS plant. STAT.
Aces 1850 decision to let a
group of utilities supply half the
Paducah plants needs, Clapp said,
was hailed by IVA critics as
contest between public and pri-
vate enterprise. But the cries of
professional spectators soon died
away. The wrong horse was coming
in ahead"
Said the WALL STREET JOUR-
NAL, "Officials of Electric Energy,
Inc, declined comment" on Clapp's
address.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

stated that "the league is to supply
an official political voice for Mon"
tana AT of L trade unions. The
program as outlined includes the
compilation and screening of leg
islative records of state senators
and representatives, as well as
those of the various candidates for
state and national office, and of
ficial endorsement of candidates
for political office based upon the
records and platform of the candi-
dates.
"This is non-partisan organiza-
tion," he emphasized, (which will be
devoted solely to protecting the in
terests of wage earners at the ballot
box, and in assisting union members
in Montana to know the candidates
for public office"
GRASS ROOTS ORGANIZATION
In best democratic tradition, the
league will operate at the local level,
with state conventions to be held
prior to the primary and general cleo
tions to study candidates and policies
and to decide upon endorsements.
Officers of the state LLPE will be
the state executive president and the
executive board of the Montana State
Federation of Labor. Local leagues
will be formed by local central coun-
ellis throughout the areas of the state
in which those central bodies have
jurisdiction. At present there are II
central labor councils in the state.
These are: Libby, Kalispell, White
fish, Missoula, Hamilton, Deer Lodge,
Anaconda, Butte, Bozeman, Helena,
Livingston, Billings, Miles City, Glen
dive, Lewistown, Havre, and Great
Falls.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
JUDGE MeCLERNAN'S LABOR BOARD WITHOUT
AUTHORITY TO HOLD ELECTION. SAYS MASON

Contending that District Judge
John B. McClernan had acted in Eek
cess of his jurisdiction" in setting
up Butte Labor Relations Board
to settle the current Mine-Mill and
CLIO Steelworkers controversy, CLIO
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
AFL Political Arm Organized At
Statewide Meeting In Helena

Montana political history record that statewide ee
held in Helena Saturday, February TO- 1854, the
significant development of the generation political
ces For that day born the Montana Labor League
for Political Education provide for local affiates
of the American Federation of Labor make their voices heard
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26

IN montana pOIItICdI c a m :
paigns.
To form MLLPE, AFL union dele
gates from as far east as Glen
dive and west as Kalispell, came
to Helena in response to call
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-02-26
IMPORTANT POLITICAL
DATES TO Remember

June 9 (midnight)-Final day for
filing for office.
June 4-Final day to register to
vote in Primary Election.
July Final day for filing Initia-
tive petitions.
July 20-Primary Election Day.
Sept. 17-Final day to register to
vote in General Election.
November q General Election
Day.
November 2-VOte on Initiatives
and Referenda.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19
EGYPT SEEN MANEUVERING
TO AVOID SECURITY
COUNCIL CENSURE

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. -
(JTA) - Reports from Cairo that
the Egyptian. Government had
eased its Establishing" of ships
which call at Israeli ports were
interpreted in United Nations cir
cles as an attempt on the part of
the Egyptian Government to
avoid censure by the Security
Council over its blockade Of Is
rael-bound shipping through the
Suez Canal and the Gulf of Eilath.
There was some confusion here
as to actually what, if anything,
the Egyptian Government had
done to relay the blacklisting.
In the past, ships which called at
Israeli ports were 'for all time"
refused the right to.enter Egyp-
tan ports either on business or
for fuel supplies and repairs. The
reported relaxation" would have
removed from the blacklist ships
which call at Israeli ports but not
at Arab ports on the same voyage.
An Israeli spokesman's COM
ment on the report was that the
new regulations amounted to
minor adjustment" while the
blockade of Israel bound shipping
remains in force.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19

and rehabilitation movement
which has brought more than g.
900 homeless Jewish children into
Israel from Europe, North Africa
and the Middle East since 1884,
with a six-week national celebra-
ton, it was announced this week
by DR.. Miriam Freund, Hadassah
Chairman for Youth Aliyah.
AS the official representative in
the United States of Youth Ali
yah, Hadassah has raised more
than $22,OO0,O0O in the past 20
years to effect the rescue of Jew
ish children;~ many of them or
phans, first from Nazi Germany
and its satellites and, in more re-
cent years, from Arab and Iron
Curtain countries, DR.. Freund re-
ported. =
The nationwide celebration will
open on February 19 - the exact
date 20 years ago when the first
group of 43 German Jewish chill
dren arrived in what was then
Palestine - and will extend
through April 4, which has been
designated as World Jewish
Child's Day.
Early in April, a special Goth
Anniversary Youth Aliyah Award
will be presented to Eddie Cantor
at a conference in Los Angeles in
tribute to This noble humanitar-
ian activities in behalf homeless
Jewish children" Mr.. Cantor has
taken an active interest in Youth
Aliyah since its inception and
one of the villages established in
Israel for the rehabilitation Of
young newcomers bears the. name
of the famous actor.
II
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19
Volunteer IsraelieS Find Means
To Pioneer For Countries
Moral Growth

classes. since the oriental charac.
ter is such that they are far toe
self conscious to sit among other
people from the camp who will
see how little they know. This
character trait kept many even
ing classes empty.
So the volunteer arranged
for individual tuition, mainly by
young people from high school,
but also by other people from
town, soldiers on leave, and even
immigrants themselves who had
had some schooling.
In his birthday greetings, the
leader of the Jerusalem shura
(they are also working in Tel A
viv and Haifa) warned his col
leagues against complacency, re-
minding them if indeed they
could forget that ingathering
exiles from every kind of country
and building up a state out of vir-
tually nothing, will continue to
give rise to strains and stresses
for years to come. which only pa
tient day-to-day struggle will
overcome.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19

Ex-middleweight king Rocky
Grazino, who is making such a
splash in Tv, is married to a
Jewish gal !.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19
PLAIN TALK
CONTINUED from Page ~

~
the bicycle rides continued"
Well, as get it out of the clip
ping, intermarriage in that time
wasn't as simple as it is today
when young people, Jews and
Gentiles, pick up and do as they
easily please in such matter. 1t
took lot of surreptitious strata
gem then; it was like dark con-
spiracy.
Last night" the clipping goes
on. Miss x carefully packed such
effects as she had TO have and
slowed them away in her room.
and this morning one of the serv-
ants of the household. faithful to
her cause. struggled them out Of
4he house to the railway station"
"After her father had gone to
business Miss X excited the SYM
pathy of her mother by being
seized Of a toothache ;. She said
she was going to a dentist for her
tooth, and that it might take some
time. All unsuspecting her mother
permitted her to depart in peace
and she made straight for the
station and took train for Indi-
annapolis, arriving at noon"
That was the conspiratorial
way. il semes. in which inter-
marriage was conducted in that
time when for Jewish girl TO
marry a Gentle was thought of
something sacrilegious.
The clipping goes on: miss K
was met at the station by her
lover, and after lunch they went
together to procure a marriage
license. Shortly before 4 o'clock
they went to the parsonage of the
English Lutheran Church. The
bride blushingly told the good
wife of the minister that she had
been so frightened lest her secret
be discovered that she had not
the opportunity to prepare a
trousseau but her costume,
though modest and simple, was
very pretty and the minister's
wife explained that one whom
nature had so bountifully en-
dowed with beauty did not need
handsome clothes"
In conclusion. the newspaper
interviewed the silk merchant.
Miss KS father. who said: For
certain reasons I could not give
my consent TO this marriage. They
have taken matters in their own
hands and married without my
approval I am very much
surprised to hear Of the marriage
but the young people now have
my forgiveness and blessing"
The one who brought me the
clipping thought of it as a sort
of document of history reflect
ing American Jewish life almost
so years ago.
No. mixed marriage no longer
is as rare as in 1897: il happens
in the most Orthodox Jewish
families: it is no longer secret
adventure but openly arrived at.
My own objection TO .intermarri-
age is based on social conse-
quences that may come out of
conflict.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19
Hudossoh To Observe 10th
Year Of Youth AIiyoh:
Cantor To Be Honored

Hada S S a h,
tn e Wonen's
Ii on j S t Or
ganization Of
America, will
commemorate
the goth An
niversary Of
Youth Aliyah,
a worldwide
child rescue
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-02-19
BY ALEPII SHERMAN

BY ALEPH SHERMAN
When the shurat hamitnadvim
Volunteer group in Jerusalem
held its second birthday party
this week some observers consid-
cred it the most hopeful feature
in Israel life to emerge since the
war of liberation. The two hun
dred members present out of
some 400 (and member means ac-
tive member) showed that the
movement had outgrown its stu
dent beginnings, and now repre-
sents something like a true cross
section of the population; the
mistress of ceremonies works as
secretary in a local factory, one
of it's group leaders is a new inn
migrant from Morocco, a Univer-
sity Professor sat between a
book-keeper and a workman
from a local factory, and enjoyed
it.
The shura was formed in 1851
by three students, veterans of
the underground and war of
liberation. They were worried
by the fact that the moral tone
of the country, once so inspiring
ly high, seemed to fall after VIC
tory, and with the humdrum
tasks of peace. New immigrants
were brought over by the ship
loads, given a hut or tent to
live in. given food, clothing, and
sometimes work, but otherwise
had no contact with the veteran
population (ten years here is e.
nough to make one a. veteran),
who had, a few years earlier
fought and suffered so that
there would be free immigration
into a Jewish state. So it looked
as if there would develop two
nations inside Israel.
What the new immigrant
needs is not charity but friend
ship" was the first slogan of the
three students. They began by
visiting the local ma'abara Gm-
migrant camp, made friends
with immigrants, and began to
take an interest in their prob
lens, helping them to find their
feet, and find their way through
the red tape which has sprung
up here since the state was form
ed.
AS its membership grew, the
shura also formed groGps to work
against waste, inefficiency, and
corruption. They began with
quite a small thing, checking up
on government cars which were
being used for joy-riding on Sat-
urday at government expense. AS
time went on they formed groups
in government enterprises to
check on waste and swollen es-
Establishments. In several cases
they uncovered misuse of govern
ment equipment for private pur-
poses, and on one occasion enlist
ed the aid of the then Prime Min
lister, David Ben Gurion, in get
ting action taken against breaches
of office by certain officials.
At first most of the senior Off
Gals regarded them as a kind of
stunt, but as time went on, and
the shura proved that it really
knew what was going on, depart
mental heads began to turn to
them for help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-14
Another Farley Sci On Transit Hiring

Capital Transit Co.. union and
District government officials and
civic leaders met for several
hours yesterday for further study
.of the question Of changing the
transit company's policy of hir-
ing only white operators for its
vehicles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-14

Public Utilities Commission
Chairman Robert z. Mclaughlin
announced the conferees agreed
to meet again at . pm, Deem
Der n In his office for more
discussion.
There is progress" he said,
but declined to expand the
statement.