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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
FARM PRICES UNDER
COP DROP AGAIN

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(LDNS)-
Farmers took it on the chin for the
second straight month when the prices
they received dropped another four
tenths of 1 per cent for the month
ending July Is.
The latest drop, offset to some
extent by drop in farm living and
production costs, put farm prices at
about SO per cent of parity, the low
est since 1941.
A year ago farmers were receiving
prices that averaged "a per cent of
parity. Farm prices have been below
100 per cent of parity since Novem-
Der 1862.
The decline in farm prices was
led by beef, cattle, hogs and fruits.
From mid-May to mid-June farm
prices dropped per cent.
Meanwhile the Agriculture Depart
ment reported that somewhat larger
of food will be marketed
during the rest of this year with food
prices averaging a little below those
of preceding months.
The price drop will come, says the
because of heavier sup
plies of pork, veal, lard, turkey, eggs,
processed fruits, fresh vegetables and
rice.
Per capita consumption for all of
1854 is expected to average slightly
higher than in 1853.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
MAJOR a. C. M. OPERATIONS In STATE MAY BE
STRUCK MONDAY

al holidays and improvements in
health and welfare benefits. EN-
ployes in the industry, because of an
average Il hour cutback in the wol k
week in The last year, have taken a
Is per cent cut in weekly pay. In
July 1868, reports the Unemploy-
ment Compensation, average take
home pay for miners was $91.33. In
July 1854, the average was S77.74.)
Last strike in the non-ferrous met
ais industry in Montana was in Au-
gust September 1851, and was short
lived because of an injunction issued
by President Truman under pro-
visions of the Taft-Hartley Act. Pro-
tracted negotiations with ACM and
American Smelling & Refining Co.
finally resulted in fairly reason
able contract settlement. A straight
8 cents an hour w1ge increase, up
grading Of job classifications, sick
leave, 500 per month pension and
other fringe benefits brought the
total contract improvements in 1851
to in excess of 20 cents per hour.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
Partnership Dissolved

THE HAGUE.-After more than
four years of uneasy partnership. In
donesia and The Netherlands have
signed agreements to dissolve their
union. A protocol and letters estab-
fishes a new basis for what both sides
hopefully termed friendly relations.
The instruments remove the last YES
tiges of Indonesia's 1949 agreement
to recognize The Netherlands crown
as head Of the union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
$4,000 Settlement
Is Made 0uf-0f-Court

PORTLAND, Ore.-(LDNS)-The
States Steamship Co. has made
$4,000 out-of-court settlement with
survivals of the crew of the Inflated
Pennsylvania, Victory ship which
was lost at sea in 1862.
The Pennsylvania disappeared in
the Pacific in January, 1862, without
trace. Widows and dependents of
the crew filed suit for damages suf-
tered by their loss.
The $4,000 settlement represents
a compromise agreed to by the Wild
ows and dependents after months of
legal maneuvering.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
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the free labor movement would be
more important than the material
give-aways," the congressman said.
Leroy Anderson, Democratic candi-
date from the eastern district, stress
ed cooperation between labor and
farmer to sand bag the tide of re-
action in politics where labor's bat
ties are won or lost.
James Mari, executive secretary of
the Oregon Federation of Labor, said
if Montana didn't support local lead
ers with finances for the fight ahead
and take the political situation a
little more seriously. they Knight as
well get out of the labor movement"
Stanley E. Thompson, IBEW, a
new affiliate of the Mont. Federation
of Labor said: at is too bad we
have to learn our lessons the hard
way. The bright spot on the horizon
is that we have another chance. We
can correct our mistakes in Novem-
ber."
Gov. j. Hugo Aronson addressed
delegates the morning of the opening
day of the convention, stressing the
of improving highway
safety standards and the need for
additional revenue to match federal
aid highway funds now available to
Montana. The Governor also reviewed
the state employment picture, and
urged labor's active backing for Ref
BRENDA 81 and So, the bond issues
20 provide funds for badly needed
at Warm Springs and
Boulder.
Arnold Olsen, Attorney General,
poke ont against States rights"
aging that under this doctrine g. i
he worlsingman's right to strike and
ticket can be curbed at the instance
# the state" Under the mis-named |
right to work" proposals, he con-
inued, the states rights doctrine
means that the federal law will not |
pply if state has passed a Cough
~ law on the same subject
'hus, although the federal act guar
ntees a union shop that act would
lot apply were the state to forbid
l."
Democratic Minnesota Congress-
IAN Roy Wier told the convention
hat unless unions wake up to the
tuation, there won't be left in this
ountry a semblance of union con-
ract." The remedy for the anti-labor
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
Parkinson Replies
To Freeman

In your Aug. 9Th issue, Mr.. Edmund
Freeman, a Professor at the Montana
State University comments on my criti-
cism of an article by a Coop News
Service Reporter on the subject of
monopoly of atomic power by public
utilities. He makes no attempt to con-
tradict or refute a single statement of
fact or figures of mine, so l assume
he does not question their accuracy.
However, he does state that l did not
say that IF a Missoulian is dissatis-
fled with his Montana Power Water
Rate, he has the right to call in
well digger, or to hire a farmer to
bring him in barrelled water from
nearby stream, etc. (Does Montana
Power furnish Missoula with its domes-
tic water supply?).
Mr.. Freeman is 1909 correct. 1 did
not make the above statement, and
there, are ! million other statements
l did not make also. He seems to think
that the statement referred to is non
sense l do not disagree with him.
He should know, he made the state
ment | didn't.
Mr.. Freeman complains about the
length of my letter to the Editor.
Having had a rather limited education,
[ have to express myself largely in
two and three letter words that prob
ably add up to more words per column
inch than the multi-syllable words |
that naturally come easy to a Professor |
Of Languages or whatever it is that
Mr. Freeman is Professor of.
He and | seem to agree perfectly |
except that he seems to think that a
sarcastic wise crack can be substituted |
or facts, figures and analytical logic
If the kind ordinarily expected from
College Professor.-E. j. PARKINSON.
treat Falls
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
Enough Is Enough!
New Deal Needed

NEW YORK. = LLPE Director
James c. McDevitt declared here that
"there is every indica zion that the
American people have learned their
lesson after year and a half.
eve all have a stake in electing a
Congress that will protect the An.eri-
can people from legislative demands
Of this administration, he said com
menting on the recent labor-liberal
primary victories in the South.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
These Were Not Communists
DEFINITIONS:

Communists-A coign sponsored by
reactionaries for the purpose of de-
stroying its original meaning that they
Cthe reactionaries) might acquire the
wealth of the nation and evade their
justly due taxes.
Juvenile delinquency-Give every
child its needs-food, clothing, homes
and play grounds and 50 per cent of
its cause would disappear. Give the
same TO our elders and 80 per cent of
the cost of crime would be eliminated
A nation can not survive on crime.
F. B. I.-Fired by Ike.
To the public:
The writer is a descendant of the
Ogelthorpe Colony. Believes in freedom
and democracy (not party) and accepts
full responsibility for what he writes.
JOHN BARNARD, Poison.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
As We've Suspected
All Along

ezra Benson, Secretary of Ag-
riculture, is being pressed to in
terest himself in the question Of
why city people pay as much for
food as when farm prices were
much higher. Some Republicans
from farm states are concerned
that farmers may think that the
Republican Party is most interested
in getting farm prices down, not
in lowering prices of food for city
people. u. S. NEWS & WORLD
REPORT, August 20, 1854.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

Under the new export program the
Agriculture Department is sending
a LITTLE MILK from our abundant
supply to the Philippine Islands,
where a serious famine is going on.
But the starving Filipinos have to
pay II Zee per lb. for our milk, which
is 3 times as much, as Mr.. Benson
is selling it for pig feed at SIC per
ID. While the pigs are getting 400
million lbs, only quarter-million
lbs. are going to the Philippine Isl
ands.-N. d. UNION FARMER.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
Buy Coop Tires

A leading .. S. tire manufacturer
makes Coop tires for the Farmers
Union Central Exchange under con-
tract. The same firm makes at least
seven other well-known brands of
tires using the same materials and
equipment and making them under
the same conditions. SO why not buy
your own Coop tires? Don't be fooled
by brand names. Coop tires are guar
anteed.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
DELEGATES TO ATSFL CONVENTION
TOLD TO GET OUT And fight

drive currently going on IN the nails
of Congress and the Administration,
said Wier, lies in labor taking politi-
cal action to remedy the situation"
annual report to the delegates in
which he listed the accomplishments
and activities of the Federation for
the past year as: Participation in
Farmer-Labor Institutes. opposition
to the gas rate increase, compensation
cases taken to court, steps taken to
bring the Mine-Mill back into the
ALL, work in Kalispell to organize
the aluminium workers, carrying out
the dictates of the last convention,
the Silicosis and Legislative Pay mi
tiatives, organization of LLPE and
editing the TREASURE STATE La
Dor JOURNAL.
President TIMBER also presented
the Montana Federation scholarship
to Leslie Gilbert Muchmore, Missoula
High School graduate who will at
tend Bozeman this fall. Young Much
more received a rousing hand for
the short thank you speech he gave
to the convention at the banquet.
There seemed little doubt that the
few words of the young man indi-
Gated to the labor people that he
would do them proud"
MANY OTHER SPEAKERS
Other speakers during the four days
Of the convention included Richard
Bottomly, Jr., Great Falls, speaking
for his father, Justice r. v Bottom
W; Les Green, Tacoma, Int'l. Rep. of
Hotel & Restaurant Employees and
Bartenders; Anthony Craig, of the
Wage & Hour Division, Dept. of
labor;
Martin H. Miller, Cleveland, Ohio,
legislative assistant to the president,
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen;
William H. Barley, Great Falls, U.
J; Savings Bond Division, U. S. Treas
Try; James Leary, Butte, sub region
j director for Clio; Frank Murray,
Helena, secretary, Democratic State
central Committee;
Herb Rolph, Denver, vice president
National Farmers Union; Leonard
Ienfield, Great Falls, editor MON
ANA FARMERS UNION NEWS;
,obert B. Sheets, Seattle, fifth vice
resident Intl. Union of Hold Car
iers & building Laborers; Richard
Woods, Kalispell, representing Bon
eville Power Administration;
Henry Yaeger, Helena, director of
Iontana State Apprenticeship Coun-
IL; Harold S. Seavey, Minneapolis,
egional AFL director, representing
FL President George Meany; ]. L.
TcBreen, Portland, general executive
ice president, Int'l. Association of
John F. Barrett, Mime
polls, director Region XIII, U. S.
pprenticeship Bureau, Dept. of La
Or.
Missoula was chosen as the site
IL the 58th annual convention of
lie federation to be held in August
955.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
Creameries Endorse Direct
Payments To Producers

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(NFU)-
The National Creameries Assn. has
endorsed the direct payments method
for supporting prices of dairy prod
ucts, as provided in the farm bill
adopted by the House and recon-
mended by the Senate committee, de-
claring "the dairy tanners price sup
port program could be saved only by
adoption of this plan"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
THE READERS
FORUM

LETTERS: No letter over $50
words will be accepted for publica-
ton. All letters must be signed by
writer, although, on request, name
will be withheld.-P.V. Editor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

In 184S Pennsylvania passed a
state child labor law setting the mini
mum age for workers in commercial
occupations at IL years. In 1849, the
minimum was raised to 13 years.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

AsNA hANA 10 SSbC1liS 1000 anu 1000
on here" must be her reaction.
And she is completely justified in
asking that question.
During the past few years the
spread" between what the house
wife pays for food and what the
farmer gets for that same food has
been steadily increasing, says Public
Affairs Institutes washington Win
dow" column.
This situation has been dramatized
particularly during the past two
years when the farmers income has
taken sharp drop accompanied by
warning cries that major American
depressions start with the farmer
and then spread to the rest of US.
Take the latest figures on the cost
of living issued by Department of
Labor. These show that between
May and June of this year food prices
led the way in boosting the cost of
living by tenth of per cent. 1t
was the third consecutive month that
food prices had advanced.
FARMERS GETTING LESS
At the same time the farmer was
getting less for his products, his
cash receipts dropping from $258
million in May to S248 in June.
This phenomenon of the farmer !
getting less for his produce and the |
failing to get a correspond
ing benefit in his grocery bill is some
thing that has puzzled a great many
people for great many years. Presi-
dent Truman was enough intrigued
by it to direct the Federal Trade
Commission to investigate the prob
em while he was still in the White
House.
Unfortunately for those who would
ike to know the answer, the Congress
zilled an appropriation for the study
asst year and even went so far as to
'orbid the ETC to continue it.
Obviously there were a good many
people who didn't want to know the
answer.
EXPLANATIONS
Efforts to explain the spread"
AVE been frequent. The JOURNAL
Of COMMERCE has blamed it on a
arge variety of factors such as in ,
reased wages for those who work in !
God processing plants or in food dis !
stores; expensive packaging
UGH as has not been available to the /
public before, large investments by !
he retail food industry in improved
tore equipment and facilities plus ,
increased transportation costs. I
Again it is pointed out that the
ost of the amount of wheat in
Oaf of bread is so small that fluctua-
ions in the price paid to the farmer q
or his wheat has little influence on
he price Of the finished loaf This :
onflicts with claims that farm sub
idies are responsible for his food
rices, but this, of course, is another !,
tudy.
The fact is that however more q
expensive IL is TO process and retail p
'od these days, the full reason for
lie spread between farm and store
rices has never been adequately ex- .
lained. y
While net income for the farmer y
oes down, profits for the food pro-
essor and the chain store are stand 7
g up handsomely. Thus, while the >
lrmer's share of the food dollar has 81
ropped 10 cents during the past nine
ears, the net income of leading cor j.
orations processing agricultural
'oducts has stood up well and even A
creased between 1852 and 1853. le
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
FOOD COSTS remain high while
farm PRICES DROP
BY Labor's Daily News Service

The American housewife who into food store to
do her weekly shopping out with little change
from $40 bill Then she reads her morning paper that the
farmer getting less and less for his products whats going
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

Since 1851, farm proprietors' income
has dropped So billion or 20 per cent.
HUMPHREY DEMANDS STUDY
Efforts to tear the veil of mystery
away from the spread of food prices
from the farm to the dinner table are
by no means dead. Sen. Hubert Hum
phrey (D-Minn.) has renewed de-
mands that the Senate Committee on
Agriculture make promised study
of the question.
+ Until such a study is made it is
likely that the farmer will continue
to be blamed and labor continue to
be blamed. But where the money
really goes and who pockets it will
remain mystery. 1t may well be
that there are powerful groups in
America who would prefer to keep
it that way.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

Bermuda's oldest and most noted
industry is the growing and export
ing of Easter lilies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
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bers favoring strike action if neces-
sary, by a margin of So to Is per
cent.
Since returns of the strike vote
were released, Kennecott, the biggest
of the "big four" in the non-ferrous
metals mining industry has made an
offer of four cents an hour wage
increase as well as other minor con-
tract improvements, which have been
termed wholly inadequate by the
union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20
ACM SITS TIGHT

To date, ACM officials have set
tight and refused to make any offer
of any kind as a basis Of negotia-
ting on q new contract to replace
the one that expired more than seven
weeks ago. Last week, as result
of the company's adamant stand,
union officials requested the serv-
ices Of federal mediation service.
Federal mediators, company and la
Dor representatives, met Tuesday, but
failed to reach any basis for further
across-the-table bargaining on rev
contract.
Union demands include 25 cents
per hour wage increase, two addition
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-20

Since 1851, farm proprietors' income
has dropped So billion or 20 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Vargas Successor
Is Former NeWsnlan
Active in 80 Revolt
BY the Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil.
Aug. 24.-The man in line for
the Brazilian presidency. Joao
Cafe Filho, Is a 55-year-old for
mer Journalist who took an &C
tive part in the 1850 revolt
which first brought Getulio Var
gas to power
Born February 8, 1899. in
Natal, Rio Grande do Notre state.
son of a civil servant, Mr.. Cafe
received his higher education at
the North Rio Grande Academy
of Juridical and Commercial
Science in Recife.
AT 10 he began his newspaper
career, editing the Natal Ga
zeta. Later he founded the
formal do Norte, which cham
pioned labor and anti-govern-
ment causes until it was sup
pressed in 1926. Mr.. Cafe fled
to Bezerros, where he served as
secretary to the mayor and
founded the. newspaper Gazeta
de Bezerros.
Served 10 Days in Jail.
In 1928 he shifted to Recife,
directed another opposition
newspaper, and served a To-day
jail term for attacking the state
government. His first link with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Vargas
Continued From First Page.)

Anal push against Mr.. Vargas.
The papers, widely published,
purported to show influence ped
ding by Fortunate. This in
creased the troubles for the gov
eminent already under attack
for alleged corruption.
More Demands to Resign.
New demands for Mr.. Vargas
resignation were made at an
aeronautical club meeting Sat
urday. Air force general officers
conferred 10 hours Sunday and
prepared a note saying Mr.. VAR
gas resignation was the only
solution for the crisis.
The army officers memorial
calling for Mr.. Vargas to quit
was presented to him shortly
after midnight by Gen. Mas
carenhas de Moraes. chief OF the
armed forces general staff, and
War Minister Zenobio da Costa
Then came frantic hours of con-
ferences between Mr.. Vargas and
these army officers and members
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Shenandoah Board
To Discuss Ban on
School Facilities
BY ire A,,oefe,sd Press

WOODSTOCK. Va. Aug. "a
The Shenandoah County School
Board, was to meet in. special
session this afternoon to discuss
the action Of Deputy State Fire
Marshal r. Z. Robertson in de-
claring facilities for $50 students
to be fire hazards. ordering them
not to be used this year.
Glasses involved are at Wood
stock. Edinburg and Mount
jackson Schools.
The deputy fire marshal acted
upon complaint Of the Wood
stock Town Council, the Mount
jackson PTA and John Massie,
q citizen Of Edinburg.
The special meeting today will
discuss whether first graders
should be refused admission
when schools open September /
In order to relieve the congestion
that caused the use Of the con-
demned facilities.
In Woodstock, the ire mar
shall refused further use Of a
building adjacent to the Wood
stock Elementary School in
which both q garage for the
repair of school buses and a
class room for sixth graders are
located.
In Edinburg the fire marshal
directed that q classroom held
in the corridor at the entrance
to the school be not permitted.
This blocked an exit for other
children.
In Mount Jackson two classes
held in corridors of the Triplet
High School and a class held in
an abandoned shoe repair shop,
adjoining q gasoline service
station, were ordered .discon-
tinued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Truck Tonnuqe

CHICAGO. - Trucks carry
about 8 billion tons of freight In
the United States each year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-24
Eisenhower
CONTINUED From First Page.)

his tiny Office at the Lowry Air
Force Base.
The provision stripping the
party of all legal rights. privi-
leges and immunities" was more
than the President asked for.
An administration measure
providing that unions designated
by the Subversiye Activities Con-
troll Board as Communist-infil-
trated would lose bargaining
rights before the National Labor
Relations Board was amended
on Democratic initiative to make
it q crime to belong to the
Communist Party.
Compromise Measure.
Pressure by administration
leaders. who argued this would
undercut Internal Security and
Smith Act prosecutions of Com
munists, brought the compro-
mise stripping the party itself
of legal rights instead Of hitting
at individual members directly.
Gen. Eisenhower gave only
passing mention of anti Com
munist legislation in his speech
last night. He said new weap-
ons were necessary to help de-
feat internal communism. and
Congress had passed Is of Is
bills proposed by the admins
tration.
He singled out for most atten-
ton passage Of the st. Lawrence
SeaWay project and the "enor-
nous" tax revision bill, declar-
ing those actions alone would
have been an honorable record
for Congress.
But many things were &C
complished by the Woodworking
Congress, he said. Among them
he listed a farm program that
Twill encourage efficient produc-
ton, will stimulate consumption
and stabilize farm income: q
housing bill to give every Ameri-
can family opportunity for a de-
cent home, and expansion OF
Social Security benefits.
Proud Of Record.
He said he was disappointed
for all of us" that other parts OF
the program he proposed to Con-
gress had not passed, but said
nevertheless, every American
can be proud of this SD Con-
gress."
Declaring that I'VE are sure
you want us to go ahead" with
his program, the President sale
zone of our big jobs for thu
coming year" will be expansion
of foreign trade through tariff
reductions.
He also promised a restudy oil
lowering the minimum votine
age, and submission to Congress.
again of Taft Hartley Act revi.
sions and health reinsurance pro.
gram.