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The people's voice., 1956-12-21
nam AGAIN PROPOSES
Federal SALES TAX

WASHINGTON, d. C.-(CNS)-Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers is
still trying to get Congress to levy a
nationwide sales tax.
Charles R. Sigh, Jr., of MANS exec
utive committee prefers to call it an
excise tax. That seems to be less of
a nasty word than sales tax.
He would exempt food and drugs,
he told a House Ways and Means sub
committee. But consumers would pay
the tax on clothing, books, autos,
watches, tobacco furniture, hardware,
oil products, farm supplies, coal, cleo
trio appliances, and everything else.
Sigh argued that an excise tax on
nearly everything would be better than
an excise tax on a relatively few things
-jewelry, cosmetics, furs, phone calls,
movie tickets, liquor, and tobacco, as
at present. This would, he said, pro
mote tax equality and eliminate
discrimination"
George J. Burger, vice-president of
the Federation of Independent Busi
h0oo, JuIupeu up " say Che'I 1l0 puol-
nessmen he represented didn't want
the tax at all. Sales or excise taxes,
he said, should be reduced, not ex-
tended They're a burden to business
men.
On April 1, excise taxes on cigar
9ttes, liquor, beer, wine, autos, and
luto parts will drop slightly unless
Congress rules otherwise. U. S. treas
Try officials asked the committee to
,eep the taxes at their present levels.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Electric Workers Get FHA
0kay to Invest In
Housing Loans

WASHINGTON, D. c. - (CNS) -
Through their union, electric workers
can now invest in housing co-ops and
individually-owned homes.
Federal Housing Administration said
December that International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers may buy
FILA insured housing mortgages.
IBEW officials expect to invest $40
million year from death benefit and
pension funds.
IBEW has sponsored one housing
coop in New York City International
Brotherhood of Bakery & Confection-
cry Workers, New York Hotel Trades
Council, and Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters & Butcher Workmen of North
America are also interested in putting
pension funds to work in housing, FILA
officials said.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
No Changes Seen In
Farm Program In ST

| of grazing and feed grain lands in the
soil bank
But these changes will not in any
way jeopardize the continuation of the
program. The soil bank has the bless
ing of the three largest farm organiza-
tions and congressmen's fondness for
scheme that sends quarter-billion
dollars year directly to their constitu-
ents is obvious.
OTHER PROGRAMS
With the soil bank and flexible
supports certain to remain in effect,
Congress will devote most of its at
tention to other programs for helping
farmers.
The successful, government-financed
export program, launched in 1854 on
a temporary" basis, is up for renewal.
It's continuation is a foregOne con-
clusion, but controversy is brewing
over the Administration request to
sell or barter farm surpluses to Iron
Curtain countries. The House turned
thumbs down on it in 1856.
Democrats will urge program per-
haps under international control, to
stockpile farm surpluses in friendly
or neutralist countries, as a hedge
against war, famine or natural dis
aster. The Agriculture Department
does not think this is practical
Another Administration-De
dispute concerns the food stamp plan
for bringing surplus foods to needy
persons in this country. The Admins
tration comedies the program, en-
1orsed in the Democratic platform,
has minor advantages as a welfare |
measure. But it says the existing di-
'ect distribution of food to schools, |
charitable institutions and families is
/ better way to reduce surplus sup
}lies.
There is backing in Congress, too, for
pecial commodity programs opposed
" the Administration. Most important
II these is the domestic parity or two
rice plan for wheat and rice. A refer
ndum on the wheat plan was author
zed in the 1856 farm bill vetoed by
resident Eisenhower. Another try
ill be made this year to put it over.
ut there is no evidence Of any soften
lg in the Administration stand.
More agreement is in prospect on
10 need for increased research into ]
ldustrial uses for farm goods. Con-
ress has boosted research funds each {
the past four years and a special
set up at it direction in
,56, is expected to recommend even !
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Mofher-In-LaW of r. u.
Oil Manager In Billings, Dies

BILLINGS-Mrs. Christance Larson,
mother of Mrs. Vos Darby, passed
away in Billings, Wednesday, Decem-
Der 12.
Services were held at Smiths Chap
el, December Is, and she was laid to
rest in Mountview Cemetery.
The community will miss Mrs. Lar
son. She was a very lovable person
and active in her church.
Her daughter, Mrs. Darby, is the
wife of Vos Darby, longtime manager
of the Farmers Union Oil Co. Of Bill
lings.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
FUGTA Convention Told

Only aggressive action by Congress
to raise farm prices can stave off a
continued cost-price squeeze on farm
ers, Wayne Darrow, editor of the
Washington Farmletter, told delegates
to the 10Th Annual Farmers Union
Grain Terminal Association Stock
ers' Meeting in ST. Paul last week.
Darrow, a keen observer of the farm
scene, gave the farmers little reason
to believe such congressional action
will be forthcoming. Speaking in terms
of a peacetime agriculture, not boil
stored by war or other unexpected
crisis, Darrow said farmers can look
for another period of continued cost
price squeeze on the farm, devided
farm leadership and Illustration in
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
Your Tax Bill

In the past fiscal year the federal,
state and local governments spent a
total of $114 billion, an average of
1894 for each person in the United
States, and more than $1,000 for a
family of four, according to a report
published recently by the Tax Founda-
ton, an organization which complies
spending and tax figures.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
From Congressional Quarterly


WASHINGTON, D. C.-The 1857 ses-
sion OF Congress may be the first in
four years to escape a full-scale battle
on farm policy.
No permanent peace is in sight, but
there is every prospect of one-year
cease-fire in the congressional Demo
Gratis campaign against the Eisen-
hower-Benson flexible price support
program.
Veteran fighters for rigid or flexible
supports gave Congressional Quarterly
three reasons for expecting a truce:
1. The November election was
standoff as far as farm policy is con-
cerned. There probably are enough
votes in the new Congress to pass so
per cent support bill. But the Presi-
dent would veto it, as he did this
year, and there are not enough votes
to override a veto.
2. Past preoccupation with price sup
port questions has blocked full consid-
GRAFTON of other ways of boosting farm
income. These alternative programs
clamor for attention in 1857.
8. The farm situation, while satisfaC-
tory to no one is not as gloomy as it
was a year ago. Prices have remained
steady for a year, income (bolstered
by soil bank payments) is up 4 per
cent, exports are booming and the
mountain of government-held surpluses
has begun to shrink. The long-run posi-
ton of agriculture is still shaky, but
there is no clamor for "crash" pro-
gram to save farming from imminent |
disaster.
RIGID SUPPORTS
Despite all this, there may be an
effort to start a rigid supports bill
through the House. Chairman Harold
J. Cooley (D-N. c. of the House Agri-
ulture Committee told CO, "My pres
mt feeling is I won't introduce a bill
or 80 per cent supports" The Presi-
ent's opposition makes any effort to
ass such bill "a rather foolish and
ain thing" Cooley said.
But" he added, "it is in our plat
1rm. want to consult with the lead
rship after Congress convenes and il
ley want the bill, will do my part"
Cooley does plan to investigate first
ear operations of the soil bank, sub
,ct of many complaints Some changes t
the program are certain. Congress i
ay order an increase in per acre pay 6
ents to encourage farmers to retire {
ore land from production. 1t also will C
'nsider proposals for full inclusion l
The people's voice., 1956-12-21

more research in a report due Feb. l.
A technical but important question
Of the formula to be used in comput-
ing parity prices must be settled in
1857. Various schemes have been pro-
posed by farm organizations.
The people's voice., 1956-12-21
WASHINGTON HAS FAILED
TO MEET PROBLEM

Darrow made it clear that the gloomy
farm outlook comes about because Of
Washingtons failure to meet the
basic farm problem of our time
our capacity to produce more than
markets will take at fair prices to
farmers"
The present patchwork farm pro-
gram won't do it, Darrow said. "Ev-
erybody including Secretary Benson
knows it. The present farm program
is low price program. Low support
prices to reduce production with an
assist from the soil bank; eive-away
programs to get rid of surpluses; and
the cost-price squeeze to get rid of
surplus farmers.
Despite all the attempts at cheer
fulness in the recent USDA outlook
conference in Washington" Darrow
emphasized, "the gloomy farm situa-
ton can't be concealed. Farmers are
in acute distress in the midst of plenty
and prosperity. With the exception of
eight depression years, farm prices in
to parity are the lowest since
World War t.
Darrow explains his pessimism over
the farm future this way:
Secretary Benson is in the saddle
and will stay there. The Democrats
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

Failure to properly understand the
conditions of participation in this
years limited Glass II 'durum wheat
program may cause producers diff
Guilty and financial loss next fall, Leo
S. Kolstad, State Agricultural Stabili-
cation and Conservation administra-
tive officer, warns.
First, he cautioned, the program is
applicable only in "a designated
counties in Montana. In these coun-
ties producers may plant three acres
of recommended varieties of Glass II
durum for each acre of the 1856
wheat allotment which is not planted
to "other" wheat. On farms where
the 1856 wheat allotment is less than
Is acres, farmers also may plant
three acres of durum for each acre
the wheat allotment is under Is
acres. Farms having zero or no 1856
wheat allotments will be presumed
to have Is acre allotments for pur-
poses of the durum program only but
will not be eligible to participate in
the durum wheat program if any acre
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
Trucks Now Pay On Same Basis AS Cars
COL ORADO TON-MILE TAX PROVES
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

yearly from the trucking industry in
payment for highway use. Trucks
now pay for their road use at about
the same rate as automobiles, on a
ton-for-ton and mile-for-nnile basis.
Before passage of the new tax big
trucks paid only about 81 million
yearly.
The study made by the road asso-
citation disclosed that many fears
expressed about the effects of a
higher truck tax on the economy of
the state proved unfounded. Condi-
tions have never been better, says
the report, and even the truck lines
have expanded and are doing more
business.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
Highest March Employment
Recorded Last Month

Every major industrial group had
than year ago. Trade establishments
led with margin of 1000 over the
March, 1866 figure. Contract con-
struction had 600 more on payroll,
and was preparing to add thousands
more as building operations resume
on airports at Great Falls and Glas-
gov, commercial, home, and school
structures at Billings, Bozeman, Hell
ena, Missoula, Butte and Great Falls,
power dam on the Clark Fork River
near Noxon, school, business, and
home building projects in nearly ev-
cry community in the state, and
scores of highway and bridge con-
tracts already awarded and ready
to start.
Transportation and utilities had
600 more on jobs than a year ago,
finance and insurance up 500, state
and local government 1900, and
minor gains of 100 are shown in
manufacturing, mining, and service
industries. At present the lumber and
logging industry is hampered by the
annual spring breakup of timber
roads, interference from melting
SHOWS, and lack of log supply at the
sawmills.
The employment service division
of the commission reports 1901 job
placements in Montana industry and
agriculture during March, the high
est March figure in the last six years,
and an increase of $40 over March
last year. Figures for March in pre-
vious years are 2,515 for 1855; 1888
for 1854; 2,619 for 1858; 1858 for
1862, and 2,070 for 1851.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

sentati : using and Home Finance
Agency y, < title;
illegal considerations in urban
planning and development" led by
Joseph Guandolo, associate general
counsel, Housing and Home Finance
Agency, Washington, D. C.
Concluding session of the confer
ence will be a discussion led by DR..
R. Renne, President, Montana State
College, and also a member of the
planning boards advisory council.
Others on this panel will include Dur
kee, Guandolo, and Louis Forsell,
assistant to Montana State Attorney
General Arnold H. Olsen.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
K0LSTAD ASKS UNDERSTANDING
OF DURUM PROGRAM

age of "other" wheat is seeded on
the farm.
Second, Golden Ball and Peliss
varieties will be considered as "other''
wheat in determining compliance with
allotments, Kolstad emphasized. These
two durum varieties are not recon-
mended for manufacture of semo.ina
flour and, therefore, no increase in
their production is needed.
Third, and highly important &C
cording to Kolstad, the durum law
is for the production of Glass II dur
UNI wheat, excepting Golden Ball and
Peliss varieties. Farmers planning to
participate in the durum increase pro-
gram must accept their responsibility
to see that wheat is produced which
will meet the Class II standards. This
means, Kolstad explained, that the
Glass II durum may not contain in
excess of 10 per cent of wheats of
other classes. Wheat which does not
meet these Glass III standards will be
classed as "other" wheat in deter
mining compliance with acreage allot-
ments.
For these reasons, it will behoove
every farmer planning to take part
in the durum program to exercise I'M
usual care in his wheat farming oper-
atoms, Kolstad continued. Good,
clean seed of varieties recommended
by the Montana Experiment Station
should be secured from reputable
sources. The seed should be planted
on land where there is least likeli
hood of volunteer wheat of "other"
classes. When handling wheat of Glass
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

vicious fundamentally for subver-
sion of the rights of working men
and women."
POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS
This anti-labor drive falls under
four main headings, Morse Indicated:
1.-The first thing done, said
Morse, was to sweep out of the key
NLRB staff positions the career civil
servants who held them and appoint
POLITICALLY acceptable novices" and
others whose labor relations expert
ence was "entirely employer-ori-
ented."
The result, said Morse, has been
deliberate distortion in evaluating
evidence submitted in support of
union charges" and "bias, prejudice
and unfairness" against unions. For
example, board officials acted in 80
days on an employer complaint
against union, but when the same
union filed complaint against an
employer it took year and half
to get action.
Again, Coco-Cola drivers in st.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

Montana's labor force continued
its upward trend in March, according
to employment figures just an
nounced by the Unemployment Com
pensation Commission. There were
5,4O0 more wage earners on industry
payrolls than In any previous March
and from 700 to $500 more work
applicants seeking payroll spots than
in that month in recent years.
March had $4,000 on industrial
payrolls, the report shows, and 1876
active jobseekers at offices of the
employment service. A year ago there
were 147,400 at work and 1879
seeking work. Two years ago the
figures were 147,20O and 1,O75. In
1858 it was 10000 and 1928.
"More workers at work, and more
workers seeking jobs" according to
Chadwick H. Smith, NC chairman,
sis even more apparent this spring
than in previous years. The rate of
growth goes beyond the normal popu-
lation gains and indicates that the
state is attracting workers and po-
tential workers from outside, at
rate greater even than the accom-
panying out-migration."
Seasonal resumption of employ
ment, in most outdoor activities is
progressing, but greater acceleration
of employment should be shown in
April. Industries most directly in
volved in the seasonal complex are
building, highway and dam construc-
ton, lumber and logging, food pro-
cessing, maintenance of communica-
ton and transportation lines and for
est facilities, and general farming
operations.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

milton of the key position that the
community holds in Montana's eff
forts to encourage and experience
further industrial development. The
place of the community is basic in this
effort because factors bearing upon
the attractiveness of a community
are being given more and more
weight by the very large group of
industries which have relative free
dom in the selection of location.
Improved transportation facili-
ties, increased population, new prod
ucts and new markets, the desire for
outdoor living, industrial policies of
dispersion and decentralization, and
chronological advancement are some
of the more important factors con-
tributory to this trend" Roys points
out. "Today, as never before, indus
tries are looking to the west; and
communities where aggressive lead
ership and organization is accomplish
ing research and planning for con-
tinued community improvement and
development are having notable re-
suits and are finding the results well
worth the effort in terms of addition
al income and employment opportuni-
ties which provide diversity and a
sound base for continued progress
under conditions of stability.
Success of the conference and the
subsequent application and operation
of methods and organizations to be
discussed will depend primarily on
wide attendance and active partici-
patton of community groups. These
include city and county officials, state
officials and legislators, chamber Of
commerce members, labor leaders,
and business representatives.
The program for the conference
includes banquet Thursday evening
at the Placer Hotel with R. C. Setter
strom, Butte, as postmaster. Key
address of the Thursday evening SEES
sion will be "Broad aspects of COM
munity development problems and
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
Morse Charges Anti-Lubor PIof By
Eisenhower's MIR. Board
By MICHAEL MARSH, In LABOR

By MICHAEL MARSH, In LABOR
Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
charged the embarrassing" National
Labor Relations Board appointed by
President Eisenhower has REWRITTEN
the Taft-Hartley Act to make it more
intensely anti-labor and has per-
verified the acts administrative ma
chinery for the same purpose" Morse
cited case after case to back up his
charges.
Denouncing the Eisenhower Board
for it's shocking unfair" reversal
of the intent of Congress, Morse
urged on the Senate a full investiga-
ton of the NLRB's recent activities.
1t seemed likely the probe may be
undertaken by members of the Sen
at Labor Committee.
The NLRB administers the Taft
Hartley Act, which is the basic law
regulating workers rights in all in
dustries affecting interstate COM
merce except those covered by the
Railway Labor Act. For the past two
years, three men appointed by Eisen:
hover have formed the majority of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13

Observation-Disclosures new ton
mile truck tax has proved highly sue
cessful during it's first year of opera
ton, according to a Colorado high
way group which has just published
a detailed account of the new tax
law.
The law was enacted, says the Colo
RADIO Good Roads Association-pub-
fishers of the report-after most
newspapers of the state stepped into
four-year fight between the state
highway planning commission and the
truck lobby over the need to require
trucks to pay as much as automobiles
for highway use.
Although the truck lobby was armed
with a 100000 "war chest" Colo
RADIO newspapers printed news of
truck lobby activities on their front
pages and brought the "truck tax
fight" into public view. After bit
ter legislative battle in 1854, the
truck lobby lost in its attempt to es-
cape equalized taxes and was as
sessed ton-mile tax. The truckers
returned to the state capitol the new
year, hoping to repeal the law, but
the newspapers again entered the
fight and the truck lobby went down
to defeat.
AS result of the new tax, says
the Good Roads Association, the state
of Colorado is receiving ST million
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
Consumer Debt Rises
To S36 Billion

WASHINGTON, D. C.-(CNS)
u. S. families owed $50 billion
in February on consumer goods
they'd bought either on time or by
saying "Charge it." This was 1870
of their income after taxes. A year
ago, total consumer credit was $50
billion, or 11% of disposable in
come. These figures, of course,
don't include home loans.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
Olsen, Condor,
Commended By
Young Demos

Attorney General Arnold Olsen
and Supt. of Public Instruction Mary
M. Condor were highly commended
| by delegates to the Montana Young
Democrats convention in Great Falls
last weekend for policies they have
espoused to protect the schools in
terests in lands held in trust by the
State of Montana.
Both officials, as members of the
State Land Board, have for more
than three years been carrying on a
vigorous fight to secure "full market
value" on all state oil land leases let
to oil companies in face of legisla-
ton approved in recent legislative
sessions to reduce the amount of re-
turn the schools may receive from
such trust lands.
In other resolutions, the Young
Demos went on record in opposition
to enactment of any so-called Fright
to work" law; opposed placing of a
general sales tax on the statute books;
favored passage of Korean veterans
bonus, and reaffirmed their support
| vi LilG OOl1OkIdIAC UdTlV
platform Of 1862.
MATHESON, NEW PREXY
Gordon Matheson, Ledger area
farmer, was elected president of
Montana Young Democrats for the
coming year, succeeding Joe Reber,
Helena plumbing contractor. Joyce
Copenhaver, Missoula, was elected
vice president.
Regional vice presidents elected
were Milo Anderson, Sidney; Maurice
Hennessy, Butte; Mike Whalen, Bill
lings, and Dave Kemp, Helena.
Harold Gunderson, Great Falls, was
named national committeeman, and
Cleo Butler, Bozeman, national COM
mitteewoman. Charles Steffani, Great
Falls, was appointed secretary-treas-
urer by President Matheson.
Featured speaker at the conven-
ton was Dave Bum, Denver, national
Young Democrat president.
The Montana organization was pre-
scented a charter in the national Or
ganization by Jack C. Toole, Shelby,
chairman of Montana State Democrat
Central Committee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1956-04-13
First Community DeveIc,T ment
Conference, April 1927

Montana first community development conference will be-
held in Helena Thursday and Friday April 10 and 20 Perry
F. Roys director Montana State Planning Board, has
nounced
primary emphasis in this meeting, Mr. Roys states wil
programs and problems the community level in