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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
RAD Committee Approves
Two Development Projects

BOHEMIAN - Proposals for two
western Montana industrial develop
ment projects to be submitted to the
Area Redevelopment administration
for loans were reviewed and recon-
mended by the executive committee
of the State Rural Areas Develop
ment Committee at it's meeting held
in Helena last week,
Approval by RAD is usually sought
by ARA before a project is granted
a loan.
Torlief S. Aasheim, director of the
Cooperative Extension Service of
Montana State College, is chairman
of the state RAD committee.
Other executive committee MEM
bers attending the meeting were Sam
Chapman, director, State Planning
Board, Helena; Ed Kellner, executive
secretary, State Chamber of Com
merce, Helena; Judd Walker, presi-
dent, Montana Rural Electric Co.
operative Association, Glendive; Ole
LELAND, executive secretary, Mon
tana Soil Conservation Committee,
Butte; and E. R. Ahrendes, extension
public affairs consultant at MISC and
committee secretary.
One of the projects recommended
is the Big Sky Development Corpora
TONS proposal for a 81 million wood
fiber plant to be built near Kalispell.
The committee approved the pro-
posal provided there is adequate
stream pollution control and that es-
tablishing the plant will not create
undue competition.
The other project is the Western
Montana Corporations proposal to
improve and expand a meat
packing plant at Kalispell In recon-
it the committee suggested
that the ARA give special considera-
ton to the livestock supply when
processing the loan. 1t also noted in
it's recommendation that meat pack
ing enterprise would fit into the
economy of the area if it were eco
nomically feasible.
An overall economic development |
plan submitted by the Musselshell !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Helena Machinists
Picket Tempo Store

| The day following the Retail Clerk:
having started picketing operations
of the Ben Franklin Store, Wednes-
day, Helena Machinist Lodge 231
placed an international picket in
front of the Tempo Store, which is
Immediately adjacent to the Ben
Franklin establishment.
The Machinists local points out that
there is one Tempo employee coming
under Machinists jurisdiction, but,
according to Richard D. Ward, bust
ness representative of ,231, Tempo
management has threatened to fire
that employee if he does join the
Machinists.
Tempo, like Ben Franklin, has been
operating with non-union clerks.
In announcing the picketing of
Tempo. Ward asks that all men,
bers of organized labor and its friends
refrain from patronizing Tempo,
stating that tthere are many estab-
lished Helena firms under union con-
tract and offering quality merchan-
disc who are. worthy of the support
of union people"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Picket Line Set Up at Ben
Franklin Store In Helena

and had had heavy expenses in con
nection with the newly-located es
tablishment.
Because of the obvious anti
union attitude of this man who re-
Gently migrated from 'right-to-
work South Dakota, we were
faced with no other alternative
but to picket his business" the
official of 684 told the VOICE.
eve ask all members of organized
labor in Helena to acquaint them
selves with the facts behind this
dispute, and then give us their CO.
operation in bringing this matter
to satisfactory conclusion in the
shortest possible time
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
National Group
Harriet Miller
Appointed to Top
Policy Committee

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Pub
lie instruction Harriet Miller has &C
cepted an appointment to the Policy
Committee of the Council of Chief
State School Officers.
Miss Miller's appointment was an
nounced by Council President Byron
F. Staler, Nevada State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction.
The committee, which was created
by the Council at its annual meeting
last month, will review existing Coun-
Gil policies and submit recommends
tions for changes at the next meeting
of the Council, scheduled for No
vember, 1864.
Mill Miller has served as a member
of the Councils Board of Directors
since 1860.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
High Court Hears
From Page

81 From rage
What really bothered Leaphart and
the other Consumer attorneys, Pat
Gilfeather and Leo Graybill, Jr., was
the October 4. 1861 hush-hush hear
ing the PSC gave the power COM
pany to present additional evidence
without protestants'' counsel being
notified that such hearing would
take place. This permitting the power
company to submit additional ma
terial, via private hearing without
opportunity for rebutting by con-
sumers' counsel played key role in
Judge Hatfield's voiding the rate in
crease.
Hatfield held that material pre-
scented at the October a meeting
between PSC Commissioners Smith,
Boedecker and Holmes Gall sup
posedly Democrats) and the utility
was not part of the hearing record
and that the increase approval
therefore was unlawful and not
based on sufficient legal evidence"
MPCo.'s $33,OOO-per-year Senior
Vice President Sam B. Chase sang
his swan song with this case. Claim
ing that the consumers had to stay
within Montana law which has been
written in the main by power COM
pany lobbyists, he complained about
the aspersions cast by the consumers
Thus he ended career of
casting.
The captive market-competition
from other fuel sources having been
eliminated-and the captive produc-
ers, are providing the big out-of-state
owners of MPCo. with handsome divi-
dends. These out-of-state coupon
clippers receive 85 cents of every
dividend dollar. Should the high court
reverse Judge Hatfield's decision,
Montana Powers position as top earn
ng power-gas utility in the nation
will be even further enhanced.-FS
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

WASHINGTON, - Work by
Montanans in Congress, led by
Senator Lee Metcalf, may lead
to a decrease in the number of
metal miners hurt on the job.
1t will if recent recommends
lions by Interior Secretary
Udall are carried out by the
Congress.
Recommendations, fo | lowi ng a
study authorized by Congress two
years ago, include:
1. Accurate and timely reports
from mine operators ON men hurt on
the job.
2. Development of health and safe
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
ARA STUDY IN RAVALLI
COUNTY APPROVED

Ahrendes reported that the ARA
has approved a marketing study in
the Ravalli county area to determine
the possibilities for establishing vege-
table canning facilities in the area.
He also reported that the ARA has
approved partial financing for the
construction of combined craft GEN.
ter, museum and restaurant on the
Fort. Peck Indian Reservation at Pop
lar.
Other business at the meeting in
cluded discussion of the appointment
of members for three subcommittee
in the areas of manpower training,
recreation and tourism, and range
resource management. After review
ing statements covering the response
bilities and activities of these sub
committees, the executive committee
deferred appointment of subcommit-
tee membership until a later date.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
"RICHT-TO-WORK". OTHER
SUBJECTS DISCUSSED

Construction trades leaders were
addressed by state and national Off
GERS who discussed organizational,
economic and political problems in
Guiding "right-to-work" laws, APP
premiership and retraining programs.
Robert Shadix, regional director,
Building Trades Department, ALL
CLIO, told delegates the full impact
of the so-called "right-to-worlx" law
in states where it has been enacted
will not be felt until there are enough
states with the law to make it ma
tional. He warned against so-called
training programs, especially on In
dian reservations which are resulting
in inferior training.
Lionel A. Laiseau, consultant and
concilator for Hold Carriers and La
borers international, said that the
self improvement program of the fed
eral government is a training pro-
gram, that it is not devised to COM
pete with or replace a union worker
on a job, but that the acceleration
program is a ruse being used by anti
union elements not only in the gov
eminent but in the community to
-ircumvent the provisions of the
Act which provides that
work contracted with federal money |
must be done under the prevailing
wage i'm the area.
James S. TIMBER, executive secre-
ary of the Montana State AFL-CIO,
poke on the necessity for informed
olitical action to bring about a re- !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
ONE MILLION JOBS NET GAIN

On the other hand, imports cost no
more than four million jobs, leaving
net gain of one million jobs.
''You have to consider our net posi-
ton in the world and the fact that
buyers are citizens, too" he said.
DR.. Fischer pointed out that one
sixth of all the farm products raised
in this country are exported.
He added that for most agricultural
commodities in world trade there is
no such thing as a free market price
because the importing countries raises
tariff barriers, the exporting coun-
try pays subsidies, there are produc-
ton price supports, production con-
trolls and world trade agreements.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Public Power Pays
independence, Missouri
Reduces Rates

City Power and Light Department
of Independence, Mo-, has announced
a 20 rate reduction, designed to cor
rect inequities that have developed
through changes in customer require
ments during the last few years. Rev.
enues will be reduced by an estimated
$4,000 in 1864 and by $4,000
in 1865, as result of the changes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

Council are E. R. Helterbran, Bill
lings, president; Bud White, Billings,
executive secretary; Everett Ballard,
Helena, first vice president, and Joe
Crosswhite, Columbia Falls, second
vice president.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

Montana state that call contracts for
work on municipal construction
shall contain the prevailing rate
of wages as set by collective bargain
ing in effect in the areas covered by
labor agreements.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
UNION "BENT OVER
BACKWARDS"

The following week, Local 684
vainly attempted to continue negotia-
tions and, according to Mrs. Stephen
son, ''bent over backwards" in at
tempting to avoid public labor-man-
agement dispute. ''Fair-minded, dis
interested individuals, she continued,
attempted to assist, but to no avail.
"Mr. Sadler remained adamant" in
refusing to reinstate one of the two
discharged employees, and in paying
the difference between the prevailing
wage and the lower wage Sadler had
paid the two discharged employees
Local 684 did not ask for reinstate-
ment of the second discharged union
member" Nor, Mrs. Stephenson con-
tinued, "did we ask the new pro-
prietor to pay the time-and-one-half
overtime rate to either woman for
all of the hours beyond 40 hours they
had worked, each week, because we
realize he was just getting started
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
RIGHTS FOR TEACHERS

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The AFL-CIO
has called on state legislatures to
guarantee to teachers and other pub
lie employees the right join unions
of their own choosing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

After more than two months
of fruitless negotiations with
the new proprietor of Helena's
Ben Franklin Store, Helena Re-
tail Clerks Union No. 684.
Tuesday of this week began
picketing operations, according
to Lois Stephenson, executive
secretary of Local 684.
Prior to the change of ownership,
and the removal of the store from
Main Street to the new Lundy Shop
ping Center, Local 684 had enjoyed
friendly contractual relations at all
times with Ben Franklin. For up
wards Of decade, only union clerks
were employed. Impression received
by Clerks representatives was that
a similar employer-employee rela-
tionship would prevail under the new
owner. a 1
The store in the new shopping CEN
ter opened the middle of last month.
In the meantime, counting union en-
ployees with up to six years service
under the former owner, Norman
Larson, Local ga had obtained rep
resentation rights for clear major
ity of the employees.
The union held out hope that mu-
tually satisfactory arrangements
could be arrived at, until Saturday
evening, November 80, when the
new owner, Lee Sadler, without warm
ing, fired the two top paid clerks,
who were also long time members
of the union.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Would Import Limit
From Page

one of the largest exporting nations
of the world and that American ex-
port trade provides about five mil
lion jobs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Building Trades Unions To-

versal in the anti-union Legislative
action of the past two sessions ir
Montana. TIMBER also spoke ON EN-
ployment, 'right-to-work" and civil
rights.
He said minority groups who are
being Disseminated against ON the
basis of race, color, creed or ma
tional origin are not going to wait
another 100 years for full citizenship
and if they don't get their full rights
soon there will be terrible situation
develop in this country.
A moment of silence was OBJ
served in memory of John r. Ken
nedy and to seek divine guidance
to try and do better job of build
ing a better labor movement in a
better United States of America
as small share in and as an en-
during memorial to John F. Ken
nedy."
SUPPORT KNOWLES, MISSOURI
DAM PROPOSALS
Other resolutions passed at the
meeting included: Continued support
of Knowles Dam; support of North
eastern Montana Building Trades
Council action favoring the develop
ment of the Upper Missouri Basin
between Fort Benton and Fort Peck;
commentator of the efforts of the
NE. Branch, Operating Engineers for
trying to get the prevailing wage in
instructing the execu-
tive board to work with Butte organi-
cations and the Montana AFL-CIO
On alleged encroachment on union
rights at the State Prison,
and to cooperate with the State
Council of Carpenters and other
.rafts to protect the legitimate in
erests of Montana workers and In
lians under self-help programs.
Officers of the Montana State
Building and Construction Trades
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
800 OPERATORS CHECKED

Secretary Udall chose to carry out
the study under the direction of the
Mine Safety Study Board. Bureau of
Mines field teams checked 800 mines,
quarries and mill which made up ga
representative sample of metal min
ing activities" in the words of the
report. They also investigated many
of the fatal accidents which happened
during the two years of the study.
The report shows 10,189 lost-time in
juries and PIP fatal accidents last
year in that part of the mining in
dustry. Goal mines were not in
cluded in the report as there already
is safety legislation covering them.)
Handling materials" caused more
than one-fifth of the lost-time in
juries. In descending order, those
other accidents which could be gen.
orally classified were, "slips and
falls, machinery, "haulage" and
"falls of rock". Haulage accidents
killed the most workmen, 55. In the
fatal accident listing, net came ma
chinery, followed by falls of rock,
slips and falls, and finally handling
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13

County Development Council was also
reviewed and accepted by the COM
mittee.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
SUPERVISORS NEED TO BE
MORE CAREFUL

Evaluation of mine accident deaths
last year led the Bureau to the con-
clusion that accidents resulting from
unsafe conditions over which work
men had no control accounted for
more than half of the fatalities that
occurred" the report says. "Approxi-
mately half the remaining fatalities
were attributable to unsafe acts on
the part of workers. Unsafe acts on
the part of supervisors accounted for
approximately ten per cent of the
deaths; most of these fatalities were
the supervisors who committed the
unsafe acts"
Discussing the report in the SEN
ate, Metcaf said neither regulations
nor legislation will eliminate mine
accidents ''but this excellent report
and it's recommendation aim at the
heart of the problem areas of safety
and health. If carried out, the recon-
mendations will go long way toward
reducing deaths and serious injuries
in the industry
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-12-13
Findings of Two-Year Study
Findings of Two-Year Study -.
Three Proposals To
Increase Mine Safety

ty codes by advisory committees COM
posed of representatives of manage
ment and labor.
8. Health and safety inspections
of mines, and Investigations and re-
ports based on these codes, as well as
investigations of fatal accidents.
Udall's recommendations are in
Guided in a two-volume report,
Health and Safety Study of Metal
and Nonmetal Mines, he sent to
Congress. The Interior Department
is expected to forward the recon-
mendations in legislative form to
Congress which already has a mine
safety bill introduced by Metcalf.
HEARINGS FIRST HELD I'm 1856
In mid-1956, then-Congressman
Metcalf was picked to head five
man special House Subcommittee on
Mine Safety. The subcommittee,
which included Congressman
Orvin B. Flare of Montana, held hear
ings in Butte, as we'll as in Mime
sofia. Colorado and Washington, d. c.
Witnesses included spokesman for
management and labor and experts
from the U. S. Public Health Service
and the Bureau of Mines. The wit
nesses disagreed on many things,
Metcalf recalls. "They agreed on one
the need for expansion of research
and health and safety education, to
improve techniques in mine-accident
prevention"
The unanimous report, filed late
that year, recommended further hear
ings ''to the end that the subject of
safety in metallic and nonmetallic
mines be thoroughly explored"
Legislation, cosponsored by Met
calf and enacted two years ago, pro-
vided for an intensive study of health
and safety conditions and for recon-
to Congress based on that
study.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-02-28
''Bankrupts Invited''

One of the consequences of today's great migra-
uons of Americans from country to city and from
south to north has been the rise of particularly
vicious type of exploitation involving the use of
conditional sales contracts This in turn has had an
important effect in the appalling rise of personal
bankruptcies.
The newcomer to the city and to a factory job Is
pushover for the INSCRIPTIONS vendor of cheap and
spurious jewelry, overpriced radios and all manner
of tawdry merchandise The newcomer does not find
out that in making the purchase he has given
signment on his wages, until his pay check Is tied
up. If he has given too many of these assignments,
personal bankruptcy becomes the only solution
After bankruptcy comes a new switch He is
better credit risk" than before, and pres
emily all of dealers-in cars, furniture cloth
ing, jewelry, etc-are anxious to extend credit
to him. They phone him. they write him. they call on
him. Having been through bankruptcy once, he can't
make of the federal bankruptcy statute again
for a considerable period So his pay-check Is fair
game for all the vultures for six years.
This is a sorry state Of affairs poor way to
initiate newcomers to the industrial economy and
a poor way to deal with oldtimers who can't say no
to an installment salesman. One would expect the
business community to take a firm stand on this.
Nevertheless, you can pick up almost any daily
newspaper and find advertisements that start:
"Bankrupts invited. =.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-02-28
No Surprise To Readers

The announcement of the st. Paul Housing
Authority's executive director that he intends to
quit and the admission of the Authority chairman
that professionally trained man is needed in the
post should come no surprise to our readers.
We have commented repeatedly the adverse
effects upon st. Pauls redevelopment program of
the Authotys inability to keep professionally quail
flied In the key posts. The past several years
have seen a procession Of professionals move
through the offices of the Authority-and to
satisfactory jobs elsewhere Some of these pro-
fessional men have been subjected to unconscionabe
abuse, both in the meetings of the Authority and in
the public press.
1t is, we hope, an indication Of better things to
come that the latest executive director is being
treated with more consideration He has earned this
and he deserves it.
We hope that the Authority, in seeking re-
placement, will give more adequate consideration
than it has in the past to the need for director
with broad experience in this field, extensive techn
cal training, understanding, and imagination. The
task facing st. Paul is great one and calls for
qualities in the executive director.
We hope, also, that the director who is chosen
will be one who recognizes the number problem
of St. Pauls redevelopment: the problem of good
housing for families in the middle and low income
ranges and the problem of finding satisfactory
substitute for the present program of limited un-
satisfactory public housing and absolutely nothing
ole
St. Paul recorder., 1963-02-28
Our Past This Week
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Feb. %, 1868 - DR.. w. e. B.
Dubois, author, statesman and
director Of the NAACP for more
than 25 years, was born in Vir-
ginia.
Feb. "a, 1911 - Bishop Daniel
A. Payne, Of the ANE church and
founder Of Wilberforce university,
was born at Charleston, sc.
Feb. "A, 1884 - Mathilda Dun
bar, mother Of poet Paul Laurence
Dunbar, died.
Feb. 25, 1946 - Negro communi-
ty Of Columbia, Tenn, prevented
lynching Of a war veteran and his
mother.
Feb. 26, 1889 - L. G. Jordan,
Baptist pioneer and missionary to
Africa who also served as secre-
tary Of missions, died.
Feb. rs, 1870 - Hiram Revels,
Mississippi Negro, took oath of
office in us. Senate.
Feb. 25, 1869 - Fifteenth
Amendment (Negro suffrage)
passed.
Feb. 27, 1907 - Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow, liberal poet, was
born.
Feb. ~, 1874 - Dominican Re-
public established.
Feb. 2s, 1778-Phyllis Wheatley,
St. Paul recorder., 1963-02-28

cleaning up conditions" and end up by closing
some place usually owned by a minority group
member and frequented by both whites and Negroes
and then closing the books on other places cited
This is usually how these daily newspapers-influ-
enced vice cleanups end.
In failing to revoke the licenses of the other
places, this newspaper feels the council correct
since the charge that prostitutes frequented the
places, (the reason given for revolng the Key Club
Hcenses) was not sufficient in our opinion for
place to be closed unless there was reasonable evd
ence that the managements establishment encour-
aged and abetted the operation of prostitutes. In
none of the instances including the "Iynched" Key
Club was this proven.
Owners of restaurants and bars can only do SO
much to discourage undesirables, including pros
ututes The chief responsibility in reducing the in
cidence of prostitution remains with the law en-
forcement agencies and courts There is some doubt
that there sufficient ordinances in Minneapolis
under which the unlawful traffic be discouraged
The town has earned a reputation for being soft"
on prostitution and until laws made string
ent the reputation will grow
At least two aldermen deserve credit for not
engaging in the Key Club "lynching" which threat
ened the livelihood of at least IT Negro employees
none of whom were connected by police records with
any connivance or law breaking.
These aldermen were Aldermen Joseph Green
stein and Richard Kantorowitz who refused to vote
when the matter came before the council Alderman
Donald Risk of the license committee tried to be
fair in the matter, but he was overwhelmed by the
political ambitions Of one alderman, the lack of
knowledge and understanding Of another the latent
race prejudice of another clearly visible through the
years and the indifference Of another.