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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
At Sidney .
Library Bans
Opinion


SIDNEY-The Sidney Library
Council voted Stool recently to
bar opinion magazines" from the
library.
The library had subscribed to
THE NATION and THE NATION
AL REVIEW, and has been receiv-
ing a donated subscription to
AMERICAN OPINION.
The first two are considered to
represent the liberal left and con-
sentative right, respectively.
All three, as well as the SATUR-
DAY REVIEW, are among the pub
locations the council voted to ex-
clude from the library, although
no criteria was established to de-
termine what is an opinion maya
zine, Council President E. w.
Page said.-GREAT FALLS TRI-
BUNE.
See Editorial, 'Why Even Have
a Library?", page 2.-Editor.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
Erickson Charges
Murphy and Bubeoek
Follow Birch Line

81 have watched with considerable
concern the progress of Republican
leadership, headed by Governor Bah
cock, in Montana in seeking to seq
regate Montana entirely from the
United States,'' said Demo National
Committeeman in a statement is
sued Tuesday in Helena. Gin his
speech Monday at Lewistown, Jim
Murphy, the Republican National
Committeeman, took the final step
when he lil1ened what he called the
fight of the 3 western states against
the federal government with the
fight of the 13 original us. colo
mics against the British Crown.
'I like to think of myself as a citi-
zen of glorious nation, made up of
so states, including Montana the
Democratic leader continued. 81 like
to think of the United States as my
government. / feel surge of pride
when | see the stars and stripes and
resents Montana. The great, great
maj ority of Montanans feel the same
way and they don't approve of state
ments Like those of Mr.. Murphy. They
don't like to have the federal gov
eminent listed in the same category
as an enemy, foreign government,
as Great Britain was at the time of
our Revolution. His statement can
leave only ONE impression and that
is the 13 Western States should with
draw from the federal union as the
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Montana Citizens Group


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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
At Salt Lake Conference :.

KALISPELL - The Western
States Democratic Conference
at Salt Lake City, last month,
reaffirmed its opposition to So
called "right-to- work" laws by
adoption of a resolution pre-
pared by the Council for Indus
trial Peace, reports Robert C.
Weller, executive secretary of
the Montana District Council of
Lumber & Sawmill Workers.
The resolution, which was pre-
scented to the conference by Montana
Demo National Committeeman Left
Erickson, follows:
Republicans and the far right
groups which work so closely with
them in opposition to the progressive
programs of the President and the
Democratic Party have already sue
ceeded in putting so-called 'Tight-to-
work" laws ON the statute books of
several western states.
There is evidence that this same
alliance is seeking to pass these laws
in other western states and may move
the so-called fright-to-work'' cam
paign into even more states of the
West.
The fact is that the mis-named
"right-to-work'' laws are actually
restrictions on free and fair collec-
tive bargaining, designed cynically
and deliberately to prevent free
collective bargaining by labor un-
ions. For this and other reasons
these laws are clearly and force
fully opposed in the platform
adopted by the Democratic Nation
al Convention of 1862.
The Democrats of the western
states by adoption of this statement
hereby affirm the opposition of the
conference, to so-called sright-to-
work. laws and affirns it's agree
nent with the party platform. We
support repeal of existing ''right-to-
work" laws and we oppose their adop-
ion in the states where the Republi-
AN parity and the radical right are
WORKING for their adoption.
We also state our opposition to the
.fforts of anti-union groups to use
he special circumstances to end the
abroad deadlock as a wedge to pro-
note legislation to require compul-
ory arbitration in labor disputes. !
PERMANENT LABOR ADVISORY s
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04


Metcalf documented both the in
crease and the change i'm the prin-
cipal address during dedication cere-
monies for the hospital. He said of
the:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
Metcalf's Fort Harrison Address
Tax Dollars of All Americans
gSM New Veterans Hospital

: HELENA-The work of the dedicated men, helped
s lid the Fort Harrison Veterans Administration Hospital
i'll be needed in the future Senator Lee Mecaf (DMon
aid Sunday.
That u.s. it will be if to the Increasing
changing, demands the VA hospital program" the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
HOSPITALS FILL ONLY
PART OF NEED

con the other hand, we cannot
spend ourselves out of this problem
by building only general medical and
surgical hospitals at a cost of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 a bed
and in which the cost of operation
and maintenance ranges up to more
than $35 per day per patient
The answer "must lie between
these two extremes, in the develop
ment of new institutions and new
techniques," MetcaIf said. cal
ready the Kennedy Administration,
Congressional committees, veter-
ans organizations and others sim
cerely interested in the problem
are at work in this area
Some of the recommendations,
Metcalf noted, are packaged In
See Page
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
1O-FOLD INCREASE
COMING BY 1875

Right now there are
some 985,OOO veterans of World War
ii between the ages of IS and 70. BY
1875, that figure will have increased
ten times. In 1875, we will have an
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04

Falls International Airport ON Octo-
Der at $3.50 pm, Secretary Free
man will dine in Hotel Rainbow with
heads of USDA agencies in this area.
A press conference is slated in the
Civic Center council chambers at
1880 pm.
The secretary's stop here will be en-
route from Grand Island, Neb., to
Walla Walla, Wash.-GREAT FALLS
TRIBUNE.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04

additional 225,00O war veterans be-
tween the ages of 70 and rs, and an
other 10000 between the ages of
rs and 80. BY the year 1000, the
Presidents Council ON Aging reports
that So per cent of our population,
age 65 and over, will be veterans and
their wives and widows"
Change-"Our elders need more
hospital care, oftener and longer,
than we comparative youngsters
and the care they need is of a differ
emit type. Our aging veterans face the
ever-increasing need to meet the
problems of chronic long term illness
particularly heart disease, arthritis
and rheumatism, mental and nervous
disorders, high blood pressure, i'm
pairment of sight and hearing and of
the hips and lower extremities, paral-
ysis-and other infirmities which
come with age"
Metcalf rejected the extremes in
solving these problems. He put it this
way:
eve cannot solve the problem of
health care for our veterans by call
ing the program socialized medicine,
as spokesman for the American Medi-
cal Association have done before at
least one Congressional committee of
which was member, then Fleeing
in terror from the battered scarecrow
we have set up, thereby abandoning
the veteran over 65 when his health
needs are more than twice that of the
rest of the population and his in
come is half that of the young group.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-10-04
PERMANENT LABOR ADVISORY
GROUP SET UP

The conference, at the request of
many interested delegates from the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15

One single ground of the far right,
he continued, is ''they are never FOR
anything they are 'againsters' !"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
California COP
Wants II Both Ways

Congressman George E. Brown %
Calf pointed out that some Cali
fornia Republicans in the House voted
against the tax cut bill ON the ground
that government spending should be
lowered along with taxes. Yet, he
said, those same congressman voted
for boosting the space program ap-
preparation to SIS billion, and that's
one of the biggest spending items.
The reason for this inconsistency,
Brown commented, is that space in
dustries and research are largely
concentrated in California, and it is
difficult for congressman to vote
against money that provides indus
try and jobs for their constituents. !"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Expanding the Economy

Time ran out on us in preparing
an article on the Farmer-Labor In
stitute discussion on Expanding
the Economy. Well try. and have
an ineligible report on what the
-four doctors" had to say, next
issue. The four doctors, although
not the kind that WELD a scapeI
on the esophagus, did a thorough
job of diagnosing what ails the
patient. They were: DR.. George
Heliker, MSU Economics Depart
ment; DIR. John Fischer, MISC De-
partment of Agricultural Econom-
les chairman; DIR. Carl Kraenzel,
MISC Rural Sociologist, and DIR.
Joe Kelly, political scientist and
executive secretary of the State
Democratic Central Committee
EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Legislature Forced
Tax Increases In
FIufheud County

KALISPELL-Fl athead County As
SCISSOR Ray Monaghan arrived at the
figure that will be the 1868 tax bill
for Flathead residents. The final
tally of real estate, personal prop
erty and vehicle taxes lis pegged at
$4,716,569, for the 1868 tax year.
Last year the tax total was $4,262,-
528. This means difference of
$454, 040, or about 10 per cent more
than last year.
Monaghan said there are two por-
tions of the county tax total that are
almost entirely responsible for the
increase. Estate taxes are UP to 1925
mills this year, and school levies have
increased from % 10 A per cent
over last year.
Both of these increases resulted
from enactment of new legislation
at the state level.
Gin actuality, the county tax COM
pared with last year is down, but the
county still has to collect all taxes,
and the result is an overall increase"
Monaghan said. --KALISPELL NEWS.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
More >Renne for
Governor Clubs
May Be In 0ffing

LAUREL - Harry d. Erickson,
president of the Laurel Renne for
Governor Club, announced Wednes-
day that the Laurel group is working
hard trying TO set up other "Renne
for Governor" clubs about the state.
Erickson said, eve have made con-
tact with interested people i'm Helena
and are hopeful that we shall soon
have an active club going there. A
Billings "Renne for Governor" club
has been organized and the Officers
will be announced later. A STRONG
"grass roots movement i'm Great
Falls is indicated by all reports from
the Hi-Line country.
Erickson further stated that. eve
have received many interested in
quiries about our club since we an
nounced its formation and it is evil
dent there is much enthusiastic sup
port for DIR. Renne to head the Demo-
cratic ticket in the 1864 election"
sour present plans" Erickson con-
GUIDED, "call for buying bumper stick
srs and getting them out ON as many
,ars as possible throughout the state.
Anyone Wishing ito contribute to the
Renne for Governor Club may send
heir money to James Hogan, TIA
Washington Avenue, Laurel, Mon
ANA. When you send your contribu-
ions, please Indicate if you would
ike us to send bumper suckers for
our car
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
AFLCIO Leader Counsel. Institute edihss CAT SOClE
Be Wary Of Se|f-ProtloimedA
Protectors Of Our Freedoms

| Il become very suspicious
when someone tells me he is
going to protect my freedom, .
said Ed Lashman in opening
the discussion on Extremists
at the Farmer-Labor Institute
in Missoula, last weekend.
Eastman, a resident of Den
ver, is public relations repre-
sentative in the Rocky Noun
tain area for the national
AFL-CIO.
Other members of this panel We're
Ted Townsend, Montana Farmers
Union public relations director, and
Harry L. Billings, editor of the
VOICE.
Lashman said we need to learn
about the type of program various
rightwing extremists groups espouse,
$50 that we may become more active
and more vigilant in protecting our
liberties -
danger we face from what is essen
TALLY small group of people ;.
the danger to freedom" Lashman
took note of the treatment accorded
our UN ambassador, Adlai Stevenson,
a few weeks back in Dallas dis
graceful affair which Dallas officials
and civic leaders and the city's daily
press condemned as the shame of
Dallas.
Identified in the roughing up of
by the DALLAS TIMES
as claiming ''they were |
protecting Dallas, were members of |
the John Birch Society, the National |
indignation Convention, the General
Walker group, and the Young Amer
ican for Freedom" Lashman re-
ported.
''This kind of bullying, storm ,
trooper tactics" he emphasized,
SIS a clear and present danger to
our freedoms These things
must ceasew
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Helena Area Protest Meeting
Republican Sales Tax
Bid AneriIy Rebuffed

new airplanes, expensive Gov
ernor's mansions and a bigger
state payroll"
Chairmaned by S. Keith Anderson,
executive secretary of the Montana
Taxpayers Association, the meeting
was, until Lewis's revealing proposal,
AN extended TRADE of indignation,
villification and abuse against the
public officials who appeared with
Anderson ON the platform. These in
cluded Dan Fulton, chairman of the
State Board of Equalization; Ed Mel
SON, former State Budget Director,
now Board of Public Institutions di-
rector, and Lewis and Clark county
offici91s
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15

One single ground of the far right,
he continued, is "they are never FOR
anything they are 'againslters'."
REAL PURPOSE MORE
INSIDIOUS
Exploring further the extreme po-
sitions taken by the rightwingers,
Lashman said their leaders have no
hope of either impeaching Chief
Justice Earl Warren or repeating the
Social Security Act. But behind these
extreme positions are more sinister"
plots. Behind the ssimpeach Earl
Warren" offensive is the determined
drive by these groups to enact
"Court of the Union" constitutional
amendment which would effectively
stymie the u. S. Supreme Court in
interpreting the laws of the land.
Composed of the Chief Justices of the
so states, 26 would constitute a
majority to override such top court
decisions regarding Legislative re-
pportionment, etc. With half of the
26 from southern or border states,
it is quickly understandable how such
a Court of the Union would make
it possible to effectively deprive mi
norities of voting rights, would keep
urban voters from gaining voting
equality with rural people, etc.
Behind the anIti-Social Security
drive is the ''less extreme" position
Of blocking extension of the SIS sys-
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investigatory and advisory status
that violations of laws must be re-
ferred to the federal Civil Rights
Commission for possible prosecution
contrary would be voided.
| Rev. Williams contends that a most
important step toward alleviating the
growing unrest of minorities over
being treated as less than first class
citizens lies in America achieving a
sfull employment economy. Balanc-
ing the budget ''is bunco'', he con-
tended, when IL " million families,
many of them being of minority
groups, are living in poverty.
Father Joe Mackin of Carroll Col
lege was magnificent when he empha-
sized that there is "only one true
program of Civil Rights i. the
Christian program +. the American
program - The implication was
clear that, in his mind, the present
rights proposal before the Congress
sadly fails to measure up to the kind
of legislation needed to effectively
deal with segregation and discrimi-
nation.
FIR. Mackin condemned the "os-
trich" attitude all too many Ameri-
cans take toward this emotional
and controversial matter, and said
that we need to coldly analyze
NOW, why we should oppose racial
discrimination Injustice any
Il .. 70
where" he insisted.
The Carroll priest pro-
lessons plea that we not only profess
to be Christians, but be Christians
in fact, recalled to mind what Father
Twomey of New Orleans said at the |
recent Labor Seminar in Great Falls:
1--WE must be what we profess to be
Christian and democratic, and
WE MUST TAKE 1T WHOLE"
Institute Chairman James S. TIMBER
aid to rest any doubt as to. the posi-
ion of the House of Labor when he
old the institute that equal employ
nent opportunity, equal educational
md training opportunity, the right /
% vote and the right to use public +
accommo dations without regard as
% race. color or nationality are major
,bjectives of the AFL-CIO. These
ire the '1unalienable rights" of every
American, he said, and we must no
onger tolerate discrimination in any
orm. TIMBER then briefly outlined
he main provisions of the pending ;
Twill Rights bill which will go part I
way in guaranteeing these rights.
The major points of the bill now
efore the House of Representatives,
70 said, are:
see page
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Civil Rights

On Civil Rights, Congregationalist
Minister Howard Y. Williams, Butte,
who is also vice chairman of the Mon
tana Civil Rights Commission, put it
squarely that we do countenance
widespread discrimination against
our Indian and Negro n1inorities in
Montana.
He said his commission has found
Wholesale job opportunity discrimi-
nation, in housing and public accomo-
dations, welfare, and that in some
areas there is even school segrega-
ton. Rev. Williams also pointed to
the discriminatory attitudes of many
legislators and others towards the
butterflies.
His commission, he said, has only
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
NERO WAS ALSO HAPPY OVER
THE BURNING OF ROME


Anderson seemed pleased. Having
told the irate audience of approx
mately 500 that he had warmed them
their taxes would be higher and that
he had given them one of the best
budget laws in the U.S., he Lit a
cigar and sat back to enjoy the an
guished protests.
He repeatedly recommended ga
new source of revenue but re-
Trained from specifically mention
ing a sales tax.
He repeatedly recommended at
tendance at school and county budget
meetings, but didn't mention how to
cut school costs or county services.
See Page a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15

Une lnSClCuOe could be summed up az
seeking positive answers to implement
the theme of the weeks first day
"the values of free men,. (For more
on Miss Miller's talk, see page p.
In all the discussions, there was,
as pointed out by Summarizer
Gretchen Billings, "a sense of urg-
ency to do something about the
values of free men we have been
talking about. -
Whether education, civil rights, the
need for faster growing economy,
or the grave threat the rightwing ex-
tremist movement holds out to the
continuance of American democracy,
the emphasis of the institute was on
the forward advance of the whole
community rather than of any sepa-
rate segment.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Values Of Free Men En- /lasized
AT 20th Farmer Labor Institute
By The EDITOR

OF the
of
aude ske
the of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15

There's no other way out
of it, you have to have a sales
tax" The voice of the Lewis
and Clark county Republican
organization rang loud and
clear at the conclusion of a
three-hour 'stax protest meet
ing" held at a community CEN
ter near Helena Saturday night.
1t was David Lewis, chairman of
the Lewis and Clark County Repubi-
can central committee and newly
elected mayor of Helena, who sound
ed the long suppressed battle cry of
the large Montana corporate inter
ests who have worked for years
through the Republican party to shift
their tax burden to their customers.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Hardware Dealers
Heur Advocate of
.Riqhf-to-Work'

Featured speaker at the annual
meeting of Montana Hardware &
Implement Dealers "A Association in
Great Falls last weekend was DIR.
OrIo M. Brees of Palo Alto, Cali
fornia.
Brees is guest lecturer for the
National Association of Manufac-
turers. and nationally known adj
vocate of so-called "right-to-work"
laws.
He is not a stranger to the BUSH
ness fraternity of Montana, having
spoken on one or more occasions
in past years for enactment of COM
pulsory voluntary unionism legisla-
ton in Montana.
The NAM. since 1908 has strong
ly advocated the "open shop. OF
more recent years, top NAM lead
ers have often served in dual
capacities as officials of the John
Birch Society, Manion Forum,
Americans for Constitutional Ac-
ton, Young Americans for Free
dom and other rightwing groups.
Past NAM presidents William
Grede (1952), Cola Parker (1956)
and Ernest Swigert (1957) have
been or are on the national execu-
tive council of the Birch Society.
Al least two top NAM leaders,
Thomas o. Moore and Stephen r.
Dunn, are endorsers of the Manion
Forum. Lemuel r. Boulware, an
other NAM official, has, along with
j. E. Corette of Montana Power,
been an active financial supporter
of Americans for Constitutional
Action Boulware is also a sponsor
of Young Americans for Freedom.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
Attention, Members Of Operating
ENGINEERS Local No. 37

By action of the executive board of Operating Engineers
Local 377 Great Falls all members, beginning with this
issue will receive the PEOPLES VOICE each week This
action order that members and their families
may have available detailed information matters
of Importance TO Montana people.
RUDY ENQUIST, Business Manager
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-15
VIOLENT REACTION TO
PITCH BY LEWIS

Perhaps to Mr.. Lewis's surprise,
an angry group of citizens who had
come to protest higher property taxes
turned into bowling mob in opposi-
tion to his sales tax pitch.
Bill Pilgeram, former Cascade
county legislator, Speaker of the
House and commissioner of state
lands, who up to that time had strug
gled to keep order as program mod
orator, abandoned his impartial de-
mean'or and roared back:
s'Pll fight you to the last ditch
against your sales tax. You just
want more money to dissiPate on