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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
OFFERED CUT, NOT
RAISE IN WAGES

The agreement between the Lewis
town Carpenters Union and the local
Employers Association had expired
on April 80, 1862. Negotiations for
a new agreement began on March TO-,
1862 and continued until August IL,
1868, with a total of eleven meet
ings being held in the interim. Ac-
cording to the advertisement and
news release, the contractors would
have the public believe that they mi
TALLY Offered a 15c per hour increase
in wages. The truth is that they mi
TALLY offered 25c per hour cut in
wages. The 15c per hour increase
was not offered until August ~,
1868, and then only with the proviso
that the agreement would be extended
until April 80, 1865.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01

On Friday, June FL, 1868, a
news release was given the
LEWISTOWN DAILY NEWS
by a spokesman for the Lewis
town Contractors Association
regarding the labor dispute be-
tween that Association and the
Carpenters Union. The article
referred also to the picketing of one
contractor and went further to de-
scribe some of the so-called ode
mands" of the Union. Apparently
that release wasn't sufficient, as the
edition of the same newspaper the
following day carried the identical
article as paid advertising.
The statements made at that time
were very misleading, while some
were not even true, such as the Union
leaders allegedly debating to the
membership. Everything regarding
the wage negotiations in Lewistown
was voted upon by the membership
of that Local Union. The only OBJ
lection to the negotiations commit
tee were raised by the contractors
in their apparent resentment of the
Unions right to elect a committee to |
them in negotiations. AS
for the picketing of only one con-
tractor, it is the Unions prerogative
under federal law to picket one,
some or all.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
FAR GREATER PROFIT MARGINS
THAN OTHER INDUSTRIES

''That power companies, whether
using steam generation or water
power, are enriching themselves at
the expense of other sectors of the
Nation, cannot be gainsaid", Mrs.
Logan continued. fortunes annual
directory of sales and profits of
major industries published in Au-
gust, shows that in 1862 the net
profits of the 35 largest power COM
panies, as percent of sales revenues,
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
Former USDA Man
Warns of Affack
On Rural EIecfrics

MADISON, Sd (CNS) - Rural
identification is up against an all
out attack by private power compa-
MES, former Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard declared recently.
GIN all of my years of association
with the Rural Electric Administra-
ton, I've never seen such vicious at
tacks on its principles" he added.
Addressing the members of East
River Electric Power Cooperative at
the annual meeting here, Wickard
said, give never seen so many or
CARNATIONS rally to the support of
the monopolistic power companies in
their efforts to prevent the people
from enjoying the benefits of the
full development of natural re-
sources"
Ratepayers have to finance the
power company propaganda cam
paign, he declared, while 'the
stockholders who reap the profit
in private utilities do not have to
pay for the multi-million dollar
effort"
Kermit OVERLY, legislative and re-
search director of the National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association,
warned that the power companies and
heir friends have launched no
holds barred lobbying campaign to
gut the REA and destroy the rural
electric co-operatives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
THATCHER, PATTON
DISAGREE ON FREEMAN

The FUGTA general manager
called Freeman HCzar" and accused
him of doing the same things the
last three years that Benson had
been doing.
He expressed unhappiness over the
sale of wheat to Russia, the upgrad-
ing of wheat for foreign shipment
at a cost of from &c to 4c per bushel
to the farmer and said the Commod-
ity Credit Corporation has been
detrimental to the grain industry in
general.
By contrast, Jim Patton said the
United States had the greatest De-
partment of Agriculture of any
country in the world and pointed
out many accomplishments. He
said because of USDA research and
assistance the American farmer is
the most efficient in the world.
Farmers Union delegates applauded
when he said Freeman was the
greatest Secretary of Agriculture
we have ever had.
Mr.. Steichen praised the United
States Department of Agriculture's
support of co-operatives and referred
to the renewed policy statement made
by Secretary Freeman encouraging
cooperative growth and the recent
action taken by his advisory commit
zee to strengthen co-operatives.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01

reading the release on the Platform
for Resources Proposed by West
COP printed by a Montana news
paper recently.
"Today's Republicans, Mrs. Lo-
gan continued, "say water resources
should be developed in accord with
state laws, custom and interstate
compacts'. On the subject of power
they again contradict the principles
of Teddy Roosevelt, saying, The gov
eminent should rely on private in
dustry to develop electric power.
CTR advocated exactly the oppo-
site. He said:
We should make it our duty
to see that hereafter power sites
are kept under control of the gen.
eral government for the use of the
people as whole Only the
Nation has the power to do this
effectively, and it is for this rea-
son that you will find those COR
porations which wish to gain i'm
proper advantage and to be freed
from official control ON the part
of the public, doing all that they
can to secure the substitution of
State for National action.
"'. The great corporations
which are managed and largely
owned in the older States are
those which are most in evidence
in developing and using the mines
and water-powers and forests
Now these men may be good
citizens according to their own
lights, but actually their special
interests obscure their sense of
public need; and as their object is
to escape an efficient control exer-
cised in the interest of all the peo-
pie, they clamor to be put under
the State instead of the Nation.
If we are foolish enough to
grant their request (for water
power sites) we shall have only
ourselves to blame when we wake
up and find that we have per-
mitted another privilege to en-
trench itself and another portion
of what should be kept for the
public good to be turned over to
individuals for purposes of private
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
In Effect Captives of Private Power
Western Republicans Repudiate
Principles Of Teddy Roosevelt
Captives of Private Power /.

CHARLO-Last months western Republican conference
repudate the conservation principles laid down by OF their
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt the founder OF the con-
servaon movement Mrs Frances Logan chairman OF the
Natural Resources Committee of the Western Democratic Con-
ference said prepared statement "Th is apparent from
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01

farm groups was talked about by
guest speaker, James S. TIMBER, pres
ident of the Montana State AFL-CIO,
who said, 1--WE are dependent on each
other for the goods and services each
provide, adding, "We have begun
to fully recognize our inter-depend
ency and our great community of
interest. and have discovered that
through cooperation we have been
better able to demand and receive
a fair share of our production"
James Patton emphasized the fact
that the problems of each segment
of the economy are intertwined. He
flood for myself is material mat
ter, but food for my brother is
moral natter, and 'Ewe should not
mix our political convictions up with
food. Unemployment and the prob
lem of discrimination are INTERVIEWED,
he said, and "a social system which
condemns ten to twenty per cent of
our youth, our middle-aged and our
racial and national minorities to per-
petual unemployment, like a chain
around our necks will drag us all
down..
Communicating with each other in
order to understand our common
problems and our community of in
terest requires a mouth-to-ear ap-
proach. according to Pat Greathouse.
He contended that the farm commu-
nifty and the labor force can not COM
pete with the mass media to reach |
each other.
The JAW official said the average
American adult spends 35 hours a
week watching TV, which is the big
gest single thing they do besides their
OBJ. and very few watch shows that
nave any meaning. They spend II
hours listening to radio and 20 min
ties reading the newspaper, which
FLOWS about time to read the head
ines, the funnies and run through
he sports page. The average family
,oes to one movie every three weeks
nd less than one-half read book
ach year, he said. Even when you
re talking a listener listens only
04o of the time, he added. !
The biggest single nemesis in
the political field, Greathouse said,
is the lack of strong liberal force,
and he urged liberal farmers and
labor groups to more forcefully :
make their programs known.
lust STAND AND FIGHT "
Calling for more political action 1
IN Patton told the delegates, ''we h
ust do what we have done in the A
asst, we must stand and fight, we tt
ust be done with temporizing".
The theme of the convention, 'Hu- 81
an Needs Come First, was used tn
the basis for speeches from organ fl
ational leaders and guests from c;
ross the nation and Canada. Ell
Ralph Cook. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
g Montana Farmers Union, praised m
e delegates for the broad ''unselfish tn
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
Income Rises

The median income of U. S. fami-
lies went up 1920 last year to $4,000.
This means that half of all families
had less. A fifth lived on incomes be-
low $4,000 annually.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
OPINION DIFFERENCES
ON FARM PROGRAM

There were some differences in
the attitudes of some of the farm
leaders on the status and future of
the farm program.
Fred Heinkel. president of the
Missouri Farmers Association. OPP
posed the Importation of beef and
also called for legislation, now, on
wheat before next wheat planting
time. He said he was not willing to
settle for a weaker program but sug-
gested a more simplified plan along
the lines of the feed grain program.
The Missouri farm leader said
the State Department is having too
much to say in the running of the
Department of Agriculture.
He said, ''beef imports, low farm
prices, low farm income and heavy
to the banks are the
worst kind of controls l know.
Heinkel was joined in his protest
about the way the State Department
treats agriculture by M. w. Thatcher,
general manager of the Farmers
Union Grain Terminal Association,
who also included the Bureau of the |
Budget. Thatcher expressed great un-
happiness with the Department of
4 agriculture and said he was glad that
he wheat referendum failed.
Presumably he called for congress
ional action ON new wheat legisla-
ion when he said, "you can't leave
armers with $1.O0 wheat just be-
ause they defeated the wheat refer
ndum".
He told farmers they were in a
ness and had better get mad, write
heir Senators, because the only bar
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
MFU Convention Theme: Human

manner" in which they always ap-
proach the whole matter of what is
good and necessary for all people
Farmers Union is unique, he said,
Sin that our people never ask any
thing for themselves they feel would
be harmful to others.
Ed Nelson, president of the AL
berta, Canada, Farmers Union, said
''this world has many times reached
the place where the question of
human needs has been forgotten and
one of the biggest problems we have
is trying to understand and interpret
the meaning of words. He said the
word human is used by everyone,
but there are those who then add the
word freedom, then it becomes
freedom to make profit and free
dom from taxes all in the same
breath.
81 do not think the farmers of
Canada ever waited to produce till
they were assured of a profit, they
produce to feed people, he said. He
said the Alberta Farmers Union had
supported the sale of wheat to China
and Russia for long time and "now
it will be necessary to move 8 mil
lion bushels of wheat day to get
the wheat we have committed our
selves to out of the country.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01
Lewistown Dispute
Carpenters Assai MisIeudinl
Statements BY Contractors

BY PAUL E. O'LEARY, Billings, Authorized Repr.
Central Montana District Council of Carpenters
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-11-01

gaining power they have is their
votes.
Evening star., 1963-05-02
New Group Joins
Anti-Litter Drive

The Northeast Council Of
Citizens Associations voted last
night to join the Brookland
Area Co-ordinating Council,
which has started an anti-litter
campaign in the Brookland-
Michigan Park area Of the
District.
The Brookland Council is
made UP OF citizens and civic
associations, schools and PTAs,
churches and business groups
in Northeast Washington.
The organization meets at
Catholic University and will
hold its next meeting May 10.
The D. C. Sanitation Depart
ment already has given the
Brookland group IL new trash
cans for its anti-litter cam
paign.
Mrs. Edward Kane, president
of the Northeast Council, pre-
sided over the meeting at the
Woodbridge Library, Rhode
Island avenue. and Eighteenth
street NE.
Evening star., 1963-05-02

mined to keep the Thanksgiv-
ing. Day incident alive" he
said, referring to a recent ar
ticle on the stadium fracas in
q national magazine.
1--WE don't agree with many
of the indictments that have
been made.P he continued. "The
vast majority of school stu
dents are very well behaved"
Commenting on the question
of corporal punishment and
expulsion of rowdy students,
which School Supt. Carl Han
sen has called a CLOSED chap
ter" in the school system, Mr..
Riecks said there was no reason
to keep "the unruly / per cent
in school and let them inter-
fere with the other 80 per cent
who want to learn"
The Districts biggest school
problems. he said, are lack of
funds, over crowded class
rooms, dropouts, q moral
breakdown of students and a
breakdown I'm the authority of
the teachers.
The group met at the Board
Room of the Security Building.
Evening star., 1963-05-02
BozeIon ak on Police
Hit as 1ntemperote'

Chief Judge David L. Baze-
lon Of the United States Court
Iof Appeals was "intemperate"
in his criticism of the Metro
Ipolitan Police Department
Monday. a citizens group
charged last night.
The judges speech "can only
harm the enforcement Of the
law" and encourage rather
than discourage crime in the
District" the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants declared.
Judge Bazelon spoke Mon
day before the Federal Bar As
sociation. He backed both the
Mallory and Durham rules, and
struck at the use Of police dogs.
The association voted, down
q resolution naming Judge
Bazelon, but passed q motion
referring to "a Judge in the
Court Of Appeals" who spoke
Monday.
"Such remarks can have no
other result than to create dis
respect for law and order, for
our courts, and can serve to
encourage rather than discour-
age crime in the District" the
resolution, passed by o 1912
vote, continued. .
. The group urged the COM
tmunity to give the police pub
Tic support.
In other action, the group
heard John RieckS, deputy
superintendent Of schools, ex-
plain some Of the systems prob
lens.
Some people are just deter
Evening star., 1963-05-02
Drivers Influence
On Speed Limits
Is Called High

Motorists driving speed de-
termines speed limits more thar
the other way around, a traffic
co-ordinator said last night.
Joseph F. Rice Of the District
Highway Department told
members Of the North Michi-
gan Park Civic Association that
speed limits are determined by
the reasonable rate Of the
traffic stream through the
area" li
Motorists drive by the seat
of their pants" he said. "You
can't make them drive is miles
an hour on an open highway,
no matter what signs you put
up"
But most are responsible
drivers, he added, and their
driving speed normally turns
out to be the optimum rate for
the specific conditions.
Mr.. Rice, explaining the
function Of the Highway De-
partment, mentioned the role
that citizens play in the solu-
ton Of traffic problems.
Traffic control devices, being
uniform throughout the Ma
ton, cannot take specific prob
lens into account. Complaints
from citizens supplement the
information learned from traf-
fic surveys, he said.
while we try to anticipate
needs for signs and lights, we
depend on the citizens for in
formation on any problems we
may have missed"
Evening star., 1963-05-02
Hospital Elects

The Suburban Hospital AS
sociation has elected the fol-
lowing officersi Carroll Morgan,
president; Paul Banfield and
Mrs. Benjamin Powell, vice
presidents; Edward Schmuck,
secretary; Mrs, Stuart Upton,
assistant secretary; Mrs. John
Franklin Fort; treasurer, and
Mrs: Frank Davis and Mrs.
Amelia c. Carter. assistant
treasurerss
Evening star., 1963-05-02
GW.Hiqhl reunion Z

The George Washington High
School class Of 1888 will hold
a reunion $3.50 pm. May rs in
the school cafeteria, zoos Mount
Vernon avenue, Alexandria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-18

ranks cannot be induced to remain in
the services. They drop out for more
profitable civilian careers. Thus severely
limited as to selection, the services must
accept for these 1000 to $4,000 annual
assignments 95 to 98 per cent of those
who do apply, regardless Of capability
ratings.
Chairman Cannon and his collea-
CUES have chance to right this wrong.
They also have a chance to impress
the Senate with the need for giving
officers, many of whom fought in the
World Wars and Korea, the raise in
pensions they have been grievouSly
denied. AS Secretary Mcnamara has
said of the pay bill: II regard these pro-
poSalS as the highest priority item of
Defense legislation currently before the
Congress. A Sizeable increase in COM
penSation for the members of our Armed
Forces is well deserved, and long over
due"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-18
Mixed BLESSING

Although there are bright poSsibil-
tiles in it, the MoScowP eking split has
a side that could spell immediate trouble
for the free world.
This has been made quite clear in
the Kremlin'S remarkable 21,000-word
weekend attack on the Chinese Com
muniStS, and in the subsequent COM
mentarieS of Pravda and IzveStia. The
point is that GeneraliSSimo Mao TIE
tung and his free-breathing Cocoon
SpiratorS, in their efforts to replace
Moscow as leader of the Red conspiracy
in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are
advocating far more aggressive policies
than those Premier KhruShchev has
been purSuing-including resort to mill
tary force. Hence Macs undermining
the unity of international communism
may prove mixed blessing for us.
Worse still, according to the Soviet
editorialistS, Red China has injected an
ugly, even ominouS, note of racism into
the situation. AS IzveStia has reported,
for example, Pekings propagandists
"are telling the people of Africa and
Asia that the West is the West" Tin
Guiding the USSR) and that the whites
remain white-the alleged exploiters of
the colored. There is, in short, eau
caSian effort to repress the blacks and
yellowS of the world.
The objective is to persuade Com
muniSts and fellow travellers In Asia,
Africa and Latin America to follow
Peking'S bellicoSe lead-a lead aimed
at stirring up as much strife as possible
in every corner of the globe. The menace
ought not to be underestimate. In
places as far apart as Brazil and Italy,
there is evidence that the Eed parties
are already divided. And far too many
of their members are entranced with
Macs beligerency, even to the point
OF accepting the risks of nuclear war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-18
SoIvoginq Dropouts

There is no way of knowing how
many Of the students who drop out of
District public schools might be salvaged
for further education If it were not for
the element of financial hardship Of
the yearly total of 1890 dropouts, how
ever, roughly LOO say they are leaving
school because they have to earn money.
And school officials estimate that at
least half this number might finish their
Schooling-and move on to more pro-
ductive lives in the future-if more
economic aid could somehow be pro-
vided them now.
That is why both School Superin-
tendent Hansen and Acting Welfare Dr.
rector Brewer have leaped so enthusi-
aStically at the suggestion by DR.. Ellen
Winston, the United States Commission
er of Welfare, that special scholarship"
funds might be made available to needy
and deserving Washington high school
students through demonstration grant
by the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare. 1t is DR.. Winston's theory
that such grants, funneled through
existing public assistance programs of
aid to needy families, would be a log
ical extension to the high school level
OF the well-eStablished tradition of COL
lege scholarships.
There is ample precedent for such
a program. Moreover, the District school
system already makes available limited
number of similar scholarships" with
funds provided by private foundations.
For the most part the amounts are sur
priSingly small. often $40 or SIS a month
is enough to make difference. The re-
suits have encouraged Attorney Gen
eral Kennedy to consider benefit this
fall to raise additional funds. And,
pursuing another line, Dr. Hansen has
urged on the Commissioners a school
work program enabling students to earn
money while they continue their educa-
ton.
Each Of these approaches contrib
utes In its own way to attacking the
alarming District dropout rate (cur-
rently about 10 per cent year in junior,
senior and vocational high schools). The
Federal demonstration grants suggested
by DR.. Winston could be a valuable ad-
junct. There do not seem to be any
administrative problems which could not
be handled jointly by school and welfare
officials. The mechanics, of course, are
still in the talking stage. In effect, how
ever, DR.. Winston has issued an open
invitation to District officials to submit
proposal to the HEW. They would be
foolish not to do so Immediately.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-18

After foiSting off the digit-dialing
system on us, the telephone company
is now trying to get back into our good
graceS by guSSying up its phone booths
with decorations appropriate to the sur
rOundingS.
The first of the new phone booths
will be pair of pagodaS on the sidewalk
in Chinatown, and plans are afoot to
design something clever for George
towns street corners. May we suggest
a narrow, three-Story structure, painted
white with black shutters, an American
eagle over the door and greenfield
covered phonebook lying outside to SIM
ulate garden?
The Pentagon can have plain wood
en- booths, with no doors for enlisted
personnel, and fancier, brass trimmed
models labeled Officers Only"
Capitol Hills telephone booths will
feature little domeS on top, and conver4
SationS may be limited to 20 minutes
by vote of three fourths of those
waiting to use the phone.
Ali things considered, filth phone
booths seem like grand idea. Our
outrage over digit-dialing will not be
aSSuaged by this little gesture, of course,
but still it's nice to know the company
is trying.
And who knows? They might even
turn tidy profit, by making telephone
calls more popular At least in the pa
CODA design, the initial expense will al
most certainly be offset by the increased
business. AS everyone knows, half en-
hour after a conversation in a Chinese
phone booth, you're ready for another.