The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-13

IN order to strike back at their OPP
pressors", he said.
1868 CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
MUST BE ENACTED
He condemned our "deplorable'
domestic record toward our Indian
and Negro minorities saying that if
the rising expectations of these peo-
Pile are not satisfied, "God help you
and God help me-, and called for
support of the Civil Rights Act of
1868 now before Congress. eff this
bill is defeated, or watered down to
the point that it is meaningless, it
will be one of the greatest tragedies
since World War III :. and only God
knows what will follow, he stated.
Freedom from want and oppression
were related to freedom to know
and discussed by Mr.. Silvey and other
speakers as basic to democracy.
Silvey said, intelligence is the
real estate of the future, and we
are changing from people who work
with material things to nation of
people who work with knowledge.
eve have to learn to handle a
different commodity called knowl-
edge rather than animal energy, and
knowledge is the thing that human
beings excel i'm, he said.
Contending that we need informa-
ton more than we need material
things, the AFL-CIO spokesman said
we must search for these things in
an anti-intellectual society which has
been fostered by the "power COM
pick" which continues to oppose uni
versal knowledge as it always has in
every age.
Clay Cochran, Legislative Consult
ant, Industrial Union Department,
AFL-CIO, said freedom is man made
and must be nourished'', in his pre-
sentation on the extremists.
He described the extremists as
a conglomeration of unhappy peo-
pie who are always negative, vio-
lently neurotic and psychotic and
most frightened at home. They do
not believe in the discourse of a
free society but they believe in
the conspiracy theory of history
-. that everybody is about to do
them in, he said.
Cochran said the fear and hate of
the extremists springs from this peri
cd of great and rapid change and the |
fact we can't do just what we want |
with the world. They are supported |
by the ''power elite" and have the |
blessings of "the establishment he |
said.
Ted Townsend, Public Relations
Director, Montana Farmers Union,
said the weapon of the right wing is |
'oversimplification'', motivated by |
fear and terror related directly to
heir private gain.
AGENTS"
Father Twomey said the right wing
forces who use the law as an instru-
nent of race prejudice, the basic
of which is to deprive human
lights are subversive agents.
"We profess Christianity and de-
nocracy", he said, "they are the
anne and we have to take it whole.
Leon Keyserling, economist and at
orney and chairman of the Commit
zee =for Economic Progress, said the
iviI rights battle is am aspect of our
economic problem, that the greater
contest is not between the races
hough sometimes it looks that way.
The racial issue is being used to in
lite and cover up, he said.
The solution is to have full en-
,loyment and give the Negro a chance
o participate in the solution.
Keyserling, who said he had had 4
dinner with President Kennedy Il
the night before he spoke to the
Great Falls group, was sharply
critical of the trend the present
administration is taking.
He specifically noted for Montan-
ms that no state can transcend the
ational and international environ
nent in which it operates and that
he economy of this state is slower .