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SHORT SHOTS.. By WILLIAM J. PRIEST Livingston Sometime back, the governor left the state. The lieutenant governor in his absence ruled that board and room rates qould not be raised by the universities. This was in line with President McLain's announcement at 1948 Labor Institute "We must pass bond issue of $5,000,000. Mon tana is the only state where the stu dents build the buildings." a Recently the governor and lieuten ant governor both were out of the state (which they are hired by the people to run ). Madison took over the duties of the governor. Is Senator Lott qualified to run the state of Montana? The voters did not pass upon his quali fications, as senator he voted wrong on SB 15, stripping the Land Com missioner of enforcement power, wrong on SB 34 which would have set up state-wide uniform assessment laws; wrong on SB 36, the teacher tenure bill which would have given teachers seeux-ity. Wrong on senate "bird dog" motion, which would have set up a Mundt-Nixon un-American activities group in Montana. Wrong Senator Lott of on HB 266 which would have pre vented grazing leases being taken from small stockmen, and provided more democracy in state grass con servation board. Wrong on HB 450 which gave the attorney general's office $40,000.00 for enforcement of gambling laws and investigation of the state liquor monopoly. By the way when is this money going to be used by the attorney general's office? Billions and millions don't mean much to me, but senators state our spending on arms program in Europe and the United States will mean a debt of $300 billion dollars. Up to June 30 we were spending $18,500, 000 every day or $750,000 every hour or $12,500 a minute or every time your watch ticks $200. That's when the income tax will be 50 to 100 percent on all incomes over three thousand dollars, fifty percent death tax and a 25 percent inheritance tax and no trust funds permitted. Then we will have peace. Interest on our federal debt this year will be six billion dollars. Your income tax is deducted be fore you get your pay check, these big ad's by corpox-ations you see in newspapers are chargable to business expense, their profits tax of 38%. In other words Uncle Sam loses 72 cents out All Thus reducing of each dollar. Here is another ex ample. Corporation sells a business for $300,000 tax would be $63,000 to $81,000, depending whether assets or stock was spld. Here is how they can beat the tax. Merge the busi ness with another and receive stock in the combined corpox-ation. (2) Exchange the "assets" for stock in the purchasing company. (3) Make a "straight exchange" of stock. Do you see how important it is to elect union men. Farmers Union ox proven friends of both to the House and the Senate in both Montana and Washington? The Typographical union in Chi cago won a big victory. The news papers claim they lost. Here is what they won: $10 a week increase brings wages to $95 to $101 a week for 36(4 hour week in day time, and nite shift wox-ks 30 ority rights unimpaired; strikers all rehired; written into contx-act are laws safeguarding basic conditions in the composing rooms; struck work clause the right to refuse to handle material made by "scabs" or strike breakers, according to the newspaper "Labor". The strike lasted 22 months and the solidarity despite injunctions was wonderful, tend a vote of thanks to the Typo graphical unions for carrying the banner for all of organized labor. Don't forget the laws of Montana, upheld by the Supreme Court, give all unions the right to picket or dis tribute handbills showing a pei'son ox firm as Unfair. All unions should ex John Carson has been confirmed by the senate as member of the Fed eral Trade Commission. Opposition to Carson by National Association of Manufactux-ers and National Tax Equality Association, both lobbying organizations who want Uncle Sam Condon Assistant Attending National Conferences Miss Genevieve Squires, deputy state superintendent of public in struction, left on September 24 for an extended trip into the south and east during which time she will at tend several national conferences dealing with educational problems. The first of these will be at Jack son's Mill, West Virginia on October 2-5. conference on high school driver education and is sponsored by the national council of state school offi cers, department of rural education of the NEA, national commission oh safety education of the NEA, Amer ican association of health, physical education, and recreation, and oth ers. This conference is a national On October 10-12, Miss Squires will attend the fourth national con ference of county and x-ural area supex-intendents to be held in Mem phis, Tennessee, at this conference will be on improv ing pxactices in administration of our schools. Miss Squires will take part in a panel discussion on creating proper relationships between state and local educational units. Main discussion to kill farmer and union "Co-ops", were Senator Bricker, Ohio, and Cain, Washington. Do you know, that Senator Mag nuson of Washington who lead the fight for Carson's appointment may be opposed next year for re-election in Washington by Senator Cain, who is considering resigning his seat in the senate that he may oppose Mag nuson in the 1950 election. Co-op members should write then friends and relatives in state of Washington to oppose Cain. AFL union workers on 14,000 TVA, Only once since 1940 has it been necessary to refer a contx-oversy to an "impartial umpire." with collective bargaining. I Engineers and Firemen must pass a stiff book of rules examination and prove to the xailroad company they are eminently qualified to run the engine and handle a million dollars worth of equipment before assuming their duties. If the engineer and fireman got down off the engine and turned it over to anyone who had not been passed upon and approved by the railroad company they would be fired. Industrial engineers estimate that an increase in speedup of 5%, ap plied on a national basis, would cost the jobs of three million workers. SPORTSMEN PAN D'EWART, OVER PROPOSED SLAUGHTER OF 5*000 ELK Butte, Mont., Sept. 23, 1949 To the Honorable John W. Bonner Executives Offices State Capitol Helena, Montana Dear Governor Bonner: The enlightened interest you have hex-etofore taken in preserving the wildlife resources of this state en courage us once more to appeal to you against irresponsible destruction of Montana's game animals by public officials for private interests. It is now proposed that 5,000 head of elk of the northex-n herd Yellow stone National Park shall be des troyed in the open season, and after, of 1949. The pretended reason is conservation of the herd. The ac tual reason, we are convinced, is the ruthless ambition and gx-eed of live stock interests to make more money out of cows and sheep. The claim is publicly made that the herd has been counted and that the winter range cannot support it. The public, and particularly the sportsmen, have never yet been al lowed to examine the evidence, either to the size of the herd or as to the carrying capacity of the winter range. shared only by the officialdom who publish the statements. Thex-e is no eason why the spox-tsmen should ac cept either statement of fact when they are not allowed to have their representatives take part in the fact finding px-ocess. They have, on the contx-ary, cause for deep suspicion when the livestock lobby sits cheek by jowl with officialdom. The recommendation for slaughter comes from the self-proclaimed "Absarokee Conservation Commit as This is an official secret, T Valley Authority Stock Rises After mpnths of delay, inaction and time killing tactics, on the part of opponents, prospect of, and public hope for CVA and MVA have advanced tremendously during As re£ A farm problem conference that drew 1,500 participants was staged in Des Moines by Democratic party leadership. It drew hundreds of Republican party farmers and by resolution went all out for the Brannan farm plan and likewise FOR VALLEY AU THORITIES. (Mrs. Bernice Kingsbury of Valier Montana and a member of Regional Committee for MVA must be credited with effective work on the valley authority reso lution.) Then, after an acknowledged expendi ture of upward of a third of a million dollars for lobby purposes, the Private Power Trust lost its congressional battle to take over pub the past few weeks. Apparently the liberal surge of last November's election, which the Tories and Bourbons of both major parties then strove so desperately to embalm in per manent moth balls, is again manifesting itself with greater vigor than a year ago. gards CVA and MVA here are a few of the recent signs of the times. power Boys thought they had enough votes to win but on critical roll calls, ten or a dozen Senators failed to show and deliver to such an end. Ten days ago there was a gigantic Dem ocratic party conference in San Francisco, Two thousand leaders from eleven states at tended. Subjects for discussion were listed as LAND, WATER and JOBS. The result; a unanimous endorsement of CVA and MVA. While these constructive events were hap pening valley authority opposition was load ing up with more of a different kind of grief, On September 23 the Missouri Basin In ter-agency committee met in Powell, Wyo ming, only to have their accumulated burden of trouble further increased. This power less, false front for the Pick-Sloan fiasco was already smarting under sharp criticism by the Hoover commission, which it could not laugh off. Then Secretary of Agriculture Brannan dumped a gigantic land and water program for Missouri valley in its lap. This was the big and necessary part of valley de velopment which the Pick-Sloan planners had neglected entirely. Rather hastily the Inter agency committee endorsed Mr. Brannan plans only to be advised by the Reclamation Bureau and Interior Department that there is insufficient water to carry it out and still serve the projects already authorized,. This group is headed by the tee." member of congress from the Sec ond District whose presence in and qualification for a seat in congx-ess consists only in the fact that he is a rich cattleman, but whose power and influence is such that he is inevit ably feared by the federal officials involved in the proposal. The only "conservation" desired is that of the profits of the livestock industry. Eai'ly this year the combined greed and stupidity of the livestock gx-oup inspired a public claim that diseases of domestic livestock ox-iginated in elk and deer. They have been pub licly exposed in this bx-azen effort of this and have sneaked away from the issue they raised, heads and tails both down. NOW they claim they want to preserve the game herds which a few months ago they claimed were infecting their animals with anthrax! We trust that the State Game Commission has not forgotten this fiasco, and will disregard the recom mendation. But if they persist, as they have in the past, in going along with the demands of this vicious minority, it is our hope that the power which you possess will be ex ercised in the direction of insisting on a true appraisal of the situation and the ruling out of private gain. We are also requesting the en dorsement of other organizations and will ask their assistance in protect ing our game herds for posterity. Very sincerely, Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Assn. H. M. BLAIR, Secretax-y By the Board of Directors. Kenfield Discusses l Continued From Page One) Nearly thirty Montana people were on hand to protest the raise. Among them were beet sugar processors, livestock growers, wool growers, milk distributors, business men, farmers and labor and civic groups. Speaking for the sugar beet manu facturers was Louis Siddons, Colo rado Springs, widely known rate ex pert. The livestock and woolmen had Charles Blaine, Denver, another top consultant on freight rates. The law firm of Dougherty and Larson, Helena, represented the Mon tana milk distributors association, the Montana Parent-Teachers asso ciation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Equity Co-op Dairy, Kalispell, the Montana Farm Bureau. The Montana Farmers Union as a protestant was represented by D. W. Chapman, Great Falls, president Hon. Ralph Cook, Belt, and Sen. Paul Rice, Pendroy. Legal counsel for J the Farmers Union was feather, Great Falls attorney. T. C. Taylor, Denver, represented the Ideal Cement company. James D. Graham, Helena, president Mon tana Fedexation of Labor entered a protest for his organization. Repre sentatives from the Helena and Great Falls Chambers of Commerce also appeared in protest against the rates and the same is true of the Montana Hardware and Implement Dealers Association, the Power-Townsend Club, Laural Trading company and others. Main argument of those opposing the freight incx-ease wex - e as follows: 1. Px-esent x-ates on the long hauls in intex-state commerce are discrimi natory against Montana producers and processors and consumers, people of the state are entitled to The had alloted to the several states all the power to be developed by Pick-Sloan plan. There is much less than enough to meet current de mands. Now a nice family row between the several states is reaching heat generating in tensity and there appears to be no possibility of amicable settlement under a development scheme that will produce only one-third or one-half of power potential. Engineer Sloan threw in some more dyna mite by advising, "Within the next year five or six dams, now under construction, will be completed. We are going to be up against the question of regulating the flow of water and policing it for the people who will use it. This is a major problem two big for one man and may call for several men." Mr. Sloan suggested that a Regional Water Master could do the job, but admitted that under existing law this would require the consent of everybody concerned, which is, of course, an impossibility, This and other headaches of the volun tary and extra-legal inter-agency committee was not lessened by a polite but firm note The Powell meeting brought three new packages of trouble. Interior Secretary Krug effect that congress intended to retain the overall planning authority for Missouri basin. So, the front for opposition to MVA now has five or six gigantic and insoluable problems before five percent of the overall task is completed. looked, which concludes, "Overall authority, on the TVA model, as frequently advocated by the President, seems clearly to be the solution to the problem of our great untamed rivers and undeveloped river valleys. On the CVA front there are now definite These current matters are not being over The ponderous and conservative New York Times is out with an editorial evidences of coming progress. Hearings which have dwadled along all summer, an hour or two now and again, will apparently be closed up by field hearings shortly after congress adjourns. These field hearings, set for Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Western Senator Sparkman of Alabama will be chair mon of the senate sub-committee that con ducts such hearings. Senator' Sparkman is definitely for valley authorities. This is a good omen. On the whole valley authority stock is justified in going up. Montana may consume ten days or two weeks and should come in November. An equally important part of the announcement is that ■JEROME G. LOCKE. WILLIST0N CONST. CO. DOES SATISFACTORY WORK, SAYS READER Nobly, Mont., Sept. 22, 1949 Harry L. Billings Helena, Montana Dear Sir: Enclose find 51c in stamps for which please send me 10 copies of your September 16th issue of The People's Voice, copies will bring you some new sub scribers. Hope that those Sincerely yours, INGOLF JACOBSON. P.S. : You should look up the price scale filed with the Industrial board by Williston Construction Co. The fact is they are paying as much or more than union labor, another fact is that they are doing good and satis factory work. said—maybe more later.—I.J. Lot more could be relief in the way of lower intrastate x-ates. 2. Cokts of living and production in the state have g*one up and the 8 percent incx-ease will further inflate those costs. 3. Raising the freight rates on traffic within the state will shift much hauling to private trucks and other cax-riers. 4. Further freight rate hikes will discourage business and agricultural development in Montana. * Membex-s of the Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission are Horace Casey, chairman, Paul Smith and Austin Middleton. Edwin Booth is attorney and Sidney Smith is rate expert for the commission. A national city bank survey of 2,123 companies showed a 22% profit increase between 1947 and 1948.