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Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana records, 1937-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana
Title
Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana records
Dates
1937-1967 (inclusive)
Quantity
7 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 40 (collection)
Summary
The People's Voice was a weekly newspaper published in Helena, Montana, by H.S. "Cap" Bruce, and later by Harry L. Billings. Records consist primarily of general correspondence (1937-1966); and subject files (1930s-1960s) on a wide variety of topics, including Montana politics, farmers unions, labor, state government, and public utilities.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The People's Voice, a cooperative newspaper, was founded in 1939, by H.S. "Cap" Bruce with the backing of farm coop and labor leaders. Bruce, a veteran newspaperman, saw the need for an independent state-wide paper after the established press failed to report adequately on the 1937 state legislature's defeat of liberal measures. Bruce's newly formed Educational Co-operative Publishing Company bought a press and, in December 1939, began publication of The People's Voice . The Voice covered both local and national issues, taking strong stands on the issues of public power, protection of public lands, establishment of farmers' cooperatives, the abolition of capital punishment, minimum wage, and other labor union concerns. In spite of its small circulation, the paper's political influence was considerable. In November 1948, associate editor Harry L. Billings, assisted by his wife Gretchen, succeeded Bruce as managing editor. After Billings retired in 1968, Bennett Hansen took over the Voice's management, but financial difficulties forced the paper to cease publication shortly thereafter.

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Content Description

The records include general correspondence (composed in part of incoming and outgoing correspondence without reciprocal response), pertaining to a wide range of political issues. The majority of correspondence during the period of Billings' editorship was arranged in the various subject files. There are also a few financial, legal, and organizational records of the company.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series

Location of Collection

2:5-3

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Separated Materials

Photographs transferred to Photo Archives. See inventory below for more information.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: A.A. Alvord
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
    • Description: A (correspondents include Carl Ahlgreen; Anaconda labor unions; A.E. Anderson)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
    • Description: M.K. Beadle
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
    • Description: Robert Brown
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
    • Description: Ernest Burns
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
    • Description: B (correspondents include Sam Bechtold; Edward Bloom; Harry Boullion; Carl Bowlds; Bozeman labor unions; A.N. Brooks; Butte Miners Union #1)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
    • Description: Clarence Chamberlain
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
    • Description: E.W. Chapman
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
    • Description: O.F. Clarke
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
    • Description: C-D (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Clifford G. Cate; Tom D. Caverly; John Clark; F.L. Darland; Frank B. Dexter)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10-11
    • Description: Leif Erickson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
    • Description: E (correspondents include Hugh Egan)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
    • Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
    • Description: Farmers Union: local offices
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
    • Description: Farmers Union Central Exchange
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
    • Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
    • Description: Stanley J. Fenton
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
    • Description: Frank Finnegan
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 19
    • Description: F (correspondents include Farm Labor Council; Harrison J. Freebourn; L.D. French)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 20
    • Description: W.S. Good
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 21
    • Description: G (correspondents include Frank A. Gallagher; J.B. Garrison; William E. Grove)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 22
    • Description: H.H. Hess
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 23
    • Description: H-J (correspondents include O.K. Hansen; Hardin labor unions; Havre labor unions; Helena labor unions; Thomas Horsford; Oscar Horsford; W.G. Hunter; Art H. Jones)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 24-26
    • Description: A.E. Kathan
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 27
    • Description: K (correspondents include J.G. Kalbus; Mrs. J.H. Keenan; E.R. Kindler; Chester Kinsey; Albert H. Kruse)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 28
    • Description: Joe Larson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 29
    • Description: Gonius Laursen
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 30
    • Description: L (correspondents include H.A. Lambert; Edward P. Leonard; Howard M. Lyman)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 31
    • Description: Archie McLeod
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 32
    • Description: William McMurphy
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 33
    • Description: Mc (correspondents include M.A. McClain; George S. McKenna)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 34
    • Description: Robert W. Mackie
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 35
    • Description: D.L. Manning
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 36
    • Description: James W. Masterson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 37
    • Description: Ambrose G. Measure
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 38
    • Description: F.C. Metzger
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 39
    • Description: Lee Metcalf
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 40
    • Description: E.G. Miller
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 41
    • Description: George Monahan
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 42
    • Description: M (correspondents include Paul Mathis; Ted Maxwell; Mrs. Frank Meldrum; Sam W. Mitchell; George H. Montgomery)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 43
    • Description: William J. Nelson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
    • Description: N (correspondents include Edward J. Nichols; Northern Montana Beetgrowers' Association)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
    • Description: Edward O'Byrne
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
    • Description: O (correspondents include S.W. Oliver; Curtis B. Owen)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
    • Description: J.M. Peterson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
    • Description: N.A. Peterson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
    • Description: P.C. Peterson
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
    • Description: William J. Priest
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
    • Description: P-R (correspondents include G.E. Paulson; Pearl Assurance Company; William Poppler; R.H. Rebal; W.H. Reed; A.F. Robson; George W. Ruffcorn)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9-11
    • Description: John Severovic
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
    • Description: Bentley Sinclair
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
    • Description: Sam Spiegel
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
    • Description: Hays Starks
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
    • Description: S-T (correspondents include Mary Sathre; Melvin L. Schneider; Albert Simons; T.P. Taylor)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16-17
    • Description: United Mine Workers of America
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
    • Description: U-V (correspondents include U.S. Resettlement Administration; Joseph Vanek)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 19-20
    • Description: E.J. Wight
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
    • Description: Charles H. Wolff
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
    • Description: W
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
    • Description: Form letter thanking subscribers to stock of company
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 24
    • Description: A.E. Anderson
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 25
    • Description: Robert Brown
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
    • Description: Ernest Burns
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
    • Description: B (correspondents include Graeme B. Baker; Arthur Beckstrom; F.E. Bergren; Peter Berimen; Blaine County Farmers Union; Patricia Brennan)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
    • Description: Clarence Chamberlain
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 29
    • Description: O.F. Clarke
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 30
    • Description: Communist Party of the United States of America, Butte District
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 31
    • Description: C (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Frank Cimrhakl [sp?]; Margaret Colton; Thomas C. Colton;
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 32
    • Description: Elmer Denaney
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 33
    • Description: H.O. Ekern
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 34
    • Description: Leif Erickson
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 35
    • Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 36
    • Description: Farmers Union: local offices
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 37
    • Description: Farmers Union Central Exchange
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 38
    • Description: F-G (correspondents include Farmers Union Elevator Company; Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association; Farmers Union Oil Company; Arlie Foor; Great Falls Mill and Smeltermen's Union #16)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 39-40
    • Description: H.H. Hess
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 41
    • Description: H-L (correspondents include Mark Hampton; R.A. Harbo; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers #122; International Union of Operating Engineers #377; J.B.C. Knight; Labor; Richard Lake; H.A. Lambert; Mina S. Lampell; Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers #19; O.B. Lovely; Howard M. Lyman)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 42-45
    • Description: D.L. Manning
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 46
    • Description: James E. Murray
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 47
    • Description: M (correspondents include M.A. McClain; George S. McKenna; Guy Miller; Montana Workers' Alliance; George H. Montgomery)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 48
    • Description: Edward O'Byrne
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 49
    • Description: William J. Priest
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 50
    • Description: P-Z (correspondents include Donald C. Peterson; Bert Replogle; A.W. Ricker; John Severovic; H.S. Sylvester; Teton County Farmers Union; United Mine Workers of America; U.S. Farm Security Administration; Edith H. Wall; C.L. Waring; Joe Zuncich)
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 51-57
    • Description: A-B (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Minnie Beadle; Albert V. Bielles; Butte Miners Union #1)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 58-59
    • Description: E.B. Coolidge
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 60
    • Description: C-E (correspondents include Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Community Hospital [cooperative hospital in Elk City, Oklahoma]; Cut Bank Pioneer Press; H.O. Ekern)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 61-62
    • Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 63
    • Description: Farmers Union: local offices
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 64
    • Description: Farmers Union Central Exchange
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 65
    • Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 66
    • Description: F (correspondents include Farmers Union Market, Nashua; Farmers Union Oil Company; Federated Press news service; Arlie Foor)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 67
    • Description: W.S. Good
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 68
    • Description: G-L (correspondents include Leo Garnet re events in Finland; Angeline Golubin; A.I. Harris; Helena Postmaster; Ben Hollenback; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; International Labor Defense enclosing poem by Kyle Pugh; Mrs. Lars Kalsta; H.A. Lambert; Jerome Locke)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 69-73
    • Description: D.L. Manning
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 74
    • Description: James E. Murray
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 75
    • Description: M (correspondents include W.Y. Maloney; F.C. Metzger; Montana Farmers Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Montana Progressive Council; Montana State University Teachers Union)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 76
    • Description: National Youth Administration (Richard Lake)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
    • Description: Edward O'Byrne
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
    • Description: P-R (correspondents include Frank Polutnik; Red Lodge Workers' Alliance)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3-4
    • Description: Sam Spiegel
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
    • Description: S-Y (correspondents include Sheep Shearers' Union of North America #1; G.C. Threet; U.S. Farm Credit Administration; U.S. Farm Security Administration; United Mine Workers of America; Valier Cooperative Society; Thomas H. Wright; Yellowstone County Trades and Labor Assembly)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6-11
    • Description: A (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Allied Printing Trades Council; American Federation of Teachers; American Youth Congress re Emergency Peace Mobilization; Parker T. Anderson; Ella V. Archer)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
    • Description: John W. Bonner
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
    • Description: B (correspondents include Charles Banderob; M.J. Beck; Peter Bokma; Brandtjen and Kluge re printing press; A.R. Brewer; O.A. Brotherman; Gottlieb Brummer; Butte Miners Union #1; L.L. Buchanan; Harry L. Burns)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
    • Description: Paul Cannon
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
    • Description: E.B. Coolidge
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
    • Description: C-E (correspondents include Florence Cady; Cascade County Trades and Labor Assembly; Thomas C. Colton; Walter P. Coombs; G.W. Crossley; F.L. Darland; Jasper DeDobbeleer; C.V. Dooley; I.E. Duncan; Hugh Egan; H.O. Ekern; Frank E. Ellsworth; Equity Cooperative Association of Harlem)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17-19
    • Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 20
    • Description: Farmers Union: local offices
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 21
    • Description: Farmers Union Central Exchange
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 22
    • Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 23
    • Description: Frank Finnegan
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 24
    • Description: Sam C. Ford
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 25
    • Description: F (correspondents include Farmer Labor Political Federation; Farmers Union Elevator Company; Farmers Union Live Stock Commission Company; Farmers Union Oil Company; Farmers Union Trading Company; Federal Labor Union #18741; Flathead Voters Council; Mary E. Friday)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 26
    • Description: W.S. Good
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 27
    • Description: G
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 28
    • Description: H.H. Hess
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 29
    • Description: H-J (correspondents include Herbert H. Haight; Oscar Horsford; C.S. Horton; George E. Hurd; Idaho Public Utilities Commission; Bertina Johnson)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 30-32
    • Description: [A.E.] Kathan-for-Governor Club
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 33
    • Description: K-L (correspondents include Kalispell Trades and Labor Council; J.C. Keenan; R.D. Kenney; The Kenosha Labor; Chester Kinsey; George J. Ladwig; Lake County Farmers Union Egg Cooperative; Richard Lake; H.A. Lambert; A.F. Lamey; Jerome G. Locke; Jens L. Larson; Howard M. Lyman)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 34-35
    • Description: Mc (correspondents include John H. McGuffey; J.C. McIntire; J.E. McKenna)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 36
    • Description: D.L. Manning
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 37
    • Description: Mike Mansfield
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 38
    • Description: F.C. Metzger
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 39
    • Description: James E. Murray
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 40
    • Description: M-N (correspondents include Montana Industrial Accident Board; Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers Association; Montana Progressive Club; Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Ruth Reardon; Margaret Nagle; A.L. Nicholls; Catherine Nutterville)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 41-42
    • Description: Edward O'Byrne
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 43
    • Description: O (correspondents include Oscar L. Olvrud)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 44
    • Description: J.M. Peterson
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 45
    • Description: P-R (correspondents include [West] Powell for Railroad Commissioner Club; Bert Replogle; Peter Rorvik; William W. Ruffcorn)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 46-47
    • Description: Sam Spiegel
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 48
    • Description: S-U (correspondents include E.B. Shipman; W.H. Smith; J.T. Sparling; Spokane Bank for Cooperatives; J.L. Strong; Townsend National Recovery Plan; U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; U.S. Post Office Dept.)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 49-51
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 52
    • Description: W-Y (correspondents include Western Newspaper Union; Bon Whealdon; John Q. Wilson; Yellowstone County Trades and Labor Assembly; Frank W. Young)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 53-54
    • Description: Unidentified and anonymous
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 55
    • Description: A-B (correspondents include Walter Aitken; Association for Maintenance of Free Enterprise in Montana; F.A. Banderob; Barber Telephone Company; Brandjen and Kluge; Stanley Brooks; Butte Youth Council)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1-2
    • Description: E.B. Coolidge
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
    • Description: C-E (correspondents include Chinese Relief Committee; Communist Party of the United States of America, Montana District; Walter P. Coombs; Wayne Coster; Gordon Crandell; F.L. Darland; Gladys E. Erhard)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4-6
    • Description: Farmers Union (Farmers Educational and Co-operative Union of America)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
    • Description: Farmers Union: local offices
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
    • Description: Farmers Union Central Exchange
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
    • Description: Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
    • Description: Sam C. Ford
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
    • Description: F (correspondents include Farmers Co-op Oil and Supply Company; Farmers Union Education Service; Farmers Union Grain Company; Farmers Union Live Stock Commission Company; Farmers Union Oil Company)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
    • Description: W.S. Good
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
    • Description: G-J (correspondents include P.J. Gilfeather; C.S. Horton; International Association of Operating Engineers #377; International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Committee on Cooperation; Berger Johnson)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14-17
    • Description: A.E. Kathan
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
    • Description: K-Mc (correspondents include Elia Kaneff; L.F. King; League for Efficiency in Government; Jerome G. Locke; Rose M. Lucero; Hobart McKean; George S. McKenna)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19-21
    • Description: Mike Mansfield
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 22
    • Description: M-N (correspondents include Molt Farmers Elevator Company; Northwest Cooperative Society)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 23-24
    • Description: William J. Priest
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 25
    • Description: P-R (correspondents include Power Farmers Elevator Company; John Reagen re National Youth Administration programs; Peter Rorvik)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 26-27
    • Description: Hays Starks
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 28
    • Description: S-V (correspondents include Joseph St. Marks; E.B. Shipman; Charles E. Smith; W.H. Smith; Southern Tenant Farmers Union; John Stahlberg; Harry B. Syverud; United Pension Movement of Montana; R.F. Vanek)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 29-32
    • Description: Burton K. Wheeler
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 33
    • Description: W (correspondents include Western Newspaper Union; Bon Whealdon enclosing poem on Indians; S.P. Wilson)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 34
    • Description: Unidentified and anonymous
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 35
    • Description: Frank Finnegan
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 36
    • Description: Charles P. Jacobsen
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 37
    • Description: William McMurphy
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 38
    • Description: James E. Murray
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 39
    • Description: M (correspondents include Daniel S. McCorkle re conditions at Warm Springs State Hospital; Montana Workers Alliance; also includes May Day flyer)
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 40
    • Description: Park County Trades and Labor Council
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 41
    • Description: V-W (correspondents include George B. Vaughan; George Wieglenda)
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 42-43
    • Description: Unidentified and anonymous
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 44
    • Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include William Scallon; Jay Allen; Farmers Union Oil Company; J.M. Peterson; Raymond E. Graham; Jack C. Toole; Bruce Smith; H.S. Bruce resignation from Farmers Union News; R. Bailey Stortz; Lowndes Maury Jr.; Mrs. J. Poirier)
      Dates: 1943-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 45
    • Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Bernice Kingsbury; Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association; John Jarussi; Lewistown Daily News; Gladys Jones; Joseph S. Smollack; John Morton; B.W. McDowell; Henry Horowitz; George Meany)
      Dates: 1950-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 46
    • Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Perry S. Melton; Lee Metcalf; Farmers Union Central Exchange; Roland Renne; Virgil Buchanan; Miles Romney; A.L. Libre; Leland Olds)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 47
    • Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Lorene McCarthy; Mondell Bennett)
      Dates: 1956-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 48
    • Description: Leonard Kenfield
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 49
    • Description: Miscellaneous (correspondents include Webb Sullivan; Lydia Sullivan)
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 50
  • Court Papers

    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes notes and brief in State of Montana ex rel. Lewis and Clark County vs. State Board of Public Welfare re distribution of poor funds; notes on State of Montana vs. Alex Marck et al., re gambling)
      Dates: 1941, 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 51
  • Financial Records

    • Description: Employee tax records (includes correspondence)
      Dates: 1947-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 52
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes timekeeper's weekly report; inventory; cost of publishing)
      Dates: 1937-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 53
  • Legal Documents

    • Description: Agreement with the Belgrade Journal to buy plant
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 54
  • Organization

    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes annual report; statement of ownership; notice of meeting)
      Dates: 1940, 1952, 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 55
  • Photographs and Printed Materials

    • Description: List of photographs and printed material transferred to Photo Archives and Library respectively)
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 56
  • Subject Files

    • Description: American Legion
      Dates: 1947-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
    • Description: Anaconda Company
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
    • Description: Roy E. Ayers investigation (includes testimony before Select Committee of Twenty-Sixth Legislative Assembly)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
    • Description: Capital punishment
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
    • Description: Columbia Valley Administration (CVA)
      Dates: 1949-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
    • Description: Contribution drive
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
    • Description: Co-operatives
      Dates: 1947-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
    • Description: Frank R. Dryman murder case
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
    • Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)
      Dates: 1940-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9-12
    • Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)
      Dates: 1948-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1-6
    • Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1-6
    • Description: Elections (clippings: includes both state and national)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1-4
    • Description: Willard E. Fraser (includes correspondence, speeches, testimony before Missouri Basin Survey Commission, campaign literature, clippings)
      Dates: 1947-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
    • Description: Gambling (includes correspondence, clippings, petitions, court papers)
      Dates: 1947-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
    • Description: Gambling (clippings)
      Dates: 1947-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
    • Description: James Graham (deposition as Secretary of Socialist Party; obituary)
      Dates: 1909, 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
    • Description: John Hellman trial (re violation of anti-Communist Smith Act)
      Dates: 1956, 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
    • Description: Highway Commission investigations by Legislative House of Representatives (includes correspondence; House resolution; "Report of Examination, Montana State Highway Commission, December 31, 1958"; invitations for bids; transcript of hearing on state highway through Helena; hearing on alleged reprisals against Horace B. Williams; court papers; press releases; clippings)
      Dates: 1958-1960
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4-7
    • Description: Historical (includes donation of copies of Alfred Myers diaries to Montana State University; "The Government of Montana" by Thomas Payne)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
    • Description: Hitler Bill (re HB 65 authorizing appointment and removal of state employees by Governor)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
    • Description: John Birch Society (includes "The John Birch Society: a Soiled Slip is Showing," by Alan Cranston, re racism and anti-Semitism in the Society)
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
    • Description: John F. Kennedy assassination (clippings)
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
    • Description: Korean War and China (clippings)
      Dates: 1950-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
    • Description: Labor history (includes "Labor in America," term paper by John G. Billings; minutes of Montana State Federation of Labor conventions; Great Falls Typographical Union; Big Bill Haywood; "Labor Laws of the State of Montana")
      Dates: 1939-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
    • Description: Labor unions (includes correspondence from local unions; form letters)
      Dates: 1933-1953
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4-5
    • Description: Letters of opinion ("I love you too letters")
      Dates: 1948-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
    • Description: Liquor (includes "Survey of Liquor Problem in Montana," by Lucy T. McLemore; circulars by Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers Association; circular by Employees of Montana Liquor Control Board; court opinion; report of Special Investigating Committee of 26th Legislative Assembly; proposed bill to limit Liquor Control Board to wholesale business only)
      Dates: 1936-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
    • Description: Jerome G. Locke (re Montana MVA Association; Missouri Valley Authority; Livingston Enterprise; obituaries)
      Dates: 1952-1954
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
    • Description: Marias River Irrigation Project (includes "The Marias Irrigation Project History," by W.T. Cowan; "The Big Water Gyp in Montana" re 160 acre limit on irrigated farms; Tiber Dam, etc.)
      Dates: 1904-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
    • Description: Harvey M. Matusow case (includes text of Matusow's affidavit withdrawing accusations against Clinton Jencks of Mine-Mill Union, re continued Communist Party membership)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10
    • Description: Miles City Star (re 1948 election)
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11
    • Description: Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (includes "A Review of Montana's 1947 State Legislature," by William Mason; Mine-Mill District #1; union election circulars' Clinton Jencks controversy; factional fight with Steelworkers Union; union publications)
      Dates: 1947-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12
    • Description: Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union strikes
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
    • Description: Missouri Valley Authority [MVA] (includes correspondence with Jerome G. Locke; Regional Committee for MVA; clippings)
      Dates: 1944-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
    • Description: Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell court martial (includes "The Saga of Billy Mitchell," by Jack Pearl re military air power)
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
    • Description: The Montana Corporation (includes articles of incorporation; clippings)
      Dates: 1958-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4
    • Description: Montana development (includes correspondence and other materials re Knowles Dam, Paradise Dam and Yellowtail Dam; speeches by E.O. Sowerwine; legislative bills; State Planning Board newsletters; clippings)
      Dates: 1958-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
    • Description: Montana Industrial Health Committee (re drive to cover silicosis and other industrial illnesses under Workmen's Compensation Act; includes correspondence, proposed legislation, petitions, clippings; also includes "Directory of Labor Organizations in Montana"; history of Farmers Union Oil Company; Constitution and By-laws of International Brotherhood of Bookbinders #101; brochure on Educational Co-operative Publishing Company of Montana)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6-7
    • Description: Montana power development (re Columbia Valley Administration, power transmission lines, public power, hydro-electric dams, Rural Electric Association; includes correspondence, speeches, minutes)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 8
    • Description: Montana State Dept. of Labor (re bill creating Dept. of Labor as separate entity)
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
    • Description: Montana State Laboratory Building [Cogswell Building] (to house laboratories of Highway Commission, Water Conservation Board, Board of Health, Food and Drug Division, Industrial Hygenic Division, Sanitary Engineering Division, and Livestock Sanitary Board)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
    • Description: Montana State Training School and Hospital, Boulder (includes minutes of Governor's Committee on Mental Health; The Roundup, May, 1951; clipping on overcrowding)
      Dates: 1951, 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula (re controversy with Montana Kaiman; speech at Charter Day Convocation)
      Dates: 1949-1950, 1966
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 2
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula: drinking (clippings)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 3
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula: equestrian class
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 4
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula: family housing project
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 5
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula: Dr. James Ford resignation as Dean of School of Journalism
      Dates: 1954-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 6
    • Description: Montana State University, Missoula: miscellany
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 7
    • Description: Montana State Federation of Labor (includes proceedings; resolutions; reports; correspondence with affiliated unions; financial records; legislative summaries)
      Dates: 1912-1957
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 8
    • Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: essay contest (topic "Do We Need Labor Unions in a Democracy?")
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 9
    • Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: Executive Board (includes report, correspondence, resolutions, minutes)
      Dates: 1928, 1946-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 10-11
    • Description: Montana State Federation of Labor: nominations
      Dates: 1950, 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 12
    • Description: Montana. Subversive and Un-American Activities, Interim Committee to Investigate
      Dates: 1948-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 13
    • Description: James E. Murray
      Dates: 1948-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 14
    • Description: National Youth Administration
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 15
    • Description: Nurse licensing
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 16
    • Description: James F. O'Connor
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 17
    • Description: Oil issues (primarily correspondence with other states; also includes transcript of hearing on natural gas prices, 1955; court cases; proposed legislation)
      Dates: 1952-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 18
    • Description: Oil issues (printed material)
      Dates: 1951-1955
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1
    • Description: Paradise Dam (correspondents include Committee for Paradise Dam, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, John R. Garber, Frances Logan; also includes printed material, articles, etc.)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 2-3
    • Description: Peace (includes excerpt from letter from Jeannette Rankin re World Pacifist Conference in India; article by Andre Fontaine "Raise Your Boy To Be a Soldier")
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 4
    • Description: Power producers (re Production for Use Committee)
      Dates: 1929-1944
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 5
    • Description: Public power projects
      Dates: 1949-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 6
    • Description: Public utility districts
      Dates: 1957-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 7
    • Description: Public utility districts (printed material)
      Dates: 1957-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1
    • Description: Railroad mergers (printed material)
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 2
    • Description: Rural Electrification Administration contract wages
      Dates: 1948-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 3
    • Description: Red Lodge coal char plant (re production of coal by-products by Koal Krudes Company; also includes "Results of Continuous Coal Charring Operations," by John W. Goodenbour [MS thesis, Montana State College])
      Dates: 1955-1956
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4
    • Description: William Scallon (printed material)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 5
    • Description: Technical Engineers and Architects, Association of
      Dates: 1945-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
    • Description: Treasure State Industries, Inc.
      Dates: 1958-1959
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7
    • Description: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 8
    • Description: Voting techniques: Legislative session (printed material and roll calls)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9-10
  • Writings

    • Description: Drafts of People's Voice articles by others
      Dates: 1940-1941, 1953
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 11
  • Miscellany

    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes legislative bills, legislative expenses, minutes of Montana Progressive Council meeting, Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association resolution, circulars, cartoon)
      Dates: 1935-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 12-13
  • Clippings

    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes items from Missoula Times; statement of Finnish Workers Federation on Soviet "mutual assistance pact"; "Report of Special Investigating Committees of the 26th Legislative Assembly")
      Dates: 1939, 1958, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 14

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Subject Terms

  • Agriculture--Societies, etc.--Montana
  • Electric power--Montana
  • Electric utilities--Montana--Law and Legislation
  • Labor and laboring classes--Montana
  • Newspaper publishing--Montana
  • Petroleum industry and trade--Montana
  • Public utilities--Montana--Regulation
  • Strikes and lockouts--Copper mining
  • Trials (murder)--Montana
  • Universities and Colleges--Montana
  • Veterans--Societies, etc

Corporate Names

  • Educational Cooperative Publishing Company of Montana (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Butte (Mont.)--Industries--Mines and mineral resources
  • Helena (Mont.)--Periodicals
  • Helena (Mont.)--Politics and government
  • Marias River Valley (Mont.)
  • Red Lodge (Mont.)
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