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Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
SENATOR KANE SCORES ERICKSON
CENTRAL COUNCIL NOTES

Despite Democratic Rallies and other meetings there "a a very fine at
tendance at the Council meeting. The return of the ladies' added N extra
touch Of dignity to the scene.
The Council endorsed the resolution of the Engineers, asking the County
Commissioners to prevent road work being done by Independent Contractors.
They request the county to do the work using residents of Silver Bow
County on the job and using hand work to the displacement of machinery,
thereby employing more men.
The peace committee was discharged after reporting no progress and a
to carry out the program. Let IS hope every opponent of the last
two peace meetings is placed OF the front lines and we will gladly chip in
enough to buy a fitting memorial But no pensions for armchair colonies.
Drscol reported that the State Federation won its fight in gaining the
prevailing wage scale IN the government contracts in Helena.
The Council endorsed Joe Monaghan for U. S. Congressman, in the
primaries. Joe is a Butte boy and has a fine labor record. He was for
meny a member of the Workingmens Union and did a fine job for Labor
when he sat in the legislature at Helena. Joe is also Independent in
thought and thoroughly liberal Joe is now sporting a new car, given him
by a friendly dealer, to enable him to do a good job of campaigning this
year. Good work. Joe and good luck. If dealers make a practice of this
the editor might run for office for the old boat sure could stand replacing.
A Committee was appointed to draw up resolutions condemning the
School Board in its wage sashng program, especially the slashes made in
Teachers salaries The policy Of wage sashng is against the best CO.
nomie principles and against the policy of organized labor. The Council
from the floor, voiced their disapproyal of this policy and the committee
will carry this condemnation to the board.
After some lively general discussion, the meeting adjourned.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
MOTOR, RADIO TAX PROTESTS
SHOW CAPITALIST DISASTER

WASHINGTON-FP)-Pr that the automobile and radio manufac-
turing industries, which were the outstanding features of industrial pros
perfy in 1929, have shrunk dsastrouay during the depression, was offered
by the leaders of those industries, April 18, to the Senate Finance Com
of motor cars and radio receiving sets. The picture drawn by George M.
Graham, of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, vas n start
hngly at variance with the impression promoted by the White House-that
recovery of the motor vehicle production business was Gust around the
corner"
Graham a accompanied by Edsl Ford by President Sloan of General
Motors, by Walter Chryser, and by Roy Chaplin, chairman of the Board
of the Hudson Motor Co. He testified that the number of workers in the
industry has fallen from $4,000 at the peak of activity to 100000 on part
time, and that the payroll has come down from $1028791O00 in 1929 to
$453000 900 today. The five-year average production of cars, 1927-31, for
the first quarter showed a delivery of 780581 cars and trucks, against
335,359 for the same quarter in 1924 drop of 81 per cent.
If congress levies an excise tax IN motor vehicles, he argued, it will
wipe out the manufacturers profits. 1t would, he said, affect employment
in Al states, where automobiles ire manufactured, and would affect jobs in
every state through its deadly influence on the market for raw materials.
Graham asserted that earnings of automotve manufacturers, excluding
Ford, who does not publish his balance Sheet fell from S331,53Sy3O in
1929 to ST., 1886 in 1881. Sound business would have dictated closing
many plants during a large portion of the past two years, he said, but
eve have continued to operate largely out of the belief that we owe it to
the country to keep labor employed SC a to avoid the necessity of govern
mental gratutes to the destitute"
This raj the first argument made by any big group of American cap
ftaists that their industrial operations during the panic We're dictated in
part by fear that the unemployed would insist upon support from the fed
eral government. Graham admitted that he and his associates had small
immediate chance to make money for ourselves" but insisted that if the
proposed 3 per cent tax were spared them, they might pull through. II
the tax became law, they saw no hope of survival
Radio manufacturers followed with even more pesdmstc statements
They reported that sales had diminished by mor than rs per cent, that
they had lost over $50000O00 in the past year instead of making any
profits, and that the number of dealers had shrunk from 10000 in 1929 to
only 10000 at present. Not only had the retail price of receiving sets
been cut to about as per cent of the average price in 1929, but the num-
Der of sales ct these ut prices a far below the former number of sales
at maximum prices, in all parts of the country. A federal tax OF sales of
radio, they declared, would be the finishing touch; it would drive most of
them to the wall.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
SEES 100000 LOSING FEDERAL
SERVICE JOBS

Secretary Mills declaration, in a let
ter sent April 20 to the Senate Appropriations Committee, that the 10 per
cent slashes in departmental appropriation bills is a sham economy which
will paralyze the governmental machinery, an administration official de-
cared, April q, that the positions of 100000 federal employees would be
worthless if these cuts continued.
This official, who refused to be quoted by name, estimated that virtually
all Of the savings, under the slash plan, would have to come from salaries.
This would mean the retention of only the key men and women in each
bureau and division, and dismissal of all others.
Members of the House and Senate began, the same day, to Indicate alarm
at what they had already done in cutting the Interior Department appro-
priaton. Sen. Ashurst read to the Senate a long telegram of protest
against cutting of federal salaries and dismissal of federal workers, this
message coming from business and professional men at Phoenix. He en-
dorsed their plea, saying that the hystencal action of Congress was be-
coming dangerous folly.
Rep. Keller Of Illinois, asserting that he would vote against all further
reductions in pay and in salary budgets, explained his vote for the slash
in the Interior Department budget by saying that Chairman Byns of
the House Appropriations Committee had assured him and the other Demo-
Gratis that no reductions in pay were involved.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
LAGUARDIA THINKS PAY SLASH
CAN BE STOPPED

WASHINGTON-FP)-Rep LaGuardia of New York declared, April "a,
that he thought enough House members could be made to sec the bad eco
Monies, the nhuman policy and the dangerous politics involved in the pro-
posed general pay slash for federal employees, to insure the defeat of the
measure in that body. He said the Hoover forced-furough scheme, which
would cut even more from the earnings of the lower paid employees than
would the omnibus bill offered by the House Economy Committee, would
be beaten even more deciivdy.
As leader O the triumphant attack on the sales tax which led to the
defeat of that proposal in the House, LaGuardia is in touch with the views
of enough o. the House membership to make him confident that the wage
slash scheme will not pass. His first line If attack will be opposition to
the granting Of any rule for limiting debate o n this wage measure. Speaker
Garner and Majority Leader Raney, having boosted their belief that the
House should have unlimited freedom to debate the sales tax, can scarcely
make a gag rule Oh debate of the wage slash a party issue. Since the
American Legion and the American Federation of Labor, the national farm
organizations and many other groups whose members are directly affected
by the proposed reduction in standards of maintenance are opposing the
Democratic scheme of wage cuts and the Hoover scheme of making the
lowerpnd employees of the government bear the heaviest proportion Of
sacrifice, the debate will be bitter and prolonged.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
INVESTMENTS OF THE MONTANA
POWER COMPANY IN POLITICAL
POWER"
MANY OF REPORTED INVESTMENTS OF POWER COMPANY ARE
DESIGNED, WITHOUT DOUBT, TO IMPROVE WHAT THEY CALL
PUBLIC RELATIONS"

Some interest and considerable speculation is aroused by the reported
ownership by the Montana Power Company of stocks and bonds in various
Industrial and commercial organizations in the state, most of them having
no conceivable relationship to the generation or distribution of power, un-
less it be political power"
Two municipalities, Butte and Laurel, are the only ones, apparently
whose securities have attracted the interest of the Power company. 1t holds
$4,000 of the bonds of Butte and has made a modest investment of $140O
in Civ of Laurel bonds.
Tie hotel business appear to have a much greater attraction than municip
al securities in the eyes of the power company, the investments in two of
these enterprises in the state being quite substantial. Only me of them
appears to have been profitable during the past year, no income from the
other being reported.
The third largest of the investments of the power company in enterprises
aside from its own, is it's investment in the Montana Flour Mills, the two
larger being in the Mesa Power Company and the Idaho Transmission Com
pany.
department of the power company. The political advantages of these con-
tributions, some of them of good size, has evidently not been overlooked by
the astute directors of the company. That they are not considered finan-
ciary profitable is evidenced by the fact that they are inventoned at a
book value of 81 each.
The following are the enterprises in which the Montana Power Company
has cen fit to purchase interest:
Idaho Transmission Co, Rocky Mountain Power Co., New Fmhn Hotel Co.,
Gates of the Mountains Transportation Co, Bozeman Community Hotel
First National Bank of Hardin, Hlands Golf Club, Meadow Lark Country
Club, Montana Livestock Pavilion Co, Montana Oil Syndicate No. 2, Vance
Air Service, Bitter Root Farm Products Co, Montana Flour Mills
Meadow Lark Country Club Butte West Sides Mine Co., City of Butte
Bonds, Musselshen County Special Improvement, Montana Club, Helena, City
of Laurel Bonds-from western Progressive"
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05
STATE FEDERATION CONVENTION
COMMITTEE ORGANIZED

The Committee on Arrangements for the State Federation Convention, to
be held in Butte, June 28, 20 and SO, met and organized as follows:
Chairman, Francis McKefvey.
Secretary, Paul J. Erer.
Members, F. W. Kraber, l.. H. Bradley, Theodore Stein, Lena Mattausch,
Harry Grimes, A l. Peterson and Chas. Young.
The following subcommittee we're appointed:
Committee Oh Finance W. Bradley, Miss Lena Matausch and Paul ].
Erer.
Committee On Arrangements for Convention Headquarters and Location
for Sessions-Chas. Young, f. W. Krabler and A. L. Peterson.
Committee IN Reception and Entertainment-MRs Lena Mattausch, +. W,
Kraber, Theodore Stein, Francis McKelvey and Harry Grimes.
Montana labor news., 1932-05-05

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
Chemistry and Soils.
 Results Are Satisfactory

"Ti,e results ofthe clinical tests on 12 cases of active rickets were most satisfactory, response to the administration of the oil in dosage usual for cod-liver oil being dem onstrated at the end of the first week of treatment in six cases by study of the blood calcium and phosphorus and by roentgen ray examination.
 ''The blood calcium and phos- pnorus had returned to a normal level in eight out of nine cases examined at the end of two weeks. Healing progressed rapidly and was complete or well ad- vanced as shown by recent geno- grams in eight cases by the end of the period of observation, the lengta of time varying from three to nine weeks. In the other cases the period of observation was. too short to expect complete healing"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
ARREST THIEF
 TO SAVE HIM
 FROM BEATING
Seattle Youth Commit S Robbery in Portland
 Shoots Pursuers

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. B. A youth who said he is Norman Schrader, aged 25, of Seattle, was arrested and saved at the same time fro ma beating by an arous- ed group of public market en- ployes after he fired four bullets into the group while attempting to escape with a money bag from one of the stalls late last Satur- day afternoon.
 Entering one of the stands. he commanded a young lady to give hlm the money bag contain ing more than SITS. He ran with the money and a group of excited dealers in vegetables and fruits pursued him.
 According to the police, as his pursuers gained on him, Schrader turn I'd and fired four shots. One bullet struck the ankle of Joe Greco The police said they had to fight their way through the mob to rescue Schrader and place him under arrest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
I TOM GEORGE
 LEAVING ON
 BUYING TRIP
Shipm e nts of New Mer- chandise Be Here With
 in Ten Days

Tom George leaves tonight on the Prince Robert for an extend- ed buying trip for the Leader De- partment Store.
 Following a short stay in Se- attle, Mr. George will leave Sun day, August IA, for San Francisco by plane. In San Francesca he will attend the annual San Fran cisco Buyers Week From there he will visit his parents, MT. and Mrs. Michael George in Los An geles, and also do buying in the Los Angeles wholesale centers.
 MT. George advises that he will ship the new Fall stock to Ju- neau as soon as he buys it, laying particular stress on having chill dren's merchandise here in ample time for the opening of school. Shipments of new goods will be in Juneau within ten days, &C., cording to MT. George.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
SALMON BOATS HAVE TO AW AIT TURN TO UNLOAD
Receipts Total 15,750 Cohoes and 2o,600
 Pounds of Salmon

Fishing boats had to wait their turn today to have their salmon cargoes lifted to the wharf. Fifteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty echoes, by count, and 29,600 pounds of kings were received.
 Boats, captains and cargoes were:
 Margaret T., Peter Hildre, 1,400 echoes; Sadie, s. Stevens, 2.370 CO., hoes; T. Harris, 80 echoes; Celtic, Henry Moy, 1000 echoes; Puppy, James Young, 900 coheos and 2,600 pounds of kings; Virginia, L. T. Wig, 5000 echoes and 14,000 pounds of kings; Emma, Thomas Ness, D. 900 echoes and 5000 pounds of kings; Stanley, Bert Wig, 2,0O0 CO., hoes and 1000 pounds of kings.
 The Margaret ITS catch was talk en by E. E. Engstrom, representa- tive of the Sebastian Stuart Fish Company of Seattle. All the rest of the loads were bought by the Juneau Cold Storage Company.
 Sixteen boxes, 5000 pounds, of frozen echoes. and 200 pounds of frozen halibut flyers were shipped on the steamship Alaska today by the cold storage company to the San Juan Fishing and Packing Company at Seattle.
 Seventy-seven pounds of halibut flyers were sent on the Alaska by M. Engstrom to Abbott Laboratories at Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
RED SALMON OIL SUCCESSFUL IN
 GU R ING R|CKETS
Continued from Page One)

of your Bureau and Dr. Nelson of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils last September, Dr. Mendel suggested to me that salmon oil should be made available for con- sumption by infants and young children at reasonable cost to help meet their need for the anti rachitic vitamin, especially at the present time in the face of the economic depression and the in ability of many to buy cod-liver oil at current retail prices.
 Tt seemed to me necessary and desirable, however, that clinical tests should first be made to demonstrate the value of salmon oil in the treatment of infantile rickets and to show it could be taken and tolerated satisfactorily by infants and young children. Such tests were carried out in connection with the Yale Uni versity School of Medicine, De- partment of Pediatrics, and the New Haven Hospital and Dispen- sary, and biological assay for vii tamine A and D nave been re- peated on the samples of oil used, by Dr. Nelson in the Bureau of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
BANKER TAKEN BY KIDNAPER IS
 BELIEVED DEAD
Double Crime Charg ed Against Disgruntled
 Former Depositor

SPRINGFIELD. Ill Aug. B. The Kidnapping and staying of Amos B. Colegrove, President of the defunct Taylorsville bank, is charged in warrant against former depositor, arrested as. he was washing blood from an auto mobile.
 Personal effects of Colegrove were found in Gammaitoni's possession.
 Gammaitoni is reported to have lost $6,000 by the failure of the bank. Several times he threatened Colegrove and once drew a re- volver and demanded that his money be given back to him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
Suggests Marketing Product

Dr. Elliott suggested, because of the need Of cneap source of Vit- tamin D., both by individual con- Sumers and by large relief organ zations which are dispensing food or money for food n large amount, that salmon oil be produced and put On the market as a properly standardized food. The tests con- duc.ed by Dr. Tolle and Dr. Nel- son, she pointed out, showed this oil to be essentially equal in vita min A content to cod-lver oil, and 100 per cent more potent in vitamin D than cod-liver oil.
 Tt is my belief" she wrote the Bureau, that if oil from the red species of salmon were prepared in form suitable for human con- sumption and properly standard ized for it's vitamin content, and were offered to the market at low cost, there would be a sale for Y through relief agencies and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
BONUS FORCES SEEK MI xIC0
 FOR LOCATION

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Aug. a-A request for permission to establish a colony of the Bonus Expeditionary Force members in Mexico has been wired to Presi- dent Rubio by Doak Carter, for mer Chief of Staff of the B. E. F.
 The telegram read
 Twenty mine thousand honorab- ly discharged American veterans of the World War, and their famil- ies, who are homeless, are politi- cal refugees, driven away from their own national capital, refused admission to various states, re- quest a sanction for the oppor- tunity for colonization of Mexico. Your earnest consideration will be appreciated"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
TYPHOID FEVER BREAKS OUT ON
 BRITISH CRAFT
Nine Me m b CTS of Crew Taken to Hospital
 investigation
Typhoid Fever aterfront-

Typhoid Fever aterfrOnt-
 BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 8. = An outbreak of typhoid fever among the crew of the British steamer Victoria City is under investiga- ton by Agents of the Maryland State Health Department.
 Nine members of the steamers crew are in University Hospital under treatment for fever. Two other members who were i'll re- mained aboard the boat after she docked last Friday afternoon.
 Dr. Robert Hiley, State Health Director, and agents aboard the steamer will take samples of the Victoria City's water supply and also innoculate those members of the crew not already ill, and search for the typhoid carrier or other source of the outbreak"
 The freighter left Nikoliadoff, Russia on July T and took on wa ter at Alexandria, Egypt, then stopred at Constandza, Rurnania before proceeding to Baltimore.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
WALRUS, 5 BEARS AND 4 REINDEER COME ON YACHT.
Stranger, Here from Arc tic, Looks Like Float
 ing Menagerie

Resembling in some respects a floating menagerie, the yacht Stranger arrived in Juneau yes terday from a cruise to the Arctic She is scheduled to resume tomor- row her homeward voyage to Los Angeles. She has aboard a baby walrus. believed to be the only one in captivity; four reindeer lawns, two Kodiak brown bear cubs and three black bear cubs. All the animals will be presented to Balboa Park Zoo in San Diego, Cal.
 Wealthy California Resident
 Capt. F. E. Lewis, wealthy resi- dent of Los Angeles and owner of the Diamond Bar cattle ranch in California, is the owner of the Stranger. He left Los Angeles in his pleasure craft last spring, call ing here May Is on his way north. He had as a guest then Victor Fleming, motion picture director of Beverly Hills, Calf, who left the vessel at Kodiak and returned home.
 "At Kodiak" said Capt. Lewis today in speaking of his voyage, we hunted for a month. We shot some fine specimens of the Kodiak brown bear. By way of Unimak Pass we went from the Pacific into the Bering We made calls at Nome, Teller Cape Prince of Wales, Little Diomede Islands and num- erous other places. We penetrated the Arctic as far as 6830 North.
 Hunted Walrus on Ice Pack
 "On the ice pack we hunted wal rus. We got our baby walrus by lassooing it on the ice. I think t is the only one in captivity. We are giving it careful attention. It consumes g cans of evaporated milk a day It is fed every two and one-half hours.
 By purchase, l obtained splendid collection of ivory from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
WESTWARD COMES TO
 TAKE ABOARD BANKER

To take aboard Thomas F. Wal lace, banker of Minneapolis, Minn., the yacht Westward, Capt. Roe Dykeman, called at Juneau yester- day She left today to cruise in Southeast Alaska waters.
 MT Wallace came north on the steamship Prince Robert last even- mig. He will remain on the West ward until the twentieth of this month. He plans to disembark from the craft either at Ketchikan or Prince Rupert.
 The Westward, which is vessel for charter, is owned by Campbell Church, Jr., will be back here Aug ust 29 to take aboard members of a party that have chartered her for most of September.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
ultimately through local stores. ."' Late For This Year

SAtAO lOCdL SlOItS. Late For This Year
 While the results of the experi ments were made known too late to obtain larger Supplies durine the current season, or to enabla any of the packers to put up a product for the market, at tha suggestion of Dr. Elliott, the Bu- reau of Fisheries has suggested to the Association of Pacific Fsh- eres that at least 100 gallons of red salmon oil be prepared for further extensive experimentation to be conducted next Winter.
 The Association, Commissioner OMalley said, is deeply interest \ ed in the project, and it is pos sible an extensive by-products manufacture for oil will be de- veloped by the packers of red fish. The scientists ef the Bu- reau, Mir O'Malley disc.csed, are now analyzing and experimenting with the oil from pink salmon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
MURDERED MAN
 IN BURLAP BAG

NEW YORK, Aug 8.-Joseph Mills, returning home at 3 o'clock this morning, stumbled over a burlap bag which had been tossed into the middle of the street. The bag contained the body of a man. well dressed and well groomed. He had been stabbed 20 times around the heart by an ice pick and a clothes line had been drawn tightly around his neck. There is no clue to his identity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
IS IN HOSPITAL

SPRINGFIELD, III. Aug. B. Near death from loss of blood exposure and his body bruised and lacerated, Banker Colegrove lay ia a hospital today. He told of having been attacked in his home. bound. gagged and carted miles away in an automobile, and then tossed into weed patch where he was left to die. Cole grove remained in the weeds from late Friday to Sunday when he managed to loosen his ropes and make his way here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
KEATONS ARE
 NOW DIVORCED

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. g. Mrs. Natalie Talmadge Keaton to- day obtained divorce from Joseph Francis Buster" Keaton, film con- edian. She testified he had neg lected her and her testimony was corroborated by her sister Constance Talmadge Netcher.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-08-08
BRIEF STAY AT HOSPITAL

Louis Oden entered St. Ann's Hospital late Saturday afternoon for medical treatment and was dis missed this morning.