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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
BULLETIN

The latest development in the news
paper lockout Of the printing trades
crafts is the remarkable offer of the
international Typographical Unions
officials to guarantee a refund Of any
amount awarded the publishers If the
arbiter in the proposed arbitration
proceedings ruled that they we're en-
titled to a reduction and made his de-
cision retroactive. The locals scale
committee made this offer to the pub
fishers On Tuesday, August 2, 1882. The
managers absolutely refused to consid-
er arbitration under any arrangement.
This latest refusal of an exceptionally
fair proposal is another example Of the
unreasonable spirit now dominating
the councils of the managers, and
proves ono more that they are trying
to create trouble instead Of finding a
solution of the problem. In all the his
tory of arbitration proceedings, there
has never been recorded a more rea-
sonable proposal.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
WHO DOES YOUR LAUNDRY?

A recent survey made by a COM
mittee of the Laundry Workers
Union of Butte shows that many OF
our citizens are patronizing Chinese
laundries.
They are probably unaware that
in so doing they are keeping many
men and who depend on the
laundry industry for a livelihood out
of employment.
These workers are bona fide resi-
dents of Butte, most of them born
and raised in Montana.
In many cases they have spent
their earnings in the purchase of
homes and contribute to the upkeep
of the city and county by paying
taxes.
They are public spirited and i'm
bued with civic pride.
These people wish to earn their
living and do not want to be a bur-
den ON the county, nor a recipient
of charity from organized relief as
sociations.
The wages paid laundry employees
in Butte are spent in Butte, and
every pay roll, large or small, helps
Butte at all times and especially
now during the depression.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
WAR

The publishers have locked out the
printing trades crafts after demanding
that the unions take a reduction of 81
a day in their basic wage scales and
also changes in working conditions such
as demanding an increased production
of 200 lines of type per shift
from the printers, laying off two press
men, and the commercial plants want
ed the privilege of working their men
one-half day for a half-day's pay. All
these changes to take effect August /,
1882.
ALL the allied trades, by secret
ballot, and supported by their inter-
national officers, unanimously re-
jected the above demands.
The Typographical unions commit
teemen, in company with their inter-
national representative, made every
honorable effort to negotiate a salts
factory settlement by Cancellation. The
printers offered to work a 6z -hour
shift instead of the present 7 or Ia
hour shift, at the same basic HOURLY
rate, thereby SAVING the publishers
$40 or $3.50 per week for each printer.
The union also offered the job proprie-
tors the privilege of working their men
a half day for a half days pay. The
publishers rejected the printers offer
and insisted on a 81 per day cut in the
basic wage rate, o a reduction of Sc
per week for each man, regardless of
the fact that the printers offer would
have saved the publishers $6.40 per
week for each day printer and $3.50
per week for each night printer-a re-
spective saving Of 4Oc and 80c MORE
than the publishers demanded.
The printers also offered to submit
the question of wages to arbitration and
at the same time work the 6a hour
shift pending the decision. This ex-
%ceptionally reasonable and fair offer
also was rejected by the publishers,
regardless of their contract and memo
randum agreement calling for regular
arbitration procedure. The publishers
have REFUSED to recognize the prin-
ciple of FAIR arbitration and they
have abrogated their agreements. Evil
IDENTIFY contracts or agreements are
mere scraps of paper and the eternal
principle of arbitration something to
be ~disregarded. The unreasonable atti-
tude of the managers of the papers is
more GLARING when one remembers
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
WILLIAM A.SWANSON
IS VICTIM OF BULLET
Well known Rancher of Lower Valley
Found Dead in His Home; Believed
Death Accidental.

ANACONDA, Aug. a. = William
Anton Swanson, %, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anton Swanson of Galen and
well-known rancher of the lower val
ley, was found dead in his home neal
his parents residence this afternoon al
lao O'Clock. He is believed to have
accidentally shot himself while taking
a rifle from a clothes closet.
The bullet entered under the chin.
The rifle was a 30 U. S. Remington,
Death was instantaneous, Coroner
Frank Gubbins stated. He added that
an inquest will be held at a later date,
Swanson was alone in the home at
the time. He was reported by his par
ents to be in good spirits during the
day. A short time before the accident
occurred the young man told his moth
er that he was going over to his home
for a few minutes and would be right
back. When he failed to return the
mother asked if anyone had seen Will
liam. His sister, Monida, went to the
home looking for him and found him
on the floor in the bedroom with his
feet in the closet. The rifle was stand
ing upright in the closet against the
door sill with a dustless mop string
caught on the trigger.
The mop was hanging on the wall
with the mop part down and the han
die tied to a nail. The young man is
thought to have moved the rifle and
the string from the mop caught on the
trigger discharging the weapon.
After discharging the rifle slipped
from Swanson's hand and fell back in
the upright position from which it had
been moved.
Mr.. Swanson is survived by his wild
ow, Mrs. Gladys Swanson, his sister
and his parents.
He was born in Butte but spent most
of his life in the lower valley where he
was engaged in ranching.
When the body was found the sher-
ifs office was notified and Under
sheriff E. R. Schwartz accompanied
Coroner Gubbins to the home and as
sisted in the investigation.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
Advance Guard of
Riders Gathered to
Contest for Prizes

There is no contest in the entire
United States that attracts keener in
terest among the cowboys than does
the annual Butte rodeo to be held Aug.
1914, according to the advance guard
of riders already gathered in the city.
With its tough string of bucking
horses and bull-dogging steers fur
nished by Leo ]. Cremer and the more
than $50 top-hand riders, attracted
from all parts of the United States and
Canada by the $4,000 cash prize list,
the Butte contest, although still in its
infancy, has gained the reputation of
being one of the toughest cowboy
events in the entire country.
Work Of decorating the streets of
Butte in preparation for the mammoth
street parade to be held at high noon
on Wednesday next, the opening day
of the championship event, is expected
to begin either Monday or Tuesday Of
next week. Work of making ground
and lighting improvements at the
Rodeo arena south of the city is rapidly
nearing completion and everything is
expected to be in complete readiness in
ample time before the opening night.
According to the many professional
rodeo performers who have seen Butte's
new rodeo arena: ut is the fastest
system Of rodeo chutes and corrals in
the entire United States"
According to the present entry list,
Butte's Second Annual Championship
Rodeo will be the greatest congress of
champion rodeo performers ever assem-
bled in one arena. Among the many
top-hand riders already signed up for
the Butte event are: Earle Thode,
worlds champion all-round cowboy for
1881 and winner of the recent Chey-
enne Stampede; Gene Ross, world
champion bull-dogger; Florence Ran
dolph, world champion woman's trick
rider and bronc rider; F. E. Studeneck,
winner Of first money last year at Pen
dleton, and many others too numerous
to mention.
Cowboys taking part in Butte's Ro-
dec will ride the air from coast to coast.
Butte's championship event will be the
first contest Of it's kind ever broadcast
over a nationwide radio network.
Through the facilities of the National
Broadcasting Company the Butte event
will be broadcast in practically every
home in North America for 80 minutes
Thursday evening, Aug. II, between
the hours of $3.50 and 8 p. m. The plan
is designed not only to put the Butte
contest on the rodeo map of the world
but also to give Montana a boost in
the way of national advertising.
Music for the five-day championship
event will be furnished by Sam Treloar
and the nationally famous Butte Mines
Band.
All performances, with the exception
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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
ONE SWEDE
TO T

Halo, everybody Ay yust come in
from farmstead in Minnesota, SO mebbe
Ay don't know vot skall be doing in
Butte, Montana, yust SO veil as sum
fallers who ban har guide many years.
Ay cum har to see my brudder, Sven.
Ay skall not see him for long time. So
ay say: Sven, Ay want to see daily
paper. Ay get guide vun from Mime
apolis on farmstead, but dat is too far
away. Ay want to see vot skall be doing
in das har Junited States. Ay want to
know eff We get guide price for crops and
Ay want to know skall We have prohi-
bition sum more or not. Ay tall yu,
Sven, var may be hal, but prohibition
ban halter"
well, Olaf says brudder Swan. Oar
skall be no paper har."
oh" Ay say, printers ban OF
81 re, hey?"
mo, Olaf" say brudder Sven, "Prin-
tiers not ban on strike. Das har boss
printer, he tall das faller vot belong to
big junior, Mister, yu ban got to work
for less money. You ban plutocrat now.
Ay goin' to put printers Of das har
town down to ware they belong. Ay
going to make yu work for s25 a week.
"Das har printing worker, he say,
Well, boss, Ay emit got too much money
now. And yet yu ban cut me down
sum more from last winter, e We agree
to take s3.40 a week cut. Ay want to
know, can't We arbitrate das har ting?'
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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
LOCKOUT
COMMENT
(From the Squared Circle")

(From the Squared Circle")
The following is from the greatest
sportsman of all time who knew what
a square deal meant:
A worlds heavyweight champion
said: Make them come to you. Infight-
ing was always my ace in the holel
Our present champion says, in the
words of the immortal Bob Fitzsim-
mons: THE bigger they are the harder
they fall"
w. wv" S. says: We believe in Or
ganization and the "Old Man" and 1
are figuring on a charity show. VIII
it help?
The scrapper with the cauliflower
ears won his fights in this name BY
taking it on the chin until his oppo-
nent was worn out, and then o the
fight.
One of the printers committee says:
"A lockout is not a knockout"
The greatest of all modern heavy
weights says: 1.-THE fight should not go
ten rounds"
An old-tlme scrapper for the print
ers' union in Butte land for the l. t.
u. in generaD and a champion rifle
shot says this: knowing the range, all
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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
STRIKE THREAT ENDED
BY ARBITRATION PACT
New York Publishers and Printers
Agree to Submit Wage
Issue to Farley.
Especial Correspondence

Especial correspondence
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Threats of a
strike which have involved all New
York City newspapers we're banished
this week when representatives of the
Typographical Union and the Publish
ers' Association agreed to arbitrate the
controversy over wages.
The publishers are demanding a 20
per cent wage reduction. The union is
asking an increase of 81 a week. Arbi-
tration will be limited to those two
questions.
Efforts to include the issue of a six
hour day we're stubbornly resisted by
the publishers. They did concede, how
ever, to permit any publisher in their
association to operate on the six-hour
day plan at whatever wage scale was
finally agreed to.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
NOTICE

Business men, if any outside printing
salesman solicits your patronage,
please notify some member Of the
locked out unions.
Everywhere in every walk of life mer
are seeking some magical wand to leac
them from sore distress to peaceful
happiness, from hopeless misery to the
pleasant wales of joyous living. To ont
and all we say-use common sense
Help those who car best help you.
Support Home Industry.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
Seek the Truth

Mans search for Truth is amending
Searching through the centuries, he
has found a little, much remaining I'M
discovered.
Through the eyes and minds Of SCI
entists the race seeks after Truth about
the great and mysterious forces of the
universe. Little by little the atom is
being made to give up its secrets.
In the world of economies the trade
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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

1t is with a sense of gratitude that I
acknowledge the support and kindly
cooperation given me by the voters of
Silver Bow county at the primary cleo
ton. I am glad to utilize the Montana
Labor News for this purpose.
PETER BERTOGLIO.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

My sincere thanks and appreciation
are hereby rendered to the voters of
Silver Bow County for their expression
Of confidence in and support of me at
the recent primary election.
JUDGE FRANK L. RILEY.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
ATTENTION!

To members of Trades Unions or
anyone interested: If you know of
anything that will be news, or have
job work to be done on which you
want the Union Label to appear,
please notify the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council, or any member of
the locked-out Printing Trades
Crafts.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
TO II PUBLIC:

This issue of the Montana Labor
News is distributed free to as many
persons as can be reached. Read it
and if you find it interesting, pass
it on.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
THANKS FOR SUPPORT

I am taking this means of publicly
expressing my thanks for the generous
support given me by the members and
friends of organized labor at the pri-
mary election.
JOHN HOLLAND.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

that they, and their superiors, have
ALWAYS INSISTED on arbitration of
all printers wage scales in the past.
All wage increases of the printers were
secured through arbitration. Every
fair-minded man will agree that any
demand for a wage reduction should
also be submitted to a fair arbitration
board. The publishers have rejected the
proposal, thereby proving that they are
more interested in creating trouble
than in trying to secure a sportsman
like and fair settlement.
To again emphasize the unreasonable
attitude Of the managers, don't over
look the fact that they want 200 more
lines per shift from each operator as
well as a reduction of 81 per day. In
other words, they want MORE WORK
and LESS PAY. And once more to
stress the unfair and illogical attitude
of the managers, permit us to say that
whenever arbitration boards granted
the printers an increase in wages they
also increased the number of lines of
type to be set as a standard of COM
potency. Any fair-minded man with an
ounce of common sense con see the
illogical reasoning of the managers
demand for 200 more lines per shift
and a reduction of 81 per day. But, of
course, logic, common sense, sports
manship, sanctity of contract are
nothing to men bent on creating indus
trial warfare.
The Printing Trades Crafts Earning
Power Has Been Cut
Since the first of the year all the
printing crafts we're placed on a flex-
ible hour basis, resulting in a sacrifice
OF one-half hours wage each day. The
printers under this plan made a sacri-
flee of 1920 or $40 per week, accord
ing to day Or night work. Another de-
crease in earning power of the printers
is the unemployment relief measure
calling for a loss of 8 1870 for Butte
members, and 16 2-3% for Anaconda
members. All losses combined make
Butte union take a 1870 decrease since
the first of the year, and Anaconda
members have suffered 24% decrease
in earning power since last July, re-
sulting from the sudden unemploy-
ment problem caused by the action of
the business managers in curtailing
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Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
BUTTE RODEO TOBE HELD AUGUST 1914


ard, Anaconda Standard and Com
mcrcial Plants Have Declared War
on Wage Scales and Working Con-
ditions of the Typographical, Mailers',
Stereotypcrs', Bookbinders' and Press
mems Unions of Butte and Anaconda.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin says:
Wage reduction is a bold proposal to
make the worker pay the cost of della
ton. 1t means a debased standard Of
living and degradation of citizenship
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
To the People of Silver Bow

To the People of Silver Bow
County:
While | feel confident the people
of Silver Bow county realize my
great gratitude for the splendid sup
port which they have given me at
the polls on all occasions, neverthe-
less | am taking this means of pub
licly expressing my appreciation.
JOSEPH P. MONAGHAN.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

The demand of the publishers for a
81 per day reduction in the basic rate,
in addition to the flexible hours, would
make the Butte and Anaconda scales
the laughing stock Of the entire North
west and a discredit to the reputation
of the two cities.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04
CONTRASTS

During the first three years of the
World War, the Butte and Anaconda
printers were tied up with a long-term
contract at a pre-war scale of S5.25
and s5.75 per day and night, respect
lively. The cost of living more than
doubled. The publishers insisted that
the printers live up to their contract
calling for the pre-war wages, despite
the fact that publisher after publisher
elsewhere added bonuses to wage scales
in order TO help their employees. The
printers consider a contract-written or
verbal-a gentleman's agreement and
something to be honored, enforced and
obeyed, regardless of temporary hard
ships. The history of that period re-
cords the printers as men of honor in
keeping their contracts.
Today the managers consider a con-
tract and a memorandum agreement
calling for arbitration mere scraps of
paper. This peculiar attitude of the
managers is o~bstructing negotiations at
the present time. This near-sighted
policy of ignoring contracts will react
on the publishers not only during this
adventure, but it will tend to destroy
the confidence of the public and en-
ployes in future agreements.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

The Typographical Union is cooper
ating in every way possible to help
news stands secure outside papers for
local readers. All the state papers
have refused to supply this district
with newspapers. This is another indi~
cation of an unreasonable attitude.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

One business mar told an officer Of
the Printers Union that if-IF-the
publishers succeed in reducing the
wages of their employees he would de-
mand a cut in his advertising rates.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

Many large metropolitan dailies,
such as the Chicago Tribune, charge &c
per copy. BUT the Butte Daily Post
and the Montana Standard charge Sc
per copy.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-04

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Smyrna times., 1932-05-11
MOSQUITO TRAP
SET UP IN SMYRNA
Unique Device Erected i'm
Yard of Robert III. Den
ney on Main Street
REGULAR INSPECTION

One of the sixteen electric mo
squito traps that was placed thru
out the State last week was in
stalled in Smyrna in the yard of
Robert H. Denney on North Main
Street under the supervision Of l..
A. Stearns of the University of
Delaware and his assistant, Mr..
McCrury. This unique trap is set
on stand about 5 feet high and
due to the use of roller bearings
swings easily with the wind. The
trap itself is cylindrical in shape,
and placed within this cylinder is
an electric light to attract the mo-
squito in when one gets in range
OF the trap. After the fan draws
the mosquito in, it then passes it
back, and the mosquito drops into
a glass jar containing cyanide. The
trap is only operated from dark to
dawn and every morning Mr.. Den
ney takes the mosquitoes from the
trap and places them into capsules.
The Inspector, LA. Stearns, makes
a collection of the capsules about
every two weeks.
Smyrna times., 1932-05-11
HIGHWAY POLICE
NOT TO BE BLAMED
Insanity Condition of Leonard
Banks, Clayton Negro, Pass
ed Upon at State Hospital
DUE TO PRIOR CAUSES

DR.. M. A. Tarumianz. State psv-
chlatrist and superintendent of the
State Hospital at Farnhurst. yes
terday exonerated State police of
any responsibility for the serious
mental condition Of Leonard Banks
45-year-old Clayton negro, until
recently employed on the farm Of
Ralph Jefferson, near SMYRNA.
Banks was taken to the State Hos
pltal on May I, violently insane.
Friends alleged that his mental
condition was due to lengthy ques-
tloning and third degree" meth
ods on the part of State police.
Banks had been taken into custody
in connection with the supposed
theft Of chickens from the farm of
Abel Numbers, a farmer west of
Clayton. Banks had been falsely
charged. DR.. Tarumianz had as
slstants make a thorough investi-
cation Of the allegations concern
ing the police examination and yes
terday wrote to Superintendent c.
q. Reynolds of the State police,
stating that he believed the police
have been unduly criticized in the
case. In his letter to Superintend-
ent Reynolds, DR.. Tarumianz
pointed out that at the time of
Banks commitment to the hospital
there was question as to whether
his mental condition was due to
the questioning by the State police,
following the theft of the chickens.
Banks was exonerated of the
charge by the finding of the chick
ems on the Numbers farm. Our
investigation proves that this man
is suffering from a definite psy-
Ghosts (mental disease) which
would have occurred regardless of
the police examination, DR. Taru-
miami said. His present mental
condition is superimposed upon an
brain lesion which is caus-
I'd by definite infection. From
the history, in all probability his
wife is also suffering from some
mental condition and she will be
examined later. I do believe the
State Police Department has been
criticized unduly.
Smyrna times., 1932-05-11
BISHOP COOK FOR
A CHURCH CENTER
Sees Need of a Cathedral Par
ish and a Central Place For
Officers For the Diocese
MUST BE IN WILMINGTON

The proposal that a cathedral
parish be former in Wilmington
was made yesterday by the Rt.
Rev Philip Cook, Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Delaware, in his annual address to
the diocesan convention meeting
which is being held in Emmanuel
2. E. Church, Wilmington. Bishop
Cook said that he felt that there is
a need for central offices for the
diocese and that he and his staff
are ready to accept an invitation
from a parish in Wilmington to
unite its congregation into a ca
thedral parish. I'VE need national
prosperity, greatly; we need ma
tional righteousness more" Bishop
Cook declared after reviewing the
effects of the economic depression
and the present disregard for law.
''The present situation" he said,
calls for nothing less than
change in national characterize
ginning with ourselves" Speaking
Of prohibition the Bishop said that
sit is evident that this method of
dealing with the great moral evil
of drink and the drunkenness is
hardly meeting with the results
anticipated by its proponents"
The annual session of the Diocese
is being attended by ministerial
and lay delegates from all parts
Of Delaware. The Rev. Frederick
Marx Barton, rector of St. Peters
Smyrna, is attending as
well as the official delegates: Sen
ior Warden, Harry B. Grieves;
Junior Warden, Joseph B. Hum,
and Treasurer, George w. Boehm-
Ter. Yesterdays session was TAX
en- up mostly in reports of various
standing committees. To-day there
will be the election of various Of
icers as the principal item of bus
ness. There will be a luncheon in
he parish house for the members
and delegates and for the Women's
Auxiliary at 1 o'clock. The con-
yention, if business remains to be
will resume sessions at
,.30 o'clock. j