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Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
H DO
MUCH TO MAKE
DAY A SUCCESS
Generous Donations Are Offered as
Prizes for Sporting Events.

The Butte merchants again con-
tributed generously toward making
Labor's celebration at Columbia
Gardens a huge success. They fur
nished refreshments for the hard
working committee who labored for
weeks to arrange the splendid La
Dor Day program. The committee
as we'll as Labor as a whole wish
to thank the following places of
business for thinking of them in
donating these refreshments: Han
ser Packing Company, Price Coffee
Co., Standard Brands, Home Bak-
cry, Eddy's Bakery and the Federal
Bakery.
No Labor Day picnic would be a
success without sports events, and
no sports events would be complete
without appropriate prizes. Had
the committee been forced to raise
cash prizes we fear there would
have been no sports events. The
merchants of Butte again came to
the rescue and donated prizes for
these events. After looking at the
prizes the editors only regret is
that he does not have the shoulders
of Tunney, the speed of Tollan and
tho ctanoina IF Nrrpai
We thank the following merchants
for their generosity in donating these
prizes: ]. C. Penney Co., Stratford
Clothing Co., S. & S. Jewelry, Green's
Cafe, Woolworth Co., f. w. Grand
Silver Store, Colbert Drug Co., Cor
don Jewelry, Klem's Shoe Store, La
Mode Hat Shop, Montana Hardware,
Gamers Shoe Store, A North Main,
Clinton Drug, Shirley's Clothing,
Montgomery Ward Co., Veins Clio
thing, Chappelle Cleaners, Keene
Shoe Store, Pipestone Springs, Louis
IS. COIN Co., Hoskins Drug, Sinner
Furniture Co., Henry Hlrsn, flor-
shein Shoe Co.
P. J. Brophy Co., Parkway Gas
Station, Bouchers Inc, M. l.. Y. Gro
Gerry, Rialto Theater, Chequamegon
Cafe, Price Coffee, Standard Brands
Inc, Mutual Creamery, Fuller Paint
National Trunk, Craven Garage, Sy-
mons Store, Larry Weir, Al's Photo
Shop, P. j. Boyle, Albert Zucally at
Standard Oil and Gas Station, Park
and Excelsior Gas Station, Metro
politan Market, Hansen Packing Co.
Walkers Cafe, Safeway Stores, Pax
son e. Rockefeller, Palace Clothing
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
Communist Candidate
For Vice-President Will
Speak in Butte Sept. 9

James w. Ford, Eice-presidential
candidate, will speak in Butte, Sept.
20, at Main and Mercury streets. The
meeting will start at 7:30 p. m. The
Negro candidate will speak on the
bankruptcy of the capitalist system.
Ford is an outstanding fighter of
the working class. During the recent
bonus march in Washington, Ford,
who is a member of the Ex-Service-
mems League, was in the forefront of
the struggle. He was jailed by the
Hoover government because of the
militant fight he carried on for the
vets.
Ford is a fighter on all fronts. At
the twelfth annual Teachers and Stu
dents Education Conference, held in
New York City, Ford attacked the ed
ucational system in the following
words:
"Let us examine the state of educa-
ton at the present time. The de-
cline, the moral and spiritual decay
which characterizes capitalism as a
whole, is also reflected in the sphere
of education. In fact, education re
produces in miniature all the general
features of the crisis and in turn sup
plies a penetrating measure of the
decay Of a system which blocks and
retards all the forces of progress at
a time when it is materially best able
to advance them. Overproduction,
unemployment, wage cuts, lower liv-
ing standards, and the reduction of
educational expenditures have char
acterized the educational situation
during the last three years, resulting
in a w%orsening of the conditions of
instruction and impairing the quality
of the teaching"
Candidate for Congress to Speak.
On the platform with Ford, the
Communist candidate for congress
Roger S. Murray, will also appear,
Murray will speak on state and local
issues. He will speak on the role
of the Democrat, the Republican and
the Independent parties in this dis
trict.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
THE WASHINGTON SCENE
By LAWRENCE TODD

what five of them, a bare majority
Of one, may dictate. Decades of la
borious effort and millions of dol
lars may be expended to enact a
statute sweeping aside a barbarism,
but if the innovation runs counter
to the hardened prejudices and OBJ
solete theories of a majority of
these nine then the taboo of "con-
stitutionalism" is invoked and the
statute is outlawed. Only a re-
vision of the Constitution, a super
human task, can overcome the dead
hand of their disapproval." The in
come tax last of a generation ago,
the minimum wage case in the Dis
trict of Columbia, in 1912, and the
recent Oklahoma ice case, in which
the Court forbade a state to regulate
that utility, are cited as proof of
the effectiveness of this dead hand
against human progress and security.
These anonymous writers proceed to
disrobe Justices McReynolds, Butler
and others of the feudal-minded
group, and to show the contrast be-
tween them and Brandeis, Cardozo
and Stone.
Chapter Nine deals with Muscle
Men," who are the defenders of the
established economic order who sit
in the senate and serve the actual
empire-the capitalist oligarchy.
These men may oppose one an
other on the World Court or pro-
hibition," it relates. "They may
tussle and joust as to whether a
Republican or a Democrat shall SIT
Continued on Page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08

P.)-After a
year of best-selling throughout the
nation, the three newspaper cor
respondents who last summer
launched the Washington Merry
Go-Round" have published a second
and bigger volume-"More Merry
Go-Round." 1t opens with a chapter
on dance of the Depression" which
describes the contrast between the
coming of the Communist hunger
marchers to Washington last De-
cember, and the elaborate Hoover
dinners and parties of that same
month. 1t lists some of the social
extravagances of the year, produces
a come-on letter to a rich debutante
by young Baron Wrangel, broker in
titled alliances, and move logically
along to a candid recital of the facts
of the stamping out of the Bonus
Expeditionary Forces by Hoover,
Secretary Hurley, General MacAr-
thur and the army ~bayonets, gas
bombs, sabres, machine guns and
tanks. Much of the grim story of
Bloody Thursday is presented in this
book-to the discontinue of Candi-
date Herbert Hoover and his friends
who have outrageously lied about
what occurred.
In the chapter, mine Old Men,"
is told a great deal about the Su-
preme Court, which Andrew Furuseth
of the Seamen's Union long ago de-
scribed as "God, in this country"
The authors say: "The economic, So
cial and political dictum of the land
is what they say it is, or rather,
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
LABOR SPEAKER
IS WRITER ON
LABOR TOPICS
is PRESIDENT OF BROOKWOOD
COLLEGE AND HAS BEEN A
MEMBER OF ORGANIZED La
Dor FOR OVER 50 YEARS.

James Hudson Maurer, the So
cialist vice-presidential nominee, who
is a~ffectionately known to a wide
circle of comrades and friends as
Jim Maurer, was born in Reading,
Pa, 68 years ago. His forebears
were sturdy German folk who came
to Pennsylvania in early colonial
times. He was the eldest of a large
family Of children, and as his father
died before Jim's seventh birthday,
he was forced to go to work in order
to assist his mother in keeping the
family together. At the age of six
he was a newsboy, at eight he lived
on a farm, at ten he became a fac
tory worker and at fifteen a ma
chinist's apprentice. Altogether he
was permitted to attend school less
than three months.
He early saw the necessity of the
workers organizing for their own
protection and advancement, and at
the age of sixteen Joined the Knights
of Labor and for more than fifty
years has held continuous member
ship in the ranks of organized labor.
Despite his very limited schooling
and extreme poverty he learned a
trade and managed to educate him
self particularly along economic lines
so that for a generation he has
been recognized as one of the ablest
leaders Of the American movement.
For over thirty years he has been
a member of Local No. AZ, United
Plumbers and Steamfitters, ETC., of
the United States and Canada. In
1912 he was elected president of the
Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, a
position to which he was reelected
every year following, until 1928, when
he retired after his election to the
city council of Reading, Pa.
About 35 years ago Jim found out
that the republican and democratic
! parties both served the interest OF
| the owning class and did nothing foi
the workers except when compelled
to do so. He Joined the Social Dem
ocratic party and went from it into
the Socialist party when the latter
was organized in 1901. He has been
a candidate of his party almost every
year. In 1906 and 1880 he vas its
nominee for governor, and in 1928
and again this year for vice presi-
dent. He was elected a member of
the Pennsylvania house of represen-
tatives in 1910 and again in 1914
and 1916. Throughout his three
terms he was the leader of the la
Dor forces and was largely respon-
sible for the passage of the Penn
sylvania Workmen's Compensation
Law, being the first in his state to
introduce a bill to establish such a
system.
In 1917 Governor Brumbaugh APP
pointed an official state commission
to study the matter of old age as
sistance and made Mr.. Maurer its
chairman. Although this position
vas purely honorary and carried no
salary, some of its expenses were
paid by the state, and Jim jumped
at the opportunity to expose the
evils of the poor houses and to show
the people that there was a much
better way of caring for INDECENT
old workers. He filled the position
so capably that he "a reappointed
by Governor Sproul in 1920, again by
Governor Pinchot in 1923 and 1925,
Continued on Page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
abor Council -weekly-I In the Interests of Organized Labor
~

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
SERIOUS WORDS ON LABOR.

81 am" writes an enquiring soul
from Buffalo, N. Y, mot a laboring
man. My sympathies, however, have
always been with labor. At the
same time, the American labor move
ment seems to be so r~eactionary,
Judging from the utterances of some
of its spokesman, and so full Of
racketeering, if judged from news
paper items and other revelations,
that | hardly know any more whether
| am for or against unions. Under
the circumstances, would it not be
advisable for radicals and progress
sives to aid in building new unions,
or at least do whatever may be done
Of purging existing unions Of their
reactionism and racketeering procliv-
tiles. And please, while greatly
enjoy your humor, l hope you will
give me a serious explanation"
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
NON-UNION SHOPS HOLD
UP EMPLOYEES WAGES

PATERSON, N. J.-(F.P.)-A
group of non-union shops in northern
New Jersey have not paid wages to
their employees for several weeks,
charges Pres. Emil REEVE of the
American Federation Of Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Workers, who is max
ing an investigation Of the situation
on behalf of union members work
ing in these shops. The Arrow Silk
Hosiery Co. of Irvington, N. j., has
failed to pay for seven or eight
weeks, he says. The union will in
stitute legal measures in an effort
to collect.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
CONTRACTORS NOW OCCUPY FEDERAL OFFICES
RENT-DODCERS REPLACE RENT
PAYING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

The Chamber of Commerce made plea after plea to the
Federal government to have the Department Of Justice
Headquarters maintained in Butte, but to no avail. 1t
stated that there was no room for an office here
while the Federal Building was being remodeled. A
number of families, connected with this department were
transferred to points in Washington. Butte decreased in
population, landlords are losing the rents paid by these
employees, merchants are losing business transacted by
these families and the city, county and state loses taxes
paid by these residents. All of this was a loss to Butte.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08

tHio pouy hdu saiu tHdt IL was nOt
only not impossible but that it was
correctly and properly to be levied
against the vendor. But a majority
of the senate conferees, three out of
five, decided that a majority of the
senate was all wrong in the matter,
and therefore they would just switch
it around completely and add the
burden of this tax to the already
overburdened back Of the taxpaying
consumers of the country"
Senator Norris of Nebraska on the
floor of the United States senate
said:
Nov let US review what hap
pened with these companies which
cannot afford to pay a tax to the
Federal government.
"At the end of financing the Utah
Securities Corporation control of the
properties. and securities originally
controlled by the syndicate had been
transferred to Utah Securities Cor
poration, the first transfer of these
properties and securities to Utah
Power & Light Co. occurred. The
properties of the Telluride Power
Co., acquired by Utah Securities
Corporation at receivership sale at a
cost of s6,4S0, 708.32, were transferred
to the Utah Power & Light Co.,
which wrote then on its fixed prop
erty amount at S22, 100, 900.
THAT is a nice bit Of water
pumped into this concern over
night.
"They bought the property for
$6,480, 1882, and the next day it
was worth $22, 100, 900; and that is
one of the power companies hat
cannot afford to pay the tax the
senate proposed to levy upon it.
This represented a write-up
which means water of $685.
291.6S.
"More than fifteen and one-half
million dollars of water pumped into
that capitalization overnight; and the
poor people of Utah, Colorado, and
other states that are paying the bill
have to stand it all.
"The corporations are convert
ing water into gold by this pro-
cess; and yet we are told that we
must not tax them, because they
cannot stand it; and therefore we
must levy the tax upon the poor
who is now paying the
revenue on all this water"
In the other case mentioned in
the Utah Labor News last week
there was 81 million dollars of water,
now nearly 16 million dollars is
added to it in Utah.
Senator Norris said: Subsequent
acquisitions, including both proper
ties acquired by purchase and prop
critics constructed by Phoenix Utility
CO or its predecessor, the Phoenix
Construction Co., which was the in
c%orporated construction department
of the Electric Bond & Share Co.
were similarly written up on the
fixed capital account of the Utah
Power g. Light Co. at prices $3.50
Continued on Page Four)
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
3-CENT ELECTRIC TAX
INSIST TAX SHOULD BE PAID BY
CONSUMERS; G. 0. P. REWARDS
THE SOVEREIGN POWER TRUST

The United States senate passed
a tax bill some time ago, and as it
passed the senate an amendment
was introduced by Senator Howell,
Nebraska, levying a very light tax
upon the public utility corporations
which are generating electricity. 1t
was the belief, no doubt, of the in
PRODUCER, it was the theory of the
senate when it adopted the amend
ment, that the amount was so small
that as a practical proposition it
would be impossible for the power
company to pass on the cost to the
consumer.
The bill went to conference COM
mittee, and when it came back from
the committee that provision was
stricken out, and in lieu of it was
language providing for a direct tax
upon the Of electricity.
On the face of the conference
committee change it was a tax upon
every home in the United States
which used electricity; it was a tax
upon the owner of every retail store
which uses electricity, a direct tax.
Not Defended.
There was quite a contest over it.
1t never has been defended any
where. Although it was assailed
on the floor of the senate ~viciously,
it never was defended by Senator
Smoot and the other conferees.
In the course of the debate, when
Senator Norris, Nebraska, had the
floor of the senate, he was inter
rupted by Senator Robinson, In
diana, who said:
81 want to observe, if the senator
from Nebraska will permit me, in
connection with his suggestion as to
the efficiency of the conferees on
the part of the senate, that | noted
this morning in the press a state
ment from Congressman Crisp, to
whom was attributed the response
bility for placing the burden of the
power tax on the consumers. l
would like to read it for the ben
eft of the senate, assuming, OF
course, that he is correctly reported"
Then he read:
"When the conferees reached the
tax on the electricity item Senator
Smoot stated that it was confiscatory
and that it would bankrupt certain
public utility companies in Utah. A
majority of the senate conferees
said the item was impossible. After
discussion and in the nature of a
compromise, | suggested a retail lax
on electric energy"
That is the end of the newspaper
quotation which the senator from
Indiana read. Then he said:
"The interesting part of that state
ment, if the senator from Nebraska
will permit the further observation,
is this line, and it comes from Mr..
Crisp, according to the paper:
"a majority of the senate con-
ferees"-
That would be three
"A majority of the senate con-
ferees said the item was impos-
sible."
"That was after a majority in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11
Mayor And Party To Be Guests At
 Program Tomorrow
Several Other Trees to Be Put Out During Ceremony Charles DeBisschop, Who Presented Camp With Specimens, Will Preside at Planting

The Waterbury Council of Girl Scouts will hold their annual tree planting ceremony tomorrow after noon at 4:30 o'clock at Camp We. quapauset on Upper Boyden street. Waterville. This event will be sub- stituted for the annual scout jam. boree. Charles J. DeBisschop. who contributed all but the oak to the Girl Scout summer camp. will plant the trees. Mayor T. Frank Hayes, John H. Goss. Rev Dr John N. Lewis and Mir and Mrs John F. Elton will be among the many guests of honor at the exercises.
 The program will be in charge of Miss Edna Weber, local director and Miss Mildred Turney, assistant director. and will include songs by the scouts. Trees" by Joyce XII. from an old Creation Folk Song, They Do Grow Hlgh' and Amer lea the Beautiful" = Katherine Lee Bates with readings from tree poems of Henry Abbey, Lucy Lar com and James Buckham by. Scout Betty Russell and Jane Cowperth- wait.
 A pino tree will be planted in memory of George Washington. for which the Waterbury Girl Scouts will havo their name placed upon tho honor roll of the American rree Planting Association. A Charter Oak Descendant will b. dedicated to tho Girl Scouts thcm- solves and the charge for both trees will be made by the Girl Scout Commissioner -- Mrs Wm. T. Leggett.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11
NEW BISHOP OF NEWARK DIOCESE
 GIVEN PRAISE

Orange, N. J., May 1l.A-(UP)--- The Rev Benjamin M. Washburn, rector of Emmanuel church, Bos- ton, newly elected bishop coad tutor of tho Newark diocese of the Pro- testant Episcopal church, was praised by Bishop Wilson R. Stearly, of Newark, at q dinner hore last night following the elec- ton.
 pr Washburn's election followed a special convention on March 10 when ten ballots were cast in m effort to elect the bishop c0adJutor. Tho deadlock was between the Rev Dr Wiilami Appleton Lawrence. of Providence, R. l.. and tho Rev Charles Gomph, of Newark.
 Moth clergy and laity of the church united on the second bal- lot yesterday in the election of Dr Washburn. The vote was made unanimous.
 pr Washburn was born in 1887 in Bethel, Vt, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1907. He re. ,ceivcd his doctors degree In 1917 from General Theological Senin. ary, New York. From 10f2'to 1915 he was curate of Grace Episcopal church, New York, and from 1915 to 1918, vicar of tho church. In 1918, he became rector of St Paurs Protestant Ebiscopal church in Kansas City, Mo. going from there to tho Boston church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11

The Friendship Tree will be ded- icated to the friends of tho Girl Scouts and the charge given by Mrs Joel Ives Butler. chairman of the camp committed.
 The Salute to the Trees" from Henry Van Dykes poem will be read by q member Of the council.
 The Guest of Honor will include: Miss Helen Chase. Mrs Nelson Pomeroy, Miss Alice Kingsbury. Mrs s. A. Case, Mrs Joel l. Butler, Mrs John II. Goss. Rev John N Lewis, John M. Burrall. Robert E. Platt, and William w. Gager of the Girl Scout Council, Honorable T. Frank Hayes, Miss Helen Driggs. Mr and Mrs John A. Coe, Miss Caroline Platt., Mir and Mrs John r. Elton, MT and Mrs A. R. Kimball, John H. Goss, Irving H. Chase, and Archer Rowbottom.
 The trees will 4be planted by Charles J. DeBisschop, who con. tf<buted all but the oak to the Glrl Scout Comp. He will bG as- sisted by the different troops who will each place a handful of soil around the trees.
 All Girl Scouts who can are cx- pected to .be present and take part In thlA ceremony. Parents and friends nre invited to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11
Banquet Closes
 Bowling League
Y Pin Topplers Gather At Grooming Board-Wives and
 1 SWeethearts Guests

The 103t-32 season of the "" Mems Bowling League was brought to sytn successful conclusion last night with a banquet at tho Cen. tral Y. M. C. A. The bowiers and their wives and sweethearts were treated to an appetizing turkey dinner served by Frank Naka, the manager of tho "" Cafeteria and nlso a member of the bowling league. After dinner n musical pro. gram of instrumental selections were rendered by Joseph Pagnno on tho nccordlan followed by vocal selections by Miss Helen Bouley. Arthur Kennedy and William Woo key.
 Wellington Wookey. as tOast- master, presented the trophies. Tho winning team consisting of Albert Curtiss, Arthur Kennedy, Dr Her man Marggraff and Edward |. Div CT; each received . beautiful lov. ing cup.
 Edward J. Diver with n score of iG7 took the high single prize, Ca- miiio Geigere with 377 received the high three award and Wellington ,Wookey with a mark of 1i0.S4 was the winner of the high average race. Each man received q beauii- fui silver plaque with his name and his score engraved upon it. As the winners of the 30 day tourna nient recently conducted at tho "Y",
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-11
GIRL SCOUTS TO PLANT WASHINGTON PINE1
THE HAND SIGNAL FROM CAR AHEAD
Necessary in Order to Avoid Chances of Gauss
 ing Serious Accidents |.
LAW REQUIRES IT

New Haven, May 1.-The failure to signal the course of an automo- bile Is q serious act of negligence which results in many accidents, Harry B. Kennedy, president of the Connecticut Motor Club declared to-day In calling for q more gener- al use of hand signals by Connec- ticut motor vehicle operators. "The driver of a following ma chine is not gifted with a second sight which would permit him to anticipate the course of the ma chine or machines ahead of him." Mir Kennedy declared. "The nor mal, prudent driver will at all times attempt to operate his ma chine at n sufficiently safe distance behind other cars so as to provide for any emergency which may arise, But he should be accorded the courtesy of q hand signal from the driver ahead of him when that driver changes the normal course of his machine.
 "Too few persons give proper sig nals," he. continued. Whether it be in turning out from a standing position at the curb or while their machine Is in motion. The first Is the most common form of offense."
 Many persons think by hanging their arm out the window they are giving q sufficient signal, or that n sufficient signal has been given in the winter time by sticking their fingers out of n crack in tho win dow. The signal to be proper and sufficient should be given by extend Ing tho hand far enough so that it can be seen by following driver.
 "Failure to give signal when turning out of the line of traffic 10 pass q machine ahead or when making a left turn Is n serious Of. fense. This Is because the car ap- preaching from the rear Js sup posed to pass on the left except in directed traffic. A signal for Il left turn should be in unmistakable form"
 )"Many drivers give no signals, summer or winter. regardless of what they intend doing. There has been so much publicity given to the need for greater use of hand signals that 1t Is hoped that police will insist upon enforcement of state morton vehicle rules which require them."