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Montana labor news., 1932-12-15
Timely and Untimely
- Observations -
WELL, | TOLD 'EM so.
BY ADAM coALDIGGER

1Na ~
Now hat the giant minds of the
civilized world (oh yeahl) are again
wrestling with the war debt problem,
may |, in due humility and unsur-
passed self-effacing modesty, make
the incontrovertible statement that /
have not only predicted the outcome
of the World war, but also it's con-
sequences. Any person doubling
this statement may find in
contestible proofs Of its correctness
in the files of the National Rip-saw
and the Milwaukee Leader, series
1914-1920, on which L filled the
position of senior prophet during that
period.
Far be it from me to claim 1.-THE
meek shall inherit the earth) that
Habakuk, Isaiah and jeremiah didn't
pull off some creditable prophesying,
considering the cultural backwardness
of their times and the lousy tools
they had to work with. Nevertheless
truth forever on the gallows) COM
pels me to state that when it comes
to 80 44/100 pure prophesying, the
old gentlemen were but amateurs as
compared with your humble
Anyhow, l predicted please par
don the personal pronoun), l pre-
dicted that given the tremendous
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"The police tainted and cursed the
hungry marchers," he said. "They
manhandled them. Their command
ing officers looked on and said moth
ing. Police Chief Brown had for two
days been telling reporters and other
inquirers hat the Hunger Marchers
were free to leave the camp afoot;
that they could go and come as
individuals.
"'They are like anyone else. We
have no right to stop them so long
as they do not violate the law
Brown said. But at no time were
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Montana labor news., 1932-12-15
BUILDING TRADES ARBITRATE GRIEVANCES
The Washington
Scene
BY LAWRENCE TODD

P.)-Presid
Hoover's last big mobilization to re.
pei petitioners for redress Of the
grievance of hunger and cold anc
homelessness on the occasion of the
visit of the 5000 Hunger Marchers
passed off without the gassing OF
shooting of a single worker. This
lack of exercise of the pent-up saw
agery of 1000 police and 1000 sol
diers, held on active duty or in re-
serve for three days, was a matter
Of disappointment to the moving pic
ture men and a great many of the
press correspondents and politicians.
Not ven the provocative action of
Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island in
sending one Of his secretaries to en-
list rs a seaman" and become a
delegate from Brooklyn-to leave the
Marchers in Baltimore and report to
Secretary Doak and other master
detectives-broke the self-discipline
of this army of protest.
Robert M. Buck, former editor of
the New Majority, which was the
organ of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, described wildly, in the Wash
ington News of Dec. g., the all-night
barrage of insults with which the po-
lice surrounding the pavement
camp of the Marchers tried to
make these determined young people
forget their danger. He said that
"the rough stuff" the police threw
into" the Hunger Marchers last night
convinced many observers that a de-
liberate Indictment to riot had been
attempted. Buck was one Of the
group of newspaper men who stayed
through the night, watching the sit
uation
Montana labor news., 1932-12-15
Session Was More Militant
on Broad Questions of
Labor Policy and Mark
edly Swung to the Left.

CINCINNATI-(F. P.)-The most
interesting and the most hopeful
American Federation of Labor CON
v%ention since the Montreal gathering
in 1920 declared for the Plum plan
of government ownership of the rail
roads-that is the verdict of dele
gates as the 1882 sessions closed in
Cincinnati. 1t was more pugnacious
within the sessions and committee
meetings, more militant on broad
questions of labor policy, and mark
edly to the left of recent years.
The outstanding declarations were
for the 30-hour week and for COM
p%ulsory unemployment insurance by
state legislation. Both measures were
the bitter fruit of the three-year de-
preston and both provoked bitter
debate. The trade union die-hards,
who are hangovers from the Samuel
Gompers school of purely economic
pressure for better conditions, OBJ
jected to the demand on congress
for legislative enactment Of the five
day week and six-hour day. They
wanted to achieve it by the power
of the unions exercised in the shops
and mills and on the railroads. They
were roughly told that this supposed
power was largely non-existent. The
resolutions committee stated that
apart from the railroads unionism
was not a power in any large cor
poration.
Most amazing of all the spectacular
episodes of the convention was prob
ably the fiercely militant speech de-
livered by President Green for
"forcible methods" in combating
unemployment and restoring a de-
cent job at a decent wage to the 70
million unemployed. He confessed
without qualification that the post
war policy of Cancellation, Of smiling
hopefully at the bosses, of pleading
with them for favors, had failed ut
terly. He called for new militancy,
for a revival of the fighting spirit
Of embattled labor against greedy
and hostile employers. Rebuked edi-
torially by the New York Times for
abandoning the handshaker attitude
of concession and %suppliance, he re-
peated his challenge and made it
stronger. 1t stood out in bold con-
trast to his opening remarks Nov. 81
that Through the constructive action
taken at this convention a valuable
contribution toward the restoration
of our impaired c~apitalistic struc-
ture" would be made.
The convention voted to take the
profit out Of war preparations, to
condemn insurance rac~keteering by
favoring state fund workman COM
pensation policies, for repeal of the
prohibition amendment and for beer
and light wines, for stoppage of all
immigration, for defense of the school
systems against the economy attacks
of bankers and business men, and for
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WMUHA

The American standard Of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1932-12-15

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., 1932-12-15

"The share-the-work plan is just
a way of making the kind-hearted
workers pay the cost of the depres-
sion."-Frances Perkins, New York
state industrial commissioner, men,
TONED as probable secretary Of labor.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24

O'Malley, the more one is con- vinced that he is not even sincere in his administration. And when he refuses to listen to resident fishermen interested in the promulgation of regulations but goes to Seattle and San Francisco to hold conventions with the canners, it stands to reason that he is not working for the interest of conservation of the resource-he is in fact working for the conservation of Ithe corporate and vested inter ests. The Czar will live another four years-during which time resident business will have plen- ty of time to support his mea- sures.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
Isn't This the Truth

A recent issue of the Pacific Fisherman points out that:
 Inability to arrive at some agreement for limiting produc- tion, thus providing for a suit able escapement, increases the competitive spirit and each at tempts to exploit the fishery to the utmost. Operators feel that they must take every fish possible, even when the SUD- ply is poor and there is grave danger of everlasting"
 For the past twelve years Alas kans have pointed out this very fact. For the past seven years the Alaska Fisherman, and for the past six years the Alaskan, have pointed out these very truths. For so doing their editors have been called radicals and bolsheviks. Now the editors of t he Pacific Fisherman have joined in with the radicals and bolsheviks" in printing the same truths. Coming from them it is not radicalism but good judge ment."
 It is to laugh. Tn spite of all that may be said. the fishing in dustry will admit one of these days that the Siwash papers ard the "Pauls" knew what they were talking about" Believe it or not-it is not many yeacs distant /!
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
Bunkum Conservation

It is being pointed out that the new trap restrictions set forth by Commissioner OMalley is in the interest of conserva- ton. With considerable glee, members of the Associated Press in Alaska have pointed out the "severe restrictions" placed upon the salmon industry through re- gulation of the trap system through the closure of 157 traps. Additional closures recently brought the group to I'll.
 : Let us honestly face facts. MT. O'Malley held a conference with the canners and by agreement he closed the original 157 traps. This was done not in the interest of salmon conservation but as a protection of the trap sites. Un- Jess the trap sites are in opera
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
Of Little Interest

During the past several months, the average American citizen has paid but little atten- ton to the affairs in Congress. It mattered not how much the congressman talked, or how little or what they talked about. Sud- denly the citizens awakened to find that they had to pay extra postage over the usual old rates;
 that they had to pay three per cent on the electricity which they used; that everything vir- tually which have become ne cessities are on a tax list and the poor citizen must do without more and more in order that he might meet the taxes.
 The many bureaus still func- tion-parasites still infest the body polite and draw their salaries-useless impediments 10 society in it's progress toward better government Eight and ten day veterans of the World War are sitting in the Veteran Bureau drawing up to ten thou sand dollars a year and also draw ing pensions varying in sums from little $30 month to the retired pay of majors and gen. erals. Rather than decrease the political appointments and the curtailing of their pay, they are kept on and to keep them on the Tax Payer is made to sweat. And the tax payers seem to like it so they can just sweat on.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24

tion they are subject to jump ing" by other canners or fish ermen. So to prevent the jump ing of these sites, MT. O'Malley agreed that he would close the sites lin the interest of conser- vation." However, he advised those canners who closed their traps by agreement last year, that unless they operate their traps this year, they would be forfeited. By what law is not made known except that the gentlemen's agreement was all oft was mostly the small and independent trap operator any, how, who had that agreement last year.
 The more one studies the fish cries situation and the admins tration of the fisheries by MT.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24

eral states for the past three years. The various members of the Chambers of Commerce are just beginning to awaken to the fact that they have problem to face. The money is not coming in-and it will not come in any better. Next winter the business men will still have to sell their goods-and if they would con- tinue they will have to say "No" tC many a customer who has not the money with which to pur- chase the ordinary necessities of life. Else they will soon be forced to close their doors.
 Perhaps that is what the Chambers of Commerce have desired-be forced to shut their doors. They have failed to hear the pleas of the fishermen for chance to make a living. They have stood back of the canning system which has continually employed the too efficient trap system while local labor has stood aside begging for a chance to earn a dollar.
 Like it or not, now, the situa- tion is before the business men of Alaska. They could have pre- vented such situation had they the courage of their convictions. But lacking that courage and preferring to kiss the toes of the canners and trap men and it's federal henchmen in the bureau of fisheries, they must now pay the fiddler.
 There is only one solution to the problem-remove the fish trap opposition and give to Alaska residents the opportuni- ty to work.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
Curtail Stream Work

For several years the Terri ltorial Legislature has appropri- ated various sums of money to be expended by agents of the U. s. Bureau of Fisheries in stream cleaning of predatory fish. The q s t legislature appropriated $25, ,000 for this purpose for the iyears 1881 and 1892 while the salmon packers, who benefit most, contributed $8,OOO. Says the Pacific Fisherman: "* Ow- ling to the depression, the terri, tory has only been able to con- tribute a small part of this"
 Regardless of whether or not jthe sum appropriated was avail able the question arises, What right has any agent of the fec 7 eral fisheries department to Cis- pense territorial funds. Must the territory continue to bow ils head and submit every ounce uf | is self-respect to the buric rats which infest the territory ana which works not in the interests of the people but in the inter ests of those corporations which prostitute it's resources and even laws? It is time that the legisla- ture began to limit it's appropri- ationS to expenditures through territorial channels-either that CT turn it's treasury over to t. l federal government and let tt run the entire territorial gov ernment.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
They Have What They Want

In the past several weeks the Libby, McNiell & Libby Com pany, operating the Rake can nery, canned between four and five hundred thousand pounds of king salmon. The cannery employs about 120 men-mixed crew of white men, orientals and What-have-you from the States They are said to have employed two men from Ketchikan ant; two from Juneau. No local labor las been employed to cam this salmon.
 In the village of Rake are four small stores, groceries and gen. eral merchandise They depend upon the local population for their trade. The local population is sitting around waiting for the benefcient corporation to em- ploy them-either as fishermen Or laborers in the cannery. They will most likely sit around suck ing their thumbs to fill empty stomachs for there will be no employment.
 Recently a group of salesmen from Seattle called on those merchants for orders. They did not make their expenses to the town and they report that they received the same kind of re ception from all the towns on the coast where they went.
 The main line towns feed off of the smaller towns off the main route-that is where the population halls from. With the people of the feeder towns un- able to earn any money, the main line towns are beginning to feel the depression which has been the big problem in the sev-
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
Will Wave Flag


 And there will be patriotic speeches telling us what we should do to be good citizens bow our heads in servile sub- mission whilst the Wall Street Plundercrats continue their or gies of gambling and prostituC- ing of governmental affairs. We will hear read the Declaration of Independence which no long CT holds any meaning to- the powers that be; we will even hear read portions of the Con-
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24

On the Columbia River are employed two thousand gillnet boats with an average of two men to the boat or a total Of -four thousand fishermen on a stretch of water not any longer than the stretch between KeJ7 chikan' and Lynn Canal. In the Ketchikan and Lynn Canal Dis t,ict are employed not over 500 fishermen.
 If the average business man of Alaska would do a little of his own thinking and reasoning from the economic standpoint, he would soon realize that four thousand men gainfully employ ed makes lot better group to trade with than a group of five hundred.
 Last year Alaska contributed $29,411, 1909 through her salmon fisheries. Oregon contributed s2,858,046 but employed more local labor than did the entire territory of Alaska as fishermen.
 If Oregon, employing four thousand fishermen is able 70
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24

stitutionS but the readers will be mighty careful not to read the first ten amendments to the Constitution whilst they never let us forget the Eighteenth Amendment.
 Land of the Free and the home of the Brave," With Liberty and Justice for All'-- moneybags.
The Alaskan., 1932-06-24
AS Alaska Should Be

produce just short of three mil lion dollars, Alaska's fishermen should be distributed, in propor- ton, among ten times that num-
 Der of men or there would be employed 10000 fishermen. For ty thousand fishermen would mean an influx of families who
 would build their homes and be- come a permanent part of the territory adding to it's wealth and taxes. It would be a good place in which to do business. It would be a good place for labor. There is a cure for the pre- sent depression and that is en- ployment of labor. We are not
 concerned with trying to solve the ailments of the labor classes |of the States. We have our own immediate problem and the solution is so plain that it is diff
 ficult for us to see why any man
 with normal faculties should re-
 main blind and continue in op-
 position to the proper and only solution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18
Both Scandals Are
 Being Investigated
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stark was brought in almost pulseless and gasping," Dr Sea man said. From the autopsy il would appear that cerebral hemor- | rhage alone would have been , enough to cause death." Stark had been brought to the hospital in an ambulance, accom- panied by one policeman who de- nied knowing anything about the case. Dr Seaman said Dr Thomas J. Fearns, a private physician, had treated Stark before he was re- moved to the hospital.
 District Attorney Elvin N. Ed wards openly charged that Stark 8 death resulted when "an overen- thusiastic police officer broke Stark's adams apple"
 Frank Tappan, deputy chief of police of Nassau County, and De- tective John Hizenski. whose mo- ther was beaten, were suspended after Stark's death. Both question ed him.
 Stark was under arrest as a sus- pect in the robbing and beating of Mrs Valeria Hizenski, when he died, A second prisoner, Philip Cecala, claims to have been badly beaten by the police and that after Stark lost consciousness, police pointed to him lying on the floor. "as an ex- ample"
 Stark was buried Sunday after noon at the Baron Hurst cemetery, Richmond, s. l., in the family plot. Mrs Hizenski was out of danger to-day and will be able to leave the hospital within few days.
 Southern Tragedies Jacksonville, Fla, July 18-(U. P.) - Reports of another prison camp Sweat box death were car ried to-day into conference in tended to banish such brutality and prisons which permitted such pun ishment, it was believed, in at least four cases within two months.
 The latest reports were received by Al F. German, foreman of a grand jury which already has in- dicted two prison guards on mur- der charges in the sweat box" death of 19-year-old New Jersey boy. The reports came by air mail from Miami. German refused to reveal their exact content.
 T want to place the matter be- fore the state attorney" the grand jury foreman who has received numerous death threats because of his activity, reported.
 Unless we get the action of state officials we demand, we may have to subpoena Governor Doyle F. Carlton and Highway Commis- sioner Mayo"
 German told members of Call vary Baptist church last night that he had received eleven threaten ing messages, including one threat to kidnap his son. Plainclothesmen guarded him as he talked.
 Unless I am shot down." he added, T am going to see this thing through"
 Then he declared he had IS pri- soners who would swear that Mail- lefert had been beater. unmerciful- ly before he died by Captain J. F. Baker at Sunbeam Prison Camp.
 German conferred to-day with a group of church women interested in his fight on the ancient torture racks permitted in several states. Tennessee. for instance, permits the same sweat box" treatment. al- though no official record shows 1t has been used. Whipping, the ball and chain, and other such punish- ment is permitted in several states.
 The first torture victim reported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18
State Commander
 Claims Further Efforts Useless
Plans Appeal to Governor Cross for Special Session of Legislature to Deal With Soldier Relief
 Delivers Scathing Attack on Government Chiefs

consider their condition, unem- ployment and destitute families. They thought the government would supply them with the right kind of employment, having taken them away from their homes, wives and Gweetnearts, and sent them across the sea, at time when work at high, wages was plentiful.
 "Thinking that the government which had pledged them a bonus in 8 few years would give them that bonus now in view of the em- ergency and its necessity. the men have been allowed to wait and hope in vain, the beneficent sum of six cents per day being spent to feed those that were absolutely destitute.
 "It must amuse foreign coun- tries to read about the bonus army in Washington. These same men who fourteen years ago were sent across to foreign countries, to make this 8 better country to live in, by making the world safe for demo- cracy. The war did not make the world safe for our own soldiers. who are now without work Or money, Wnll0 Leu DlulOH OL OuT American dollars help to build up employment and renewed prosper ity over there. The people of this country should bow their heads in shame, that the richest nation in the world allows such conditions to continue callously forgetful of all the promises made to the sol- diers when they went over seas. Yet 1t is a fact and 1t becomes my duty as state commander of the Bonus army to ask them to come home. I also ask you veterans to help in some way to find positions and bring our fighting comrades, home for 8 bigger fight, our homes.
 wish to take this opportunity to thank Congressman Edward Goss, and Congress Tierney, for the human interest they took in the boys at Washington, and am sure you boys, know what they have done for our dead comrades, their wives and parents.
 GEORGE l.. McGRATH,
 State Com. B. E, F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18


 board of engineers upon which the hydro electric development will be based provides for two dams. The upper one will be at Crysler Island and have two power houses. one on either side of the international boundary. The other dam will be at Barnhart Island. 1t also Will have two power houses, one on either side of the boundary.
 Capacity of the Crysler Island development is estimated at ss2.- 960 horsepower and the Barnhart Island development at 1,607,000 horsepower.
 The main feature of the devel- opment. however, Is navigation. The proposed, 27-foot channel through the international section will connect with a so-foot channel from ,Monreal to the sea. Thus deep-sea vessels will be able to load. cargoes at lake ports and take them directly to Europe, South America and Africa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-07-18
IlcGRATH CALLS NUTMEG BONUS ARMY H0MEl
Depression Was Friend and Foe
 to Dan Cupid


 Washington, July is-(UP)- The depression appears to be both friend and foe of Dan Cupid. Few CT Americans are marrying in these times. But those who are married aren't so quick to run to the di- vorce courts with their troubles.
 Marriages last year decreased 6.1 per cent as compared with 1s3O, the census bureau announced. Df- vorces decreased 4.1 per cent. There were 1,060.0s5 marriages in 1891 and 1S3,695 divorces. That was 5.8 marriages for each divorce. Only Il states showed increases in marriages and only 12 had more divorces than in 1880. Nevada re- ported the largest increases in both.