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Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
BUY COOP GLOVES
Gloveworkers Save Organization by
Founding Own Factory.

To all Central Labor Unions, greet
ings:
Sometime the early part of June
this year we advised the Trades
Union movement Of this country
about the fight then ON in our work
glove industry. As you are, no doubt,
aware the city of Minneapolis has
been supplying the trade unionists
of this entire Middle West with the
only union-labeled work gloves, man.
ufactured by two large concerns, the
Wells-Lamont-S Smith Corporation and
the Premier Glove Company.
After ten years operating under
agreement with our Local Union No.
SO, of Glove Workers, these two
firms made such drastic demands
Continued on page three)
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
BANKERS HEAD
FOR D
Scott Nearing Claims Bank
ers Cannot Meet Over
head.

NEW YORK = (FP) - American
bankers are preparing to take their
places in the breadlines. This time
it will not be because of "frozen as
sets" Excessive lending on inadequate
security but because interest rates
have fallen so low that the bankers
cannot even pay their overhead, let
alone make any profit.
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle, in its Oct. s issue, points
to a number of cases where short
term money is being loaned "for next
to nothing" and asks the pertinent
question: Can the banks stand the
strain?
The immediate cause for this out
burst was two offerings Of Treasury
certificates, the first issued Sept. %,
and the second issued Oct. IL, 1892.
The Treasury bills of Sept. % mature
on Dec. %. The offering was for
500, $1,000. Applications for the
issue totalled $412, 100000. The bills
were sold at a discount, and do not
carry interest. The average price re-
eeived by the Treasury was 99.941
"or an average on a bank discount
basis of about 0.23 per cent per an
num- The Oct. IL issue was sold at
an average price of 99.951 "or an av-
erage rate on a bank discount basis
of only 0.19 per cent per annum."
The United States government is thus
borrowing short term money in enor-
nous quantities at less than one-fifth
of one per cent.
The editor Of The Chronicle also
calls attention to the fact that the
Continued ON page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
SOVIET UNION
Halls REVOLT
E
Ry HARVEY O,CONNOR.

MoSCOW-(F.P.D-In every cor
ner Of the Soviet Union and along
the 1000 miles from Leningrad to
Vladivostock, the workers and the
peasants of the only toilers' repub-
lie in the world on Nov. 7 celebrated
the fifteenth anniversary of their
successful revolution, by tremendous
demonstrations and meetings. In
Moscow alone more than a million
workers joined the mighty parade
that swept through the Red Square
from early morning until late in
the afternoon.
For 100000, 900 Soviet citizens, this
Nov. z, marked one of the most
memorable dates in the crowded is.
year history of the proletarian state
For the triumph of the first Five
Year Plan is assured, and its end
is in sight. By an effort unparalleled
in history, a peasant nation has lifted
itself bodily in four short years to
the level of an industrial nation.
What it took the United States Sc
years to achieve, the Soviet Union
hopes to achieve in five. In part, il
is already achieved. Soviet produc-
ton of pig iron is now first in the
world, exceeding even that of the
United States. That does not mean
that the Soviet Union has more blast
furnaces; it means that every fur
mace in Russia is working at 100
per cent capacity, while in the United
States production is 20 per cent of
capacity,
The completion of the first Five
Year Plan means that the Soviet
Union now ranks with the United
States, Britain, Germany and France
Continued on page four
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Detroit Gets Another
Pared-D Down Dole

WASHINGTON (FP) Although
the Welfare Department of the city
of Detroit is $75O,OOO in debt to gro
GERS in that city, the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation refused to grant
the municipal governments appeal
for a loan with which to meet this
deficit, Oct. 20, and it cut one-fifth
from the estimate of the further fund
needed to carry the destitute unem-
ployed through November and De-
cember. 1t granted an allotment of
$2,2O5,4 400 instead of the 81, 775, 900
which the Detroit authorities testi-
fled was absolutely necessary to pro-
vide food and shelter until the end of
the year. Detroit has previously Sc
cured $1,80O,000 of the emergency re-
lief fund, out of $2,156,0OO allotted to
Michigan.
Grand Rapids, the home Of Sen.
V~andenburg, was granted $4,000
Gov. Brucker of Michigan, introduc-
ing President Hoover at Detroit, re-
minded the audience that federal
money was supporting the unemploy-
ed in the automobile metropolis. The
R. F. G, in its formal announcement
of the latest dole, said that "On be-
half of the city of Detroit it is claim
ed hal all local resources for relief
have been exhausted"
On Oct. 81 the R. F. C. granted an
additional $6,309,15 to Illinois, for
use in 60 counties, and granted $780,
600 to Mississippi for use in 70
ties and 10 cities.
Illinois had previously received a
total of $4,000, 900. It's total of
more than s2O,OOO,OOO of federal relief
funds contrasts with $6,00O,000 grant
ed to Pennsylvania, which was de-
clared by relief workers to be in equal
ly desperate condition last winter, and
in which unemployment has continued
to increase.
Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania is
making a new effort to secure funds
from the R. F. c. to relieve starva-
ton in his State.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
George Washington
University Rejects
Pacifist Club

WASHINGTON-(FP)-No to be
outdone by the University of Mary
land, which has suspended two stu
dents for refusal to undergo military
training, the board of trustees of
George Washington University, in
the capital, have refused to recog-
nize the National Students League.
This organization advocates abolition
of compulsory military training. 1t
also favors American recognition of
the Soviet Union and other self-evi-
dent political facts. 1t is recognized
at Columbia, Chicago, the College of
the City of New York and other big
educational institutions. 1t has
branches in 60 colleges and univer-
sites.
Refusal of recognition was an
nounced to the local student club Oct.
~ in a letter by Harry c. Davis, sec
rotary of the board, stating that the
trustees could not recognize an or
ganization which "has for it's objec-
tive a type of activity not in accord
with the academic tradition of the
university"
The club will ask President Cloyd
Heck Marvin for an interview in
which this academic tradition" car
be analysed.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
co. RULES
AGAINST WEEKLY PRESS
The Washington
- Scene

BY LAWRENCE TODD

WASHINGTON = (FP) - Never
since the close of the World Wa
has Washington been stirred by Sc
many rumors and schemes of strong
arm tactics for Saving the situation
from chaos" as just now, on the eve
of the defeat Of the Hoover regime.
Day by day men return from trips
into the New England states, the
South, the Middle West, the North
west or the Pacific Coast states,
bringing stories of political earth
quake, and Of the various expedients
that are being tried by the Repub'i-
cans to salvage part of their state
ticket from disaster.
The first and most obvious trick
is, as it was in the days of Mark
Hanna, to intimidate wage-earners in
to voting for Hoover. Henry Ford's
letter of advice to his dwindled and
rebellious employees is understood to
be merely the f%orerunner to more
emphatic orders. The rubber manu-
facturers in Ohio are alleged to have
applied pressure on their workers and
on the dealers in their products. In
southern Pennsylvania a movement
has been launched among manufac-
turers whose plants are idle or on
part-time, to have them reopen on
full time-regardless of whether they
have any orders for goods just now
on Nov. l, and to operate for a few
weeks. The appeal made to these
manufacturers to pretend a revival of
activity and employment is that they
had better give employment to their
workers for a while, and take a chance
Of selling the product, than to sit
still and be compelled to pay into the
Community Chest fund enough to
maintain the unemployed this winter,
While no mention is made of Hoover's
election, the date chosen for this
faxed prosperity tells its W story.
Il y y
That Hoover will be overwhelmed
on Nov. 8, is now conceded by viz
tually everyone except the official
Republican spokesman. In view Of
the verdict already recorded against
his administration in more than 200
straw polls in as many parts OF the
country, and the indications that his
special-privilege regime will be hurled
from office by something like $780,
900 plurality, the big bankers and
CONTINUED on page four
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
REPORT SAVINGS BY COUNTIES
BY GRANTING OF PENSIONS
"Old Age Security Decreases the Tax on Real Els
tate" Declare Welfare Commissioner

tax on real estate" declared Richard
w. Wallace, assistant commissioner
of public welfare of the state, in
charge of the division of Old-Age
Security. Money is saved in real
estate taxes, explained Mr.. Wallace,
because "relief must in any Ease
be given to the destitute aged, and
under the older poor relief system
the entire burden fell on local real
estate" whereas half of the cost of
the security law is borne by the
state. Mr.. Almus Oliver, of the AS
ISOLATED Charities of Syracuse,
showed that Syracuse saved S17.65
per month by pensioning an aged
Yperson instead of sending him to
the poorhouse, the county's share
in the pension cost being only S10.15,
while the outlay for each poorhouse
inmate is $27.80 per month. A saw
ing to Clinton county of nearly $11
per month was reported by M. L.
Donivan, county public welfare in
vestigator, and similar reductions in
aged relief in Washington and West
chester counties and in Schenectady
were disclosed by Deputy Commits
sioner A. H. Wilcox Of Washington
county, and Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes
and Mrs. E. s. Greenough of the
Westchester county and Schenectady
Continued on page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

The revelation that old-age PEN
sions ease the tax burden on real
estate was disclosed in a symposium
of official reports on the workings
and effect of the New York State
0ld-Age Security Act published in
the November issue of the Old-Age
Security Herald, just out.
State and county administrators
of the law, and representatives of
welfare and labor organizations,
whose views are quoted, agreed that
the law has proved not only socially
indispensable but has led to mex
pected economies.
"Old-Age Security decreases the
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

MOSCOW-(FP)-The Batai avia-
ton school has been given a prize of
1OO,0 900 rubles because it has not had
one crash for a year.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
OLD AGE PENSIONS EASE TAX ON REAL ESTATE
EMPLOYMENT IN
-
STEPHEN ELY
Estate Director of Employment.)

GENERAL Employment further
improved in the industrial plants
throughout September, although a
surplus of workers obtained in prac-
tically all sections of the state. Ac-
tivities and employment in the coal
mines also continued to increase.
Operations in the lumber industry
and in metal mining and smelling
remained greatly curtailed. The flour
mills, meat-packing houses, the oil
refineries, and a number of other es-
Establishments worked on a reduced
production basis. Approximately g.
900 laborers were employed on high
way and maintenance work. Fed
eral projects and civic improvements
engaged many men, as did the vari-
Gus recreational centers. Harvesting
of the potato and hay crops, the
t~hreshing of beans and small grains,
the canning of fruits and vegetables,
and the gathering and hauling of
sugar beets furnished work for a
large number of laborers. Several
of the beet-sugar plants opened dur
ing the month, and all of these fac
tories will soon be in operation, m
ploying thousands of workers.
BILLINGS-Operations and en-
ployment continued restricted in
practically all of the industrial es-
adjustments during September. Ac-
tivities in the fruit, vegetable and
pork canneries, the harvesting of
hay, the ~threshing of grains and
beans, and fruit picking employed
many people. Highway construction
in this section also furnished work
for a number Of men. The supply of
all classes of labor exceeded the de-
mand.
BUTTE-Activities in the metal
mines and smelters remained greatly
curtailed. The meat-packing houses,
oil r~efineries, steel foundries ma
chine shops, and other establishments
worked with reduced forces on a part
time basis. A federal building in
course of erection provided employ
ment for many craftsmen. A sur
plus of all classes Of labor obtained.
MISSOULA-Sawmil and logging
operations were reported as far be-
low normal. Canning of fruits and
vegetables, the harvesting of sugar
beets, potatoes, and other farming
activities employed a considerable
force of laborers. No large build
ing projects were reported. The con-
struction of additional te~lephone-toll
facilities also gave employment to a
number of men. The beet-sugar
plant started operation and absorbed
approximately 300 men. Many skilled
and unskilled workers were idle.
GREAT FALLS-The metallifer-
Gus mines and smelters continued
operations on a reduced basis. Coal
mining increased and additional min
ers were recalled. The drilling of oil
and gas wells was practically sus-
pended. The oil ~refineries, flour
mills, steel foundries and other es-
adjustments reported part : time
schedules with reduced forces en-
gagged. Harvesting of hay, thresh-
ing Of grains, and other agricultural
Continued on page FOUR
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Cigarmakers Sponsor
Their Own Brand
Like Gloveworkers, They Inaugurate
Own Industry.

Facing a loss of $1,000 members
through the introduction of ma
chinery in the industry, the Cigar
makers Union has formed a coop
erative organization for the manu-
facture of handmade cigars, accord
ing to Mr.. Rosenberg, their Inter
national organizer. Already they
have employed 5000 more cigar
makers and have 165 union shops
making their brand of cigar.
The Cigarmakers buy their own
tobacco, determine the specifications
for the cigar and do their own cur
ing. They contract with union, hand
operated shops to produce cigars
under their trade name. The name
under which these cigars appear on
the market is "SAM GOMPERS."
The name and portrait are copy
righted by the Cigarmakers Union.
The cigars sell for five and ten
cents.
The box in which the cigars are
sold is quite unique because it ar
ries three union labels, that of the
Carpenters, Lithographers, and the
Cigarmakers. Workers are urged to
buy these cigars. They are Of fine
uniform quality, and in buying them
you are giving union men and women
steady employment.
Buy Sam Gompers cigars. They
are as good as the name they bear.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Sinister Interest Hostile to
Hatfield Keller Bill Be
lieved Behind Act; Free
dom of Press Is Involved.
By JOSEPH A. /

CHICAGO.-The Postal Telegraph
Company has made a ruling that is
unfair to and discriminatory against
the entire weekly press of the
United States and of other countries
where the Postal has connections
The matter will be taken up with
the interstate commerce commission
which has jurisdiction over telegraph
companies.
Acting as the director of publicity
for the Railroad Employees Nation
al Pension Association, / filed with
the Postal Telegraph Company a
2OO-word convention story directed
to 240 weekly and eight daily news
papers on Oct. II. The story was
accepted and sent at the night press
rate, which is one-sixth of the day
commercial rate.
Thankful and Hostile.
A week later a representative of
the Postal Telegraph Company called
at the headquarters of the Railroad
Employees National Pension Associa-
ton here and thanked the officers
of the association for the business
given to his company. He added,
however, that the Chicago office OF
the Postal had received instructions
from the traffic department of the
company at New York not to re-
CONTINUED on page two
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Timely and Untimely
Observations -
HOGS AND RELATED SUBJECTS
BY ADAM CoALDIGGER.

| don't blame Hoover for having
caused the temporary business de-
preston hat celebrated its third an
niversary the other day. But some
thing ought to be done about the poor
fellow. Every time he opens his
mouth, things get worse. In his
Iowa speech he tells the farmers all
the good he's done and will do for
them, and next day wheat takes an
other slump. Reiterating his faith in
the inherent soundness of our insti-
buttons, the stock market has the
worst sinking spell in months. Tell
ing how he saved the gold standard,
Europe starts a new raid on our gold
(heavy on the "our'). Boosting how
he balanced the budget, somebody
pops up and shows that the treasury
has run some four hundred millions
in the red since the budget was bal
anced. | believe in free speech and
all that sort Of thing, but why can't
the Postmasters' Union present a
Maxim ~silencer to the big chief for
the good and welfare of the order,
saying nothing about that of the
country at large?
Another reform l have in mind is
to abolish the word sympathy"
Sympathy may be all right by itself,
but it surely raises cain in business.
For instance, what has pig iron got
to do with pigs, OF copper with cot
ton? Well, | look at the gamble sheet
in the family paper and see that hogs
and cotton fell off in sympathy with
pig iron and copper, and Pm hit where
| live, for if our hog and cotton read
ers go busted, where do | get off
So | say, cut out sympathy" It's
more depressing than the depression
Speaking Of balancing the budget
gambling, hogs, and related subjects
reminds me that some years ago, ]
sprang a scheme on the Great Engin-
eer that would have balanced the bud
get without any taxes at all. Let the
government, I said, put a nickel-in.
the-slot machine on every street cor
ner, bearing the legend:
Drop a dollar in the slot,
And win six bits.
If Brother Hoover had adopted my
Continued on page three)
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

There Gan be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings OF working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-10
The Man This Country Needs Is Alfred E. Smith

he touch single of those issues on which Smith SO
forcefully had spoken-not one
The hope of youth he dealt with clarity of vision he
favored enthusiasm and imagination and better planning
and greater faith he ndorsed Waste in industry
ulaon and the present price level he condemned and
last he did reach his conclusion He came out for expert
mentation.
is with regret that say that in Franklin Roosevelt
have another Hoover For him in the beginning our hopes
were high But the events that have occurred Roose
vet became Governor of New York have drawn the parallel
between the in Albany and the man in Washington.
The parallel is unacceptable is the contrast between
the Roosevelt-Hoover type and Smith.
In solemn judgment the election of either Hoover
or Roosevelt in November would be blow from which this
nation would not generation We have had about
much stand of government by doubt,
The times call for courage and action We have those
qualities in Smith. There other in the Democratic
party who them Judged by performance Roosevelt
does not.
The Democratic delegates in convention assembled will
have it within their power to the kind of the
country needs That man. things stand is Alfred E.
Smith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-10
$4,000 FOR LEG
TruCkman Wins Judgment
for Traffic Injury.

Superior Judge Clarence f. Weir
today awarded judgment of $4,000
to Jesse Keppel, AZ, of 1920 Mans
field avenue, a truck driver who lost
leg as a result of traffic accident
last September.
The verdict was against william
Hankin of La Porte and Betty Tate
of indianapolis, occupants of an
auto which struck Keppel as he
stood in a safety zone at West
Washington and Blackford streets.
Hankin and the Tate woman were
convicted of drunkenness in NUM-
cipal court as result of the acct
dent. The Tate woman now is
serving a term at the Indiana wom-
ans prison.
Keppel, truck driver for eight
cen years for Kingan & Co., asked
damages of $4,000 in suit filed
in May. His attorneys were Will
liam r. Ringer and L. w. Schoppe.
Weir awarded the sum today after
the defendants failed to appear in
court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-10
G. 0. p. THRONGS ARRIVE
AT CONVENTION SCENE;
PROHIBITION MAIN TOPIC

suddenness and force of a Kansas
cyclone.
IF I bring it into my speech, no.
body will pay any attention to a
number of other important matters,
to which I want to call their at
tention," Dickinson said. His speech
will not be finished until Monday.
Delegations with ideas to sell the
party platform committee began
arriving in numbers today. The
anti-prohibitionists, represented by
Henry Curran, President of the AS
ISOLATION Against the Prohibition
Amendment, brought a sheaf of
mimeographed statements.
The League of Women Voters
delegation arrived. also bearing
armfulS of mimeographed state
ments. They advocate genuine re-
duction" of government costs, relief
from unemployment and numerous
other subjects. The women are
silent on prohibition
Peace groups, headed by Jane
Adams and former CongresSwoman
jeanette Rankin of Montana,
representing the Women's Interna-
tional League. were on hand
Railroad spokesman and repre-
sentatives of other industries were
arriving, to present platform
planks.
The convention headquarters lob
bies still carried no campaign por-
traits of President Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-10
An Editorial.

Roosevelt is possible but not certain Between Roosevelt and
the White House there stands endowed in the very
highest degree with those qualities which both Hoover and
Roosevelt lack and which the country drey needs That
man is Alfred E. Smith
Something down deep in human beings determines the
human type AS certain is that eyes blue and
some brown some negative and positive.
In Roosevelt and Smith have the extremes AS Roose
welt generazes Smith specific As Roosevelt loves to de-
lay Smith loves action rresoution is ingrained in the
bodness in the other And the times plead desperately
for boldness.
TT necessary only to review the utterances of the two in
recent weeks to get the full effect of the contrast.
The speech by Smith, for example, of May II the one
by Roosevelt five days later On the issues that the
nation Smith declared himself in words that mat
whether he agreed disagreed could misunderstood
veterans relief that bugaboo of the pussyooter fed
era appropriations for public works. to help unemployment
the debts the sales tax; prohibition and the
beer tax.
Not soul who could read or hear was left in doubt
as to what AL Smith would do if he at the helm.
On May % came Roosevelt. In columns of graceful
generates this discussed the situation Not did