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Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
BUSINESS FACES THE LOWEST
EARNINGS IN ITS HISTORY

WASHINGTON@(FP)-That the present stock market boom has no
foundation in improved earnings of business concerns, and that it will
therefore collapse within a few weeks with results disastrous to the new
crop IF gamblers in the Hoover notification market" is the opinion of
economists in the capital. These men are advising their clients that the
recent rise in stocks and in certain commodity prices is based o. a general
feeling that, since prices have been the lowest OF record, there must come
a distinct improvement. Buyers of stocks have ignored the essential fact
that this is not al ordinary economic depression, but a collapse, and that
the home and foreign market has been so nearly destroyed that business
earnings are bound to be very low for a long time to come.
The third quarter of this year will show the lowest industrial earnings
in history, in the opinion of the experts on wealth production This esti
mate is based on the figures for July and the absence of any news of definite
improvement. in orders for the principal commodities-ncludin all manu-
featured goods Nor is the ability of the people to purchase and consume
goods any better nor ven as good as it was three months ago. Payrols have
gone down, distribution of relief funds has fallen, poverty and restitution and
hunger have increased, and manufacturing plants have continued to de-
teriorate because they ire not earning their keep.
Formal notification that dividends are less and prospects worse will reach
the public at the end of September. The more intelligent stock traders
will be getting out of the market before that date, since they know sub
stantaly all the underlying facts which will dictate the report. But the
emotional and reckless gamblers in stocks who have been sending their
cash to the brokers in recent weeks, ordering them to buy stocks for a rise
will be holding their shares when the bottom falls out.
If the Hoover administration wished to restrain the public from this new
speculative hysera, it could do 50 by quoting the production figures of
basic industries, and the commodity prices that tell whether the industries
are earning dividends 1t could awaken millions of people to the fact that
this country is not in condition to restore the jobs of 100000 people
overnight, nor to make every business concern prosperous in a month
But the White House will do nothing Of the kind. 1t will play politics with
the market, claiming credit for every rise and blaming the other parties
for every drop in prices.
But if the market goes to pieces again in September o. October, Hoover
will be held to blame by a large majority of the voters whose heads were
turned by the August boom. And that is what is now worrying the Repub-
lcan high command.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
NATIONS WALL UP
FRONTIERS In DESPERATION

ERLIN-FP)-Europe nations are busy closing their frontiers.
From Poland and Rumania on the east, to Spain, France and Great Britain
on the west, the barriers are steadily rising and trade is steadily declining,
as the doctrine of economic sef-suffciency enters the field of practical
politics.
A trip through the Danuban countries affords many an unforgetabe
experience. In Jugosava for instance, where IN upstart king is seeking to
maintain a unconstitutional government, the officers at the frontier dig
through every piece of luggage, examine pockebooks, count money, and then
issue permits authorizing through passengers to leave the country with
THEN worldly possessions. Anyone who wishes to visit the capital city
Belgrade, is similarly searched as he leaves the station. In the course of a trip
across the country, Jugoslavian officials twice examine through passengers.
Finally at the frontier, after a fourth examination, permission is given to
cross the border into Hungary. Every imaginable obstacle is put in the
way of movement across the frontier.
Italy has increased her duties against certain French goods in response
dsclaimed any idea of retaliation. Higher duties were merely intended to
of italian products.
Spanish fruit by the trainload is roting at the French border France
has adopted a quota system for imports and is doing everything possible
to encourage home agriculture.
The latest development in this campaign of economic isolation is a BUY
Irish" campaign, staged by the Irish Free State. Heavy duties have been
imposed o. British coal, cement, electrical appliances and textiles, and the
Irish business class is making a determined move to keep the money at
home.
Small groups of people all over central and eastern Europe cut themselves
off from their neghbors and walled themselves in from the world when the
economic foundations of the Roman Empire disintegrated. AS capitalist
society decays, the same phenomenon again appears. Each local capitalist
group is seeking through isolation and economic quarantine to shield itself
from general catastrophe.
The Soviet Union alone is moving forward. Only there is isolation and
locaism yielding before coordination and cooperation. Only there is west
ern technique being employed to feed, clothe and house a whole people under
a unit economic plan.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
PEOPLES LOBBY TELLS R. F. c.
TO START FEEDING HUNGRY

SHARPLY reminding the Reconstruction Fl
nance Corporation, in al open letter, that Congress entrusted to it the hun
ger relief fund of S3O0O0OOO0 to be spent before December, the Peoples
Lobby opened a nw battle, Aug. 9, to force the administration to permit
this money to reach the hungry unemployed.
when the president suggested loans for relief through the R. F. C, and
opposed the creation of a federal agency, equipped to give RELIEF to the
unemployed until work is provided, which we advocated" the Lobby wrote,
he assumed responsibility for the standard of relief, and for the incidence of
putting the cost o relief upon states and localities.
Those who remained as directors of the Corporation, and those who a-
cepted appointments IS directors, cannot escape a similar responsibility. All
members OF the board must know from their practical experience that in
order to end the depression, in the only way it can be ended, W e need redis-
tibution IF the national income by drastic taxation of unearned income, of
estates, and of corporation SURPRISES by the federal government, and by
exemption of labor products from taxation, by state and localities, and
transferring of this burden to the benefcaries of government expenditure,
through the taxation of land values.
by what process of ratiocinaton, however, does your Board construe
the presidents assertion that there will not be any suffering because this
sum of S300O00O00 is available for loans-to give the Corporation a man
date not to do anything to prevent suffering, until states and cities change
their taxing systems, or cut wages, II achieve sovency?
There is n o such provision in the law, and Congress, which nearly COM
PEELED publicity as to loans % business concerns and corporations, will in
December doubtless exact a accounting of stewardship from the Board of
the r. +. c.
This SSOOOOOO0O loan for 100000 unemployed is less than four times the
loan made to Charles G. Dawes, your predecessor who with Eugene Meyer
did not choose to stay with the Corporation.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
COPS SHOOT, CLUB STRIKING WORKERS

NEW Y0RK-(FP)-Thre strikers were jailed and one injured when
200 police fired on striking members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Of America in front of the Branch Express Company, which carries clothing
to non-union shops outside New York City. Police had given the express
company protection in its strkebreakng activity, When about 500 strikers
gathered at the express eompanys offices as three trucks we're being loaded,
police charged with guns and nightstcks. Sol Rickles, Morris Glassman
and Murray Weinstein we're arrested, and one of the bullets lodged in the
hand of Isidor Landsman.
About 300 manufacturers have surrendered to the unions demands, accord
ing to President Sidney Hllman of the A. c. " A.
More than 10000 workers have responded to the strike call issued by the
Amalgamated in its effort to remedy sweatshop conditions and to halt dras-
tic wage cutting, declares Joseph Schlossberg, general secretary of the union.
Several thousand struck in Newark, Passaic and Vneland, N. =. About 5000
unorganHed workers have Joined the strike, says President Hnlman.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
$500 DISTRICT UNEMPLOYED ASK RELIEF

more than $500 destitute unemployed
in the permanent population of the District of Columbia have made formal
application for a share in the S3500O0 of relief funds voted by Congress
just before it adjourned in July. A crowd of claimants for emergency aid
is waiting each morning at the doors 0. the old Metropolitan church, Oh
John Marshall Place, near the Capitol, to gain entrance and wait in the
oncefashonable pews for a chance to be enrolled in the list of candidates
for outdoor relief.
Eight investigators have been checking up the statements made by these
applicants, but on Aug. 8 it was decided that Is would be required hence
forth to determine the need in each case.
Negroes, who do most Of the low-pad work in the District, are in the
majority among the applicants for help Tens of thousands of them have
no jobs, and thousands have been without wages for the past year.
Senator Costgan fought hard for an appropriation of 100000 which was
asked by the organized social workers to meet the emergency needs of the
destitute, but Congress cut the sum to S35OOOO az a part of the general
economy program.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
ARKANSAS SOCIALISTS NOMINATE FULKS

HOT SPRINGS, ARK-FP)-The Socialist party came to life again in
Arkansas after a 15-year slumber, when delegates from ~ locals held a
state convention att Hot Springs, nominating Clay Fulks, instructor at Com
monwealth college, for governor. Fulks an for this office in 1918.
Resolutions condemning the use of state militia in Arkansas coal fields,
calling for the abolition of a and favoing recognition of Soviet Russia
were adopted.
The state platform demands a three-year moratorium on state bonds, farm
and city mortgages; state construction of all public improvement without in
tervention of contractors; consolidation of house and senate in order to elm
mate "buck passing; repeal of poll tax; state establishment of publicly
owned industries, including cooperative farms, in order to provide employ
ment, this project ito be financed by increased taxes on nheritances and
pper-bracket incomes; publicly owned printing plant to furnish public school
text books at cost; public owership of banks; pensions for men and women
60 years of age or over; and compensation for industrial accidents and ill
ness contributed to by state and employers.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
GARMENT STRIKERS SCORE VICTORY

NEW YORK-FP)-Severa hundred employers o the mems clothing
industry have agreed to the terms of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America and are prepared to sign contracts with the union, Pres. Sidney
Hllman has announced. The union has called a stoppage involving 10000
workers, to eliminate wagecuts and sweatshop conditions. Each employer
will be thoroughly investigated by the union and will be required to post a
cash bond to guarantee his contract.
Strikers scored a victory by using passive resistance to prevent trucks
from leaving the city with loads of unfinished clothing for scab shops in
Pennsylvania. By placing themselves in front of the trucks, the strikers
prevented them from leaving. Pcketng and truck parades have been m
poyed as strike weapons.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18

Anderson, Prof. H. w. L. Dana,
James Roty, John Brooks Wheewright and Quincy Howe comprise the
group of writers who came from New York Aug. 10 to present to President
Hoover a formal protest against his use of the regular army in driving
the bonus marchers out of the national capital July %.
They understood before their arrival that the White House would probably
be closed to them. A letter asking for IN appointment had not been answered.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
"You Can Get Niggers for Nothing Now"

GTON-FP)- southern cotton farmers will be able to
make more money from a rise in cotton prices this season than at any
time since 1914, vas the assertion made by a White House visitor, Aug. g.,
in support of his optimism ove the rise in the quotation for cotton. He
came from North Carolina.
"You "a get nggers for nothing now to grow cotton down home" the
practical economist explained. $50 many of them have been driven back
south by the shutting down of steel mills in the north, that they are glad to
work for just the right to live in a cabin and ue a garden patch. That
means lowcost cotton"
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18
Mother Mooney in Washington Again

WASHINGTON-FP)-Mr Mary Mooney, aged mother of Tom
Mooney, appeared before a Washington audience for the second time this
year, on Aug. 8, when she made a plea for working class aid in freeing
her son. The meeting W under the auspices of the International Labor
Defense, and took place in the Negro Pythan temple.
Richard B. Moore of the l. L.. d. staff, touring the country, made the sec
ond speech, protesting Moneys Imprisonment and denouncing the use of
federal troops against the bonus army
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18

LOS ANGELES-(FPD-Tha the Olympic Village, which houses more
than 1000 athletes here for the Olympic games, be turned over to unem-
ployed women and girls was asked by President George McLeon of the
Los Angeles Unemployed Voters Association, before the city council.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18

CAMPAIGN AGAINST FAKE UNION LABELS.
BOSToN-FP)-"Th Flying Wedge" is the name of a group organized
by the Sign Writers Union and Painters Council to cruise through Boston
to catch fake union labels. No Boston political campaign has seen so much
union label taking as the current one, the council charges.
Montana labor news., 1932-08-18

Swift, Armour and Morel Companies Products.
Those who haul and deliver Swift, Armour or Morrel Unfair Products.
Grand Central Market, 119 E. Park.
New York Bargain Store, 119 E. Park Stree.
Yellowstone Garage.
All AIen-A Products.
The Eaton Metal Products Co, of Bnings-By the Cascade Trades and
Labor Assembly.
7. c. Nevenburg, 1871 Utah Avenue.
Hennngson Engineering Co, of Omaha, Nb.
Majestic Radio and Household Appliances.
Rex Flour and products of Royal Milling Co, by Great Falls Central
Council.
Beauty Shop-Mrs. r. R. Barrett, 1873 Garrison Avenue.
Beauty Shop-Mrs. Chas. j. Duffy, 1865 Garrison Avenue.
Lewis Beauty School,
McCarrol Beauty School,
Mabel Macdonald and Beauty Shop, 200 West Second Street.
Edison Beauty Shop
Mrs R. R. Barrett, 1878 Garrison.
Mrs Chas. j. Duffy, 1866 Garrison.
Eclipse Stores.
Whtehouse Market, 1874 West Park St.
Mr.. Burr, handyman.
Crystal Cleaners, 1888 East Park Street.
Elite Cleaners, 423 S. Main Street.
Chas. Jarvela, 42 East Broadway.
Mrs. Bowman, 35 S Washington.
Nordberg Rowe Engineering Co, 1908 S Montana st.
Mrs. Sophie Doyle, 6 West Mercury.
Evening star., 1932-01-31
Calendar of Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Sepen-
teenth street and Nep York apenue.
Permanent collection. Forty FIRST Ar
nual Exhibition OF the Society OF vast
tuoton Artists, January to 81. Specint
exhibitions OF Water Colors and DTGfo-
inus bv Mahonri NJ. Young, January
II to 81. Inclusive; Paintings by Rsch-
ard S. Merynan, February z to ~;
Small Sculptures in sOnr by CdfhcTfna
Barjansky. February to &.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1609
Twcnty-frst street. Permanent coliec-
tto,f NTH recent acquisitions and group
of paintings By washington Grf'sfs.
Special erhibttion OF paintings by
Harold Weston.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Tenth
and Constitution apenue) streets
northwest Permanent collection.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Tenth
and 3 streets southwest. Etchings by
J.. C. Claghorn, February to 29.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, TtDeltth
and B streets southeast. Permanent
collection.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print DIM
SION, First street betWeen East Capitol
and B streets southeast. Autographs by
Joseph PenneH. Loan exhibition OF Jap-
aneSe Prints. January IS to March IS.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 2o17
street northwest Paintings By George
Pearse Ennis, January 81 TO Fe6ru-
ary IA.
TEXTILE MUSEUM. 2330 S street north
oest. Rugs. tapestries and other TEXTILES
of the Near and Far East Open Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. 2 to
o'clock. Admission by card Obtdindble
at the Office OF G.. Fl. Myers. 730 Fiji
teenth street northwest.
GORDON DUNTHOREE GALLERY,
Connecticut npe,ne and De Sales street.
An exhibition Of decorative paintings
and drawings of Merico By Oiin DoD
aud Thomas La Faroe, beginning FEB
.rxarJ /.
SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.. 1896 Goa
necttcrt avenue. Fairtfn1s By JerrJ
Farnsscorth, Helen SaWyer FeTrsse0rth,
J. n. Lichtenaner and Theodore J.
Morgan. Block Prtrts By Sasen Kicker
Knor, Prints by LcpcTe, Lacquer fdinf-
fnes BY JeuR Dr~and sad Lacquer
Screens By Jean Peherc. Bronses BY
Bordelle, Paintings and Sculpture b.
members Of the NGtsonAt Assocsutson
~ Women Pniwters and Scsaptors. Feb
r4ary to ~. tnctusire.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY or
ART. Sixth street and Hopdrd place.
Student muTats OF the Master Institute
OF the koerich Museum, kes York,
February to -.
JANE BARTLETTS, I3&7 Connecticut
apenue Exhibition OF sport subjects IN
Water Color and Sculpture By John ".
Dsnx and Kathleen Wheeler, February
1 to IS.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

HERE is a general shifting Of exhibi
tions the first of each month-old
friends depart, new acquaintances ar
rfve-the transient exfhoatlon beng
much in vogue and providing con-
tinuous round of pleasurable events.
The February exhibition at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art will consist OF paintings py
Richard S. Meryman. for some years 1nstruc-
=, tor in the Corcoran School OF Art and no" us
principal This will be the first comprehensive
showing of Mr. Meryman's work that has been
held here though he has contributed gen.
erously from time to time to the Corcoran Gal
lery,s biennials and the exhibitions OF local
societies Primarily he is portrait painter,
but he does not limit himself to this field and
he has as those who know his work we'll can
testify produced very charming landscapes anu
interesting still life studies
Mr. Newman is Bostonian by birth, pupil
of Benson Tarben and Abbott Thayer. It was
on Mr. Tarbelrs recommendation that he came
to Washington, but perhaps the strongest IN
huence on his art has been that OF Thayer'
with whom not only in Boston but at Dublin,
NJ H. where he has a Summer home he was
closely associated.
At the Panama Pacific Exposition in San
Francisco he was awarded. in 1915, silver
medal and he a similar award In the
Sesuuicentennial Exposition at Phiadelphia
in 1926.
In all probability Mr. Meryman would by
he is one who holds to tradition, VINO eeneVes
in good drawing rejoices in beauty and strives
for perfection. But this does not OF necessity
limit his field of achievement nor does 1t give
his work the stamp of formula. The fact Is
that Mr. Meryman has a particularly sensitive
appreciation of that which is fine-aJtlstlc val
ues-and for this reason is not OILY good
teacher but capable artist While his art Is
based on sound principle 1t is sympathetic and
significant
The Meryman exhibition will open Tuesday
and will consist of about Is or 80 paintings,
among which will be a number of portraits Of
well known Washingtonians and landscapes
painted in the Canadian Rockies.
from tomorrow, for a week, there will be on
! view in the Corcoran Gallery Of Art an
unique collection of small sculpture in wax by
Catherine Barjansky, q Russian who studied
in Paris and Munich well as her own co,in-
try.
Through the exhibition Of the newly formed
Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors &nd
Evening star., 1932-01-31

HERE is a general shifting Of exhibi-
tions the first Of each month-old
friends depart, new acquaintances ar
rive-the transient exhibition being
much in vogue and providing con-
tinuous round of pleaSurable events.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-04
SIX KILLED IN
SUDDEN FLOOD
Seven Others Are Missing in
Oklahoma City Tragedy.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, June AT
least six persons were dead today,
drowned in the flood that swirled
over central Oklahoma Friday and
gave its victims no chance to escape.
Seven others were reported miss
ing, and rescue workers feared they
had died. Three thousand we're
homeless. Property damage was
expected to run to hundreds Of
thousands of dollars.
The food struck without warn
ing, and caught its victims as they
slept.
Seven inches CT rain fell within
six hours.
Mrs. James Webster, 38, and her
daughter. Ellen, IL, were drowned
at a tourist park, where they had
stopped on a trip across the coun-
try from their home in MaSsa-
chuSetts.
Ella Christina Morgan, Is, and
Buster Morgan, 5, were swept from
the porch of their home while their
agonized father tried vainly to
swim to them through the rushing
waters.
Their brother lay in a hospital
today, injured. The mother was
missing, and almost certainly had
persisted.
The other known victim was Mrs.
Nora Norris, so.
James Robinson, Negro mail car
rier. was drowned at Seminole.
The waters of the North Cana
dian river, which flooded a large
portion of Oklahoma City rapidly
went down today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-04
HAUSNER UNREPORTED ON
NONSTOP POLAND FLIGHT
United Press

BIZ United Prcss
LONDON, June Poor flying
weather was reported today by the
air ministry as Stanley Hausner.
an unknown polish American iier.
was believed plotting his big fame
colored plane. the st. Rosa Maria,
over the Atlantic on a projected
flight from New York to Warsaw.
Heavy clouds with visibility be-
tween two and three miles in the
middle and eastern Atlantic. and
wind between northeast and east
with a velocity of fifteen to twenty
miles an hour. were reported.
Then at a. m. British summer
time a a. m. New York time) the
air ministry reported overcast
weather and a drizzle in the At
lantic from 600 to TOO miles of CEN
trail Ireland. Visibility was about
twelve miles with moderate north
easterly winds.
From southern Ireland to 300
miles at sea, rain, low clouds, and
some fog prevailed.
At 9:46 a. m. (EDT) the blue
eyed, sandy-haired little amateur
fliers. formerly a motion picture
operator. will have been twenty
four hours from Floyd Bennett air.
port. New York. The st. Rosa
Maria carried no radio equipment
Hausner's takeoff was at 9:46
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-04

a. m, Friday. His Wright-motored
Bellanca plane made a graceful
run down the concrete runway and
sailed out into the Atlantic mists.
1t was accompanied as far as the
Rockaways by another airplane,
occupied by the flier's wife. Martha.
Father Paul Knappock, pastor of
the church which Hausner attended
as a boy, and Pilot John Coyne.
Hausner waved good-by to his wife
and disappeared in the cloudy skies.
Before the take-off, Hausner
ranked as an amateur in aviation,
but confident of success, said he
would head for England and from
that point, would aim for Warsaw.
If his ship was not in good condi-
ton over England, he intended to
land at Croydon airport here.
HauSner said he expected to reach
Warsaw in forty-four hours. The
st. Rosa Maria carried SIS gallons
OF gasoline, just enough fuel for the
long trip.
The route Hausner planned TO
follow is lined with about fifty pas
Senger liners and freighters reported
in the north Atlantic lanes. All YES
sells have been notified to keep a
sharp lookout for the big red plane.
Hausner took some chicken sand
wiches. coffee, water and fruit with
him on his long hop. as well as six
parachute flares.