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Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
COMPANY RULES
AGAINST WEEKLIES
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM


Continued from page one)
ceive any more news stories from us
at press rates. He said that the
Postal executives in New York had
ruled that press rates were meant
for daily newspapers only.
A Strange Ruling.
This ruling presents a most ex-
traordinary situation, the like of
which l have never before encoun-
tered in 80 years experience. Here
tofore l have freely ~telegraphed and
cabled news stories to weekly papers
over both the Postal Telegraph and
Western Union lines at press rates
and once has my right to do so
been questioned.
1t is not definitely known what
inspired the Postal Telegraph au-
thorities to make such a ruling, but
it is suspected that sinister influ-
ences hostile to the Hatfield-Kelle
industrial retirement pension bill.
now pending in Congress, prompted
the Postal company to take the &C.
ton as a mean of interfering with
the support being given to the
Be that as it may, all
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
SOUTH REPUBLICS
GRANT PENSIONS
TO ALL EMPLOYEES

Pensions for all railway employees
who have 20 years of service to their
credit and have attained the age Of
45, with a maximum of sos per
month, are assured by governmental
decree in the republic of Colombia,
according to reports coming to the
Department of Commerce.
Uruguay appears to have gone n
better by providing pensions for all
workers to be financed jointly, the
workers paying 5 per cent of their
wages, and the employers paying an
equivalent to II per cent of the en-
ployes' wages. At the end of 80
years Of service the employees will
receive a pension equivalent to the
full average wages they have re-
ceived during the last five a
Of employment.
Discussing this matter a cabinet
member of the Uruguayan govern
ment said: "This has been an i'm
mense benefit. By this means two
hundred thousand souls of Uruguay's
two million people have the abso-
Continued on page three)
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

service and at the same time operating with greater
efficiency and economy. But what they have done
in this line has largely followed lines which devel-
oped under conditions different from those which
now prevail, and it has been characterized by a con-
tinual intensifying of their own competition.
AT a time when as an industry they have new
enemies to face, their warfare with each other has
grown more bitter, so that economies of operation
have been offset in part by competitive waste"
This competitive waste in the unnecessary duplica-
ton of terminals and other facilities is a large element
in the dissipation of the income of the railroads to the
point where the executives are driven to borrow hundreds
of millions of dollars from the government through the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation to pay the interest
and principal of the railroad bonds.
Organized labor contends, and the Interstate Com
merce Commission declares, that the first thing the rail
road executives should do is to put their own houses in
order and eliminate the squandering of income collected
from the people in passenger and freight rates.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

necessary to recovery sooner than
before.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

publishers of weekly newspapers
will be prohibited from sending OF
receiving press dispatches at press
rates on this or any other subject
if the ruling is allowed to stand.
Intimidation Attempted.
| have definite information that
some editors who have published my
stories in reference to the Railroad
Employees National Pension Associa-
ton and its activities in behalf of the
Hatfield Keller bill have been APP
preached with a view of intimidation.
If the persons who are engaged in
these nefarious attempts to interfere
with the freedom of the press do
not desist it finally may become
necessary to name names, notwith-
standing our earnest desire to stick
to our main purpose and not be de-
Elected to other issues.
Attorney VIII Act.
These matters will be referred to
Herman L. Ekern, general counsel
of the Railroad Employees National
Pension Association, when he returns
a business trip TO Texas.
Meanwhile publishers of weekly
newspapers who received and pub
Iished the 200-word story wired them
on Oct. II might develop some in
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
DANIELS DEGREES
zoe PAY SCALE ON
WORK
Scathing Condemnation by
Former Secretary Of Navy
Points Out Only Sc Wage
for Thirty Hour Week.

RALEIGH, N. CA sesthing at
tack on the Southern low wage pol
icy was made recently by Josephus
Daniels, former secretary of the
United States navy and editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer.
Daniels flags the North Carolina
highway commission for fixing wage
rates for unskilled labor on road
construction at 20 cents per hour.
In view of the fact that federal
authorities insist that no individual
shall be given more than 80 hours
work a week on road jobs which are
built partly by United States funds,
this would mean that a~ble-bodied
workers in North Carolina would
have a maximum income of Sc a
week.
Accuses Politicians.
Daniels charges that North Caro-
lima politicians and business men
sought to make the rate for COM
mon labor Is cents an hour and were
only prevented from doing so as a
result of the pressure exerted by
federal authorities. The Raleigh
News and Observer says in part:
Immigration restrictions shut out
the cheap labor of Southern Europe,
and in a sense the South, in a mis-
guided effort at progress, offered
itself as the substitute. 1t would
provide cheap labor. The South
could and the South can provide
cheap labor only by continuing to
keep its living standards low, by
continuing to keep its people Injured
to poverty. By continuing to do
these things the South also keeps its
buying power low to the injury of
local Southern merchants, for the
few Southerners who are enriched
by the exploitation of other South
erners can buy only a certain amount
of clothes; they can eat only a GER
tain amount of food.
Curse of Low Wages.
Before the depression low wages
were the curse of the South. In the
depression, Southern low wages will
make recovery slower. The only
thing that can be said for Southern
low wages in the depression is per-
haps that starvation comes easier to
a people who have always lived close
to it. As long as the South seeks
to build on low wages and low living
standards for the negroes and its
accompaniment in low wages and
low living standards for the poorer
whites, so long will the South offer
itself as the Southern Italy inside
the immigration wall about Ameri-
can living standards. Just so long
will the whole South, white and
black, remain the mudsill of Ameri-
can life. Not all u efforts at edu-
cation, not all our good roads built
at a pitiful wage, can save us so long
as our workers are exploited at a
wage close to slavery and starva-
tion."
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
WASTE OF RAILROAD FUNDS.

Students of the railroad problem have declared many
times that a major reason for the financial plight of the
railways is the persistent refusal of the executives who
manage the roads to prUne unnecessary expenses in fields
outside the pay of their employees.
This contention has received emphatic approval in a
statement by the Interstate Commerce Commission con-
demning in vigorous terms the serious wastes of which
railroad executives are guilty in their intense competi-
ton for business.
The commissions statement was directed against the
unnecessary duplication of produce terminals in certain
cities with specific reference to the situation in Buffalo
and Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, the commission pointed out, the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Company and the Reading Com
pany in 1926 jointly opened a produce terminal costing
So, 1O0,0 900, and in 1927 the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany opened a competitive terminal costing $4,000, 900.
These two produce terminals" the commission
said, "were then being used to half their capacity,
and it appeared that either of them would have been
adequate alone to serve the needs of the business at
Philadelphia"
In Buffalo the executives of the Erie, the Nickel Plate,
the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania railroads
INDUCED in a similar competitive war which resulted in
the construction of unnecessary duplicate terminals cost
ing millions of dollars.
In condemning this waste of funds the commission
said:
"The record shows that in the past decade the rail
roads have made great strides in improving their
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
War Blight to Progress.

necessary to recovery sooner than
before.
War Blight to Progress.
VI course, we cannot begin any
permanent recovery until this sta
bilization occurs. Goods will not be
manufactured nor will people buy
them until it is reasonably certain
that what they cost today will be
the price for which they can be
purchased tomorrow.
But, at any rate, here is a damn
ing Indictment of war, not only for
its direct destructiveness, but as
rendering impossible the orderly and
continued advance of mankind by it's
long-continued after effects.
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10

teresting information for their read
ers were they to direct letters of
inquiry to Gen. George F. Gibbs,
president of the Postal Telegraph
Company, 81 Broad street, New York
City, and to Claude R. Porter, chair
man of the interstate m COM
mission, Eighteenth street and Penn
.sylvania avenue, Washington, d. c..
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM
By JOHN PAINE, Federated Press

'Ts that" asked a visitor from New York, viewing a
very small, oddly-shaped brain in a glass jar at the Chi
cago Century of Progress Exposition, "a bankers brain?"
Coming from New York, he probably had reason to
ask.
When President Hoover spoke on agricultural troubles
at Des Moines, that was reasonable because there are
lots of agricultural troubles at Des Moines.
When he spoke on unemployment at Cleveland it was
clear that there was plenty Of unemployment in Cleve-
land.
But WHY should he speak on business at Detroit?
Advice to the Jobless
Prof. Charles Edgar Bellatty, head of the advertising
department, Boston University college of business adj
on how to act in an interview with a pros
pective employer: Don't stare about the office, but do
look about you sufficiently so that you may get out again
without knocking over a hatrack."
FLOWERS" says an ad, add to office prestige, null
tiply working pleasures"
Personally, we prefer a head of cabbage or a piece of
beef on our desk; you can't eat flowers.
Coolidge allowed only a two-minute ovation at the
beginning of his New York speech recently.
That cost the G. 0. P. campaign committee just $84O
in radio time.
At Des Moines Hoover cost the G. 0. P. campaign
committee about $35, 900 for speaking 43 minutes over
the time allotted for the broadcast.
+ -
Coolidge cannot overcome his early New England
training in thrift.
Expensive business, this attempt to get a president
elected.
Norman Thomas travels in an upper berth and limits
expenses to SIS a day.
Justice Is Blind CA Play in Two Scenes)
Scene 1.-The murderer of Arthur Maillefert, serving
nine years for stealing $50, was found guilty of man
slaughter in Jacksonville, Fla. Maillefert had strangled
to death in a sweatbox of Duval county's Sunbeam prison
camp.
Scene members of the American Bar Association
Montana labor news., 1932-11-10
Justice Is Blind CA Play in Two Scenes)

Scene 1.-The murderer of Arthur Maillefert, serving
nine years for stealing $50, was found guilty Of man
slaughter IN Jacksonville, Fla. Mallieief6 had ~strangled
camp.
Scene members of the American Bar Association
and the u. S. Supreme Court dedicated the new U. S.
Supreme Court building, where the voice of The Consti-
tuition will speak forth"
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM!
Evening star., 1932-08-18

Until today these SHOCKS
Hare bee" 2 l:g5 ST
Just so of them-dimity, broad
cloth and novelty prints; practical
useful little garments in good wash
ing colors. A few are sleeveless.
All sizes in the lot.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
Earlier these dainty
Eyelet DRESSES we're 1.95
Commencing ST
Friday.... ~
Just a hundred in the lot-and
though they we're 1e5 at the be-
ginning we've reduced them a
couple Of times-at the last re-
duction they were marked 1.39.
They're the last of many styles
there are white and pastel colors-
and they'll 60 fast for 81!
All sizes in the lot.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
These Handmade GOWNS
have been 81 regularly
Go%m'"ei"s Comm 79c
About a hundred in all-gowns
that are slightly mussed or one OF
a kind-every gown Is handmade
and very good buy" for 79c!
Palais Royal-Third Floor
These SLIPS are so useful!
81 Silk Pongee Slips
Friday QQo
Only. wv
You can wear a pongee slip with
almost any colored frock-it wears
well and tubs beautifully. Made Of
good tan silk pongee, with strap
or built-up shoulders. and made
with deep shadow hens.
Sizes SO to so.
Palais Royal-Third Floor
Evening star., 1932-08-18
COL, H. w. COULTER
DIES IN PHILADELPHIA
Rich Coal Operator and Sportsman
Had Military Career Covering
Three Campaigns.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 18.-Col
Henry W. Coulter. Sc, wealthy Green's
burg coal operator, sportsman and, sol
dier, died today in Universal Hospital,
following an operation. He few here
Monday to enter the hospital.
Col. Coulter was a veteran OF three
military campaigns, his career in the
Army beginning in 1898 when he en-
listed In the Spanish-American War
and ending when he returned from
overseas during the World War. He also
served on the Mexican border.
The son of Gen. Richard Coulter. he
was in command of the 10th Regi-
ment. 2sth Division, when that outfit
trained in Augusta, Ga. Overseas he
was wounded in action on the Veale
River.
He was a native Of GreenSburg. where
he had a large estate, and owned Q
large stable of hunting horses and
hounds. He was the founder Of the
Westmoreland hunt.
Col. Coulter also made frequent big
game expeditions, carrying motion
picture camera with him.
Surviving are three sons. Henry w.
jr.; Richard, Sd, and John H; . daugh-
ter Stella H.; two brothers, Gen. Rich
ard Coulter, and William Coulter, and
q sister, Miss Margaret Coulter, all OF
Greensburg.
Evening star., 1932-08-18
MISSISSIPPI VOTE
HELD TO DISTRICTS
Democratic Chiefs Stand
Firm Against Election for
State at Large.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, August 18-At
stormy session here yesterday the
Democratic State Executive Committee
voted 19 to to stand by its previous
order declaring the primary election of
Representatives next Tuesday from dis
tricts instead of from the State at large.
The action was taken in the face OF
o Federal hree-judge court decision
Tuesday which made permanent an in
junction declaring null and void the
law which reduced the States districts
from eight to seven under the national
reapportionment act.
Restraining Order Stands.
The court order restrained Secretary
of State Walker Wood from placing
names of any congressional candidates
on the ballots In the November election
except those running from the State at
large.
The resolution adopted yesterday
placed the committee squarely on rec
ord as favoring district elections Sched-
uled August %, the winners in each
district to enter run-oh primary Sep
tember Is, and the victors then to be
declared by the Executive Committee
to be the Democratic nominees for Con-
gress from the State at large.
Committeeman Charles F. Engle OF
Natchez, who led the unsuccessful fight
to have the primary thrown into a
Statewide contest. read letter from
Representative j. W. Collier. Vicksburg,
seeking permission to withdraw his
name as a candidate from the seventh
district.
Collier Withdraws.
On a roll call the committee voted
II to IL to permit the chairman Of the
House Ways and Means Committee to
withdraw.
Representative Collier stated In his
letter that he would continue as
Democratic candidate from the State
at large.
Evening star., 1932-08-18

TINE S. S. Washington, named
after the Capital City, which is
soon to join the transatlantic
l. feet of the United States Lines,
will be christened Saturday with
water drawn from the old well at
Mount Vernon.
Miss Patricia Hurley, 11-year-old
daughter of the Secretary of War and
Mrs. Patrick j. Hurley, drew the water
Yesterday at the historic estate at a
ceremony arranged through the cour-
tesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Asso-
ciation. Dressed in Colonial costume,
she was received by James Young, as
sistant superintendent of the shrine,
who handed her an old earthen jug in
which the water was drawn.
Miss Hurley will be escorted to Cam
den, N. j., in time for the launching
there at $40 o'clock Saturday after
noon. She will deliver the christening
water to Mrs. T. v. O'Connor, wife of
the chairman of the United States
Shipping Board, who is sponsor Of the
ship.
The 8. S. Washington Is sister ship
Of the S. S. Manhattan. Both are 705
feet in length, with 86-foot beam and
of "a 1000 gross tons. They are designed
to carry 1880 passengers each.
Evening star., 1932-08-18
BERRIE SAYS WIFE
OPPOSED MISS BRIGHT
Oklahoma Minister, Seeking
Habeas Writ, Tells of Girl
Arriving at Home.

BY the Associated Press.
MUSKOGEE, Okla, August 18-Ac-
cussed of the murder Of his first wife
and seeking freedom on habeaS
corpus writ, Rev. S. A. Berrie told a
special prosecutor at the hearing that
the first Mrs. Berrie had objected to
the coming to their home of Miss
Ida Bess Bright, now the minister's
wife
But in gruelling cross-examination
by James Babb, the prosecutor, the 81
year -old hymn writing minister denied
yesterday he had clandestine love
affair with the pretty, 19-year-old Miss
Bright, whom he married last May II,
less than two months after the sudden
death of the first Mrs. Berrie. He
also denied he had penned amorous
verse to the girl Sunday school teacher
before Mrs Berries death.
The State contends both Berrie and
his girl bride, exonerated as victim
Of circumstances" admitted the al
legged clandestine love affair and love
lyrics came before March 81, when Mrs.
Berrie died shortly after taking cap
sule, presumably containing headache
powder The hearing continues today.
Berrie. held in jail since his arrest
two weeks ago after exhumation Of his
first wife's body resulted in discovery of
poison, insists he is held without au-
thority because proof of the crime has
not been give"
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Alumnae Will Meet.

GAITHERSBURG, August 1s (Spe-
ciaD Announcement has been made
that the Alumnae Association of the
Gaithersburg High School will meet in
the school auditorium tomorrow eve
ming at O'Clock; Thomas J. Kephart,
the president, will preside.
Evening star., 1932-08-18
FRIDAY ONLY!
For BOYS!
Any 2 for ST

79c Sleeveless Wash Suits
2 to 6 yrs.
89c Summer knickers
to 10 yrs.
79c Two-Piece Pajamas
8 TO 18 yrs.
What an opportunity to fill in on
your younger boys wardrobes. If
you don't want two wash suits,
get one and a pair of pajamas for
the older boy any combina-
tion of 2 for 81.
79c White Duck Long SOc
Pants, 10 to Is yrs. $50. c~C
LIS Khaki Flapper Suits, QQc
Boys Jantzen Bath Suits, So to
$50 values at 240
to. to 440. 10 to ls 2O9o Off!
sec Collar attached Shirts, to
IA yrs. 121A to 14la z for at
neck sizes ..........
Boys Dept.-Main Floor
Evening star., 1932-08-18
5.85 Felt Base Rugs
Friday Only

9x12-ft. size. You'll like ~ OK
the unusually attractive 'Oc
designs and color COM -
binations for your sun room or
kitchen-there are floral and tile
patterns.
Come as soon as you can-there
are only IS rugs!
Palais Royal-Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Will Sing at Warrenton.

wARRENTON, Va, August Is (Spe-
ciaD Miss Dorothy Skinner, soprano.
Of Washington, will sing Sunday morn
ing in the Warrenton Methodist
Church
Evening star., 1932-08-18
WILL MARK BOUNDARY
Nationality of 10000 Involved in
Mexico-Guatemala Farley.

Mexico-GuatemaIa Farley.
MEXICO CITY, August 18 (R-The
nationality of 100000 persons, mostly
Indians, will be at stake in confer
ence between Mexico and Guatemala
which will meet August % at Guate-
mala City.
They live along the southern inter-
national boundary of Mexico. Most Of
them are woodcutters and plantation
laborers and are unaware whether they
are Mexicans or Guatemalans because
Of doubt over where the true boundary
lies.
The Mexico Guatemala line runs for
800 miles through dense jungle.
Evening star., 1932-08-18

Mark Lowell, New Forest, England,
who still smokes a pipe, drank the
health Of visitors in cider on his 103d
birthday anniversary.
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Mottled Rag Rugs

Notified Rag Rugs
Friday only
These are 25x50 70
inches-and are in hH0
attractive patterns Wv
for bed rooms or bath rooms.
15c to 30c Hit-Or-Miss
Rag Rugs
ds,sey onis'' l2c to 35c
These are imported =, washable
and reversible-hit-o miss
rugs with solid color borders.
1Sx36 inches. go. .12c
24x36 inches. 49,. .15c
24x48 inches. -. .25c
27x54 inches. .... .35c
Palais Royal-Fourth Floor
2.98 All-Wool
Blankets, ca.
Friday . 40
Only. y............. IT,
66x80-inch. In lovely pastel color
ings. All wool, Of fine light weight
quality. Second Floor.
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Girls Dresses and
Suits greatly reduced

2-3.95 blue cloth dresses with silk
blouses, size 10-Friday M
only .................
ABS suits in French blue. tan
and navy blue, sizes 10 and IL;
with pique vest and cuffs;
recently 295-Friday OK
only ............
Palais Royal-Third Floor
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Clearance of
Girls Goats
Less than half price!

These are practical coats for early
fall wear-there are just a few
so come downtown right after
breakfast!
S-s.95 to 1898 coats, sizes 8, 8.
10 and II in dark red, green,
light blue and tan, re-
Gently reduced to 695- Q o.
Friday only ............
3-5.95 flannel sports coats with
berets. recently 2.95; green, French
blue and pink; sizes 10, I OK
IL and 14-Friday only.
-5.95 raincoats; tweed and suede
cloth, l blue, tan, dark red, and
green; sizes 8, 10, II and
IA, recently 3.95 - Friday . 20
only .....s''..'
3-s.s5 fine imported wool flannel
coats, sizes and 4; in
white; recently 3.95-Fri- I or
1856 to 1885 coats for tots
tweeds. coverts and serges, in
sizes 3 to 6 years re
Gently reduced to 3.95- I Or
Friday only ............
2-2.95 rique coat and hat sets
pink size 4. orchid size 6. L M
Friday only ............
Evening star., 1932-08-18
Clearance of
Electric Fans

$3.50 Electric Fans, OK
finch size Friday only.
11-.50 Electric Fans, > 10
8-inch size. Friday only.
s1la,so 0 oseiI,ating Hating Il,,, Fans 7.95
1.25 Adjustable Ironing
Tables, 89c
Only 200 at this price.
10 Step Ladders
Friday only 69c
Aft size and a find" at this
low price!
$50 Double-Burner
Class-Door Ovens, ESQ
Only 9 at this low price.
39c to soc Table Oilcloth
19c yd.
54 inches wide-and only 100 yds.
81 O'Cedar Auto Polish
Friday only l9c
Just % at this special price.
2.49 to $50 Screen Doors
FRIDAY only loo
Just 10 Of these-slightly damaged.
6.95 Wooden Cabinets
Friday only 2.95
SO inches tall - only G. slightly
marred
Pale;s Royal-Fifth Floor
Evening star., 1932-08-18

Decorated, covered butter dishes
and at what a reduction!
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-01-29
Warrack Co. Finishes
 School DOrmitories

Damon Peterson, superintendent of construction at Shoemaker Bay TOT the Marrack Construction Com pany, during the pudding of the Doys and girls dormitorles Of the indian industrial School, left on the Victoria Sunday tor his home Tn Seattle. The dormitories were accepted last Friday by N. Lester Troast, architect for the Indian Blu reau.
 Before leaving Wrangell MT. Peuersen expressed his appreciation TOT the cooperative spirit he ex- perieneed from Wrangell citizens all through the i've months Of his stay nn the community. Il have never had finer cooperation in any town,' ne. said, and 1 am leaving Wrangell with a warm feeling of gratitude for the friendly attitude and the many kind acts which have been extended to our men. People have treated the men on the job as neighbors, instead of strangers, and l am most grateful and ap- preeiative."