Montana labor news., 1932-06-09

its monograph records and used no living music. The
show houses used their canned music as usual. If any
organizations should have sponsored living music as a
means of increasing employment it should have been
these groups. And KGIR is the one place making money
at present.
Let the merchants who advertise over this Voice of
Montana" remember that photograph records do not
buy shoes, hats, dresses, or pay rents. If the merchants
are sincere in their efforts for a return to living music
let them use it in their advertising over the air instead of
sponsoring programs Of phonograph records.
The musicians might try spending their money with
concerns that use living muse in their local radio adver-
Using. 1t might help. The Laundry Workers did a fine
piece of work in their campaign for hiring laundry work
es. Come on, Musicians, get busy and let's have more
living music.
The Anaconda Company states that they do not fear
any damage to their holdings in Chile, as a result Of the
revolution. They probably sugar the palms of the Chill
can politicians as they do those in Montana.
From the reports read in the Company papers, as to
the extent of the Anaconda properties in Chile, we can
well understand the present unemployment situation in
Butte. Charity for Butte miners, wages for Chilean min
es. Yet the market for fabricated copper is in America,
among American workers and not with Chilean workers.
We can also understand why the better paid, white
collar employees of the Company were urged to buy Ana
conda stock. The Company probably needed the money
to sink into Chilean properties.
Another year of imported copper and there won't be
any A. c. M. Co. property worth confiscating in Butte.
Another year of this and there won't even be any nickels
to buy the beer that Mrs. Con Kelley is SO anxious to
secure for the poor, depressed workers of the richest
hill on earth"
Which reminds us: it has lust been announced that
John D. Rockefeller, Jr, an ardent dry, has now be-
come convinced that we should repeal the 18th amend
ment. All it takes is a threat of an income tax on the
higher brackets to convince the big boys that prohibition
is a menace to American ideals.
But why. go on? Here, Hearty you tell EN-. Go
ahead, Jack.
"Study of the ransom note written by the k~idnapers
of the Lindbergh child convinces me that the writer is
a degenerate, probably a manual laborer. doctor
Leon York, graphologist.
Do the country's hardest work, and that's the thanks
you get!
Manual laborers should strike on feeding, clothing and
transporting Doctor" York.
"He likes to work with the SOIL" continues the deli
cate doctor, spraying on his perfume, possibly in the
muck of the docks"
Stevedores who are thus classed with degenerates may
smoker as they remember that one of Russia's greatest
writers, Maxim Gorky, was a %stevedore, too.
mo other word than greatness will adequately serve"
says one capitalist book reviewer, about a novel by an
English miner who is also a poet.
CAPITALIST CULTURE FOR BIDS.
Will the time ever come when newspaper experts will
write this way, for a change:
He was a man of sense--probably a manual laborer."
ROUGH ON KIDS.
A delegate at the National Conference for Social Work
called President Hoover "a modern Herod."
But Dr.. Wilbur, secretary of the interior, told the dele
gates that "the nations children will profit rather than
suffer from prevailing economic conditions"
TT TITS so HEATTuy
"A modern Herod, . rose the cry,
Herb lets our children starve and die"
why, not at all, y Doc. Wilbur cooed,
They just don't gorge so much rich food"
All, yes, stale bread and beans are plain:
Come switch, you rich, and share the gain!
WHY A WAGES AT ALL7