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Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
STOCKS BOOM
AS JOBS SHOW
DOWN TREND
U. s. STEEL COMMON HAS MORE
THAN DOUBLED IN WALL ST.
WHILE PRODUCTION REACHES
LOWEST RATE IN HISTORY.

NEW YORK-(F.P.)-The stock
market continues to boom and pro-
duction continues to fall, so that all
industry is somewhat like steel, where
the price of U. S. Steel common has
more than doubled in Wall Street
while production has reached the
lowest rate in history.
U. S. Steel stock got down to
$21.25 and has doomed back to
$3.50 a share. But steel ingot
production during August was at
the rate of 14.26 per cent of capacity,
the lowest rate on record. Because Of
more working days in August than
in July there was a slight increase
in tonnage but the rate continued
the drop which has been steady for
three years. Pig iron production
also fell to a new low and there
were just a fifth as many furnaces
in operation as there were in 1929.
August pig iron tonnage for the last
three years has been: 1880, 2~,526,500;
1881, 1,280,526; 1882, 530,576.
During early September steel pro-
duction increased slightly, getting
to about 14h per cent of capacity.
But no figures have been shown
which justify the increase of prac-
tically $50 per cent in the stock
price.
The Labor Bureau in its Facts for
Workers, points out that what is
here shown to be true in steel is
also true generally. 1t says, in part:
"For some time now the country
has been flooded with reports of
plants that have reopened or that
have increased their working forces.
Through July at least, this expansion
movement finds no confirmation in
the general statistics of industry.
Obviously therefore, while some
plants may have expanded opera
tions and added workers, more must
have contracted their activities and
laid off employees, with the result
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Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
TIMELY AND UNTIMELY OBSERVATIONS
(By ADAM C~OALDIGGER.)

that personality was proven when,
as the chief of the German spy sys-
tenn in the United States, he car
ried trunk loads of 'ultra"-confiden-
tial correspondence around with him.
Yes, believe it or not, he even took a
few tons of that confidential litera-
ture ON the English steamer on
which he had received permission to
travel back to Germany after hav-
ing been ousted by Washington.
The English, of course, went through
Won Papen's bales of confidential
papers, and what they mined out
of them was a-plenty.
Now Papen is chancellor of the
German republic, and as such the
head of the government of which
Junker Paul Hindenburg is the fig
urehead.
Like the troubles of the world at
large, so also those of Germany are
economic. Unable to feed sixty-four
million people on a piece of real
estate considerably smaller than
Texas, Germany was compelled to
export large quantities of manufac-
tured goods in exchange for food
and raw material. The necessity Of
its foreign trade was intensified by
the Versailles peace treaty (God save
the mark which robbed Germany OF
its colonies and of great stretches
of territory containing such import
ant raw materials as coal and iron.
Continued on Page Four)
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
Striking Farmers of
Iowa and Nebraska
Adopt p o g m

SIOUX CITY-F.P.)-The strik-
ing farmers of Iowa and Nebraska
not only carried on their fight after
the leaders had called for a truce
pending a meeting of midwestern
governors which will change the
farm picture if it is put over.
Not~only do the farmers want an
embargo on the shipment of farm
products which are to be sold below
the cost of production. They also
want government action along the
lines approved by the U. S. House
of Representatives last spring by
which deflation and boarding will
be offset by an increase in the
amount of currency till 1926 prices
are achieved.
Meanwhile the farmers want a
two-year moratorium on all mort
cages and real estate loans, a two
year extension of the redemption
right on any mortgages already fore
closed, a three-year moratorium on
federal seed and feed loans.
That the farmers are ready to
fight the sheriffs and their deputies
to gain the right to exist has been
made %abundantly clear by several
scraps put up on the picket lines.
Armed deputies, facing unfrightened
farmers neal Sioux City, laid down
their arms and the sheriff suggested
that the scab trucks go back home.
They went.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
CONDITIONS AT
HOOVER DAM
HELD UNFAIR
LAS VEGAS CENTRAL LABOR
UNION INDICTS SIX COM
PANIES" FOR LOW WAGES,
LONG HOURS, HIGH CHARGES.

LAS VEGAS, NEV.-The Building
Trades Committee of the Central La
Dor Union of Clark county presented
a singing indictment of the anti
labor practices applied by the Six
Companies and sub-contractors in
the construction work on Hoover
dam to the U. S. senate committee
on irrigation and reclamation which
investigated work conditions on thu
big government irrigation project.
Labor at Hoover dam has no voice
in the settling of wages, hours of
labor, working conditions, safety, or
living conditions" declared the Build
ing Trades Committees brief.
Exempt From Wage Rate Law.
Last year local labor unions at
tempted to have the Bacon-Davis
prevailing wage law apply to the
Boulder canyon project and Boulder
City.
"An investigation by the concilia-
ton division of the U. S. department
of labor found that the Bacon-Davis
Act did not become a law until two
days after the Six Companies had
signed the contract. 1t was also
held that government reservations
are not covered by the prevailing
rate of wage law.
"The result of these two findings
was a general lowering of wages
and working conditions.
"An arbitrary scale of wages was
imposed on skilled mechanics 25 to
so per cent lower than the prevail
Continued on Page Four
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
Labor Prisoner Held
for Murder Framed


On Sept. 26, 1922, a scab was killed
in the railroad shop crafts strike in
San Francisco. Two labor militants,
John j. Cornelison and Claude Mer-
rift, were arrested a month later,
charged with the murder. Both we're
known enemies of the bosses. Both
had been active on the picket lines
in the shipyards strike of 1920.
Cornelison is still in the Califor-
MIA state prison at San Quentin,
where Tom Mooney has been kept
for so many years. He is in for
life, framed for murder.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
MINERS DETERMINED TO MARCH
INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY AGAIN

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. - Of. P.)-
Striking miners are counting their
casualties after the bloody Franklin
county ambush, where at least ID
of their number were wounded by
machine gun fire and a hundred
beaten by clubs and rifle butts in
the hands Of 500 deputized gunner.
The marching miners feel sure
that several of their number were
killed in the racking fire which
suddenly burst upon them al their
procession Of motor cars, ID miles
long, came to a sudden turn Of the
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15

road where machine guns were post
ed every six feet. Men and women
slumped down to the floor of their
cars, others fled into the fields. The
road soon became a jammed a
of glass-shattered autos, bleeding
miners, raving deputies who slugged
at every fleeing figure. Autos were
tipped over into the ditch, and many
set in flames. Miners who came
back to reclaim their machines were
beaten savagely. Scores of men and
women, wounded or dubbed, were
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Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
TREATMENT OF AMERICAN
WOMAN WORKER DESCRIBED

Industry" tells briefly-in 80 pages
but with the latest authoritative
figures, the story of the treatment
of the woman worker in American
offices, homes and factories. 1t de-
scribes under separate headings the
Negro women workers, the women
in war industries, the firing of the
women, cold at 80" the current dis
elimination against married women
all the more fragrant during the
crisis-and the long hours permitted
in many states despite the present
Continued on Page Four)
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15

THE next thing we want to do is
to put some punch in this talk about
public works. The Republocrats have
talked a lot about public works, but
as a matter Of fact if you take fed
eral, state, and local governments all
together, they have been cutting
down their improvement programs
drastically during this depression,
just like private capitalists.
"Most of u working families live
in houses that are positively indecent
in a rich country like this. You can't
talk about public works and mean it
without talking about clearing these
cities Of their isease-breeding slums,
and building decent homes for work
ing people as they have done in
Socialist Vienna and as they are
doing in Russia. If private business
won't employ people at a good wage,
it is the duty of the government to
expand business to give them en-
ployment. We can build roads and
we can plant new forests, but the
biggest business that we can build
the quickest is the housing business.
1t will give jobs to the largest num-
Der of people, in which private cap
italism has failed the worst. We
want Congress to appropriate five
billion dollars for such public works
when the hungry are being fed
and while the public works program
is under way, we Socialists want to
get a nationwide system of unem-
ployment compensation into opera
ton.
Corporations protect property in
comes by piling up reserves out Of
which dividends and interest are paid
eve when the machinery stands idle.
We want our economic system as a
whole to protect labor incomes in
the same way. 1t will take away
some of the protection of the prop
erty incomes, but we don't mind
that; we think that labor incomes
are more important.
"Since working people don't get the
full product of their labor anyhow,
the cost of this unemployment COM
pensation should be borne not by
the workers but by the employers
and by the government. The gov
ernment's share should be raised
from income and inheritance taxes,
not just as a means of meeting the
bill but deliberately in order to re-
duce the inequality between the rich
and the poor.
"Those are the three main answers
to the question of what the Socialist
party would do Immediately about
unemployment, but we also think
that now would be a good time to
reduce the number of unemployed
by securing the six-hour day and
the five-day week without a reduc-
ton in wages, by abolishing child
labor, and by taking all the workers
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Montana labor news., 1932-09-15

A committee on platform was APP
pointed: Attorney lockwood Bown
of Billings; Attorney w. j. Paul of
Deer Lodge; Attorney w. B. Sands,
Chinook; J. 7. Kelly, president of
the Montana Farmers Union; former
Lit. Gov. w. S. Mccormick, president
of the State Farm Bureau; Attorney
C. F. Morris of Havre, and Attorney
Ronald Higgins of Missoula.
The meeting favored the putting
of an Independent state ticket in
the field, but there vas some ques-
tion as to the proper manner of do
ing this, and the matter was referred
to the executive committee of the
League, with power to act and call
another convention if it was deemed
advisable. There was some little
opposition to naming an independent
ticket; with those in the "know" it
was recognized that it came from
some who are generally believed to
do some odd jobs politically for the
special interests. There was a strong
feeling among those attending and
there is quite generally throughout
the state, that an independent ticket
would be successful in the election.
The platform adopted embraced
in part the following:
A resolution demanding a substan-
tial reduction in the charges for
electricity, telephones and natural
gas, and demanding that the same
valuation be used for assessment
and rate-making purposes for public
utility corporations.
Also, n favors the enactment Of
an income tax law to replace the
present property tax; license taxes
for hydro-electric power, natural gas,
telephones and telegraph; fixing the
legal rate Of interest at 8 per cent;
reduction of taxable value of real
estate from 80 per cent to 10 per
cent; extension Of the present three
years to five years as the period
in which property may be subject to
tax deeds, and an amendment to
the constitution permitting munich
p~alities to engage ia retail sales Of
gasoline, motor oils and in the OPP
GRAFTON of light, heat and power
plants.
On motion made by Hon. w. s.
Mccormick of Kalispell, the conven-
ton voted that a demand be made on
the attorney general that he take
necessary and appropriate legal ac-
ton to prevent the fixing by agree
ment between oil companies of the
price to be charged to consumers
for gasoline and motor oils. 1t was
also agreed that the railroad com
mission be required to institute ac-
ton for a reduction of interstate
freight rates, the tariff schedules in
Montana being exorbitant and unjus-
titled.
Want Independent Candidates.
Dissatisfaction with many of the
candidates for state offices NOM
mated by the major parties in the
Continued on Page Four)
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
LABOR ENTITLED TO SAME RIGHTS AS PROPERTY
JAMES MAURER SAYS CONDITIONS
OF WORKERS A DISGRACE
ACCUSES MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES OF
INCREASING UNEMPLOYMENT

Every man has a right to a living for himself and his
family. If he is not allowed to earn it, he has a right to
it anyway.
when we Socialists are asked what we want to do
about the ten or twelve million people who have not been
permitted to earn a living, our first answer is that we
want to feed and clothe and house them. Since it is
society that has unemployed them by permitting this
should pay the bill. That means the government, and
since the load of unemployment relief is too big for the
local governments, the federal government will have to
help. II it could lay out ten times that much to get us
killed in a rich mans war, we don't think that five billion
dollars is too much to keep us alive now.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15

1.-TWO out of every nine persons
on paid jobs in the United States
are m And two out of every
nine women in the population now
work for a living" writes Grace
Hutchins, author of Labor and Silk
and an officer of the Labor Re-
search Association, in a pamphlet,
women Who Work." just issued
by international Pamphlets as No.
81 in its series.
This new pamphlet, a companion
pamphlet of the authors youth in
Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
MEETING OF REPRESENTATIVE
TAXPAYERS OF STATE WILL
NAME THIRD PARTY TICKET

Pursuant to call, the Taxpayers League of Montana
met at the Park hotel in Great Falls Saturday morning
and was in session all day and part of that evening. Many
prominent Independent citizens were in attendance, and
the general economic and political conditions of the state
were thoroughly and ably discussed.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
UNCLE SAM A HARD
 COMPETITOR

Uncle Sam may print envelopes in competition with printers, do dental work in competition with dentists, he can loan money, run banks conduct commercial shipping, handle railroads, buy wheat, sell groceries, and operate mills, but there is one thing that he can not do, he can not make any money or pay any dividends in conducting all this business. The taxpayer, who is called upon to meet all the deficits, has found this out. Just as the gov ,rnment is going into business, thousands of people are going out.
 Il the meantime, taxes have in- Hreased in the Federal government by 730 per cent, and those who still have a going business" find it hard to pay this increase in taxes, much less meet Uncle Sam's com petition, according to officials of the Minnesota Taxpayers Associa- tion.
 Americas greatness is built, not on political officiousness, but upon the industry and the thrift of the American people.
 When the government eventually finds its way back to its proper sphere, when it quits competing with its own taxpayers, when it commences again to deal success fully with crime, with taxes, and other functions, and when the in- dividual learns over again that in-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
A BIT OF TRUTH

The young publishers of the Chit ina Herald say: The people that will help most in this depression are the people that will do some- thing about it instead of just talk ing. Many people have tried to stir up other people but without avail. Many of the people that think they know so much about the depression don't know a thing. If one of these wonderful people that get up and make ? hr. or. hr. speeches and say almost nothing were asked what they were going to do about the depression they would most likely say, Well, cant do any thing. I leave it to the rest of you" That man doesn't help a bit. All he can do is just say what will never happen.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

We are still selling abroad more than we are buying.
 No fewer than 25,SO0,00O auto mobiles are owned by Americana almost one for every family. This total is almost three times the num- Der owned by all the rest of the world.
 Americans possess far more tele- phones (19,50O,O00) than all other countries put together.
 Radios continue to multiply. The latest authoritative computation puts the total at over 16,545,OO0.
 Fully 3,75O,OOO new domestic mechanical refrigerators have been bought, at an estimated expendi- ture approaching $2,OO0.00O,OO0- mostly in the last three years.
 America has more home owners than any other nation.
 The theater of the masses, the movie, still attracts a weekly aver. age attendance of 75,0O0,0O0.
 The average working-day a gen. eration ago was 10 to 12 hours The standard now is hours, with the trend running towards a still shorter work-day. The work-week used to consist of six (eyen seven ) days. Now it is five and one-hali days, with the fiye-day week com ing into vogue.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
NOTICE OF MARsHAL's SALE
United States of America, First Division District of Alaska.

Public notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias Cor execution), dated June 29th, A. D.. 1892, issued out of the District Court, of the United States for the First Division District of Alaska. on a judgment rendered in said court, on the 17th day of Feb ruary, A. D. 1892 in favor of the United States of America and against a one story frame building known as Shakes property, in what is known as the Indian Village, situate on Block 21, Wangell, AL aska, George Beaudreau, owner. and W. D. Gross and Bessie Gross, ten ants and occupants. l have, on this 5th day of August, A. D. 1882, levied upon the following described real estate, situated in the Town of @rangell, and Territory of Alaska, to wit: Lot 21, in Block 21, contain ing 466S sq. feet of land with a frontage on Case Avenue of 56.79 feet according to United States Sur vey Number 1915 as accepted by the General Land Office, February 7th, 1881, together with a one story frame dwelling house and wood shed located thereon. and that I will accordingly, offer said real estate for sale at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, for cash, on the 9th day of September, A. D. 1892. at II o'clock a. m., at the fornt door of the United States Court House at Wrangell Alaska.
 Dated at Wrangell, Alaska, Feb ruary 9th, A. D. 1892.
 ALBERT WHITE
 U. S. Marshal
 First Division District of Alaska
 By H. D. CAMPBELL
 Deputy
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
SIDEWALKS MODERN IMPROVE
 MENTS

Sidewalks in cities is a modern improvement. Paris was the first city to build sidewalks and this event is almost exactly 150 years old. The improvement proved so popular that Paris extended her walks rapidly and the idea spread quickly to other cities of the world Previous to the advent of sidewalks city streets were far dirtier than
 ountly dirt roads. Rubbish from households and places of business were dumped into the streets and remained until heavy rains washed it away.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

Mrs. WiEnifred Hyland returned on the Princess Sophia Tuesday from business trip to Seattle and Vancouver. She left on the Hazel B III Tuesday afternoon for her home in Telegraph Creek. A feature of her trip was the earning powers of a pair of sox which Mrs. Hyland had knitted and given to a friend to raffle for the Red Cross. The sox have already earned S143.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

ian church to the north corner of the Episcopal church property, and one for a substantial roadway from the corner of First street and Case avenue west to end of bridge to the walk leading to the baseball grounds, read, and report on the towns behavior for the month of July given by Chief of Police Earl West who stated that only one ar rest was made during July.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
We Take Stock

With case after case or want, Sul- ering and loss of homes by indiV1- duals to emphasize the extent of the present economic disturbance it is well to take stock and come to A realization that this country has wealth and resources that can bring it back to a comfortable prosperity once confidence is restored. Collier s Weekly gives the following resume, based on statistics that are rated as reliable, of the present situation in the United States:
 Americas mutual savings bank deposits are 1,233,000,000 higher than they were at the peak of the boom three years ago.
 Total bank savings today exceed $29, 100000, 0,000, equal to more than $1,Oo0 for every family in the land.
 Savings depositors number 52,- O00,O0O, nearly two per family.
 The number of Americans owning stocks has increased almost 40 per cent since 1929.
 A group of 102 companies which had 5,539,036 stockholders at the end of the boom year had $7,675,- 143 stockholders at the beginning of this year.
 o over 665,000 stockholders, a gain of more than 195,000 since the boom. This company American Telephone and Telegraph has assets exceed ing $3,2OO, O,OOO,OOO.
 No other nation on the face of the earth can show such widespread ownership of money and stocks.
 Our total stock of gold is $4,00O,- OO0,00O. No other country ever pos sessed so much.
 A recent offering of $450, 100000 of U. S. treasury securities elicited subscriptions totaling $4,196, 6,296,- 700 - more than nine times the amount offered.
 Last year SIG, O,O00 worth of new life insurance was written. Total insurance now carried is es- limated at $1O9,O00, 100000, or not far short of 5000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Policies in force total 127,- S00,O00.
 Such safeguard, such security is enjoyed by the people of no other nation in the world.
 Our total national wealth, esti- mated at $329,7O0, 1000, is great CT than that of a dozen continental European countries combined.
 The income of the American peo- pie comfortably exceeds $1,000,000,- 900 week. The per capita income here is far greater than in any other land.
 There are still six or seven per sons gainfully employed for every person idle.
 Foreigners owe American inves- tors approximately 1S,000,OOO,0 O,000. In addition foreign governments owe our government $7,000,O 0,OOO,000.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

dividual responsibility represents opportunity, we will again enjoy the fruits of our labor and our in- ventive genius, and we will get back to our normally prosperous condition.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

The monthly meeting of the town council was held Thursday evening, Mayor Matheson presiding. Business included the presentation of the deed to the lot purchased for play ground by the Civic Improvement Club by the president, Miss Woods; the appointment of l.. M. Churchill as assessor; improvements on the school house to cost about $40O. authorized; an offer from Hon. P. c. Mccormack to sell the town the St. Michael Trading Company dock; a bulletin board to be put in front of the U. S. cable office approved
 a petition for a ten foot walk on Church street from the Presbyter-
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05
HELPFUL TAX CHECK

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.-This city received a check for taxes from the Canadian National Railways last week amounting to $9700O.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

Sergeant M. A. McNurny, officer in charge of the U. S. Cable office, this week notified the Sentinel that beginning with yesterday the night letter service was re-established.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-08-05

A. Everson who has been with the Hudson's Bay company on Me Danes Creek for more than 20 years arrived in Wrangell with his famr fly the first of the week. MT Ever son has rented the cottage of J. c. Ensly and the family will make their home here.