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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonald Birch
left for Chicago, for visit with
Mrs. Birch's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. l.. Sperry and their daughter
Mildred, and to attend the world s
fair. Mrs. Birch will remain dur
ing June and will play as xylophone
soloist with the 100 piece Exposi-
tion Marimba band. Mr.. Birch will
return the first of next week, ac-
companied by Mr.. e. G. Stowell,
former R. X. o. vaudeville headlin-
er, who will spend several weeks as
his guest here.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

The Loyal Women's class of the
hold their June meeting Friday
the 9Th, at O'Clock, at the home Of
Miss Alice Moody. Mrs. Ethel Palm
er is the teacher of the class. Mrs.
Pearl Lindimore is president. The
program for the June meeting will
be in charge of Mrs. Amanda Smith
and Mrs. Lucy Ryan.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Will all persons wishing to take
drawing lessons please meet at the
home of Ruby Palmer on Tuesday
morning, June 13, at 10 O'Clock, to
discuss arrangements. If it is i'm
possible to come at that time, tele-
phone 157-Red. Lessons will be
given to beginners in charcoal
drawing, water color, and history of
art, if there is sufficient demand.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Mrs. L. d. Miner who has been
making her home in Morgantown,
w. Va, left there recently for
Cleveland, O. She expects to visit
in McConnelsyille some time during
this summer.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Funeral services for Mrs. Charles
I. Mckee, aged II, whose death oc-
Cured at her home four miles east
of Caldwell, were held from the
residence last Thursday afternoon,
and burial was made in Olive cem-
etery. Besides her husband, she
leaves four sons-Delbert Mckee of
Cambridge, Royal who is located in
Texas, and Lester and Arthur of
Dudley; and two daughters, Mrs.
Walter Woodford, near Caldwell,
and Mrs. Grover Smith near Sharon.
Mrs. Mckee was a daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Fogle.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Ivers Hooper of Co
lumbus were guests of the formers
parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. B. Hooper
here, the week end. Mr.. Hooper is
city salesman for a wholesale drug
concern.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

DR.. and Mrs. w. A. Nichols of
Medina, and DR.. and Mrs. w. A.
Nichols, jr., and daughter Nancy of
Charleston, W.. Va, We're stopping
here at the Kennebec hotel, Sun
day, and called at the Stanbery-
Alderman home.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

Deane Northrup, son of DR.. and
Mrs. c. E. Northrup, and junior
in medicine at o. S. u, next year,
was recently elected to represent
the college of medicine on the stu
dent senate. This is the governing
body of o. S. U. He was also ap-
pointed by the dean of the medical
school as member of the medical
council. This latter appointment
comes as distinct honor; as it
comes only to students of high
scholastic standings.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

DR.. H. H. Scott, pastor Of the To-
cal Methodist Episcopal church,
and wife, returned Wednesday from
Willoughby, where they were called
because of the death of DR.. Scott's
sister, Mrs. Samuel Austin, which
occurred Saturday morning at
$50. Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 2:30 p. M, with burial
in Lakeview cemetery, Cleveland.
Mrs. Austin is survived by her hus-
band who is widely known as the
head of the Austin construction
company. She also leaves num-
ber of children who hold influential
positions.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08

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Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
The Washington
- Scene --
By LAWRRNCR TOpp

WASHINGTON-(FP)- President
Roosevelt has begun to hedge, on his
farm relief promises, while scarcely
settled in his new office.
To the voters during the campaign,
and to the heads of the big farm or
CARNATIONS and to Secretary Wal
lace, he promised that when the farm
organization leaders could agree up
on a program of farm relief he would
sponsor it, and try to have congress
enact it into law. Wallace summon
ed the farm leaders to a conference,
March 9, 10, and before the confer
ence opened he had Roosevelt's word
that the bill they should draft would
be given Roosevelt's support. But
when, on March 10, Wallace and his
assistant, Prof. Tugwell, laid before
Roosevelt the result of their labors
with the farm leaders, Roosevelt was
cold. He indicated that they had
misunderstood him; he had made his
pledge as to help while prices were
CONTINUED on Page Fourl
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
INDEPENDENT PARTY TO HOLD MASS MEETING
CITY PLANNING EXHIBIT EXPOSES
MORTGAGE RACKETEERS

between sunny Paris %boulevards and
people living in sewers underneath,
the drudgery of women at the indi-
vidual washtub and the labor-saving
equipment in communal laundries in
low-rent apartment buildings like
those in Vienna, Moscow, Frankfort
and Berlin. The Stun school of crime
and the planned recreation centers Of
the new city plans, the country set
ting for lovers c~ontrasted with slum
accommodations for courtship, and
many other contrasts between mass
housing for the benefit of profiteers
and mass housing for the benefit of
the population are shown.
The exhibit goes to New York at
the end of March and will then visit
many other cities.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
FIRE INSURANCE GRAFT IN MONTANA
Organized Business Cunning Fattens nordnately on Mass Ignorance

The Board of Examiners which rat
flied Fitzsimmons fine bargain was
Erickson, Foot, Harmon. No private
business corporation would keep a man
on his payroll a minute after he prov
ed so poor at business as to pay $74,-
1888 for what other concerns were
buying in open market for S37,414.40.
One would think that the proper
ties of the Montana Power Company
in Montana are much more hazardous
than the states property. 1t is need
less to say hal Mr.. Fitzsimmons did
not advertise for bids for the state
insurance. The deal all originated
in private correspondence between
Fitzsimmons and the Insurance Com
panies.
Nothing herein is intended to sug-
gest or insinuate that Fitzsimmons
gets or got any of the $37,040.63,
that will be a shakedown of the state
treasury if the present Board of Ex-
aminers goes through with this work
of Fitzsimmons. But, it is herein
affirmed by one voter that the state
can get a better mar or woman for
the position Of Clerk of the Board
of Examiners than Fitzsimmons.
The fire insurance companies take
profit out of Montana each year equal
almost to the cost of running the state
government and all of its institutions
such as the universities, homes for
the helpless and penal institution.
LOWNDES MAURY.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
(Bv CARL HAESSLER.l

49,
CHICAGO-(FP)-John and His
Wife Buy a Home is the title of a
graphic story in peep-show style that
shows up the real estate shysters and
mortgage vultures of America. It is
part of the international exhibit on
housing and city planning at the Arts
Club of Chicago under the direction
of Raymond O'Neil and the sponsor
ship of Prof. Robert Morss Lovett
and others.
AS you enter the dignified rooms
of the club you see a number of min
iature stage settings, most of them in
series, illustrating the history or
trend of housing and city planning.
There is the marble Acropolis of an
cient Athens and at the foot of the
hill the slums of the slaves, the eco
nomic foundation Of the glory that
was Greece. There is the unspoiled
American small town and by an in
genious device it is transformed into
a city of s%kyscrapers and huddled
tenements, the sunshine and open
spaces replaced by smoke and traf-
fic. Then the crowded fostering me-
tropolis with luxurious homes in the
silk stocking suburbs.
But John and his wife are the prime
exhibit. They are working hard in
the first scene for enough money for
a home. In the second scene they APP
proach a slick real estate shark who
sells them a small ribbon of a lot at an
exorbitant price. John gratefully and
respectfully keeps his hat in his hand.
The next scene shows the couple
signing themselves into the clutches
of a mortgage b~loodsucker, with two
white crows representing first and
second mortgages lowering over
head. Then one sees the little box
of a home and the two birds perched
IN top.
Soon enough the depression gets
Johns job. Then foreclosure. Fol-
lows eviction while the birds fly
away with not only house and lot but
also the clothes of John, wife and
child. The family sits in despair.
There, under present civilization, the
story ends.
Alongside this exhibit is another
showing how, by cooperative credit
societies, organized measures against
the exorbitant cost of land and by ra-
tional plans of decentralized popula-
ton Johns son might have a better
chance of getting a decent home and
keeping it.
Other settings give vivid contrasts
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
(By H. LowNDEs MAURY.)

Among the many devious methods
Of absentee landlords for milking the
people Of Montana a conspicuous one
is the fire insurance game.
The Insurance Lobby at the recent
legislature were better equipped with
expense money for entertainment, So
cial parties and other methods of dis
torting the votes of the peoples rep
resentatives, than any other well
dressed lobbyists. While the per-
sonalities from the mining, power,
gas, railroad, telephone, merger bank,
milling companies, were present as
usual this year, any member of either
house, anxious to sell his vote for
"theater tickets and buggy rides" Sc
lected the insurance men in prefer
ence to any of the others.
The superb strut of these peacocks
of the lobby barnyard, was the envy
of their companions of former days
when all the foreign crowd were shar-
ing in the millions of profits being
wrung by devious laws from our fool.
ish, easy going, generous people.
These fellows fight us in our own leg
islature, with our own money. There
is only one fire insurance company
owned in Montana that does any sig
nificant business at all. In fact, that
one does not underwrite one-half of
one per cent of the fire risks engaged
in the state. The residue of all pre-
| miums goes outside Of the state. Then
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
Timely and Untimely
O Observations -
TO LOSE BUT YOUR
DEBTS
By ADAM C0ALDIGGER

This is written in Chicago. The
Tribune, the worlds dumbest news
paper, is still begging for dimes to
feed 1000 children who come to school
every morning without a morsel of
food in their little bellies. One-half
of the ex-working people in that city
are on dole. They are raising money
now to feed the landlords who are
running out of eats because their
starving tenants can't pay rent.
suppose before long the master minds
of the burg will start raising relief
funds for the Chicago bankers who
are starving because they can't either
loan or eat the gold in their base
ments.
The city is bankrupt, the county is
bankrupt, the state is bankrupt, and
if the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration keeps on loaning the ma
TONS money to all those bankrupt,
it soon will be bankrupt, too. So
say, fellow citizens, you have moth
ing to lose but your debts, and a hell
iva fine country to gain.
%*#
Maybe l just imagine it, but it &C.
tually seems to me I'm smelling rev.
olution in the air. God have pity on
all of us if the hungry, shabby men
/ see on the streets here ever break
loose. There is no explosive quite as
terrible as hunger and we surely are
CONTINUED on Page Twol
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
MUSTE LEAVES
X

KATONAH, N. Y.-(FP)-A stead
lily growing two-year-old controversy
as to whether Brookwood Labor Col
lege is to be an organ of the Con-
ference for Progressive Labor Action
or a completely independent school
came to a climax March 5, with a vote
which will mean that A. J. Music will
no longer be connected with Brook
wood. Music has headed both Brook
wood and the C. P. L. A.
The students supported Music by a
vote of 10 to 8, with one a~bstaining,
and severed their relationship with
the school when he was defeated. 1t
is expected that the school will close
for the present term, although that
has not been announced. There have
been rumors that another school will
be opened by the C. P. L. A. group
led by Music, possibly in New Jersey.
Brookwood is controlled by a board
on which 10 labor representatives cast
10 votes, five faculty members cast
five votes, the student body casts two
votes and graduates cast two votes.
During a meeting lasting several hours
the controversy was threshed out in a
debate marked with a good deal Of
feeling. A resolution offered by the
labor members asking that Music re-
sign from the Craftsmanship Of the G..
P. L. A. and from its national execu-
tive committee was carried by a vote
of 1913 to 4.2, the divided vote repre-
senting student division. This Music
refused to do and warned that he
would oppose as %reactionary the kind
of school Brookwood was to become.
Music was supported by Tom Tip
petit, director of extension studies, but
opposed by practically all the other
members of the faculty. Their main
contentious seemed to be: 1. That
Muste's heading the school and the G..
P. L. A. identified the school with the
C. P. L. A. and made it seem sectar-
ian. 2. That the C. P. L. A. took so
much time and effort that Brookwood
was suffering financially and other
wise.
Back of these claims was probably
the fact that the C. P. L. A. had
broken with the Socialist Party and
had criticized the party severely.
Much of Brookwood's support has
come from Socialist sources and sew
eral members of the faculty are So
cialists. This may have intensified
the differences. Official statements
are expected from both groups.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23

the casualty insurance crowd has been
very great. The profits of the life
insurance companies has been I'M
mensely above that of the fire com
panies.
With Is millions taken from us in
n years, by only the fire companies
it is not surprising that the life, cas-
ualty and fire companies combined
can maintain a lobby sufficiently we'll
financed to cajole or even to bride
the legislators.
As suspicion arises when the mar
ket price of a commodity is far be-
low the price a state pays for the
same thing, that somebody in the
state government is getting money
from the seller.
Last year the Montana Power
Company procured a ten million dol
lar policy on all its property for 3
years for $4O,OOO.0O, the premium be-
ing $13,333.30 each year.
Mr.. Fitzsimmons, clerk Of the
Board of Examiners, procured poll
cies of 1888, 6s5.00 on state prop
critics for 3 years for ~$74,455.33. If
Mr.. Fitzsimmons had obtained as good
a rate for the state as the Montana
Power Company got, the premium for
the state would have been only $751;
4l4.70 or about so per cent of what
Mr.. Fitzsimmons is trying now to
get the state to pay for what he en-
gagged and which the old Board of
Examiners at his suggestion approved.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23

the companies send back to local
agents their commissions varying
from l to 20 per cent of the prem
iums.
Until the invasion of the state by
some independent companies about
two years ago the rates for all risks
here were fixed by the Pacific Board
of Underwriters. This concern has
never filed any articles with our Sec
rotary of State or Insurance Com
missioner. 1t has palatial offices in
Butte, by a system of fines for dis
obedience of member companies, fixes
rates all over the commonwealth
Common woe) of Montana.
According to the report January
LIST, 1882, of George P. Porter, the
State Auditor, then, the losses paid
in Montana for twenty-seven years
for fires was only 49 per cent of the
premiums paid. According to the
same report for seven years, 1925 to
1881, inclusive, the premiums paid by
residents of this state to fire insur-
ance companies amounted to $32,77S,-
857.23, the fire losses paid back into
the state were only $13,135 1868.
The difference, the profit for 7 years
was S18,643, 670.40. The agents COM
missions returned were often Is per
cent, sometimes 20 per cent. If they
had all amounted to 20 per cent, the
profit leaving the state never to re-
turn was, $14,914,936.32 or very near
ly Is million dollars. The profits OF
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
to be present.


diAtteIs oigh AGREEMENT.
The Painters union announced that
they had signed with their employers
and have adopted the $3.50 per day
wage scale with time-and-a-half for
overtime. 1t was also made very
clear that the Painters DID NOT sign
up with the Builders Exchange but
will deal with their employers, only
in the future. The Painters will al
so be allowed to deal with the public
on small jobs during present condi
tions of unemployment.
O'COnnell Thanks Council.
Jerry O'Connell thanked the Cen
trail Council and Labor for the SPLEEN
did support given him in the Primar-
les. O'Connell's defeat was no great
surprise for it again proves the adage
that you can't buck the corporation
at Helena and come back to Butte
and be elected to office.
Green Announces New States Adopt
Child Labor Amendment.
The following communication from
President Green shows the progress
being made toward making the Child
Labor Amendment a part of u con-
stitution. Probably when we get beer
out Of the road more states can CON
slider this amendment, which prob
ably seems less important to them:
Washington, d. c., March IA, 1888.
Mr.. Harry J. Grimes, Secretary,
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council
Box 1857, Butte, Mont.
Dear Sir and Brother:
The officers and members of the
American Federation of Labor have
reason to be pleased over the prog
ress which labor has made during this
winter in securing the adoption of
the Child Labor Amendment to the
Constitution by the legislatures of
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
INDEPENDENT A 7
GENERAL CAMPAIGN
COMMITTEE

Paul ]. Erler, Clarence Hanley, Will
liam Mccarthy, T. R. Morgan, J. E.
McNally, Emil S~undberg, Edward
Duncan, Frank Reardon, Harry Pol
glase, Ella Rowland, Bridget Shea,
Lena M%attausch, William Patterson,
James Comba, Madge O'Connor, Mrs.
H. R. Carmen, Lou McLenaghan, Kate
Savage, Charles Whitley, Agnes
Shaughnessy, John Vickers, Mrs. F.
w. Goldsmith, A.. A. McGrath, Fran
els McKelvey, Kate Rockefeller,
James Keegan, Glenn Burkhart, Mrs.
Hugh McManus, Nora Mclaughlin,
M. Kerr Beadle, Charles Malloy, E.
w. Hutchinson, John Berger, John
Driscoll, Elizabeth Kennedy, Mae
Narvaez, L. H. Bradley, Mrs. Jerry
Harrington, Mrs. Minnie Mcintosh,
Mrs. Fellows, Mrs. McIsaacs, Mrs.
Sweet, Mrs. Roland, Mrs. Wigenstein,
Mrs. Murrish, Mrs. John Hanley, Mrs.
Tim Kearney, Mrs. Pat Harrington,
Mrs. Mary Foley, Mrs. Lottie Nc
Grath, Mrs. John Vickers, Mrs. Anna
Peel, Mrs. Anna Call, Mrs. Mary En-
strom, Carl Trauerman, Tom Nc
Garry, Harry Meyer, Barry OLeary,
Curtis Lees, Mrs. Dennis Shea, Mrs.
Ambrose Lynch, Mrs. Joe ~Cavanaugh,
Mrs. Lizzie S~chonsberg, Mrs. Minnie
Kennedy, Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy,
Jack Gaffney, Mrs. j. Gaffney, Mrs.
Frank Mcdonald, Ruth Naughton,
Mrs. Eta Bessette, James Lee, Victor
Grumpy, Pete O'Connor, Mrs. Ella
O'Connor, Mrs. Dave Howells, Mrs.
Florence McNamee, Mrs. Sarah John
son, Mrs. Helen Mcdonald, Nick
Burkard, John P. Kelly, Robert Down
ing, Larry Duggan, Frank Corr, w.
J. Thomas, Mike Hurley, Mrs. Archie
Connors, John Sullivan, VIM Scott,
Ted OLeary, Dan Scanlon, John Be-
vans, John Delaney, A. E. Plenne-
vaux, Con P. O'Neil, John F. Downey,
Mrs. Minnie Sokolich, Mrs. Mary
Sherrick, Ben Frazer, Mrs. Laura
Marvin, Mrs. Mary Dempsey, Francis
O'Neil, Mrs. Edith Clinch, Mrs. E. Nc
Nulty, D. ]. Enright, James Bertog-
lilo, Mrs. Catherine Lunney, Mrs. Jas.
Haggerty, Mrs. Ann Razor, Mrs.
Mary Bray, Mrs. Frances Ferrlon,
Mrs. Sadie Pressler, Catherine Har-
rington, Mrs. R. ]. Garland, Rose Lee
Griffiths, Mrs. Mary O'Neil, Mrs. A.
E. Plennevaux, Mrs. Ruth Dugdale,
Mrs. Hugh McManus, Mrs. Mike
Cronnelly, Mrs. Davis, Minnie
Mcintosh, Mrs. Ed McNulty, Mrs.
Burchell, Mrs. A. McGrath, Mrs. Nora
Sletti, Mrs. Mary Leahy, Mrs. Mar
garet Curran, Mamie Lenehan, Mrs.
Able Harrington, Mrs. Nellie O'Con-
nell, Francis Holland, Mrs. P. j.
Burns, Mrs. j. j. Lynch, Mae Mcleod,
Mrs. Margaret Harrington, Veronica
Smith, Mrs. Bill McCrone, Miss Fran
ces Ward, Mrs. Anna Hannifin, Mrs.
Anna Kennedy, Margaret Scanell,
Anna Quinn, Anna Thomas, Mary
Phillips, Margaret Healey, Julia Lyt-
ton, Mrs. John Hasson.
Meeting of Independent Party Lady
Workers at Headquarters, SATUR'
DAY, MARCH rs, 200 p. M.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23

Washington, Oregon and North Da-
kota.
The State F~ederations Of Labor and
City Central Bodies of these different
states concentrated their efforts in
prevailing upon the state legislatures
in the states named to adopt the
Child Labor Amendment. They made
this constitutional amendment the
outstanding Legislative proposal SUBJ
mitted to the different state legis-
latures in the states named.
H~eartened and encouraged by this
action, l am appealing to the officers
of State Federations Of Labor and
City Central Bodies in all states
where the Child Labor Amendment
has not been adopted by state legis-
l%atures to urge its favorable consid-
Grafton Immediately. The unemploy-
ment situation has influenced the pub
lie mind in support of Child Labor
legislation. Never was there appar-
ent a greater need for restricting
the employment of children than at
the present time. The crying demand
Of the hour is that children may re-
main at home and attend school so
that the father and bread-winner shall
be accorded an opportunity to secure
employment.
/ urge you with all the sincerity
and enthusiasm l possess to call up
on the members Of your respective
state legislatures where the Child
Labor Amendment has not been IA
vorably acted upon to adopt it now,
to take favorable action upon this
Legislative proposal before the DIFF
ferent state legislatures adjourn. You
can serve labor in no be-, y way than
by securing the adoption Of the Child
Labor Amendment by your state leg
islature this winter.
Sincerely yours,
VIM. GREEN, President American
Federation Of Labor.
Independent Candidates.
Candidates for the coming school
election were chosen by the indie
pendent Party at a mass meeting held
at the Butte High School Auditorium
on Tuesday evening, March IA. The
persons chosen to represent the party
are Harry Meyer, Barry O'Leary, and
the present member of the board, ].
E. McNally. Headquarters have
been opened at 6 West Park st. where
a vigorous campaign has been started.
All three members of the ticket
are well known and popular and the
qualifications are such that their Sc
lection reflects credit on the party.
All have been active in school Of
fices for many years and are thor
oughly acquainted with the work
that confronts them.
Harry Meyer was born and raised
in Butte. He is AZ years of age and
has been a practicing lawyer for %
years. He is a taxpayer and a grad
uate of the Butte High School and a
law school. He has two children,
both in school.
J. E. McNally, a carpenter, has been
a resident of Butte for over 40 years.
He is the father of three children,
one of whom is still attending Butte
High. He has been a member of the
Legislature for two sessions and a
member of the school board for the
past three years.
Barry O'Leary has been a resident
of Butte for 40 years, has been an
alderman for two terms and has three
children who are being educated in
the Butte schools.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23
CENTRAL COUNCIL ENDORSES
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES
PAINTERS UNION SIGN new AGREEMENT

AT the last meeting of the Trades and Labor Council,
the Independent Candidates for the School Board adj
dressed the meeting and secured the support of the Gen.
trail Council in their campaign. 1t was announced that a
mass meeting would be held at Independent Headquart-
ers, SIS West Park St, FRIDAY NIGHT, at 8 o'clock. All
persons interested in the welfare of our schools are urged
to be present.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-23

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings OF working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.