Montana labor news., 1933-11-30
IT'S A GREAT
John By Paine SYSTEM !

William H. Woodin gets a leave of
absence as secretary Of the treasury.
Dean Aeheson resigns as acting sec
rotary of the treasury.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., becomes
acting secretary of the treasury.
Franklin D. Roosevelt continues to
run the treasury,
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This impressed us as the thing to
do with idealtistic secretaries of state:
While the recovery program raises
tariffs and embargoes, Sec. of State
Cordell Hull is to go to South Amer
lea to try to make trade treaties.
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According to The Philadelphia Rec
ord, "If conservative sources are to be
believed, the NRA is so radical that
Soviet Russia is taking a chance by
extending recognition to the U. s."
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James A. Farley is the greatest
postmaster-general since Benjamin
Franklin. "-2nd Asst. Postmaster
Gen. William w. Howes.
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Hail Progress!
Not even the grandson of Cyrus
Curtis, late publisher of the scab Sat
urday Evening Post, can crash the
magazine with stories favorable to
Soviet Russia.
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Gen. Hugh Johnson, NRA admins
traitor, still flies to New York to see
U. S. stock gambler No. l, formerly
his CLOSE" friend, Bernard Baruch,
hailed as the unofficial president of
the U. S.
"Use of the word 'Strikebreaker,
'Scab,' literally turns ones stomach"
reads a notice posted in the editorial
office of a Detroit paper.
What does being a scab do, Mr..
Editor?
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After pigeonholing the SwOpe plan
for taking over the NRA, Pres. Roose-
welt gathered departmental reports to
show that 100000 people had been
re-employed since the NRA started.
"All that the NRA has done is put
no less than 100000 hopeless, desti-
tute people back to work." said Ad-
ministrator johnson at Chicago.
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Japan has resigned from the League
of Nations, and the U. S. has never
belonged.
So State Department Representative
Fuller denounced Japan without men,
tioning her name, of course) for the
narcotic situation in Manchukuo, her
puppet state, at the leagues opium
commission.
That made everybody happy, we
suppose.
#&#
Said Sec. of Navy Swanson when
the president thought of moving the
navy battle force from the Pacific to
the Atlantic; "Well, the fleet ought
to know both oceans"
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In the battle between the broad
casting systems and the press in the
matter of sending out news by radio,
the systems declare they will not
broadcast directly the voices of con-
gressmen for the capitol.
They remember, we suppose, that
the Chilean population almost died of
boredom when that government tried
broadcasting its representatives bal
lyhoo.
If Albert H. Wiggin, a director of
the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology, were to give a class in his
technique borrowing money from his
own bank to sell its stock short, thus
making millions), there'd be fewer
unemployed technicians.
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Anti-Nazi prisoners in concentration
camps voted overwhelmingly for Hit
ler's government, it is reported.
Did they count the broken heads as
well as the votes
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BERTHE Hoover has made the news
pictures againl
He happened to be near Babe Ruth
at a football game when the photog-
raphers came round.
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Because there was too much pork,
Uncle Sam bought millions of pigs,
slaughtered them, made them into fer
%tilizer, sent the fertilizer to the corn
belt to increase the corn crop to feed
more pigs.
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IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM