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Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
OUR A IN HELENA

In Helena, the people of Silver Bow County have a
Senator named Thomas Walker, who is there as the sup
posed representative of the people of this County. AS
such he draws his salary from the public fund. Recent
events have shown that Walker represents the people IN
name only. He represents the Anaconda Copper Mining
in the mass of people who elected him to office. His
affliation was shown when the bill to abolish Plan
Two of the Compensation laws came before the Senate.
One word from him would have carried the day, but ne
chose to remain silent on the bill. He remained silent
in the face of the evils of plan two as illustrated last
week in the Bean case. He not only remained silent
but voted against the bill when his vote would have made
it tie vote. Had it come to a tie vote, there is no doubt
that the speaker of the Senate would have decided in
favor of the workers. Because of the vote of our sem
ator, the workers of this county and state must be con-
tinually fleeced of their due compensation as was Mr..
Bean.
The senator also voted for Senate Bill 80, a vicious bill
that aimed to reduce the amount of compensation re-
ceived by injured workers.
The calibre of our Senate in Helena is ultra-conserva-
tive. It has done nothing attuned to the times and is
August body to extend the 8-hour law to teamsters and
cab-drivers. At the hearing, one taXi-cab driver appear
ed before the committee and protested the bill, saying
that he enjoyed working II hours a day and 7 days a
week. With this one protest against the bill, the bill was
killed.
1t is high time that men of the caIibre of Senator
Walker be taken off the public payroll. Let their clients
pay their salaries. Men of that type have filled our
public offices for years and have reduced the masses to
slavery. The sooner we put men into public office who
will represent the best interests of the people of Mon
tana, rather than the interests of Eastern Mining Pro-
meters and Insurance Companies the sooner will Montana
become a free and Independent state. Too long has it
been a western territory to be exploited by eastern cap
ital. Keep this in mind two years from now.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
NORRIS PICTURES MORGAN RULE OF NATION

How }. ?. Morgan dominates Wall Street banks, which
in turn control the industrial life of the country and die
tate terms of existence to the American workers and
farmers, was explained to the Senate by Sen. Norris, vet
eran progressive leader, Feb. 22-23, in a speech protest
ing any cut in the appropriation for the Federal Trade
Commissions activities as investigator of economic
wrongs. High on the wall of the senate chamber he had
hung a big chart, showing the wall Street Spider Web"
in which Morgan & Co. were the biggest leg of the spider,
and the eight biggest banks under Morgan control fur
nished the spiders other legs and head. From these ele-
ments of the body ran the lines of the web, each line
representing an interlocking dictatorship from a big
bank to a leading industrial concern.
One by one Norris discussed the chief banks of the
Morgan group-the Guaranty Trust, First National of
New York, National City, ETC., and the activities of the
Morgan directors and the chief men in these allied
banks. He traced the Morgan control of the power
trust, steel, railroads, metal and coal mines and other
basic industries, and quoted the testimony of John F.
Frey of the metal trades department OF the American
Federation of Labor, that the Morgan wage-cutting policy
has been forced upon industrial employers throughout
the United States in recent years. His main argument,
however, was concerned with the Morgan domination of
the power industry, and the need for persistent federal
policing of this industry in order that the people may not
be robbed through extortionate charges for electric
current.
He called attention to the claim of the late National
Electric Light Association that it's membership controll-
ed 81 per cent of the electriclight facilities in the coun-
try, when they were spending huge sum- on false propa-
ganda against public ownership of utilities. That the N.
f. L. A. has been superseded by the Edison Electric In
stitute, he said, merely meant that "they have only
changed their shirt, and the shirt they are putting on is
just as dirty as the one they have taken off,"
In the Spider Web were included such varied enter
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
UNION CIGARETTE BREAKS PRICE RING

"A unlOn-maQe cigarette mas smashed the IODaccO lfuSC
price ring. Last week, for the first time since long be-
fore the World War, cigarettes made by the big Four
of the Trust-Camels, Lucky Strikes, Old Colds and
Observation-Disclosures reduced from Is to 10 cents a pack
age.
All of them are non-union products-made in factor
les where, according to a recent investigation by the
Women's Bureau of the u. S. Department Of Labor,
wages have shrunk % per cent in ten years.
Tbs same investigation also disclosed that s~peed-up
machinery and increased efficiency on the part of the
workers had added almost 70 per cent to the value of the
products during the same period.
The Tobacco Trust, however, kept its prices intact I'M
til the Axton-Fisher Company 100 per cent union
firm-put Twenty Grand" a new brand, on the market
to retail at 10 cents for a package of 20.
Without any radio "~ballyhoo" to speed it on the way,
Twenty Grand" soon became a factor in the cigarette
world. The Axton-Fisher Company made a net profit
of 81 ,416,952 during 1932-twice as much as in 1881.
The Tobacco Trust, alarmed at the progress made by
this Independent and union competitor, has now cut
prices. According to their estimates, the reduction will
reduce their annual gross sales by $500, 600, 900. In
other words, they have been overcharging the smokers
that much every year.
George w. Hill, president of one of the leading COM
panies in the Trust, has announced that it is the intention
to drive the independent 10-cent cigarette manufacturers
out of business.
The Axton-F Fisher Company is we'll known to trade I'M
ionists, especially railroad men. During the S%hopmen's
strike in 1922, the firm made heavy donations-both in
cash and tobacco-to various strike funds throughout the
country.
1t also gave jobs to a number of strikers who became
blacklisted on account of their union activities.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02

prses as Adams Express, American Wooden, Case Thresh-
ing, Consolidated Coal, Dupont de Nemous, Fox Film,
International Harvester, Pullman, Inc, Johns-Manvlle,
Loews Michigan Central Railroad, Montgomery Ward,
Mutual Life, New Haven Railway, Niagara & Hudson
Power, Phelps Dodge, Prudential Insurance, Radio Cor
poration, Remington Arms, Southern Pacific Railway, U.
S. Rubber, U. S. Steel Westinghouse Electric, White
Rock, and Woolworth & Co., among 100 all told.
Sen. Borah interrupted to ask whether Norris had read
Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox" a. book which
the Idaho senator declared lone of the most remarkable"
exposes of Wall Street he had ever read.
In closing, Norris flayed the insult crowd, and sar-
castically described the employment, at $50 a week, of a
Chicago University professor to play "Old Counsellor
in a series of radio readings of advice to the public to
buy insult stocks-which were worthless: He described
as simply robbery" the operations of Halsey, Stuart &
Co, who sold these insult stocks to the public, and re-
marked that if a man robbed a widow Of her savings,
by main force in the public street, he would get a prison
term if a mob had not already torn the criminal limb
from limb.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
JOE SHANNON VS.. ADAM SMITH

Joseph Shannon of Kansas City, is a young congress
man but an old politician. In a battle which lasted
many, many years, he fought to supplant the Fender
casts for the title of boss of Kansas City's powerful
Democratic machine-fought valiantly, indeed, but lost.
And when Shannon was given a seat in Congress as a
personal consolation for his factonal defeat, he had
learned Just one important lesSOn-he knew where cam
paign funds came from.
When a committee was appointed by the House last
summer to study charges that government competition
with private business is running American initiative and
enterprise, Shannon successfully Unanswered to head
the committee. 1t was a glorious personal victory. Didn't
it give him an opportunity to get close to Americas
capitalists, the men who create campaign funds?
So Shannon called 625 witnesses, adhering closely to
an Ivory soap SO 44-100 per cent purity in choosing only
those whose profits are being hurt by government-owned
industry. There were 225 different lines of competitive
private industry represented by the witnesses, and several
single industries sent many witnesses.
Fortified with this expert testimony, Shannon's COM
mittee has presented a report which will warm the heart
of every alert American. Believers in public owner
ship will be delighted to know that the United States is
already competing with 232 different private businesses,
M. And the capitalists and campaign fund contributors
will be overioyed to know that Shannon proposes to do
something about it.
Even a few capitalists are ~dismayed by the sweeping
recommendations of the Shannon ommittee The Chi
.cago Daily News, for example, laments that a commit
tee which could have had some influence if it had ap-
preached the problem with less bias, should have made
itself ridiculous and therefore probably ineffective. But
when did the Chicago Daily News ever contribute to a
campaign fund for Kansas City Democrats?
Shannon's powerful oratory is Dire to be aided by a
w~ell-filed treasury when he runs for Congressman (may-
be for Senator) at the next election. A treasury will
help a lot to make the people Of Missouri agree with the
mighty Shannon's principles: "Less government in bust
ness and more business in government Back to Thomas
Jefferson and Adam Smith,
It's certainly nice that Shannon doesn't have to read
Adam Smith in order to talk about himl Otherwise, he
might find this:
'The proposal of any new law or regulation of COM
merce which comes from this order Chose who live by
profit ought always to be listened to with great pre-
caution, and ought never to be adopted till after having
been long and carefully examined, not only with the most
scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It
comes from an order of men whose interest is never eX-
actly the same with that of the public, who have gener-
lie, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions,
both deceived and oppressed it"
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
iquidate Marxism in cold blood?

liquidate Marxism in cold blood?
Can they prevent the working mas
es from organizing, winning allies
among the farmers and the city mid
die classes, Selling the economic, po-
litical and social machinery and es-
tablishing a form of society where
there is work for all and where only
those who do their share of the work
will eat?
History does not always repeat it
self. 1t stopped repeating in France
in 1889; in China in 1911; in Russia
in 1917. How high will the present
ave of mass protest rise? When
will history stop repeating itself in
the United States?
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
WORKERS INCOME R O

New YOrk.-The average income Of The American
worker dropped 1915 per cent in actual value and 302
per cent in dollars from 1929 to 1881, and the decline
did not stop with 1881" the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, bosses research organization, has es-
timated in a survey of the national income. The u. S.
Department Of Labor estimates a so per cent drop in
factory wages from 1929 to 1882.
The average income per gainful worker, including the
unemployed-and the 81, 600, 000-ayear bank presidents
in 1881 was 81 ,067 in actual dollars and $767 in "1913
dollars" compared to 81, 1853 in actual dollars and $1,000
in 1913 dollars in 1929. Each person in the U. S. in
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
LADIES' UNION HAS PARTY

Ladies' Auxiliary of Carpenters No.
222, held their social gathering at the
home of Mrs. Richard, 1927 W. Gran
tie St. Cards, music, fortune telling
and gossip gave diversion. When
later a delicious repast was served.
Members present were: Mrs. Ina Da-
wilson, Mrs. F. Richard, Grace Rich
ard, Dorothy McBroom, Mrs. Nora
McBroom, Rowena Gaffany, Mrs.
Bouley, Mrs. Lotveit, and the guests
were Mrs. Mondlock, Mrs. William
Booth.
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02

1881 had an income of S424 in actual dollars and $305
in 1913 dollars" the board estimates.
The national income dropped SO per cent in the three
years covered by the survey. According to the confer
lions. "It is obvious" adds the board, that the figures
for 1881 do not tell the whole story of the decline in ma
tional income. The evidences are abundant that it con-
tinued through 1882 and probably is still going on. 1t
appears probable that from 1881 to 1882 the national in
come fell off about "a per cent, resulting in a total in
come of approximately 40 billion dollars for 1892"
Montana labor news., 1933-03-02
WASHINGTON SCENE
LContInued from Page onel

CONTINUED from Page 0nel
the last ugly fling at Congress by
David Barry, owner and publisher of
the reactionary Pathfinder, and for
the past IA years recipient of an
$4,000 federal salary as sergeant-at-
arms Of the Senate.
Barry sold to a magazine an ar
ticle on Congress, in which he charged
that "demagogues" had put through
that body the constitutional amend
ments for popular election Of senators
woman suffrage and prohibition and
had almost chung the bonus on Ire
American taxpayer" He also charged
that everybody knew who the SEN
ators and Congressman were who
would sell their votes. Senators re-
sented this charge, and Barry was
suspended, put on trial, and his dis
missal recommended by a liza vote IN
the Judiciary Committee on Feb z.
His warmest defender on the floor
was Bingham of Connecticut. lame
duck, who had been given a vote of
censure by the Senate for smuggling
into the secret deliberations of the tar
iff-making Finance Committee a sal
aried employee of the Connecticut
Manufacturers Association. The Sem
ate was determined that Barry, eager
servant of Moses, Smoot and Watson,
should bear the brand which the pub
lie had put upon his masters.
#**
Over in the House sits another vic
tim of the general collapse of the
Great Capitalist Bubble. Rep. (the
Rev. Charles Aubrey Eaton of New
Jersey, whom John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
took with him from his Cleveland
church to his New York church, and
who in 1929 was drawing a big salary
from General Electric as welfare pro-
moter among the non-union workers
in that concerns plants, has felt the
blight of these hard times. A few
years ago he was delivering fiery lee
lures against the "bolshevism" of
municipal ownership of power and
light plants. He had his General
Electric retainer and his c~ongression-
al salary. He lived in a big house in
a fashionable part of the capital. To-
day he is living in one room. His
investments are reported to have gone
down with the rest of the bubble. He
no longer hurries to the senate floor
from the House, when the power trust
is attacked. The grapevine" which
warned him of these attacks seems to
have broken.
Owners of America are sending new
men to run their errands in Wash
ington. The new men are Democrats.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-23
Today At Local 7heaters

stage play that was also a success,
, Of the same name. Others IN the
cast are Victor Jory, Miriam Jor-
dan and Laura Hope Crews.
Here is the tale of little UNI
sophisticated girl studying for a
place in the theatrical world, who
meets with a philanderer, their
romance explodes and she departs
for South America to try to attain
success in her chosen field, she
climbs the ladder of fame and then
meets with a man whom she really
loves and who adores her, but the
shadow Of the past IL always be-
fore her and finally when the two
men meet q strong climax results.
OF special interest in this picture
Is the fight of man against nature
at Boulder Dam and also the great
est dance number that has ever
been filmed, the dance of the
Maidens" in which there are over
500 Of the worlds most beautiful
girls, prancing and cavoring, for
the terpsichorian thrill LOT all time.
The second feature on this pro-
gram that rivals in every way the
first Is "Bill" Boyd, Wynne Gibson
and William Garfan In "Emergen-
cy Calf one of the fastest moving
pictures that you have ever seen,
in which thrills follows thrill in
machine gun speed ana action
galore in part of the Aim.
Have you been in the Palace on
these warm days and found out
how really cool and comfortable
this theater is, Its better than a
visit to the sea-shore and with
none of the inconvenience, try 1t
once and from then on you will
become a regular patron of this
popular amusement place.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-23
New Garden Is
Showing "LiIy TufqsF''

Ruth Chatterton comes to the
New Garden theater to-day In the
most astounding Characterization
she has ever portrayed on the
screen in the title role Of LILLY
Turner" As Lily Turner. the
"cooch" dancer and come-on girl
for a carnival, she has In this pic
ture more clandestine love affairs
than most actresses portray In a
lifetime. She fits from one love
to another with a wild abandon In
spired by cruel mistreatment at
the hands Of her first lover. 1t is
not until she finally awakens to
real loves that ghosts of her many
sweethearts rise up to haunt her.
The picture, based on the stage
success by Phillip Dunning and
George Abbott, reveals the life
behind thescenes of the players in
the tawdry medicine tent shows
and the glamorous carnivals. Gone
is the stately Miss Chatterton. Of
the society drawing room. George
Brent plays the leading masculine
role opposite Miss Chatterton. the
first time the two have been
teamed together since their mar
riage last fall.
The companion feature Is Tom
Keene in "Crossfire" with Betty
Furness and Edgar Kennedy. Also
on the bill are a number Of ex-
cellent short subjects. An added
attraction tomorrow night will be
Country Store" at which 80 bas-
kets containing choice family din
ners will be given to patrons.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-23
ELISA Londl Is
State Feature

sylvia sidney plays one Of the
dif7icult roles ever essaycd by an
actrass a. the heroine of Theodore
Drciser's "Jennie Gerhardt." said
10 be al, even finer production than
Back Street.. The picture begins
a four day engagement at the State
starting tomorrow.
Literary critics have pronounced
Jennie Gerhardt" the greatest
study Of modern woman ever
written by an American author.
II is the story Of q girl destined
for love who finds spiritual happi-
ness only after the most dramatic
adventures and misadventures such
girl can encounter.
sfrhA4llm covers a span OF twenty
eieht years, while Miss Sidney
chances from q fresh ana lovely
Girl 81 eighteen into . gray haired
Woman almost fifty, but still re-
tanning the same charm as In her
youth.
me actress is required not only
10 vary her Characterization with
the advancing years, but to shade
her performance in keeping with
the changes in feminine conduct
and fashions which took place
during the period.
sAlthough she Is only twenty
two years old, Miss Sidney has
won top ranking among the films
dramatic actresses. following out
standing performances in MA
dame Butterfly" "Pick Up" IAN
American Tragedy" "Merrily We
90 to Hell'' and other films made
during her there years in Holly
wood. Prior to that period she
was considered one Of the most
talented young actresses Of the
New York stage. She scorcdf her
greatest stage hit in Vina Del
mars bad Girl"
In g"Jennie Gerhardt," Miss Sid
ncy heads a cast which includes
Donald Cook. Mary Aston. II. b.
warner ana Edward Arnold.
"A deluxe surrounding program
has been booked by manager Julia
m. smith to accompany this note
worthy feature presentation. Per-
formances this evening mark the
final showing OF Richard Barthel..
mess new hit Heroes For Sale"
With Loretta Young and Alinc Mac
Mahon. Also 1.-THE Cocktail Hour"
with Bebe Daniels and Randolph
Scott
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-23
NOURISHING FOOD
THAT IS LIGHT
IN CALORIES
Easy to Put on Weight in
the Good Old Summer
Time

This IL perhaps the one time
OF the year when, IL you're not
careful, you'll find yourself put
ting on pounds before you Know
It. The warmer weather brings us
all out OF doors and the fresh air
stimulates the appetite. Add to
this the fatigue and hunger
brought on by such sports az ten
mis- and golf. Then relax, eat all
you want and suddenly youth be
tipping the scales at q good ten
or fifteen pounds more than you
like.
\ To avoid such an increase In
weight the careful housewife will
watch her menus, providing
nourishing foods which are light
In calories. For rich dressings and
starchy vegetables. she can sub
stitute dishes which contain all Of
the necessary elements for health
but few Of the .fattening ingred-
tents.
The dishes suggested here, ali
OF which should form the main
course for q meal, offer Q cotibin-
alton Of meat or fish with season.
ing and the correct amount OF
starch to make them healthy and
desirable. For your vegetables
use spinach, asparagus or simply
serve a salad.
with pressed spiced beef. serv-
ed cold, q plain salad is perfect.
Make It Of lettuce ana tomatoes
and for your dressing use vinegar
and lemon with, seasoning oil
mustard, salt and pepper. The
recipe for the loaf follows:
PRESSED SPICED REEF
1.2 lbs ground stewihg
beef
tsp minced onion
Ia tsp powdered cloves
1.S tsp powdered allspice
salt and pepper
Id cups soda crackers,
finely rolled
1 cup boiling water
Q tbsps butter
Mix beef, onion, seasoning ant
finely rolled crackers. Add boiling
water and butter. Blend and rol
tightly in cheesecloth. Tie ends o.
cloth. Steam for three hours. Re
move from fire and drain. Cool II
the cloth under weight. Let stang
over night. Unwfap and serve cold
sliced. Makes "a lbs when cook
ed.
Liver patties are filled with nour
ishmept and almost entirely lack
ing in fattoning ingredients, i
LIVER pATTTEs
ga lib calf's liver
. tbsps bacon rat
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-23
Laurel and Hardy
Mead Strand Bill

Laurel and Hardy's latest feature
length comedy, 1.-THE Devils
Brother" heads the double feature
program at Warmers Strand today
and tomorrow. Laid in a pictur-
esque era Of nobility, courtly ladies
and highway bandits. the plot gives
the Messrs Laurel and Hardy
every opportunity to make delect-
able fools of themselves and to be-
come involved in q series of side
splitting adventures which almost
leads them to the gallows.
The supporting cast includes
Dennis King, who sings several
songs, Thelma Todd, Henry
Armetta and other favorites. The
companion feature is Lilly Turner"
with George Brent. Ruth Chatter
ton. Frank McHugh. Guy Kibbee
and Ruth Donnelly.
Another chapter of THE Whis-
pering Shadow is also included on
the bill. Sunday brings ''The Bar
barian" with Ramon Novarro and
IT Cover the Waterfront with
Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon and
Ernest Torrance.