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Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
URGES WHEELER
FOR TREASURY
HEAD

RED WING, MINI. - (FP) - "We
know of no other way in which Pres.
Roosevelt could better demonstrate
his good faith than by appointing
Burton K. Wheeler, fighting Montana
senator, to the post of secretary of
the treasury" declares an editorial in
The Midwest American, FTP member
paper.
Declaring that Roosevelt has been
empowered by Congress to remonetize
silver the American declares that
wheeler has more than friendship
with Morgan or Vincent Astor to rec
commend him for that position.
Wheeler has worked for the expansion
Of credit for the common man which
will follow making silver money and
has repeatedly demonstrated how re-
monetization of silver would double
the purchasing power of three-fifths
Of the world"
Acting Sec. Morgenthau is attacked
by the American as representing Con
tinuity of policy" with the acts of
"Woodin, of the elfin smile, graceful
music and j.. P. Morgan's preferred
list"
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
SAY III WITH UNION LABELS

There must be no offs" or "buts" about Christmas shopping this year
IAN Trades Unionists must spend their money for union labeled Christmas
lights in a concerted effort to help members of Organized Labor.
With this in mind, Christmas shopping can be done quickly and a feel
Ting of qualification will be experienced because of the Trade Union pr1n-
lciples fulfilled.
What better gift than a snappy suit or overcoat; comfortable wel-fit-
ltng shoes; stylish gloves; smart hats; handsome neckwear; useful ss-
]penders, carriers, overaIs and pajamas? All of these can be obtained
with the union label attached.
For other gifts there are beautiful perfume and other bottles; engraved
Visiting cards; writing paper, furniture and stoves.
Then there are union cigars, tobacco and cigarettes; union cake II a
basket of cake; case of beer; flour; a turkey or chickens from a union mar
lket; a bob, shampoo or wave at a union barber shop; a dinner at a union
restaurant; tickets for a good show o. a good movie at a theater where
members of the Theatrical Stage Employees or Moving Picture Operators
}are employed and where Union Musicians are engaged. Any of these
would be very acceptable gifts.
Orders for Christmas cards should be placed with a union print shop
land all bookbnding should be done by union Bookbinders, who will rebind
la favorHe book for a gift to the queens taste.
The Union Clerk will be found helpful in making selections and all de-
ilveries will be N time if made by Union Drivers.
For those who would be more pleased with improvements about the
thome, would suggest new electric wiring where desired; muchneeded
(painting OF new wall paper and necessary repairs of all kinds. This work
tshoud all be given to firms who employ union labor.
The housewife, with added duties during the holidays, will appreciate
1.-THE gift of being relieved of doing the family laundry at home. Union
}laundries al be utilized at this season to good advantage.
I Those engaged in church or fraternal work who re members of Or
}ganized Labor can help by insisting that church or lodge printing must be
(done in union printing establishments O. union water marked paper and
}that all Christmas music is rendered by Union Musicians.
I All Trade Unionists are urged to take part in this program to make
(ths Christmas a merry one for all members of Organized Labor. Let there
(be NJ shirkers! Let there be M "is' o "buts"! Spend wisely and that
means spend union-earned money 81 that it will make a Joyful Christmas
flor union employers and union employees
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
STORM OF PROTEST AGAINST GOV
ERNOR ROLPH GROWS

NEW YORK-(FP)-The storm of
protest by labor against Gov. Rolph's
Endorsement Of the San Jose lynchings
has reached Washington with increa-
sing agitation for a federal anti-lynch-
ing act. Two senator's, Costigan of
Colorado and Kean of New Jersey,
have already announced that they will
introduce such a bill.
Norman Thomas, Socialist leader,
wired Pres. Roosevelt urging that he
recommend legislation which, while
embodying the principles of the Dyer
anti-lynching bill of some years ago,
would shave teeth in it," The Social
list party also announced that it would
begin the circulation of petitions in
all parts of the country to gain Con-
gressional support for the bill.
Labor papers have been unanimous
in their condemnation of Rolph, motor
ious in labor circles as the man who
has denied freedom to Tom Mooney
and Warren Billings, CALIFORNIA;
Hoodlum Governor, The Minnesota
Union Advocate entities its editorial.
"Rolph ought to be run out of office"
comments The Bridgeport Herald.
The Progressive Miner declares that
at is easy to understand by the mental
reaction of Gov. Rolph why human
justice in California is dead" "Leg-
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
HOUSE LABOR CHAIRMAN CONNERY
ATTACKS NRA POLICIES

WASHINGT0N-(FP) - Growing
disillusionment among workers on
corning the NRA and its Acc minimum
wages and its 40-hour week is reflect
ed in the announcement of Congress-
man William T. Connery, chairman of
the House labor committee, that he
will sponsor a 30-hour law in the next
session of Congress. He attacked Gen.
Johnson for his anti-labor attitude.
Said Connery:
THE labor provisions of NRA,
which |, as chairman of the House
labor committee, helped draft, are be-
ing administered in ruthless, illegal
and h%igh-handed fashion by General
johnson and he should at once be re-
moved or compelled to reverse his poll
icies as to labor.
UNLESS some action is taken to give
labor what Congress intended it to
have, | am certain that the next Con-
gress will enact a flat 30-hour week
law, will completely reorganize NRA
and retain in its own hands direction
jointly with practical and fair-minded
men instead Of high-handed theorists"
Criticism has been Coming in grow
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
TRADES COUNCIL PROTESTS THE
APPOINTMENT OF WALKER
Enemy of Organized Labor Prospective Federal Judge;
All Labor Should Unite in Protest; Appointment Would
Jeopardize Workers Rights.

Labor has not forgotten the fact
that it was the General of the NRA
Army in Silver Bow County that car
ried a communication around for
weeks and thereby prevented the
Presidents Re-employment Agreement
from becoming more than a mere
farce.
These are some of the reasons the
Council has given for protesting the
appointment. Other reasons given
were that Walker is not qualified by
experience, interest or in any other
way for the position. Walker has
ever been the servant of big interests
and has held political offices but
never any major position. He has
served his interests best in small
places. There are others better quail
flied than he for the office. Let
every Labor Union in Butte and the
state write Immediately to the Presi-
dent and Senators protesting this APP
pointment.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

ing volume from labor unions through
out the country against the failure of
Pres. William Green of the American
Federation of Labor and other Of
ficials to fight determinedly at NRA
code hearings for the 30-hour week.
Usually the labor spokesman says he
advocates the 30-hour week, and then
proceeds to accept the 40-hour sched-
ule.
The Init. Assn. of Machinists has
adopted basic suggestions for labor
provisions in the codes, in order to re-
lieve unemployment and stimulate
buying power. The chief points are:
l.. None under 16 shall work in
industry and o n under 10 in haz-
ardous occupations.
2. The 30-hour week, divided into
five 6-hour days.
g.. Minimum of $25 a week for I'M
skilled labor.
A. Minimum of $48 for skilled la
Dor.
5. No overtime except for extreme
emergencies, and paid for then at
double time rates.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

allied lynchings are no novelty in Cal
~ifornia,p states The Midwest Ameri-
can, recalling the Mooney case.
Acting upon labor's demand for
Rolph's impeachment, petitions have
already been put into circulation by
the Socialist Party of California, the
Init. Labor Defense and other organ
izations.
One thousand dollars reward for
information leading to the conviction
of any of the California lynch mob
has been posted by the American Civil
Liberties Union, despite Rolph's as
GRAFTON that he would pardon any
mobster convicted.
The executive committee Of the
American League Against War g.
Fascism, claiming more than 100000
workers, farmers and professionals af-
filiated with it through their organi-
cations, has wired Pres. Roosevelt
urging him to endorse Rolph's i'm
parchment and calling for federal in
tervention in California and Alabama
to stop lynchings.
Three students were arrested picket
ing a New York church but the ritzy
~Episcopalian rector recanted his APP
prevail of Rolph's statement at the
same time,
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
LABOR BOARD TO INVESTIGATE NINE
ELECTION CHARGES

WASHINGTON-(FP)--Jus as the
national labor board was announcing
the formal election of representatives
in the steel-owned Captive" mines of
western Pennsylvania, Vice Pres.
Philip Murray of the United Mine
Workers formally protested the voting
at the H. G. Prick Coke Cos mines,
in nine of which company union tick
cts were declared elected.
Jessie Lloyd, Federated Press Pitts
burgh correspondent, protested the
conduct of the Frick elections the day
they were held. AS a representative
Of the American Civil Liberties I'm
ion, she wired Sen. Wagner, chairman
of the national labor board, that vot-
ers had been inundated at several of
the mines. Chairman Wagner, on ad-
vice of Sec. w. M. Leiserson of the
labor board, who supervised the cleo
ton, ignored the Federated Press cor
respondents protest.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

AT the last meeting of the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council that
organization was unanimous in pro-
testing the appointment of General
Thomas Walker as Federal Judge for
this district. This position is II of
great Importance to labor and is a
lifetime position.
Labor has not forgotten the fact
that Walker, at the last session Of the
Legislature, voted to maintain Plan
Two of the Compensation laws after
he had solemnly promised to vote for
the abolition of the plan or absent
himself from the voting. 1t was his
vote that kept plan two in operation.
He broke his pledge to his constitu-
ency and voted for the Insurance Com
panies of the State.
Labor has. not forgotten the fact
that Walker voted against the ratifi-
cation of the Child Labor Amendment
and lined up with the exploiters of
children in industry.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

Wagner however has now ordered
an immediate investigation of Vice
Pres. Murray's charges, similar to
those pressed by Jessie Lloyd. He
charged instances of coercion, intimi.
dation, bribery and illegal voting" and
a "curious indifference to a secret bal
lot on the part of the Prick company"
The Prick company is a subsidiary of
U. S. Steel.
Murray claimed at as the U. M. w.
slate had received 5000 votes in the
Prick mines, it should be recognized
as the victor in the elections. The
Prick company put up separate states
at each mine. Nine Prick mines gave
a majority to the company union and
four to the regular union.
The u. M. w. official asked that
the national labor board call a con-
ference between the union and the U.
s. Steel subsidiary to negotiate a
contract.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
COMMUNICATION TO ROOSEVELT
WALKER APPOINTMENT

the 400 that might be chosen, would
fill the office with greater learning
and less Partially to the vested in
terests than Mr.. Walker.
For the last % years, Mr.. Walker
has been of counsel for the Northern
Pacific Railway Company. For many
years, Mr.. Walker has been of counsel
for the Mountain States Telephone
Company, a subsidiary of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. Fol- many years it is generally
supposed that Mr.. Walker has re-
ceived a salary from the Anaconda
Copper Company, though he never ap-
years in court for that company.
Mr.. Walker is State Senator from
this county and his vote has almost
invariably been in the upper house in
favor Of the public utilities of this
state, whenever a question concerning
them, or any of them, was before that
house. Should Mr.. Walker be APP
pointed, | believe that his confirma-
ton by the Senate will be bitterly OPP
posed by the local officers and mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor. I believe it will be bitterly
opposed by such as wish legal preven-
ton of child labor. The rank and file
of the members of the Bar of Montana
have been whipped in the courts and
before cowed juries into a condition
of mental c%owardice and inferiority
complex equaled in no other state.
They will content themselves with
gloomy mutterings against the APP
pointment of Mr.. Walker.
Mr.. Walkers attainments in the
way of legal knowledge do not entitle
him to rank within the first twenty
five lawyers in Montana. He has
never had a love of the study of the
law for its own sake, or with a view
Of perfeeting himself in his knowledge
of the law. His habits are not labor
ious. The position of judge, a po-
sition for which he had had no pre-
vious judicial experience, would be
irksome to him. Even those who are
fondest of him as an after-dinner ra-
contour would, if questioned as to his
fitness as a judge, almost all agree
with everything that have said.
The last census revealed an astound-
ing fact about Montana, i. e., that its
population had decreased in the pre-
yious ten years. 1t was the only state
to show a decline. l published an
analysis in pamphlet form, showing
that the cause of that decline was an
influence over our courts, our execu-
tive, our legislative, our utilities COM
missions, or industrial accident boards,
exercised by a Grand Alliance of cor
porate interests so strong that the
best young blood of our state had fled
from this ignoble domination; and
that this alliance was sucking the life
blood from all independent endeavor
in Montana. These pamphlets had
wide circulation and are one origin,
perhaps, Of a new and Independent
movement determined to rise from our
previous condition of servitude, throw
off the statewide inferiority complex,
throw open our courts and quasi-ju-
dicial boards to the enforcement of the
rights of the people of Montana. That
movement is gaining great strength
due to a feeling that your Excellency
sympathizes with such a movement,
as well as due to the local effort here.
AS an instance of how "Young
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
ELECTRICAL IN
DUSTRIES FIGHT
REGULATION

WASHINGTON-(FP) - It's bad
enough to have code authorities with
no union representatives on them. But
the electrical manufacturing indus
try's code authority doesn't even have
a governmental representative on it.
.NEMA (Natl. Electrical Mfgrs. ASSN
has taken the Swope Industrial feud-
alism idea seriously and propose to
run its own business to suit itself
or more exactly to suit General Elec-
trio and Westinghouse and Radio
Corp.
The init. Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers is seriously concerned about
NEMA's cocksure opinion that neither
workers nor the government are to
have any right to a voice in admins
tering the code. The union has sub
mitted a memorandum to NRA which
makes these points about Owen D.
Young's industrial principality:
It is a tightly controlled and auto
matically administered group of in
dustries. At its Cleveland convention,
Sept. 26, NEMA stated it was in fact
free from any control except that of
the code authority, composed only of
its own representatives.
NEMA is ruled by a clique of big
employers, the union charges. While
it claimed to control rs per cent of
production, it does not control rs per
cent of the 1,130 firms in business.
Is it then really representative, the
brotherhood challenges.
Industrial democracy, as represent
ed by workers organized in their own
unions, is fought by the filters of
NEMA as in no other industry in
America, the union charges. kEMA
asserts that it will determipe what
kind of labor organizstzoas vt will
tolerate. This, states The union, is
not guaranteed to themzasher by law
or code. Nevertheless NEMA has an
nounced it will defend its brand of
feudalism by court action.
Another allied mofiopoly now under
the electrical workers scrutiny is
American Telephone & Telegraph.
This company has exceeded NEMA by
refusing even to Submit a code to
NRA. It proposes merely to extend
its temporary blue eagle agreement,
which expires Dec. 81.
A. T. & 7. pats its own back as the
model employer whose wage and hours
structure needs no NRA enforcement.
The electricians brotherhood challen-
ges that view sharply and says that
in view of the company's huge prof
its-guaranteed to the monopoly by
state permission-it can pay much
higher wages and shorten hours ma
terially.
The utilities industry, also directly
allied to NEMA, wanted to make it's
temporary blue eagle agreement in
to a permanent code. NRA has re-
jected this proposal and ordered the
industry to write a code.
Sen. Nye of North Dakota, in a let
ter to Gen. Johnson, charges that the
MIRA code for the electrical industry is
Tightening General Electric's monop-
oily in the electric bulb industry. The
code was pushed through with Pres,
Gerard Swope of General Electric as
NRA industrial adviser. Thereupon he
resigned from NRA to accept a po-
sition ON the NEMA code authority
The code and its enforcement arc
pushing the Independents out of bust
ness, Sen. Nye states.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
MONTANA POWER COMPANY GAS
FILTERS UNFAIR
LOCAL PLUMBERS PREFER CHARGES OF WORK
M UNDER SCALE AND INFRINGEMENT OF
JURISDICTION

The Council, at its last session,
voted to concur in the declaration of
unfairness of the Local Plumbers
Against the Gas Filters employed by
the Gas Division of the Montana
Power Company. These men are
working for wages far below the I'M
ion scale and work not only for the
Power Company but for others who
will employ them at the low scale of
pay. The Plumbers also state that
these men are not only doing gas fit
ting but general plumbing and steam
fitting, work beyond the jurisdiction
of any gas-fitter.
This dispute is one of long stand
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

ing. The Gas Filters were once MEM
bers of the Plumbers international,
but because of their failure to abide
by the decisions of the international
their charter was taken from them.
Since then most work of this kind
has been done at whatever wages the
worker could receive. This method
has thrown many qualified plumbers
out of employment.
The dispute has been ordered taken
up by a Federal arbiter by the De-
partment of Labor and Plumbers In
ternational. People having gas equip
ment installed should demand that the
work be done by "fair" gas-fitters.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
abbreviated Form)
December 9Th, 1888.

OeCeilDei ObIl3 1000
To His Excellency,
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Ie the Hon. Homer S. Cummings,
Attorney General of the United
States.
Mr.. President and Mr.. Attorney Gen
eral:
The announced resignation of the
Hon. George M. Bourquin as Federal
Judge of the District of Montana, to
take effect March 9th, 1884, requires
a selection, by the President, of
someone for the most important fed
eral office in this state.
Rumor has become so persistent that
it is worthy of notice, that through
the personal influence Of Hon. Frank
C. Walker with your Excellency, the
nominee by the President for that
position will be the Hon. Thomas j.
Walker, the brother of one who has
d~eservedly gained the confidence Of
your Excellency. Were Frank G.
Walker seeking this position for him
self, such a letter as this would prob
ably not be written by me. While
Thomas j. Walker has been my init
mate acquaintance and l have been
his personal friend and wished him
well for almost 40 years, there are
few persons that the mantle might
fall on, less fit by temperament, by
previous retainers, by shallowness in
the study of the law, for the position
Of Federal Judge, than Thomas ].
Walker. l mean, that of the 800 ac-
tive lawyers in Montana, anyone of
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
1871
SILVER RESOLUTION

The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council voted to endorse the 1871
silver resolution adopted by the
Miners Union. The Resolution calls
for the formation of an international
Silver Commission and the adoption
of Silver as a monetary basis at the
ration of 1911. A copy of the Reso-
luton has been sent the President Of
the United States.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
N OVER
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Th rulers
Of the national exchequer have sud
denly found an intense love for the
establishment of federal buildings"
particularly in times of depression
After the treasury departments art
experts get through, the hungry I'M
Continued on Page Four
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF NATIONAL
RECOVERY ACT BACKED BY JURIST

Justice Black of New York State SUI
preme Court Holds General Well
fare Clause Gives Congress Power
to Enact Legislation to Meet the
National Emergency Caused by Mill
lions of Unemployed Workers and
Wholesale Reduction in American
Living Standards.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be CUB
ject to perils of discor
Evening star., 1933-10-09
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