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Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
$500 BUDD WORKERS
ARE NOW ON STRIKE.

PHILADELPHIA (FP) - More
than $500 Of the 1000 employees of
the Budd Body Corp. have walked out,
demanding a $~5.50-S6.5O minimum
daily wage scale and the 35-hour
week. The men are organized in the
United Auto Workers Union, A. F..
of l..
Edward G.. Budd, multi-millionaire
owner of the corporation, has set up
a company union and has announced
that he will deal only with that. The
regional labor board in Philadelphia
has called Budd before it.
Budd made the headlines at the
height of the depression when he lee
tured his dinner guests on the neces-
sity of workers being grateful to en-
ployers for giving them work.
lars will grow. But whether baloney
dollar, rubber dollar or greenback,
Uncle Sam always hands out some
thing to his depositors-something be-
sides weasel words about frozen as
sets, too.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
SAVINGS
BOOM AS BANKS
LAG

NEW YORK-(FP)-Despite the
efforts of the administration to in
crease confidence in the banks the
people Of the country still have lit
tie faith in them as is shown by the
reports coming into Wall Street Of
tagging deposits in some centers and
falling deposits in others.
A result of this situation is that
the banks are still calling their loans
and economist observers point out that
the Roosevelt initiation program about
which there is so much talk is being
offset steadily by declining bank
loans-a d~eflationary move hard to
combat and very effective. The
amount of payment by check has
changed little in the last six months.
"There is little better barometer of
the peoples attitude toward the banks
than postal deposits" one economist
said. "And you will find that they
have been growing steadily all during
the depression-and they are still
growing"
The figures bear this out. In mil
lions on deposit during the last few
years the figures e
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT WINS IOWA.

The ratification of the proposed child labor
amendment to the Federal Constitution by Iowa
raises to sixteen the number of States which have
approved this meritorious proposition.
AT the regular session of the Iowa Legislature
several months ago the House indefinitely post
poned action on the measure, which had per-
viously been approved by the Senate. Since
that time members of the Legislature had re-
ceived definite disapproval of their action by the
concerted action of the Iowa State Federation OF
Labor and other progressive organizations, with
the result that the House adopted the amendment
by a vote OF oil to AZ.
The child labor amendment does not legislate
on the employment of children. 1t merely con-
iers upon the Congress of the United States the
power TO limit, regulate and prohibit the labor
of persons under Is years OF age
Including Iowa, the sixteen states which have
approved the amendment are: Arizona, Arkan-
sas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington,
Wisconsin.
AS a result OF the organized efforts of the
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
IS GEN.. JOHNSON
AFRAID TO
DOWN ON MELLON

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Is General
Johnson afraid of Andrew w. Mel
Ion? This question is being asked
around Washington as the NRA chief
delays decision on whether MELONS
Aluminium Co. of America can get
away with a code of flair COMPETE
ton" with the fair competition
clauses left out. johnson has pass
ed the buck to Donald Richberg, his
chief legal adviser.
The Aluminium Co. wants a code
covering only wages and hours-and
such wages! 1t wants a minimum
wage of 25c an hour for bauxite min
ers in the south and aluminium work
ers in the north. The MIRA labor
adviser has entered strenuous objee-
ton to the wage provisions. The
usual southern minimum for indus
trial work has been zoe an hour.
The independent aluminium inter-
ests in the fabricating field-the trust
controls production of all raw metal
refollowing the progress of the code
carefully. If Johnson lets the Mellon
version through, they promise to APP
peal to President Roosevelt, and if
he sidesteps, they will take their case
directly to Congress. Congress will
be only too glad, they believe, to pro-
vide another NRA amendment which
will force the Mellon monopoly to per-
NIT competition. Sen. Borah is watch
ing the codes slow progress. He is
author of the anti-monopoly amend
ment to the NRA law.
But if Gen. johnson is looking for
a popular issue on which to appeal to
the country against the chiselers and
the opponents of NRA, he will find
none better than that presented by
the aluminium code, he has been told.
The country is thoroughly sick of
Mellon and Mellonism. If, instead of
taking blue eagles away from obscure
inn keepers and gas stations, Gen.
Johnson will make a dramatic APP
peal for NRA enforcement by a di-
rect attack on the Mellon company,
which is violating its blue eagle code
in New Kensington by paying 25c an
hour to women employees, he will find
a tremendous response, according to
the view expressed in Washington.
The Mellon company is likely to
have more trouble on its hands as a
result Of slashing prices on its bid
for high tension wire to the Tennessee
Valley Authority. The aluminium COM
pany bid re a pound on fabricated
wire, although its own price for the
raw metal is 23.3c. The Anaconda
Copper Mining Co.'s subsidiary sub
mitted a bid of 16c for copper wire
and lost the award.
Now it is reported that Anaconda
is retaliating by boosting the Column
bia Basin dam project in the State of
Washington in the hopes that cheap
electricity can be furnished a com
peting aluminium plant.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

stimulates M~ussolini to intensity his
naval program. Under it all the peo-
pies groan.
Next years Japanese naval man
euvers again will be held in her far
thest islands, near the Philippines and
within striking distance of Hawaii.
She has only one rival in the Pacific
the United States. The U. S. navy
answers by holding the Atlantic fleet
in the Pacific, increasing its size and
conducting worldwide maneuvers to
stop Japan's drive for mastery of the
tremendously rich Chinese and Far
Eastern markets.
Hostilities, none the less real be-
cause there there is no roar of cannon
in the halls at Montevideo, are being
waged at the Pan-American confer
ence between the United States and
the Latin American nations. Both
Cuba and Haiti are trying to raise the
issue of U. S. domination of the Carl
bbean. Supporting them are most of
the Latin-American countries, led by
Argentina. The U. S. delegation is
thanked by Colombia, fief of Natl.
City Bank, United Fruit and the Mel.
Ion and Rockefeller oil companies,
and some of the Central American
dependencies such as Nicaragua.
To balance Washington's dominat-
ing position, the Latin American
countries succeeded at Montevideo for
the first time in having Spanish and
Portuguese representatives present.
Haiti, most intransigeant of all the
Latin countries, is seeking to have
France, her mother" country, repre-
scented.
The Haitians, smarting under U. S.
domination of their financial affairs
to enforce Natl. City Bank debt pay
ments, are raising as many embarras-
sing questions as possible. They
want a resolution adopted aimed at all
"extra-territorial occupation, both fl
nancial and military"
The Cubans, as hosts to the last
Pan-American conference in Havana
in 1928, were to make the official re-
Spouse to the Uruguayan address Of
welcome. They submitted an address
which hit directly at U. S. interven-
ton in Cuban affairs through the
Plat amendment. Delegation from
Colombia and other nations under the
state departments thumb managed to
squelch the Objectionable parts of the
address.
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14
THE WASHINGTON
SCENE By Harvey O'ConnOr

WASHINGTON-(FP)--Wa Wars heat
lightning, f%orerunner of another ca
tastrophe to the human race, is flash
ing on horizons east, west and south
of the United States, and in the heart
of the nations capital.
That the nations are in deadly earn
est in preparing for the next holo-
caust and have everything in readi-
ness-bombing planes, new and ter
rible gases, highly motorized army
units-is evidenced by the soaring
military budgets of every nation. Only
the date of the outbreak remains to
be set. In what obscure corner of
the world the match will be applied
to the powder barrel is yet to be de-
termined.
Here in Washington both the war
and navy departments have issued
clarion calls for heavier expenditures
on the instruments of mass murder.
Gen. Macarthur, chief of staff, de-
mands $4,000, 900 TO motorize the
army, and a heavy increase in the
training Of reserve officers.
Calling attention to the fact that
the peace-making apparatus of the
capitalist nations-the disarmament
conference at Geneva-has been toss
ed ON the scrap heap, Sec. of the
Navy Swanson has called for a huge
increase in warship construction.
Significantly Sec. Swanson said that
this nation already, due to the $780,
100000 allotment to the navy from
NRA funds, has undertaken a naval
building campaign u%nequalled since
1916 when Pres. Wilson Sought to
bring the navy to a position inferior
to none" One year later the United
States was in the thick of the first
world war.
Sec. Swanson's program, which has
every promise of sympathetic con-
sideration from the next congress,
naturally has helped the jingoes of
both Britain and Japan, who advance
his statements as proof that they too
must build new ships. They are.
The japanese cabinet has just au-
thorized a s467, 00O, 900 budget for
war purposes, more than half of
which goes to the navy. England
is busy building newer and better
warships. Hitler's Germany is build
ing and so France has answered with
a rush order to her navy yards. This
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

Here is a graphic picture of the fear
of those whose little savings are en-
dangered by the panic. In three years
a billion dollars have been put into
the postal savings accounts. This
has been against a campaign of ridi-
cule by the big city papers, which
have pointed out truly enough that
the government re-deposits the postal
savings money right back in the banks
from which it was drawn-but fail to
add that in the meantime the promise
of the government that the ~depositor
will get his money on demand has
been added. During the bank holiday
postal savings were always available,
for example.
Several limitations are put on pos
tai savings and there is a campaign
going on in Congressional circles to
remove those limitations. Let deposit
ors check against postal accounts and
take off the low limit on how much
can be deposited, western progressives
are saying. The bankers in Wall
Street fear this desperately because
they believe the average gain of 300
to 400 millions a year for the last
three years would zoom upward if
these provisions became law.
Deposits in postal savings are no
protection against initiation, it is
pointed out. The government simply
agrees to pay back in dollars with no
provision as to how much those dol
Montana labor news., 1933-12-14

American Federation of Labor and the State
Federations of Labor ten states approved the
child labor amendment last year. The favor
able action of twenty more states will be neces-
sary to bring the number up to thirty-six, re-
quired to write the amendment into the Consti-
tuition.
Evening star., 1933-02-05

preliminaries will include: Wigs and
Queues Dramatic Club, Of First Baptist
Church; Jewish Community Center
Dramatic Association, Dowling Guild,
Womens City Club Drama Unit, Mount
Pleasant Players, Montgomery Players,
the Workship, First Congregational
Church Players, Parent Teacher Assoct-
alton OF Buchanan School, Christian
Endeayor Players, st. James Players,
Southeast Community Players.
The groups scheduled to appear dur
Ing the second week of preliminary con-
tests, at Roosevelt Auditorium, are:
Park View Players, Y. p. Club Of
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
Chapel Players Of Luther Place Memo
rial Church, the Troupers Of East
Washington Community Center, Shoe
string Productions Co., Mackin Club,
Foundry Players, Religious Drama Com
mittee OF the Washington Federation Of
Churches, Orange and Blue Players,
Bartfield Players, Women's Club Of
Chevy Chase and the Arts Club Players.
Tickets Placed on Sale.
The Community Center Department
has placed tickets for the preliminary
season on sale at the American Auto
mobile Association and other down.
town agencies, where reserved seats for
the finals may likewise be secured.
Tickets will be IS and so cents.
Tickets are also available at the Com
munity Center Department in Franklin
School Building, Thirteenth and K
streets. and at the various community
centers throughout the city.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
PLAY TOURNAMENT
JUDGES SELECTED
Five Are Named Officials for
PreIiminaries in 0ne-Act
Competition.

Judges for the preliminary contests
Of the District one-act play tournament,
coRducted annually by the Community
Center Department with the co-opera-
tion of the Drama Guild, were an
nounced yesterday.
The judges are Robert Downing. the
actor: DR.. Dewitt c. Croissant, Of
George Washington University; Rich
ard Westwood. editor of Nature mag
azne: Capt. Doyle o. Hickey, Of the
Ofice Of Public Buildings and Public
Parks. and Mrs. Thomas w. Sidwell, Of
Friends School.
The preliminary plays will be given
February IA, is, and 18 at Eastern High
School, and February 81, % and IS at
Roosevelt High School. Four plays will
be presented each night. OF these, four
will be selected for the finals
Judges Of the finals. which will be
held March 1 at Mckinley High School,
will be the dramatic editors of the
five local daily newspapers. They are
Andrew r. Kelley, the Times, chair
man; Edward de S. Melcher, The Star;
Mabelle Jennings, the Herald; Flea
more Wilson, the News, and Nelson B.
Bell, the Post.
The drama groups which will appear
at Eastern during the first week Of the
Evening star., 1933-02-05
NEW PROBES ASKED
Of INITIATION GROUP
Cost of Farm Products and
R. F. C. Loans to big
Fellows" Cited.
By the Associated Press.


The congressional committee study
ing inflationary problems was urged
yesterday to investigate two other
things-why farm products cost so lit
tie and why critics say the huge Re-
construction Finance Corporation helps
! "only the big fellow"
The new investigations were advo-
| Gated by John A. Simpson, president of
| the National Farmers Union who teS-
mittee on Reconciliation of Silver.
| posed could be done by the United
States alone to help the farmer get
more for his products except remone-
tization of silver That, he testified,
would increase the purchasing power
of half the world and make the farm
er'S products more in demand.
Simpson added that the ReconStruc-
ton Corporation had not helped the
little man" He said the corporations
loans to banks have not increased
credit. but simply permitted cancella-
tions of Federal reserve notes IN the
amounts Of the loans.
consequently" he said. there has
been no expansion Of credit from that
direction. That power Of cancellation
is too big power to put into the
selfish purposes"
Hits 1920 Decision.
He traced the farmers difficulties
back to the Federal Reserve Boards
decision In 1920 to def1ate farm prices.
Two Of the "culprits." he testified,
were David F. Houston, then Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. and w. p. G..
Harding, then governor of the board.
Simpson said he talked with John
Shelton Williams, controller of the
currency, in 1920, and asked If he did
not think the ordered def1ation would
CLOSE small banks
They ought to close-there are too
many of them" Simpson quoted Will
Hams as replying
And 10000 Of them have closed
since that time" Simpson continued.
Under the present system, Simpson
asserted, all plans for expansion of
monetization Of silver must fail be-
Death Valley, the lowest place on the
continent, on Thursday. it will be back
with Papa ]. Pierpont Morgan, in New
York. on Saturday.
If things 60 on like they are now
for another IL MONTHS Simpson said,
most of the creditors Of the country
are going to wake up some morning
and find out that they have most of
nothing. They ought to realize what
Is happening, and agree to take part
of something, which they could get with
your silver reconciliation.
The big money lords of this country
are about as ignorant of what is about
to happen as the Gar was before the
revolution"
Thomas Claims Support.
Support from many university pro-
fessors and students Of economics for
currency imitation was claimed yester-
day by Senator Thomas, Oklahoma
Democrat, who placed in the Senate
record replies to letter he had sent
to educational institutions all over the
country.
Thomas prefaced his remarks with
declaration that the country needed
economic, not political, leadership, but
that since economic leadership was
lacking in that body, he took it upon
himself to gather some helpful" in
formation.
He said he had written the college
professors asking their reaction to the
idea that increased currency would
mean cheaper money and higher COM
modify prices.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
Federal, LICENSES
!. ON TRUCKS SOUGHT
Interstate Commerce Con-
troll Would Be Added to
State Laws.
By the Associated Press.

by tne ASSOCIATED FreSS.
Federal licensing Of motor trucks
operating in interstate commerce, in
addition to the present strict regula-
ton by some of the States, is the goal
being sought by operators Of large
trucking lines.
At the same time the railroads, which
have been seriously affected by oper-
alton of trucks, particularly contract
carriers, are pushing for Federal regu-
lation Of the motor truck and permis-
sion to use the highways themselves,
thus replacing the local freight train.
Regulation of motor trucks and busses
has been gaining impetus Throughout
the country during recent years. A
study of the situation made by the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
which reported to Congress last April
showed that Al States and the District
of Columbia regulate passenger bus
and 80 States and the District regulate
trucks operating as common carriers.
In % States laws govern the operation
of contract trucks-trucks which are
hired by the trip or in agreement to
do a definite amount Of hauling.
Difficulties Raised.
The interstate truck line operations
have had difficulty at times with State
Evening star., 1933-02-05
CHAINED TO HIS BED
Man in Lynchburg Hospital Faces
Robbery Charges.

LYNCHBURG, Va. February 4 Op).-
Chained to bed at Lynchburg Hos
pital, Charles Link, ~, Of Rockbridge
County, awaits recovery from a pistol
shot wound to stand trial in Botetourt
County and Rockbridge County on al
legged robberies Of two limestone quarry
commissaries. He was brought to the
hospital January &c. He said he shot
himself in the abdomen accidentally
and after being wounded fell into q
creek and lay there three hours. A
passerby picked him up and brought
him to the hospital, after which he de-
veloped pneumonia
Today Links was identified by q
Rockbridge County officer as the man
wanted and police chained one of his
ankles to the bed on which he lay.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
COURT HEARS MEANS
APPEAL TOMORROW
Conviction on Charges of $1O4, 900
Lindbergh Swindle to
Be Aired.

The appeal Of Castor B. Means from
his conviction last year on charges of
swindling Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean
of $104,000 in a fantastic scheme to
ransom the kidnapped Lndbergh baby,
will be heard tomorrow In the District
Court of Appeals.
Following his conviction in District
Supreme Court, Means was sentenced
to Is years imprisonment. His appeal
will be argued by Attorney William E.
Leahy, while United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover will represent the Gov
eminent.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
COLORED WOMAN HELD
IN HUSBANDS SLAYING
Grand Jury to Act in Shooting Of
DR.. Stultz-Self-Defen
Plea Expected.

Is said by police to have admitted shoot
ing her husband, DR.. Christopher c.
Stultz, 3e-year- r-old physician, on Friday,
was ordered held yesterday for grand
jury action by a coroner's jury which
investigated the colored doctors death.
DR.. Stultz was found dead in bed in
his ofQce-apartment at 627 Third street
northeast by policemen Of the ninth
precinct, who broke into the place after
receiving report there had been q
shooting.
Mrs. Stultz, also known as Annie E.
Hairston, was said by police to have
admitted the shooting, declaring her
husband beat her and accused her Of
infidelity.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
RETURN MURDER SUSPECT
OMcials Bring Prisoner Indicted
in Murder Of Watchman,

Joe Goodman, 30. colored, of Balti-
more, under indictment on q charge OF
numbering William Simms, IS, colored
night watchman for the Dickey Brothers
feed store, Kenilworth avenue and
Benning road northeast, was brought
back here late yesterday from Accomac,
Va
He was named by George Mckinley
Pitmond, also colored, as the slayer of
Simms, who was killed during hold-up
Of the store about two weeks ago.
Pitmond, arrested shortly after the slay-
ing, also is under indictment on q first
degree murder charge.
Evening star., 1933-02-05

is encouraging key members Of his cabi-
net also to give the new administration
q wide berth.
There are those who suggest that the
President thereby intends to set an ex-
ample for his successor, whose occa-
sional forays into the legislative arena
have not been pleasing to President
Hoover.
He will leave It to the regularly con-
stituted national organizations Of the
after ths change Of administration.
Evening star., 1933-02-05
THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON FEBRUARY

Of Columbia, Florida. Georgia, idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota,
Mississippi. Missouri, Montana, Neb-
raska, Nevada. New Hampshire, New Jer-
sey, New Mexico, New York. North Caro-
lima, North Dakota, Ohio. Oklahoma,
Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes-
see. Texas, Utah. Vermont, Virginia,
Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Wyoming. Many Of these States
also regulate carriers not following regu-
lar routes.
Evening star., 1933-02-05

laws which require every truck operat-
Ing over the highways Of the State
under certain conditions to take out q
State license. As a result many trucks
ana busseS carry as many as five license
plates.
The directors Of National Organiza-
ton Of Truck Line Operators met here
recently and instructed q committee tc
draw suggested bill handling the pro-
posals. The measure would closely
follow the Interstate Commerce Com
mission recommendations, and would
provide for a Federal license plate
which would be good anywhere, and
relieve the operator Of buying State
State.
In many States trucking companies
operate on regular schedules. These
lines are granted franchises for certain
routes. Nobody else can operate on
these routes unless there is business for
more than one line. Recently the
Illinois regulatory body refused licenses
to two companies.
Abandonment Of railroad branch lines
is having the result in some instances
OF causing increased strictness OF
trucking laws. Nebraska has frightened
its laws since the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway asked
the Interstate Commerce Commission to
let 1t abandon its Coburn-Wynot branch
in that State.
Laws are Tightened.
During hearings and arguments on
the Coburn-Wynot case recently the
Nebraska Railroad Commission pre-
sented exhibits showing Tightening OF
truck laws and also presented resolu-
tions Of business organizations along
the line pledging themselves to make
more use Of the railroad and less Of the
trucks in the future.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion compilation shows the following
States regulate motor carriers over reg
ular routes:
Alabama. Arizona, Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, District
Evening star., 1933-02-05
Literary Society Elects.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, February 4
Especially The Junior Literary Society
of Charlotte Hall Military School elect
S. Hebb, son Of DR.. Arthur Hebb Of
Baltimore and st. Marys County; vice
president, r. L. Bowersox OF Baltimore,
Md, and secretary and treasurer, o. L.
Collins Of Cambridge, Md
The faculty advisors are Capt. L. G.
William and Maj. o. c. Sadler.