Montana labor news., 1933-10-26
WAITRESS SUES
RESTAURANT
NRA

CLEVELAND-(FP) The first
MIRA law suit in Cleveland has been
started by Agnes Leckie, former wait
ress, against the Child's Restaurant
chain, for $2.7S due to her as wages
under the NRA.
Miss Leckie said in her petition that
until Aug. 10 she was paid Toe an hour
and that on Aug. IL, Childs signed
the restaurant code which sets the
minimum wage of mattresses at 2Sc
an hour.
For 20 hours work between Aug.
IL and Aug. % she was paid only
S2.01, with 96c deducted for uniform.
She was discharged, she says, when
she demanded the remainder of $5.75
due her.
The Childs Restaurant chain has
long been known as a sweatshop chain
and is bitterly anti-labor.
the establishment of understanding
and friendship between the worlds
two greatest republics. He said moth
ing of trade or of trade credits. He
declined to name the special problems
which ire to be discussed next month,
when Litvinov arrives. But in reading
aloud Kalinin's message he empha-
sized the words world peace"
That emphasis was of Importance
to the world. 1t had a special sig
nificance at Tokyo, where threats of
attack on Soviet territory have been
frequent so long as the United States
and the Soviet Union were kept part.
1t was important at Geneva, where the
Arms Conference has been defied by
Hitler. 1t was deeply important to
Berlin, since it indicated that Mos
COW and Washington would soon be
discussing the war danger in Europe
in the light of their mutual desire for
peaceful rebuilding of economic Sc
curity.
And so, at last, the long political
embargo on the first s~ocialized state
by the worlds first political republic
was overt
The press correspondents asked few
questions. They realized that the pre-
tense Of non-recognition henceforth
was thin as cobweb, and that the
United States, under Roosevelt's guild
ance of policy, was entering upon a
new era of international Cancellation.
There would still be many arguments
over American claims against the Mos
COW government, and Soviet counter
claims against the United States.
There were the Kerensky debt of
$187, 000, 900 on the one side, with var
ious claims of confiscation of Amer
lean investments in Russia, as against
the Soviet claim for injury inflicted
by American invasions-without dec
laration of warm Siberia and in nor
thern Russia in attempts to overthrow
the revolutionary regime. But these
were old disputes; they might readily
be cancelled off against each other.
The bigger issues are as to trade and
mutual tolerance of each others po-
litical institutions, and the need for
working together against the Euro
pean and Asiatic drift toward war.
1t was a great day for Franklin d.
Roosevelt. 1t was a happy day for
Boris E. Skvirsky, Washington repre-
sentative of the Soviet Foreign Of
flee, who has labored for such a de-
velopment during twelve years of resi-
dence in the American capital. Skvir-
sky has overcome endless difficulties
with tact, high intelligence and good
humor. His infinite patience has been
rewarded. The American diplomatic
embargo on one-sixth of the habitable
surface Of the earth has been cancel
led. Skvirsky, as did Benjamin Frank
lin, when serving in Europe as the en-
voy of the revolving American colon
les, has earned the gratitude of the
worlds peoples as well as that of the
people Of the Soviet Union.
Skvirsky is a great conciliator. In
Roosevelt he has met at last a mar
who understands and values concilia-
ton without sacrifice of principles of
human betterment.