Montana labor news., 1933-01-05
MALLOY REVIEWS PAST YEAR

lions ana CneH respective QelegaIeS Tor Cne cooperation
and support extended to the council and its officers dur
ing the past year, and we all know that the year just
past was a trying one for the labor movement.
/ wish also at this time to extend my thanks to my
fellow officers of this council for their undivided COOP
Grafton during my time in office.
| would be ungrateful and negligent if | did not at
this time give my heartiest thanks to the delegates who
have served on the several committees both standing
and special; they have worked hard on each mission in
trusted to them, for which | am indeed very grateful.
| cannot pass this opportunity by without giving special
thanks to the members of the Press committee, whose i'm
portance to the council and the labor movement in gen.
eral is too often overlooked. Theirs has indeed been an
exceptional job in their efforts to keep the Labor News
in existence, and I believe at this time each organization
should consider the importance and necessity Of the pa
per. There are organizations affiliated with the council
that are supporting the paper as far as their treasures
will permit, but a majority of the unions ignore its i'm
portance until times of trouble and then they seek its
help, yet they do not contribute to keep it in existence,
and | am OF the opinion that the life of our paper is very
short unless it is given more financial support by or
gained labor.
also wish to thank the members of the Grievance
committee. AS you know, the bulk of the committee
work Of the council falls on them and they have, in my
opinion, worked hard and diligently on each and every
case intrusted to them for their consideration, and | be-
lieve, and honestly too, that each decision and recon-
mendation that they have brought back to you was in
their opinion for the best interests of the labor move
ment, and especially has their lot been a hard one In
the year just passed, and not only are they entitled to
my thanks but the thanks of the movement in general,
although their findings did not at all times meet with
the approval of everyone.
To the members of all other committees | wish to give
my thanks and extend my gratitude for their untiring
work during the year.
AS for myself, as the chairman of this body, I have at
all times done my utmost to render decisions according
to the laws of the council as we'll as the laws of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and while at times my decisions
may have seemed unreasonable and contrary, | assure
you all that they were rendered to the best of my ability
DC 7 intarprata6 tho lows Alec of tipooc 7 NOV bovo yooIoI
a mistake; if you think | did so, | ask you to believe that
it came from the head and not the heart; if | erred, may
| say it is only human to err and | am only human and !
am not infallible. To those whom | have offended un-
Intentionally, at this time | take the opportunity of eX-
tending apologies.
In closing, may | presume on your time for a moment
longer to say a word for the officers and committees of
all organizations: Tolerance for the opinions, the hab-
its, the beliefs of others sometimes means all the differ
ence between a high type of union and one which merely
exists, and is little satisfaction to its members and very
little credit to the movement which means all the other
unions in the labor movement.
1t may be the chairman of some important committee
who differs from a majority of his committee members
on som matter of personal concern. Sometimes the pres
ident Of the union himself is a bit different.
| ask you to be tolerant toward him, brothers and sis
tiers; concede him the right to live his life as he or she
may choose-as you demand that right for yourself. That
is no more than the Golden Rule: "as we would that they
should do unto you" This is true unionism and has the
elements of leadership or they would never have been
elected president, or appointed the head of an important
committee.
You may learn to like and appreciate them, and even
if it should prove a mistake to have entrusted an i'm
portant post to him or her as the case may be, and it
sometimes does, serve anyway, and next year the mis-
take can be rectified. Never do the "baby act' and
quit your organization, or even neglect its work because
some little thing is not to your liking. Be a real union
man or woman and do your work in spite of petty trials.
With this may l wish to each and every one of you a
most prosperous and happy New Year, and through you
l extend these greetings to the membership of your Or
CARNATIONS, and l again wish to extend my gratitude to
you giving me the honor of presiding over this body in
the past. CHARLES MALLOY.
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