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Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
BREWERY WORKERS ARE NOW
DENIED GENERAL JURISDICTION

WASHINGTON-(FP)- First fire
in the 53rd Annual Convention of the
American Federation of Labor was
drawn Oct. 10, when part Of the morn
ing and the entire afternoon session
were devoted to the iurisdictional war
between the brewery workers on one
hand and the teamsters, engineers and
firemen on the other The brewery
workers were defeated on the con-
vention's first roll call vote by about
$4,000 votes to 6,000
The brewery workers appealed to
the convention from decision of the
A. f. of L. executive council giving
brewery drivers, engineers and fire
men over to their respective craft
unions. Brewery workers officials
declared that the decision meant the
death of their union. Speculation was
rife whether the threat of local brew
cry unions that their international
would withdraw from the A. F. of L..
would be carried out.
Claiming that previous A. F. of L.
conventions since 1887 had given the
disputed workers to the brewery un-
ion, Sec. Joseph Obergfell said that
"if the executive council can undo a
mandate of the convention, no union
is safe. Weigh well your decision be-
fore you set such a precedent"
He denounced this attempted raid"
on a union which had once controlled
the industry 100 per cent and would
again "if not molested." He wonder
ed why the laundry workers had for
gotten to claim the keg and bottle
washers, or the janitors those who
clean the breweries.
Hurting charges of "chiseling," !"
"trespass" and "piratical activities
against the brewery workers, Pres.
John Possehl of the Steam and 0per-
ating Engineers insisted that the as
pirations of engineers are entirely diff
ferent from other workers in the
brewery industry. Engineers protect
ed by their own union had won better
conditions than those under the brew
cry workers union, he claimed.
Pres. Daniel Tobin, of the teamsters
and chauffeurs union, denied his union
had ever yielded jurisdiction over
drivers to the brewery workers and
denounced as forgery" any sigma
ture of his that might appear on such
an agreement. He recounted that the
brewery workers charter had been
revoked in 1906 on jurisdictional
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

grounds. "They were reseated," he
said, "only when some wild radicals,
miners of those days, most of them
Socialists, appealed to the convention" :"
The brewery workers agreed then to
respect teamsters' jurisdiction, he
said.
Tobin denounced jurisdictional con-
flicts as imperiling the future of or
ganized labor. "Unless the labor
movement" he said, "faces realities,
Wen be having a labor movement by
law rather than by choice. Unless we
can settle disputes within our own
ranks, the government will do it for
us. Why should contractors, for in
stance, have work tied up when they
are willing to pay the union scale?"
Obergfell of the brewery, workers,
in rebuttal, claimed that iurisdictional
disputes had broken up the brewery
workers organization in the Minneap-
oils flour mills. A detective agency
there helped to disrupt the union by
Iappealing to mechanics to demand sep
arate craft unions. He claimed jur-
isdiction over drivers and others be-
cause his union antedated the organ
ization of the teamsters', engineers
and firemen's international unions.
"The teamsters claim that brewery
truck drivers are not brewery work.
ers," he said. "Will they say that milk
and dairy plant workers are team
sters? Nevertheless they are in the
teamsters' union"
Obergfell denied that the issue was
one of industrial VS.. craft unionism
but merely of the brewery workers
prior right to all workers in and about
breweries due to their organization as
an international long before other
crafts were organized. In many
cases, as a result of the present con-
flict, teamsters are hauling scab beer
or refusing to haul union beer, he
claimed Such conflicts can be avoid
ed only by having all workers in the
brewing industry in one union.
Half the 5000 votes cast for the
brewery workers came from the min
ers. Other unions supporting the
brewery workers were bakers, teach
es, seamen, printing pressmen, rail
road telegraphers, hosiery workers,
paper mill workers, potters, cloth,
cap and hat workers and lithograph-
ers. Nearly all the other internation-
ais supported the teamsters, engin-
eers and firemen.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
BUT YOU CAN'T
SAY ANYTHING"
SAY YDELEGATES

WASHINGTON-(FP)-The air at
the A. F. of L. Convention is full of
complaints and full of skepticism
about the blue eagle. Delegates tell
of numberless violations Of the code
by employers who have signed it.
Chiseling and bootlegging of every
kind is going on. "But you can't say
they tell newspapermen.
In the shirt industry for example, job
bers put the blue eagle on shirts made
by plants that are violating the code
and are not entitled to fly the blue
eagle. But the jobber's office staff
is under a code and so his office blue
eagle covers the outlaw shirts. The
same in the printing industry, it is re-
ported, where the blue eagle is sup
planting the union label in some cases.
The whole blue eagle plan will be
discarded in a few months, according
to a union label official and compul-
sion will take the place of voluntary
agreements between Pres. Roosevelt
and the employers.
While lip service is being paid to
the blue eagle and recovery plans
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
MINERS ADOPT COPPER RESOLUTION
ENDORSED BY YER BOW TRADES
AND LABOR COUNCIL

increased their production from
what formerly was twenty (2O) per
cent of the primary copper pro-
duced to fifty (5O) per cent; and
Whereas:
If curb is not put on scrap pro-
ducers the primary producers will
be compelled to either shut down or
further curtail production which
means that in copper mining dis
tricts more men will be laid off,
thereby further increasing mem-
plOyment.
Therefore, Be It Resolved:
That this council go on record
asking President Green to appear
before the administrator, Mr.. John
son in behalf of all labor employed
in the copper industry to the end
that the scrap copper producers be
placed ON the same production basis
as all primary copper producers,
which is 20 per cent of their former
production; and,
Be Il Further Resolved:
That a copy of this resolution be
sent to Great Falls and Anaconda
Central Councils, asking concur
renee in this resolution.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
NATIONAL RECOVERY ACT UNDER
GROWING SUSPICION AT AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Current
NRA trends are rousing growing crit
icism among labor men as the effects
of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson's oratorical
efforts in behalf of his anti-strike,
governmental control of union theories
expressed recently before A. F. of L.
delegates, wear off. When delegates
retired to their hotel rooms to digest
his speech, they found they had ap-
plauded surprising doctrines, as Frank
X. Martel, of the typographical union
and leader Of the Detroit Federation
of Labor, pointed out to the conven-
tion, Oct. II. He flatly challenged
Johnson's demand for governmental
control of unions.
Stating that much of the NRA ad-
ministrator's address had met dele
gates approval, Martel insisted that
"the one thing we cannot subscribe to
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

While advocates of newer methods
of organization made some progress
by the conventions action, the whole
issue still remains with the future
conference to be attended by the 10S
international union chiefs. Wide con-
cern has been expressed that the fed
eral labor unions, embracing all work
ers in a factory on a so-called "verti-
cal" basis, may eventually supplant
organization by crafts. This would
shift the emphasis in the federation
from a score of dominant craft un-
ions and seriously impair their finan-
cial revenue. 1t is regarded as highly
unlikely that the forthcoming confer
ence will do more than lay down rules
for the organization of federal labor
unions and procedure for dividing
their workers into craft unions when
ever possible.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
CONVENTION NOTES

WASHINGTON-(FP)-P Payments
of trade union benefits in 1928 total
led S51 1,44S,000, as compared with
$39,961 900 the year before, the A. f.
of L. executive council reported.
WASHINGTON-(FP) Sixty three
new charters have been issued in as
many days by the Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees Entl. Alliance, Sec.
Robert Hesketh told Federated Press.
Since May l, 10000 new members
have been added, and another 10000
are expected before Jan. l, 1884.
WASHINGTON-(FP)- Back up
NRA codes with minimum wage laws
for women and children in the states,
urged the committee on state organi-
cations to the A. F. of L. convention.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
GREEN, OTHER OFFICERS ARE RE-
ELECTED BY A. F. OF L.

WASHINGTON-(FP)- "My can
didate is William Green" With this
laconic introduction, John L. Lewis of
the miners placed Pres. Green in nom
ination for reelection as president of
the A. F. of L., Oct. IL, and set at
rest for the second time in two days
rumors of split between himself and
the A. F. of L. chief executive. Both
are members of the same union. Green
was reelected by unanimous vote.
Stories have been circulated in the
business press that Green and Lewis
were at outs and that struggle for
leadership would develop in the pres
ent convention. These reports were
given some standing when Pres. Tobin
of the teamsters tried to inject the
issue into the convention by charging
that Lewis wanted to remove Green
as president. Lewis hurled the lie di-
rect back at Tobin.
Acknowledging himself as the lead
er of lost causes in this convention,
Lewis said he was at last on the win
ming side in urging Green's nomina-
tion and reelection. Lewis was de-
cisively beaten Oct. II, when he
sought to enlarge the executive coun-
ell to "infuse new blood" into it..
Lewis union also backed the claim of
the brewery workers for jurisdiction
over all workers in the brewing in
dustry, the only other issue in the
convention so far which has demanded
a roll call vote. Transfers and other
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
EXECUTIVE COUN-
GIL TAKES OVER
|. L. n. S.

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Interna-
tional Labor News Service, faced with
deficits which Editor Chester M.
Wright has been unable to reduce, will
be taken over by the A. F. of L. exec
utive council for the next year. The
A. F. of L. will underwrite the ex-
pense of publication and the service
will be supplied free to A. F. of L. or
gans.
Federated Press, the independent
labor news service, continues on the
cooperative basis established in 1919
by labor editors in Chicago. Federat-
ed Press lives within its budget and
carries no annual deficit, due to loyal
support of some 10 labor newspapers
which are cooperative members. 1t
is not subsidized by any group within
the labor movement.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
FL CONVENTION
HONORS MORRIS
HILLQUIT

WASHINGTON = (FP) - By a
standing vote delegates to the A. F.
of L. convention, Oct 9, passed res
olution of coincidence on the death Of
Morris Hillquit, Socialist leader. "In
the death of Morris Hillquit," stated
the resolution drawn up by a special
committee headed by Pres. David Du-
binsBy of the Init. Ladies Garment
Workers, "the organized labor move
ment of America has lost one of its
staunchest adherents and lifelong
supporters. Throughout his public
career of half of century he con-
tributed generously and constructively
of his great gifts to the cause of the
workers as industrial adviser, writer
and peerless defender before judicial
tribunals" The Federation expressed
its "deep sorrow" and sent condolences
to the Hillquit family.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

craft unions won decisively against
the brewery workers OH that issue.
All other officers were reelected
Pres. Edward Flore of the hotel and
restaurant employees, and Pres. M. J..
Colleran of the plasterers were elect
ed fraternal delegates to the British
Trades Union Congress, and Pres.
Joseph P. McCurdy of the Maryland
and District of Columbia Federation
of Labor was elected as fraternal dele
gate to the Canadian Trades and La
Dor Congress.
San Francisco won over st. Louis
as convention city for 1884.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
Butte Miners Union No. l,
|. U. of M. M. and S. w.,
Butte, Montana.

DuJte, MOHtdlds
Whereas:
The price of copper has fallen
from nine 90 cents to seven and
three-quarters 7A) cents within
the week, and,
Whereas:
The drop in the price of copper
comes from domestic sellers dealing
only in scrap copper; and,
Whereas:
Scrap copper is produced by small
dealers known as junkmen who em-
plOy practically no labor and at low
wages and long hours; and,
Whereas:
Primary producers of copper em-
plOy a large number of workers at
mines and smelters; and,
Whereas:
These primary producers have
tied up all surplus stocks of cop
per, and are now producing on a
twenty 600 per cent basis of for
mer production; and,
Whereas:
The scrap producers have taken
advantage of the situation and have
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS
ADMITTED TO A. T. OF [.

repeatedly instructed local labor bod
les not to seat its delegates In re-
cent years, however, the Amalgamated
has been working in close harmony
with the Intl Ladies Garment Work
ers and other needle trades unions.
Technicalities prevented admittance
of the Amalgamated in time to have
Sidney Hillman, its president, and
delegates seated at the 3rd convention.
Had the executive council been en-
larged, as John L. Lewis advocated, it
is thought probable that Hillman
would have won seat.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

WASHINGTON-(FP)-TheA Amer
ican Federation of Labor placed its
seal of approval on successful rebel
lion when its convention, Oct. IL, ad-
mitted the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers to membership by unanimous
vote. The Amalgamated was formed
in 1914 by secession from the United
Garment Workers. Settlement of the
long controversy brought applause
from delegates.
For years the Federation maintain
ed hostile attitude toward the Anal
gamated as "dual union" and had
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
Bozeman Local Places Grain
Company On the Unfair List

Local No. 557 of the Carpenters
Union, Bozeman, has placed the Boze-
man Feed and Grain Company on the
Unfair List for hiring non-union
craftsmen on their building. The
Bozeman local asks the support Of
Butte labor in bringing this unfair
concern to task. The Bozeman Feed
and Grain Company manufactures
MISCO products.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
GREEN PRAISES
M. HILLQUIT

WASHINGTON-(FP)-- President
Green paid tribute to Morris Hillquit
as an Outstanding and able champion
of labor" from the A. F. of L. con-
vention platform. Hillquit, national
chairman of the Socialist Party, died
in New York, Oct. 8.
Although a member of the Social
list Party, Mr.. Hillquit was a support
er of the American Federation of
Labor and of our economic policies"
said Pres. Green.
many seasoned labor delegates are
waiting for genuine results. They
point to the figures cited by Pres.
Green from tables compiled by the
Natl. Industrial Conference Board-an
employer organization-which shows
that the buying power of the worker
has gone up SO per cent in dollars
since March but that the cost of liv-
ing had gone up IL per cent in the
same period, thus showing net loss
for the worker.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
COUNCIL APPOINTS
SILVER COMMITTEE

The Council, at its last regular
meeting, appointed a committee to
work on the silver question, with the
local silver group. The committee
consists of Sinnot, of the machinists,
chairman; Langdon and McLenaghan,
of the miners.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

Scores of strikes, large and small,
dot the New York area; 10000 truck
ers went out and came back in short
order with a 48-hour week, after long
shoremen and Railway Express em-
ployes had refused to transport goods
for companies the workers were strik-
ing against.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19
HANSEN CONTROVERSY is IN HANDS
OF A. OF L. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

WASHINGT0N-(FP)-The con-
troyersy between meat cutters and
building trades workers regarding
jurisdiction in the Hansen meat
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

packing plant was referred to the
A. F. of L. executive council for
adjustment and immediate settle
ment.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

Some 1000 hat furworkers in l6
Danbury, Conn, shops are picketing
for an NRA code.
Montana labor news., 1933-10-19

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., 1933-10-19

The American lard of
living must be fsso 1
in order that AmerN caJ
stitutions may not be SUB
ject TO perils of discomfort
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-01-14

audience the star song, Am Blue,
which she introduced in the motion
picture "On With the Show" followed
with teasingly delightful rendition
of Underneath the Harlem Moon"
with the audience still applauding-
wanting more. No woman who has
appeared on local stage in many
months has so charmed an audience
with the sheer merit of her perform
ance. Those who saw Miss Waters in
a single turn on the vaudeville stage
did not have an opportunity to gauge
her true ability. Lew Leslie s "Rhap-
sody in Black" gives the theatre-goer
that opportunity.
The supporting cast is almost too
perfect. Cecil Mack's choir with Err
nest Boyd, Alma Hubbard as soloists
is excellent specially arranged spirit
uals or blues songs Pike Davis Con-
tinental orchestra furnished fine mu-
steal background for the performance.
It's music was sweet and symphonic
and without the brassy noise of many
stage orchestras. Avis Andrews, a
most talented singer, directed the or
chestra in superb rendition of Ger
shwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the
Mack choir assisting vocally In "a
splendid first act finale. Blue Meal.
lister in three pantomimic bits as a
foil for the droll waggish Miss Wa
tiers brought down the house: Speak
ing of bringing down the house two
boys, Worthy and Thompson, tap
dancers, actually took the house by
storm. Florence Hill, yivacious
dancer and Kathryn Perry, singer,
also are among the featured players.
Those persons who appreciate a
good show staged in excellent taste
with star of first magnitude working
to please auditors should be "Rhap-
sody In Black" It is well worth any
body's money.
Finishing its engagement at the
Metropolitan Saturday with matinee
and evening performance it moves
over to st. Paul for four days begin
ming Sunday night. Take our tip and
don't miss this show.
Cecil Newman,
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-01-14
Woman Leaps Three
Stories With Babe
To Escape Flames
WOMAN JUMPS FROM WINDOW
WITH BABY IN HER ARMS.

WITH BABY IN HER ARMS.
New York City CNS)-Mrs. Cath
crime Basden, "a years old, took her
baby in her arms and leaped from
the third floor window of their apart
ment at Al West 117th street Janu-
airy 2, as fire was eating its way into
the fiat. ~ -
The mother suffered a fractured
hip and possible internal injuries.
One daughter, Martha, nine years
old, suffered a possible skull fracture
and internal injuries, and another,
Elsie, fifteen, shoulder fracture and
internal injuries, in jumping to the
street They were taken to Harlem
Hospital.
The father, Osmond Basden, and
three other tenants remained in their
rooms until carried down ladders by
firemen. They were treated for
smoke inhalation.
The fire, which is believed to have
started on the ground floor, had
reached the door of the Basden fiat
before the family was aroused by
shouts from outside,
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-01-14
A. REVIEW OF "RHAPsoDY IN
BLACK.

We approached the task of review
ing this production for our readers
with certain misgivings. In Chicago
almost year ago we had covered the
show as it played the Garrick in that
city. Naturally we felt that most of
our opinion of the show would be
somewhat tinged by comparisons with
our first impression. Then, too, it is
accepted, by most of the jewellers in
the American hinter-lands that road
productions are never up to the stand
ard of the originals played in New
York and Chicago. Rhapsody in
Black" knocked all of our precon-
ceived notions and impressions into
cooked hat. The show we witness
ed Wednesday night at the Metropoli-
tan, Minneapolis, is far superior, more
polished, in every detail to the same
as we viewed it during its Chicago
run.
With large group of competent
singers and dancers, an excellent or
chestra and the one and only Ethel
Waters it presents an evening of
most delightful entertainment. The
music, the songs, all make you forget
all of your troubles and the worlds
difficulties for a full two hours.
The performance of Ethel Waters
revealed her as an artistic of high
rank. To those of us who have watch
ed her rise to stardom, her perform
ance had added significance. In her
each appearance in the revue from
the prologue scene until the curtain
"You Can't Keep Me From Loving
You," she pleased in her own distinct
ly and inimitable manner A newly
added bit, Brother, Can You Spare
Me a Dime" with Miss Waters and
the Cecil Mack choir, was one high
light. Two song monologues by Miss
Waters, Wash Tub Rub-sody," Dance
Hall Hostess" pleased the first night
audience much. Her facile character
izations, charmingly appealing voice
in these numbers and at her each ap-
pearance, dominated a powerful re-
vue. Responding to an ovation by the
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-01-14
Democratic Leaders
To Ask New Deal
OfsNew President
CIVIL SERVICE IMPROVEMENT
rs MAJOR MEASURE

Washington, D. C.-Improvement OF
the Civil Service Is one of the ma
jor tasks to which franklin D. Roose-
welt, Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent, will be asked to devote himself
after March 4 next.
This is one of several requests to
be asked Of the new president as de-
cided in conference OF Negro lead
ers held here this week. .
No effort will be made to unload at
the White House entrance all the Ills
which colored people suffer. It is un.
derstood, however, that present civil
service regulations, which make II
almost impossible for colored persons
to receive an appointment constitute
a serious menace to which Governor
Roosevelt can be asked to, give atten-
ton. Repeal Of hateful and discrim-
inatory provisions of the law would
means new dawn Of civil rights: to
colored people:
AS to presidential appointments, It
is expected that the new President
will be asked to see to 1t that nothing
which We now enjoy be taken from
us, but rather that certain other po-
sitions be asked. especially those
which we formerly held. II
: Liberal grants OF funds for educa-
tional purposes will be requested with
the Land Grant Colleges, Howard Uni
versity, and the public schools OF d.
c., especially mentioned.
Governor Roosevelt will be asked
to carry to the White House that hu-
man friendliness that marked his
campaign for the presidency He
will be urged to manifest the friend.
ly attitude that will welcome repre-
sentative delegations and will
prompt him to attend occasionally the
meetings. of noteworthy organizations
for Negro folk.
No special work will be asked In
the inaugural address, 1t Is said.
However, Governor Roosevelt viii be
asked to say broadly inclusive word
that will give all the people hope.