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Evening star., 1933-06-08
St, Moritz Developer Dies.

DR.. M. Holland, who converted the
tiny Alpine village of st. Moritz, Switz-
erland, into q popular center for Winter
sports, has died. He had the ice rinks
made and offered q Holland Cup for
fancy skating. He originated many VIM
ter paStimes.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
RISE OF BERLE. ROOSEVELT AID
IN 1882, READS LIKE FICTION
R. F. c. Assistant Represent
ed Opinion of Young Econ
omists in "Brain Trust"
Informal Discussion of Trade
Led to Formation of Club
Called "Kaffee KIatch."

This Is the last Of three articles on
the original three members OF the now
famous brain trust.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
fENN|NG FORESEES
DISTRICT GOVERNOR
Former Commissioner Says
President Is Working for
New Set-Up.

The commission form of government
in Washington is to be scrapped and
the District is to have a governor in
charge, according to forecast by for
mer Commissioner Frederick A. Fen
ming. published in the New York
Herald Tribune.
I'm preparation for the new set-up,"
Mr.. Fenning wrote, "the President, at
the end of his first six months, had
made considerable progress.
He had failed to fill the positions
OF the two civilian District Commits
sioners. whose terms expired in April
thus making it possible to abolish the
positions without the embarrassment
of throwing the incumbents out of
Office.
He had transferred the parks and
the park police to the Interior De-
partment. which has jurisdiction over
all national parks, and he received and
was holding the resignation of the
chairman of the Public Utilities Com
mission and it was understood, could
obtain the retirement of the other
membeys at any time. He has ex-
panded the Division of Investigation of
the Department of Justice SO that with
respect to the District of Columbia il
makes many criminal Investigations and
inquiries which might otherwise be per-
formed by the local police"
Mr.. Fenning outlined the multifarious
agencies which control the government
tai destinies of the District-the Ap-
preparations and District Committees.
the Budget Bureau. and the rest, and
said the Commissioners are con-
strained to bend the knee to too many
of the powers that be. A governor. ap-
pointed for a long term, he believes,
would be able to end all this.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
PROBE SECOND LYNCHING
IN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY
Colored Man, Out on Bond on
Charge of Attacking Woman,
Is Shot to Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. September 25.
The second lynching in Tuscaloosa
County within the past six weeks was
under investigation by the sheriff S
Office today
Sheriff Shamblin ordered the inquiry
yesterday after Dennis Cross, colored,
under bond on charge Of assaulting a
white woman, was taken from his home
by men posing as officers and shot to
death.
The sheriff said he was told the
group of six or seven men appeared at
the mans home and told Cross 1t was
necessary for him to go to Tuscaloosa
and post bond larger than that re-
quired when he was released on bail a
week ago.
The Staying Of Cross followed by six
weeks to the day the Lynching Of Dan
Pipe, IT.. and A. T. Harder, colored
under indictment of charge Of mur-
dering the daughter Of q Tuscaloosa
County farmer. Pippe and Harder
were killed and Elmore Clark another
colored man, was wounded by a group
OF masked men who seized the prison.
ers from Tuscaloosa County officers
lhurrying them to Birmingham for safe
keeping.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
RUSSIAN STUDY PLANNED
French to Survey Reds Public
Works and Military Program.

PARIS, September IS CP).-A study
Of the Soviet system Of public works
u. 8. S. R. by an official French mis-
sion was understood yesterday to be
contemplated by the government as a
result of the visit to Moscow of Pierre
Cot. air minister
Experts from these three branches Of
the French government would be sent
to Russia under plan to exchange
ideas and strengthen political and eco
nomic relations.
After an extensive tour of Russia by
air. M. Cot expressed the belief his
trip was ''the beginning Of technical
cooperation and closer contact be-
tween experts of the two nations"
Evening star., 1933-09-25
Bronco Rider Dies.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, September 25
TP.-Maria Gibson, 39-year- -old profess
Bional broncho rider of Havre, Mont,
died in a hospital here yesterday of in
juries received at a rodeo here last
night.
Mrs. Gibson had finished riding q
broncho and the pickup men" were
riding to aid her when the horse sud-
denly fell, rolling over her.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

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., 1933-05-11
DOUGLAS PLACES A
FRIEND IN TREASURY

WASHINGTON (FP) - Lewis
Douglas, power trust advocate in
Congress until he became Director of
the Budget, has placed his friend
Dean Acheson in the important post
of Under-S secretary of the Treasury.
Acheson is a young lawyer without
financial training, but he has repre-
sented the power interests against
the public in court for years, and his
firm is known as the Dwight Morrow
law firm. Douglas and Acheson have
been intimate friends of F. Trubee
Dawson, son Of the late partner in
Morgan & Co. Douglas first backed
Acheson for the post Of Solicitor Gen
eral, but that prize went to j. Craw-
ford Biggs, a protege Of Mitchell
Palmer. Biggs advised Palmer
against appealing the suit in which
the Government lost the Kettlemen
Hills oil field to the Southern Pacific
Railway Co.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
Muscle Shoals "Sovietism''
Will Get Congress 0. K.

WASHINGTON-(FP)- In spite
of the protest of Rep. Charley Aub-
rey Eaton of New Jersey, twice pas
tor to John d. Rockefeller and anti
union "welfare" manager for General
Electric, that the Muscle Shoals bill
is "sovietistic," the House Military
Affairs Committee proceeded April
IS with its draft Of a favorable re-
port on this legislation. The bill
was scheduled to reach the House
next day. Eaton, for years a lobby
list on the floor of the House against
any federal interference with the
power trust, denounced the features
of the Norris bill which put the gov
eminent into the power business not
only as a producer but as a seller of
electric current to retail customers
thereby breaking down the high rates
charged by private companies.
His complaint was supported by
the U. S. Chamber Of Commerce,
which issued a printed appeal to
House members to kill the bill. The
Chamber urged that Congress sell
or lease the Shoals power plant to
private interests. It's slogan was "The
federal government should always
leave the transmission and distribu-
ton of power to other agencies" if
the government insisted on generating
power at dams it had constructed.
Chairman McSwain of the House
committee predicted that the bill
would go through the House within
a day or two after the report was
made, since it has the support of a
very large majority of the members.
In the Senate, where a favorable re-
port was made by the Committee on
Agriculture within a few minutes, ac-
ton awaits the House rollcall.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
L
CALLED

CHICAGO.-Jobless leagues from
the east, south, north, and west are
sending delegates to Chicago, May 49,
Is for the national jobless convention
sponsored by the Federation of I'm
employed Workers Leagues of Amer
lea. The Workers Committee on
Unemployment and the Workers
League, Chicago branches of the Fed
Grafton, are acting as hosts. They
will feed and lodge the delegates. Ar
engagements for a visit to the Worlds
Fair are being made.
"This National Convention" said
Rob. E. Asher, secretary of the Tenn
porary Executive Committee, comes
as the unanimous demand of the dele
gates from the 35 midwestern leagues
which met here last November. The
initial steps in the formation of the
Federation were then taken and a
platform of minimum demands adopt
ed.
"Since that time inquiries and af-
filiations have come into headquar-
ters from every part of the country.
The Federation now has branches as
far west as California and as far east
as New York"
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

WASHINGTON. - The Executive
Council of the American Federation
of Labor in session here, placed its
disapproval on the continental Con-
gress of Workers and Farmers,
scheduled to convene in Washington
the first week in May.
BY direction of the Council, Will
liam Green, president of the Fedora
ton, sent the following letter to sec
retaries of the National and Inter-
national Unions, State Federations Of
Labor, and City Central Bodies:
1.-THE Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor is now
meeting in regular session at head
quarters.
"We have received an invitation
from the Continental Congress Of
Workers and Farmers for Economic
Reconstruction to attend the meeting
to be held in the Washington Audi
forum, Washington, d. c., May 81,
1888
taking into consideration the
many inquiries which we at headquar-
tiers have received for information re-
garding this Congress and whether it
was endorsed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, it is reasonable to
assume that National and I%nterna-
tional Unions, State Federations of
Labor, and City Central Labor Unions
have been likewise invited to send
delegates to the Congress, May 81.
Believing that you have been mis-
informed or misled as to the purport
of this Congress, by authority of the
Executive Council, this letter is be-
ing addressed to you to advise you
officially:
THAT the Continental Congress of
Workers and Farmers for Economic
Reconstruction has not been endorsed
or approved by the American Fedora
ton of Labor;
THAT it has no connection with the
American Federation of Labor;
"That the American Federation of
Labor will not be represented at this
Congress;
THAT we advise all National and
International Unions, State Fedora
tons of Labor, City Central Labor
Unions, and all organizations affiliat-
ed to the American Federation Of
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
CONNORS IS CAN.
DIDATE FOR LABOR
COMMISSIONER
REMOVES
U~NFAIRNESS BY
SMALL MARGIN

The last meeting of the Central
Council was uneventful and little of
Importance was brought before the
body. Bill Palmer reported progress
on the committee activities, carried on
in conjunction with the Employers
Association and other groups. He
stated that plans were being drafted
to create some activity in the lines of
the Building Trades.
A communication was received from
the Transfers asking the Council to
endorse Pete Connors for Labor Com
missioner for Montana. The COM
munication was referred to the Legis-
lative Committee as was the COM
munication asking for the endorse
ment of Sid A. Lewis for United
States Marshall.
The Painters announced that their
union had unanimously endorsed Pete
Connors for office.
The Clerks union brought in a re-
quest asking the Council to remove
the Unfairness against the Eclipse
Stores. After much discussion, a roll
call, record vote was taken and the
unfairness was removed by a vote of
25 to "a.
The meeting closed about 9;45 p. m.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
RIGHT-TO-LIVE
AMENDMENT TO
CONSTITUTION
is DISCUSSED

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Farmer
Labor Party and Nonpartisan Lea
que members of the House are dis
cussing the necessity for placing be-
fore the voters Of the country a pro-
posed constitutional amendment which
would empower Congress to guaran-
tee the right of the people to live.
Such an amendment would author
ize Congress to enact laws for main
tanning a living wage, humane stand
ards of working hours, and such reg
ulation and control of production of
commodities, both on the farm and in
factories and mines, as would pre-
vent Cutting of the market and
would assure to producers a decent
livelihood. 1t would also authorize
the enactment of a uniform federal
system of old age pensions, unem-
ployment insurance and sickness in
surance.
Need for such a broadening of the
powers of Congress is seen in the
Administrations declarations that
there exists no constitutional basis
for federal control of commodity pro-
duction at this time. Secretary Of
Labor Perkins told the press April
IS that the story sent out from the
capital the previous day, to the effect
that she had urged, the House Com
mittee on Labor to write a produc-
tion-control section into the Black 30
hour bill, was wrong. She said that
her suggestion was merely that the
government might be authorized to
set up boards which would give adj
vice to the public and to employers,
as to how much production was wise;
there was no plan for attempting to
enforce any such advice upon the
manufacturers. At the same time
she pointed out that the sweatshop
plague is rapidly spreading.
The nearest approach to a right-to
live amendment thus far offered in
Congress is that sponsored by Kvale,
Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota. 1t
reads: Congress shall have power,
during the existence of an emer-
gency, to regulate the production and
marketing of any and all commodit-
les, to prescribe minimum wages for
Continued on Page Fourl
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

Recalls Initiation Prediction.
81 predicted initiation and defended
the desirability of controlled infla-
ton when Roosevelt and Hoover were
both talking about sound money.
The need for some initiation was great
ly increased by the terrible deflation
consequent upon the closing Of banks
with from 81, 10000 900 to $6,000,-
100000 deposits following the bank
holiday. The governments failure
to n~ationalize the banks or to work
out any consistent plan for making
the money in them more generally
and equitably available left to it no
practical alternative thar initiation of
the currency.
"For the failure to ~nationalize the
banking system we shall pay a dear
price in more ways than one.
Dangerous Precedent Seen.
Concerning the presidents plan
two general comments are in order.
"On principle it is a dangerous pre-
cedent to give the president blanket
power to initiate by any method and
at will. 1t is a bad situation when
senators disagree whether $6,000,O0O,-
900 or 100000 100000 of additional
currency can be had under the pro-
posed measure"
Thomas declared the president
should have recommended specific
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

living must be Libro.
in order that America.
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
SHIRT WORKERS CLOSE
SHOPS IN CONNECTICUT

HARTFORD, Conn. - Shirt shop
workers of Bridgeport, New Haven,
Derby Branford and Wallingford put
on a one-day holiday to celebrate the
announcement Of a movement by the
Connecticut Labor Department to
abolish sweating" in the state.
About 600 Danbury hatters quit
work when their demands for living
wages were refused by the employers.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

measures of initiation which should
have been acted upon by congress.
Against 0ne-Man Control.
ITO give one man such power and
to subject him to the enormous forces
which will struggle for its use is not
in the long run the way of safety or
of WISDOM" he said.
"While the president emphasizes
controlled initiation there are no evil
denees of adequate control, except his
own good judgment, written into the
bill. If initiation is not to become the
final disaster to wage and salary
workers and the holders of savings
bank accounts and insurance policies
it must be clearly stated at the be-
ginning, that it will be stopped when
the commodity price level rises above
the level of, let us say, 1926-7. That
is when initiation ceases to be refla-
ton.
"Public Works Needed"
Imitation should be not only con-
trolled in amount but directed in dis
tribution. Not silver mine owners
but the unemployed should be it's
principal ben~eficiaries.
"The best outlet for additional ur-
rency or spending power is through
the hands of unemployed workers,
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11

first by mean of maintenance allow
ance, and then by a program Of pub
lie works. The administrations pro-
gram both of relief and of public
works is wholly inadequate.
"Finally it must be emphasized that
to resort to initiation after wages have
been pushed down to sweat-shop
levels may well be the final goad to
make workers revolt.
Wage Increases Needed.
president Green of the American
Federation of Labor is right. No
policy, even of controlled and direct
ed initiation, will be tolerable to the
workers without an immense cam
paign for raising wages. Initiation
will double the need for a steadily
rising minimum wage. Legislation
may help, but there will be no guar
antee of effective legislation or its
enforcement without organization of
the workers, both politically and in
dustrially.
"The real moral Of the whole story
is hat what we need more than more
money is proper distribution of
wealth. That will require not regu-
lation of banks and industries, but
social ownership and planned produc-
ton for use and not profit"
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
NORMAN THOMAS WOULD CONTROL
PRICES At 1926-1927 LEVEL
INITIATION NO PANACEA; WAGE INCREASE NEEDED

NEW York; initiation is not to become the final disaster to wage and salary
workers and the holders If savings bank accounts and insurance policies it must be
clearly stated at the beginning, that it WILDE stopped when the commodity price level
resa above the level Of let us say 1926 and 1927 Norman Thomas declared in a Estate
ment cdiczing the plan to give power to the president to initiate at will and by any
method he choose.
"To give ne man such power and to subject him to the enormous forces which will
struggle for its use not in the long run the way of safety or of wisdom" Thomas said.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
sO-HOUR WEEK MAKES JOBS

WEBSTER, Mass.-Adoption of the
30-hour week in several departments,
coupled with an increase in orders,
has added 800 new names to the pay
roll Of the Stevens Linen Works here
in two weeks. Approximately 1000
employees now are on the rolls, ac-
cording to II. Wadsworth Crawford,
Stevens agent.
Montana labor news., 1933-05-11
"Public Works Needed"
A. F. OF L. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PLACES
BAN ON CONGRESS OF FARMERS
AND WORKERS

Labor to refuse to send delegates to
this Congress;
"That we earnestly request the Ma
tional and international Unions to
advise their local unions Of the po-
sition of the American Federation of
Labor and to direct them to decline
to send delegates to the Congress-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
BY RAYMOND CHAPTER

Copyright, 1888, by United Press) Washington, May As Presi- dent Roosevelt marched into his third month in the White House today-the confident, daring. smil- ing leader of swift-moving, American style revolution-he was on the threshold of another phase of the new deal.
 ,Coming up rapidly on the hori- zon is the question of control of industry.
 It is the broader, deeper phase of the Roosevelt revolution.
 It transcends purely defensive
 measures against the depression taken in the first two months. It concerns laying a new and perma- nent foundation for the business of the country. It involves scrapping the old standard of competitive anarchy, and embarking upon an era of controlled production with close public supervision. -
 Bushes leaders speaking at the convention of the United States chamber of commerce emphasize that the time for this has come. They want to do 1t, as much as
 possible, through self-control by business, operating through trade associations and trade agreements, subject to government supervision to safeguard the public interest.
 President Roosevelt will explain his views on this in an address to the chamber tonight.
 In his first two months, Presi- dent Roosevelt has prepared the way for this next development first by his series of energetic measures to check the ruinous de- flation of the depression; second by stirring the country into general acceptance of his belief that the
 times calls for bold experiment. and 8 willingness to take risks. Driven to unprecedented meas ures in a race with shaos, he has obtained or is about to receive emergency powers which congress has never before granted, even in wartime. These powers shoulder on him temporary grave admin istrative responsibilities.
 Congress is doing this willingly, with >only slight opposition from republicans, because of it's confi- dence and because of wide public supporh .. In two months, MT Roosevelt has taken the country off the gold standard. slashed half a billion from veteran benefits and brought back beer. In his bold action he defied the conservative school which had held the gold, standard sacred. He won the endorsement of J. P. Morgan. In his veteran ac- tion he moved in face of powerful lobbying which had paralyzed congress. In restoring beer he acted directly in the face of organized drys.
 Both houses of congress have approved the imitation section of the farm bill, which gives the pres ident almost unlimited power to do anything he wishes regarding monetary matters. He can make
 every dollar worth half as much as it now is. He can print billions
 of paper money, issue billions in bonds.
 Under preparation is another
 measure which will place in his
 hands power to issue perhaps $3.- 900, 100000 of bonds and use the
 funds to start public works to cre-
 ate jobs.
 ! He has prepared railroad legis- lation tossing up federad coordi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-04
ITALIAN ENVOYS PLEDGE SUPPORT
 | TO ROOSEVELT
Experts From That Nation Are COnferring With Our Economic Differ enCeS
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD IInited Press Staff COfrespOndentl

Washington, May. 4.-UP)- Italian representatives, pledging support to President Roosevelt's drive for effective action at the world economic conference to re- vive international trade, joined American experts to-day in de- tailed study of problems facing the conference.
 Premier Mussolini's finance min- ister, Guido Jung, and his aides covered the broad outlines of the war debt, tariff and currency ques- tions in meetings yesterday with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. On the basis of these general discussions, the ex-- perts were analyzing technical
 "Italy is ready to make her con- tribution to the work which the world expects from responsible men of every nation," the white haired Jung promised in an inter- view.
 "The world must be grateful to President Roosevelt for his fore sight and his decision in taking the initiative at these Washington meetings. It would be fatal If the world economic conference were to look for vague formulas in which to veil fundamental disagreements and mental reservations"
 American officials were continu. ing discussions with an Argentine delegation regarding international control of wheat production and possible reciprocal tariff arrange ments to increase trade between the United States and the South American nation.
 United States representatives, it was learned, expressed themselves in favor of relaxing the present congressional embargo on ship ments of Argentine beef to this country. The embargo was im- posed because of presence of a cat tie disease in Argentina. Ameri- can officials were said to have fav- ored a suggestion that congress lift the mandatory embargo and give the executive branch of the gov ernment power to impose restric- tions as conditions warranted.