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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
THIS CHANGE
gives Children
a Chance

Perhaps you have tried XAex
nearly every sort of G
way to keep a child's 81. N
bowels in proper con- TX wv
dition, and failed. ~
Yet, almost any child who has been
convalescing in hospital, will usually
come out with bowels working like
well-regulated watch.
The average mother gives any
laxative the family may be using,
while doctors give children a liquid
laxative of suitable ingredients, suit
able strength, and in suitable amount.
Make the change now to pure,
California Syrup of Figs instead of
harsh medicines, you risk no more
violence to your child's appetite,
digestion, and general physical condi-
ton. You'll have safer, more salts
factory result, too. Those little upsets
and complaints just disappear and
the child is soon normal again. Try It'll
THE LIQUID TEST" First:
select liquid laxative of the proper
strength for children. Second: give
the dose suited to the child's age.
Third: reduce the dose. ii repeated,
until the bowels are moving without
any help at all.
An ideal laxative for this purpose
Is the pure California Syrup of Figs,
but be sure the word California" is
on the bottle.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
Arouses Criticism

pass Prosperity Around the slogan
OF the Bull Moose cheering for Theo-
dore Roosevelt back In 1912, should be
the text of the Franklin Roosevelt adj
minlstration, according to enthusiastic
insiders. Except that OF course 1t
would have to Include when we
get tt
The two moves--to pass 1t around
and to get it-have been proceeding
simultaneously In the plans of the gov
eminent. Hence there has been much
criticism from those who insist that we
have to cook the cake before we can
cut 1T. Or that we should bring pros
perlty back before we attempt to pass
1t around.
But the New Dealers contend that
we have to pass 1t around, in the mod
ern sense of economics, before we can
even have 1t.
Hence MIRA. with Its attempts to
raise wages and cut hours, and AAA.
with Its attempt to boost farm prices
and pay the farmers for not growing
too much, and public works expendI-
lures to provide pay rolls which mean
purchasing power, not to mention Citi-
xens Conservation camps and other re-
lief agencies, most OF which provide
little buying power In addition TO mere
feeding and clothing OF the hungry and
cold.
But the 4leveling off, process. apply.
ing to salaries and earnings, is to 70
further. The President intends TO
work out some system which will pre-.
vent violent fluctuations In prices OF
all commodities. Some think he Is
flirting with the commodity dollar.
Certainly controlled currency has
part In the program. He admitted. for
instance, that gold would certainly be
"a factor" with emphasis ON the "a
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
On the L-oose

He-"What part of the car causes
the most accidents?" She-"The nut
that holds the wheel.n
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25

0 WHY IH1STV& TX
Convict-Tm In here for havin'
FIVE wives.
Visitor-How are you ENJOYING
your liberty pathfinder Magazine.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25

G. Western Newspaper Union.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Subsidies and Settlements.

When some forty steamship lines engaged in
the Atlantic and Gulf traffic agreed to recognize
the International Seamen's Union, the proposed
strike, which would have involved 10000 mari
time workers was called off. The ship lines ex-
tended recognition in the most practical, con-
crete form. Their representatives, sitting in
conference with union officers, are now seeking
to negotiate collective agreements bearing on
wages, hours, and the ship-crew recruiting sys-
tenn. There is reason to suppose that Mr.. Gar
rison, who mediated the dispute, brought exter-
nal pressure to bear upon the employers.
Anxious above all else not to endanger the flow
of mail subsidies, the employers reluctantly
abandoned the fine old master and servant
tradition of the sea. In short, the settlement
was a f~irst-rate demonstration of Realpolitik.
Was it not, however, much too realistic from
one important point of view? The settlement
took it for granted that the I. S. U.-an A. F.
Of L. affiliate was the true and unique repre-
sentative of the workers, and the left-wing Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union was left out in
the coda move which is sought to counter,
unsuccessfully, by calling a walkout. One can
readily understand why the s%hipowners would
much rather deal with an A. F. of L. than with
a l~eft-wing union. One can also readily under
stand why the Labor Board should refrain from
forcing an issue that might have spoiled a set
Element leading to recognition of an outside
union. But the board, to be consistent, should
have allowed the marine workers themselves to
decide by which of the two labor organizations
they desired to be represented. The situation
called for an election quite as forcefully as does
any ordinary ade-versus-company-union con-
troversy.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
FIRST AMERICAN
LABOR PLATFORM

What is generally accepted as the
first American labor platform" to be
printed for distribution in this country
appeared in "The Young American" a
newspaper published in New York,
about 1928, which carried the following
platform Of American Labor" at its
head:
l.. The right of a mar to the soil;
vote yourself a farm.
2. Down with monopolies, especially
the United States bank.
8. Freedom of public lands.
a.. Homesteads made inalienable.
S. Abolition of all laws for the col
lection of debts.
9. A general bankrupt law.
7. A lien of the laborer upon his
own work for his wages.
8. Abolition of Imprisonment for
debt.
9. Equal rights for women with men
in all respects.
10. Abolition of chattel slavery, and
of wage slavery.
II. Land limitation to 100 acres; no
person after the passage of this law, to
become possessed Of more than that
amount of land. But when a land
monopolist dies his heirs are to take
each his legal number of acres, and be
compelled to sell the over-plus using
the proceeds as they please.
u. Mails in the United States to
run on the Sabbath.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22

found that the bus drivers would not suffer from
discrimination by being included in the same sys-
TEN of ratings as the motormen. In reaching
this result, however, the board gave conclusive
weight to the special circumstance of the case;
the past history of collective contracts between
the union and the employer; the gradual decline
in the Importance of the trolley service and the
parallel rise of the bus service; and the fact that
workers could shift easily from one occupation
to the other. The second case raised the ques-
tion of whether or not a small group of welders,
employed by a shipbuilding plant, was entitled to
recognition as a collective bargaining unit indie
pendent Of the already functioning Marine
Workers Metal Trades Council CA. F.. of L.).
Rejecting the welders' claims, the board pointed
out that "other larger bargaining agencies ex-
isl" and that "the interests of all the workers at
the plant are so closely intertwined that to per-
NIT welders to bargain separately might affect
adversely the larger number of workers and
crafts" The board was careful, however, to
stress the special circumstances of the case, the
fact, above all, that never before in the history
of the industry had welders been organized as
an autonomous bargaining group. We shall
have to have decisions based on general prin-
ciples rather than on specific conditioning fac
tors before we can say that the board is an ex-
ponent of industrial unionism.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Collective Bargaining Defined.

Collective bargaining is more than a procedure
by which the employer receives the representa-
tives of his workers, listens to their demands,
and then decides for himself which of these de-
mands, if any, he cares to grant. Collective
bargaining, if carried on in good faith by both
sides, eventuates in a bilateral contract. ct
~contemp1ates that the demands of the employees,
or notifications of such demands, if acceptable
to the employer, be embodied in an agreement,
and that such an agreement bind both parties for
a certain period of time" So ruled the National
Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago in the
precedent-making National Aniline and Chemical
decision. In the Atlanta Hosiery Mills case the
board reaffirmed this doctrine when it held that
compliance by the employer with the wage and
hour provisions of a code did not exempt him
from the force of the collective bargaining re-
quirements. He must be willing to negotiate
with the trade union which is representative of
his workers and be ready to conclude a written
and binding agreement. "The very purpose of
Section "a" the board observed, "(was to put
employees on a par with their employers in
bargaining as to terms and conditions Of work
more favorable than the minimum requirements
Of the codes" However, suppose both parties
to collective bargaining manifest a will to agree,
but fail to meet on specific terms. Must the con
tent of the collective agreement go to arbitra-
ton, or do the workers retain intact the right to
strike? 1t is unlikely that the board will seek
to read compulsory arbitration into Section "a.
But we must not forget that the Railway Labor
Act, which expressly speaks of the duty to
make and maintain" collective agreements, pro-
vides for limited arbitration.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Seamen's Dis
content May Bring
On Hunger March

WASHINGTON. OPP Plans for
a possible hunger march on Washing
ton by unemployed seamen from north
Atlantic ports, were reported Novem-
Der 8 by a delegation of seven from
the Waterfront Unemployment Council
of Baltimore. The delegates came to
protest to the federal relief authorities
against a cut in outside relief from IS
cents to rs cents a day for both meals
and lodging, against poor food in the
Baltimore seamen's project and made
quate winter clothing.
Besides demanding restoration of the
relief cut and proper clothing, the
Baltimore seamen ask the right to elect
their own committees to supervise their
relief quarters and for various improve
ments in conditions.
The hunger march is threatened if
these improvements are not forthcom-
ing. The delegates reported a confer
ence for November II of representa-
tives of Waterfront Unemployment
Councils in Boston, Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Norfolk, to con-
slider the question, as we'll as to map a
fight for a centralized shipping bureau
and against discrimination in hiring
seamen.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Scrap Iron Barometer
Says Stormy Weather

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-If iron and
steel shipments, particularly those of
scrap iron, are a barometer of war prep
arations, there is stormy weather
ahead. Experts Of iron and steel prod
ucts from the United States increased
greatly in September and exports of
scraps were greater than for any previ-
Gus month of record, according to the
u. S. Department of Commerce.
Scrap exports totaled 2z5,2l2 tons,
out of a total of 301 $3.50 of all exports
of iron and steel products. This com
pares with l55,542 tons in August and
4O,536 tons in September, 1888. Total
figures were 242,947 in August and 1885,
100 tons in September, 1888.
Japan accounted for most of the
scrap iron exports from the United
States, taking l6l ,40l tons in the
month. Italy, Poland and Danzig, Ru-
mania, Canada, and China were other
big customers.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Wage Is Set
For Skilled Oil Workers

WASHINGTON. = FP) Mini
mum wages for skilled oil workers in
four states are established in an order
of Oil Administrator Harold L. Ickes,
based on recommendation of the Pc
troleum Labor Policy Board. The or
der covers derrick and rig building
occupations. For Kansas and Okla
homa it sets a minimum wage Of $1.25
an hour, with $3.50 an hour for crew
foremen. For Texas and New Mexico,
the skilled rate is set at $3.50 an hour,
with $l.75 an hour for crew foremen.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22

safe channels by the skillful strategy Of
Roosevelt and the Democratic party.
$50
Every kite sent up by Wall Street
had shown the popular wind blowing
strongly against the old-time slogans Of
capitalist conservatism. Al Smiths
baloney money campaign and the
crudely %concocted but widely publicized
plot of the amazing DR.. Whirt came
back like boomerangs smack into Re-
publican faces. So when the Ameri-
can Liberty League was openly spon-
sored by Wall Street financiers, it al
most looked like a prediction gift Of
roses to Roosevelt. Public praise from
such a source he might have feared,
but a gift Of declared opposition was
a political bouquet that Roosevelt
knew how to wear to the greatest adj
vantage.
Wall Street is the popular name for
the finance capitalists who monopolize
business and industry in the United
States. But it covers a certain con-
fusion, which politicians can use for
their purposes. It places the emphasis
on the banking fraternity in a narrow
sense, making it possible with some
FEASIBILITY to say that wall Street is
opposed to the New Deal" ever while
whole sections of big business and in
dustry, just as surely controlled by fl
nance capital, are emphatically for it.
4
Actually, of course, one section OF
finance capital, represented politically
by old guard Republicans land Demo-
crats) and the Liberty League, has a
real grievance with the New Deal. 1t
feels that heavy industry and bond
holding interests have not reaped as
much advantage from it as have the
lighter industries and the more specu-
lative stockholding interests. Conces-
sions to interests that profit from in
flation are bound to disgruntle those
that profit from deflation. On the
other hand, the New Deal has in
creased the general rate OF profit, be-
sides bringing enormous benefits to its
more favored capitalist groups, and it
has promoted the monopoly tendency
of all big business.
What is more, the New Deal has
done all this while keeping within
bounds the bitter opposition that was
arising from workers, farmers and lit
tie business under the Hoover regime.
In the last election, it found the win
ming formula to make millions think
they were voting against capitalist
abuses while binding them to the sup
port Of a program designed to pro-
mote and preserve capitalism. With all
the evidence of radical sentiment in the
elections, Wall Street can still afford
to smile at the results.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Craft Unions and the N. L. R. B.

In two recent cases the National Labor Rela-
lions Board has handed down decisions which
might be taken to indicate a bias against craft
unionism and a leaning toward industrial union
ism. One case raised the question of whether
or not separate seniority rating should be main
tanned for trolley and bus-service employees in
the hire of the same transportation enterprise.
The board ruled against separate ratings. It
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22

1t is not a question of how much
we are to do, but of how it is to be
done; it is not a question of doing,
more but of doing better.-John Rus
kin.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22

WASHINGTON. = FP) - Charg-
ing coercion and intimidation of its
employees by the Danbury & Bethel
Fur Co., Danbury, Conn, representa-
tives OF the United Hat Fur Workers
appealed November 2 to the National
Labor Relations Board for an election
to determine representatives for col
lective bargaining.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22
Wings Over Washington
By LEN DE CAUX

WASHINGTON. OPP There is
an apparent contradiction in the fact
that Wall Street stocks went up at the
news of the sweeping election victory
for Roosevelt's New Deal program.
Millions of the common people voted
for what they considered the more
radical of two alternatives. They we're
told that it was a contest between Wall
Street reaction Gas represented by the
old guard Republicans and the New
Deal champions of labor, the farmers
and the forgotten man" generally.
They left no doubt as to their choice.
Senators Reed, Tess, Robinson,
Koan, Walcott, HILBERT and other de-
feated Senators, besides a whole host
of Congressman, can testify to the I'M
popularity Of the old deal Wall Street
label. On the other hand, the radical
label distracted rather than repulsed
voters.
The progressive party, professedly
more radical than either Republicans or
Democrats, carried the LaFollette
brothers to victory in Wisconsin, and
won 7 out of 10 state legislative seats.
Senator Shipstead and Governor Olson
of Minnesota rode back to office OF a
newly-adopted Farmer-Labor party
platform, anti-capitalist in tone and ad-
vocating public ownership and similar
reforms which opponents denounced as
sheer Bolshevism,
Upton Sinclair won ONE 100000
votes in California in the face of an
unprecedented campaign Of underhand
and ~savagely open opposition from his
own Democratic party chiefs as well
as from Republicans, who labeled as
Socialism and ever Communism his
carefully watered-down EPIC plan.
Almost everywhere the more radical OF
old party candidates reaped the greater
advantage.
The leftward mood of the voters ex-
tended to Socialist and Communist
parties as well. In Connecticut, the
Socialist party elected members of the
state legislature for the first time, re-
turning three state senators and two
representatives. Communist candidates
nearly doubled their votes in New York
City and Ohio, and reported almost
uniform gains elsewhere.
Assuredly. Wall Streets satisfaction
Montana labor news., 1934-11-22

Assuredly, Wall Streets satisfaction
cannot be explained by the many evil
dences of the popular leftward and
often an%ti-capitalist mood. Rather ii
reflects a conviction that the prevail
ing discomfort has been diverted into
Evening star., 1934-05-18

These are all-wool and
you can make your
own combination sets
in S m art colors.-
Palais Royal.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
REFUSE DIVISIONS
WORKERS HON0RED
Twentieth Century Club Rewards
Eight Employees Whose Service
Totals 70 Years.

Eight employees of the City Refuse
Division yesterday received from the
Twentieth Century Club awards for
efficient service rendered during the
past year. The club distributes the
awards annually.
The eight men collectively have
served the District for 10 years in their
various cleanup occupations. The
awards, presented by Mrs. E. G..
Nourse, chairman of the Civic. Com
mittee of the club, went to the follow
ing.
Willie Tobias, who has served the
District for 9 years; Julias Jack
son, 20 years; James Bowman, 13
years; Chester Jeffries, II years; John
A. Smith, 8 years: Joseph H. Parker,
years; Glen Dorsey, 4 years and
George Wilson, Is years.
Thomas L. Costigan, superintendent
of the street cleaning division assisted
in the meeting. acting for Morris
Hacker superintendent of city refuse.
incidentally, Costigan revealed that
If the District supply bill for 1885
passes In its present form the number
of men engaged in street cleaning will
have to be further reduced. He said
there are now but 172 white wings"
whereas a year ago there were 240.
The bill calls for an appropriation OF
$375.000 for street cleaning whereas
three years ago the sum was $3.50, 600.
Evening star., 1934-05-18

Zip and the shirt is
off various color
combinations. Sizes SO
to AZ.
Evening star., 1934-05-18

Yes. genuine Panamas &.
and if you've been promls-
ing yourself a panama hat
here's your opportunity!
Main Floor-Men's Store
Mallory Straw Hats $50
Other Panamas, So
Evening star., 1934-05-18

Ger and formerly commandant at
Fort Myer, Va.
The Athletic Department of the
university presented minor &c" let
tiers to the following qualifying men,
bers of the varsity rifle team: Frank
S. Ainsa, Henry C. Barrett, Alvara
Barrera, William F. Carpenter, Will
liam R. Collins. Orville w. Ferrant,
Bernard w. Gartlan, John I. Griffin,
Robert w. Hall and Jacob P. Kunz.
Team Capt Hall received the awards
from Father Kehoe, director of ath-
leticS.
A special prize to one of the dental
students, Lawrence w. Bowman, was
made in recognition of the loyal
service he had rendered the R. o. T.
c. Band over a period of seven years.
This was donated by Capt. Karl
Schaefer, the band leader.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
COMMERCE POST GIVEN
TO w. DUVAL BROWN
Arlington Man Is Appointed Act
ing District Manager Of
p Norfolk Office.

w. Duval Brown of Arlington, Va,
has been appointed acting district
manager of the Norfolk Office of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, succeeding H. K. Dickson, who
last January, it has been announced
by John Dickinson, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce.
Brown has been In the Government
service for almost 20 years and recent
ly has been in charge Of. trade pro-
motion work in the bureau here.
He has served in the consular serv-
ice and as trade commissioner in Peru,
Italy, Bolivia, Brazil and Cuba.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
Phone Strike in Puerto Rico.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 18 CAP)
Employees of the Puerto Rico Tele-
phone Co. struck yesterday, after
failure of negotiations in which they
sought union recognition. increased
trade and shorter hours. Service was
at a standstill throughout the island.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
Argentina Gusts Foreign Phones.

BUENOS AIRES, May 18 R.-A
Socialist Deputy. Adoph Dickman,
presented in the House of Representa-
tives today a bill proposing the ma
tionalization of telephone services,
expropriating private foreign enter
priseS.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
Buck Private" Wins.

The event that excited the closest
interest, however, was the individual
drill competition, won by a buck
private" Orville w. Ferrant of Com
pany A, who is from New York. One
by one the others were waved out of
the competition by the Army judges
for mistakes in the drill manual until
Ferrant alone was left standing. He
received the cup donated by the
Civilian Military Education Fund,
which was presented by DR.. Edmund
A. Walsh, S. j., of the Foreign
Service School.
Cadet Ferrant also won a second
honor, bronze medal for the next
highest score in the Sd Corps
Area intercollegiate rifle match. It
was presented by Col. Harry N.
Cootes, Corps Area r. o. T. c. off,