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Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
BENEFITS OF ORGANIZED LABOR
SINCE ROMAN REPUBLIC ARE
STRESSED BY FREY

Frey said, trade union activity was at
a minimum, but the underlying prin-
ciples of the movement were never
lost and were kept alive particularly
by the building craftsmen. During
the Renaissance and even prior there
to ecclesiastical guilds were formed
along craft lines, particularly in the
skilled trades. These guilds held sway
until the advent of modern civiliza-
tion.
He emphasized the stability and fl
nancial resources of modern labor or
CARNATIONS, contrasting the picture
with the early days of the American
labor movement when trade union Of
ficials were poorly paid, if paid at
all, and the meeting halls were none
too spacious or commodious; when
workers were compelled to meet on
barges in the Erie Canal in order to
avoid detection by employers.
"The present desirable condition."
he declared, "is a result of struggle
and vision of men, rank and file, as
well as leaders, who fought for the
development of the ideal of indus
trial democracy"
Mr.. Frey urged office workers not
to lose sight of the interdependency
of groups of workers. "TLe move
ment," he said, depends upon the
progress of all unions. Organizations
which have achieved a fair measure of
prosperity should assist newer unions
in every way possible. The final test
is not what we derive in benefit from
our trade union association, but the
degree Of cooperation and help we
are ready to extend to our less FORUM
ate fellow workers"
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
PRESS FAILS TO
CRACK DOWN
ON HENRY FORD

DEARBORN, Mich.-(FP)- Henry
Ford's defiance of NRA's labor clauses
at his Chester pa and Edgewater
IN. j. plants is not receiving notice
able attention in the daily press of
the nation, it is observed in circles
close to the auto magnate. While
Pres. Green of the American Fedora
ton of Labor has been exerting every
effort to put the case Of the Ford
violations before the public, the pa
pers appear to be more interested
when Gen. johnson cracks down on
Sans k-Shoppe in some isolated
prairie town than when Henry placid
ly sends the NRA to the devil.
Ford recently opened a colossal adj
vertising campaign in the papers, us
ing practically every paper in a Ford
dealer town, both daily and weekly.
The first release-a god-send to the
hungry newspaper publishers-was
placed in New York evening papers
Dec. Z, and elsewhere Dec. 8 and 8,
1t was followed by another insertion
over half a page in size and a third
of equal lineage was to follow.
About 1900 dailies and $500 week
lies will profit from the Ford appro-
priation. That the flow of mamma to
the papers may not be a mere squirt
is indicated in a statement in a news
trade publication which says:
advertising men were inclined to
hail the new Ford advertising as in
dicating that the company would re-
sumo its own advertising, instead OF
leaving the effort to scattered groups
of dealers. No word was available in
regard to this"
Gen. johnson, on Dec. 90, in Wash
ington, threw out Pres. Green's briei
against Ford. A. F. of L. men there
were reported as amazed, saying that
Green's brief checking up point by
point on Ford's refusal to recognize
the auto workers union or their com
mittee and the workers right to bar
gain collectively, was conclusive in its
evidence.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
LONG HOURS AND
LOW PAY IN THE
GROCERY CODE
4S-Hour Week and $40 to SIS Mini
mum Wage Imposed on One
Million Employees

Observation-Disclosures Roose-
velt's signature to the NRA retail
food and grocery code of fair com
petition made it effective on January
rs. The code involves 100000 groc.
ers who are said to employ more than
l 100000 persons.
The code defines the retail food and
grocery trade as selling these goods
to the consumer, but there are ex-
emptions for the selling of confection-
cry in confectionery stores, bakery
products in bakeries, milk from house
to house, and the sale Of food in res
taurants for consumption on the
premises.
In a gesture to protect consumers
from profiteering, one clause provides
that no food or grocery retailer shall
increase the price of any merchandise
sold after January 6, over the price
on June 1, 1888, by more than is made
necessary by the amount of increased
production, operation, replacement
and invoice cost of merchandise, and
by taxes and other causes arising
since the latter date from the Nation
al Recovery Act. This phrasing sounds
melodious and encouraging, but the
code contains no effective provisions
for protecting consumers from the
%profiteering which it forbids.
Both the maximum hours and mini
mum wages provisions of the code are
disappointing to labor as wholly out
of touch with the declared purpose
of the Recovery Act to provide EN-.
ployment for the jobless and increase
mass purchasing power to promote
prosperity.
The code establishes the maximum
48-hour and six-day week, limited tC
10 hours per day, with many employ
es excepted from the general rule
Basic weekly minimum wages run
from $40 in places of less than $500
population to SIS in those of more
than 100000.
Retailers are compelled to keep their
stores open sixty-three hours per
week, excepting those who were open
less than sixty-three hours before
June l, 1888. If this latter group de-
sires to continue to operate on the
shorter hour schedule the code per-
mits them to do so.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11

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Speaking on the history Of the la
Dor movement, Mr.. Frey traced the de.
yelopment of the principles that un'
derlie the trade union movement OF
today and showed that many of the
principles and practices were success
fully employed by free trade unionists
Of the Roman Republic.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
Paper Makers Back Tom
Mooney Drive

NEW YORK--(FP)-The I%nterna-
tional Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite
q Paper Mill Workers will join the
hundreds of local unions and central
bodies of the U. S. which have pc
titioned Pres. Roosevelt to intervene
on behalf of Tom Mooney in his forth
coming appeal for a new trial, if Lo-
cal 107, New York, has its way.
The local, on receipt of a letter
from the Natl. Tom Mooney Council
of Action asking that they write
Pres. Roosevelt, voted first that the
local should write the president; then
that the international should be ur-
ged to take similar action, and that
the International should appeal TO
each local to do the same.
The only criticism the local had OF
the program was that the proposed
letter to the president was too weak
Labor should demand Tom Moneys
freedom, not ask aid in an appeal for
habeas corpus" members said.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
Asks for New Deal In Montana Politics,
Equal Rights for All, Privilege for None"

Gentlemen, | have chosen a subject
of a general nature, but one which is
symbolic of the political trend of the
times. | have selected for my subject
the cause of Progressivism, and es-
pecially its relation to Montana. All
indications point to a new day and a
new deal in the political, social and
economic life of this country. With
all its suffering, its misery and hun
ger and want, the depression has had
at least one salutary effect. 1t has
crystallized the sentiment in behalf of
the cause of the common people of
this nation; it has crystallized the
sentiment against the plumber of
selfish and greedy corporations, mind
full not of the social betterme : of
the people and a fair distribution of
the wealth of this nation, but only Of
the almighty margin of profit.
Every note points to and indicates
the progress and success of the pro-
gressive cause, a cause, the philosophy
of which may be summed up in that
mighty declaration; Equal rights to
all, special privileges to none!" Only
last week the Saturday Evening Post,
al extremely conservative magazine
for 200 years, the organ of %conserva-
tive thought and philosophy since its
inception, sounded the death knell of
conservatism, and proclaimed the
need of a liberal and progressive lead
ership. The passage of legislation
providing for governmental operation
of Muscle Shoals, the enactment as
surfing the development of the Column
bia River project, are evidence that
the "power trusts of this nation goes
down in defeat, and the natural re-
sources and public utilities of this
country are to be returned to the peo-
pie to whom they rightfully belong
and 10 longer will the people be plum
dered for private profit and private
gain. The enactment of the shorter
working day and week, the minimum
code of wages all proclaim the dawn
Of the progressive era. The dreams
Of old Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin,
George Norris of Nebraska, and Tom
Walsh Of Montana have come true!
There is no need, however to go
further than our own state to find
the progress that has been made for
liberal ideas, liberal philosophy of
government. There is no need to go
further than the present Extraordin-
airy Session of the Montana State Leg
islature, and l cite for your conven-
fence several instances where the fight
is going on. These are the battles
that crowd the galleries, and fill the
assembly with a tense feeling of a
dramatic moment; these are the bat
ties that result in sharp debate and
heated argument on the legislative
floor; these are the battles which the
embarrassed corporation = controlled
press of this state buries in a small
corner on an inside page so the peo-
pie may not know, while they head
line some unimportant issue to BATTLE
the unsuspecting public.
TContlnued on Page Twol
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
BUTTE BARRIERS
INSTALL YEARS
OFFICERS

The following officers were install
ed at the last regular meeting of
Butte BARRIERS Union No. 635:
President, Chas. Rollman; vice.
president, C. E. Allen; financial sec'y.,
j. R. Costello; recording sec'y., L. l..
Hancock; guide, j.. P. Balkovetz;
guard, Fred O'Dell; financial commit
tee, M. Hinich, Geo. Westphal, Jas.
A. Jepson; delegates to Central Coun-
ell, Chas, Rollman, J.. P. Balkovetz,
Jas. A. Jepson, Darrell Benjamin.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
WORKINGMEN'S
UNION
NEW OFFICERS

AT the last meeting of Butte Work
ingmen's Union, the following Of
ficers were installed;
President, Francis McKelvey; vice
president, James Paige; sec'y-treas.
Clinton L. Williams; business agent,
John H. Driscoll; guide, Tim Lynch;
guardian, Howard Godfrey; trustee,
Siguard Hammerberg; delegates to
Central Council, Tim Lynch, John
Driscoll and Francis McKelvey.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
ASSO-
CITATION ADOPTS
UNION LABEL
Refuse to Act As strikebreakers.

NEW YORK.-The national execu-
tive committee of the National War
Veterans Association, with h~eadquar-
ters in New York City, made the use
of the union label mandatory on all
printed matter of the organization,
declared Harry E. Dewdney, Adjutant
of the Association. The last national
convention of the Association adopted
the following article as a part of its
constitution: "Neither the organiza-
tion, nor any of its subordinates shall
at any time participate in a strike or
lockout against labor"
The Association is a non-partisan
veterans political organization with
thirty-one posts here and membership
extending into other states. All
members must be honorably discharg-
ed veterans and voting citizens of the
United States.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
From the Farmer-Labor
Economic Federation

HURON, S. D.-(FP)-The South
Dakota Farmer-Labor Economic Fed
Grafton is now functioning following
a meeting here Of a hundred progress
sives called by Secy. Howard Y. Will
liams of the Farmer-Labor Political
Federation. Williams, formerly locat-
ed in New York, now has headquart-
ers in Minneapolis.
to the ranks of the half dozen most
advanced industrial nations. The Sec
ond 5-year plan means that the work
ers and peasants republic will step
far ahead of other European countries
and rank with the United States.
@a#
In 1887 it will be useful to see
which has made the further progress
the U. S. under its "credit expan-
sion" program for a profit economy,
or the Soviet Union, which merely
produces for use, has eliminated prof
it-takers and doesn't worry about
"credit expansion" or billion dollar
doles to stimulate industry.
@HH
Typical of the workings of the
Credit expansion theory is the pres
ent debate in the administration
whether the billions should be lent
directly to the big employers in the
heavy industries, or to the bankers
who in turn would lend to the same
crowd. The whole problem is how
to give a semblance of vitality to IN
dustry when workers and farmers, due
to unemployment and low wages IN
codified industries, haven't the pur-
chasing power that could make the
' whole machinery hum.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
Roosevelt Plans Aid
to Small Businesses

WASHINGTON.-It was announced
at the White House that methods were
being considered to protect small
business concerns from alleged handi-
caps under the fair competition codes
established by the President under the
National Industrial Recovery Act. 1t
was suggested that it might be found
advisable to create q board to receive
complaints and act upon them in the
manner now applied by the National
Labor Board in adjusting disputes be-
tween employers and employees.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11

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., 1934-01-11

The American standal Of
living must be maint Hist
in order that American
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort
Montana labor news., 1934-01-11
THE WASHINGTON
meme By Harvey O'Connor

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Side by
side on the front of the New York
Times appear two articles which pro-
vide sharp contrasts in the future of
American farmers and Soviet peas
ants.
The Washington article deals with
the Roosevelt plans for eventual ex-
penditure of $3.50, 100000 to take 5O,-
OO0,0 900 acres of land out of prOduc-
ton. Behind that plan stands the re-
cent report of Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace that half the U. s. farm
ers are un-needed and that many Of
them are doomed to semi-starvation
if they stay on their worked out land.
The other article, from the Times
Moscow correspondent, tells of the
second 5-year plan, which is to in
crease output 240 per cent, to treble
the production of food, textiles, shoes
and consumers goods, while cutting
prices 80 per cent. The article is
headed: "Soviet's New Plan to Aid
Consumers"
***
The contrasts are instructive. The
Roosevelt program calls for higher
prices, smaller production, 100 per
cent organization of employers and
their "self-government," and credit
initiation. The program reported
from the Soviet Union calls for low
er prices, greater production. Nat
urally there are no NRA codes, for
there are no private employers. And
the Soviet economy calls for better
living conditions through increased
production and better distribution. 1t
places no reliance on experiments with
gold and silver, or billion dollar doles
to stimulate industry.
ssm
To loosen the jam in the capitalist
system, there are two general lines
of thought. One school believes de-
flation should be continued to its bit
ter end until the "%unsound" section
of business is liquidated. That
means more immediate unemployment
and restitution.
The liberal school, represented by
Roosevelt and his aids, want initiation.
That means adjusting the gold content
of the dollar, buying more silver, ex-
tending billions to already over-cap-
italized industry, and financing huge
public works programs to smother
discomfort and revolt. A Wall st.
brokerage firm, supporting the Roose-
welt program, pins its hopes on the
Expansion of credit"
But what was happening in the
United States in those years from
1928 to 1929 but Expansion of cred
it," Any enterprising gambler could
get all the money he needed for ever
more amazing set-ups of holding COM
panies. The bankers and their
friends issued millions of pieces of
engraved paper and got billions in
hard cash for these stocks and bonds.
There was plenty of Expansion Of
credit" in those years. Then came
1929-33. And now they want more
Expansion of credit" On the theory
that a hair of the dog that bit you
will cure you of the rabies.
#a&
American workers and farmers, az
they watch the writings of the cap.
italist system seeking in vain for a
way to stabilize itself, should keep a
sharp eye or the Soviet Unions sec
ond 5-year plan. Already it is being
greeted with boots of at can't be
done" by the very same papers that
said the very same thing back in 1927
28 when the first 5-year plan was an
nounced. That plan was fulfilled 81
per cent in slightly more than four
years. 1t lifted a peasant country in
Evening star., 1934-12-01
DR.. RASMUSSEN
announces TOPIC
"FIight From Reality" Will
Be Theme Tomorrow
Morning.

DR.. Carl G. Rasmussen, pastor OF
Luther Place Memorial Church, will
preach tomorrow at II o'clock on
Flight From Reality"
Miss Katharine Fahs. retired mis-
sionary from India, will speak at 6:45
pm. This meeting will be followed
by the Sunday evening fellowship
hour. The Catechetical Glass will
meet from IL to IL am.
Ladies' Aid Society meeting Wed
nesday at 1880 at go M street north
east.
The 400th anniversary Of the trans
lation of the Bible by Martin Luther
will be celebrated in a special union
service of the Lutheran Church OF
Washington, to be held Friday eve
ming in this church. The meeting
begins at o'clock. The guest speak
er will be DR.. Abdel Ross Wentz Of
the Theological Seminary at Gettys-
burg. The public Is invited.
Initial rehearSals for the annual
presentation of DR.. Henry Van Dyke s
Christmas story, "The Other Wise
Man." will be held Tuesday and Fri
day in this church. All who have
been in the cast in former years and
any one desiring to participate in the
production of this inspiring drama
this year are requested to be present
on these two nights. Rehearsals will
begin at 7:30 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
CATHEDRAL BEGINS
ADVENT SEASON
Bishop Freeman Will Speak
at EvenSong Service
Tomorrow.
The first Sunday in the Advent

The first Sunday in the Advent
season of the church year will be
observed in washington Cathedral
tomorrow with the beginning of a
series of four sermons at the IL am.
services of morning prayer and cele-
bration of the holy communion by
the Very Rev. Hughell E. w. Eos
broke, dean of the General Theological
Seminary in New York City.
The preacher at the peoples even
song service in the great choir at 4
o'clock will be Bishop James E. Free
man.
Services for the day will begin with
the celebration of the holy communion
in the Bethlehem Chapel at 7:30 am.
Group pilgrimages for out-of-town
visitors to the National Capital will
be held Immediately following the II
am. and 4 pm. services.
Volunteer pilgrim aides are on duty
from 9 am. to pm. on week days
to extend hospitality to visitors and
to show them through the cathedral,
with particular reference to the
sculpture, stained glass, altar carvings
and other features Of the cathedral
symbolism. The bishops garden is
open for quiet pilgrimage or medita-
tion during the same hours.
Bishop Freeman and Miss Mabel T.
Boardman, secretary of the American
Red Cross, will deliver addresses De-
cember S, at the annual meeting of
the New York Committee of the Ma
tional Cathedral Association, to be
held at the home of Miss Caroline
White, East Sixty-sixth street.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
SERIES OF ADVENT
SERMONS SLATED
Four Topics for Morning Services
Announced by DR.. Oscar
Blackwelder.

DR.. Oscar F. BlackWelder, pastor of
the Church of the Reformation, will
begin a series of advent sermons to-
morrow morning using as his subjects,
THE King" The Kingdom THE
Kingly" and THE Kingliest" In the
evening at 8 o'clock he will continue
his series of sermons on The Modern
Translation of the Prodigal Son." with
the subject THE Empty Knapsack."
The Young Women's Missionary
Societies and the Washington Luth
eran Missionary Union will hold
combined meeting tomorrow at Refor-
nation Church, beginning at $3.50.
Miss Marie Stab of Baltimore, will
make the address. Thursday evening
the Reformation Missionary Guild and
Ladies' Aid Society will hold their an
nual bazaar and turkey dinner in the
parish hall, beginning at 4:30 o'clock.
The Lutheran Students Conference
will meet Thursday at Columbian
Hall, George Washington University.
beginning at 10 am. and the dinner
is at o'clock in Reformation Parish
Hall. Dr. N. j. G. Wickey, executive
secretary of the Board of Education of
the United Lutheran Church, will be
the speaker.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
LOVE OF GOD TOPIC
0E:DR. R. .W.WEAVER
SoIicitude of Living Saints
Seen to Mirror Divine Re.
GARD for Mankind.

"The Love of God Revealed in the
Solicitude of Living Saints" will be
the subject tomorrow morning in the
first of a series Of sermons during
December by DR.. Rufus w. Weaver at
the First Baptist Church, on the
theme, "The Contemporary Activities
Of God and the Christian Faith" The
choir will render cantata in the eve
ming.
The Luther Rice Bible Glass will
give q barbecue near Cabin John
Bridge this afternoon. This evening
Muzette Medlock and group from the
Euzelian Class will visit Central Union
Mission and conduct services there.
"The Importance of Prayer in Daily
Life" will be the theme of the B. Y.
p. U. meeting tomorrow evening, with
Paul Moore and Group in charge.
The union will hold q business meet
ing Wednesday evening.
The Woman's Society will serve q
turkey dinner at the church from S to
7 Wednesday. Thursday morning the
White Cross workers will meet at the
church to pack bags to be sent to
the Indians in the Southwest, and also
a box for mountain mission school in
Kentucky. Friday evening the Wigs
and Queues Dramatic Club will give
a three-act comedy-drama, THE Path
Across the HILL" with the following
cast: Alice Stedman, Ann Thain
Nancy Nichol, Evangeline Cowden
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. McInns, Fus
Thomason, Henry Hehey. Clarence
Kidd and Jack Claspell.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
SPECIAL DAY PLANNED
BY PETWORTH CHURCH

A Negro spiritual service will be
held at Petworth M. E. Church to-
morrow evening. This will be the con-
cluding service of the series which has
been held during November. The
theme will be Nobody Knows the
Trouble I See," which will be sung
by Evelyn Russ, student of Howard
University. The minister, Rev. r. L.
Wood, will speak. At II am. the min
lister will conduct the communion
service. There will be no sermon.
All-day meeting of the women's Or
ganizations will be held Wednesday,
beginning at 1890 am.
The midweek church program will
continue on Thursday evening. Mrs.
r. L. Wood will continue the series of
studies in the history and spirit of
Methodism; Miss Martha Stauffer
will teach the leaders of the Junior
Department Of the Church School,
and Rev. r. L. Wood will have a class
OF the young people.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
RED MEN TO ATTEND
HOLIDAY SERVICES
Ninth Street Christian Church
Will Entertain Fraternity
Tomorrow Night.

The Fraternal Order of Red Men
will attend the Ninth Street Christian
Church for their annual Thanksgiv-
ing service tomorrow evening. There
will be a special musical program and
the sermon subject by the pastor, Rev.
c. H. Jope, will be Limiting God"
Loyalty month, which is being OBJ
served by the church during Decem-
ber, will begin Sunday morning. There
will be roll call of the congregation
at the communion service. This will
be the beginning of the fourth year of
the pastorate of Rev. M. Jope. The
morning sermon subject will be I'm
suspected Resources"
Women's Council will meet Wednes-
day at 1890 am. The speaker will be
Mrs. Frank Frost.
Thursday at $50 the church night
supper program will be a Christmas
tree, at which gifts for the missiona-
ries representing this church in India
will be presented.
The Official Board will meet Friday
evening in the church house.