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Montana labor news., 1934-12-06

price increases visioned by President Roosevelt
and his advisers as elemental for recovery will
be relatively valueless for this purpose unless the
real wages of our millions of workers wages
expressed in purchasing power = are increased
more rapidly than prices are raised.
The necessity of continually higher wages to
cope and more than cope with higher living costs
is one of the major reasons why the American
Federation Of Labor and its affiliated unions
stress the Importance of all workers enrolling
in bona fide unions. Acting Individually or in
small groups, the workers are unable to protect
themselves against price advances. The strong
er the unions are, the more effective they will
be as labor's protector against the economic ser
vitude which many business leaders seem deter
mined to apply to our industrial order.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
New Deal Fails Labor

The New Deal has failed organized labor.
Union men must depend upon their own or
ganized strength to improve their living and
working conditions.
So rank and file workers told technicians at
tending the regional conference of the init. In
dustrial Relations Institute in New York City.
I'VE coal miners grew mighty tired Of getting
our pay envelopes with the dollar sign and kiss
es, but no money" a coal miner told 800 econo-
mists, social workers and teachers. "When the
NRA was passed, you bet we organized. We had
to do something so as not to starve. No one
had to tell us what the union meant. All we
needed was the right to organize and protection
from the company thugs and deputies" This
the NRA failed to give, he added.
The low standard of living of coal miners was
described by the miners wife. The shack she
lives in now is just about the same as the one
in which she was born u years ago, she stated
= plasterless walls, leaky roof, no gas or cleo
tricity, kerosene lamps (when there's money
enough to buy kerosene), no running water or
inside toilets. Only a union can better things,
she said. 1--WE miners wives are 100 per cent
for the union. They say some women nag their
men back to work in a strike. We don't" she
asserted. I'VE never scab. We fight right by
their side. If my husband should ever be a scab,
I'd pack up and leave"
I'VE have 1O8 locals of the United Automo-
bile Workers" said Otto Kleinert of the Natl.
Council of Auto Workers. "These locals will
not be individual groups much longer. We're
going to build a strong union" He told of the
autoworkers' lack of faith in the Natl. Auto La
Dor Board after several disastrous experiences.
There can be no truce and no peace in the
steel industry until the workers adjust grievances
through a union of their own choosing" said
Pres. William Long of the Weirton local of the
Amalgamated Assn. of Iron, Steel & Tin Work
ers, who claimed 10000 members for the union
1--WE accepted Section "a Of the MIRA as a guar
antee by the federal government that our rights
to organize and bargain collectively with our
employers would be protected. 1t is plain that
we have not been given that protection, he add
ed, pointing to the Weirton, Jones & Laughlin
and other cases.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Increased Purchasing Power
of Labor

Congress declared that one of the underlying
purposes Of the National Industrial Recovery
Act was to aid in lifting US out of the depression
by increasing the wages of working men and
women, and thus increase the purchasing pow
er of the masses. There is a tendency in anti
labor quarters to insist that higher wages alone
will accomplish this purpose. This is only true
provided the cost of living remains static.
The workers cost of living is made up Of the
commodities and services which business and
professional men own and sell for a profit. These
commodities and services run all the way from
salt, sugar and flour to rent, doctors and den
lists bills, electricity and transportation.
1t is apparent that increased money wages do
not increase the workers purchasing power if
those who own these essential commodities raise
the prices of them sufficiently to chisel away
the advantages of higher pay. Under such con-
ditions larger wages do not raise the living stand
ards of those who have jobs, nor provide work
for any of our unemployed millions. Because
of these negations, higher wages when accom-
panied by proportional price boosts contribute
nothing toward ending the depression and bring
ing about recovery.
Inasmuch as our unemployed army remains
static at between ten and eleven millions, it is
more than ever clear that the only remedy for
the depression, the only measure which will ap-
preciably stimulate recovery, is a tremendous in
crease in the real purchasing power of the mass
es expressed in tremendously larger amounts of
commodities and service which wages will buy.
This is why the American Federation Of La
boris unemployment relief plan calls for the
shorter week, without decrease in the weekly
earnings for those whose hours of labor are thus
reduced, full-time employment for the millions
of idle at the same weekly earnings, and increases
in weekly earnings much in excess OF the price
boosts put over by those who own and control
our manufacturing and retail industries and the
service industries.
To sum up, the American Federation Of Labor
persistently r%eiterates that the large commodity
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06

departments.
The most the Labor Department has
ever had to spend is $l3,500,0O0, which
it has had this year, Miss Perkins said.
Of this, $~10,0OO,000 goes to the depart
ment's immigration section, leaving
only $3,500,000 for its regular labor
functions.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Clothing Sales Drop rs Per Cent,
Food 81 Per Cent

WASHINGTON-(FP) II Clothing
and shoes became a luxury to work
ers and farmers when their wages and
incomes are cut. Or so, at any rate,
it seems IRON the census report on re-
tail sales in New York state for 1888,
just completed by the Bureau Of the
Census.
The largest decline in dollar sales,
compared to 1929, occurred in family
clothing stores, which show a decrease
of Is per cent in dollar volume. Shoe
store sales dropped by 48 per cent,
radio store sales by II per cent and
motor vehicle sales by O. per cent.
Department store sales decreased 40
per cent and food store sales "a per
cent. Total sales declined AZ per cent
in the four years.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
MORE WORK FOR
The D. A. R.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.-CFP) II
Suspicious of patriotic organizations
that the high-pressure lecturing and
shaking down by their ~favorite flag
waving racketeers had been in vain in
the north shore suburb of Highland
Park were confirmed on Armistice
Day.
Only ITO turned out for the II
o'clock ceremony around the flagpole
on the main street. OF these ten were
Legionnaires, six were Boy Scouts,
four Girl Scouts, 20 belonged to the
high school band and the balance were
proud parents OF the band players.
The bandsmen had to play on pain
of high school dement's. Highland
Park embraces the notorious "Red
Ravinia" within its borders.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Montana Labor News,
I'll East Quartz Street,
Butte, Montana.

Gentlemen:
wish to take this means, through
the columns of your paper, to thank
the men and women who have so
staunchly and Loyalty supported me not
only in this campaign but in my other
campaigns as well. 1t is to them and
their faith in me, that | owe, to a
large extent, the success which | have
achieved. ! am deeply appreciative of
the great honor they have again be-
slowed upon me in giving me further
opportunity to serve the people and the
great State of Montana. | earnestly
hope that my future actions in the
United States Senate will continue to
merit the confidence and trust they
have placed in me.
cordially yours,
BURTON X. WHEELER.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06
Labor Starvation, Like Charity,
Begins at Home, Depart
ment Finds

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-Th U. S.
Department of Labor is a Starved de-
partment," according to Secretary
Frances Perkins. She has announced
that she will certainly ask larger ap-
preparations" for it in her annual re-
port, as it gets much less than other
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06

Do not acquire the reputation of be-
ing an obstructionist. Do something
for the good of the organization.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-06

Let him who expects one class of
society to prosper in the highest de-
gree, while the other is in distress,
try whether one side Of his face can
smile while the other is pinched.
Be consistent and not faint-hearted
Demand the Union Label and get it.
Nothing can take its place.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-12-21
WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE
Whenever we look owe a list OF
holding public office, in

ONE IN PUBLIC OFFICE
Whenever we look over a list Of
people holding public office, In
Congress, in the Federal depart
ments and elsewhere, we are Away,
impressed anew with the increasing
number of women doing public
service. And the more we think
about it, the more it seems to us
like a right and proper thing.
Intelligent women are much
more interested in serving Others
than men usually are. There is
something in a woman's nature
that impels her to see the job
through and pay little attention to
outside influences. Women in pub
lie office are less likely to be fired
by personal political ambitions
than men are. Likewise, they are
more apt to be economical in their
administration of their jobs.
We could think of a great many
things less desirable than to have
large part of the government run
by women, preferably grandmoth-
ers. We believe one result would
be lower taxes and less waste of
funds. There also probably
be less graft and fewer
scandals.
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est may appear at the said time and
place and show cause, if any they
have, why the prayer of said petit
TONERS should not be granted.
And it is further ordered by the
court, that the Referee in Bank
iruptcy shall send by mail to all
known creditors, copies of said
petition and this order, addressed
to them at their places of residence,
as stated.
Witness the Honorable johnson
j. Hayes, judge of the said court,
and the seal thereof, at Greensboro,
N. c., in said district, on the 18th
day of December, 1884.
Signed--Johnson ]. Hayes, Unit
ed States Judge.
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them in time of illness or accident
goes. They come to him with their
troubles and their secrets, and often
it is his wise advice and counsel,
far more than his medicines, that
helps to keep them going.
We do not believe that any
scheme of Specialized" medicine
will ever become so useful as the
"humanized" influence of the in
dividualistic country doctor.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-12-21
LEGAL NOTICES
SALE OF FARM N

Pursuant to an order Of Court in
Special Proceedings entitled Eliza
beth Swain, Anna Belle Randolph,
Meta Phifer, ct al, against Florence
E. Owens, and George B. Owens, ct
al, appointing the undersigned
Commissioner to sell for division
1.-THE lands herein described, the un-
Idersigned will sell, at public auc-
jtion, at the Court House Door, in
the City of Salisbury, on Monday.
February 4th, 1885 for cash, at II
M. the following described real
estate, to-wit: One tract of land in
Scotch Irish Township, and bound
ed and described as follows:
Beginning at a post oak, the orr
Iginal corner, and corner of Ben
Ijamin HUE; thence with the said
Huie's line, E. 4S Poles to a post
oak, or pile of rock, the original
corner of said tract, and corner to
BENJAMIN Huie's; thence S. 43 poles
to a hickory, said Huie's corner
thence E. Sc poles to a red oak on
said Huie's line, and corner to Paul
|Phifer's; thence with Rev. Paul
Phifer's line, S. $40 poles to a dog
wood on the S. line of the original
tract, said Phifer's corner; thence
S. SO deg. w. 1914 poles to a hick-
DRY said Phifer's corner; thence N.
2 deg. W. 1877 poles to the begin
ming, containing 1o3 acres, more or
less.
For back title see Book of Deeds
No. 10S, page 50, and Special Pro-
ceedings in this cause.
This December 10th, 1884.
Ernest R. Alexander, Commissioner.
R. Lee Wright, Attorney.
Dec. 21-Jan. rs.
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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
FRANK PARKER STocKBRDGE
ANIMALS and children

MAMMALS and children
1t was Sidney Smith, the famou.
English wit of a century ago, who
said: "The more | see of men, the
better I like dogs" The reason
why every normal human being
finds the lesser animals interesting,
it seems to me, is that when you
come to know them you can always
count on their attitude toward any
situation. That is decidedly not
true of mankind, except in rare in
stances.
Some of the finest friendships
have ever known have been be-
tween children and their pet ami
mails. Children seldom understand
grown-ups, who live in a different
kind of world and do the most I'M
expected things, from the child's
point of view. But a dog or a cat
Ior almost any other animal meets
the child on a level of equality
, Neither is concerned with any
problems except those of the me
Iment. What the future has in store
for them doesn't worry them, be-
cause the idea that there is any
future finds no Judgment in thei1
minds.
When a man or a woman get.
too self-centered to be interested it
animals and their ways he or she
is out of balance. / would hate tt
trust a child to the care of anyone
who didn't like the little beasts Of
the hearth and the fields.
MICE -. they sing
Did you ever hear a mouse sing:
My own old ears are not keer
enough, but several of my friend:
have told me of singing mice ii
their homes, and l heard the othe1
day of one old gentleman who sue
ceeded in tanning one of the little
creatures so that it would come
every night and share his late sup.
per of bread and cheese, singing
between bites. The notes are like
a canary's, only very low ano
faint. A British scientist contend.
that all mice sing, if we could only
hear them.
! l have one friend with ears sharp
enough to hear the bats talk tc
each other as they pursue mosqui-
toes on Summer nights. He says
that they, too, sound like rather
squeaky ~canaries, with a range of
several notes.
AS a boy I used to catch bats
and try to tame them. One became
an interesting pet. He slept all
day, hanging upside down, sus-
pended by the hooks on his wing
joints from the picture-molding
in my bedroom. But a c~onscienti-
Gus maid-servant, who believed the
old superstition that bats carry
bedbugs, and are bad luck anyhow,
killed him with a broom one day.
y + +
FOXES in u. S.
feel sorry for city children,
who grow up without seeing any
animals except dogs, goats, cats
and horses, unless they go to the
Zoo. To them all other animals
- = Nr-
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FOXES in u. S.
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BANKRUPT'S PETITION FOR
DISCHARGE

PETITION FOR
DISCHARGE
Julius Fisher, Laura Graham Fisher,
Bankrupts.
IN
To the Honorable johnson ]. Hayes
Judge of the District Court of the
United States, for the Middle Dis
trict of North Carolina:
Julius Fisher and Laura Graham
Fisher, of Concord, in the county
of Cabarrus and State of North
Carolina, in said district, respect
fully represents that on the sth
day of October last past they were
duly adJudged bankrupt under the
acts of Congress relating to bank
ruptcy; that they have duly sur
rendered all of their property and
rights of property, and they have
fully complied with all the require
ments of said acts and of the orders
of the court touching their bank
ruptcy.
Wherefore they pray that they
may be decreed by the court to
have a full discharge from all debts
provable against their estate under
said bankruptcy acts, except such
debts as are excepted by law from
such discharge.
Dated this 10Th day Of Novem-
Der, 1884.
Signed-Julius Fisher, Laura Ora
ham Fisher, bankrupts. \
OF NOTICE THEREON
Middle District of North Caro-
lima, IS:
On the 18th day of December,
1884 on reading the foregoing
petition, it is ordered by the court
that a hearing be had upon the same
on the 18th day of January, 1885,
before w. T. Shuford, Referee in
Bankruptcy, at Salisbury, N. c., in
said district, at 2:30 o'clock in the
afternoon; and that notice thereof
be published in The Carolina
Waterman, a newspaper printed in
said district, and that all known
creditors and other persons in inter
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SQUASH CRANBERRIES
GREEN PEPPERS SNAP BEANs.
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them only behind the bars of their
cages.
The other day a little gray fox
from the Long Island woods stray
ed into a New York suburb, and
women and children ran shrieking
into their houses, crying "Wolf!"
The police finally captured the
frightened beastie and took him to
the city Zoo.
Probably nobody concerned real
lied that the gray fox, which is
becoming rarer and rarer in the
East, is the only native fox south
of the Canadian border. The COM
mon red fox was unknown in
America until about 200 years ago,
when a group of sportsmen, trying
to introduce their English sport of
fox-hunting into the colonies, i'm
ported a few pairs of red foxes
from England and turned them
loose on Long Island. Now their
progeny have driven the gray foxes
back into the deep woods, all over
New England, New York, New
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.
MONKEYS ;. and us
l don't think l know anybody
who isn't interested in the human
like antics of monkeys, who are SO
much like miniature people. that we
instinctively feel kinship with
them. But most folk feel an in
stinctive terror of the great apes,
the orangutans, gorillas and even
chimpanzees. They are so very
much like humans that we can't
feel sure how they will react to
emotional stimuli, and they are 50
much stronger, size for size, than
any human being, that there is gen.
orally a decided fear of personal
violence should something anger
them.
My friend Ben Burbridge brought
a baby gorilla home from Africa a
few years ago and I got to be we'll
acquainted with her. She was an
affectionate creature, who would
tear the clothes off anybody she
liked, in the effort to show her af-
lection. She didn't realize, of
course, how much stronger she was
than a man or woman.
After a while she, like all the
other apes in captivity, had to be
sent to a Zoo, for safety. 1t would
have been kinder to have left her
ready among the returning Senator's
and members of Congress for the
immediate payment of the Veterans
Bonus, and there are some signs
that the Administration may yield a
point and propose some compromise
plan, which would provide for an
issue of new currency to take care
of this demand and remove the
matter from the public arena.
That would involve a moderate
amount Of currency initiation. The
extreme inhationists are withhold
ing their program for the present.
Senator Elmer Thomas, of Okla
homa, leader of the infationists bloc,
says they will lot make any new
demands unless they think further
devaluation of the dollar, another
increase in the price Of silver, and
perhaps some printing-press money,
are essential to speedy recovery.
More attention is likely to be
focused on new tax measures.
There will probably be a strong
drive for a national general sales
tax. No proposals for increase in
income taxes are likely to be made,
however, by the Administration,
until after the middle of March,
when returns for 1884 incomes are
filed.
LAND POSTERS-For Sale At The
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POPULATION DATA
$3.50 Census)
A DOCTOR

Ten thousand people tried to
crowd into a hall that holds only
three thousand, the other night in
New York, to see-w what? A mar
vel Of science, a freak of nature, a
great musician or a famous explor-
er?
Nothing like that drew that
great throng to Carnegie Hall.
Nothing but a country doctor!
The greatest medical specialists
of America, the heads of the great
hospitals and medical schools, and
thousands of ordinary folk turned
out to see a simple, unpretentious,
untravelled rural practitioner from
Canada. 1t was such a tribute as
few country doctors ever get, but
which most of them, we think, de-
serve.
DR.. Dafoe sprang to unexpected
fame because of the Dionne quin-
tuplets. To his skill and devotion
the whole medical world attributes
the survival of those five little
French-C Canadian sisters, the only
set of quintuplets that is known
to have lived more than a few
hours after birth. Now six months
old, they are as strong and healthy
as any normal infants of that age,
due to DR.. Dafoe's intelligent care.
Not every country doctor has
a chance to prove his skill by bring
ing up quintuplets, but the coun-
try towns and villages Of America
and Canada contain thousands of
medical men who are just as devot-
ed, just as self-sacri6cing, just as
able, on the average, as DR.. Dafoe.
We are glad to see this homage
paid to him, since he has shown NO
signs of swelling of the head, be-
cause to us it seems a deserved tri-
butte to the country general prac-
titioneer, who too seldom gets pub
lie credit for what he does for his
community.
We venture that, deep down in
their hearts, the great specialists
who went to that meeting in Car
negie Hall envied this country doc
tor. If he is like other country
doctors we know he occupies a
place in the life and the hearts of
his community that no city prac-
titioner, however skillful, can hope
to attain. They make more mon
ey, but they lose the more import
ant and valuable considerations Of
life. The good country doctor &C.
cupies a position of security and
contentment which the greatest
may envy. He deserves and gen
orally has the respect. and the love
of his people to a degree that few
men in any other calling ever COM
mand. 1t makes little difference
to him whether his patients can
pay their bills promptly or not; no
difference insofar as his duty to
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Our advice to winners and los Personally, we see nothing wrone
ers: Don't forget, there will be with the slogan that every indivii,
other elections. dual should have some work to do.
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LAND POSTERS-For Sale at The
Waterman Office.
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feel sorry for city children,
who grow up without seeing any
animals except dogs, goats, cats
and horses, unless they go to the
Zoo. To them all other animals
Evening star., 1934-10-10
OIL DEALERS STUDY
ILLS PERILING TRADE
Opening of Three-Day Convention
Finds Milwaukee Locked
in Price War.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, october lO.-The
National Association Of Petroleum Re-
tailers, opening a three-day conven-
ton here yesterday, discussed meth
ods OF eliminating ills they said
threaten the trade.
AS they gathered, Milwaukee was
locked in gasoline price war that
sent the price of the regular" grade
TO l4.4 cents a gallon. including tax.
N. L. Meyers Of Washington. secre-
tary of the Petroleum Administration,
said much of the trouble confronting
the oil industry is due to hot" OIL
that is. oil produced above approved
ALLEGATIONS.
We know the allotment system and
code are being violated" he said.
There are now two cases before the
Supreme Court on this ALLEGATION law.
and if the Government is upheld We
can force obedience"
H. A. Crouthamel of Baltimore said
form of price fixing will have to
come eventually.
l.. M. Faber, ir., president Of the
Milwaukee association, said the price
war is fight between wholesalers and
producers, not the retailers, adding
that the retailer has been protected
on his profit margin.