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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-28

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Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
BUTTE UNION WILL HAVE REPRE-
SENTAT|ON At ALL CONFERENCES.
WALKING DELEGATES MAY SOLICIT
MEMBERS IN MINES AND ENCLOSURES
WCT0RYAFTERYEARS OF ORGANIZATION EFFORTS
APPLICATIONS ARE FLOODING UNION OFFICE

After long years of struggle, Butte Miners Union No. 1 has gained rec
ognhion by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. John Hobbins, of the
A. C. NJ met a committee from the miners, consisting of Robt Brown, Reid
Robinson, VIM. Vgiers, Lee Roy Evans, Dan 0rhch and Geo. Coles and came
to the following agreement:
The Company would grant full recognition to the Butte Miners Union and
would engage in N silent pr active opposition in allowing the union to COM
plte the full organization of the Butte Miners. Under the terms of recog-
milton the union will be entitled to representation in all conferences between
Labor and the Company, their delegates will be permitted to solicit members
in the mines and enclosures, and their officers win be given full consideration
in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the miners. 1t was further agreed
that 10 discrimination will be shown against anyone active in organizing the
union.
THE CHANGING TIMES
News, dated April %, 1926. Following are the large scar heads of that is
ne: MINERS REFUSED" COMPANY REFUSES RECOGNITION TO
MINERS" COMMISSIONER MCMAHON AUTHORIZED TO DECLINE
short years and a President of the United States with the courage of his con-
yction "a work wonders in the attitude of al employer toward his employ
ees. For years organized labor in Butte has made every effort to reOrgan-
ize Butte Miners Union No. L. 1t met with Encouragement each time. Lew
McLanagan still cam to the Council as a delegate representing the few
miners who held to their charter Came 1888, the MIRA with its numerous
codes and clauses and suddenly ars of fruitless efforts are awarded with
victory. 1888 will stand out as a historical year for Butte labor and the Butte
miners. Recognition of Buttes newest and yet oldest union means again the
complete organization of labor in Butte.
MINERS STILL JOINING
Since the union has gained recognition, miners are still flOcking to head
quarters seeking membership in the union. Hundreds have been initiated in
the past week and applications are still pouring in AT the present rate it
will be only a matter of a few weeks until every miner in Butte will be a
member of the union. The encouraging thing to a bystander in the Union
office is to see the spirit and enthusiasm shown by those joining the union.
There seems to be a spirit of freedom manifest by the members that has
been lacking in Butte miners circles for years.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
BUY UNION MADE BROOMS
Communication Condemns Pur~
chase of Prison Made Brooms

The following communication cor
corning prison-made brooms was re-
ceived by the Council at its last reg
ular meeting and turned over to the
label committee:
Chicago, ILL.,, January 9, 1884.
Harry Grimes,
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council,
P. 0. Box 1917, Butte, Mont.
Dear Sir and Brother:
The International Broom & Whisk
Makers Union was organized in 1898,
and at that time adopted the union
label to distinguish our product from
that made by the inmates Of penal,
reformatory and charitable institu-
lions.
Firms contracting for prison labor
pay all the way from 25 to rs cents
per day for each convict employed by
them. These contractors generally
receive FREE rent, light, heat and
power, which makes it impossible for
the manufacturer employing free
labor to compete with them.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18

The only way you can avoid pat
ronizing prison labor is to demand
and insist on getting brooms that bear
the union label. The label of the
Broom Makers union is printed with
black on light blue paper, is round,
and is fastened under the wire at the
finish of the broom.
The Montana Broom & Brush Com
pany Harry Hitchcock, proprietary },
is located at 1875 E. Iron St., Butte
Montana, and we are asking that you
notify your members and your mer-
chants of this fact. Anything you
can do to help increase the demand
for union label brooms will be high
ly appreciated by the union manufac-
turer as well as help in making more
employment for union broom makers.
Thanking you in advance for your
cooperation, we remain,
F%raternally yours,
WILL r. BOYER,
Secretary-Treasurer
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
Phone Operators Win Strike
at Gillespie, Ill.

GILLESPIE, Ill. - (FP) - Girl
phone operators, who tied up comm
unication for over a month by strik-
ing against 81 to $3.50 for a. work
week of 48 to SO hours have won most
of their demands from the Illinois
Central Telephone Co. at Gillespie and
Benld. About 600 phones were affec-
ted.
Union recognition and reempioy-
ment of all strikers was granted.
Hours will be shorter in most cases
and wages will be higher in all cases.
The union is the Progressive Tele-
phone Operators Union, affiliated
with the Progressive Trades e. Labor
Unions of America, of which the prin-
cipal component is the Progressive
Miners.
was paroled, vas Richard Verkovich,
The Init. Labor Defense, which de-
Tended the four, announced that the
convictions would be appealed.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
MINERS PRESENT 3O-HOUR
WORK WEEK RESOLUTION
Council Adopts Resolution and
Asks Unions To Do the Same

The following resolution, presented
by the Butte Miners union, asking
for a National 30-hour work week,
was unanimously adopted by the
Council at its last meeting. All
other unions are asked to adopt like
resolutions and send them to their
congressman and senators and to the
American Federation of Labor:
To the Executive Officers of the
American Federation of Labor:
Greetings:
We, the members of Butte Miners
Union No. 1, of /. U. of M. M. & S.
W., affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, believe that the sug-
gestions in the following resolution,
regarding national legislation, in the
interests of labor, to be vitality neces-
sary, and presented at this session of
congress. Therefore, we submit the
following for your concurrence and
support;
WHEREAS, The N. R. A. codes
providing for 80, 40, As or so hour
work weeks are totally inadequate to
provide anything like steady employ
ment for the wage-earners of the
United States; and
WHEREAS, In Il own district, it
has been absolutely proven that even
the Thirty-hour work week, inaugur-
ated by the Presidents G. w. A. pro-
gram, has proved inadequate; as there
are still several hundreds living off
charity, and
WHEREAS, We have reliable in
formation to the effect that if all the
installed, productive machinery of the
country were set in motion we could
produce a super-abundance of every
thing we use by working sixteen hours
per week; and
WHEREAS, 1t appears, there are a
number of other machines as yet UNI
installed, which require practically no
human agency whatever for their OPP
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18

GRAFTON, and whose potential produc-
ton will add enormously to the eff
cheney Of the country's factories and
other producing units; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That we urge upon
President William Green and the other
Executive Officers of the A. F. of l..
to use their utmost endeavors to have
congress enact laws, providing for a
national work week, for all industry
of not more than thirty hours, and be
it further
RESOLVED: That in order to avert
the necessity for public or private
charity, and other attendant evils, we
believe it to be absolutely necessary
to enact adequate unemployment in
surance and old age pension laws,
which will remove the spectres of
unemployment and old age depend
ency. We further believe that men
and women should be taken out of in
dustry and adequately p%ensioned;
starting at the age of fifty years and
ranging up to sixty years for differ
ent industries; and be it further
RESOLVED: That we pledge our
unstinted and %unwavering support to
our executive officers and all others
who support and fight for this pro-
gram; and be it further
RESOLVED, That copies of this
resolution be sent to all Central La
Dor Bodies in the state asking their
endorsement and to ask their affil-
iates to communicate it to their var
ious locals, and internationals. To
this end that this action gain wide
spread support, from all sections of
the country; and be it further
RESOLVED: That the request be
made of all farmer organizations to
support this action.
REID ROBINSON,
ROBERT C. BROWN,
LEW j. McLENEGAN,
Legislative Committee.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
HAS
SOCIAL HOUR

After the conclusion of the last ses-
sion of the Council a surprise was
sprung upon the delegates by Bill
Palmer, in the form of a Dutch Lunch.
Through the Courtesy of the Butte
Brewery, Mutual Creamery, Sweet
Bros, Eddy's Bakery, and the efforts
of Bill Palmer and President Erler a
real Dutch lunch, with plenty of re-
freshments for all, was served. The
members of the brewery workers and
Palmer officiated at the serving and
saw that everyone was taken arr of.
In order to serve the entire delega-
ton the councils leading dutchmen
Rollman and Nicols had to be dragged
away from the counter. Rollman
claims the lunch was equal to any
thing served in Pennsylvania and
Mike claims that Wen never had bet
ter beer than that made by Butte's
own brewery.
Thanks Palmer, Erler, Butte Brew
cry, Mutual Creamery, Sweet Bros,
Eddy's Bakery, and all others who
contributed.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
BARRIERS ASK
FOR MINIM UNI
WAGE


BARRIERS fought in an NRA code hear
ing Jan. s, for fixed minimum wage
scales and prices to govern the trade
throughout the country. Master bar
bers and the union were in complete
| agreement on a scale calling for a SIS
a week guarantee to BARRIERS in the
north, plus so per cent of gross re-
ceipts above $50 a week. In the
south and in northern towns the guar
antee would be $13 a week plus so per
cent commission on gross receipts
over $26 a week.
Manicurists would receive SIP a
week and half the gross takings over
$24 a week while bootblacks would re-
ceive $7-8 with similar commission ar
rangements. The workweek for bar
bers would be 81 hours, and 48 for
m~anicurists. Tips would have no part
in determining wages.
On the issue of minimum prices,
sharp conflict arose between Division
al Administrator A. d. Whiteside and
the master and journeymen BARRIERS,
Whiteside opposing any effort at
price-fixing. The union and the or
gained barber bosses want SOC and
25c minimums for a haircut and shave
in the north and 40c and zoe in the
south.
Elizabeth Christman Of the Women's
Trade Union League, attacking the
proposed minimum scale for women,
declared that nothing less than SIS
can be considered a living wage for
a single m The proposed code
carried wide loopholes which would
permit manicurists to work for what
they could get in smaller shops. Amid
applause from hundreds Of BARRIERS in
the crowded auditorium of the depart
ment of commerce building, she hit at
the effort to substitute tips for wages,
as proposed by some employers.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
THREE WORKERS
GET PRISON
TERMS

PITTSBURGH-(FP)- Three Am
bridge, Pa, workers who were jailed
during the recent steel strike were
sentenced to five years in prison and
fined $1,100 after they were found
guilty of "rioting" and assault and
battery" A fourth was fined costs
and placed on three years parole. The
thugs who killed a picket were not
brought to trial.
'NThe sentences were handed down by
Judge Mcconnell who during the 1927
steel strike sentenced three Commun-
list workers to 1-year jail terms, one
of whom died in prison of tubercu-
losis.
Two of the Ambridge workers, En-
ma Breltic and Denny Benning, were
given the maximum sentences by Nc
Connell, two years in Jail and $500
fine; the third, John Kapjusto, was
sentenced to one year and ordered to
pay a 500 fine. The fourth, who
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
A.C. N. co. GRANTS RECOGNITION TO MINERS
OPEN LETTER TO
III. l.. HOPKINS
Musselshell, Mont, Jan. 8, 1884.

Musselshell, Mont, Jan. B, 1884.
Mr.. H. L. Hopkins, Federal Relief
Administrator, Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir:
On Nov. 18th, | addressed an open
letter to you and gave copies to the
press of the state, in which l outlin-
ed the disgraceful condition which
exists in this state with regard to the
administration of relief funds.
In that letter | made several
charges, among them being the charge
that relief administrators had display
ed extreme favoritism and gross dis
elimination in dispensing relief allot-
ments. Up to the present l have re-
ceived 4p reply nor has there been
any evidence that you have taken any
action regarding the conditions which
were tyen called to your attention.
DAg the Month of December a
con. yee of the Montana State leg
islaR was authorized to investigate
similar charges in Silver Bow county
and If any c%orroboration of my charges
were needed it can be readily found
in the report of this committee, a
copy of which | am enclosing for your
information:
Not only has the evidence gathered
by this committee substantiated every
charge which l made in my letter to
you, but it has developed the fact that
relief administrators have used the re-
lief and CWA programs as patronage,
and are attempting to build up po-
litical machines thereby for their
own selfish interests. The public is
%evidencing a growing dissatisfaction
with this state of affairs.
Now Nh. Hopkins, it seems that a
grave responsibility rests upon you
under these circumstances, and if you
are sincere in the effort to secure jus
tice for the unemployed, as / hope
and believe you are, it would appear
thai you should take immediate ac-
ton to weed out the patronage hounds
and to eliminate those who have ex-
hibited favoritism and discrimination
from among the administrators of re-
lief funds. These persons are doing
more to discredit the relief and civil
works programs that all the critics
combined.
In bringing this matter again to
your attention | am actuated by only
one motive, that of securing a fair
deal both to the unemployed and to
the administration, and | want to as
sure you that Silver Bow county is
not the only county in this state in
which these tactics are being adopted.
The question is then squarely up to
you whether you will take the neces-
sary steps to weed out these admin
istrators who by their discriminatory
tactics and political chicanery have
shown themselves unfit to be trusted
with the administration of relief funds
or whether by silence and inaction you
will become a party to the transac-
lions and thereby place the RESPONSE
bility upon the administration as a
whole. The evidence is here and can
be readily brought to light if you care
to investigate.
In closing let me simply say as a
member of the unemployed that there
are limits in the transgression of hui
man rights beyond which just govern
ment may not go and beyond which
we will not be driven. Those limits
have almost been reached.
Very truly yours,
LEVERNE HAMILTON.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
American Plutes Needn't
Whine About Their Taxes

Percapita taxation in the United
States is $1S per year; in Germany
$3.50; in France, $66, and in Eng
land, $73, according to official Brit
ish figures.
flee and clerical employees a minimum
of SIG per week of 35 hours.
His recommendation also specified
that the minimum wages shall be ex-
empt from any payments for pen
sions, insurance and sick benefits
other than those voluntarily paid and
from all deductions for errors or for
other causes.
Laundry Work Is Arduous.
Let me say again, in showing why
a SD per week minimum wage is a
reasonable proposal, that a very con-
siderable portion of the work in the
laundry industry is hard physical Ia
Dor, and makes great demands upon
the strength and endurance of the
workers.
Then, too, working conditions are
u~nfavorable. High temperature and
high humidity are characteristic OF
both the washing and the ironing de-
%partments. There are certain haz-
ards to which the workers are ex-
posed, such as burns for the wash
men, or the body press operator; the
danger of catching hands and arms in
revolving rolls, as in the flat work
ironer and the feeder"
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
1888 Building Construction
in Chicago 3 Per Cent
of Normal

CHICAGO-(FP)-For every dol
lar spent on building construction of
all sorts, including repairs and alter
%ations, in 1929 only &c was spent in
1888, according to the state depart
ment of labor. At that 1888 was a bit
better than 1882, when only 2.9c of
the 1929 building dollar was spent.
But 1929 was by no mean the high
point in Chicago building, having been
exceeded n per cent in 1926, " per
cent in 1927 and 81 per cent in 1923.
During 1888 Chicago added only
100 residential quarters of all sorts,
leaving a normal shortage of $4,000
homes as estimated by the city board
Of health.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18

WASHINGTON Officials of the
National Recovery Administration are
still "in session. on the fair practice
code for the laundry industry, with
it's monstrous proposal of $3.50 for
a 45-hour week, trenchantly described
as a Starvation wage" by William
Green, president of the American
Federation Of Labor, in the hearing on
the code.
1t is said that this $500 is the low
est wage rate yet submitted by any
group of employers, and in labor cir
cles it is not believed that either the
MIRA or President Roosevelt will ap-
prove such a low living standard for
the thousands of women workers who
toll in American ~laundries.
In place of the starvation standard
urged by the laundry owners, Mr..
Green urged the NRA to fix a mini
mum of 40 cents per hour and $14
per week of 35 hours, without wage
differentials for various geographical
regions, and vigorously attacked the
low wage rates tor n Soutn as an
open determination by employers to
vlctimlze Negro workers because OF
Their color.
No New Deal" in Ia Cents Per Hr.
Declaring that under the principles
of the National Recovery Act high
wages are necessary to build up pur-
chasing power, and thus provide en-
ployment for the iObless, Mr.. Green
said that the Ia cents per hour mini
mum written into the proposed code
by those who own and control the
laundry industry was a denial of the
major purpose of the Act. us this
the new deal ?" he asked. rs it pos
sible to supply the purchasing power
which is essential for the success OF
the National Recovery program by
such a wage? l believe it would be
difficult if not impossible to convince
the thousands OF workers in the laun-
dry trade that they we're sharing in
the new deal if such a wage were es-
tablished.
Just a Starvation Wage.
Let us look for just a moment at
what this wage would meal in week
ly and in yearly purchasing power,
At best, with even the overriding work
week Of 45 hours proposed in the code
a woman employed in flat work in a
Laundry in the South could earn only
$3.50 for a full weeks work. In a
year of 81 weeks, if she were employed
o..o..r ...1ssLIo L.. IL -. e 4I-4
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18

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., 1934-01-18
PLANS MADE FOR PARADE, JAN. 30

Plans for a labor parade in honor of President ROOsevelts birthday, Jan.
80, to precede the President Roosevelt Birthday Ball, to be given that even.
ing, we're made last night at a meeting of representatives of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council and the Building Trades Council.
r. C. Brown of the Miners Union, will be Marshal of the day.
Final arrangements for the parade will be made a a meeting to be held
Sunday afternoon, 8 O'Clock, at Carpenters Union hall.
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
Code Victimizes Women Workers.

Code Victimizes Women Workers.
81 am convinced that if the workers
in this industry were not very largely
women, and in the South negro women,
the wage rates in this code would
never have been proposed. The nee
essity of these women is great. They
must accept what is offered. They
have in the past and are at present
working for wages which bear no re-
lation to a fair value Of the service
they render.
LabOr's Wage Rates.
As a complete substitute for the
disgracefully low wages demanded by
the laundry owners, Mr.. Green rec
commended that "no plant employe
shall be paid less than the rate OF
S14 per week Of 80 hours, or 40 cents
per hour whether compensated on a
time rate, piece-work or other basis"
For engineers, firemen and main
t%enance employees he urged a minimum
of $22.65 per week of 30 hours, or Oh
cents per hour; for delivery men a
minimum of $15 per week of 40 hours
plus a 10 per cent commission on
sales; for executives and managers a
minimum Of $35 per week; and for Of
Montana labor news., 1934-01-18
LOW
WAGE IN AUN-
DRY CODE

Declares Laundry Owners Proposed
Minimum of IA Cents Per Hour and
$3.50 for a 45-Hour Week Is STAR
vatiOn' Pay-Urges 40 Cents Per
Hour for 35-HOur Week-Assails
Victimization of Women Workers.
Evening star., 1934-11-22
Natures Children
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

60, the first to enter this country
came q little over a hundred years
ago.
About 1880 and 1881 we have the
earliest records of importationS. To-
day those who wish to join the club
must trace their ancestry back to one
of these relatives who were domiciled
on Cows Island, in Lake Winnipesau-
kee, N. H. The new citizens were not
permitted to mingle with any other
cattle. From 1910 to 1860 they were
Joined by other relatives from Chan
mel Island. After this time they be-
gan coming over in great numbers.
Not until 1881 were steps taken
to bring over the Guernseys for pub
lie sale. All the cattle before this
time went on private estates. A
Quaker, S. c. Kent, and his neigh
bors conceived the idea and began
importing them. The first 10 years
1000 were sold. In 1908 the numbers
increased and they have been very
numerous since then.
Today one-fourth of all the pure
breed Guernseys Of this country are
in Wisconsin. Pennsylvania, New
York and Minnesota are next. There
are Guernseys in every State in the
Union and the record shows that
there are over 100000 bulls and
175,O00 cows in this country today.
The American Guernsey Club was
organized in 1877 by a few breeders
who lived in the East. They drew
up scale Of points and, though
many of them have been revised sew
Evening star., 1934-11-22

~ OWN into the pond of Paddy
the Beaver in the Green
Forest a weary flock of great
~ birds followed their leader,
Honker the Goose. All day
they had been flying with Honker in
the lead. Part of the time the wind
had been against them and this had
made flying very tiresome Time and
again some of them, especially the
younger ones. had wanted to drop
down on some Of the ponds they had
passed over, or on the river whose
course they had followed so long, but
Honker had kept on and they had
followed, although protesting and
complaining.
Now that they were safe on Paddy's
pond, they were too tired to do more
than drink a little water and then
seek rest. They we're too tired to
talk, which proves that they were
very tired indeed. Only Honker and
Mrs Honker with one or two others
of the older Geese, who had visited
this pond more than once in the past,
returned the greetings of Paddy and
Mrs. Paddy and Mr.. and Mrs. Quack,
the Mallard Ducks, old friends.
You must have made a long flight
today for the youngsters to be so
tired" said Mr.. Quack. And you
look pretty tired yourself" he added.
1T was long flight and hard
one" replied Honker, "and am quite
willing to admit that I am tired.
You see from the time we took the
air at daylight until we touched water
Evening star., 1934-11-22
A W Weary Flock.

OF all the day that hour is best
That brings US peace and perfect rest
HONKER THE GOOSE,