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Montana labor news., 1934-12-20
Facts and Fancies

Two hundred and fifty thousand murderers
are still at large in America,-not counting the
bankers.
Outstanding philanthropist of the month. John
A.. Hartford, multi-millionaire chain-store W
after locking out 1900 of his employees in Cleve-
land, philosophers a bit: This is going to help.
We've paid the price, but it's going to make a lot
of these people do some real thinking" We
hope they won't think what he thinks they'll
think.
One death every t%hirty-six hours may be d-
rectly charged to the depression, according to
DR.. M. D. Allies, city health director of Akron,
Ohio.
The chief cause of the increased death rate is
the fact that persons on relief and those receiv-
ing small incomes are forced to buy food with an
eye to price rather than balance -.
Other causes listed were the inability of people
to go to physicians when they should, and ex-
posture due to improper clothing and shelter, the
latter having resulted in a large tuberculosis
gain.
One half of the people with family incomes of
less than $1,000, a majority of the population,
receive no medical care whatsoever.
xxx
Mortgage foreclosures are going on at the
rate OF 5000 homes a day in the United States.
Congressional Record.
*#*
The cost Of food in September, 1884, was POI
per cent higher than in April, 1888. The average
family spends 81 per cent to A per cent Of its
annual income for food.
Xxx
During one year of the New Deal both the
total wage bill and the number Of workers en-
ployed in silk, wool, and cotton textiles dropped,
in some cases as much as % per cent.
##*
It rained November 9th. Said F. D., Good
weather for ducks. The Democrats ought to
win. Chicken soup" said the G.. o. p and
went to pot.
One of the dark skinned foreigners" in the
hunger march to Albany was urged by the police
to go back where he came from. These Irish
cops don't recognize Cherokee Indians.
*##
The self-dealing Republicans have been re
placed by the New-dealing I-dealers. Upton
Sinclair's Epic attempt to remove the hyphen
failed.
=
The 1885 Naval Conference seems as though
it will fail in peaces.
##*
In 1888, IS per cent of what consumers paid
for food went to the farmer. During the first
eight months Of 1884 this figure had dropped to
80 per cent.
#&#
The much heralded rise in farm prices hasn't
done some farmers any good. Packers who sold
hog bacon for thirty cents a pound had only
paid the farmers a cent a pound for it.
Farmers are not allowed to pay off old debts
with money received in bonuses from the gov
eminent. Nor are they allowed to buy anything
which isn't strictly necessary, according to or
ders from North Dakota AAA headquarters.
(Any little farm hand who goes to the movies or
Montana labor news., 1934-12-20

buys a scarlet necktie will be arrested by New
Dealers for rugged individualism.)
In l20 codes, the minimum wages provided
for women are lower than those provided for
men. More than 20 per cent of all wage-earn-
ers in the country are women.
Raymond Moley (the biggest brain that
Roosevelt could find, if you remember) says
that the New Deal has produced a "streamlined
capitalism" Did you ever see a s~treamlined
ash-can or a streamlined buggy?
The following is the division of annual income
by families in this country:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
INCOME TAX REVELATION

NNE of the most ominous signs about the
~ new deal is one that so far has gone
almost unnoticed-a little disclosure made in
compilation of the most recent income tax
statistics.
These statistics show that whereas corpora
ton taxes are up almost so per cent over last
year, collections from persons taxed on in
comes of less than $4,000 a year have shown
an actual decrease.
At the same time, taxes collected from per-
sons earning more than $4,000 a year rose
sharply, along with the corporation taxes
All this shows growing concentration of
wealth in the hands of the middle and upper
income groups, and a decline in the position
of the ordinary, middle-class citizen.
It's tendency, one would suppose, which
a new deal' ought to view with a good deal
of concern.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
LOOK AT MUNITIONS

TINE munitions trust investigation now is
- assured The senate voted its approval.
1t is important that the senate and the
country-and the world-should know the
truth or falsity of the rumors and reports that
there is an international munitions ring"
that American companies are part of it, they
should know whether legislation in congress
has been caused by scares of war built out
of thin air. whether munitions lobbyists have
affected bills pending there.
Bat the most important function of this in
vestigaton is to determine whether or not
there should be a government monopoly in
munitions, by licensing private makers or by
the government itself doing the work
long, hard job lies ahead of the COM
mittee appointed to make this investigation.
Its personnel should be selected by Vice
President Garner with the utmost care.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
FAMOUS FAIR PASSES

CONTINENTAL ties between the United
~ States and England, despite the ineffable
bosh of magazine writers and after-dinner
speakers, are extremely strong; and one thing
in which Americans are sure to display a good
deal of interest is the slow passage from the
contemporary scene of some of old England's
most ancient traditions and customs.
An example is the pending abolition of the
famous Stourbridge fair, at Cambridge.
This fair dates back to the year 1911. In
the middle ages it was one of the most ia
nous fairs in the world, bringing merchants
and travellers from all over Europe.
Milton mentions it in Paradise Lost" King
Henry VIII levied on the fairs profits, in 1889,
to relieve his own financial stringency.
Now, according to the London Sunday
Times the fair may be abolished. 1t has no
practical value, and it is neglected by the gen.
eral public.
Another time honored custom, left behind
by the tide of modern affairs, seems about
to disappear forever
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
BACK THE STREET CAR
COMPANY NOW
By a Daily Times Reader.

By Daily Times Reader.
In reply to E. G. Payne'S mes
sage in regard to the buses on East
New York street, probably Mr.
Payne isn't as wise as a lot of pa
irons on the east side who now are
enjoying the comfortable ride in
either direction on Washington
street on the new Indianapolis Rail
ways street cars.
think Mr.. Payne should be sat-
isfied that certain bus lines in the
city have new equipment and that
he would wake up and figure up
the savings there is between riding
an electric car and bus, instead of
driving an auto to and from work.
I don't believe the Indianapolis
Railways would miss your fare if
you would care to walk or drive your
car.
The biggest majority of the pa
irons are praising the manner in
which Mr.. Chase has taken hold of
the old equipment and company and
is trying to bring the dead back to
life.
Let's all boost him and all the
employees of the company, instead of
high-hatting them as in the past.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
POSTMASTERS BY MERIT

GONE time ago Postmaster-GeneralJ James
~ A. Farley announced that he would ask
congress to pass a law putting all post
masters under civil service. Since then nothing
further has been heard from him on the
subject; and now Republican, Representa-
tive Albert Carter, has take the postmaster
general at his word and has introduced just
such bill.
This business of carrying and servicing
the mails" says Representative Carter, lis
one of the most important functions of the
government. I am. at a loss to see why any
one would object to having this service placed
on a merit basis"
The ordinary taxpayer will find very little
to quarrel with in this view. Whether Mr.
Carter, Mr.. Farley, or some other statesman
eventually puts the reform through, it is
thing that is badly needed in the interest OF
the nation as a whole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
MONDAY, APRIL Is. 1894.
TAXES FOR RECOVERY

THE conference room, where representatives
of the house and senate meet to adjust
their differences on legislation, was described
appropriately by Senator Gore the other day
as that omnivorous cemetery situated some
where in the Capitol between the house and
the senate"
Many hard-won legislative victories have
come to naught behind the closed doors of the
conference room.
We hope this will not be the result when
house and senate conferees decide what is to
remain in and what is to be taken out of the
tax bill.
Revenues of our government are indis-
putably inadequate in the face of present and
prospective expenditures. The party in power
was elected on pledges to maintain the gov
ernments credit and levy taxes on the prn-
cipie of ability to pay
/ Therefore the conferees should vote to
lretain at least three senate amendments-the
Harrison excess profits tax the La Toilette
higher estate taxes and the Couzens higher
income taxes-estimated to yield a total of
s242,OOO,OOO a year.
House Democratic leaders seem willing to
accept the Harrison and La Toilette amend
ments, but are directing their fire against the
less politically popular Couzens amendment
to add a one-year emergency 10 per cent to
income tax payments.
There is an apparent attempt to mislead
the public into believing that the Couzens
amendment provides burdensome taxes. It
provides merely that a married man with no
dependents, earning $4,000 a year. would pay
$22 instead of $40; earning SIS 600 would pay
$110 instead of 500; earning 81 100000 would
pay S628,1OO instead of S571 900.
That is little indeed considering the stakes
of recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16

7 EF-TY LEE was buried today. 1t was just
~ that sort Of day he would have liked
clear and cool with bit of haze in the spring
air. He would have been out in the afternoon
looking over the streams he knew and loved
so we'll and tomorrow he would have been
telling fishermen just when the rivers would
be right for good catch
For Lefty Lee Faust was one Of those rare
men who was able to make a profession out
Of the thing he loved most Bowling and
fishing were his hobbies and at the same time
they were his job 1t was he who first sug-
gested that The Times carry a column in the
winter for bowlers and another in the sum-
mer for anglers
Writing did not come easily to Lefty. He
had to work at it. In his youth he had been
denied the advantages of a college education.
He was an outstanding example of what man
can do TO overcome early handicaps. He
toiled for hours over his column, polishing this
phrase and rubbing up that one.
Last summer The Times employed a COL
lege professor to read two weeks editions of
the paper and criticise every sentence for
grammar and rhetoric. Lefty Lees column
was judged the most perfect writing of any of
the staff
He will be cruelty missed both by his read
ers and by his fellow staff members His cour-
ageous fight for life for two months against
odds he knew were hopeless was characteristic
of him. He was a gallant sportsman and a
splendid newspaper man.
1t is hard to wave good-by to our old COM
rade who has gone over the hill to face the
last, great Scorer, who makes the final tally
for every sportsman, but we know that He will
write down that Lefty was man who always
played the game.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
WHILE PROFITS WAIT

A Ii, except few economic cave jewellers,
4 agree that the time has come to revive the
banked fires of our export industries, scrape
the barnacles off our merchant ships and re-
sumo normal trade with the world For con-
gress this means passage of the administra-
tons reciprocal trade amendment to the 1880
tariff act, now pending in the senate after
passing the house.
Since 1929 world trade has shriveled from
S35,O000O0000 to the niggling total of S12-
O0oO0O00O in 1888. Had it continued to in
crease since 1929 at the postwar rate trade
now would be approximately $4,000 10000
annually. Such is the loss in world produc-
ton, world employment world wealth.
The United States, isolated behind its tow
ering tariffs, has suffered disastrous falling
of in trade Total exports fell from $751;
100000 in 1929 to SI,149 600 900 last year. Our
imports went down form S4,339 100000 to
81, 122, 900 900 last year.
Reciprocal trade and tariff agreements will
help restore this once golden argosy, and these
are the only measures that can. Congress,
caught in a tanglefoot of social and sectional
interests, either can not or will not reduce
IaTlIIS OF MAKE dSISGIItSAAtS Will ONIlGI I'D
tons In 1897 our government tried to nego-
tate ten commercial treaties under the Ding
ley tariff law. Although it was claimed that
these treaties would have doubled, American
trade at that time. they were hlbustered to
death in the senate
All but two OF the nations of continental
Europe, as we'll as England, her major do
minions and several Latin-American countries,
have vested the executive with authority to
negotiate duties below those of existing tariff
schedules. Canada, Poland, Greece and other
countries vest such authority without parla-
mentary approval. France has made its pre-
mier a virtual tariff dictator. The pending
resolution would limit the Presidents powers
TO range of rates within so per cent of ex-
listing ones. and agreements would terminate
in three years
The world. with its 100000 jobless and its
150OoOo,oOO or so people now living below
the poverty line, awaits leadership from its
richest and most productive nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
BEER SIGNS ARE AID
TO u. S. PROSPERITY
BY o. l.. BarnhiIl,

BY o. L. Barnhill.
Being a reader of The Times, I
could not help but ask the public in
general about Mr.. Fry'S statement
concerning beer signs.
Mr.. Fry is afraid, beer signs are
injurious to the people, and ordered
all signs pertaining to beer must be
taken down. Can any one with good
common sense think of anything
that beats Mr.. Fry's views?
I happen to be a worker who
enamels those beer signs. I look
forward each week to my pay for
doing that work. I have a wife and
baby as dependents. If it weren't
for those signs I would have to ask
for help and perhaps take money
from some other mans pocket.
Mr.. Fry surely has read enough to
know that our President is trying
to put money in circulation and
make times better. So why should
Mr.. Fry try to tear down something
we are trying to build up?
I would like to hear the pros and
cons on the subject from people who
are not concerned with the beer
signs or politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16

high school numeral. OF the eleven
who had earned awards in high
school, three had earned but one
letter.
The new freshman squad is per-
haps as good as Butler has had for
number of years and with this
squad Makley probably could accom-
plish results. Only three men will
have been graduated from the
squad, with nineteen numeral men
and three former players returning.
This really would have been the first
opportunity Mr.. Mackey would
have had to show his ability.
The assertion is that Mr.. Mackey
resigned is absolutely wrong. He
isn't the kind of a man who quits.
Butler university should be an
institution of which indianapolis
and the whole state should be
proud. Being in the city the citizens
shall rally to its support, but first Of
all see that fair play is accorded
along the line If it is a Christian
institution that should be one OF
the principles.
There isn't any firm in the coun-
try which would discharge a man
without due notice or proper con-
! sideratiOn. The alumni of Butler
university should support Mackey
and see that conditions at Butler
are improved:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
THE c. c. G.

THE Civilian Conservation Corps finishes
its first year this week with a record of
which the administration might Justly boast.
1t has been a fife-saver for the 500 900
men who have found wholesome outdoor
work, badly needed wages and soul solace in
the green mansion of the nations great forests
OF the $225,OOO,OOO the project has cost, fully
two-thirds have gone into buying power for
families that needed it most.
Fireproofing work has kept forest fire
damage down to $235,OOO which is less than
II per cent of the annual loss during the
five years preceding 1888. It's mass attack on
White Pine blister rust has checked a plague
that threatens the entire White Pine lumber
industry of the pacific northwest 1t has
approached timber growing as an agricultural
industry and has planted 100000 trees in
the waste places left by careless lumbermen.
But its greatest boon has been in conserv-
ing the young foresters themselves, their
health. morale and self-respect.
1T is clear said Labor Secretary Frances
Perkins, that no single attack upon unem-
ployment of similar magnitude could have &C
complished more good socially and economic
ally or have aroused more widespread and
deeply felt approval 1t is plan that con-
serves the social resources of the nation"
Congress can show its approval of this
record by voting funds to finance the C. c. C.
for at least another year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
Another Solution

BY Times Reader.
Everybody complains about the
NRA, but I never see any sug-
gestions for another plan. Here
is one that, in my opinion, would
bring back prosperity in thirty
days.
First, and foremost, the govern
ment should stop this insane Dor
rowing and begin lending to the
small manufacturer at l per cent
on the dollar. Let him re-employ
his old employees at no less than
$35 a week, on a cooperative plan
whereby the workers would share
profits Semi-annually.
A certain amount should be
kept on hand for a reserve fund,
and the profits above this should
be divided by managers and
workers alike. Of course, some Of
the workers are more skilled than
others and these should receive
more weekly pay.
Also there should be group
meetings weekly, workers and
managers, and phases of the bust
ness discussed, suggestions offered
and commented upon. The work
ers' groups should be composed OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
CAPITALISTS MAKE HUMANITY
THEIR WORKING HANDS"
Rx Charles Burton.

BY Charles Burton.
Capitalism is a system of society
where all means of production, fac
tories, mines and railroads are in
the hands Of private owners called
capitalists. While labor power is a
commodity which has to be sold to
the owners Of wealth for use in pro-
duction in order that the workers
may make a living.
The stockholders in American
corporations received more than
thirty-siX billions in cash dividends
and more than seventy three bill
lions in stock dividends. This is
sufficient proof that your employer
is no longer a free individual acting
on his own accord. He is a member
Of a group; a corporation. This cor
poration is in actual control of the
business of the United States.
What is the result? You are
working for a boss. You are his
hands. He uses you to make profit.
How is this possible? Because he
makes you work more than is neces-
sary to defray your wages, which
seldom exceed that of bare exist
ence, while the idle utility mag
mates, who have monopolized in
dustry, are reaping vast sums in
profit from your sweat.
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employees from each department
with a total of twelve groups.
Each group would serve one
month so as to become familiar
with plant operations. When the
workers understand the man
ayers troubles, and the managers
make an effort to understand the
workers difficulties, there will be
no use for wrangling.
There should be compulsory
unemployment insurance, con-
tributed to equally by the workers
individually, the management,
and the state. This should also
be worked out in group assign
ments similar to the production
plan. The state representative
should be paid by the state, but
his only interest would be to see
that claims we're justifiable and
he should act as a mediator.
This plan probably would not
meet with the approval Of the
profit taking capitalist. but what
a great day of rejoicing there
would be for workers. We would
need no NRA under system of
this kind. Neither would we need
so many large sized hats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
POLICE VIOLATE MORE
LAWS THAN AUTOISTS.
BY a southsider.

By a Southsider.
1 listen to the night police court
over WKBF on Tuesday nights, and
I would like to know why the police
don't arrest themselves?
I have, on numerous occasions,
passed police cars on Virginia
avenue at night when they were
without lights and creeping along
at ten or twelve miles an hour
Many cars narrowly avoided collid-
ing with these police autos.
Last Wednesday night, about
11:10 I just missed striking Ford
va coach police car whose num-
bers, as near as I could make out,
were %. The car was moving less
than fifteen miles an hour and was
without lights. 1t was on Madison
avenue near Delaware street and
was headed south.
Why don't they arrest the chief
whose driver drives at an excessive
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
MACKEY'S RELEASE DRAWS
IRE OF BUTLER BACKER

By a Butler Fan.
Having read the articles in the
various newspapers Of Indianapolis
concerning Mr.. Mackey's losing the
football coaching job at Butler uni
versity, I feel, in justice to the
young man, that some things should
be known.
In the first place, he is a gentle
man in every respect and one whom
any father should be glad and proud
to nave as a tutor for his son.
I feel that something should be
known about the conditions that he
has had to labor under since TAX
ing the job two years ago. The
poor showings his teams have made
have been no fault of his. Last
year he had twenty-six men on his
squad OF fifteen on the squad who
did play high school football, four
were not good enough to get their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
JUSTICE SHOULD MOVE
SURELY AND QUICKLY
A Times Reader.

Times Reader.
Interesting indeed are these
messages. So many of these articles
for Dillinger have no names signed
to them. What's the matter? If
he is so wonderful why are you
ashamed to let the world know
you are for him? He is a public
enemy taking life, automobiles,
money, etc, which does not belong
to him. If he we're made Governor
we would have to anchor the State
house. I can't see why il would be
safer to put Dillinger in office than
a crooked banker.
Haven't we any honorable, God
fearing and law abiding citizens any
more? Enforce the law and let
justice act quickly.
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derfuI if we could have him always.
1 am a regular attendant at this
tabernacle-I belong to the choir.
I have a lot to be thankful for
since attending these meetings, and
E Howard Cadle is a man any one
could love for the good he is doing
We should ignore people such as
T. S. Martin. This writer claims
that the morning prayer doesn't put
sausage on his table. He must be
very narrow minded. If I don't eat
I don't blame Mr.. Cadle for it.
I thank God for being able to
go and hear both of these meSsen-
berS of God,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-16
Walk in Spring
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
the spring I walk alone;

In the spring I walk alone;
Pain at breast and pain at lips.
Fragile little flower
Flutter to my finger tips.
In the air I breathe the ache
Pale plum blossoms give to life.
Sense the struggle of a stream
Riding down TO seek a wife.
In the air swift laughter wings.
Arcs Of shadow cross the sun.
Voices are remote and distant
AS a dream, with twilight come.
In the spring I walk alone:
Know the pain Of burning stars;
Know delight OF winging flame
Slow cool promise of moon-hours.