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Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Relief Authorities to
Train Teachers for
Workers Glasses

Washington.-(FP)-Some Is cen
tiers for teachers in workers classes are
being organized for this summer by the
Division Of Emergency Education
Projects Of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration.
I'VE are planning to train 400 teach
ers,' Hilda w. Smith, administration
specialist in workers education, told
Federated Press. She explained that
the main trouble so far has been the
lack of teachers who have experience
in meeting the special needs Of workers
classes.
Promotion of workers education
with federal funds has been a by-prod-
uct Of relief activities for unemployed
teachers. A general order of Sept. 20
authorized the employment of such
teachers to instruct unemployed and
other adults who are in need Of further
general education activities to make
them well-informed, responsible and
self-supporting citizens
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

further stated hat all those who de-
sired work might apply for reemploy-
ment, and the company would hire such
ones as they wished. Labor in the
South is available most any time. As
a result the workers flocked in. The
company reemployed a new crew, leav-
ing these two or three hundred work
ers out upon the charity of the com
munity. Is there anybody so dull they
cannot see through that? That is a
part OF the persecution inflicted upon
workers because they organize"
Law With Teeth Necessary
In other places" Mr.. Green added,
workers have been discharged outright
and have been told they were discharg-
ed because they joined a union. To me
it approximates ~criminality. | think it
is a violation of the law and if | had
my way | would put enough teeth in
this law so that | could bring such en-
ployers into court and have them
severely punished if they treated their
employees in that way and discharged
them because they joined a union.p
These unjust practices, testified to by
reams of complaints in the files OF the
National Labor Board and the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, used by en-
ployers to make a mere shadow of the
rights OF the workers guaranteed by the
National Recovery Act, will be knocked
into esmithereens by the enactment of
the Wagner-Connery Bill.
Wagner Bill Stops Victimization
Starting off with the positive decla-
ration that employees shall have the
right to join labor organizations" and
bargain collectively through represen-
tatives Of their own choosing, the bill
declares it shall be an unfair labor
practice" punishable by law, for an
employer to impair this right by I'm
reference, influence, restraint, favor,
coercion, or lockout, or by any other
means"
This provision is a sample of the
teeth" with which the Wagner-Con-
merry Bill purposes the Government
shall be equipped to loosen the strange
hold with which the bourbon anti
deluvians who dominate certain indus
tries have gripped the labor section of
the Recovery Act with the intention Of
destroying it.
When these these teeth get into ac-
ton they will rout the anti-labor weas-
els who are bent on suckong away the
life blood of Section IA and make the
document a living reality OF the prin-
ciple %enunciated by Congress that
working men and women throughout
the United States have the absolute
legal right, enforced by every instru-
mentality of the Federal Govern
ment, to organize in bona fide labor
unions without interference, direct Or
indirect, open or subterranean, by EN-
ployers of any sort, tribe or breed.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Hires Two Striking Miners as
Gunmen; Assures Them of
Easy Work and Good Pay.

Hearing that Earl futile, chairman OF
the Corn and Hog Producers of White
hall community, Jefferson county, was
hiring gunner for the Anaconda COM
pany, Reid Robinson, business agent of
the Miners Union along with another
member of the Miners Union, called
at the ranch Of gun-agent futile, to in
quire for work in Butte. futile assured
them a good job at good pay, 5000 per
day, board and room, with no work to
do. They told him they had very lit
tie cash but they were assured that
that would be taken care of very soon.
They also stated that the clothes they
were wearing were the only clothes
they had, and Robinson swears he had
his "Sunday-go-to-meetin's" on. Hog
producer Tuttle assured Robinson that
he could wear those clothes on the job
and wouldn't even soil them.
The miners were then instructed to
meet Tuttle in Butte on Monday morn
ing at a South side garage and then be
taken to work. They were warned that
they might be "cussed-at" and
called names by the pickets, but that
they should Just take it and say nothing.
We are sorry to state that Robinson
and his brother u~nionist did not report
for work. 1t would be a good idea if
all the miners got jobs as gunner. They
could make 5000 per day, board and
room, play pinochle with the pickets,
invite them in for dinner and be sure
no scabs got in as miners. They could
make this strike one grand picnic at
the expense of the Anaconda company.
If the Anaconda won't pay them over
SAYS a day as miners let the whole
union call themselves gunner and get
5000 and board and room. There is
an idea Mr.. Hobbins. Get your Tuttles,
your Middletons and other gunner
r~ustlers busy hiring miners as gunner,
allow no mining and bring prosperity to
Butte and the nation. No work, no
soiled clothes, good pay, good grub and
Utopia.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Threaten kidnapping
of Union Leaders

Hartman, Tenn.-(FP)-Two lead
ers Of the Hartman Hosiery Co. strik-
ers, Roy L. Gossage and his wife, have
been threatened with kidnapping and
might rides" by thugs.
When the Hartman mill protested
against the removal of its Blue Eagle,
strikers got up a petition signed by
900 Hartman citizens asking that the
mill be deprived Of the NRA insignia.
The United Textile Workers of
America, in a letter to General John
son, demanded a hearing on the ques-
ton OF reduction Of hours in the tex
tile codes. They pointed out the tend
ency to lower maximum wages to code
minimum; violations of Section IA
and determinations against work
ers for joining unions; and the excess
sive machine load hours provided in
the existing codes which caused abnor-
NAL speed-up of the workers, with con
sequent dangers to health and morals.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Tenant Farmers and
S%harecroppers Suffer
Under Cotton Program

Washington-(FP) - How southern
landlords are taking advantage Of their
tenant farmers and sharecroppers I'M
der the administrations acreage reduc-
ton program, is revealed in a report
by DR.. Calvin B. Hoover, economic adj
wiser in the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
Many landlords are taking the full
benefit payment checks for themselves,
tenants are being replaced with day
laborers, and "squatter' families with
appallingly low living standards are
increasing in numbers, the report
shows.
Among undesirable effects" OF the
program, DR.. Hoover notes "a consid-
cradle number of cases in which tenant
farmers have not received the full
amount specified by the 1888 cotton
contracts" He says further that "the
operation of the acreage reduction pro-
gram creates a motive for reducing the
number of tenants on farms"
The report describes the "squatter'
families as follows: "These families
formerly were able to obtain a crop to
tend but are now unable to do so.
Many of them are living in tumble
down tenant houses and tobacco barns
and any sort of shack which they can
find. Their standard Of living is ap-
p%alling and is even much below the
customary low standard of living of
tenant farmers who are engaged in
production"
DR.. Hoover tells Of present reports
of displacement of tenants having
large families with tenants having small
families and of substitution of relatives
of the landlord as tenants in place of
former tenants" He says that "the
number Of idle tenant farmers and ag-
ricultural laborers is apparently in
creasing just as it has done during the
past four or five years"
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Mob Defies u. S. Court, Fires
on Imperial Valley
Visitors.

BRAWLEY, CALIF.-(FP)-A del
egation Of students, teachers and
preachers which tried to hold a civil
liberties meeting May 6, in the Imper-
ial Valley under the protection of a
recent federal injunctioa WAS driven
from Brawley by a mob, threatened
with death and fired upon II miles
north of here.
The delegation was made up Of mem
bers of the American Civil Liberties
Union and the League for Industrial
democracy.
General Pelham Glassford, federal
mediator, had promised to meet them
but when they arrived, the good gener-
al was out Of town" Instead a mob
of several hundred ranchers who are
opposing unionization of the melon
pickers greeted the visitors with death
threats and drove them from town.
The representatives Of the A. c. L.
u. announced that demands would be
renewed that federal marshals be sent
into the valley with their members to
see that the federal injunction restrain
ing interference with their meetings
shall be carried put
"The test of strength now lies be-
tween the United States and the I'm
perial Valley and we believe that the
United States will win and the ranchers
be forced to respect federal courts as
well as the rights of the workers to
organize" a representative of the
A. c. L. U. said. But the last word
lies with Attorney General Cummings.
We have repeatedly asked that federal
marshals ordered into the valley to
enforce the federal injunction and
now that mob action has been so open
again, we do not see that he can fail
to act. The matter will be put to him
at Washington by Roger N. Baldwin,
directos, and A. l.. Wirin, counsel, for
the A. c. l.. u"
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
HOPKINS ASSURES RELIEF FOR
NEEDY REGARDLESS OF STRIKE
Wire From Congressman Mon
oghan States Strikers Not to
Be Disseminated A g a n $ t;
Special Agent of Relief Ad-
ministration to Be in Butte

The problem confronting Butte Strik-
ers is that of relief in case of a pro-
longed siege. Realizing hat the Ana
conda Corporation has long dominated
the administration OF relief in Butte
and has given relief, in the past, only
to those who were friendly to the Com
pany, the Butte strikers feared that an
effort might be made on the part OF
the Anaconda Company to starve the
strikers into submission. With such
thought in mind, County Attorney Free
bourne wired Senator Wheeler ask
ing that every effort be put forth to
care for the needy families OF the
strikers A like request was sent to
Congressman Monaghan. After an in
terview with Federal Relief Admins
traitor Hopkins, Congressman Monog-
han wired the Editor of the MON
TANA LABOR NEWS as follows :
CHAS. Z. SEBOLD, EDITOR MON
TANA LABOR NEWS:
Conferred with Harry Hopkins,
Federal Administrator of Relief to-
day. He assured me that Federal En-
Urgency Relief would be given to strik-
ers and families, no discrimination to
be allowed. He assured me that no
Corporate control would be allowed to
thwart relief. He is wiring Aubrey
Williams, his special agent, not to stop
at Boise as scheduled but to continue
on to Butte and investigate the situa-
ton so that justice may be accomplish
ed. No apprehension need be felt by
the people. The following is the die
to4a1 pfata1aanf az m tho n0lIrN nj fhp
Federal Relief Administration, by Mr..
Hopkins :
The Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration is concerned with admin
i~stering relief to the needy unemploy-
ed and their families. Each case ap-
plying for relief to the local emergency
relief agencies should be treated on its
merits as a relief case, wholly apart
rom any controversy in which the
wage Garner may be involved. The
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
tration will not attempt to Judge the
merits of Labor disputes. State and
Federal Agencies exist as well as Courts
which are duly qualified to act as ar
bitors and adjusters in such disputes.
Unless it be determined by the Nation
dl l4dDOl DOdlu VI tic 1NdliOidl
Recovery Administration that the
basis for a strike is unreasonable and
unjustified, the Federal Emergency Re
lief Administration authorizes Local
Relief Agencies to furnish relief to the
families of striking wage earners, il
the case investigation has shown that
their resources \are not sufficient to
meet emergency needs
If any attempt is made to thwart
relief, wire my office Immediately
Mr.. Hopkins assured me that 10 re-
lection OF needed relief can take place
without word from his office"
Joseph P. Monaghan, NC.
LIST District of Montana.
These are assuring words to the
men and their families who are now
facing a long struggle unless some &C
ton is reached in the next week
Most Of them have been unable to
save enough for a days reserve from
the niggardly wages paid the miners
during the past few years. This &C
ton IN the part Of the Government
is another assurance that a new day is
dawning for the workers of America.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Butte Teachers Organize

1t was reported, at the last meeting
Of the Central Council, that the teach
ers in Silver Bow County have applied
for a charter in the American Fedora
ton of Teachers, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. The
charter was held open until Thursday
OF this week. The Teachers are to be
complimented on the foresight they
have shown in organizing. They, like
the Librarians will find that the soil
darity of organization will be their
best defense against merciless evploi-
tation on the part OF petty politicians.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
LABOR ASKS MIDDLETON
o

Due to the fact that A. B. Middle
ton, Warden at Deer Lodge, has been
recruiting gunner for the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company, during the
present strike, organized Labor has
asked Governor Cooney TO remove Mr..
Middleton from office. Middleton adj
mitted the fact that he had been re-
cruiting and had no apologies to Of
fer
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
COMPANY CONTINUES TO
HIRE GUNMEN

The Anaconda Company is still hir-
ing gunner in Dillon, Whitehall, Boul-
der and other small towns, offering
the established wage for such nefari-
GUS work, and the promise Of an easy
Job. The Company must continue its
recruiting for already some of the gun
men have lost stomach for the work
finding it lousy pay for lousy, even
though easy work. Reports also show
that some of the local men, who have
been ~scabbing on the job are leaving
out of respect to their wives and fami-
lies. The scabs must now be recruit
ed outside of Silver Bow County.
Since many of the Gunner and Scabs
now being hired come from rural dis
tricts, Labor asks the Farmers Unions
in all these districts to aid in keeping
such men out Of Silver Bow County.
READ THE STRIKE BULLETIN
Since the Montana Labor News is
only published once a week, we ask
our readers to read the Butte Citizen
for the latest and most authentic news
regarding the situation. This Bulletin
will be published every other day and
probably daily and is free for the ask
ing. The Corporation Press has not
yet printed the truth regarding any
phase of the strike and has attempt
ed to blame the strikers for the row.
dyism that has sprung up during the
present period of unrest.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Labor News Moved To
New Quarters

The Montana Labor News is no
longer being published at Oates and
Roberts. Beginning with this issue,
the Montana Labor News is being
printed at Bessette Printing Co.. FL
Z. Quartz St. The office is also locat-
ed at the Bcssette Printing Co.'S plant.
The new phone number is 1881.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
OVERTURES HAVE THUS
FAR FAILED

Labor Adjuster Jacobsen has thus
far failed to secure a conference Of
the workers and employers. In a
brief interview he stated that he hoped
a preliminary conference might be held
this week. If a conference is not held
this week no can predict the length
and seriousness of the present situa-
ton. The crafts involved in the strike
are willing to meet the employers and
negotiate a settlement, but thus far
the Unions have received no encourage
ment from the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company. From the lack of news
from the sixth floor one would be led
to believe that the Company intends
to continue its pig-headed policy in
dealing with the workers. They would
no doubt prefer paying gunner six
dollars per day, indefinitely along with
board and room, rather than pay a
miner SO per day without board and
room for productive labor. The min
ers are asking less than the gunner
are receiving, yet the Company has
thus far made no move to arbitrate
the case. Probably the citizens of
Butte are also hoping that Mr..
Jacobsen can bring the parties togeth-
er for at least a preliminary conference
and Labor assures Mr.. Jacobsen that
it is willing to meet for a peaceable set
tletnent OF the affair.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
lockwood Hotel
Fair to Union

The Grievance Committee of the
Central Council hat the
lockwood Hotel has settled its grie-
vance with the Women's Protective
Union and has been declared fair
by Organized Labor.
MIR. and MIRA lack Bonner settled
all Misunderstanding with the Wo-
mems Protective Union.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
ALL CRAFTS In UNITED FRONT TO SECURE
LIVING WAGE AND INCREASED EMPLOYMENT
Strikers Waiting Negotiations;
Labor Board Representative
Hopes for Conference This
Week.

As we go to press there is little
change in the strike situation. 1t
might be said that "All is quiet on the
Copper Front" Old Timers who have
been through many of Butte's strikes
claim that this is the most unusual
strike held in Butte. There is none
of the rowdyism and violence of form
er days. The old timers also state that
never before, in the history of the
worlds largest copper camp, have the
workers showed such solidarity and
unity of purpose. Probably this soil
darity is the reason for the orderliness
of the present struggle. The workers
of Butte are United in this struggle,
knowing that unless all the workers
OF Butte are assured a living wage no
one in Butte will receive a living wage.
When men are united in such a struggle
for the common good there can be
nothing but solidarity and orderliness.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Conference Assured
For Next Week

The Executive Board of the Inter
national Union Of Mine, Mill and Smell
ter Workers announced at the last
Strike Meeting that they we're assur-
ed of a Conference with the Employ
ers the forepart of next week.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
STAY AWAY FROM GRASS
VALLEY!

We have received information to
the effect that the Miners of Grass
Valley, California are very likely to
be on strike in the very near future.
They are negotiating with the en-
ploying Companies and A L L
w o r X E r S are advised to stay
away from GRASS VALLEY,
CALIFORNIA
STRIKERS PRESS COMMITTEE
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
NO CHANGE EXISTS IN butte STRIKE SITUATION
; Ike Right Upheld
By N. ]. High Court

: ~ecision Declares Strikes and Picket
ing are Valid Exercises of Labor's
Rights Under Section IA of Recov-
cry Act and Voids injunction of
Former Vice Chancellor Fallon Re-
straining Silk Workers Union from
Using Them.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Employers Use Terrorism
to Place Union Members Under Ban

Floutng of Section IA of Recovery Act and Persistent Persecu-
ton of Trade Unionists Makes Additional Legislation Impera-
tive to Protect Statutory Guarantee That Workers Have the
Substantive Right to Enroll in Bona Eide Labor Organizations
and Bargain Collectively.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Trenton, N. i'm a decision notable
for its clarity the New Jersey Court OF
Errors and Appeals ruled that former
Vice Chancellor John J. Fallon was
clearly in error in granting injunction
against agents of the American Fedora
ton of Silk Workers, an affiliate oil
the American Federation of Labor, re-
straining employees of the plant from
striking and prohibiting them and OPP
eratives Of the union from participant
ing in and encouraging picketing.
l~nterprets Section IA
In modifying the Injunction, the court
interpreted the collective bargaining
and labor organizing provisions of the
National Industrial Recovery Act tc
embrace peaceful picketing and order
~ strikes.
The company closed its plant last
September, alleging it was forced to
do so because of "disorderly picketing'
resulting from demands for increased
pay.
The Vice Chancellor, the court held
evolved an Interpretation of the Recov-
cry Act that the silk union could not
participate in the dispute because only
employees OF the company were recog-
nized under the collective bargaining
clause.
This conclusion, the opinion said
makes the individual plant the unit for
collective bargaining and denies al
non-employes, termed 'intermeddlers'
the right of participation in such en-
deavors.'
NRA Does Not Bar Strikes
Many OF the plants employees were
members of the union, which, the court
points out, was IAN affiliate of the
American Federation II Labor, a re-
sponsible labor organization with ma
tion-wide jurisdiction.
"rhe Interpretation of the Act" the
opinion continued, adopted by the
Vice Chancellor would outlaw this or
ganization and prevent the ~affiliatior
OF the individual Unions with a body
organized TO promote @e common
aims and purposes.
I'VE do not find expressed in the Re-
covery Act a Congressional purpose to
deprive the employees of the right tc
strike, whereas here, their demand for
a wage increase is not complied with
Picketing Is Lawful
"The right to organize and bargain
collectively connates the right to strike
The right to strike includes the
right to use peaceable and lawful mean:
to induce present employees and ex-
pectant employees to join the ranks.
"Picketing is lawful if it does moi
have an immediate tendency to intimi-
dations of the other party to the con
troversy."
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
A Pail' of Real FeLLOWs

D AY amused when people shuddered at the
IN thought of an earthquake in New York.
Wouldn't his tall buildings fall down and kill lot
of people?
THE buildings wouldn't fall he said, but the
shell of brick and stone would shake off into the
streets. 1t might kill million people or so. But
what of it? If one person dies we don't consider
that disaster. If a million killed that is just
many individual deaths. Consider them one by
and there is no disaster"
One of his best friends the late Josef Urban
an architect, who was best known in this country,
however, a designer for F1orenz ziegfeld He was
fat and jovial and he, like Hood designed a beaAa-
full speakasy in the time of prohibition. 1t the
old Park Avenue Club, operated by group of Broad
way underworld characters, who supposed to
have laid down 100000, in currency his desk to
pay for the job in advance. The town really be-
ieved that.
Mr.. Urban laughed about the legend
Il spent $4,000 of my money decorating the
Park Avenue Club, he said After a long time they
paid me $4,000, little by little will never get the
rest"
Ray Hood buried close to Joe Urban in
Sleepy Hollow There was some cemetery archi-
lecture Of the conventional gates-aiar pattern near
the grave and the widow of Joe Urban said to the
widow Of Ray Hood they turned away, Cant you
just hear the boys laughing and joking tonight about
the benches and limestone angels around them?"
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