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Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
Denial Of
Education to
Rural Children

WASHINGTON. -(FP)-Charging
that mo other nation in the world has
allowed its educational system so to
suffer-" since the crisis as the United
States, Edmund S.. Drummer of the
Teachers College, Columbia University,
speaking before the National Rural
Forum, pointed out that the terms in
tens of thousands OF rural schools have
been reduced to only two or three
months a year, and hundreds have been
entirely closed. He states further that
although high school enrolment since
1880 has increased So per cent expenses
per child have been reduced "a per
cent.
The only field in which there has
been some expansion is that Of general
adult education. But here, according
to the speaker, teachers, almost desti-
tute, have been paid wages smaller
than the lowest paid laborers on relief
rolls, and relief rather than education
is the main purpose.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
SHOW
BOSSES ARE
STILL CHISELINC

During the two-week period, Oct. q
to Nov. 10th, the National Recovery
Administration field offices arranged
for payment of $164,630.42 rightfully
due OSLO workers for back wages. This
was the largest amount ever reported
during a two-week period and the sew
enth consecutive two-week period in
which the amount of such restitution
has exceeded $10O,OO0.O0. Since June
10, 1884, NRA field offices have re-
ported resolutions Of 81, 163 ,742.l6 to
81, 1868 workers.
These figures represent the differ
ence between what should have been
paid the workers under the terms Of
the Presidents Unemployment Agree
ment or approved Codes, and what
they actually received as wages. These
figures include only cases in which
restitution was arranged by the field
offices of the Administration and do
not include reports from other Govern
ment agencies, or from Code Authori-
ties.
During the two-week period, Octo-
Der u to November 10, the Montana
office of the NRA, located in Helena,
arranged for the restitution of $615.45
in back wages for t~wenty-one em-
ployees.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
College
Offers Scholarship

MENA, ARK.-A forty-do1lar scho1-
arship, which will pay the entire ex-
penses Of a student at Commonwealth
College, Mena, Arkansas, for three
months, will be awarded to the per-
son who thinks of the best name for
a workers museum. The scholarship
is transferable, so that anyone may
enter the contest. All suggestions must
be in by December Is, 1884.
Each contestant should correspond
with the college to get further details.
This museum, dedicated to labor, will
be the first of its kind in America. 1t
will be officially opened at the begin
ming of the next quarter, December 81,
1884, at Commonwealth College.
The museum will house a permanent
collection of all material illustrating
the entire history OF the working class,
from the Ancient Lowly, through foud-
alism, to ~present-day strikes and tech
biological unemployment. Its exhibits
will be used as optical evidence to re-
inforce daily lessons in Imperialism,
economics, labor history, etc.
Commonwealth College is a unique,
out-of-doors college in the foothills Of
the Ozarks. Here teachers receive no
pay, and also work alongside students,
who are required to work twenty hours
a week to help pay their way through.
The purpose of the school, now more
than tweleve years old, is to train
young men and women for service in
the labor movement.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
Textile Board
Member H Rail
Mediation Experience

WA-SHINGTON.-(FP)-Co Frank
P. Douglas, appointed November 20 by
President Roosevelt to take the place
of James Mullenbach on the National
Textile Labor Relations Board, is n
other administration labor expert who
gained his experience handling railway
labor disputes. An Oklahoma City
lawyer, he has been in the oil business,
with the Plains Petroleum Corporation,
since 1927.
Douglas has served on four railway
mediation boards by presidential ap-
pointment, acting with Judge Walter
P. Stacy, chairman Of the textile board,
on a Southern Pacific case in 1888 and
with Admiral Henry A. Wiley, the
third member of the textile board, on
a Denver & Rio Grande case last Feb
ruary. He served in connection with
disputes on the Kansas City Southern
and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas
in 1888.
Mullenbach resigned from the textile
board on grounds Of i'll health, finding
it too much to serve on two labor
boards. He will continue his duties on
the Steel Labor Relations Board, how
ever, of which Stacy and Wiley are
also members.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
OVERTIME
UNDER CODES

Payment Of an overtime rate Of
wages for working hours in excess of
the maximum prescribed in NRA Codes
does not justify disregard of maximum
hour provisions" says Miles Romney,
State NRA Director, "and such prac-
tees will be treated as NRA Code VIC
lations.
Employers faced with a shortage Of
labor are urged to apply to the United
States Unemployment Service, Fed
eral Building, Helena, Montana.
IF the type Of workers needed is not
available and if the employers can OBJ
tain a certificate to that effect from
the Unemployment Service, they may
apply to the State NRA offices for an
exemption from the Code provisions or
for a stay of such provisions"
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
UNION HOLDS
ANNUAL DINNER

The Ladies Auxiliary of Carpenters
No. 222 held their annual dinner at
Meadervi1le Thursday evening, Novem-
Der p, with the following members and
their guests:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Richards, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Kaudy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Walsh, Mr.. and Mrs. Cell
Murphy, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Richard,
Mrs. Laura Huddleston, Mrs. Nora Nc
Broom, Mrs, Bessie Clark, Mrs. Anna
Belle Moffat, Mrs. Sophie Jacobsen,
Mrs. Berthe Lundgren, Mrs. Kathryn
Kenworthy, Mrs. Clara Bell Amund-
son, Mrs. Anna Booth, Mrs. Kate
Keane, Mrs. Elsie Young, Mrs. Hazel
Lotviet, Mrs. Marian Gasser, Miss
Rowena Gaffney, Miss Lorraine La
Hood, Miss Dorothy, McBroom, Mr..
v. c. Lasswell, Mr.. John Collins.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
a Way Of
Checking If You
Get Enough To Eat

WASHINGTON. OPP Workers
can check the insufficiency Of their
wages or relief by the minimum ade-
quate diet listed in the Consumers
Guide, publication Of the Consumers
Counsel OF the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
According to the Guide, a family Of
five, with children from 3 to 10 Should
have at least this much food each
week Twenty-eight quarts of milk, or
other milk products in the same
amount; 10 pounds of potatoes; q
pounds Of dried beans, peas or nuts ;
S pounds tomatoes; 7 pounds green,
leafy and yellow vegetables IN pounds
dried fruit; II pounds of flour and
cereals, or 9 pounds bread and II
pounds of flour and cereal; 81 pounds
fats; 8 pounds sugar; 4 pounds lean
meat, fish or poultry, e pound
cheese, ~ dozen eggs.
The Consumers Guide considers this
diet adequate "only for those who
have very little to spend on food"
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
this COCK-EYED
WORLD

Buddy and his boy Sieg have been
gripping ever since the election because
the social revolution they've been pro-
noting since both were knee high
must have got stalled again. It's a
funny team them two, for sonny Sieg
is a steady, quiet sort of a chap while
the old man is as rambunctious as a
two-year mule colt with a wasp in the
ear.
"A1l well enough for you to say be
patient" | hear the old fellow sput-
ter, Rome was not built in one day
and neither are movements aiming to
turn the world right side up. You're
only a snot-nosed kid (Buddy's boy is
forty while I'm sixty-five. Twenty
four years ago this fall l was lacking
up posters and making speeches for
Victor Berger in Waukesha County,
Wisconsin, and when he got elected to
Congress | was sure the cooperative
commonwealth was just around the
corner. Thirty-two years ago | was
running for mayor of Columbus, Ohio,
There were only seven of us in the
party, and we we're all on the ticket,
including two non-citizens and n
who was a bit cracked. l only re-
ceived 81 votes, which wasn't anything
particular to brag about, but when the
following fall I ran for Congress and
the revolutionary proletariat Of Frank
lin county, Ohio, buried me under an
avalanche of 90 votes l was sure that
unless Capitalism abdicated p. d. q. I'd
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Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
Reporters
Refuse To Merge
With Conductors

CHICAGO.-(FP)-To prevent the
merger of their organization with the
Order of Sleeping Car Conductors, the
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters
will use every possible means of re-
s~istance within the American Fedora
ton of Labor, Executive Board Chair
man M. P. Webster told Federated
Press.
The A. F. of L. executive council
during the San Francisco convention
last month ordered the merger by ex-
tending the jurisdiction of the conduc-
tors, an A. F. of L. national union,
over Pullman porters and maids who
are now organized in the federal
unions comprising the Negro organiza-
ton.
we refused to accept the decision"
Webster said, "and appealed to the
next meeting Of the council which will
probably be held in December. If the
council won't see the justice Of our
position we'll appeal to the next con-
vention. One thing is certain-we1l
never go under the other jurisdiction"
Officials OF the conductors explain
that the Pullman Co. has been chisel-
ing both their men and the porters by
taking off white conductors on certain
runs and making the porters do con-
ductor work though at porter wages
and in addition to their regular porter
work. 1t is argued that the Order
could set up rules for its members
stopping this exploitation if it had con-
troll over both branches Of work. In
such a case the Pullman Co., it is
claimed, would rather employ white
conductors if it had to pay conductor
wages for conductor work.
The porters on the other hand fear
that their interests will not be looked
after properly by the white %organiza-
ton. They have just requested the
Pullman Co. to enter into negotiations
for an agreement with them. The
Pullman company union has been
pretty well discredited. 1t is known as
the Pullman Porters & Maids Pro-
tective Association. The Chicago
headquarters of the bonafide A. F. of
L. Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers are 1921 South Michigan Avenue,
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
Classification of
Materials Wanted for
Workers Museum

Commonwealth College, Mena, Ark.
(The suggestions listed below are by
no means inclusive. Any other sugges-
tons or additions to the ones below
will be welcomed,)
l. The increasing poverty Of work
ers and unemployed.
A. Human beings used as draft ami
mails. pictures or actual samp-
les of harness used.
B. Use of steers in place of horses,
mules or tractors. pictures and
newspaper accounts. Perhaps an
old oxen yoke).
c. Housing of poor city jewellers and
poor farmers. pictures Of slum
areas in cities - also pictures of
rural cabins and huts of share
troopers, for example).
D. Clothing of poor and unemployed.
/. Lack of clothing. press ac-
counts of children staying from
school because of lack of shoes
or other clothing. Pictures, or
even samples of ragged clothing).
2. Use Of substitutes for cloth
ing. used tires for shoes, flour
bags for lingerie, women wear
ing coveralls or overalls because
they can't afford dresses).
f. Increase of pellagra and other
nutritional diseases. pictures of
people with pellagra also pic
lures Of children with ricketts, or
stomachs swollen from lack of
food.
CONTINUED to Page 81
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
DRIFTS AM EASES
(This column con - by Butte
Miners U % y

There is india that President
Roosevelt will the problem of
unemployment ace into the laps
of the several and that will be
a poor way OF ding this pressing
question. 1t should be evident to
everyone that this country is and must
be one i~ntegrated whole and not a
group of 48 separate economic units,
each going its laundering way alone.
This was clearly shown in the matter
of relief. Beginning four years ago,
first the local government units, such
as cities and counties, attempted to
take care of their own people. Then
it became necessary for the States to
take up the burden, aided by loans
and grants from the R. F. c. Finally
the Federal government had to organ
ize and coordinate relief activities OF
a national scale.
And so with unemployment insurance
1t is a national problem and should be
handled on a nationwide scale. But
if the Administration refuses to do this,
then the several States will have to
establish their own insurance plans and
we shall be faced with the following
problems;
First, a large number of deserving
unemployed will be Disseminated
against because under a State plan
there will necessarily be certain resi-
dental requirements, the same as for
voting. Under a national plan, that
would not be the case and every I'M
employed person would be protected.
Suppose that a progressive State pro-
vides unemployment insurance and a
backward n%eighboring State does not,
then certain mobile industries will move
from the progressive State into the
backward State as was the case when
the textile industry moved into the
South where wages were low and the
Courts friendly.
Assuming the insurance was financ-
ed by a tax on payrolls, aided by Fed
eral subsidies. Would the various in
dustries be assessed according to the
amount of unemployment existing in
each industry? Some industries have
far more unemployment than others.
Again, this difficulty would be obviat-
ed by nationwide insurance under a
Federal agency which would realize
that fundamental principles Of insur-
ance, the widest distribution of the
risk.
1t is entirely possible that unemploy-
ment insurance, like workmen's COM
pensation for accidents, will spread so
rapidly thru out the States that the
charge upon all industries would soon
be equalized, But it must be rememb-
cred that the same forces which op-
posed accident compensation for 20
years prior to 1910, are still powerful
and will oppose any measure that will
interfere with profits. The President
has the power. to pull their singers and
to establish, in the near future, a COM
%prehensive system of social insurance
on a national scale and financed by a
direct charge upon all industry, where
the burden rightfully belongs. The
capitalist system created unemployment
so let them pay for it.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
IN MARIA w
BANK GOES TO HE'LL

CHICAGO. OPP Gen. Dawes,
character witness for the insult gang,
had his Central Republic Trust Co.
closed on him by the state banking de-
partment after the RFC, which loaned
it $90,000,000 under President Hoover,
began suit for recovery.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
mE Chunk Thrrt

Not for our lands, our w~ide-fIung prairie wealth,
Our mighty rivers born of friendly spring.
Our inland seas, our mountains proud and high,
Forests and orchards, richly blossoming;
Not for these, Lord, our deepest thanks are said
AS, humbly glad, we hail this day serene;
Nor for these most, dear Father of our lives,
But for the love that in all these things is seen.
We thank Thee not for prestige born of war,
For dauntless navies built for battle stress;
Nor would we boast of armies massed for strife;
These all are vain, o Lord of kindness.
What need have Ne of swords and bsyonets,
OF mighty cannon beching poisoned flannel
o. WOO us from the pagan love of these
Lest we again defile thy sacred name.
We thank Thee, Lord, on this recurring day,
For liberty to worship as we will;
We thank Thee for the hero souls of old
Who dared wild seas their mission to fulfill.
o, grid our hearts with stalwart faith in good,
Give us new trust in Thy providing hand,
Amy may a spirit born of brotherhood
Inspire our hearts and bless our native land.
Thomas Curtis Clark
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
GIVE UNCLE SAM CREDIT!

Funny that none of the railroads
that brag so much about their new
streamline trains are giving the credit
for this progressive step to Uncle Sam
who not only financed it but urged the
mossback rail executives to give it a
try.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29

1t is said that in the State of Geor-
gia, beginning January 1st, all able
bodied men will be compelled to work
for the paltry relief they get down
there. In the same State there is vici-
Gus persecution of radicals and union
organizers and chain-gangs for Grim
inals. What's wrong with that picture ?
The inference is given that many men
on relief will not go to work when jobs
are offered. We cannot speak for other
parts of the country but here in Butte,
within the last month, we have seen
men rustic jobs on the Hill who were
positively unfit for anything except
light outdoor work and who are GER
tainly playing tag with the undertaken
by attempting to do the hard work in
the mines. Yet they went to work as
soon as jobs were available, simply to
get off the relief and to secure the
better food and clothing they could buy
with their wages.
While it is true there may be some
malingerers on relief, it is equally true
that the vast majority of American
working men would rather work and
earn a decent living.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
NOTHING LEFT BUT THE
ELEPHANTS TAIL

MILWAUKEE-(FP)-Of the 20
state assembly districts in Milwaukee
county, the Democrats captured IA, the
Socialists 3, the Progressives 2, the
Republicans |.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29
Gale Case Dismissed
Carpenters Hall P. o. Box llz/
BUTTE MINERS UNION No. l
1. u. of M, NJ. and S. w.
Butte, Montana

Carpenters Hall I. Y. BOX llS|
BUTTE MINERS UNION No. l
l. U. of M, M. and S. w.
Butte, Montana
Robert c. Brown,
President
Dave Sullivan,
Vice President
Robert Z. Gill,
Recording Secretary
Reid Robinson,
Financial Secretary Trustees
Patrick Doran
Charles Black
William Neary
Hon. H. J. Frebourn,
County Attorney for
Silver Bow County,
Butte, Montana.
Dear Friend:
We respectfully request that you dis
miss the Gale case and the Pealow
case, both of which arose out OF the
recent strike.
In the interests Of organized labor
and to preserve peace, between the en-
ployer and employees and in the
community generally, this should be
done.
You were second to none, as a friend
of the people and organized labor,
when you stood by and with the min
ers, engineers, pumpmen and other
crafts, in the strike of 1884.
Some day the voters of Montana, re-
alizing your full and true worth, will Of
fer you the highest office, within their
power to give. At that time, political
enemies will say that the dismissals of
these cases were made, without u
consent and against II interests.
We, therefore, 10Y declare; That
the dismissals, Of the Gale case and the
Pealow case, are made at our request
and for our best interests; and in the
interest of the people Of Silver Bow
county, as a whole.
GENERAL STRIKE COMMITTEE,
By T. ]. Harrington, Chairman,
Reid Robinson, Secretary.
ROBERT c. BROWN, President,
By T. J. Harrington.
(Seal of Butte Miners Union
No. 1, I. U. of M. M.
& S. W.
(Seal of Butte Stationary Engineers
Union No. 49,
The above request was complied with
and the Gale case as well as the Pealow
case was dismissed for the purpose Of
preserving industrial peace.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29

WASHINGTON FP)- Modifica-
ton of the labor provisions of the oil
code will be considered at a public
hearing in Washington December 3,
called by the Petroleum Labor Policy
Board.
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29

The handsome horse that graces the
cover of News-Week November 18th is
Continued to Page a
Montana labor news., 1934-11-29

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub-
iect to perils of discomfort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Greatest Danger Seen
in Top Leadership,
Weinstock Says

themselves. A. F. of l.. rank and
file workers are being urged to de-
mand that their International off,
Gals open their treasures to pro-
vide strike relief for the textile
strikers and that reactionary Off
Gals such as George L. Berry, mem
Der of the Cotton Textile Board and
notorious as strikebreaker, keep
hands off the strike.
1.-THE A. F. of L. Committee is
calling on the rank and file in all
local unions In any way connected
with the textile industry such as
bleachers, finishers and dyers, driv-
ers, maintenance men, railroad
workers and others to raise the
question of support in their local
unions and of calling sympathy
strikes in support of the textile
workers struggle. The rank and file
members in the textile union are
called upon to maintain steadfast
unity with all workers regardless of
afiliation in the strike and irrespec-
tive of any provocation from the
cflcialdom, to demand the election
of broad rank and file committees
mass picketing and the right to vote
on all terms before any settlement
is made. Only in this way will vic
tory for the demands of the textile
strikers be assured"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Committee for r ellie [
and Insurance Calls
for Widespread Aid

NEW YORK.-The A. F. Of L.
Committee for Unemployment IN
surance and Relief, on behalf of
thousands of rank and file mem
bers in the American Federation
of Labor who back its program, yes
terday declared that it was rallying
all its affiliated locals and its forces
within the A. F. of L. local unions
for financial support and sympa-
thetic action with the great general
strike of the textile workers.
by responding in hundreds OF
thousands to the call for general
strike, the textile workers are Shout
dering the struggle of all organized
and unorganized labor against the
reduction of living standards and
the imposition of unbearable con-
ditionS on the American workers
as a result of the MA. codes, >
said Louis Weinstock, secretary Of
the Committee. They are hu-ling
challenge at the notorious OK
ploiters in the textile industry who
have been able to reap rich profits
at the expense of the sufferings Of
the textile workers"
Top leadership Chief Danger
The greatest danger confronting
the textile workers. at this moment, :"
said Weins3ccf, GENES from the
top councils of the United Textile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-10
Iron Workers
Battle Police
In Milwaukee
Steel and Metal Union
Members Give Aid
to Strikers

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 9.-Members
of the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union and the Unem-
ployment Council here are working
side by side with the strikers of the
Geuder, Paeshke & Frey, a large
metal shop here, since the attack
upon the strikers Thursday morn
ing when four workers were ar
rested. A committee of the strikers
received pledges of support from
both bodies.
A police patrol wagon was hurled
over on its side in the clash be-
tween police and strikers.
The fight started at am. when
the police tried to force clearing
through the picket line in order to
let Office help and scabS through
The strikers resisted. The police
sent for re-inforcementS. In the
fight one policeman was showed
through the glass Of a factory door
Soon patrol wagons, squad cars
all motorcycle policemen arrived
until several hundred police were
on the scene. The strikers were
aroused and greeted the newcomers
with jeers and boos. When the
police started to pick up workers
and attempted to arrest them, a
crowd of pickets turned over q
patrol wagon. Women took a lead
ing part in the action.