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Montana labor news., 1934-12-27
MAJOR POINTS OF LEGISLATIVE PRO-
GRAM ANNOUNCED BY A. F. OF |.
Thirty-Hour Week, Industrial Disputes Act, Ex-
tension of NRA, Unemployment Insurance and
Old-Age Pensions Among Laws Asked of the
Forthcoming Congress.

WASHINGTON - The American
Federation of Labor has determined
upon five major issues for presenta-
tion to the Seventy-fourth Congress,
which convenes January 3. These in
clude the 30-hour work week, an ade-
quate industrial disputes act, extension
Of the NRA, including Section IA,
unemployment insurance and old age
pensions; also immediate restoration Of
the remaining per cent Of the Gov
ernment pay cut. Other measures Of
outstanding importance will be sup
ported by organized labor.
President William Green, in discuss
ing the proposed legislative program,
made the following revealing state
ment:
"The legislative program Of the
American Federation of Labor will be
submitted to Congress when it con-
venes January 8, 1885. Measures en-
bodying the legislative proposals en-
dorsed and approved by labor are be-
ing prepared in detail for consideration
and action by the Seventy fourth Ses-
sion of Congress. Labor will petition
Congress to enact the following legis-
lation.
"First-A 3O-hour week meas
ure similar to the Black Bill
which was favorably acted upon
by the United States Senate dur
ing the Seventy third Session of
Congress. Labor offers the 30
hour week bill as a partial rem
edy for unemployment. Only
through a reduction in the num-
Der of hours worked per day and
per week, so that the amount of
work available may be equitably
distributed, can the millions of
workers now idle be accorded an
opportunity to work and earn a
decent living.
Industrial management is CON
stantly displacing workers through
Improvement in mechanical devices and
the substitution of machinery for hand
labor, adding to the millions unem-
ployed and, at the same time, de-
manding the maintenance of the status
quo regarding the length Of the work
day and work-week or demanding an
increase in the number of hours
worked per day
THE time has arrived for all classes
Of people including the owners and
managers of industry, to face stern
economic facts Industries covered by
industrial codes Of fair practice can
not provide employment to workers
for the number of hours incorporated
in said codes. Labor is firmly con
vinced that the 30-hour week bill is
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|. L. d. BARES FIGURES ON
THE SCOTTSBORO CAMPAIGN

NEW YORK.-(FP)-In answer to
charges Of misappropriation Of funds
collected by the international Labor
Defense for the Scottsboro case, the
l. L. D. has made public its financial
statement OF receipts and expenditures.
In all, $61,S2523 has been received
by the |. L. D. from its own organiza-
ton, from the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored People,
the American Civil Liberties Union and
the National Committee for the De-
fense of Political Prisoners.
OF this, $3S,1S1.05, or OIL per cent,
was expended directly for legal court
and investigation expense.
Another $3,633.52, or 81 per cent,
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

went for relief purposes for the nine
boys and their parents and for the fare
of the parents to the prison.
For publicity tours and propaganda,
%,670-36, or 1873 per cent, was spent.
The remaining "a per cent, or $14,-
S66S2, went for administrative ex-
penses, such as rent, wages, postage,
printing, telephones, and SO on, making
$2,526.52 still due to the |. L. D. from
the Scottsboro campaign
Supporters Of the Scottsboro cam
paign point for comparison to the
functioning Of the Red Cross, which,
according to recent article in The
American Mercury, spent in 1888 only
81 100000, out of some $3,500,0O0.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

CLEVELAND. ~ (FP) ~ Wage in
creases were won by 125 drivers and
helpers, members OF Local 4O7, Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
when the Superior Transfer Co. of
Cleveland surrendered after a two-day
strike Deliveries for some 200 stores
had been tied up by the strike.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

WASHINGTON.-FP)-Boy Scouts
women's clubs, churches, insurance
companies state utility commissions
and many other organizations and pub
lie bodies have been easy meat for
power trust propaganda, according to
Federal Trade Commission report to
the Senate.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

WASHINGTON. II (FP) - Bureau
of Internal Revenue statistics show
that all groups with incomes over $25,-
900 show an increase in total income in
1888 over 1882, while groups with less
than $4,000 show a reduction in in
come.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

BUCYRUS, Ohio. - (FP) - Pickets
have been ordered off the streets Of
Bucyrus at the Kaynee plant by Safety
Director Gus Goldsmith who blamed
the pickets for being attacked and in
jured by special deputies A section of
the deputies are businessmen. The
company's Cleveland plant has also
been closed.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stituhons may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-27

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
arc tho basis and index of
progress in any community.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
ChurCh'S Supreme Head
Known as Most TireIeSS
of Earth'S Leaders.
BY MILTON BRONNER
MA service STAFF Writer.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE hardest
working of the worlds elder leaders
at last is taking a history-making
vacation that his physicians have
urged upon him for many years.
He is 77-year-Old Pope Plus XI.
His vacation spot is lovely Castel
Gandolfo. fifteen miles from Rome.
And his vacation is historic in that
he is the first pOntiff since 1870 to
step outside the Holy See to spend
a prolonged holiday at a point re-
moved from it.
Probably not until the middle OF
September will he return to Vatican
City and resume the alwayS-arduouS
tasks that await him there.
The pope, besides being the tenn
poraI sovereign of the Vatican state,
is the spiritual head of the strong
est Christian communicated OO,-
600 persons scattered in every coun-
try and corner of the world.
Being the supreme pontiff, not
only must all knotty religious ques-
lions in the church come to him for
final settlement, but the political
problems which arise are endless.
Since his advent to the papacy
twelve years ago, there have been
the difficult wars between church
and state in Mexico and Spain, the
question of a concordat with Nazi
Germany and many others only
slightly less complicated.
The result is that the pope's day
is probably the longest of any man
of worldwide fame. 1t begins
shortly after dawn and often ends
only at 2 the next morning. 1t starts
with prayer and ends with prayer.
Between times. there are all the
multifarious papers dealing with
church matters. the audiences to
cardinals, priests and laymen from
ali over the globe, the great stately
ceremonies in St. Peters, with only
brief breaks for the simplest of
meals. a walk in his lovely gardens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17

the New York-London- Moscow Air
lines, Inc, will arrive here within a
week to claim delivery of a trans
port plane being built for a pro-
jected New York Moscow fight, the
Airplane Development Corporation
announced today.
The plane, a single motored, low
winged monoplane. was taken for
a first test flight last night and per-
formed satisfactorily. its builders
said. 1t has a Wright Cyclone en-
CINE and is capable of a cruising
speed of 215 miles an hour and top
speed Of 235 miles an hour. Its
cruising range is $500 miles.
The plane carries a pilot, co-pilot.
a radio operator. two passengers and
facilities for 500 pounds of baggage.
Mr.. Hutchinson will pilot it on the
projected Moscow flight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17

monsignor doing library research
work in London, as we'll as at
oxford and Manchester.
He is the first pope to own his
special railway train which runs
from his own railway station on
his own little railway track within
the Vatican state.
He is the first pope to make use
of a private automobile, which is
his own property.
He is the first pope with his own
broadcaSting station from which he
has spoken to all the world
He is the first pope even to have
given a reception to all the repre-
sentatives of the press covering"
Rome and the Vatican for the
newspapers of the whole world.
And he is the first pope ever to
have invited the diplomats, repre-
senting all the modern world, to a
luncheon party. He, of course, did
not sit with them at meal, as he
eats alone, but he mingled with his
guests afterwards.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17

and a snatched hour for reading
and resting.
In the last sixty years there have
been scholar popes and peasant
popes, but none exactly like the
present one-the scion of a silk
manufacturing family, educated for
the priesthood.
In the days before his vastest
responsibility he became famous as
librarian, linguist, writer, noun
tain-climber and church diplomat.
AS legate in Poland, he witnessed
the scenes of terror in Warsaw when
the Bolshevik armies came near
capturing the capital and was one
of the few diplomats who did not
desert the threatened city.
Settled Dispute With Kings
The outstanding event of his ca
reer, so far, has been the signing
of the Lateran treaty with MusSo-
lini five years ago. This ended an
intense bloodlesS war which had
been existing between the Vatican
and the Quirnal-the palace Of the
Italian kingS-Since 1870.
When the Italian armies entered
Rome and made that city the CAPT.
tai of the kingdom, depriving the
pope of his standing as temporal
ruler, the then pOntiff made him.
self a volunteer prisoner il the Vat
lean.
All official relations between him
and the king ceased. Every pope,
who came after, followed the same
line of conduct.
Pope Plus XII and MuSSolini, by
the Lateran treaty, ended all that.
The territory around the Vatican
and st. Peters was made the Vati-
can state.
The pope is its temporal ruler. 1t
has its own flag, postage stamps
and coins. Papal territory also is
the Castel Gandolfo, fifteen miles
away, where the pope is taking his
rest.
He has made history by being the
first pontiff to do a great many up
to-date things.
Some Papal FirSts
He is the first pope who saw
London from the top of a bus
this occurring when he was a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
AUTO REBUILDERS TO
HOLD C0NCLAVE IN CITY
Invitation Extended to Members
hy Local Bureau.

The national convention of the
Automotive Engine Rebuilders As
ISOLATION will be held in Indianap-
oils. May 27-3O. r. G. Patterson. e1-
ecutive vice-preSident, announced
today.
The invitation was extended by
the indianapolis Convention and
Publicity bureau and a committee
representing the indianapolis Auto
motive Wholesale Trade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
&c. II. lgs4

we're attacked today st the fourth
annual economic conference of the
stevens Institute Of Technology
Dr.. Warren NJ Persons. former
professor OF economics at Harvard
said the standard of
Of government construc-
ton and operation Of business falls
short Of the accepted standards Of
private industry.
We can not expect efficiency in
administration of BUSH
ness. ne warned. unless a new type
of public leadership develops which
depends upon the efficiency of Us
public service, rather than upon It's
ability to award patronage as the
basis for its power Efficiency un-
der the spoils system is unlikely Of
d.taumoll..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17

He is the first pope who saw
London from the top of bus
this occurring when he was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
GOVERNMENT IN
INDUSTRY HIT
Competition With Private
Business Played by
Economists.
BvUnifcd Press

ID UTTfU ITtHN
JOHNSONBURG N. j., Aug IT,
Government competition with pri-
vate business, the ''Spoils system" in
American politics and federal du-
plication of existing utility facilities
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
LEA OF MIRA TO RETIRE,
JOHNSON ANNOUNCES
Last Of -Four HOrsemen" of RecOv-
cry Quits.

~ Mfffn fffNN
WASHINGTON, Aug. l7.-COlOnel
Robert w. Lea. uast of the original
-Four HOrSemen" Ow the MIRA. will
retire into private life next Tues
day.
His resignation was announced by
General Hugh S. Johnson. II takes
from the recovery organization one
more of the chief executives who
carried on the early cOde-making
Drive. Colonel Lea was assistant
administrator for industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
YOUNG BRIDE is HELD
WITH MATE AS FORGER
Kentucky Girl Shocked to Learn
Husband Has Police Record.


By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. II. - The girl
who was Marie Flanagan of Padu-
cab, KY, before she eloped last De-
cember with the impressive Louis
Giraud, 43, wished today she still
was just plain Marie Flanagan.
Marie, 20, did her wishing in a Jail
cell. Behind the bars in another
jail, her husband, with whom she is
accused of forgery, spent his time
making flippant comments about
police inaccuracy."
Giraud, forger of International re-
pute, has been arrested seventeen
times. His wife was both surprised
and shocked.
When I met him he told me he
was a phys clan and graduate Of
McGill university" she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
BUSINESSLOAN
LAC IS BLAMED
ON RIGID RULES
Restrictions Cause Private
Industry to Avoid Fed
eraI Aid.

BIZ niffd Prrss
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17-Rigid
requirements were disclosed today as
causing a heavy lag IN the admin
istration's half-billion dollar pro-
gram for loans to private indus
tries.
Less than y per cent Of the
$3.50 O00OO0 approved during the
closing days Of the last session Of
congress has been allotted 20 in
dustries during the first two months
Of the program.
Chairman JHSse II. Jones Of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
said his agency had made ninety
four loans tOtaling $1,000 900 thus
far OF the $500 600 600 allotted to
him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
N. Y.-MOSCOW
PLANE READY
FOR LONG HOP
Pilot to Arrive Within Week
to Ask Delivery of
Ship.

By ScriDps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance
GLENDALE, Cal, Aug. II. -
George Hutchinson, president OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
Dec. 81 Is DeadIine

The federal reserve board. which
has $3.50 100000 20 pass out, has
made 2O4 loans Of $4,000
Under the law the loans must be
made by Dec. 81. 1884
Proponents OF the program are
disappointed at slowness Of distri-
button.
Many businesses. 10 was explained
are DESTROYS OF loans. but they can
not meet the rigid requirements.
Must Show Solvency
Restrictions causing trouble are
requirements for current bank in
terest rates. posting adequate Sc
Curity and proving that banks VIII
not loan them money.
Another difficulty is that appli-
cants must prove that the loans will
be spent TO increase employment and
show that they are solvent
Twenty federal reserve loans have
been made in the New York dis
trict. 81 i'm Philadelphia. - in At
lanta. 101 in Chicago. , in St. Louis.
13 I'm Minneapolis. 3 in Kansas City
and 3 in Dallas.
The Washington times., 1934-10-15
For House Guest

Miss Ann Callaghan, Of New
York, who was the weekend
house guest of the Attorney
General and Mrs. Homer s.
Cummings, at "Ruthven," was
the guest in whose honor Mr..
and Mrs. j. Bruce Kremer en-
tertained at dinner last evening,
at their residence in Glenbrook
Road.
\ 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee
are making short stay at
the Shoreham before going to
their home in New York.
The Washington times., 1934-10-15
Miss Perot to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward S. Perot,
of New York, who formerly
made their home in Washing.
ton, have announced the en-
gagement OF their daughter,
Miss Katherin Elizabeth Perot,
to Mr.. Andrew Cobb Blake, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenard Worth.
ington Blake, Of Santa Barbara,
Calf.
The wedding will take place
on December 81 in st. Thomas
Church in New York.
The Washington times., 1934-10-15
Sail Tomorrow

DR.. and Mrs. Richard Derby,
son-in.law and daughter of the
late President and Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and their three
daughters, Edith Roosevelt,
Sarah Alden and Judith Derby,
will sail tomorrow for Switzer-
land, where they will pass a
part Of the Winter.
X 4
Miss Dorothy r. Fell of New
York, daughter of Mrs. Ogden
l.. Mills, is at the Greenbrier
in White Sulphur Springs for a
visit of several weeks.
The Washington times., 1934-10-15
Fete Bride-eIect

Miss Margaret Anna Fox and
Mr.. Charles oscar Berry were
the guests Of honor at a pre-
nuptial supper given them Sat
urday evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Warfield Ross, at their
suburban home in Alta Vista,
Md.
Miss Fox and Mr.. Berry will
be married on Saturday eve
ming in the Rhode Island Ave-
nue. M. P. Church, by the Rev.
DR.. r. Y. Nicholson.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

fast for and keep the dinner
waiting for.
The trouble with men is not
that they grow old-but that
most of them never grow UP.
Many devoted wife is just
hanging onto life in the fond
hope that the gay playboy to
whom she. is married will some
day break down and have to
stay home and be NURSED.
X X X
A woman knows that her
vamping days are limited and
her time for romance won't last
much beyond her twenties; but
a man seems to think that his
Don Juan season is from boy
hood till death.
The delay in announcing the
engagement, these days, is not
caused by the g1.i's inability to
make up her mind. but by the
amount of time it takes her to
convince the man that he
wants to marry her.
X X
Being a wife means looking
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
T human Side Of the News - ByEdwin c. T I'LL

wealth, in his various business
enterprises. It was the love of
power which had driven him to
his political throne.
Most Of the bosses were COM
moners, battling their way up
with a bung-starter. The late
Boise Penrose, whose Suzerainty
was the State of Pennsylvania,
was one of the few exceptions.
OF a highly placed family, bril-
liantly educated, an alumnuS Of
Harvard, he buttressed his ca
reer with wealth and social pres
tige, but in his methods and
his objectives he was not es-
sentially different from the
others. He knew what he
wanted and he went after it and
got it.
A bit cynical, somewhat Of a
Nietzschean, he knew by vote
what many of the others knew
by ear. And like all the others,
he survived and prospered by
always having a Knockout
punch in reserve. Apropos of a
certain writer. someone re-
marked "He talks like Emma
Goldman and writes like Kuhn,
Loeb & Co." So the bosses.
They look and talk this way and
that-subject to all human vari.
antS-but they all work alike.
They swing from the heel when
that becomes expedient.
Somewhere in my mind there
Is a fragment of school book
Latin from the old Roman poet,
Lucretius. It is blurred. and I
can only paraphrase it: Always
in human affairs we have before
our eyes Sisyphus, who seeks to
wrest from the people the faSces
and the cruel axes of despotic
power, but always he is driven
back, weary and defeated"
Tweed got all that was COM
ing to him. Abe Reuf went to
Jail for a short term. But most
bosses seem to die peacefully in
bed and to get a grand funeral.
But it is true that their power
seems to pass with them. It is a
highly particularlized and per-
Sonalized force which is not
tranSmiSsible. Their thrones
never seem to be set on bedrock
On the whole, one is inclined to
agree with Lucretius.
Copyright, 1884, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

is the villain or the hero in
a typical Reno divorce case.
An understanding man" is
one who understands that
every woman likes the same
brand of applesauce, with just
a slightly individual flavor.
In European countries you
may find a few stray bachelors
who are single by force Of
circumstances; but when an
American man dies with his
bachelors buttons on, it is by
sheer force of determination.
&**
It has reached the point
where a woman can borrow her
husbands cigarettes, safety
razor and even his neckties
and polo Shirts-but things
have not yet gone so COM
pletely coed that a man eX-
poets to borrow his wife'S lip
stick.
An ex-wife may miss her hus.
band awfully, at first, but it's
wonderful how she bears up
under the thought of not hav.
ing anybody to hustle the break
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

came a boss of bosses. Tom
Taggart died March 7, 1929. He,
too, was one of the most likable
of bosses, mixed up in much
rough-and-tumble milling, but he
always fought under Queens
bury rules, and there never was
a cloud on his integrity. It
was an unique triumvirate which
used to meet and write various
Democratic states at that old
French Lick hotel.
Taggart, the cold, massive and
inscrutable Charles F. Murphy,
of New York, and the bulky
George E. Brennan, typical old
fashioned Chicago boss. Tag
CART had started life in Indiana
as a newsboy. He later was a
waiter, then a restaurant and
hotel owner, in politics with his
first pair of long pants. He
was supposed to have left about
$2,OOO,0OO when he died at the
age of 72, after four decades of
political sovereignty. He had a
legitimate accounting for his
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

There has been heavy NOR
tality among the old-time politi-
cal bosses of recent years. The
death of William S. Ware, Of
Philadelphia, leaves another
gap in their thinning ranks.
New bosses rise, of course, but
they are not Of the old heavy
fiSted genus. They use a rapier
rather than a bludgeon.
This writer has come in con-
tact with a quite a few of these
lusty and usually likable old
buccaneers-at national con-
ventions, at Washington, at
clam-bakes and longshoremen's
picnics, at brass-rail line-ups,
and once in a while he has
caught a few back-room mono
Syllables from some of them
which have made a front-page
column.
Mast, Opper and Davenport
have made an enduring rubber
stamp of the political boss
which is still his graphic SYM
bol-gross, heavy jowl e d,
paunchy and predatory-but
that isn't the whole story.
With no idea of trying to
square whatever proven larceny
may lie in this domain, it has
been my observation that the
children of darkness are indeed
wiser than the children OF
light, and usually a whole. lot
more human. Through the
years, I began to observe that
they did not have hoofS and
horns: that most of them were
family men; that, on the wnole'
they sought power rather than
money. Many a young broker
riding a rise in boom times mas
made more money than many
of the notorious bosses.
The late Roger Sullivan, OF
Illinois, was perhaps the most
humanity likable Of the lot OF
them-humorous, imaginative
and a bit of D'Artagnan in
his quest for high adventure.
Even his political enemies
liked him. His memory serves
to point out the error of those
free-and-eaSy groupings and
classifications to which we so
easily resort,
/ have known political bosses
who were Stolid SquareheadS:
some who were lean and
Machiavellian; some who were
as lusty trenchermen as old
Beowulf gnawing a bone, and
others who were monkish and
abstemiouS; sensualiSts and
aesthetics; joiners and recluseS;
the inscrutable dead-pan boss
and the boss who gets chummy
the first time you meet him.
Again, it is that extremely
human quality, the desire for
power, which seems to move
them-I am speaking now of
the great virtuosi of the pro-
fesSion. OF course, there are
plenty of runners-up-Seco
and third-string bosses who
7 work only the box-office an
giles and aspire to nothing
more. but they are either cas-
ual freebooters or journeymen
fixerS Of no particular signifi-
canoe.
Tom Plat, who died in 1911.