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Montana labor news., 1934-12-20
FIVE YEARS AGO
in LABOR

NEW YORK. -(FP)- Federated
Press scored an 8-day scoop on the
other press associations in revealing
details of the Ford 4Oc wage increase,
widely bruited during President Hoo
ver's conferences with leading indus
trialists.
MARION, N. c. Up Alfred
Hoffman, southern organizer for the
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and
Lawrence Hogan and Yves Fowler, out
standing leaders of the strikes against
the Marion Manufacturing Co., have
been found guilty of rioting. Hogan
and Fowler got six months on the road
gang, and Hoffman wa given 80 days
and a $1,000 fine. The riot charge
grew out Of disturbances when strikers
threw the furniture of an imported
scab out of his company house.
The trade unionist who persists in
wearing non-union clothing feels and
Montana labor news., 1934-12-20

Union Members Patronize Labor
News Advertisers
Montana labor news., 1934-12-20
WANT ANOTHER
LABOR MEMBER ON
THE MIRA BOARD

WASHINGTON-The Labor Adj
visory Board of the NRA has selected
a committee which includes William
Green, President Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, to place before the
National Recovery Administration a
request for additional labor represen-
tation on the NRA Administration
Board. It is contended that industry
has two direct representatives in S.
Clay Williams, Chairman, and Arthur
Whiteside, who is President of Dun
and Bradstreet, Inc, while labor has
only one member, Sidney Hillman of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
Union Members Patronize Labor
Evening star., 1934-06-03
COMMENCEMENT
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D, L. D. D. c. L.
Bishop of Washington

upon the world that, to his vision,
seems disordered and awry. 1t Is this
one: Prove all things; hold fast that
which is good" To prove all things
means to be deliberate and reflective
in testing every theory and every
cause and to determine their value
not hastily, but after weighing their
worth and usefulness. It means to
be governed in the selection of prin-
ciples and ideals, not by the superb
cial judgments of others, but by a
careful appraisal of their validity and
utility.
First of all, the youth is compelled
to prove himself. The world is crit
ical of those who lack self-approval.
Cleverness is no substitute for tested
worth The quality of the coinage We
represent is not determined by some
superficial legend that it bears, but
rather by its own intrinsic and in
herent worth. The world quickly dis
covers whether we are counterfeit or
real
Along with this self-proving and
world-proving, we are called upon to
hold fast that which Is good" This
means to adhere, with flxity of pur-
pose, to that which is finest and
noblest In life. However Indifferent
the world may seem to be to the
things of virtue, it is still universally
true that it demands of those who
seek its favor that they witness to
those qualities of character that stand
for clean and wholesome living. An
old master of Rugby wrote for his
students a little book entitled The
Manliness of Jesus" In it he set be-
fore the young man as he faced life
the high ideals of the most perfect
Man that ever trod the earth. He
would not submit any other standard
OF excellence. To live by the prin-
ciples enunciated by Jesus meant to
hold fast to that which is good" No
greater asset might young man have
than to represent in his person those
qualities of character, those ideals of
life that find their highest expression
in the Man of Nazareth. To hold fast
means to be undisturbed by passing
events, new environing conditions and
associations 1t is expressed in such
terms as that of the great reformer
where he said, Here I stand can
do none other, SO help me God" !"
Profitable for all of us. young and old
alike. is this word, Prove all things;
hold fast that which is good"
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Teachers Day.

This is Teachers day, according to
the calendar of grateful remembrance
by and through which multitudes ex-
press the affections of their hearts.
Inaugurated by the faculty and stu
dents of Southeastern University, the
annual commemoration of childhood
guides and mentors in public and
private schools is spreading across the
whole breadth of the United States.
Thousands pause in tribute to the
Nations educators. and the occasion
has noble aspect of sanctity and
beauty.
1t is right that it should be so. No
one would wish to reside very long
in a land where teachers were neg
lected. The debt which a people
owes to that class of human beings
who devote their time, their energies,
their inborn or cultivated talents to
the instruction of youth is exceedingly
great. And it is not merely in regi-
mented dictation of standard formu-
las of learning that members of the
pedagogical profession exercise their
compelling influence upon the pub
lie mind. It is their province and
their pleasure to cultivate the spirit,
also. Many must be the number of
persons who can summon up in
memory a word gently spoken at the
psychological time, the touch of a
hand kindly laid upon a troubled
brow at just the right moment, for
which the response of homage is nat
ural and proper. If there ever is any
individual not of immediate kin that
a man or woman brackets in thought
with parents and brothers and sis
ters, it must be the teacher.
OF course, it happens That now
and again the trust is betrayed, and
an educator fails 10 justify expecta-
Evening star., 1934-06-03

benefited from these allotments at
the expense of other taxpayers or
has received most favored treatment
in relation to that received by the
States is entirely erroneous.
The District Of Columbia is the
only community in the United States
against in the matter
of P. w. A. loans and denied the
privilege of wisely borrowing to carry
forward necessary projects. to pro-
vide immediate employment and to
spread their cost over the years.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Dictatorship Now
Prevails in Europe
BY A. G.. GARDINER.

LONDON, June 2.-The tide of die
tatorship. which has swept Europe
since the war, having now engulfed
little Bulgaria, has few more coun-
tries to submerge in Europe. Strike a
line from the Rhine to Vladivostok,
through the kingdoms of the great
emperors who reigned until less than
twenty years ago. and it will pass
through none but territories domi-
mated by dictators.
Continue the line across the Sea of
Japan to Japan itself and dictatorship
in this case military dictatorship
is still the governing principle. Strike
a line from the Baltic to the Black
Sea on the Mediterranean and the
phenomenon Is repeated Parliament
ary government has vanished as COM
pletely as if it had never been. Where
kings remain, they are only kings
in name-hostages of the dictator,
puppets of the palace, trotted out to
adorn a triumph, subject, as the King
of Italy has recently been reminded
by Mussolini, to the provision that
monarchy will only be tolerated while
it consents to be the obedient pawn
of the dictator.
X X 4 \
All that remains of parliamentary
government and democracy in the
Eastern Hemisphere is located on the
western seaboard of Europe-Scandi-
navia, Holland, Belgium, Great Brit
ain and France. Against this ram
part of constitutional government the
tidal wave of dictatorship has so far
beaten in vain. Parliamentary rule,
whether under the banner Of mon
archy or republic, is still in possession
Evening star., 1934-06-03

Commencement Is defined as "a
celebration by graduates of the COM
pletion Of college course, when de-
grees are conferred and graduate life
ton OF one period and the beginning
OF new one. In many instances IT
marks the emergenCe Of the student
from the realm of theory to that of
practice. He goes forth to the world
to discover the value of what he has
acquired through long days of study
and to apply what he has learned to
the common conditions of everyday
life. To many a student, commence
ment means emancipation, the larger
freedom. The old books, well thumbed,
are laid aside, and along with them
the existing disciplines which the
class room imposes. No critical eye
will longer scan the page of examina
ton papers. No one will determine
the rating of the work done. 1t Is a
critical time in the life of the youth
when the doors Of school room and
university close behind him and he
faces the world, largely unknown to
him, little knowing how his aptitudes
and gifts will At into the general
scheme of things.
1t is in this period that self f-diag-
nosis and application to the course
he is best fitted to serve have their
large place It is the period of ex-
Fermentation and frequently it takes
several years to discover in what
sphere of professional or occupational
life he can render his best and most
compensating service. At such time
the counsel of parents and friends
plays an important part, but. if it be
true that we are largely the "arbiters
of our own fortunes" it is to the
youth himself that the final word is
given concerning his career.
The conditions that face youth to-
day are doubtless more difficult than
those of other periods. The doors Of
opportunity seem to be fewer and the
possibilities of adapting ones peculiar
gifts to a common calling or profess
sion less advantageous. Despite these
facts, we are strongly convinced that
the changed and changing circum-
stances that distinguish our life today
afford a new kind of opportunity to
the man or woman who is determined
to find his or her place. There is an
admonition that very fifty may guide
the confused youth as he looks out
Evening star., 1934-06-03

ton or an erstwhile pupil forgets to
remember. But in general that Is
not the case. On the contrary,
teachers have a tendency to run to
a common type selfiess and devoted,
and students likewise are not i'm
mune to humane ideals. Together,
as the decades pass. they lift the
standards of life and culture ever
higher and higher. And the net re-
suit is the thing called progress, the
miracle called aspiration.
Small wonder it is that one of the
courtesies which Herbert Hoover
wished to show during his residence
In the White House was that of hav-
ing as his guest the woman who
had been his teacher in his boyhood
in Iowa. She has gone to her re-
ward since then. but the incident
of her visit is her monument. She
personified qualities, labors and
achievements for which the Ameri-
can race is deeply thankful.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Recovery Program in Collision With
Human Nature, With Trouble Resulting

the other farm adjustment programs
What the country is witnessing, as
officials explain it. is an attempt by
several million farmers to put one
over on Uncle Sam.
But the situation is about the same
in city industry as well Through
N. R. A., Gen. johnson thought that
he could get the lambs and the lions
of industry to lie down together in
security and peace. They would agree
to cooperate, make rules of fair prac-
tice. pay reasonable wages. cut down
hours of work. put a control over
prices and operate under a system Of
self government that would make all
happy. AS business picked up and
profits increased. employers were TO
cut hours still further and raise wages.
in an effort TO absorb the millions OF
unemployed. To do all this, antitrust
laws were suspended so that produc-
ton could be cut down by agreement
and so that prices could be sustained
on n higher level by keeping factory
output adjusted to the demand,
When the future seemed uncertain
and when planning seemed a way
out, everything was agreeable and all
worked for common cause. But once
profits came back and the future
seemer more clear. the instincts of
rugged individualism quickly showed
themselves. It was in March that
President Roosevelt suggested to in
duStry that with its better income it
might well afford to reduce hours to
add more workers to pay rolls. He is
still waiting for acceptance of the
idea.
Today N R. A is in a broad retreat
under attack from all sides, on the
ground that human nature asserted
itself again. The strong appear to
have tended to oppress the weak, the
selfish apparently are striving for spe-
cial advantages for themselves, the
chiseler is so clever that Donald Rich
berg and his N. r. A. legal battalions
Shy at the enormous task of Furnishing
him.
Now the question is beginning to be
raised whether the whole theory of re-
covery by restriction may not be at
fault. increasingly in Washington is
heard the comment that it is not in
the American nature to submit to the
sort of control that planning entails
Farmers balk at being told what and
how much they can plant. Business
men fret under rules that tell them
they cannot add a new machine, or
change a practice, or sell below a GER
tain price, if there is profit in these
moves
1t seems very doubtful now whether
it would be possible politically for the
Federal Government to sponsor an
other program to kill little pigs or to
plow up cotton. The public attitude
is not friendly to these drastic weap-
onS of restriction.
But, while opposing or seeking to
dodge the controls of the A. A. A. and
the N. R. A., the public and the busi-
ness men and the farmers, and even
the political opponents of the program
now in effect, offer no definite solu-
ton for the problem of disposing Of
surplus products of the farm and of
industry.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
The Housing Bill.

The committees of the Senate and
House are busily at work on the ad-
ministration's housing bill. This
measure is designed to encourage the
handling of the home mortgage situa-
ton in this country through private
institutions, and also to make loans
for home improvement more easily
obtainable. The President, the Sec
retary of Labor, Miss Perkins; the
chairman of the Home Loan Board,
John H. Fahey, and other officials of
the administration have Endorsed the
proposal. In the closing days of the
present Congress, with a drive under
way to wind up business and ad-
journ, it is easy for bill to be side
tracked. The housing bill should
be definitely included in the program
of essential legislation at this time.
If enacted into law. the measure
would aid greatly in the recovery of
industry and business and employ
ment.
Through this measure the Govern
ment encourages private capital to 60
into the home mortgage field, where
capital is definitely and seriously
needed The Government will give
this encouragement through insur-
ance of loans made both to take over
mortgages and to make improvements
in homes throughout the country.
The bill sets up a 5000, 100000 cor
poration to handle this business of
insuring the loans made by private
institutions and corporations.
Restoration of public confidence in
real estate values is one of the i'm
portant effects the enactment into
law of the housing bill is expected
to have. With such confidence it is
clear that home building and home
modernization will surely take place.
Private capital, under the security
given by the proposed new law un-
doubtedly would be attracted into
mortgages and result in much new
home building and home repair.
Instead of involving the people in
unwarranted debt the housing bill
should really promote thrift in this
country. Loans will be insured, un-
der the contemplated plan, only for
those who are not overextended in
any way. The steady repayment of
mortgages by partial payments will,
the sponsors of the bill insist, en-
courage thrift and saving.
Chairman Fahey of the Home Loan
Bank Board has frankly told the
Senate Committee on Banking and
Currency that it is not possible for
the board and the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, despite the vast
funds and credit available for their
plications for the refinancing Of home
mortgages and certainly not to care
for the applications for home mod
ernizstion. Mr.. Fahey's contention is
that private capital must be encour-
aged to enter this field Of investment.
The housing bill put forward by the
administration, he insists will give
that needed encouragement.
The expected aid to home construc-
tion and home modernization from
the housing bill would not only affect
the home owners, but would add
greatly to the employment of labor
and to the recovery of business. The
measure has been carefully drawn and
has received the Endorsement of the
Durable Goods Industries Committee
Of the N. r. A.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

All that is asked of Europe is pay
ment of debt. There is perhaps too
much intellectual energy wasted in
what amounts in exaggerated terms
to quarrel with bill collector on
the doorstep. 1t Is possible to slam
the door in the collectors face, but it
is not reasonable to expect him to
favor a further trading account.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

Germany is described as rearming
with all possible speed. About all the
element of old German philosophy
at present in use is the will to
power"
Evening star., 1934-06-03

Florence Kahn would like to see
Mary Pickford in the United States
Senate. Miss Pickford is a sensible,
successful and highly esteemed woman
with no previous experience in poll
tics. All these considerations COM
mend her.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

1t was declared by that distin-
guished statesman. w. j. Bryan, the
father of our present diplomatic rep
resentative in Denmark, that dollar
wheat and recognition of silver were
essential to United States prosperity
We have them both. All that now
seems necessary to complete dem
onstration is the collection of some
old debts and the tactful management
of few labor, controversies.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

Two men were killed during po-
litical rally at Rio Grande City, in
Texas. There is evident need in va
rious communities of local applica-
ton of the disarmament idea.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

Business statisticians figure that
strikes and social disorders mark the
end Of period of depression. Pros
perity is sure to be restored. but not
necessarily to all who previously en-
joyed it.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

AS Insults career is reviewed he is
doubtless wishing for the good old
grand opera days, when any one who
wanted to know about him simply
asked the press agent.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

When insult has told all he knows
there may be popular disposition
toward leniency for an old man.
Few things irritate the popular mind
more persistently than an unsatisfied
curiosity.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

A grim intimation is current that
if nations will not disarm voluntarily.
the old warlike process of trying
forcibly to disarm one another will
be resumed.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

The desire for great wealth has
been checked in large measure. The
race for riches has become only a
contest to see who can have the most
trouble with his income tax.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHuANDER JOHNSON.

Unbiasment.
When perils grave
Are sent by Fate,
Oh. who will save
The home and state?
While champions rise
In fierce array,
Whose counsel wise
Will end the fray?
No one insists
On heroes rough
Nor strategists
To make a bluff.
The question great,
Which now we see
Is Who'll go straight
And referee"
Evening star., 1934-06-03

In spite Of intensive modernism in
many lines of development, the Presi-
dent shows by his evident deep regard
a lingering sentiment for the good
old days"
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Rainbow Relief.

Rainbow Relief.
If we can stop a little while
And tell a funny story,
We're certain. to improve our style
While travelling on to glory.
As storms assail the hearts of men
Why not, amid the thunder,
Let Rainbows give us now and then
A chance to smile and wonder.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
A World of Happy Spirits.

''What is your idea of proper way
to manage the American press?"
I'D make it heaven on earth"
said. Senator Sorghum. "I'd have no
one in it but ghost writer's"
Jud Tunkins says riches have wings
and so have airplanes. Either can
crash.
Evening star., 1934-06-03
The w. o. c.

The w. o. G.
"HoW's the War On Crime coming
along in the Gulch?" asked the
travelling man.
Kind O. queerly," said Cactus Joe.
We've put the gangsters in jail"
why don't they break out?"
They don't wish to. They have
filled it with munitions and are using
it as a kind of fortress"
Evening star., 1934-06-03
Fish Story.

Fish Story.
Simon Scientist went fishing
For to catch whale.
The water that he had was in
His Alma Matters pail.
He fished away from day to day.
Stagnation soon set in
And then he brought a microscope
New studies to begin.
He cried "Oh. see what I have caught.
Such monsters here I view
That they seem worse than any whale
That ever mortal knew"
"Dar ain much use" said Uncle
Eben, 'in a boss who gives orders in
a loud tone of voice and den jes'
fuses around because dey amt
obeyeds A
Evening star., 1934-06-03

mo one," said Hi Ho, the Sage OF
Chinatown, sis sufficiently learned in
the law as to show a way to compel
obedience to it."
Evening star., 1934-06-03

The inadequacy Of the salaries of
American diplomatic representatives
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
H. C.L.' AGAIN
PLAQUES U. S.
Roosevelt Orders Close
Check to Stop All
Profiteerinq.

Copyright. 1884 by United Pressl
WASHINGTON, Aug. Thigh
cost of living, the old war; time
problem, came back today to plague
both citizens and government in the
midst of the great recovery drive.
Statistics showed that the drought
and its companions, high cost of
living and prof1teering, was apt to
engage as much attention if not
more than recovery in the coming
months.
A report of the bureau OF labor
statistics revealing that food prices
had jumped IL per cent over last
year and 15.5 per cent above 1882,
turning back the clock to 1917 again.
The rise was reported in the face
OF a companion survey by the bu-
reau of home economics showing
that the actual deficiency in food
supplies was minor and confined to
few products.
The price increases brought home
to federal officials the need for
guarding closely against profteer-
ing. Meats, butter, cheese and
cereal products have gone up most.
Yet, the home economics survey
showed that meat supplies, except
for pork, would be above normal for
some time. Butter and cheese are
about 80 per cent normal. Grain
supplies are all normal or above
normal.
In the face of this situation, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has ordered every
agency of the government with
powers to act against profteering to
exert every effort to prevent vic
timizing of the public.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
M|ESSE TO DEMAND
TAX LEVY SLASHES
Insists No Allowance Be
Made for Delinquency.

Demand that allowances for tax
delinquency be eliminated from the
civil city, school city and county
budgets was made today by Harry
Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers Associ-
alton secretary.
Mr.. Miesse, in statement, de-
clared that any tax delinquency next
year will be made up by payment
of taxes which became delinquent
this year and last year.
The school city levy, tentatively
set at 81 cents last night, reduc-
ton of 8 cents, could be cut another
5 cents by this means, and the civil
city levy could be reduced cents,
he asserted
He announced that his association
will appeal all budgets to the Mar
ion county tax adjustment board and
possibly later to the state tax board
in order to force a substantial bud
get and levy reduction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-17
5000 Affected Here

Carrying out of the textile work.
erS strike threat would affect ap-
proximately 5000 Indianapolis
workers and indirectly hit nearly
every home in the city if the strike
should be prolonged.
Business leaders, manufacturers
and union officials forecast this to-
day to The Times, following reports
that the United Textile Workers of
America voted to call a strike of
100000 union employees before
Sept. 1.
The union has onel ocal in Indi-
annapolis. Local 2O69, with personnel
formed by the 500 workers of the
indianapolis Bleaching Company,
900 West Wabash street.
Officials of the bleaching company
said they believed their employees
were we'll satisfied and did not ex-
pect a walkout.
when the southern textile strike
occurred the union here did not go
out on a strike" asserted one Off
cial of the company.
He said that all of the cotton
cloth manufactured here was used
by the Bemis Bag Company, parent
organization, and that it was not
necessary for the local plant to de-
pend on other markets for goods as
they procesSed their own cotton into
cloth.
Charles Drake, business agent of
the textile local of Indianapolis,
said when informed of the national
strike order. I'VE will cooperate
with the national Office"