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Montana labor news., 1934-06-07

PREFERS TO HAVE MINES SHUT DOWN; MORE PROFIT IN FOREIGN
HOLDINGS; REFUSES TO CONSIDER ANY TERMS MINERS OFFER.

AS the strike goes into its fifth week
the Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany is no nearer mediating the troub-
lie than it was about eight weeks ago
when the miners, engineers and other
crafts handed in their demands. The
Anaconda officials have failed to Of
fer even the smallest Of compromises
to the workers. They have continued
their pig-headed attitude OF do as we
say or starve to DEATH At each con-
ference "Husky-miner" DAILY and
"Needs-a-rest" Hobbins do nothing but
present figures to show that the Ana
conda Company is on the verge Of
bankruptcy and cannot afford to pay
decent wages to the workers Of Butte.
They present reams Of figures show
ing that the Anaconda Company has
lost millions, steadily, for the past
three years and to meet the demand
Of shorter hours and higher wages
would mean the collapse OF the Ana
conda Company.
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
NOTICE
INDEPENDENT PARTY
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

There will be a VERY IMPORT
ANT MEETING of the INDEPEN-
DENT PARTY CAMPAIGN COM
MITTEE, MONDAY NIGHT, 3rd
FLOOR OF CARPENTERS HALL
at 8 O'Clock. BE THEREH!
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
Fear That Community Might
Be Enraged

6ta
The cry of Kelley was that the Butte
Citizen might enrage the people of
Butte against Harry Gale. If the Com
munity is enraged against Gale, it is
not a rage against Gale as an individual
but against the corporation that he
serves. 1t takes no Butte Citizen to
enrage the people OF Butte against the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company. 1t
takes only the stubborn attitude OF the
officials OF the corporation in Butte,
in dealing with the men at the present
time to carry the Butte Citizenry be-
yond all patience. The people Of Butte
will have no patience with a corpora
ton that imports scabs and gunner
at SO per day and board and room,
that brides officials to act as gun
agents at $40 per gunner and then re-
fuses to pay workers of Butte a living
wage. Mr.. Kelley is seeking the wrong
cause for the rage on the part Of Butte
Citizens. The fundamental cause a
be found on the 9th floor.
1t takes no Butte Citizen" to enrage
the people of Butte as long as MI.
Kelley tries to bulldoze men into a
violation of their solemn obligations
and attempts to use a court to deny
them their rights as citizens. This is
just another sample of the democracy
the people Of Butte have been enjoy
ing under the pa~ternalism of the Ana
conda Company. Compared to the Of
ticials OF the Anaconda Company in
Butte, Hitler is a Sunday School Teach
er and Mussolini a stool pigeon. The
people Of Butte have been denied the
right to worship as they please, enjoy
III" type OF social life they please nor
even have a say in the control OF their
public Institutions. They have been
the slaves Of a corporation that has
ruled the city with the power of an
absolute monarch. The Russian work
ers and peasants revolted, the Austri-
an Workers revolted, the Germans and
Italians are waiting for the opportun-
ity. Now let the people Of Butte re-
volt and give the Anaconda Company
to understand that its function in But
tie is to mine Copper, to keep these
mines in operation and pay a living
wage. II the Anaconda Company isn't
satisfied to do the work which it. is
incorporated let it get out and go to
South America where workers have
been slaves and will endure the tyran-
ny this Corporations delights in us
ing.
Gale will no doubt get a change in
venue. There is little doubt as to what
the people Of Butte or any other self
respecting community think OF scabs
Continued to page ~
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
No Questions Seem to be Irrele-
want in Attorney Kelley's Ex-
animation of Strikers.

The hearing for a change OF venue
in the Gale Case has resolved itself in
an attempt on the part OF the Chief
Counsel for the Anaconda Company,
Dan P. Kelley, to force the strikers
to turn stool pigeon and relate all that
takes place in their Union meetings
and at the meetings of the Strike Com
mittee. The chief questions asked are
Who prints the Butte Citizen?", Who
is responsible for its publication and
the publication of the 'Scab' Listf",
Who is on the Strike Committee 7"
what do your Union Members say
and what is their opinion of the strike
methods as expressed in Union Meet
ings ~, "Who hands in the names for
the Scab List?" There has been little
reference to the case at hand and des-
pite the objections Of County Attorney
%Freebourn, the attorney from the A.
c. M. Co. continues his attempts at
making the strikers violate their OBJ
legations to their Unions.
After listening to the questioning the
Editor of the Labor News is beginning
to wonder just whose trial this is. At
first it sounded as if Harry Freebourn
were on trial and then the whole strike
committee seemed to be on trial, rather
than Gunman Gale. As the trial went
on one couldn't help but wondering
whether or not a citizen has any rights
at all as an American Citizen, in the
State of Motnana. A Union Member
is under obligation to guard what takes
place in his Union Meetings. AS a
Citizen OF a Democracy he is entitled
to take such obligations, providing he
is not plotting revolution against his
country. There is no court in the
United States that can force him TO
tell, yet the attempt is being made TO
force Union members to do this very
thing in Butte. The Strike Committee
has just as much right, as citizens in
America, to guard its business as has
the board Of directors of the Anaconda
Company or its local officials. At
torney Kelley shows BY his attitude
that he is not interested in securing
a fair trial for Harry Gale, but inter-
ested primarily in learning all he can
OF what is taking place in strike COM
mittee meetings and getting the strik-
ers to tip their hands. The Anaconda
Company must be slipping if it has to
use such methods. In days past they
found plenty Of stool pigeons in Butte
who tipped them off as soon as action
was taken. From the cross question
ing of the A. c. M. Council one is led
to believe that the men OF Butte have
more honor than they had a few years
back. The methods used by Kelley in
this trial are a compliment to strikers
OF Butte.
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
Con Kelley Paid Bonus for
Losing Money

One topic that the Anaconda offici-
ais steer clear of is the subject Of Con
Kelley's salary. If the Anaconda Com
pany is losing money, as the local Of
ficials claim, then the Anaconda Com
pany is the first corporation in the
United States to pay a President a
bonus for running the Corporation in
to bankruptcy. Con Kelley's Salary
and Bonus for 1882 amounted to $751;
$1,000. This includes a bonus. Why
should Con be paid a Bonus for losing
10 millions in three years as was re-
ported? If the Company is losing
money that rapidly the stockholders
had best oust Con Kelley rather than
pay him a bonus. If the Company is
in as hard straights as the officials
claim, Con Kelley should be made to
join insult for robbing the stockhold-
ers Of an unearned bonus. The fig
ures don't jibe. Furthermore, the Ana
conda Company paid almost ten times
as much towards Cons salary as did
the South American subsidiaries. This
can only mean one thing, that the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company makes
ten times as much off its Montana
holdings as it does off its South Amer
lean properties. When II reads these
conflicting figures one realizes that
figures can be made to do anything,
even lie, if one has well paid account
ants.
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
Anaconda Company Betraying
Butte

The people of Butte, who have been
the arch-apologists for the Anaconda
Company should be waking up to the
plans the Company has for the future
OF Butte. They should remember that
there is plenty of ore still in Butte and
that this ore can be produced at no
loss and a living wage paid to the men
who go underground and work. 1t
may not be able to produce enough
to pay half million dollar salaries to
any Con Kelleys and the like but it
can save Butte from becoming a ghost
camp. The Anaconda Company is
willing that every man in Butte with
his money invested in a business here
should lose every cent of that invest
ment. 1t will betray every business
and professional mar in the city when
such a betrayal is profitable to the
Anaconda Company. Let the business
and professional men of Butte wake
up to this fact. This is not merely a
strike but an opportunity for the Ana
conda Company to slide out of Butte
with its profits and leave the men who
have produced that profit to starve.
Continued to page a
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07
Anaconda No Doubt Wants to Aban
don Butte Holdings

The lack OF progress in this strike
shows only n thing; that the Ana
conda Company does not intend to de-
velop and keep its Butte holdings. If
the Company desired to continue the
development Of the Butte mines, and
honestly believed that they could make
enough from them to fatten already
bloated salaries, it would be willing to
take a little from its huge surplus to
pay the miners and other craftsmen
employed On the hill, a living wage dur
ing these lean years. They would do
it to hold their skilled workers in But
tie. But such is not the case. Fig
ures from the past few years show a
number OF things. The Anaconda
Company is only working its highest
grade ore in order that it might be
exploited as rapidly as possible. After
this ore is entirely exploited the Com
pany no doubt plans to abandon its
Butte properties. Figures taken over
the past few years also show that the
Anaconda Company is spending less
and less on the Improvement and main
~tenance of its Butte mines. This pro-
badly means that the Company is only
maintaining the mines that have a high
grade ore and is letting the other go
to ruin. This can only mean one thing
that the Anaconda Company is absolu-
tely willing to let Butte become a ghost
camp. 1t has no interest in the peo-
pie Of Butte who have shaved for years
to make millionaires out of miners
sons. The Anaconda Company owns
properties in foreign lands that will
make greater profits for it and at pre-
sent it is only interested in getting
as much out of Butte as possible in
as short a time as possible and then
let Butte join Virginia City and the
other ghost camps Of America.
Anaconda Company B~etraying
Butte
The people of Butte, who have been
the arch-apologists for the Anaconda
Company should be waking IN TO the
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07

There can be no prosperity
without Justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not b n.
ject to perils of Disco. Nfoti,
Montana labor news., 1934-06-07

under the above caption, the New York Evening Pos
last week printed the following editorial)
Evening star., 1934-12-05

the utmost secrecy, TO prevent further
persecution of their families, who will
remain in Germany, it was said. 1t
was learned. however. that 25 of them
have landed in New York within the
past week"
THE boys are said to be between
the ages Of and 16. They will be
kept in this country until conditions
in Germany improve or their educa-
ton is completed, it was said.
"One Jewish leader in Baltimore
said public schools in Germany have
been barred to them.
"Details of giving the boys homes
in Baltimore are closely guarded, but
it was reported that none have yet
been placed here. although several
prominent Jewish people were said
to be receptive to the proposal"
Evening star., 1934-12-05
Italy to Seize Son
OfCarusO in Auto
ROlUifHeRetXr7lS
Court Rejects Appeal
From, Penalty Inuolring
Fight With Farmer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, December 5.-The Supreme
Court decided today that if Enrico
Caruso. son of the late tenor, ever re-
turns from New York to his native
Italy, he must face the two-ald-a-
half-year Jail sentence imposed upon
him for motor road alteration four
years ago.
The court rejected the appeal of
two Caruso brothers. Enrico and Ro-
dolfo from the punishment imposed
upon them because of fight with a
farmer whose oxcart blocked the path
of their speeding automobile.
An ordinary court had sentenced
Enrico to 2 years and months and
10000 lire in costs and damages.
The court absolved Rodolfo on lack
Of evidence of actual assault, although
1t was proved he was driving.
The case was brought to the Su-
preme Court by Rodolfo, who de-
manded a rephrasing of his abSolu-
ton verdict. The high court decided
there were no mitigating circum-
stances. and Enrico is subject to ar
rest if found on Italian territory.
Evening star., 1934-12-05
CULTURAL LIGHTS
PART WITH NAZ|S
Wholesale designations May
Follow Musicians Who
Quit High Posts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BERLIN, December 5-Whisperings
OF further designations in all walks OF
Nazi life were heard today following
the action of two of Berlin's leading
musicians who quit their posts because
Of dissatisfaction with Nazidom's
domination of cultural life.
The dismissal of Helmuth Brueck-
ner. Governor of Silesia, by Chancellor
Hitler brought also a prediction OF
further governmental changes.
A German who held high position
before the Nazi advent privately ex-
pressed the opinion Il should not be
surprised if other designations follow.
I expect them not only among gov
ernment leaders. but among outstand-
ing men in religious artistic and eco
nomic life
Criticized for Question.
Wilhelm Furtwaengler left his posts
as leader of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor of the Municipal
Opera House and vice president of the
Chamber of Culture. He had been
criticized for asking: What would
become of German music if political
denunciation should interfere with
art?"
His resignation was followed by the
withdrawal of Erick Kleiber, famous
composer and conductor. from con-
tracts with the opera and the phil
harmonic.
A long battle over artistic freedom
under the swastlka was climaXed when
the cultural chamber, which pract-
callv controls the theater, denounced
Paul Hindemith, composer, sponsored
by Furtwaengler, as "a cultural Boil
shevist"
Nazi Chiefs Lose Face.
The designations weakened the cul-
tural prestige of two of Hitler's chief
lieutenants, Joseph Goebbels, minister
of propaganda, and Premier Wilhelm
Goering of Prussia.
A friend of eX-Gov. Brueckner's said
his discharge had something to do"
with his anti-Catholic action, for
which he was notorious.
Evening star., 1934-12-05
MORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS

System Turned On at 18th Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue.
The new traffic lights installed at
Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh
street were turned on this morning in
the presence of Traffic Director W. A.
Van Duzer and other ofncials of the
Traffic Department.
Installation of lights at Twelfth
street were turned on yesterday in
is being completed, but no date has
been set for putting them in opera
ton. Work is to start soon on in
stallation of lights at North Capitol
and I streets.
Evening star., 1934-12-05
JEWS IN GERMANY
SEND BOYS TO j. S.
Baltimore Paper Reports
250 to Be Placed to Es-
cape Nazi Persecution.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 5.-The
Baltimore Sun says that $50 German
Jewish boys, forced by Nazi persecu-
ton to seek homes elsewhere. are
being sent to the United States to
be brought up"
The Sun says:
Most of them will be taken care of
in New York, it is understood. but some
will be sent to Baltimore. This city's
quota has been set at 10.
THE movement of the youths to
this country is being guarded with
Evening star., 1934-11-28
OFFICERS COMB|NG
GANGBATTLEF|ELD
SIayers Of CoWIey and Hol.
lis Are Hunted in Chicago
Northwest Side.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 28.-Law en-
forcing officials seeking Baby Face"
Nelson and his machine-gunner COM
panion, for the Staying OF Federal
Agents Cowley and Hollis. today
combed Chicago's Northwest Side,
where Dillinger himself hid out for
many weeks.
saloons, gaming establishments and
other resorts thickly dot the section,
which has been the favorite stamping
ground of many of the Nations arch
criminals.
Its polyglot population and honey
combed warrens of the underworld
enabled Dillinger to venture out In
public dozens of times, despite the
fact that special police squads and
Federal agents searched throughout
the district. But in the same envi-
rons the Indiana desperate finally met
his fate. though he had once escaped
a raid on q North Side hotel.
Scene Of Capone War.
The Capone gang waged war on
other hoodlum outfits. using the dis
trict as a battle ground, extending
from the Chicago River north on Clark
street. out Sheridan road, up Lawrence
avenue and through the uptown
area.
In the heart Of the region occurred
the climax Of the city's guerilla war
fare the bloody st. Valentines DAY
massacre. when seven gangsters were
moved down by machine guns IN
garage.
Capone bitterly battled Dion
O'Banion. fiorist-gunman, for over
lordship OF the territory-a feud tnat
cost the lives of more than 100 per-
sons. In the same region the Touhy
gang hatched its abduction plots. while
Verne Sankey and Jack Klutas headed
separate extortion crews.
Sankey. who later killed himself,
was captured in a barber shop near
the theater where Dillinger was slain.
Other "Limehouse" Lords.
Other staggering lords Of the Chi
cago "Limehouse" were: Three Fin
ger" Jack White, Big Tim Murphy,
Ted Newberry, James (ReO Barker.
Dominic and Joe Aiello, whose activi-
ties were governed-and ended-by
the stacatto of machine guns.
When police raiders blasted a North
Side apartment last year, expecting to
catch Dillinger and his gang. they
found three men dead. all wanted for
safe-cracking and other crimes. At
that time police said:
If you scattered handful Of buck
shot any place in the district. the
chances are 100 to ! you'd hit q
racketeer Of one species or another"
Evening star., 1934-11-28
DEMOCRATS RECKON
SINCLAIR FOLLOWING
Califor ia Central Committee of
Party Trying to Consoli-
date Ranks.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, November
pa move to consolidate the forces
of Upton Sinclair's E P. I. C. followers
and the county central committees Of
the Democratic party in California
was disclosed here yesterday.
Culbert L. Olson, State Central
Committee chairman and Sinclair
leader, in letter to Walter Predovich,
urged E. P. l. c. groups to join with
the county committees and change
their names to Democratic clubs"
In this way" Olson wrote, "all
progressive elements in the Demo-
cratic party will be brought together
under one leadership. Only in this
way may we prevent reactionaries
from gaining party control"
Predovich was campaign manager
for Sheridan Downey, defeated as the
Democratic candidate for lieutenant
governor along with Sinclair, the
gubernatorial nominee under whose
leadership the E. P. I. c. clubs were
established to promote the Sinclair
production-for-use scheme.
Evening star., 1934-11-28

Continued From First Page)
attention to the hunt for Thomas H.
Robinson, jr.
1t was while Cowley, with Purvis
assigned to his command. was search
ing for Robinson, after the return of
Mrs. Stoll, that Ohio police captured
Adam Richetti, lieutenant OF FLOYD
near WellSville, Ohio. Floyd escaped
and hid in the farm area. Cowley
directed a squad of Federal agents in
the man-hunt for Floyd and finally
located him on a farm near East Liv-
erpool, where the outlaw was fatally
shot as he tried to escape, gun in
hand.
Cowley returned to headquarters
here after Floyds death and con-
ferred with Hoover regarding the
search for the elusive Baby Faca"
Nelson. About 10 days ago word came
from Chicago that Nelson was be-
lieved to be hiding out in that vi
cinity. Hoover directed Cowley to take
plane at once and fly to the scene
to take charge Of the plans for cap
turing the latest Public Enemy
No. l."
Followed by Family.
Because Cowley believed he might
be in the Chicago area for an indefi-
mite period-it seemed the gangsters
would not let him stay in Washing
ton for any length Of time-he had
Mrs. Cowley follow him to Chicago
and take an apartment there. She
took along her 7-month-old baby,
Samuel, jr.. and 3-year son, John
The Cowleys lived at 3432 Brown
street He has a brother and sister
living here. They are Joseph F. Cow
ley and Mrs Laura Cowley Brossard
Both left for Chicago early today.
Cowley was born in Logan, Utah,
in 1899. He graduated from the Utah
State Agricultural College and then
came to Washington and attended
George Washington University Law
School, graduating in 1929. Shortly
| thereafter he was appointed a spe-
cial agent in the Division of Investi-
cation. His rise was rapid in that
organization.
Hollis was native OF Des Moines.
Iowa. After receiving his law degree
from Georgetown University Law
School, he passed the examination
for special agent and was appointed
in 1927. He had made a splendid
record in the Chicago area under
Purvis.
Evening star., 1934-11-28
WIFE OF FILM WRITER,
R. SPENCE, FILES SUIT

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, November 2S.-
Helen May Spence sued Ralph Spence
film writer, for a divorce and $1,000
month alimony in Superior Court
here yesterday. She claimed he was
earning 100000 a year.
They were married December Z
1912. For the last six years, Mrs
Spence charged. the writer has re-
fused to live with her and her SON
Ralph, jr, Z, and when he did come
home he was intoxicated and usually
dropped off to sleep, depriving her OF
any conversation or association with
him. She also charged he was main
tanning other homes which he said
were with men and a business neces-
sity, but she claimed they were for
"other purposes"