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Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
STOCK MARKET SKIDS AS
RETAIL SALES COLLAPSE.

NEW YORK FP) THE New
York stock market reacted to new lows
Tor many months May 10, as the reali-
cation dawned that industry has made
another false start this spring because
retail sales have collapsed.
Production has outrun CONSUMPTION
in several of the basic industries with
the result that shutdowns, complete or
partial, will throw hundreds of thous-
ands of workers out of jobs in the i'm
mediate future.
The silk industry has such an over
supply Of cloth on hand that 900 mills
close May IA, for a weeks complete
shutdown of the industry, throwing
10000 out of jobs.
The cotton textile industry is taking
a poll on a rs per CEN shutdown for
the next three months, with the plan
suggested of closing all the cotton mills
IN the country one week a month for
those months. If this is approved. and
indications are strong that it will be.
nearly a half-million workers will be
affected.
The auto industry is typical of what
has been happening. Headlines have
carried reports of the splendid pro-
duction records being made by the big
auto plants and of the smash that
would follow a strike. The facts are
that in the competitive race, thousands
OF cars have been produced which have
not been sold. The figures, as released
by the National Automobile Chamber
OF Commerce, show for the first three
months of 1884, the following results :.
Production 5S4,420 passenger cars.
Registration sales, 320,4l6 passenger
cars.
The result is that a shutdown looms
in the industry which will throw an
other 10000 workers out of Jobs. A
Detroit report predicts that conditions
obtaining during the worst months of
the depression will be repeated. "One
million persons are forced to re1y on
some sort OF relief today in Michigan"
the Employment Recovery Council Of
Wayne County Detroit says. "Thev
must have work now, Many of them
are desperate. Thousands Of children
haven't enough to eat, and thousands
haven't the clothes to go to school
This is not conjecture, it is the tragic
truth"
The steel industry is working at
about 90 per cent of capacity but has
served notice that the figure will drop
soon to 40 per cent. That will cut the
earning Of another several hundred
thousand workers by a third.
Reports from department stores.
chains and groceries show that April
sales were in most cases below April,
1888, in dollar sales, which means
nearly 80 per cent below a year ago
in physical volume. Only the mail or
der chains, bolstered by federal relief
funds to the farmers, are betterinp
last years dollar sales and they are
about on a par with last years ply
steal VOLUME of sales.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Civil Service Examination for
Freight Rate Clerk.

The United States Civil Service COM
mission will accept applications until
Tune 4, for the position of freight rate
clerk.
The entrance salary is $1,000 a year,
subject to a deduction of not to exceed
10 per cent until June 80, 1884, and of
not to exceed 5 per cent during the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1885, as a meas
ure of economy, and also to a deduc-
ton of 3H per cent toward a retirement
annuity.
Applicants must have had within the
ten years Immediately preceding the
closing date for receipt of applications
at least five years of experience in posi-
tons in which the duties performed re-
quired them to become thoroughly CON
versant with the various railroad freight
classifications, freight tariffs, circulars,
rules Of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, etc, at least two years of which
must have involved the distribution of
earnings between carriers or through
traffic.
Full information may be obtained
from P. H.. Pohlman, secretary of the
United States Civil Service board Of
Examiners, at the postoffice in this
city.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
OF OHIO RE-
LIEF WORKERS STRIKE

COLUMBUS, OHIO. II FP) - I'm
employed relief workers estimated al
nearly $4,000 are on strike in IA coun-
ties in Ohio demanding a minimum pay
Tor all workers-whether on public oil
private jobs-of Soc an hour.
Joining with them are a few thou
sand strikers who have walked out oil
privately-operated plants because they
also were getting less than the mini
mum demanded. Fifteen hundred
clay workers in the Uhrichsville dis
trict have struck, while 700 bakers in
Akron and 400 cement workers in Os-
borne have joined the walkout.
Led by Rev. A. NJ. Hoover, 10 Of the
strikers are in jail in Meigs county and
the Unemployed Leagues, which are
sponsoring the strike, are sending
ames Rorty and Louis Budenz, ma
tional leaders, into Meigs county to
force the filing OF charges against the
prisoners or their release. They have
been held for days without any
charge being filed.
Ted Seelander and Sam Pollock,
league organizers at Toledo, have been
released on bail after spending sew
eral days in jail as a result of writing
to a judge and telling him that they
were going to defy an injunction he
had issued. There the Unemployed
League and the A. F. of L. unions are
cooperating. The injunction the two
threatened TO defy had been aimed at
the auto workers A. F. of L. union
and the league.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
May Day Notes.

Three New Workers in overalls and
caps, carrying red flags and picks and
crowbars, were stopped five times by
cops in getting across Union Square,
before the parade. They weren't Com
munists, they told the cops, they were
doing a job" for the N. Y. Edison Co.
Fifty members of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, attracted by a bunch Of
red flags in the street, surprised a
group of undercover men (really re-
pairmen working in manholes) near
Union Square.
If there were more May Days, it is
just possible that prosperity would
turn the corner. Thousands Of red kerr
chiefs, sweaters, armbands and caps
first saw the light of day in this years
demonstration.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Cotton Board Strike Settlement
Brings Discomfort.

WASHINGTON (FP) - Unbear-
able conditions which have followed
board settlement of a strike at Book
side textile mill, Knoxville, Tenn, are
described in a resolution adopted BY
Local l76l of the United Textile
Workers and addressed to Secretary
OF Labor Frances Perkins.
The resolution points out that the
workers were forced to strike "as a
measure of last resort to protect their
members from wholesale dismissal"
1t adds that the strike was settled "on
unfavorable terms dictated by the
National Cotton Textile Board-terms
which totally disregarded the existence
OF dozens Of union members fired be-
fore the strike and which in no
have been adhered to by the manage
ment."
Present conditions in the mill. says
the resolution, "are close to unbear-
Discrimination of union members
and officials; violation of code provis-
ions; a credit system of wages which
makes impossible the earning of more
than the code minimum"
The resolution asks Strengthening
OF existing labor laws" and "a more
rigorous and certain prosecution Of
MIA violators than has taken place up
to this time"
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
American Federation
Of Hosiery Workers
TO THE ORGANIZED LABOR
MOVEMENT OF AMERICA;

TO THE ORGANIZED LABOR
MOVEMENT OF AMERICA:
Greetings-Do you recall the slogan,
mo lady would decorate her legs with
the emblem of a yellow dog?'" We in
vented that phrase several years ago
for our campaign against the products
of the Real Silk Hosiery mills OF In
dianapolis, Ind.
Today the $500 workers in the three
Real Silk mills in Indianapolis, Ind,
are on strike. In Dalton, Ca, 800
workers in the seamless and full-fa-
shioned plants of this concern are on
strike also.
These walk-outs are the elimination
of one of the most dramatic and long
drawnout fights between honest trade
unionism and company unionism that
have taken place anywhere in modern
times. Real Silk has fought unionism
with every weapon in the arsenal Of
the union busters-'yellow dog con
tracts and double decker yellow dog
contracts, injunctions, espionage, and,
above all, company unionism.
The present strike followed on
months of exasperating struggle with
the company over the right to collec-
tive bargaining. Weeks have been
consumed in pushing cases concern
ing the Real Silk plants before Re
gional Labor Boards and the National
labor Board. Finally the workers
walked out and left the company union
flat this is a showdown on the whole
question-shaii we have a union or
shall we not.
Real Silk advertises its products
nationally through expensive radio and
magazine advertising. The firm sells
from door to door and despite the fact
that the firm meets with considerable
consumer resistance, due to the fact
that the Real Silk products were de-
clared unfair by several American
Federation of Labor conventions, a
very large business is done by this
company.
A renewed drive by the organized
labor movement at this time to push
publicity on the Real Silk situation
might just be the means of winning
the strikes at indianapolis and in Dali
ton. In almost every center in this
country, the Real Silk outfit has some
agents at work selling its products.
We earnestly bespeak your active
and sustained assistance in this situa-
ton and feel certain that we will re-
ceive your cooperation.
Public opinion must be modified to
aid in forcing Real Silk company to
abolish its fraudulent company union
and deal intelligently and sincerely
with the American Federation Of Hos
iery Workers.
Very sincerely and fraternally yours,
JOHN w. EDELMAN,
Research Director.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Brewery Workers
Union Protests
Soft Drink Code

WASHINGTON-FP)-A protest
against the soft drink code, which pro-
vides for minimum wages as low as
INC an hour and tolerates a work.
ing week up to 81 hours, has been
lodged with Assistant NRA Admins
traitor Edward F. McGrady by Joseph
Obergfell, general secretary-treasurer
Of the International Union of United
Brewery, Flour, Cereal & Soft Drink
Workers.
Despite the original protests Of the
officers of the international Union
against the inclusion in the soft drink
industry code of certain labor provis-
ions" says the Brewery Workers, Of
fetal union organ, 'the code as now
amended is still far from satisfactory
and retains many OF the features that
were first objected to-"
While a 40-hour week is stipulated
in the code, "A hours may be worked
for 10 weeks in the year, and there is
an additional 6 weeks period in which
81 hours are permitted.
III these hours are permitted" says
Obergfell's letter of protest, "it will
mean no added employment in the bot
tie soft drink industry. The H-week
period in which a tolerance of from a
to IA hours is permitted would 0
than cover the entire busy season Of
that industry and thereby defeat the
aim of giving added employment" The
fact that no overtime pay is provided
for this 22-week period is also pro-
tested.
The revised code sets a minimum
wage of 32Hc an hour in the north and
OF 27Hc in the south,
I'VE protest this wage as totally in
adequate and feel that the minimum
wage should not be set below 40c an
hour" Obergfel1 says.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Board Threatens Action Against
New York Shoe Company

WASHINGTON (FP) r. Removal
of the Blue Eagle and legal proceed
ings against the Kirchick- Beckerman
Shoe Corporation of New York are
threatened by the National Labor
Board in a decision rendered May IL.
The board finds that by locking out
members of the Shoe & Leather
Workers Industrial Union (now the
United Shoe & Leather Workers
Union) and hiring new workers in
their places, in spite of a union con-
tract supposed to run until August
l, 1884, the company has discrimin-
ated against its employees for union
activity and has thus interfered in
self-organization of its employees, and,
by refusing to deal with their repre-
sentatives, has interfered in concerted
activities for collective bargaining of
its employees"
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
1000 IOWA RELIEF WORK
ERS WALK OUT

DIES MONIES, IOWA. - (FP) -
Some 1000 relief workers struck in
Des Moines, charging that local re-
lief administrator had tried to re-
duce their standard OF living, when the
method of payment was changed from
grocery relief to cash payment.
The strikers charged hat under the
plan OF giving assignments on made
work projects, the cash remuneration
actually amounted to less than rs per
cent OF what they had been getting in
groceries.
Government and state funds will not
cover the amount needed to pay the
workers assigned to the relief jobs, Of
ficials explained.
The relief workers throughout the
state are walking out for similar rea-
sons, reports indicate.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
CHICAGO COMPANY RE-
FUSES TO APPEAR
BEFORE BOARD

WASHINGTON - (FP) - Claiming
the right to fire workers for union
membership, on the ground that it had
voluntarily relinquished its Blue Eagle,
the Birtman Electric Co., of Chicago
refused to send representatives to a
hearing before the National Labor
Board.
The Electrical Workers and Metal
Polishers Unions are involved in the
dispute, which concerns six members
of the former and three OF the latter.
The men we're fired the day after
union representatives had asked a
wage increase and union recognition.
The Chicago Regional Labor Board
ordered reinstatement of the workers,
but the company has refused to abide
by the decision.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
LOANED MONEY FOR
LAST UNION DUES, is
LABOR CHARGE

of
a Chicago company to arbitrate mat
tiers in dispute, in accordance with a
strike settlement of last September,
brought a protest to the National
Labor Board from the National Print
ing Pressmen's and Assistants Union.
The company involved, the United Au-
t%ographic Register Co, has used CO.
ercive methods to make the workers
leave the union, S. B. Marks, union
vice president, charged.
The company even loaned them
money to pay their dues so they could
leave in good standing" he said.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

The House bill for the restriction Of
sugar beet production provided that
the agreements may contain provi-
sions which will eliminate child labor
and fix minimum wages for workers"
The Senate struck out the provision
for minimum wages and elimination
of child labor, substituting merely the
power to limit or regulate child
labor"
And that, dear readers, is what the
sugar lobby is able to Accomplishing
continued sweating and underpaying of
children in the beet fields of Colo
RADIO, Utah, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho,
Michigan and California, and the con-
tinued paying Of dividends to stock
holders thereby.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Postmaster General Farley could re-
ceive no bids from airmail companies
which had been involved in the recent
scandal.
SO all the old-line companies bios
somed out with a minor change in the
name part OF the Farley program for
corporate reorganization" said one
news item.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17
Strikebreaker Fired, Sues for
Life Time Wage

NEW CLEANS (FP) Asserting
he had been discharged after being
promised a Lifetime position" Joseph
Page, former meter tester for the New
Orleans Public Service, filed suit
against the company for $63,628, which
he said represented what he would
have received in the expected re-
mainder of his life if he had kept the
job.
Pages petition related that he came
from California during a strike in
1928, and was assured the job would be
permanent. He was discharged in
1888.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

For the first time, Vice President
Garner did something for his country.
He voted yes on Senator Borah's bill
to make it illegal for a congressman to
accept a fee for representing any
client while in office, thereby bringing
the bill to the Senate floor.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Forty-three and seven-tenths per
cent of the all-time record March ex-
port total OF 1896 tons of scrap iron
and steel (war materials to YOU went
to the Far East; 35.7 per cent went
to Europe, reports the U. S. Depart
ment of Commerce.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Swell news from Paris-An eminent
astronomer says a trip to tie moon
could be made in two days in a radium-
propelled rocket. When he starts
well donate some passengers-Dr.
Writ, 'Shoot-a-Few' Weir, T. G. Budd,
ct al.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

RIDGEFIELD, N. J.-(FP)-High-
way construction on three projects in
Bergen county, N. J., was at a stand
still when 200 workers struck, demand
ing a pay increase from 4Oc to Csc an
hour.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Could it be that the Philippine dele
CATION, or viewing freedom" in this
country, went back to Manila and
reported that it was the bunk, thereby
causing that country to veto the indie
pendence' bill.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

The NRA was the answer of con-
gress' to the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce's request for "self-regulation of
business" says President Henry l..
Hartman.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

One hundred thousand inspections
by the N. Y. Telephone Co. showed
accurate operation in 998 out of 1000.
The %inaccuracy was an error in the
subscribers favor said Vice Presi-
dent Victor Cooley.
10000, the Central Municipal
Court of Manhattan awarded to DR..
Alton A.. Smahl, who kept records Of
his calls for eight years and declared
the company had gypped him, a verdict
OF $40 against the company.
You can either believe the court or
the IS company witnesses, operators.
engineers, accountants and inspectors,
and, OF course, the vice president.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

New York.-(FP)-A 2O-day strike
Of building service employees at 1910
Fifth avenue, large New York office
building, resulted in wage increases
from $60-$65 a month to $75-95 for
members Of the Independent Building
Service Employees, Local /. Not only
IA original employees but three extras
were returned to work. The union was
not officially recognized.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

When Ex-Secretary OF the Treasury
Woodin, strong opponent Of initiation,
was about to be buried. President
Roosevelt spent most of the trip to the
funeral discussing initiation with the
congressional silver bloc.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

CAMDEN, N. J.-(FP)-Protesting
alleged plans of the company to open
the plant with scab labor, 5000 strik-
ers of the New York Shipbuilding Co.
at Camden marched on city hall to de-
mand that the mayor stop the pro-
ceeding.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Next to worry probably one of the
most potent causes Of unhappiness is
envy.-Bertrand Russell.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

OAKLAND, CAL-(FP)-A strike
OF LOCO employees OF the Key Grams
portation) System threatens if the en-
ployers do not meet the demands Of
operators and platform men for a pay
increase from Csc TO 85c an hour for
street car men and 75c to csc for cleo
trio train men, and reduction of hours
from 48 to 40 a week.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

DETROIT,-CFP)-The new Win
dow Washers Union in Detroit, on
strike seven days. has signed con
tracts with all the major firms which
guarantee a minimum of Csc an hour
for the first six months and 75c an
hour for the next six months. Other
concessions Won are time-and-a-half
for overtime, double time for Sunday
work, a 44-hour week and union rec
IGNITION.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Heaven never helps the man who
will not help himself.-Sophocles.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

There is a force that e~ternally
maketh for right.-Carlyle.
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

James E. Murray's Nominating Peti'
ton and Statement to Be Released
Saturday, May 18th, 1894
Montana labor news., 1934-05-17

Unexpired Term of the late Senator
T. j. Walsh
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-28
War on the Waterfront.
0. R. Justice in the Seattle Star

c. R. Justice in the Seattle Star)
 The war on the waterfront. It is true saying that everybody loses in a war, no matter who wins the It has also been said that there are two sides to every question. There four sides to this waterfront strike: The employers, the work CTS, the city of Seattle and Alaska.
 Not knowing all the facts it is not for this judge Ito say how much fault lies at the door of the employers. Most employers out to make money from the enterprise in which they are engaged. It is equally true that many employers have but one eye when it comes to dividing the profits with their employees. That is human nature. And human nature is as undependabe March weather.
 Employers have succeeded by giving and taking, but they often take more than they give They could not have got to where they otherwise But they would have less gout and less insomnia and less indigestion if they played the game differently And they would have less grief if they always played the game fairly
 Most workers have not had the opportunities social or financial that their employers have had Long grinding hours have made them sour. Long stretches of unemployment have kept them poor. The display of the vulgar rich has made them bitter. But given decent break and most of them are decent chaps. It is when one of them is given a little power that he often displays ordship and becomes as one of the barons of business. He grows to be arrogant, unreasonable dictatorial That too is like the March wind
 And here we have two unrelentng and irresist- able forces at war in front yard.
 Through weary years Seattle has toiled up to the top of the hill where there is a sunrise in the morning and a sunset in the evening There is prosperity and peace in the valleys below Were there no Seattle ships would not and go and laborers would be herding sheep or digging ditch fWe are all of the clay and we march to a common destiny Why start dust storm when the dawn of better day is at hand? The way out is for employer and employee to get together and come to fair agreement, wherein nobody is badly hurt and all greatly benefited That is far better than blocking traffic or tear gas 
 We owe this to ourselves to city to our State and we it to Alaska. Alaska has added much to our prosperity, Seattle has added much to the prosperity of Alaska. Continuous bickering our waterfront will spell disaster this year for Alaska
 It is up to you gentlemen
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-28
Chapter 16 WORK BEGINS

"NNLY the central fact is obvl. V ous," Harper said. Two men were killed in this room last night. The reason for that is anything but clear. Of course. have some sort of theory. but won't even think about it until all the facts are in my possession. And that" he added, smiling grimly. may blow my the ory sky-high" s&
 Mrs. Croyden looked around at the various evidences of the police search and research and made a gyimace of distaste when her eyes rested on the chair with the dead mans clothing 'l am so sorry for 'Aat poor policeman, she remarked. with shudder.
 "Yes. that was too bad" Harper's lips frightened. "Otficer Hamill leaves a wife and three children. That is what happens to many DO. llcemen's widows"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-28
20 YEARS AGO
MAY 28, 1914
From The Empire

MAY 28, 1914
 Juneauites and many visitors to the city showed their appreciation of the concert given by the Ju- neau High School band at the Ju- neau Theatre the previous evening , by enthusiastic applause. Many compliments were paid the per- formers for the excellent entertain ment.
 F. w. Bradley, President of the Treadwell Mining Company, and also of the Alaska Juneau, was staying at the Alaskan Hotel dur ing his visit to Juneau.
 Mrs. Harvey, wife of Frank Har- vey, of the firm of Petit and Har- vey, accompanied by their children and Mrs. Jessie F. Robertson, moth CT of Mrs. Harvey and of Ralph E. Robertson, were southbound pas- sengers on the Humboldt on their way to Ashland, Oregon, where they were to spend the summer.
 First concrete was poured in the big Goldstein building during the day. Material was being assembled rapidly and great activity was ex- pected to mark the construction work until it was completed.
 The Enterprise group of mines at Limestone had passed into the control of group of local mining men consisting of B. L. Thane, J. R. Whipple, w. A. Irwin and oth- CTS. The Enterprise Gold Mining Company was immediately incor- porated with a capital stock of $200,000 with the following direc- tors: B. L. Thane, J. R. Whipple, w. A. Irwin and w. s. Bayless
 Weather for the previous 24 hours was cloudy with a maximum temperature of 50 degrees and minimum of 40
 Mrs. Fries, wife of City Council man c. w. Fries, accompanied by Miss L. Kron, left for the south on the Humboldt to visit in the States.