The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-09-06


for Libby in the fourth inning There
after he held Boomers seoreless except
in the seventh when they counted up
three more runs. Powell and Lenhart
worked throughout for Bonners.
Score by innings
Boomers Ferry -. ! 0 0 @ Coy
Libby Town Team 0 0 0 0 GO
Races for the Youngsters
Monday morning there were races Tor
the youngsters and some contests 1or
the woodsmen that provided good en-
tertainmeni for the large number pres
ent. Following are the winners IN the
various races:
so yard dash. boys under l6-Boo
Racicot. 1st; Bob Siefke. End
so ward dash. boys under l2-Riehard
Brinton. 1st: Kenneth Baeth. End.
so ward dash. boys l6 and under
james Bowen, 1st; Kenneth Paulson,
End.
Wheelbarrow race-Siefke and Hay
den. 1st: Coleman and Brinton, 2nd.
so ward dash. girls under l6-Ruth
Switzer. lst. Jean Richardson. End
Three-legeed race-James Bowen and
Kenneth Brown, 1st; Edna Noel and
Ruth Rice. End.
100 ward dash. free for all--James
Bowen. 1st: Gordon Luscher, End.
Log Saving Contest.
The log saving event aroused lot
Of interest and was won by Joe ponde-
lick and Ted Thorvund who sawed
| through 10 inch log in 28 seconds.
Winners Of second place were George
and Harold Bitterman whose time was
2eI5 seconds. The other contestants and
their times were: Bill Dedic and Her
man Sterling. 90 seconds, Andrew
Hagan and Frank Pondehck, 50'2
seconds.
The wood chopping contest was won
bv Harold Bitterman. who chopped
through u inch log in J. minute b =
seconds. Joe Pondelick took second
i place in 2 minutes second. Other con-
testants were. Herman Sterling. min
utes s seconds. Newt Cutler, 2 minutes
i I7la seconds. Jack Downing, z minutes
IS seconds. Bill Dedic, 2 minutes !.
seconds and Glen Smell, 3 minutes Il
seconds. Smell, however, was handl-
canped bv the log having become SC
short that it moved with every blow Q
the ak. thus lessening the effectiveness!
of his work.
Afternoon Program.
The afternoon program opened witt
parade of large number OF unlor
members and friends marching from tn
school house TO the athletic field. IN
, parade was led by the Libby band
with the American flag at the head g
the line Of march.
A speaker had been secured IN tn
, person Of c. f. Sebold, Of Butte, edito
Of the Montana Labor News Sebol
was introduced by Glen Nolop, presi
. dent Of the local union, who read
D short statement OF the underlying our
r poses Of union organization. Sehoi
spoke Interestingly and held the clos
y attention of his large audience =
L spoke. however. only short time be
cause Of the long program that wa
to follow
r Still Many Unemployed.
Sebold sai1. that in spite of oDtimisti
Tenorfs. the number of unen9u1uNed
NOT being much reduced. America
p Federation OF Labor reports are 10 n
4 effect that 15.0O0,0OO peonle are 81
out Of work. he said, that meanin
0 that 60 million people are thereh
n affected by that condition of unemplos
!. ment He said two URGENT problem
y faced the laborers, to reduce this VI
emnlovment and TO obtain a lvir
= wage for workers. He described cond
r tons in the mines in Butte. spoke
The strike there, and said the averaf
!. wage for a man and his family WI
!, now s53 month That he said vi
9 wholly inadequate.
!. j Causes Of unemployment he So
q were labor saving machinery and u
: concentration Of wealth in the hands
4 few. quoting the often heard stat
~ mept that 80 per cent of the natinT
8 wealth is Owned bv three Der &c
Is Of the peonle. The third problem ia
ID ing the workers was the lack 81 contr
y over the production and distribution
goods. he AGAIN criticizino svste
~ that results in people going hunoB
Il while there is too great surpl
= of al kinds Of foods and ooino cold a.
- poorly clothed in the midst Of supe
abundance Of cotton and wool
iii Criticizes Codes.
III Apparently Sehold has little faith
the democratic administration He 81
he YVES not a democrat. neither v
he a republican. He said he thouf
| Roosevelt had the RIGHT idea but u
he lacks CUTS He said the codes WI
DESIGNED to eliminate cut-throaf COZ
petition but that the working man
nothing but shorter hours with
result that he has less to live on n
| than before the codes went into effe
/ He spoke Of Johnson head OF the MI
as the biggest scab in the country.
I'LL Sebold mentioned the numer'
strikes over the nation ard remark
Ill that the cause of the strikes was
III 90 much demand for hipher wa
but for the rjnht to organize. He 2
Ill said most Of the strikes are nv nev
| organized unions. who are inexne
II ercad and who are irving to obtain
Ia few short months what 1t has tal
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