Montana labor news., 1934-05-24

For the six months ending Feb. %,
the total bank robberies in the country
fell from $40 to 2l7.
We think it was right cute OF the
American Bankers Assn. to point out
in connection that there were 5000
or 1900 less banks to raid"
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Saws Sen. Huey Long: 'The s%orriest
Job / ever had has been in the Y. S.
Senate" Why don't you get out, King
fish, and give a good guy a chance
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"Tke U. S., where they always do
things on a much bigger scale, have a
deficit of about $%6,000,0O0,000, but the
u. S. have such larger reserves that
deficits do not trouble them" said
Chancellor of the E~xchequer Chamber
lain to the British Pertinent.
We're waiting for that fairy tale to
come true, Chancellor; the u. s. Gov
eminent is on its ear right now trying
to spend billions to save the system and
at the same time reduce the deficit.
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Signs Of the Times
Peaceful % Belgium is extending
across her territory a wall of steel and
concrete p~illboxes to guard against
invasion
Neutral Spain has voted $ll, 100000
for her small navy.
Little Switzerland is preparing to
reorganize her entire army of 494 men.
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Number of marriage licenses issued
in New Orleans increased from l44 in
April, 1888, to 216 in April, 1884
It's not a matter of two being able
to live as cheaply as n the point
is that you've got TO be married to get
on the dole.
After II years of hearings, the U. S..
Supreme Court upheld the Illinois Com
merce Commissions rate cut decree and
the utility monopoly in Illinois will
have to return $20,000,0O0 to consum-
ers.
Eleven years is a long time to keep
refund slips, and we predict that the
company made just about $~19,999 10000.
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Since the Ku Klux Khan was formed
in 1866, Fascism has given a new twist
/ " kilt ldAAdl GlOllllilk Duo4AiI0at Gllullk~
ing from sheets to shirts.
1t is estimated that in the U. S. alone
there are khaki shirts, white shirts,
black shirts, silver shirts, brown shirts
and blue shirts.
Not to mention the ragged shirts Of
the southern cotton farmers.
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Hotchkiss & Co., French machine
gun manufacturer whose founder and
manapinb director are u. S. citizens,
reports a profit of $1,005,785 for 1888.
NH
In New Jersey a group of clothing
workers from New York City's slums
are to be planted on homesteads and
their work brought to them by truck,
says a report.
Glorified sweatshop on government
funds?
The League of Nations is in a tight
spot again.
It's afraid to expel naughty Liberia
for failing to maintain fair and humane
labor conditions because it would set
too f%ar-reaching a precedent"
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Undersecretary of the Treasury Tho
mas Jefferson Coolidge has this to
qaulify him for his new job: In 1914
he ran 90 yards for dear old Harvard
after recovering a Yale tumble in a
football game.
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Rich Get Soaked; It's Turrible
Amid screaming headlines, Pres.
Roosevelt signed the "soak-the-rich"
tax bill.
1t raised the income tax on a mil
lion dollars, say 100000 a year at 6
per cent, just $3.50 a year. But the
real millionaire - the guy who gets a
million dollars net income a year 49, he
gets soaked 1924 more than under the
old tax.
An that was what the groaning was
all about.
Here the poor boy has a chance
with the rich boy - the poor boys
chances are even better" says William
s.. Knudsen, executive vice-president
of General Motors.
Thousands of children haven't
enough to eat. Thousands Of them hav-
emit enough clothing to go to school
and when they do go in rags and tat
tiers they are scorned by their fellows.
This is not conjecture, it is the tragic
truth" says the Employment Recov-
cry Council of Wayne County, Mich.
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IT'S A GREAT SYSTEMl