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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
STATE CAN SELL
ELECTRIC POWER
Recent Sale of Bonds to Aid Liquor
Board Is Precedent
Enough

The right of the state to acquire,
operate and maintain electric power
plants and distributing system, such
as might develop from the Grand
Coulee project, was upheld today by
Attorney General G. w. Hamilton.
Opinion Was Requested
In an opinion requested by the
state advisory constitutional revision
commission. Attorney General Ham
llton held there are no constitution
al provisions which would restrict
or prevent the state from engaging in
the electric power business.
The commission sought clarified
ton of the question to remove any
doubt as to the states right to dis
tribute power from the Grand coulee.
If Hamilton had held in the mega
tive, the commission probably would
have recommended adoption of
constitutional amendment authOriz-
Ing the state to participate in the OPP
GRAFTON of the Grand Coulee project
should the federal government deem
1t advisable, Thomas Waters, chair
man OF the commission, said
Hamilton held the legislature has
the power to enact laws putting the
state in the power business
The state has the right to con-
denim property for public purposes,
the only restriction being the ninth
amendment to the state constitution,
Hamilton said That amendment re-
quires compensation be paid for con-
demned property and gives to the
courts the right to determine wheth-
er the purpose is public or private,
regardless of any legislative declar-
Edtion. the attorney general said.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
COLLEGE PLANNING
FOR FARMERS AND
HOMEMAIKERS WEEK
Record Attendance Expected Dec. 3,
4 and 5-Hort. Assn. Meets
Concurrently

Farmers and homemakers from all
parts of the state will meet at Pull
man. December 8, and S, for the
makers week of the State College OF
Washington, announces F. r. Balm
er, agricultural Extension Director
Concurrently. the, Washington State
Horticultural association will hold its
thirtieth convention. Several joint
sessions have been arranged to give
both groups the benefit of special
programs and many joint entertain
ment features have been planned SO
that everyone may participate to the
fullest extent.
Farmers Homemakers' week
will have three days packed with well
planned agricultural and home econ
omics programs. Agricultural pro-
grams will particularly stress all
phases of the agricultural adjustment
programs, erosion control projects,
land classification and use, and hor-
ticulture. The home economics pro-
gram will take up weaving, patch
wall hangings, kitchen equipment,
selective buying, landscape garden
ing, dressmaking, community recrea-
ton and many other topics of par
ticular interest to homemakers.
Another highlight of the W g
will be series of round-table con-
ferences open to all those in attend,
ance. These will enable farmers to
discuss their individual problems
with the different department heads,
These conferences will include poui-
try, dairy and animal husbandry
and agricultural engineering. How
ever, all departments will be open to
attending farmers and homemakers.
County wheat and corn-hog allot-
ment committees and county agents
from all eastern Washington countie
will attend the first day to partici-
pate in the adjustment program, anu
to formulate procedure for the new
corn hog campaign at an evening
committee session.
Complete details regarding Farm
ers and Homemakers' week and the
special railroad rates may be secured
from the local county agent, Geo. M
Delany Mr.. Delany would like to
have the names of all those who plan
to attend this program 80 that the
Grant county delegation may make
arrangements for the special rates.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
ELECTRIC HEATING
INAUGURATED AT DAM
Power Turned On at Greatest Project
In the West
Real light and power came to Ma.

son City late Sunday afternoon.
The switch which connected |
wires in the MWAK contractor
camp was closed during the after
noon supplying the town with cleo
trical energy from the Washington
Water Power company through a
new-constructed line from Coulee
City to the damsite.
At the same time in many of the
company buildings in Mason City,
electrical heating was inaugurated
Most of the office rooms, formerly
heated by wood stoves, with chin
neys sticking out through the win
dows, were warmed by the latest
type of heater.
Rumor has been rife for sometime
that the cost of heating the resi-
dences at the far end of the east
shore flat would be too high for the
pocketbooks Of the MWAK workmen.
This was emphatically denied by
Jack Hargrove, who has charge OF
the electrical layout of the mush-
rooming community.
at will cost about $50 a year to
heat a three-room house." Hargrove
said.
The plan to use electricity for the
houses will save thousands of dol
lars, it was pointed out. This is
made possible by an exceptionally
low price offered the general con-
tractors by the Washington Water
Power company. The low rate was
offered because Of the huge block
the MWAK will use at the dam.
Each room in each house will be
equipped with a separate heater, the
size Of which will depend on the size
of the room. The heaters will run
from one to six kilowatts in size.
An electric heater turned on in
the architects office yesterday heat
ed a large room in about five min
utes. A fan, located before the fila
|ment, circulates the hot air currents.
The cost of wiring and installing
these heaters in each house will av-
erage about s160, it was explained
The average cost Of installing other
heating plants, such as furnace
will run about $3.50 per home, at the
least.
An electric range and various 9TH
err electrical equipment will be i'll
stalled in each house by the con
tractors.
The MWAK experiment is being
watched by the entire electrical
world. If the plan proves satisfac-
tory, and the MWAK is sure 1t will
1T may open the way for such set
up in other towns.
Furthermore, it definitely mark!
the first step in the expected increase
in consumption of electricity, fund
amental on which basis the Crane
Coulee Dam and other power dams
are being built.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
Published Every Friday at
Coulee City, Washington
Entered as second class matter at
the PostOffice at cCoulee, Washing
ton, Under the Act of Congress
of March 8, 1879.
G. D. ARNOLD, Publisher
Man Must Keep Growing
or He Will Deteriorate

The minute man ceases to grow
no matter what his years, that minnie
he begins to be old, declares a writer
in the Montreal Herald. Many men
are old fogies at twenty-five. They
are satisfied with their jobs, having
accumulated little stock of preju-
dices that they call principles and
have closed their minds to all new
ideas. But as long as man can keep
himself still growing, still knowing
that he has lot to learn, he Is young
Laplace, the astronomer, at seventy
eight, died while at work, saying:
what we know is nothing, what
we do not know Is immense" Goethe
died at eighty-chree, after completing
his Faust Gladstone was studying
new languages at seventy. Bismarck
did his greatest work after seventy {;
Titan the painter lived to be ninety,
painting right up to his death.
According to the life span of other
mammals. mans period Of life should
be five times his period of growth. A
dog gets his growth in two years and
lives ten; horse in five years and
lives twenty-five. On this basis man
should live to be one hundred But in
Shakespeare's time man was old at
forty. Sir Walter Scott complained at
ifty-five of being an old man, Mon
tague retired at thirty-eight to spend
his declining years In peace, and DR..
Samuel Johnson once said that at
thirty-five man reached his peak and
was thereafter on the down grade.
The art of keeping young SENS to lie
with the individual himself. The con-
slant seeker may die, but he never
grows old.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
BRIDGE FIRM PAYS
$4,000 PENALTIES;
DELAYS SPAN WORK

Already $4,000 has been paid to
the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation by
h Western Construction company
because the firm is taking more time
than allowed to complete the cantil-
ever highway bridge across the Col
umbia river.
Today is the end of the first month
needed by the bridge-builders to
complete the project beyond the time
limit. Time for the building of the
bridge expired October 20.
How much more time will be re-
quired to complete the two piers for
the structure could not be accurate
ly prophesied but engineers believed
that 1T would be at least another two
months If not more.
j. H. Pomeroy and Co., OF San
Francisco, low bidders on the super
structure of the span, cannot begin
work until the two piers are com
pleted.
Under Miles Philbin, formerly on
the Hiram dam in Utah, the work
has been considerably accelerated
Philbin is an expert In underway
work.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
Rivers Phenomenal Leap

In British Guiana there Is a mighty
river called the Petara. At one place,
Kaieteur, the river makes clear droD
Of 1922 feet, and at the foot Of the cat
aract the waters Of the Petara branch
off in various directions. The KATE.
teur cataract Is the show place q
British Guiana. Twenty-eight thou
sand cubic feet of water pass over the
edge. Of the cataract every secon4
This vast volume Of water, properly
applied, would be capable Of furnish
ing four times as much power 40 n -
rived today by the Harvesting e m.
agara falls.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
LOST PLANE LANDS
AT OSBORNE RANCH

An airplane sent out by govern
ment officials carrying Cecil Barker
of Tacoma became lost when dark
ness came on the flyers, forcing them
to land on the meadow at the o. F.
Osborne ranch, three miles from
Grand Coulee.
Mr.. Barker was sent out to take
charge of truck carrying $6,6Vc
worth of bonded liquor that had
mysteriously wrecked on the Sunset
highway near Coulee City about noon
Friday.
The pilot Of the plane stayed all
night at the Osborne home, and T.
H. Osborne drove Mr.. Barker to Cou-
lee city in his car that evening.
The pilot flew to Coulee Saturday
morning.
- Coulee Dam Journal
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
First Butter-Makers

Butter is one Of the boons bestowed
by accident upon the world. The story
goes that, long ago, Arabs used to
carry sour milk in leather bags with
them on their journeylngs across the
desert. They travelled by camel, and
the movement of this beast Is worse
than that of many ships. The result
was that the milk was converted into
butter, which was first used az q 10.
ton for the skin. When the demand
grew, the bags of milk were tied b
swift horses which were made to gal
lop about for some hours. Finally
came the first churn, and butter-mak-
ing became an ndustry.-Tlt- Bits Mag
azine.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30
HEAVY MOVEMENT OF
WASHINGTON APPLES

According to the traffic report of
the Great Northern Railway, the
movement or apples out OF the We
natchee and Chelan areas has totaled
l0,O51 cars to date November 18).
The crop is said to be approximately
nalf loaded with the total estimated
to run about 1000 to 22OO cars.
These figures show calloadings
about 1000 ahead OF the correspond
ing date for 1888 with loadings run
ming from 100 to 125 cars day
Growers throughout the state for the
llrst time in years are seeing the
possibility of shortage of apples
with Jonathans about out OF the pic
ture at this time and other varieties
in storage expected to be cleaned up
by Christmas. Dealers say that when
that time comes prices on graded
and wrapped stock may be expected
to take a decided advance.
Merchants say that the idea of
Gift Box apples is showing an in
creased popularity this year W t h
good sales and constant inquiry. 1t
Is also reported that the Federal
Government is expected to get into
the apple field in The State of Wash
ington to purchase 5000 tons of c
grade apples in bulk, the equivalent
Of ESQ cars. The apples will be used
ment came from the state department
of Agriculture and specified no par
ticular variety to be bought nor did
it indicate in what part of the state
the purchases would be made.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1934-11-30

Jones, about 81, father of six chill
dren in Oroville, died at Grand Cou-
lee Sunday as the result of injuries
sustained when he was struck by an
automobile Saturday night.
Mrs. Jones, expecting her seventh
child, was overcome at news of her
husbands injuries, the baby was
born early Sunday morning, surviv-
ing but short time, according to re-
ports received by county officials.
Jones body was brought here yes
terday, but no funeral arrangements
had been made.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
CONVENTION OF
JOBLESS MEETS
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON-(FP)- Complete
social insurance against unemploy-
ment, accidents, sickness and old age
is the goal of workers gathered from
at least 40 states and all sections, in
Guiding Puerto Rico, to lay their cam
paign plans in the national convention
against unemployment, opened in
Washington, Feb. 8. The 3-day con-
vention is under the leadership of the
Unemployed Councils.
The only insurance bill now before
Congress which is approved by the
Unemployed Councils is the workers
unemployment and social insurance
bill' which they sponsored. 1t has
been introduced by Congressman Lun-
deem, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota,
and provides benefits equal to the av-
erage wage but in no case less than
$40 a week, for all forms of enforced
idleness, whether unemployment, sick
ness, accidents or hunger marches, the
convention aims to mobilize for a big
ger, more sustained campaign for So
cial insurance.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
AUTO CODE VIO-
LATIONS GET NO
ACTION

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Protests
against the scandalous flouting Of
NIRA's labor provisions by the auto
industry were laid before the nation
al labor board Feb. 2, by Pres. Will
liam Green of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Green's protest follow
ed presentation before the A. F. Of
L. executive Council of documentary
evidence showing how auto bosses had
foisted company unions on their work
ers and how code hours Of 40 a week
were being violated by working en-
ployes as high as go hours a week.
The evidence was submitted by Will
liam Collins, Detroit A. F. of L. or
ganizer.
Maurice Sugar, counse for various
auto workers unions in Michigan, laid
before Leo Wolman, secretary of the
national labor board, a c%omprehen-
sive statement of employers viola
lions of MIRA. "The 10000 union
members involved" he said, bitterly
resent the way we are being double
crossed by the administration. We
and other auto workers have been pill
ing in demands for a hearing on the
vicious anti-labor provisions of the
auto code. We have been completely
ignored"
NRA compliance is Sowing the
seeds of another great strike" Sugar
warned. Gen. johnson, NRA admin
%istrator, declared Feb. 2, that no pro-
tests had come to his attention.
Auto companies are busy recruit
ing workers from other cities to flock
to Detroit, although there are thou
sands Of unemployed men there, Col
Inns told Pres. Green. The unions
want an immediate congressional in
vestigation of the auto code author
ity, he said. The code authority re-
Gently obtained the lengthening of
code hours from 35 to 40 a week by
the specious plea that the labor sup
ply was being exhausted.
"The auto industry maintains one
Of the most complete secret service
and stoolpigeon systems in the coun-
try" Collins asserted. "In some
plants there is a triple espionage sys-
tenn, n group of spies spying upon
the others.
"The recent renewal Of the auto
code without any consideration of the
workers, who have no representatives
on the code authority, shows the lack
of understanding of the problems af-
lfecting the workers by the admins
traitors of the codes. Local compliance
and regional boards have a hostile at
titude in dealing with Section Ia OF
the recovery act, which is a part of
the automobile CODE"
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
R0MNEY OUTLINES NRA SETUP FOR MONTANA
1O,826,OOO INDUS
TRIAL
ARE JOBLESS

De-
cember, 1O,s26,OOO industrial workers
were unemployed, according to figures
made public Feb. 3, by the American
Federation of Labor. That represent
ed a loss of employment for $4,000
workers since November.
PWA and CWA are checking the
usual January increase in unemploy-
ment, Green announced. A slight gain
in trade union employment of Ito of l
per cent is shown. To put all the I'M
employed back to work however
would require a 26-hour week, ac-
cording to A. F. of L. estimates. Hours
in December averaged 38 a week. The
A. F. of L. unemployment figures
cover industry only. The Labor Re-
search Assn. estimates that 10000, 600
are jobless in all branches of produc-
ton, including agriculture.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
A. F. L. UNION
WINS NRA POLL

NEW YORK-(FP)-The Boot G.
Shoe Workers Union of the American
Federation of Labor won the election
held by the National Labor Board in
New York City, defeating the newly
organized United Leather & Shoe
Workers Union by 1900 to 1000.
The new union promptly charged
fraud, claiming that the !. Miller plant
had hired 400 just before the election
and allowed them to vote, contrary to
the boards rulings, and also claiming
that another firm had shipped in three
truckloads of workers from an out
of-town plant.
interpretations differ as to whether
the A. F.. Of l.. union will now con-
troll representation of the workers in
the whole area or only in the plants
they won. However, they won the
largest plants.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
Electrical Union Or
ganization Advanced

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.-(FP)-
Plans for the organization of the
Electrical Industry Employees Union
were advanced at a conference attend
ed by delegates from five organiza-
tions at Schenectady.
Two of the organizations represent
ed were A. F. of l.. federal unions, two
were independent unions and one was
a company union which is gettig res
tive in its present situation.
The delegates decided that local
matters were so pressing at present
that they would not perfect an inter-
national but would take steps to draw
up a constitution. Another meeting
was called for April 8.
There were 10000 organized work
ers represented at the conference.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
NEW WORKERS
WALK AS TAXIS
VANISH

NEW YORK-(FP) - New York
streets were deserted over the week.
end Of Feb. A, as the taxi strike con-
tinued to be 95 per cent effective.
1t is estimated that more than half
the cars on the streets normally are
taxis and the town looked deserted
when the men left their cabs for
strike halls.
Mayor LaGuardia appointed Morris
L. Ernest, famous civil liberties law
yer, as arbitrator and hoped that the
strike would soon end. However, the
job was more difficult. Ernst had to
split about 20 million nickels among
drivers, companies and the city.
The nickels had been collected as a
tax, then declared illegal. AS it was
impossible to return the nickels to the
patrons who had paid them, the COM
panies held onto the funds.
The bright lights of Broadway
flickered a bit at the sight of silk
hated night-lifers climbing paunch-
lily out of taxis as the pickets stopped
them in Times Square and announced,
politely: "There's a strike, ladies and
gentlemen" The silk-toppers would
then disappear into the subway, COW
ering worried, puzzled looks.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
ROOSEVELT SCORES POLITICALLY MINDED
1000 STRIKERS
BACK UNDER
r

NEW YORK-(FP)-Nearly 1000
striking cooks and walters went back
to work under a union contract as the
hotel strike led by the Amalgamated
Food Workers continued to spread.
About a dozen hotels, restaurants
and night clubs had signed on the
dotted line.
While hours were cut and wages
raised somewhat, those matters were
left to be decided when the whole in
dustry settles at the end of the strike.
Two walters who were arrested for
deportation on the complaint of an
employer were released when Max
Delson, attorney for the union, pro-
tested to the U. S. Department of La
Dor. Delson insisted that the depart
ment should not be used as a strike
breaking agency and the department
heads seemed to agree.
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
COMMUNICATED
TRANSFERS PROTEST

Butte, Montana, Feb. ID, 1884.
Editor Montana Labor News,
Butte, Montana.
Dear Sir:
| am giving you this statement in
order to dispell rumors to the effect
that trucks owned by trucking com
panies are to be layed off the CWA.
In the first place there is plenty of
work on the CWA for all legitimate
truck owners who are paying taxes,
wages and licenses for their trucks.
Three days after the CWA started the
local Committee asked me if there
were dump trucks available and if so,
to send all such trucks up Immediately.
We Immediately rounded up all avail
able trucks and they were put on the
job.
When the news got out that trucks
were wanted, men who were unem-
ployed or working part-time bought
old trucks as well as new ones from
various agencies, on part time, and
put them to work. On top of this,
trucks were brought in from Basin,
Miles City, Dillon, Missoula and other
cities to work on the Silver Bow
County CWA projects. Old trucks,
upon which taxes and licenses have
not been paid for for years were
resurrected and put on the job. Soon
more trucks were available than could
possibly be used. Immediately the
~free-lancers raised a hue and cry
against the large trucking companies
and demanded that trucking-company
trucks be replaced with the trucks of
individuals who had entered the game
since the start of the CWA.
This demand vitality effects the
Transfers Union as the Trucking
Companies hire nobody but members
of the union and their trucks on the
|CWA mean work dor unemployed
teamsters. If the demands of the in
dividual truckers are met it will mean
1875 teamsters layed off the job. The
Transfers union believes that only
men who have made trucking their
business and who are now idle should
be given this work, rather than men
who never trucked until they saw easy
money in renting trucks to the CWA.
The discharge Of the union teamsters
would be a direct violation of the OBJ
ject of the CWA, which is to take up
the slack in unemployment among the
various crafts. The Transfers Union
alone has such jurisdiction and it is
only fair that we ask and demand that
our unemployed be given first con
sideration on such CWA jobs. The
union has already made protest
against this action to the local CWA
Board and to Administrator Hopkins.
We are taking this means of inform
ing the public about our side o. the
question and hope you will give this
communication full publicity in your
paper.
Fraternally yors,
P. j. CONNORS.
Business Agent Transfers Union.
(Seal.)
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
LABOR
MENT CALLS A
NATIONAL MEET

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Sec. of
Labor Perkins announced Feb. 2 that
she had called a national conference
for Feb, 14-15 to formulate a program
for labor legislation to include unem-
ployment reserves, child labor, old
age pensions and standards of hours
and wages for women.
Governors of all states have been
asked to send representatives of their
state labor departments and wage
earners. The conference method of
approach to problems, stated Miss
Perkins, "Serves to reconcile possible
differences between wage earners and
employers"
Montana labor news., 1934-02-15
HAIL THE CODIFIED 40,
HOUR WEEK!

WASHINGTON-(FP) They're
going to have a 40-hour week in the
corrugated-rolled metal culvert pipe
industry. This is how it reads: en-
sofar as practicable and so long as
employees qualified for the work re-
quired shall be available in the re-
spective localities where such work
shall be required, and having due re-
gard for the varying demands for the
respective products, no employees shall
work more than 40 hours a week, pro-
yided--." etc.