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The Washington times., 1934-04-06
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Birthday anniversaries are b.
ing celebrated today by the fol-
lowing Adventure Club mem
bers: They are Jean Davis.
3012 Massachusetts, Ave. N. W.
Mary Ann Watkins, Seat Pleas
ant, Md: Mildred Newberry, 910
C st. N. E.; Marion Parrish
Seminary Hall, Alexander, Va;
Nancy Rickard, 931 Kennedy
st. N. W.: Louise Coleman.
Bowie, Md, and Julia Powell
Boilean, 121 S. Ballston Ave..
Ballston, Va.
BEST WISHES to you for
your birthday today.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
STOCKS SELL OFF
AS WEEK CLOSES
Net Loss Averages | Point.
Activity Increases as
Prices Ease.
BY JOHN L. COOLEY,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, March 17.-Stocks
sagged toward the close Of a dull
market today and finished with an
average net loss of just point. Ac-
tivity increased a bit on the down.
turn after very dull first hour, and
transactions for the session amounted
to 725, 500 shares.
The larger declines occurred among
industrial issues. several Of which
yielded / to 2 points or so. Alcohols
tried rally that brought some fair
sized gains until enthusiasm waned.
Schenley made a new high on the
early move. Wright Aeronautical had
q splurge Of, more than points be-
fore subsiding, though other aircrafts
were inclined to ease. Homestake
Mining climbed 10 points to a record
high, then halved its gain.
Until the late sell-of many stocks
scarcely moved. Later, pressure
against Case and American Can dis
closed some scarcity Of nearby bids
for those two leaders, and offerings
increased throughout the list. United
States Steel. General Motors, Allied
Chemical, Chrysler, Johns Manville
and United States Smelling yielded
around l to 2 points. Rails were
fairly steady and utilities made gen.
orally slight concessions.
The labor situation in the auto
mobile plants was still matter of
primary interest to market circles,
which hoped a settlement could be
arranged. Uncertainties surrounding
this problem apparently are having
effects elsewhere, notably in steel
production, which has experienced its
first letdown since January, due in
large measure, the trade reviews say,
to more cautious specifying contracts
by the motor car manufacturers.
In commodities, silver again rallied,
doubtless because the trade hoped for
favorable action on the two House
bills Monday.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO, March II lP.-Poultry. live.
6 trucks, steady. prices unchanged.
chansed. E Esss, 24'0os, about steady; ex-
ira firsts, 17l4a17s4; fresh graded frsts.
l1a17l7; current receipts. 1874.
shipments. 905; old stock dull supplies
liberal demand and trading slow; U. S.
No. l. Wisconsin round whites. 150a1 so;
Minnesota, North Dakota Red River Ohios.
1.7Oa1.15; partly GRADED. 1.60a1 .65; Ne
braska Triumphs, :40a1.50 Colorado NC
Russets. 1sOal 80; mostly 1s5; o. s.
No. . 1.60a1 65; new stock about steady.
supplies moderate. demand and trading
slow; Florida bushel crates. Bliss Tri-
umphs. l 60a1 IS; decayed. few sales.
locales.
Egg futures storage standards. March,
1883: April 1S7s: refrigerator standards.
October 2Oss. Butter futures. storage
standards. March. 227s: April. 24s4.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. March II R'.-Eggs,
20.392, hrm. Mixed colors. special packs
standards and commercial standards. goa
-, hrsts. 1SAa1S12; seconds. 17a1714
mediums, 80 lbs. l7l2; dirties. No; !. ~
lbs. 17l4a1734; average cheks, 161a1694.
Butter. 4.s7S, frmer. Creamery. higher
than extra. 25a4a261a; extra (92 ,scorel.
onds unquoted; centralized 100 score}. 25.
Cheese. 99,260. firm. Prices UNCHANGED
Dressed poultry quiet and steady. un-
changed.
Live poultry weak All freight quota
tions unquoted; express unchanged.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Railroads to Be Repaid.

NEW YORK, March II @.-The
Railroad Credit Corporation will re-
pay about 100000 on April 80 to
the railroads which contributed to
its loan pool, E. G. Buckland, presi-
dent, announces. Loans made by the
corporation to railroads have been re-
duced by about $l0,000,000 to q total
of $66,3l9,344.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
TRACTOR SALES CLIMB.

NEW YORK, March IT CP.-Net
sales of Caterpillar Tractor Co. for
February amounted to sl,785,8 1893,
against $593,974 in February. 1888.
For the first two months of this year
the company had net profit of $780,
s2e, against loss of S312.457 for the
corresponding period Of 1888.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

CONTINUED On Page 81
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
COMMUNICATION

Mr.. Harry J. Grimes, Sec,
Silver Bow Trades & Labor Council,
Butte, Montana.
Dear Sir:
l take this opportunity to express
my deep gratitude and sincere appre-
citation for the wonderful support
which the council and all the members
of Organized Labor gave me in the
primary election on July 18th. 1t was
the vote of Organized Labor all over
the state Of Montana, but particularly
in Silver Bow County which made it
at all possible for me to attain victory
against the corporation candidates in
the race for Railroad and Public
Service Commission. 1t was above all
your endorsement of my labor record
which gave me the tremendous ma
jority which I received in Silver Bow
County.
Assuring you that my every effort
will be to benefit the working people
of this state, to always be loyal to the
principles of Organized Labor and to
crush the political power Of the Ana
conda Copper Mining Company, the
Montana Power Company and all the
other predatory corporations of this
state, I am
Very sincerely yours,
JERRY J. O'CONNELL.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
CROOKED BANKERS
GAVE PUBLIC
RAW DEAL

WASHINGTON. OPP "Scanda-
lous' and Shocking" are the descrip-
tions used by the Senate Banking
Committee to describe investment firm
methods in selling to the American
people billions of dollars worth of Sc
curities, many of which have become
almost worthless.
The firms of J. P. Morgan & Co..
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Dillon, Read &
Co., were specifically mentioned
among many others in the report. Nc
suggestions were made by the commit
tee regarding the elimination Of unfit
bankers.
"F1agrant Misrepresentation and
concealments" which were "violative OF
the most elementary principles of bus
mess ethics" were resorted to in the
efforts of many companies to sell Sc
curities, the committee stated.
These criticisms were contained in
the second report made by the com
mittee in its investigation Of stock
market and banking activities. The
first report, recently made public, dealt
with the stock exchange. A third re-
port is expected shortly, probably on
commercial banking.
Both foreign and domestic stocks
we're unloaded on the American pub
lie with little effort to deal fairly with
the client. Zone of the most scan
dalous chapters in the history OF
American Investment banking" &C
cording to the committee, was the
floating of foreign securities in this
country. Securities were sold despite
reports from subordinate officials in
dicating their worthlessness AS a re-
suit, the committee estimated, 43 per
cent of the foreign securities disposed
Of here are now in default.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
WHITLEY VISITS
COUNCI

A much tanned hombre drifted in
from the sunny southland and paid his
old haunt a visit. This hombre was
the rip-roaring Charley Whitley who
used to be able to think Of nor names
for the Chamber of Commerce in one
minute than the Citizen can think to
call "scabs" in a month. But the warm
and sunny South has tanned Charley
vocabulary and has had a mellowin
influence upon his personality.
other words he has gone native. TIL (
who saw him at the international c -
vention in Salt Lake City say he
gone Native to the Nth degree.
blew into the holy City" togge
in a Palm Beach, a Teddy Ro,
hat, sport shoes and a shirt that 1
do a college sophomore justice. Char
ley blamed it all on the desert sun but
many believe it was the Spanish influ-
ence of the Mexican Senoritas. But
now that Charley has returned to
Butte for a visit he has adopted the
dress and customs of the local gentry
and doesn't create such a riot. Had
he appeared in that garb last Tuesday
night, the Governor would have been
forced to call in the troops to quell the
disturbance.
In all seriousness Charley has been
doing a fine bit Of work as an organic
er for the International Union OF Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers. His field
Of activity has been Utah, Nevada and
Arizona. In a few days he will leave
for New Mexico to complete some
work already started there. He brou-
ght back a fine report regarding or
ganization activities. In the seven
months that Whitley has been in the
work the whole of Utah has been or
gained most of Nevada and seven To-
Gals have been organized in Arizona.
Two charters have been granted to
locals in New Mexico and Whitley
hopes to have every major camp in
that State organized within the next
month.
In his report to the Council, Whitley
stated that workers in the basic in
dustries are just beginning to organize,
They have come to the realization OF
the fact that only through ~organiza-
ton can they secure the rights grant
ed them under the National Recovery
Act. He stated that where workers
have organized they have secured bene-
fits under The act. When workers
organize the spirit behind the Recovery
Act will become a fact.
We are sorry that Whitley can't be
with us for a week or two but he has
plenty to do. We know he is not leav-
ing on a pleasure trip for New Mexico
is not the place to spend the summer
1t was good to see Charley again ant
we wish him the best of luck and when
he finishes that job there will be plen-
ty for him to do in Butte.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
Ladies' Auxiliary
Hold Meeting

The Ladies' Auxiliary of Carpenters
Union No. ~ held their annual pic
mic at Washoe park, Anaconda, Sun
day August 8.
The children's games and races were
won by the following; Roy David
son, peanut hunt, first; second, Gene
We've Kaudy. Peanut race: G~enevieve
Kaudy. Girls Watermelon, Dorothy
Sothern. Boys Watermelon, Roy Da-
wilson. Mems Watermelon, Sam Lot
veit and Carl Jacobsen. Ladies nail
contest: Dorothy McBroom. Ladies
race Dorothy McBroom.
AT II O'Clock and at 6 o'clock the
picnic luncheons were served, the
Auxiliary members furnishing coffee,
cream and sugar, watermelon and ice
cream.
Attending the affair were: Mr..
and Mrs. Anthony jacobson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Gaffney, MI. and Mrs
Kaudy and family, Mrs. J. Davidson
and family, Mrs. ]. Richards and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Lotveit, Mrs.
Charles McBroom, Mrs. Bertha Lund-
gren, Mrs. johnson, Mrs. Anna Rich
ard, Mrs. William Tweedy and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Miriam Harrington and
family and Miss Rowena Gaffney.
Mrs. Ina Davidson entertained the
past week at her home, 1914 Gaylord
street, for members of the Ladies
Auxiliary Of Carpenters Union No
III.
Cards provided diversion and Mrs
Bertha Lundgren, Mrs. Nora Nc
Broom, Miss Rowena Gaffney, Mrs
Ina Davidson were the lucky win
ners. Tables were tastefully deco
rated with spring flowers and an "O1C
Time Dutch Lunch was served to the
following guests: Mrs. Sophia Jacob
sen, Mrs. Bertha Lundgren, Mrs
Nora McBroom, Mrs. Irene Kaudy
Mrs. Christina Richards, Mrs. Ins
Davidson, Mrs. Christine Morrison
Mrs. Hazel Lotveit, Mrs. Marie Walsh
Mrs. Miriam Harrington, Mrs. John
son, Miss Dorothy McBroom, Mis-.
Rowena Gaffney,
The assisting hostesses were Mrs
Miriam Harrington and Miss Rowen;
Gaffney.
Next weeks meeting will be Angus
10, at Carpenters hall, at 8 p. m, ant
will be in charge Of Miss Dorothy Nc
Broom, Miss Grace Richard, Mrs
Sothern and daughter and Mrs. Car
Jacobsen.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
A~malgamated Sugar Co.
Innocent OF Charge

The Montana Labor News is pleased
to quote the following article from the
BUTTE CITIZEN relative to the
Amalgamated Sugar Company:
We wish to inform the merchants
and people that the report formerly
issued by the CITIZEN wherein one
Frank Smell, alias George Smell, al
legedly employed by the Amalgamated
Sugar Company Of Missoula, and who
was reported as having recruited
scabs in Hamilton is not the Mr..
Smell employed by the Amalgamated
Sugar Company. We wish to clear
both the Mr.. Smell employed by the
Amalgamated Sugar Company, and
also the Amalgamated Sugar Com
pany, itself, from any charges inimical
to the unions.
The Smell formerly referred to in
the CITIZEN is a man who drives a
truck between Hamilton and Ana
conda.
Again we wish to assure the mer-
chants and people that the Amalgamat-
ed Sugar Company is in no way involv-
ed.
The Amalgamated Sugar Company
operates extensively throughout west
ern Montana and has beet acreage in
the Deer Lodge valley. It's payroll is
distributed to men and women in Ana
conda, Missoula and other western
Montana cities. 1t sells its sugar I'M
der the trade name Of white Satin. D."
Its relations with the unions have
been very cordial.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
AutOworkers Strike
For Higher Wages

DETROIT. - (FP)- Detroit auto
mobile labor has begun another year
Of struggle against the motor barons
for a decent wage. The wood and
metal patternmakers, the first batch of
workers to go into the shops for the
l934-35 season, have struck for a 10
per cent wage increase.
Every job shop in Detroit is closed.
The patternmakers in the huge auto
mobile plants will be pulled, officials
say, if the strike is not won in short
order. The Patternmakers' Associa-
ton Of America, A.. F. of L., is the
best organized craft union in the in
dustry.
II the strike continues more than
two weeks, it is certain to affect the
tool and die makers who have been
returning to work during the past
month. Rank and file die workers,
organized in the Mechanics Educa-
tional Society of America, are seri-
ously discussing the possibility of the
society refusing to handle BLACK"
patterns if the bosses succeed in get
ting patterns through.
The automobile plants work on a
follow-up basis. The designers work
through the summer, are followed by
the patternmakers, who are sue
ceeded by the tool and die men who
prepare the way for production and
assembly.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
Tie Up StOckyards To
Stop Chiseling By Boss

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by the
Chicago Union Stockyards Co. of an
agreement made by U. s.. Judge Philip
Sullivan between the company and To-
Gals 517 and SO of the Amalgamated
Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen has
tied up the worlds greatest stockyards
at a time OF record heat and record
cattle shipments. About 1900 members
Of the live stock handlers units walked
out. Locals in other departments of
the packing industry are sympatheti-
cally following developments. Federal
m~ediators have stepped in.
The capitalist papers are full of SYM
pathy, in turn, for the cattle that are
not being handled very satisfactorily
before butchering, by w%hite-collar scabs
The papers have much less sympathy
for the human beings that have had
to work under conditions deliberately
made worse by the company.
For example, Judge Sullivan thought
that when he set a 40-hour minimum
week and a 1879 pay boost the men
would actually get more money than
before. But it has worked out so that
the men now get less pay per week than
before because the company gives only
40 hours work where they used to work
49, Pay rates went up 10 per cent but
weekly pay went down because hours
we're cut over 10 per cent.
The company also maliciously put the
old timers, mostly active unionists, to
work every other Sunday to make up
their 40-hour minimum, while forcing
newer men to do little or nc Sunday
work. 1t also hired new men at be-
ginner rates while laid-off men were
available, though at somewhat higher
rates under the award.
A good deal of the retroactive 10
per cent awarded by the judge has not
been paid as yet by the company, the
union charges. An intense speedup has
saved the boss from putting more men
on the payroll, though hours were
shortened.
Its a brazon case Of company CHS
cling" declares Pres. Gormen Of the
union.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
CAFFNEY BACK
IN COUNCIL

It was with a great deal OF pleasure
that the Council again installed the
d~iminutive Scotch imitator as a dele
gate. The Carpenters Union has again
sent Gaffney back to the Council as
a delegate. We missed him during
his absence as he had become a per-
manent part Of the Council in the
minds of the members. Gaffney i:
just back in time for the Labor Day
Committee work and maybe he car
figure out another Raviola dinner for
the Committee. Welcome back to the
Council, Jack and next week you car
sing us a song or two when the go
ing gets too serious.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
ALL Council Issues
Call For Convention
Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting in
San Francisco Will Consider
Protecting the Workers Rights
Under the National Recovery
Act.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. 1.-THE Elk
ecutive Council Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in session here, is
sued the call for the f%ifty-fourth an
nual convention of the Federation
which will in San Francisco
on October /. The call emphasized
the necessity of giving serious consid-
Grafton to measures for the protection
Of the rights of the workers set forth
in the National Industrial Recovery
Act, but which in many instances have
become mere paper rights.
Labor has reached the point" the
call said, where it can with a fair de-
gree of accuracy appraise the value Of
the NRA and give proper c~onsidera-
ton to the results which have beer
achieved through the organization ant
application Of industrial codes Of fair
practice in numerous industries.
Experience has shown that, not
w~ithstanding the plain provisions Of
Section IA of the MIRA, worker.
have been prevented IRON exercising
the right to organize and to engage ii
collective bargaining through repre-
sentatives Of their own choosing
Workers have been compelled to re-
sort to the use of strike measures il
order to force employers to concedt
the exercise of a right guaranteed
them by law.
"The labor movement must take
real, vital and operative the provision,
of Section IA so that every right ac-
corded the workers to organize anC
to bargain collectively through rep,
resentatives of their own choosing
may be exercised and enjoyed to the
fullest extent"
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
AFL WILL ORGANIZE
new HUDSON UNION
Bolt of Detroit Local Attributed
to Company Union Promoters

ATLANTIC CITY, N. 1.-THE Ex-
ecutive Council OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, holding its Fall
meeting here, were not seriously
ruffled by the announcement of the
withdrawal from the A. F. of L. Of
the Hudson Motor Co. federal labor
union in Detroit. The union will be
recognized and efforts increased to
organize workers throughout the en-
tire automotive field. From authentic
reports received from Detroit the
Council was convinced that the with
drawal was engineered in a plan to
get the automobile workers into a
company union.
1--WE are not put out by the action
taken in Detroit" declared William
Green, president Of the A. F. of L., in
announcing the Federation's attitude
toward the Hudson group of automo-
bile workers. He added:
"These things have happened before,
Some time ago the St. Louis local of
automobile workers left the Fedora
ton and then returned a short time
later.
ut is an exaggeration to say that
there are 1000 members in the Hud-
son local. The number is far less
than that. Prompt steps will be taken
to reorganize the union so that it may
again be affiliated with the Fedora
ton.
There has been talk of a company
union move in the direction of the
Hudson employees and we know what
is going on. The automobile workers
still desire to organize and affiliate
with the Federation. No efforts will
be spared to see to it that legitimate
wishes are granted"
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
CODE NOTES

WASH~INGTON-(FP)-Th code
for the electrical hoist and monorail
manufacturing industry approved by
the NRA effective July "a provides for
the 40-hour week, and minimum wages
OF from 36c to 40c an hour.
+ + 4
WASHINGTON-(FP)- Minimum
wages of from sc to 40c an hour and
the hour provisions of the code for
machinery and allied products industry
are extended to the multiple V-belt
drive subdivision Of the industry, un-
der a supplemental code approved by
the NRA, effective July "a.
4 y y
WASHINGTON-(FP).~ "A 48-hour
week and a minimum wage of 30c an
hour are provided in the code for the
water well drilling industry, submitted
by the employers. A hearing has been
set for July 80. Minimum wages OF
40c an hour in the north and 30c an
hour in the south, with $14 to SIS a
week for clerical and office employees,
are proposed.
4 = =
WASHINGTON-(FP)-A 4O-hour
week, with 81 hours for truckdrivers
and "A hours for clerical employees, is
provided in the code for the wholesale
fresh fruit and vegetable d~istributive
industry. A l2-hour day is permitted
during two peak periods of three weeks
each per year, or 48 hours a week aver
aged over four weeks. Minimum
wages range from $13 to SIG a week
in the north and $12 to SIS in the
south, depending upon population.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
NOT SETTLED
Strikers To Meet With ACM Officials Thursday;
No Basis OF Mediation Have Yet Been Presented

son, Federal Mediators. There is
little evidence that the strike will be
settled at this meeting or even be set
tied this week. Any agreement reach
ed by any committee acting with the
Anaconda Officials will have to be vot-
ed on and approved by the locals in
volved in the strike. No Committee
from the Unions has been given the
full power TO settle anything nor has
any local asked for the right to make
its settlement independent of the other
unions involved. Any settlement that
is made will be made for all OF the
crafts as well as the miners, engineers
and smeltermen.
Unless the Anaconda Company has
drastically changed its position, espec-
tally in regards to the closed shop,
there is little hope that the strike will
be settled within two weeks. Had Mr..
Dan Kelley, attorney for the Anaconda
Company not spoken out of turn and
placed the Company in a position re-
garding the closed shop, that it has
never taken, negotiations might have
been opened a number Of weeks ago.
For 40 years the crafts have enjoy
ed a closed shop in Butte and there
was little to show that they wouldn't
continue to enjoy that right until Mr..
Kelley, at a conference, burst forth
with the statement that there would
be no closed shop for any craft when
this strike was settled. If the Com
pany is at all fair and humane in its
approach to the problem there is every
hope that the strike will not be pro-
longed. 1t is belived that Mr.. Hob
bins will bring a different attitude to-
ward the men in the coming confer
ence.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16
Mattauch and Shea
Leave for St. Paul

Lena Mattauch and Bridget Shea of
Il Women's Protective Union left
= = .ek for St. Paul where they will
& the Convention of the Hotel
3 Restaurant Employees. They are
8 .ates of their local Union. Before
ing Butte, both delegates brushed
. on their Swedish for they were in
med that the language of St. Paul
far different than that of Butte. As
n added precaution they planned to
tegister at Swedes if they could find
a suitable Scandinavian ending for
their names by the time the Milwau-
kee train landed in the Twin Cities.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16

WASHINGTON-(FP) - A MAXI
mum of 1856 hours in any calendar
month is provided for all except office,
emergency and supervisory workers in
the code for the terrazzo and mosaic
contracting division of the construc-
ton industry, approved by the NRA
effective July %. This approximates
an average of 81 hours a week and
makes the terrazzo and mosaic con-
tractors the first division Of the con-
struction industry to reduce the month
ly hours permitted by the 40-hour week
specified in the basic code.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16

WASHINGTON-(FP) - Twenty
three cents an hour is a good and suf-
ficient wage for wooden pail and tub
workers in the South, according to the
new NRA code.
Montana labor news., 1934-08-16

WASHINGTON-FP)-The Natl
onal Labor Relations Board on July 81
ordered reinstatement Of three union
employees discharged by the Wheeler
shipyards on Long Island, and three
%unionists discharged by the Smith
chain store system in Detroit. Both
firms will be reported to NRA for loss
Of their blue eagles if they fail to COM
ply, the board warned.