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PRECIPITATION

For Bismarck StatiOn:
Total this month to date z
Normal, this month to date 49,. 81
Total, Jan. LIST to date ...,.... 5.5l
Normal. January LIST to date !. ITS
Accumulated deficiency to date 6.24
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Weather Report
FORECAST

For Bismarck and vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday; not
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Trade Volume Holds
40 Per Cent Over '33

New York, Aug. l0.-(R-Trade
volume stu u holding % per cent
above the 1888 low, said the weekly
Dun 4 Bradsteeet trade review Fri
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For wrath killed the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.-Joo'
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4 4 +
Have you not love enough to bear
With me when that rash humor which
nv mother gave me makes me forget
-ShakeSpeare.
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Foe the kingdom Of God Is not meat
and drink; but Righteousness and
peace, and Joy In the Hold Ghost
Romans 14:17.
i ):
Peace u the evening star Of the soul,
az virtue Is it, sun, and the two are
never far apart.-Colton.
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Every man q british by his knowl-
edee: every founder Is confounded
BY the craven image: for his molten
imase Is falsehood, and there Is no
breath In them.-Jeremiah, SILT.
4 i
It u not he who forms idols IN gold
or marble that makes them gods, but
he who kueels before them.-Martial.
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One spade Of gold undermines fast.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY INQUIRY
HEARINGS In DETROIT, DEC. Is
Board Appoints Capable Staff of
Assistants; Investigation to be
Complete and Speedy.

Detroit, Mich.-According to an an
nouncement by Leon Henderson, mem
Der of the special board appointed by
President Roosevelt to conduct an in
vestigation Of the automobile industry,
the inquiry will be complete and speed
lily accomplished.
Detroit hearings will open December
Is, and continue at least two days. II
is stated a competent staff of assist
ants has been retained by the board,
which is undertaking n Of the most
exhaustive Investigations ever held un-
der NRA auspices.
1t is understood MIR. Henderson will
personally take charge of the hear
ings here December Is, and 16 and
will go into all aspects of the in
dustry, as well as labor issues"
A report and recommendations Of the
board are expected to be ready we'll
in advance of expiration of the Auto
mobile Code extension, February 8.
F. J. Dillon, in charge of the Detroit
office Of the A. F. Of L. and director
of automobile workers organization,
has given the board assurance of full
and cordial cooperation on the part
of his office and all unions of auto
mobile workers.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
RELATE POWER TRUST INFLUENCE OVER
CLUBS, CHURCHES, STATE AUTHORITIES

boy
scouts, women's clubs, churches, in
surance companies, state utility COM
missions and many other organizations
and public bodies have been brought
under the influence of power trust pro-
paganada is related in a section of the
Federal Trade Commissions report
transmitted to the Senate Dec. s..
State commissions, supposed to re-
gnIate the utilities, have been compar-
lively easy meat for them. Their re-
lations with the power trust have been
very close" according to the F. T. c,
report. an some instances the utili-
ties advised and even drafted regula-
tons and forms for state commissions, +"
it says. Commissioners were paid fees
and expenses for making addresses be-
fore utility conventions or other meet
ings."
In 9 months of 1927-192S the Nation
al Electric Light Association paid $20,-
600 to the General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, and the clubs worked
closely with the utilities in spreading
their propaganda among Mrs.
John d. Sherman, president of the G.,
F. w. c., received 5000 a month from
the N. 7. L. A., for writing power trust
propaganda articles.
Even the churches were not immune
from the attention of the utilities"
says the report. 1t quotes A.. w. Rob
ertson of the Philadelphia Co. at Pitts
burgh as saying hat ministers, who
are generally unfairly critical of cor
porations, including public service COM
panies, should like educators, be bet
ter paid. 1t would certainly help to
cure some of their mental bias" Min
isters have been used to make power
trust propaganda speeches, and at Den
yer a public utility official is reported
as speaking on a utility subject before
a Bible class.
A famous piece of advice is quoted
from a utility mar to B. J. Mullaney,
who wanted to know how one should
deal with a rival candidate for the U.
S. Senate who advocated government
ownership. my idea would be not to
try logic or reason" the power trust
man, R. R. McGregor replied, but to
try to pin the bolshevik idea on my
opponent"
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13

The radio has been much used by
the utilities for their propaganda, par
ticularly after M. H. Aylesworth, form
er managing director of the N. z. L. A.
became head of the Natl. B~roadcastinp
Co. By 1929, the report shows thai
10 broadcasting stations were selling
time to utility companies; s were own
ed by electric, gas or street railway
companies, and IS other stations were
owned by manufacturer of generating
equipment, electric motors and radio
equipment.
When a speech somewhat critical OF
the utilities was made over the radio.
Aylesworth said it had been permitted
"in order to avoid the accusation that
the N. B. c. was a monopoly" but he
added that this was Gust one Of those
things which was not very apt to oc-
cur in the neal future"
The close hook-up between the utili-
ties and chambers of commerce and
bankers is noted particularly. Martin
insult is quoted as telling brother utili-
ty men to cultivate your bankers all
you possibly can....what the banker says
carries a great deal more weight than
what anybody else says in hat com
munity," he said. One means of Gull
tivating the bankers was to keep non
interest bearing deposits in many diff
ferent banks.
The rewards Of such policies are re-
lated by Pres. A. F. Hockenbeamer of
the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The
bankers "have never failed u.s." he
says. During our two big campaigns
against the so-called water and power
act.~".they literally sent out hundreds
of thousands of personal letters and
pieces of literature to their depositors
and stockholders, as well as campaign
ing against the act personally"
Power trust leaders are reported as
saying that there exists a sort OF in
visible partnership between the utility
and the banker"
Pres. Haley Fiske of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Co. sent out to
policyholders as messages from him
self, millions Of copies Of power trust
propaganda written by George F. Ok
ley, publicity director of the N. +. L.
A. the report notes.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
RETAIL CLERKS VOTE
MILWAUKEE STRIKE

MILWAUKEE. -(FP)- With the
busiest shopping season Of the year at
hand, the issue of unionization Of retail
clerks has come to a head in a strike
vote taken by 600 employees of the Bos-
ton Store, large department store in
Milwaukee.
The Retail Clerks International Pro-
tective Association is asking the closed
shop and higher wages. Milwaukee
papers have practically all wholly
ignored the issue so that the strike
vote caught most of the citizens by sur
prize. Deliverymen are expected to
walk out in sympathy with the strikers.
Federal conciliators have been sent
from Washington to undertake media
ton.
The strike vote follows a long period
OF futile negotiations between the union
and leading Milwaukee stores. Labor
looks on this clash as decisive. Defeat
of the union will be a setback national
ly for the organization. Milwaukee has
a number of national chain stores and
the Boston Store fight is thus a key
battle between organized labor and
capital.
The union is believed to have been
encouraged to take its action by the
victorious two-week strike in West
Frankfort a month ago. A complete
tieup there forced all IS stores, in
GLIDING large national chains like Wool
worth and Grant, to agree to the
unions demands for earlier closing
hour on Saturdays and a 48-hour week
instead Of a 81 without a pay cut.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
RUBBER COMPANIES FIGHT ELECTION;
PRESIDENT GREEN DENOUNCES TACTICS

in collective bargaining in accordance
with the spirit and letter of Section
IA of the National Recovery Act"
President Green stated.
Labor won its fight for collective
bargaining when it prevailed upon Con-
gress to include Section IA in the
National Recovery Act. It won again
when Congress responded to its re-
quest to enact Resolution No. "A pro-
viding for the creation Of a National
Labor Board. 1t won its fight for col
lective bargaining when the National
Labor Relations Board granted labor's
request for an election for the purpose
of allowing the rubber workers to Sc
lect their own bargaining agency and
representatives of their own choosing
to engage in collective bargaining.
"The Goodrich and Firestone corpor-
ations attempt to deny labor the exer-
else OF these rights, which it has won
in every court set up under free
democratic institutions.
lie dllluuG OI the luS
and Rubber Company and the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Company is contrary
to sound public policy. Their attitude
can only be Interpreted as a challenge
to Government and orderly processes
in the settlement Of industrial disputes.
Certainly they are not cooperating with
labor and with the Government in the
promotion Of industrial peace and ma
tional recovery.
Such defiant action on the part
Of corporations to constituted author
ity and orderly processes serves to
breed social unrest and industrial dis
content.
Labor will insist, through the utili-
cation Of its full normal and economic
power, upon the decision OF the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board that an
election be held among the employees
OF the Goodrich and Firestone rubber
companies being carried into effect"
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
DEMANDS MADE
BY LABOR BODY
MEET REFUSAL
'Sweetening Off and Laying By
Process to Close Season Run
Starts.
WORKERS CALL
1T LOCKOUT
Approximately 400 Men to Be
Affected; IS Per Cent of Crop
Remains at Dumps.

With the Great Western Sugar COM
pany refusing to meet demands made
by Federal Labor union No. 1874, A.
F. of l., the graveyard" shift of the
local sugar refining plant struck Fri
day at midnight. Union Spokesman
said that neither would the day shift
starting at 6 a. m, Saturday, nor the
evening shift starting at a p. m, go
to work.
Workers called it a lockout"
The company called it a strike.
About 400 workers will be effected.
Claiming hat virtually 100 per cent
of the temporary campaign workers
are members of the union - a claim,
which was admitted by sugar company
officials II the employees, at $50 p. m,
had demanded
/. A flat raise of 10 cents per hour
for all hourly men.
2. That this raise be retroactive to
October 2, the beginning of the pres
ent factory campaign, payment to be
made by December IA.
g.. A closed shop.
The company was given until mid
night to accept the demands. AT 9
o'clock, however, company officials re-
piled the demands would be refused.
With the avowed intention of ending
the run for the season, the process of
"sweetening Off and laying by" the
factory until next year was begun be-
fore midnight, according to c. w. Do
herty, manager Of the factory district.
The labor trouble began to come to
a head last Monday. Negotiations have
since been in progress. The company,
according to officers of the union, four
times refused to recognize the union
as representatives Of its employees. At
u p. m. Friday, however, an impartial
committee OF two, appointed jointly by
Continued to Page a
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
Finds Company
UniOniStS Fired For
Their Union Activity

WASHINGTON. OPP Even a
company unionist may be fired for
union activity" if he tries to get bet
ter wages and conditions through his
organization, the record shows in the
Southeast Portland Lumber case be-
fore the National Labor Relations
Board. The board ordered two mem
bers Of the Loyal Legion Of Loggers
and Lumbermen reinstated, on the
grounds that this Portland, Ore, COM
pany had fired them because of their
union membership and activities
The trouble arose when G. Z. Beers,
local chairman of the -Four Is" as the
company union is known, so far for
got the loyalty to employers which is
expected of company union members
as to ask for a wage increase for H. w.
Martin, another Four Is member. The
company's president thereupon rushed
to Beers and gave him the very devir'
(to use his own words), wanting to
know what business it was of his.
Martin was then fired. after vainly
seeking relief through the -Four Is for
what he believed to be an unjustified
dismissal" says the N. L. R. B. de-
cision, Martin made a formal COM
plant to the local Compliance Of
ficer." This officer got into touch with
the company about the complaint, and
the only apparent result was that Beers
too was fired the next day.
The board notes hat "the local Of
the Four Is had been PECULIARLY weak
from its inception, and had functioned
in connection with only a single minor
matter"
The firing of two Of its members for
no more than asking a raise put an end
to this company union local. CAS- a
direct consequence of the discharge Of
Martin and Beers" says the board, "the
local OF the -Four Us gave up its
charter"
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
new YORK TIMES
DROPS NOT FROM
MOONEY STORY

NEW YORK-FP)-Recalling the
famous case in which the Associated
Press dropped the word mot from a
speech of Sen. Robert NJ. LaFollette,
Sr., in the crucial days at the begin
ming of the war and turned a national
attack against him, The New York
Times dropped the same little word
from a story about Tom Mooney in a
recent issue.
Recalling the famous Oxman Incl
dent, in which the cattleman told a
seemingly straightforward story of see
ing Mooney at the place where the
bomb killed 10 people but was later
shown to be attempting to get a friend
to support his story falsely, the Times
said that Judge Griffin wrote to At
torney General Webb that in his opin-
ion Mooney could have been convicted
without Oxman's testimony and asking
the Encouragement to file with the
state supreme court an assent to the
granting Of a new trial. Griffin ac-
tually wrote could not have been con-
victed.
The attention Of the Times was
called to the error and a correction
may be made.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
Half Iowa Farm Homes
Without Sinks and 80
Per Cent Without Tubs

AMES, Ia.-(FP)-Iowa farm homes
offer plenty Of elbow room for Pres.
Roosevelt's modernization program.
Prof, Margaret G. Reid of Iowa State
College, surveying 10000 farmhouses,
found that only about half have a kit
chen sink, only one fourth don't have
to tote their water, and only one fifth
have a bath tub. Very few have re-
frigerators or ice of any kind. Homes
averaged $2375 in value.
Most Of the 10000 homes are over
Is years old. About Il per cent ought
to be condemned. Prof. Reid also
found that farmers owning their homes
had on the average better and larger
houses and smaller families than nom
owning occupants.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
A. F. of |. Has Half
Million War Chest
For Auto Workers

AKRON. O.-(FP)-The American
Federation of Labor has a cool half
million dollars in its wal chest which
can be thrown into strike relief in eth
er the rubber or auto industries.
This startling fact has been thrown
into the tense situation surrounding
postponement of the elections ordered
by the Natl. Labor Relations Board in
the big rubber plants. Hints that the
companies will no more accept union
recognition following a favorable vote
than have other industrial giants are
answered with talk Of an industry-wide
walkout.
Old time trade u%nionists have point
ed out to the new rubber locals that
their position as locals affiliated dir
ectly to the A. F. of L. makes it per-
fectly logical for them to call on the
federation for strike relief from the
huge relief fund which has been built
up. According to the executive coun-
Gil report to the San Francisco con-
vention, $l33,000 was added to the
strike fund last year and only $1,084
was spent - $1,000 of that being for
lawyers fees.
The report showed that there was
$4,000 in the strike fund in midsum-
mer and that it was growing at the
rate of more than $4,000 a month =
largely due to the 12Hc-a-month strike
relief dues paid by the rubber and auto
workers. 1t should be well beyond the
100000 mark now, enough to put up
a tremendous fight in either of the
great industries where the organized
workers are still in directly affiliated
federal unions.
In both these industries there has
been controversy owe the unwilling
ness Of A. F. of l.. officials to set up
international unions. The main rea-
son for this unwillingness is, of course,
the difficulties Of jurisdiction which
would Immediately arise. 1t is genar-
ally recognized that local unions with
no international union utilization oper-
ate under a certain handicap since the
A. F. of L. is primarily a federation
of internationa1s rather than a parent
body for local unions. However, rub
Der workers facing a bitter fight now
see an offsetting advantage, if they can
call on resources of half a million dol
lars in their time Of need.
Cynics who point out that the same
executive council report only mention
ed one strike during the stormy year
l933-34 r. and that one of "a longshore-
men in Costa RIGA Fl are silenced with
the answer that this fund belongs to
the rubber and auto workers and it
will scarcely be refused them in a crisis.
1t has been built slowly for a long time
by federal unions in small cities and
by such locals as the office-workers,
who seldom strike; but the bulk Of it
has been paid in by these two groups.
Observers are wondering whether
Akron and Detroit, so largely open
shop cities until 1888, are to be labor's
battle-ground in 1885.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
See Militia Threat In
Cleveland Strike

CLEVELAND.-(FP) Possibility
that the militia may be used against
striking employees Of the Kaynee Co.,
boys wash clothing manufacturers, is
seen in the presence of Brig.-Gen. Lud-
wig Connolly at the Bucyrus plant,
Connolly was to report whether he
thought the plant needed militia pro-
lection.
Appearance of the general followed a
recent attack by the sheriff and his
deputies upon pickets who were booing
strikebreakers. Two pickets were ar
rested, as the deputies, displaying a
machine gun, dispersed the others with
teargas bombs.
Strikers are seeking recognition of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America and reinstatement of men
fired for union activity. The COM
pany's Cleveland plant has been shut
tight since the strike started about
four weeks ago.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
INSULT CONFIDENT

broad
ly Martin insult sits in court while his
trial for embezzling $344,72O from the
Middle West Utilities Co. just before
he skipped to Canada is getting under
way. The alleged theft took place in
1881 when Martin, brother of Sam who
was recently acquitted of using the
mails to defraud investors of over $780,
100000, was president of Middle West.
Prospective jurors who lost money in
the billion and a half insult crash, or
whose friends or relatives lost money,
are rejected. Those who think that
Martins hideout from justice implies
some faint of guilt are also excused.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
Butte, Montana,
December II, 1884.

Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly
Butte, Montana.
Gentlemen:
It has been brought to our attention
by numerous F. E. r. A. workers and
also members of the Butcher Organi-
cation in regard to the 100000 Of the
l25,O00 head OF cattle being bought by
the Federal Relief Administration which
are to be bought in the State of Mon
tana and are scheduled to be shipped
to outside packing plants for process
ing.
In the behalf of all concerned, we,
the executive committee of A. M. c.
and B. w. of N. A., Local 1888 at a
special session resolved that:
WHEREAS it is reported that the
Federal Relief Administration and /or
have purchased l25,000 head of cattle in
the State OF Montana, and
WHEREAS we in Montana have suf-
ficient packing houses within our state
to process all of the 125,000 cattle, and
WHEREAS we have in Silver Bow
County 10000 men and women on the
Relief Rolls who are capable Of work
ing in said packing plants, and
WHEREAS it is reported through
the press of the State that 100000 of
the cattle purchased in the State are
to be shipped outside the State for the
purpose of processing, and
WHEREAS our winter climate is
such as to practically prohibit outside
work for the next five or six months,
Therefore, be it resolved that the Sill
yer Bow Trades and Labor Assembly
protest to the President of the United
States, to Mr.. Hopkins, National Re
lief Administrator Governor Frank A.
Cooney, DR.. w. J. Butler, State Ad-
ministrator, and to our Senators and
C%ongressmen, the sending out of the
State any cattle purchased within the
State, and ask the cooperation of all
the above named men to the end that
all cattle purchased within the State be
processed within the State.
Asking for your approval and sup
port, we remain,
BUTTE BUTCHERS UNION,
LOCAL 1888.
J. II. PECK, Secretary.
(SEAL
SIGNATURES:
ID. ]. DRISCOLL,
JAS. LUNNEY,
M SPACKMAN.
JOE VOLMER.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
Firestone and Goodrich Get Stay
in U. S. Court, Delaying Elec-
ton Set for December 9TH.

Akron, Ohio.-Fighting strenuously
against holding an election among EN-
ployes to designate representatives for
collective bargaining, the B. F. Good
rich Company and the Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company filed an action in
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati asking that the election or
dered by the National Labor Relations
Board be set aside. Filing of the petit
tons automatically stays the order OF
the Labor Board, which set the election
for December 7, pending a hearing by
the court.
Meantime, over 1000 members of the
Goodyear local of the United Rubber
Workers Union met and voted to ask
the National Labor Relations Board to
abolish what they term an inside I'M
ion" fostered by the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company, which the company
calls its industrial assembly" The ac-
ton was taken as an amendment to the
unions plea for collective bargaining
election, according to John House, I'M
ion president.
At Barberton, Ohio, nearby, union
employees Of the Soldering Rubber
Company voted to refer to the Labor
Board the arrangements reported re-
fusal to negotiate a wage and hours
agreement. V. Z. Atkins, factory man
ager, told the union the company could
"see no good in a signed agreement at
this time"
Companies Breed Social Unrest
William Green, president of the A. F.
OF L., issued a statement regarding the
action Of the Goodrich and Firestone
rubber companies.
Apparently these rubber corpora
tons are determined that labor shall
not under any circumstance engage
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
MACHINISTS ELECT

At the last regular meeting Of the
Butte Machinists Union, the following
were elected to office
Jas. F. O'Brien, Business Agent.
Joe. A.. Boric, President.
Marcus Quinn, Vice President.
Gus Heinbach, Treasurer.
Harry Burke, Financial Secretary.
Chas. Lorenz, Recording Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1934-12-13
Have Courage To Boost Prices,
MIRA Plea

NEW YORK.-(FP) IL In very tiny
letters, the Natl. Code Authority for
the Photographic & Photo Finishing
Industry informs members Of the trade
that business in general is picking
up"
Somewhat more prominently it con-
tinues that prices for photography are
improving r IF you have the COUR-
AGE to ask higher prices"