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Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
LABOR NEWS IN
BRIEF

NEW ORLEANS. Up Almost
1,450,0O0 cam Of hamburger, stew and
soup stock have been put up during
the past month by the four meat-pack-
ing plants of the Louisiana Emergency
Relief Administration This food is
provided to persons on relief rolls in
addition to doles.
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BOSTON. - (FP) - Boston union
meat cutters and butchers agreed to
return to work after a strike which tied
up the wholesale market district, when
one of the largest wholesalers agreed
to re-employ the strikers. A majority
of Independents have taken back their
employees and others are expected to
follow.
MILWAUKEE-(FP) - About 900
employees Of the Boston Store, large
chain department store in Milwaukee,
continue picketing in full force as the
years busiest shopping season gets
under way. Truck drivers and build
ing service employees have walked out,
too. Strikers are demanding higher
wages, a closed shop and the check
off.
WASHINGTON. OPP Detect
ing honest doubt" in the attitude of the
Long & Harmon air line, the Postoffice
Department announced Dec. 7 that it
would not Immediately cancel the
.company's air mail contract for failure
to pay the National Labor Boards
wage scale for pilots. It gave the line
until Jan. l, 1885, to comply with these
wage requirements.
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WASHINGTON. - (FP) IT Indict-
ment of the Gulf Refining Co. by grand
jury at Philadelphia for violating the
labor provisions of the oil code is
hailed by the Oil Administration as vim
dication of its contention that the COM
pany resorted to illegal practices to
break a strike last summer at its Gil
rard Point, Pa, plant Many long
time employees were fired when they
struck and the company made those
scabbing work much longer hours than
the code maximums-as long, in fact, as
48 consecutive hours.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
NEWSPAPER GUILD
FIN DIS RICHBERG
BITTERLY HOSTILE

NEW Y~ORK.-FP)-Donald Rich
berg, President Roosevelt's first assis-
tant, has attacked the American News
paper Guild in answer to its request for
assurances Of impartiality in NRA
hearings on hours and wages.
Replying to Guild officials, who
asked for such assurance, Richberg
stated that he had given their letters
Consideration which it does not de-
serve. My own dignity and self-re-
spect may be important to no one ex-
cept myself. But, as a public official,
I have also a public responsibility to
make it clear that I do not respond to
insults, or yield to threats"
1--WE are more concerned with the
fair and honest administration of your
office than with your dignity" guild
officials replied. I'VE have no desire
to enter into a STOPPING contest with
a gentleman who is always tying his
shoe when there is a duty to be DONE"
Guild officials walked out of NRA
hearings in Washington when a de-
cision Of the National Labor Relations
Board ordering the reinstatement of
Dean Jennings, employee of The San
Francisco Call Bulletin, was reopened
at the request of Richberg's assistant.
The N. L, R. B. later reversed Rich
berg.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
ELECTION CHOICE BETWEEN UNION AND
COMPANY UNION OFFERED AT KAYNEE

WASHINGTON. Il (FP) Dis
missing claims of 20 union members
that they were fired by the Kaynee
Company Of Cleveland for union ac-
tivity, the National Labor Relations
Board has ordered an election. Al
though seeing in the company union
Employees Council plan persuasive
evidence Of interference with self-or-
ganization in a manner forbidden by
Section 7 (a)," the board allows it a
place on the ballot as well as the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers union. The
company's plant was recently closed
down by a strike.
Benevolent p%aternalism seems a
more appropriate characterization of
the negotiations than collective bar
gaining says the board, referring to
the company unions activities. 1t
notes that the company outfit wa
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
Company Unions Are
Revanped to Meet
Board Objections

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - While
the National Steel Labor Relations
Board and the steel corporations are
busy in Washington trying to put over
a new scheme Of company union rela-
tons on the nations 100000 steel
workers, the whole set-up of company
unionism is being revamped. The en-
ployes representation plans hastily
foisted on the steel workers in June,
1888, when the recovery act was passed,
are undergoing a second overhauling
to remove objections raised by the
steel labor board.
The newest effort, initiated by the
Wheeling Steel Corporation in its
Portsmouth, Ohio, plant, introduces
two new features into company union
ism. One is provision for meetings Of
the "plan"-the steel companies never
refer to their labor set-up as a union
or even as a company union-and the
other is for dues-payment, In hearings
in Pittsburgh, the steel labor board in
timated that the absence of meetings or
self-financing on the part of the en-
ploye representation plans indicated
that they were not organizations" as
required by Section 7 (a). The steel
companies are Fastening to add these
trimmings.
In the Wheeling Steel plant, a
sheet mill alliance" has been organ
lied and cordially received by the COM
pany. This plan provides for the usual
committee which can take up individual
grievances with the plant superin-
tendent, and can appeal to the COM
pany's main offices at Wheeling, West
Virginia, or even to the national labor
board. This satisfies the requirement
for collective bargaining, the sponsors
of the new company union maintain.
The alliances preamble states that
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
One YEAR AGO
In LABOR

TAMAQUA, Pa.-(FP)-More than
5000 miners Of the Lehigh Coal &
Navigation Co. in the Pennsylvania an
thracite fields have struck for equali-
cation of work among the company's
eollieries.
NEW YORK. OPP Only a gen
eral strike Of all organized labor will
get the 30-hour week, Pres. Thomas
F. McMahan of the United Textile
Workers of America told the U. T.
w. A. executive council. An emer-
gency convention OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to prepare for such
a strike was asked in a resolution
passed by the council.
President Roosevelt has issued an
executive order UNFOLDING the actions
of the National Labor Board and con-
firming its powers to compose all con-
flicts threatening the industrial peace
of the country" This is regarded as
Roosevelt's answer to the defiant at
titude of Weirton Steel, Budd Manu-
featuring Co. and other employers who
rejected labor board decisions.
NEW YORK.-(FP)-Athos Terzani,
framed for killing his anti Fascist
friend, Anthony Fierro at a Fascist
meeting, was acquitted after 81 minutes
elaboration by the jury. Nine labor
organizations had backed Terzani's de-
Tense and won the victory against heavy
odds, since the judge showed open
hostility to the defense throughout the
trial.
WASHINGTON.-(FP) Nearly
half the farmers are not needed to
supply even the present demand for
food, Sec. Of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace reports. Further scientific
progress will enable a still smaller num-
Der to produce as much as the market
now takes"
WASHI~NGTON-(FP)-Th Natl.
Labor Board has found its authority
to hold elections in industrial plants
fatty challenged by two of the most
powerful anti-union industries in the
country, steel and auto. The issues
arose with the refusal of the Weirton
Steel Co. and the Budd Mfg. Co. -
connected with the Ford Motor Co. -
to permit the labor board to hold cleo
tons scheduled.
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unions
are illegal and have no standing with
the Natl. Labor Board, Sec, Leiserson
Of the board informed members of the
Detroit Regional Labor Board.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
The Washington Scene
By Len De Csux

WASHINGTON. -(FP)- Liberty,
equality and fraternity were the trium-
plant slogans of the French revolu-
ton. They even had a certa in vogue
in the United States when the rising
businessmen had people on top they
wanted to unload; and before there
were Daughters of the American Revo-
luton to be so concerned about being
unloaded by the people below them.
Washington has just had an opportu-
nifty to hear testimony on the state Of
this trinity of the last revolution. Here
are some snippets from the record.
Liberty.
When the American Civil Liberties
Union brought some 200 people to
Washington from liberal, labor and
farm organizations for a conference on
Civil Liberties Under the New Deal,
some of the things they said we're:
"The record of industrial struggle
over the last year and a half shows a
nationwide attack upon the rights Of
workers to organize and OF unions to
strike and to picket. The list of those
killed and wounded while engaged in
peaceful strike activities is the longest
in years-over 50 killed and over 200
wounded. ....
"All the codes are administered by
employers associations, with a rare
representative of labor here and there.
Their labor provisions are thus in the
hands OF hostile orces."-Roger N.
Baldwin, director of the A. c. L. U.
Thousands of workers are walking
the streets jobless today because they
thought the NRA guaranteed them the
right to organize. But we are still
waiting to hear of an employer serving
a Jail sentence for denying his workers
the right to organize. Powers Hap
good, textile union organizer.
There is the most vicious suppress
sion Of civil liberties when it ZONES to
small rural communities. Vigilante
groups appear overnight. In small
towns one can't find lawyers who are
willing to risk taking workers cases.
. In most of the farmers ~organiza-
tions it is the big farmers who are in
the leadership. Our problem is to
convince the small farmer that his in
terests lie more with the farm worker"
Donald Henderson, United Farmers
League.
For southern tenant farmers and
sharecroppers, debt slavery has taken
the place of chattel slavery with very
little difference in conditions. The
farmer finds himself first pushed down
to a self-supporting farm, then to fore
closure, tenancy, and the status of ag-
ricultural worker."-Olive NJ. Stone,
formerly professor at Women's Col
lege, Montgomery, Ala.
"The unemployed relief workers
have the right to organize boat excur-
sions and dances, but not for struggle
on the job, not for improving job con-
ditions. The methods used by pri-
vate employers are tame compared to
the methods employed by the state
against organized unemployed.
Tear gas and bayonets are used at the
least ~provocation." - David LASER,
Workers Unemployed Union.
Any movements towards civil lib
critics in American colonies are eff
fectively stopped by the veto power of
governors, testified Senator Luis Mu-
nez-Marin OF Puerto Rico. Independ-
ence is the only solution, he said.
Equality.
Federal income tax returns show a
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

WASHINGTON. OPP Realizing
that questions of civil right have their
rights in economic conditions, the con-
ference on Civil Liberties under the
New Deal endorsed the National Con-
gress for Unemployment and Social In
.surance, which will meet in Washing
ton, January 81. The conference, rep
r%esenting q liberal, labor and farm or
CARNATIONS, as called by the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

started by the employer, who was able
to keep tab through signed petitions
OF which Of his workers voted for il
and which against; that the power was
turned off while the workers were
called to vote on the plan, and that
they were not allowed to discuss the
matter outside the plant.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

dole of $S1, 55S,oS1 paid in 1888 to 46
unemployed persons with more than
million-dollar incomes (more than
twice as many in this group than in the
year before, drawing nearly three times
as much.)
Federal relief figures show more
than 100000 unemployed working class
families subsisting on an average of
.$24.50 a month for a family of four
and a fraction.
Human equality: One work-shy mil
lionaire equals $500 working class fam
lies willing but unable to find work
or some 1880 men, women and chill
dren. Anyhow, he gets as much a year
on an average as they do.
Equality of opportunity Net prof
its of corporations increased nor than
$600,000,000 between 1882 and 1888
wages and salaries increased by almost
the same amoun in the same period,
taking both figures from income tax
returns.
fraternity.
Whatever may have happened to lib
erty and equality, fraternity has not
been forgotten by the government.
The National Industrial Recovery
Board has swung into action on the is
sue OF fraternity pins. Liberty and
equality are assured at least in compe-
titive bidding in the fraternity field by
the boards order staying the jewelry
code restriction on manufacturing, So
Letting or accepting orders for fra
ternity emblems.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03
five YEARS AGO
IN LABOR
(Dec. 1920, 1921

PHILADELPHIA. II (FP) - Since
publication by Federated Press of a
story exposing wages and working con-
ditions in the Philadelphia candy indus
try, two Quaker City firms have met
the minimum requirements for inclu-
sion on the white list of the Consum-
League. They are the Wilbur
Suchard Chocolate Co. and William
Vorberg. FPS expose was based on
facts compiled and released by the
Consumers League OF Eastern Pennsyl-
vania.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

ballot box to elect legislators opposed to the
sales tax, would prevent this ~iniquity from be-
ing saddled on those whose living standards are
altogether too low to permit further decrease
by this notorious form Of indirect taxation.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

NEW YORK. IL (FP) Under the
heading One Big Company Union?
The Guild Reporter predicts that the
publishers will try to form a company
union to fight the American Newspaper
Guild within 10 months. 1T will cost
a fortune but only a fraction of what
the guild is going to cost in getting
the pay Of trained newspapermen up to
that of mechanical workers." the Re-
porter adds. There amt no sech an
imal as an honest company union, big
or little"
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

WASHINGTON. OPP Govern
mental machinery will be used to settle
labor disputes at an earlier stage here
after through local boards, reports the
National Labor Relations Board to
President Roosevelt.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

Great thoughts, reduced to practice,
become great acts.-Hazlitt.
Montana labor news., 1935-01-03

unions
are illegal and have no standing with
the Natl. Labor Board, Sec. Leiserson
the board informed members of the
Detroit Regional Labor Board.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19
ICOVer HOLLYWOOD
By LLOYD PANTAGES

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 19.-Here's
something for the Arizona Cham
ber of Commerce to cheer about:
On location there, the director
of the Universal production.
stormy" sent a load of Indians
out into the desert to collec9 ct
tie snakes for a snake dance.
After but hours of wandering and
probing, the Indians returned
empty handed. Either the snakes
had just gone back to Ireland or
there weren't any. 5000, they
sent scout quickly to the mu-
scum at Flagstaff where they
loaned him two rattlers for the
occasion, but the moment they
were placed in the sunshine, they
swooned and died.
This anecdote from the Key
stone hotel picture should bring
up laugh from the diaphragm.
One of the Warner Brothers
beauteous ladies under stock con-
tract practically demanded she be
in the picture on account of be-
cause she had always loved the
dear old Keystone comedies and
mermaidS. So they said, "aykay,
little woman, providing you will
let us throw a pie right in your
face. before the camera, of
course" "Goodie," quaith she,
that will be too much fun
but, when they threw the pie in
her face. she promptly had hys-
tericS and doctor had to be
called to take care of her. BY
the by. in the same opera Marie
Provost "a very famous ex-Sen-
nett beauty got one in her face
and it was her first experience
after many years with Sennett
that she had ever had to undergo
such an ordeal. For her trouble,
the cardboard crust on the pie cut
her nose and made 1t so swollen
that she couldn't work for three
days.
In Hands Across the Table"
(Carole Lombard's new epic),
Miss L. has darkened considerably
her blonde treSSes which makes
her more beautiful than ever, if
such a thing is possible. Photo
graphically the effect is better
but primarily Carole changes it
because already in Hollywood
there are more blondes than you
could possibly shake q stick at.
Avery unusual thing happened
at Warmers the other day in Paul
Muni's picture, Enemy Of Man"
The Washington times., 1935-08-19
Smart Girl Is
Next at Met

Smart Girl" an up-to-the-min-
ute comedy drama starring Ida
Lupino, Kent Taylor and Gail
Patrick, comes to the screen at
Warner Brothers Metropolitan
Theater on Friday. August %.
This sparkling film tells the
story of two young sisters who
find themselves penniless with
the death of their father. To
their aid comes a struggling
young lawyer. Kent Taylor, who
becomes their protector. He falls
in love with one of them, Miss
Patrick, and marrieS her-while
Miss Luplno, who loves him, sets
out to make good ION her own"
Dramatic and hilarious situa-
tions follow this new angle on
the eternal triangle. Sidney
Blackmer, Joseph Cawthorn and
Pinkio Tomlin are included in the
cast Of this production, which was
produced by Walter Wagner for
Paramount release.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19

They started shooting one day
and then knocked off to rehearse
for a week before reshooting. The
reason for this procedure was
that in Paul Muni's two-picture-a'
year contract for the Warmers,
each picture must start at a pre-
else date before the cameras, or
else he gets an extra bonus. AS
this last clause took place August
twelfth and rehearsing had not
yet begun, they had to begin
shooting anyway to save them
selves dough.
The honor of number one
man" for parlor entertainment
falls into the lap of Frank Nc
Hugh. He can recite the lines OF
every character from that famous
old tear jerker, Honest Hearts
and Willing Hands," and what's
more, does it at the slightest prov.
ocation. add to the casualty de-
partment. Douglass Montgomery.
He was lolling in the wild waves
of our Pacific when along came a
surf board, unattached from hui
man hands, which promptly
konked him on the head, put him
out to the count of ten, and neceS-
STATED three stitches being Sewed
into his skull. Poor kid! Our
inimitable Harpo Marx has gone
dramatic on himself. He takes
off very soon with Paul LukaS for
Budapest where they will both ap-
pear in o musical. Undoubtedly
this time Harpo will open up his
kisser and give vent to song or
speech or what have you.
Copyright, 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1935-08-19
Welcome Home Is
Next at Columbia

Loud laughs are expected to
emanate from Loew's Columbia
Theater for a full week starting
Friday. with welcome Home" as
the screen attraction.
James Dunn and Airline Judge
head a cast that includes RoSina
Lawrence, Charles Ray, star of the
silent days, Raymond Walburn,
William Frawley. Charles Sellon,
Frank Melton. and others.
welcome Home" is called a
riproaring comedy of a small town
that has a big town atmosphere
all Of its own. Comedy reaches
its heights in this film when native
sons come from all over the world
to be honored, and among them
are four black sheep with get-rich-
quick intentions who start lots of
fireworks.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19

The contest, conducted by Inc
Times and the Earle Theater,
where Page Miss Glory is the
current attraction, brought a
wide response. Similarly, there
was a wide variation in the
names of stars presented. Most
difficult of the identifications
was that of Marion Davies body
which was supporting Dolores
Del Rios head in the composite
photograph.
Such divergent guesses as
Helen Lowell (she plays Dawn
Glory's mother" in Page Miss
Glory'D and Sybil Jason WAR
ner Bros. new 5-year-old SEN
sation) were included. One
entry, in an endeavor to present
all possible combinations, sub
mitted 48 entrieS-all in the same
envelope. More than IS different
stars were listed as owning
either one Of the figures or
faces.
In case Of ties, the judges Sc
lected the winners and the run
ners-up on a basis Of neatness
and skill of presentation, as was
announced with the contest
stories. The Is other entries
which came closest to winning
cash prizes will receive guest
tickets to see Marion Davies at
the Earle this week. All tickets
and checks will be mailed.
Ticket winners are:
Hilda siegel. 900 Maryland Ave. N. E.
William Bier, 1907 st. n. w.
1verna Fiber. 1713 Thirty-seventh st.
n. W.
Mrs. Lucy Garner, 1899 Spring Road,
N. W.
Selma GoldburE, Army Medical Lii
brary. Seventh and r Streets s. w.
Bette Black, S6o5 Thirty-first ST., Mt.
Rainier, Md.
Mrs. Ruth Heiser. 1925 Connecticut
Ave, N. w.
Jean Hofberg, 500 Twentieth st. N. W.
Jere James, 1101 l. st. N w.
Ruth Hege, 1882 Wisconsin Ave. N. W.
Jack Moran, $40 Maple Ridge Rd.,
Bethesda, Md.
Flora Renee scocca, aOs East Capitol
st.
Mary Louise Harty, S513 o st. N. W.
Doris Mary Paul, 1852 Park Rd. N. w.
Enid A. Bear, 2701 Fourteenth st. N. w.
Dorothea Harratty, 317 C st. N. E.
Rita Smith. 1925 Ellicott st. N. w.
Naomi FreilicOff, S43 Columbia Rd.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19
Lloyd Movie Gives
Workout to Medics

The Paramount medical depart
ment reports treatment for the
following members Of "The Milky
Way" company, at the end of a
week of the impromptu physical
encounters that are a feature of
the early scenes of the film:
Harold Lloyd, a bruised jaw as
a result of accidentally coming in
contact with the fist of Lionel
Stander, 165-pound former mem
ber of the University of North
Carolina boxing team.
William Gargan, an arm bruise
contracted in the same manner.
Adolphe Menjou, an abrasion OF
the left leg received as the result
of falling over a low table.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19

AtMonument

ShakeSpeare'S Romeo and Ju-
liet" will be presented by the
Bartfield Players of Washington
in the National Sylvan Theater
at the Washington Monument,
Tuesday. August 20, at o'clock,
with the same cast Of players
which achieved unstinted praise
for their respective performance
when the drama was given re-
Gently at Annapolis and at Cath
olic University here.
Directed by Esther Galbraith,
with settings by Howard Whit
field, and costumes by Christine
Stewart, the play will be offered
in three acts and a number of
scenes, which will be set simply
but effectively on the Sylvan
stage, with special lighting effects,
suggestive Of the mood of the
drama.
Leading roles will be assumed
by Edythe Lazaroff Goldman, as
Juliet; Howard Whitfield as Ro-
meo: Robert Duke as Marcutio;
Mabel Owens Wilcox as the
nurse; James M. Rawls as Paris;
A. L. Diket as Tybalt: Ted Freter
as Benvolio: Hugh c. Smith and
Esther Galbraith as Lord and
Lady Gapilet: Harry Crow and
Natalie White as Lord and Lady
Montague: Stanley Protheroe as
Peter; Marjorie Beall. Dorothy
Manning. William Gochenour,
Jack Robinson and others.
Reserved section seats and
chair-privilege tickets are avail
able at the A. A. A. ticket bureau,
the willard and Hotel Washing
ton news stands beginning Thurs
day. and may also be had on the
evening of the festival drama at
the Sylvan Theater, in the Monu.
ment Grounds.
The Washington times., 1935-08-19
MOVIE
CLOCK

FOX-George Raft, Alice Faye.
in Every Night at Eight"
10:45 a. m. 1894? 4:23, 7:12,
10 p. m. Stage-12:47, 3:46,
6:25, 9:14 p. m.
PALACE-Clark Gable, Jean
Harlow, in China Seas" 11:1O
a. m, lis, 1920, 5:25, 1880
and $40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-John Boles, shir-
ley Temple. in Curly Top"
1855 a. m, 1855. 3:55, 1855
and 9:50 p. m.
METROPOLITAN Karl off,
Marian Marsh, in 1.-THE Black
Room" 11:10 a. m, 1855,
2:40, 4:25, $40, 800 and GAS
p. m.
EARLE-MariOn Davis in page
Miss Glory" 11:OO A. M, 1:35,
4:2O, 7:O5, $3.50 p. NJ. Stage
-12:4S, $3.50, 6:15, 500 p. M.
RKO.KEITH'S-Robert Donat,
Madeleine Carroll in THE 80
Steps," 1855 a. M, 1855, 1855,
6:S5, 7:55, s:55 p. m.