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Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
Thirty-Hour Week Is Imperative.

With the totally unemployed workers number
ing eleven million and with over twenty million
persons on public relief rolls, the immediate en-
actment by Congress of the Black-Connery
Thirty Hour Week Bill becomes Of paramount
Importance.
The provisions of the measure, which has
been favorably reported by the Senate Judiciary
Committee and the House Labor Committee, are
simple. They prevent the shipment in interstate
commerce of certain articles and commodities in
connection with which persons are employed
more than five days a week or six hours a day.
In addition to establishing the compulsory
work week in interstate the bill adds
to its strength by making the shorter hours ap-
plicable to industries borrowing money from
Government agencies and to industries and to
their sub-contractors making contracts for serv-
ices to be performed with the United States Gov
eminent.
The measure also provides that the reduction
in hours shall be applied without reducing wages.
In urging the necessity for the enactment of
the measure to provide jobs for some of the huge
army of the unemployed the Judiciary Commit
tee says:
"We should no longer temporize with the
cancerous condition of unemployment which
is attacking the very vitals of our civiliza-
ton. We must choose between fostering
a vast regular army of mendicants and re-
adjusting our working conditions so as to
provide jobs for the idle instead of doles.
"a shorter work week and work day will
restore happiness and hope to millions who
will be given employment. The bill as
passed with increase production throughout
the nation. 1t will put idle men and idle ma
chimes to work. 1t will support our idle toll
ers with wages instead of taxes"
The committee estimates that the working
hours of twenty million workers would be regu-
lated by the bill with a probable reduction of rs
per cent in average weekly hours and that more
than five million men and women would be re-
moved from public relief rolls.
The Black-Connery bill will strike an effective
blow at unemployment. 1t is solidly backed by
organized labor. It's passage by Congress will
be an indication that our national legislators
understand the economic conditions which keep
millions of workers in the jobless army and rea-
lie that a shorter work week is the only ade-
quate remedy to provide them with work at de-
cent wages.
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
ANACONDA ENJOYING
TRADE UNION RE-
VIVAL
Gratifying Activity Being Shown
in SmeIter City.

ANACONDA, June 5.-(SpeciaD-
The Bartenders Of Anaconda have been
organized for about five months. Joe
Matelich is president and Gene Smith is
secretary. To show that this %organiza-
ton is to take an active and progress
sive part in the labor movement, their
recent action in supporting by financial
contribution the splendid program of
the building craftsmen in having a paid
business agent on the job at Galen and
Warm Springs to see that local crafts
men were employed and no unfair adj
vantages were taken Of local union men
by the contractors. Vincent Murphy,
member of the Electricians Union, is
the business agent selected to protect
the interests OF the several unions in
volved in the constructive work.
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06

Relief Administrator, Harry Hopkins
got $40 a minute for a talk near Chi
cago. He will pay unskilled workers
near Birmingham and Atlanta ten cents
an hour.
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
College Ends
a Successful Year

CHICAGO-The Chicago Labor Col
lege, sponsored by Chicago local unions
of the American Federation OF Labor,
closed a successful year with a labor
education forum May Is. Director Sam
Berger reported a total enrolment Of
$50 from 90 unions and $50 unaffiliated
students, ranging in age from IS to 90.
The most popular classes were labor
history, labor problems, labor %journa-
ism and Ralph Chaplin's course in lit
erature. Extension classes were con-
Quoted for local unions of machinists,
photo-engravers, el%ectrotypers, stereo-
typers, steel workers, millinery and poe
textbook workers.
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
Labor Demands Coal Sterilization.

The bill sponsored by Senator Guffey of
Pennsylvania providing for the sterilization of
the %bituminous coal mining industry is one OF the
most important labor measures before Congress.
1t declares the production, distribution and use
Of coal vitality affect the public interest and sets
up a National Bituminous Coal Commission to
regulate the industry in the interest of all
parties.
The hundreds Of thousands of workers who
mine coal are vitality interested in the measure.
In describing the terrible penalties which pres
ent conditions impose on the miners the report
Of the Senate Commerce Committee recommend
ing the enactment of the bill says:
The ruthless competition among opera
tors exerts an immediate influence on the
wages of the miners, the prosperity of the
mining communities and the standards of
living, of all who, directly or indirectly, de-
pend on the coal industry for their means of
support.
"Since labor represents 65 per cent of the
total cost of producing bituminous coal, and
since most of the other costs of production
are practically irreducible, the wages of the
miners constitute the field on which the
warning operators habitually fight their
never-ending, pauperizing, competitive bat
ties"
In commenting on the conditions which pre-
vailed prior to the codes of fair competition under
the National Industrial Recovery Act the CONT
tee states:
"In many of the most prolific coal regions
of the country the mine union was busted
and it's wage scales were annulled. Suisse
quently the miners wages were reduced to
starvation levels; and as a result of ruthless
competition a majority of the operators be-
came insoIvent."
With the bituminous coal code abolished by
the edict Of the Supreme Court declaring the
Recovery Act unconstitutional the prompt en-
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
A CONGRESSMAN
mi

By Hon. Joseph P. Monaghan

Dear Mr.. Editor: The following may
be of great interest to the readers OF
this coulmn, in view of the fact that
without design or premeditation my re-
marks on the Floor of the House oc-
cured at the same time the Supreme
Court held the Frazier-Lemke and NRA
Acts unconstitutional.
Were | to propose today that 9 men
in this Congress, or selected from both
the Senate and the House, be given the
power to nullify an act OF this Con-
gress, signed by the Speaker, the Vice
President, and the President of the
United States, | would be considered
mad. Yet the Congress of the United
States, back in the time Of John Mar
shall, silently acquiesced to just such
a proposal when John Marshall, in the
case of Marbury v, Madison Il CT. 1877,
decided that an act of the Congress,
under the authority Of the Constitution,
providing that the Supreme Court
should have the power to issue a writ
OF mandamus, was unconstitutional,
that the Congress had no such power.
Read through the Constitution of
the United States. You will find page
upon page dedicated to the rights which
Congress shall enjoy. The first article
Of the Constitution gives power to Con-
gress. The power of the Executive is
circumscribed only by the Congress, and
the power Of the Supreme Court is
limited by specific language by the
Congress. As | have before quoted,
the powers of Congress are sweeping
and all-inclusive. Those that are not
granted to the Congress are reserved
to the people and to the States, re-
spectively. The reason for the Amer
lean Revolution was taxation without
representation. Can you conceive of a
greater perversion of the principle Of
liberty which the fathers intended to
preserve and promote than nine men,
not representing the people, not selec-
ted by them, not responsible to them
for whatever mistakes they make, with
greater power than a king of old?
Inc Congress OF the United States was
intended as the sovereign, the supreme
governing power Of our land; and yet
the article which | have read from the
Washington Post this morning forcibly
brings home to us the fact that we, the
sovereign representatives of the people
of the United States, elected to declare
their will, which they may reject by de-
feating us at the next election, must
await upon the decision Of nine men,
whose %tyrannical power is no greater
nor no less than that OF a king in his
mighty castle Of old.
go. Jefferson said in substance Like
a thief in the night it has been con-
stantly, consistently encroaching upon
the liberties of our country, until event
ually there may grow up a judicial OBJ
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06

actment of the Guffey bill becomes imperative
for the protection not only OF the mine workers
but of the operators and the general public.
Its enactment becomes doubly imperative with
the threat of a nationwide strike of bituminous
miners on June 10 because OF the breakdown Of
negotiations between miners representatives
and operators for a renewal of the agreement
which expires on that date.
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06

Union Members Patronize Labor
News Advertisers
Montana labor news., 1935-06-06
CHEVROLET STRIKE ENDS

TOLEDO, O.-(FP)-With General
Motors down for a count of nine. Toll
edo Chevrolet strikers voted 1872 to 1856
~ less than half the strikers voting
to accept the company's minor conces-
sions ending their strike. While the
company agreed to meet with duly ac-
credited representatives OF its employ
es, speedup and seniority rights were
left for further negotiations, a short
er workweek was denied and a 54c-an-
hour minimum wage, instead Of the Zoe
an-hour desired, was established, an in
crease OF &c an hour.
The Washington times., 1935-09-17

A. J. DriscOIl mpany is
planning to operate the one-man
car throughout the city.
Charles w. Norris was named
to confer with the Washington
Gas Light Company relative to
removal of gas tanks from the
vicinity of G Street and New
hampshire Avenue.
John Ihlder, executive officer OF
the Alley Dwelling Authority, in
an address. said there are 200
squares within the District Of
Columbia containing Slum alleys,
, the closing of which is retarded
b. property owners demanding
exorbitant prices.
Government Attitude
He said that the Government is
not going to pour money into any
section simply to increase the
value of surrounding real estate.
There must be a financial return
for all areas taken over by his
department If alleys are to be
cleared a use must be found for
them. He suggested the erection
of garages or the extension OF
Fairgrounds. After July /, 1914,
no alley dwellings, by act of Con-
9ress will be in existence in the
District of Columbia.
New members elected were
George T. Malone, George Kato-
paths, and w. L. Plaugher. Rob-
ert D. Lyons, president, presided.
The feasibility Of widening and
otherwise improving the Defense
Highway in order to eliminate
existing traffic hazards, was urged
by the Interfederation Of Citizens
Associations, at last nights meet"
ing in the United States Chamber
Of Commerce Building. -
The request came from Stephen
James of Montgomery county,
Nd, who pointed out the exceed
ingly large number of accidents
that have recently occurred.
Conference Chairman William
c. Hull, of Arlington county. Va,
appointed Mr.. James, Jesse C.
Suter, of the District Federation;
Robert Plymale, of Arlington
County Federation, and Burdett
Fighter and John S. White of the
Prince Georges county, Md, Fed
Grafton a committee to report at
the October n 1eting.
A resolution by Arthur G. Orr,
Of Arlington county waS adopted
urging completion of Lee Boule-
ward, only two miles Of which re-
main to be paved leading to
Memorial Bridge. Copies of the
resolution were ordered sent to
Governor George C. Peery of Vir.
ginia.
Delegation Admitted
John S. White. of Colmar
Manor; Bert H. Wise and Fred
Nockel, of Cheverly; Blair Riggles,
Of Seabrook: L. A. Day, of Ed
monston: Burdett Fighter, Of Ard
more; Clifford L. Johnson, of
Bladensburg. and Alfred D. Baily,
president, comprise a delegation
from the Prince Georges County
(Md) Federation, admitted to
membership.
The delegation outlined as their
detectives extension Of New York
Avenue, elimination of flood con-
ditionS at Bladensburg, removal of
all traffic hazard along Defense
Highway, and erection Of county
hospital at an unnamed place.
It was voted to have the next
meeting Of the Interfederation a
dinner meeting. Chairman Hull
was directed to make the neceS-
sary arrangements. A resolution
of coincidence by Robert E.
Plymale, on the death of Frederick
E. Mann, of Arlington county, was
adopted.
The Washington times., 1935-09-17
Stamps Are Ordered
For Boulder Dam

Postmaster General Farley has
ordered an initial printing
of fifty million special stamps in
Concentration of the dedication
of Boulder Dam September %.
The stamp will be placed on sale
that day in Boulder City. New,
and will be available at other Post
offices throughout the country two
days later. It is expected the
President will attend the dedic-
atory exercises the day the new
issue makes it's debut there.
The Washington times., 1935-09-17
ONE-MAN CARS
OPPOSED BY
CITIZENS
BY A. ]. DRISCOLL
citizens Associations Editor

The use of one-man street cars
was vigorously opposed by the
West End Citizens Association at
The Washington times., 1935-09-17

It's lnlClal uleeU-
ing of the sea-
son held last
night in No. 3
police precinct
station. T he
motion was in
tro d u c e d by
C h a RI es H.
Raub, who de-
clared the cars
were not only
a menace, but
greatly retard
traffic. He as
serted the Cap
ital T ra n S / t
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25
Year in Pen for
Dick Bosquez
Mexican Who Shot COuntrUman, on
. Plea of Guilty, Given Year.
MAY Be DepOrted.

Richard Basquez, a Mexican beet
worker who, some three weeks ago
shot and wounded another MeN-
can named Joe Gomez, on Satur-
day appeared in district court be-
fore Judge Robert c. Stong, with
drew his previous plea OF not
guilty and entered a plea Of guilty.
Judge Stong sentenced Basquez
to serve n year in the state
prison at Deer Lodge and made a
recommendation that Basquez be
deported to Mexico.
Tuesday BaSouez was taken as
far as Billings by Deputy Sheriff
John L. Scott, where he was turn
ed over to Sheriff Junior Spear,
who escorted him to the state
prison at Deer Lodge.
From Deer Lodge Sheriff Spear
went on to Helena. where he pro-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25
VOTE SATURDAY
ON CORN-HOG PLAN
Whether To Continue COrn-Hog
Adjustment Program
After Nov. 80.

Plans are complete for Big Horn
County's participation in the ma
ional referendum on the AAA
Corn-Hog program, next Saturday,
according to Geo. w. Gustafson,
county extension agent.
The question upon which the
producer of corn andor hogs Will
vote is, DO you favor the Corn
Hog Adjustment Program to fol-
low the 1885 program which eX-
pires November 80. 1885?
It was emphasized that all pro-
ducers of corn or hogs may vote
regardless of whether they have
participated in AAA programs in
the past.
The Corn-Hog allotment COM
mittee has been informed by G.
B. Thorne. director of the division
Of livestock and feed grains OF
the AAA, that the Corn-Hog pro-
gram will be abandoned unless a
substantial majority OF the pro-
ducers vote for it's continuance.
The polling place in the county.
Saturday., will be at the county
agents Office in the court house
1T Hardin. The polls will be open
from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. Those de-
string to vote by mail may do So
by mailing their ballots to the
county agent or Hubert Hobson.
chairman of the Big Horn county
allotment committee.
w. H. Furman and Isaac Cham
bers. ranchers from the Kirby
country were here last Saturday.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

William Brock brought in a
flock Of Antler sheep for Ship
ment from Rowley, Tuesday and
returned to his Wyola home ranch
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

cured requisition papers for H. G.
Minney. now at Shelton, Wash
ington, and wanted on a larceny
charge.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

C. B. Schneider and son-in-law,
Jim Durkin, returned Sunday from
Gardner, where the day before
each bagged an elk.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

Two good, used cream separ-
ators, price $500 and $4,000 at
Elder Hardware Co. If
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

Lloyd Snyder, agent for the
Burlington at Moorcroft, WyO.,
spent the first of the week with
his family in Hardin.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our sincere
thanks to all our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and
beautiful floral offerings extended
us during the bereavement of our
beloved father and brother.
THE CODENYS CHILDREN.
MI. and Mrs. AL CODENYS
and Familv
Mr.. and Mrs. CERIL CODENYS
and Family
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. SMITH
and Family.
If YOU draw a number you may
get an antelope after Nov. l.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25
Farmers Show
Keen Interest
Meetings Explaining New Wheat
Contract Are Largely
Attended.

The fine attendance at the edu-
cational meetings being held IN
the county. this week, by the Big
Horn County Wheat Growers as
ISOLATION to explain the new wheat
contract is an indication of the
desire on the part of the wheat
producer to continue the program
of adjusted production. according
to Geo. w. G~ustafson, secretary of
the association.
Meetings have been held at
Lodge Grass, Hardin and Decker,
each attended by a large majority
of the wheat producers. The final
meeting will be held at Pryor next
Monday evening, at 7:3O.
Beginning next Monday wheat
producers may sign applications
for a wheat contract at the Office
OF the county agent in the court
house at Hardin. Washington. D.
c. has set November 18th as the
deadline for all applications to be
signed up. In order to avoid con-
gestion and confusion in the sign
up campaign, wheat producers
having old wheat contracts will
be asked to come in on definite
days, ARRANGED according to sched-
ule. Notices will be sent out stat
ing the day when they shall come
in to sign up. Farmers are asked
not to come in to sign up until
they receive such notices. Pro-
ducers who have not had a 1883
1885 contract may come in any
time and file a request for an
application for contract.
The county allotment committee
CONSISTING of Ed Torske. C. P. Dav-
idson and Joseph Graham are in
charge of the sign-up campaign.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-10-25

w. H. Furman and Isaac Cham
bers. ranchers from the Kirby
country were here last Saturday.
The Washington times., 1935-03-12
COTTON F ALLS
ANOTHER So

NEW YORK, March IL QN.SO.
Cotton prices cracked at nnid-Ses-
sion today, dropping another 50
a bale on top of yesterdays head
long crash. Washington reasSur-
ances that the crop control pro-
gram it not to be modified had
resulted in small gains, but quota
tions melted away in the ensuing
liquidation.
A deluge of buying orders
entered the market after the open
ing. Purchases were made for
Far Eastern accounts, the trade,
Wall Street, and the mills. The
South, Liverpool, and spot houses
were on the selling side, with scat
tered liquidation also coming from
European continental interests.
General rains were reported
over the entire cotton belt, rang
ing upwards to more than an inch
around the mouth of the Missis-
sippi.
Towards noon May was quoted
at ILL, up 7; July 11.22, up II;
october 1884, up 8, and Decem-
ber 1892, up IL.
The Washington times., 1935-03-12
IT'S MANNES,' j
NOT MANASSAS

NEW YORK, March IL I.N.S0.
"SO's that the reason for all the
telephone calls asking me 'hOw's
Jack Dempsey today"
Bernard M. (not "Manasses~
Baruch, termed unofficial Presi-
dent of the United States" by
the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit radio priest, settled back
in his chair and laughed heartily.
Mr.. Baruch arrived at his office
today, considerably puzzled at the
phone calls, to find a group Of
reporters awaiting him. They
asked:
did you hear Father Cough
lin last night?"
"NO, I didn't"
He was shown transcript OF
the priests radio speech, assail-
ing him as one of a "wrecking
crew of international bankers"
stating his name was Bernard
Manassas Baruch;" and likening
him to the biblical Prince
Manassas who was Scorned by
the prophet Isaiah. Because he
had neither heard nor read the
speech Mr.. Baruch would not dis
cuss is. He said with a chuckle:
"That isn't my name. The
middle name is Names. / got
it from my father, who remem-
bered it as the name Of an old
Carolina gentleman who gave
him money to buy his first
Confederate uniform"
The Washington times., 1935-03-12
Coughlin, Johnson Set
For War OfEpithets

suite in the Willard Hotel, where
he remained today.
"Kingfish" Is Next
LouiSiana's self-sty1ed "King-
fish" is due to hit the ceiling
next, and to express himself in
characteristic fashion on the way
up and down.
Meanwhile, Father Coughlin
has announced it as his purpose
to use part of the huge fund
which flows into his political
treasury in the wake of his
broadcasts to establish a perma-
nent lobby in Washington to
fight for the political program
embodied in his plan for "a
greater measure of social justice" :"
Although lobbies are an old
story to Washington, and church
groups as well as other religious
organizations and social idealiSts
have maintained headquarters
here for many years, this will be
the first time-if the Coughlin
plan is carried out-that one man
has financed and directed a lobby
for the purpose of promoting a
political program born Of an
idealistic impulse.
General johnson is awaiting
the response to his own appeal for
funds to carry on his crusade to
exterminate the other two as
public political enemies No. /
and No. g"
Unlike Father Coughlin, who
gets his funds from admirers, and
Huey Long, who has a free forum
in the Senate and doesn't need so
(COntinued on Page 8, Col. y
The Washington times., 1935-03-12
HOUSING GETS
2 BILLIONS,
U.6.-BACKED
lnsuranIe Companies to Lend
for BiiIding Homes Cost
6 i19 Around $4,000
III EARL GOODWIN

The announcement of a two
billion dGllar investment in hous-
ing projects all over the coun'
try, by Privately financed organ1-
zations, IS expected to be made
this weet by sources close to the
White Eouse. possibly by James
M. Mofftt, Federal Housing Ad-
ministrat6r.
The details are now being
whipped into shape, and the
greatest Importance is attached
to the announcement as the
facts, which are soon to be MADE
public, Indicate to the Admins
tration leaders that a period OF
optimism. among bankers and
insurancs company presidents is
apparently succeeding the IN
tensely conservative and pessimis-
tic months which have just
passed.
The argest insurance COM
panies, among them the New
York Life, the Prudential and
the Equitable and several others
which have about two billion
dollars tn cash now lying idle,
have been "sold" on the idea OF
lending this money on houses
and housing projects, the mort
cages to- be insured under Title
3 of the Federal housing act,
which leads money on MORTGAGES
up to 80 per cent Of the value.
Victory for Housing
When this occurs, it will be a
victory 1or that section Of the
business and financial world
that has maintained that the big
housing drive under the auspices
of the Government should be a
drive tc, shake loose the IDLE
private funds, and not put the
Government into competition
with pirate builders.
Coincilental with this develop
ment in the insurance field, the
National, Retail Lumber Dealers
Association has circularized Con-
uress with There are right now
prospects for 5000, 100000 Of house
buildings as soon as we can ar
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