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Evening star., 1936-05-16
Weekly Cotton Statement,

NEW ORLEANS. May 10 .0q,.-secre-
tary Plauches weekly New Orleans Cotton
brought into sight during the last week
totaled S0,642 bales, against 6o.SS7 last
Ssay and n. year before Last snee
bales, against 135. .o73 last year and 329. 426
year before last.
showed receipts at all United States ports
OF 6,149,22l bales against 4.297 .34S last
year and 7.337 .49S year before last; over
tomac Rivers to Northern mills and Cam
ada. 156,s45 bales. against 662.4s7 last
year and 766.s95 year before last; interior
Of the commercial year. 4oo.oi5. asainst
366. .o37 last year and 30S.312 year before
last; Southern mill takinss net 4.439. 900.
AGAINST 3,444 900 last year. $685.. 900 year
The total movement for the season from
f to sss year se and
3g7.705 year before last. according to the
.Foreisn exports for the week totaled
making 6 the total thus far 1od for the season
incSease WasYs Of lS59oeo sinss bales ~
cotton during @ & the week were 2l6;000 bales,
Norh before and last csnsda tooH
g.sr 5 .sa sSph yssr ssoPs last S3es5 s'
exclusive of Canada and orient. 1000.
against $1,000 last year and 1o2 900 year
last year ara and is.oo6J year year before last o''
Total takings of American cotton for
the season. 10. .95S. 900. against 9,3S6 600
last year and 1885. 900 year before last.
Of which North and Canada, 1901, 900.
against 1.316OO0 last year and 1.5O6. 600
3.667 900 last year and 4.147,OOO year
before last; foreign ao exclusive Of H Sanada ada
last year and 4. .s31 900 year before last:
Orient. 1,42L000. against 1.535,0O0 last
year and 1871 900 year before last.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 1O2
leading southern interior centers have de-
creased during the week 1852. against
a decrease during the corresponding period
last season Of SO. us and are now 26,660
larger than at this date in 1895.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
COTTON FUTURES
SCORE ADVANCES
Complaints of Dry Weather
and Government Plans
Are Chief Factors.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 16.-Cotton de-
veloped increased activity this week
on complaints of dry weather in the
Eastern belt and Washington advices
regarding prospective distribution of
Government financed cotton.
New crop months led the advance,
with October selling up to 1852, or
70 points above the low price reached
on the decline of last January.
Increased offerings were encount-
cred at this level while the demand
tapered of. but no aggressive selling
developed. with october closing yes
terday at 1919, compared with 1921
at the close of the previous Friday.
Increased buying was attributed by
some traders to a more optimistic
view of the prospects for American
cotton IN world markets.
Reports that the Senate had passed
resolution which, if concurred in
by the House, would establish a pro-
gram for sale of the Government loan
cotton over a long period, evidently
made favorable impression on senti-
ment, both locally and in Liverpool.
At any rate, houses with foreign con-
nectionS were among the more active
buyers here at the advance.
According to the Census Bureau,
domestic consumption for April
amounted to 576,762 bales, against
468,402 last year.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,

NEW YORK, May 16.-Eforts to
stair up a rally in today's stock
market met with little encourage
ment and prices, generally finished
with a moderately irregular tone.
Stimulus for substantial push in
either direction seemed to be lacking
and the volume of dealings dwindled
to around 350,000 shares.
Although buying demand was light
and spotty there was no great amount
OF selling pressure in evidence.
Columbian Carbon got up points
on few transfers and resistance was
shown by United States Steel, Chrysler,
Consolidated Edison, Montgomery
Ward, tSandard Oil of New JERSEY.
Sears Roebuck, United States Rub
Der, New York Central, Northern Pa
ciflc, Columbia Gas and North
American.
The mines were a trife heavy.
Anaconda, American Smelling and
United States Smelling losing a point
or so each. Rather backward also
were American Telephone, General
Mtors, Liggett & Myers B and Inter
national Harvester. Numerous issues
were virtually unchanged at the close.
Bonds were narrowly mixed. For
elgn gold currencies gave ground in
terms OF the dollar. Commodities held
to restricted area.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, May I6 1P-Cattle 3on.
caves, 100; compared Friday last week.
teo steers and yearlings after selling o5a
ou ioWer on bulk of weeks crop, closed
Sse1Sy SsedGy 70 % lower weighty steers showing
oeeine' most grades light steers, yearlings
and fed heifers active at close heifers
rullng strong 10 25 higher; late Comeback
on steers largely a forced affair big end
OF weeks crop selling at an average cost
OF I.IO, compared with sos week
Garner; dressed beef trade still sluggish
and market in no condition for sharply
increased receipts; extreme top medium
welgnty and Teighty steers 91Q; best long
yeariings. 800. Baby beef yearlings. S75:
feo heifers up to SIS, but very fat.
although rough weighty steers down to
z 30 and below at low time; cows steady:
bulls 10al5 cents higher. and vealers fully
= sheep. 1000; for week ending Friday
week, choice clipped lambs scarce. 25a40
higher; less desirable grades unevenly
steady to 25 higher, dull at close: clippeds
predominated in run: wooled lambs mostly
15a25 lower; aged classes. 50a1 90 lower:
Spring lambs about steady; late bulk clip
ped lambs grading good to low; choice.
9.S5a10.25; best earlier in week, 1850;
wooled lambs lacking some finish. 40;
Cali California sprinsers. II go 5oa1l IS; closing
4.50; best earlier in week. 5.25
HOGS, 1000. including 800 direct; no
good or choice hogs on sale; market nomi-
nal; best being quotable to $50, or about
in line with Fridays close: shippers took
none; estimated holdover 500. COMPARED
orally 50a60 lower; instances Of as much
weights; weights about $50 pounds Oh
packing soWs, 25a40 cents lower.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16-Cotton fu-
lures opened barely steady, 2 lower
to 2 higher on trade buying and
southern and foreign selling. May,
ll.63; July, 1l.39; October, 10.49;
December, l0.47; January, 10.46;
March, 1048
Orders appeared to be quite evenly
divided at the start. Brokers seemed
to be fairly well supplied with busi-
ness, but much of it was evidently on
limits, and fluctuations were narrow
during early trading.
There appeared to be a demand for
October just below 1850, with selling
orders for that position at that level,
and trade buying of May was supplied
by the pool at yesterdays closing
quotation.
Houses with foreign trade connec-
tions were buyers of late months,
while there was domestic trade buying
of old-crop positions and scattered
evening up of commission house COM
mitments for over the week end. At
the end of the first hour the market
was steady, within a point or two of
yesterdays closing quotations.
Liverpool cables said reports Of
continued dry weather in the Eastern
belt had prompted London and con-
tinental buying in that market which
had absorbed Bombay selling.
The amount of cotton on shipboard
awaiting clearance at the end Of the
week was estimated at $4,000 bales,
against $4,000 last year.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Washington Produce

Range of prices to stores. gathered from
wholesale dealers tprices to nearby ship
pers based on Philadelphia and New York
prices)
BUTTER-one-pound prints. carton t92
scorel. 70; l-pound, prints. carton go
scorel. 20: 4-pound prints. carton t92
scorei. y; tubs t92 scoreJ. 80; tubs 90
Scorel. %
MEATs-Beef, 1aa1s; veal. I6a17; lamb.
22a23. smoked ham. 25a26: fresh ham.
23a24; pork loin. 21a23: compound. l2A
LIVE STOCK--Hogs. lights. 9a9A; me-
diums. .9l4a9l2; heavies, sa9; roughs, 5a
112; calves. 5a9: lambs. Sail.
Prices paid Shippers-net FOB WASH
ington., BY the U. S. Bureau Of Agri-
cultural Economics:
EGGsLMarket easy to weak. Receipts
moderately heavy and prices on ungraded
nearby eggs y cent lower, Current re-
ceiDts. 19a19l2: hennery whites 2Oa2O1z
Government graded and dated white eges
Including grading and marketing costs): !:
y. extras, large, -: U. S. extras. me-
U S. Brown standards large o.
LIVE POULTRY-Market about steady
hs.vY hs UNCHANGED prices Fowl coorsd.
I3a14 Chickens: Plymouth Rocks ga
23; Leehorns. Iaa20: mixed colors l9a
21. Turkeys: Hens. 19a20; toms. 16a1s.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
COMMODITY EXCHANGE
TOCLOSE ON SATURDAY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-The Com
modify Exchange, Inc, announced
that trading would be suspended on
Saturday from June 27 to Septem-
Der S, inclusive.
The exchange provides futures mar
kets in copper. tin, lead, zinc, rubber,
silk and hides.
The Commodity Exchange thus joins
the Coco Exchange, where Saturday
dealings are omitted from May to
September. inclusive, and the Coffee
and Sugar Exchange, closed for the
short session from June through Sep
tember.
The Paris Bourse is closed SATURDAYS
from May to october. inclusive.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
NEW YORK PRODUCE.

NEW YORK. May Is GP.-Butter. H.
Cheese. 1877; quiet and unchanged.
Eegs 35 .964; firmer. Mixed colors spe-
cial packs or selections from fresh receipts.
.:}a24l, standald ds and commercial stand
ards. 22l4al2; frsts. Il Ia; mediums, 40
pounds 2OL4; dirties, No l. A. pounds, 90;
average checks. 1874; storage-packed f1rsts.
2194
Live poultry steady BY freight, all prices
UNCHANGED.
Dressed poultry steady, AL fresh ana
frozen prices unbalanced
Evening star., 1936-05-16
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK, May 16 0P.-Foreign ex-
change irregular; Great Britain in dollars.
1861: cables. i. e61a: 6o-day bills. 4.a5is.
France demand, s:5sh; cables. 6.5sA.
Demands = Belgium. 1923; Germany
free. 40.2S: reg travel. 1880: reg. 22.25;
Holland: 67.62: Norway. "a 90; Sweden.
Switzerland. 32.37; spain. LIZ. .66: Portusal.
4.52: Greece. .941a: Poland 1888: Czecho-
slovakia. 4.151a; Yugoslavia, go; Aus
rs: Argentina, 33.10n: Brazil. S,61n;
Toxic. 29.13; SHANGHAI 2a.95: Hongkong,
32. 15; Mexico City. 81 IS; Montreal in New
York. 99.75: New York in Montreal, 100.25.
Nominal.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
w00LEN BACKLOG GROWS.

NEW YORK. May 16 (R.-The Ma
tional Association Of Wool Manufac-
turers reports that the backlog Of
unfinished orders for mems and wom-
ems wear woolens and worsteds totaled
51.2l9.000 yards at the end of March,
against 37,122.0o0 yards at the end
of March, 1895.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
BALTIMORE STOCKS
Special Dispatch to The Star.
JOINS NEW YORK LIFE.

NEW YORK, May 16 P.-George
s. Van Schaick, former superintendent
of insurance of New York State. has
been elected vice president Of the New
York Life Insurance Co., it was an
nounced. Other officers were re-
elected,
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Liverpool Quotations.

LIVERPOOL, May 16 QP.-Cotton, 5000
bales. including 1,100 American. Spot,
good business done; prices 2 points higher
Quotations in pence: American strict good
middling, 7.2S: good hniddling. 6.9S: strict
middling, 6.7S; middling. 6.5S strict low
middline. 6.2S; low middling, SOB: strict
good ordinary. 5.83; good ordinary, 5.53.
Futures closed quiet and steady. May
6.23; July, sos; October. 5.76: December
5.67; January, 5.66; March, 500.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO. May 10 LP-Poultry live.
16 trucks: steady Hens. pounds and
less. q; more than pounds l9; Leg
25a27l2; Plymouth and White Rock broil-
ers, %; colored, "a; barebackS, 20a22;
Leehorn. %: roosters. IA; turkeys. 16a20:
heavy old ducks / 3; heavy young ducks.
IL; small colored ducks. u; small white.
10: geese. IL.
Butter, 1889; steady: prices un-
changed. Eggs. 30. 642; steady; prices un-
changed
Evening star., 1936-05-16
STOCK LISTING APPROVED.

NEW YORK. May is R.-The
application of Standard Oil Co. OF
Kentucky to list 2,604,80l shares of
common stock on the New York Curb
Exchange was approved by the board
Of governors. The stock has . par OF
$40 Q share.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
RUBBER FUTURES,

NEW YORK May 16 lP.-Crude rub
ber futures closed quiet, Las higher; sales,
No. l standard. 81 contracts. July, Is 81;
September. 15.91b; December. 1901;
March. 1612n. Smoked ribbed spot.
15.70n. Bid. Nominal
Evening star., 1936-05-16

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed barely steady. July, 893b; Sep
tember, 8.9lb; October, 8.72b; Decem-
Der, 8.55b. Sales, "a contracts includ-
ing switches. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. May l6 LP.-Following Is
the complete oficlal list of transactions in
stocks on the Chicago Stock Exchange
Evening star., 1936-05-16

Approximate Sales Of Stocks the n T. Stock Exchange
1l:00 A.M.------ 100000 1900 Noon-- $4,000
Dividend in the are the annual
based the decls
rations
Of trading tAnnual rate-not
Including extras tAccumulated dividends year
reQrRaQzed EX.diYdend
Evening star., 1936-05-16
NEW YORK BAR SILVER.

NEW YORK, May 16 R.-Bar sill
YER nominal. no quotation.
Evening star., 1936-05-16
Cottonseed Oil.

Spot quiet; middlins. 11.72.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02

Undisputed figures reveal that in the last half
of 1885 the profits of one hundred and twenty
large corporations increased al per cent. A
recent analysis shows that stocks listed on the
New York Stock Exchange have increased in
value thirty-one billion dollars during the last
three years. Unadulterated and wholesale pros
perity has thus hit stockholders who own the
nations industrial and commercial life. But to
declare "the depression is over" in the United
States when we have an army of over twelve
million six hundred thousand jobless workers
vainly seeking employment and their dependents
suffering for the comforts of life is an exaggera-
ton not based on the actual condition of the
people generally.
Such a statement would be received with ap-
plause at a convention of stockholders, bond
holders and business men, but if made before an
audience composed of the masses of the Ameri-
can people, including low-paid wage earners and
the unemployed army the enthusiasm would in
all likelihood not raise the roof.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02
Over For Whom?

Louis K. Liggett, president of the United Drug
Company, is optimistic. He declares "it is safe
to conclude that the depression is over" In
other words, prosperity is here instead of just
around the corner.
Evidently Mr.. Liggett excludes a very large
number of working men and women from his
survey.
According to the reliable estimates of the
American Federation of Labor, there are now
over twelve million six hundred thousand able
bodied unemployed adults in the United States,
three million five hundred thousand of whom
would be on relief rolls if they did not have tenn
porary Subsistence wage" jobs under the Works
Progress Administration financed by the $4,O00,-
100000 work relief program enacted by the last
Congress. In addition to the twelve million six
hundred thousand unemployed adults there must
be taken into consideration their dependents,
millions of whom are compelled to exc out a pre-
carious existence on relief doles.
So far as the employed workers are concern
ed, industrial employers reduced wage rates one
cent per hour during the last half of 1885 and
increased the length Of the average work week
three hours, which made it possible to throw an
additional million workers into the unemployed
army.
1t is plain that Mr.. Liggett limited his the
depression-is-over statement to people who do
not earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02
CRIMP PUT IN GAG
BILL

WASHINGTON.-The Tydings- Nc
Cormick military disaffection bill,
which has been widely condemned by
newspaper editors as threatening a
free press, was given a severe blow
last week, when Senator Willard Tyd-
ings, Democrat, Maryland, its sponsor
in the Senate, withdrew his support OF
the bill.
His action called forth emphatic APP
proval in the House. Congressman
Maury Maverick, Democrat, Texas,
stuanch foe Of the measure, said. "lt
is now in a good way to be defeated
| feel sure the Supreme Court would
kick out the bill as unconstitutional, SC
why waste time on it in the House?"
Declared Congressman Byron N.
Scott, Democrat, California Il think
Mr.. Tydings did absolutely the right
thing in withdrawing his support Of the
bill-I'm sorry it was introduced in the
first place" Congressman Oliver w
Frey, Democrat, Pennsylvania, voiced
his approval OF the Maryland senator's
action and added; "Such legislation
not only is unnecessary, but is an in
suit to the ability and intelligence OF
our army and navy"
This bill, which provides a fine or a
prison sentence for anyone saying or
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02
Foolish Industrial Dictatorship

The folly of a management policy which inn
poses an arbitrary industrial dictatorship on en-
ployes is p%ointedly illustrated in the events lead
ing up to the strike involving around $4,000
workers employed by the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio.
The living which working men and women
buy with the wages they are paid for the use
of their labor power depends on the length of
the time they are employed. Steady employ
ment means steady purchasing power and the
ability to keep the stream of necessaries which
make up a living flowing with a certain degree
of regularity. Intermittent employment dis
rupts this regularity and requires readjustment
of budgets. 1t is only fair, therefore, when
management concludes it is necessary to impose
layoffs that the workers should be given ade-
quate notice to this effect.
In the Goodyear plant a large number of tire
makers resented layoffs without warning and
insisted that they be preceded with a two or
three days notice. A sit-down strike emphas-
lied their a%nimosity against this practice.
Without going into details, the factory-wide
strike which brought thousands Of other work
ers into its area, with mass picketing, injunc-
tons, and all the other elements that usually ac-
company the belligerent refusal Of employers to
deal fairly with their employees, grew out of this
absolutely silly policy Of refusing to give the
workers adequate notice regarding impending
layoffs.
The United States Congress in the Social Sec
urity Act passed last year makes generous pro-
vision to assist the States in caring for unfor-
Inmates who have lost their physical eyesight.
Evidently many industrial managers require
some sort of assistance to correct their spiritual
myopia when it is a question of establishing per-
sonnet policies based on justice.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02
MACHINISTS DENY CHARGE

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Charges
that the International Association of
Machinists is attempting to usurp juris-
diction of the Tobacco Workers In
ternational Union in the Brown, Will
hanson and Axton-Fisher plants were
Indignantly denied here by Harvey
Brown, vice president of the I. A. M.
Brown said that all the l. A. M. is
asking the National Labor Relations
Board is the right to bargain for the
men they represent. He stated the
Tobacco Workers, who ask exclusive
bargaining rights in the plants of the
two companies, negotiated an agree
ment in 1884 with the Brown, William
son Company which specifically ex-
cludes the machinists. He said that of
the 1871 machinists and maintenance
men in the Brown, Williamson plants,
1853 belong to the /. A.. M. In the Ak
ton-Fisher plants 3S of the AZ eligible
members belong to the machinists' or
ganization.
The dispute between the Tobacco
Workers and the |. A. M, nov before
the N. L. r. B., arose when the to-
Ibacco workers claimed the sole bar
gaining rights in the cigarette plants
OF Axton-Fisher and Brown, William
son Company. The /. A.. M. contends
shop committees have gone to the ma
chinists and told them to join the
|. A. M.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02

printing anything that could be judged
as criticism of the war and navy de-
partments, passed the Senate last sum
mer. A steamroller of editorial pro-
test followed, and a few weeks age
Secretary of War Dern stated he was
no longer in favor of the bill.
Senator Tydings then wrote to Dern
saying: Nov that you have stated
that you are not interested in the pas
sage of the bill, neither am l, and
wish to withdraw any support or any
connection with the matter whatso-
ever. l have never been an advo-
cate Of bills restricting freedom Of
speech"
Frederick J. Libby, executive secre-
tary OF the National Council for Pre-
v%ention of War, issued a warning that
the bill may still come up in the House
and declared: Protests must con
tinue not only to make certain tina
this bill dies, but to discourage any
later attempts to pass such Legislation
destroying the Liberties of the people
Suppression of liberty is the forerun-
ner of war"
National Council for Prevention
of War.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02
Lowest Bidder Policy Injuries Labor

The urgent need for promptly enacting the bill
sponsored by Senator Walsh and Representative
Healy now before Congress authorizing the Gov
eminent to include fair work conditions in Gov
eminent contracts is we'll illustrated in the re-
cent attempt of the Q%uartermaster General of
the War Department to accomplish this object
indirectly.
In recent bids for 100000 pairs of shoes for
the Army, one bidder, in accordance with the
lowest bidder policy, obtained a contract for the
entire quantity on a delivery schedule that re-
quired the operation of his plant twenty-four
hours a day.
In a memorandum on the matter the Quarter
master General said "the price was so low" that
the contractor found it necessary to reduce the
pay of his employees working on this contract"
adding:
Such a condition would appear to be undes-
irable and might we'll result in other bidders be-
coming Disguised with their attempts to obtain
Army business to the extent that they will cease
to submit bids on our requirements. This would
leave our sources of supply limited and in case
of a national emergency we would not have a
field sufficiently familiar with the making of
Army shoes to meet our requirements"
Confronted with the Federal law which re-
quires that contracts for supplies or services on
behalf of the Government must, with certain
limited exceptions, be let to the lowest bidder,
the Q~uartermaster General conceived the idea
of ameliorating labor conditions in contract work
for the War Department by means of an inspec-
ton rule. He suggested the Insertion in invita-
tons for bids for the purchase of supplies a stip-
ulation that in factories which require the pres
ence Of a Government inspector no manufactur-
ing work shall be done unless the Inspector is
present, with the mandatory provision that "in-
spectors will be assigned to the contractors
factory only during the regular eight-hour work
day, schedule or shift generally recognized by
the trade, and with only four hours on Satur-
day."
This memorandum was referred to Judge
Advocate General A. w. Brown for an opinion
as to the legality of the proposed new specifi-
cation for contracts. He declared that while
the proposed provision is labeled inspection, it
is obvious from its context and from the state
ment of the Quartermaster General that it is
designed to regulate hours of labor on Govern
ment supply contracts"
Referring to the Federal lowest bidder statute
as binding, the Judge Advocate General ruled
that "in the absence of authorizing legislation"
the provision should not be included in Army
supply contracts unless the Secretary of War
determined that the limitation would be in the
interest of the Government as a contractor and
not result in increasing the cost to the Govern
ment beyond compensating advantages"
Under the Walsh-Healy Bill the Government
is given statutory authority to include in con-
tracts for Government supplies provisions that
will eliminate the sweatshop practices mention
ed by the Quartermaster General which con-
tractors impose on workers and will require
them to observe fair labor conditions.
Montana labor news., 1936-04-02

The season is at hand when we shall
see some of our most esteemed citizens
and some not so highly esteemed, either
viewing with alarm o. pointing with
pride"