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Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
SHEA FROM


Delegates at the Trades and Labor
Council were pleased to welcome Ell
mer Shea, Representing the Govern
ment Employees union, back to his
usual seat in the Trades Council
last Tuesday.
Elmer received a compliment
from the people of Silver Bow
County in the last primaries when
he won the democratic nomination
for Clerk of the District Court. He
has been away for several weeks
on a trip to the coast during part of
which time he was a patient at the
Portland Medical Clinic. Mr.. and
Mrs. Shea left here just after the
middle TO August and drove to the
coast cities. After leaving the hos
pital they both continued on their
journey to California.
In visiting the motion picture thea
tres on the coast, Elmer stated Roos-
evelt was the most popular of the
two presidential candidates because
when his picture appeared on the
screen, he was loudly applauded,
while his opponent received a rev.
erse kind of a reception.
In speaking of the Boulder dam,
Mr.. Shea stated that it was one of
the most immense hydro-electric
power plants in the U, S. and that
enough power could be generated
there to supply power for all of Cali
fornia, Utah and Nevada. A press
dispatch recently stated that Presi-
dent Roosevelt turned a switch in
Washington which started the first
generator. Los Angeles is to re-
ceive its power from this plant.
The union members presumably
aren't any different from other type
of folk and that they like to hear
stories of these returning Marco
Polo'S.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Hearst Record Shows
He Condoned As
s~assinati0ns In 1901

NEW Y~ORK-(FP)-
"The bullets that pierced GoebeI's
breast
Can not be found in all the West.
Good reason, it is speeding here.
To stretch Mckinley to the bier"
These lines of Ambrose Bierce,
published in The New York Journal
IS years ago, give eloquent proof
that the violence of William Randol-
phi Hearst's attacks against Pres.
Roosevelt, the New Deal, the brain
trust, labor, pacifists and Commun-
lists had its start early in the pub
lisher's yellow-journalism career.
The verse was published just a
few days after Gov. Goebels of Ken
lucky had been slain by the bullet
of an assassin. 1t followed a long
piece by Arthur Brisbane, No. l
Hearst columnist and expert on gor-
illas, in which he condoned the as
sassinations of Alexander the Great,
King Charles l of England, Caesar
and Abraham Lincoln as having a
beneficial effect on human progress.
Most outspoken of all was Hearst's
published comment on McKinley's
reelection victory.
IF bad men cannot be got rid of
except by killing, then the killing
must be DONE" The New York Jour
nal said editorially. But so bold was
the statement that it was eliminated
from the paper after its first edition
had been run off the press. When
Mckinley was assassinated at Buff
falo in September, 1901, his killer,
the fanatic Leon Czolgoss, was re-
ported by every New York paper but
Hearst's to have been carrying a
copy of Hearst's Journal in his pock-
ct.
The Hearst record in 1901 strang-
ely resembles the current Hearst
appeals for vigilante action under
the mask of protecting the constitu-
ton and enforcing law and order.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
:. FRAME GIVES
TOWNSEND TALK

Townsend Club No. 2 met Mon
day evening, September l4th at Low
ell Avenue Church. Attorney S
Frame was the speaker, he gave e
very interesting talk on the Town
send Plan. The Social Committee
had a good program, followed by q
luncheon and had a large attend
ance.
Townsend Club No. l met in re-
| gular session at the Y. M. C. A., Sep
TENDER 18th with M. j. Doepker in
the chair.
Albert st. George was elected
Treasurer in place of Mrs. E. B. Gin
CHI who had resigned two weeks age
because of i'll health.
An instructive and inspiring adj
dress was given by Mr.. Paul Rea,
State Manager of the Townsend plan
in Montana, relative to the merits OF
the Transaction tax plan of financing
the Townsend plan for old age sec
urity. Mr.. Rea spoke to a crowded
meeting and his remarks yer en-
Enthusiastically received. He intends
to remain in Butte until after the
election, with offices in the Owsley
Block.
Great merriment was caused by
the unique method used in auction
ing off a cake, after which refresh
ments were served.
The meeting adjourned by the re-
cital of the Townsend pledge by al
present.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
JACK DRISCOLL IN POISON

James Graham, president of the
Montana Federation of Labor sent
Jack Driscoll, vice president of the
Federation and business agent of the
Workingmen's union, to Poison on
some union business Tuesday after
noon so that Jack was absent from
his usual seat in the Trades and La
Dor Council.
A very active federal labor union
has been operating in Poison for
quite a while and now that the Mon
tana Power has started operations
there in relation to the power pro-
ject, there will be much union ac-
tivity in that area in the coming
| months.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

Washington-(FP) - Two weeks
after the American Federation of La
Dor executive council announced sus-
pension of unions affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton, the c. l. o. had on record pro-
tests against the action from scores
of unions throughout the nation.
Included were 10 of the IL commit
tees unions, three international I'M
ions, a state federation of labor,
many central labor bodies and thur
dreds of local unions"
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Remington Rand
Violence Is Not
Caused by Strikers
Private Detective Employed BY
The Company Held Response
BILE For Sycracus Riot"
A. F. of L. News Service.

By A. F. of L. News Service.
Syracuse, N. Y. = The continued
arrogant refusal of the Remington
Rand Company to deal with the duly
authorized representatives of their
organized workers, along with clev-
er retaliation against those on strike,
is assigned by labor officials as the
real cause of violence that has oc-
cured.
Following a disorder here, ir
which two policemen and two others
were injured by iron balls thrown
at them, twelve persons were arrest.
ed and charged with melting to rio
and expressions of city officials in.
dictate that they support the labor,
batting concern which manufactur.
es office equipment.
AS indication of the trickery in.
volved, affidavits we're given out by
Clifford H. Scarf, attorney for the
striking workers, in which it wa,
charged that the trouble was preci
plated on a signal by a guard" of
private detective agency" severa
of whose men r employed by the
Remington-Rand Company.
Strikes r under way in differenr
plants of the company and disord-
ers of a similar nature have been re-
ported from different localities. L
is stated here that the company i.
moving some of its special equip.
ment from the plant at Norwood
Ohio, Cincinnati suburb, to lion
N. Y. While the company is attem
pting to operate its plants with
strikebreakers, the organized work
ers are holding firm in their demand
for union recognition and collective
bargaining.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
DEATH OF GOVERNOR FLOYD OLSON
Will REALIGN FARMER-LAB0RITE5

CHICAGO.-(FP)-The death OF
Floyd Olson, Farmer-Labor COVER
nor Of Minnesota and candidate of
his party for the United States SEN
ate in the November election, will
upset many calculations, it was
agreed here by Farmer-Laborites
Socialists and Communists who dis
cussed the situation.
Earl Browder, Communist candi-
date for President, was in Mime
apolis when Olson expired in the
Mayo hospital in Rochester. Com
munists are concerned lest the gap
left by Olson will weaken the
Farmer-Labor hold on Minnesota,
where both United States senator
ships, several House seats at Wash
ington, the Governorship and part
of the Legislature have been in that
party's hands.
On behalf of the Socialist party
national executive committee Sec
rotary Clarence Senior wired the
Farmer-Labor party of Minnesota
the committees sence of loss in Oh
sons death.
The national picture was compli-
Gated because Olson was apparently
relied on by President Roosevelt tc
swing Minnesota into the Demo
cratic Presidential column. The late
Governor Endorsed the New Deal
just before his death.
Under the surface and not for
publication there was, in many
quarters, a feeling that Olson had
in late years been more of a brake
upon the Farmer-Labor movement
nationally and perhaps in his state
than a help, though his vote-gettine
ability was not disputed. 1t wa
felt that Olson, more than anyone
else except the LaFollettes, was re
sponsible for the stalling and delay
that marked the efforts to put al
effective national Farmer-Labo
party in the field in 1886.
In his own state he was constant,
under criticism by Farmer-Labor
ties for building up a personal pc
litical machine composed of old
party cogs as well as of men anC
women that belonged to the party
to which he was ostensibly loyal
The Minnesota Union Advocate, or
gan of st. Paul's labor movement
was particularly outspoken agains
his flirtations with old-party poll
ticians. He was also under fire fol
soft-pedaling the radical planks il
the Farmer-Labor party state plat
form on which he had agreed t,
run.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
SANITARY DAIRY UNION
MEMBER

A settlement has been effected be-
tween the dispute of the Sanitary
Dairy and the Clerks union which
was caused by allegations of the
clerks that this dairy had delivered
milk to unfair grocery stores.
Through the adjustment that has
been made, the Sanitary Dairy
agreed to have its drivers become
members of the Transfers union
and to adhere to rules and regula-
tons Of the clerks and other organ
izations.
The Sanitary Dairy is entitled to
commentator for its friendly atti-
tude in settling what otherwise
might have been an embarrassing
situation.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
PROTECT YOUR OWN
CONDITIONS

1t has been alleged on very good
authority that 80 per cent of the but
ter that has been appearing on the
Butte market is made by low paid
labor who have been compelled to
work long hours. To those outside
of the labor movement but who real
ize the need of higher wages and
shorter hours in industry, the ap-
pearance of union made butter on
the market here, should meet with
high approval. In the ranks of or
ganized labor it should be met with
enthusiasm. Labor has pledged it.
self many times to buy products
that are made under union condi-
tons and where the hours have been
shortened to conform with the laws
of the state and with union regula-
tons.
Union made butter should in a
very short time have a monopoly of
butter in Silver Bow County. The
Bakery and Confectioners union and
the creameries which c~ooperated
with them in this matter deserve
the whole hearted support of mem
bers of organized labor and are to
be congratulated for bringing one
more product under humane and
progressive conditions. Wives OF
union members and other purchasers
loyal to the unions should demand
the following label which will ap.
pear on the wrappers of all unior
made butter.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
UNION MADE BUTTER
TO BE PLACED ON
THE BUTTE MARKET
Arrangements Made Between
Unions And Creameries Pro-
vide For Union Wages And
Union Conditions.
Public Asked To Buy Product

An event of particular signifi-
canoe to the trade union members
of Silver Bow County and for that
matter, for the state of Montana,
transpired recently through an ac-
ton taken by the Butte Bakery and
Confectionery Union and the Butte
creameries. Through the coopera-
tive efforts Of these two groups a I'M
ion product bearing the union label
will be placed on the markets Of
this community on Monday, Septem-
Der 21st.
This is the first time in the history
of Butte that butter bearing the I'M
ion label has been made. 1t is said
by officers of the Bakery and Con-
f~ectioners union that it is doubtful
if any butter made anywhere in the
United States except the n in
Butte bears the label. The Bakery
and Confectioners union is appeal
ing to all loyal members of the trade
union movement to purchase this
product.
Through an agreement signed by
the creamery firms and the union,
the creameries have agreed to pay
a scale of union wages and to re-
gulate their hours according to slip
ulations made in the contract with
the union. The whole procedure OF
placing union made butter on the
Butte market has been under neg
citation for several months, and
reached a climax on the first of Sep
TENDER when both parties signed the
agreement
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

three
federal unions in the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, formerly affiliat-
ed with the Natl. Council of Fed
eral Labor Unions in the Gas and
Coke By-Product Industries, have
voted to turn in their A. F. of L.
charters and accept membership in
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. They will have the status of
a provisional national district in the
U. M. W. A. The group based its
choice on the industrial union issue,
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

Stating that the request of the Sill
yer Bow Trades and Labor Council
for an increase of wages on w. P. A.
projects, would have to be referred
to Washington, Mr.. Joe Parker, State
Director, promised the committee
to see that the matter was properly
brought before the attention of Fed
eral officials according to an annou-
ncement made at union headquar-
tiers Tuesday.
Delegate Mullaney, of the Miners,
in making the report stated that the
Helena office apparently was in sym
pathy with the proposition but did
not have the authority to grant the
increase. The contention of the I'M
ions, in this matter, is that the work.
ers on w. P. A. projects in Silver
Bow County should be receiving a
rate of pay about 10 per cent higher
than they are now receiving and
which is allowed for cities with a
population of more than $4,000. In
official figures submitted to Mr..
Parker, the population of this dis
trict was shown to be in excess of
$4,000.
Secretary Grimes read a commu-
nication from the Bakery and Con-
f%ectionery union stating that the
men and women engaged in the Gre
ameries canning eggs and wrapping
butter had been organized into their
union and that henceforth butter
made in Butte will bear the union
label.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
La Toilette Sees Contempt of
Senate

When the testimony regarding
the destruction of the documents
was concluded Senator La Toilette
declared it disclosed the grossest
kind of contumacy yer witnessed
under a Senate subpoena" adding:
ut shows the grossest and most
fragrant contempt of the United
States Senate. AS far as the chair
man of the committee is concerned,
every legal remedy that can be
taken to punish this flouting of the
Senate will be prosecuted with
greatest vigor."
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
WatsOn's Report

The report by Rowland Watson
was included in Mr.. Green's state
ment.
Mr.. Watson found that two mem
bers of the American Newspaper
Guild employed for many years by
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer were
discharged for their union activities"
and that after appealing, without
avail, through representatives of the
State Federation of Labor, the Sea-
tile Central Labor Council, and the
regional office of the National La
Dor Relations Board for re-instate-
ment of the men the Guild placed
the Post-Intelligencer on the unfair
list and requested the Central Labor
Council to do likewise.
After a hearing, at which repres-
entatives of the Post-Intelligencer
refused to appear, the executive
board of the Council recommended
that the paper be placed on the UNI
fair list. The council adopted the
recommendation by a vote of about
$50 to three.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
YOUR NAME
APPEAR BELOW!

Houses. 2
The Clerk on has requested
that the fol y g names of persons
and the lie y numbers of automo-
biles be p ed in the Montana
Labor New relation to the cam
paign wifi union is carrying on
against u grocery stores. The
clerks III S eminently right in
this c%ontroveI sy with the grocery
stores. 1t has been brought out time
after time, that some of the proprie-
tors of these stores r among the
most fragrant violators, not only of
wages and working conditions but
of the most elementary human
rights.
There never has been any attempt
by the Clerks union to interfere with
the unpretentious little store oper-
ated by a widow or a worker seek
ing to exc out a living after years
of toll in industry. The following
cars stopped at the Athens Grocery,
COB Utah Ave, disregarding an I'M
fair banner that is being carried in
front of the door.
1-1657. Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Scan
nell, 301 South Jackson st.
1-T937. Tom Reardon, 228 West
Aluminium Street.
1878. August Brandenburg, AL
South Ohio Street.
1-7362. L. E. Haag, FOL S. Main
Street.
1-T1797. J. J. McKenna, I'll Evans
Avenue.
1-2714. VIM. Carpenter, 100 South
Emmett Street.
1852. W. ]. Rodger, 1911 Mon
roe Street.
1872. Fred Benoit, sos South
Montana Street.
1-2545. Leo Cook, 1405 Dewey.
1-5114. Jack Rudman, 701 Evans
Avenue.
1896. Frank Stroll 236 New
Street.
1-2268. T. Watson, 1115Ha West
Park Street.
1928. Hank Peterson, ST., 6221a
Nevada Ave.
1920. A S~callrone, 81 Harrison
Street, Meaderville.
1865. Ingersoll Rand, 800 East
Iron Street.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
Paper Suspends Publication

Picket Lines" Mr.. Watson said,
were formed around the Seattle
Post = Intelligencer the following
morning with the result that all
workmen, members of unions, refus-
ed to go through the picket lines and
the publication of the Post-Intelli-
gencer was suspended"
AS to alleged violence, Mr.. Wat
son said a little of it broke out when
a guard" with a criminal record,
discharged by the Post-Intelligen-
Ger, left the building. Trouble start
ed when the guard reached the pic
ket line, resulting in injuries to six
or seven persons.
In summing up his attempts to adj
just the dispute, Mr.. Watson said
that H. j. Kelly, general counsel of
labor relations for the Hearst News
paper Publishing Company, submit
ted a proposal consisting of the fol-
lowing statements:
Recognition of Guild Banned
The American Newspaper Guild,
Continued to Page y
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

Take me somewhere west of Suez,
where a gent means what he seq,
and you can sink your teeth in a
bloomin' bite O. truth But keep me
off the Landon special train.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

Hearst says he has lost $1,000, 900
publishing the Post-Intelligencer in
Seattle.
He oughta be glad the Seattle la
Dor movement shut down his paper.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

NEWARK, N. J.-(FP)-The New
Jersey state labor department has
closed a Newark sweatshop where
two women and seven girls are al
legged to have worked in a small con-
verted coal bin.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
DETECTIVE AGENCY
DEF|ES SENATOR'S
IN spy INQUIRY
Six Railway And Audit Inspec-
ton Company Officials Refuse
To Appear Before LaFollette
Committee - Records of La
Dor Spying Activities Are De-
stroyed.

WASHINGTON, D. Six Off
GERS of the Railway Audit and In
spection Company, a detective
agency with offices in New York,
Philadelphia, Atlanta, Pittsburgh
and St. Louis, defied the authority
of the Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee in its investigation of indus
trial espionage by refusing to obey
the subpoenas issued by the com
mittee to appear at the first hear
ing with the company's records and
documents.
Not only did the six officials flout
the authority of the committee by
refusing to appear before it, but, ac-
cording to testimony submitted by
the committees agents, officers of
the company began a wholesale de-
s~truction of the documents as soon
as the subpoenas were served on
them.
These astounding facts were re-
vealed at the hearing held here by
Senator Robert La Toilette, chair
man of the subcommittee author
lied by the Senate Committee on
Education and Labor to make the
investigation.
Court Ban Sought
The determination Of the com
pany to resist the authority of the
committee was made known by it:
counsel, who declared he had adj
vised his clients that the Senate
resolution under which the inquiry
was being held was unconstitutional,
and exceeded the Senate's power.
During the hearing it was learned
that Justice James M. Proctor in the
United States Court for the District
of Columbia had acted on the re
quest for an injunction, made by
L. Douglas Rice of Philadelphia, {
stakeholder of the company, re-
straining the officials from appear
ing before the committee. AL
though Justice Proctor did not is
sue the injunction, he directed the
defendants to appear in court foul
days later and show cause why &
preliminary injunction should moi
be granted.
Bales of Torn Documents
Salvaged
Despite the refusal of the COM
pany's officials to appear, Senator
La Toilette continued the hearing
by placing the committees agents
on the stand to tell how they had
in part circumvented the destruc-
ton of the company's documents by
requisitioning from building super
intendents the waste paper from the
concerns various offices and patch
ing the fragments together. Twelve
lSCSQ-LO6Gbll lCttC1S a1lQ AAiSlllO'
randa we're submitted showing the
spying activities of the company
while bales of other torn bits of pa
per have still to be fitted into com
plete documents.
First Glass" Man for Hooking"
One of the patched up letters wa'
from w. w. Groves, at Pittsburgh
addressed to G. E. Ivey, the Atlanta
manager of the spy concern. Much
of it concerned the placing Of
hooked men," a term of described
active spies masquerading as work
ers who go into industrial plants
with a view to learning labor Sc
crets and making friends with labor
leaders so as to ascertain in advance
what is going On.
The hooked man. in this case
was Mr.. w. H. Gray, whom Groves
said was experienced in hooking
and does a first-class job along this
line.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
By A. F. Of L. News Service.


Washington, d. C.-William Green
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, made the follow
ing statement regarding the investi-
cation of the Seattle newspaper
strike:
Following the submission of COM
plants by officers of the printing
trades organizations against the ac-
ton of the Seattle Central Body in
placing the Post-Intelligencer in Sea-
tile upon the Unfair List, I direct
ed the representative of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in Seattle,
Washington, Mr.. Rowland Watson,
to make an investigation and submit
a report. This investigation was
made and the report submitted.
1.-THE report states that the investi-
cation of Representative Watson
showed that the Seattle Central La
Dor Council acted in accordance with
the laws, rules and procedure of the
American Federation of Labor when
it placed the Seattle Post-Intellig-
encer upon the Unfair List. Efforts
to conduct 2 hearing upon the COM
plant filed by the American News
paper Guild and to promote a set
Element were made by the officers
of the Seattle Central Body before
formal action was taken placing the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer upon the
Unfair List. The laws of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor require that
Central Bodies take such action and
follow such a course before placing
any firm upon the Unfair List.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
A. #. of L. Cannot Interfere

I'm view of the fact that the Sea
tile Central Body conformed to the
laws of the American Federation of
Labor and acted in accordance with
the rights conferred upon it by the
American Federation of Labor and
followed legal and orderly procedure
the American Federation of Labor
cannot interfere. l have directed
Representative Watson, however, to
serve in every possible way in trying
to bring about a settlement of the
dispute existing between the mana
cement of the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer and the members of the local
Newspaper Guild so that industrial
peace may be reestablished in the
city of Seattle"
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
GUILD SUSTAINED
BY UNIONS Chief
Holds Central Labor Council
Acted in Accordance With A.
F. of l.. Laws in Placing News
paper on Unfair List.

Proposal Submitted by Officers
of the Newspaper Refused to
Recognize the Newspaper
Guild and the Striking Mem
bers Must Make AFFECT Sur.
render.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17
GREEN MAKES RULING in SEATTLE P..I. CASE
What IS HAPPENING IN The UNIONS

ence operations of the copper pro
ducing companies.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-17

The American standard OF
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.