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Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
CURLEE CLOTHES
ON UNFAIR LIST

The Curlee Clothing Company of
st. Louis, Missouri, is unfair to or
ganized labor. The unions at st.
Louis have asked the unions
throughout the country and espe-
cially the central labor bodies to as
sist them in their efforts to locate
merchants who handle Curlee
Clothes and send them the addresses
and names of such merchants.
The committee of the Central La
Dor Council was asked to inform the
merchants of the vicious opposition
of the Curlee firm to union labor,
and to request them not to handle
any more such garments. The APP
peal sent out by the Eastern unions
is for organized labor everywhere to
stand by the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers in their struggle for recog-
milton, fair play, rights, and justice.
The request of the st. Louis unions
has been placed in the hands of the
union label committee of the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
Tacoma, Wash.


Tacoma, Wash.
November 3, 1886
Silver Bow Trades & Labor Council,
Box 1877, Butte, Montana.
Dear Sir and Brother:
Under date of August rs, 1886, we
informed you that a strike was in
progress against the following Ia
coma Furniture Manufacturers, and
that their products had been placed
on the 1--WE Don't Patronize' list of
the Tacoma Central Labor Council:
F. S. Harmon Mfg. Co., Carman Mfg.
Co, Gregory Furniture Mfg. Co.,
Northwest Chair Co.
At the same time we advised you
that when a satisfactory settlement
was made we would notify you to
that effect.
We are now pleased to report that
the strike has been settled and a
joint agreement has been signed
providing for 100 per cent union con-
ditions for the following unions:
Furniture Workers, Upholsterers,
Operating Engineers, Building Serv-
ice Employees, Teamsters and the
Building Trades Council.
The firms named herein have
been removed from our unfair list
and are now manufacturing furni-
ture under 100 per cent union condi-
tons. They deserve your patronage.
Thanking you for your coopera-
ton in this matter, we are
Fraternally yours,
TACOMA CENTRAL LABOR
COUNCIL, H, S. McIlvaigh,
Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
WOMEN WORKERS
need ORGANIZATION

WASHINGTON (UNS) ~ Indus
trial organization is the MI solu-
ton for the problem of women in
industry, DR.. Theresa Wolfson, au-
thor of 1.-THE Woman Worker and
the Trade Unions" told the Capital
City Forum.
Pointing out that of the 100000
women in industry, only 100000 or
100000 are organized in trade I'M
ions, she said.
'The labor movement as it is con-
stituted can never organize women
workers. Most women in industry
are unskilled and the craft unions
have never interested themselves
very much in this problem.
1T is something the Committee
for Industrial Organization or some
other group must take up,
There are thousands of girls in
public utilities, thousands in insur-
ance offices, thousands in the auto
mobile industry who must be organ
lied if they are to become a part of
the a~rticulate labor movement-and
they must be organized along indus
trial lines"
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
FANS OBJECT TO THE
IL MINUTE QUARTERS

Keen disappointment has been eX-
pressed many times at the ball park
over the 12-minute quarters that are
being used in high school football
games. Nobody seems to know why
this particular innovation was put
into effect. Years ago the teams
used to play IS minute halves with
out a rest of any kind unless some
body was knocked out which was
quite frequent, but there was no
time out for this or that trivial thing
and there were no quarters to break
up the tension of the game. 1t was
just pillow right on for 35 minutes.
Later this was reduced to 30 minutes
for each half. Now it is down to "a
minutes for each half.
After all, spectators r needed at
football games in order to keep it
alive, but it seems that these recent
rules are not designed to increase
attendance.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

six depression years, jumping from
II, 1000 900 gallons in 1929 to more
than 100000 gallons in 1885. The
percentage of the states gas handled
by co-ops has grown steadily from
4.88 per cent in 1929 to 8.51 per cent
in 1885. In the same period the bust
ness of Standard Oil of Indiana, the
only private profit company now
leading the c~ooperatives, fell from
1888 to 1892 per cent.
The first gas and oil cooperative
in the state was organized in Cotton
wood, Minnesota, in 1921. In 1885
140 coop oil companies operating
1873 petroleum bulk plants were
thriving in both rural and urban
Minnesota. % new cooperatives were
organized and IS coop bulk plants
were built in 1895, according to the
statistics compiled by National Pc
troleum News.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
AMERICAN WORKERS
CAN HELP
Sir Walter Citrine Urges the
Value of Unity.

Warning sections of the American
Trade Union and Labor Movement
found unity for the first time for
ten years at a luncheon held in New
York on honour of Sir Walter CT
trine, General Secretary of the Brit
ish Trades Union Congress, and
President of the International Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions (reports the
American New Leader.
Present at the function, at which
Matthew Woll (Vice-President of
the American Federation of Labor
took the chair, were representatives
both of the A. F. of L. and the dis
sident Committee for Industrial Or
%ganization.
Representatives of American So
cialist organizations were also at the
table.
A plea for unity in the American
Labor movement was a feature of
Sir Walters speech.
A split, he indicated, would be a
calamity from the point of view of
the workers interests throughout
the world.
ut is natural" he said, that the
trade unionists Of other lands should
turn to the people of the United
States to help in the maintenance of
democratic institutions.
THAT has been the position on the
occasion of my last visit to the
United States two years ago, and to-
day the need is no less urgent.
There is a conflict Of ideas rag
ing in the world today. The cher
ished institutions which democracies
have erected after centuries of
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Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
FEDERATION OF LABOR
REJ0I(E5 OVER 8-H0UR VICTORY
Silver Bow Trades Thank Those
Who Cooperated.


Authoritative reports from the
Federation of Labor at Helena in
respect to the 8-hour amendment
state that the vote in 81 counties for
the measure was 97,674 for it and
81, lot against.
Some of the little farm counties
certainly did surprise the natives.
For instance Glacier gave 1,506 for
and only 1872 against. Big Horn
County gave the measure an even
break. Silver Bow County voted
3,7O9 for and 7,479 against. Ana
conda and Deer Lodge defeated the
corporation propaganda by favoring
the amendment.
The Federation of Labor ex-
pressed its appreciation for the re-
markable solidarity shown by the
unions of Silver Bow County in vot-
ing for the 8-hour amendment.
Jack Driscoll, vice president of the
organization, in making an an
nouncement, extended c%ongratula-
tons to the people of Montana who
supported and voted for the mea-
sure. Delegate Leary called atten-
ton to the work that had been done
for the amendment by Mr.. Ed
O'Byrne, labor commissioner. In
continuing his remarks he stated
that there was a fundamental need
for additional education for mea-
sures and for legislation that the
unions desire. The labor press, he
felt, and other publicity agents
should be used not only at the mo-
ment when a campaign is being con-
Quoted but throughout the entire
year and every issue be devoted to
some aspect of the thing sought. This
part of the discussion dealt almost
exclusively with tactics as to wheth-
er it was best to come out toward
the end of a political campaign with
q SNO0Cil dbIdCh VI Solly VII bllC SGil-
eral offensive from one campaign
to another. The delegates seemed to
feel that Leary was correct in his
analysis. However, organized labor
is highly gratified at its victory.
Friends who fought for the mea-
sure and spent their time and money
were accorded the grateful consid-
Grafton of the unions. Among these
were John Claxton, newly elected
county attorney; Mr., Edward
O'Byrne, labor commissioner for
Montana; Attorney Phil O'Donnell;
Earl Simmons, secretary of the Mu-
sicians union; Dennis Mccarthy, sec
rotary of the Miners union and Ber-
nard Garrison, Senator from Madi-
son County. The farmers union
showed a keen interest in the mea-
sure and in many places voted with
the labor unions. The Western Pro-
gressive is also thanked for the pub
licity which it gave.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
CRAVINGS DIRECTORS
ELECTION ON NOV. "a

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER
TOR, u. S. Land Office, Great Falls,
Montana, November 8, 1936.-Pur-
suant to the provisions of Rules for
Administration of Grazing Districts,
approved March 2, 1886, by the Sec
rotary of the Interior, and in com
pliance with the request of the Divi-
sion of Grazing, notice is hereby CIV
en- that an election of district adj
visors for Montana Grazing District
No. 5, which has been established
under the act of June %, 1884 (48
Stat, 1269), as amended June rs,
1886, commonly known as the Taylor
Grazing Act, will take place at ten
o'clock a. m. Tuesday, November
"a, 1886, at Boulder and Dillon, Mon
tana. Ballot boxes will be open
from 2 p. m. until 5 p. m. and as
much longer as may be necessary to
permit qualified electors present at
S p. nj. to deposit their ballots.
Thomas F. CORDIALLY, Register.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
FALLS UNIONS
ELATED AT VICTORY

GREAT FALLS.-At the meeting
of the Cascade Trades and Labor
Council November 6, Charles Steel
was seated as a fraternal delegate
from the Allied Service Workers of
Montana.
The American Federation of La
Dor advised the unions of Great Falls
that the Seagram and Calvert Dis
tilleries and their products were fair
to organized labor.
A plea was received from the
Southern Tenant Farmers of Mem
phis, Tennessee, asking the unions
of Great Falls to solicit the removal
of Fred S. Isrig, United States Dis
trict Attorney for the Eastern Dis
trict of Arkansas because of his
vicious attitude against organized
labor.
A representative of the Workers
Adult Education, Mr.. johnson ex-
planned why organized labor should
be interested in this work and stated
that classes would be started in the
near future.
The unions of Great Falls are
much elated over the results of the
general election. Chairman Stein
metz in speaking on this subject be-
fore the assembly, remarked that il
was now necessary for a Legislative
committee to begin to study new
proposed legislation for the next as
sembly. He also admonished the
members not to rest on their own
oars now that their political objec-
tives had been achieved, but to con
tinue their association with labor
Non-Partisan League. The chair,
man expressed his conviction thai
this organization has become {
prominent political part of Ameri-
can institutions.
The Railroad Brotherhoods were
asked to send fraternal delegates tC
the Assembly.
The unions are still urging the
county commissioners of Cascade
County to appoint Bruce Steinmetz
chairman of the Cascade Trades and
Labor Council to the North Montana
Fair Board.
A committee was appointed to in
terview the officers of the Works
Progress Administration in relation
to Saturday work at the sewing
rooms,
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

SENATOR MURRAY EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
TO PEOPLE OF MONTANA FOR HIS ELECTION

cessive earnings and profits exact
by the dominant industrial and )
nancial interests of the country "
have been exploiting the peopleS
the benefit of the few. A
widespread distribution of the
ings of industry will make a
broader prosperity prosper n
which the whole people of the n
try will be able to participate. Dur
ing my term of office I will continue
as in the past to support every mea-
sure for the betterment of the
economic and social conditions OF
the people-every measure which
tends to bring greater security to the
people of the country in their lives
and in their homes.
The improvement of the condi-
ton of agriculture in this country
is n of our most important ma
tional problems. l will continue to
support all legislation designed to
rehabilitate agriculture. A system
of crop insurance will undoubtedly
be established during the coming
session of Congress. Measures in the
interest and welfare of the farmers
already in operation through the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration and through the Resettle-
ment and Soil Conservation Admin
istrations will be strengthened and
extended. The most important and
essential need to the future pros
perity of our own state is the de-
velopment of our great water re-
sources. The establishment of re-
liable irrigation in Montana will
avoid the necessity of future federal
relief. The present Administration
has already launched such a pro-
gram and it will be my intention tc
support the government to the full
est extent in carrying it into effect
If carried through successfully il
will stabilize Montana agriculture
II will save the cattle and sheep
grazing industry in the arid sections
of our State by furnishing the nee
essary water and forage crops in
drouth periods. It will have a ire
mendous effect in improving living
conditions throughout the State. II
will raise the morale of both bust
nessmen and farmers and will bring
about a stable condition of business
essential to the future prosperity Of
our State. l am convinced that
prosperous conditions in Montana
will be greatly advanced under the
Roosevelt Administration during the
next four years. The continuance Of
the New Deal will mean improved
social conditions and a healthy and
widespread prosperity.
l extend to all my friends in the
ranks of Labor my sincere thanks
and appreciation for the support
they gave me in the election.
deeply appreciate the confidence they
have placed in me and 1 wish to
assure them that l will ever be
mindful of their interest and welfare
in the course of my duties in Wash
ington.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
Gives His Views in Relation to
Duties in National Congress
and the Foundations of Pros
perity.

l am most grateful to the people
of Montana for the splendid vote l
received in the elections, and for
the high honor which has come to
me as a result of the victory at the
polls.
l have a full sense of the great
responsibilities which will rest
upon me during the next six years
and will continue as in the past to
do my utmost for the advancement
of the best interest and welfare of
the State as a whole.
The office of United States Sena-
tor is a position of great power and
influence for good or evil, especially
in this period of evolution in the
nations economic and political poll
cies. The Roosevelt Administration
has been returned to power by one
of the most outstanding majorities
ever recorded. This is, of course, a
mandate to continue the program of
reform and recovery which has been
carried on during the past three and
a half years. A new social con-
seriousness has taken hold of the peo-
pie of this country. Social and hui
man rights are now regarded as
paramount to mere property rights.
The purpose of government is no
longer considered as an instrument
tality solely for the protection of the
lives and property of its citizens.
A liberal and progressive govern
ment is expected to give ~considera-
ton to humane rights which directly
affect the lives and happiness of its
citizens, Much improvement in the
social and economic welfare of the
people of this country has already
taken place and this will, of course,
continue during the second term of
the Administration. The purchasing
power of those who live by wages
and salaries constitutes the only
means for the success of the small
business man, the manufacturer or
the professional man. Inadequate
earnings of the workers and the
farmers of the nation cause depres-
sions and injure society. l deny
that a fair deal to the wage Garner
is any handicap to business or in
dustry. Industry thrives upon the
money spent by the wage earners
and farmers who are of course the
great consumers Of the nation. In
offering a better and more prosper
u life to wage earners and farmers
we are in effect improving the posi-
ton of business and industry. We
are in effect saving business and in
dustry from self-destruction. Real
prosperity can only rest upon a
widespread purchasing power in the
hands of the workers and the farm
ers.
| believe with President Roosevelt
that the Nations troubles have been
due in a large measure to the ex-
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
SELLING JUSTICE
BY THE DOLLAR

Furthermore, beside the money
lenders and the merchants who
asked and were ready to pay for
protection, there were, as accumula-
ton multiplied, the non-combatants,
such as women and children, to be
provided for. With land in an en-
tail which could not be broken, the
tenant for life left his wife and I'M
married daughters destitute, save
for the dover, in her enjoyment Of
which the widow could be seriously
molested by the heir.
Continued to Page 81
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
"IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE"
OPENS ON % STAGES

NEW YORK (FP) - Politicians
of the unatic fringe, backed by rich
and reactionary men, are very busy
these days spouting nonsense from
radio studios and public platforms.
What might happen in America if
these long-winded demagogues could
hoist themselves into power is WV
idly presented in the new Federal
Theater production based on Sinclair
Lewis much-talked-abo novel, II
Can't Happen Here.
Thousands of people in all parts
of the country will have a chance to
e the exciting play, for it has
opened on 23 stages scattered in
towns and cities from coast to coast,
in the biggest theatrical opening the
country has ever seen. In New York
alone it is being shown on three
stages, one version in Yiddish. A
fourth group is giving suitcase pro-
auctions in halls and churches on
Staten Island.
In Tampa, Fla, a Spanish transla-
ton is on the boards, and in Seattle,
Wash, it is being produced by a Ne
gro theater group. In Los Angeles
a WPA troupe has put on the play
with a pantomimic prelude, showing
the country on the eve of a dictator
ship. Other cities where it is being
shown are Boston, Bridgeport,
Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Detroit,
indianapolis, Kansas City, Birming-
ham, Omaha, Miami, Des Moines,
San Francisco, Seattle and Tacoma.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
LEWIST0WN TRUCKING
FIRM UNDER BAN
COUNTY
TRADES AND LABOR
ASSEMBLY

Billings, Montana
November 5, 1886
The Montana Labor News,
Butte, Mont.
Greetings:
The NORTH AND PARRISH
TRUCKING COMPANY Of Lewis
town, Mont, has been declared I'M
fair by the International Brother
hood of Transfers, C~hauffeurs,
Stablemen and Helpers of America,
Local No. 100, and the action con-
CURED in by the Yellowstone County
Trades and Labor Assembly,
We ask all Organized Labor to
refrain from patronizing this firm.
Fraternally submitted,
E. H. Helterbran, Sec'y Yellowstone
County Trades and Labor Assem-
bly,.
(SEAL)
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
ELECTION W AS
AvARI(E REBUkE

John L. Lewis in a message
today to staff representatives
in the field said: Labor has
reelected Roosevelt. Unor-
ganized labor has followed the
leadership of organized labor.
This is profoundly true in all
of the mass production indus
tries and the dense eenters of
population. The United Mine
Workers of America blazed the
trail for the workers to follow
in its ringing endorsement Of
President Roosevelt in Febru-
airy. Labor's Non-Pa artisan
League and the Committee for
Industrial Organization have
implemented the action Of the
mine workers. Inspirational
leadership has thus been given
the workers and they have re-
sponded by their overwhelm-
ing support of the President.
The election is a rebuke to the
insolence and arrogance of or
gained wealth. Its avarice and
rapacity have been checked out
and must be further restrained
in the interest of the people.
The workers Of the country
must organize themselves to
consolidate their political vic
tory and translate it into ma
terial benefits and reforms"
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
(o-ops Second Largest
Gasoline Distributors
in Minnesota
100000 Gallon Increase in 1885
Gives Co-ops 812 Per Cent of
Business.

NEW YORK.-With an increase in
volume of more than 8,000,0 900 gal
Ions last year, Minnesota coopera-
tives established themselves firmly
as the second largest distributors of
gasoline in the state, according to a
feature article in the National Pc
troleum News, recognized voice of
the petroleum industry.
Coop business doubled during the
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
PUBLIC ASKED TO
pATR0NIzE UNION
COAL COMPANIES

GREAT FALLS. - The Cascade
Trades and Labor Assembly is re-
questing all of its affiliated mem
bers and the public in general to buy
coal from union concerns. The union
of cab, bus, and truck drivers sub
mitted the request to the Central
Labor Council.
A letter sent out by the truck
drivers union also mentioned the oil
companies of Cascade County that
are fair to organized labor. These
companies are Resolute Oil Com
pany, Litening Gas and Oil Com
pany and the Texas Oil Company.
Following is the list of firms in
Great Falls that hire union drivers
and which the public is urgently
requested to patronize:
CAB, BUS AND TRUCK DRIVERS
Local Union No. As
0ACob \ 6AA1f AfAOAAAIAAt
To all organized labor.
Dear Sir and Bro.
Now that the cold weather is here
we know that a number of Union
men will be buying their winter
supply of coal. We are presenting
to you the following list of Union
concerns who employ Union drivers
and we ask your support in patron
izing these concerns.
Crystal Ice Co. ....... Phone 1926
Great Falls Transfer Co. Phone $3.50
Graham and Ross ..... Phone 6591
Purity Coal Co. .....,.. Phone 3087
Western Coal Co. ...... Phone 3077
Great Falls Hay and
Feed Phone 4l56
Simonton Transfer Phone 5243
Mitchell Coal Co. $500. Phone STAT
Louis Stevenson ....... Phone 4764
Louis Tombrink ....... Phone 1883
Victor Thomas ........ Phone 6049
Glenn Workman ....... Phone 1880
Chas. Bourne ........ Phone 1890
Also there are three oil companies
who employ Union drivers, namely,
the Resolute Oil Co., Litening Gas,
and Texas Oil Co. products. We ask
your cooperation in patronizing
these concerns. Thank you.
Fr~aternally yours,
HENRY LEFEBRE,
Business Agent.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
THE WORLD IN REVIEW
Bv JOEL SEIDMAN
Labor Economist and Educator
Instructor at Brookwood Labor

Instructor at Brookwood Labor
College
The Supreme Court has agreed to
hear arguments on the constitution
atty of the Wagner Labor Relations
Act. Before many months pass, we
may expect a decision holding that
unconstitutional.
In itself that will be small loss.
The measure is SO poorly drawn that
the court, if it so desired, could hold
unconstitutional, and by i%nterpre-
tation make it practically valueless
to labor.
What is important, however, is
that the right of congress to legis-
late on social and economic questions
Continued to Page g
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

The man who does not wear a I'M
ion label in his hat, uses his head
simply for a hat rack.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

Charley Schwab only got $780,
900 in 1884. He had to work for
S 1000 an hour" - Steel Labor.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12
FURNITURE
COMPANIES ARE FAIR

Butte Notified by Coast Unions
That All Trouble Settled Be-
tween Manufacturing Com
panies and Building Trades
Council.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1936-11-12

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index Of
progress In any community.