Montana labor news., 1936-06-11
TRADES COUNCIL
In AN ACTIVE
SESSION
Compa Presides.
Supreme Court Condemned.

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James Compa, vice president OF the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council
presided in the chair at last Tuesdays
session. Conducting the affairs OF the
Trades and Labor Council is a new
experience for Mr.. Compa, but he tran
sacted the business with dispatch and
occasioned many a laugh by his witty
remarks.
Secretary Grimes read an appeal
from the Boot and Shoe Workers I'm
ion OF Watertown, Wisconsin, and Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, protesting against
the wholesale discharge OF union mem
bers by the Booth Company OF that
city. This company has been placed
on the unfair list by the Wisconsin
Federated Trades Council. The Boot
and Shoe workers union have gone on
strike to force union conditions. The
communication OF the union was turn
ed over to the union label committee
OF the Trades and Labor Council with
a request that they visit the merch-
ants in Silver Bow county and ask
them to not buy any more shoes pro
duced BY the Booth Shoe Company,
A number of requests were received
from members OF various unions who
have filed for offices seeking the en-
dorsement from the Trades and Labor
Council. Among these were A. w.
Anderson, a member OF the Machin-
lists in his letter he cited the length
OF years he had been a member OF or
ganized labor and pledged his continu-
ed loyalty to the aims OF organized la
Dor, farmers, and veterans, should be
be elected to the Legislative Assem-
bly,.
The Plumbers Union asked the Trad
es and Labor Council to endorse
Frank Reardon for sheriff. Mr.. Rea-
rdon is a member OF that union and IS
also a member OF the Board Of School
Trustees. These communications are
usually referred to the Legislative Com
mittee.
The Grievance Committee reported
that several matters that had been
hanging fire had been satisfactorily
settled. Most OF these difficulties in
VOWED the Womens' Protective I'm
ion and the Clerks.
The Womens' Protective Union re-
ported that all OF the boarding houses
in Silver Bow County were now fair to
their organization that they had all
signed up and had agreed to pay the
union scale.
Delegate Sinnot OF the Machinists
under Good and Welfare attacked the
Supreme Court and the rich and pre-
datory interests because of their anita
gonism and defeat Of the Guffey Goa.
Bill and the New York Minimum Wage
Law. Mr. Sinnot felt that organized
labor should take a more militant stand
against its enemies and that particu-
larly they should devise some method
of control or regulating the Supreme
Court. Other delegates voiced the
same bitter condemnation.
AT the rate the Supreme Court and
other agencies OF the Government is
coming into disrepute among organic
ed labor, it will not be long before
many of these governmental institu-
tions shall have lost their aura OF res
pect and generation and become OBJ
jects of contempt. In fact it is some
times strange that organized Govern
ment has commanded from the poor
people as much respect as has been
given it in the past.
Ana Louise Strong, noted lecturer
on Soviet affairs will not speak at the
Gardens on Miners Union Day, as was
hoped, but will speak at the Butte
High School Auditorium on June 20.