Montana labor news., 1936-01-30
"The Nations" Honor Roll


For the eighth successive year The Nation
offers a roster of Americans who deserve the
applause Of their countrymen. In a world in
which courage is at a premium, they have been
courageous; they have been intellingent when in
t~elligence was sorely needed; either in public
affairs, science, or the arts, they have made a
contribution, by a particular act or in their gen
eral behavior, which is worthy of honorable no
tice.
CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State, for do
ing all in his power to enforce the existing neu-
trality act in such a way as to prevent our rend-
ering aid to an aggressor, and for his tireless at
tacks on existing trade barriers.
HUGO l. BLACK, Senator from Alabama, for
his work as chairman of the Senate Committee
on Air-Mail and Ocean-Mail Contracts, which
decided in favor of government ownership and
operation of our merchant marine instead of pri-
vate ownership and operation subsidized by the
government, and for his defense Of the public
interest in the utilities investigation.
ERNEST LUNDEEN, Farmer-Labor Con
gresham from Minnesota, for his persistent and
vigorous fight against Overwhelming odds for
adequate social-security legislation.
MAURY MAVERICK, Congressman from
Texas, whose refusal to submit to party discip-
line was in no small measure responsible for the
existing neutrality legislation.
VITO MARCANTONIO, of New York, who
has been in the forefront Of the struggle against
social injustice, both in Congress and at home.
The AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
and its director, ROGER N. BALDWIN, for
consistent, intelingent and fortnight cham
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time when civil liberties are being increasingly
threatened.
HOWARD KESTER, of the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union in Arkansas, TOM BURKE, of
the Share-Croppers' Union in Alabama, and in
general the officials and members of these two
organizations, who at the continual risk of their
lives fought to establish the elementary rights
of the cruelty exploited share-cropper and cotton
picker.
FRANK PORTER GRAHAM, president Of the
University of North Carolina, for years of brave,
outspoken leadership in that state in education
and social service, and especially for his brilli-
ant address last August at the Williamstown In
stitute of Human Relations in behalf of social
control in the United States and the moderniza-
ton Of the Constitution.
ARTHUR c. LANE, professor of geology at
Tufts College, and EARLE M. WINSLOW, head
of the Department of Economics at the same in
st~itution, the first professors in the country to
resign their posts rather than submit to the in
dignity of the teachers oath.
JOHN L. LEWIS and the COMMITTEE FOR
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. Mr.. Lewis, after a
long career marked by vigorous leadership but
by little social vision, has now turned his great
forcefulness and skill to the building of a strong
industrial labor movement, which alone can give
the body of mass-production workers the pow
er they should exercise in a democracy.
JOHN A. CLARK, of De Kalb, Mississippi,
who in the face of bitter local prejudice defend
ed the case of three Negroes convicted of muir
der on the basis of vicious third-degree con
fessions, and VIRGIL A. GRIFFITH, Associate
Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, who