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Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Striking New Mexican
Miners Fight American
Metal Co. Terror

TERERRO, N. M.-(FP)-Tererro
is living up to its awesome name.
In this little company-dominated
mining town, miles from the nearest
railroad, the American Metal Company
is vieiously fighting a militant strike OF
several hundred miners. On the side
OF the law and order are state troop
ers, 40 or more drunken thugs rounded
up from the bar rooms of Las Vegas
and serving as deputy sheriffs, and a
generous supply of guns and teargas.
Behind the cops and thugs stand the
huge financial resources OF the metal
corporation, with its Wall Street and
Hearst capital.
On the other side Of the picture are
the miners, their wives and children,
whose picket lines at times include 200
marchers. Undaunted by frequent ar
rests, including that Of President An
drez Cruz OF Local "a, International
Union OF Mine, Mill & Shelter Work
ers, and %unprovoked teargas and club
bing raids, the strikers have refused to
surrender. The company, it is believed
in many quarters, will go SO far as to
deprive the strikers Of their homes and
eyict them from the town completely.
Despite company boasts, not a work
er or his family has left Tererro as the
result OF threats to close the mine.
Presence OF women and children on
the picket lines have startled the half
drunken deputies out Of their normal
strikebreaking activity. One OF them, a
former town marshal, recently lost a
job in Las Vegas for stealing cattle.
Joe Babb and Bill Henderson, strikers,
have been arrested on fake charges OF
threatening to kill" President Cruz,
nabbed early in the strike and held in
Las Vegas Jail, has assailed Tererro
dynamitings as the provocative work of
strikebreakers.
At Las Vegas the Liza Obrera, Span
ish fraternal organization, has set up a
miners defense committee and APP
pealed for funds and for protests to be
sent to Governor Tingley, Attorney
General Patton and Sheriff Francisco
P. Delgado Of San Miguel county.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Stay Away From
Beer Can Resort

Alleging that four scab musicians
were employed at the Beer Can at
2202 Walnut Street, last Saturday
evening, the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council and the Musicians I'm
ion has placed this amusement resort
on the unfair list.
A scathing rebuke was delivered by
one of the delegates to some Of the
union men and women whom it vas
stated patronized the dance. Ii seems
incredible that any union man or wo-
man would attend these functions. The
public has been admonished to look
for the musicians union house card in
all beer parlors and other places of
amusement When this card is not dis
played, it indicates that the place is
not fair to the Musicians organization.
Should the Beer Can persist in the
practice Of employing scabs, all mem
bers Of organized labor, who attend
the dances wherein music is being fur
nished by these unfair employees, will
be published in the Montana Labor
News.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

The following amendment to the Soil
Conservation Bill which | offered on
February q with my remarks thereon
will, | believe, prove OF interest to the
readers OF this column:
Sec. 4. Federal Judges are forbid
den to declare this Act Of Congress I'M
constitutional.
mo appeal shall be permitted in any
case in which the constitutionality Of
this Act is challenged, the passage by
Congress of this Act being deemed
conclusive presumption Of its consttu-
%tionality.
ANY Federal Judge who declares
this Act unconstitutional is hereby de-
clared to be guilty Of violating the CON
stitutional requirements of good be-
havior' upon which his tenure Of office
rests and shall be held by such de-
cision ipso facto to have vacated his
office, and the president Of the United
States is hereby authorized to nominate
a successor to fill the position vacated
by such judicial officer"
81 want to be heard on the point Of
order, Mr.. Chairman, l have presented
this amendment because | believe that
the Supreme Court does not have a
monopoly Of the knowledge Of the
Constitution or law. l wish to say that
every bill brought before this Congress
has a saving or separability clause in it.
I have offered this in lieu OF the sep
arability clause, which the Supreme
Court will please take notice is absent
from both this bill and the Senate bill.
/ offer it under the authority of Ar
ticle III, Section 2 Of the Constitution
which gives the Congress the power to
except legislation from the jurisdiction
Of the Court.
81 supported this bill and hope that
this amendment to except it from the
Courts jurisdiction will prevail, not be-
cause I believe that the bill is the last
and final word for relief Of the farmer
but because it embodies some small
portion of the relief which that great
part of society so indispensable to our
livelihood needs. | had hoped that |
might be able to present such an
amendment to the Frazier-Lemk bill
which / hoped would be brought be-
fore this House long before this for
passage to save the farms Of those mil
lions who are now in distress. The
widespread demand for the Frazier
Lemke bill proves the need Of aid for
the farmer"
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Believes
State viii Show An
Increase Of Homes

Availability of financing for home
construction in towns and cities Of
Montana should be greatly increased
this year because Of an agreement re-
Gently entered into between the Fed
eral Housing Administration and the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Mortgage Company, says Barclay
Craighead, state director of the Hous-
ing Administration.
By this new plan the mortgage COM
pany agrees to furnish the facilities OF
a mortgage discount bank for the pur-
chase of insured mortgages given for
home construction. Accordingly banks
which may be reluctant to carry long
term mortgages may finance home
building with the assurance that the
mortgages can be Immediately sold
without recourse to the RFC Mortgage
Company, while the bank will receive
ample and continuous earnings for
handling the monthly amortization
payments thereon.
AS the effect OF this agreement is
equivalent to the opening Of a national
mortgage association or a mortgage
discount bank it should result, in the
opinion OF Federal Housing officials, in
additional momentum for the housing
program which made remarkable pro-
gress during the last five months Of
1885 when about 81 per cent Of the
urban homes built were erected under
the Federal Housing plan.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Monaghan Striving For
Permanent Iannery

A letter was received from Congress
mar Monaghan in which he stated that
he is still striving to keep the Tannery
a permanent operation in Silver Bow
County. The communication from
Congressman Monaghan also included
a letter which he had received from
Mr.. Ruffcorn.
MIR. Ruffcorn in the letter to Mr..
Monaghan stated that he was very
much interested in keeping this plant
going in Butte and that it is now OPP
Grating on state funds and will SO con-
tinue for another month. Mr., Ruff
corn informed Mr.. Monaghan that
they had tried to include it as a w.
P. A. project but to date had not been
successful, A fear was expressed in
the letter that some other means would
have to be employed to keep it going
other than state funds as these we're
becoming quite low.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
RAY BECKER DENIED
HEARING

Walla Walla, W~ash.-Special to the
Montana Labor News.-Ray Becker,
last of the Centralia victims to remain
in custody, is back in the ~penitentiary
again after another failure to secure
justice in the capitalist courts. Fed
eral Judge c. c. Cavanah sustained a
demurrer against Becker's petition for
a writ OF habes corpus and prevented
the Becker witnesses from testifying.
on the obscure and purely technical
grounds that certain of the ~affidavits
attached to the petition did not, in the
opinion OF the court, coincide with the
verdict as rendered by the jury.
Ray Becker is serving a twenty-five
to forty year sentence on a charge OF
second degree murder growing out OF
the bloody events on Centralia's first
Armistice Day in which four legion
aires were killed while raiding an l.
w. w. hall. The Lumber Barons who
instigated the raid and the subsequent
mutilation and l%ynching Of one Of the
/. w. w. members, himself an ex-ser-
vice man and still wearing his stained
army tunic, were never brought to
justice. Bat Becker and his seven com
rades who tried to defend themselves
against the violence of the mob were
railroaded to prison in a trial which
has been described as unfair not only
by most Of the jurors who sat on it
but by one Of the states prosecutors
as well.
The background of the Centralia
tragedy is a familiar one - bitter in
dustrial warfare between the workers
on the one hand and the timber bar
ons on the other with the workers or
ganizing against intolerable conditions
and the operators retaliating with acts
of official and unofficial violence. 1t
is significant that a labor jury com
posed of craft union delegates from
west coast cities found the defendants
Not Guilty. Later many farm or
CARNATIONS and church groups ralliel
to their support and several American
Legion posts castigated their Centralia
fellows for participating in an attack
upon peaceful workers. AS time went
on and the hysteria Of the war years
abated, still other groups came to their
defense. More than two thousand resi-
dents of Centralia signed and sent a
petition to the governor asking for the
release Of the /. w. w. prisoners. One
of the chief witnesses for the state re-
pudiated her testimony. The widow OF
one OF the dead legionnaires, Mrs. Cas-
granda Mayor, added her plea in a
sensational signed statement to the
effect that her husband had known OF
the plan to raid the hall and that he
Continued to Page Six
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
NOTICE
YELLOWSTONE COUNTY TRADES
AND LABOR ASSEMBLY
Billings, Montana

Attention;
Bozeman, Butte, Anaconda, Great
Falls, Lewistown, Hardin, Roundup,
Miles City, Glendive, Livingston, Deer
Lodge, Missoula, Red Lodge, Kalispell,
Helena, Glasgow, Havre Trades Coun-
ellis;
We hereby notify you that the yell
1owstone Trades and Labor Assembly
of Billings, Montana, at this time, Feb.
18th, 1886, has concured in the action
of the Board Of Control Of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers Of
America, Local No. 100, Billings, Mon
tana, and declared the Bruce Cook
Transfer and Independent Motor Car
rier Of Billings, Montana, Unfair to all
Organized Labor.
We ask you to Concur in our action.
(SeaD
Signed L. G. DeNayer, President.
E. H. Helterbran, Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
GOVERNMENT HELP
MAY Get THIRTY
DAY VACATIONS
HINGToN.-February Two


- significant results developed
& the Senate Civil Service Com
. .ee's consideration of the bill to
store 30 days annual leave in the
overnment service, a proposal regard
ed by government workers as the most
important item on their entire legis-
lative program. They we're.
1. A definite statement by the Com
mittee that no government agency OPP
posed the principle of restoration o.
80 days leave.
2. Unanimous agreement by the
committee that overtime in the govern
ment service is undesirable, and that
it should be compensated for in some
fashion. The manner Of compensa-
ton, however, was held to need special
study.
Persons outside the government SER
vice are disposed to envy the govern
ment workers annual leave, for there is
a widespread misapprehension that he
already has 30 days leave. That is
not the case. Back in the days be-
fore the merit system was instituted,
political appointees enjoyed almost I'M
limited leave, but under civil service
the privilege was definitely restricted
to 80 days and latter to Is. Against
this charges are made for every alb
sence from duty, even for as little
time as IS minutes, so 30 days leave
is by no means synonymous with 80
days vacation. Moreover, no per an
mum employee in the government ser
vice with possibly a very few ex-
ceptions receives pay for overtime,
and in rush periods overtime is both
continuous and excessive in many gov
eminent agencies.
The principal purpose of the annual
leave bill, as described by the Ameri-
can Federation of Government En-
ployees, was to give government work
ers opportunity for a real vacation.
When the 80 days leave formerly en-
joyed was cut to IS, some years ago,
government workers living in distant
states did not have time to return
home from their duties in Washington.
It must be remembered that all de-
partmental jobs in Washington, if I'M
der civil service, are apportioned among
the states. Personnel officers approve
the Federation's view, holding that ef-
f~ioiency is promoted by adequate vaca-
tons and a return home once a year ;
and there is no expense to the govern
ment, since employees take leave only
when work permits at slack sea
sons and must do much unpaid over
time work at the busy seasons.
Unpaid overtime is excessive in many
agencies, and the American Federation
of Government Employees hopes to
correct this problem soon. The Sen
ate Committees attitude indicates that
the problem is recognized, and that a
solution may be reached soon. The
Committee favored, however, only 20
days annual leave, or Approximately a
calendar month, as Sundays are not
counted in annual leave.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
c WORKERS UNION
Tracy, California

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Silver Bow Trades & Labor Council,
Butte, Montana.
Dear Sir and Brothers
In behalf Of our union I want to
thank you for the splendid support
your organization has given US in boy
cotting Holly Sugar products, Of the
Tracy plant. Support such as you
have given US is going to win our
strike.
There has been several out OF state
organizations that has taken a great
interest in our organization, and has
given us splendid support, which we
surely appreciate and it makes US feel
that we are not fighting a losing fight.
| will tell you a little of our troubles
here. Our charter was applied for
about the first Of July, 1885, and when
the Corporation heard we were organ
izing they started discharging men who
they thought may be the leaders. The
Corporation took every dirty means Of
intimidation that could be thought Of.
They discharged men that had been
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Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
MissOula Trades
Council Has Fine
Meeting And Social

MISSOULA, Feb. 29.-(SpeciaD-
The last session Of the Missoula Ger
trail Council was almost a little bs
convention. Graham and Driscoll v
both here and although the dele
did not know that they would :
these distinguished visitors, we =
splendid attendance, not on
delegates, but from several OF y =.
men. 1t so happened that Il e
same evening that the Wot on
Label League met and as Z to
serve lunch, several OF lands
attended the Council meeting lie the
women had their session. 1t was a
splendid meeting and we hope we may
have the pleasure of their return often.
Well our hammering on the Bowlers'
Tournament and the contemplated ban
quet at Florence Hotel had its effect.
The banquet will be held at the Elks'
Temple, according to latest report. On
top OF that we we're informed that Mrs.
Dolly Peete, proprietress Of the Sha-
pard Hotel, who was the main insti-
gator OF having the banquet at the
Florence, has now the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees house card on dis
play in her own establishment.
With best wishes to yourself and our
fellow workers Of Butte and Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council, I am,
Fr%aternally yours,
CARL H. CHRISTENSEN.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Paying High For War
Bruce Cation in Belleville, ILL.,,
Daily Advocated

The administration at Washington
estimates that the American govern
ment, to date, has spent $7,800,000,0O0
on its World War veterans. The new
bonus will add substantially more than
$2,000,OO0,000 to that. And if pensions
ever come, the figure will become as
Economical.
But it is too late for us to start weep
ing about it now. The time to have
worried about all this expense was in
the spring of 1917, when our participa-
ton in the World War wa still ahead
of us.
The lads who went to fight the Ger
mans for US in 1917 and 1918 didn't
invent the pensions-and-bonu system;
neither, it should be added, were they
the one who though up the idea Of
drawing cards in the World War.
In other words, this colossal expense
that goes dragging on and on long
after wars dead bones have been laid
Il. rest-it just comes with the bicycle.
Declare war, and this is what you get.
And if we don't like it, there is one
fool-proof way to avoid it; by staying
out of war.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
EASTERN UNIONS
OBJECT TO film

A motion picture entitled, Amateur
Fire Brigade, was protested in a COM
mumcation from the Toledo Central
Labor Union. The letter iron the
Ohio city alleged that the picture con-
tanned an attack on labor. The sub
ject was referred to the Grievance
Committee to act in conjunction with
the local motion picture operators I'M
ion with instructions to make an in
vestigation.
In all probability this joint committee
will confer with the managers of the
local theaters and should it be found
Objectionable, the wishes Of the unions
will undoubtedly be given serious con-
sideration.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Keel MARKET
SETTLES DISPUTE

All differences which have existed
for some time between the unions and
the Excel Market at 327 South Elk
celsior Avenue have been settled. The
manager of this store signed an agree
ment with the grievance committee Of
the Trades and Labor Council repres-
enting the Clerks Union in which he
agrees to abide by the opening and
closing rules OF the Clerks Union.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

Congressman Ayers stated in a COM
munication to the unions that he had
received their letter in regard to OPP
posing the Kramer Anti Sedition bill
and Tydings Mccormack Disaffection
bill. His letter indicated that he
would respect the wishes OF the unions
regarding these measures.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

CHICAGO-(FP)-Eightee Ameri-
can Federation of Labor local unions,
with l7.000 paidup members, formed
a WPA council Jan. 10 to fight for
prevailing wages on WPA jobs and
for redress Of grievances. Unions re-
presented, some with several locals, are
carpenters, painters, m%achinists, black
smiths, building. watchmen, teachers,
bakers, pressmen, furworkers, pocket
book makers, butchers, ladies' garment
workers and technical and research
workers.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

President Paul Erler Of the Trades
and Labor Council gave a financial re-
port OF the Presidents Ball. The fig
ures show that a profit Of $286.50 was
made. 20 per cent Of this was retain
ed by the local chapter for the crippled
children and 80 per cent was given to
the Georgia Foundation for crippled
children.
The delegates gave Mr.. Erler a rising
vote OF thanks for the efforts put for
ward by him and other officers of the
ball in making it a success.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

The Trades and Labor Council de-
clared the Christy Grocery, COL West
Granite Street, unfair, at last Tuesday
nights meeting.
This was done at the request Of the
clerks organization on the alleged
grounds that the manager refused to
comply with the requests Of the union.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
Tracy Sugar Union
Describes Conditions
Which Caused Strike

Last week the Trades and Labor
Council %concurred in a request Of the
Sugar Workers Union at Tracy, Cali
fornia, to declare the Holly Company
unfair. The Butte unions were also in
fluenced in their action by reported col
fusion between the Holly Sugar Com
pany and the Great Western Sugar
Company to break the strike OF the Bill
ings union last summer against the
Great Western Sugar Company.
The following letter was received
from the Tracy Union last night:
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

offic-
ers of the United Mine Workers Of
America rejected at closing sessions
of the unions Washington conven-
ton large salary increases previously
voted to them. Considerable discont-
ent throughout the union after the pay
OF Pres. John l.. Lewis had been upped
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Butte Stationary Engineers
Union No. 83.
BUSINESS OF IMPORTANCE

All members employed by the
A. c. M. Co as per contract, are
expected to vote next Wednes-
day, March 18th, 1886.
A Referendum Vote to be held.
Polls open from 9 A. M. until
P. M.
BY Motion of Union.
Jno. E. Riley, Rec. Secy.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

If those people who throw bricks
would only start laying them, look what
a prosperous community we would
have.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
N Office

All members of Miners
Union are urged to attend
meeting on March 18th.
Big Debate on Townsend
Plan as part of Educational
Program.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

His friends call it madness but he
calls it golf.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05
OF LABOR

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1936-03-05

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
GOODMAN PICKED
TO BEAT DAWSON
Playing Final in Tourney
at Arc0Ia-F0rmer Wins
Over voigt, 5 and 3.

A RCOLA, N. j.. September g.
" Johnny Goodman of Omaha
~ was heavy favorite today as
a he was pitted against John
Dawson of Chicago in the final round
of the eighteenth annual invitation
golf tournament at Arcola Country
Club.
Goodman's form has been consistent
since the tournament began, and he
has seldom slipped above par.
In addition to the championship
final today-18 holes in the morning
and 18 in the afternoon-a 36-hole
final in the beaten 16 of the first
flight was scheduled.
Voight Stops Goodwin.
GOODMAN reached the final yester-
- day by defeating George Voigt,
fellow member of the United States
Walker Cup team, and 3. Dawson
entered the round yesterday by de-
feating Charlie Glare of New Haven;
Conn, 3 and /.
Voigt had entered the semi-flnals
by disposing of Tommy Goodwin,
Winged Foot, and 3.
Tim Halligan Of Montclair and L.
D. Mowry, jr., of Aldecress were
scheduled to play the other 36-hole
final today.
Halligan defeated Tom Breslin of
Yountakah, 8 and 2, in the semi-final,
and Mowry defeated Isaac Granger of
by up on the nineteenth.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
No Obligation EntaiIed.
THERE is no entry fee nor any {

THERE is no entry fee nor any other
requirement except that one have
penchant for tossing the irons. Nc
Carthy, Thompson and Mahaffey will
be at their respective courts by 7:30 to
supervise play. An entrant may take
the qualifying test tonight or tomorrow
night.
The 16 high scorers in each sector
will qualify for the championships,
with the titles for Washington, Mary
land and Virginia to be awarded
through elimination
In the 100-shoe pitch, ringer will
count three points and any shoe with
in 6 inches of the peg, one point, total
points to make up the qualifying
score
Match play will be held Friday and
Saturday nights. If conditions per-
init, the tournaments will be played
out to the finals Friday night and the
flnalists In Maryland and Virginia
will be brought in to shoot it out
along with the Washingtonians for
their respective titles, the champicn-
ship matches to be played OF the
lexington courts. This will be an
innovation. Heretofore State honors
have been settled entirely on local
courts.