Montana labor news., 1936-06-18
UNIONS TO EXPOSE
PROMINENT PEOPLE

The McCarrolIs Beauty Shop has
long defied the BARRIERS and Beauti-
clans union and also the Silver Bow
Trades ard Labor Council. The pro-
prietor Of this establishment has been
requested by the BARRIERS to conform
to their union regulations. This rea-
sonable request has been defied and
scorned. AT the present time this is
the only scab establishment of its kind
in Silver Bow county.
Most Of the violations and chiseling
and unfair competition which was so
bitterly condemned by the government
at the depth OF the depression, was
cleaned up by the N. R. A. and by the
higher precepts Of business ethics
which that law taught, and which still
continues in many places, notwith-
standing that a feudalistic court made
it invalid. The N. r. A. acted as a
disinfectant in cleaning up some of the
most nauseating scab barber shops.
This McCarroll institution is the only
one left. As in many other similar
cases, the unions are slow to bring any
drastic action to bear and hence the
owners and proprietors Of these places
become conceited and feel that they
can continue ignoring the unions re-
quest with impunity. This is exactly
what has happened and what is still
going on in relation to the McCarrolrs
Beauty Shop.
Most OF the girls who work in there
are relatives OF members of organized
labor. This seems paradoxical and in
congruous but it is a condition natu-
rally following the habit OF the unions
sleeping on their rights, The BARRIERS
have conducted a lone battle without
much active cooperation from the rest
Of the labor organizations.
Now this line of procedure is going
to be altered. The BARRIERS have re-
quested the official organ of the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council, the
Montana Labor News, to publish a list
Of automobiles and their owners which
drive up to this place Of business and
whose occupants, after leaving the car,
enter this beauty establishment. A
long list has already been sent into
this office. If some of these names
were published it would startle the
community. Some officials in high ex-
ecutive position of the Anaconda Com
pany are included among the names.
Prominent business people, lawyers and
others have either visited the place
themselves or their wives or relatives
or children have entered the doors of
this notorious place. A note of advice
and warning is included. Apparently
relatives or friends of the owners of
some of the cars which have trans
ported people TO this beauty shop are
not aware Of the purpose for which
their car is being used, A truck of
one Of the powerful corporations-not
the Anaconda Copper Company-has
been used to bring people to this shop,
either girls who work there or pa
irons. We are going to publish the
name and number of this truck, 50
that the lad who is driving it, will have
to answer ONE embarrassing ques-
tons when this matter comes up be-
fore his employer.
Unless the McCarroll Beauty Shop
wants to cause a lot of embarrassment
and trouble for the people who work
there and for the people who ~patronize
the place, it is suggested that they sign
up with the BARRIERS and Beauticians'
union and quit chiseling. The car of
a prominent attorney connected with
the Anaconda Company is being used
10 assist this shop.