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The Kusko times., 1937-02-12

January that counts, for then it is that Russians compute Ghrist's birth day.
 Since the early 18th century, when the Russians established trading posts, the Eskimos in the vicinity af Russian Mission, 150 miles north, hay been taught to portray the Russian orthodox Christmas.
 To the Russian ceremony, natives have added the Christmas tree GUS tom and have a ceremony of their own
The Kusko times., 1937-02-12
ESKIMoS CELEBRATE
 RUSSIAN CHRISTMAS

BETHEL-Ch-istm Eve finally came to Eskimos in Southwestern Alaska
 Pussy willow Christmas trees sud denly burst into bloom in native vil- lages where the birth of Christ was celebrated in a conglomerate Pagan Christian fashion.
 December 25 meant little to the Es- kimos in the Kuskokwim area: it is
The Kusko times., 1937-02-12
YRS. R0Mie DIES
 SUDDENLY ATHER-
 ANCHORAGE HOME

Mrs ]. H. Romig, esteemed Anchz oFage resident. who came to. Alaska in 1896, died at her home 2in, Anch- oEage New Years Day. She had eel ehrated her e5ths birthday the pre- vious Afendas.
 Death came at 6 p. m. while her husband, Dr. J. H. Romig, and three children, Robess, Howard and Mrs Margarets Hannony stood at. the bed side
 Death was sudden. D.. and Mrs. Rorig had gone for an automobile |. rlee to their nloosehorn ranch cabin -dGring the. afternoon. They returned home ats4 o'clock when Mrs. Romig bcame. Il. She passed two houzs la ter.
 Mrs. Rouhg was born at. Kingston Penn She was a graduate nurse.
 At Phla1alphiA.s she met. young medical student, and in1s96 they were married. SoOn. after their mar riage, Dt. Romig finished his medical, stRdies aRd the twe@ started for AL aska, whsEe=the husband had been as- signed as . ne1ical missionary for. the Morayian Church,
 The young couple sailed. from San Francisco on June $, 1896. for.T the land Vbere they were to spend dh sE.- lives in the service of humanity, bringing their. medical skill into a land where doctors and nurses were. Uknnwn
 Dr. and Mss Romig for many. years were the only doctor and grad s-ts nurse vest of Sitka.
 The louple landedzJune 20 at Unga and from there went to URalaska. where they awaited sailing schooner to- take thene4o< <the KuskskSiua RIvs srs They travelled upstream to Beth el~ which was to be their eme for the next seven years
 Side by Site with her stalwart bus band Mrs Romig fonghtEover Alas: kan tEzils, musaing behind dog teams in wnster andss traveling in -opgh bozts in the summer, to bring aid to an iriUrea natlEe ora sick child. No trail vas too difficult for her to att Tenrt, if It meant bringing an end 70 pain and suffering to the people of the Northlam who before hads never kneEr modern medical science.-
 Most of the travelling was done by nes husband, bun whsleS he yas-goAe for weeks and sometimes months on lonely expeditions. .MrssRonig1 man aged the affairs of the small mission, performing minor surgerTry setting krokPn bones, sewing up zweaRds and
The Kusko times., 1937-02-12
SIX kILLEDsN CRASH

BERLIN, Feb. IA bug army plane, flying in a tlinding snowstorm crashed into a high tension line in the heart of the city. Two army fiiers and four civilians were killed.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

The Athens Grocery, COL Utah
Ave, operated a grocery store for
the past 20 years which has never
employed a member Of the Butte
Clerks Union.
The Constitution Of the Retail
Clerks international Protective AS
sociation provides that: ANY person
operating or managing a store or any
person owning or leasing a depart
ment in any organized store, or two
or more cooperative partners each
having a share in the receipts and
expenses of the store and each own
ing a share Of the fixtures and stock
therein, where no clerks are en-
ployed, shat be eligible to MONACO
tive membership and shall affiliate
under the rules governing such
membership"
The partners in the Athens store
have refused to join the union under
the above mentioned ruling and also
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

refuse to comply with the 8 p. m
Sunday and holiday closing and are
on the unfair list of the Butte Clerks
Union and Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council.
The people of Butte cannot expect
to cut down the unemployed list OF
provide employment for boys and
girls coming out of high school SC
long as they p~atronize stores that are
open day and night and who do moi
employ help and also in many in
stances where their husbands, sons
and daughters are out in the labor
field competing against your boy and
girl.
We are calling this matter to youl
attention hoping to receive your Co
operation in making this store com
ply with the hours of stores which
employ members Of organized labor
Butte Clerks Union, Frank c
Shea, President.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
BOARD SURPRISES LIBERAL THOUGHT
LIBERAL IDEAS STIFlED BY HEAD
OF The UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
WpA NEEDS MANY
BUTTONS, GARM NT5
FOR WOMEN WORKERS

Do you collect buttons, buckles,
needles, thread, braid or similar
findings and then eventually
discover that a great deal has been
accumulated, with little chance of
ever being used? If so, cheer up for
your work hasn't been in vain. You
now loom as a good samaritan who
may do much to alleviate an acute
clothing problem among Montana's
needy.
According to a statement issued
today by the women's work division
of the Montana WPA, it appears that
the little item of findings" has as
sumed important proportions.
Having already produced more
than half a million garments to meet
a constant heavy demand, WPA con-
tinues TO operate sewing rooms in
a majority of counties, with some
1900 women now employed and
100000 yards of material on hand
to continue this needed production.
But new regulations have brought a
hitch which, unless remedied, means
that hereafter many of WPA's shirts
and skirts will be button-less,
buckle-less or untrimmed.
AS an employing agency, WPA can
now provide little more than labor
on its projects. Diligent efforts have
been put forth by this agency, the
State Welfare Commission and vari-
GUS Boards of County Commission
ers, until it appears that except for
the little item Of "findings"-about
81 worth of which are used by each
WPA -seamstress each month-the
program might well be continuing
at top speed.
Accordingly, the women's work di-
vision requests that findings be
turned over Immediately to the local
WPA sewing room or WPA official.
If this is not possible, mail them to
the Director of Women's Work in
your district WPA office. And while
about it, donations of discarded
clothing and other articles which
can be remade, are always welcome
in the sewing rooms, civic-minded
persons are reminded.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
AGREES TO HEAR
SIT-DOWNERS' CLAIM TO
PROPERTY RIGHT IN JOBS

PHILADELPHIA.-Judge George
A. Welsh of the United States Dis
trict Court here, has taken a step
which seems likely to make Labor
history. He has granted a temper
airy injunction restraining the evic-
ton of sit-down strikers, and agreed
to hear their claims to a property
right in their job.
In 1880, the Supreme Court, in the
Texas & New Orleans v. Railway
Clerks case, ruled that workers have
a property right in choosing their
representatives for collective bar
gaining.
The strike is that in the Rosedale
mills at Reading, Pa, which is just q
part of the strike that has been GO
ing on in most of the Reading mills
for weeks. The Rosedale workers
sat down March 10, and have beer
holding the mill ever since. The
mill attorneys went to the Berks
County court for an order of evic-
ton against the strikers. Attorneys
for the American Federation of Hos
iery Workers went to Judge Welsh
Among other things, they pleaded
tina. an injunction to halt the evic-
ton was probably the only way tc
avoid bloodshed.
IF they once get the strikers out
of the MILL" the Federation attor-
neys declared, there will be VIC
lence and bloodshed in Reading
Only recently AZ suspicious charac-
tiers were arrested, and all admitted
that they had come to Reading as
strikebreakers. They are thugs and
gunner, and we are certain that the
plan is to swear them and their kind
in as special deputies to enforce an
eviction order"
Judge Welsh said that his jurisdic-
ton in the case was rather doubtful,
on account of Supreme Court rulings
that manufacturing is a local" af-
fair. Considering the Labor Rela-
tons Act, however, he signed the
order.
81 am doing this to avoid blood
she'd" said Judge Welsh. He added
that unless a proper tribunal to han
die Labor disputes is established
%"unseemly squabbles between state
and Federal courts will send us
rapidly drifting toward chaos"
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
GUNS
HALL
PICK HANDLES, BOMBS {
USED TN assault ON UNI
SIT DO N
YCH0L0GY

The sit-down strike comes deep
out of the proletarian s~ubconscious,
and hence arouses great sympathy
with everyone who is not a dollar
hungry boss. When a man works
ten or twenty years in a certain fac
tory he gets the feeling that he be-
longs there, somehow. He has in
vested a good part of his life in that
factory, and though it may not be
recognized in the legal books, his
instincts are those of an owner. That
is why being thrown out of such a
Job to starve seems like a betrayal
to an unemployed worker; and it is
also why a sit-down strike in his
own factory appeals to a workers
instincts more than does a walk-out
strike.
Walking out is a sort of unspoken
admission that the owner really owns
the tools the worker has used and
made for years, and that are part
of the workers life, and necessary
to his existence.
Sitting-down, on the other hand,
is a sort of unspoken assumption
that the worker has a claim on his
factory; he is no foreigner, no in
truder or sudden enemy.
This neighborly element has been
the factor, l believe, that makes such
strikes so difficult for the bosses to
crush. They have used tear-gas
bombs and shotguns in some places
to evacuate the strikers, since bosses
don't make good neighbors any
where. But the usual violence that
won us walk-out strikes in the past
hasn't helped them much now. The
whole community seems to be
shocked when some strong-arm muir
dering miser of a boss makes heart
less war on his good-natured fac
tory family. And the wavering ele-
ments among the strikers are
aroused to a new resistance by such
tactics; they feel as if their boss has
betrayed them in their deepest in
stincts-imagine your own father"
tear-gassing and blackjacking you
out of your own homel
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
President Simmons Displays
Animus Towards Unions.
Silver Bow Trades Passes Reso-
luton for Dismissal of Presi-
dent Simmons.
FreebOurn and Reardon Show
Courage and Understanding.
Dismissal of Professor Keeney
High Handed Act of Tyranny.

Phillip Q. Keeney, liberal librarian
at the University of Montana, has
been dismissed for the active part
he played in helping to organize a
local of the American Federation of
Teachers on the campus at Missoula.
Professor Keeney has long been
noted for his progressive point of
view. At various times in the past
he has been instrumental in bring
ing to the campus such prominent
i~ntellectuals as Norman Thomas and
Lincoln Stevens with a message for
students and faculty alike. His whole
attitude has always been that stu
dents mature enough to attend the
University should have all the facts
on important modern questions. AS
a librarian he has succeeded in MAX
ing the library at the University of
Montana one of the best equipped in
respect to modern social questions
of any of its size in the west.
Naturally the tools of reaction and
special privilege both outside and
inside the University have long
planned to rid themselves of Profess
sor Keeney's liberal influence; but it
remained for President Simmons,
using all the finesse of professional
frameups against citizens they want
out of the way, to bring this long
standing desire of special privilege
to a head.
President Simmons, on Wednes-
day, April 7th, two days after Pro-
lessor Keeney had succeeded in get
ting a large number of signatures on
an application for a Teachers Union
charter, called Keeney into his office
and told him his contract would not
be renewed. President Simmons
made no charges against Professor
Keeney's work as a librarian. He
merely stated that his own views
Of library work did not agree with
that held by Professor Keeney. Al
though the rules and regulations of
the State Board of Education require
that any full time professor, en-
ployed for a period Of three years
or longer, is entitled to an investiga-
ton by the faculty service commit
tee. and q fair hearing hefora fha
State Board, Professor Simmons has
undertaken to fire Professor Keeney
without conforming to any of these
rules and regulations.
More than that, at the Monday,
April u, session of the State Board
Of Education, President Simmons,
backed by Brennan, a board mem
Der from Missoula, railroaded Pro-
fessor Keeney's dismissal through
Continued on Page g.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
DE LACY EXPRESSES
APPRECIATION FOR
union ASSISTANCE

Mr.. Hugh DeLacy, referred to
elsewhere in this issue in connection
with the discharge of Mr.. Keeney,
is a charter member of the Univer-
sity Teachers Union, Local 401, of
the University of Washington, Presi-
dent of the Washington Joint Coun-
Gil of Teachers which is composed of
ten teachers unions affiliated with
the A. F. of L., is also one of the
organizers for the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers in the North
west District. He was elected to the
City Council of Seattle on a three
year term on the Washington Com
monwealth Ticket composed of la
Dor and other progressives.
Mr.. DeLacy said that he received
wonderful cooperation from union
men and women in the Montana
labor movement. "The teachers have
also been very much interested in
joining the labor movement because
they are beginning to recognize that
it is due to, for one thing, the new
retirement plan and to the activity
of the Butte Teachers Union backed
up by all the central labor councils
of Montana and the fine work of
the State Federation of Labor. In
fact, teachers and other professional
and white collar workers all over
the nation are realizing that as other
wage earners move forward to bet
ter standards of living and more
leisure, they are becoming conspicu-
Gus by tagging behind. Teachers
used to think that if they joined the
labor movement they would be get
ting out ahead of the procession.
Now they are suddenly discovering
that by not joining the labor move
ment they are falling behind the
procession and getting themselves in
as dangerous a position by not join
ing as they used to think they were
getting into by joining"
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
GREENE. I. @. FIGHT
IN COURT

COLUMBUS, O.-(FP)-A charge
of 'Fascism" was hurled against
Pres. William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and Fran
els ]. Dillon, his personal represent
alive, in a written argument pre-
sented in common pleas court by
Columbus Typographical Union Lo-
cal 5.
The typographical union, seeking
a permanent injunction preventing
the A. F. of L. from revoking the
charter of the Columbus Federation
of Labor, in a 21-page argument, de-
clared that revocation of the local
A. F. of L. charter is without au-
thority under the organizations con-
stitution, that the action would be
contrary to the U. S. and Ohio due
process clauses and that no charges
were made against local officials and
that these officials were given no
opportunity to be heard.
Dillon attempted to revoke the
local A. F. of L. charter following
a complaint by the Building Trades
Council that the federation's action
in supporting General Motors strik-
ers was evidence of Committee for
Industrial Organization support and
hence contrary to the welfare of the
A. F. of L.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

49,
The union claims $4,000 of the
$1,000 workers in the Chrysler
plants.
The agreement provided that the
corporation twill not aid, promote
or finance any labor group or or
g~anization" or any other union
which might undermine the United
Automobile Workers of America.
The union agreed that it would
call no sit-down strikes nor permit
its members to engage in any in
Chrysler plants for the duration of
the contract, which expires on
March 81, 1898.
The agreement was reached in a
conference between John L. Lewis,
president of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization, and Walter
p. Chrysler, the chairman of the
Chrysler Corporation.
Summary of Pact
The following is the summary of
the agreement, which is considered
as another outstanding victory for
the c. /. o.:
l. The Chrysler Corporation prom
Uses it will not aid, promote or fl
nance any labor group or organiza-
ton" or any other union which
might Undermine" the United Auto
mobile Workers.
2. The U. A. w. A. agrees that
neither it nor its members will in
timidate or coerce employees and
also not ito solicit members on cor
poration time or plant property"
3. They mutually agree the term
"employe' shall not include fore
men, assistant foremen, timekeepers,
plant protection employees or conf
Dental salaried employees.
4. The union agrees to prevent
u. A. w. A. sit-down strikes in the
corporations plants while the agree
ment is in effect. That is until next
March 81.
5. Negotiations will open in De-
troit Thursday, April 8, to arrive
at a supplementary agreement dis
posing of issues not treated in this
document.
6. The U. A. w. A. pledges to
terminate the present strike imme-
Continued to Page 81
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
AUTO UNION CHRYSLER CORPORATION
HAVE SIGNED WORKING AGREEMENT
Pact Provides for United Automobile Workers AS Bargaining
Agency-Plants TO Reopen Within a Few Days-To Take Steps
to Wipe Out Litigation Pending Over Sit-Down Strike in Michi-
gan COurts-LabOr On Its Forward March.

LANSING, Mich. (UNS)-An agreement was reached here Tuesday
night to end the Chryser Corporation automobile strikes by which the
corporation recognizes the United Automobile Workers of America as the
collective bargaining agency Of its members employed by the Chrysler
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
b ON IT'S
FORWARD MARCH
Oil Industry Drive

WASHINGTON (UNS)-The c. l
0. drive to organize another basic
industry of the country picked w
momentum this week when the
executive council of the Information.
al Association of Oil Field, Gas Vel
and Refinery Workers, affiliated C
I. o. union, met with the newly
formed Petroleum Workers Organ.
izing committee at Houston, Texas
on April 5.
Plans were mapped out at the
meeting to proceed with the organ
ization in the producing, refining
and distributing branches of the oil
industry. The main purpose of the
drive will be to win union recogni-
ton and the right of collective bar
gaining for all workers in the in
dustry.
Texas employers apparently are
already beginning to get nervous
Rumors of ounter attacks, such as
setting on their company unions tC
issue boss-inspired statements, are
appearing from time to time in the
press. The president of the Humble
Employees Security League, a com.
pany union set up by the Humble
Oil and Refining Company of Hous.
ton, for instance, told the press this
week that a pledge to oppose c. I. o
organization had been signed by 81
per cent of the workers in the Bay
town plant.
A mass meeting was held in Hous.
ton, April 8, at which members Of
the Petroleum Workers Organizing
committee spoke.
The committee is made up Of
three members chosen by the c. 1. O
to head up the campaign. They are
Charles P. Howard, president of the
international Typographical union
Philip Murray, vice president of the
United Mine Workers and chairman
of the Steel Workers Organizing
committee, and Harvey C. Frem-
ming, president of the Oil Field, Gas
Well and Refinery Workers union.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
MALE NURSES?

When the British queried Musso-
lini about his latest shipment of Ital-
ian volunteers to Spain, he replied
that they wer just doctors and
nurses"
The next day Fuehrer Fritz Kuhn
of the U. S. Nazis announced to a
d~isquieted public that the 10000 uni
formed st~ormtroopers he maintains
in this country are only "ushers."
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

The American standard Of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

NEW YORK (FP) - Announce
ment of the first pact to be won by
the Textile Workers Organizing
Committee came as the Bigelow-San-
ford Carpet Co. of Amsterdam, N. Y,
indicated its willingness to sign an
agreement providing among other
concessions sole bargaining rights to
the T. w. o. c., higher wages and
better working conditions.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

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., 1937-04-15

and
complete support of the American
Federation of Labor was promised
the American Newspaper Guild by
Pres. William Green in any conflict
that might arise between the guild
and the Scripps-fIoward newspaper
chain.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-10-29
B.Y.P.U. Officers
To Visit Duluth

The Executive Council of the
Minnesota B. Y. P. U. and Sunday
School Convention headed by its
president, John r. Lawrence, Jr.,
will visit the young people of the
B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School of
Calvary Baptist Church, Duluth, on
next Sunday. There will be a
group of about twenty that will
make the trip. 1t is planned that
the departure be early enough so
that the members of the Council
can attend morning worship SER
vices at Calvary. An inspirational
program will be conducted at three
o'clock in the afternoon.
Other officers making the trip
are Misses Beatrice Goss, Eunice
Riley, Evalyn Kelly, Bertha John
son, Helen O'Neil, Dorothy Blakey,
and Odelle Harris; Mesdames
Martha Lee and E. Newton;
Messrs. William Slaughter, Leroy
Jackson, Harry Ballard, William
Reddick and David Lloyd. In ad-
dition there will be several other
visitors that will make this trip.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-10-29
The Second Night

Whetted by the many pleasing
incidents of the first session and,
as well by the wish to hear and
see more of that winning per-
sonality, Mrs. Halle Carper, st.
Paul turned out en- masse for
the second session. The audience
began to arrive before the doors
were open and included women,
men and even children, repre-
senting a cross section of the
city's population. Mrs. Carper
prepared a number of tempting
dishes accompanied by numer-
Gus envious ohsl and ahsl from
the women who followed her on
printed recipes. She explained
the apparently intricate process
es with many humorous interpo-
lations, inspirations of the mo-
ment, and proved them to be
much more simple than they APP
peared and well within the ca
liabilities of any housewife.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-10-29
LAST NIGHT OF
MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOL

mlNNEAfOLlO ONnOOL
The second and closing night of
the Minneapolis Spokesman Cook
ing School found the auditorium of
Phyllis Wheatley filled to capacity
with a crowd larger than had at
tended any of the previous ses-
sions.
The highights of the meeting
surrounded the demonstration, Mrs.
Carper, who again brought a most
interesting exhibition of the mod
ern home in the preparation of
menus and in the use and under
standing of electric fixtures, now
so commonly found in many homes.
Most of the interest, however,
rested in the distribution of the
prizes which followed the demon.
stration. ''-''A
The grand prizes, card table
set of five pieces given by the Da-
Wis and Ruben Furniture Co., Min
neapolis, was won by Mrs. Rather
inc Allen of 52s Emerson avenue;
a vacuum cleaner donated by the
Electric Appliance Co.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-10-29
THE PRINCESS WHOSE PRIDE
WAS BROKEN

"The Princess Whose Pride Was
Broken" a costume play in three
acts, will be given under the di-
rection of Louise Woodford, Fri
day, November 5, at $3.50 P. NJ, at
the Halle @. Brown Community
House. Tickets are 25c and 10c.
mo admittance during acts.)
1t is the story of a naughty
princess who was wooed and won
by a young king, who in order to
win her hand disguised himself as
a gooseherd. The story of his
courtship unfolds in a fascinating
plot. The cast is composed of four
teen characters, and beautiful cos
tuning will be one of the features.
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