Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
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young man of this state was sum
marily discharged without a hear
ing on the word of a patient who is
generally known as a notorious stool
pigeon. Of course there are stool
pigeons among the help too. That is
the only purpose some of them seem
to serve. 1t seems that the heads
here don't know enough about the
work to see whether the right thing
is being done without relying or a
stool pigeon for information. One
wonders how long these stools would
last if the executive heads knew of
the tales they carry back to help and
patients about their bosses. There
is good reason to believe that anoth-
er out of state mar will replace this
one before the end of the month.
On the 10th or 21st of August
another woman with a satisfactory
service record of approximately six
years was forced to leave because
she could not stand the mean, arbi-
trary tactics Of her new boss, the
Iowa dietician, and because she
found it impossible to do the extra
work imposed upon her.
How does this square with your
idea of fair play with the people of
the state and the employees? Are
not the taxpayers of Montana en-
titled to demand that their tax
money, allotted to the upkeep and
operation of Galen Sanitarium, be
used to hire Montana people? Does
not Montana produce people just as
competent as Iowa or any other
state? If not, why didn't we send
out of the state for a superintendent
for Galen?
When the new building was finally
arranged for and built the Butte
Miners Union could fairly claim a
large portion of the credit for its
construction. 1t is true that the
management at Galen and the State
Anti-Tuberculosis Society worked as
long and hard as the Miners for a
new building; but it is also true that
without the support of either one
of these elements the new building
could not have been secured. So
the Miners are entitled to and should
receive their share of the credit for
the new building. When it was first
opened as the Receiving Hospital"
broken down miners, like other pa
tients, were taken into the new
building and after examination, in
a few days were sent either to the
"old hospital or to one of the cot
tages, dependent on their condition.
Now a miner no longer gets to see
the inside of the Receiving Hospi-
which his support helped to
provide, except as he is taken down
from the "old hospital in a wheel
chair to the ground floor of "Receiv-
for examination. Receiving
Hospital" is no longer receiving
miners. At the old hospital he is
often neglected. Because it is true
that it is impossible to do more for
so many of them than make them
comfortable till the end, it is hard
to find anything concrete to lay your
on. But there are many cas-
of outright failure to even make
them comfortable; Of complaints re-
for days with no attention
from doctor or nurse.
There is the case of one man who |
complained for ten days Of a rectal
condition with no results, till finally
n desperation he told the nurse he
was going home. She got results
him but in the meantime neglect
had brought on a serious relapse.
Another has complained of a mouth
for several days with no
results at the time of this writing.
These and other concrete cases are
Known to the writer. How many
have arisen of which he has
40 knowledge can only be conject-
lred. In spite of the aforemention-
hopelessness of most of these
many of them could be made
'ver into useful citizens again, able
o do light, but an important part
If the worlds work, if only a little
ime were spent in building up their
morale. But no use is made of even
most elementary principles of