Montana labor news., 1937-08-12
INVESTIGATION TO Be
MADE OF FORT PECK
10y CT. FALLS UNIONS

Walter Gilchrist, 1917 lst Ave. No.
P. ]. Treacy, Glasgow.
Andrew Kerr, 1421 End Ave. No.
F. E. Love, 2801 4th Ave. So.
Conrad Forrest, 726 End Ave. So.
L. j. Ludwigson, 422 Central.
Gerald Andersen, Box 1900.
J. H. Preston, Box 1862
Mrs. Susie O'Connor, Box 1886.
Edwin A. Haines, No. 19 10th St. N.
D. L. Meyer, 23l9 Central.
Elmer E. Anderson, 26O9 End Ave.N
E. L. Sewell, Route l.
H. c. Landers, 3001 1st Ave. N.
Ben Holzing, 6l5 5th Ave. N.
+. OMalley, Gil 9th st. N.
A. Klingeberg, Ayr Dairy.
], R. Skees, 21l7 1st Ave. N.
Mabel C. Holt, 1917 3rd Ave. N.
Marie Ellis, 1928 9th Ave. N.
I. E. Waltari, Box 434.
A. B. Dirks, 1st Natl. Bank.
Claude Greene, 720 End Ave. N.
Lee H. Young, HOO 3rd Ave. S.
M. E. Bickford, 1901 7th Ave. N.
Alf. A. Lundgren, 1917, lst Ave. N.
Frank Takesgun, City.
VIM. J. Remmel, 1910 5th Ave. N.
Robert J. Huss, 1906 End Ave. S.
B. Baaty, 726 3rd Ave. S.
The city council of Great Falls, it
was reported at the Cascade Trades
and Labor Assembly, had included
in the budget the necessary funds to
pay the firefighters their back pay
due them under the firefighters' g.
hour law. A committee had been
by the Assembly to try
and get this matter settled for the
fire fighters. However, the commit
tee also reported that resolutions had
been introduced in the city council
designed to eliminate vacations Of
The special highway committee of
the unions here stated the County
Commissioners had reduced a pro-
posed budget of $4,000; that the
county surveyor had the authority
to set wages in his department, that
the City of Great Falls had increased
the wages Of laborers from $5.10 to
$3.50, truck drivers, from $3.50 to
Sc, garbage drivers from $6.25 to
$6.75.
The secretary was instructed to
write to the city council and the
county surveyor requesting that the
wage scales, as presented in the un-
ions, be put into effect.
Plans for Labor Day are going
ahead apace. The Sneltermen do
mated $75 to the fund The Team
sters also donted SIS.
The Bakers Union, which has a
strike against certain bakeries, re-
ported to the unions that they were
receiving the cooperation of the
clerks, cooks and walters and other
unions. The large stores Of Great
Falls had in many instances refused
to handle bread from any of the
bakers it was reported.
The Central Labor Council allowed
SIS out Of its treasury to pay the ex-
penses of committee authorized to
work with the bakers in their strike
against the bakeries. This commit
tee is composed of Charles Heximer,
Matt Quilter, E. r. Kenison, Stew
art Voden, A. B. Eckstrom, and Jack
Clark.
The Great Falls Grocery has set
lied its trouble with the clerks and
is fair to all the unions.
The unions regret the death of M.
Kerr Beadle, whom they considered
as a sincere friend and a letter of
has been sent to his
widow at Butte.
A committee consisting Of Fred
Martin, H. M. Brown, Henry Le-
7ebre, Leroy Southmayd, and DON
I'D Peterson was appointed to in
Jestigate the creating Of a central
abor office which could be used to
axe care of the multitudinous work
md detail of the union movement
n Great Falls.
President Steinmetz submitted al
dealing with a proposal
o urge the building Of the Rogers
Pass road and the improving of the
bark to park highway. The resolu-
ion was adopted and is published
)elow:
Whereas, the Northern and South
I'm part of our state is now served
~ two modern oiled highways from
,ast to west, U. S. No. 2 and U. S.
lo. 10, and
Whereas, these highways, with
heir by-passes, have provided al
'aved highway between YellowstoneI
md Glacier National Parks which
letours tourist travel more than fifty |
niles away from Great Falls, while |
'ur original direct Park to Park |
highway No. SO remains for the most |
)art inst ductv dir.fu ropcrlxY lxor4