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Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
TRADE UNIONS Will HOLD HUGE LABOR
DAY CELEBRATION 1T COLUMBIA GARDENS
NATIONAL SPEAKERS HERE
Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council Lays Foundation for
Greatest Labor Day Celebra-
ton in the History of Butte
Unions; All Organizations Are
Asked to Participate.

In accordance with the long estab-
lished custom of the labor organiza-
tons not only in Silver Bow County
but throughout the nation, Labor
Day will be observed in a fitting
manner in Butte. Pl rs were made
at the meeting of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council last Tues
day. Committees were appointed,
and much of the preliminary work
was done. Labor Day has especial
significance in view of the friendli-
ness of the United States government
toward the formation of labor UNI
ions. The passage Of the Wagner
Labor Disputes Act assures us of
the protection of the government.
Some novel features will be tried
out in a sports program this year
and members Of the Trades and
Labor Council inclined to sporting
events have been assigned to this
committee. The Musicians are in
charge of the music and members of
the Electricians Union have been
placed upon the speakers committee
which will also have as part of their
duty the arrangements of an amplify-
ing system. This arrangement will
guarantee to the people that the
speakers will be heard without any
straining. All labor organizations
are asked to send representatives to
join with the rest of the unions in
assisting this work. The unions are
also asked to contribute financially
to make the celebration a success.
The names of all committees are to
be increased as the time approaches
for the Labor Day event. The com
position of committees as named last
Tuesday is as follows:
Arrangement Committee: James
Leary, Lindsay, Lena M~attausch,
William Palmer, Frank Shea and
Clarence Blewett.
Music Committee: M. Moore, Pat
Delaughery, Tom Williams, James
Lunney.
Committee on Prizes: William Pal
mer, Leonard Ripper, Bridget Shea,
Andy Gunther, and M. Moore.
Refreshment Committee: Bridget
Shea, Lena Mattausch, James Thane,
Sara Johnson, Rosa Schwanckamp,
Ruth MCGEE, and j. w. Gwinn
Sports Committee: Tom Kennedy,
Leonard Ripper, William Fauss, Har-
ny Oates, Ed Mason, Adrian Brown,
Donald Mundy, William Pickthall,
Carl Anderson.
Speakers Committee: James
Comba, chairman; Ed Duncan, Jack
Vickers, John Mullaney, Pat De-
loughery, Tim Harrington.
Financial Committee: Crawford,
Williams, Bill Fauss.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

organization.
In Leadville, Colo, a charter will
be installed the latter part of this
week to the recently organized Lead
vile Mill and Smeltermen Union
No. 1893.
Eight additional charters were is
sued during the past week to the
following locals:
The American and Detroit Brass
Workers Union No. 1886. Over 1,10C
men formed the local in Detroit,
Mich.
Waco Cement Workers Union No
500 at Waco, Texas; Adaronick
Miners Union No. 387, Minesville, N
Y; United Open Pit Miners Union
NO. 1888, Columbus, Ohio; Penryr
Miners Union No. 389, Penryn,
Calf; Houston Cement Workers I'm
ion no. 800, Houston, Texas; Pitts
burg Clay Workers Union, Pittsburg,
Calf; Arthur and Magma Millmen's
Union, Magma, Utah.
A signed agreement was reached
with the Monolith Portland Midwest
Co, of Laramie, Wyo., which calls
foc a minimum wage of $3.50 for an
9-hour day. The local was recently
formed with a charter membership
Of $50 men.
In Selby, Calf, a strike of Car
quinez Local No. 81 at the American
Smelling and Refining Co., was set
tied in favor of the union. The
strike grew out of the conduct of a
mine foreman who vas unsatisfac-
tory to the metal miners.
A strike of a month was ended
when members of Locals No. 8 at
Mullen, Idaho, and Local No. Is at
Kellogg, Idaho, employed in the Fed
eral Mining and Smelling Co, signed
an agreement which included union
recognition, a%bolishing the company
employment system formerly used in
the Couer d'Alene district, and the
8-hour day. The concern is con-
trolled by the American Mining and
Smelling Co.
Negotiations for a wage and hour
agreement is going forward by I. U,
M. M. S. representatives with the
heads of the National Cement Co. at
Bessemer, Ala, following an election
conducted by the National Labor Re-
lations Board which designated the
international by almost an unani-
nous vote.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
BILLINGS TRANSFERS
Object TO ISSUANCE
OF CLASS r. PERMIT

The Board Of Railroad Commits
sioners heard several applications at
Billings, on July 81 and July %,
1887, for certificates of public con-
venience and necessity to operate as
motor carriers in this state.
The Transfers Union at Billings
filed a protest with the Commission
at the hearings, which protest went
to each and every applicant who
was seeking a Class c certificate.
The union felt that sufficient certifi-
Gates had already been issued in the
Billings area and that Glass c GER
t~ificates, which do not divulge al
what rate the carriers charge the
public, should not be granted since
the holders of these certificates may
cut prices to the detriment of Glass
A and Class B holders of certificates
with the result that labor is ulti-
mately injured.
Under the law three types of GER
tificates may be issued by this Com
mission; that is, Glass A, B, and {
certificates. Glass A and B certifi-
Gates require that the holders OF the
same file with this board their rates
while Glass c holders need not de
70 but may contract for the hauling
Of commodities at any price agreed
upon with the owner of the com.
modities.
The union also brought to the at.
tention of the applicants that no bu!
operator should work a mar more
than eight hours per day. The Com.
mission has been working with the
labor unions and has adopted wha'
is known as Rule rs, which reads a,
follows:
mo motor carrier owning, control.
ling, operating or managing any mo
tor vehicle used in the transportation
Of persons or property shall aus OF
allow any driver or operator of such
motor vehicle to work as a driver OF
operator for more than a maximum
Of eight driving hours in any twenty
four hour period, and such drive,
or operator shall have at least eigh
consecutive hours rest in each TWEEN
ty-four hour period"
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

BILLINGS,-I rece recently
through the mail so Unsolicited
literature describing so-called
American Plan, to | flowed in
collaboration by both owners of
industry and their employees, the
plan allegedly to be formulated and
practiced in the interests of both
parties concerned. | challenge your
conception Of the American Plan as
a one hundred per cent mass of dis
tortions, half-truths and outright lies.
AS a member of organized labor,
an honest, Woodworking, longtime
citizen of Billings and Yellowstone
County, I claim this alleged Ameri-
can Plan is anything but American.
1t is really the plan of Hitler and
Mussolini, in other words, Fascism.
l challenge you to meet me in public
debate and attempt to defend your
ridiculous concoction, strangely
termed the American Plan. I will
agree by the use of facts, logic and
reason to puncture it as full of holes
as a sieve.
AS a sample from your alleged
American Plan, I quote, "On the
other hand no worker is denied his
constitutional right to sell his own
services under terms and conditions
of his own choosing" Unquote. What
a ridiculous lying implication is
made here that the employee, with
out protection Of organization, is Civ
en- a voice in deciding what his re-
m~uneration and working conditions
shall be. A decision invariably and
exclusively claimed by the employer
as the rightful prerogative of own
ership only, and the backbone of the
American open shop plan.
Again | quote, "a few years ago
| when the nation was in the worst
throes of the depression, more than
one visitor from the industrial East
or from the West coast, after observ-
ing conditions in Billings, was moved
to exclaim, You people here don't
know what the word depression
means And they were right"
Of course they were right in MAX
ing that statement to you fellows
with your comfortable houses, well
filled stomachs and well clothed
bodies. But these visitors could and
would have been shown a quite diff
ferent picture had they contacted
the grievance committee of the or
gained unemployed here, a commit
tee on which I have served continu-
ously for four years.
Billings had at that time and still
has its proportionate share of the
one-third of the entire population of
the United States, pointed out by
President Roosevelt as being under
nourished, in poor health, housed in
squalid poverty stricken conditions.
Children without milk and other
| proper food, kept out of school or
going to school hungry, sick, ragged
and bare-footed. Yes, there was and
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

HICAGO.=(FP)-Hearst's Her
aid Examiner is so close to the rocks
that 101 employees in its classified
ad department and AZ in the edi-
torial department were fired in .ypi-
cal Hearst slaveowner fashion. Edi-
torial workers were yanked out of
bed at 2 a. m. and told they needn't
come down to work any more. After
a Newspaper Guild committee saw
the publisher, it was announced that
they would get dismissal bonus, va
cation pay and overtime due them.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

HOUSTON, Tex.-(FP)-Crippled
George Brannen faces the prospect
of watching his wife die because of
inhumane relief regulations. Doc
tors say Mrs. Brannen, seriously i'll
of bronchitis, won't recover unless
she is removed to another climate,
The county relief board won't let
them move because they have a rule
forbidding moving anyone who has
no legal residence in the other COM
munity.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

re-
suits of the election justify our ex-
pectations and definitely indicate the
desire of labor to organize John L.
Lewis, chairman of the Committee
for Industrial Organization COM
mented upon the overwhelming vote
given the Steel Workers Organizing
Committee and the c. 1. o. by the
$4,000 steel workers employed by
the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

DENVER-(FP)-Donald Hender-
son was elected president of the new
agricultural and cannery workers
international, which affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization by decision of its Denver con-
vention. H. d. Butler was chosen
vice president and Conrad Espe sec
retary-treasurer. Friendly relations
with working farmers are sought.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
{. |. 0. UNIONS IN
STATE DROPPED BY
STATE FEDERATION
International Unions Listed As
c. |. O. AffiIiates Not TO Be
Seated AS Delegates to State
Convention.

ST. PAUL, MINI. - George w.
Lawson, secretary-treasurer of the
Minnesota State Federation of La
Dor, announced this week that all
|C. l. o. affiliates IN the state have
been expelled from the State Fed
Grafton on orders of the American
Federation of Labor, and all such
unions notified that their per capita
tax was no longer acceptable. A
number of per capita tax checks
have been returned, and no creden-
tials will be sent to these unions,
Mr.. Lawson said.
Commenting on a claim made by
the state representative of the c. l.
o. in Minnesota, that Mr.. Lawson's
statement as to the strength of the
|C. l. o. in the State Federation is
incorrect, Mr.. Lawson corrected his
former statement as to the number
affected by the expulsion order by
stating that the previous number was
an estimate without reference to the
books of the federation.
Statement
"In a local newspaper of July IL
there appeared an article to the eff
feet that the secretary of the Min
nesota State Federation of Labor
had carried out instructions given to
his office by the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor to
d~isassociate from affiliation with the
state body such local unions as were
affiliated with the Committee for In
dustrial Organization" said Mr.,
Lawson.
"This question had been referred
by the secretary of the Federation
to the executive council at its meet
ing held on June 5th, and the secre-
tary was instructed to comply with
the orders of the American Fedora
ton of Labor when and if received,
Such instructions yer received the
latter part of June and the local
unions then in affiliation with the
State Federation were advised that
per capita tax would no longer be
accepted"
In response to an inquiry, Mr..
Lawson stated that less than 1000
of the Federation's total member
ship was affected by this order.
According to the newspaper arti-
Gle in question, the representative OF
the c. l. o. in Minnesota questioned
the estimate OF the number of mem
bers of the Federation affected. The
original figure of 1000 was purely
an estimate. However, since the fig
ures have been questioned, the Fed
Grafton office had listed all of the
organizations affected, together with
the number of members upon which
they paying per capita tax to
the State Federation of Labor, and
we find that the actual number OF
members affected is 1,425.
GAS far as the State Federation
of Labor is concerned, membership
claimed by organizations is on the
basis upon which the records of the
Federation are kept. The number Of
members upon which the local unior
pays per capita tax to the Federation
is the membership in so far as the
Federation office is concerned"
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

ST. LOUIS-(FP)-The American
Newspaper Guild, meeting in con-
vention at st. Louis, voted 1872 to
1872 to affiliate with the Committee
for Industrial Organization and
widen guild jurisdiction to include
business, circulation, advertising and
other unorganized newspaper work
ers. Guild membership was report
ed as Hip.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
NEW YORK.-(FPl-The Florida

NEW YORK.-(FP)-The Florida
supreme courts reversal of The con-
victions of five Tampa Ku Klux po-
licemen for kidnapping and flogging
Eugene F. Poulnot, unemployed lead
er, was called a terrible miscarriage
of justice by Chairman Norman
Thomas of the Committee for the
Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
owe SHORTAGE cURTA|LS INDUSTRY
METAL Miners, SHELTER men, MAKE
UNION GAINS, WAGE hikes THRU0UT u. 5.

That the progress of union organization conducted by the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, that is sweeping the nation
will virtually include every metal miner and smelter worker in the
organization if it continues at the present rate, was predicted by John M.
Sherwood. International secretary from the Denver headquartars of the
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29
LACK OF WATER AND LACK OF FORE
SIGHT CLOSES COPPER MINES, MILLS

Mining and Smelling Operations
in Butte and Great Falls Cur
tailed on Account Of Insuffi-
cient Electrical Energy Alleg-
eddy Due from Shortage of
Water Supply.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

The American standard Of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1937-07-29

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., 1937-07-29
Associated In : fries
Are (onde : ed

BILLINGS.-I rece recently
through the mail SO unsolicited
literature describing so-called
American Plan, to flowed in
collaboration by both owners of
Evening star., 1937-03-31
G. W. GRIDMEN LACK
CLASS ROOM PUNCH
Joey Kaufman Among Those With
Defciencies-Spring Drills
Please Coach Pixlee.

THE good professors of George
Washington University may revel
along with other Colonials in the
splendid showing of their foot ball
team, but the gridders are getting no
favors from them
After a week of Spring drill Head
Coach Pixlee is pleased with the work
of the squad, but beneath his bald
pate are a flock Of worries. The
energy and efficiency Of some of his
charges apparently do not extend to
the class room.
Among those whose marks are not
satisfactory is the star back, Joey
Kaufman. who has been placed on
probation.
The boys are smart enough to
make the grades" says Pixlee, "but
it strikes me they're just plain lazy.
The scholastic code at George
Washington calls for foot ball players
to maintain an average grade equal
to that of the average student.
Pixlee is angling for game to f1ll
the date before the Alabama clash,
the only open date on the schedule,
which will be announced within the
next fortnight He wants game with
team of moderate strength playing
Alabama's style If this is unobtain-
able the varsity will play the g. w
freshmen on the open date.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
WESTERN HIGH five
IS TOURNEY BOUND
Seeks Third Title of Year in Glens
Falls Event-Brown Prep
Is Favorite.

THE start for its last goal Of the
season was to be made by the
Western High School basket ball team
this afternoon as it left for Glen Falls,
N. Y, in quest Of the eighteenth an
nual Eastern States scholastic cham
pionship. Morristown High Of New
Jersey will be its first opponent, those
teams opening the tournament tomor-
row night at 7 o'clock.
II successful, the Red Raiders will
come home with their third major
championship of the year, already
having won the inter-high title and
added the championship OF The Eve
ming Stars Metropolitan tournament.
Eastern came home with the Glens
Falls title In 1895, but lost it In the
semi finals last year.
Nine players, Coach Cu1 Moore and
Manager Bill Feiker were in the party
which will stop over in New York City
tonight before boarding a sleeper for
the tourney site. They are ALL High
George De Witt and Gerald Burns,
Paul He'll, Hop Lomax and Hugo
(Dutch) Schulze, regulars, and Hol-
loran. Needle, Saylor and Ward, re-
serves
Brown Prep Of Philadelphia, which
beat Eastern last year, is the defend
ing champion and again looms as the
No. l tournament entrant. 1t will
play Scarborough School of Hudson,
N. Y, in its first game. Other en-
trants are Baldwin High of Long
Island. Utica Free Academy Of Utica,
N Y; ST. Peters High OF Worceste--,
Mass and st. Mary's Academy Of
Glens Falls.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
VILLAINS WILL RULE
ON GRAPHING CARD

A PLENTIFUL supply OF Williams
will round out the preliminary
card to the feature graphing match
involving Laverne Baxter and George
Koverly tomorrow night at Turner's
Arena, with Stanley Pinto, veteran
snarler, meeting Hank Barber, former
Dartmouth foot ball star, in the 30
minute semi-flnal.
Other 30-minute matches list Ed
Meske tackling Jack Hader, Bill
Sledge twisting with George Lehman
and Nick Campofreda, former West
ern Maryland gridiron ace, tangling
with Floyd Marshall.
Promoter Joe Turner will donate
10 per cent of the gross receipts to
the American Legion for the purchase
of uniforms and equipment for 120
junior base ball players backed by
that organization.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Snake, Turtle Hunts Give Way to Colfing


enth Street Wharf bowed to none
as q swimmer. A palm with cross.
- 1t were, to him who negotiated
the fats and return nonstop. But
in the uppermost strata, the coal
chute dare-devils. To leap from
that towering structure stamped q
fellow as having genuine nerve"
To dive therefrom put him in q
class to which only handful be-
longed.
Yep, q boys heaven was the Ana
costa In those days before the
parks planners got busy. But there
was tragedy there, too; drowning
a week. Whose boy this time?" as
frantic mothers hustled to the
river. And you remember a double
drowning. A lad, "joed" in mid
stream, called to his buddy on
shore. And into the stream, half
buttoned clothes and all, went the
bravest Of the Butnam's brave.
Dragmen two hours later pulled
'em up together. clasped IN each
others arms.
Evening star., 1937-03-31

snake and turtle hunts along its
banks and in the deep black mire Of
the Anacostia fats. Naked, crotch
deep In mud, feeling with the toes
for turtles; q pronged stick to cap
ture moccasins; cents apiece at
Schmidt's bird store for baby ter
rapins, a stable piece Of change
from the Willard Hotel for q snap
per big enough for soup, 3 cents an
inch for the occasional green snake
plucked from a leafy home. One
walked miles, barefoot, over
scorching pavements to make the
sales, and was content; happy, in
fact, as the jingling coins made
marching music for the homeward
trek.
Butnam's Beach, Sandy Beach,
the coal chute! The thrill Of ones
first crossing to the Oats! One re-
members the caste system at But.
MANS. None to be noticed, even,
until he spanned the river. He who
finned from Butnams to the Esv-
Evening star., 1937-03-31
SPOT |NF:|RST TEN
PRED|CTEDFORB0B
Not Worrying About Game,
Just PIaying-Cooper, at
10-1, Is Favorite.
BY the Associated Press.

DJ tte hosoCldLeO fEeSS.
4 UGUSTA, Ga, March 81
~ Big Ed Dudley, home course
~ major domo, interrupted his
a worrying about the weather
long enough today to warm his golf
ing brethren that Robert Tyre Jones
will be up there in the Augusta ma
tional golf tournament starting to-
morrow.
He'll oe In the first 10, and I'm
not trying to give him an inch"
Dudley said, firmly, while falling
odds against Jones added point to his
remarks. Bob isn't worrying about
his game. He's just playing golf And
that's what you've got to do in this
tournament.
Hes concentrating more than he
has in any of the three tournaments
His best play was in 1884 when he
finished in tie for ninth He'll do
that good or better this time"
Quoted at IA to /.
A SECOND downward revision Of
the odds against Jones left him
quoted at AL early today. He was
started at 32-l few days ago, but
the pressure Of sentiment betting and
bunch" play forced the willy book
makers to shove these figures back to
20-l yesterday.
This latest change put Jones only
few spots behind the pre-tourna-
ment favorite. Lighthouse Harry
Cooper, currently carrying 10-1 price,
just notch ahead of Horton Smith.
tWo-time winner of this event, who
was quoted at ILL.
Dudley practiced yesterday with
Jones, grand slam" champion OF
1880, who still is a gallery favorite,
despite his seven years of retirement
from all competition except this one
meet. For the second day Bob eased
around in an even par 70, while Host
Dudley cracked out neat 1886,
only one away from KY Laffoon's rec
ord-tying IS Of Monday
How about your chances, Ed?"
Dudley One Of Choices.
I'LL be in there pitching like every
one else he said I've played
better this Winter than ever, but I
wish 1 could have saved that IS for
the tournament"
The odds had Dudley listed at 12-1
along with Tony Manero the national
open champion; Henry Picard and
Gene Sarazen.
Then there was the weather ele-
ment-the forecast was for cold. rain
or snow. That, with the exception Of
the white fakes, was the atmospheric
picture for the three previous sessions
over the beautiful course.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Mat Matches
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK.-Abe Coleman. 205
Los Angeles, threw Rudy Dusek. 2l7,
Omaha t3s:03.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.-Gino Carl
baldi, PA, st. Louis. defeated Frank
Judson. 21s. Boston 1.-TWO OF three
falls)
ALBANY. O'Mahoney. $50,
Ireland defeated Tommy Rae. 2O5,
South Hadley Mass. straight falls).
HARRISBURG. Pa.--ClifI Olson. 215.
Minneapolis threw Sailor Al Billings.
224. Cleveland f24:10. flying dropkick .
NEWARK. N. J.-Stanley Pinto, 214,
Nebraska, threw Ed Meske, 2ls. Ohio
t34:i6).
LINCOLN Nebr.-John Pesek zoe
Ravenna. Nebr. defeated Chief Jules
StronRbow 26S. Broken Arrow. Okla
two straight falls.
NDIANAPOLIS-Dorv Roche 21C.
Decatur, Ill. tossed Orville Brown, 22S
Wichita. Kans. 1.-TWO Of three falls
Daniel Boone Savage. $50 Boyd Coun-
ty, KY. pinned Blue Sun Jennings 24o
Oklahoma tstraight falls): Franz:
Brown. 22o Wichita. Kans., threw
body press).
ST. LoUIs.-An Baba. Kurdistan n.
2Q5. defeated Big Chief Saunooke
Cherokee N. c.. 1922 I2:37. toe hold
Juan Humberto Dallas, 215. and
George zaharias. Pueblo, Colo, 24o,
drew $50 minutes.