Montana labor news., 1937-04-08
POWERFUL TEAM5TER
UNIONS COVER ENTIRE
STATE OF MONTANA

The organization committee of
Transfers held their meeting in Mis-
soula April 4, 1897. This meeting
turned out to be the most successful
meeting held since the committee
was organized. They have been
meeting about every three months
but business has increased SO much
that it was decided to meet in Great
Falls in May.
The new locals that have been or
ganized in the state since December
are Miles City, Livingston and Dill
Ion. The per capita tax of the COM
mittee is increasing and as new
members come in it will NEAR that
new organizers will be put out. The
reports showed many new companies
in Montana have signed up with u
organization and all large overtime
road trucking companies are work
ing under contracts with the Team
sters union. The committee also had
a representative from Anaconda at
the meeting and three from Deer
Lodge.
The Missoula Transfers held a
special meeting on Saturday, April
3rd, to meet the committee and after
wards they held a social session of
card party and dance which was very
successful and enjoyable.
Sam IRWIN of the Retail Clerks AS
ISOLATION and Frank Shea, state or
ganizer for the Clerks, were present.
A request had been given Dave
Beck, northwestern organizer of the
Transfers, to attend. 1t was impos-
sible for him to come but he sent a
special representative and assured
us that he would appear next time.
We wish to thank the Missoula
Transfers Union for the welcome
given the representatives of the com
mittee and also to congratulate them
on the success they have had in or
ganizing in Missoula 100 per cent.
Miles City which has only been
organized a short time, is making
progress. Billings, which was one
of the hardest towns we tried to
organize is now well on its way to
100 per cent organization. Al Hell
ena, where the associated industries
placed every obstacle in the way of
the organization of the Transfers,
has finally organized a majority OF
its teamsters. 1t is only a matter of
weeks until the associated industries
will have to bargain with the Team
sters Union in that city. Deer Lodge
has put in a local union there last
month and has organized So truck
drivers with the help of Anaconda
and are well on their way to success.
The organizer from the Pacific
Coast gave the Transfers much val
liable information on their plans
in organizing the state of Washing
ton. The organizer from Washing
ton also asked that each local union
Of the state of Montana, if possible,
send a representative from Montana
to a joint council meeting to be held
in May in Seattle. At this meeting
the over-the-road trucking COM
panies and caravaning of a r will
be taken up and then action taken
from San Francisco to Minneapolis
and also from San Francisco to Los
Angeles, Salt Lake into the city Of
Butte. It was also stated that where
large trucking companies On the Pa
cific coast operating from Chicago
throughout the West and dowr
through Seattle, Los Angeles anc
Portland, where the Transfers are
organized, come into these cities they
will not be allowed to make any
deliveries unless they carry cards o.
the International Brotherhood o.
Transfers. He stated that the
Seattle Joint Council would send ;
communication to the locals urgins
them to send their representative
to that meeting as it will be vel
worth the money spent.
The Anaconda Transfers local il
not affiliated with the state commit,
tee. We are very glad to see a rep.
Preventative there from Anaconda al
he made very many good sugges'
tons and it showed a representative
from practically every local, only
Dillon, which was not in a position
to send a representative because they
did not have any member of the
union who could lay off to attend
the meeting.