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Montana labor news., 1937-09-16
Bankers SirangIehOId

On June 80, 1886, about 81 per
cent of the total national banking
resources of the United States were
concentrated in the hands of the "a
largest national banks. The re-
mainder was scattered among 1864
other banks.
Thirteen Of the "a big banks are
located in New York City, three in
Pennsylvania, three in Illinois, two
in California and one each in Mas
saehusetts, Ohio, and Michigan.
These are some of the facts pre-
scented by Rep. Wright Patman of
Texas in an attack on the growing
concentration of credit facilities in
the hands of a comparatively few
gigantic banking institutions. His
report to the House of Representa-
tives stated also that 100 Of the larg-
est corporations in the country hold
403 of the 488 d%irectorships in the
"a largest banks.
Some of the outstanding economic
royalists Rep. Patman named as in
volved in these interlocking direc-
torships, controlling a large part Of
the national wealth, were the fol-
lowing: ]. P. Morgan, John j. Ras-
kob, Winthrop w. Aldrich, Thomas
w. Lamont, John w. Davis, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Alfred P. Sloan,
Myron c. Taylor, Gerard Swope,
Silas H. Strawn, Alvan Macauley,
and Eugene G. Grace.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-16
The C.. |. O. and the Farmers

1.-THE working farmers Of America have a
great stake in the c. l. O.'s crusade to raise
the level of living of the working people OF
this country says John L. Lewis, c. |. 0.
leader, in a foreword to a pamphlet issued
by the Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and
Allied Workers Union.
He calls attention to the shocking paradox
of gigantic farm SURPRISES, on the one hand,
while barely across the street millions of
people have gone hungry for the want of
these foods.
"Only when the industrial workers, stead
lily marching towards high standards Of liv-
ing, can buy the farm products they need,
will the farm problem be solved" Lewis
continues.
"The American worker and the American
farmer have a common goal, and the goal is
that every citizen Of our country shall have
the right and opportunity to earn a decent
living.
Zone of the salient tasks of the c. I. c. in
organizing the rural wage Garner is to CO.
operate with the working farmer in reaching
this goal"
Labor and the farmers are natural allies
in the task of creating greater prosperity for
those who toll. Neither Of the great pro-
ducing classes can progress far if the other
is left behind. United on a common program
of social b%etterment, labor and the farmers
will be invincible, for together they represent
the great majority Of the American people.
It is precisely because of the power that
lies in farm and labor unity, that profteering
reaction goes to such length to create divi-
sion between them. Propaganda against la
Dor and the C. l. O. has been more assiduous-
ly spread in the farming areas than almost
anywhere else.
As the representative of all that is most
progressive in the American labor movement,
the c. l. O. stretches out the hand of brother
mood to the working farmers. Its leaders are
confident that the more widely the real aims
of the c.. l. o. are understood, the more diff
cult it will be to create division.
Progressive leaders of the organized farm
ers have already met the c. l. Q. half way
by expressing their desire for united action
for the benefit Of both producing classes.
The present wide sweep Of industrial or
ganization, through the c. l. o., has brought
%measurably closer the day so ardently de-
sired by all who have our country's welfare
at heart, when workers Of factory and farm,
organized and united, will march forward
side by side to the achievement of their COM
mon aims.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-16

Reactionary senators and repre-
s~entatives, having let the President
down on court reform, are now try
ing to satisfy the farmers with a
kiss and a promise.
If they let Congress 60 fishing
now, they'll get legislative pie in
the sky by and by. Maybe.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-16

July Dividends: Dividends de-
clared in July were the largest for
that month in six years. The total
of 1921, 481, 096, representing declara-
tons by 984 companies, compared
with 1851, 774,877 declared by
$50 companies in July, 1886" New
York Times, 8-2-37.)
Montana labor news., 1937-09-16

In 1929 the Soviet Union account
ed for only 5.4 per cent of total
world production. In 1886 this per-
centage had risen to 1876 per cent.
The index of production in the Sow
let Union rose from a base of 100
in 1928 to 1858 in 1929 and 480.9
in 1886.
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promised by the politicians and the tnihgs
demanded by the radical leaders OF LABOR
are simply impossible. No government ever
has, or ever can, come through and make
good such promises.
1t is this attitude of the politicians which
is mainly responsible for the growth OF
radicalism in the ranks of union ana uh-
organized labor in the past four years; re-
sponsible for multitude of labor troubles
and strikes, and for the loss of hundreds
of millions of dollars by the workers ana
by industry, for the obstruction OF INDUS
trial and business recovery.
When politicians SOW the wind the coun-
try inevitably reaps the whirlwind. There
is no escape from this result 1t is as GER
tain as the economic laws the politicians
have been sweating to repeal
"Undemocratic and vicious indeed, is
the proposal of the Asheville Central La
Dor Union-in fact, it is about the worst
sort of folly that has been proposed in
North Carolina - but who put into the
minds of Asheville labor leaders the
thought that the Legislature would enact
such legislation, that North Carolina would
submit and stand for it? Perhaps Ashe-
vile politicians did not specifically spread
the idea, but we venture to assert that
their general attitude of endorsement OF
national, even State, policies, OF radicalism
and support of the tremendous Cremen-
dously successful, too) movement to Tam
manyize the United States, had much to
do with this move to license labor in that
city and county.
In view of our honest convictions in this
case, The Times-News is more disposed to
feel sorry for the working people OF Ashe-
Vile than to skin them for their folly.
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AS | SEE IT
By VYICKES WAMBOLDT

with it and to make it harder for
you to come back. e your hear
ers were divine, with divine I'M
derstanding, / might advise you
differently. But they would be
simply human beings like your
self-some of them small and
mean and worse than you and
such persons might use everything
you would say against you.
"If you have offended BROTH
er, tell him you are sorry. If you
have offered a thousand brothers,
tell them you are sorry. Other
wise, how could they know it?
But if your offense is between
yourself and your God, work it
out with your God.
"Once a woman, a member Of
my fathers congregation, sent
for him.
"'Therc is something I must
confess to my husband said the
woman.
"'What is it?' asked my father.
"'That, child said the woman,
pointing to golden-haired little
boy playing on the floor, is not
my husbands child, as he thinks.
His father is my husbands cousin.
/ feel that / must tell my hus-
band
"'That would be a silly thing
to do declared my father. All
you would accomplish would be
to wreck the lives of two inno-
cent persons and pull yourself
down.
"'But,' burst out the woman
passionately, my conscience!-l
cent endure it. II can't carry
this secret any longer locked up
in my breastn
"T thought So declared my
father. 1T is still yourself you
are considering - just as whei
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
UNpEMocRATIc AND VICIOUS

The special legislation for which the Central La
Dor Union of Ashevle has petitioned the general
assembly as recited in news article from Raleigh
published this morning, is undemocratic and VI
cious It should be rejected emphatically.
This legislation as the news article published
elsewhere in The Citizen Times sets forth, aims at
the establishment of boards which would auto
cratically control the employment in Asheville OF
all carpenters, brick masons plasterers, cement
fnishers sheet metal workers, radio servcers, auto
repairers meat cutters, restaurant workers, PRINT
ers. pressmen,, painters and bus drivers.
Similar boards would regulate and control en-
ployment in the county, outside of the city, for all
the activities named above except restaurant work.
ers meat cutters painters; printers and pressmen'
A purpose of the legislation, as stated, is to
prevent the employment Of persons from otner
places in the city and county. The effect of the
legislation if it enacted and upheld as valid
would be to establish tyrannical control over the
opportunities of men and women, whether nom
residents or not to make living in Asheville and
in Buncombe county.
Under the legislation proposed no one could
work i'm this community or learn trade IN any
of the activities named unless he or she had first
obtained license from a politically established
board The city council would be empowered to
revoke such licenses for incompetency, failure TO
comply with the law or "other good cause"
In short, workers in all the lines named would
be at the mercy of these boards and OF the au-
.Lu,;os tis
Could any proposal be more undemocratic or
vicious than this? Where the public health or the
public safety is vitality concerned it is sound and
well recognized principle that the authorities should
have and should exercise a certain supervision over
en,ployrnent But how could either the public health
or the public safety be affected by the employment
Of workers such as carpenters or brick masons or
automobile mechanics?
Obviously legislation of this kind once definitely
launched, would move on and on. If sheet metal
workers are to be licensed and regulated, why not
stenographers? If plasterers, why not bookkeep-
ers? If meat cutters, why not textile workers!
LIZ cement fnshers, why not clerks in the stores
| If painters why not telegraph operators? And so
| on, and so on.
| The whole proposal is preposterous on its face
Il is ndefensible It seeks to create by law labor
autocracy; to put under the control of labor lords
and politicians the only means that many have OF
earning their daily bread; to make special priv
| lege out of something that is an inherent right
/ It's enactment by the general assembly would be
an offence to common sense as well as to the pub
| lie interests. 1t would be the widest of wild de-
partures from the sound principles which the law
) exists to protect not destroy.-Ashevie Citizen.
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THE NEW D EAL
IN WASHINGTON
.RY RODNEY BUTCHER.

NO more inan INC customary
" amount of attention was paid
by his colleagues the other day
when Senator Morris Sheppard OF
Texas rose to make his customary
speech on prohibition. Sheppard
had CONSIDERABLY given warning
several days in advance.
The dry senator boasts that he
has been in Congress longer con-
tinuously than anyone else, hav-
ing been cheated in 1902, and sue
ceeding his father. at that.
So his annual prohibition speech
has become a classic. The author
of the 18th Amendment warned
that the social i'll effects OF repeal
are being ignored in the mad
scramble for tax revenue.
Senators might we'll have PAID
more attention to the veteran
Sheppard than they did,. For the
prohibition movement is stirring
very uneasily in the grave dug
for it four years ago.
Taking for their theme that
prohibition didn't work last time
because people hadn't been edu-
Gated up to it, prohibitioners are
launching a widespread educa-
tional campaign, bearing down on
the social results Of drink-drunk-
en- drivers, industrial inefficiency
i'll health, and the like.
And next month the Prohibi-
htion Party will begin a definite
political campaign looking toward
1910. National Chairman Edward
E. Blake!Hsays the goal is to- ere
ate strong organization in every
state by entering tickets in every
state and local election.
The fact that D. Leigh Colvin
got only a little more than $4,000
votes in the 1896 presidential
election isn't discouraging the
drys little bit. They have their
eyes on the increasing number oil
communities going dry by local
option.
Complacent vets will do wei
to keep an eye on those unobtru.
sive little, local elections, too.
lTonvright. 1887. NEA Service. Inc.
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YES, THE REAL ESTATE
market is picking up. The Brown !
lee Insurance and Real Estate
company sold the John T. Will
kins home, corner of Elizabeth
and Hyman streets, in Hyman
Heights over long distance tele-
phone to man who had never
seen it. The purchasers wife
looked at the house from the out
side without entering and said it
was what she wanted. She return
ed to Asheville and told her hus-
band, who was supplied with
description of the house. He is a
travelling salesman of builders
supplies and knowing materials,
even sight unseen, bought the
house without ever seeing it. Be-
lieve it or not, the family, Mr.. and
Mrs. John p. Hanson and two
daughters of Charlotte, are expect
ing to occupy their new home this
spring.
! FRED JUSTUS, BACK FROM
a national tour to the Pacific
coast. says he studied conditions
and asked questions where he
went and found some places good
and some otherwise but all in all
give him Hendersonville-no place
like it for good water, air and liv-
ing, but not so good a place to
make the living. But, after all,
give him Hendersonville.
SHORTS: JOHN c. ROGERS,
nicknamed by newspapers in
Southern Florida as Will Rogers
is with his family at Rockledge,
where he is handling Indian River
tree-ripened fruit, not colored or
polished. :. Thomas +. Thrower,
former real estate sales genius, is
rehearsing his talents in Orlando,
Fla. Miss Martha Glazener,
senior in Meredith college, Ra-
leigh, is coming in for recognition
in the journalistic realm, having
tbeen asked to submit articles for
publication in the Biblical Record
er and the BTU. quarterly, the
former being the State Baptist or
tgan and the later the Baptist
Training Union publication Of
Southern Baptists. \
TODAY'S ENGLISH TEST:
Ernest Phillips joins the ranks Of
Col. Bert A. Boyd in suggesting
that we include a study in English
along with our daily word study.
He says he can simply gobble it
with a, keen Appetite. All right,
Mr.. Phillips, tell us'if the cor" and
the "nors" are. properly used in
this sentence, and if so, why use
the cor" mixed in with the ."nors."
"The applicant said he was neither
deaf nor blind nor physically or
mentally disabled"
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fHESTNUTT GROVE
CHESTNUT GROVE, Jan. 81

CHESTNUT GROVE, Jan. 81.
Mr.. j. Justus called on b. I. Con-
nor Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover Common
and children of Fletcher, visited
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. p. Connor last week.
A number of friends and reia-
tives gathered at the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. j. E. Cox Saturday night
for the radio program. They also,
enjoyed playing number oil
games. All reported a nice time.
B. P. Conner spent Saturday
night with Jim Justus.
p. Freeman called on Porter
Connor Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Collins OF
Edneyville, were called in this
community, Sunday.
Coy Barnwell of the CCC camp,
and George McKinna of kyles
Creek, called here Sunday.
Herman Conner called at u. NJ
Gilbert's Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gay LYDIA and fam,
ily of Edneyville, called on MIR
and Mrs. Thomas Case Monda!
night.
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have helped wreck q BANK OF put
over some other steal on your
community and are SORRY for it,
you should say so publicly. Other
wise, how is the public to know
that you have had a change of
heart? And how are those who
know of your depredations-and
who perhaps envy you-going to
realize that you have reached the
conclusion that such misconduct
does not pay? There are two
phases of crime: There is the
phase of the crime itself; then
there is the phase Of being unre-
pentant-or apparently so. The
second phase is as bad as the first.
"But," | went on, eff you are
guilty of a secret sin, that is a
matter between you Yand your
God. To get up and talk about it
publicly when the public does not
already know about it, would be
to fill the minds of your listeners
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PLEASANT GROVE

PLEASANT GROVE, Jan. 81.
Rev. Jess Osteen delivered won
derful sermon Sunday morning,
using as his subject, Prayer.
Mrs. C. E. Blythe is still improv-
ing. ,,
Earnest Gray has returned home
from the Oteen hospital but is not
much improved.
Aldon Drake of Charlotte, spent
the weekend with his parents, MI
and Mrs. ]. II. Drake. -,
w. w. Orr, who has been i'll, is
able to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Creed Banks have
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BY RODNEY DUfCflEK
SEA Service Stufr Correspondent

BY HOl)A>E1 ~ lN.iibiN
SEA Service Stuff Correspondent
WJASHINGTON.-T h GU G h the
w theme of the inaugural was
Jacksonian, the second admins
tration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
is likely TO see a distinct bow
made toward Jefferson, too. Q
That will 'be made, If not in
legislation and principles, at least
in the beginning of the first real
memorial to Jefferson the capital
has ever had. True, there is a
statue of jefferson in the Capitol
corridor leading TO the House. but
very few people have ever seen
the marble figure atop a tall
pedestal.
But some time during 1887,
Congress is to begin spending up
% s3,00o,O00 for a memorial to
jefferson which will be compare
ole to those which immortalizc
washington and Lincoln, II will
probably take the form of Ro-
nan hall, with a great statue of
Jefferson looking across to his ma
tive Virginia.
The location most favored is ad-
Joining the Tidal Basin, which is
-oughly between the White House
and the Washington Monument
rhe hall might be, built TO include
Jefferson relics and perhaps the
library of $500 books which he
sold to the Library Of Congress
after its collection was burned by
he British in 1912. .lao@ ,
Rep. John. ]. Boylan, from New
York City, is the moving spiri,
who has been pushing the Jeffer-
son memorial project for the las,
ID years.
II it seems long time, it Nigh,
be remembered that it took Con.
sress more than 100 years to ge,
around to doiag anything about
a George Washington memorial
And maybe the second admins.
Iration Of Franklin D. Roosevelt
will prove as appropriate a time
as any for setting up the frs
: memorial to Jefferson.
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you got into this trouble. Your
secret is distressing you; so you
wish to pass it to your husband
to carry for you. Let part of your
penalty for your wrongdoing be
that you carry this secret locked
in your breast to your grave. You
can at least do your husband and
your child that kindness. You can
at least spare them the distress
and the disgrace which the dis
closure of your misdeed would
bring on them
"And that, my friend" | said
to my visitor, sis the way feel
about the matter"
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LOCKWOOD

LOCKWOOD, Jan. -
young people Of Mills Ri
Boiling Springs section ~.
tertained with n party a; we 4
Miss Louise Elcgc. on iva \
nings Bridge road. recent. y
reported a nice time.
A large crowd attended D
Springs league SUNDAY %; oS
spite of weather condi,io ,s
Sam Ruth, Jr., and Nelr;s
lor, Of Ashevillc. rendered q
The talk given by Mr.. Sam"
Jr., was very impressive -
joyed by all. The league ~. 4
ganizcd three months 400 .
progressing nicely. 80
Miss Lula Primer Sr.,.
weekend at her home ne,, !,
ing Springs. I"
Mr.. James V. Mcrcll. ".
been working in Chcraw : \
for several months. is -
home with his family on u,
Shoals road.
Misses Muricl and Mara,
lowe. of the Mills River ~
spent the day with Miss c..''
Merrell on the Buck Sho,E =,
Sunday. January II. Wy
Friends Of Miss Charls4 v,
rell honorcd her with syr..
party Thursday night, Janu,r \
Those present were: Marion y,
lowe. Dorothy Lance, Sue an,
Muriel Marlowc, Margaret b.,
Marie Netherton, Walter Lam,
Claude Lance, James Men.
Paul Lance, Wade tanning, b
moRd Lance. Roy Duvall AMI :
: Lance. All reported a good 1,
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publicly and re-
pent publicly, OF
should it be a
matter entirely
betw c G n myself
and my God?"
"Well, that all
depends" / told
my visitor. Z" In
my opinion, if
you have COM
mitted a sin pub.
licly, you should
confess it public
ly apd repe n I
publicly. For in
stance, if YOU
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WORK FOR AMATEURS

The grand jury in Greenvile asks the legislative
delegation to provide for the county a criminal
investigator" who is a detective of experience,
not lawyer" Yet one infers from the reports
coming out of Greenville that criminals are so
merous that any amateur might catch them by the
News and Courier
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LOS ANGELES TAXES BOW

LOS ANGELES. ,(UP).-This
city boasts that as. a result Of its
new don't soak the tourist" pol
icy it attracted 1,517,864 visitors
last year. 1t also wants the fact
to be known that the question Of,
soaking applies equally to IA
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-27

A man called on me the other
day and put this question to me
"Tf l should go out here and
commit some sin, should / go be-
fore my church and confess il
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-27

The stabbing at the New York banquet turned
out to be crime, and not just another case n
which peas were eaten off knife. ''i'f
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-27

The Maharaja of Indore has enjoyed his visit to
the United States Which reminds US we have
heard little lately from the Sultan Of Swat
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-27

The president wants assistants who have,"a pas.
sion for anonymity As suggestion, how about
the authors of the Ground n Around song?
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According. to the Rev. Gerald X: Smith OF Lou
isiana, Roosevelt doesn't count any more. highe'
he stopped after the first couple Of hundred elee'
toralk votes - i ~, M, AZ yg,1a =,
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BIBLE THOUGHT
THE SHEPHERD PSALM

3. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
He Ieadeth me beside the still waters" (Ps. z3:2)
The first want which, according to this verse; ne
VINO belongs to Christ shall never know is the want
of.re.t 1t may be rendered thus: g. He leadeth
me beside the waters of rest" WE ALL NEED
REST, but the tenderest shepherd cannot bring a
flock of sheep to rest unless they follow him.
E.My sheep" said Christ, "hoar my voice and
they follow Me-" John 10:2O
Ito be continued)
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moved. TO their. new bo.,
Spergeon Hamilton pl,c0 O'ae'
Mrs. Ida Rushtor and T.
It's Gray spent WcdncydJ..N,
Mrs. c. +. Blythe. way