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Smyrna times., 1937-11-18

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Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
kaIispeII Unions Condemn Selfish Ads
perpeiuaied by Butte Trucking Concern

two trips. There are reports of
cases where a truck has gone off the
road and the men have worked
TWENTY hours getting it back on
and down to Kila, and yet have only
received ONE days pay. OVER
TIME, in the sense that UNION peo-
pie know it, seems to be unheard of.
Occasionally some driver, upon en-
tering a protest, may receive a few
hours extra pay - more frequently
it is promised and conveniently for
gotten - but in the event it is for
Incoming, it is merely based on the
REGULAR RATE PER HOUR
WHICH THESE MEN RECEIVE, and
WHICH is LESS THAN FORTY
FIVE CENTS PER HOUR. The
AVERAGE wage paid is about $3.50
per day. 1t is reported on good au-
thority that these trucks are bringing
in earnings which compare favorably
with the scale the same tonnage
trucks would receive in Butte and
yet this Company claim their con-
tracts were taken with a view to
paying the present wages and that
it is totally impossible for them to
do anything else at present. The
Continued on Page 20)
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
RATE HEARING HAS
HUMOROUS Aspects

At the hearing before the Board
Of Commissioners Monday, August
Both at the Court House at 10 o'clock
the Miners Union were the only ones
to object to the granting to the Ana
conda Company of permission to
quit operating the street cars on the
streets of Butte. The same commit
tee asked several questions in refer
ence to the application of the Butte
City Lines Bus Company in refer
enee as to why they should be grant
ed a permit to operate buses in
Butte.
While the general sentiment a.
round Butte seems to be that the
street cars should pass out of the pic
ture, nevertheless there are many
who realize that the Butte Electric
Railway Company did extend itself
to give service especially to the men
on the hill even when there was 9
loss involved IN the operation. This
was especially true in some of the
owl routes.
Like everything that the big cor
porations do when they go into court
or before a public board, they came
thoroughly prepared. This was very
noticeable Monday morning. 1t wa;
SO noticeable that it seemed almost
like a Punch and Judy show. Mr.
Hoover of the Anaconda Legal staff
was questioning Mr.. Fraser also Of
the Anaconda Company, who was
testifying. With elaborate and al
most painful exactitude, charts, anc
papers were brought forth for the
%edification of the Board and the as
sembled speakers and others.
The stereotyped questions and ans
wers followed each other in pompus
and ponderous monotony. However
after this show of erudition was over
some Of the lighter aspects of the
drama took place. A committee
Continued on Page 20)
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
Independent Butchers
10 Enter The
Regular a. F. |. Union

In an effort to heal a breach which
has existed in the Butchers organi-
cation since 1881, the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council recently
took a definite stand to assist the
local Butchers union No. 1888 in
bringing all independent shops and
members into the International or
g~anization. The Trades and Labor
Council recognizes the need of ANAL
gamating the independent union
with the union affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor.
Charges that some of the indie
pendent butchers are not being paid
the scale; that they are being COM
PEELED to work more than 8 hours
a day and that other violations of
rules and laws are occurring, have
o%ccasioned this joint action of the
Trades Council and Local 1888. II
was reported at union headquarters
that one Of the officers of the In
dependent unions is now a police
man and another officer is a
travelling salesman for some concern.
The Butchers union have offered
very liberal terms to the Indepen-
dents to come into the legitimate or
g%anization. Already a number of
Independent shops have signed up.
Continued on Page 20)
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
DAY SPEECH BY
JOHN |. LEWIS


Labor Day belongs to the workers
Of the United States. This year we
have more reason than ever before
to celebrate it fittingly. The spirit
Of enthusiasm for organization which
caused the establishment of this holi-
day has manifested itself more pow
erfully during the last year than it
has ever done during all the long
years of American labor history.
The meaning Of Labor Day is en-
HANGED by the tremendous strides
which labor has taken in its forward
progress.
The Committee for Industrial Or
~ganization and its affiliated unions
now have more than three million
members. Almost two million of
these members have enlisted in our
ranks during the last twelve months.
Inestimable progress has been made
in the establishment of unions in the
mass production industries and
among white collar workers, such
as Government workers and office
and professional workers. In addi-
ton, those MISUNDERSTANDING I'M
ions which formed part of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization at
its inception have made substantial
gains. The Committee for Industrial
Organization has established regional
offices in almost every state, and it
has also established a number of
local industrial union councils.
During the year, which will elapse
before next Labor Day, the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization will
add more millions Of members to its
rolls. Nothing can stand against the
desire of the workers of this nation
to unite into strong, well-disciplined
and articulate unions for the purpose
of improving their environment and
their conditions of life. Moreover,
we shall consolidate u gains. We
intend to render our unions i'm
pregnable against attack so far as it
is humanity possible.
1t is the duty of every American
worker to join the legitimate union
of his own choice. 1t is an obliga-
ton which he owes not only to him
self, but to his fellow workers and
to his children. The union can not
only protect him among the vicis-
STUDIES and hardships of his life, but
it can make him articulate, so that
he may participate in the govern
ment of his nation. 1t is incumbent
upon us to preserve for our children,
the inheritors of our traditions, our
democratic institutions which are be-
yond price.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
SILVER BOW TRADES AND LABOR
COUNCIL WILL Be HOST TO The
PEOPLE OF SILVER BOW COUNTY
Unions and Auxiliaries Sponsor
ing Labor Day Celebration
With a Sports Program, Speak
ing, Band Concert and Dancing

Labor Day with its traditions of
speaking, of Legislation and of cele-
brating will be fittingly observed by
the unions and people of Silver Bow
County at Columbia Gardens Man
day, September 9th. Senator James
E. Murray and Congressman Jerry
j. OConnell will deliver the prin-
cipal addresses of the day. Mayor
Charles Hauswirth will also deliver
an address. The speakers will be
introduced by Mr.. James Comba,
president of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council, A very fine
system of simplifying the voices has
been arranged by members of the
Electricians union.
The sports committee headed by
Leonard Ripper has arranged an ell
aborate and interesting program,
with assurances from Bill Palmer and
Andy Gunther that more prizes will
be given away than V e before.
Some of these are valuable, for in
stance the Price-Kear Company
is offering $4,000, first payment on
a Hudson car or a 500 first payment
on a T%erraplane and 6 months free
service. Either one of these prizes
are transferable.
The Butte Mines Band has been
engaged to render its usual fine con-
cert all afternoon. Dancing in the
evening will conclude a day which
promises to be full Of delightful en-
tertainment.
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council cordially invites the public
to join with them in celebrating its
holiday.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02

Igence Of the workers who recognize
that peace is as essential to success
full industry and real progress as air
is to lung-breathing animals; that
justice to the toilers has too long
been denied. that in the midst OF
the civilization at the close of the
nineteenth century, wrongs too gross,
widespread, and well known to re-
quire mention here, still abound; that
if man is to be free in the time to
come, eternal vigilance must be
exercised, organization of the work
ers proclaimed, maintained and ex-
tended; education of the educated as
well as of the masses, be furthered
and nurtured; and agitation of la
boris wrongs endured and rights de-
MED, undertaken, with all the zest
and energy begotten by devotion
to a cause which is at once holy,
noble, pure, lofty, just, wise and
humane.
COnsecrated to the TOiIers' Cause
All through history, holiday obser-
vances and feasts have abounded;
but it was reserved for our time and
for the workers of our country to
first proclaim and observe a day de-
voted to the t%oilers, the toilers' cause,
the cause of justice-this day of
days, c~onsecrated by the sufferings
borne, the battles fought, the aspira-
tions, often i~narticulate yearings, OF
the masses for their final emancipa
ton, the triumphant enforcement
of absolute justice, and the efface-
ment of the brutal, unnatural causes
of mans inhumanity to man which
makes countless numbers mourn"
To make our lives and environ
ments Of today more in harmony
with the wonderful achievements OF
modern industry, to participate in the
results-rewards of the beautiful
peace and our bountiful labor, no
less than in receiving deserved re-
nown for our services and sacrifices
in a just war, we must organize more
thoroughly, more conpactly, than
ever.
workers, You Can Be Free!"
The trade unions, scoffed, denoun-
ced, ridiculed in turn, and antagon-
lied as no other organization on
earth, are now being argued with,
their merits, as the wage-earners'
defenders, protectors, and advance
guard for a juster reward for the
wealth producers are more widely
discussed and generally conceded.
Labor Day is now the general tri-
butte of our entire people to the
victories won, the vantage ground
gained, by organized labor and the
hope entertained that that happier,
truer life among men may soon be
ushered in-that day Of which poets
have sung, philosophers dreamed and
workers struggled for ages.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
c. and F. Teaming Company APP
pear To Be Fair To Organized
Labor Only In Localities
Where Conditions Force Them
To Be.

1t will come as considerable sur
prise to Union men and women in
Butte to learn that the c. and F.
Teaming Company, with home Of
fees in Butte, are paying wages, and
resorting to tactics so dear to open
shop operators the country over.
This trucking concern is operating
a fleet of trucks between the Flat
head Mine and a small town known
as Kila, in the Kalispell district.
These trucks haul an approximate
distance of rs miles over an unsur-
faced, tortuous mountain trail. They
are of two-ton or greater capacity,
and haul an approximate five-ton
load. The drivers are expected to
make two trips daily, regardless of
weather conditions, and it is reported
that there are cases on record where
these drivers have spent nearly a
full day in making only n trip,
yet have received only ONE-HALF
days pay because they did not make
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
BAD SITUATION EXISTS
GALEN SANITARIUM

DR.. Frank Terrill was endorsed
and backed by the Butte Miners
Union for the position of superin-
tendent of Galen Sanitarium. 1 re-
Gently read an article in the Mon
tana Labor News, wherein the writ
er stated that at last we had a sup
erintendent at Galen who was fav-
orable to organized labor and I be-
lieve this is, or was the general be-
lief in regard to DR.. Terrill. But let
us examine this proposition and see
how much justification there is for
this belief.
AS individuals, the members of
labor are like everyone else; they
range from noble down through in
different to absolutely rotten. But
as an organization Labor has never
asked for more than justice and fair
play. Is DR., Terrill dealing justly
with the people of Montana? Is he
playing fair with the patients and
employees at Galen? If so, he is also
playing fair with Labor. If not he is
likewise unfair to Labor as well as
to the State, employees and patients,
for Labor is the largest section of
the citizenry, employees and patti
ents.
About June 18th, DR.. Terrill i'm
ported a dietician from Iowa. 1t
may be true that a competent dieti-
clan could not be found in the state
but the writer doubts that such is
or was the case. On July 18th a
German immigrant who had worked
for the dietician in Iowa came to
Galen. AS nearly as the writer can
ascertain he has been in the country
for four years and is not yet a citi-
zen. AS the regular employees
were beginning to take their vaca-
tons he was Immediately put to
working extra. On July 25th a resi-
dent of the state and taxpayer for
most his life was summarily dis
charged though only two or three
days before DR.. Terrill had compli-
mented him on his work. The af-
orementioned German immigrant
was put permanently in his place.
The evening of August 10 two girls,
who had worked here for some mon
this, were discharged without pre-
vious notice. The dietician charged
misconduct in the dormitory on the
girls part. The rest of the girls in
the dormitory say there is no truth
full basis for this charge. In my ex-
perience and observation of life l
have found workers to be Just as
truthful as their bosses. 1t would
seem that the weight of evidence in
this case is against the dietician. The
reader can draw his own conclusions.
To make things look still more
'fishy" she replaced these two young
women with men from out of the
state.
The night of August 18th another
Continued on Page 20)
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02

Mr.. Gompers' editorial was entitl-
ed: Labor Day-What It Portends,"
The text of the editorial follows;
VisiOned For Centuries
No day in the calendar is a great
er fixture, n which is more truly
regarded as a real holiday, Oh one
which is so surely destined to en-
dure for all time, than the first Mon
day in September of each recurring
year, Labor Day. With time, this
day of the year is taking deeper
hold in the respect and confidence
of the people.
It is regarded as the day for which
the toilers in past centuries looked
forward, when their rights and their
wrongs might be discussed, placed
upon a higher plane of thought and
feeling; that the workers of our day
may not only lay down their tools
of labor for a holiday, but upon
which they may touch shoulders in
marching phalanx and feel the stron-
ger for it; meet at their parks, grow
es and grounds and by appropriate
speech, counsel with, and pledge to,
each other that the coming year
shall witness greater efforts than
the preceding in the grand struggle
to make mankind free, true and
noble.
Workers Struggle Against Tyranny
Labor Day differs in every essen
tial from the other holidays of the
year of any country. All other holi-
days are, in a more or less degree,
connected with conflicts and battles,
of mans prowess over man, of strife
and discord for greed or power, of
glories achieved by M nation over
another.
Labor Day, on the other hand,
marks a new epoch in the annals of
human history.
1t is at once a manifestation of
reverence for the struggles of the
masses against tyranny and injustice
from time immemorial; an impetus
to battle for the right in our day fer
the men, women and children of
our time, and gives hope and en-
couragement for the attainment of
the aspirations for the future of the
family,
1t Is devoted to no man, living or
dead; to no sect, sex, race or nation,
1t Is founded upon the highest prin-
ciples of humanity, is as broad in its
scope as the universe. 1t was not
given to, but conquered by labor,
and established as a holiday before
any legislature, State or National,
enacted it into law.
Unions Necessary to Free Labor
The marching toilers in the Labor
Day demonstrations signalize no mar
tial glory, brutal domination, con
quests or war-like pomp.
They are, in their essence, the
manifestations of the growing intel
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
UNIONS TO STAGE PICNIC AT GARDENS
GIN 10 Hold Nation-
Wide Protest Against
Mexican High Prices

MEXICO CITY, (MLN)-On Sat-
urday, July 81, the CTM (Confedera-
ton of Mexican Workers. went
into the streets in Mexico City and
throughout the rest of the country
in an organized protest and petition
to the authorities against the pre-
vailing high prices for foodstuffs and
other articles Of first necessity. On
top of the already dangerous rise
in prices which provoked the intense
agitation of three months ago, es-
sential articles of diet, such as milk,
corn, meat, sugar, and beans, have
registered new highs in the last few
weeks of as much as rs per cent in
some extreme cases.
The FROG (Regional Federation of
Workers and Peasants of the Federal
District, in a resolution pointing out
the extreme spread now existing be-
tween prevailing prices and the
minimum wage established two
years ago, asks that prices either
be brought back to the former
level or else the minimum wage
revised in accordance with present
living costs. It proposes to the
government of the Federal Dis
trict to fix prices at the previous
levels by administrative action and
offers the cooperation of workers
committees to act as agents of the
government in seeing to it that shop
keepers sell their goods at the Of
fetal prices.
In the event this suggestion is not
accepted within a period Of thirty
days, the FROG will demand an i'm
mediate increase in wages in all the
plants in which its workers are en-
ployed, resorting to the extreme
measure of a general strike in the
Federal District unless its demands
are acceded to. The organization
has now officially notified the CTM
of its decision, asking the coopera-
ton Of the national labor body in
support of its campaign.
As has been pointed out in pre-
vious numbers of MEXICAN La
Dor NEWS, the problem of high
prices is partly economic, partly poll
teal, and partly the result of I'M
controlled speculation. To these
earlier causes may now be added the
damage to this years crops from the
floods of several weeks ago and the
failure of crops in certain regions.
Business men are now alleging that
natural causes and the lack of ade-
quate communications are chiefly
responsible for the most recent ris-
es, in addition to the "rapacity" of
the workers, whose demands for
higher wages, they say, r forcing
up the price level. This latter
charge IS obviously unfounded, how
ever, since prices have on the aver
age risen at least Is per cent more
than wages.
It is hardly likely that admins
trative measures to reduce prices
will be very effective. Such attempts
as have already been made, both
in Mexico City and in other cen
tiers, have proved completely inef-
fective and if the government were
to try the experiment of arbitrari-
.ly fixing prices by decree, it would
run the danger of provoking repri-
sails that might throw the entire
economy of the country out of gear.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
By A. F. Of L. News Service.

by 4. +. OF I. News Service.
The late Samuel Gompers was president of the American Federation of
Labor in 1894 when the Congress of the United States enacted the law
making Labor Day a legal national holiday.
Later in an editorial in the American Federadonist the, official journal
O. the American Federation of Labor, Mr.. Gompers discussed the deep sig
nifcance of Labor Day as a special holiday for working men and women,
and emphasized the paramount Importance of the trade union movement
as an instrument to secure freedom and justice for the workers and good
will toward all mankind.
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
SILVER BOW TRADES And LABOR COUNCIL
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION
Columbia Gardens
Monday, September 9Th, 1897
SPORTS PROGRAM II A. M.

l. Rolling Pin Throwing Contest for Women.
2. Balloon Rolling Contest for Girls under Ia years of age.
3. Bottle Filling Contest for Women.
4. so Yard Dash for Women.
S. so Yard Dash for Girls under Ia years of age.
6. Mystery Race for Men.
T. Slipper Kicking Contest for Women,
8. Egg and Spoon Race for Women,
g. 100 Yard Dash for Men.
10. so Yard Dash for Boys under IL years of age,
ii. Back to Back Races yards, Boys IL years of age or
under.
IL. Shoe and Box Race for Men.
l3. so Yard Dash for Officers of all unions.
IA. so Yard Dash for Delegates of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council, Metals Trades Council and the
Building Trades Council,
is. 100 Yard Dash for members of Miners Union only.
Contestants placing first, second and third In each sport
ing event will be awarded merchandise prizes,
Music by Butte Mines Band all day.
Dancing In the evening.
2;30 F. observation-disclosures Comba, president of Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council; Senator James E. Murray;
Congressman Jerry J, OConneIl; Mayor Charles Hauswirth.
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council wish to thank
the merchants Of Butte for their generous cooperation,
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02
G0hpERS vISI0NED LABOR DAY
DEVOTED TO T0ILERS CAUSE

First President of American Federation of Labor Said ut Was
Not Given To, But Conquered by Labor, and Established as a
Holiday Before Any Legislature, State or National, Enacted
1t Into Law"
Montana labor news., 1937-09-02

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., 1937-09-02

There can be NO prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
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The Kennewick high line canal
was to be the next unit of the Yaki-
ma project to be constructed by the
Federal Reclamation Bureau &C
cording to a report made by M. M
Moulton to the local Commercial
club.
The Commercial Hotel was pur-
chased by w. S. Raglan from M. c.
Allen.
Horace Wray wrote a very inter-
esting article on the future of the
sweet cherry crop in Kennewick,
There was also published a reply by
II. p. Gould of the United States
Agricultural Department and was TO
an inquiry written by Mr.. Wray con-
corning the sweet cherry crop.
Miss Fisher, music teacher in the
local schools was trying out differ
ent pupils for the leads in the high
school operetta. Some of the pros
poets were Louise Doan, Edith
Stradford, George Sheppard and
John Brooks.