Montana labor news., 1937-08-05
RAILROADS ENTER INTO
SPIRIT OF GREAT FALLS
LABOR DAY EVENT

GREAT FALLS.-That Labor Day
in Great Falls will be the outstand-
ing event of the year was indicated
in a report of the Labor Day COM
mittee at the last meeting of the
unions. This report showed that the
Huntington Streamlined Zephyr
would be brought to Great Falls for
the Labor Day parade by the rail
road companies. This train is rub
ber-tired, full sized, and designed
for exhibition purposes. 1t is APP
proximately a city block in length.
The next meeting of the Labor
Day group will take place August
10th at 8 p. m. at Isaacson's court
room.
The unions of Great Falls are urg-
ing Senator Wheeler to support the
Connery-Black Minimum Wage and
Hour Bill.
A committee consisting of Thomp-
son, Voden, Baxter, Schwerdt, Stan
field, and Schooner we're appointed to
prosecute the desires of the Cascade
County Trades and Labor Council in
relation to establishing a wage scale
governing all work on city, county
and state highways.
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In spite of the efforts of some of
the unions in the northern part of
the country to induce Governor A.
B. Chandler of Kentucky to grant
executive clemency to a number of
miners who are in jail at Harlan
County, Kentucky, such clemency is
not to be extended, according to word
received by the union organizations
in Great Falls. There was some
trouble down in Harlan County, Ken
lucky, many months ago. The min
ers were on strike there. They want
ed livable conditions and livable
wages and when they tried to get
them, the authorities and the mer-
chant element pursuing their usual
tactics, sought to break the strike.
Trouble resulted and as it always is
in this country, the working people
got the worst of it. Miners were put
in Jail and will probably die in jail
as Money is doing at the present
time, and then they wonder why the
people believe in Russia.
The Clerks in Great Falls have
placed the Great Falls Grocery ano
the Bee Hive Grocery on the unfair
list. These places are being picket
ed. However, settlements have beer
effected with the Pacific Grocery
Golden Gate Grocery, Leweke Groc.
cry, Peoples Grocery and Merrill
Grocery.
Notwithstanding that both Sena-
tors Wheeler and Murray and Con-
gressmen O'Connor and O'Connell
have all stated that they are working
for the creation of a power plant at
Fort Peck, it isn't likely that any
such a thing will be done. What the
people want and what the corpora
tons don't want presents a conflict
such as David and Goliath. But the
biblical version is ever reversed and
the giant always wins. Sometimes
it causes one to wonder why the
working people keep on striving at
all.
President Steinmetz in a report
to the Trades and Labor Council
recommended that letters be sent to
Governor Ayers and the Bureau OF
Public Roads urging the building Of
the Rogers Pass road and the COM
pletion of the Park to Park high
way. Recommendation were con-
Cured in by the delegates.
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The unions in Great Falls are in
terested in knowing just exactly
where the former WPA district di-
r%ectors now stand and to clarity the
situation they have sent letters tc
the state WPA office to get such
information.
Mrs. Parker was a visitor to the
Cascade Central Labor Council al
their last meeting. She addressed
the delegates on the subject of House
Bill 65 and Senate Bill II and urged
the unions to continue to sign the
petitions. These petitions, if filled
out will be the means of referring
both of these measures to the people
in the next general election.
James WHISKY, representing the
Bureau of Civilian Rehabilitation
addressed the council and told what
his organization was doing to assist
in rescuing unfortunate injured peo-
pie and placing them back in posi-
tons where they could earn a living
WHISKY was formerly a very active
member of the Painters Union and
has been active also in the work Of
the Federation of Labor.
IN MEMORY OF FRANK LITTLE
Here's to vo,,r noenorv Frank ;ttle