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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1937-11-06

Assailing the unjust treatment
Of colored teachers In the Detroit
public schools. and leyeling their
verbal barbs At the ever soaring
rent" and the neglect to use and
and The abuse OF the ballot more
THAN one hundred delegates agreed
Through the adoption of resolutions
10 wage relentless war against
/, h e discrimination Practical
against colored wonAn.
The delegates coming from the
various civic. political. fralernal,
and social Clubs in che city. had
Gathered al a city-wide conference
to 'discuss our common problems
ind work out jomt PLAYS for put
ring into action n pcrmansnt Coun-
iii of Progressive Negro Women
g'he conference was held Wednes-
day night ~ Plymouth congrega-
tional church and ars Ernest Nj.
csbule was elected presidents Of the
council
schools Inferior
Mrs. Merrill Work. newrome.
10 Detroit. led ihe attack on the
bonrd Of education for It's alleged
discrimination. Mrs. Work pointed
out that the schools in tho district
between the River ana CranG
boulevard. and Woodward and los
Crmpau Avenues. were. IN most In
stances. INF. riur 70 those iiI other
districts She also charged chat
schools in this district are never
provided with new looks, hut The
a1cnis are compelled 10 use
bs6s- discarded by white std,ients.
Following the blasts .cveied AT
The board Of education. the mem
bors adopted resolution declaring
Negro teachers in our public
schools are never promoted. how
eyer well qualified they may be
rom the viewpoint OF length of SER
vice. training and experience" and
this sort OF repression tends to
thwart the aspirations OF woman
liood and reflects itself in dis
couraged lives OF the younger gen.
Grafton Fearing reprisals from the
school boati. the teachers Them
selves dare not urge better treat
lnent for their group"
The conference resolved to set
up a special committee that Will
take such steps as may COMPEL the
board Of education to change this
sorry state Of affairs"
AssafI Landlords
l ina resolution condemning the
Landlords for the steady increase in
rents and urging the conference 10
Iijoin with the Renters and Consum-
llers League, It was pointed out that
i"rents are soaring beyond the price
which our people are able to pay
in many instances having more
/ than doubled within the last four
years" and "the prices of food
/, clothing and other necessities ar,
going up out of all proportion L
wage increases"
A resolution urging the rem
statement" OF married women vii,
were released by the Post Ofhc'
under section 213 OF the Econom.
Act OF June 80, 1892 because thci
husbands are Post Office EN-
plOyecs was adopted following
i long debate on the question
! II was also agreed by the dele
gates that the conference Away
seek the cooperation of the ctnTrci
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
BUILDING CRAFTSMEN QUIT WORK
ON THE NEWBERRY BUILDING
JacOby and Sons Operations Tied
Up; Billings Unions Seek Con-
tracts and Recognition.

BILLINGS. - Employees of the
Midland Packing Company and the
Pierce Packing Company of Billings
walked off the job here today owing
to the refusal of both of these COM
panies to sign working agreements
with the workers in their plants.
The union was seeking to effect an
agreement covering wages and con-
ditions of employment. About 100
persons r affected. Jack Lloyd,
International representative of the
international Union of the Butcher
Workers, tried to make an agreement
with the company but the company
refused to come to terms. The presi-
dent of the Butchers Union of Bill
Iings is Lee Brink, Henry Smith is
secretary, Both of these officers
and committees from the unions par
ticipated in the negotiations. The
union sought to establish top wages
of $3.50 in the plant with a mini
mum of so cents per hour for COM
mon laborers. The local butcher
shops in Billings are not involved
in the controversy. The Yellowstone
Trades and Labor Council, accord
ing to Mr.. H%elterbran, secretary, is
lending its assistance to the Butchers
Union.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
NATIONAL INCOME,
1926

National. income produced, accord
ing to U. S. Department of Com
merce, amounted to $63,799 million
in 1886, compared with $54,955 mil
lion in 1885, an increase of 16 per
cent. The 1886 income was still 81
per cent below the 1929 level of
$780, s. million. Since the volume
of production during 1886 was about
u per cent below the 1929 level,
lower prices accounted for about
one-half of the difference between
income produced in 1886 compared
with 1929.
The share Of the workers in the
national income produced was less
in 1886 than in 1929. No figures are
available for wages paid in all in
dustries, but wages paid in selected
Notwithstanding mining, man
u%facturing, construction, steam rail
roads, Pullman, railway express and
water ransportation-amounted to
$11,369 million, or 17.9 per cent of
national income produced in 1886,
compared with $l6,852 million, or
20.9 per cent of national income pro-
duced in 1929. If wages paid to
these workers in 1886 had main
tanned the same relationship to total
income produced as in 1929, they
would have been So billion more
than were reported.
Department of Commerce esti-
mates that there were 3d. 1000 en-
ployees in 1896 excluding farmers,
work relief employees and unpaid
family labor, compared with 34,669,-
900 in 1929. In other words, there
were four million fewer workers
employed despite the sharp reduc-
ton in working hours per week in
many industries. Since several mil
lion workers have been added to the
population in the period since 1929,
these tlgures indicate the tremen-
dous cut in income that has been
suffered by the working class as a
whole during the last seven years.
In contrast to the relative cut in
income of the workers, it is i'm
portant to note that interest and
dividends paid to bondholders and
stockholders remained at the same
proportionate level in 1886 as in
1929. In both years these payments
equalled 1879 per cent of the national
income produced. In other words,
while workers proportion of the ma
tional income declined, the owners
of industry succeeded in keeping
their own income at the same level
as in the boom year 1929.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
LABOR FEDERATION
KEEPS HOLLY SUGAR
ON UNFAIR LIST

The Yellowstone Trades and La
Dor Council has informed the Great
Falls unions that the Holly Sugar
Company is still unfair. The Mon
tana Federation of Labor informed
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council and the unions of Butte that
the products of this company are on
the unfair list. The difficulty arises
from the refusal Of the Holly Sugar
Company to recognize and bargain
collectively with the Federal Labor
Union at Hardin, Montana, at which
place this company is erecting a
building. The Montana Federation
of Labor at its convention held in
Bozeman last June through Mr.. Ora
ham, its president, declared that this
company should still be continued
as unfair to the unions in the state
of Montana, Notwithstanding that
they had made a settlement with the
union at Tracey, California. A re-
quest had been made after the settle
ment in California with the unions,
to have them declared fair in Mon
tana. However, this company must
agree to recognize the unions and
@ deal with them if it wants to have
its products sold on the markets of
this state.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
California Court,
After 2-Year STALL,
Rejetis Mooney Plea

SAN FRANCISCO-(FP) - Hav-
ing detained an innocent and aging
man in prison by means of an ex-
pensive %runaround, which everyone
knew was coming, on its mockery Of
justice by denying what everyone
knows - that Tom Mooney was
framed 81 years ago.
Shutting the doors on the re-
nowned prisoners plea for a habeas
corpus writ and freedom, the sun
kissed six who compose the states
high tribunal decided, 5 to 1, that
Mooney had a fair trial and those
who don't think so are "corruptly
inspired"
The finding met the condition
previously established by the U. S
Supreme Court-that it would moi
hear the case until the possibilities
of justice in the state courts had
been exhausted.
George T. Davis, chief counsel for
Mooney, Immediately prepared to
leave for Washington to confer with
Frank P. Walsh and John F. Finerty,
on whether to petition the U. S. high
court for a writ of ~certiorari or an
original writ of habeas corpus.
From behind the bars, Mooney
said: q have been expecting this
action for two years." He said he
has every expectation of obtaining
freedom" from the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The state court wrote 80 pages OF
mumbo-jumbo to tell why it was
ignoring l3,416 pages of testimony
and hundreds of exhibits, including
the request of the judge who pre-
sided at Moneys trial and every
living juror that the prisoner be
freed. They said Mooney had failed
to establish conviction by perjury or
to show that the prosecution had
introduced false evidence.
Justice Langdon, dissenting, said
Mooney was not accorded due pro-
cess of law"
Referee A. E. Shaw was appointed
by the state court in August, 1885,
and a up a bill of $17,664 for Cali
fornia taxpayers on this one %transac-
ton alone. However, his adverse
recommendation was "disregarded'i
by the court, which made its own
examination Of the record and its
own adverse decision. Trade union
lists have donated hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to aid Moneys 81
year-long fight for justice.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
MorfhIand Greyhound
System Organized into
A~maIgamaied Union

On the 18th day of September of
this year, President w. D. Mahon
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway, and Motor
Coach Employees of America, issued
a charter to Division No. 1850 of
Minneapolis, Minnesota, covering all
of the drivers and employees of the
Northland Greyhound system from
Chicago to Butte and from Mime
apolis to Winnipeg, Canada. The
central office of the division is To-
Gated at Minneapolis. Albert c.
Croze is president and Frank N.
Fitzgerald secretary. Both of these
men were signatories to the original
charter issued by the association. In
respect to Montana the units of the
division exist at Billings and Great
Falls. Meetings of the organization
takes place at the Fox Hotel at Great
Falls the first Thursday of each
month and at Billings at the Apex
Hotel the first Friday of each month.
This newly created Division No.
1850 has approximately 300 mem
bers, which include office help, shop
men, ticket agents and drivers. A
contract has been signed by the
company and the union granting
some Of the best conditions in the
United States and the highest rate
of compensation in the West.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
CONSTRUCTION OF NEWBERRY
BUILDING STOPPED

The Building Trades of Yellow
stone County called all of the men
off from the construction of the J. J.
Newberry Company building being
erected in this city. The Newberry
Company operates a chain of 5 and
l0-cent stores and its central office
is located at New York City. The
construction of this building was I'M
der Mr.. Ed Ossi. The building and
the contractor have been declared
unfair by the Yellowstone Trades
and Labor Council of which the
building craftsmen of Yellowstone
County r a part.
1t was alleged by the unions and
by the building craftsmen that nom
union men were being employed in
the work. Since the action of the
central labor body in Yellowstone
County, not a man is working on
the building. About 20 mechanics
and laborers we're originally en-
ployed.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
JACOBY g. SON STILL SHOW
UNION HOSTILITY

All the construction work Of Frank
Jacoby and Sons, contractor of Bill
lings, has been stopped through ac-
ton of the unions, on account of his
refusal to abide by union rules and
regulations. The operations under
Mr.. Jacoby and Sons included the
high school at Hardin, some repair
work to the Hart-Albin building,
the Northern Hotel and the North
west Auto Supply Company. All
work o these buildings has been
called off by the building craftsmen
and the Yellowstone Trades Council.
This is not the first time that MI.
Jacoby has come under the displeas-
ure of the union organizations. At
this time he and his sons, as con-
tractors, are, being carried as unfair
to the union organizations of the
state in the Montana Labor News.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
CON VEN
AT HOLLYWOOD FROM
II WESTERN STATES
Butte May Be Host to Drivers
in August, 1898.

Substantial increases in wages
and improved working conditions
have been won by union organiza-
tons in II western states and Brit
ish Columbia" So reports Pete
Connors, business agent of the Butte
Teamsters Union, who attended the
October Transfers convention at
Hollywood, California, which was in
session at the New Roosevelt Hotel
for four days,
Mr.. Connors Of the Butte Team
ster advises that 375 delegates were
present at the meeting which was
devoted to reports of activities of the
local unions and a new program of
cooperation of the organization
throughout the region represented
in the convention. The present
membership is 175,O00 with the GER
tainty Of an increase to 225,000 by
next May.
The most impressive growth of
union organization has been the Los
Angeles local, which started only 10
months ago. During this period a
mass meeting of 5000 members was
staged at the American Legion sta
dunn in Hollywood with addresses
by Mayor Dore of Seattle, Organizer
Casey and Dave Beck of San Fran
cisco. The membership is now over
$4,000.
The delegates were rendered a
banquet by the Los Angeles Joint
Council at which the Screen Actors
Guild supplied the entertainment. A
number Of prominent screen stars
and comedians appeared on the pro-
gram and expressed their a%pprecia-
ton for the help given the Guild by
the Transfers in their last springs
fight with the producers.
A large amount of time and atten-
ton was directed to the working out
the details Of a program under which
a local union having difficulty with
a corporation or chain store doing
business in several states might OBJ
tain assistance from other unions en-
ployed by the same concern. Under
this new plan a concern will not be
allowed to be fair in one place and
unfair elsewhere.
The question of installation of
news teletype machines was dis
cussed. The use of such machines
would enable each union to keep in
touch with the labor situation every
where and would make them indie
pendent Of newspaper censorship of
such news as is frequently ~practiced
Mr.. Connors announced that the
convention was invited to hold the
March meeting in Butte. However,
the delegates we're more favorable
to coming here for the next succeed
ing meeting to be held in August.
Such a large Teamsters convention
as this would be the first affair of
its kind in the history of Butte.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
UNEMPLOYED Mine RS FACE SUFFERING
JOINT COMMITTEE OF TRADES COUNCIL and
MINERS SEEK INCREASED QUOTA FROM WpA
Regional Office Gives Assurance
of Federal Assistance.

The relief committee of the Miners
Union has brought to the attention
of its organization that already many
Of its members who lost employment
due to the recent closing of some of
the mines are in distress and in need
Of assistance. The inclement weather
tends to increase the suffering. The
relief committee of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council, together
with the relief committee of the
Miners Union, met with State Ad-
ministrator Joe Parker of the WPA,
and Mr.. Combo, the regional director
and Mr.. Burris at one o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon, in an effort to
have the United States government
recognize the seriousness of the stu
alton existing in Silver Bow County
and to secure increased quotas for
the state of Montana. Mr.. Parker
on Tuesday informed both the Min
ers Union committee and the Trades
and Labor Council that Mr.. Walter
Brummett, assistant administrator of
the regional office at Salt Lake City,
and L. V. Anderson, divisional ex-
aminer, for four western states, e
here and both of these representa-
tives Of the Federal government were
present at the meeting.
The Miners Union committee laid
bare the situation which had been
created in Silver Bow County and
throughout Montana on account of
some of the mines closing down and
impressed upon them the need of
immediate action. Mr.. Brummett
gave assurances to the representa-
tives of the Trades Council and the
Miners that quotas would be in
creased for the state of Montana in
the immediate future. The report
of Mr.. Brummett and Mr.. Anderson
to Washington could not be acted
upon until the Goth of this month,
but the committee was led to believe
that after that date the state Works
Progress Administra lon would be
given authority to certify more per-
sons for relief work.
During the past few weeks 300
have been certified and placed to
work on the WPA but the list apply
ing for c%ertifications is increasing
daily and it is estimated that, before
very long, and as soon as the men
that have recently been laid off be-
come eligible for certification that
the number will reach at least one
thousand. Mr.. Brummett advised
the committee that only $1,000, O00,-
900 had been appropriated in the
last session to take care of work re-
lief, and that this amount must run
Continued on Page g.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
LABOR UNIONS TO
SPONSOR PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP TALK

Mayor Hauswirth asked the Cen
trail Labor body of Silver Bow
County to sponsor a meeting and
address by Mr.. Carl Thompson at
the High School auditorium Tuesday
evening, November 23rd, at 8 p. m.
The Central Labor Council complied
with the request of the Mayor and
appointed a committee consisting of
Ed Rule, James Leary, William
Fauss, who arranged the meeting.
The unions of Great Falls had al
ready called attention to Butte I'M
ions of the appearance of Mr..
Thompson in the state of Montana.
He is a nationally known speaker
and represents the Public Ownership
League of the United States. The
public is cordially invited to attend
the meeting and especially those in
terested in public ownership of utili-
ties and natural resources.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

the Toronto Star.
"Will you withdraw your eX-
pressed opposition to the American
tour of the Duke of Windsor and his
Duchess now that Charles E. Be-
daux has severed his connection with
them? May we have the courtesy
of an early reply?"
Mr.. Green sent the following re-
ply:
American labor eve has nor
does it now interpose any opposition
to a proposed American tour of the
Duke of Windsor and his Duchess.
Instead we wish and sincerely desire
to extend to them a hearty welcome
and a cordial invitation to visit the
United States.
when it was first announced that
the Duke and his Duchess planned
to visit America, l issued a public
statement about October twelfth ex-
pressing approval of such a visit and
a hearty willingness to meet the
Duke and cooperate fully with him
in the investigation he planned to
make into economic and industrial
conditions in the United States.
Opposed Bedaux, Not the Duke
I'm connection with the opposition
expressed by the Baltimore Fedora
ton of Labor, a subordinate branch
of the American Federation Of La
Dor, to MI. Charles E. Bedaux and
the speed-up system which he in
a%ugurated and sold to American
corporations, / declared that in my
opinion such action protesting the
Bedaux speed-up system fairly rep
resented the sentiment of American
labor.
'This expressed attitude of labor
referred only to the declaration of
the Baltimore Federation of Labor
in opposition to Mr.. Bedaux and his
speed-uy system. 1t had no refer
ence t. ~ other action taken by
the Be- more Federation of Labor
with respect to the visit Of the Duke
of Windsor and his Duchess to the
United States.
American Labor's opposition,
therefore, which was given wide
publicity, was against Mr.. Bedaux
and his speed-up system and in no
way against the Duke and his
Duchess.
Nov since Mr.. Bedaux has sew
cred his connection with the man.
agement of a trip to the United
States by the Duke and Duchess,
American labor will extend to them
a most sincere and hearty welcome
at any time they decide to come to
the United States"
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
RED SCARE TO LOGICAL


The state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
has banned Mark Twain's Tom Saw
yer as Communistic.
One of these days, Pilgrims Prog
ress will go on the verboten list. To
the Fascist mentality, progress
sounds suspiciously communistic.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
PRINTERS LOSE SUIT

An effort of the Helena Allied
Printing trade to cancel by writ a
contract for purchase of 300 copies
of current report opinions from a
San Francisco firm, was lost in the
state supreme court this week. The
court refused to grant the printers
a writ of injunction.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

JERSEY CITY, N. J.-(FP)-55O
managers and clerks in $50 Eagle
grocery stores in New Jersey have
settled their strike under an agree
ment for collective bargaining
through Retail Clerks Union Local
1245 "a. F. L..
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

WASHINGTON, D. CA vigorous condemnation of those who own
and operate American industry for the continuance of millions of working
men and women in the ranks of the unemployed, while at the same time
business conditions have approached the normal conditions of prosperity
that existed prior to the depression, was made by William Green, pres-
dent of the American Federation Of Labor, in a radio address here over
the Mutual Broadcastng System urging all the unemployed and partly
unemployed to comply fully with the requirements of the Unemployment
Census scheduled for November 16.
Importance of Answering Census Questions
Emphasizing the importance of accurate answers to all of the questions
on the Report Cards, which the Post Office was scheduled to place in the
hands of all the voorhees, Mr. Green said that answering Uncle Sans
questions was the imperative duty of every jobless or partly jobless
working man and woman, adding:
ITO do this is your duty and your responsibility. It is a duty which
you owe not only to yourself but to all the other men and women who
are dependent on the results of this count for the solution of their pressing
problem of finding employment in the occupation for which they are best
fitted. 1t is a responsibility which our Congress has placed upon the
shoulders of the unemployed themselves confident that those unemployed
can and will raise their voice and by answering these questions without
hesitation help Congress to devise effective measures for stamping out
unemployment once and for all"
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

WASHINGTON, D. C-American working men and women have not
the slightest objection to a tour of the United States by the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor, but would on the contrary extend to them a sincere
and hearty welcome at any time they decide to visit our country, William
Green, president of the American Federation of Labor announced here
A formal statement on the subject was issued from the Federations
headquarters in response to the following inquiry sent by 7. G. Lyte, Of
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
NOTICE

The Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council will meet at !
p. m. instead of s p. m. next
Tuesday evening, November
23rd. The time of the meeting
has been set forward in order
to permit the delegates to at
tend the address of Mr.. Thomp-
sol at the High School on the
subject of Public Ownership.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
or |. WOULD WELCOME AMERICAN
TOUR OF THE WINDSORS, GREEN SAYS

Declares Recent Proposed Visit of the Duke and Duchess TO the
United States Drew Opposition Solely Because 1t Was Under
the Management of Bedaux, Notorious for His SO-Called Indus
trial Engineering System Designed to "Speed Up" Labor.
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18
BILLINGS! UNIONS GO ON STRIKE
EMPLOYERS ARE BLAMED BY 5REEN
FOR PLIGHT or UNI pL0YED ARMY

A. +. OF L. President, in Radio Speech Urging All OutOf-WOrks
to Fill Out Unemployment Census Report Cards, Declares That
Labor Has Not Shared Equitably in the Current Recovery
Which "Has Not Been Offering as Many Jobs to the Unem-
ployed as 1t Should" and rs Not Offering Enough Now"
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

when Business Goes Back to Normal and Millions of Men and
Women Are Still On Relief or Daily Out on the Street Looking
for Jobs, We Realize That There Is Something That Must Be
Corrected and Corrected Without Delay"
Montana labor news., 1937-11-18

Do not neglect to fill
out and mail the I'M
employment n
card il you are unem-
pIoyed.
The census is being
taken for your benefit.