Montana labor news., 1937-12-02

case has caused nationwide atten-
ton, Some coal miners in Harlan
town were charged with murder and
placed in Jail over trouble arising
from a srike. Thugs in that cor
poration ridden community precipi.
tated the trouble and now the min
ers ire in jail.
Senator Murray in a letter to the
Cascade Trades and Labor Council
stated that he had always supported
the Anti-lynching bill, a measure
causing quite a bit of comment in the
national capital.
He predicts its passage by a large
majority in the Senate. O'Connell
voted an anti-lynching bill in the
house at the last session.
A letter was received from Mayor
Wuerthner acknowledging receipt of
a prospectus Of the Sunset Boule-
ward in which he stated that he
would be glad to study the proposal
and see what assistance the city
could be in furthering the project.
The Retail Clerks submitted the
following list of persons as trading
with the unfair Bee Hive Grocery;
Alan Forwood, E. F. Jacks, R. L. Du-
pay, Alvin L. Martin, John Munden
Of Belt, Montana and Thomas Nc
Gonagh Of Eden, Montana.
The special power committee of the
Cascade unions in making their re-
port to the Assembly recommended
that a local public ownership league
be formed. The assembly decided
also to take out a $500 member
ship in the National Public Owner
ship organization. The report of the
Committc complimented DR.. Carl
D. Thompson, and stated that the
meeting was well attended.
A movement is on foot in Great
Falls through the efforts of the pol
ice committee of the central labor
body to have more social activity
among the affiliated union organiza-
ton. The purpose of these social
activities is to further the message
of labor. This committee in max
ing its report also presented a reso-
luton dealing with the present re-
cession and unemployment. A re-
solution was submitted to the dele
gates and each one Of them was ask
ed to have his own organization send
a copy to both senators and congress-
men. The resolution is as follows.
WHEREAS, financial and indus
trial interests of the United States
have revealed their determination to.
destroy the gains obtained by or
ganized labor through economic and
political struggle in the last few
years, and
WHEREAS. this determined cam
paign by these interests with its re-
sultant threat to mass purchasing
power has brought about the men
ace of another grave business re-
cession, and
Whereas, this campaign and state
ments of its leaders have tended to.
demoralize financial exchanges and
terrorize the business community,
thereby setting in motion a ruthless
chain of circumstances designed to.
plunge the working people of Amer
lea into another economic disaster
which would enable destruction of
their organized power and set up a
dictatorship of finance capital hos
tile to worker and Independent bus
mess mar alike, and
WHEREAS, subservent politicians
have suddenly yielded to this cam
paign and have been stampeded into.
bringing pressure upon the admins
tration for concessions to indus
try and recession from its program
of social reform, and
WHEREAS, unless labor now
matches this pressure with an arous-
ed and enlightened demand for its
rights, there is danger that the adj
ministration may yield to the clamor
of organized finance, and
WHEREAS, despite industry's pan
ic proclamations of imminent dis
aster, it nevertheless continues to.
pay regular or extra dividends or
both, and