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Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
SKATER A CREATOR
OF RHYTHM-ON-ECE

Sonia Henie, Queen of the Silvery
Skates, who makes her screen debut
in Zone In A Million" the spectacu-
lar musical smash, opening Sunday
at the Park Theatre, studied ballet
dancing until she was twenty, which
explains, in part, the dazzling beauty
of her rhythm on ice"
In addition to Miss Henie, Adolphe
Menjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks,
Don Ameche, the Ritz Brothers, Ar
line Judge, Borrah Minevitch and
his gang, Dixie Dunbar, Leah Ray
and Shirley Deane are also featured
in the cast of "One In A Million
1878 wonder show.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
American Industrial
Changes Pictured


industrial picture was painted in
terms holding little hope for the
nations unemployed in a report on
the changes in industrial technique
issued by the Works Progress Ad-
ministration.
The report concluded that a rise
of 20 per cent above the 1929 volume
of goods and services, at the 1895
level of productivity, would be nee
essary to reduce present unemploy-
ment to the 1929 level.
Even in that peak year, according
to American Federation of Labor
statistics, there were nearly 1000, 900
unemployed.
Included in the report was a study
of what happens to persons thrown
out of work by chronological adj
vances A survey of 1,190 rubber
workers in New Haven and Hart
ford, Conn, displaced by shutdowns
due to transfer of production to more
efficient plants, showed that at the
close of II months only 10 per cent
of those who got new jobs were paid
as well as formerly and 10 per cent
were still unemployed.
"a careful reading of the report
Acting WPA Administrator Corning
ton Gill said in submitting it, "sug-
gests the ~desireability of setting up
governmental machinery for the pur-
pose of keeping abreast of the mani
fold changes in industrial technioues
that have already taken place or are
imminent" Such information, he
added, would suggest adaptations
necessary to meet changing needs
with respect to hours, hiring policy,
dismissal wages, unemployment in
surance and relief.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15
Unfair (ur|ee Clothing
Feels Hand Of Labor
Hundreds of Clothing Merchants
Refuse to Continue Handling
Unfair Firms Products Until
Union Labor Is Recognized
and C"ontractual Agreements
Signed.

The nationwide campaign against
the unfair Curlee Clothing Company
of st. Louis has reached the stage
where the pnion-hating concerns
business is diminishing at a ratio in
dicating that it is poor policy to be
heralded from coast to coast as the
leading arch-enemy of Trade Union
ism.
This battle against the unfair Cur
lee Clothing Company is on in full
force and will be continued as de-
termined as ever.
Our sincere appreciation and
thanks to union labor for the moral
support given us in this nationwide
battle for unionism.
Our thanks to the hundreds OF
merchants for their loyal support
which consists of the refusal to
handle any longer the unfair firms
products until such time when q
contractual agreement with the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
st. Louis will have been signed.
Union labor and fair-minded cloth
ing merchants are hereby warned tc
guard against the old-time method
of trickery and deception employed
by the Curlee Clothing Company ir
the past.
We are advised that the Curlees
are sending out letters to merchants
misinforming and deceiving then
about this fight for the cause Of
union labor. Be on your guard anc
keep us informed
Please send us names and ad.
dresses of merchants who are still
handling the Curlee Clothes manu-
featured by the unfair firm. Address
all communications to the &C. c. C
Committee, No. 800 North Nine
teenth Street, st. Louis, Missouri"
There are some clothing merchants
not yet acquainted with the fact that
for thirty long years the Curlee
Clothing Co. has been fighting unior
labor, being an arch-enemy of the
union movement.
Thanks to the labor press for it,
splendid support given us in thi,
struggle for labor's noble cause.
Fraternally yours,
The C. c. C. Committee:
G. A. Hoehn, Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1937-04-15

war is a disease of civilization.
Crying won't cure it; but sober rea-
son and patient effort can"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Ask Me
Another

/. What American statesman
was the grandson of king?
2. How much does a single inch
of rain over an acre weigh?
Over square mile?
3. How many wars have there
been since the signing of the
Armistice in 1918?
4. Do Chinese surnames pre-
cede or follow the given names?
5. Who was the author of "Give
me men to match my noun
tains"?
6. Name some famous musi-
clans who had the gift of abso-
lutte pitch.
Z. How many cabinet members
were there in the first Presidents S
cabinet?
8. What is the usual order of
business for general meetings of
clubs and similar organizations?
9. What caused a farm to
"sink" in Idaho?
10. How many words are there
in the English language?
Answers
l. Charles Bonaparte, a mem
Der of Theodore Roosevelt's cab
met.
2. A single inch of rain weighs
113 tons an acre, or 72,300 tons
a square mile.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
A Quiz With
Answers Offering
Inform alton on
Various Subjects

3. There have been II wars since
November II, 1918.
4. They precede.
5. Samuel FoSS.
6. Among them are Mozart,
Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rachman-
inoff, Won Bulow and Max Roger.
7. Three: secretaries of state, at
first called foreign affairs; treas
ury and war. The attorney gen.
eral and postmaster general were
not at first given cabinet rank.
8. Reading of the minutes; re-
ports of boards and standing COM
mittees; reports of special (se-
lect) committees; special orders;
unfinished business; general or
ders; new business.
8. The geological survey terms
this landslip. The Salmon Falls
river undercuts its canyon walls
until some of the land overhead
breaks away, causing cracks or
other land adjustments at some
distance from the rim.
10. According to the World AL
manac the reputable English Ian
guage contains approximately
100000 words. Possibly 100000
more terms may be stigmatized
as nonce, obsolete, vulgar, low,
atc and therefore co1doy,o or
never sought in dictionaries.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Floyd &S&os'sz>
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES ~Y
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURsELFl
- Through a Tropic Holocaust"
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
-I ELLO EVERYBODY:

IL ELLO EVERYBODY:
Well, sir, fellow adventurers people have all KINDS
of troubles in this bothersome old world of You have
troubles and have mine Maybe the old spinning ball
would be just TOO nice place to live didn't have
share of adversely make the sweet sweeter and
the bright brighter still Anyhow, have letter here
from Alberta L. HtchinS of New York City, who has had
her roublespeny of e-but who doesn't let them bother
her very much No. sir Because time she begins to
think troubles much for her. she looks back
that horrible day in Kingston, Jamaica, in January, 1907
and realizes that what looks like troubles to her don't
really deserve the of trouble at all.
On sitting the Office Of
for which she worked She wasn't
assistant cashier With her in the
other worked
tropical unshiny day From
rumble machinery bng plant on the floor above
When the Earthquake Struck.
in a ominous rumbling
all Alberta worked how
nObo my o
floor above always Rumblngs
new Burke Brothers. The first
Alberta anything
that the wall
o. her BENDING OVER!
herself suddenlynexphcably
overhead
pluster FELL hteng All things seemed be flying
all directions Then a moment, all quiet
office silence Then Alberta
voice My God earthquake San
Francisco all agan Alberta quick look around the Of
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Uncle Phil q
Says: AM
A Very SaIutary One

The best part of experience is
the scares it puts into you.
Be free with compliments. They
cost you nothing, but the surren-
der of your stiff-necked ill Will
Reason why people forgive IS
because they do forget.
Making a Game Of II
There can be too much of the
spirit of sport in rival businesses;
a determination to lick the other
fellow, no matter what it costs.
That gives no service to the pub
lie.
A gOOd-natured man never gets
entirely over it, no matter how
much he is imposed on.
Photograph albums should be re-
vived. That was the only way of
getting some idea of the family
tree
lis Considered Eccentricity
In village, as elsewhere, gen.
ius is usually not encouraged. But
few know that is what it is.
You cannot often communicate
the lesson you have learned by
experience.
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but most of the facts about truth
never come out.
One way to learn patriotism to-.
ward your country is to have to
live in a foreign land.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Canton ISlanI

Canton island is the chief spot of
land among the tiny dots which
make up the Phoenix group, 2,700
miles north of New Zealand. The
Importance of this archipelago,
which lies just south of the equator,
is readily seen on any map of the
South Pacific. The Phoenix group
lies almost on a line between New
Zealand and Honolulu. practically
half way between the two. Canton
island covers about eight and a half
square miles, nourishes shrub veg
citation and provides saltwater
lagoon navigable to boats which
draw I'D to 5 feet.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Pepper Once Coveted by Kings

Pepper once was coveted by kings
and explorers laid down their lives
to get the precious seasoning. When
the Eastern Roman Empire fell,
Aiaric the Goth exacted 5000
pounds of pepper as part of the
tribute. The Pepperers' guild of
London, organized in 1180, was for
many centuries the most powerful
OF the trade guilds. Portugal sent
Vasco de Cana to find water route
to India SO that the pepper supply
might be more abundant A pound
OF the seasoning once paid for
years rent of land or house in
England.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21

fell with The
Terrible Scenes in the Streets.
The boss gather the books and them
the The girls helped When finished,
Alberta the started
head for home down by the waterfront
shamb Buildings Walls
downstreets of wreckagedebs reWn everywhere
chdreneven annawee stretched
men dead ighuy injured Everywhere cries for help People
pinned under falling budng-haf buried IN the
pathetic appeals for aid that almost drove Alberta and her sister mad
with pity
horror ou-everyhere- many
a living in
m narrowing They
mother
frightfuly injured They just been
wreckage of what had been their home.
Earthquake shocks still intervals Alberta
her sister for medical aid for their mother little
girl The hospital miles awaynd in The only safe
left took aboard vessel
There hundreds of other people
refugees from the stricken city All afternoon they
into hospital ship for the care of the injured.
Tragedies in a Night of Horrors.
Night night that transformed the
trimmed by the cosmic backness Fire famed hundred
different quarters Buildings totered Walls ubled The shrks
the victims continued all through the night
Fanatics wildly
which they had seen-and heard.
in grim hours. A father
and trapped between two walls of fallen
to to them
The trapped mans business had o
hand the waIgive his
before the flames him and he
cries of his associate and the boy still ringing
In the hearendng that through night
Alberta before
moving daze Somehow she lived through sOehow kept
her
troubles But when she has troubles she
looks back
bed died that holocaust
e-wNU
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21

people Mraculously, them
injured Alberta haved sigh of reetoo At that the
trembling all
outside the piercing Shrek.
door-felt
grab her by the 1t her sister. Don't out
there" sister cried oeng wall fell with crash The
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-21
Native Cargo Boats the Whangpoo River
River Thut Makes Shunqhoi
Chind's Most Important Seaport

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
washington. d. C.-WNU Service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
COPPER HAS BEEN BIG
 PRODUCER FOR ALASKA;
 KENNECOTT LARGEST MINE

The value of the copper produced from Alaska mines has for score of years been an important item in the annual mineral output of the Territory, amounting at the end of 1881 to the enormous total of more than $214,000000. With the decline in the price of copper since 1881 for several years it was no longer prof liable to continue the operation of the large copper mines, and their production was curtailed until, in 1883, they entirely ceased operation. Although in 1885 the price of copper was still low-only 8.4 cents, as es- timated by the Bureau of Mines the policy of the larger mines was changed, and some 22,000,O0O pounds of copper, having an estimated value of $1,848,000, was shipped from AL aska mines. The amount came not only from the mines in which the principal metal value of the ore lies in the copper it contains, but also from mines in which the prin- cipal value of the ore lies in the content of gold or other metals. The bulk of the copper produced in AL aska comes from the well-known mines near Kennecott, in the Cop per River region.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
MAJOR PURPOSE TO SERVE MORE REMOTE AREAS
Present Road Mileage g. 344- Air Fields Number
 83, Most of Them Small
By IKE P. TAYLOR
 Chief Engineer Alaska Road Commission

Due to the large area of Alaska, the problem of providing improved transportation routes to the var ious widely scattered settlements and developed sections is particu- larly difficult. All existing lines of transportation such as railroads and rivers must be used as travel routes and roads to serve numerous localities lead off from railroad sta tion or riverboat landing. For this reason there is no large mileage Of inter connected roads.
 There are now 2,344 miles Of road in the Territory. This provides one mile of road for 252 square miles of area. There is only one country in the world, so far as available sta- tistics show, with higher ratio Of area to road mileage-that is Brit ish Southwest Africa with one mile of road for 394 square miles of area This ratio in Canada is one mile OI TOhG lO oduoiC AiiASo OA "AS and in the United States one mile of road to each square mile of area.
 From another angle, the United States have one mile of road for each forty persons, while Alaska has one mile of road for each twenty-siX persons.
 From these comparisons it will be seen that the real difficulty in Alaska is to serve small popula- ton distributed over a large area,
 89O-Mile System
 The longest connected system of roads in the Territory is comprised of the road from Valdez through Fairbanks to Circle and branches. There are 800 miles in this system. There is a system of connected roads at Anchorage leading to Palmer, Wasilla and the Willow Creek min ing district with total 26O miles.
 The remaining mileage is in short sections at various points in the Territory either leading out from seaports to developed areas or from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31

braces all of Southeastern Alaska, is secured locally from the resident population, about 10 per cent of those so employed being native h. dians. The balance of the employ ees are imported from the States for the fishing season only.
 Owing to the remoteness of many of the large canneries and the spar sity of the resident population in the Third Division, where the larg- est percentage of the fishery labor is employed, from Is to 20 per cent of the total labor is secured locally. the balance being imported from the States. Of the labor secured locally in the Third Division, from 50 to 80 per cent are native h. dians.
 Many men are employed by the various mining interests over the Territory, but the employment turn over is relatively small and so un- employed miners from the states have a poor chance of making con- nections in this work.
 Tt should be remembered that working men in Alaska are faced with practically the same problems les laborers in the States and in addition have to contend with much higher living expenses"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31

routes have been selected on the basis of both typographical and geo. graphical necessity. They also con- meet all the principal centers of pop ulation in the Territory. In general, the plan provides for at least two landing strips, not less than 5000 feet in length, on terminal fields Intermediate fields, so designated because of their local importance, are to be provided with one land ing strip 500 by 5000 feet, a second strip being provided in some cases where meteorological conditions make it desirable.
 Emergency Fields
 Emergency fields are to have land ing strips 300 by 2500 feet; and To- cal fields are to have minimum size of 200 by 2,000 feet.
 It is believed that the smaller To- cal fields will be served by small equipment, and the 2000-foot strip was adopted for this reason.
 The estimated cost of carrying out this program is $2,557,000 exclusive of the cost of lighting, airway working or radio.
 The recent allocation of $l00,000 from emergency funds will serve to initiate work on this program and will provide for a part of the work included in the plan on six air. fields.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31

rail or river points to mining op- eratiOnS.
 The recent increase in mining activities has resulted in an in- creased demand for roads. New mining developments invariably oc- cur at some distance from existing lines of transportation and some kind of a road is necessity to make such developments possible, espec- |ially where large quantities of low grade gravels or ores are to be handled by modern mechanical methods.
 In spite of the fact that funds for road work have been greatly augmented in the past few years by lallocations from Federal emergency appropriations, it has been impos- sible to meet the demand for new road mileage.
 New Projects
 Maintenance and some improve ment of existing roads are necessary and must be provided for before construction of new projects can be programmed.
 It is true that With these emer- gency funds, substantial progress has been made in reaching hitherto inaccessible areas but much re- mains to be done. It is estimated that three and one-half million dol lars would be required to provide adequate roads to existing develop ments. An additional five and one half millions would be required to provide main trunk routes to con- meet various sections of the Terri tory. In the latter group are in- cluded proposed roads CD connect ing Homer and Kenai Peninsula points with Seward and the Alaska Railroad, (2) connecting Palmer and the Anchorage road system with the Richardson Highway sys- tenn at Copper Center, (3) connect 1 ing the Koyukuk and Chandalar dis tricts with the Beaver on the Yukon River, (4) connecting the Forty mile district with the Richardson Highway at Big Delta.
 The latter project would form 8 part of the proposed Pacific Yukon Alaska Highway, connecting with 8 road from Dawson to the Canada Alaska Boundary.
 Obviously carrying out program of this size in Alaska will require time. It is difficult to obtain funds in sufficient amounts to make very great progress and the physical limitations would make it necessary to plan such a program over per iod of at least six years even though funds were made available in suf- ficient amounts.
 Developed Rapidly
 Because of the limited mileage of roads to serve such large area as Alaska, air transportation has de-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
SS. SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER ARE. TO COME NORTH
Two New Liners Purchased for Seasons Traffic
 Dorothy to Southeast

All Alaska's main steamer routes will benefit this season from i'm proved service, according to an an- nouncement made in Seattle today by L. w. Baker, traffic manager of the Alaska Steamship Company.
 In line with the policy of expan- sion which called for the purchase, last year of the s. s. Baranof and the S. S. Mt Mckinley, the Alaska Line has purchased two new ships this season-the s. S. Dorothy AL exander, and a freighter, the s. s. Sutherland.
 The s. s. Dorothy Alexander will be put into service on the South eastern route, beginning with her first sailing from Jeattle June 8. The addition of this ship, so popu- lar when the Admiral Line operated her in Alaska service, to the South eastern route allows for better ser vice, also, to Southwestern Alaska this season, MT. Baker explained, for example, the s. s. Baranof and the s. s. Mckinley will call at Ket- chikan and Juneau both north and southbound enroute to and from Seward
 The freighter Sutherland will be used to generally augment the AL aska Lines freighter service.
 MT. Baker told, also, of the addi- tion of twenty-two new, superior staterooms on the S. s. Baranof, greatly increasing that ships ac- commodations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
JOB PROBLEM
 IN TERRITORY
 DIFFICULT ONE
Only Limited Amount of Work Available for Those
 Seeking Employment

Obtaining employment in Alaska is similar to getting employment anywhere. It depends on the num- Der of jobs available. The follow ing summary which gives a graphic insight of the situation was pre- pared recently by the Territorial Chamber of Commerce:
 During the last few years the la bor situation in the Territory has changed a great deal No longer is it possible for unemployed labor CTS from the States to come north with the assurance of getting work as was the case in times past Be- cause of the immense amount of favorable advertising given Alaska, laborers by the hundreds have flock ed into almost every coastal town in Southeast Alaska, and large num- bers have travelled as far north as the towns of the Interior.
 Obviously men and women con- sidering Alaska as place of mak- ing their livelihood should keep this fact in mind, for being unemployed in Alaska is far worse than being in a similar condition in the States, because of the rigors of the northern winters, the expense of a boat trip back to the States, and many other reasons which will become apparent to the prospective laborer when he gives the matter mature thought. Before coming to Alaska, with the idea of securing employment, per- son should be equipped with a round trip ticket and enough money to live without employment until he has proved to his own satisfaction that Alaska does, or does not, offer him a congenial or profitable future.
 Employment in the fishing in- dustry is of a seasonal nature, the working season lasting from four to eight months, depending upon the locality and the nature of the fishery. The fishing industry is con- fined almost wholly to the coastal regions of the First and Third Ju- dicial Divisions.
 From 35 to 50 per cent of the labor employed in this industry in the First Judicial Division, which em-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-31
FOX FARMING IS PROFITABLE
 IN ALEUTIANS
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good bird islands make the best fox islands: no doubt because they fur nish more natural food.
 We had an opportunity to study the sea otter, which is the outstand- ing animal in point of interest and potential value in the Aleutian area. They resemble more closely beaver than any of the other ami mals, although their adeptness and actions in the water are distinctive. They were found congregating in the extensive kelp beds, occasionally hauling out on the shore or on some kelp-covered rock. Their home, however. is in the water, where they do their feeding, sleeping, and tra- yelling. Very curious animals, they would approach to within a few yards of us, and again they showed us very little concern as we travelled around their grounds.
 Sea Otter
 l Ilt Std OItCl 10 OliC OA OAiS hoA Nos of animals today, and is making it's greatest struggle for existence in the Aleutians. Fortunately its numbers are such that it might well form the nucleus for the restoration of the sea otter population, an in dustry that once surpassed that of all other furs combined in Alaska.
 Other features and problems too numerous to mention were encoun- tered, but suffice it to say the accu- mutation of first-hand information, scientific data, and knowledge of local conditions obtained on this recent survey will prove of indis- pensable value in laying the foun- dation of the solution of the prob lems of our interesting and distinc- tive Aleutian Islands.