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Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
pL0hAB TOOLS put
UNDER UNFAIR LIST
BY Los ANGELES

The Los Angeles unions are ask
ing the Butte organizations to sup
port them in refusing to purchase
any of the products of the Plomb
Tool Company. The letter received
from Los Angeles is as follows.
Building tradesmen are especially
asked to take notice:
To the Secretaries of all Central La
Dor Councils within the United
States, and Dominion of Canada,
and Metal Trades Councils:
Greeting:
The Plomb Tool Company of Los
Angeles, a concern that manufac-
lures tools, w~renches, screw drivers
and machinists and auto machinists
tools of a similar nature, has an ex-
tended business throughout the
United States.
A number of efforts have been
made by the Machinists, Metal Pol
ishers, and Blacksmiths' Unions to
organize this concern, and the repre-
~sentatives of those unions are con-
WINGED that it was entirely unsuc-
cessful.
After a number of conferences
with the management of the com
pany, no progress was made to-
wards an agreement in any manner
whatever, and finally the Plomb
Tool Co. and its products were de-
clared unfair by the Los Angeles
Central Labor Council.
Because Of this circumstance, we
are writing to the Central Labor
Councils throughout the American
Federation of Labor with an urgent
request that you call upon machin-
lists, and particularly auto mechanics
locals in your cities, and request
them to refrain from using Plomb
Tools, and also to write to the Plomb
Tool Co. whose address is 2209 Santa
Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, California,
and tell them that until their diff
culties are Strengthened out, their
tools will find no market among the
men of your local movement.
~Fraternally yours,
(Signed) ]. W. Buzzell, Sec'y-
Treas, Los Angeles Central
Labor Council.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Three Labor Groups
Ask Six Hundred
Million Added Relief

WASHINGTON. ~ (FP) - Labor
forces joined here in voicing the
demand to Congress that an addi-
tional $500, OOO, 900 be provided for
relief for the remaining months of
the present fiscal year instead of
$3.50, 100000 as requested by the
President.
Letters to representatives express
ing the belief that $500, 900 900 will
be required for those laid off in re-
cent months were sent by Labor's
Non-P Partisan League and the Work
ers Alliance. John Brophy, director
of the Committee for Industrial Or
g~anization, wired the House appro-
priations committee urging a $780,
100000 deficiency appropriation.
At the same time a petition was
placed on the desk of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives ask
ing hat the appropriations commit
tee be discharged from further con-
sideration of the Schwellenbach-
Allen resolution which declares that
no one shall be discharged from the
WPA who is unable to find work
in private industry,
Upon the signature of the petition
by 218 representatives the measure
comes to the floor of the House for
discussion.
Cited in the Workers Alliance let
ter were six bases for asking sup
port of the $500, 600, 900 program.
They were that (1) the request for
$3.50, O00, 600 will provide employ
ment for only one-sixth of the g.
900, 900 estimated to have lost jobs
in recent months, (2) only 4,OO0,0 900
out of 100000 unemployed are
receiving any aid from WPA, local
relief or social security, 90 an addi-
tional 100000 people are eligible and
in dire need of WPA work but have
not been employed.
The Alliance also commended that
az the U. S. conference of mayors
estimated that an additional $780,
100000 is necessary, (5) between
Labor Day and Feb. l there was a
loss in wages of 5000, 000,0 900 and
there will be an additional loss of
81, 350, 100000 by July l, and (6)
every cent spent in WPA wages
goes directly into the channels of
trade.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Miners Union Is Just Passing The Buck
In His Trial. Says President Green

By A. F. of L. News Service.
MIAMI, Fla. - William Green,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, in a statement here,
declared that the whole procedure
of the United Mine Workers of
America in his trial was ridiculous. y
He recalled that the International
Executive Board of the United Mine
Workers of America had asked the
miners convention in Washington to
try him on charges of treason, de-
spite the fact that the constitution
of the United Mine Workers specifi-
cally barred such action. Then, fol-
lowing his letter to Thomas Ken
needy, secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers, directing at
tention to this violation of the Mine
Workers constitution, the Miners
Convention referred the case back
to the international Executive Board
for trial.
Il will classify the whole proce-
dure as ridiculous" Mr., Green said.
1T started a year or more ago. First,
they issued an injunction against me
to cease and desist from certain
things.
"Then, when l was busy presiding
over the Tampa convention they
summoned me to meet their execu-
tive board.
"Then a year passed, and they
decided to present the matter to the
convention. Now they decide to
pass it back to the board. They are
just passing the buck. In my judg-
ment the public may decide what it
thinks about this situation.
"The charge of cowardice and
treason rests on this basis: l am
called a coward because I faithfully
executed the orders of the Execu-
tive Council and of A. F. of L. con-
ventions, because I was the instru-
mentality through which the execu-
tive council had its orders carried
out"
Mr.. Green denied the charge that
he had "conspired" with the Pro-
gressive Miners of America to have
that union apply for a charter in
the A. F. of L.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Butte Unions and Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor Protest Wig
OrOusly to Authorities.

Reports reaching this office from
Arizona state that A. A. Evans, sec
Rotary Of Int. Union of Sheepshear-
ers, has been arrested at Phoenix,
Arizona, charged with melting to
riot and unlawful assemblage. Other
members of the union have also
been arrested. The specific COM
plant against the union and its
members is that they visited several
of the large sheep ranches in Ari-
iona and attempted to organize the
sheepshearers into the union. They
apparently met with some resistance
from the scabs who were doing the
work, many of whom were Mexi-
cans.
The United Press carried a dis
patch Tuesday stating that A. A.
Evans had been arrested in Phoenix
for melting to riot. Mr.. Evans as
secretary of the International Union
of Sheep Shearers was long a mem
Der and delegate to the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council from his
organization. He has also been a
delegate to the conventions of the
Montana Federation of Labor. To
those who know Mr.. Evans in Butte,
and who heard the charge against
him, feel it is very fantastic and
absurd. It was reported in the
Trades and Labor Council that Mr..
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
UNIONS STRIVE FOR
MORE ASSISTANCE
FROM GOVERNMENT
Senator Murray Asks Help Of
Aubrey Williams to Increase
Quota.

Efforts of the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council in connection
with the Workers Alliance, Butte
Miners Union and other liberal
groups are bringing good results to-
ward relieving distress in Montana
occasioned by the current depres-
sion. The miners have been espe-
cially active in their insistence that
both industry and the federal gov
eminent recognize the suffering in
Montana due to unemployment.
Both Jerry J.. O'Connell and James
O'Connor, the two congressman from
Montana, also Senators Burton K.
Wheeler and James E. Murray have
been importuned to press the fed
eral authorities for relief. Mr.. Jo-
seph Parker, administrator for the
Works Progress Administration, also
James Combo and other officials of
this organization have seriously
called the matter to Washington.
The result of all this pressure has
been that a letter was received last
Tuesday from Senator James E.
Murray to Thomas Kennedy, secre-
tary of the Council, in which he
stated that Mr. Aubrey Williams had
definitely promised increased money
would be allotted this state to take
care of unfortunate people.
Both the letter from Senator Muir
ray to the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council and to Mr.. Aubrey
Williams follow:
UNITED STATES SENATE
Committee on
Public Lands and Surveys
February 10, 1888
Mr. Thomas Kennedy
Silver Bow Trades & Labor Council
Butte, Montana.
Dear MI. Kennedy:
Referring to our previous CORES
pondence on unemployment in Mon
tana, I enclose herewith a letter /
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
PADWAY APPOINTED
A. +. OF L. COUNSEL

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Formal
announcement of the appointment of
Judge Joseph A. Padway of Mil
waukee, Wis, as counsel for the
American Federation of Labor was
made here by the federation.
Pathways appointment was ap-
proved by the executive council of
the federation, meeting in Miami,
Fla. He will open offices immedi-
ately in the Tower Building here
where until recently the United
Mine Workers had its headquarters.
In 1925 Judge Padway served in
the Wisconsin State Senate, accord
ing to the A. F. of L. announcement.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
LADIES TO STAGE
{ O FESTIVAL

A public keno party will be given
by the Ladies Auxiliary at the
Miners Union hall, 821s East Park
Street, on Tuesday, March LIST, at
8 p. m. Tickets may be acquired
either at the door or through com
mittees Of the union. The charge
is rs cents.
Keno parties have become quite
popular and it is anticipated that
the party will be very well attend
ed. The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Miners Union is an active organiza-
ton and apart from the social af-
fairs, does good in training its mem
bers to buy union made articles,
patronize union shops and in gen.
eral assist in carrying on trade union
principles.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
Liberal Group
To Meet on Thursday

A joint meeting of Labor's Non
Partisan League and Labor's Politi-
cal League will be held this evening,
Thursday, February oath, at Judge
Downey's court room. A general
discussion will take place concern
ing methods to be employed by the
labor organizations and liberal mind
ed people of the community to win
the primary and general elections,
Both organizations are designed to
carry out this purpose.
The public in general and all in
terested people are urged to attend
the meeting.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24

it would serve to give Leadership
business" and chart a definite cours
(which all industry will do well :
follow"
The new steel agreement, Lee
declared, was preceded by a series
of conversations between himself
and Myron C. Taylor, chairman of
the board of U. S. Steel, which be-
gan last December. Praising Tay-
lor's attitude on the questions dis
cussed, Lewis said that it was I'M
fortunate that Little Steel did not
follow his advice and leadership.
Had they done so stockholders
money would not have been squan-
dered and workers lives would not
have been destroyed" he declared.
Murray's Statement
Declaring that the new contract
would help in stemming the tide of
wage slashing, Philip Murray, S. w,
o. C. chairman and head of the I'M
ion negotiating committee, said that
the renewal of the contract was due
to the excellent record made by the
S. w. o. c. as a responsible labor
union"
The agreement was renewed as
it stands, with the addition of a re-
opening clause providing for 10
days written notice by either side
to reopen negotiations for changes,
and providing that, if an agreement
is not reached within 20 days the
contract will lapse.
About 240,000 steel workers are
covered by the pact, Murray said.
The contract, as renewed pro-
vides for a minimum daily wage of
SIS and a five-day, 40-hour week.
U. S. Steel subsidiaries covered
by the contract are the Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corp; American Steel
and Wire Co.; National Tube Co.;
and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Co.
Commenting on the settlement,
John Brophy, C.. l. o. director, de-
clared that it Ensures that the gains
won for the workers in steel will be
maintained, and provides a basis for
completing the work of establishing
collective bargaining and decent en-
ployer-employee relationship
throughout the industry"
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
COmpany's Refusal to Deal With
Union Was Unlawful

Noting that Mr.. Rand in refusing
to deal with the union charged that
the Joint Protective Board had
caused illegal disturbances and had
not acted in good faith, the court
held that under the National Labor
Relations Act an employer may not
refuse to negotiate with a labor
union which has misconducted itself
in the past if that union offers in
good faith to bargain for a majority
of the employees.
Elsewhere in his decision Judge
Hand wrote that the Labor Act
"does not attempt to settle industrial
disputes. 1t leaves the parties to the
resultant of their opposed economic
powers. While it does not force
them to treat with each other, it
may be assumed to contemplate only
bona fide negotiations"
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24


ly scheduled for Feb. %, hearings of
the Senate civil liberties committee
on employer organizations have been
postponed until early in March.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
u. 5. COURT ORDERS RAND TO RECOGNIZE
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
Circuit Appeals Bench Upholds Labor Boards Rule for Office
Equipment Company to Bargain With Union; Strikers Jobs
Are Restored; Company Loses Fight On All But a Few Issues
By A. u. Of L. News Service.

NEW YORK, N. Y-The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Second Judicial Circuit n a unanimous decision handed down here upheld
with minor notifications an order issued by the National Labor Relations
Board on March IA, 1887, requiring Remington-Rand, Inc, manufacturers
of office equipment materials to recognize and bargain collectively with
the Joint Protective Board of District Council Office Equipment Workers.
an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, as the exclusive repre-
sentative of the workers in the companys plants at Syracuse Tonawanda
lion and Elmira, N. Y, Mddletown, Conn, and Marietta and Norwood
Ohio.
Strikers Ordered Reinstated
The decision of the Circuit Court composed of Judges Learned Hand
who wrote the opinion, Martin T Manton and Thomas W. Swan, directed
the company to reinstate all of the striking employees and to renstate
with back pay % employees who had been discharged, according to the
courts finding, for union activities.
"The Board was certainly free" the opinion said, ITO find the respondent
(Remington-Rand) guilty of unfair labor practices. Rands DANES H.
Rand, Jr) declarations alone were enough. He invited a test of the
necessity of dealing with the ---
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
u. ). Steel Pad Renewed
With Clio. UphoIds Wages
Agreement Continues $5-a-day Minimum Wage and 4O-HOu
Week-HaiIed by Lewis as Trump If Sound Judgment.

S historic agreement with the
{ 3 d upon a year ago with the
: is been renewed on the basis
= in the first contract.
g lph for moderation and sound
: Chairman John L. Lewis said
he confused and bewildered in
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24
sec. OF INT. UNION OF SHEEp5HEARERS
PUT IN JAIL FOR ORGANIZING men

Other Members and Officers of
Sheepshearers Organization
Lodged in Bastile Charged
With melting to Riot and I'm
lawful Assemblage.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24

NEW YORK (UNS)-United States
Steel Workers Organizing Committee {
signing Of the Carnegie-Illinois contra
of the same wages and hours providef
Hailing the steel agreement as "a /
business judgment" at this time, C. 5
A- A..- lnanlannLan-
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24

The American standard OF
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutions may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1938-02-24

There caB be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
MRS. LOUIS HEAD
CHOSEN LEADER
OF N0RTHEND CLUB
WESTMORLAND NOTES

Mrs. Byron Walker was hostess to
the members and guests of the
Alpha group of the Present Day
club.
After a delightful luncheon, two
reviews were given. Mrs. Earl Jack
gave a review on Phyllis Bottome's
Mortal Storm and Mrs. Carl ia
cobson reviewed Frank Miller OF
Mission Inn by zona Gale.
Mrs. Louis Head was chosen as
leader of the group for next year
The guests were Mrs. Glen Walk
er, Mrs. C. r. Walker and Mrs
Howard Routt.
The members present were Mines
S. Quay Smith, Louis Head, Roy
Thompson, J. C. Ramsaur, Herbert
Fleming, w. A. McFadden, Earl
Jack, J. E. Harshman, Carl Jacob
son, L. c. Hausmann, George Hick-
cox and Byron Walker.
The American Legion and the
auxiliary held a business meeting
at the Legion hall Monday night.
Mrs. Mary Fox and Mrs. r. P.
Ostrander attended the special Le-
gion meeting held at Imperial The
meeting was called by the Inter
Post Council to discuss Armistice
day plans.
At the last meeting of the West
morland fire department, plans were
made for their annual masquerade
dance to be held on Oct. 90 This
affair has always been we'll attend
ed by people from all over the val(
ley and has always been a great
success.
Thirty two members of the Chris
tian Endeavor class enjoyed a sand
dune party last Saturday evening
The group was chaperoned by Mrs.
Burnett and Miss Jane Wynn.
E. j. Dutton and w. C. Dutton
were recent visitors from Compton
They came down to the valley to
enjoy the hunting and while here
stayed with their sister, Mrs. John
Strickland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Patterson re-
turned from a two weeks vacation
spent at Compton and Long Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
Spy Reveals
Nazis Bought
U.S Naval Secrets

NEW YORK. Oct. 18. UP)-
Guenther Gustave Rumrich, an
army deserter who turned spy, told
a jury in federal court today that
Germany succeeded in buying naval
secrets, made strenuous efforts to
make contacts in the Du Pont and
Bethlehem armaments plants and
ordered him to find out how many
troops were stationed on the Al
lantic seaboard.
He said that drunken contact
man named Schmidt, an assistant
to the chief of the German naval
intelligence, had shown him two
$1,000 bills destined for someone in
Brooklyn who had supplied the
Reich naval ministry with informa-
ton about "gyroscope.'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
Mrs. Ebert Mead of CaIipatria Goes
ID Hospital, Undergoes Operation

Mrs. Marion Underwood, Mrs. E. L.
Lamson, Mrs. j. B. Sampson, Mrs.
c. R. Keele, Mrs. c. T. Dearborn,
Mrs. Cecil Jones, Mrs. E. R. James
and Mrs. M. A. Flower.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest James have
moved back TO the Baxter ranch
two miles east of Calipatria where
they will live during the winter.
Their small son, Richard Wayne,
who has been seriously i'll for three
weeks, has recovered.
Miss Julia Riley and Miss Ruth
Asbury were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Brandt in BraW-
ley Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Huffman
spent Saturday evening in Ell Cen
tro.
Miss Ruth Asbury entertained at
dinner last Friday evening at the
home of Mrs. Lula Higgins, having
as her guests Miss Adella Travers,
Miss Loie Montgomery Miss Flea
nor Lechler Miss Julia Riley, Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson Moore of BraWley,
Dennis Ford, Eugene Ford, and
John Kepley, and Ben Herring
from Ell Centro.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Hiteman were
in Pasadena from Wednesday till
Sunday of last week where Mr..
Hiteman attended superinten-
dents meeting.
Beaver Chandler is the new as
sistant service man for the New
Cal company in Calipatria. Mr..
Chandler was transferred here from
Texas. He is living at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bailey.
The eighth grade at Fremont
school have as their first project
this fall the making of a survey
of the Calipatria area as to history
health. crime, clubs and their work
in the community, farm crops ano
unemployment. They work on two
projects each week and so fal
have four completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
County Joins in
Ban on Coyotes

Imperial county again will CO.
operate with the state in the an
nual coyote eradication campaign.
The county board of supervisors
Monday voted $500 to pay for the
countys share in the drive to rid
the county of the animals which
annually destroy great quantities of
livestock.
B. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
tural commissioner, said there are
more coyotes in the county this
year than was the case last winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
FL Centran Denies
MoIes estinq Women

Joe Pedro Ell Centran, accused of
molesting two white women, denied
any guilt in Ell Centro police court
Tuesday.
The women signed a complaint
charging him with molesting them
Monday night. Pedro will be given
a hearing before Judge Lee Nuffer
Oct. 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
Five Permits Up
Building Total

Five building permits issued at
city hall Monday added $1,335 to
the annual building permit total
to bring it to $317,058.
The permits included one to Roy
Womack for $l00 alterations to a
garage at Seventh and Main; one to
Kay Henry for $35 alterations to a
hotel at 226 North Fifth street; one
to Land and Irving for 5000 roof
at Sixth and Commercial; one to
the Coast Counties Gas company
for $500 foundations their plant
on North Fourth street; and one to
Ralph j. Wyatt to build a 5000
garage at 444 Vine street.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
Signal System for
Nurses Ordered

Patients at Imperial county hos
pital will be able to summon nurses
by means of a new signal system
ordered Monday by the county
board of supervisors.
The contract was awarded to
Charles Ferguson on a low bid OF
1924. The system calls for buzzers
to be installed within reach of the
patients and with signal lights to
inform nurses of their wants.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
CALIPATRIA NOTES

Mrs. Elbert Mead underwent a
major operation Wednesday at the
Ell Centro hospital. Late reports
are that she is getting along as
well as could be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Yarbrough
have announced the arrival of a
six pound daughter born at the
BraWley hospital Saturday. The
baby has been named Wanda Gail.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hibbard
have returned to Calipatria to
make their home and are living
on Date street It is reported they
will open a hamburger stand in
the building west of Vests grocery
store.
The first fall meeting of the
Calipatria Woman's club will be
held at the home of Mrs. William
Fowler, vice president of the club
Mrs. w. J. Young will be in charge
VI Ine program.
All women who are interested in
club work are invited to attend
- meetings and take part in
OIyears program.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Ralph Butler Wednesday evening
were Mr.. and Mrs Earl Holmquist,
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed Wilkinson, Miss
Mrs. Bonnie Welch was in Cali
patria Wednesday in the interest
of her art classes which will open
this week Among those in her art
class last year were Miss Ruth
Asbury, Miss Elizabeth DetWeiler.
Mrs. Joe Moore and Mrs. r. l..
Sperry.
A stork shower honoring Mrs.
Eddie Ice was given Saturday by
Mrs. Jack Jackson at her home,
four miles west of Calipatria. jig
saw puzzles provided the amuse-
ment for the afternoon. Mrs. Clar-
ence Keele and Mrs. j. B. Samp-
- took the prizes for finishing
Mrs. Jackson served delicious re-
freshments.
Mrs. Ice received many lovely
gifts from the guests who were
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
Fairbanks Will
Speak at Dairy
Day Meeting

j. Z Fairbanks, extension specialist
in agricultural engineering, will be
the principal speaker at the dairy
day meeting Wednesday at the L. j.
Bucket ranch three miles west of
Ell Centro, according to George
Winwright. assistant county agent.
Fairbanks will discuss the adVis-
ability or obtaining long term
leases for dairies and of construct
ing first class dairy barns.
Nina Crigler nutritionist for the
California Dairy council, will speak
on diet and personality.
The morning meeting will start at
Il o'clock Lunch will be served at
neon by the valleys creameries.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-18
AIamo-Verde
Farm Center to
EIe ctOfficers

Alamo Verde farm center will
elect officers at a meeting Thurs
day night at Alamo school. accord
ing to Ben Stahman. center di-
rector.
Frank Beyschlag and Charles
Halliday will give short talks at the
meeting and the district bond re-
financing program will be discussed.