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Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
Build Better Butte By
Buying Union Butler

One of the finest expressions of
loyalty to organized labor that could
possibly be made by the people of
Butte is patronage of union-made
butter. The old adage about distant
fields look green comes home to us
when we contemplate this phase Of
the industrial life of Silver Bow
County.
We have several factories, they
make butter and employ Butte men
and women. They help, to that ex-
tent, to build up the city. 1t is the
little things that really make the
big issues in the end.
All people of Silver Bow County
should buy union made butter. Not
only the members of organized la
Dor but the merchants and the we'll
TODD executives, because it is to their
interests also. When these men and
women are employed here they
spend their money with the mer-
chants, they help to make the city
o prosperous, they help to al
leviate distress and unemployment.
Why not be conscientious about
these things. The least you can do
is to buy the products of your own
town; buy union-made butter.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
W TAI
GETS PROMOTION

Jean Simmons Murray of Great
Falls, noted for her activity in union
circles, has been assigned to the ma
tional office of the American League
for Peace and Democracy. This or
%ganization was formerly known as
American League Against War and
Fascism. 1t is n of the outstand-
ing organizations in the United States
in its determined resistance to the
Entertainments of subversive ele-
ments such as fascists and others.
Mrs. Murray is to be stationed in
New York City and is very enthusi-
astic about her e position. Not
long ago she travelled through Mon
tana speaking on the proposed CON
ference Of the League Against War
and Fascism recently held in Pitts
burgh. Mrs. Murray is a fluent
speaker.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

TRADES COUNCIL
ADJ0URNS EARLY

The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council held a very short meeting
at its regular Tuesday session. The
meeting was adjourned so that the
delegates could attend the O'Connell
meeting at the High School.
The stage employees notified the
unions that members of their or
%ganization would be employed at
times when the new High School
Auditorium was used for speaking
purposes or for the presentation of
dramatics by people or organizations
apart from the students.
A letter was received from Will
mington, Illinois, placing the Paul
M. Beach Candy Company on the
unfair list. This company is an ex-
tensive manufacturer of candies,
gum and other CONNECTIONS. The
unions at Wilmington declared that
this company is proposing an open
shop, reduction of wages, etc. A
strike is taking place.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
Plan Used
For Government Men

The United States government has
already applied the principles of the
Townsend Plan for the protection
of employees in the government
Civil Service.
If you are fortunate enough to Sc
cure a government job, through a
Senator, Congressman, or otherwise,
you r given the protection of a
retirement income for life-after
you have worked for the government
for a given number of years. In the
Civil Service at Washington, for in
stance, three and one-half (3h96)
per cent is deducted and withheld
by the government from each salary
check. This SH per cent from each
government employee creates "a
civil service retirement fund"
When an employee has been in the
government service for a given num-
Der Of years, he or she is retired
with an income for life.
It is a just law. Everybody dur
ing their productive years should
be required to provide for their de-
Ginning years.
This limited Townsend Plan, now
operated by the government for the
benefit Of a few, should be extended
to every citizen Of the United States.
Those fortunate enough to secure
government employment should not
be given special favors denied other
citizens.
The advantages and the security
of the Townsend Plan should be ex-
tended to all. Our Senators and
Congressman voted to give govern
ment employees the Townsend Plan.
See that they extend this plan to
all of us. If the Townsend Plan is
sound enough for government m
ployees, it is sound enough for every
citizen. If the Townsend Plan can
be operated by a private corpora
ton or railroad company for the
benefit of its employees-or by pri-
vate insurance companies-as a
sound business programmed it is
being operated-then it can be oper-
ated by the United States govern
ment for the benefit of all its citi-
zens-as a sound government pro
gram.
OF course the real Townsend Plan
is more than a retirement fund-it
is a recovery plan. The money re-
ceived monthly must be put into
circulation and kept working, which
fact makes it a permanent anti-de-
preston insurance. Purchasing pow
er in the hands of the masses will
end unemployment. If you want to
learn more of the philosophy of the
General Welfare Act, H. R. 4199, go
to the meeting Of Townsend Club
No. l at the Y. M. c. A. any Friday
evening. Why not join now at the
beginning Of the new year, and do
your bit for permanent national re-
covery.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR LABOR'y AID
TO BIRTHDAY BALL
Big NatiOn-W Wide January 20
Celebration to Take Many
Forms, to Suit Community
Conditions and Preferences.

WASHINGTON, D.. C.-Plans for
labor participation in the celebra-
ton of the Presidents Birthday,
January 20, have been completed
and operations are well under way.
This year, in a united campaign
against infantile paralysis, all funds
will go to the new National Founda-
ton for Infantile Paralysis, recently
announced by the President.
Editors of labor papers, including
the editor of The Montana Labor
News, have been invited to serve as
members of a special Labor Press
Committee.
Celebration of the Presidents
Birthday will not be limited to balls
or parties of any special type, but
will include every form of enter
tainment or diversion that can be
devised, to suit communities every
where.
Then also, special certificates for
Founders" of the new National
Foundation will be distributed to
those who contribute one dollar. In
addition to this a great Birthday
Greeting will be distributed for
signatures, each signer paying Is
cents. The blanks will be delivered
to the President as soon as they
have been returned.
Headquarters for the Labor Divi-
sion have been established in the
Carpenters Building, Washington,
d. c., with William Green, chair
man; Matthew Vol, secretary
treasurer; Gilbert E. Hyatt, execu-
tive secretary; together with a com
mittee of representative labor men
whose names will be announced
shortly.
PadI Erler is chairman Of tAs
Presidents Ball in Butte.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
MINERS UNION MEMBERS VOTE
SATURDAY TO INCREASE DUES

of the National Committee for In
dustrial Organization of which John
L. Lewis is the head.
1t is hardly necessary to defend
either M of these propositions. La
Dor knows that it must have a press
of its own and it knows, without
being told, the marvellous work the
c. /. o. has done in organizing the
American workers in the last two
years. Both of these nickels are
well spent. A third nickel is set
aside for a strike fund to furnish
financial assistance to locals of the
unions who are forced from time to
time to strike in order to protect
their meagre standard of living or
to get better wages and conditions
from the employing interests.
1t is easy to e that there is ex-
tremely little left to carry on the
work of the local organization and
that the increase in dues is abso-
lutely essential. Most of the mem
bers seem to realize this and are in
favor of it. In order to accommo-
date all the miners who wish to vote,
the office of the Miners Union will
be kept open from 8 in the morning
until 9 at night. The office of the
Miners Union admonishes that fail
ure to vote will involve a fine.
Members of the organization who
desire to watch the count of the
ballots may do SO by requesting the
privilege. 1t is expected that the
full returns of the vote will be in
by midnight, January 9th.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
CI0 Convention Called
For Butte January 9Th
Nomination of Officers to Take Place

The Montana Industrial Union
Council will hold its first nominating
convention in Butte on Jan. 9th at
the Miners Union hall. The Council
is composed of % local unions, af-
filiated with the Committee for In
dustrial Organization and represent
ing at the present time a member
ship between II and IL thousand.
It is expected that 40 to so delegates
will attend the convention.
The Council has been in existence
only a short while and is still move
or less in a formative stage. Its
activities thus far have been con-
centrated on consolidating the
strength of the Council among the
unions already organized; but now
that it has established a firm base,
the question of organizing the I'M
organized workers will be of para
mount importance. The convention
will probably put this forth as the
main basis of activity and formulate
its program accordingly.
Important business before the
convention viii be the perfecting
of a constitution and nominations for
president, vice president, secretary
and district board members. The
date for referendum election of off
cers will be decided by the conven-
ton. This will be the first ~referen-
dunn election; the present temporary
officers having been chosen by dele
gates at former conventions.
Archie Mcleod of Great Falls is
chairman and Sylvester Graham of
Butte, secretary.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
O'CONNELL PACKS
LABOR TEMPLE

MISSOULA. Jerry O'Connell,
energetic congressman from this dis
trict, spoke before a capacity house
in the Labor Temple here last Thurs
day evening, December Both.
His talk centered on the Spanish
situation and the attempt to crush
the democratic government in that
country by the forces of Franco,
Germany and Italy. He was loudly
applauded. Walter Pope presided
and was highly complimented for the
manner in which he conducted the
meeting.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
CORRECTION IN LIST
OF PICKET VIOLATORS

On December l6 the Montana La
Dor News published a list of per-
sons who were reported to have
gone through the picket lines dur
ing the strike at Billings. Included
in this list was M. L. Collier and E.
L. Collier of Casper, Wyoming. The
Yellowstone Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil reports that this was an error
and that these men should be cleared
as both of them are entirely limo
cent. The Billings unions report
that Ketron Auburn and Chester
Auburn of Billings should be in
cluded in the list as having violated
the picket rules.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

Union made clothes from the
sleeps back to the customers shout
ders is the slogan Of the Sheep
Shearers' Union of North America,
following an important meeting Of
the California Branch, recently held
in the Labor Temple at Sacramento.
To achieve this object the Sheep
Shearers' Union Of North America,
with members in the states of Arr
iona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Ore
gon, Texas, Washington, Wyoming
and the middle west states have
adopted an Official Union Label,
which will be stenciled on the wool
sacks at the shearing corrals begin
ming January l, 1888, in California.
This effort to protect members Of
Organized Labor throughout the
world from non-union wool will be
accomplished with the cooperation Of
the International Unions as follows:
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters & Butcher
Workmen, Longshoremen, and Ware
housemen. Officers of the Sheep
Shearers' Union of North America,
with headquarters at Butte, Mon
tana, led by President A.. A. Evans,
with the backing of the entire mem
bership, will insist upon placing the
Sheep Shearers' Union Label on
every sack of wool sheared by its
members in the state of California.
"Only in this manner may we pro-
tect the woolgrower who is cooper
ating with us in recognizing the
Sheep Shearers' Union and assure
him of prompt acceptance of his
freight by members Of Organized
Labor and at the same time protect
members of Organized Labor in
buying clothes that are 100 per cent
union made" Mr.. Evans explained.
"Another important phase of this
effort is the splendid and far flung
advertising which will accrue to
woolgrowers, wool buyers and man
%ufacturers who demand wool shorn
by members of the Sheep Shearers'
Union" Mr.. Evans added and ex-
planned, chat every International
Union in the United States will be
notified of our action and how to
protect themselves. Each of these
Internationals will be asked to CO.
operate with us in demanding the
Sheep Shearers' Union Label, which,
in the final analysis will bring hun
dreds of thousands of dollars worth
of national advertising and goodwill
advertising to the woolgrowers, with
out a penny expense to them" This
is n of the most important steps
ever taken by this Union since it
was established in 1908.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
LAWYERS WHO PROSECUTE LABOR
CHAMPIONS PASS INTO 0By : fY
Fickert, Swanson, : : and
Others Drift Int scurity.

WASHINGTON. - Charles
M. Fickert is dead nother link
in the fate which the heels of
prosecutors of labor has been forged.
Fickert was the former district at
torney of San Francisco and chief
prosecutor in 1916 of Tom Mooney
and Warren K. Billings. 1t was from
the backs of Mooney and Billings
that Fickert sought to rise to fame
but death found him at the age of
So, an obscure lawyer barely man
aging to scrape out an existence.
When the Mooney case BROKE"
Fickert bloomed with prospects of
being governor of California. A for
mer Stanford football hero, he was
young, ambitious and on the make.
The utilities selected him as their
fair haired boy. The Mooney case
afforded him an opportunity to dis
play his friendship for the utilities,
even though it might cost the lives
of two innocent men, and Fickert
took the chance.
Broken, revealed as the tool he
was, Fickert was no longer of use to
the powers that be and he was cast
off, like a worn out shoe. His dreams
of a governorship were shattered and
he muttered out his days, scrambling
for a living.
The fate of Fickert is not unusual
in the list of those active in framing
Mooney and Billings. Soon after
the conviction, Judge Frank w. Hen
shaw, former chief justice of the
California Supreme Court and Flick
ert's adviser, died after having re-
signed because of a bribery scandal.
Martin Swanson, the private de-
tective for the utilities and one of
the chief trainers of the Mooney plot,
soon followed Henshaw to the grave.
Later Frank Oxman, Fickert's chief
eye Witness" died after his testi-
mony was proved a bundle of lies.
This year John Macdonald, an
other EYE witness" died a dribbling
idiot in a Baltimore hospital after
having signed a confession that his
story was a Pigment of the magma
ton. William McNevin, foreman of
the jury which convicted Mooney is
also dead.
Of those still living who had a
part in the frameup, Capt. Chas.
Golf, one of the few San Francisco
policemen who still think Mooney
guilty, is a good example. He has
lost two sons by suicide, The rest
Of the prosecutions chief witnesses
have either died or passed into OBJ
security.
Similar treatment has been ac-
corded the %murderers of Sacco and
Vanzetti. Ex-Attorney General Ar
thur K. Reading, who argued the
case against the two before the Su-
preme Court, was shortly thereafter
disbarred and the Massachusetts
House Of Representatives voted to
impeach him for accepting money
from shady organizations coming be-
fore his office for investigation.
Reading resigned before a vote on
the impeachment could be taken.
Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts, the
Continued to Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

SAN FRANCISCO .-(FP)-Harry
Bridges has accepted for the c. L. o.
the invitation Of the Committee Of
43 to discuss jointly the settlement
Of labor disputes with the object
of avoiding strikes, on condition that
the sessions be held publicly. Pres.
John F. Shelley of the A. F. of l..
Central Labor Council declares him
self personally in favor of the meet
ing, but refers the official decision
to the councils executive board.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
WORKERS ALLIANCE
CONDEMNS LACK OF
WAGES And RELIEF

GREAT FALLS. - Nose J. Carr
worked at the Great Falls smelter.
With his wages he was barely able
to support his wife and five children
until he lost his job because his
wages were garnisheed to pay a ten
dollar debt. After losing his job at
the smelter he was forced to apply
for relief and in time was assigned
to WPA work at $500 a month. His
ordinary monthly expenses were:
rent, SIS; groceries (~including milk
and meat), $64; lights, So; clothing,
$ll; fuel, $40 50-making a total of
1888. noti counting medical and
miscellaneous items. What could the
family do?
The Carr family did the best they
could with the meager $3.50. The
grocer was lenient, but he too had
his obligations and could not extend
credit indefinitely. Nose Carr was
forced to ask the relief office to help.
This office, following the policy of
the Commissioners and the State
Welfare Administrator, 1. M. Brand
iord, told Carr they could do nothing
for him. The commodity office re-
fused to issue them any clothing or
bedding, but did issue the family
some apples. At this time the family
was in dire need of the necessities
of life, desperately in need of food
and bedding, due to zero weather
and lack of fuel.
Things got so bad that the family
was forced to live on soup (made
from a soup-bone given by the fam
lily grocery and apples. This was
their diet for three whole days
soup and apples. Sunday morning,
December IL, Nose Carr died. The
arsenic from the spray on the apples
killed Carr. He died deliriously
protesting the denial of food for his
wife and children.
Sunday afternoon, the County
Commissioners finally recognized
their responsibility and brought
down some articles of food and four
quilts to the family. On December
IS, the family received an order for
a ton of coal and a So order for
clothing. After frantic protest, Mrs.
Carr was granted an additional
clothing order of So.
On December 20, Mrs. Carr ap-
piled for a grocery order, but was
denied on the grounds that the
groceries issued them on December
IL, should last them two weeks
although that order did not include
potatoes, flour, sugar and coffee and
didn't last them a week. The Smell
termen's Union and friends helped
them to exist until the two weeks
were up on December 81. At this
time she received an $8.75 grocery
order on which the family was sup
posed to live for one entire week.
= T. =
There are hundreds of families in
Cascade County forced to a starva-
ton level just as the Carr family
was. There is suffering because of
inadequate WPA wages. Hundreds
of needy people are turned away
from the relief office every month
with no thought for their desperate
needs.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
UNION LABEL WILL
60 ON WOOL SACKS
Starts in California With 1888
Shearing Season to Protect
Members of Organized Labor.
|SHEEP SHEARERSI
UNION LABEL

Here is the Official Union Label
of the Sheep Shearers' Union, No.
1, of North America, with head
quarters in Butte, Montana. This
label has been approved by the
Label Committee of the American
Federation of Labor and is the
symbol of Organized Labor wher-
ever sheep are sheared or wool is
handled.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
ELK TO SPARE

Following a big day for hunters on
the Elk firing line at Gardner, last
week, deputy game wardens found
rs dead elk that no one claimed. The
carcasses will be auctioned off.
About 1000 elk have been taken to
date.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

Speaking to a packed house at the
old High School Auditorium Tues
day night, Jerry O'Connell, Mon
tana's fighting congressman from
District No. l, dashed out against the
financial and industrial barons of
the United States and declared they
are in league to sabotage the people
of the United States and President
Roosevelt. Mr.. O'Connell was at his
best and was applauded repeatedly
for his exposure of the chicanery
and straddling of issues by the Gov
ernor and Senator Wheeler.
During the course Of his talk
which consumed almost two hours,
Mr.. O'Connen covered state, national
and world affairs. The High School
Auditorium was crowded with many
standing. The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council with
James Comba acting as chairman of
the meeting. In introducing MI.
O'Connell, he described him as one
of the leading liberals of the United
States and one who had gained rec
ignition from leading progressive
newspapers and magazines of the
nation.
Mr.. O'Connen launched into an
attack upon Senator Wheeler and
stating in effect that the Senator
had deserted the people of the
United States; that he had gone over
to the economic royalists and his at
tack upon the Presidents Supreme
Continued to Page g.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

TOKYO. - (FP) - Tokyo news
papers report that Chinese planes
are releasing quantities of leaflets
on Japanese positions on the Shang-
hal front. "Why are you fighting?"
the leaflets ask. "Your families are
suffering great privation in Japan.
Demand of your officers that you be
sent home at once"
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

g.
500 industrial firms, the list of which
"reads like a bluebook Of American
industry" employ spies to report on
the unionization of their workers,
the Senate civil liberties committee
states in a report to the Senate on
the phase of its working covering
industrial espionage.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
PURITY PRODUCTS
UNFAIR

The products of the Purity
Baking Company r unfair to
the Utah State Federation Of
Labor merchants. Merchants r
requested to refrain from stock
ing or selling Purity baking
products.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06
CONGRESSMAN FLAYS BUSINESS FOR
SAB0TAGING AMERICAN PEOPLE AND
ROOSEVELT BY CLOSING INDUSTRIES

High School Auditorium Crowd
ed by Enthusiastic Audience
Which Repeatedly Cheered the
Speaker; Governor Ayers and
Senator Wheeler Severely At
tackled for Alleged Desertion
Of the People.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-06

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
M1 NIX
ACTIVITIES

Carolyn Chappell is visiting her
parents at Creston this week
Miss Carolus Of Ephrata was in
town Tuesday attending to welfare
work.
Mrs. o. A. Mickey of Spokane, who
has been visiting friends in Coulee
City and st. Andrews for the past
two months, returned home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Willis and
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Lee and daughter
spent Friday and Saturday at Spo-
kane
The Maurice Schreibner family en-
ioyed a chicken dinner at the home OF
Maurice Bogart and family.
Pugh and Co., headquarters for the
International Harvester Co., sponsor
ed tractor school here the first
of the week. A large delegation OF
farmers were in attendance.
Miss Ida Struntz visited her SIS
ter Mrs. Hershal LETTERS IN her way
to her home at Wenatchee Sunday.
FOR SALE-New Easy Washing
machine, only one left, regular price
$69.50-Special $3.50. Home Mar
ket adv
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Eheler were
business callers in Spokane Monday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
NOTICE

10 Teachers, Parents, Pupils, Plane
Buyers:
Here is your chance to secure a
fine little Wurlitzer piano with bench,
IN walnut case. This piano is to be
repossesed within a few DAYS and if
you are looking for bargain, write
TO us at once. Or we will rent this
fine little piano which is like new
allowing rent to apply on the pur-
chase price. Write at once to our
STOCK clerk, e. c. Barker, Hollenback
flano Company, S. II Howard ST.,
spokane, washington. adv