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Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
Miners UNION COOP
lis STILL CARRYING ON
ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Many years ago a group of
weavers gathered together and be-
gan the Rochsdale Cooperative
Movement that has spread through
out the world and has become a
dominant factor in the economic and
social life of the people. Under
these rules a cooperative was estab-
lished in Butte last spring and a
store opened, but due to the closing
of the mines and other events, the
cooperative ceased its store opera
tons.
In the beginning and before the
store was opened a charter had been
secured from the state of Montana,
officers elected of the organization
and other details made to carry on
a cooperative enterprise in Butte.
That charter and the laws made
therefrom are still in possession of
the Miners Union Cooperative As
oo1AahAOAl' OilQG1 tllAS CAldl tel dllQ
bylaws a program was started last
Sunday afternoon to establish a
buying club, wherein everyone in
terested in the cooperative move
ment will submit orders for grocer
les to a designated person. Buying
clubs are a substantial part of the
cooperative movement and operate
on a very economical basis. There
is no overhead and very little ex-
pense. People who are interested
in the expansion of the cooperative
movement should inquire at the Of
flee of the Montana Labor News for
more detail.
An election of officers of the
Miners Union Cooperative Associa-
ton will take place at the hall, 82K
E. Park St, Sunday, 2 p. m, March
20, 1888.
All stockholders please attend.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
INDEPENDENT TICKET DOMINATES TWO
CANDIDATES FOR SCHOOL ELECTION
Mass Meeting at Carpenters Hall
Adopts Platform, Outlines
Policies, and Selects Commit
tees to Carry on Campaign.

A mass meeting called by the In
dependent School Ticket was held
at Carpenters Union hall Tuesday
evening, March 18th, at which Frank
Murray, present incumbent, and DR..
c. W. Granger were nominated for
trustees in the coming school cleo
ton Saturday, April End.
The meeting was called to order
by Vice President Walter Jap, of
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council. He asked for nominations
for permanent chairman and Pat
Deloughery Of the Engineers was
elected. Roy Richards of the Typo
graphical Union was elected secre-
tary of the meeting.
Mr.. Deloughery, after announcing
the purposes of the meeting and
reading the call, upon motion APP
pointed a platform committee of
which Tim Harrington of the Engi-
neers was chairman. While the
platform committee was busy pre-
pairing this instrument, talks were
made by Robert Brown, president
of the Miners Union; Frank Rear
don, former member of the board;
Lew McLeneghan of the Miners;
Arthur Lehwalder, at present a
member of the School Board; Frank
Murray, Clarence Blewett, John
Driscoll and Sam Farabee.
ReardOn Compliments Independents
Frank Reardon Landed the accom-
plishments of the Independent party
and mentioned many specific in
stances Of worthwhile improvements
that had been established in the
Butte school system. He mentioned
among these the play program for
children, the organization of the
Butte Teachers Union and the estab-
lishment Of the single salary sched-
ules for teachers, which is considered
one Of the most progressive and
fundamental doctrines of the public
school system. The speaker men,
toned that a great many of the
planks now incorporated within the
opposing ticket were appropriated
from the work done by the indie
pendents.
Jack Driscoll scathingly rebuked
the vacillating attitude of some al
legged ~adherents of the Independents
and called them camp followers who
were willing to follow the indie
pendents in victory but who desert
ed them when they are not in pow
er. He c~omplimented the gathering
by saying that they were the loyal
group who could always be depend
ed upon to carry the banner of the
liberals to victory.
Almost 100 people were in attend
ance and showed a very enthusiastic
interest in the proceedings. 1t was
brought out by the speakers that
the lines are clearly drawn. The
opposing forces represent a conflict
between the liberal and progressive
forces Of the community and the
conservative reactionary tendencies
Of the times. One of the speakers
called attention to the trend of die
~tatorship and fascism throughout
the world and the need Of protecting
the children Of the United States
against the incubation of such prin-
ciples.
At the present time there + only
two members Of the Independent
ticket on the School Board. The
need Of increasing this number is
imperative. The people of Silver
Bow County have long learned not
Continued to Page g.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

NEW YORK. - (FP) A strong
plea for poor mans insurance that
meets the poor mans needs" and
for improved labor relations in the
insurance companies was made here
by Sec. Israel Convisser of the Poll
~cyholders Committee at a hearing
before the legislative committee for
recodification of the insurance law.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

c. l.
o. has definitely stemmed the tide
of wage degradation in the U. S."
Chairman Philip Murray Of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee de-
clared here, explaining the recent
pact signed with U. S. Steel.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
LABOR FEDERATION
OPPOSES SALES TAX
Other News of the Trades
Council.

The Montana State Federation of
Labor is vehemently opposed to any
form of sales tax. The latest ex-
preston Of opinion on this subject
was voiced by Mr.. James Graham
in a letter to the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council in which he spe-
officially stated the stand of the
Federation. In this communication
Mr.. Graham mentioned that there
is a movement on foot to establish
a sales tax in Montana at the next
legislature. The unions have always
looked upon a sales tax as a means
of exploiting them and shifting the
burden of carrying on governmental
functions from the backs of those
able to pay, to the poor classes.
There seems to be no question about
the soundness of this argument. If
people only could realize that the
United States is a marvelously rich
country and with its technical and
scientific development able to pro-
duce an abundance for all, they
would clearly see the chicanery,
subterfuge and speciousness in the
arguments of the well-to-do and
rich people that they are unable to
pay taxes.
In a survey made by Professor
Loeb and his assistants sponsored by
the Federal government it was
brought out that every family in the
United States should be receiving
$500 a year in wealth. The aver
age in the United States is about
$500 a year for a family. What be-
comes of the other $1,000. 1t goes
into the pockets of the middle and
upper classes. Undoubtedly many
would be astonished at the profits
shown by income reports sent into
the various state and federal offices.
The leaders of the labor movement
in the United States realize all these
things. They realize that the work.
ing people r carrying too great a
burden of the taxation already,
hence a sales tax to add to their cost
is cruel and indefensible.
Another letter was received from
a liberal person in one of the north
ern cities urging organized labor to
keep its eye upon the proposed APP
pointment of two justices to the
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals. Apparently these judges will
be appointed within the near future.
Labor apparently has not made any
recommendations to the senators and
President concerning these two
judgeships. They should immedi-
ately take action upon this matter.
Insofar as the Butte unions r on
cerned, the subject of appointing
these two judges is now in the hands
of its Legislative Committee and
Continued On Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

AKRON. - (FP) - Labor Leader:
A Story of Progressive Unionism,
will run serially in The Summit
County Labor News The story
centers in Columbus, o. The author,
Glen d. Carothers, Ohio labor writer,
died shortly after the book was
completed.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
The Isolation of England

The Isolation OF England
And yet no criticism of Chamber
lain's surrender comes with good
grace from any American common
tator. After all, the generous paper
hanger did permit Neville to keep
his sword, and l suppose that every
true-born Englishman will be al
lowed to retain two mules to cult
vate his own garden as long as he
renders unto Hitler the things which
are his.
These are the fruits of isolation.
But it is hardly seemly for Ameri-
can publicists who insist that Amer
lea is located on a special planet to
be severe about the decision of the
British cabinet to let the rest of the
world go to hell without even a
"Tut, Tut"
have read opinions both at home
and abroad in which it was said that
Chamberlain has saved the peace of
Europe. But this peace of which
they speak is a kind of hunting Ii
n to the Nazi chief to pursue his
prosecutions and to bear down upon
such races as he dislikes and upon
such working groups as he despises.
1t is a pOgrom peace, which means
that it is no peace at all.
1t has been said that Czechoslo-
vakia will come next. It is an even
more important problem to inquire
just how soon Great Britain is to be
taken yer al a Nazi province. AL
ready Lord Halifax, the friend of the
Fuehrer, moves into the seats of
the mighty.
Nor is it well to say that this is
no concern of ours. Here in our
land the forces of Fascism are alive
and rampant, and they take courage
from the success of the sweep of
Nazi power acros the map of the
world.
| hear it said that we should turn
u back and make our own world
include merely the North and South
American continents. But this is
said by those who cheerfully ignore
the fact that the Fascist poison has
already been injected into the veins
of many of our neighbors.
The answer to this thrust against
us is not armed conflict. Indeed,
Hitler has come to his ascendency
without fighting a single pitched
battle. He has profited by the folly
of the isolationists at home and
abroad. He has been able to pick
his plums one at a time.
Nor is this little man touched
with genius, evil or otherwise. He
has swept along because of the utter
uselessness of inertia. Even a meager
corporal can hack his way through
a brown paper bag.
There is such a thing as moral
ascendancy even in a weltering
world. There must be leadership.
There must be a league of those who
want true peace and not the slow
and torturing death of Fascism.
Roosevelt should speak again as he
did in Chicago.
Men and women who want peace
must seek and find their brothers
and sisters in other nations. Two
nations can make a war. Only an
organized world car win peace.
They say the League of Nations
is dead. Long live the League of
Peoples!-By Haywood Broun.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17
SAN o PECAN
SHELTERS WIN SETTLE
MENT AFTER 6 WEEKS
Mexican Government Protests to U
S. State Department.

weeks of struggle against defiant
employers, a corrupt city govern.
ment, nine tear gas attacks, and the
illegal arrest of over 1000 pickets
the strike of $4,000 workers in the
pecan Smelling industry of San An
tonic has been settled by a signed
agreement.
Terms of Settlement
The terms agreed upon are:
l. Recognition of Pecan Shelters
Union Local 172 as sole bargaining
agent for purposes of arbitration
and in all plants where the union
has a majority of the workers or
ganized.
2. All strikers are to return tc
their jobs and all scabs to be dis
missed.
8. The Pecan Shelters Union Lo-
cal l72 is recognized as representing
all the workers in the industry in
San Antonio, and the employers
agree to bargain collectively with
the union. In those few cases where
necessary, elections will be held.
4. The decisions of the arbitration
board on wage and working condi-
tons are to be in effect for six
months.
5. All shops are to post signs stat
ing there will be no discrimination
because of union membership or
union activity.
6. All court charges are to be
dropped and all pickets released.
Z. The decision of the arbitration
committee is to be given within IS
days after it is selected.
Mexico Protests Treatment
Of Nationals
On March 9th, Francisco Castillo
Najera, Mexican ambassador, pro-
tested to the Department of State
regarding the treatment Of Mexican
citizens by the San Antonio police
in the course of the strike.
The strongly worded protest
stated that Mexican citizens had
been victims of police violence, and
that other Mexican citizens received
similar treatment though not con-
nected with the strike. The Mexi-
can ambassador expressed the hope
that measures would be taken to
protect Mexican nationals in Texas
against such occurrences in the
future.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-17

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., 1938-03-17

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

heads.
The bandit approached the
couple, Miss Kay Wiley, 28, Of
3419 Seventh st. N. E., and Charles
Blunt, 81, Of Alexandria, when
they parked in front Of the young
woman'S home.
OPENS DOOR
Blunt handed the robber, a
colored man, several dollars In
cash when he stuck q revolver in
the right front door Of the car.
Blunt, fearful that he would be
forced to drive to some secluded
section, threw the car into gear.
Enraged the bandit fired point
blank at the young couple. The
bullet struck the steel brace divid-
ing the windshield Of the machine
ricocheted against the left front
door and tore into the metal roof.
REAL ESTATE MAN
Blunt, a real estate operator and
insurance broker, told police he
had between 5000 and 5000 in cash
in his billfold and approximately
$500 worth Of jewelry on his
person.
Detectives called to investigate
the case expressed the belief that
the colored man had come to
Washington on q Baltimore and
Ohio freight train, whose line runs
directly behind the Wiley home.
and caught another freight out Of
town as soon as he had held up
the couple. ..
The detectives, Michael Dodd
and John Cation said that a check
on freight train movements this
morning revealed that one train
had entered shortly before the
holdup at 2:15 and another pulled
out shortly afterwards.
RETURNED FROM DANCE
Mr.. Blunt and Miss Wiley, who
works at the Hecht Company, had
lust returned from a dance at the
Hamilton Hotel when the holdup
occurred.
A strange coincidence in the
case, the detectives revealed, Is
that the same detectives who in
vestigated the case had also been
at the Hamilton Hotel and left at
the same time Miss Wiley and
escort left. The detectives had
just returned to the Twelfth Pre-
cinct when called on the case.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
4 IN HOSPITALS,
J TRAFFIC VICTIMS

-Four persons were under treat
ment in Washington hospitals
after traffic mishapS late yester
day and last night.
william Quade, %, Of the 110t
block Robinson St. s. w., was
treated at Sibley Hospital for in
juries sustained in a spectacular
three-car crash at Third and @
Streets Northwest.
Police said Quade's car struck
one operated by John Flory, IS, OF
thu 100 block Massachusetts, Ave
N. W., and careened across the
roadway to strike a machine
driven by Hubert Snyder, Sc, OF
Baltimore. Quade suffered cuts
and a possible fractured skull, po.
lice reported.
Mrs. Elma Lemley, 43, Of 4S13
Blagden Ave. N. w. suffered head
injuries when a car driven by her
son. William Lemley, was In col
lision with a machine operated by
Lewis Smith, colored. A, of Airing
ton, Va. at Sixteenth and Decatur
Streets Northwest. Smith was
charged with reckless driving.
John Gall, Sc. of 4319 Ninth st.
N. W.. was in an undetermined
condition at Casualty Hospital
after his machine failed to make
a turn on Naylor Road Southeast,
near the District Line, and hit a
telephone pole.
Barron c. Stoskopf, AZ, of Riggs
Road, Md, near the District Line,
was taken to Casualty Hospital
for head injuries sustained when
a truck he was driving overturned
on Edmonston Road, near Green
belt, Md.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
is JAILED HERE
IN 4 DRUG RAIDS

Eighteen colored persons were
held by police today and further
arrests were expected after one Of
the largest drug roundups in the
city's history last night.
District and Federal police cor.
raled the group in four simulta-
neous raids inspired by the stories
Of numerous holdup men that they
spiked their courage with mar
cotics before sallying forth.
Battering down locked doors Of
four houses in Freedmen'S Court,
between o and N Streets North.
west. local officers, led by Lieut..
Joseph Shimon and joined by the
Federal men, seized a large guam
tity Of drugs. ~
Paraphernalia for mixing and
cooking" narcotics also was found
as well as needles used to admin
lister the drugs.
Lieutenant Shimon said the raids
were carefully planned after pro-
longed questioning of gunner and
other criminals who admitted they
were under the influence of mar.
coticS when they committed law
less acts,
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Blood TEST
Failure

CHICAGO, May 10 d.NISJ,
Paternity Of the 1S-day-old twins
claimed by two men was left a
deeper puzzle than ever today
when blood tests failed to answer
the riddle.
DR.. Herman N. Bundesen, presi.
dent of the board Of health, said
the tests showed either Luis ErSing
or Lanzarin Timoteo might be the
parent.
Neither man will agree to &C
cept one of the children, a boy
and q girl born in Ersing's flat.
DR.. BundeSen, who refused to di-
vulge the name Of the mother,
said it might be necessary to take
the case to court.
The babies are in the care Of
the health department at County
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Midwest to Seek
UnifiedLiQuOrL Law

1NDIANAP LIS, May 10
G.N.S0.-A conference Of officials
Of mid-Western States to unity and
coordinate beer and liquor control
laws will be held, it was decided
at meeting of Indiana and Ohio
excise officials here.
Settlement of the Indiana Ohio
beer war was the object of the
conference, but no decision was
reached on issues between the two
States, according to Hugh A..
Barnhart, Indiana excise admins
traitor.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Wife Aids Mate
Accused by Girl

DETROIT, May 10 I.N.SJ.-
Plumbing Contractor Morris
SchIeSinger today was charged
with forcibly kissing q girl who
applied for a job. It was the sec
ond time in two months he has
faced a similar charge, the first
charge having been thrown out OF
court for lack Of evidence.
Mrs. SchleSinger, wife Of the A.
year-old plumber and mother of
two children, came to his defense,
saying:
IT know how girls are. Some
girls invite things like that. I
believe my husband, though,
when he says he didn't kiss
these girls.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
CHICAGO RELIEF
NEEDS $4,000

CHICAGO, May 10 Q.N.S)
Chicago's poor-those $4,000 fami-
lies who have not received relief
checks for the rest Of May-were
confronted with an iron rations''
diet today which city officialS
Strove to raise about $750.000
monthly to replenish exhausted
funds.
Food orders were sent out call
ing for the issuance to them Of
frugal staples from the surplus
commodity corporation.
LEGISLATURE TO MEET
And as the needy frightened their
belts preparatory to existing On
dried beans, cabbage, prunes, but
ter, celery, oranges and milk until
June /, the State legislature was
planning to assemble in special
session to consider the crisis to-
morrow night at Springfield.
Hopes Of Mayor Kelly and his
municipal aides that financial aid
on any large scale would be forth
coming from State Golfers wilted
when Governor Homer offered as
sistance approximating $325, 900 a
month and, in effect, said, thus
far and no further"
REDUCED ALLOTMENT
The governor made it clear at
Springfield that he was averse to
taking more than $4,5O0,00O from
the State treasury, to be allocated
at the rate of 100000 monthly.
OF this. about 1925, 900 a month
could be set aside for Chicago re-
lief needs, the balance going to
other Illinois communities.
June is considered the earliest
date by which State aid can be ar
ranged to fill the gap created
when the city's funds gave out.
The 1895, 000-a-month supple
mentary allotment, added to the
81, 100000 which Chicago gets
every month from the State for
relief purposes, would total only
50, 225 900. Ch1cago's monthly re-
quirements have been estimated at
100000.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

HOLLYWOOD, May 10
U.N.S0-"He twisted my arm
In front Of my friends, called
me names and then told me I
had grounds for a divorce"
Thus did Renee Torres, actress,
and sister Of Raquel Torres, tell
her troubles to a judge in her
suit for a divorce from Erman
peSsis, film writer.
THAT" said Judge BENJAMIN
Schienman. lis grounds for q
divorce, which is hereby
granted"
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Air Mail Pilot
Hurt in Crash

DENVER, May 10 Il. N. 50.
Denver Postmaster James o.
Stevic, in charge Of Air Mail Week
observances in Colorado, today
sought another pilot to fly a spe-
cial route between Trinidad and
Pueblo, Colo. william r. Suther.
land, of Trinidad, who had been
engaged to make the flight,
crashed 200 feet Wednesday while
taking off at Trinidad and suS-
tanned serious injuries.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Poison Charges
Hold Cooks Wife

SAN PEDRO, Cal, May 10 Il.
N.SD.-Mrs. Mae Alice Greene, 40,
was under arrest here today on
charges brought by her husband,
John Greene, a cook, that she had
attempted to poison him.
Greene brought two cupcakeS
to police headquarters here which
he said his wife had offered him.
A chemical analysis, police de-
clared, revealed both contained q
deadly poison. Mrs. Greene de-
MED knowledge Of the poisoned
cakes. She was held without bail.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
D. C. Man Robbed
OF $50 in Fairfax

ARLINGTON, g., May 19.-Max
Marcus, SO, vice president of the
American Window and Vacuum
Cleaning Company. 1901 H St..
N. W., Washington, reported to
police her last night that three
men robbed him of $50 after fore
ing him at pistol point to ride with
them to point near Fairfax.
The men ordered him from his
car when he stopped at a stop
sign In RoSSlyn and pushed him
from their car after forcing him
to ride with them to a wooded
section In Fairfax county, Marcus
told police. He said he caught q
ride back to RoSSlyn.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
River Is Dragged
For Body of Man

Harbor police today continued
dragging for the body Of Thomas
Hill, 20, Of 1901 Sixth st. N. e.
who is believed to have jumped
from Highway Bridge into the Pc
tomac Tuesday.
A note, indicating wish to end
his life, was found in a coat be
longing to Hill left lying on the
bridge. He told his wife, Mrs
Ruth Hill, in the note that he
could mot make a go Of it," and
was about "to pay the losers
price,"
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
WOMAN POISONED

Mrs. Mamie s. Copsey, A, was
taken to Casualty Hospital today
from her home in the 1000 block
South Carolina Ave. S. E., suffer
ing from the effects of poison.
Physicians said her condition Is
critical.