Montana labor news., 1938-04-14
ASKED TO
HELP PAY EXPENSES
OF KEENEY APPEAL
Other Trade Council Notes.

Other Trade Council Notes.
The Montana Federation of Labor,
Central Labor Councils, especially
Missoula, Silver Bow and Cascade,
are deeply interested in the outcome
of the appeal of the State Board Of
Education to the Supreme Court on
a decision rendered by Judge Pad
bury of Lewis and Clark County, re-
Installing Mr.. Keeney to his former
position as librarian at the state uni
versity. The Keeney defense COM
mittee recently met and decided to
ask the labor and farm organizations
of the state to assist financially in
defending Keeney before the higher
court. All organizations are request
ed by this committee to send in
donations of So to help defray ex-
penses. This is a matter which vital
ly concerns the working people. It
means whether there shall be de-
mocracy in universities, or whether
the professors shall live under a
reign of terror. If the Supreme
Court sustains the lower court, a
great deal of the autocracy which
has been in evidence in the universe
ties, will vanish and the administra-
ton of these institutions will take
on a lore democratic color.
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A letter was received from the
Federal Labor Union of Bozeman
requesting the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council to assist them in
bringing the Gallatin Valley Milling
Company to time. According to the
report from Bozeman, all of the flour
mills in Bozeman are fair and union
lied, but the Gallatin Valley mill
at Belgrade is neither unionized nor
fair, and the sale of flour of this
company presents a very unfair COM
petition to the organized plants. The
letter went on to state that the
Beebe Grain Company of Butte
handles the products of the Gallatin
Valley Milling Company. The union
labor committee was ordered to pay
them a visit.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers is negotiating a
new agreement with the Mountain
States Telephone Company, so it was
announced at the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council, Tuesday. The
electricians unions in the state are
anticipating a much better contract
than the one under which they are
now operating.
The National Labor Relations
Board informed the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council that it
had received an inquiry from Mr..
Pete Connors of the transfers or
ganization of Butte purporting to
explain the position of the teamsters
in respect to the controversy now
raging between that organization and
the butchers. The labor board
seemed to take the position that it
was a jurisdictional dispute and
hence beyond the scope of the board.
The secretary of the Trades and La
Dor Council was authorized to in
form the labor board of the position
of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council in the dispute.
Mr.. Douglas Gold, city superin-
tendent of schools, again informed
the Trades and Labor Council con-
corning the establishment of a pub
lie forum in Silver Bow County and
asking that the trades council sug-
gest a list of topics for discussion.
The request of Mr.. Gold was turned
over to the educational committee.
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Mr.. Pat Deloughery, secretary of
the engineers, was congratulated by
the council for the able manner in
which he conducted the Independent
school campaign.
MI. c. E. Allan, delegate to the
Trades and Labor Council for many
years and one of the oldest mem
bers of organized labor in Silver
Bow County, recently received word
from his old home in Marietta, Ohio,
of the celebration of its 150th ami
versary of the landing of the pio-
neers, April z, 1888. The spectacle
includes a great dramatic perform
ance. The outstanding event will
be a dramatic spectacle presented by
a thousand actors on an outdoor
stage depicting the unfolding of the
fascinating story of the nations
westward progress. Allan with sang
froid, flouted the suggestion of re-