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Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
UNIONS SETTLE LOCAL
BUTCHERS DIFFICULTY

With the help of W. H. Rogers,
conciliator representing the U. S.
Department Of Labor and represent
atives Of the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council, Transfers and
Butchers effected a settlement of
the dispute between the Butchers
and Transfers at a meeting staged
in the Finlen Hotel Wednesday,
April 18th.
Representing the Transfers or
g%anization was Mr.. Max Weber,
president; Pete Connors, business
agent, and Gordon Lindsay, inter
national agent. Representing the
Butchers was James Lunney and Mr..
Spackman. The Clerks were repre-
sented by Mr.. Frank Shea, Montana
representative of the Clerks, Andy
Guenther, local representative, and
Mr.. Coulter, international represent
alive from Lafayette, Indiana. The
Employers Association was repre-
sented at the meeting by Mr.. Ray
Ruhle and Mr.. Fred Martin.
Several propositions were sug-
gested to the meeting but all the
preliminary suggestions were turned
down. The federal government in
the person of Mr.. w. H. Rogers,
seemed to show the greatest amount
of tolerance and desire for ~concilia-
ton.
1t would be difficult to pay tribute
to the international officers of the
international unions.
1t was apparent from the confer
ence that the local men and women
handling the organized labor situa-
ton in Butte are far superior in tao
tics, in knowledge and in wisdom to
these foreign representatives. While
the settlement, adopted and accepted
by the people involved, provided for
the establishment of the indie
pendent organization of Butchers, it
can hardly be said to be more than
a truce; it certainly is not a perma-
nent solution. That men presuma-
bly, representing the American Fed
Grafton of Labor should suggest the
formation of any independent out
law group, is irony in itself.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
0'(0NNELL WILL
SEEK REELECTION

Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell
announced this week his intention to
seek reelection as congressman from
the First District Of Montana, and
stated that he would file his petition
with the Secretary of State upon his
return to Montana after adjourn
ment of the present session of Con-
gress.
During his first term, Congress
man O'Connell has been one of the
outstanding supporters of President
Roosevelt and gave valuable aid to
the President and the New Deal by
his consistent support of progressive
measures. Because of his excep-
tional liberal record, Mr.. O'Connell
was acclaimed by the New Republic
Magazine as the outstanding liberal
in the 18th Congress and Nation
Magazine carried his name high on
their honor roll for 1887. Labor's
Non-Partisan League classed O'Con-
nell's labor record as second to none
in the Congress of the United States.
On the floor of the House, he has
been considered the spokesman for
the powerful Farmers Union and has
constantly supported all progressive
measures for the farmer, and legis-
lation sponsored by farm o~rganiza-
tons.
The veterans of Montana have
found a staunch friend in Congress-
man O'Connell.
Among the more important pieces
of legislation introduced by Mr..
O'Connell in the 18th Congress were
the O'Connell bill for public power
at the Fort Peck dam, the first ever
introduced in the Congress of the
United States, his bill for a survey
of, and immediate construction of
the Hungry Horse dam in Flathead
County, for the construction of the
Gallatin dam in Gallatin County, his
bill for silicosis control and payment
of compensation for silicosis and
other o%ccupational diseases, his bill
for an embargo on foreign copper,
his train length limit bill, his bill to
amend the present Railroad Retire
ment Act and his resolution for much
larger appropriations for relief and
for WPA.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

Labor's Non-P Partisan League,
which has been substituted this year
as the political agency of labor or
carnations and progressive individ-
uals, in the making of endorsements
for the legislature, the state senate
and the Supreme Court Justices, will
make its permanent selections Fri
day evening, April 22nd in Judge
Downey's courtroom. All organiza-
tons and persons interested in these
selections are earnestly requested to
attend the meeting and voice their
consent or objection to the list.
The following names were tenta-
lively selected at the meeting of
April 9Th:
For state senator, Mike Mulhol-
land of Butte Stationary Engineers,
Local No. SO; for representatives,
Sam Spiegel, Butte Stage Employees
Union; Tom Ryan, Lathers Union;
Robt. Brown and Dennis Mccarthy
of the Butte Miners Union No. L;
Maurice Moore of the Musicians I'm
ion; Frank Sullivan of sle Fire
Fighters Union; Frank BuJsn of the
Farmers Union, Melrose; Paul Can
non, Independent business man; VIM.
F. Dunno, Newspaper Guild; and
Henry Mermin of the BARRIERS Union.
The following names were also
presented subject to further investi-
cation: Geo. Wade of the Cooks and
Walters Union; Mr.. Jepsom of the
BARRIERS Union; Mrs. Minnie Beadle,
wife of a former outstanding pro-
gressive; Mr.. Henderson of the In
dependent Progressive Club of South
Butte, and Mrs. Molly Pace of the
Butte Workers Alliance.
At the meeting on the 9th, the
legislative committee submitted
these names and the League decided
to postpone definite action until the
22nd. It is the purpose of the League
to be democratic and to get as full
an expression as possible so that
organized labor and their friends
will be able to put up a solid front
for the selected individuals. Come
and express your opinion.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
Deer Lodge Welcomes
New Union al Prison

The past week witnessed the for
nation of a new union in the city of
Deer Lodge, when the guards at the
state penitentiary decided to create
a local and affiliate with the Ameri-
can Federation of State, County, and
Municipal Employees which is one
of the international unions compos-
ing the American Federation of
Labor.
In the formation of this new or
g%anization, Deer Lodge, although a
town of approximately $500 people,
is among the leaders of Montana
cities in the number and extent of
its organized employees. It must
also be recognized that the new
union under the State, County, and
Municipal Employees is one of the
first of its kind in Montana.
The International Union of Fed
Grafton of State, County and Munich
pal Employees is one of the baby
organizations of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, having been grant
ed a charter by that organization on
October 18th, 1886. The general
constitution Of the national union
states its purposes to be to promote
efficiency and public service gen
orally, to cooperate in giving eff
Gent service to our respective juris-
dictions, to bring local organizations
of state and local employees into
closer relationship so as to foster
mutual cooperation, to extend and
uphold the principle of merit and
fitness in public employment and to
promote civil service legislation, to
establish and maintain a clearing
house of information and a research
service for affiliated locals; to foster
and promote by education a new
public attitude toward public adj
ministration; to advance the general
social, and economic welfare of
state, county, and municipal en-
ployees, and to promote organization
of workers generally and of public
employees in particular.
Ed Nichols, executive board mem
Der of the Montana Federation of
Labor, president Of the Deer Lodge
County Trades and Labor Assembly
and a member of the local Federated
Shop Crafts, deserves a lot of credit
for his splendid work in organizing
the men and women in the city of
Deer Lodge.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
MaCkie Outlines
Legislative Program
Expresses Desire That Unions Unite
Behind a Concerted Schedule.
Lewistown, Montana,
April 18th. 1888.

Lewistown, Montana,
April 18th, 1888.
Clarence Blewett, Editor,
Montana Labor News:
A short time ago I wrote you on
my reactions to the last legislative
session insofar as labor bills or So
cial legislation was concerned. You
may recall 1 stated that many mis-
leading bills were introduced to dis
tract labor and farmer Legislators
and that when the session ended
nothing material had been accom-
plished in a legislative way. The
superior organization and prepara-
ton Of the corporate groups again
gave them the legislation they want
ed and aided their killing of legisla-
ton they opposed.
1t is a natural development from
this situation for men who are in
terested in social advance and the
betterment of the lot of mankind to
copy the methods of successful law
makers and lobbyists. If the large
corporations of this state have been
able to write their own bills and pass
their own laws through the years
then their system must be good and
we should copy it.
l would suggest then that the
various farm and labor councils
throughout the state prepare a brief
legislative program embodying only
the most important measures they
desire and being as much as pos
sible for the general welfare rather
than for a particular group.
Following this vein I should like
to set up the following tentative
legislative program. This has not
as yet been discussed before the
Lewistown Central Council or rather
has not yet been completely dis
cussed and approved as there are
many suggestions instead of def
mite recommendations. However, it
is a first step. If all the councils in
the state will follow the same pro-
cedure we will have q well thought
out and concrete legislative pro-
gram. Then, following the procedure
of the corporations we can unite
behind our program and push it
through to become law. The pro-
gram follows:
l. A State Labor Relations Bill to
follow out the provisions of the Wag-
ner Labor Relations Act. Many at
tempts to organize in Montana have
failed during the past year due to
inexperience of organizers and n
due haste. Other attempts have
failed because our laws were not
drawn to aid the employee. The lat
ter weakness can be aided by legis-
lation.
2. Old age pension qualifications
should be changed to eliminate pres
ent involved red tape. A suggestion
would be to include as eligibles old
Continued on Page g
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
SENATOR'S AND REPRESENTATIVES. EAGER TO
REINSTATE THEMSELVES IN GRA(ES OF F. D.

WASHINGTON (FP)-Reaction
in the first few hours following the
announcement of President Roose-
velt's recovery program and the de-
livery of his fireside address indi-
Gated that his proposal and the
speech backing it up are meeting
with general approval.
In the Capitol many representa-
tives are anxious to reinstate them
selves in the good graces of the adj
ministration in order to avoid being
left empty-handed when the prof
ects are handed around. Many Of
them, also, are convinced that they
did a bad job on the reorganization
bill and that their constituents real
ize it.
Circulating freely in the House
cloakroom is the story of a Balti-
more representative who went to
visit his constituents the day fol-
lowing his adverse vote on the re-
organization measure. Grim faces
greeted him instead of the brass
bands he expected.
A delegation pinned the hapless
solon demanding his reason for vot-
ing against the bill. The representa-
tive trotted out his very best argu-
ment but it made no impression,
according to the story. TT won't
do" the delegation said. "What
other reason have your"
The congressman trotted out his
second string reason but it met with
no better a reception than his first.
Instead of staying the weekend with
his home-folks as planned, the con-
gresham grabbed the next train
back to Washington and now is in a
p%enitent mood, rejecting a~nxiously
on the outcome of the November
elections.
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
! conda Council Has
Attendance

2 .e Central Labor Council held
regular meeting Monday, April
1888, in the lower A. o. H. hall.
inc attendance was again noted.
.sident c. B. Ashelock presided.
rrespondence of interest was read
by Secretary Walter Healy and
President Ashelock asked the dele
gates to take note of same and bring
back to their various unions.
A fine report was brought in by
John Mogus, chairman of the legis-
lative committee, upon the action
they took at a recent meeting, after
which a motion was made and
passed. The Council accepted the
committees report,
Chairman Tim Donahue of the
grievance committee reported on a
case of a local garbageman patroniz-
ing Kendall's unfair barber shop.
Brother Horne, the BARRIERS dele
gate, said he would take the report
of the committee up at the next
meeting of the BARRIERS Union and
will report their action at the next
regular meeting of the Council.
A letter was received inviting the
Council to send delegates to attend
a caucus meeting to be held at Great
Falls in April. Upon motion and
passed, President Ashlock named
Frank Finnegan and John Hammill
to attend.
Brother Joseph Doran from the
Iron Moulders Union was in attend
ance after recovering from a recent
illness.
John Mogus, business agent, made
his regular report of his activities
concerning various unions. 1t has
been noted at recent meetings of the
fine attendance of the women dele
gates to the Council from the Clerks,
Laundry Workers, and Beauticians
Union.
The Central Council endorsed the
paving of the city streets.
The Council adjourned, the next
meeting to be April 25, 1888. Presi-
dent Ashlock asked all delegates to
keep up the fine attendance.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
BY A. F. of L. Weekly News Service.

HARRISBURG, Pa-The special convention of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor, which opened here on April z and closed on April g.
shattered all presidents in the Keystone State in attendance, enthusiasm
and work accomplished.
Twelve hundred delegates along with prominent labor leaders from
various international labor organizations and department councils and
visitors numbering an additional thousand swarmed into Harrisburg from
the early part Of the week. The crowd was SO large that hotel accom-
modaions were at a premium for those who had failed to make reserva-
TONS
Acting under directions from William Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, Lewis G. Hines, A F.. of L. Director of Organization
and acting president of the State Federation of Labor convened the special
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

session of the Federation at the
Chestnut Street Auditorium.
The proceedings were opened with
the Star Spangled Banner rendered
by a band furnished by the local
Musicians Union, the large audience
Joined Justify in the chorus.
Following the invocation and the
address of welcome by the Mayor
of Harrisburg, Acting President
Hines delivered his report which
sounded the keynote of the conven-
ton and brought forth prolonged
cheering from the delegates.
Mr.. Hines stressed the importance
of every eligible local union in the
state affiliating with the State Fed
Grafton.
He urged the development of an
educational movement within the
Federation to continue the work of
instilling in the minds of union
members the necessity of union dis
cipline, "a due regard for the rights
of others, and strict observance of
contracts and agreements to the end
that an industrial relationship may
be built up with the employers to
the mutual advantage of all"
Urges Union-Label Goods Patronage
Turning to the Importance of pro-
noting a larger market for goods
made and services rendered by trade
union members, he recommended
that the State Federation give full
cooperation to the Union Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor, and, in addi-
ton, establish and assist in the
maintenance of a Pennsylvania I'm
ion Label League.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
FEDERAL AGENCIES
CONDONE OPERATORS
OF UNFAIR SHOPS

MISSOULA. Al Missoula, the
United States government put in a
rather large garage in which cars
and trucks are repaired for the For
est and Park services for Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho and Washington.
The mechanics tried to organize the
shop and were forbidden by the
government officials to organize.
This is a direct violation Of the Wag-
ner labor act which says that any
employer shall not interfere with
the right of labor to organize. The
government should live up to its
own laws.
About 100 men are laid off out
of a job because apparently some
official in Washington thought it
would be better politics to lay these
men off now and let the trucks go
unrepaired and compel their men
in the Forest and Park services to
drive trucks that might not be any
too safe and use that money on WPA
or other relief where it might get
them votes.
Later o. a complaint was received
from Mr.. Kelley of the service stat
ing that his organization had always
cooperated with organized labor.
The matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the Missoula Trades and La
Dor Council and discussed at their
executive board meeting together
with the president of the Mechanics
Union of that town. At this meet
ing the secretary was authorized to
write to the Montana Labor News
and say for the board that the state
ments made in the Montana Labor
News pertaining to the Forestry shop
insofar as any of the members had
any knowledge rel not true. The
secretary was also authorized to con-
tradict the statements made in that
item.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

Am
bassador hotel here signed an agree
ment with local 80 of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Alliance pro
viding for wage increases for most
of the house employees. Some will
receive as much as $35 a month in
increases.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

KENOSHA, Wis.-(FP)- Though
Kenosha has long been a strong un-
ion town there has been no local of
teachers until one was formed in
March as a unit of the American
Federation of Teachers (AFL).
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
ATTACK ON MISS0ULA
FOREST SERVICE Is
UNWARRANTED

In the issue of March 3, the Mon
tana Labor News published the fol-
lowing article in the Montana Labor
News about condemning the Forest
Service of Missoula:
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

SEATTLE.-(FP)-Sales to mem
Der co-ops in the Pacific northwest
in 1887 totaled over $2,250,000, a gain
of 26 per cent over the previous
year, Grange Cooperative Wholesale
announces.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

FORMER STOCK EXCHANGE
HEAD INDICTED FOR GRAND
LARCENY - headline. Ho, hum.
When a dog bites a man, that's not
news. When a Wall Street tycoon
steals other peoples money, that's
not news either.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

MENA, Ark. - (FP) - The spring
term of Commonwealth College
opens April II. Students pay $50
for all expenses and put in 20 hours
work a week.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

1900 DELEGATES ATTEND PENNSYLVANIA
STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION

Enthusiastic Representatives of Thousands of Workers Loyal to
American Federation of Labor Principles and Policies Repudiate
Lewis's "Non-Partisan League" and Uphold A. F. of LIS Real
Non-Partisan Political Policy; McDevitt Elected President and
Williams Secretary Treasurer.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

When your boss bellyaches about
how much money he's losing, try
telling him not to place his faith in
material values.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21
NEWS OF The silver Political Endorsements
BOW TRADES COUNCIL To Be Made on Friday

The Butte Teachers Union notified
the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council that they disapprove of any
form of sales tax. This subject was
introduced at the recent meeting of
the Montana Educational Associa-
ton, where they also voiced their
objections and that the meeting re-
Trained from endorsing such a tax.
.
The unions were also notified by
the Cascade Assembly of the activi-
ties of the Lewitown Associated In
dustries. This organization of bust
ness interests, it was brought out,
sent a letter to President Roosevelt
condemning the attempts of the peo-
pie Of Lewistown to organize and
also condemned the assistance rem
dered by the unions of Great Falls.
In this letter of the Associated In
dustries it stated that there was no
need of the working people organ
izing in Lewistown, that it was a
farming community and that the
people were happy and contented
before the unions arrived. It is a
pity that some business interests and
especially officers of the Associated
Industries couldn't return to the
middle ages and just have the work.
ing people as slaves. However, they
probably wouldn't be satisfied with
that either, because when the planta-
ton owners of the South owned the
negro people body and soul they de-
cided it was cheaper to free them
and have them shift for themselves
than it was to keep them and feed
them.
During the discussion on this mat
ter it was mentioned that the Butte
unit of the Associated Industries had
voiced its objections to peddlers be-
ing allowed to come into Butte in
competition to legitimate business
establishments. The Associated In
dustries here have often worked
with the labor organizations to beng
fit themselves. It wouldn't be a bad
idea for the Butte Associated In
dustries to notify the Lewistown As
ISOLATED Industries that unionization,
high wages and shorter hours are
beneficial to the merchants, not
detrimental.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

Frank Shea of the Clerks organi-
cation talked a while on this subject
and described the incident Of the
Clerks organization in trying to have
the National Labor Relations Board
intercede for the clerks against the
Montgomery Ward Company of Bill
lings who were opposing the unioni-
cation of clerks in that town. How
ever, the labor board refused to in
tervene, alleging that it was out of
their jurisdiction as not being under
the classification of adequate COM
merce, in other words, not coming
under the interstate commerce regu-
lations. One of the other delegates,
in talking of Associated Industries
and farm communities, rather caus-
tically reminded the delegates that
Continued on Page g.
Montana labor news., 1938-04-21

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., 1938-04-21

There can BE- no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30
LAST WORD N MODERN REFTNERIES

What to do with their oil.
That was the question that con.
fronted producers in the Cut Bank
field when the Canadian refners
who had bought the fields output
since its beginning, ceased their
purchases altogether IN the fall of
1887 and turned to the Turner Val
ley in Alberta for their crude sup
plies.
One of the leading producers
knew the answer B. O'Neil,
known all over the Northwest as
Zip" O'Neil. His answer was to
build refinery to run his own
crude.
Whether Mr.. O'Neil had advance
information OF what was coming
is not known. But before the Can
adian purchases ceased. the North
West Refining company had been
organized with Mr.. O'Neil as pres
ident, a refinery had been built on
the open prairie a couple of miles
from the thriving oil town Of Cut
Bank, and was converting the
O'Neil crude into Grizzly gasoline,
which was going to the motorists
of Montana and other states, and
fuel oil which was going to fire
railroad locomotives.
The plant started operations inl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-30
Anfi-Knock Value
aat e Means

Anti-knock value is that char
acteristic which enables gaso-
line to operate silently and eff
ficiently in a high-compression
automobile engine.
Straight-run gasoline distilled
directly from crude oil is usual
" deficient in anti-knock value,
while cracked gasoline pos
sesses 1t to a high degree.
Octane rating is the scale by
which anti-knock value is mea-
sured and expressed-in num-
bers.
A gasoline of so octane num-
Der or even higher will knock
badly in most engines, with
consequent loss Of power and
annoyance to the driver.
A gasoline of 20 octane or
higher win operate quietly in
most OF the engines on the
road today.