Montana labor news., 1938-04-28
NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE ENDORSES
CONGRESSIONAL, LEGISLATIVE And
TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
O'COnnell, Mulholland, Taylor,
and Erickson Receive Com
pliments.

Labor's Non-Partisan League held
a historic and momentous session
last Friday evening in Judge Down
ey's courtroom in the courthouse.
This organization endorsed 10 per-
sons for the legislature and two SUI
preme court justices. The court
room was crowded with members of
Labor's Non-P artisan League who
represented nearly every labor or
%ganization in Silver Bow County. II
had been announced to the unions
and to the public generally and also
to members of Labor's Non-Partisan
League, that at the meeting Friday,
permanent and definite selections
would be made for these offices. The
Legislative Committee of the League
had been working on the selections
for over a period of weeks and had
given mature ~deliberation to all ap-
plicants.
Letters had also been sent to union
organizations asking them to make
endorsements of candidates and to
submit names to Labor's Non-Parti-
san League.
The meeting in Great Falls on
April 3 had quite a bit of bearing on
the proceedings of Labor's Non
Partisan League in Butte because
the preamble and platform that had
been submitted to the state gather
ing in Great Falls, was read before
the delegates on April 9th and tenta-
lively adopted. This same program
was permanently adopted at the
meeting of April 22nd.
The most dramatic part of the
meeting of Labor's Non-Partisan
League at the last meeting, namely
April %, was the resignation and
withdrawal of William F. Dunn from
the legislative slate. His name had
been submitted to the League and
the Legislative Committee and after
the committee had entirely gone into
his record, they proposed his name
to the League for endorsement along
with nine other names. Upon the
conclusion of the report of the Legis-
lative Committee, Mr.. Dunn arose
and signified a desire to withdraw
his name from the slate. He gave
as his reasons that it would be pro-
ductive toward greater harmony
within the ranks of the labor people
in Silver Bow County in the next
political election. Labor's Non-Par-
tisan League reluctantly accepted
his withdrawal. Dunn is a %strategist
of the highest calibre. His sagacity
and intelligence are u~ndisputed. He
is both feared and hated by the
corporations. He would have made
a very powerful candidate for the
labor organizations in the next gen
eral election and if elected his in
fluence would have undoubtedly
caused the passage of much needed
labor legislation. One of the dele
gates said when Mr.. Dunn had fin
ished, Remember that the charges
generally hurled at the communists
here by disruptionists are unbound
ed"
The League was somewhat in a
quandary, but after considerable
discussion and a general round-table
talk, the League decided to submit
the name Of Mrs. Minnie Beadle,
widow of the famous labor cham
pion, M. Kerr eadle, as their choice.
Hence Labor's Non-Partisan League
for the legislature is nov made up
of nine men and one woman. The
League also endorsed the candidacy
of Jerry j.. O'Connell for United
States Congress for the First District
and for state senator, Mike Mulhol-
land, of Butte Stationary Engineers
Union SO. Lief Erickson of Sidney
and Mr.. Taylor of Stevensville were
endorsed for justices of Montana's
Supreme Court.