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Montana labor news., 1938-03-10
Pecan Strikers Appeal
To Workers for Help
Record of Police Beatings, Ar
rest and Persecution; Workers
Live on Beans.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas. - Over
5000 of Americas poorest paid
workers, the pecan shelters of San
Antonio, today appealed to organ
lied labor and labor's friends in
America to send funds to help them
win their strike-now entering its
fifth week.
These workers are striking in
protest of a wage cut amounting to
about 20 per cent, which would
bring their average wages down to
So or less per week. Before the
wage cut, their pay averaged less
than $3.50 per week for from go to
80 hours of work. Pay envelopes
with amounts as small as IA cents
for a full weeks work have been
seen by union leaders, and photo
graphs of these envelopes have been
displayed in Focus magazine
new picture magazine with national
circulation.
During the strike police and the
corrupt city administration have
denied the workers the right to
picket, have beaten them, have lined
up men, women, children and moth
ers with babies in their arms, on
private property, and then without
warning shot tear gas into their
midst. Police have beaten, dubbed,
and kicked workers, both men and
women. One 66-year-old man was
knocked down at the city Jail and
kicked by a policeman. Over 700
arrests have been made. Scores of
people have been kept in Jail for
days without being charged with
any offense. Ten and twelve strikers
have been placed in cells built to
hold not more than four prisoners.
Police have threatened to set up
concentration camps if picketing
continues.
In the face of such terrorism, and
with a total relief fund of less than
$500 during the entire strike, the
strike is going stronger today than
the day it began. Last Sunday a
mass meeting of 5000, the largest
thus far held, denounced a proposed
company union meeting being held
elsewhere at the same time which
was attended by not more than 200
people, mostly henchmen of the
racketeering city machine.
All these strikers are asking is a
diet of tortillas and beans and they
will be able to hold out indefinite
ly. People who have not been here
in San Antonio and seen at first
hand the misery and hopeless pow
erty under which these people have
been forced to live will probably
have a hard time understanding how
it is possible for five or more of
these workers and their families to
live on little more than a dollars
worth of food per week. That is
the incredibly small amount which
the strike committee has announced
will be sufficient to feed the strikers
The Pecan Shelters Union, local
No. l72, has asked that local unions
and individuals throughout the
country send funds in as large
amounts as possible to them imme-
diately. These funds are desperate
ly needed.
Send funds to Pecan Workers
Emergency Relief Committee, J..
Austin Beasley, Secretary-Treasur-
er, Box 1861, San Antonio, Texas.
Mr.. Beasley is international organ
izer for the United Cannery, Agri-
cultural, Packing, Allied Workers of
and is in charge of the San
Antonio strike.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10
ENGINEER GETS JOB
WITH EASTERN FIRM

The unions will be pleased to
hear that John O'Brien, a member
of the Engineers Union and who
served with distinction in the 1888
session of the legislature, has been
added to the sales force of the Cal
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10
NOTICE OF MEETING

Chairman John DOnavan of
the Independent School Ticket
requests all members of his
committee to meet at the
Engineers office, Carpenters
Union hall, Sunday, March Is,
at 3 p. m.
Members Of the committee
are as follows: John Donovan,
James Leary, Leonard Ripper,
Frank Sullivan, Peter John
son, Tim Harrington and John
Vickers.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10
Proposed Relief Law
And Pension AT Is
Considered by Group

A proposed law intended to meet
national relief needs and establish
an old age pension of $50 a month
was discussed at the bimonthly
meeting of the Social Security Union
at Carpenters hall. Copies of the
bill were ordered sent to Pres.
Roosevelt and Sec. Morgenthau of
the treasury.
Under the act Congress would
authorize the treasury to issue $10,-
900, 900 of legal tender notes, with
no metallic base and no date of re-
demption. The treasury would start
taking up the notes Jan. 1, 1945,
from a $50,0OO,O0O annual sinking
fund.
Pensions would go to persons hav-
ing reached the age of 65. Under a
PWA setup Is days of work a month
at S. a day would be provided for
relief, SIS of this to be deducted to
amortize homes built under the re-
lief work housing plan.
The following letters were sent to
the President and Secretary Nor
genthau by the Social Security
Union:
Dear Mr.. President:
The Social Security Union of
Great Falls, Mont, has drafted a
bill which we are mailing to Secre-
tary Morgenthau. When he receives
the same we have asked him to take
it to the White House and discuss
the plan with you.
Social Security Union.
+ + a
Great Falls, Montana,
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10

Sec. Morgenthau,
United States Treasurer,
Washington, d. c.
Dear Sir:
We realize on July 1st, 1888, the
Works Progress Association termi-
mates, and a new plan must pass
Congress to take its place to provide
for permanent unemployment and
relief. We have had the wrong
economic philosophy by recovery
from the top down instead of from
the bottom up. Let the big indus
tries, railroads, banks and en-
trenched wealth go to the dogs. They
will find their own level-water
always does. Start on the bottom,
give every able-bodied man out of
work a job on public works at not
less than twenty days a month at
$500 a day, That will be recovery
on a permanent basis, from the bot
tom up-the only scientific way. To
hell with entrenched wealth. Roose-
welt saved them from receivers and
put them on their feet solvently.
Then they knitted him and tried to
throw the whole program over
board, and just before January 1st,
1889, they will do the same thing
again. Don't worry about en-
trenched wealth, they won't starve,
when they smell profits they will
come on the dead run to get on the
band wagon.
Standard purchasing power of
ninety million has got all the en-
trenched wealth in the world
skinned a mile for sterilization and
permanent recovery. We have had
deflation on and off for seven years
and 60 from bad to worse, a mild
ten per cent initiation. This plan
will give us what we need. It will
put business, pep and purchasing
power into the national blood stream.
What is the use of pouring billions
into swaying, tottering, over-capi-
talized, over-watered Benedict Ar
mold institutions. Build recovery
from the bottom up-the standard
masses. Then we will have real
economic security.
Respectfully yours,
A. L. Sutherland.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-10

The American standard OF
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-05-13

up And Down Broadway" had Chinese
pointed drop, and the song was needed while
ehonse was made boekstoee. but it wos not
until three years later that the vaudeville teom
otMoihsws and Ashley made The song fomeus.
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Presidents as Senator's

Seven men who later became
Presidents of the United States re-
signed from the senate for various
reasons. John Quincy Adams re-
signed on June 8, 1903. He had been
appointed to the chair of rhetoric
and oratory at Harvard college in
1906. Andrew Jackson resigned from
the senate in 1898 to become a Ten
nessee Supreme court Judge. Mar
tin Van Buren, resigned in 1928 to
become governor of New York,
while William Henry Harrison left
the senate in 1928, after three years,
to become minister to Colombia,
South America. John Tyler resigned
in 1886 after refusing to obey a reso-
luton of the Virginia legislature; it
demanded that he vote for the Ben
ton resolution, which sought to ex-
punge resolutions censuring Presi-
dent Jackson for removal of bank
deposits. Franklin Pierce resigned
in 1912 to enter private law prac-
tice in Concord, N. H. Warren C.
Harding resigned from the senate
in January, 1921, two months before
his Inauguration.
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asked her for dog the only animal could
possibly fit would be Song of the Week. 1t to be
Kind" ALONZO MASONS mind made up? Out
school while Sociology professor in the middle of
his dourses the the encouraged by
that half hour of sunshine had yesterday began playing Spring
the pecOo right under our window Our professor got
window told the boy do his pccolong
place else cause in romantic mood The class let out
howl of laughter and don't believe they've really stopped aughn
yet
Making the Rounds Alpha Phi Aphas Spring Party
Tuesday Eve Phyllis Whealy House really looked good to
the girls in their springh evening DORIS
COINS had the peach lace creation ROZELLA GARD
NER striking looking her soa old chiffon gown Both
WINSTON RICHARDSON looked rawther bright
starryeyed Il why? You don't thnkJust skip
wonderng) ELIZA
party did notice that lovely
gave her?) had like Jimmy. That
ever smlin JIMMY LEE swell
(Yes Jimmy just the he is
baseball felds) CARTER
atactvey gowned in one of these peaches aes Yes Sir
background JUNE HAWKINS ookin
sophisticated white BOB BELTON rawther
MARGARET FORD ddja notice? The LOUIS p
havn grand time The TED ALIENS
another couple who always have gala time EARL and ALICE
ONQUE looked they had just and faln in love all
raher that another Of
you saw LEO and MIL BOHANON good
HANK THOMAS is who always to have good time
matter where he : GORDON PARKS and ADOLPH
THOMAS the did notice that Adh has gained great
different couples who dancing and also OF those who
sitting holding and gazing another Well
all in all, it turned out to be a happy evening.
And here great question Why people much?
Indian chief eff
something the Indians pecuaes the other day
good "dn great smoker Smokn great help to az
ness" Is that true?
Did You Know: MRS BENJAMIN DUNLAP (Forence Wright
Chicago staying with her sister, Mrs. Richard Williams She
returned unexpectedly of the illness of her father who
confined to the hospital.
initiating dogs fighting proved successful that
he's for Major Bowe There's than
way living it seems
So that's all, folks, for this week
old pal,
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sessey. by Ce..lc monks. called Gull
dees from Cele De, meaning Gods
comrades). These hermits appear
to have been the first inhabitants of
Iceland, as early as the Sixth or
Seventh century, says a CORE
spondent in the Detroit News. The
tyranny of King Harald Haarfagre
led to the settlement of Iceland and
before many decades this island was
one of the most populous Of Morse
overseas colonies, with representa-
tive government.
Greenland was discovered prob
ably by Gunnbjorn, at the beginning
of the Tenth century, and in 982 Eric
the Red, a Norseman, sailed from
Iceland to find this land. He spent
three years on its southwest coasts
exploring the country and on his re-
turn named it Greenland in order
to make people more willing to set
tie there.
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While at this publishers he met the late
Williom Jerome. and they formed q songwrifine
iscm: Chinatown. My Chinatown" was written
looFdsrfor reproduction.
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T. B.: Please tell me why can't
get a job? Or keep one? Does
the boy 1 think. am in love with
mean me any good at all?
Ans: Any person who doesn't
make any more effort to find EN-
pIOyment than you do deserves to
be out of a job. Jobs don't grow
on trees and they don't serve peO-
pie jobs on silver platters. If you
want work you have got to get out
AND FIND A JOB. Write let
tiers, see people, advertise in the
paper, apply at Employment Blu
reaus, put your application in at
every place you think is chance
for work. Your friend does think
a lot of you.
E. Y: Tell me what is my hus-
band doing staying out like he
does? Will he ever stop! what
must do? Is it an affair with a
woman?
Ans: Your husband is a great
sport and likes nothing better than
a good time. The lodge that he
belongs to feels that same way
about life and it's just one good
time after another with them. He
isn't chasing women but he is hav-
ing a little too much fun for his
own good.
A. H.: Up to the last four or
five months l have always had sew
eral boy friends but since that time
things have changed. The boys
are all friendly and / consider
them just pals but now l want
someone to call me their girl
friend. How long will I have to
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this young man in vain? Does he
really want this thing to happen
he so often speaks of? Will he
ever attempt to do the thing he did
last spring again?
Ans: Your faithfulness will not
be rewarded with the prize you so
greatly desire. Circumstances will
prevent the fulfilling of this dream.
He really doesn't care one way or
the other whether the thing he so
often speaks of actually takes
place !. he is only using this gag
as stall. / believe he will again
repeat the act that took place in
the spring.
S. E. M: Is my wife going with
that man / suspect? How long !?
Ans: Any man as jealous as you
are is enough to drive any woman
to run around. However, your wife
has not stopped to cheating on you
calm your fears.
E. c.: My niece sent me a money
order to pay her insurance. l
cashed it and put the money in an
envelope and gave it to the woman
of the house to pay for me to the
insurance man. She tells me there
was $500 short and that she paid
the $500 out of her pocket. Now
what l would like to know is what
became of it please?
Ans: The money was lost in the
house. 1t was found by a men,
Der of the household. This lady is
telling you the truth as you will
find out.
M. P. D.: / am a reader of your
column and find that you can tell
so many people something that I
am asking you if the man that l
have in mind will he ever be the
same as he was? I hate to give
him I'D but if it is best pleaSe
tell me?
Ans: l sincerely believe that it
is for the best that you give him
up. You will never be the same
as you once were nor will your
plans and dreams about the future
materialize. This man is only a
rope around your neck my ad-
vice is to turn him loose"
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wait? -.,
Ans: Oh, about SIX MONTHS.
Then =. you will meet a tall, dark
boy who will win his way into your
confidence and you will win your
way into his heart.
G. M. H.: If my mothers condi-
ton will improve would it be adj
visable to make any changes in
my living conditions?
Ans: 1t would improve your
domestic situation considerably.
Such a change, however, would
mean spending quite bit of money
and you are hardly in a financial
position to take on any more OBJ
legations.
H. E. D.: Is my faithfulness to
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jean Schwartz. high ranking member Of
the American Society Of Composers. Authors
and Publishers composed other outstanding
songs, mony with an Irish theme. After forty
years OF sonswritine, he IS in Hollywood.
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INQUISITIVE SAL
By Helen M. Scott

Howdy folks:
Has the rainy weather gotten you down yet?
l guess it's sorta drowned all those romantic
ideas some Of you had. They say, "In the
spring young mans fancy turns to love-;
if you ask me, his fancy turns these days to
a good raincoat and big umbrella. Probably
when this paper reaches the news stands all
will be bright and sunny again. Il hope-I
hope-I hope) /. :. And, folks, have you got
your dog muzzled yet? One of our neighbors
has such a tiny dog that they told her she
would have to send way to Japan for a special
made muzzle for him. The man who ordered
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Knew Of Iceland Before
Colonized bv Norsemen

Iceland was first colonized by
Norsemen about the year 874 A. D.,
but according to Gjerset's History
Of Iceland it was known to naviga-
tors long before this. A Greek schol-
ar and navigator, Pytheas, about
the year $50 B. c., reached a land
called Thule, which some have
thought to be Iceland. The only
positive knowledge of Iceland before
the Morse colonization was DOS
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Noe Your questions rOiU be answered FREE in this column
Your Full NGe Birth Date and Correct address, For private reply
send twenty-five money order and selGdded
envelope for my Ne AsoIogy Reading and receive by mail
My AdUice Three Questions DO NOT SEND POSTAGE
STAMPS. Send all mail to Able Wallace this paper 300
South Third Street, Minneapolis, MINI.
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since become effective in almost all
Rotary clubs.
Thus Rotary has developed in its
quarter century, finding spokesman
and leaders as the need arose, re-
ceiving guidance along its original
course as viewpoints varied, gain
ing strength and recognition in coun-
try after country until it can truly
be said that Rotary encircles the
world.
It was the founders purpose to
encourage fellowship among the
leading business and professional
men of a community. Rotary in all
its growth and expansion has held
steadily. to these fundamentals.
Leaders set an example of business
and professional standards. Lead
ers set an example in improving
their communities, commercially
and socially. Leaders guide the
thought of their fellow citizens to-
ward better national understand
ing. These are the obligations OF
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-26
Rotary Was Founded
In Chicago In 1905
By Paul p. Harris

ty was given to make the maya
zine a regular monthly publication.
There was still need for a more
specific statement concerning Ro-
tary. Rotarian Guy Gundaker of
Philadelphia already known as the
author of codes of standards of cor
rect business practice for trade as
sociations, prepared "A Talking
knowledge of Rotary" which was
the first of a series of pamphlets
on Rotary's purposes and activities.
Soon after the formation of the
National Association of Rotary
Clubs, Rotary took root in Winni-
peg, Canada. On visits to London
and Dublin, American Rotarians
launched the Rotary clubs there and
at the convention in 1912, the name
International Association of Rotary
Clubs was adopted. This was short
ened to Rotary International in
1922.
Cuba was the first non-English
speaking country to welcome ..Ro-
tary. The Havana Rotary Club was
chartered in April, 1916. On the
continent of Europe, the first club
was founded at Madrid, in 1921. In
South America, the first club was
founded at Montevideo, Uruguay, in
1919. In Australia, the first club
was formed at Melbourne in 1921.
In Asia, the first club was formed
at Shanghai, China, in 1919.
This extension of Rotary brought
increasing difficult problems. The
1920 convention at Atlantic City
authorized a committee to draw up
new constitution, but the prelimi-
nary draft was rejected by the next
convention, at Edinburgh, Scotland,
and a new committee of thirty-one
Rotarians was authorized. This
group met in Chicago in November,
1921, and after seven days of DELHI
Grafton drafted the constitution
which was adopted at Los Angeles
in 1922. At the same time, the cons
mittee reworded the objects of Ro-
tary into six objects. At the Mexi-
co City convention these were re-
worded to form four objects relat-
ing generally to club service, COM
munity service, vocational service,
and international service.
One of the earliest activities of
the Rotary Club Of Chicago, and
doubtless of most other Rotary
clubs, was share in community
service. Some began to think that
Rotary was growing into benevo-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-26
New Deal Policy Highly Praised
AT State Convention. Plat
form Is Adopted.

North Carolina Democracy met
in Raleigh last Thursday, heard
Lindsay Warren extoll the virtues
of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
and Governor Clyde r. Hoey's state
administration, applauded Justify,
adopted platform that anyone
save, perhaps Herbert Hoover
would have approved, shook hands
all around, and went home.
Going a bit more into detail, it
might be added that there was not
fly of discord in great barrel Of
Democratic ointment, not an issue
was raised, not dissenting vote was
cast.
''It was a remarkable convention,
in my opinion" as Governor Hoey
expressed it, ga very fine conven-
ton. Not only was there no dis
cord upon the surface as manifested
by controversy in the convention,
but also there was no friction be-
low the surface, no tension of any
KIND. 1t was very nice cOnven-
ton, indeed"
If there is a democrat in all North
Carolina who isn't whooping it up
nightly for President Roosevelt
and the New Deal, there was no
evidence of such a party member.
The platform opened with an in
dorsement of the record of the ma
tional administration under the
leadership of our great President,
Franklin D. Roosevelt" devoted a
page to an Endorsement Of "the he
roic measures recommended by the
President and adopted by the Con-
gress to restore normal conditions"
and added its belief that "the
ground work has been laid for an
era of unprecedented prosperity for
agriculture, labor, business, and in
dustry." "
Continued on Page ~
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lent movement and appeals for as
sistance sometimes became uncom-
fortably pressing. At last there
came time when the leaders saw
the danger that Rotary might be-
come merely another philanthropic
organization and at the st. Louis
convention in 1923 there was adop-
ted for the guidance of Rotarians
and Rotary clubs, statement of
the Policy toward Community Ser
vice. Without fixing limitations up
on Rotary club activities in COM
munity service, this statement as
serted that the primary objective OF
the rotary club is to train its mem
bers in service.
BY this time there were innum-
cradle essays and addresses on Ro-
tary and its purposes. There were
viewpoints as different as the GUS
toms of the fifty counties in which
Rotary clubs had then been estab-
lished. Club activities and objec-
tives had gradually been centered
under the categories of club service
vocational service, and community
service. Later international service
was added. There was possible 9
Hack OF harmony between these
four branches of service, and lack
Of coordination which might result
in overemphasis upon one or more
to the neglect of another. To meet
this need, the Aims and Objects
Plans was created and tried out fol
a year among the clubs of Great
Britain. It provided for an aims
and objects committee which should
keep the club Program carefully bal.
| anced between the four forms Of
activity. The Ostend convention
in 1927 adopted this plan, which has
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-05-26

a Rotarian.
Rotary begins with the individual
and his responsibility in his own
vocation which is the subject of
greatest concern to every man. Out
side his vocation, Rotarian has his
duties as a god neighbor and citi-
zen. Beyond this, the Rotarian de-
velops the internal viewpoint. Ma
tions are now such close neighbors,
their daily life is so closely woven
together through dependence upon
each others products goods and SER
vices, that the international mind is
one of the most important character
istics of leader in business and the
professions. War is not prevented by
some spectacular effort at the
eleventh hour but by gradual edu-
cation of the people and their states
men.
There is today chain of over f.
600 Rotary clubs encircling the
world. In each of them the Rotar-
ian visitor is greeted with friend
ly handclasp. There are more than
$4,000 Rotarians in these clubs
each of them extending his infiu-
ence in his own small circle, each
inspired by the though of Service
above self"