Montana labor news., 1938-01-27
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lishment of a small laundry in the
Blue Moon restaurant. Their or
%ganization was opposed to the estab-
lishment of this type of business in
such a place. The subject aroused
considerable discussion and the
delegates voiced their opposition.
The executive board of the Cooks
and Walters, Bakers, Transfers, and
Laundry Workers were requested to
meet and submit a report to the
Assembly about it.
Delegates from the Building
Trades Council requested a COM
mittee be appointed to work jointly
with their committee to attempt to
organize the employees of the Home
Oil and Refining Company. The
committee of the Assembly included
Delegates Baxter, LeFebre, and
Kirkendall.
President Steinmetz of the As
sembly in reporting for his organi-
cation, the Stage Employees, stated
that unless an agreement was
reached soon between his union and
the new show house that is expected
to open in Great Falls that it would
be necessary to request the support
of the other unions.
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A resolution was presented by the
Workers Alliance covering the ar
rest of five Of their members by
the office of the County Attorney in
connection with the raid on the
commodity office. The resolution
was read. Another resolution drawn
up and presented dealing with the
same matter was adopted. It is as
follows:
WHEREAS, political considera-
tons have superseded the public
welfare in the conduct of the states
and county's relief problem as indi-
Gated by the recent actions and
statements of some of our public
officials, and
WHEREAS, the statutory public
welfare organization of the state
has become merely a political too
of the self-designed dictator, Gov
Roy E. Ayers, with the political
rather than public welfare consider.
atoms given precedence, and
WHEREAS, the public welfare act
provides: THAT assistance shall be
granted with due regard to the
resources and necessary expendi.
lures Of the individual or family
and the conditions existing in eacf
case and shall be sufficient to pro.
vide each person or family with
reasonable subsistence compatible
with decency and health" and
WHEREAS, the public welfare
board of Governor Ayers has seer
fit to make arbitrary rules and reg.
ulations in direct contradiction tt
that statute, providing, for instance
to quote the attorney general: "a
man with five in family, working
on WPA, earning $3.50 a month
was denied clothing for his family
The amount of $500 per month i
not sufficient to support properly
a single man. How can a man witt
four in family pay for rent, grocer
les, light, water, fuel, clothing, medi
cal attention, etc, out Of $3.50 pc
month";" and
WHEREAS, Governor Ayers in
recent Jackson day political speecl
boosted of his great record of bal
ancing the budget through econo
mics and of building up an unused
surplus, and
WHEREAS, County Attorney, Phi
IG. Greenan, disregarding the opin
ion of his superior officer, who haC
made an investigation, and alleged
ly on the advice of the Governor
has seen fit to file an information
against five leaders of the Worker
Alliance who participated in thu
commodity distribution Dec. IL il
which IS to IS persons participated
and
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED
that the Cascade County Trades ant
Labor Assembly calls upon the AT
torney General to make a Thorough
investigation of the relief situation
in the state of Montana and thu
county of Cascade to determinl
whether or not relief is being dis
tributed to the needy in accordance
with statutory provisions, and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
that we urge our senators and con
gressmen to support and advocat'
immediate passage of the Schwel
lenback-Allen resolution now pend
ing in Congress which would Civ
all employables work on the WPA
and that we further urge them t
secure legislation which would en-
able WPA workers to obtain a wag,
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