Montana labor news., 1938-05-05
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Farmers Union is not employing
union musicians for their dances.
The committee which was appointed !
to interview the Farmers Union in
cluded Fred Martin, Andy Balko,
and Leon Royal.
The Carpenters object to the taxi |
cab stands on Central Avenue. As a !
result of this objection, the Assemb-
ly is asking the City Council to re-
adjust the parking areas on Central
Avenue, so as to provide additional |
parking space
Senator Wheeler asked the unions
OF Great Falls to get in touch with
the Flathead Cooperative Rural
Electrification Association about the
use Of aluminium cable on the Chres-
ton-Kalispell electrification project
At the same meeting letter was
received from the Flathead Coopera-
tive Rural Electrification Association
advising the unions here that they
had subscribed to the purchase of
aluminium cable in preference to
copper due to the difference in cost
but that the matter was still under
consideration. Apparently the Rural
Electrification Association is not in
terested whether Montana products,
for instance copper, is used on the
project in that community, or not,
as long as they can get some other
substitute material.
The unions of Great Falls have
recently been complimented by Tom
Caverly, editor Of the Columbia
Falls Review, for their favorable
comments of his newspaper.
Both of Montana's Senators and
Congressman have promised to sup
port the Presidents pump printing
program
The State Water Conservation
Board informed the Assembly that
all OF their employees were secured
from the National Unemployment
Service.
The statement from the Water
Conservation Board arose over the
complaint of some of the unions that
out-of-state labor was being used by
many of the state and federal
agencies in Montana. The Governor
said that he was investigating the
complaint.
The Great Falls Airport came up
for quite a bit of talk and the Gov
ernor was advised that part of the
money distributed by the Public
Welfare Board should go to the use
of the airports. The Public Welfare
Board, however, feels inclined to
favor the tuberculosis hospital and
the other state institutions.
The BARRIERS International Union
is showing an interest in the organi-
zation of BARRIERS and is asking the
Great Falls unions relative to any
prospective towns in Montana that
may be organized in their inter
national.
The Snyder Preserve Company of
Marion, Indiana, is unfair to the
Marion Trades and Labor Council of
Indiana and also to the Cascade As
sembly.
The unions concurred in a request
from the Carpenters Union, and Up
holsters Furniture, Linoleum and
Awning Workers that labor purchase
furniture made in the Northwest and
bearing the union label of these in
ternational unions.
The Assembly recently sent SIS to
the Kentucky Miners Defense. This
is matter involving the jailing Of
seven coal miners at Evarts, Ken
lucky, in 1881, charged with con-
spiracy.
Actually it appears that several
policemen were killed after they
had opened up gunfire on the pick
cts, The miners were sentenced to
life in the penitentiary. 1t is one of
those cases where, when the working
people shoot down one of the thugs
of the corporation or a deputy sheriff
or policeman who actually works in
the interests of the corporation, that
they are either hanged or put in Jail |
for life but when these thugs kill
working people, no one is ever put
to trial.
The Assembly donated So to the
Sheep Shearers International Union
This international office is located in
Butte The sheep shearers have had
a strike on in Arizona and Cali
fornia and their international presi-
dent was lodged in jail there for a
few days. He is free now but they |
need money to carry on the battle.
President Steinmetz reported that
he and five other delegates had at
tended an organization meeting in
Lewistown.
The Farmer-Labor committee re-
norted that the Farm-I, I,abOr Council |