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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
New Food Act Passed

:" ITHOUT a record vote the
W house passed the new pure
food and drug bill. The senate had
passed a similar measure and the
differences were to be reconciled in
conference. The act brings drugs,
therapeutic devices, and foods un-
der regulation of the Department
of Agriculture. 1t prohibits altera-
ton or misbranding of cosmetics,
"a foods and drugs, requires ade-
quate tests of products before they
are placed on the market, provides
for license restrictions to control
bacterial contamination of foods, re-
quires warning labels on habit-form-
ing drugs, and provides for factory
inspection.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Early Trial

In Panama, a man indicted for
a crime, even though he may be
a fugitive from justice, undergoes
trial at once, while the witnesses
for the state are alive, present and
of sound memory. Recently a
safebreaker was captured and be-
gan his six-year sentence a few
hours later, his trial having taken
place in 1935.-Collier' Weekly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Defies Harry Hopkins

VICTOR A. Christgau, Minnesota
WPA administrator, quarreled
continually with Gov. Elmer Ben
son and the Farmer-Labor party
leaders in that state. So Harry Hop
kins, national head OF. the WPA,
notified him he was ousted. Christ
gau refused to quit his position, con-
tending that only President Roose-
welt, who appointed him, had power
to dismiss him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Twenty More Federal Judges

president ROOSEVELT signed
the bill creating 20 additional fed
eral judges throughout the country.
The measure is the largest judge
ship bill passed by congress since
1921.
Five additional Circuit Court of
Appeals judges at $12,500 year
each and Is additional district
judges at $4,000 a year each are
authorized by the act.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Beauty, Thrift in
Crocheted Linens

Cross-stitched bouquets in GRO
cheted baskets can be a needle
woman's pride. Try these on your
linens. Other cross-stitch motifs
that may be used alone are given.
The crochet is done in No. so cot
ton; the cross-stitch worked in
lovely colors. In pattern 6038 you
will find a transfer pattern of two
motifs 31a by IL inches; two motifs
4 by 101s inches; two motifs AZ
by z inches; two motifs 4 by II
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Sweepstakes Winners

ROIS ROUSSEL, a French bred
- horse, won the English Derby
at Epson Downs, and four sweep
stakes ticket holders in the United
States won $4,000 each. Scottish
Union, second, won $75,00 each for
II United States ticket holders.
Pasch, the favorite, finished third,
returning $4,000 each to seven tick
ct holders in the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Wallace Slapped Again
CTERNLY chastising S

NTERNLY chastising Secretary Of
y Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
and Solicitor General Robert H.
Jackson for making assertions that
were unwarranted and wholly un-
founded, the United States Supreme
court rejected the governments pc
tition for rehearing of the Kansas
City stockyards rate case.
Twice before the court had re-
buked Wallace in the stockyards
case and had set aside his order fix
ing maximum rates which commits
sion men might charge for services
because, the court said, they had
been denied full, fair, and open
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

would be useful especially in con-
nection with next years wheat pro-
gram. That program is expected to
call for drastic reduction in wheat
planting quotas.
Undoubtedly, officials said, the
proposed fund would be distributed
only among wheat, corn, and cot
ton growers who kept within the
planting quotas assigned them for
next year.
Such a policy already governs the
distribution of $50, ZOO, 900 voted last
year for cotton growers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Dean Mumford Dies

1EAN HEhBERT W. MUMFORD
- of the University of Illinois is
dead, following an automobile acct
dent, and the country loses one of
its best agricultural educators and
marketing experts. Munford was
product of Michigan. In 1901 he
became professor of animal hus-
bandry in the university at Cham
paign. Then he was made dean of
the college of agriculture and di-
rector of the agricultural expert
ment station and extension service.
He was sixty-seven years old at
the time of his death.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Farm Benefit Fund of 212
Million Is Eyed by AAA

Washington, D. C.-Oficials of the
agricultural adjustment administra-
ton indicated that if congress ap-
proved the $2l2, 900, 900 farm benefit
fund which the senate appropria-
tons committee has added to the
relief bill it would be used to induce
grower compliance with the govern
ment's 1889 crop programs.
Persons familiar with problems
faced by the AAA said the money
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Reform Bill SheIved

cepted the advice of congression-
al leaders and consented to the
shelving of his bill for reorganiza-
ton of the executive government.
This was announced with the ap-
proval of the President by Senator
Barley. At the same time it was
made known that the administra-
ton would attempt to get the meas
ure through congress early in the
1889 session. Sen. Hiram Johnson
of California said the opponents of
the bill would be ready to resume
their battle against it next year.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
As sKl 5o \ "a Wife?

wife-a wife who is lovable for three weeks OF
the month-but hell-cat the fourth.
No matter how your back aches-no matter
how loudly your nerves scream-don't take il
out on your husband.
For three generations one woman has told
another how to go smiling through" with
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
orders which women must endure.
Make a note NOW to get a bottle Of
Pinkham's today WITHOUT FAIL from your
druggist-more than million women have
written in letters reporting benefit.
Why not Try LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND?
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

inches; chart and directions for
crocheted edgings 4A by Is
inches; material requirements; il
Illustrations of all stitches used.
To obtain this pattern, send Is
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to The Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept, 259 W. 18th
Street, New York, N. Y.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
War Pensions Boosted

president ROOSEVELT signed
bill to increase the pensions of
certain soldiers, sailors and nurses
who served in the Spanish war, Phil
ippine insurrection or China relief
expedition.
The act provides a $50 monthly
pension for veterans sixty-five years
old who served at least 80 days and
to those who served less than 80
days and were discharged for dis
ability incurred in service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
May Change Caste System

Release of the 25O,OO0 Untouch-
ables in Indore from their age-old
bondage is believed in India to be a
step which may change the caste
system. The proclamation of the
Maharajah of Indore throws open
all the state temples, public places,
eating houses and public vehicles in
the city and vicinity to them. The
Untouchables may freely use the
public wells instead of being forced
to take water from stagnant pools
They also may build houses.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

He took this course
with the tax revision
bill in order to en-
phasize his objection
to chose unwise
parts of the bill"
which removed all
but the skeleton of
the undistributed
profits tax and dras-
tically modified the
levies upon capital
gains.
The President an
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Big Fund for Highways

7 LEGISLATION authorizing new
federal highway expenditures of
1857, 10000 for the fiscal years 1910
and 1941 won final congressional ap-
prevail when the senate adopted a
conference report previously accept
ed by the house. Also authorized
was the expenditure of $3.50, 000,0 900
of old, unused appropriations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
SX2zwu1a NJ DGckGhd
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
g Western Newspaper Union.

hearing by Secretary Wallace.
Justice Hugo Black, who was the
lone dissenter when the case was
decided in April, ran true to form,
again being the only member of
the court to dissent.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

Tennessee Valley
authority, accused
DR.. Arthur E. Nor
gan, their ousted
colleague, with try
ing to sabotage the
TWAS legal defense
in a court case in
volving the constitu-
tionality of the au-
thority. They said,
too, that he had en-
gagged in a cam
paign of dissent and
obstruction
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Crooked Church Spire
an Interesting Sigh

The remarkable state of the
church spire at Chesterfield is one
of the most interesting sights to be
seen anywhere, observes writer
in London Answers Magazine.
It looks as though it was crooked
or falling down. Well, it certainly
is crooked, but it is in no fear of
falling as $4,000 has been spent on
making it safe.
There are several theories about
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

Lawrence SeaWay,
asking that it be
considered as a ba-
sis for a new treaty
which would be a
revision and anpli-
fcation of the treaty
of 1882 that the SEN
ate refused to ratify
in 1884. Under the
terms of the Hull
plan Canada would
obtain without cost
q pnr,orIataI c. ou,-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Strike Back at MORGAN

TESTIFYING before the joint
L congressional committee of in
vestigation, David E. Lilienthal and
Harcourt Morgan, directors of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
HILLS St. Lawrence Plan

PRESUMABLY by direction of
l the President, Secretary of State
Hull submitted to Canada a new
proposal for development of the St.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
Tax Bill Unsigned But Law
the first

TOR the first time since he entered
the White House, President Roose-
welt permitted an act of congress to
become law without his signature.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
PrOnf in Doing

The shortest and the surest way
to prove a work possible, is siren
uously to set about it.-South.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09

1t is going to require many years
of effort to restore states to their
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-06-09
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National Topics Interpreted - GMMB9
by William Bruckart TTTHHTTHTW
National Warrington D. c.

Washington.-Congress is packing
its buds. It doesn't know exactly
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
FEDERAL AGENCIES
C0ND0NE OPERATOR
OF UNFAIR SHOPS

MISSOULA. AT 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 60
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.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
Former Coal Miner
Pays Butte a Visit

Mr.. Joe Bosone, former president
of the United Mine Workers of
America, District 81, was a visitor
in Butte Wednesday and expressed
favorable sentiments toward united
action by labor regardless of differ
ences that exist at present, He voiced
a hope that both the G. l. o. and
A. F. of L. will again unite for the
promotion of better conditions for
the workers throughout the United
States. Personally, Mr.. Bosone feels
that the c. l. o. has done great work
in the basic industries and will soon
have the workers organized to pro-
tect themselves against the exploit
ers of the country. He is highly
pleased that, notwithstanding the
charter taken away from the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council ap-
proximately three years ago by the
American Federation Of Labor
Council, it did not make any ma
terial difference for both c. /. o.
and A. F. of L. men and women in
Silver Bow County are still fighting
together for the common good of the
workers.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
INDEPENDENTS HOPE TO ELECT TWO
new MEMBERS TO THE BOARD
Trades Council Will Adjourn
Regular Session; Two Candi-
dates to Be Nominated.

The Independent school ticket
will hold a mass meeting for the
purpose of nominating school trus-
tees to be voted on at the general
school election on Tuesday evening,
March Is, at the Carpenters hall,
1856 W. Granite. The session of the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
ell will adjourn at 8 p. m, at which
time the doors will be thrown open
to the public and the subsequent
meeting resolve itself to a mass
meeting at which two trustees will
be nominated. The school election
takes place this year on Saturday,
April 2.
At the present time the board of
school trustees, which is composed
of five members who were elected
by the Citizens Ticket and two
members elected by the Independ-
ent Ticket which the party spon-
sored by the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council. These latter
two men are A. Lehwalder and
Frank Murray. Frank Murray was
elected to fill the unexpired term of
Mr.. Manley and his term expires
this spring. The other trustee whose
term expires is that of MI. Lyle.
The people will be called upon to
elect two trustees as was mentioned
a moment ago and have five on the
board and the Independents two.
One independent goes out and one
Citizen member goes out. Should
the Independents elect two members
they will still have only three mem
bers on the board. If they do not
elect any, they will have only one
on the board. Of course if
they elect one, they will still have
the two members that they have
now, It is essential that the unions
have more representatives on the
board. The people are asked to
give this their serious consideration
and to elect two Independent mem
bers to the board this year.
Acting Chairman Japp appointed
the following men as a committee
in charge of the Independent school
campaign: Frank Donovan, James
Leonard Ripper, Frank Sui
Peter Johnson, Tim Harring-
ton and John Vickers.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
Townsend Public Meet
Al Y. NJ. {. A. on Friday

Townsend Club No. l will hold a
social meeting at the Y. M. c. A.
Friday evening to which the general
public is invited.
Guest speakers from Bozeman in
clude J. M. Dunbar, president Of the
Bozeman club; E. M. Westad, G. w.
Barnum, F. w. Redfield, and Pro-
fessor L. L. Buchanan. Visitors are
also expected from Deer Lodge,
Anaconda, and Whitehall.
A musical and literary program
will be presented and refreshments
will be served. The Butte club in
votes. everyone interested in a plan
to end all depressions to attend this
social and hear these speakers ex-
plain the General Welfare Act of
1887, now before Congress.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
u. 5. WORKERS GET
{. |. 0. LITERATURE
Senator WheeIer's Daughter and
Marion Hepburn Aid Distri-
button.

More than so young men and
women, among them the daughter
of Senator Wheeler of Montana and
the sister of Katharine Hepburn, the
movie actress, today inaugurated the
second big organization campaign of
the United Federal Workers of
America, an affiliate of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization.
Mostly worker-members of the
union, and with women in the ma
jority, they were posted from 1880
a. m. until 8 a. m. at entrances to a
number of government departments.
They distributed, without inter-
ference, thousands of pamphlets adj
vertising a union meeting to be held
Thursday at 8:15 p. m. in the De-
partmental Auditorium, at which
five members of Congress and c. I.
o. Director John Brophy will speak.
The above article indicates that
Senator Wheeler's daughter is very
active in union affairs. Bailey Stortz,
Wheeler's secretary, mentioned that
many complaints have come in to
Senator Wheeler about his daugh-
ter's liberal ideas. However, the
Senator returned that she is of age
and has her own inclinations to fol-
low. And by the way Miss Frances
Wheeler took exception to her
fathers stand about the reorganiza-
ton of the Supreme Court.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
Notice of Meeting of
the Independent Party
for the Placing in Nom
inatiOn Candidates of
the Independent Party
for Two School
Trustees

A meeting of the Independ-
ent Party will be held at Car
penters Union Hall, 156 West
Granite Street, Butte, Montana
on Tuesday, March 18th, 1888,
at the hour of eight (S) p. M,
to place in nomination, two
candidates for School Trustees
at the coming School Election
of School District No. / to be
held in Silver Bow County,
Montana on the 18th day of
March, 1888.
Each of the candidates to be
nominated for a term of three
go years.
The said candidates to ap-
pear on the ballot under the
caption or name of "Independ-
ent Ticket"
Also to take any further ac-
ton as is necessary; and to
provide in case vacancy should
arise on the ticket.
FRANK DONOVAN, Chair
man of the Independent
Party for Nomination of
Candidates for School
Trustees of School District
No. l, Silver Bow County,
Montana.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
BOARD DEMANDS THAT
COUNTIES COMPLY WITH BUDGETS
County Boards Are Also Asked
to Supplement WPA Earnings
With Relief Orders.
Secretary of Trades Council
Makes Splendid Report.

Tom Kennedy, secretary of the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil, made a splendid report of his
visit to the meeting of the Montana
Welfare Commission, February Oath.
The Trades and Labor Council APP
pointed Mr.. Kennedy to represent
the labor organizations in order to
secure additional money for Silver
Bow County for the purposes of
relief.
In his report, Mr. Kennedy stated
that approximately seven counties
were represented at the meeting
and that representatives Of these
counties first met at the labor head
quarters in Helena before going to
the offices of the Welfare Commits
sion. Out of this group a committee
was appointed to interview the state
treasurer, to ascertain how much
money could be obtained for the
various counties. In the afternoon,
Clarence Hanley, Assistant Attorney
General, appeared before the dele
gates and gave several interpreted
tons Of that portion of the law
which states that relief allotment
for budgets shall be sufficient to
maintain those on relief in decency
and health. Mr.. Hanley showed a
complete familiarity with the sub
ject, stating that several of the
county welfare boards had not lived
up to the law and that the only way
to compel the county commissions
to live up to the law was to have
the state refuse to give these coun-
ties grants in aid from state funds.
The only other alternative to this
mode of procedure was to force these
county boards to give sufficient re-
lief allotments through mandamus
proceedings in court.
1t was finally decided by the meet
ing that each county would select a
spokesman from their group to speak
for them in a general meeting before
the Welfare Board. This meeting
took place in the afternoon and pre-
sented the situation existing in vari-
GUS counties. The general demands
made by the representatives from
the various counties were as fol-
lows: that the commission instruct
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
LOOK FOR SPECIAL
POLITICAL issue

The Montana Labor News will
issue in the neal future a special
political number carrying the record
and box score of every senator and
every representative in the last ses-
sion of the legislature in respect to
their fidelity to the working people
and the labor organizations. The
percentage of each one of them will
be given in relation to about 30
measures which are considered the
most vital to labor.
Persons desiring copies of this
issue should notify the Montana
Labor News in advance.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
5UpREhE COURT GIVES.
IMPORTANT DECISION
ON LABOR STANDING.

A decision which places the Mon
tana Supreme Court on the liberal
side and justifies the support he re-
ceived from labor in Silver Bow
County was delivered by Mr.. Jus
tice Angstman in the recent case of
George Leonidas VS.. G. N. Ry. Co.
ct al, 70 P. (2nd) 1907, decided Oct.
o., 1887 where the defense of as
sumption Of risk was denied the
railway company and judgment for
$4,000 was affirmed. This decision
marks a departure in the Montana
Supreme Court and has been called
the outstanding decision of the year
and one of the outstanding decisions
rendered since the Employers Liza
bility Law was passed" by promi-
nent attorneys in the nation.
It means that the long cherished
defense of assumption of risk
which has been used by employing
companies as a means of defeating
claims of workmen for injuries sus-
tanned while carrying out express
orders of their foremen against their
better judgment will be no longer
available to employers in Montana
and may result in companies hiring
men for supervisory positions who
have some regard for the rights of
the men under them. One purpose
of the law as construed by Judge
Angstman is to protect laborers
from unreasonable bosses. "This
section was certainly enacted for
the safety of employees. It's pur-
pose was to encourage interstate
carriers to employ careful and COM
petent agents and employees. 1t
makes the carrier the insurer Of the
competency and carefulness of it's
agents and employees" The fact
that this case has been fought by
the railway company for over 54a
years should be an indication of its
Importance to them. 1t is also re-
ported that they intend to attempt
to carry the matter to the U. S..
Supreme Court, if possible.
The facts Of the case are simple:
Leonidas was a section hand, en-
ployed with others in repairing a
track near Windham, Montana. This
work requires at least two men but
during the course of the day the
section boss moved one of them and
left Leonidas working alone, when
the place was ready Leonidas called
to his former partner to assist him
in carrying a tie to replace one re-
moved but the boss ordered him to
carry the tie alone. He then at
tempted to carry a new tie that was
IL or Is feet from the place it was
needed but the boss cursed him and
ordered him to get another tie that
was about $50 feet down the track,
lying over an embankment, and
which was water soaked, slippery
and very heavy. Leonidas, in fear
of losing his job, attempted to get
Continued on Page g.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-03
Butte T~ownsendites
Go 10 Whitehall

Townsend Club No. 2 of Butte
spent a pleasant Friday evening at
a social given by Townsend No. l
of Whitehall. 1t was held in Com
munity hall with Mrs. Hucklebaugh
presiding and Mrs. M. Johnson as
secretary.
Miss Catherine Berry of Butte
sang two solos, accompanying her.
self on the piano; a vocal number
by the Whitehall Quartette preceded
the evenings speeches by c. W. Swift,
David E. Hooking and VIM. B. Frame
of Butte; concluding the proceedings
by the audience singing America"
after which all hands enjoyed a
plentiful supply of cake, sandwiches
and coffee furnished and served by
the Whitehall club. The Whitehall
members promised to return the
call at our social in Lowell Ave.
Church Monday, March 2.