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Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
The BIG LIONS CLUB
FUN festival IS ON

The Hennies Bros. Shows, opening
their ten days engagement here in
Butte, tonight, on the Harrison and
Grand circus grounds, for the bene-
fit of the Lions Sunshine Camp
fund.
This mammoth midway organiza-
ton, of some is shows, and attrac-
tons, along with IS new and thrill
ing riding devices, presents a most
dazzling sight on this spacious show
lot, with their light towers that turn
night into day, and the neon light
tubings and chrome fronts, that gives
this mammoth carnival the appear
ance of a worlds fair midway"
This 50-car railroad show is a com
bination of the United Shows of
America, that played Butte, in 1886,
and the Hennies Bros. Shows, one of
Americas newest carnival organiza-
tons, with a personnel of some $50
people, performers and actors.
After the ten days engagement
here, this same show furnishes the
midway features for the fairs at
Great Falls and Billings, after which
this show makes a long jump back
to Owatonna, Mimi, for the fair
there, and afterwards moves into
Detroit, for the Michigan State Fair,
that runs for 16 days and nights.
On Saturday, the Hennies Bros.
Shows stage a special children's
matinee, and on Sunday the show
opens in the Afternoon at l p. m. and
operates until midnight.
Members of the Lions club, and
friends are acting as ticket takers at
the various shows and riding devices
during the shows stay, which ter
inmates Saturday, July Both.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
AFL AND clio UNITE TO
OPPOSE ANTI-PICKETING


NEW YORK. - (FP) - All labor
and liberal organizations here have
rallied to present a solid front in
opposition to the sweeping and I'M
precedented injunction handed down
against two CLIO unions conducting
a strike against the Busch Jewelry
Co. chain stores by Supreme Court
Justice Salvatore Gothic.
Backed by AFL and CLIO unions
and other groups, the unions, United
Retail Employees and United Optical
Workers, at first defied the order.
However, after the arrest of eight
pickets by deputy sheriffs and the
refusal Of the appellate division to
grant a stay to the injunction, pickets
were withdrawn. The court, parol-
ing the pickets in custody of their
attorneys, postponed trial until fall.
The unions plan to carry on an
aggressive publicity campaign
throughout the city. The League Of
Women Shoppers appeared before
the company's stores carrying ban
ners reading: eff the union can't
picket, the League of Women Shop
pers will" and eff Busch's won't bar
gain, we won't buy" Leaflets will
be distributed throughout the city
and airplanes will fly with union
banners spread behind them over
crowded city beaches, the union an
nounced.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
COMPENSATION PLAN
NUMBER ONE

Get a hospital ticket. That means
nothing under Montana's compensa-
ton law. It does not safeguard the
injured workers claim in any way
whatsoever. 1t was while working
on this very good job I told of in the
last article, that l met with this set
back, or my l call it second injury
This setback occurred in August
1882. Suffering from a back injury
comes on quickly and can be severe,
This setback was reported, my wife
calling the foreman on the tele-
phone, telling of my condition. DR..
Person of Murray Hospital was
called, and was asked to be sure this
case was reported in the proper way.
I believe this was done. He, DR..
Person, called a second time for more
data on the case. However, my wife
had to go to the Leonard mine seek
ing a hospital ticket.
Now get this! My wife, asking for
a hospital ticket, was told no such
name was on the payroll. However,
my name was found to be on the
payroll. When asked why she sought
a hospital ticket, the timekeeper
was told I had injured my back. He
refused to put this information on
this said ticket, stating it would not
be possible for me to injure my
back, and asking if there were any
witnesses. My wife replied that she
thought not, that 1 was there alone.
On the back of that hospital ticket,
I wrote in effect: ''This party re-
fuses to state the nature of my in
jury" This ticket is on file or
should be at the Murray Hospital,
and was issued by a Mr.. Phelan. 1
again took my case up with Jerry
Shea, asking that an investigator
from his office call on me No one
called. l also asked Mr.. Mcmahon
if it were possible that this case
could be adjusted from this setback.
All without avail.
My case was opposed in the state
supreme court by a battery of six
A. C. M. Co. attorneys composed Of:
D. M. Kelly, John V. Dwyer, j.. t.
Finlen, Jr, H.. E. Gardiner, D. G.,
Stivers, and John Groenveld,
l merely put this information out
to show the mothers and wives and
other dependents of Montana's work
ers just what they are up against
under Montana's so-called "Compen-
sation Law" Death not the result
of injury. Your present condition
not the result of injury, or your
present condition is the result of
injury. The burden of proof lays
with the injured. Read Sec. 2905,
page 81. Before making a final or
a compromise settlement of your
case, read Sec. 1852, page So of Mon
tana's Compensation Laws. This is
a limitations law and a shut out.
Bewarel WILLIAMS.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21

A small boy was asked to write an
essay in as few words as possible on
two of life's greatest problems. He
wrote twins"
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
Posi- Company Products
Are on The Unfair LIST

From the office of Meyer L. Lewis
president, National Council of Grain
Professors, 321 Tower Building
Washington, d. c.
July IL, 1888.
To All Members of Organized Labor,
and Friends:
The Post Company of Battle
Creek, Michigan, a subsidiary of the
General Foods Corporation, manu-
featuring Post Toasties, Minute
Tapioca, S%wansdown Cake Flour.
Calumet Baking Powder, Log Cabin
Syrup, Whole Bran Flakes, Grape
Nuts, Grape Nuts Flakes, Posts 40%s
Bran Flakes, Instant Postum, Sanka
Coffee, Maxwell House Coffee, Jello,
Certo, LaFrance, and Huskies, are
on the unfair list.
They have been placed on the I'M
fair list by Local Union No. 20977,
of the National Council of Grain
Professors, by the Battle Creek Fed
Grafton of Labor and by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
This powerful corporation is doing
everything possible to defeat every
effort made by the union to organize
the workers and establish a c~ontrac-
tual relationship in the interest of
the employees.
You have all been very kind in
supporting our fight against this
company. We appeal to you who
spend the billions of dollars of union
earned money to continue to give us
the cooperation that will bring the
General Foods Corporation to the
realization that organized labor must
be reckoned with.
We ask you to do the following:
l. Reaffirm your action.
2. Request your members to OBJ
serve this unfair list faithfully.
3. Write to H. W. Brown, general
manager, Post Company, Battle
Creek, Michigan, advising him that
you r continuing to support the
workers in Local 2O977 in Battle
Creek.
4. Notify all retail and wholesale
grocers and particularly, all organ
lied retail grocery clerks that you
are buying w. K. Kellogg, Ralston
Purina and General Mills products,
AND ARE NOT BUYING General
or Post Products.
Won't you help us to continue our
successful fight against the General
Corporation?
Fraternally yours,
Meyer L. Lewis, President Ma
tional Council of Grain Pro-
cessorS.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
news Of THE CASCADE
TRADES ASSEMBLY

Congressman O'Connor, in a re-
port made by President Steinmetz,
stated that he would support the
nominees on the Farm-Labor ticket
and also those on the list of the
Council for Progressive Political
Action.
Congressman O'Connor also sent
IN a letter which enclosed another
from John Carmody of the Rural
Electrification Administration saving
that copper conductors would be
used on the Preston-K alispell power
line.
The committee that had been sent
out to make a settlement with the
Home Oil Company returned and
SAID that they could not reach a
conclusion. Consequently the Build
ing Trades Council had officially de-
clared this company unfair. The
Cascade Assembly has not declared
them unfair yet, and a meeting has
been arranged between the transfers
and the executive board of the Build
ing Trades Council to try to find a
solution before any further action is
taken.
Don Ripley has been endorsed for
the office of state senator by the
executive board of the Farmers
Union, according to a report by
Thompson of the Transfers Union.
One Of the delegates from the
Smeltermen's Union reported that he
had learned of cases wherein allow
ances under the NYA were being
deducted from budgets to relief
workers. The assembly is going to
make an Investigation.
Delegate Clark of the Shelter
mems Union reported on a visit that
he had made to the unions in Spo-
kane. He mentioned it looked as
though they were going to use cop
per cable on all federal work in that
community. The unions of eastern
Washington r being asked to sup
port the use of copper cable and
wire.
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Some delegates from the coal
miners union urged the assembly to
use their influence in having coal
used in public buildings. He said
further that the county courthouse
and Jail were now using gas. A
committee composed of Clark, Royal.
Shepart and Boil was appointed to
support the coal miners.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21

If all students who sleep in class
were laid end to end, they would be
more comfortable.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21
ALLIANCE CANDIDATE
STATES VIEWS ON
UN EMpL0YME N |

AHSAS dle lWO IMPORTANT
of dealing with unemployment prob
lens both are indispensable in
making gains for those unfortunate
enough to be without work both
are a part of any sensible plan to
help the unemployed.
First, the organization of all per-
sons on relief or WPA jobs for their
mutual protection is necessary.
Through ORGANIZATION better
job conditions can be won; increased
relief and jobs gained and Individual
grievances settled. Without organi-
cation workers are forced to take
what stingy officials hand out.
Steady functioning committees, part
of any good organization, are a thou
sand times better than empty prom
ises from chiseling relief officials
and reactionary politicians. The
Workers Alliance of America has
grown out Of the need for organiza-
ton of the unemployed and has to-
day a membership Of nearly one
million.
Secondly, the unemployed can and
do win increased relief and jobs
through LEGISLATION. Larger ap-
preparations; protection of rights and
interests of unemployed; liberaliza-
ton of rules, etc, are all things that
are worked out in legislative halls.
And it goes without saying that the
larger the bloc of liberal representa-
tives of the people in any legislative
body-the larger the gains of the
unemployed will be. Today, because
50 many anti-labor, conservative
politicians hold office, it is necessary
to exert constant pressure to make
even the slightest gains.
In Butte the unemployed have
been fortunate in having the protec-
ton of a large number of unions, in
GLIDING a lively local of the Alliance.
Wage rates for men on WPA are the
second highest in the United States,
Job conditions r generally good,
The Alliance, through militant mass
action and picket lines, with the sup
port of other organizations, has
maintained WPA wages for women
at a fairly high level.
While relief allowances in Mon
tana r nothing to boast about they
have been and will continue to be
steadily improved. 1t is unfortunate
that the states Public Welfare Act
does not provide for a better mea-
sure of relief for those who are
forced to exist on it. True there are
many good provisions in the Act
such as payment of relief in cash
and compatible with decency and
health" True, also, the Ayers-ACM
machine controls the Acts admins
tration from top to bottom and is
constantly violating it. However, it
can be vastly improved and this will
be one of the most important tasks
before the next state legislature.
Those who will make the badly
needed Improvements will be mem
bers of the state Senate and House
of Representatives and they will act
only if they are real representatives
of the people and their organizations
Silver Bow County can and should
send ~progressives to Helena in these
offices. The various labor and farm
organizations or the county, work
ing through Labor's Non-Partisan
League, have placed a slate of candi-
dates-pledged to a really progress
sive program and platform-in the
field. Representing these various
organizations they are bound to
enact legislation that will benefit
all of the people,
Signed; FLORENCE LARSON.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-21

Charles N. Schwab Of Bethlehem
Steel has been severely criticized by
Supreme Court Justice William H.
Black of New York for wasting
$215,000 over a 7-year stretch when
he was president of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
This record should make Schwab
an excellent candidate for the group
of practical business men that New
Deal critics would like to see in con-
troll of the nations destiny.
Evening star., 1938-04-13
FREE LISTING OFFERED
BY CHICAGO EXCHANGE

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 13.-The Chicago
Stock Exchange announced yesterday
that it was inviting large corpora
tions which have extensive business
interests and large number of stock
holders in the Middle West to list
their securities on the Chicago Stock
Exchange without payment of list
ing fee.
T. R. Benson, president, said that
there were many corporations with
large business and stockholder inter-
ests in the Middle West who have no
Middle Western market for their Sc
curities.
1--WE are willing to list these cor
porations free of cost" he said, be
cause we believe the ultimate result
will be of great benefit to all con-
cerned. 1t will be a big step in the
development of Chicago as a financial
center and a decided saving to the
Stockholder."
Evening star., 1938-04-13

er's man" is about over. 1t is he who
is the drummer-up of business, who
urges the clients of firm to get in
and out Of his stocks and whose finan-
cial rewards are indirectly dependent
on the amount of commissions he can
| produce. His status is similar to that
of the bond salesman on commission,
| who did so much to distribute a poor
type of corporation bonds and stocks
and real estate mortgages among in
vestors in the late 1920s.
Younger men, or men Of years with
youthful view of life and a liberal
attitude toward present-day social
and economic problems, are replacing
those who have dominated not only
the New York Stock Exchange, but
the great industrial. railroad and pub
lie utility fields. This has recently
been indicated in the election of
Edward R. Stettinius, jr, as chair
man of the board of directors of the
United States Steel Corp. to succeed
Myron c. Taylor. One of the three
men who represented the railroads
at conference with President Roose-
welt last week was E. e. Norris, the
new head of the Southern Railway.
1t was remarked at the time that it
has been years since q high executive
OF that road, whose headquarters are
IN Washington, had crossed the
threshold of the White House.
White House Talks Help.
While there has long been con-
spicuous silence on the part of the
Older and better known partners of
the great private banking firms that
do the bulk of the financing for cor
porations. younger members of these
firms have frequently gone quietly to
Washington and talked frankly with
administration leaders and sympa-
thlzed with some part of their views.
Two of the older railroad men who
have always had entire into officia!
circles In Washington and never feared
TO make use Of it and have smoothed
the path for their less diplomatic as
Soclates are Daniel Willard, president
OF the Baltimore e. Ohio, and Carl
Il. Gray, now vice chairman of the
Union Pacific. Mr.. Gray has prob
ably greater influence at the White
House today than any other railroad
executive.
Then there is Wendell L. Willkie,
president of the Commonwealth e.
Southern, man not given to making
unreasonable concessions, but one
who is young enough in his field to
recognize the damage done to it in
official circles and among considera-
Bile section of the American public bv
the arbitrary attitudes of a small
group of the elderly electric power Of
hclals and who is seeking to repair it.
II ne were not so far away from the
scene, H3rry j. Bauer. president of
the Southern California Edison Co
at Los Angeles, could Go great deal
to accommodate the views of Wash
lngton and of the private utilities. He
Is one Of the most broad minded men
In the power field today, with respect
to Federal and municipal competition,
IN spite OF the fact that he has to
contend with both the Boulder Dam
and city ownership of utilities in Los
Angeles.
Copyright. 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1938-04-13
EARNINGS
FAR BELOW 1887
Recovery Held Impossible
Until Trade Gains and
Loans Rise.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 13-1ndicated
first-quarter earnings of leading banks,
as computed from March 81 condition
statements March where March 81
statements were not available), were
generally we'll below earnings for the
similar period of 1897 and were also
lower than for the last quarter of 1887,
according to the Standard Statistics
Co.
Although banks are making strong
efforts to bolster earnings in the face
OF adverse conditions, betterment is
practically impossible until business
conditions improve and the demand
for loans again turns upward.
The decline in earnings in the first
quarter was due principally to con-
tinuation of the downward trend of
loan totals which began in the last
quarter of 1887. Loans were reduced
about per cent in the first quarter
OF 1888. Although large part of the
decline was in loans to brokers and
dealers, which provide a relatively
small return. there is as yet no indi-
cation OF any more than seasonal i'm
provement in the more important
Evening star., 1938-04-13

A year ago the index, which is ad-
justed for seasonal and long-term
trend, stood at 117.6.
The range for recent years follows:
1888. 1887. 1886. 1885. 1884.
High lib 1852 1913 1865 97.4
Low -104.4 1l1.8 1920 941 91.9
The institute reported the following
percentage decreases from a year ago
according to major geographic afeas !:
New England, 1913. Middle Atlantic,
"a; Central Industrial, 15.2; West
Central, 16; Southern States, So:
Rocky Mountain, 23.i, ind Pacific
Coast, 1.3.
Evening star., 1938-04-13
EXCHANGE HEADS
LIBERAL IN VIEWS
'0dd-Lot' Dealers Fail to
Share in Officers en-
Governing Body.
Ry CHARLES F. SPEARE.

NEW YORK, April 13 (NAN -
On the day that the autocratic Richard
Whitney. former president of the New
York Stock Exchange, was sentenced
to serve term Of to 10 years in Sing
Sing for grand larceny in the first de-
gree. the institution over which he
had long been supreme announced the
nomination of a board of governors
with pronounced liberal convictions
who are believed to be in closer touch
with the public than any group of
men heretofore holding such office.
This Is the most striking proof 50
Tar given that Wall Street and the
banking and corporation interests as
sociated with it have finally realized
that, If they are to have the confidence
OF the American people who buy and
Sell securities, they must be repre-
sented by men who have broader out
look on the business life of the coun-
try than that developed out of too close
relationship with its speculative
centers.
New York exchange traditions have
been smashed by the selection of a
3l-year-old broker from st. Louis,
William McC. Martin, jr., to preside
over the governing body. This
recognizes the right of the interior
to have representation and renews
the faith in the exchange of a large
section OF the country that had lost
a considerable part of it after the
sordld facts of the Whitney failure
had been revealed.
Represents Reform Element.
One OF the new governors will be
Paul V. Shields, who represents the
reform element in the New York Stock
Exchange and has been active for the
last year in presenting its case to
President Roosevelt and to the Sc
curlties and Exchange Commission,
whose suggestions Richard Whitney
always fought and with which Charles
Gay. present head of the exchange,
mas frequently had verbal battle Mr..
Shlelds early recognized that it was
better policy to make concessions to
the public demand for change in ex-
change methods than to oppose it and
run the risk of naturalization.
In the makeup of the governing
body OF the exchange it develops that
no place on it was offered to the odd
lot dealers and brokers, of whom
there are 1913 in the exchange mem
bership. The most common protest
from the public to the exchange au-
thorities, for years, has been against
the alleged unfair practices of this
group. Another element against
which criticism has been constantly
leveled, within and without the Street,
has been the specialists" There are
$50 OF them in a total exchange men,
bership of 1903 They nave three
representatives on the proposed gov
erning body.
OF the % men composing the con-
troll board, % are from the commits
sion houses and investment banking
Hrms or corporations This is in
recognition of the fact that thev deal
most closely with the public end so
should determine the policies and
practices of the exchange.
There is general belief in Wall
Street that the day of the CUSTOM
Evening star., 1938-04-13

commercial loans, the trend Of which
Is still downward.
Deposits showed only a minor de-
cline during the first quarter of 1898.
Government bond holdings were mostly
somewhat lower, except in instances
where particularly heavy loan reduc-
tions were Offset by increasing Gov
ernments." "Other investments" were
mostly higher. Indeed, figures for the
group of reporting member banks in
l0l leading cities show that the de-
cline in holdings of Government bonds
(about 3 per cent? was entirely offset by
increases in miscellaneous investments.
Evening star., 1938-04-13
OUTPUT
SHOWS SLIGHT RISE
Production for Week Ended April
8 Totals 1890, ,447 900 XVIII.
85 Pct. Under Year Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 13.--Electric
power production in the United States
for the week ended April 8 totaled
l,s90.447,000 kilowatt-hours, a gain
OF O.6 OF 1 per cent over 1878, ,753, 900
in the preceding week but 8.5 per cent
under 2,l76,36S,o0o for the compare
BILE 1887 week. the Edison Electric
Institute reported today.
The contraseasonal rise carried the
Associated Press index of power pro-
duction. with 1929-30 taken as 100, to
1855 from l044 the previous week
Evening star., 1938-04-13
BUTTER STOCKS DOUBLE
THOSE OF A YEAR AGO

By the Associated PresS
CHICAGO, April 13.-Carryover
stocks of creamery butter in the Ma
tons warehouses on April totaled
14.310,000 pounds. the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics disclosed today.
This was more than double those of
a year ago and heaviest for the date
since 1884.
Cheese holdings were second heaviest
on record for the date.
Evening star., 1938-04-13
CORPORATE MATURITIES,

NEW YORK. April 13 H1.--Corporate
14s,40O. Standard Statistics Co. said to.
day. The number Of bonds and notes to-
tails ~, OF which IL amount to 81 OOn.-
900 or more. April maturties amounted
&c S15,O 2.300. The "a issues and por-
tons OF issues falling due in June aggre-