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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12
Football Players Learn Of Mothers Death After Game

Newark, N. J., Nov. l2.-(UN- Only three minutes remained of the "Littie Army Navy" football game between LaSalle Military Academy and Admiral Farragut Academy when the loudspeaker announc d:
 Here's LaSalie subst'tntion. It's Jack Brahney going in at right guard in place of Geiger." .a...
 AS the crowd gave Geiger a hand, a little, gray-haired man whose face was tear-stained, rose from his seat and walked toward an exit. Thence he found his way t0 the Lla- Sale dressing room beneath the sta
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12

dium, where he waited to give his two sons news of the mothers death.
 The little man was Charles F.. Geiger, father of Charles Geiger, 19, right guard and captain of the La- Salle team, and Frank, 17 a subr stitute center.
 His wife, Mrs. Sylvia Geiger, 53, had a heart attack Thursday night and died. A family conference was held, and 1t was decided that the news should be withheld from her sons until after Fridays fooball game X
 Charles. first one of the brothers
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12
Waterbury, 9 Towns In Election Embroglio
Defeated Congressional Candidate in 5th District Seeks Legality of Winsted VOte-Three Justices
 to Hear Question Next Tuesday

Waterbury and nine other towns in the 5th Congress sonal district will be involved in election aftermath Tuesday when attorneys for Lieutenant Colonel Roy Rice defeated Republican candidate will seek deterina
 ton Of legality Of the v0tiig Tovenbef respective communities Three justices of the supreme court will conduct the hearing at 10 o'clock at Hartford by which the Republican seeks to upset the 294vote plurality of Con- pressnan J. Joseph Smith of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12
DEMOCRATS TO
 HOLD FIRST PLACE

Hartford, Conn, Nov. l2-CUP)- Democrats retained first place or, the ballot today despite their de- feat in Tuesdays elections.
 The victory of Republicans was attributed to the vote of the Union party which supported many oi their candidates.
 Democrats boiled the largest par. tv vote.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12

to come into the dressing room. was stunned when his father told him, but quickly recovered his composure. and sent a messenger to the bench to get Frank. The younger lad wept. Both hurried into their street clothes while their father waited.
 Geiger explained: T couldn't tell you boys before because knew how hard you had practiced and what this game meant to you.' Despite a gallant game played by Charles, LaSalle lost 15-O.
 Funeral services were held this morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-12
c. Of c. Survey ShowsEmploy1nent
 At New 1888 High
Business Upturn Apparent in Figures -3l,99o Em-
 plOyed Here in October Highest Point in City Since November, 1937

Employment in Waterbury climbed to it's greatest heights of the past 12 months during October the Cham
 of business survey for the month discoses today The employment gain led the business in general in the Brass City made an impressive advance an increase of 481 September Eight major factories had total of 6676 persons gain of 34 September
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The Weather

Fair Tonight; Sunday
 Rain, Mild
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Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
NEW LAW ON
USED CAR TAX Lien

Can the state legally withhold
license plates to the owner of an
automobile who has paid the 1888
personal property tax, when previ-
Gus assessments against the automo-
bile under former owners remain
unpaid? This question is the motif
of a test case filed in Lewis and
Clark County the past week by G..
L. Kleve, directed against Julia
Fischl, county treasurer, and its de-
termination will govern thousands
of similar cases over the state.
Kleve purchased the used al and
submitted his fee for license and 1888
tax assessments. There remained
an unpaid 1887 tax lien against the
car under its former owner. Kleve
contends the state cannot withhold
the license plates and the state con-
tends that it can until the past due
taxes r paid. The states theory
is that they stand as a lien against
the property itself. Kleve's suit is
sponsored by the Montana Motor
Trades association.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
Coop Hospital Head
Wins First SkirmSh
With coop Plan Foe,

ELK CITY, Okla. DR.. Michael
Shadid, chief of the staff of the
Farmers Union Cooperative Hospi-
tai here, won the first skirmish with
the local medical society and the
State Board of Medical Examiners
in the latter's attempt to revoke his
license to practice, according to
word just received by the Bureau
of Cooperative Medicine.
The Oklahoma Medical Society
wanted the case tried before the
State Board of Medical Examiners.
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma,
however, has handed down a deci-
sion refusing to issue a writ of pro-
hibition sought by the Board of
Medical Examiners to prohibit the
district judge from trying DR..
Shadid's case. AS a result of the
decision the Board of Medical Elk
aminers will have to go before the
district court to show cause why
DR.. Shadid's license should be re-
voked. This decision will take the
case out of the hands of the Medi-
cal Society.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
IS
MAD and BREAKS
BOTTLES IN ROAD
Given Fifteen-Day Jail Sentence
for Smashing Glass on High
way.

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - George
Nelson, rs, of Brooklyn, N. Y, a
sensitive hitchhiker making his
way to his home, became SO in
censed q Wyoming motorists re-
peatec & egard of his thumb that
he SC revenge.
w 8 Walking along the highway,
he ~ upon a number of bottles.
He S. ed them up and broke them
on = surface of the road.
Y Gilman Mike Maher, patrolling
t section of the highway, was
d to zigzag his car for three
tiers of a mile to avoid the
ken glass. He came upon the
F.. chhiker just as Nelson was pre-
pairing to toss another bottle on the
highway.
The officers called to the youth,
who explained his broken glass
method of revenge. The patrolman
not only arrested Nelson, but before
taking him to Jail made him clean
the road and wipe off the entire
area with a cloth.
Nelson was sentenced to fifteen
days.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
Miners Union InstaIIs
Officers Tor The Year

At the meeting of the Miners
Union Wednesday, January 18th,
officers which were chosen last Oc-
tober at the general election of the
organization were installed. These
men will serve for the ensuing year.
A rule Of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Union which governs all local or
CARNATIONS provide that paid off
GERS of the union shall not serve
for more than two consecutive years
and must withdraw at the end of
that time. They may run again,
however, after a lapse of one year.
The new officers installed last
week are as follows:
President, Robt. c. Brown; vice
president, Ed Mason; financial Sec
rotary, Walter r. Smith; recording
secretary, Mike J. Ryan; trustees,
Fred Langdon, Fred McFadden, Joe
Mason, Jim Byrne, Bill Tonkin,
warden, James Shea; conductor, Joe
Slower.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
Social and Smoker al
Next Weeks Session Of
Silver Bow Council

Bill Palmer, the official program
arranger and head of the entertain
ment division of the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council, has
promised the delegates Of the Trades
and Labor Council the most magni-
ficent social and entertainment held
by that body in a generation for the
session of Tuesday, January 25th.
Bill explained that he had made
all arrangements for music to be
furnished by the Musicians Union
and the appearance of local talent.
However he didn't seem to be so
sure of himself of this latter de-
partment and requested the dele
gates that if any member of their
family or acquaintance had talent
along the lines of entertainment to
be Ire and bring them to the meet
ing.
The new officers of the Trades
and Labor Council will be installed
at the meeting of January 25th and
the social will be held in connection
with this part of the ritual.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
SuidrY Problems
70 Be Surveyed

A committee of Local ACT at the
state university has begun a study
of salary problems of university
teachers. The first questions for
investigation are the correlation of
rank and salary and the present
status of salaries at Montana and
similar institutions.
A QUESTIONABLE has been sent to
fifteen institutions in the West ask
ing for particulars as to their use
of a salary schedule, the maximum
and minimum salaries paid to teach
ers of different rank, and the
amount and bases for increases.
With such information it is hoped
to draw some conclusions concern
ing a salary schedule that will guar
antee just rewards and security to
teachers.
The same QUESTIONABLE will also
furnish data on salaries paid at these
institutions over the last ten-year
period A comparison of salaries
paid and reservations made at Mon
tana with those of other institutions
should help to indicate what may
reasonably be asked for at our own
institution.
Mr.. George E. Axtelle, chairman
of the college section of the A.. F. T,
and Mr.. Hugh DeLacy, regional vice
president for the Northwest, have
both commended the project.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
III. F.. T. i'm the
Northwest

Montana teachers were represent
ed at the 21st annual convention of
the A.. F. 7. in Madison, Wisconsin,
August % to q, 1887, by MI. Ru-
dolph j. Schleuter of Local 497. At
this meeting, Mr.. Kuenzli, secretary
treasurer, reported an increased
membership of 46 per cent in the
past year-the largest years growth
in the Federation's twenty-one years
of history.
In the Pacific northwest, organi-
cation is making rapid strides. Two
years ago there were three locals
of the American Federation of
Teachers in three northwest states;
today there are seventeen. Wash
ington leads with eleven locals and
several others to be formed soon.
Oregon has three locals and Mon
tana three. Last fall the Washing
ton teachers unions, with the help
of the Washington commonwealth
federation, elected a union member,
Stanley F. Atwood, to the office of
state superintendent of public in
struction. Mr.. Hugh DeLacy, instruc-
tor at the University of Washington,
is regional vice president of the A. f.
T. in the Northwest, as well as presi-
dent of the recently organized Wash
ington Federation of Teachers.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
CENSUS SHOWS
Between SEVEN AND
10 MILLION J0BLE55

WASHINGTON.-(FP) Between
seven and 10 million persons, able
and willing to work, were without
employment in November John D.
Biggers, head of the governments
unemployment census, told President
Roosevelt in a partial report.
The report, submitted shortly be-
fore the President delivered his an
nual message to Congress, showed
that over 100000 people voluntarily
registered themselves as unemployed
and DESTROYS of work. A house-to-
house check resulted in revision of
the figures to 10,800,000.
Biggers emphasized that the re-
port showed only those without work
at the time the census was taken,
November 1920. 1t is possible, he
conceded, that more may be idle at
present.
In the meantime the Senate
pressed plans for its investigation of
the relief problem, directly linked
to the number of unemployed, call
ing TO hearings persons with perth
nent facts to present. The hearings
will continue for at least a week
after which the Senators will go into
a huddle to draw up recommended
tons.
Slated to testify are Isadore Lu-
bin, statistician for the Department
of Labor, Frank Persons, U. S. Re-
employment Service, Corrington Gill,
Works Progress Administration,
Mariner S, Eccles, chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, Arthur Alt
meyer, chairman of the Social Sc
curity Board, Paul Raushenbush, di-
rector of the Wisconsin Unemploy-
ment Compensation Division, and
Virgil Jordan, National Industrial
Conference Board.
Others slated to testify are VIM.
Knudsen, president of General Mo
tors, VIM. Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Gen. Robert Wood, president of
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The purpose Of The inquiry is 10
determine the causes of unemploy-
ment, possible remedies, and the
amount that should be allocated to
relief. The testimony of Knudsen
is especially eagerly awaited in view
of the recent layoff of 10000 men
by General Motors.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
ANNOUNCEMENT

The special committee appoint
ed at the recent Blacksmiths' Cost
of Living Conference are sched-
uled to meet Monday, January "a,
at 7:30sp. M, at Miners Union hall
to devise a program of action.
Persons composing the commit
tee + as follows, and are re-
quested to be present:
Chairman Clifford Crowley of
Blacksmiths Union; Ben Fisher,
secretary; James Comba, Engi-
neers Union; Walter Japp, Clerks
Union; John Walsh, Machinists
Union; Clarence Blewett, Street
Car Mems Union; Dennis Me
earthly, Miners Union; Charles
Davis, Teachers Union; Del Hale,
Electrical Workers Union No. IS;
Lois McGOvern, Ladies Auxiliary
of Miners; Allan Thomas, Teach
ers Union.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
PERMANENT COST OF LIVING COMMITTEE
IS NAMED BY CONFERENCE OF UNIONS
Conference Called by Black
smiths Organization to In
quire Into Alleged High
Prices Elects Officers and
Names investigating Board.
c. Crowley Elected Chairman

Responding to an appeal sent out
by the blacksmiths' organization,
representatives of organized labor
gathered at the Carpenters hall
Wednesday, January IL, and after
discussing the various factors enter
ing into the high cost of living in
Butte, created a permanent organi-
cation of which Clifford Crowley
was elected chairman and Ben
Fisher, secretary. A committee of
ten was named as an investigating
board to report their findings at the
next session of the conference which
will be held about February %. The
investigating committee of ten is
composed of Clifford Crowley,
chairman, Blacksmiths; Walter Japp,
Clerks; John Walsh, Machinists;
Clarence Blewett, Street Car Men;
Dennis Mccarthy, Miners; Charles
Davis, Teachers; Del Hale, Electro
cal Workers No. IS; Lois McGovern,
Ladies Auxiliary of Miners; Allan
Thomas, Teachers; James comba of
the Engineers and president of the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil
It is proposed to divide this COM
mittee of ten into groups and assign
to each group different phases of the
items which enter into the living
costs of the ordinary wage slave.
At the meeting at the Carpenters
hall, held Wednesday, January IL,
many Illuminating remarks were
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Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
Montana Oil Industry
Pleads With Unions 10
Buy Home produds

Seeking the assistance of the Or
gained labor movement of Silver
Bow County, Mr.. Cassidy represent
ing the Montana oil producing in
dustry, described how working peo-
pie were penalizing themselves by
buying imported products both
through taxation and by thought
lessly increasing the unemployment
rolls in their own state,
The speaker expressed his pleas
ure to the delegates for the privilege
of addressing them. He then
launched into the main topic of dis
course, stating that there are about
1000 barrels a day of crude oil that
cannot be sold. The oil industry
is in its infancy, according to Mr..
Cassidy, and has much promise for
the future. At the present time,
however, the lack of a suitable mar
ket for Montana products is costing
three million dollars a year. The
result of the neglect of the people
of Montana in buying their own gas
and oil results in increased taxes to
the working people and also is a
factor in encouraging and creating
further unemployment in the state.
Montana is importing about $3.50
barrels of crude oil a day from the
MIDI Continent district and Cali
fornia fields. Last year the gas sold
in this state to consumers represent
ed less than so per cent of the crude
oil produced here.
Mr.. Cassidy pleaded with the
members of organized labor when
buying gasoline to ask the filling
station attendant for gas made from
crude oil produced in Montana, in
sist that the station sell you Mon
tana gas and oil.
It was thought at one time, ac-
cording to the speaker, that the
Governor would issue a proclama-
ton about the subject of buying
Montana-made gasoline but for
some reason or other, there has
been a delay. The Montana pro-
ducers are now circulating petitions
to have such a proclamation made.
The doleful effects of purchasing
imported crude oil is indicated by
the 5000 men who r now out of
work in the oil industry on account
Of Montana people ~neglecting to buy
its own products. The oil industry
here wants to cooperate with the
unions. They want to cooperate
under the eight-hour day and obey
union conditions.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
UNIONS TO SUPPORT
COMPULSORY SCHOOL
AGE IS

introduced by the Electricians
Union, a resolution designed to COM
pei school attendance up to the age
Of 10 was adopted by the Trades
Council at its last session. The leg
islative committee of the organiza-
ton was instructed to prepare and
initiate the proper legislation so that
the proposition could be presented
to the next session of the Legisla-
ture. The reason assigned for its
introduction was based upon the
fact that the need of education for
young people is greater now than
it ever was in the history of this
country. The completely of the in
dustrial and social system now de-
mands that young people be more
highly trained and cultured than
ever before. A second reason as
signed was that if young people are
kept in school a longer time, it
keeps them off the labor market.
Many young men and women who
leave school prior to the time they
are 10 years of age, find that they
cannot get any work to do, conse-
quently they either drift into bad
habits or become discouraged over
the outcome. The delegates seem to
realize that the resolution presented
tremendous consequences and it
may even be necessary that consti-
tutional amendment be initiated to
provide such a plan.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
BUS COMPANY WILL
OPERATE ALL RUNS
ON g. HOUR BASIS

Early last week the officers of
the Street Car Mems Union, as it
was originally called, met with the
manager of the Butte City Lines,
Mr.. John G. Evans, and Mr.. Edward
O'Byrne, Labor Commissioner for
the state Of Montana, in which a
schedule for operation of the bus
lines was worked out, in which the
National City Lines will conform to
the eight-hour law of the state. This
particular eight-hour law governing
buses and trucks was passed in the
1885 session, but the law did not
include the operation of street rail
ways. At that time Butte was the
only city having street car service
except the service which was rem
dered to the smeltermen Of Ana
conda and the interurban lines to
Opportunity.
Abuses which had Yarisen in the
interstate and interstate transport
ing Of freight and passengers caused
the Legislature to pass the law. It
was reported that some of the truck
ing companies had cots in the trucks
and that drivers were required to
sleep on these cots when they be-
came exhausted.
At the meeting with Mr.. O'Byrne,
the Street Car Mems Union officers
and MI. Evans, the commissioner
called attention also to the eight
hour constitutional amendment
which was passed by the people at
the last general election. Under this
constitutional amendment, industries
Of all kinds and description operating
in the state Of Montana are required
to work their employees not more
than eight hours. 1t is within the
power of the Legislature to decrease
the number of hours which workers
may work, but they cannot increase
the hours. AS was mentioned, the
Butte Electric Railway Company did
not come under the 1885 law. The
same workers, the same union, are
now operating the buses as were
operating the street cars. The Anal
gamated Association of Street, Elec-
trio Railway and Motor Coach En-
ployees of America is the technical
name for the organization having
jurisdiction over this work.
The National City Lines, in other
words the Bus Company, is DESTROYS
of cooperating with the people in
Silver Bow County in every way
possible. After taking over opera
tons of the Butte Electric Railway,
it was found to be somewhat diff
cult to establish schedules which
would comply with both the consti-
tutional amendment and the eight
hour law and it was gratifying that
a program was worked out wherein
the bus company will have all of its
operations included in these laws.
Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
WHAT HELPS BUSINESS
HELPS YOU!
BY R

Under the above slogan the United
States Chamber of Commerce has
organized and begun to carry out
an intensive-hectic is perhaps the
better word-campaign on a nation
wide scale against the New Deal and
the Roosevelt administration.
This is the explanation of the I'M
usual fervor with which the local
chamber of commerce has been
prosecuting, with thinly yelled
threats of boycott and blacklist
against merchants and other bust
ness men who have shown some
reluctance to give wholehearted
support to a drive that is part of
the national anti-New Deal war
camouflaged as the Butte Better
Business Builder campaign.
A dispatch from Washington, D.
c., dated Jan. Is, gave the whole
contemplate show away. With its
usual disregard for the intelligence
of the wage earners of Silver Bow
County, the Montana Standard pub
lished this noisome item in its issue
of Jan. 16 under the headline In
dustry Sends Nation Message" and
with the subhead, What Helps
Business Helps You" Is Slogan of
Big Campaign.
This message is being broadcast, y
the dispatch says, Throughout the
United States-from 10000 bill
boards and in hundreds of news
papers and magazines" It con-
tinues:
I'VE believe says a letter from
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, that if the public a be
made just a little conscious of this
simple truism (What Helps Bust
ness Helps YOU it will not be so
ready to applaud those who promise
great things by attacking business"
This slogan, says the Washington
dispatch, will greet the eyes Of the
factory worker, the garage worker
and the mechanic as he enters the
shop"
As usual, business men who can
not run their businesses-examples
are the crash and depression Of
1929-33, the new depression, 1898
are appealing to wage earners to
give them another chance, i. e., take
lower wages, work longer hours,
work faster and harder, make no
complaint about growing unemploy-
ment and hunger relief.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce and all its local branches
including the Butte Chamber of
Commerce, are trying to convince
the wage earners that the New Deal,
the Wagner Labor Relations Act and
its other measures of social better
ment, is responsible for the present
depression. The United States
Chamber of Commerce and it's local
branches are starting the 1888 Con-
gressional election campaignl
Wage earners in Silver Bow Coun-
ty and Montana generally will not
have failed to note that in the local
chamber of commerce better bust
ness drives not a word has been
said about the mass unemployment
created in Butte and in the whole
state by the layoff of thousands in
the mines, smelters and other enter
prises of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company-in the dead of
winter.
Neither has one word been said
about unemployment relief, direct,
or in the form of work relief. Bet
ter business apparently has nothing
to do with the number of workers
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Montana labor news., 1938-01-20
GUERNSEY BULL is
SOLD TO SALUSSO

PETERBOROUGH, N. H. A
purebred Guernsey bull, Topsy's
Avoca Rose King 209264, was sold
recently by Fred Martin of Butte,
Montana, to George Salusso of
Walkerville, Montana, according to
the American Guernsey Cattle Club,
Peterborough, New Hampshire.