Montana labor news., 1938-12-15
news OF THE UNIONS
IN CASCADE COUNTY

meeting, the central LABOR unions OF
Great Falls donated 81 to the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of
Christ in America to help carry on
the work they have been doing in
behalf of labor.
The Folding Furniture Works, Inc,
of Stevens Point was declared unfair
by the unions on a request of the
Federated Trades of that city.
A letter came from the Works
Progress Administration at Washing
ton stating that reductions in WPA
quotas will only be on the basis of
new assignments or replacement of
workers who normally leave WPA
projects. What this means is, if a
man leaves WPA work now and gets
a job in private industry, he cannot
come back to work on WPA.
The assembly concurred in a re-
quest from the Allied Printing
Trades Council of Cincinnati asking
that the Montana State Text Book
Commission be informed that the
American Book Company is unfair.
1t is understood that the Montana
Text Book Commission will meet at
Helena on December IL. It is hoped
that they will recognize the COM
, plant of the Allied Printing Trades.
Delegate Thompson of the Team
, sters and President Steinmetz of the
assembly were delegated to attend
, the dedication exercises of the Car
penters hall at Kalispell which is to
be held on the 18th of this month.
The Kalispell council also urged
all other unions to buy union-made
and American-made Christmas pres
ents.
Unions of Great Falls were in
formed that a book entitled "Unem-
ployment Compensation Interpreta-
ton Service" can now be obtained
from the United States Printing
! Office for a sum of 81.
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The Billings unions are complain
ing about the differential between
wages paid on WPA and the union
j scale. In a letter from the Yellow
1 stone Trades and Labor Council
this organization requested that
e Great Falls send letters to Omaha
Nebraska, urging that the regional
office there establish the union scale
e on WPA work in Billings. The unions
I of Great Falls are assisting.
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A letter was received from John
D. Stafford stating that he would
support Archie Mcleod for the
speaker in the next session.
: The magazines thine" and Life
are unfair to the Typographical
Union. These books are published
by Donnelley & Sons of Chicago
Organized labor is requested to re-
strain from purchasing them.
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The relief committee of the cen
trail labor body requested that letters
be sent to Joseph E. Parker and
Harry L. Hopkins calling their atten-
ton to the conflicting statements
made regarding alleged WPA reduc-
tons. The letters also urged that
the workers that have been released
be re-employed.
The Home Oil Company is still
unfair despite efforts of the Con-
: gress for Industrial Organization to
: organize them.
z The legislative committee of the
: assembly recommended concurrence
: to questions sent out by the I'm
: employment Compensation Commits
sion regarding amendments to the
: act. This committee also recon-
. mended that state, county and mu-
nicipal employees be covered under
: the terms of the act and it also be
: broadened to cover health insurance.
The assembly concurred in the
: recommendations.
: Great Falls recently held a joint
meeting in the office of the Trades
: Assembly composed of county COM
missioners, the county surveyor,
unions and other interested parties
regarding the use of county equip
ment on WPA projects. 1t was
arranged at the meeting that all the
county equipment would be at the
disposal of the WPA by which $40
men may be allowed to work.
!. Assistant superintendent of the
Great Falls high school, Mr.. Leo
Smith, has been requested to speak
before the central labor body on
the youth problem.
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A new movement is on foot in
Great Falls initiated by the hide
pendent Montana Citizens League to
settle the controversy with the Bee
Hive Grocery which has been I'M
fair for a long time.
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Delegate Talbot of the Engineers
and a member of the Library Board