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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-17
Bond Issues Given
 Aldermanic Sanction
Total of $l, l,OS5,OO Authorized For Sale-New York Syndicate Successful Bidder at and 3=4 Per Cent

Two Waterbury bond issues for $5O0000 in fund ing bonds to retire issues maturing this year, the other 900 in street and general improvement bonds for which definite program has been outlined awarded at meeting of the Board of Aldermen last night The successful bidder syndicate headed by Brown Earr man and Company of New York; and the city obtained premium of $206O the bid of $1 06042 with interest at 2 3-4 per cent, set bv the bidders
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Course in Commercial
Law Offered by Dept.
OF A uIi Education

A course in Commercial Law is
offered to the people of Butte and
Silver Bow County by the Depart
ment of Statewide Adult Education,
sponsored by the State Department
of Public Instruction, without cost
to those attending. The course will
begin Tuesday, June 18th, and COW
ers a series of twelve lectures.
Glasses will be conducted on each
Tuesday from 1870 to 3 p. M, and
from 7 to $3.50 p. M, and on Fridays
during the same hours, so as to per-
NIT a choice of day or evening
classes. All classes will be held in
the old high school building, corner
of Park and Idaho streets. Persons
desiring to enroll for one or more of
these lectures may do so at the times
and place above mentioned. The de-
partment furnishes a competent lee
turer and all material free. Further
information may be obtained by tele-
phoning 2-1284 Extension 5, or call
ing at the Adult Education office in
the old high school building,
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Resolution Adopted By
The International Exec
'uliVe Board May 18th
From United Mine Workers
of America

WHEREAS, the decisions of the
National Labor Relations Board
have been and are being upheld and
approved by the Supreme Court OF
the United States with a consistency
which speaks well for the fairness
of the boards procedure and the
quality of its justice; and
WHEREAS, the decisions of GER
tain Circuit Courts of Appeals inter-
preting the National Labor Relations
Act have in some instances been
contrary to the spirit and known
purposes of the Act, if not with its
letter, and have displayed a re-
grettable ignorance Of the industrial
realities of our times; and
WHEREAS, reactionary indus
trialists, in cooperation with attor-
neys who have long devoted their
services exclusively and p~rofitably
to the protection of great wealth,
have maligned the board and car
ried on false propaganda against it,
and have interposed every legal
technicality and utilized every pos
sible means of delaying board cases
in the expectation that such tactics
would be accepted by the courts; and
WHEREAS, powerful newspapers
have thrown the full weight of their
influence against the board by giving
conspicuous and favorable publicity
to decisions of the Circuit Courts OF
Appeals which have temporarily
|overruled the board, to be reversed
in turn by the Supreme Court Of the
United States, by burying the favor
able decisions of the Supreme Court
in back pages and under small head
lines, and by disappearing the
significance of decisions of the Su-
preme Court itself in news story
and editorial; therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED, that the Exec
utive Board of the United Mine
Workers of America condemns the
combined attack which has been
made upon the National Labor Re
lations Board by reactionary en-
ployers, press and courts as an at
tack upon the rights and interests
of Labor and the American people
as a whole, and as an assault on law
and order which has been lacking
in decency and the simple essentials
of fair play; and
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the Executive Board declares
its complete support for the National
Labor Relations Board and the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
0Id-Age Insurance
Payments Increase

With the average Federal old-age
insurance payments steadily increas-
ing, claims for lump-sum benefits
are being filed about 20 per cent
more promptly than in December,
1887, Manager Stewart J.. Thomas of
the Butte field office of the Federal
Social Security Board announced
here today.
That the Social Security Board
also has cut the average time of
handling such claims from Al days
at the close of the past year to "a
days, was revealed by the local
manager.
In Montana more than 657 claims
totaling $22,3 05, had been certified
for payment by the end of May, Mr..
Thomas said. AS of the same date
144,665 Social Security account card
numbers had been issued in Mon
tana.
During May, 10 claims were certi-
fled in Montana totaling $3,047, SO.
The average payment in this state
was for $43.54 during May.
Figures for the Butte field office
area show that 80 claims for lump
sum payments were certified during
May. The Butte field office serves
the following Montana counties:
Beaverhead, Broadwater, Deer
Lodge, Gallatin, Granite, jefferson,
Lake, Madison, Mineral, Missoula,
Ravalli, Sanders, and Silver Bow.
1.-THE time of handling a claim is
counted from its filing in this field
office of the Social Security Board
to the writing of a check by the
Treasury Department" Manager
Thomas pointed out. "The time ac-
tually required for transmission of
papers by mail from this office to
Washington is three or four days.
The average time required in Wash
ington, including Treasury proce-
dures, is not more than is days,
'The fact that claims are coming
in more promptly is probably due,
first, to rapidly growing understand
ing of how to make a claim, and,
second, to realization that as time
passes and the worker builds up
additional wage credits, these pay
ments are becoming larger.
"The two types of lump-sum pay
ments now being made under the
Federal old-age insurance provisions
of the Social Security Act are to
those workers in covered industrial
and commercial occupations who
have reached age IS since 1886 and
to the estates of workers who have
died since 1886 and prior to reaching
age IS. Payments are based on 3k
per cent of total wages received by
the worker since 1886"
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
(ompensaii Plan |

On the 14th day of this month,
nine years have passed since I re-
ceived my injury. Five years on my
back, two years on Sticks" And no
compensation. You can't beat this
one anywhere in western mining.
Coming out of Galen, my battle
for compensation began. l first
called on DR.. Swoboda, telling him
l was out of Galen discharged and
was seeking the state compensation,
He replied, Il am not able to help
you"
To this l replied, "You were quite
able to do everything in your power
to block my claim" He asked the
question, How" 1 replied, "By
putting out the statement my condi-
ton was not traumatic' (meaning
not the result of injury.
He denied this, asking, ITO whom
was this given"
I replied, Il did not know, but
that the Industrial Board at Helena
had sent me the copy"
Leaving DR.. Swoboda l went to
see Jerry Shea of the A. C. M. Claim
Department. His first remark was,
"You have taken it out of our
hands" (Referring to my taking
the case up with the accident board
at Galen.) l replied, 81 had no OBJ
lection to doing business with him.
He also stated l must have had tu-
berculosis or they would not have
admitted me to Galen. I told him
that l went to Galen only as a last
resort; that l was denied admittance
to the Murray Hospital; also that
was not seeking compensation for
pulmonary tuberculosis, but for an
injury to my back received at the
Stewart mine.
Not meeting with any success, !
decided to go to Helena and take
the case up with j. Burke Clements
of the Industrial Accident Board.
had obtained statements from DR..
Swoboda and other doctors, also an
affidavit from my partner, the man
with whom l was working at the
time of the injury. (This meant a
Continued on Page 81
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
LABOR
PARTY, NEW YORK
ARTICLE 2


The formation of a Farmer-Labor
party was the objective of the AS
sembly District Clubs. But it must
be remembered that Tammany Hall
had a closed corporation and ex-
plotted New York City for its own
profit. So when the building of a
Farmer-Labor party seemed an
assurity, Tammany secured a char
ter for the State of New York. Tam
many hoped to ride on the merits
of the American Labor party. If
they had been able to fool the build
ers of the A. L. P. this would have
happened.
The type of Tammany men used
to coordinate with the A. L, P. were
too well earmarked. I'VE have to
put up a candidate for governor be-
fore we can be considered a party
1T will take $25, 900 to file for gov
ernor.' Grab anyone who looks
like money" These old tactics OF
Tammany gave them away.
People paid a minimum of fifty
cents per week to keep lids on their
garbage cans under Tammany rule.
This was one of the small gratis.
Other rakeoffs from labor unions,
building contracts, trucking COM
panies were sources of more Doodle.
Even aspirants to political office
paid. A iudgeship ten grand. Other
offices had a price,
The change in politics was not the
doings of the older people as much
as the youth. "Why they can't give
them the correct time" was ar ex-
preston regarding youth. The
youngster of IL thinks more Of the
future than a person of 40. Only a
percentage of the physical fit from
the families on relief can make the
CCC. That life don't last long. What
then? Tammany made no pretense
of answering. Fairgrounds, parks,
health centers, Stun clearance, sub
ways, highway tubes, etc, were not
on Tammany's list. Tammany was
too much allied to the feudal sys-
tenn to consider such progressive
steps.
The Trinity Church profited much
by the Tammany system. They
owned the worst slums of the city.
Being the oldest, were the worst of
"old-law" tenements. Toilets in
each apartment. Windows in each
room. Three-foot Railways. Fire
escapes. Fire-proof s%tairways,"
These laws applied to only the new
buildings. So that the collection of
rents was the only concern of the
Trinity Church. The WPA show,
"One-third of a Nation" tells the
history of New York's worst slums.
Slums that breed crime and T. B,
often became fire traps. A family
was often trapped without any fire
escape. Or had to go through other
families rooms to gain an approach
to a fire escape. Thus score OF
people were burned to death each
year. And still are being trapped
because of the protection modern
laws extend to the feudal holdings
of the Trinity Church and others.
HOWARD J. RIDDLE.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
BOND TAX
DODGERS CURBED

The action of the Senate in strip
ping future issues of United States
bonds of their exemption from Fed
eral taxes by a provision in the five
billion dollar 1928 revenue bill is
regarded as a step in the right direc-
ton by those who believe there
should be no tax dodgers haven
sanctioned by the government itself.
The bond-tax amendment, submitted
by Senator Borah, was adopted by
the close vote of "a to 33. The pro-
posal is also favored by President
Roosevelt.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Roberts Urges Medical
Profession 10 Heed
Lay Opinion

NEW YORK.-Organized medicine
must give due consideration to the
desires and rights of the lay public
in their search for adequate medical
care, DR.. Kingsley Roberts, Medical
Director of the Bureau of Coopera-
tive Medicine, urged in an address
before the Society for Medical Jur-
isprudence at the N. Y. Academy of
Medicine, May g..
DR.. Roberts stated that lay
thought in the field of medical eco
Monies was far understanding that Of
the profession. while many lead
ers of the profession have been hold
ing forth that all is well with medi-
cine and that people can and do
receive all of the care that they
need" he said, important lay
bodies have been carefully studying
the situation and have arrived at the
inescapable conclusion that the pres
ent method of distributing medical
services is woefully inadequate.
These lay groups recognize that the
fee-for-service system of purchasing
medical care present al unsur-
mountable barrier to the receipt of
needed medical attention and are
now taking the next step. They are
organizing to do for themselves what
organized medicine will not do for
them"
DR.. Roberts warned that unless the
attitude of organized medicine gives
due consideration to lay opinion
there will be an open fight between
the consumers of medical service
and the leaders of the producers.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
NEWS OF THE UNIONS
IN CASCADE COUNTY

The Carpenters Union is protesting
the scale of wages stated to have
been adopted by the Bureau of
Reclamation. In this schedule con-
tractors are classed in three different
divisions ranging from S. cents an
hour to $l.20 per hour, but very few
of them receive the maximum scale.
The Assembly ordered Secretary
Whitmore to write to Henry A. Wal
lace protesting such a setup. The
Assembly also wrote to the Bureau
of Air Commerce protesting the
method Of wage scales in contracts
for airport lighting.
The Federation Of Post Office
Clerks, member union of the Assem-
bly,, gave notice that members of its
organization were not in any way
connected with the National Asso-
citation of Post Office Clerks, which
appears to be an Independent group.
y
According to word received from
the Department of State, no copper
has entered the United States free
of duty since 1882. The Shelter
mems Union stated that this was
contrary to facts presented in the
Congressional Record and also in
statements made by the Engineering
and Mining Journal. Articles from
both of these sources were ordered
sent the Secretary Of State. Both
Senators Wheeler and Murray in
communications about this subject
promised that they would oppose
any reductions in the excise tax on
imported copper.
.
Senator Wheeler in reference to
the establishment Of the Agricul-
tural Conservation and Crop Insur-
ance offices alleged that it was i'm
perative that these buildings be To-
Gated in Bozeman, principally on
account of its geographical location.
Letters were sent to congressman
and senators urging them that Great
Falls should have its share of federal
agencies.
Continued on Page g
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
{. |. @. LAYS PLANS
FOR NEW UNION

Early in June at the Miners Union
hall, a group of interested unionists
met for the purpose of creating a
new union known as the U.O.P.W.A.
to be affiliated with the c. I. o. This
organization when established will
be the means of enrolling in a union
all Of the office and professional
workers, stenographers and others,
in Silver Bow County.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
UNION GIVES OWN JOBLESS
$4,000

Checks totaling $25, 1000 were dis
tributed recently to unemployed and
partially employed members of Lo-
cal No. III, Cloak and Suit Oper-
ators Union of the international
Ladies Garment Workers Union,
CLIO. This was the third and final
installment of its $4,000 unemploy-
ment benefit fund raised by assess
ing each fully employed member
$10.-In Sunday News, 500.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Candidates Endorsed by Labor's Nom
Partisan League and Organized Labor

For State Senator: Mike MulhoIand.
State Legislature: Sam Spiegel, Tom Ryan, Robert Brown,
Denis Mccarthy, Mrs. Florence Larson, Frank Sullivan, Frank
Buyan of Melrose, Paul Cannon, Mime Beadle and Henry Mernin.
Supreme Court Justices: Lief Erickson of Sidney, Philip
0Donnell of Butte.
William Cushin, write-in candidate for Chief Justice of Supreme
Court.
Congressman, First District: Jerry j. OConneIL.
The Silver Bow unit of Labors Non-Partisan League has also
approved the selection made by the Montana Council for Progress
sive Political Action of Clarence Chamberlain, and Bob Emmons
for the positions of railroad commissioners.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
STEN0GRApHERS
WILL MEET

The next meeting of the United
Office and Professional Workers of
America will be held at the Miners
Union hall on Wednesday evening,
July 9th, at 8 p. m. All s%tenogra-
pliers, bookkeepers, filing clerks, and
other office workers interested in
forming an organization of this kind
are requested to be present on July
9th. The last meeting of this group
was held on Tuesday evening, June
21st.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
THREE POLICEMEN
GET TWENTY YEARS
FOR FATAL BEATING

SEATTLE, June ia. P.)-
Three former Seattle policemen,
Patrick F. Whalen, Fred H. Paschal
and w. F. Stevenson, were sentenced
Saturday to maximum terms of
twenty years in prison for the beat
ing death" last March of Berry Law
son, %20-year-old Negro.
They were convicted of man
slaughter. Lawson died shortly after
being arrested in an investigation of
a hotel disturbance.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Helena Union Women
Hold Entertainment

EAST HELENA.-East Helena La
dies Auxiliary No. SIS gave a varied
and entertaining program which
proved most successful financially,
Friday evening, June 10th, in the
Orpheum theater.
Several firms in Helena and East
Helena donated services or equip
ment.
The entertainment consisted of
musical numbers, vocal and instru-
mental; dances; four one-act plays,
a Punch and Judy show and a panto-
mime.
Evelyn Penman,
Nellie Hayes,
Publicity Committee.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23

the men were no longer employees
and therefore not entitled to the re-
quirements of the Wagner Act that
no discrimination be exercised
against them because of their union
membership the court stated:
1.-THE plain meaning of the Act is
that if the men strike in connection
with a current labor dispute their
action is not to be construed as a
remuneration of the employment re-
lation and they remain employees
for the remedial purposes specified
in the Act"
In this decision the working man
need not fear the loss of all his rights
as an employee or the sacrifice of
privileges built up perhaps over a
long period of years, solely because
of the fact that he has struck against
certain abuses. The decision affirm
ing and clarifying the principles es-
tablished in the Wagner Act marks a
distinct advance in the protection OF
the rights of the worker.
It should be noticed, however, that
there is in the opinion language to
the effect that if the strike was not
called because of some violation of
the Wagner Act and the employer
was not guilty of an unfair labor
practice, that the employer is priv
ileged to hire other workers to take
the place of the strikers, and if these
workers are hired under promise of
a long term employment the com
pany is under no obligation to dis
charge them to reinstate the strikers
when the strike is over and they
seek to return to work. Were the
strike called because of unfair labor
practice, such as refusal to bargain
on the part of the employer, then
workers hired to take the place of
the strikers would have to be dis
missed regardless of the length of
time for which the employer had
agreed to keep them in his employ.
Another principle of interest to
labor established in the decision is
that nc technical objections to the
procedure of the Labor Board in
connection with complaints against
the employer will be permitted. Aft
er the decision in the Kansas City
Stock Yards case Morgan v. Wal
lace, decided May 9th, 1889 it was
feared that the efforts of the Board
to protect the rights of the worker
would be seriously hampered be-
cause of procedural requirements. In
the Mckay case it was made clear
that the decision in the stock yards
case will not be construed as a tech
nical limitation to any particular
form of procedure. All that is neces-
sary is that the parties be fully in
formed of the charges against them
and given an opportunity to be
heard concerning them.
Under the Wagner Act Congress
had prescribed no particular detailed
mode of procedure. In this ease the
court said all that the Board must
do is fulfill the substantial require
ments of a%ppraising the parties what
they are being charged with and
giving the parties an opportunity
to be heard and review any such
charges.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
EINSTEIN JOINS LABOR
LEAGUE

PRINCETON, N. J.. (UNS)-Al-
bert E%instein, world-famous physi-
cist exiled from his native Germany
by Nazi barbarism, has joined La
boris Non-Partisan League in New
Jersey.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
MISS0ULA UNION
ELECTS OFFICERS

AT a recent election of the Inter
national Hold Carriers Union of
Missoula, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing term,
M. w. Malone, president, and r..
w. Stratton, secretary.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
NEW LIQUOR PRICE LIST
OUT SOON

Oldetyme Distillers, Inc, producers
of Green River and Three Feathers,
announce that new price lists effec-
tive July /, 1888, will give effect tc
the new Federal tax on distilled
liquor of rs cents a gallon.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
SCHOOL OF MINES
GETS FEDERAL GRANT

Public Works Administration
has just made ALLEGATION of S112,-
500 grant for School Of Mines
buildings at Butte and ALLEGATION
of S27, 900 grant for school at Bel
grade.
Il. X. Wheeler.
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23

WORKERS RIGHTS ARE UPHELD
IN SUPREME COURT DECISION
Ruling in Mackay Radio Case Involving Labor Relations Act
Affirms Principle That Workers Who Strike Retain Their Status
As Employees.
By A. F. of L. Weekly News Service.

BT ~. II. W ~. WUtKTT 1VVW5 DVTTN7
WASHINGTON, D. C-The following review of the decision of the
Supreme Court in the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company case in
volving the National Labor Relations Act was prepared by Joseph A.
Padway, counsel for the American Federation of Labor:
The United States Supreme Court in the recent case of Mackay Radio &
Telegraph Company v. National Labor Relations BOARD, decided Monday.
May 18th, has affirmed a principle of vital Importance to the employee.
The principle long commended for by labor is that the employee by going
out o n strike against his employer does not lose his status a such en-
poyee, but on the contrary, retains all his rights and is ent to all of
the benefits Of such status. The principle has been set forth g. Wagner
Act and the decision of the Supreme Court represents s important
affirmation of labors right in this respect s
In a unanimous opinion the court upheld an order of the : onal Labor
Relations Board requiring reinstatement of five strikers s n the COM
pany had refused to take back after the strike because : their union
utilization and activity. In answer to the contention of t 3 ompany that
Montana labor news., 1938-06-23
Proposes FEDERAL COMING OF MONEY,
OLD AGE PENSIONS IN NATIONAL SIX
POINT PROGRAM OF HOUSE LIBERAL BLOC
Congressman Returns Home
Plans Speaking Tour of Montana
Cities in Interest of
Candidacy

In the closing days of the session
of Congress, Congressman Jerry J..
O'Connell made a stirring plea for
a solid liberal movement on the
floor of the House. Pleading for the
preservation of liberty, security and
democracy, O'Connell said, Amer
lea and Montana must move forward
with the young liberals program"
O'Connell outlined the six-point
program of the House liberal bloc
which includes legislation for the
coming Of money, for government
credit and price levels; for cost of
production, old age pensions, mon
opoly control and expansion of in
dustrial production for public works
employment, housing and a national
resources program. This fight which
the liberals are waging in Congress,
said O'Connell, must be waged in
every state in the Union and I in
tend to offer this program to the
great people of my district in my
campaign for reelection.
The liberal bloc in the House of
Representatives, under the leader
ship of Maverick of Texas, O'Connell
of Montana and Boileau of Wiscon-
sin, has become a real factor to be
considered in national politics.
Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell
arrived in Montana this week fol-
lowing the close of the session of
Congress in Washington. After a
few days rest he will start a tour of
the First Congressional District in
the interest of his campaign for re-
election to Congress.
O'Connell expects to speak in all
of the principal towns in western
Montana and his itinerary will be
announced shortly. In addition to
speaking at campaign rallies it is
his intention to confer with local
groups in each community regarding
PWA, WPA and water conservation
projects.
O'Connell, who has been an ardent
supporter of the New Deal program,
seeks reelection on the basis of his
record as a public official and his
support of President Roosevelt and
his reform program. His slogan reads
For Roosevelt not reaction; for
progress not poverty; for peace not
war"