Montana labor news., 1938-05-05
TRADE UNI0N6T5. FARMERS. WORKERS
ALLIANCE AND RA|IR0ADER5 ENDORSE
STATE AND NATIONAL OFFICERS
Meeting at Great Falls May LIST
Was a Representation of All
Progressive Forces in the State
of Montana.
and Harmony Prevailed.
NEXT MEETING JUNE 10Th

Montana Council for Progressive
Political Action met in Great Falls
Sunday, May LIST, with las accredited
delegates and rs additional repre-
%sentatives who appeared without
credentials. There were over ninety
organizations represented by the ac-
credited delegates and many more
by the unaccredited delegates who
were given voice, but no vote.
Among the organizations were vari-
GUS unions of the A. F. of L., the C.
/. O., Farmers Union, Railroad
Brotherhoods, United Mine Workers
of America and Workers Alliances.
Practically all central labor councils
of the state were represented.
The meeting was presided over by
President Del Manning of Great
Falls at the morning session and part
of the afternoon session, and then
turned over to First Vice President
Sam Spiegel of Butte.
The delegates rapidly settled down
to the business at hand which was
the selection of candidates for Con-
gress, justices of the state Supreme
Court and two for public service and
railroad commission. On two occa-
sions, attempts were made to STAN
pede the meeting by disgruntled in
dividuals who were unsuccessful in
their attempts to have the meeting
endorse their personal selections.
The executive board, after having
examined all candidates for their
ability, fitness, liberalism and indie
pendence, brought in the following
list of candidates for approval of
the meeting:
For Congressman, First District,
Jerry ]. O'Connell; Second District,
H. B. Rolph.
For Supreme Court Justices, Left
Erickson and J.. D. Taylor.
For Public Service and Railroad
Commission, 6-year term, Bob En-
mons.
The delegates of each c~ongression-
al district voted for their own con-
gresham, and the vote stood AZ for
O'Connell and none against; and in
the Second District the vote stood,
Rolph SO and O'Connor 10. The
meeting then endorsed both of these
candidates.
There was no opposition to the
endorsements of Erickson and Tay-
lor for Associate Justices of the Su-
preme Court and Bob Emmons for
the six-year term of Railroad Com
missioner. The board was unable to
present a name for the two-year
term of Public Service Commission
and placed it in the hands of the
assembly. After the meeting had
made several nominations, they gave
the executive board full power to
name a candidate from this list or
to draft some other Individual who
could measure up to the standards
set up by the organization.
The meeting also went on record
as adopting various resolutions deal
ing with minimum wage and maxi
mum hours, outlawing wars of ag-
erosion and revision of the welfare
act on an upward scale. The utmost
harmony prevailed during the meet
ing and it was the %concensus of opin-
ion among the delegates present that
political history was in the making.
The Importance of a state newspaper
was stressed and it was brought out
by the officers of the Educational
Cooperative Publishing Company
that there was a possibility that sew
eral issues of that publication would
be issued during the primary cam
paign and during the fall election.
The next meeting is scheduled to
be held at Great Falls Sunday, June
26, 1888.