Montana labor news., 1938-03-10

atlOn n 1Of purposes Oh rate
making, showed a disparity of al
most six and one-half million dol
lars. The unions we're astonished
and are asking all the other organ
izations of the state to request that
the Railway Commission hold a pub
lie hearing on whether the Noun
tain States Telephone Company
should be permitted to have one
schedule of valuation for their rate
making and another one for taxa
ton purposes.
A meeting of the School Caucus
Committee of the Cascade Trades
and Labor Assembly will be held
Monday evening at 7 p. m. at the
Assembly office. All members of
the committee are urged to attend.
The Assembly is vigorously pro-
testing any proposed postponement
of the identification work at Fort
Peck.
Apparently the Home Oil Com
pany will soon be organized. The
committee of the unions has been
negotiating with this company to
that end.
The legislative committee recon-
mended to the Council that no ac-
ton be taken on a proposition to
circulate initiative petitions in order
to submit a repeal of Plan 2 of the
Workmen's Compensation Act to the
people at the next general election.
The Assembly subscribed to a
membership in the American Asso-
citation for Labor Legislation. The
Assembly also contributed SIS to the
local bowling team which will So
Ijourn to the American Bowling Con-
gress in Chicago in the near future.
A committee consisting of Nc
Carthy, Kost, Martin, Thompson and
Nelson has been appointed and au-
thorized to strive to secure renewal
of federal restrictions on farm-to-
market roads.
More and more expressions of CO.
operation are being received from
the unions and other folks to sup
port the proposed record breaking
1888 Labor Day celebration. The
latest addition to this roll of honor
is government employees, machin-
lists, cereal workers, and Newspaper
Guild. The Newspaper Guild is
giving monthly contributions to the
support of the labor office. The
cereal workers of Great Falls asked
the Assembly to intensity their drive
against the products of the Postum
Company, and the General Foods
Company. The products of these
companies were put on the unfair
list some time ago.
The Bartenders' delegates re-
quested that he be allowed to use
the letter that came from the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and which
placed the Seagrams Distillery Of
Louisville, Kentucky, on the unfair
list. From reports made, the boy
colt on these products is very effec-
tive.
More books on labor are being
added to the Public Library every
week and recently a labor depart
ment in this institution was estab-
lished. This came about not only
through the cooperation of the Ii
brary Board but also through in
sistent demands from patrons that
these books be placed on the shelves
The danger of the Sheppard-Hill
Mobilization Bill was brought be-
fore the Assembly by Delegate How
ard. The Assembly went on record
at the recommendation of Howard
to again protest the passage of this
measure. All unions of Great Falls
have been requested to notify sena-
tors and congressman to defeat the
act.
Perhaps the High School of Great
Falls will stage contests wherein the
pupils will be asked to write essays
on the benefits to workers joining
labor unions and what labor organi-
cations have done for the workers
Phe suggestion was made by Presi.
dent Steinmetz that such a confess
be inaugurated.