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Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
Northwest Fixture Co.
In Trouble with GreaI
Falls Carpenters
Products Of Northwest Fixture
Co. of Billings Unfair to
Carpenters Union.

The Northwest Fixture Co. Of
Billings is unfair to the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters. This
firm manufactures barroom, store
and restaurant fixtures and are also
agents for the same line for eastern
firms and may try to tell prospective
customers that these fixtures are not
unfair but the Carpenters want to
warn anyone buying any such fix
lures to make sure that they bear
the union label of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America. If this label is not on the
fixtures, members of the Carpenters
Union will not set them in place.
The carpenters of Great Falls have
had considerable trouble with the
Northwest Fixture Co. in the past,
Their manager, Mr.. Warner, has
made several promises to the car
penters of Great Falls in order to
get his products installed but has
failed to keep any promise that he
has made.
Just lately this firm sold a set of
restaurant fixtures in Great Falls
and knowing they were SUR to run
into some trouble getting them set,
they made the customer pay a large
deposit and sign a contract for the
balance. As the buyer was a friend
of organized labor in Great Falls
and was hooked by mistake, the
carpenters installed these fixtures to
save a friend from the unfair tactics
of an unfair firm.
The carpenters of Great Falls will
not set any more of these fixtures
in the future under any conditions
and we are taking this method tc
notify all business men and friends
to be sure that any fixture purchased
by them to make ure the fixtures
bear the union label of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters.
The Carpenters Union can furnish
you with a list of manufacturers Of
cabinets and fixtures using the unior
label.
The Northwest Fixture Company
has been operating under unfail
conditions for the past IL years anc
MI. Warner must make his peace
with the Carpenters Union before
they will handle his product.
Mr.. Business Man, if their agent
Mr.. Jack Latham, tells you that th'
Northwest Fixture Co. has had M
trouble with the Carpenters Unior
and that their fixtures r being in
stalled, let him know that you know
differently. When you buy fixture
with the union label you will b.
supporting those that you want t
patronize you.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
OREGON ANTI-LAB0R
LAW HITS WORKERS
A. F. of L. Will Test Before u. S.
Supreme Court Constitutional
Validity Of Measure Restrict
ing Strikes and Other Legiti-
mate Union Activities.

The success of the anti-labor
groups in Oregon in modelling
enough votes in the recent election
to pass an initiative measure "regu-
lating'' trade union activities to the
point of destruction of the organized
labor movement in that state will
undoubtedly be thwarted by the de-
termination of the American Fedora
ton of Labor to take the law before
the courts with final appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
The law, which nearly final cleo
ton returns show passed by a ma
jority of about $4,000 votes, prohibits
strikes and picketing except by a
majority of a company's employees
in a direct dispute ove wages, hours
and working conditions; limits the
collection of money by dues or other
wise to the actual needs of the union
and requires a strict accounting of
union funds; forbids s~o-called union
intimidation or coercion of non
union workers, and prevents union
interference with any lawful COM
mercial, manufacturing or farming
operations.
The Oregon State Federation of
Labor declares that the Oregon law
will prevent collective bargaining
and place the workers at the mercy
of INSCRIPTIONS employers.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
A. +. OF |. ORGANIZES
IS UNIONS OF white
0RKER
international Council Set Up;
Fatter Pay Envelopes and Bet
ter Conditions of Work Sc
cured for Many Thousands Of
Employees.
BY A. F. Of L. weekly News Service

By A.. F. of L. Weekly News Service.
HOUSTON, Textile convention
of the American Federation of Labor
approved without a dissenting voice
the report of the A. F. of L. execu-
tive council, which revealed that
sixty-eight unions of office and white
collar workers are %functioning under
the direction of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Office Employees
International Council.
1--WE have continued the organiza-
ton campaign among office workers
and white collar workers, including
insurance agents, which was in
a%ugurated by the American Fedora
ton of Labor several years ago."
the councils report said.
During the Denver convention of
the American Federation of Labor
an Office Employees international
Council was formed. The local un-
ions composed of office workers
established in the different cities
and towns throughout the nation be-
came affiliated with this council.
New local unions of white collar
and office workers have been estab-
lished in many cities. The member
ship of these local unions has in
creased in a very substantial way.
Sixty-eight active local unions of
office workers have been formed.
"Organizers are specializing in
carrying forward organizing work
among office and white collar work
ers. Many agreements have been
negotiated with employers.
"In every instance higher and bet
ter wages have been secured and
provisions for improvements in
working conditions have been in
corporated in all contracts.
Because of the aroused interest
in organization manifested by office
workers and white collar workers
everywhere, it is clearly evident that
many thousands of office and white
collar workers will be organized
during the coming year"
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01

I hate to be a carper or always
belittlin', but the mass meeting for
religious freedom held Tuesday night
in the Fox theater was a little too
much for me to swallow. AS l saw
it, five prominent speakers paid lip
service to religious freedom and took
advantage of the emotional excite
ment of outraged citizens to put
across special pleadings for conserva-
tive causes.
With the exceptions of Rabbi
Berkowitz, who was sincere and
passionate in his plea for religious
federation and respect for human
rights, and Tom J.. Davis, whose adj
dress was for the most part sane
and dispassionate, the speakers toot-
ed each his own horn and put in
unashamed plugs for the mainte-
nance of things-as-they-are.
That is a dreadful thing to say,
and | hate to have to say it. I went
to the meeting with a glad feeling
in me of triumph and believing. AT
last, it seemed, persons of widely
diverse creeds, traditional enemies,
would meet on common grounds I'M
selfishly in the face of a threat
against humanity as a whole. Petty
differences would be set aside in
favor of a united front of all per-
sons who love humanity and free
dom against terrorism and barbar-
Continued on Page ~
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
Farm tenancy Growth $4,000 Annual Income
10 Be P '1rded by l. 5. Is Goal Of A. t. Of l..

WHICH, IllC1ho WGAG ttAAS W
three !, aers for purchasing their
own as, officials of the Farm
SecI Administration announced
tod
checks are the first to be
Ct 1 from the regional office of
the federal agency under the recent
ly enacted Bankhead-Jones Act.
With the clearing of the first loans,
consisting of three for Montana, four
for Colorado and four for Wyoming
the longtime provisions of the ten
ant purchase program to reduce the
dangers of unstable agriculture and
provide protection for both the land
and the farmer, is underway.
Other loans will be made to tenant
purchase applicants in the near fu-
ture, w. L. Elser, assistant regional
director in charge of the Rural Re-
Mobilization Division of the agency,
said.
Checks were mailed this week to
Walter Hamilton, George johnson
and Richard Hergett, all of Still
water County.
Saltwater County was selected by
the State Farm Advisory Committee
Of the state to receive the benefits
of the Bankhead-Jones Act because
of the prevalence of tenancy.
The loans are to be repaid the
Farm Security Administration at a
low rate of interest and over a long
period of time, Elser said.
All of the applicants have been
tenants from nine to u years. They
all are married and their families
range from three to IL persons. Their
average age is "a years.
Farms, which were selected by the
applicants themselves, range from 90
to 800 acres and cost from $4,000 tc
$4,000.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
ICkES FINDS WORDS
FOR IT

WASHINGTON. - (FPl - Ever
since the Dies committee began its
careening course down the by-ways
of subversive activities, numerous
people In the capital struggled in
vain to find printable words that
would express their feelings.
1t remained for salty-tongued
Secretary of Interior Ickes to solve
their problems. In a press confer
ence following testimony before Dies
and a few newspapermen in which
he was called an un-American be-
cause of membership in the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, Ickes
tossed off the assertion that Dies lis
the worlds outstanding zany."
Roget's Thesaurus lists, as syno-
nyms for "zany" the words fool,
idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton,
Simple Simon, moron, gaby, willing,
blizzard, donkey, ass, ninny, ninny
hammer, chowderhead, %jolterhead,
mutt, chucklehead, dolt, BOBBY, tom
noddy, loony, LOBBY, hoddy-doddy,
nizy, owl, goose, imbecile, and min
compoop."
The collection of those words, it
was generally felt, Appropriated a
description of the Dies committee.
Ickes continued, saying that testi-
mony before the committee was
garbage" and that the hearings
were "the most outrageous ever
pulled off"
In a more serious vein, the Seere-
tary charged that Dies had been
giving laid and comfort to a propa-
ganda campaign of a foreign dicta-
torship" since he was mot content
with ~besmirching citizens of his own
country"
He referred to quotations in the
German press that used testimony
against Ickes before the Dies com
mittee to show that Indians in this
country had been treated unfairly
and therefore the Nazis were JUST
fled in present barbarisms.
81 have said before that Mr.. Dies
sideshow has gone far beyond the
bounds of propriety and decency buf
when it comes to feeding falsifica.
tons to inimical foreign forces,
believe the American people should
take heed" Ickes said.
"The use by Mr.. Dies of his com,
mittee as a sounding board FOL
spreading anti-American propagand;
is a dastardly assault against demo
cracy in addition to violating every
accepted standard of patriotism"
Ickes' statement was regarded il
some quarters as the Statement
President Roosevelt might hav'
issued when he loosed his writer
blast against the committee, saying
he would not deliver it orally since
he might not be polite.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
STORIES OF UNIONS
IN GREAT FALLS

GREAT FALLS.-A meeting be-
tween the Home Oil Company and
a committee, representing the Con-
gress for Industrial Organization of
Great Falls, will meet in the near
future. It is to try and establish
a settlement of the controversy now
existing between the unions of Great
Falls and this company.
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The assembly went on record as
in favor of allowing the Women's
Union Label League 80 minutes out
of one meeting a month in order to
advance their cause.
President Steinmetz sent a report
to the assembly urging closer CO.
operation of the labor movement of
Montana in order to prevent any
detrimental legislation.
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The Ludwig Garage is still unfair
but a meeting has been held recently
between the Machinists and the
automobile dealers regarding as to
whether something couldn't be done
to straighten this company up.
The Clerks Union has signed up
a new agreement with the business
firms of Great Falls. 1t will last
throughout the year of 1899,
The assembly protested the pro-
posed reduction of WPA and a tele-
gram was sent to Harry Hopkins and
also to both senators and congress
men.
Officers of the assembly, consist
ing of Martin, Mcleod and Stein
metz, were authorized to attend q
meeting of the Montana Council fol
Progressive Political Action to be
held at Helena, December 4th. A
letter was also sent to R. c. Dahl
senator-elect, to attend the meeting
A letter was sent to the Highway
Commission at the request Of the
highway employees advising the
commission that the unions r sup
porting the men in their negotiation
for a wage scale.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
MINERS CONTRACT FOR
7-H0UR pR
WITH HIGHLAND CO..

Last night, Butte Miners Union
No. / ratified an agreement reached
with the Butte Highlands Mining
Co. after prolonged negotiations. The
contract provides for a seven-hour
day and forty-two hour week. The
basic scale for miners is $5.25 per
day.
The Butte Highlands is only one
of three companies with which the
Butte local has %contractual relations.
The other two are the Domestic
Manganese and Development Co.
and the Anaconda Copper Mining
Co. Butte Highlands is a gold pro-
Queer.
1t is believed here that this is
the first written contract in the
metal industry providing for a seven
hour day. The local unions other
contracts provide an eight-hour day.
The miners were enthusiastic over
the new contract and, noisily cheer
ing, gave the negotiations committee
a rising vote of thanks.
Negotiations are now in progress
with the Anaconda to adjust their
present contract to comply with the
Wage and Hour law. With this con-
tract already in full force and opera
ton, both the officials and the rank
and file of the union feel much more
than hopeful, indeed, for a seven
hour day as the outcome of present
negotiations. 1t is a happy omen for
the future and the miners are to be
congratulated.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
Green Urges All A. F. Of |. Unions 10
Appoint Committees 10 Produce Militant
Boycott Of German Goods and Services
All National Unions, State Fed
erations of Labor and City
Central Councils Urged Not to
Buy German Goods.
BY A. F. of L. Weekly News Service.

BY A. f. Of L. Weekly News Service.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, called upon all
organizations affiliated with the
Federation to appoint committees in
every locality in the United States
to intensity the boycott of German
goods and services in a militant pro
test against the persecution of the
Jews in Germany by Hitler's Nazi
government, which he described as
human torture never before por-
trayed ven by heartless barbarians
during the darkest period of the
worlds darkest age"
In a letter sent to all national and
international unions, State Fedora
tons of Labor, Central Labor I'm
ions, and directly affiliated local
unions, the president of the A. F.
of L. urged working men and
women to refuse to buy German
goods or to use German service until
the Nazis end their persecution of
Jewish people and their interference
with religious freedom, and recon-
mended that the German Boycott
committees persuade merchants in
every locality ito dispense with Ger
man goods they may have on hand
and to make it clear that working
people will no longer buy German
goods or use German service while
human beings in Germany are being
driven and prosecuted like hunted
animals"
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01
OPEN FORUM
~Lip-Servite 10
Religious Freedom

Interested persons desiring to
challenge or take exception to any
statements made herein may sub
nit manuscripts to the Montana
Labor News which we shall be
glad to publish.-Ed. Note.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01

The American standard of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
situations may not be sub
ject to perils of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01

There Gan be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-01

The religious freedom meeting was
quite disappointing. Why should all
the speakers attack Russia. She is
not prosecuting the Jews, nor in
juring the Catholics nor Professionals
God knows Russia suffered enough
under the religion of the Cars.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
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dress, and the Rev. Francis J.
Kelly, chaplain.
An elaborate program OF en-
tertainmert for the occasion Is
being planned by Miss Gertrude
Connor, chairman Of entertain
ment and James Corbett, chair
man of membership. Dancing
and refreshments will conclude
the evening.
Members will participate In
the first hike of the fall season
Sunday afternoon. September
25. They will motor to the pic.
mic grounds of Sugar Loat
Mountain, from which point
they will hike to the top. Sup
per will be served in the early
evening. William Boyd is chair
man of arrangements.
The Religious Discussion
Group will resume meetings
Monday, September 25, at 8
p. m, at the home of Miss Eliza
beth Davis, 109 Sixth st. N. E.,
at which the Rev. William F.
Mullaney, o. M. l.. Of the Oblate
College, Catholic University,
will lead discussions on church
history.
Miss Kathryn Bowers and
Miss Gertrude Connor are max
ing plans for a scavenger hunt
after the regular meeting Of the
club on Thursday, october 13.
Plans are being made by the
executive committee for a Hal
loween masquerade dance at the
Washington Club on October 81.
Miss Gretrude Connor is in
charge Of arrangements. Prizes
will be awarded for spectacular
and interesting costumes.
The annual fall dance, the
largest social event of the
organization, will be at the
Shoreham Hotel, Friday, No
vember 18. Bert Mattingly is
general chairman.
Everybody Satisfied" a play
under the direction of Miss
Kathryn Bowers, will be pre-
sented by the members follow.
ing their Thanksgiving meeting.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Cabinet Officers Wives to Receive
At Tea for Mrs. Roosevelt

Wives Of cabinet members and
other Government officials have
been asked to assist in the re-
ceiving line and as hostesses
for the Democratic Women's
National Councils tea in honor
Of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
September 81, at the Washing
ton Club, 1701 K st. N. w.
Among these are: Mrs. John
Nance Garner, Mrs. Cordell
Hull, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
Jr, Mrs. Harry H. Woodring,
Mrs. Homer Cummings, Mrs.
James A. Farley, Mrs. Claude A.
swanson, Mrs. Harold Ickes,
Mrs Henry B. Wallace Mrs.
Daniel Roper, Madame Frances
PERKINS, Mrs. James Roosevelt,
MRS Robert H. jackson, Mrs.
Lawrence w. Robert, IT,, Mrs.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Curley Club
Open House

Swinging into a full program
of fall activities, members of
the Curley Club Of Washing
ton will have an open House"
Thursday, September 20, in the
Continental Hotel.
Mem bers are invited to bring
friends. Anyone interested in
the Curley Club and its activ-
tiles and desirous of joining
the group, is invited.
The social will follow the
regular business m ting at
7:3O p. m. Miss Dorothy E. Bar
rett, president. will preside.
Short addresses will be made by
Miss Mary L MCGEE, foun-
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Dance Planned
By Sorority

Epsilon Province, Sigma Phi
Gamma International Sorority,
will have a dance Saturday,
October /, at 10 p. M, at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Miss Peggy Conner, chairman
of the arrangements commit
tee, is assisted by Mrs. Alys
Meglen, Miss June Beaver, Mrs.
Hazel Shipstead and Mrs.
Gertrude Johnson.
There are eight chapters that
comprise Epsilon Province in
the District of Columbi a.
Gamma Rho Chapter, the first.
was established in 1880, and
subsequently, the other six were
organized. Proceeds derived
from their forthcoming social
event will be used for the
various individual endeavors Of
the groups.
Delta Sigma Chapter recently
entertained Miss Mary Lou
Fields at a miscellaneous shower
given in honor Of her coming
marriage September 81. The
shower was held at the home of
Mrs. Cassie Baker.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12

Plates and bridges soak up odors
and impurities like q spongel A thin
dark scum collects on them. This
scum holds germs and decay bacte-
ria. It is so tough that ordinary
brushing seldom removes it. And 1t
gets into every tiny crevice where
brushing can't even reach. Almost
always it results in "denture breath"
probably the most offensive Of all
breath odors.
Yet there's perfect way to clean
and purity false teeth without
brushing, acid or danger. It Is Poll
dent, the powder that diSsolves
away all scum, stains, tarnish and
odor. Makes breath sweeter-and
plates or bridges look better and
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
IWOMENS CLUE ACTIVITIES
Daughters of America to Initiate 20 Members
Among Those Present.

tive in local and national affairs
Of the organization since be-
coming q member in 1925
is dean FOR the District Of Co
Iumbia and for the State Of Vir-
ginia devotes all her spare
time in activities Of the Organi-
zation . . . is . native Of Wheel
ing, w. Va. came to Wash
ingtOn at the age Of IL 2.. Is an
empIOye Of the Department Of
Justice is fond Of music
reading Is her particular
hobby likes motion pictures
but is more partial to the legiti-
mate theater is charming
and gracious and has q wide
circle Of friends Is q mem
ber Of the College Of Regents
of Columbia Chapter, the local
group of Women Of the Moose
has attended most Of the
conventions held annually by
the national organization {.
has also participated In many
conferences held by the Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Virginia
State groups.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12

Alben Barkley, Mrs. william
B. Bankhead, Representative
Mary T. Norton, Representative
Caroline O'Day. Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers, Repre-
sentative Nan w. Honeyman,
Representative Virginia E.
JenckeS, Mrs. Marion Bannister,
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
TOdGy's Club
Activities

District Of COlumb bia
Branch, American ASsOcia-
tiOn of University Women
Tea, 4:3O p. M, clubhouse,
1884 / st. N. w.
Business and Professional
WOmen'S Club - M e e ting,
1880 p. m, Lafayette Hotel.
Tau Beta Phi Sorority
Meeting, 8 p. M, MayflOwer
Hotel.
Y. w. C. Affecting Of
the XenOs Club recreation
committee of the business
and professional department,
7 p. M; meeting of the
finance committee Of the
XenOs Club, $3.50 p. m, at
"Y" headquarters.
Women's City CIub-First
fall executive meeting, 8 p.
M, 1856 Jackson Pl. N. w.
WOman'S Clinic-FirSt fail
meeting Of the board of d.
rectOrS, 8 p. m, 47O4 Georgia
Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
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by MRS. Henley, with a response
by Mrs. Maude H. Nigh. Of
Morgantown, w. Va, national
vice councillor.
Twelve pages, wearing white
dresses, will carry the American
flags to the platform and mass
the colors. A reading Of THE
Flag" will be given by Mrs. Viola
Frazier. Soloist will be Mrs.
Grace Richards. Speakers will
include Theodore McKelvin, of
The Washington times., 1938-09-12
Band Concert

The United States Navy Band,
led by Lieut.. Charles Benter, will
play a concert on the east front of
the Capitol today at 1880 p. m.
They will present another program
Wednesday at 5 p. m. at the Navy
Yard bandstand.