Montana labor news., 1939-04-06
DEMAND QUOTA INCREASE
Permanent COmmitte Selected to
Garry on Decisions of
Conference.

A spirited conference at the Butte
Miners Union, Sunday, April End,
representing almost every type Of
organization in the city, unanimously
set plans for an immediate fight to
restore the cuts in WPA and public
welfare. The unprecedented city
wide gathering, organized by a joint
committee of the Butte Miners
Union and the Butte Workers Ali
ance, included ITS delegates and
represented 1891 people organized
in trade unions, fraternal orders,
veterans groups, religious bodies.
Broad Representation
Of the n organizations invited the
following responded: Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Assembly, Butte
CLERKS, Typographical, Teachers,
F~irefighters, General Laborers,
Cooks and Walters, Plumbers, Butte
Miners, Blacksmiths, and Engineers
Unions; Frank Little Branch of the
international Labor Defense; Work
ers Alliance, Townsend Clubs No. l
and 2, Ladies Auxiliary of the Butte
Miners Union, Labor's Non-Partisan
League of Silver Bow county; Com
munist Party of Butte; international
Workers Order, Fraternal Order of
Elks, Moose Lodge, Veterans of For
eign Wars, American Legion, Knights
of Pythias, Silver Bow Ministerial
Association.
In addition the following public
officials participated in the proceed
ings: State Senator M. j. Mulholland,
Mayor Chas. A. Hauswirth, County
Commissioners Emmett O'Brien and
Dan D. Sullivan, Postmaster Frank
Finnegan of Anaconda, and Legisla-
tors Denis Mccarthy and Phil Good
win.
Permanent Committee Selected
A permanent committee of II, CON
sisting of Chas. A. Hauswirth, M. J..
M~ulholland, Leslie Levengood, Pat
Deloughery, Mayme O'Connell, Ed
Mason, Bob Dunnaway, H. j. Nc
Carran, Dan D. Sullivan, Rev. Bert
Powell, Denis Mccarthy and Philip
O'Donnell, was selected to carry out
the decisions of the conference and
continue its work.
The committee recommended the
following plan of action which was
unanimously adopted: (1) Immedi-
ate application to the Federal Gov
eminent for an increase of 1000 in
the Montana WPA quota; (2) COM
mittee of five to demand that the
State Welfare Board and Governor
Ayers Immediately restore the cuts
in public welfare-direct relief, sup
Elementary relief, aid to dependent
children, old age pensions. This
committee included Ed Mason, Bob
Dunnaway, Philip O'Donnep, Dan D.
Sullivan, Frank Finnegan; (3) If this
does not bring forth the desired re-
suits a writ of mandamus to be
brought against the State Welfare
Board, and a statewide conference
to be called to petition the Governor
to call a special session to provide
adequate relief funds; az an initia-
tive welfare measure to be deferred
for later action.
In addition the conference en-
dorsed the petition which had been
started by the Butte Miners Union,
calling for a special session of the
legislature to raise additional funds
for public welfare by taxes on public
utilities, strip coal mine tonnage,
metal mine tonnage.
Arvo Fredrickson urged the con
ference to maintain its unity. "Gov-
ernor Ayers and the state admins
tration is responsible for the present
deplorable situation" ne said. IF
the labor movement, fraternal or
ders, religious bodies, city govern
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