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Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
The 1899 Legislative
Session

To Judge from the trend of events
in the opening days of the session,
the 1889 legislature will show a con-
sentative House and a liberal Senate
reversing the usual conditions of the
past.
Sunday afternoon the progressive
members of the House held a caucus
with 80 members present and adopt
ed the following slate: Speaker, Sam
SPECIAL of Silver Bow; majority
floor leader, Archie Mcleod of Cas-
cade county; speaker pro tenn, Jas
per DeDobbeleer of Valley county;
chief clerk, Jim Brennan of Rich
land county, and sergeant at arms,
Burns of Flathead.
In the Democratic caucus Sunday
night the following officers were
elected: Speaker, d. M. Manning of
Treasure; majority floor leader,
Archie Mcleod of Cascade; speaker
pro tenn, Jasper DeDobbeleer of
Valley, and sergeant at arms, E. M.
Joffray of Jefferson county. Jim
Brennan of Richland county was
elected chief clerk. The progress
sives lost two members of their
slate: Speaker Sam SPECIAL and
Sergeant at Arms Burns. On the
vote for speaker, Sam SPECIAL re-
ceived % votes while Manning re-
ceived "a for a majority of IL votes,
one member being absent. Mcleod
defeated Byrne of Toole for majority
floor leader, 81 votes to 81. Votes
for the other offices ran in proper
ton.
In the Senate, Leonard Plank of
Liberty county was an easy victor
for majority floor leader. Plank is
a member of the Farmers Union and
has voted with the liberal bloc in
the Senate.
The strong opposition to the Gov
errors Hitler" bill, H. B. IS, was
indicated by the Governor in his
speech to the combined houses Tues
day night. He requested that no
action be taken towards repeating
the Emergency" measure as it was
necessary if he was to carry out his
economy" program for the next two
years.
A bill for the repeal of H. B. 65
was the first measure introduced in
the Senate and was sponsored by
Senator Mahoney of Garfield coun-
ty. Sentiment in both houses seems
to be against retention of the
measure.
Continued on Page ~
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
CARPENTERS PLAN
CONVENTION IN Butte

The State Council of Carpenters
will hold its 23rd annual convention
in Butte, commencing January 9th,
and continuing for three days. The
local officers of the Carpenters
Union are in charge of the meeting
and expect delegates from nearly
every carpenters local in Montana.
The Carpenters are one of the
best organized groups of mechanics
not only in Montana but in the
United States and the convention to
be held here will further solidify
the union organization. The place
of holding the convention has not
yet been determined but will be
announced shortly.
President and secretary-treasurer
of the council are George Temple
man Of Anaconda and A. Mercer of
Kalispell.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
Peace Congress Leads
In Promotion Of Peace
and Democracy
Declare Prof. Jerome Davis and
U. S. Congressman Teigan and
Bernard.

NEW YORK-Prof. Jerome Davis,
president of the American Fedora
ton of Teachers, Congressman Hen
ry G.. Teigan and John T. Bernard
of Minnesota added their names to-
day to the rolls of endorsers for
the American Congress for Peace
and Democracy which will be held
in Washington, d. c., January 9th
to 9th.
Professor Davis, in endorsing the
Congress, said: ut seems to me il
will crystalline public opinion and
aid in focusing attention on those
things which ought to be done by
the Congress of the United States
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
National Defense Projects 10
5upersede Community Work
National Youth May Be Used
AS Training Unit for Civilian
Aircraft Pilots.

WASHINGTON (FP)-Changes
of a startling nature are due to be
made in the Works Progress Admin
istration in the coming year.
Appointment of Col. F. C. Har-
rington, former chief engineer of
WPA, as acting administrator and
the removal of Deputy Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams from the or
ganization have given rise to nu-
merous reports that rehabilitation
of WPA is contemplated.
These reports say that the entire
WPA organization is to be turned
into this nations national defense
program which is to be much more
extensive than is generally realized
at present.
In such a program large numbers
of workers can be employed build
ing strategic roads, erecting bar
racks, strengthening coast fortifica-
tons and similar work. In addition
a reservoir of men for military serv-
ice will be created.
It is expected that Congress dur
ing the first weeks will appropriate
approximately $75O,O0O,O 900 to carry
WPA until June 80, the end of the
fiscal year. In the meantime de-
tailed plans for the future of WPA
will be formulated.
Reports that WPA next year will
not even family resemble the pres
ent set-up are based on the fact that
all of the policy makers in the
present organization are being trans
ferred elsewhere and their places
are being taken by purely admins
trative persons concerned with
taking orders and not with the
formulation of policy.
Next to WPA Administrator Harry
Continued on Page a.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
ANOTHER ATTACK
BY ~REA(TI0NARIE5

If there's anything the reaction
aries fear these days, it's democracy.
Consequently, it is not surprising
that as democratic threats to special
privilege arise, so do attacks upon
democratic processes by the "privi-
legged few become more brazen.
Public ownership of certain utili-
ties is something the people want
right now and are determined to
get in the near future. Hence we
see all sorts of schemes put forward
by the economic tories to stop the
democratic demand for public own
ership.
The latest scheme, which is also a
step towards annuling the voting
rights of the poor, has been put for
ward by one of CALIFORNIA; most
reactionary assemblymen, Charles
W. Lyon of Los Angeles. Lyons
proposal is that in any bond cleo
ton there be two ballot boxes-one
for the rich property owners ano
one for the poor who don't own
property. For the election to pass
both sets of voters would have tc
approve the issue by a two-thirds
majority.
In other words, one-third of &
privileged minority class could hole
up the mean for acquiring property
desired for public welfare.
Another Southern California plot
against democracy is being plugged
by reactionaries who have one L. S
Ryerson as their front man. Then
idea is that in all bond election.
property owners get two votes anc
the poor get one
There are all kinds of PROPOSE
tons cooked up to prevent the work
ing of majority rule in government
Some, like these two new ones, are
open and brazen; others, like the
propositions offered for consumption
by the National Association of Man
ufacturers and Republican dema-
gogue politicians, have their poison
disguised with dashes of phony
liberalism.
However laundering is our Ameri.
can democracy, the only way tc
better matters is to improve the
democratic processes. The drive fol
public ownership, for full rights fol-
all the people, should 60 ahead. !.
a few reactionaries have to be bat
ted down in the process, so mucf
the better. Especially, when they
want to take away our votes.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
National and International Union Officials Back
Nation wide Drive Against InfaniiIe Paralysis

WASHINGTON, D. C. WNS)-Seventythr officers of national and
international unions have wired pledges of wholehearted cooperation of
their unions in the Fight hfantle Paralysis Campaign of 1889. This was
in response to the invitation of President William Green of the American
Federation of Labor that they join with him in the formation of the
Labor Division of the Committee for the Celebration of the Presidents
Birthday.
Wholehearted cooperation and a deep understanding of the necessity
of this campaign made up the keynote of every message to President
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
Butte Plays Host 10
Twin Bridges Pioneers

One of the finest holiday eelebra-
tons including installation of Off
GERS was held at the American
Legion hall Tuesday evening, jan
uary Bird, by the Butte Pioneers.
Immediately after the installation
of officers, a lunch "a served to
all present. Dancing followed and
continued until about one o'clock
in the morning.
One of the most pleasant features
of the event was the presence of
approximately rs guests from the
Twin Bridges Pioneers, who braved
stormy weather and slippery roads
to attend the function.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05

In a statement announcing the
conditions of the contest, the Teach
ers' Federation said:
Each contestant must submit a
typewriter paper of from 1900 to
5000 words Is to 10 typewriter
pages) on the subject: Organized
Labor-America's Problem or OPP
portunity?
Each paper must carry the name
and address Of the contestant and
the name and address of the high
school he attends.
Contestants must send their
manuscripts to: Contest Department,
American Federation of Teachers,
500 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
Illinois.
Manuscripts which do not reach
this office by March 81, 1899, are
ineligible for the contest.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
1.-The American Federation of
Teachers eserv the right to pub
fish any paper submitted.
Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, William Green, president,
American Federation of Labor;
Jerome Davis, president, American
Federation of Teachers"
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
Classes in Monetary
Science 10 Start Again

Monetary Science classes under
the tutelage of Leslie Taylor will
commence on January End at 7 p. m.
in room 302 Of the old Butte high
school. New classes will be organ
lied at that time.
It is hoped that members of
organized labor will take advantage
of these classes as the subject of
money is very vital to their union,
personal affairs and also to their
government.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
By A. F. of L. Weekly News Service.

CHICAGO, m-Widespread interest is announced in the prize contest
under the auspices of the American Federation of Teachers open to every
high school pupil in America on the subject: "Organized Labor-Americas
Problem Or Opportunity"
The first prize is $15 or aid toward visiting the Worlds Fair in New
York if preferred; second prize $5; third prize $50; fourth prize $25.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
What The Magazines
Are Saying

The extraordinary revival of bust
ness sentiment in the United States
continues unchecked, ard almost
everybody now seems as certain of
a coming revival as they seemed
only a few weeks ago that nothing
would save industry except the
Presidents death or utter defeat. i.
How far all this has happened be-
cause business men have at last got
tired of cutting off their w noses
in order to spite the President, and
how far because the big new schemes
of federal expenditure are at length
producing their effect, is not so easy
to say.-Editorial in The New States
man, July 8, 1898.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05

The average industrialist and
larger financier of South Carolina
is much like those of other states.
/. His soul is absorbed in the
solution of problems in the first four
rules of arithmetic as applied to his
profits and losses. He wants office
holders who will help him solve
them and is no more concerned
about the problems of other South
Carolinians than he is about those
of the Senagambians. Mark, he is
typical of his kind in America and
quite impenetrable to the notion that
for the deep discomfort, the 'radi-
calism' of the people, and for the
wild and woozy vagaries of the New
Deal, his shortsightedness and stu
pidity are in great part responsible.
William Watts Ball, quoted in The
Southern Review, Summer, 1888.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05

Frances international position, as
fixed by the Versailles Treaty, cor
responds in no way to the real re-
sources of the Republic. Her popu-
lation is not growing. Her economy
is stagnating. She has no oil of her
own. Her supplies of coal are in
adequate. Her finances are shaky.
More than any other country of the
first rank, France depends for her
national security on other states:
Great Britain, the United States, if
not the U. S. S. R. Another world
war would mean the reduction of
France to a second-rate power.
Along with the international posi-
ton, the social regime of the coun-
try would totter.-Leon Trotsky,
ibid.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05
AMERICAN TEACHERS FEDERATION OFFERS
PRIZES FOR ESSAYS ON ORGANIZED LABOR

Contest Is Open to Every High School Student in the United
States; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Green and Presi
dent Davis Named as Judges.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05

The American standard Of
living must be maintained
in order that American in
stitutiOns may not be SUBJ
ject to perils Of discomfort.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-05

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index Of
progress in any community.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
CHRISTMAS BABIES
GLADDEN. THREE HOMES

Santa Claus brought added Joy
TO three Pierce county couples this
Christmas day-three babies were
born. all girls.
The first Christmas baby arrived
at 12:1s q. m at St Joseph's hos
pitsl, a seyen-pound gift to Mr..
and Mrs. Koyoka Nakashlma,
Route 6 Box SIS. Tacoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Boye. s212
East d st, are the parents Of a
six-pound daughter born at AS
a. m. at the Tacoma General hos
pitsL
Al $50 a. m. a baby girl weigh
ing six pounds seven ounces was
born al 81. Joseph's hospital 70
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas sanderson,
Route Boz s4s. PuyaAup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
DISPUTES over
SHIPS SETTLED

SEATTLE-Four U. S. maritime
commission freighters were readied
for service Monday as settlement
Of labor disputes aboard the craft
were announced.
Leased TO the Pacific Northwest
Oriental Line. the Sstartia had
been tied up in Tacoma while the
Collingsworth, Capillo and Cold
brook were idle in Seattle. Mem
bers of the Sailors Union Of the
Pacific maintained the commission
was attempting to enforce east
coast conditions on crews operat-
ing the freighters in west coast
trade.
Terms of the settlement were
not revealed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
GUNNER STAGE
DEPOT HOLDUP

PORTLAND, Ore. ~ Two gun
men who overpowered nine per-
sons at the Central Bus depot In
downtown Portland shortly be-
fore a. m. Monday escaped with
an undetermined amount of money
after punching and blowing the
depot safe.
Police estimates of the loot were
as high as $4,000. The depot
management, however. awaited a
thorough check by auditors before
announcing the loss.
The invaders, one of whom was
a Negro. forced William Whitegon
and LOOMS Harris, depot janitors.
and J. c. Thompson, Eugene, and
James c. oatman, Portland, pas
sengers, into the mems Mushroom
downstairs. blindfolded them and
tied them TO chairs.
They then forced four women
passengers. Mary Dalton. Seattle;
Mrs. Mae Nye, La Grande. and
Mrs. Mary Short and Eva Short
of Sumas, into the women's wash
room, where one OF the gunner
kept them under guard
The bandits also oyerpowered
James Michael. cook at the George
Lewis restaurant adjacent TO the
depot, and tied him.
After the safe-blowers escaped.
another cook. George Manas. en-
tered the restaurant at 40 and
freed his associate. Police were
notified and the captiyes released
from their bonds.
In their hasty departure, the
thugs left a kit Of burglar tools
and two bottles Of nitro-glycerine.
The white bandit wore a gray
overcoat. Both men were de-
scribed as medium built and about
40 years old.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
STORM BREWING
SAYS FORECAST

Small craft warnings were
hoisted at Z a. m. Monday at all
Washington coast weather sta
tions and at the mouth of the Co
lumbia river, forecasting a prob
able break in the crisp tempera-
lures which have prevailed the last
couple of days.
The warning was issued for
strong southwest winds Monday
and Monday night.
Meteorologist Fred Myers Of
the Tacoma station expected this
would mean moderately southerly
winds for Tacoma late Monday
and more moderate temperatures.
Maximum temperature Sunday
was 35 degrees; lowest during the
night rs degrees.
Snow began falling at Spokane
at 8 O'Clock Monday morning and
the weather bureau there said
conditions indicated the fall prob
ably would continue all day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
SHIPS CAPTAIN
BELIEVED DEAD

VANCOUVER. D. G. - Little
hope WAS held Monday for Capt.
George Skinner u the foundsred
purse sslnsr Great Northern ~
Police and civilians sought ths
elderly man after MS rescued son
reported he had been left on .
west beach ~ Vancouver Island.
Tbs ssinsr smashed on rocks
Dec. ~ during heavy weather, ard
the SINNERS ard Engineer Ted
Bernard were washed overheard.
me son said he and biz father
made shore. bat became separated.
The son vas rescued after hs was
sighted from a searching alrplans
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
10" SOVIET PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN
BY firms IN CHRISTMAS AIR RAIDS
Freezing Weather Greets
Tacoma Ynle Celebrants

There was white frosting on
Tacoma's Christmas cake Monday
as sub freezing temperatures
painted trees with sparkling crys-
tails that served very well in place
of snow.
Fog was the big bugaboo to
motorists through Christmas
eve and II persisted into Mon
day morning. But Sunday
night IL was bad, as anyone
who had the temerity TO drive
In IL will admit.
Monday brought Tacoma to the
second and final day of its Yule
Many who We're in
no rush to peek beneath the
Christmas tree Sunday, were open
ing boxes of surprise Monday and
learning for the first time what
nice things Santa had brought
down the chimney with him
In numerous churches there
were special Christmas sery-
Ices Monday morning. follow
ing, for many churchgoers,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26

Mr.. Roosevelt Sunday night
voiced the wish, in connection with
lighting of community Christ
mas tree behind the White House,
that peoples of non-warring ma
tons may read, learn and inward
ly digest" the "deathless words"
of the Sermon on the Mount.
HORRORS OF WAR
Surrounded by members of his
family and secret service guards,
the president told a crowd of 800
who attended the ceremonies and
an unestimated radio audience
that 1899 began with dread Of
evil things to come, and 1t ends
with the horror OF another war
adding its toll of anguish to a
world already bowed under the
burden of suffering laid upon it
by mans inhumanity to man."
AS his Christmas message to all
mankind. the president slowly read
the solemn words of the Sermon
on the Mount.
LET Us PRAY"
In these days of strife and sad
ness in many other lands" Mr..
Roosevelt said. "let us in the ma
tions which still live at peace for
bear to give thanks only for our
good fortune in our peace.
Let us rather pray that we
may be given strength to live for
others-to live more closely to the
words of the Sermon on the Mount
and to pray that peoples in the
nations which are at war also
may read, learn and inwardly d.
gest the deathless words. May
their import reach into the hearts
of all men and OF all nations"
CHRISTMAS NO HUMBUG
Mr.. Roosevelt noted that one Of
his annual Christmas rites is TO re-
read Charles Dickens "A Christ
mas Carol" and recalled that one
Of the books characters. old
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26

WHAT m this Christmas
lights enforced piyaon and hanshpnong
Christmas"
the
the of
by
in
mpIfed
to o
in
If il in $
adC
sacrifice generation been DESTROYED Nations have returned TO the
the that from the mr In
Bethlehem n have
ackouts" eouts'- 10 preT7
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
Boiler Explosion
Kills 2 TrGinmen

cHoCTAW, okla The engineer
and fireman OF Rock Island
freight train were killed Monday
In q boiler explosion which liter
ally blew the engine 70 pieces
The accident occurred two miles
east Of here.
The dead we're Ollie l. Hender-
son. the engineer and walter A.
Grove. the fireman. Three other
crew members Of the three car
freight escaped injury BY falling
10 the floor Of the eaDoOse
The blast left only the engine
wheels on the tracks The bodies
Of Henderson and Grove were
found many feet away.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
HEAR
KING IN PLEA
FOR WAR'sE||D
Peace Must he Based
On Security From
Aggression. George
Tells His Subjscts

sANDRINGHAM. NOR
FOLK. Eng. King Georges VI
Monday broadcast 10 the
British empire = Christmas
message u peace. but insisted
that any peace must be based
on security from aggression
and on respect for tho rights
Of free peoples.
sitting alone In the study ef
his country estate here. the king
voiced tho empires longing for
peace. hut al.s - determination
TO fight On until . christian peace
Il assured.
SAYS WAN - TRAGEDY"
A bearded SHEPPARD u Cotwcid
whe had introduced the kings
father. George v. on his annual
Christmas breakfasts. introduced
the king Monday. nroadeastink of
the message began II D. N, Go
q. m. EaT) after = program In
which ths mother country ana the
domlnions and colonies and their
fighting services exchanged mes-
sases u gre~tIag and encourages.
uent.
The king rsfrsined from con.
denninx Germany. Russia o. any
ether country ~ name but he raid
III IL the tragedy ~ this Tins thsl
there are powerful countries whose
whole direction and policy ere
based on aggregation and the sup
precision ~ al We hold dear for
mankind"
rIoHr AGAINST wIcKEDNExs
The king pictured the empires
unity in resisting this aggression.
asserting that "suoh unity w aim
.ttt ttt"tt **@ H3tst At*N @"*tt ~
the world before"
A. ln most II Tire kisx's
speeehes. this ere eessstned .
strsnx ssis VI pt~tf. We -
pleted The empire - fighting
for . ehri~tias elsiiixstisn
against wisksdss~s ssa urged
bic pespics 10 ke~p ths se.eh-
lass sf christ h misa ~whes
ss ara making peace for whlsh
men pray"
Striking . note similar 10 that
developed by Pops Plus XII N his
Christmas message sunday IN
which The pontiff appealed far :
peace based on christian ldeAiisIn.
the king defended the rights % al
nations and the sffssdom " tbs
spirit
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-26
L0NCSH0REMAN BADLY
INJURED IN PLUNGE

Critically injured 10 an accident
aboard ihs steamer Btseimaksr.
Oscar Alton. sS.yesr.old long
sfioreman. was given = fair chance
for recovery Monday IN Tacoma
General hospital
Alton. who Iiyes - sOzo No.
Cedar 1t, sustained . basal skull
fracture IN . plunge from a sling
load Of lumber he was helping load
Al the PortacoFna lumber dock
Sunday morning.
The iOBgphOreman was standing
on the load after hooking Il 10 the
hoist cable he stumbled and fell
- he started 70 jump from the
sling. Police removed him 20 the
hospital. where his condition re-
manned serious despite improve
msDi he showed overnight.
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the midnight services Of Sun
day night.

the midnight services Of sun
day night.
But for the shifting. freezing
fog. rated as the densest in years.
traffic would have been heavy
Sunday night as friends and rela-
tives sought to exchange visits, or.
after dinner. tour the residential
districts to see the thousands Of
homes glowing with Christmas
lights.
Evening church services were
heavily attended. but as temper
atures dropped and fog thickened.
most motorists were glad enough
to give up unnecessary trips.
Only major event of general
public significance Monday was to
be the DR. Siegle memorial foot
ball game in the stadium at 1880
when an all-star combination OF
Tacoma Columbias and Enumclaw
Silver Barons was scheduled to
battle with a similar combination
of the Renton and West Seattle
teams.