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Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council will observe its traditional
and national holiday, Labor Day,
September 4, at Butte's great pleasure
resort, Columbia Gardens.
All unions in Silver Bow county
have been sent a personal invitation
to join in the festivities, and the
Council has also extended to the
merchants and the public a cordial
invitation to be their guests on this
day.
A fine program of sports, speak
ing and dancing has been arranged
by the various committees. MI. Mac
White, manager of the Gardens, has
informed the committee he proposes
to have a floor show and other o v
elites in connection with the dance
in the evening,
Next week the Montana Labor
News will publish the entire sports
program and also the list of speakers.
The Montana State Band has been
engaged to furnish the music for
the afternoon.
John Driscoll is the chairman of
the general committee. Other com
mittees in charge of the celebration
are as follows:
Speakers committee: Chas. Davis,
Pat Deloughery, John Vickers and
C. Blewett.
Finance committee: Clarence
Blewett, James Leary, James Jep-
son, Walter Jap, Henry Mernin,
John Vickers and the secretary.
Sports committee: Henry Mernin,
chairman; AL Thomas, Leonard Rip
per, VIM. Palmer, Ed Duncan, Carl
Rollman and Tim Harrington.
Music committee: Al Thomas,
Archie Williamson, chairman; Earl
Simmons, Lena Mattausch, John
Driscoll and Thos. Kennedy.
Refreshments committee: Lena
Mattausch, Sarah Johnson, Bridget
Shea, Theresa Theobold, VIM. Pal
mer and Jas. Lunney.
Publicity committee: Blewett, Dris-
coll, Kennedy and Davis.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Unless
action is taken at this session of
Congress to improve the WPA situa-
ton, there will arise in this coun-
try a nationwide resentment such
as has not been experienced since
the days when the Republican party's
'do-nothing' policy on unemployment
was overwhelmingly r%epudiated," the
CLIO has warned.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

CHARLESTON, W. Va. - (FP) -
The United Mine Workers (CIO) has
signed a contract with the Kingston
Pocahontas Coal Co., covering 1000
miners, which makes the Nickel
Coal & Coke Co. the only major
West Virginia coal mining firm not
yet under union agreement.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

LOS ANGELES.-(FP)-The vi
cious Los Angeles anti-picketing or
dinance was defeated when the SUI
perior courts appellate division held
two of its most important sections
unconstitutional.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24
Montana Welfare
Council Meeting

A statewide meeting of
the Montana Welfare Coun-
Gil will take place at the
Capitol Grounds in Helena
Friday afternoon, Septem-
Der s, at which time it is
hoped the State Welfare
Commission will be present.
Unions and farm Organi-
cations are urged to send
delegates.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

CLEVELAND (FP) - One hun
dred members Of the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) have struck
against the Geometric Stamping Co.
following the firms refusal to sign
a union contract.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24
ORGANIZED LABOR TO HOLD festivities
AT COLUMBIA GARDENS IN OBSERVANCE OF
HOLIDAY ESTABLISHED BY NATIONAL LAW

Bow Trades and Labor
Council Invites All Members
of Organized Labor, Their
Families and Their Friends and
Also the Merchants and the
Public to Enjoy With Them the
Sports Program, Speaking and
Dance in the Evening.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

Genuine prosperity Is a
condition and situation
where all who so desire
may work and receive the
products of their labor"
Leslie Taylor.
Montana labor news., 1939-08-24

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
THE ISSUE
IS NOW JOINED
lWaI Street JOurnaI J

With three major disbursement pro-
posals Of the Administration stopped in
Congress. the one overwhelmingly inl-
portant issue between the govenment-in
office and the opposition has been clear
~ defined. Washington dispatches set
forth the practical assurance that Ad-
ministration forces will now conduct a
campaign of education to convince the
country that large-scale Government
lending or spending is sound economy
President Roosevelt could hardly do
otherwise than favor such a campaign; !;
it would not be surprising if he should
himself lead it. The Administration
must stick to its lending for recovery
idea or tacitly admit that the core of its
domestic policy is all wrong and cer-
tainly the President does not think it is.
The immediate question, then, is whe-
ther or not the contest for fiscal sanity
has been Won-Whether last weeks ac
tions in Congress mark a mere bend or
an actual fork IN the road of national
policy It will probably not be possible
to reach a conclusive answer to that queS-
ton for some months to come. In any
case the fight for prodigal money treat
ment of unemployment and related prob
lens will be continued into and during
the next session of Congress; present
expectation must be that it will there be
given the shape of planks for party plat
forms to be built next June
Our own belief is that Congress, and
particularly the House majority as it
lined up on the omnibus lending and the
housing appropriation bills, has read the
public mind correctly. # so, any cam
paign of education" will educate the
country further along the road back to
safe public finance, common sense and
self-reliance, rather than in the direction
of the cooperative state We expect To
see such trend still more definitely
marked even before Congress meets
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

past to devise plans for broadening
the base of party support, and both
major parties would welcome means
OF securing regular, even though
very small, contributions from
rank-and-f members. The radi-
cal parties here, and the totali-
tartan parties in Europe, have SOL
we'd this problem. They simply tap
all members automatically for
slice of their weekly pay.
This, in a country where poll
tical allegiance to parties is less
fixed, is scarcely desirable. Most
Americans want to know who's
running before they decide which
party to support. But the study
of ways to broaden as far as poss-
ible the supporting base OF all ma
jor political parties is worth the
attention to all of them.
Widespread voluntary support, not
only just before election, but all
the year round, is the democratic
way to maintain party system III
republic.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR
PAROLE APPLICANTS

II Governor Culbert L. Olson is able
TO enforce his desire for public hearings
III all cases where paroles are asked by
convicted criminals, he will have encour-
aged The state in a long step toward bet
ter administration of criminal law.
So-cailed secret parole hearings = al
though not actually seeret-have in the
past given hardened criminals an easy
way out of the penitentiary
The machinery set up for such hear
lngs provides that Judges. district attor-
neys and peace officers connected with
convection of the applicant for a parole
shall be notified that a hearing is TO be
held. So far as anyone knows. this pro-
cedure has been followed meticulousY
III California. The fact remains. how
ever that the judge who sentenced man.
The district attorney who prosecuted him.
or the peace officer who gathered the
evidence against him. usually is too busy
with new cases to pay much attention
TO the parole hearing.
As far as the general public is con-
cerned, the parole hearing is in fact Sc
cret The victim of a swindler, the wife
OF murdered man, the civilians inter-
ested one way or another in the convict's
crime-none of them hear anything
about parole hearing until after the
parole is granted
The parole system can be made
worthwhile part of the states proceed
ure in dealing with criminals. 1t can.
on the other hand, be made vicious
weapon playing into the hands of habit
ual criminals, giving them a pathway
TO liberty which they should not have. 1t
should not be easy for criminal to OBJ
tain parole, nor should it be impossible
for the public at large to protest against
4 parole until after it is granted.
Many Of the nations most revolving
crimes are committed by paroled con-
vcts Exercise Of more care in granting
paroles might go a long way toward
eliminating the danger to society that
comes from unwise parole methods
If the governors protest against secret
hearings means the beginning of revision
of parole methods toward stricter pro-
cedure, ii should have the support of all
Californians whose primary aim is the
collective safety of society
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
BRAINS NEEDED IN STRIKES
[ Alameda IimeS-Star)

An illustration of one thing that makes
trouble between employers and employees
is a remark dropped by Harry Bridges
when testifying in his own behalf. "They
temployers) should give labor more of
the money
This is not new thought, nor is it
limited to Bridges Old l. w w leader,
Bill Hayward, made capital of it more
than 80 years ago. Too many employees
honestly believe the employer gets the
lions share of the money they help earn
for him. As q matter of statistics, more
than 90 per cent of the income Of in
dustry in the United States goes to the
men and women who are classed as
labor
Within the last five years comparative
ly few industrial institutions have had
any profits at all And in the last two
years even fewer have been able to show
profit Large numbers of them have
been forced TO close shop-go out of
business entirely.
Needed as labor leaders are men with
brains and honesty of purpose Instead
Of guess-Work and reliance on a state
ment infirm with age. Heads of unions
should be qualified to analyze business
statement and willing to base their claims
and contentious OH ability to pay. This
is not being done and there appears to
be definite disposition to ignore finan-
cial facts and press claims regardless of
ability to meet them and survive.
It's our private opinion that Bridges
and every other really smart leader
knows the truth and deliberately presses
for contracts that he knows will be en-
barrassng if not dangerous to industry
if put into effect
Brains and honesty of purpose, used
in the interest Of all, will do much to
eliminate capital-labor strife
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

WASHINGTON.-The Hatch bill
Gutlawing 'pernicious political
activities" as its printed title ex-
presses it. has a neat surprise
package in 1t which practically
everybody overlooked while it was
being passed.
lis opening sentence states that
ii shall be unlawful for any per-
son" TO intim,iate threaten of
coeree any other person for the
purpose Of influencing that per-
sons vote III a Presidential or con-
gressional election.
Because of its phraSeology this
according TO Senator Hatch. its
author-applies not only to poll
ticians. but also TO employers of
labor. II means that any employer
who threatens his workers with a
shutdown il so-and-so isn't elected
is liable to a $1,000 fine or a years
Imprisonment.
Nobody paid the least attention
to this while the bill was pending
although Senator Hatch says he
tried his best to point out that this
paragraph was intended to apply
TO employers as well as to poll
tieians.
4 just couldn't get anybody TO
listen to me-" he says. Two sena-
tors got the point. and two corre-
asked me about it. And some bond
house i'll New Yor City wrote and
asked me if that was what the
bill meant I wrote and told them
ii was, and they replied saying
that they were all for it,
Odd sidelights on the contrast
ing WAYS of labor organizers. as
revealed in the records OF the
Wage-and- Hour Division covering
,the appearance OF Clarence r.
Miller, Textile Industry Committee
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

at Atlanta early in July:
@. Has there been any attempt
TO organize your employees by unior
representatives?
"A. Yes. They have tried in about
four instances.
The CIO tried to do it three
times. and they came without no.
tice disguised as workmen and ask
ed for positions in the mills, but
they couldn't get any signers. The
AFL organizer came to my office
and introduced himself TO me and
asked if I would cooperate with
them in organizing the company
Mr.. Miller added that he told
this latter gent that it was no dice
and that this organizing attempt
got no farther than the others had.
The movement to settle industrial
disputes through mediation rather
than through strikes seems TO be
growing, and a fair number of
cities have set up local boards of
conciliation and mediation. Latest
tabulation at the Department of
Labor shows that during the last
year such boards have been in
existence in Seattle, Minneapolis,
Sioux Falls, Milwaukee, Toledo.
Philadelphia, Sheboygan, Newark
and Ventura, Calf
Most famous of these, of course,
is the Toledo Industrial Peace
board, which operating throughout
on purely voluntary basis-was at
the first of this year credited with
having handled 2l2 disputes involv-
ing $4,000 employers. Included were
the settling OF 81 strikes and the
aVerting of SO.
In some cities. according to Off
claLs of the Labor Departments
Cancellation Service, such boards
are short-lived, coming into eXis-
tence solely at the instance OF
the mayor and dying when ne
leaves office or loses interest. In
others, however, they have made
Il definite place for themselves and
have rendered the community
lot of service
In general, the Cancellation Ser
vice is inclined to think that a con-
ciliator from state or federal
agency is apt to have more success
simply because he comes from out
OF town, isn't involved in any local
relationships, and may carry a bit
more prestige than a local man
would carry. But they like the idea
OF city boards of this kind and
hope the trend continues
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
BUILDING A LEANING
TOWER OF HATRED

China is rife with Japanese-inspired
demonstrations against Americans.
japanese, opposed in their Chinese con-
quest by nations of the western world
are taught by their government to hate
all Occidentals except Germans and
Italians.
Germany, calling more young men into
the army in the European battle of
nerves. teaches its people that Hitler is
God, Germany is the only really good"
nation, and all other peoples except the
Italians should be hated.
Misguided public officials, writer's and
newspapers in the democratic nations
sing constant hymn of hate against the
dictators
Hatred is rampant in the world today
insane, groundless hatred of one people
against another, one race against anoth-
ef.
The reasons?. They are reasons that
common sense and friendly diplomacy
should be able to compromise. Hatred,
however, bars the way TO compromise.
This hatred, inspired by governments,
taken up by the people, will unless check
ed build into leaning tower that even
tually cannot help crashing onto the
bodies of those who built it. And, when
it crashes, the guiltless will suffer along
with the guilty. Nobody will escape.
Peace would come today if the world
took solemn oath against hatred-and
kept the oath.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE, EXECUTION
No. 1879
SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,

| SHER1FF'S OFFICE,
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA-Ss.
BY VIRTUE of an execution is
sued out of the Superior Court OF
the State of California in and for
the County of Ventura in an action
wherein Frank Juaregui, Guardian
of the person and estate of Jean
Curutchet, plaintiff, and Mike Alb
delnour, defendant, upon a judg-
ment rendered on the 28th day of
June, 1888, in favor of said plain
tiff and against said Defendant, for
the sum of Eight Thousand Three
Hundred Ninety-one and 68I100
Dollars, in lawful money of the
United States, besides costs and
interest, I have this day levied
apon all the right, title, claim and
interest of said defendant, Mike
Abdelnour, in and to the following
described real property, to-wit:
The East half of the Northeast
tl8), Township Sixteen d6)
South, Range Twelve 12) East,
S.B.M, in the County of I'm
perial, State of California. ac-
cording to the United States
Government Plat of ReSurvey,
approved March Is, 1909 and
on file in the United States
Land Office at Los Angeles,
California.
And notice is hereby given that
[ will on Friday, the llth day of
August, 1899, at 1000 O'Clock AM
of said day, in front of the Court
House door of the County of I'M
perial in the City of Ell Centre in
said County, sell to the highest
bidder at PUBLIC AUCTION for
lawful money of the United States,
all the right, title, claim and in
tereSt of said defendant Mike
Abdelnour, in and to the above de-
scribed property, or SO much there
of as may be necessary TO raise
sufficient money to satisfy said
Judgment, with interest and costs
and accrujng costs.
r. w. WARE,
Sheriff.
BY S. T. Robinson,
Deputy Sheriff.
Dated ut Ell Centre, California
this 18th day OF July, 1899.
j. 20 27-A. 3 10
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

May Was; and when she was eight
SIZE begged to attend school. She
was pulled back and forth to school
in twoWheeled donkey cart.
She learned to write by holding
her pencil in her mouth the way
she writes today.
That was only the beginning
She decided TO go to college And
to college she Went-to the Lon
Morris Junior College, Jackson
vile, Texas. I quote the following
from her letter:
During my early school days
my classmates gave me a wheel
chair. and they wheeled me to all
classes. In college the students
were quick to take over this prac-
tice. too. Never was there a time
that l had to ask to be moved.
EVerytime a bell rang some of the
boys would ask Where do you
go next. Thelma?" They not only
carried me up and down stairs but
TO all ball games, picnics and par
ties"
When Thelma finished junior
college, she did not have enough
money to go to more advanced
college, SO she looked for a job. I
quote again from her letter.
Naturally nobody had a Job
for a girl in a wheel chair who
coundn't even use her hands. but
finally I got a JOB with the El
Campo Mattress Factory and stay
ed there quite a while. One day
while the boss was on an errand.
a customer came in I proved |
could sell mattresses by selling
two to him. The boss then offered
me a space in the shop where I
could carry on a magazine SUBJ
Scrlptlon agency and sell Christ
mas cards; in return, I could take
care OF her customers while she
was out on the road. saved COM
missions on the magazines and
cards and at the end of two years.
l made down payment on the
purchase OF the factory Now it
Is mine and | have four employees
| have them work on commission.
50 Il there is no work they will
get out and find some. I sit in
the shop from seven TO seven see
ing TO the shop and soliciting for
magazine and Christmas card bus
mess by telephone
Successful? With money. NO
With friends, YES. My cup run
meth over. Happy? of course I am.
because I can support myself. I
may not have all | want but I
have the few things I need"
What an heroic and stirring
story Thelma MAY not only made
a job for herself, but she nov owns
the factory and has four employesl
salute you, Thelma May! Yours
is the unconquerable spirit that
made it possible for orr ancestors
to .subdue the wilderness and build
here a civilization that has aston
ished the world We need more of
your spirit today Thelma May.
Thanks for writing TO me.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
HAPPY RELIEF
FROM PAINFUL
BACKACHE

Many Of those gnawing. nagging, painful
backaches people blame on colds or strain.
often caused by tired kidneys-and may
be relieved when treated in the right way.
The kidneys are Nature chief way of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out of the
blood Most people pass about pints a day OF
about pounds of waste.
Frequent or scanty passages with smarting
and burning shows there may be something
wrong with your kidneys or bladder
II the 10 miles Of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter STAYS
in the blood These posons may start nagging
backaches, rheumatic pains, loss of pep and
energy. getting up nights, swelling. puffiness
under the eyes, headaches and dizziness
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doans
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help the
10 miles OF kidney tubes flush out poisonou
waste from the blood. Get Doan's Pills
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10

1OD.
When M | S S
Thelma May. Ell
Campo. T e,x a S,
was three years
old. infantile par
alysis attacked
her, and left her
without the use of
her hands or her
feet. She was
made of stern
stuff, The | m a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
@RARMAk
ELECTRIC FENcER
NOTICE CALLING FOR BIDS FOR
SCHOOL TRANSPORTATIO
CONTRACT
CONTRACT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that E. l.. Hiteman, the duly elect
| ed, qualified and acting County
| superintendent of Schools of the
| County of Imperial, State of Cali
| fornia, will receive sealed bids un-
til 1000 o'clock AM on Fri
day, August II, 1899, for contract
to provide adequate, safe and ex-
peditious transportation by school
buses for high school pupils at
| tending Yuma. Arizona, High
School, for the ensuing year ending
June 30, 1940 from the territory
in Imperial County, described par
| ticularly as follows:
Beginning at the intersection
of the Colorado river and the
Southern boundary line of
Township Fourteen South IT
IA s. in Range Twenty-four
East OR "a E), S. B. M; thence
Westerly along said township
line to its intersection with the
range line dividing Ranges
TWenty-one CID and Twenty
two (22) East: thence South
erly along said range line to
the Southeast corner of Section
Twelve (Sec. 12), Township
Fifteen South 1T Is 50 Range
Twenty-one East OR 81 E);
thence Westerly to the South
ern Pacific Railroad Right-of-
way: thence due south to the
international Border: thence
EaSterly along said Information
al Border to the Colorado river:
thence Easterly and Northerly
along the California bank OF
the Colorado river to the place
of beginning,
in accordance with the provisions
OF the proposed contract and map
outlining the territory affected
hereby now on file in the office of
the said County Superintendent of
Schools in Courthouse, Ell Centro1 I
California, which contract and mai
are hereby referred to for further
particulars and which said contract
and map shall constitute the speci-
fications hereunder. Copies of said
proposed contract and map may
be obtained by bidders from the
office of said County Superinten.
dent of Schools. All bids shall be
based upon a fixed sum for the
transportation of each pupil not
exceeding Ten $4,000 Dollars
monthly. Each bid must be ac-
companied by cashiers or certi.
lied check for not less than $4,000
TO insure entering into contract by
successful bidder; and all checks
shall be payable to County Superin-
tendent OF Schools County of I'M
perial, State of California, checks
OF unsuccessful bidders to be re-
turned on signing of contract by
successful bidder Payment for all
transportation under the contract
shall be made by regular school
warrants. All bids shall be ad-
dressed to E. L. Hiteman. County
superintendent of Schools, Imperial
county California, Court House, Ell
Centro, California. The said Coun-
ty superintendent of Schools re.
serves the right to reject any and
all bids.
Dated July 26, 1899.
E. L. HITEMAN.
County Superintendent of Schools.
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia. J27-A. 2 10
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
TOday's HOroscope

II today is your birthday ano
YOU are young. you will court ano
marry during the next twelve
months. The opposite sex will be
your friends; and elder will also
come to your aid, but a stranger
will cause you trouble Determi-
nation and persistence will be out
standing qualities OF the child
born today. Possessed of great
courage, both physical and moral,
such a child will be ideally suited
for a career calling for these
qualities-such as military ca
reer, II a male
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
You re Telling Ne.

The man at the next desk thinks
the japanese should stop tearing
up China long enough to change
their Asia for Asiatics" slogan
to Asia or what will be left of
it-forAsiatics.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-10
Dale
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Here's another letter in the job
getting contest for which we are
offering S25, $40 and s5 for the
first. second and third best letters
describing how the writer got a