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Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
But Who Owns the Increased Output?

Chester c. Davis, a member of the Federal
Reserve Board, told the Third Annual Farm
Institute, at Des Moines, Iowa, that a general
increase in the output of the industrial work
ers, coupled with profits for employers
gagged by volume instead of high prices,
would solve the farmers economic problem.
He said that under this plan working men
and women would seek higher income
through continuous employment and ex-
banded production rather than through the
highest attainable wage for the minimum
output"
This is an indirect way of saying that wage
earners should work longer hours per day
and more days per week, thus increasing the
amount of commodities produced or services
rendered (~'expanded production') in place
of existing wage rates for a definite number
of hours work, and then seek higher annual
wages.
Evidently Mr.. Davis was thinking of the
Biblical expression, Seek and we shall find"
Unfortunately Biblical precepts of this ITO
plan type do not amount to much in deter
mining wages under our present economic
system. Usually higher income sought by
wage earners is only secured by effective
trade union organization even where statu-
tory law stipulates higher pay. And a con-
siderable portion of our wage earning popu-
lation are as yet outside the protective wings
of the trade union movement.
Moreover-and this is an important point
which the increased output business interests
never mention-all Of the commodities pro-
duced and the services rendered by the more
than forty million working men, working
women and working children in the United
States are the private property Of individual
and corporate employers. This applies, of
course, to the increased output which the
workers are urged to produce. The increase
would all belong to the employers, and,
barring effective trade union organization
of their employees, would normally lodge in
the pockets of the employers and be dis
tributed in their totality to investors.
It is therefore appropriate in discussing
wages under increased output to keep in
mind the primary economic fact that the
workers produce the increase, that the m
ployers own it all, and that usually employers
refuse to permit any of the increase to reach
the pay envelopes of their employees without
the persuasive element of strong well-disci-
plined unions typifed by those affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
Has Proven IT'S True

Has proven It's true, this little
story we're telling to you:
An aged man at the Union station
Discussed the business si~ch-e-ation,
I said that things were mighty bad,
And somehow or other, it made him
mad,
That aged man, he tapped my knee.
Dye know what's wrong with
things?" said he,
I've been in fights" and the old
boy glared,
"And allus got whipped when 1 got
scared.
Folks have forgot how to stand an
grin
When hard luck socks 'em on the
chin.
There's too much groanin'-not
enough laughs
Too many crepe-hangers-too many
graphs
1t sure don't help a sick mans heart
To think of nothin' but his fever
chart.
There's too many experts tellin' how
come
The whole dern world is on the bum,
There's too many people with an
alibi-
I'd rather listen to a dang good liel
AS soon as folks quit hangin' crepe
You'll see business in mighty fine
SHAPED
I've got ne use for golf as a game,
But I speak the language just the
same;
There's too few drives, an too many
puts
Plenty cold feet, and not enough
gutsl
You amt my son, but if you was
mine
I'd damn soon teach you not to
whinel"
He wasn't cultured, and his words
were rough,
But the old boy seemed to know his
stuff.
Anon.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23

making it the tallest structure in the
world; the tallest to date being the
Empire State building in New York
1885 m.) and the Eiffel Tower in
Paris $500 n.y..
The main hall will accommodate
10000, its height being 100 M, with
a floor space of 10000 SO. m. and the
smaller hall will hold 1000 people.
The Palace will contain 200 eleva-
tors and 1876 e~scalators and its total
floor space to be polished will be
100000 SO. m.
1t will house the Supreme Soviet
of the USSR; its halls will be used
for all kinds of public assemblies and
be equipped for art exhibits, skating,
swimming and all kinds of sports.
By the end of 1889, its steel frame
is expected to be in place up to So
m. (height of a 1O-story building),
100000 tons of steel to be used be-
fore building is finished.
Masterpieces Compared
When completed it should rank as
a topnotcher to either ancient or
modern structures. The ancient
wonder, the Pyramid of Cheops on
the Nile, vas but 481 feet tall
(about 1876 meters) and its useful
ness problematical; more modern
structures such as the u. S. Capitol
in Washington, D. c., and the Nor
mon Temple in Salt Lake City, the
outstanding structure in Utah,
dwarfs in comparison.
While it required $4,000 men 20
years to build the Pyramid of
Cheops and the Latter Day Saints
40 years to finish their beautiful
temple, the Soviets expect to ac-
complish their task in less than two
Swear periods.
The considerable sum of two hun
dred million rubles is to be expend-
ed on the structure in 1889 added to
a smaller sum spent on it the year
before. How such an extravagant
sum can be earmarked for a peace
full non-profit bringing enterprise by
a country but recently the most
backward in Europe while the rest
are straining all their resources for
military preparedness can only be
explained by the fact that the So
viets feel themselves impregnable,
both from an economic and a mill
tary standpoint.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
A Striking Monument

Some years ago, the Soviets in
vited the architects of the world to
submit drawings for the most pre-
tentious and unique building in the
world to be designated as Palace of
the Soviets, with prizes to be award
ed for the best plan. A composite
of some of the prize winners was
decided upon to embody the most
stupendous structure ever to be
undertaken by man, unique both for
its size as well as general appear
ance. II is to constitute the crown
ing glory, the elimination of the
third Swear plan.
5-Year Plans
Soviet Swear plans commenced in
1928 by concentrating all efforts on
the basic heavy industry, such as
coal mining, ore mining and smelt-
ing and hydro-electric development.
While majoring on these prime in
dustries USSR was almost wholly
dependent on outside machinery and
technique.
The second Swear period was
mainly devoted to finishing plants
for tools and machine production
commenced in the first period, ma
chine and tool making, canal build
ing and subway construction.
The third Swear period, which ex-
tends to 1943, will major in con-
sumer's goods, see the last section
of the Moscow subway completed,
and the finish of the Great Volga
Project" lin scope, the biggest piece
of work ever undertaken by MANI
and the near completion of the Pal
ace of the Soviets.
Palace of the Soviets
Having over fulfilled the two first
Swear periods with amazing results,
viz: collectivized 80 per cent Of the
independent farmers and mechan-
lied their farming, completed most
of their basic undertakings and made
themselves completely independent
from outside assistance, the Soviets
felt justified in erecting this i'm
posing monument in celebrating
their success.
Its height from the summit of
Lenin's statue surmounting it to its
foundation will be 416 meters,
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
BUTTE AGED PROTEST
PENSION cut

A large number of the old age
pensioners in Silver Bow county
called Tuesday, March IA, on the
county commissioners and the Coun-
ty Welfare Administrator to protest
the cut of one-third in old age pen
sions, recently ordered by State
Welfare Administrator l.. M. Brand
jord.
Most of the aged men in the group
had been taken off of WPA work
and forced on the old age pension.
Now, the pension is to be cut so
that these poor old fellows will have
to live in roadside burrows, tin can
huts, etc, if they r to buy food
with what is left of their meager
pension. A fitting reward after hav-
ing given the best years of their
lives to building the community and
extracting the wealth from "the
richest hill on earth" A large part
of these protesting oldtimers had
spent upward of fifty years working
in this community.
The cut in payments to the aged Of
Montana can be attributed to a mes
sage of Governor Roy E. Ayers to
the state senate, telling them to "cut
till it hurts" At the time, the SEN
ate was considering the $847,0 BOO
appropriation bill for the State We'll
fare Department, to carry that de-
partment till July 1st. The servile
senate took the Governors message
to heart and cut where it would hurt
most, on the appropriations for old
age pensions, for aid to crippled chill
dren, to the blind, to needy mothers
and for direct relief.
Already direct relief in Silver
Bow has been cut to include only
food and fuel orders. 1t is expected
that even fuel orders will be cut in
the near future. No M needs a
lively imagination to know what this
means in this rigorous northern eli
mate at this season of the year. It
means ~shivering, freezing men,
women and children and untold
sickness as a direct result.
This situation naturally raises the
question, (which is the most hui
name, a firing squad or slow starva-
tion?"
People of Montana Are you con-
cerned with the fate of your old
people? Do you care what happens
to the men and women, now in the
sunset of life, who have given their
all to build the state and the various
communities in it and to raise their
children up to be decent citizens of
Montana? Surely you have not for
gotten either your old people or the
other needy, dependent, through no
fault of their own, on the Welfare
Administration Of the state. Surely,
you will rise in your righteous wrath
and demand that a heartless Cover
nor r%econvene a servile legislature
and make adequate provision for
these people. Remember, you will
all be old yourselves, some day.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
Democracy and the Unemployed Army

Protecting and perpetuating the demo-
cratic institutions which characterize the
United States is a motive dear to all patriotic
citizens. But love for American institutions
cannot be expected to find an enthusiastic
reflection among the millions of jobless
workers whose right to earn a living for
themselves and their dependents by their la
Dor has been denied for many years by those
who w and control industry and commerce.
This fear that democracy is seriously men
aced by the persistent refusal of employers
to provide jobs for millions Of unemployed
workers was well expressed by Secretary of
Commerce Harry L. Hopkins in his recent
address before the Economic Club of Des
Moines, Iowa, in the following terse state
ment:
"Some people may think we can maintain
a democracy in this country indefinitely with
100000 unemployed. I don't. If had
no other motivation other than my deep love
of freedom, I would want to do everything
in my power to try to help solve the problem
of unemployment"
AS a definite step toward providing en-
ployment for the jobless Mr.. Hopkins urged
teamwork between the government, private
industry and labor in the development of
reasonable programs to expand production
on a ~proft-making basis. But he did not
mention shorter hours which the continued
introduction of labor-displacing, job-destroy-
ing machinery has made imperative but
which organized capitalists, determined to
seize the achievements Of chronological i'm
provements for the exclusive benefit of profit
grabbers, still intransigently refust to accept
as a fundamental part of our industrial
policy.
Drastic reduction of the length of the work
day and work week is the basis of the solu-
ton of the unemployment problem. 1t is to
be hoped that serious minded officials in both
the government and private industry will
quit stargazing in considering unemploy-
ment, examine the question with a pragmatic
realization Of the facts, and join with labor
to rescue the victims of Understanding ma
chinery by applying shorter hours Of work.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23
Religion

what is religion?" asked the six-year-old
I tried to nswer cts the way you feel
When lovely things are near you-sun-
shines gold,
Or happy music from the bells that peal
In church, or soft cloud-shadows, slowly
creeping,
Or stars He stopped me there:
Il know, l guess,
Like looking at the baby when he's
sleeping
Is that the way you mean?"
And I said, eyes"
ELEANOR GRAHAM.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23

Teacher-"What happens when a
mans temperature goes down as far
as it can go?"
Scholar-"He has cold feet, ma'am.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-23

Every unemployed worker should register
at the nearest State Employment Service
employment office, for in the first nine
months Of 1888 over $4,000 jobs were found
for workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
$3.50 Added TO
Building Permits

A boost of $3.50 sent the FL Cen
tro building permit total to a new
mark of Sll5,e19 Wednesday.
At the head of the list Of nine
permits issued recently was a $4,000
permit made out to Don Davis for
a home at 1850 Wensley avenue
Other applications included: $500
for a garage at 727 El Centre issued
to A. H. Kellar; 1920 to Delozier's
for reroofing job at 500 Brighton
$40 for alterations to the Seventh
Day Adventists church at Tenth
and Holt; 5000 for a ramada at
Harding school; SIS to the Elks
lodge for construction work; $3.50
to Ruby Barthel for a home at 675
He'll; $500 for additions to shop
at 323 Commercial, issued to An
thony Ear; and $40 for reroofing a
porch at Tenth and Broadway, is
sued to Mrs. j. H. Pritchard.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Peace Officers of
Valley to Attend
Training School

Imperial county peace officers will
start going to their own training
school at Central Junior college in
El Centre next Wednesday.
This police school is the first step
in a trained police personnel for
California and its courses are plan
ned by the state department of
education through the industrial
education bureau. 1t is free TO the
officers. Nine of their own men
were trained by the state to act as
teachers.
Two classes of two hours each
will be held each week. The sched-
ule was arranged so that the men
on duty at night may attend from
3 to 5 pm. and the day force from
Z to 9 pm. Heads of departments
made the course mandatory for
their officers. The course covers
practical police work and will be
taught by men actually engaged in
the work.
District Attorney Elmer Heald and
Chief of Police j. Sterling Oswalt
will teach the classes the first week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Prospector Faces
Trial for Murder

SAN DIEGO, March %. CUP)-
Robert Perry, SO. Alaskan sour
dough. today was in the county jail
awaiting preliminary hearing for
the murder Thursday of John Rob-
ert Anthony, 22-year-old bank JAM
itor. after a coroner's jury found
him criminally responsible at an in
quest yesterday.
AS he left the bank during the
early morning, Anthony was kid
naped, forced to drive to Balboa
Park, and shot in the back of the
head. police reported. Perry al
legedly took the janitor's bank key
and was later captured when he re-
turned to and attempted to rob
the bank.
Perry steadfastly maintains the
shooting was accidental.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Tomato Prorate
Pact Terminated

SACRAMENTO, March %. (UP)
The h-disputed tomato pro-
rate program for zone was ter
minated today by the agricultural
prorate commission and action or
petitions to end the olive prorate
was deferred.
The commission ruled that petit
tions for dissolution of the provi-
sions governing growing and mar
keting of tomatoes had been signed
by sufficient growers. 1t recogniz-
ed growers complaints that new to-
mato areas have arisen outside the
zone and engaged in competition
with growers within the restricted
area of some Is counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Safety Directors
Assume New Duties

LOS ANGELES, March %. (UP)
Eight new directors of the Cali
fornia Safety Council, INC, today
started their duties to reduce traf-
fic fatalities.
The new directors are:
DR.. Elam j. Anderson, president
of the University of Redlands; Mrs
Mary B. Noerenberg, grand trustee,
Native Daughters of the Golden
West: DR.. Walter r. Hepner, preSi-
dent, San Diego State College;
Franklin .. Howell, Los Angeles
consulting engineer; Mrs. Alice
May Baker, president, San Fran
cisco district, California Federation
Of Women's Clubs; Justice Marshall
McComb. state district court of APP
peals: Will H. Morrish, president
American Toll Bridge Co.. Vallejo
and Mrs. Duncan B. Robinson
PRESIDENT, California Federation
OF Women'S Clubs, Rio Vista.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22

BOD is not AFRAID 10 die, boys. I'm
glad to get it over with. I'd just
as soon die one way as another
News of the higher court deci-
sion was brought to James in Los
Angeles county jail where he "got
religion" and boasts that since he
was baptized Oct. IA, 1886 he has
not strayed from the path of vir-
tue to so much as smoke a cigaret
mo boys" he told newspaper
men, Il don't care what you say
about me- The Bible has shown
me the way home. Just say / can
take it with a smile. Tell every
one I'm not afraid to die"
His reaction was in. marked con-
trast to the sneers and scornful
comments he made during his
trial for one of the most bizarre
crimes ever committed in Califor-
MIA.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Aircraft Carrier
Costs 81 Million

WASHINGTON, March %. tUP)
The Newport News Shipbuildng
and Dry Dock Co, today offered TO
build the navy's seventh aircraft
carrier. the Hornet. for s3i 300 900.
No other BIDS were received.
The Hornet will be a vessel OF
10000 tons-the largest designed in
this country specifically as an air
craft carrier.
The Lexington and Saratoga, each
of $4,000 tons displacement. were
started as cruisers and designs
were later changed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
ReIiefer GuIps.
Teeth Disappear

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, March %
(UP)-A woman relief client, wait
ing to be interviewed at the welfare
board suddenly cried out that she
had swallowed her false teeth.
An ambulance took her TO a hos
pital. Three physicians and an
X-ray specialist stood by. A nurse
began disrobing the woman when
the teeth clattered across the floor.
They had been caught in her cloth
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
House Turns Down
AIcatraz Request

WASHINGTON, March %. (UP)
The house appropriations today
rejected a bureau of prisons re-
quest for 100000 to strengthen
Alcatraz prison, the Rock" in San
Francisco bay where the federal
government confines its most dan
gerous prisoners.
The committee said it was not
satisfied that the project needs
TO be undertaken" 1t suggested,
however, that its subcommittee
handling justice of department ap-
propriations might give the re-
quest some further consideration
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Air Chief Denies
Super.PIane Story

SAN DIEGO, March %. (UP)-
Mai. Reuben H. Fleet president of
Consolidated Aircraft corporation,
today denied reports that Consair
was building a twin-engined super
flying boat capable of 800 mile
an hour speed with cruising range
of 10000 miles. 81
I'VE are continuously experiment.
ing with new equipment at Our
Lindbergh field plant Fleet. said,
"but We are not developing such a
plane. I only wish we had plane
capable of such performance.
Fleet said he did not know where
the story originated, but said it had
not come from any Consolidated
officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
GerInan.kmerican
Group Asks Action

LOS ANGELES, March %. (UP)-
Members of the Los Angeles chapter
of the German American league for
culture today awaited reply to a
telegraphed plea to President
Roosevelt in which they sought ac-
ton against alleged un-American
activities of the German American
bund.
The league charged appointment
of Capt. Fritz Weidemann, former
adjutant to Chancellor Hitler of
Germany. as German consul-gen-
eral at San Francisco, was often
sive ito the majority of democratic
minded American citizens of Ger
man descent
Weidemann also was charged with
Nazi spy activities.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Prominent Negro
Woman Succumbs

Mrs. Martha Chism. Negro resi-
dent of FL Centre since 1925, lied
Tuesday night of double pneu-
monia
She was stricken Sunday after
noon and was taken to an FL Gen.
tro hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Chism worked at the old El
Centric hospital for seven years
and after that was employed as
housekeeper in the John B. Nc
Neece home on Wensley
The body is at the Lemons fun
eral establishment pending funeral
arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
New Books
At the FL Centre Public Library
FICTION

FICTION
A Starry Night, B. M. Bower.
Yoke Of Stars, Frances Frost.
The Blackheaded Pins, Constance
and Gwenyth Little.
Pomfret Towers, Angela Thirkell
NON-FTCTION
Diseases and Parasites, Edgar II
Barger.
Understanding Poetry, Cleanth
Brook Jr.
Air Conditioning, Charles A. Full
Ter.
The Fabulous Invalid, Moss
Hart.
Mein Ksmpf, Adolf Hitler.
Coffee, Heinrich E. Jacob.
Who Are You, Paul E. Johnson
The Sentimental Journey, Hugh
Kingsmill.
Pacific Adventure, Willard Price
Our Eleven Chief Justices, Ken
meth B. Umbreit.
Midas of the Rockies, Frank
Waters.
Powder River, Let 'er Buck,
StrutherS Burt.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22

Unemployed workers in Imperial
county received Sl6,592 in unem-
ployed compensation insurance in
February.
This amount was paid in 1880
checks, Director Russell Bailey Of
the unemployment service said We'd
nesday.
All claimants for unemployment
benefits, even those receiving bene-
fits. also are applicants for work
as is required by the memploy-
ment reserves act. Applications for
work are made at the employment
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Mrs. Roosevelt in
L. A. for Speech

LOS ANGELES. March %. (UP)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of
the president. arrived here today
from San Francisco to speak here
tonight on you and Your Com
munity" before the modern forum.
She was met at the Southern
Pacific station by her eldest son,
James Roosevelt, now an execu-
tive of the Samuel Goldwyn film
studios.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Scout Council
Board TO Meet

The executive board of the I'm
perial- Yuma boy scout council will
meet at the scout office in the
court house Thursday night, ac-
cording to Hugh Wilcox. scout
executive.
Reports of committees and plans
for future scouting activities will
be discussed, Wilcox said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Talk on New Deal
Wins in Contest

CLAREMONT, Calf, March o.
(UP)-William Thomas of Villa
mette university, speaking on "The
New Deal and Labor" last night
won the title Of champion extern
pore speaker of the l3 western col
ieges and universities of six states.
Edwin Farley, of the college Of
the Pacific, was second, and John
Christensen, University Of Arizona,
third.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
JobIess Receive
S7b,5q2 Here

office at the time a benefit claim
is filed. Bailey said.
A total Of 1924 checks amount
ing to $154.30293 were distributed
in Imperial county since the act
went into effect in January, 1888.
This is 0.5 per cent of the total dis
tributed in the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Hay Shipments
Total $4,000 Tons

Hay shipments from Imperial
Valley to Los Angeles have totaled
10000 tons since October l. the fed
eral state market news service re-
ported Wednesday.
Alfalfa markets were steady to
firmer at principal points, the serv-
ice reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
Sheep pInen to
Attend Pomona
Meeting

Imperial county sheepmen will
attend the annual meeting Of
sheepmen in Pomona on April l,
George Winwright, assistant coun-
ty agent, announced Wednesday.
A day long program has been ar
ranged, according to Winwright.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
CRASH KILLS THREE

KETTERING, Northamptonshire
March %. CUP)-Three members OF
the crew of a Royal Air Force
bomber we're killed today in a
crash here during a hailstorm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22
'RottIesnoke Bob
Welcomes Death

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March %. (UP)-Robert S.
James, amorous Los Angeles barber, welcomed Cali
forna state court decision today which dooms
him to death for the rattesnake staying of his seventh
wife Il take it,, said James. Just say Rattesnake
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-22

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