Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
Rankin Warns People
To Be Careful OF
War Hysferia

RANKIN won the hearts
of a Butte audience at Columbia
Gardens last Monday afternoon by
her vigorous condemnation of war,
which she described as utterly
silly" She stated that war has
never been known to settle any eco
nomic or geographic or social prob
lem, and that after one nation or
another had been defeated and after
treaties were signed it was not long
before these instruments were
broken and the conflict recon-
menced.
Miss Rankin warned her audience
about accepting without analysis war
propaganda and implied We are and
always have been under a state of
war psychology. It is impossible
for any nation in the world to at
tack the United States; such was
the impression left to the audience
by the speaker. In fortifying such
an assertion, Miss Rankin described
the improbability and the almost
impossibility of Japan or England
or any other foreign power to land
ing troops on the shores of the
United States. AT the conclusion of
her talk she secured a pledge from
the audience that they would write
to President Roosevelt, their sena-
tors, congressman and Secretary Hull
urging neutrality in the present
crisis.
Mike Mansfield devoted most of
his. talk to a picture of the injury
that the quarrel between the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the
Congress for Industrial Organization
was causing in the United States,
not only to the working people, but
to business institutions. He attrib-
uated the enactment of the anti
picketing ordinance in Oregon to the
quarrel between the two groups in
that state and which caused, not
only the labor groups, but the mer-
chants to become thoroughly dis
gusted with the tactics of both or
CARNATIONS.
The Labor Day celebration of the
unions of Silver Bow county was
declared to be by the people gen
orally, one of the most outstanding
in recent years, not only for the cali
Der of the speakers, but for the ex-
cellence of the sports program and
the general high tone of the whole
affair.
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council again expresses its sincere
appreciation to the merchants, com
mittees, and to the people.
Sports Winners
Winners of the sports events as an
nounced by the committee in charge
were as follows:
Rolling pin throwing. Driscoll,
first; Mary Lanch, second; Betty
Brennan, third; Joyce Regelly, four
tn. Balloon rolling-Sophia Merja,
first; Hannah May Hayes, second;
Mayme Jonas, third. Fifty-yard
dash for women-Mrs. Ed. Pesanti,
first; Joyce Regelly, second; Mary
Bianchi, third; Pearl Tupac, fourth.
Fifty-yard dash for girls-E. Toy,
first; Rose Masanovich, second; Ar
Wis Smith, third; Mia Sandefur, four
tn. Slipper kicking contest-Bett
Nickisch, first; Ada Tompolo, second;
Alice Perchall, third; Ellen Olson,
fourth.
One hundred yard dash for men
Ed Dwyer, first; Al Daley, second;
Bill Mccarthy, third; Stanley Col
enso, fourth. Fifty-yard dash for
boys-Calvin Baltezar, first; Mike
Novich, second; Dan Horgan, third.
Egg and spoon race for women
Esther Reardon, first; Dora Mako
vich, second; Marie Confrey, third;
Caroline Peterson, fourth.
Bottle filling contest for women
Mrs. Anne Fisher, first; Mrs. Vada
Jonas, second. Soda cracker race
for men-George Brown, first; Buzz
Ferriter, second; John Sarti, third;
Louis Mulolo, fourth.
Back-to-back race-Joe Navarro
and John Joyovich, first; Erwin
Schott and Teller Adams, second;
John Vukmanovich and Steve Sor-
ich, third. Fifty-yard dash for COM
mittee members-Vincent Burns,
first; John Balkovetz, second; Will
bur Tonkin, third. One hundred
yard dash for Miners union mem
bers-Buzz Ferriter, first; John Jar
vi, second; Stan Colenso, third. Fifty
yard dash for union officers-Andy
Groo, first; Henry Mernin, second;
Paul OFT, third.