Montana labor news., 1939-03-30
Happenings OF The
CENTRAL LABOR BODY

A meeting of the lef Etive COM
mittee of the Silver BIZ Grades and
Labor Council will be "a at 7 p. m.
Tuesday evening, Ar 9th, at Car
penters Union hall Fall members
are urged to attent
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Sam Mitchell, Setary of state
and former bus agent of the
Clerks Union of e, addressed the
Trades and Lab ,ouncil at its last
meeting Tuesday lght. Mr.. Mitchell,
before making his talk, advised the
Trades and Labor Council to publish
a letter submitted by Freebourn
condemning Mayor Hauswirth in re-
CARDS to the establishment of aircraft
units in Silver Bow county. This
letter is published elsewhere in this
paper.
The Trades and Labor Council
adopted the suggestion made by
Mitchell. He then said that he was
informed that Governor Ayers had
told Mr.. Brandjord of the State We'll
fare Commission that the 30 or 33
per cent reduction in old age assist
ance benefits would not be allowed
and that the reduction would not
amount to more than 16 per cent.
Mr.. Mitchell condemned Mr.. Brand
lord for his conduct of the welfare
office and said that he felt that Mr..
Brandjord was trying to make a
reputation for himself through say
ing money which would ultimately
be turned into the general fund of
the state of Montana. He also con-
demned a person used by Mr.. Brand
jord as contact man for the Welfare
Commission and also the use of peo-
pie outside of the state of Montana
as employees of the Welfare Com
mission.
Mr.. Mitchell critically spoke of Mr..
Barclay Craighead, chairman of the
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission, and said that the chairman
was getting $4,000 a year and that
the people should look into it. The
speaker advised the Trades Council
to 'let the public know what Haus-
wirth is trying to do"
The Trades and Labor Council en-
dorsed Mike Mulholland for Mayor
through a recommendation of the
legislative committee.
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The council elected a delegate to
attend a meeting of the Miners Union
to be held at their hall, 82R East
Park street, at 2 p. m. Sunday, April
End, for the purpose of protesting
reduction in relief allowances as pro-
posed by the State Welfare Board.
The council also went on record
protesting to Senator Wheeler the
porposal to have new examinations
held for the position of postmaster
of Deer Lodge county. The commu-
nication came from Frank Finnegan,
postmaster of Anaconda at the pres
ent time. The letter mentioned that
Mr.. Finnegan took the examination
last November and at that time no
other contestants appeared. Now
new examinations are proposed and
apparently, according to Mr.. Finne-
gan, to GUST him from the position.
The Trades and Labor Council went
on record as supporting Mr.. Fin
negan.
Both Senators Murray and Wheel
er advised the unions here that they
were in favor of extending the pow
ers of the LaFollette committee and
also that they favored the Presidents
proposal to increase appropriations
to carry on WPA work.
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The Electricians announced that
Donovan, Duncan and Mcdonald
had been appointed on a committee
to interview the city in an effort to
have the sodium lights, now on Har-
rison avenue, extended up Utah to
Park street. The Trades and Labor
Council is in favor of this project.
The Cascade Trades and Labor
Assembly notified Butte that all of
the large firms in Great Falls were
cooperating with the unions there in
the controversy existing with the
Home Oil Company. The letter,
which was from Bruce Steinmetz,
president of the Cascade Assembly,
mentioned that there was a lot of
misleading propaganda to disparage
the unions in this controversy. The
whole subject was referred again to
the union label committee. Most of
the unions of Butte are in sympathy
with the Cascade Assembly in this
battle.
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