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Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
THOUSANDS Strike
AZ PROTESTS ON THE
RELIEF BILL MOUNT


for changes in the 1910 relief bill
piled up here as additional thousands
of WPA workers laid down their
tools in protest against the first of
the restrictive measures contained
in the legislation.
Developments in the situation
arising from the lengthening of work
hours to 1870 a month with no in
crease in pay were:
/. Issuance of a statement by the
CLIO unemployment committee call
ing upon members to center their
fight on behalf of the WPA workers
on the passage of amendments to
the bill"
2. Conferences between officials
of AFL building trades unions and
WPA commissioner F. c. Harrington
followed by a declaration by Pres.
D. w. Tracy of the Init. Bro. of
Electrical Workers (AFL) that the
building trades workers will not
take this lying down."
3. Issuance of a call for protests
and demands for revision of the act
by the National Administrative
Committee of the Workers Alliance.
4. Votes for strike action by build
ing trades councils in New York,
Cleveland, Wilmington, Rochester,
Duluth and other cities.
In the conferences with Harring-
ton, Herbert Rivers, secretary of the
AFL building trades council, ex-
pressed the view that exemptions
in the law permitted Harrington to
issue regulations that would get
around the 1870 hour month provi-
sion. Harrington said this was lex
tremely doubtful"
Rivers said his department has
been in consultation with local
groups but has decided to let them
decide for themselves the course of
protest action to take. He indicated
that the building trades department
would take no stand on the question
nationally.
AFL Pres. VIM. Green returned to
the city but had no comment to
make. The federation did not
oppose the 100 hour month provision
while the bill was in Congress.
The CLIO statement declared that
it has requested amendments and
1--WE have been assured that such
measures are now being prepared
and will be introduced as o as
possible"
These amendments would reestab-
fish the prevailing wage rate, guar
antee no reduction in wages in any
revision of the security wage scales,
and repeal the provision for a lay
off Of any WPA worker on the rolls
10 months or more.
1.-The CLIO fought for a decent pro-
gram for the unemployed in the
form of bills introduced by Sen.
Murray ID, Mont and Rep. Casey
3D., Mass.)," the statement said.
"The AFL national leadership on the
other hand either lifted not a finger
for the WPA or actively engaged in
attempts to cripple it. Now is not
the time, however, for recrimina-
ton"
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
BUTTE'S SPECIALIST ON
THE CONSTITUTION

Great Falls Tribune.-When the
people on the west side voted to
send the energetic Butte doctor to
Congress last November they little
realized that they were contributing
a constitutional authority to the
nation. They had heard something
about DR.. Thorkelson's close connec-
tons with DR.. Townsend which
rather left the impression that his
job would be to jar 5000 a month
pensions loose from the federal
treasury for the old folks. They had
heard about his marine adventures
in his younger days which made him
an authority on our Asiatic relations,
but they did not know that he was
an unparalleled authority on the
application of our beloved constitu-
ton.
But since his breezy advent in
Washington Congressman Thorkel-
son has surprised us all, including
his Republican party supporters in
the first district. Daily he has stood
before the House Of Representatives
and expounded the meaning of the
constitution to the awed congress-
men. His medical practice had evil
IDENTIFY given him a profound insight
into the legal principles which
should govern the application of the
constitution to our national affairs
that no one but himself ever realized
before.
The president was early put in his
place as was to have been expected.
The Townsend plan and the pensions
were dropped from the doctors
memory and he began to instruct
the Congress next on the meaning
of the articles of our great charter.
He condemned proposed laws right
and left because of their unconstitu-
tionality and even attempted to re-
woke laws on the statute books on
the same ground although the Su-
preme Court had accepted them.
And at last his patience could
brook the ignorance of the high
court no longer and in strident terms
the good doctor called the Supreme
Court to task, telling them in plain
language that they were incompetent
in their task, intimating indeed that
they probably had never read the
constitution itself that they were in
%terpreting.
These eminent jurists whose deci-
sions settle the controversies over
the law of the land have met an
undaunted critic now who will not
cease to attack their ignorance of the
law and their misunderstanding of
American principles. A new consti-
tutional authority has burst out on
the national horizon in the person
of the eminent doctor from Butte,
Congressman Thorkelson.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

"In addition to that, we have a battery of
five automatic spools, two girls to the shift,
two shifts. Those girls are doing the work
of approximately 200 girls. That goes all the
way down from the manufacturing plant in
a more or less degree.
81 just mention this-that my philosophy
on this wage and hour business is that we
are OF a perfectly sound principle to be hav-
ing a central control of this question"
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13
DEMOCRATIC Club
INVITES THE PUBLIC
TO ANNUAL picnic

The South Side Democratic Club
has made arrangements to stage its
annual picnic Sunday, August 20, at
Thompson Park. Headquarters will
be established at the Nine Mile Inn.
The awarding of prizes from the
sale of tickets will be held in the
afternoon. Holders of tickets need
not be present. Prizes consist of $50
first prize, $25 second prize, and SIS
third prize, and $40 for fourth.
The public is cordially invited and
assured of an enjoyable time. The
committee in charge of the picnic
has outlined a program of sports,
speeches, dancing and other enter
tainment. Picnickers may purchase
sandwiches and lunches provided by
the Nine Mile Inn.
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

but be Oppressive. There are
grounds for the fear that such a
terrible cut in WPA jobs and in
wage rates will touch off a definite
downward movement"
Montana labor news., 1939-07-13

Anger is often more hurtful thar
the injury that caused it.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Quota Club Names
Delegates, Chairnen

Mrs. Catherine Williams and
Mrs. Bea Brit were appointed dele
gates to the district convention OF
Quota Clubs which will be held on
October 21st and 22nd at the Hotel
Stratfield in Bridgeport. Naming OF
delegates was the main business
transacted at the meeting of the 10
cal Quota Club last evening at the
Hotel Elton. Alternates chosen were
Mrs. Josephine Osborn, Miss Julia
Teller and Miss Irene Dillane.
Repors of the recent Get Together
at Newport were given by Miss Mary
Hennessy, district governor, Mrs.
Catherine Williams, delegate and
Miss Mary Riley.
Mrs. Ruth LaVallee, chairman OF
the Ways and Means committee ex-
plains several successful plans for
raising money for the club. Mrs
Leila Cotter who represents Water
bury on the district committee for
the welfare project reported that the
district plans to have sustaining
membership in the Seeing Eye Dog
Foundation.
Miss Catherine Burns was APP
pointed chairman of a committee to
arrange for the Christmas welfare
work.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Miss Helen M. Lynch
Is ShosDer Guest

Miss Helen M. Lynch, who is to be
married next week to Fred Talbot
of Naugatuck, was honored at a
party given last night at Harmon's
Blue Room, by her bowling asso-
ciates. The bride-to-be was pre-
scented with many useful gifts.
Those present were: Mary Altman,
Julie Briody, Mary Campion, Mar
garet Connors, Mary Connors, Agnes
Donnelly, Marie Donnelly, Helen
Donnelly, Margaret Dwyer, Rose
Cullinan, Ann G. Grady, Mary
Grady, Eleanor D. johnson, Mary
K. Keane, Sophie Lynch, Catherine
Mccormack, Mary Mccormack,
Catherine Mullen, Ellen Mullen,
Mary w. Scanlon, Helen Shea, Lii
liam Shea, Mae Shea, Betty Sullivan,
Laurie Sullivan, Ann zibel, Emma
Zibell and Helen Lynch.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
State Alumnae Luncheon
Is Event of Tomorrow

Claire Lawlor, Lucy Bowes.
Alice McLinden, Jay M. Pope. Mar
garet Maloney, Kathryn Hayes, An
geline Russo, Helen Mccarthy, Agnes
Fitzpatrick, Catherine Maloney, Mrs
David Hayes, Mrs. John Robinson.
Mrs. Cecilia Martin, Mary Louise
Parsons, Marion Scigliano, and the
following guests throughout the
state: Margaret Conklin, Genevieve
Conklin, Marion Duff, Mrs. Maurice
Farrell, Mrs. Charles Nishball, Mrs.
Walter j. Stapleton, Emily Scully,
Mrs. James Rourke, Catherine Con-
way, Frances Kahanec, Mary NOEL
roy, Mrs. James Crowley, Mary
Grace Buckley, Alice Kilkenny, Rita
O'Connor, Kathryn Merry, Marie
Coburn, Genevieve Tyrell.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Community Club
Plans Card Party

Arrangements are being made for
card party to be sponsored by the
Welfare committee of the Hopeville
Community club. Mrs. Michael j.
Hyland, chairman, will be in charge
of the event which will take place
Thursday evening, Oct. S, 1899, at 8
O'Clock in the South Federated
church parish house. Prizes will be
awarded at each table and the pub
lie is invited to attend.
Assisting Mrs. Hyland are the fol-
lowing members of the Welfare COM
mittee: Mrs. Ellis Atkins; Mrs. Fred
Baker, Mrs. Fred Boucher, Mrs. Ray
mond French, Miss Mary Gaffney,
Mrs. Alice Gallond, Mrs. Harry Gag
nun, Mrs. Henry Logan, Mrs. Steve
Mazzarella, Miss Mary Mazzarella,
Mrs. Joseph Monnerat, Mrs. Charles
Pelletier, Mrs. Joseph Pilkington,
Mrs. Angelo Rotella, Mrs. Jesse Ira
yer and Mrs. Burton Walker
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Personal
AIbertus Magnus College
EnrolIs Local Students

mic year was formally begun with
the attendance of the entire student
body at a votvie Mass of the Holy
Ghost. Local students enrolled are
the Misses Hilda Bencivenga, 40,
Mary Pace, 40, Grace Bradley, Al,
Concilia Barbieri, AZ, Esther Egan,
AZ, and Dorothea Medford, '43, all
of Waterbury; Patricia Kane, 40,
and Marcella Morse, 43, both of
Litchfield; Josephine Lamanno, AZ,
Josephine Gibino, 43, Katherine
Aim, AZ, Virginia Scully, '43, Maui
gatucl.; and Mary Kennedy, 40, of
Torrington. Miss Pace is editor-in
chief of the college quarterly, the
"Albertinum," Miss Egan is vice
president of her class. and sopho-
more representative on the house
committee. Miss Kennedy Is pres
ident of Imelda Hall.
Sister M. Isabel, o. p, president of
the college, announces several new
appointments to the faculty. Among
them is John G. Gilmartin, princi-
pal of Duggan and Begnal Schools
this city, and known throughout the
state for his books on word study
including his latest, Building Your
Vocabulary" Mr.. Gilmartin will
conduct a class in vocabulary
Building and Pronunciation" on
Monday and Thursday evenings. I
Other additions to the faculty in
clude Miss Margaret Lippiatt, a re-
search assistant at Yale University,
who has been appointed instructor
in political science: also of Yale is
Mr.. Stuart Daley, who is now a
member of the English department
at Albertus Magnus College. Miss
Margaret Kehoe is the new full-time
instructor in dramatics and public
speaking. Two further appomtees are
Mr.. Grant Gilmore, member of the
French department at Yale. to teach
French. and Rev. CASTOR Level, o.
r., formerly president of Aquinas
College in Columbus, Ohio, as res
ident chaplain and instructor in
French.
Several delegates from the stu
dent body and faculty took part in
the activities of the world congress
of Pax Romano, International Cath
Ollie Student Federation, which was
held at Fordham University the week
of September 2 to 9. At this con-
gress, held for the first time in the
United States, delegates were pres
ent from SO foreign countries in Eur
ope and North and South America
Sister M. Bertrand, O.P., and Sis
ter, O.P., represented the college
faculty. Among others attending was
Miss Ruth Conway, of Union City
member of the class of 1889 at AL.
bertus MagnuS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29

The Bridgeport chapter of the Col
lege of st. Elizabeth alumnae is
sponsoring a state luncheon at Bay
brook, West Hagen, Saturday after
noon at p. ny 1t is expected that
Sister Marie Jose, dean of the COL
lege, and Sister Mary Kathleen, head
of the department of education, will
attend. Miss Katherine Mclaughlin,
president of the national alumnae
association, of Newark, N. j., also
plans to attend, Dr.. Margaret ".
Kiely, dean of Queens college at
Flushing, N. Y, will be the guest
speaker.
A large group of alumnae from
this city plan to attend including:
Mrs. Edward Mcdonald. Mrs. JOS
eph CaSsin, Mary Shanahan, Nancy
Delaney, Marguerite Kennaugh,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Miss Eleanor Partiss
Honored By Sister


Mrs. Fred Troske, Jr., of Court
land avenue was hostess al SUR
prise personal shower for her sis
ter, Eleanor PartiSs of Stillson road.
who is to be married next month
to Parker Fleming. A delicious
luncheon was served.
Those present were: Mrs. Clifford
West, Misses Helen Mitchell. Ella
wellington, Joyce German. Marion
MacNiven. Peggy Sheehan. Esther
WEIGH. Jean Northrop, Virginia
Bailey, Ivy Noble, Doris Manson.
Doris Moiinek, Ann Rappelt, Luz
ellie Sheehan, Florence Caravan,
Sylvia Zello. Mrs. Mary Zelio. Mrs.
Adele Gemino. Mrs. James Gladney.
Mrs. Fred Troske, Jr., Mrs. George
T. Partiss.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Weddings
Local Girls In
College GIee Club

Two Waterbury girls were among
those elected to membership IN the
Glee Club of the College Of Saint
Elizabeth, Convent, New Jersey. as
a result of tryouts held earlier In
the week. They are: Miss Mary z.
Hosey, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph p. Hosey of Plaza avenue.
and Miss Mary E. Shea, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs William d. Shea Of Col
onial avenue, Middlebury. Both are
members of the freshman class.
1t was also announced that the
club would 60 into, immediate re-
hearsal in preparation for the win
ter concert season!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29

Attorney Maurice Wrenn was re-
ported recovering today from an
illness which has confined him 10
lis home at 1875 Clinton street for
The past week.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Contract Bridge
CORNELL CONTRACT CLUB

The Thursday evening bridge
tournament conducted by Mrs. John
g. Moriarty Of so Linden street re-
suited In the following scores: North
and south, Mrs. George Carney and
Mrs. M. Lyman 1891; Mrs. John
Bush and Norman Gables 1904;
east and west, Nelson Adduci and
Elwbod Carney 146,a and Mrs. Pc
ter Costigan and Mrs. Frederick Bell
ls4is. The official standing TO date;
Darlington Phelan, SIG; cottiero-
Natowich $685.; Adduci-C Carney
sac. and Costigan-Wail $50,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29

Several students from Waterbury
and vicinity registered this week at
Albertus Magnus College in New Ha-
ven on the. opening of its fifteenth
year. On Tuesday afternoon, regis
tration day, the junior class MEM
bers were hostesses at tea given
to welcome their freshmen sisters.
On wednesday morning the acade-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
BABY EATS LIGHT BULB

Pasadena, Cal. - CUP - An IL
mo.iths-old baby began eating a
small electric light globe. The
mother slapped the infant on the
back until he had coughed frag-
ments of glass. A microscopic ex-
animation developed that he had
swallowed nothing and suffered
only slight cut in the mouth.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
nEEMOs OF A COLUAINIST's
GIRL FRIDAY


Dear Mr.. W.: The publishers Of
the wichita (Kan.) Beacon tele-
phoned. The col m is in their paper,
one of the more powerful jurnals
In the nation /. They thought
you'd be amused to know that the
Wichita US prexy made a remark
about you--in defense Of profess
sor of German who had been dis
missed He had been dismissed
pending a probe of charges in the
book Secret Armies" which was
sent to every senator and congress
man--and which drove the pro-
Hitlerites a little daffy :. Anyhow,
the German prof was just re-
instated-on a day-to-day basis :.
President Jardine, in defending
this prof before the board, told a
tib about you. He said that you
had gotten into a lot of trouble
FOR sending the book to Cngress"
OF course we didn't have any
trouble whatever, 90 per cent of
the legislators thanked LIS for
sending it to them!. -. reminded
the Beacon bosses that the Dies
Committee confirmed a great many
Of the exposes in that book. I.
Bee Palmer, who swung swing
in the whoopee decade, finally got
that quiet abrogation in the Chi
cago courts last week zieg-
fields last. exploiter, Bernard So
bel, is amazed at this coincidence.
He has a book due next MONTH
with the same title as George Jean
Nathan's Encyclopedia Of The
Theater"), which is due in Jan.
Demands is at the printers al
ready, SO Mr.. Nathan will simply
have to dig up another name ! :.
District Attorney Dewey has
selected his brain trusters for his
Presidential campaign. Elliott Bell
is among them He resigned from
the Times financial staff TO head
the economic end !. War note:
A man by the name of Mars sells
military supplies on 4th avenue
g. Mars.
Those eye-catching miniature
models in the Helena Rubinstein
windows were done by Jan Nor
riss She used her 17-year old
daughter as the model for all the
figures Icy Elinson was just in
breathless /. Said to tell you not
to nav any attention to all those
rumors about the Bremen He
says he happens to know that 1t
is in a bottle in a Fifth Avenue
window! May bow on the
exposure of the Nazl pilots on
Columbian air lines story which
broke last Friday? I Used it
months ago Paul MUM turned
down a radio guest shot = one
broadcast - at $1,000. Said he was
too tired Texaco was the spon-
scr Later Gulf offered him
$500 for one time shot But
Mum was still too tired Boy.
that's some tired, huh? s, Be sure
and tell Mrs. w. to read us 1t Safe
to Leave Your Baby by Lucia
Burleigh in the Oct. Commentator.
I Sent Senator Nyc that stuff
you left me. About the man who
works on Fritz Kuhn,s Yorkvile
rag passing around printed Gem
barge squawk) letters to the
guests at a wedding amy in the
Bronx last week !. Ruth Weston
of American Way" lost her dog
gle ("Shandy'o who Is old and
deaf. Would you say something
in the paper about it. etc? Oh
I enjoyed so very much the rhy-
tl1ms OF Paul Martins orchestra
wednesday evening about $50 u
TO-, From San Franciscc F.. His
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29
Walter WilAcllelI
On BrOad7guy

singers, TO, the Song Busters"
and a fellow twhose name l didn't
catch), were so listenable. But most
ly so - Martins ear-comforting
selections You might hand out
praises also to Mr. Bercovici's morn
ang news sense. He makes 1t all
very clear i thought Broun's
piece on Floyd Gibbons was crowded
with picturesque reporting -. Wan
Wanna bet That Samuel Grafton
column is destined to take the place
of Brisbane's? I've chen forgetting
to read most of the locals, but not
his stuff. Every word sock. n
Tell the producers of Know Your
History" Cat the Globe last week.
that it is heckuva short to "edu-
Gaze" people. They filmed a scene
about The Civil War showing a flag
having 10 stripes and 48 stars !.
We didn't have 48 states during the
Civil War -. The Judge Hardy
series is being offered to the radio
sponsors Harry Stevens, the
m. c at the Glass Hat, is all right
/. That, I assure you, is highly
complimentary n. You said to
make a note that the underworld
never calls him @Lepke"--but "Lep''
4. Hoover, I understand, never
calls him anything but "Mr. Buch-
alter" Here's a good smile in
Joel Sayre's mob story in the Philly
Public, Ledger: Racket money is
like lettuce; you get head of It
and there are. an awful lot of peo-
pie to help you tear off the pieces
II. Short version of the incident
at The Stork Sporting Club: Sol
ONION White Solomon Black
:. Solomon Blue.
Love and kisses and orchids allo
bravs and hugs and squeezes to
Magistrate Curran for being the
first judge in town. to show some
courage in dealing with those soap
box riot meters Boy, he told
them off good, didn't he? /. Be
sure and reprint what Judge
Curran said in giving each Of those
buns rs days in the hoosegow, to
wit: I'VE have a country dedicated
to free speech, religion and press
But these borders are exceeded BY
some people who must be punished
Now with the world on fire 1t is not
safe to speak against a whole race
Especially in New York. 1t has got
to stop!" Now when do you
think Mayor LaGuardia is going to
stop it? :. You can't print Oliver
Wendell Holmes wonderful line toe
often for me That free speech
doesn't mean you can yell Fire! in
a crowded theater!
Johnny Mercer was reading Artit
Shaw's slam at autograph pests "a
wonderful bit of frankness, free from
baloney) and he said: s'You're fin
ished being a celebrity when they
stop asking you for your autograph.
and start asking you your name" -.
So wot? Sammy Hayes crew
returns to the Commodore Oct 9th
which is Navy Day. No connection
just thought we oughta give the
Navy a free ad, also Myrs
Kingsley called. Said in a public
lecture at l.. A., last February, sh'
predicted European war by Sep
TENDER but. that Life mag did no
quote her correctly. etc.. Huh
huh Dear1e Janis is easy OF
the ears over at the Roosevelt GIRL
What burned up Billingsley 1
this: The bloke who started tina
light. which didn't help things much
never got or paid a check there :.
Ann Sheridan was there last night
Nothing show-offy about her. TIL
town looks nicer already with he
in 1t.
YOUR GIRL FRIDAY.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29

Among the unclaimed articles
in the British railways lost property
office aretwo sacks of SCOT, cask
of wine. a folding boat and Q side
board.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-06
Hearing Scheduled
On SUGAR Beefs

The Sugar Division OF the De-
partment OF Agriculture announced
today that public hearings will be
held to review evidence on labor
rates for the 1910 sugar beet crop.
and on prices TO be paid for beets
OF that crop, in the California area
The Sugar Act of 1897, in accor-
dance with which similar hearings
have been held in former years,
provides as one OF the conditions
for payments TO growers that all
persons employed on farms in the
production. cultivation, or har-
yesting of sugar bets be paid wages
at rates' not less than those de-
termined by the Secretary OF Agri-
sulture to be fair and reasonable.
The Act also provides for a de-
termination by the Secretary OF
fair and reasonable rates TO be
paid for sugar beets by process
sors who as producers apply for
payments under the Act
The hearings for the northern
California area will open Monday,
August Z