Montana labor news., 1939-01-12
GOVERNOR OLSON FREES LABOR PRISONER
INTERESTING news OF
THE TRADES COUNCIL

The first nominations of officers
for the year 1889 took place at the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil last Tuesday night. Those placed
in nomination were Charles Davis
of the Teachers and Walter Jaap of
the Clerks for president Ellis of the
Electricians, Driscoll of the Work
ingmen, and Simmons of the Musi-
clans for vice president; Tom Ken
nedy of the Miners for secretary;
Sarah johnson of the Women's Pro-
tective Union for statistician; and
James Mullaney from the Miners
for sergeant-at-arm Further nom
nations and final election will take
place at the next meeting Tuesday,
January II. 1t is hoped that the
unions will send full delegations to
this meeting.
Mr.. Leslie Taylor, instructor of
monetary science under the Adult
Education program of the Works
Progress Administration, will ad-
dress the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council at p. m. at the meet
ing of Tuesday, January Slst. The
delegates and unions are looking
forward expectantly to very in
structive discourse.
Upon a recommendation of the
grievance committee submitted after
a long period of negotiations, Fred
Grandpre, the real estate and insur-
ance man in the Owsley block and
also the Owsley Realty Company,
were placed on the unfair list of the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil at its meeting last Tuesday. The
grievance committee explained that
all efforts to get Mr.. Grandpre to
comply with the wishes of the En-
gineers Union for member of their
organization to take care of the
Owsley building had failed and there
was nothing to do but put the
Grandpre Insurance Company and
the Owsley Realty Company on the
unfair list. Unions please take no.
tice, refuse to do any business with
this firm until such time as an
adjustment has been made.
The grievance committee also
recommended that the Northland
Greyhound Company be put on the
unfair list for refusing to comply
with the scale of wages of the
Machinists Union at their garage at
226 East Broadway.
The proposition of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company to place
the mining industry in Montana on
a 48-hour- a-week basis with pro-
vision of giving four-hour over
time penalty each week was reject
ed on test votes by the following
unions: Machinists, Boilermakers,
Electrical Workers, Engineers, Car
penters, Pipe Filters Union, and
Miners. 1t should be borne in mind
that the fair labor standards act
which is generally known as the
labor wages and hours law which
went into effect on October "a, 1888.
Under this act, employers engaging
in interstate commerce must not
work their employees more than A
hours per week. The Anaconda
Company Immediately put its opera
tions under a 40-hour schedule.
Within recent weeks, however, and
for some unknown reason-or
known only to them-they wanted
the operations to go back to 48 hours
"a week In order to make the men
work this number of hours, they
had to pay penalty of four hours
overtime.
The new proposal was submitted
to all the unions with members
working for the company on the hill
and all but the Teamsters rejected
the offer made by the company. The
unions do not want to go back to AZ
hours. The Engineers suffered the
most in reduction in wages when
the Wages and Hours act went into
effect but nevertheless, they do not
care to 60 back to the old 48-hour
system.
When death intervenes, many OF
the things which we have felt i'm
portant heretofore, become insignifi-
cant, and death brings us back to a
realization of actualities more than
anything else. 1t gives us true
conception of values.
Resolution on James L. Gwinn
James l.. Gwinn, business agent
and financial secretary of the Bar
tenders Union, died on the 23rd of
December. He was so scrupulously
honest conscientious, and loyal, that
it almost seems one can meet him
at Four North Main or at Clifford's,
or any of the other places where he
went about his business. 1t seems
almost that he is still sitting in the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
ell. The affection which he pro-
NOTED among his associates in the