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Montana labor news., 1939-11-02
BR0WDER CASE PART
OF ATTACK ON RIGHTS
Monopoly Prepares Ground for
Dragging U. S. Into War.

In an opening attempt to abolish
freedom of expression for those who
are fighting to keep America out
of the imperialist war, the Dept of
Justice has arrested Earl Browder,
general-secretary of the Communist
party, under flimsy technical pass
port charge. The federal Dept of
Justice willingly lent itself as a tool
of reaction under the instigation of
the Dies un-American committee
and the Republican national COM
mittee.
Monopoly Press Gleeful
The reception given to this action
by the Wall Street press makes it
clear that Americas Sixty Ruling
Families do not consider the case as
a simple technical passport case, but
rather one of major political i'm
portance, which can be used as the
opening gun to outlaw the Commu-
mist party and start witch-hunt in
the trade unions, Farmers Union,
American League for Peace and
Democracy and all other progress
sive bodies. The main aim of this
strategy of Monopoly Capital is to
abolish freedom of expression, to
frighten the overwhelming major
ity of the American people who want
peace, and to drag America into the
war at the opportune moment.
The Anaconda Copper Mining
Company's MONTANA STANDARD
makes it clear that that is how it
views the case in its leading edi-
torial of October "a. It says: per
haps now that the administration
seems to be taking official notice of
the Dies committee findings there
will be action against un-American-
ism all along the line. Many organi-
cations harboring Communists, in
cluding some labor unions, had al
ready taken steps to clean up their
ranks. :"
This is very clear. Under cover of
Continued on Page ~
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02
Federation Points Out Dangers Of
Price Raises 10 Business Recovery
Urges Reliance Upon Home
Market Rather Than De-
pendence from Abroad.

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Transla-
ton of the present war boom into
a permanent recovery that will fur
nish jobs at decent wages for mil
lions of American workers was
urged by the American Federation
of Labor here in its September -Octo-
Der survey of business.
Much will depend on construc-
tive action by unions to ID raise
wages in proportion as labor costs
are reduced, and ~ to help pre-
vent undue price increases. Increased
buying power is essential to make
this permanent recovery" the
AFL declared.
The federation noted that tremen-
dous increases in production result
ed from the outbreak of war and
declared that such increases were
the result of expected orders rather
than actual orders. Similar increases
in prices were noted based, the fed
Grafton said, on expectation rather
than realities.
1--WE do not want a price rise
which will bring us another such
business recession" the survey de-
clared, referring to the collapse that
came at the end of 1887. Although
the price increase today starts from
a lower level than in 1886 and al
though 1888 prices in some indus
tries were too low for profitable
operations in small production vol
umes yet continued rapid increase
in prices generally would prevent
healthy business recovery. Price in
.creases not justified by costs destroy
consumer buying power"
1--WE must recognize" the AFL
declared, that the exceptional bust
ness increase this fall is due chiefly
to expectation of large orders from
foreign countries in the near future.
Business firms have built up their
inventories as they did with dis
astrous results in 1887.
We have no way of knowing what
the demand from abroad will be. If
belligerents continue the war of
waiting demands for heavy ma
terials will probably be very much
below expectations.
I'VE can only count surely on our
own home market, which depends
on the buying power of American
wage earners. Forecasters are now
expecting first quarter 1910 orders
to be 10 per cent below the last
quarter of 1889. For unless we have
very large orders from abroad we
cannot maintain our heavy indus
tries at present production. The buy
ers panic has subsidized and domestic
orders are decreasing.
"Rising production means decreas-
ing unit labor costs enabling indus
try to pay higher wages. 1t is essen
tial that labor receive its full share
of the increasing national income if
recovery is to be maintained.
"Wage increases must, however,
be based on decreased labor costs
per unit of production for labor
wants permanent gains. No general
rule can be laid down for the amount
of wage increase which will give
labor its just share. This must be
determined by examining the oper-
ating records of each company"
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02
FARMERS SECRETARY
PROTESTS PUBLISHING
OF NAME RESPECTING
WOOL LWORTH'S STORE
Montana Division
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL &
COOPERATIVE UNION
Great Falls, Montana
October 26, 1889.
Montana Labor News:

OCbODGl AOg 1907
Montana Labor News:
In the issue of the Montana Labor
News dated September %, 1889, you
published a list Of people who had
gone through the picket line which
the Retail Clerks had established at
the Woolworth store in Missoula. In
that list you have my name and ad-
dress, using the car license 2-718 for
your information.
For your information I wish to
state that this car was sold by me
on June 20 to the Thisted Motor
Company of Great Falls It was not
in my possession, nor had I any in
terest in it, at the time the picket
line was broken. More than that I
have not been in Missoula, since
June 25, 1898.
l wish to protest against the pub
lication of my name as having
broken any picket line. I am sure
that you realize the seriousness of
such a statement, both to me per-
sonally and to the Farmers Union
in which l hold an important office.
We ask that you investigate the
ownership of this car by writing
the Thisted Motor Co. of Great Falls,
and that you publish in a prominent
position, the results of your investi-
cation in order that you may clear
my name Of this charge.
want to protest against this prac-
tice of labor unions in obtaining
license numbers, and without any
effort to ascertain the true owner
ship of such cars, publishing the
names of those to whom the license
number may be registered as hav-
ing broken picket lines
The publication of my name as
having broken picket line has
seriously damaged both myself and
the Farmers Union.
hope that you will Immediately
take the proper action to remedy
the damage which has been done.
Yours sincerely,
Harold Brown, Secretary, Mon
tana Division Farmers E. & c,
Union Of America.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

To All Members of the State Board
of Education:
The recent action of the State
Board of Education in dismissing
five Montana State University pro-
fessors has caused a great many
conflicting responses and conflict
ing emotions in the minds of Mon
tana citizens. Whatever may be the
kernel of truth in the controversy,
the unfortunate result seems to be
that Montana State University is
taking a great deal of adverse criti-
cism, and it seems apparent that the
schools reputation is suffering.
With this thought in mind, group
of Butte alumni have decided that
the only intelligent thing to do is
try to bring light upon the confu
sion Of accusations and counter
accusations. We are sponsoring a
Continued on Page ~
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

Genuine prosperity Is .
con d n and situation
where all who so desire
may work and receive the
products Of their labor"
Leslie Taylor.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02
RUTH REARD0N GIVES
VIEWS ON FREEDOM
OF INSTRUCTION AT IT,
STATE OF MONTANA
Department of Public Instruction
Helena, Montana

@'~~~-NNN~~NN
October %, 1889.
Montana Labor News:
l wish to express my appreciation
to the unions of Montana for the
interest that has been shown in the
welfare of our educational instruc-
ton.
The founders of our Constitution
bequeathed the citizens of the Great
Commonwealth an unsurpassed sys-
tenn of education. The schools of
Montana have always occupied a
commendable position in their abil-
ity to reflect the ideals of liberty,
equality, justice and opportunity
embodied in our Constitution.
1t is the duty of all educators and
administrative agencies to cherish
this great heritage and hand it down
untarnished and complete from gen.
Grafton to generation.
The maintaining of democratic
principles and ideals and equal edu-
cational opportunities for all is the
supreme goal to which l, as State
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, have dedicated the educational
policies of my office.
l believe that my record as a
member of the State Board of Edu-
cation will substantiate this state
ment.
When Mr.. Keeney and Mr.. Phil
lips were recommended for disnnis-
sal, the records show that 1 stood
firmly upon the principles of fair
play and asked for an open hearing.
l was pleased to give the unions and
other organizations my support in
an endeavor to bring about a salts
factory settlement.
wish to state l am in full accord
with your viewpoint and will CO.
operate in every manner to make
our educational institutions of Mon
tana the type that we as citizens
can look upon with pride and salts
faction.
Sincerely yours,
Ruth Reardon, State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02
DeDObbeleer and Brown Are
Also Continued AS
Officers.
Four-day Convention Ends in
Glasgow with Junior
Group Program.
Glasgow Courier)

The four-day convention of the
Montana Farmers Union came to
conclusion in Glasgow Saturday
after what officers termed one of
the most successful gatherings in
the organizations history.
H. D. Rolph of Joplin, Liberty
county, was reelected state presi-
dent. Jasper DeDobbeleer of Glas-
gov, South Valley, vice president,
and Harold Brown of Great Falls,
secretary, also were reelected.
Three members of the state execu-
tive board are Harold Ridenour of
Flathead county, Glenn Coutts of
Dawson county and Leo Doheny of
Pondera county. Coutts and Doheny
had previously served.
Others elected were Julius Cess,
Roosevelt county, conductor; Lyle
Standish, Teton county, doorkeeper;
Clarence Chamberlain, McCone
county, livestock board member;
Rolph, national convention delegate;
and Don w. Chapman, Daniels
county, alternate. Balloting took
place Friday.
NYA Official Speaks
There are enemies of democracy
in America who will try to divert
all benefit from mechanical progress
to the welfare of the few, unless
social consciousness is developed
along with the complex machinery,
it was declared by DR.. Kenneth
Rowe of Denver, regional director
of the national youth administration.
He also sketched the work done by
the NYA in keeping in school as
many students as possible. The NYA,
he said, pays wages for useful part
time work, in his talk opening the
Thursday afternoon session.
Mrs. Mildred K. Stoltz, state jun
ior leader, introduced Mrs. Gladys
Talbot Edwards of jamestown, NJ
D., national junior leader. The
Farmers Union educational system
for young people is being adopted
in England and other European
countries, Mrs. Edwards said, and
she recently received requests from
West China for material.
She urged farm organizations not
to be "split asunder" by conflicting
views on what legislative devices
will keep us out of war and de-
clared members should not be di-
verted from their goal, the building
of an economic framework which
will tend toward peace.
Terminal Men Report
Talks and reports were next made
by Farmers Union Grain Terminal
association officials introduced by
o. B. Horsford Of Wolf Point, direc-
tor. Others who spoke were M. w.
Thatcher of st. Paul, general man
ager; D. L. O'Connor of New Rock
ford, N. D., president; A. E. Kathan
of Pondera county, c. L. Waring of
Yellowstone county and Hayes
Starks of Hill county, board MEM
bers, and d. l.. Manning of Great
Continued on Page ~
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

Anyone who thinks that civiliza-
ton is going to pot should be re-
assured by the ad of New York
department store.
Announcing "the most startling
development in lipstick since it all
began" the store offers brand that
is applied like shellac and leaves no
telltale traces on anyone.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

Samuel Untermyer, the New York
lawyer, is irrigating greenhouse
canteloupe vines with port, brandy
and liqueurs to give the melons
rare flavor. If California citrus
growers would dump rye in their
orchards, we could have whisky
sours merely by squeezing a lemon.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

We might have suspected it, but
we weren't sure until the New York
State Agriculture Department fixed
primary" blame for the recent jump
in food prices. The guilty party is
none other than the consumer, who
bought too much.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-02

]. P. Morgan has been forced to
substitute duck-shooting in Canada
for grouse-shooting in Scotland. War
is ersatz.
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Radio Time Table

Being voted the most popular orchestra
leader in radio is not novel experience Tor
Guy Lombardo, although it is always good
news. With his band of talented musicians
and the sweetest music this side of heaven,
Lombardo is heard over XVI Monday nights
at o'clock.
Followers of the Ma Perkins" series are
now able to tune in on the popular serial
Mondays through Fridays over KAf0 at 2:30.
Rapidly growing in favor are the Sherlock
Holmes stories brought by K0MO each Mon
day night at 9.
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Society Girl.
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KIRO-SerialS,
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-09
HoIdins On to Our Hats

From on, American standards OF justice and fair
play going to take beating in Europe that will make
most Of vince with pain Folks in the United States
going have to hold to their seats firmly than
the world takes of the dzzest it tried TO
negotiate.
Up to now Americans have maintained remarkably
attitude toward foreign propaganda For tme
the fatasts who didn't want to war but didn't how
the United States could stay out have been mutterng
vaguely Now their voices becoming audible
again. above the hurricane that ripping Europe to shreds
II we were vgilant about propaganda before the
attempted subugation of Finland by Russia we must be
douby The peril is not that the missives from
abroad win become intense but rather that American
sympathes will be firmly fixed. Americans can't enjoy
the sight OF Goliath wping up the dust with little David
Not even the most apoogst piece together
for the Soviet Union The standard abb that the
completely unenable The assertion that Joe Stain is
ectng himself against threats of Finnish invasion Is purely
ridiculous If there extenuang circumstances for the
Russian occupation of Poland there whatever for
This is what makes Americas position today difficult
We more be neutral in thought about the Russo
Finnish dispute than when cutthroat enters home
to family of honest citizens. Our sympathes
inevitably with Finland
But there is nothing we can do about it. We must keep
telling ourselves that and again. We cannot help
by going there with contingent of troops and
grim but vruous purpose Later perhaps when the whil
pool becomes less turbulent and when the nations of Europe
quit fighting We lend offices in cooperating for
genuine less neuroc than the helped engineer
20 years ago.
Americas private of is long way from being
ended The comparative calm that settled most of the
nation after the first explosive reaction to the abroad
is likely to be shattered again. This country will be deuged
with sem-offcial spokesman of the begerens who
will broadcast their badly disguised appeals for American
intervention.
We must hang on now more tightly than ever Though
our faces be flushed with righteous indignation the
acts European bues must count to 10
before lead with right In the end it will be better
that way.
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QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
1. Do adopted alien children
take the citizenship of an Amer
lean citizen father?
2. Name the largest fresh
water lake in the world, ex-
Guiding the Great Lakes Of
North America.
3. What is a pulmotor?
4. Which religion was found
ed by Mary Baker Eddy?
5. Name the city in California
with the largest population.
6. How many quarts are in
one bushel (dry measured?
Z. Has there ever been a no.
hit-no-run game pitched in
World Series baseball?
s. What is fur-farming?
8. What is the correct pro-
nunciation of the word charta?
10. Name the traditional rest
ing place of Noah's ark after the
flood.
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ENGLAND MERELY
KEEPING A PROMISE

Editor. The Times: While we
are plumming the status of the
war in Europe and taking a
measurement of the response
bilities for it, We will do well to
hold ourselves, in good faith, to a
recognition of the causes, both
immediate and fundamental.
When nations are at war,
atrocities must be reckoned
with. You do not fight a skunk
with eau de cologne; and the
skunk reciprocates the compli-
ment with the best he has. To
each side, the other is the efflu-
Went rodent. Ruthlessness is
not to be put down by waving
corsage of pink roses, more's
the pity. and both side recognize
this fact with beastly vigor.
The difference in atrocities in
war is merely one of degree. The
more decent and civilized COM
batants viii not go beyond GER
tain will defined limits. They at
least refrain from inflicting
hideous tortures or drinking the
enemies blood. Beyond that
there is scant restraint. War is
no tea party. No people who
come to engage in it, whether
by enforcement or choice, may
be expected to show more re-
straint than is necessitated by
the limitations of their equip
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Here to Stay

The newspaper isn't quite what it in the London
coffeeshop days of the 18th century but it's permanent
institution that be replaced by any substitute
That's the Simeon Strunsky looks at the picture in his
new book, THE Living Tradition
Srunsky doesn't deny for instance that the radio has
made changes in the general press But the
newspaper will always have primary functions that not
the radioor televisioncan take Strunsky gives
this example: When you're listening to speech over the
radio you take it You can't check back and
pare statements digest and NULL You when you read
account Of the talk in newspaper You read sem
fences four times you like and extract every possible
of meaning
Newspaper readers today getting good deal more
than their moneys worth Like everything else the
has progressed adapted ITSELF met the challenges found
along the way. If you don't believe it, wander to the
nearest and take look at the copy of the
that reported Lincolns assassination