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Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
Department Of Justice Is
Being Watched by Unions
Building Trades Subject of At
tack. William Green Objects
to Attitude of Thurman
Arnold.

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Use, by
the Department of Justice, of anti
trust laws against workers organi-
cations is the issue upon which the
attention of all labor here has been
centered in the last few weeks.
Antitrust laws made their first
appearance as a weapon against
modern unionism in the Apex Hos
iery Co. case last year. In that case
a federal court awarded the COM
pany treble damages of over $780,
900 as the result of a strike by the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers (CIO).
Recently the circuit court in Phil
adelphia threw out the lower courts
verdict, but not on the ground that
the antitrust laws are not applicable
to unions, as commended by the CLIO,
but on the ground that the strike
had no effect on interstate COM
merce, a contention directly oppo-
site to the one on which the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act is based.
The Apex suit was followed by a
suit filed by Tom Girdler's Republic
Steel Company against the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO). Girdler asked for $7,50O,000
damages, under antitrust laws, as
the result of the little steel strike
of 1897. That suit has yet to come
to trial.
Both of these actions were filed
by open and avowed enemies of or
g~anized labor. The purpose of them
was not hidden beneath a mass of
verbiage assuring labor that these
suits were for labor's own good.
Then the Department of Justice
stepped in with antitrust indict-
ments against various ALL building
trades unions. In Chicago, Indian
apolis and Detroit federal district
attorneys secured from local grand
iuries indictments charging the
unions with conspiring to restrain
trade in interstate commerce.
The secretary of the Indianapolis
central labor union wrote Assistant
Attorney General Thurman Arnold,
head of the antitrust division, for
an outline of his intentions and
Arnold replied by listing five types
of activity which will be considered
in violation of antitrust laws.
Pres. VIM. Green of the AFL then
wrote Attorney General Murphy to
ask whether the views of his sub
ordinate correctly represented the
views of the Justice department
Murphy wrote back saying they did
and that he was not going to do
anything about il. His letter was
followed shortly by the Detroit in
dictments.
It is the theory of the Department
of Justice, and Of Arnold in particu-
lar, that the building industry offers
the nation its sole remaining chance
of regaining prosperity. 1t reasons
further that there has been no build
ing boom because Of the high cost
of building, that if combinations
which keep the cost of building high
can be broken the boom will be I'M
leashed and the world will be safe
for democracy and Democrats.
It is also the theory of the depart
ment and Arnold that prefabricated
housing offers the shortest and best
possible route to a housing boom.
If, Arnold reasons, the opposition of
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Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ers of Remington Rand Inc. are try
ing a new formula on the company
that invented the Mohawk Valley
strikebreaking fromula. Three in
dividuals who control 900 of the
company's 1884, 1893 shares have
brought a suit charging that James
H. Rand, Jr, and other officers, dis
regarding the best interests of the
corporation, spent more than $l,000,-
900 for strikebreaking during the
years 1934-1937.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
CLOTHES
ARE ASKED BY MINERS
WELFARE COMMITTEE

The Ladies Welfare Committee of
the Miners Union, working in CO.
operation with the Miners Union,
are sending out a general request
to all people to deliver all surplus
clothes, shoes, ETC., either for men,
women, or children, to the Miners
Union hall at 8215 East Park street.
The garments are to be distrib-
uted to needy people in Silver Bow
county. Mrs. Rentz, telephone num-
Der 4647, is in charge of the collec-
tons.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
Beauty Shop
Patronage Charged

The BARRIERS Union states that the
occupants or the owners of the fol-
lowing listed cars with license plates
have patronized the Lotus Beauty
Shop on South Montana street which
is unfair:
A. W. Cooper, 32l West Gold St.,
1-1974, Ford '38.
Roy c. Mcdowell, 1884, South
Main St., 1-55O8, Chew. ~.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND
ADMINISTRATION
no-tnIc Co,.rfu E~ou pra.z

DdIIItIS OVuHty TTcc IItSS
The current dismissal of five pro-
fessors at Montana University, 60
ing into effect at the end of the
present school year, is not without
its moral implications. Society is
all too prone to set aside the prob
lens of pedagogy as those having no
great import. Common considera-
ton has held the schools, and the
University in particular, thrive in a
vacuum.
But the Missoula case has its vital
bearing upon the real world. In
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Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
Farmers Union Calls for
Peace Action; Con-
dennis Dies Committee
By JANE RICHARDS

OMAHA.-(FP)-A resolution to
keep the U. S. out of the European
war and another condemning the
Dies un-American committee were
adopted at the 35th annual conven-
ton of the Natl. Farmers Union.
The anti-war declaration called
upon the unions executive board to
take the lead in approaching other
farm organizations, cooperatives and
labor groups with the purpose of
finding common ground on which
these organizations can unite to keep
the U. S. out of war" It also urged
Pres. Roosevelt ito join with other
%neutrals in calling belligerents to
the council table, and act as media
tors in bringing about a settlement,
on just terms, of the present con-
flict."
Although the resolutions commit
tee had originally rejected a resolu-
ton on the Dies committee as DE
yond the scope of our organization, "
the Junior leaders in the convention
succeeded in getting the question on
the floor. Only a few scattered votes
were cast against it.
The resolution pointed out that
although 'any organization which is
built and functioning democratically
has no need to fear an investiga-
tion," the NFU "deplores the tactics
used by the Dies committee and the
color of publicity given to it by the
national press"
Peace and defense Of civil liberties
set the whole tone for the conven-
ton. Under another resolution, the
NFU was directed to help protect the
civil rights of all American citizens.
Mrs. Gladys Talbot Edwards, ma
tional chairman of the Junior de-
partment, was warmly applauded
for her warning against the Dies
committee. COMMITTEES which are
set up to hunt spies usually forget
what they were formed for" she
said.
Typical of the delegates attitudes
toward the war was a statement by
Ray McKaig of Boise, Idaho, who
was sitting, however, as a repre-
sentative of the Natl. Grange. IF
America goes over to fight for de-
mocracy in Europe, America will
lose its own democracy" he said.
Don't forget that the greatest mis-
take America has made in a gen
Grafton occurred in 1917 when we
set out to make the world safe for
democracy"
A legislative program that repre-
sented a long step forward from
platforms of previous conventions
was adopted. Pres. John Vesecky
pointed out three main principles in
the program: democratic farmer con
troll of all machinery, as far as pos
sible; safeguarding of the family
size farm, and expansion and
strengthening of the %cooperatives.
The convention advocated an
amendment to the Bankhead tenant
act which would make it possible
for tenants to buy farms without a
down payment. Another resolution
called for abolition of poll taxes.
The delegates reaffirmed their de-
sire to work in close cooperation
with organized labor. They de-
plored attempts to build anti-labor
attitudes in units of the NFU or
among farmers generally.
Vesecky, a Kansan, was reelected
president. Vice Pres. H. G.. Keeney
of Nebraska and Sec. Treas. Jim
Graves of Oklahoma were also re-
elected. Plans were made for estab-
lishment of a permanent NFU office
and for Standardization of the
unions educational program.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

DETROIT. - (FP) "A sweeping
victory of the United Automobile
Workers (CIO) in the 8-week Chrys-
Ter Corp. lockout and strike on Nov.
% blasted the hopes of anti-union
interest to destroy industrial union
sim in the automobile industry. The
settlement grants Scent hourly
wage increases to 10000 members,
reinstatement of all men fired for
ar alleged showdown, arbitration of
10 disputed discharges, and many
other concessions.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

HOLLYWOOD (FP) A strike
by 10000 workers in the film in
dustry was averted when producers
yielded on November rs to the de-
mand of AFL craft unions for a 10
per cent wage increase. It parallels
a 10 per cent raise won last Sep
TENDER by some 10000 members Of
the Init. Alliance of Theatrical
Stage Employees (AFL).
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

AKRON. - (FP) - The Voice of
Labor, CLIO radio program banned
by a small Akron station under the
Natl. Assn. of Broadcasters code, is
back on the air over WADC, n of
the most powerful stations in north
ern Ohio.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

WEaOIlllNG OLN.- NEI OdlE VI
21,300 shares of Chrysler Corpora
ton common stock by officials OF
the corporation since the first OF
September was revealed here by a
check of Securities and Exchange
Commission records.
Chrysler Corporation workers, ac-
cording to the United Auto Workers
(CIO), were locked out October 9
and the union is still dickering with
the corporation in an effort to end
the dispute. The corporation, &C.
cording to reports here, is attempt
ing a back to work" movement in
an effort to break the union.
Observers here declare that Chrys-
Ter officials who sold the corpora
TONS stock in September and Octo-
Der could make a tidy sum if they
buy the stock back after the strike
is over inasmuch as the price of the
stock on the New York stock ex-
change declined nearly seven points
between October 2 and November
IN.
According to SEC records, K. T.
Keller, president of the company and
a director, sold 1890 shares of the
corporations stock in September and
an additional total of $500 shares
on October %, rs, 27, 80 and 81.
Joseph E. Fields, vice president and
director, sold 400 shares on Octo-
Der 7 in addition to 400 shares in
September
o. B. Shelton, according to SEC
records, sold 200 shares on October
9 and an additional 100 shares on
October 10. A.. Van DerZee, vice
president, sold one-fourth of his
holdings, 100 shares, on October "a
and Fred M. Zeder, vice chairman
of the board of directors, sold 100
shares on September IL and 400
shares on September IA.
On October 2, Chrysler Common
stock was reported as selling at 921a
on the New York stock exchange,
having gained over three points dur
ing the preceding week. On Novem.
Der 81 the high price was 855s, a
drop of nearly seven points. The
high on August 20 was 81.
It was reported on November II
by Federated Press that a repre-
sentative of the U. S. government
had declared that officials of the
corporation were wilfully prolong-
mig the lockout as part of a Wall
Street struggle for control of the
corporation.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

CHICAGO. - (FP) A contract
covering 5000 workers in Marshall
Field & Co.'S five southern mills,
the first in the mills IS years of
existence, has been signed by the
Textile Workers Union (CIO) at the
firms headquarters here. The plants
are in Draper, Leaksville and Spray,
N. c.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14
(HRY5LER OFFICIALS
SELL $1,000 SHARES
since SEPTEMBER 1

Ed. Note The following dispatch
from Federated Press gives a fac
tual story of the juggling of Chrys-
Ter stock, but it does not show how
the workers and organized labor
were made the dupes and pawns,
in order that warning factions in the
Chrysler Corporation could get con-
troll of the capital stock of the COM
pany, meanwhile sending out a flood
of propaganda charging the work
ers with inaugurating a showdown
strike to poison the minds of the
general public when the financiers
who were trying to gain control of
this stock were the real culprits.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

Genuine prosperity b q
condition and situation
where all who so desire
may work and receive the
products Of their labor"
Leslie Taylor.
Montana labor news., 1939-12-14

There can be no prosperity
without justly high wages.
Earnings Of working people
are the basis and index of
progress in any community.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Program Urged to Push
Milk Use by Poor

The District Commissioners have
been asked, through resolution,
ito undertake program to increase
the consumption of milk among low
income families and to take the
necessary steps as soon as prac-
ticable to put this program into OPP
Grafton" officers of the Consumers
Conference on High Prices Snd Prof
iteering have announced.
The resolution called attention to
Department of Agriculture plans for
cooperation with local governments
in setting up relief milk programs
and declared Boston and Chicago
are among the cities which success
fully have enlarged the fluid milk
market through cooperation with
farmers and professors in making
milk available to loW-income groups.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

A modern box camera of
compact design. fitted with
removable fash unit for
better indoor and night pic
lures and an eye-level
clear pictures on one roll of
popular p, by 3 y. Inch size.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

A new version of the popular marble game,
more fascinating because all moves must be
made on specific white lines. and jumps are
less restricted For two three or four players
Evening star., 1939-11-29

view finder. Takes z
film-pictures are the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Orr To Make
N. c. Etchings
Daily DlSpatcn Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERTLL

Raleigh, August 11.-Louis Orr
noted artist and etcher of Hartford,
Conn, and Paris, is now in North
Carolina making preliminary sur
vey of historically interesting sub
jects from which he plans to make
rs etchingS to be published in Paris
by Robert Lee Humber, former Tar
Heel.
Orr has been comforting with De-
partment of Conservation and De-
velopment officials and looking over
files in the news bureau of the de-
partment for several days.
Your State is SO large and con-
tains so. much that is interesting
that l find I will have 10 spend
eight or nine months collecting my
material and making preliminary
sketches before actually begin
work on the ctcnings', Orr said.
He is the etcher VINO recently
made a series of six for Duke Uni
verSity, now available either singly
or. in album form. He has been
decorated by the French government
and made an officer Of the Legion
of Honor.
OII lS O1dIllllIlS W lIldhc nSVCl al
trips with representatives of the
news bureau into all sections of the
State in order to get complete pic
ture of North Carolina He has
already made sketches of the State
Capitol and Christ church in Ra-
leigh.
lie plans trips 10 Edenton, Roa-
noke Island, New Bern, Whining
ion and several other points in the
east.
mo matter which way l turn
find plenty of material, he said,
"and l see now that am going to
have to include many pencil draw
mgs in the albums, probably on the
margins of the text, in addition to
The etchings".
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
ANSWERS.

l. The State ranked the 10Th State
with livestock valued at sos, 900, 900.
2. Romulus M. Saunders, of C2s-
we'll county, in 1924 Three years
later Congressman Saunders offered
another resolution for the prohibition
of interstate slave trade in the Unit
ed States.
8. On approaching the mountain
they encountered three men who
claimed they had just come from the
British camp, and told about the
enemy picket guard just ahead. The
men were detained, and Colonel
Shelby, with a select party, surpris-
ed and captured the pickets with
out firing gun, or giving any alarm.
This was considered by the men as
a good omen.
4. Chas. M. Johnson, State Treasur-
er, was appointed to this office on
November l, 1882 by Governor O..
Max Gardner, and elected to sue
ceed himself. Mr.. Johnson was born
in BurgaW April 8, 1891.
5. According to the diary kept by
Colonel R. F. Webb of Kenansville,
who was a prisoner there, a plug of
tobacco sold for $1.00 or $3.50 per
pound, in U. S. money. At that date,
May IA, 1864, Confederate money
was worth only seven cents on the
dollar, he wrote.
6. Senator Benton, who was born
in Orange county, North Carolina,
was elected to the United States Sen
ate from Missouri in 1920, year be-
fore Missouri was admitted into the
Union. The State was admitted in
August 1921 and the senator imme-
diately took his seat. He served con-
tinuously until 1851 and was defeat
ed for reelection. He was then elected
representative for the years 1885,
retiring after the end of the term. In
all he served 80 years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
r. r. CLARK HEAD OF
PRODUCT ON CREDIT

Columbia, S. c., Aug. 11.-Rufus
r. Clarke was elected president of
the Production Credit Corporation
of Columbia at special meeting Of
the directors of the corporation held
today. Julian H. Scarborough, gen
eral agent of the farm credit ad-
ministration of Columbia, in an
nouncing Mr.. Clarke's election, said
that it becomes effective Immediate
ly.
Mr.. Clarke has been connected
with the farm loan system and the
Farm Credit Administration since
1925. He has been vice president and
secretary of the Federal Land Bank
of Columbia since July, 1882. The
first of this year he was granted
leave of absence by the land bank
to accept a temporary appointment
as deputy governor of the Farm
Credit Administration in Washing
ton. Mr.. Scarborough said that the
directors of the Production Credit
Corporation had asked Governor
Hill of the Farm Credit Admins
tration to relieve Mr. Clarke of his
Washington duties in order that
they might elect him president of
the corporation.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
Seedlings Are
Now Plentiful

College Station, Raleigh, Aug. 1O1.
Nearly four million forest tree seed
lings will be available at the State
forest nurseries at Clayton and in
Henderson county this year for
spring and fall paintings, it was an
nounced today by R. w. Graeber,
forestry specialist of the State COL
lege Extension Service. He advised
farmers and other to order early to
insure a supply.
Last year orders for $2,058, ,422
tree seedlings were handled through
the Extension forester's office alone,
and due to a shortage of supply
applications for nearly 100000 seed
lings had to be cancelled.
The nurseries, operated by the N
c. Department of Conservation and
Development, will have loblolly
pine, longleaf pine, shortleaf pine
slash pine, black locust, cypress
yellow poplar, white ash, red cedar
black walnut, and white pine seed
lings. The slash pines are advocated
only for planting in southeastern
North Carolina, and the white pines
are for planting in the upper Pied
mont and mountains. The rec
cedars are for Christmas tree OF
post paintings.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
i. S. Farm Income
Is Less Than That
OF New York City

Chicago, Aug 1.-THE combined
annual income of the nations farm
ers is less than that of the inhabi-
tants of New York city alone, M.
C. Mann, of Raleigh, N. c., today
declared in an address before the
18th annual session of the Ameri-
can Institute of Cooperation in ad-
vocating education and cooperation
as the only hope of a permanent
agricultural prosperity.
Speaking on youth in the Co.
operative Movement, Mann, who is
general manager of the North Caro-
lima Cotton Growers Cooperative
Exchange, told the Institute dele
gates, including cooperative leaders
from all parts of the United States,
that the cities are now "drawing the
cream of our rural districts, leav-
ing behind an excess of youth and
the aged. He said that only about
% per cent of the farm people
range between the ages of Is and A.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
STATE. OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Department of State.
PRELIMINARY CERTIFICATE
OF DISSOLUTION.

OE DlSSOLO11ON.
To All to Whom These Presents May
-Greeting:
Whereas, 1t appears to my salts
faction, by duly authenticated record
of the proceedings for the voluntary
dissolution thereof by the unanimous
consent of all the stockholders, de-
posted in my office, that the Peoples
Service Drug Store of Henderson,
Incorporated, corporation of this
State, whose principal office is situat-
ed at No. 112 Garnett Street, in the
City of Henderson, County of Vance,
State of North Carolina g. C. Tolson
being the agent therein and in charge
thereof, upon whom process may be
served), has complied with the re-
quirements of Chapter %, Con-
tions," preliminary to the issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
Now Therefore, I, Thad Eure, Sec
retary of State of the State of North
Carolina, do hereby certify that the
said corporation did, on the 18th day
of July, 1889, file in my office duly
executed and attested consent in
writing to the dissolution of said cor
poration, executed by all the stock
holders thereof, which said consent
and the record of the proceedings
aforesaid are now on file in my said
office as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I have
hereto set my hand and affixed my
official seal at Raleigh, this 10th.
day of July, A. d. 1939
THAD EURE,
Secretary of State.
21-C0-d-11
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
CREEDMOOR DEATH
INQUEST POSTPONED

Oxford. Aug. 11-(SpeciaD-
Coroner w. D. Bryan postponed an
inquest into the death of Mrs. Emily
Hedrick Gates of near Creedmoor
from this afternoon at 2 o'clock un-
til Wednesday afternoon at o'clock,
August 16.
Coroner Bryan ordered an inquest
Wednesday night when Mrs. Rose
Hedrick, mother of Mrs. Gates,
swore out warrant for the arrest
of Jack Chappell of Creedmoor,
who, it was alleged, was in room
with Mrs. Gates at the time of the
shooting. The warrant charges
Chappell with the shooting.
The postponement of the inquest
was made because the State could
not have its evidence and reports
ready by this afternoon. The inquest
will be held in the county court
house
The fatal shooting took place last
Sunday afternoon shortly after 4
o'clock at the old Log Cabin filling
station near Creedmoor. Chappell
said that he was in a. room with
Mrs. Gates and saw her pick up a
revolver, pOlnL III toward nef pfeaSC
and fire. He carried her to Dur
ham hospital and told officers that
she had appeared in good spirits
and was toying with the gun in an
unconcerned manner when it went
off.
Chappell is in Granville county
Jail today and Sheriff Davis said
that following a talk with the dis
trict solicitor today, it is probable
that bail might be permitted.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
IOday..**.
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

179l-Theodoric R. Beck, noted
New York State professor OF medl-
cine and medical writer, born at
Schenectady, N. Y. Died November
10, 1855. -.
18O7-David R. Atchison, Mis-
souri, U. S. senator, for whom the
city in Kansas was named, born at
Frogtown, KY. Died January 26,
1886.
18l2-Joseph P. Macheboeuf,
pioneer Catholic missionary in San
ia Fe in the 1850's and Colorado In
the 186O's and on, bishop, born in
France. Died July 10, 1889.
1827-Jesse Seligman, New York
banker -philanthropist, born Ger
many. Died April %, 1894.
1833-Robert G. Ingersoll, Illinois
Union soldier, lawyer, the great
agnostic of his generation, born at
Dresden, N. Y. Died July 81, 1899.
1847-Benjamin R. Tillman, South
Cardinals noted governor and sena-
tor, born in Edgefield county, S.
C. Died July 3, 1918.
186O-Gari Melchers, noted artist
and master of his craft, born in
Detroit. Died November 30, 1882.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
TODAY IN HISTORY

1731-Country's first circulating
library founded in Philadelphia by
Benjamin Franklin.
1768-Captain Rios and Spanish
force reach site of ST. Louis and take
possession of the territory in the
name of the king of Spain.
f1839-100 years ago. Texans
rout Indians at the battle of Plum
Creek, Texas.
1849-Because adventurous Amer
leans, it was said, were planning
an armed descent on Cuba to Wrest
that island from the Spanish, Presi-
dent Tyler warned all of violating
the laws of neutrality.
1857-The U. S. S. Niagara meets
British frigate in mid-ocean to
splice the new cable but the wire
broke and 400 miles length was lost.
1909-First radio SOS, when the
"Araphoe'', with disabled engines,
off Cape Hatteras, radioed for help.
1861. S. Government an
nounces it will "scrupulously refrain
from any interference whatsoever
in Spanish civil war.