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Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
Taft Crosses Picket Line
To Dine in Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-(FP)-The
presidential stock of Sen. Robert A.
Taft (R., Ohio dropped to a new
low in this area when Taft crossed
a picket line to attend a dinner at
the Kansas City Club, where mem
bers of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Init. Alliance (AFL)
have been on strike for a year.
Taft, on a nationwide tour to slim
ulate Republican political activity,
gave plenty of stimulation to local
labor leaders. The ritzy club has
been a constant target for agrees
sive union action.
Addressing members of the Jack
son County Medical Society, Taft
expressed opposition to socialized
medicine. He predicted that the Re-
publican platform in 1910 will in
clude "some form of federal health
assistance, with a willingness to CO.
operate with doctors not found in
the present administration"
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
Personnel Agencies
Train Apprentices

CHICAGO, III. - Laboratory or
apprentice" training of candidates
for careers in government personnel
work is under way in at least IA
merit system agencies in the coun-
try, according to a report to the
Civil Service Assembly of the
United States and Canada. Six of
the IA agencies which have appren-
tice programs preparing for public
personnel work are on the Pacific
Coast. They include the state of
California, the cities of Glendale
and Los Angeles, California, Los
Angeles County and its School Dis
trict, and Portland, Oregon. The
other agencies are: the Farm Credit
Administration, and the United
States Civil Service Commission, in
Washington, D. c.; the Tennessee
Valley Authority; the states of In
diana, Michigan and Wisconsin; Gin
cinnati, Ohio, and New York City.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
pATR0NIzE UNION
BEAUTY PLACES

The BARRIERS Union state that the
people operating or riding in the
following list of cars are alleged to
have patronized Lotus Beauty Shop
on South Montana street, which is
unfair:
License 1-578-Dan D. Lawlor, 724
South Montana.
License 1-5508-Roy c. McDowl,
1884, South Main street.
License 1-5974-George Bowman,
4343 Porphry street.
License 1-7324-Marie Bowman,
316 South Washington street.
License 1-7342-T. F. Thorsen, 300
Maryland.
License 1-8543-Thomas Riley, 512
South Idaho.
License 1-8932-Ira Bacon, 1907
Placer.
License 1-11134-Amer Rouchard,
1858 South Montana street.
License 1-5623 49, Cleo McNulty,
1925 Edwards.
License 1-6748-Harold Pitts, Vir-
ginia Apartments.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
Butte Printing Crafts
Ask Cooperation Of
Union Organizations

The Allied Printing Trades Coun-
ell of Butte is conducting a cam
paign to have all Butte business
concerns patronize Butte printing
firms.
Most of the firms approached, but
not all, have responded favorably
to the argument that it is no more
than fair they should spend their
printing money with printing firms
employing members of the Allied
Printing Trades Council, composed
of the Pressmen's Union, Bookbind-
ers' Union, Photo Engravers' Union,
Mailers' Union and Typographical
Union.
We would like the assistance of
all union men and women in Butte
in our campaign, and if they will
oblige by turning in all pieces of
printing coming from outside of
Butte to the Montana Labor News,
Box 1889, the Allied Printing Trades
Council members will investigate,
and if any Butte business concerns
refuse without sufficient reason, to
have their printing done in Butte,
members of organized labor will be
informed through the usual chan
nels.
By order of the Butte Allied
Printing Trades Council,
Bruce Smith, President,
Joe Montague, Set .-Treas.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
(hrysIer Corp. Again
Blocks Settlement

A0PC(lal W GlC OdlJ WI MI
DETROIT, Nov. 22.-The Chrysler
Corp. today gave further indication
of its aims to block sediment of the
lockout of its $4,000 employees when
it suddenly put forward the demand
for reconsideration of points upon
which an agreement has already
been reached and still held to its
refusal to grant a 5 cents hourly
increase.
Only the wage issue remained to
be settled. The company and the
union had agreed to a seniority set
up, arbitration of grievances and on
the rehiring of 112 Dodge workers
whom the company discharged for
being "slow."
The company today again raised
the cry that the union seeks to
control production" This time the
excuse is the existence of the United
Foremen and Supervisors Industrial
Union, Local 918 of the CLIO, which
sent a telegram to the corporation
as bargaining agency for the fore
men in the Dodge plant, asking for
a meeting on its own demands.
This, the company charges, is
taking over the supervisory force"
The company's rage is explained
by the fact that it not only failed
to make a dent in the ranks of the
workers after a seven-week lockout,
but its foremen have taken to or
%ganization.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
PLAN TO LOW !
COPPER JTY
IS PRf E5TED
Denver POST

WASHINGTON.-(A. P.)-Eleven
of the nations leading copper pro-
ducers left with the state depart
ment Tuesday a warning that a
lowering of the copper excise tax in
a prospective Chilean trade agree
ment would impair the national de-
Tense.
The producers made the warning
in a brief filed with the committee
for reciprocity information in adj
vance of hearings to open here Nov.
81. Other briefs opposing a lower
ing of the tax were filed by the
Arizona Copper tariff board, mem
bers of Congress and other oppo
nents of reduction in the existing 4
cents a pound duty.
The producers brief asserted a
very considerable part of United
States production would be forced
to suspend because of inability to
compete with foreign copper. The
brief added:
'In this period of world turmoil,
with leading nations actually at war
and others threatened with involve
ment, it would be policy worse than
short-sighted to abandon our ma
tional self-sufficiency in copper and
depend for adequate supplies on the
goodwill of our neighbors or the
risks of ocean transport under war
conditions"
Signing the brief were: Calumet
& Hecla consolidated, Michigan;
Consolidated Copper-Mines Nevada;
Copper Range company, Michigan;
Isle Royale Copper company, Michi-
gan; Magma Copper company, Ari-
IONA; Miami Copper company, Ari-
IONA; North Carolina Exploration
company; Phelps Dodge corporation,
Arizona and Texas; Quincy Mining
company, Michigan; Shattuck DEM
Mining company, Arizona, and Ten
nessee Copper company.
Anaconda and Kennecott also filed
briefs which were not published.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
TO WORKERS IN THE
SEWING ROOM

Are your interests neglected or do
you e any chance of improvement?
The Workers Alliance is working to
your interests. 1t is trying to raise
the minimum scale to $500 with
some hope of success in the very
near future. 1t is your battle. What
are you doing to help?
You should support it in its efforts
in your behalf by joining up and
pay your monthly dues as it takes
some cash to pay hall rent and buy
stationery. You know the officers
and committee members are on less
than a dollar a year salary basis and
the least we can do to keep their
morale up is to attend meetings and
pay dues to keep the organization
functioning. BY doing less, is to
become the Pariahs and outcasts of
the whole labor movement. By
~neglecting our union until some
drastic cut or wholesale layoff has
taken effect is like closing the stable
after the horse is gone.
Contributed.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
ANACONDA CIVIC And FRATERNAL BODIES
TAKE LEAD IN ASKING ADEQUATE RELIEF

should be corrected without delay.
It is the suggestion Of this board
that the Commissioners Association
strenuously urge the State Welfare
Board to so increase fut. re naonthly
payments that the existing appropri-
atoms will be practically exhausted
by December 81, 1910, and that the
next legislative assembly be asked
to pass such appropriation as will
properly provide for the first six
months of 1941.
If this suggestion is not adopted,
then we urge that the State Welfare
Board use the authority already
granted to it by the State Board Of
Examiners to so exceed its budget
as to provide u needy in keeping
with decency and health-something
that cannot be accomplished under
our present monthly allowances.
If neither of these suggestions is
followed, our association should not
hesitate to Immediately request the
Honorable Roy E. Ayers to call a
special session Of the Legislature to
care for this emergency.
Even the most conservative Of us
cannot truthfully contend that the
present average monthly allowance
is adequate. Less truthfully may we
contend that nothing can be done
about it. Our duty in the matter is
plain, and it is the hope of these
less fortunate people, as Of those who
have their welfare at heart, that we
will perform this duty. Let us not
fail them.
Very truly yours,
Board of County Commissioners
of Deer Lodge County, Mon
tana, by J. G. Sestrich.
In addition, the county board of
Yellowstone county and others have
been giving the relief situation their
consideration, according to Norman
LeFever, secretary of the Montana
Public Welfare Council, but, appar-
emily, none have as yet decided on a
course of action. The Welfare
Council will continue its fight for
more adequate assistance to all cate
gories of welfare clients until it is
won, the secretary said.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
UNICAMERAL
REDUCES COSTS AGAIN

CHICAGO, Ill. - Nebraska's uni
cameral legislature, which cut law
making costs in half at its first ses-
sion in 1887, reduced expenses this
year by an additional $2,767, ac-
cording to a report to the Council
of State Governments by William
Edward johnson, president of the
legislature. Although the 1889 SEES
sion was the longest in the history
of the state-l11 days-the expense
of running it, including members
salaries, wages of officers and en-
ployees, postage, supplies, printing
and incidentals, was only $l00,678,
the report said.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
OFFICE OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS

O1G ACa6& OOtAANJ
Anaconda, Montana
November 81, 1889.
Mr.. E. B. Winter,
President, County Commissioners
Association Of Montana,
Miles City, Montana.
Dear Mr.. Winter:
Deer Lodge county, like most Of
the other counties of u state, is
faced with a very serious problem,
the immediate and proper solution
of which is vitality important to all
those receiving the average old age
assistance grant, and, of course, of
equally vital Importance to us whose
duty it is to see that those in need of
relief are properly provided for.
Under this grant these persons are
receiving an average monthly allow
ance of $21.86, which has been
wholly inadequate. And now, with
advancing costs of living, this in
adequacy has reached the point
where an average allowance of
$21.86 becomes a futile gesture in
attempting to properly aid those for
whom our welfare moneys were ap-
propriated. 1t entirely defeats the
wish and intention of the legislative
body which created the appropria-
ton, and those receiving old age
assistance are suffering real hard
ships and privation because of our
inability to more efficiently provide
for their needs.
Fortunately, our 1887 Legislative
Assembly had the foresight to pro-
vide a remedy for insufficient relief
appropriations, and enacted Chapter
40, the provisions of which enable
the State Public Welfare Board to
apply to the Board of Examiners for
authority to increase such payments.
To date the Welfare Board has not
availed itself Of the benefits Of this
enactment.
We earnestly believe that the
boards of county commissioners
throughout the state should join in
urging the State Welfare Board to
increase the expenditures for relief
purposes, and that no time should
be lost in attempting to convince the
State Welfare Board that its appar-
ent apathetic attitude has resulted,
and will continue to result, in a con-
dition among our needy that we feel
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
Missoula County Central Trades and
Labor Council
Missoula, Montana
NOvapohar d 1000

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Labor Council
Missoula, Montana
November 4, 1889.
Personnel Director
F. w. Woolworth Company
New York, New York
Dear Sir:
We take the liberty herewith to
inform you of the grave conditions
existing in your store in Missoula,
Montana.
For several years the Retail Clerks
Union has attempted to organize the
clerks employed by you in the above
city. The labor movement in Mis-
soula has at all time met with oppo-
sition from your manager, Mr.. D. M
Eby, who, to our best knowledge is
connected with the local Employers
Association; an organization made
up of so-ealled independent Mis-
soula merchants headed by the Mis-
soula Mercantile company, a large
institution in Montana. During this
year several attempts were made by
the Missoula Trades and Labor
Council "a central body, the Cooks
and Walters Union, the Transfers
Union, and the Retail Clerks Union
to bring about a conference with
your manager for the purpose of
organization and collective bargain
ing in behalf of your employees.
This was consistently refused by
your manager, Mr.. Ely, who re-
ferred us to a Mr.. D. P. Bates, sup
posedly secretary of the Missoula
Employers Association. Mr.. Bates
refuses to enter into any negotia-
tons with reference to collective
bargaining. Messrs. Bates and Eby
have gone as far as to refuse the
services Of Mr.. Chapelle, conciliator
for the United States Department
of Labor. They have left the i'm
preston with him that they are not
concerned with the just requests of
labor and that they have nothing
to conciliate or to talk about. This
is their attitude, irrespective of the
fact that a picket line has been post
ed in front Of your store, a strike in
progress, and the Executive Board
Of the Montana Federation of Labor
is seriously considering a statewide
boycott of your stores.
This entire procedure is puzzling
to the labor movement in Montana
for the following reasons:
The Woolworth Company, as a
large operator of chain stores, must
depend upon the good will of the
public for support in its struggle
against the vicious onslaughts pro
NOTED by the so-called Independent
merchants in the various legislatures
of the several states. No doubt you
are aware OF the campaign carried
on against you by the elements men
toned, to tax you out of existence.
In the national Congress and in
practically every state you r con-
fronted with tax legislation which,
if enacted, would unquestionably in
terfere with your income and profits.
The American Federation of La
Dor, in its last convention, on the
tenth day of October, 1889, success
fully fought a resolution demanding
high and unjustified taxation upon
chain stores. May we call your
attention to the proceedings of said
convention, which we are herewith
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Montana labor news., 1939-11-30

The Greeley Nursery School Par
ent group is giving a party Saturday
night at 9 p. m. in the American
Legion hall. The purpose is to raise
funds for nursery school activities.
A fine program has been arranged
for the occasion.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
BUILDING COSTS FOR
SIX-ROOM HOUSE DROPS

WASHINGTON, D. Cit cost
$237 less to build a standard, six
room house in representative cities
this September than it did in Sep
TENDER, 1887, the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board has reported. The
comparison of the two year period
was made, the board said, because
business recovery was at about the
same level in the fall of 1887 as last
month.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
MissouIa Council Prints
Letter on Chain Store
Labor Relations in Slate

The following letter is published
at the request of the Missoula Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council, and
clearly illustrates the inconsistency
Of anti-union employers association
tactics.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30

Wouldn't it be nice if everybody's
work was as easy as the other fellow
thinks it is?
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30
Unions, Fraternities, County
Commissioners Hold Joint
Meeting on Welfare Problems
in Anaconda.

ANACONDA.-On November II,
the labor organizations and %fraternal
groups of Deer Lodge county met
with the board of county commits
sioners in Anaconda to find a way
out of the present emergency in re-
lief administration. Representatives
of the organizations urged the coun-
ty commissioners to support the pro-
gram of the Montana Public Wei
fare Council to endeavor to get the
Association of County Commission
ers of Montana behind the move
ment. AS the outcome of the meet
ing, the commissioners of Deer
county sent the following let
ter to the president of the state asso-
Ration.
Montana labor news., 1939-11-30

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., 1939-11-30

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., 1939-07-23
Chester River 2-Day
Regatta Program Is
Heavy and Varied
Sailing Races Friday.
With Saturday Given
Over to Speedboots
BY the Associated Press.

CHESTERTOWN, Md. July o.
Forty-six sailing races, one free-for-
all handicap and series of three
events in IS different classes, along
with % power boat events consti-
tute the program announced for the
11th annual regatta of the Chester
River Yacht and Country Club next
Friday and Saturday
The first day will be devoted ex-
clusively to sailing events with the
outboards holding sway Saturday
morning and the inboards taking the
spotlight Saturday afternoon.
The sailing events listed include
races for boats over 20 feet in
length, stars, boats 20 feet and un-
der, skipjacks under 20 feet, boats
18 feet and under, Hamptons, comets,
scrappy cats. snipes, prams, barne-
gats. boats 16 feet and under and
moths.
Races Friday morning and after
noon over one course and third
race Saturday over a different course
will constitute the series. winners to
be determined on total points. The
free-for-all handicap will be sailed
Saturday afternoon.
Outboard events listed are class A
open, class c open, class B open,
class M open and class G runabouts
All will be in two heats with the ex-
ception of the class M event.
For the inboards, some classes of
which will race together but for
separate prizes, there are races for
the 9l-135 cubic inch hydroplanes,
Pacific design: 225-244 cubic inch
hydroplanes, class j and K run
abouts, class E racing and class E
service; classes A, B, c. D, F, G, H,
I inboards and Chester River
championship event, free-for- all, in
board and hydroplane.
Entry Record Already Set.
Commodore William S. Collins has
announced that already the largest
entry on record has been received in
sailing events and that the usual
large turnout of motor boats is ex-
pected.
Gov. O'Conor will distribute the
prizes to the winners Saturday eve
ming at one of two dances to be held
during the regatta.
A crab feast, at which visiting
yatchtsmen will be the guests, has
been scheduled for the evening of
July %.
The Coast Guards Calypso will
serve as the committee boat.
Evening star., 1939-07-23
Giant Shark Winner
In 12-Hour Battle
With Angler

A terrific struggle between a big
game fisherman, Enrol Bullen, and
a monster tiger shark estimated to
weigh 1,500 pounds recently took
place miles outside Sydney Heads,
Australia.
1t was the longest battle in the
history of Australian big game fish
ing and its intensity was given strik-
ing testimony by Bullens swollen
and blistered hands and deep welts
on his chest and back, where his
body had strained against the
leather harness supporting him.
A few minutes after Bullen had
put down his bait Ca 9-pound SAL
mon, garnished with decayed mack
eral there was a strike, and it was
not till nearly II hours later that
the shark, after towing the launch
for II miles, snapped the quarter
inch wire trace, as it was about to
be gated, and got away.
News of the battle reached the
shore and when Bullen returned,
weary and exhausted, there were
more than 1000 people waiting to
welcome him.
Evening star., 1939-07-23

on the Lagoon of Nations, which at
first reports was believed too shall
low for the boats. The clubs s.
mile swim for the Presidents Cup
has been set for August 26.
Cruise Eastern Shore.
Commodore Frank Courtney, Vice
Commodore Bob Sine, Harry E.
Smith and Roy Crockett of West
River Yacht Club leave on their
respective cruisers next Saturday for
a cruise of the Eastern Shore that
will include the Cambridge and St.
Michaels regattas between August
/ and 5.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate the bill to alter Federal
regulations governing small motor
boats. 1t sets up new category for
boats less than 16 feet in length
and relieves them of many require
ments heretofore imposed on boats
of less than 26 feet. Another pro-
vision makes reckless operation OF
power craft misdemeanor punish
able by a maximum of $4,000 fine
and imprisonment for one year.
Regatta followers will miss 1t.
Comdr. William Kenner, whose cut
ter Calypso has been the mother
ship for innumerable races the past
two seasons. The 35-year r-old Coast
Guardsman has been placed IN
command of the cutter Northland,
which will accompany Admiral Byrd
to the Antarctic this fall. Comdr
Kenner, with his twin brother
Frank, are old Tech High School
graduates, both entering the Coast
Guard Academy together. Frank
now is stationed in Honolulu as a
lieutenant.
Potomac Boat Club will send a
crew to attend the Arundel Boat
Club regatta in Baltimore next Sat-
urday. Local oarsmen won two OF
the three events they entered last
week in the Virginia Boat Club show
at Richmond, Paul Lanigan taking
the single scull and Mike Poluhoff,
James Atwell, William Marden and
Lanigan winning the quadruple
scull events.
Plans are going forward on the
intersquadron rendezvous Of local
and nearby United States power
squadrons to be held at st. Michaels
during the Miles River Yacht Club
regatta, according to John Loker-
son. He is hopeful of an even larger
turnout Of cruisers than last year.
He says that Chief Comdr. Arthur
Middleton plans to come down from
New York aboard his cruiser Royal
ties.
Evening star., 1939-07-23
Reynolds and B|itzen
Crew Honored for
Yacht Victory
Boot, Second to Finish,
Wins Long Ocean Race
Through Handicap
BY the Associated Press.

by t1e ASSOCldteQ fTeSS.
HONOLULU, July Or. J. Reyn-
olds of New York and his crewmen
of the 55-foot cutter Bitten were
honored today as winners of Amer
ica's greatest sailing classic, the
2O85- mile San Francisco-to Hawaii
yacht race.
The Bitten won on a handicap
basis over Is other contestants.
Eight stragglers we're still out.
Reynolds entry trailed the Con-
tender of Long Beach, Calf, across
the finish line by three hours, but
won because of a time allowance of
3 days 48 minutes 25 seconds. The
Contender was scratch boat.
The Eastern ship, which won the
Bermuda race last year, was ad-
judged the winner after the time
limit on the Viking Childe of Holly
wood, last entry which could have
defeated the Bitten, ended.
Elapsed time for the Blitzen was
IA days 10 hours Al minutes Sec
onds. It's corrected time was II
days hours So minutes Al seconds.
A story of near-encounter with
a whale was related by crewmen Of
the yacht Noname. Skipper Chester
Benson of the Catalina yacht craft
said the Noname came within 10
feet Of whale which apparently
was asleep on the surface.
Evening star., 1939-07-23
Rogers Of D. {. Picked
10 Referee Regatta
Al Red Bank

RED BANK, N. j., July 22.-Of-
ficials for Red Banks annual ma
tional sweepstakes motor boat re-
gatta on the Shrewsbury River here
August 10 and 20 have been ap-
proved by the American Power Boat
Association Racing Commission.
Fred Brown of Red Bank and
Charles F. Chapman of New York
will serve as joint chairmen of the
Race Committee, and William A.
Rogers of Washington, D. c., will
be referee.
Other officials include: James l..
Endicott, Washington, chief timer:
w. E. Willis, New York, chief start
er; Russ Gudgeon, New York, chief
scorer; j. S. Y. Tyson, Philadelphia,
pit manager, and Ensley M. White,
Red Bank, surveyor.