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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

Backed by Labor
Such pioneering work and pro-
gressive philosophy naturally has
the backing OF the heads OF Brit
ish labor. The present chairman
Of the Trades Union congress and
three past chairmen. together with
Is trades union and labor execu-
tives, issued a manifesto In the
press soon after MIRA was
launched. Labor In all countries"
they stated. If true TO It's tradi-
tons of placing human and spirl-
itual values before material things.
can build bridges over national
barriers and play a decisive part
in the reconciliation OF nations.
Such was the dynamic spirit Of
the best Of the early labor lead
ers and 1t must again be re-
created"
In Sweden, where labor IL In
control OF the government and
has achieved complete unioniza-
ton and abolished unemployment.
labor leaders reported in the
midst Of triumph, an emptiness. "
II Is because MIRA has provided
them . new inspiration and
new goal that they have support
ed It 30 strongly.
Moral Re-Armament IL the
ultimate defense Of democracy and
is the only way towards q happier
future for the people" said the
editor Of the chief Swedish labor
paper, a leading political figure.
addressing 100. 900 workers on
May day this year.
Through the sacrifice and saw
ings Of thier comrades. scsndina-
Wan steel workers have been en-
abled 10 bring the news and the
spirit Of MIRA 10 American labor
circles Ernst Roos. trade union
leader In the Swedish Domnaryet
steel works. declares. When
every workman begins his day BY
listening 10 God and putting into
practice wha, he hears, We viii
have created a fortress for dem
ocracy and freedom which nothing
can wipe out.
His friend Helgs Systrom.
strspping Swedish steel puddler.
notes that the strain has gone out
q negotiations with the manage
msnt NO longer do ! need 70
SIT At the table with my fists
elsnehed In my pockets" be says.
Moral Re-Armament has given Us
new power and shown u the way
10 build bridges between employ
ers and workers. Il Ia clear that
We must have peace IN industry
before we can talk Of peace in
. the nation"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

Matthews saia hss newest
ter had arrived iwo week
~ time and thereby ruined.
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to oklAhoma. lie sought
JOB. plckinE rottnn ~ : r.
Stafford. while thr hospital.
up the care a hls wife ..
10 charity, 4.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01
Armless Mother Is Enjoyin
Luxury of Bed In Hosbi

Stafford. Arlx.--Mrs Ruth Matthews. who was b
years ago without arms. enjoyed the luxury Of real
the Stafford hospital Tuesday after giving birth TO On
The side Of the highway seven miles east Of town.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

II usually hate movies
like that. but IL done me good
this time. Id been knowin'
for days that | wasn't goin'
to feel right till | had n good
cry"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

the top" He fought the police
behind barrioades. Anything went.
Potatoes with razor blades stuck
in them were favorite weapon.
One day they successfully routed
a charge Of mounted police by
rolling half a million stolen mar
bles down the street.
Then BIZ found in the fight for
MIRA the constructive way 20 get
that new social order. Through
him and the veteran labor organ
izer. Tod Sloan. matchmaker by
trade and agitator by nature" 600
dockland homes have become radi-
ating oenters Of this new spirit.
These two and their comrades
have brought It TO their own and
As other London borough councils.
Bill got national executive of
the British coal industry to come
down to his East London home
and talk over conditions In the
industry. This has since led 10 a
change OF spirit and method in
that employers dealings with his
men, and to a new willingness In
the coal industry TO adopt progress
siye methods In labor relations.
Bill Rowells conviction Is that
Labor must give TO society az
much as labor demands from So
ciety. and management must give
to labor as much as management
demands from labor. An honest
apology from both sides will open
the door for constructive peace
for ALL"
Tod, gnarled. white-haired Cock
ney, in his new love for all HUI
manity, puts his philosophy in AN
Open Letter to the Entire Human
Race" Dear Everyone" he
writes. 81 used to fight for bet
ter conditions for my class. Now
am fighting for better conditions
for all classes. II everyone cares
enough and everyone shares
enough, won't everyone have
enough? This La certainly the an
swer to unemployment and to the
millions living on the border line of
real want. We must restore God to
leadership. This will bring into
being a new thinking. new social
order. This Is the only revolution
that matters"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01
Entertaining
For Brides
Prs-tioIidsy Season h Ny
For Young Wemsn Who
VIII Soon Wed

Crisp note Of autumn In the
air. indicative Of tho approach
ing holiday season. adds par
ticular zest to The pre- .nuptis|
entertaining for %. young
hrides-eleet who -. wed
shortly before rpos1sxivin1
time. ov}~9 larger
parties Ct u.sas AN en-
q JShi 4hans, 3 pssle " sns
Aan 4 NnaeImna In Wit
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-01

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Evening star., 1939-10-04
service Of the old Baltimore Con-
ference was held last night.

service Of the old Baltimore Con-
ference was held last night.
Deacons and elders were elected
yesterday by the conference, which
advanced several ministers on trial
and retired six pastors from active
service and placed them on the su-
perannuate list.
Ordained deacons by Bishop Will
liam w. Peele of Richmond, presid-
ing bishop, were Quade Roy Arbo-
gast, Allegheny; Gillum Claude
Bentley, Fincastle; Edgar Allan
Swami, Remington, and Harry Grit
fifth Balthis, Winchester.
Ordained elders by Bishop Peele
were Hugh Lafayette Smiley, Min
nehaha Springs, w. Va; George
Samuel Lightner, Edinburg; James
Lewis Robertson, Romney, w. Va;
Carlton Matthai Haxris, Mount
Rainier, Md; John Rallston Hen
bricks, Middleburg; William Boyd
Bryant, Herndon; James Catlett
Murphy, Frankford, w. Va: Archie
Dean Kesler, Hedgesville. w. Va;
Benjamin Ralph Mark, Mount jack
son; Liscomb Elbert Crowson,
Ronceverte. w. Va, and Charles
Austin Michael, Gaithersburg, Md
Evening star., 1939-10-04
German Submarine Campaign
Far Below 7977-78 Peak
Hitler Must at Least Triple Force He Had
At Outbreak Of War, Naval Authorities Hold

as has been claimed, this represents
an effort which they are not ex-
pected to be able to maintain until
they have between 80 and 80 sub
marines in commission. If the al
lies have succeeded In sinking II
German submarines, as is claimed,
they already have made serious in
roads into the Nazi underseas fleet,
therefore, and have made it ex-
ceedingly unlikely that the German
submarine campaign can reach any,
thing like World War proportions
until the Germans, by building op-
erations, not only can replace their
losses, but at least triple the SUBJ
marine force with which they start
ed this war month ago, in the
opinion Of naval authorities.
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Methodist Farley
Prepares 10 Dissolve
Conference Setup
Only Resolutions
Remain for Action Of
Roanoke Session
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 4.-Only the
final business Of consideration of
resolutions was before the 500 Meth
odist ministers and laymen of the
Baltimore annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
here today as they prepared to dis
solve the conference In accordance
with plans of the new unified Meth
odist organization.
A majority of the churchmen will
60 into the new Virginia Conference,
which will hold its first organiza-
tional meeting in Richmond October
1918.
The memorial and ordination
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Mothers Of Youths
Organizer for Peace
By the Associated Press.

oS INC AsSOCiALeu SIeSS.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct. A.
Organizing to protect" 5000, ,0O(
boys between 18 and 81 who would
have no way of registering their
vote but who probably would have
to fight" in European war, 300
Springfield mothers yesterday
formed the first chapter OF a pro-
posed national group-"Mothers Of
Americas Sons"
Mrs. Arthur D. Lynn, elected
president of the group, said:
I'VE want our boys to live, te
work, to play-not rest in peace or
foreign SOIL"
Evening star., 1939-10-04

group, with radio workers, news
papermen, theatrical employees, law
yers and artists following In that
order.
Chairman Dies said the committee
found evidence that leaders Of vari-
Gus alien groups were in the pay Of
foreign powers. He asserted Com
munists in this section had q wide
spread espionage system (which
could be turned into a sabotage ring
OVprni0hto -
Evening star., 1939-10-04
Dies Puts Communists
In Chicago at 400
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Chairman
Martin Dies of the House Committee
Investigating Un-American Activ-
tiles today placed the Communist
party's Chicago membership at
4,70O on the basis of evidence OBJ
tanned here.
The Texas Democrat said investi-
gators who raided The Communist
partys State headquarters OBJ
tained an analysis of the member
ship, which showed milkmen con-
stituted the largest occupational
Evening star., 1939-10-04

Passengers may travel 400 miles by
bus on the new Yunnan-B Burma
highway in China for about $3.50.
Evening star., 1939-10-04

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Montana labor news., 1939-01-12

for a long time yet, expressed the convection
that we'll organized labor unions are one way
to industrial peace and that, if contracts be-
tween employers and employees were uni
versal, the likelihood of strikes would be
reduced to a minimum. In brief, she urged
that workers should have the legal right
guaranteed to them to join trade unions of
their own choice and that employers should
willingly enter into collective agreements
with them as a means of substituting con-
citation and arbitration for the strike
weapon in the settlement of industrial dis
putes.
The long record of international unions in
Canada shows that where such recognition
is given, they zealously guard against any
violation of their contracts and carry out to
the full the obligations imposed upon them
to observe the terms of the agreements
entered into. Almost twenty years ago the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada ae-
cepted, that the only solid foundation on
which trade unions could build was strict
regard to agreements entered into and this
is the policy that has been followed to the
present time by the Congress and its affili-
ated unions.
While holding that agreements reached
through direct negotiation between employ
ers and organized workers are best, unions
have never commended that they are above
the law and have faithfully co-operated in
the application Of arbitration and c%oncilia-
ton machinery established by legislation,
such as the Industrial Disputes Investigation
Act, ETC., even when such action has worked
to their disadvantage,
Statistics published by the Federal Depart
ment of Labor show that large percentage
of strikes result from refusal of employers
to allow their workers to organize or to meet
with their chosen representatives for nego-
tiation of collective agreements, AS was
pointed out in the report of the United States
Commission on Industrial Relations in Great
Britain, where employers frankly accept col
lective bargaining, they will find that labor
unions are responsible organizations, willing
and anxious at all times to cooperate with
management to further the best interests of
the industry in which they earn their living.
canadian Congress Journal.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12
so Million Without Libraries

Over 100, 600, 900 volumes are housed in the
5000 public libraries throughout the United
States. These libraries serve political units
containing a total population of 77,500,000
people. The remaining group of more than
$4,000, 900 Americans are without library
facilities.
Such are the startling facts concerning dis
tribution Of educational opportunities made
public by President Roosevelt's Advisory
Committee on Education in its report on
library service. In terms of averages, the
average person in an area served by Libraries
has available for his use 1.3 books. Taking
the nation as a whole, this average dips to
0.8. No wonder that large sections of our
people must be classified as economic, social,
political, and cultural illiterates; they could
not, even if they wished to, gain access to
the books they need.
The facts plead more eloquently than can
the most scholarly or impassioned advocate
of federal aid for education. Precisely as
we know that equality of school opportuni-
ties depends upon support from the national
government, SO also does equality Of nom
school opportunities. Educators cannot rest
content with their work until they make sure
that American citizens are able to continue
their education after graduation from the
public schools. Libraries are an essential.
All of which is n more weighty argument
for an immediate drive for federal equaliza-
ton of educational facilities.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12
Responsibility Of Labor Unions

Miss Frances Perkins, United States Secre-
tary of Labor, performed a public service
when, speaking recently to the Women's
Canadian Club Of Toronto, she emphasized
the value of recognition by industry of trade
unions as a means Of maintaining industrial
peace. Pointing out that "the purpose and
practice of democracy imposes upon us I'M
usual responsibilities and obligations" she
insisted that security of work and wages is
the first problem confronting labor. Miss
Perkins went on to express the opinion that
this could be achieved by cooperation and,
while recognizing that we shall have strikes
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12
Tom Mooney Is Free

Tom Mooney has been released from San
Quentin prison after % years of imprison-
ment. During those % years, there have
been many crimes committed, the most seri-
GUS of which was the World War. America
entered this holocaust telling the people that
it was war to make democracy safe. Demo
cracy can never be made safe as long as we
have criminals at heart who are always try
ing and are permitted under our system Of
government to cheat and rob the common
people.
The crime involving the Mooney case is
that any poor person or labor leader who
seeks to expose or restrict the profits of the
ruling classes will either be sent to prison
or killed. The crime was not the Prepared
ness Day bombing but that working men and
women who have the courage to try to ex-
pose the cruelty and the chicanery Of all the
institutions under capitalism should suffer
for it behind prison bars; that is the crime.
The ruling classes care little if 10 people are
killed by a bomb in a parade or whether a
man is killed in a war, as long as they can
still enjoy their own privileges. There are
only two classes in society as it is conducted
now, those who rule and those who are ruled,
or it may be put in another way, those who
produce and those who live off of those who
produce.
Tom Mooney objected to this system, Tom
Mooney wanted the wealth which the work
ing people create to be distributed to them.
He voiced that; he expressed that idea; he
was put to Jail for it and confined in Jail for
% years tor so saying. Most Of the institu-
tons which we have been taught from child
hood to regard as sacred, to regard as some
thing God gave us and generally the religions
are willing to subscribe and compel obedi-
ence to this doctrine, are feeting and de-
signed merely to further entrench those in
power in their illegal and tremendous riches.
The capitalist governors of California have
kept Mooney in prison. Appeals to the Su-
premeC Court of the United States also proved
unavailing, but at last a man with a heart
and a conscience was elected governor of
California and opened the prison doors to an
innocent man.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12
The Washington Scene
Bv HENRY ION

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - During
the 1886 presidential campaign most
of the country's newspapers got
shown up pretty badly. So out of
touch with the needs and wishes of
the people were they that when the
election returns were counted, the
daily newspapers, with a few excep-
tons, were stripped of all their pre-
tensions and revealed as the private
organs of a few wealthy men.
1t was thought, after that cam
paign, that the newspapers had
learned their lesson. It was thought
that perhaps they would tread more
cautiously and pay more attention to
the democratic role they theoretical
ly play. A few people said that from
now on the newspaper publishers
would be good boys.
Those thoughts were apparently
wishful thinking. The country still
regards the daily swindle sheet as
anti-democratic, as opposed to the
wishes and welfare of the mass of
the people, and as the defenders of
private property rather than OF
human rights.
This much is made clear by a front
page piece in the Christian Science
Monitor by the head of the Monitors
Washington bureau, Erwin Canham,
who was one of the many aboard
the Presidents train as it made its
way across the country last month.
Canham recalls how, in the olden
days, reporters travelling in cars be-
hind the Presidents were in danger
of accident because of the speed with
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12

are their interests from the interests
of the publishers of the big daily
newspaper. It might be pointed out,
for example, that publishers and
editors (Which usually means the
reporter and office boy, too) of labor
papers are seldom, if ever, booed by
the ordinary crowd, that, rather,
they are viewed as friends and not
enemies.
It is being said that the Presidents
intention of forcing a political re-
alignment, of creating a political
situation in which one of the parties
will be clearly the liberal party and
the other clearly a conservative
party, has been checked by the VIC
tory in Indiana and Texas of the
anti-New Dealers.
Granting that such was his inten-
ton, it is likely that the present
congressional campaign will push
that realignment whether or not
anti-New Dealers are defeated. Those
who are not licked will come to Con-
gress resentful of attempts to defeat
them while those who are elected
because of their fealty to the New
Deal will stick all the closer.
Adding to the sharpness of the
struggle will be the 1910 presidential
election with the conservatives seek
ing to boost Garner and those of his
ilk while the New Dealers seek the
maintenance of their principles.
To this situation will be added the
political strength of labor, now the
most powerful single political factor
in the country. All in all, the next
Congress should be a lulu.
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12

which the cars travelled and because
of the necessity of keeping punched
up. He adds;
But there's another and new kind
of risk. When during the 1886 cam
paign, the tough Chicago crowds
started booing a certain anti-New
Deal newspaper (The Chicago Tri-
bune) of that city, they almost
dragged its reporter from his auto
mobile and did him violence.
"And in Oakland, Calf, the other
day a Washington reporter almost
got into trouble that was his own
fault. He leaned from his car win
dow and yelled, Murray for Hoover
Three husky longshoremen started to
climb aboard the automobile to teach
the reporter his manners and it
wouldn't have gone well with him.
Canham concludes, $50, after all
is said and done, you can conclude
that reporters and the institution of
newspapers have only themselves to
blame if the public do think they
are a bunch of mugs. En- masse,
trailing a President they often act
that way. The press as an
agency of democracy needs to clear
its reputation, and that goes for pub
fishers and reporters alike, and if il
isn't done the nation will be the
worse off for the loss"
Canham puts the case gently, in
keeping with the tone of his paper,
and suggests that it is all just a mis-
understanding, that the public
doesn't realize how hard reporters
work and how the publishers are
really concerned with the best well
fare of their readers.
The actual fact is, perhaps, just
the reverse. The people are coming
to realize more and more how distant
Montana labor news., 1939-01-12

Where ignorance is bliss It's folly
to be wise.-Gray.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-29
Evangelism
Fall Plan OF
Presbyterians

Montreal, July 29-Representa-
tives from II Synods will meet here
next week to map plans for one OF
the most intensive evangelistic cam
paigns the Southern Presbyterian
Church has ever known. Churches,
chapels and mission points from
Maryland to Texas and from Mis-
souri, to Florida will be unified in
one sweeping drive for revival in
the spiritual life of the South.
The Rev. Donald w. Richardson,
D. D., of Union Theological Semin-
ary, Richmond, Va, chairman of the
General Assembly's Committee on
Evangelism, said the forthcoming
campaign is expected to be "a de-
monStration to the world of the
evangelistic zeal of our pastors and
their concern for the salvation of
SOULS"
"The mere fact that all the South
ern Presbyterian pastors are sinful
taneously and continuously exerting
themselves in a great sacrificial ard
costly evangelistic undertaking will
inevitably have some effect upon the
church at large" he said.
DR.. Richardson also declared that
one of the recommendations expect
ed from the meeting will be re-
quest that laymen take the initiative
in the campaign as much as pos
sible. The committee will ask the
laymen ''to face the responsibility
resting upon them sympathetically
to support the members Of the min
istry in their evangelistic efforts"
The committee will probably say
also that "the laymen of the church,
through organized effort, should
seek opportunities for speaking to
groups, teaching classes, holding per
sonal interviews, and working with
underprivileged men and boys"