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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Social Notes

Miss Cleo Hunt was the gracious
hostess to a chicken dinner given
for a few of her friends at her
home on Sunday afternoon, May
18th, 1910.
Those attending were Mrs. Lou
Use Phelps, Mrs. Emma Clayton,
Mrs. Bernice Fair, Mrs. Violet
Gamble, and Miss Marguerite ia
mieson.
Everyone enjoyed a very plea
SAINT afternoon.
Mrs. Margaret Sanders Malone,
of Seattle, Washington, has taken
the opportunity of temporarily
signing with the Spiritual Jubilee
Singers of Chicago, Ill. Due to the
illness of Mrs. Withers of Ken
lucky who Is a soprano with the
Jubilee Singers, at their request
it was Mrs. Malone who took her
place.
They expect to be gone during
the month of May covering such
cities as Yakima, Aberdeen, and
Everett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard e. Squires
were guests of the Historical So
ciety for the past month, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Clayton,
Sr. Mr.. Squires spoke on problems
confronting the race.
During the past week, Mrs. Au-
leila was hostess to the Historical
Society at the residence of Mrs.
N. T. Green, who for three months,
has been a shutin.
Mrs. A. b. La Force Lelearn,
who has been confined to her bed
for the past three weeks with a
nervous breakdown and a serious
attack of bronchitis, is improved
and able to be about again.
Mr.. Artie Kaiser of Paducah,
Kentucky is a visitor in the North
west.
Mrs. Thomas Moveak, honoring
Miss Alberta Baker who is on her
vacation, and Mrs A. r. Baker,
was hostess with a motor trip to
Mt. Rainier. The party had love-
ly luncheon at Longniie.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Sponsored By Owls

The Owl Club, always unique
in the idea of entertainment, spon-
sors party in keeping with the
present economic conditions.
Miss Caroline Shepherd, secre-
tary to the Owls, said that al
though the idea of hard time
party was of a facetious gesture,
it finally developed into a reality.
Our offering a prize to the most
Anticipated and shabbiest dressed
couple was only to stimulate in
terest in our party. While we ex-
pect a large crowd of our friends,
we are assured that the number
of contestants will loom larger
than we anticipated. Anyway, just
leave it to the Owls to be so diff
ferent.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Younger Matrons'
Fifth Anniversary

The Younger Matrons celebrated
their fifth anniversary with a
beautifully appointed dinner at the
residence of their President, Mrs
Rilla Drake.
"a members and guests enjoyed
an evening of cards and various
games. The guests present were
Mesdames Betty Wesley, Ina Giles,
Bernice Fair, Edith Bonner, Lucille
Bushnell, Mildred McIver, Gene
We've Williamson, Evelyn Lewis
Ruth Wells, Violet Camel, Louise
Phelps, and Augusta Shannon.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Collins Pitches 4
Hits, so, Shutout

Behind the four hit pitching of
Curtis Collins the Royal Giants
whipped the Aeronautical Mechan-
les in so shutout at the Gar
field diamond last Sunday.
The Giants gathered 10 hits with
Dave Williams and Perry Gillian
getting two for four and two for
three, respectively.
To date the Giants have won one
and lost two.
Sunday, May 10 the Giants ira
vel to lower Woodland to meet
the league leading Ballard nine at
IL pm.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Dan Bishop Passes
In Bellingham

Daniel Bishop, of Bellingham,
Washington, age 81, died at Har-
borview hospital, Sunday, May IL,
of cancer. Bishop was brought
to the hospital from Bellingham by
friends, about a month ago for
treatment. He came to Roslyn,
Washington in 1917, moving to
Bellingham in 1927.
Funeral service will be held at
the Home Undertaking Co., 9th
and Union Sts., Saturday, May
Is. Interment at Washington
Memorial Park.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
A New Enterprise
Used Rugs, Carpet

Mr.. S. E. Stone, who has en-
joyed 3S years of business exper-
fence in Seattle, ventured into a
new field with new ideas.
With a thorough knowledge of
Chinese, Oriental, Turkish, Bel
GUM rugs, and equally exper-
fenced in cleaning, renovating, dy-
ing and repairing, he succeeded
from the beginning. In three years
his business has grown and be-
come known all over the state of
Washington and Montana.
He has fully equipped several
hotels in Yakima, Spokane and
Montana, and long since has
crossed the confines of his own
district.
Cleaning, dying, repairing, siz-
ing, fringing, demothing rugs are
specialties featured by the Used
Rug and Carpet Shop. His cash
and Carry system permits him to
renovate and clean rugs for $1.50,
remarkable saving. His display
room houses rugs from all over
the world.
If you wish to buy new rug,
sell, exchange, renovate, clean or
dye an old rug, Mr.. Stone will
make you some flattering offers
from his large display room at
HOB Jackson st. All stock plainly
marked and priced.
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NOTICE OF MEETING
AT Mrs. A. Downs Home, 49,
~ N. Every Tuesday Evening,
8:15. Conducted by Father
Prange, s. j.
fundamentals of Catholicism"
VISITORS WELCOME

KEEP OFF DAY, May 81, Y.
M. c. A. Spring Dance.
Mrs. Fred Rosa Blackwell was
hostess to the Semper Fidelis at
her home, April 10th.
Mrs. Lucille Bushnell was hos
tess to the Semper Fidelis club at
her home, April 26.
Mrs. Maxine Chandler was hos
tess to Semper Fidelis, at her home
May 10.
The Round Table Club, a newly
organized auxiliary to the First A..
NJ e. church, was host to its many
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17

friends at the Y. w. c. A. The
table and rooms were beautifully
decorated by red hawthorn bios
SONS. Messrs. Leonard Clark, San
dy Moss and Donald Hancock did
service honors. Miss Mimi Deering
was guest soloist, accompanied by
Mrs. LIE Eta King. Mrs. L. B.
Young is president of the Round
Table Club. Other members are
Mesdames Bertha Campbell, En-
ma Chainey, Vivian Austin, Cor
don Carter and Eva Jones.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17

Howard University in Washing
ton, D. c., is not only the largest
and most completely equipped Ne
gro institution of higher learning
in the world, but it is, with one
exception, the only private educa-
tional establishment in America
that is supported chiefly by con-
gressional appropriations, which
amounted to about $1,1S5,OO in
1885, Golfers Weekly.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Armstrong,
jenkins In
|Non-Title Mix

The Hank Armstrong and Lew
Jenkins twelve round non title bout
has been approved by the New
York Boxing Commission, for Ju-
ly II at the Polo Grounds.
Jenkins recently dethroned Lou
Ambers as light weight king by a
fourth round TKO of scheduled
fifteen round bout.
Both fighters will weigh in at
lao pounds or less for the bout.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
Sprint Star Meet
In Special Race

Mozelle Ellerbee, Tuskegee Tor
nado, comes to the Pacific Coast to
match strides with Clyde Jeffrey,
Stanford US white hope of the
dashes in a featured race of the
Finnish relief meet at the Coli
scum tonight, Friday, May II.
A leg injury may prevent Jeffrey
from competing for the title of
the worlds fastest union"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17
POWELL WINS IN 4TH

Eddie Powell, Seattle IT'S pound
err, ko'ed Ivan Bland of Salt Lake
City in the fourth round of a
scheduled six bout in Vancouver,
B. c., May A.
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He danced a jig on S. BIS head
Kicked him out and to him said,
From now on think of this true
song
Every goodbye isn't gone"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17

Mrs. John Young wishes to
express her appreciation to the
people of Seattle for their kind
ness and thoughtfulness during
her bereavement.
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CLASSIFIED ADS

FOR RENT-Modern broom flat,
bath, garage, storage room. 1926
23rd Ave. $500. Montana Loan
Co., Main 1868
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-17

Scholarship Dance, June II.
Keep off.
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STRICTLY modern 4 rooms and
bath SIS per month. 3 room Apt.
and bath SIS per month. Geneva
B. Miller 1880 "a Ave. Pr. 1888
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Over 10 Million
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unemployment amounting to nearly
100000.
There WERE" he said, "1,615,000
cases on relief rolls in January and
probably several hundred thousand of
these were due to unemployment"
Green entered the discussion as to
the number of unemployed with the
declaration that 1899 national income
in goods and services was equal to
that Of 1929 but population increased
by 10 million during that time.
In other words" he said, "our 1899
income had to feed, clothe, house and
serve nearly 10 million more people
Because of this population increase
the income we produced in 1889 pro-
vided 1870 less for each person than
the same income had provided 10
years ago in 1929"
"We cannot permit recent newspa-
per statements to cloud the real is
sue" he concluded, namely that, with
23,000,000 families four-fifths
of all American Misunderstanding at in
come levels below $4,000 a year which
is minimum for health and efficiency,
we cannot accept a production level
too low to lift these millions out of
their poverty"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
TECHN0L 0GICAL
BARRED
BY AGREEMENT

NEW YORK.-(FP)-An ironclat
provision against chronological unem
ployment is contained in a new one
year agreement between the American
Communications association (CIO)
land the Mackay Radio System, cover
ing $50 workers.
mo employe Of the company shall
be dismissed by the company during
the life of this agreement because of
m C h n "a 10 or chronological
changes" the agreement says.
Commenting on this clause, Vice
President Michael Mignon of AGA. s
point-to-point division said, "The sig
nificance of such guarantees can best
be appreciated when it is considered
that the communications industry is
rapidly mechanizing and actually dis
placing highly skilled workers with
semi-skilled and unskilled employees. ;"
The contract provides $4,000 year
ly increases, ranging from 1925 to $22
a month, which make the minimum for
semi-skilled and unskilled workers the
highest in the point-to-point radio and
cable industry
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weekly envelope was deducted, but
since wages were only 81 or so, the
employees protested. Then the kick
back was cut to per cent, but still
brought wages below the minimum re-
quired when the wage-hour law went
into effect.
The wage-hour division filed a COM
plant last November through Irving
Rozen, senior attorney under Regional
Director George B. Kelly. At first the
company planned to fight the case, but
when Rozen moved for an examination
before trial the employer consented
to a decree.
The company is nonunion, but or
ganizers of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union (unaffiliated)
are attempting to sign up the 900
workers Rayon underwear, cotton
sport suits and play suits are pro-
duced by the firm
Kelly called the injunction "of great
to the effective enforce
ment" of the wage-hour law
ut is both a notice and warning to
communities and employers" he said,
that any similar arrangements,
entered into to induce manufacturers
to locate in the community at the ex-
pense of employees who receive sub
minimum wages, will be regarded as a
violation of the fair labor standards
act and will be proceeded against as
such by the wage-hour division.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Unemployment ms.
Payments Nearing
Billion Dollars

WASHINGTON (FP) - Insurance
paid to unemployed men and women
under the social security acts unem
ployment compensation system is now
nearing the billion-dollar mark, it was
announced here.
The social security board made pub
lie a report showing that $910,398, 418
has been distributed by the 48 states,
the District of Columbia, Alaska, and
Hawaii, during the approximately two
years this plan has been in opera
ton.
The board said New York has paid
out $181, 723,394 to insured workers,
Pennsylvania $134,191, 41S, California
$73,034,732, Indiana $28,25S,533, Ohio
$2S,1S9,S91, Michigan $8O,765,191, ILL
nois $24,101,772, and Texas $21,960,-
822. New York, Pennsylvania, Cali
fornia and Texas started paying bene-
fits in January 1885, Indiana in April
1888; Michigan in July 1898; Ohio in
January 1889, and Illinois in July 1889.
1t added that s44,328,375 has been
paid out by the states to 1,334,982 in
sured workers during February. This
was so above the January payments.
A weekly average of $4,000 unem-
ployed workers received benefits, COM
pared with $4,000 in January.
Five states - California, Illinois,
Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania
accounted for approximately 1870 of
all total weeks of unemployment dur
ing the month, and for 51% of the
benefits paid for total unemployment
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Carey McWillians
Heads Committee
For Foreign Born

NEW YORK.-(FP)-Ca McWil-
liams, chief of the California Division
of immigration and Housing and au-
thor of the best seller, Factories in
the Field, has been elected chairman
of the American Committee for Pro
lection of Foreign Born.
Named as vice chairman were Miss
Pearl M. Hart of Chicago, chairman
Of the Women's League to Combat
and DIR. Max Yergan of
the College of the City of New York,
director of the Init. Committee on
African Affairs.
The committee recently held its
fourth annual conference in Washing
ton, which was attended by delegates
100000 persons in rs
states.
Purpose of the organization is to aid
in naturalization of non-citizens, pre-
vent discrimination against the foreign
born, and to re-establish the American
tradition of asylum for religious and
political refugees. At present the
is campaigning against the
70-odd anti-alien bills pending in con-
gress
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
BR00kINcS SAYS
UNION RAISED PAY
FOR WORKERS

WASHINGTON.-(FP) - Grudgint
praise was given the United Auto
Workers (CIO) by the privately -en
dowed and ultra-conservative research
Organization, The Brookings Institu
ltion
The organization made public a re
port on labor relations In the auto in
dustry which was made by Prof vii.
liam H. Mcpherson, assistant profess
sor OF economics at Oberlin college.
Labor relations in the auto indus
try on the whole appear to be grad
ually improving as experience in col
lective bargaining is gained" the re-
port concludes.
THE. group of companies which
have accorded whole-hearted accept
ance to the union, though small, is
increasing" 1t says. while most
managers are reluctant to grant new
concessions to the union, nearly all
are apparently making a very sincere
effort to assure successful functioning
OF the agreements they have signed.
AT the same time the union is
growing more responsible, and is MAX
ing greater effort to assure observ-
ance of agreements"
Since the union has come into the
industry, Mcpherson found, hours,
have noticeably shortened, extra pay
for overtime and for night shifts has
been introduced and the use of piece
rates has been sharply curtailed.
Hourly earnings the Brookings
summary of the study says, have
been greatly increased but the author
finds 1t impossible to determine how
much of this has been due to the in
fluence OF the union, inasmuch as the
trend of wages in this industry has
been steadily upward, interrupted only
by the depression.
1.-THE apparent fact that wage diff !
ferentials between organized and I'M
organized plants are now much great |
err than the contrasts between the |
same plants In pre-union times, indi-
Gates however that the union has
probably been responsible for some of
The increase in the general level"
Regarding speedup in the auto in
1ustry, the report says, st is the aim
of the union to standardize not only
wage rates and labor conditions among
plants but also their labor
The union contends that
work has been speeded up so as to be
detrimental to the health of the work
ITS and definitely seeks a slower rate
If operations.
Managers say that since the adj
rent of the union they have had more
difficulty in inducing exceptional en-
)loyes to produce correspondingly ex-
.eDtional quality of product and the
Iuthor states that 1t is probably the
acit If not official, policy of many
ocal union executives to discourage
output"
After surveying the results of NLRB
elections in the auto industry, the re-
,ort concludes that the ALL faction
Il the auto workers has less than 10
,er cent Of the workers in the in
ustry.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
rail ROADS TAX PASSENGERS TO PRO
vide MINIMUM WAGE FOR RED CAPS

CHICAGO -. (FP) - Harrased by
wage-hour suits filed by union red
caps who have been forced to work
practically without pay, the railroads
have found a way out.
It's simple. The passenger will be
required to pay dime for each piece
Of luggage carried to the train, and
the porter will be required to turn
over the money to the company
which will give back 80 cents for an
hours work, the minimum set by the
wage-hour law
The plan has already been put into
effect at the Cincinnati Union Termin-
al and will be established at the Him
OILS Central station here April 1.
Spokesman for the United Trans
port Service Employees (unaffiliated),
formerly the Intl Bro. of Red Caps,
in 3-year fight for regular wage
system, but they deplored the levy
upon passengers as both unfair and
illegal.
while the principle of the minimum
wage has been definitely established
by the union in this recent move of
the industry" said UTSE President
Willard S. Townsend, "the railroad
companies are attempting rank dis
tortion of the principle as a counter
move
"The saddling of the responsibility
upon the travelling public to meet
minimum wage requirements is total
ly unfair to the public. This service
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
By SCOTT NEARING

The same forces that erected bar
riers between the nations of Europe
are building frontiers between the
states of the U. S. The peoples OF
Europe are walled off from each other
by Notifications built at the behest
lof their ruling classes at a ruinous
cost of labor power and materials
The ruling classes in various parts OF
the U. S. are working in the same
direction.
The boundary lines of present-day
Europe were established through CEN
turtles of state building Each ruling
class group worked to secure for it's
own members a maximum of income
and power from the use of local ma
tural resources, the exploitation of
local labor power and the gains of
the local market.
The competitive economic struggle
in the U. S. developed against a far
more generous background of fabu-
lously rich, untouched natural re-
sources, an under-populated continent
and rapid industrialization. The re-
suit was a federal union in which the
ruling groups of the various states
banded themselves together. enthusiasts
tically to share in plundering and
squandering natures bounties and in
utilizing the amending stream of Euro
pean labor power that flowed across
the Atlantic.
Wealth increased economically. In
come grew by leaps and bounds. The
possibilities of profit and power in the
New World seemed limitless.
The frontier era in U. S. history is
gone. Natures stores must be con-
served if they are to be further en-
joyed. European migration has all
but stopped. The days of continent
spanning are over. American profit |
GERS must settle down to a grim strug-
gle for wealth and power, with ma
tional income no longer increasing but |
Consequently they must grab and |
keep every local business opportunity. |
For them 1t is not sufficient to "Buy |
People must now buy |
Pennsylvania" or Buy Texas to pro-
tect the home market.
The latest episode in this struggle |
for power between local groups was
1ramatized when Gov. Leon Phillips
Of Oklahoma called out the national
guard and declared martial law in the
territory surrounding two federal irri-
CATION construction projects on the
ground that Oklahoma had been in
gaded by U. S. authorities.
Phillips has been fighting to pre-
vent the completion of dam on the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-04-03
Clio SECRETARY
freed, DEMANDS


TORONTO.-(FP)- H. Mil
lard, secretary of Canadian CLIO
stands clear of charges OF treason and
sedition for which he was arrested In
December under the Defense of Can
ada Regulations.
The charges arose from a speech
at union meeting in a northern On
tario mining town. Two of the allie
cations were withdrawn at the first
hearing. Millard admitted two others
but insisted they were not actionable;
the third he denied. The dismissal
came four days before Canada's fed
eral elections, in which labor's vote
| is important.
"Now that the crown has admitted
that the ends of justice would not
be served by prosecuting the case
further, l intend to inquire why was
arrested on such flimsy charges, why
was not allowed to see my attorney
before leaving for the first hearing,
and why was put to the expense of
long trips to appear for remands, when
a court in Toronto could have been
used" Willard told Federated Press.
81 have retracted nothing of my orr
ginal statements, which were evident
ly misinterpreted by someone, as the
crown has now tactly admitted
Following the dismissal, Attorney
General Gordon Conant, who swore to
get Willard when the latter was active
in the 1897 Oshawa strike, issued
statement alleging that the action had
been dropped because of the recent
of the Defense of Canada
to permit criticism 'in
good faith" of the government.
But before that modification M. ].
Coldwell, national chairman OF the Co
operative Commonwealth Federation,
deliberately repeated all Millard's al |
legedly reasonable statements and |
added to them. Only result was an
expression of disapproval by Conant.
Hence the dismissal appears to be
victory for the right to criticize Can
ada's government and war effort.
In applying for dismissal, Millard |
said he had no intention of agitating
against the war effort, and that he
hoped for its success-as the CLIO Of
'icially announced in November.
Willard admitted saying, 1--WE should
nave democracy in Canada before we
90 to Europe to fight for democracy"
md There is not great deal OF sense
n going to Europe to fight against
1itlerism while there is Hitlerism
light here in Canada" both of which
contributed to his arrest The third
statement, that men only join the
lrmy to be sure of eating regularly"
lie denied. What he said, he explained, Il
vas that he had every admiration for
men who enlist out of conviction and {
very sympathy for men who enlist
n order to be sure of eating regu-
arly.