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Evening star., 1940-08-14
Sturs Yesterday
BY the Associated Press.

Johnny Babich. Athletics-Scattered
a dozen Washington hits as the AS
won a night game. 6-3.
Jim Tobin. Bees-Won second
straight by limiting Giants to eight
hits for Al victory.
Frank Mccormick Reds-His homer
and single were major factors in win
over Pirates.
Clyde Shoun. Cardinals-His seven
hit pitching nipped Cubs.
Marius Russo and Joe Di Maggia,
YankeeS-FormerS fve-hit pitching
tanned Red SoX in opener and Joe's two
homers in afterpiece paced Yanks' win.
Ray Mack, Indans-His ninth-inning
single that ultima tely was turned into
a run beat the Tigers, 6-5
Taft Wright. White Sox-His ninth
inning double gave the Sox 4-3 edge
over the Browns
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Insects Clash for Title

Grady Boys and Washington
Flour insect baseball teams will
tangle tomorrow at the Taft Recre-
alton Center diamond for the unof-
ficial insect baseball championship
of the city. Both own very impress
sive records, the Grady Boys having
added their 45th victory of the year
when they defeated Bladensburg
Boys Club, 8-5, at Taft yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Heurich Nine Picked
To Clean Up Cameo
For League Flag
First-HoIf Winner Seen
As Capturing Second
Part in PIoyoff

Cameo Furniture and Heurich
Brewers were to open a three-game
series for the Industrial League sec
ond half championship today and
unless the tickle lady of fortune does
an abrupt about face Heurich was
a cinch to win the set and the league
flag. The Brewers won the first
half.
Cameo is led by Connie" Wyche,
wZened managerial veteran who
has turned out several flashy teams,
potent outfits that piled up a tre-
mendous number of victories on the
road and in non-league games. but
never has he been at the helm of a
league champion. Twelve years now
this will o the wisp has escaped his
eager hands and the odds are
against him again this time.
Even if Cameo wins this series
it must play another three-game
cluster with the Brewers for the
league championship and taking
four out of six from the defending
champions is no mean feat. 1t was
Canoes loss to Heurich in its last
game of the regular schedule that
paved the way for the current tie.
The Beermen completed the cycle
by knocking off ODonners yester-
day, 6-1.
Veteran SandIot Leader,
Wyches sandlot career dates back
to 1928 when he took over the Lang
ley A. c. in the second half of the
Capital City League. He had fair
success, losing the second-half flag
in the final game to Curtains All
Stars. In 1929 he piloted Majestic
Radio in the Capital City League
and lost the championship to Capt.
tol Heights in the final game of the
campaign.
The next three years were bar
rem of titles, although Majestic bios
somed into one of the best road
teams in the city. It's reputation
spread through Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia. II was known
as a pocket edition Of the Yankees
in the hinterlands, but just an
other ball club to Washington
Sandlotters.
In 1888 Wyche decided to con-
fine himself to independent games
and won so and lost IL. a record
which had lot TO do with his re-
turn to organized competition the
following year. Another season at
old Milwaukee's helm and two with
7-Up. But the jinx got him again.
Try as he could-and everybody
acknowledged he had a fair passel
of ball players under his wing, old
Connie simply couldn't win.
Keeps Them Long Time.
Some of those playing for him
now have been with him 10 years,
others 5. The roster includes Bill
Albert, Woody Godfrey, Booty" and
Ken McQuinn, Jack James, Edgar
Adsir, George Coakley. Johnnie
Dugan, Clarence Plumb, Bill Barris.
Otis Printz, Tommy Hahn, Frank
beavers, Harold Price, Dick Wyche,
Jimmie Schwab, Giggles Adair, Har-
old Jacobchick and Francis Coax
ley.
Adair, boasting a 1876 average, is
the teams slugger, and Printz its
most consistent mound artist.
With such power as that. Cameo
has a chance against Heurich, and
host of sandlot followers are pull
ing for Comics crew" to come
through. Maybe it will.
Has anybody in the house an
old horseshoe or spare rabbits foot
they could let the boys have for
the duration of the series?
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Banned for Playing Released
Star, Packard BIumes Gouzzo:
Ruling Ties Trio for Top

Packard-Washington today was
ruled ineligible to play its final game
in the National City League by Pres
ident Vic Gauzza on the ground it
used player after releasing him at
the beginning of the second half.
Manager Sam Collie admitted his
team was out, but had few ex-
temperaneous remarks concerning
the rest of the story.
'"It was Gauzza's mistake, not
mine" he declared. why would
any manager in his right senses
release his best hitter? Or, if l had
released him and was trying to cover
him up in the second half, why
would 1 play him in six games under
his correct name? Why doesn't the
league have a more definite system
of checking released players instead
of simply allowing Gauzza to write
the word released across the face
of contract?"
Name Merely Misspeued.
The incident stems from a mis-
leading box score which had
player by the name of Lacy pitching
for Packard in last Sundays game
Failing to recall such a name,
GauzZa checked the clubs roster.
No Lacy was listed. Cole, however,
explained it was a misprint. that
the players name was Seay-Harry
Seay-and Umpire Walter Fry cor
rooorated this testimony.
That was all right, but in look
ing for Lacy's contract Gauzza
came upon a release for Tom Fow-
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Hopeless 1939Rook,
Rowe|I Of Bees, Now
Tops N. |. Hitters
Finds Controlled Major
Hurting Easier Than
Wild Minor Variety
B7 the Associated Press.

BOSTON, Aug. IA virtually
hopeless" rookie last spring. Carvel
"Bama' Rowell stayed in there
swinging for the Boston Bees and
today he's the leading batter in the
National League.
The amazing 24-year-old rookie
from Citronella, Ala.-the bust"
who became "buster"-has
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Seeks Sunday Opponent

Riverdale A. c. is after a Sunday
ball team. Call Warfield 58O5.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
NLRB Wins five
COURT CASES
I'M TWO DAYS

Observation-Disclosures
by the house committee allegedly in
vestigating the national labor relations
act and board for its illegal proceed
ure,' the act and board have never
theless continued to maintain a near
perfect score in the courts.
In two days of the week of March
II, the circuit courts handed down
four decisions in favor of the board
while the supreme court summarily
disposed of a fifth case, ruling in
favor of the board.
Most important, from labor's view
point, was the opinion handed down
in the fourth circuit court of appeals
by Justice Parker in the case of the
Highland Park Manufacturing Co.,
Charlotte, N. c., against the board.
Parker held that refusal to sign a
collective bargaining contract consti-
tuted failure to bargain collectively in
violation of the labor act. The de-
cision made the boards score on that
point two to one, having lost in that
respect in the Inland Steel case and
winning in the Art Metal Construction
case.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
HARLAN SHERIFF
COUNSEL HIRED BY
DIES Committee

WASHINGTON (FP)- Appoint.
ment of Robert E. Lynch, former coun-
sci for T. R. Middleton, former high
sheriff of Bloody Harlan" county, as
counsel to the Dies committee was
announced here by Rep. Martin Dies
3D., Tex, chairman of the commit.
tee.
Lynch is associated with VIM. e.
Leahy, an attorney here with offices
in the Shoreham building two floors
above the offices occupied by the ma
tional labor relations board.
Leahy was counsel for Ted Creech,
Harlan county coal operator, when
Creech was tried for perjury after
denying to the Senate civil liberties
committee that he had threatened a
committee witness in the halls of the
Senate office building. Creech was
acquitted.
In the same office as Leahy and
Lynch is James F. Reilly, an attor-
ney for Fraser Gardner, an alleged
silver shirt, who is being tried for per-
jury after denying to the Dies COM
mittee that he had concealed material
facts when applying for a Job with
the committee.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
F. U. LEGISLATIVE
COM. REPORTS,
ASKS SUPPORT

Things are moving with lightning
sped on our Debt Adjustment bill.
Senators Wheeler, La Toilette, and
Bankhead have reintroduced our bill
in much improved form, since it now
includes provisions for protecting
farmers whose mortgages are held by
interests outside of the Federal Land
Banks. The senate bill is No. S. 1909.
In the house of representatives, the
companion bill has been introduced by
Hon. Marvin Jones, chairman of the
house committee on agriculture. The
house bill is No. H. R. 8748.
Never in our experience has a bill
moved SO rapidly for consideration as
this debt adjustment bill. Congress
man Jones introduced it Monday and
hearings started this morning before
the whole house committee on agricul-
ture, with Congressman Jones as
chairman.
Congress wants to get out of here.
1t is election year. We have a real
chance to secure the passage of this
bill if the debt-ridden farmers want
it. We haven't a chance in the world
of getting it unless these same farmers
go to work at once with immediate
speed. These are the things to do:
1. Get wide circulation of the bill
write your congressman Immediately
for additional copies).
2. Immediately direct the farmers
to write and wire to the senators from
their state, the representatives from
their state and the following two COM
mittee chairmen in charge of the hear
ings on the bill: (a) Sen. Robert F.
Wagner, chairman of the senate COM
mittee on banking and currency; (b)
Representative Marvin Jones, chair
man of the house committee on agri-
culture and forestry.
8. Get it in your papers and all
other papers possible. Visit the edi-
tors of all papers and send clippings
from these papers to your congress
men and senators.
A. Get on the radio and tell the peo-
pie to move now.
h. 5. Call special meeting of your
locals and tell them what to do.
g. Call on your friendly labor or
CARNATIONS and local Chambers of |
Commerce to write and wire your
and representatives in sup
port of the bill
Continued on Page Four
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
NLRB Has Power To
Enforce Decisions.
High Court Holds

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Only the
national labor relations board may
press for compliance with its orders,
the supreme court ruled here in deny
ing the right of the Amalgamated
Utility Workers (CIO) to sue the Con
solidated Edison Co. of New York for
failure to live up to a board order
At the same time the court agreed
to pass on the question of antitrust
laws and labor unions. The question
will be presented in the suit of the
Apex Hosiery Co. against the Ameri-
can Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers (CIO).
The utility workers contended that
the company had failed to comply with
a NLRB order, that it persisted in un-
fair labor practices, and that it should
be held in contempt of court.
The union further argued that since
the boards order was intended to pre-
vent the company from discriminating
against its members, the union should
have the right to institute legal pro-
ceedings to compel obedience to the
court order
Chief Justice Hughes handed down
the unanimous decision rejecting the
unions contention ut is the boards
order on behalf of the public that the
court enforces," Hughes said. IF the
decree of enforcement is disobeyed,
the unfair labor practice is still not
The board still remains as
the sole authority to secure that pre-
The suit against the hosiery union
resulted from a strike which, the COM
pany claimed, resulted in damage to
the company. A district court award
ed damages of $711,932 to the COM
pany but the decision was reversed
in the circuit court.
II have no doubt" Isadore Katz,
counsel for the union, declared, that
the supreme court will affirm the
Judgment and hold as did the lower
court, that there was no violation of
he Sherman act in the Apex strike"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20

devices may lead to a variety of op
pressions that may never reach the
ears of the courts. They may, for ex
ample, have the effect of increasing
the power of law-enforcement agencies
to Cypress factory employees who are
under investigation, not for any GRIM
inal action, but only by reason of their
views and activities in regard to labor
unions and other economic move
ments.
This is no fanciful case-such in
yestigations are fact today"
Recalling the condemnation by
prominent lawyers and law school
deans of the practices of the federal
bureau of investigation in 1920. the
report went on to say:
"Wire-tapping and dictographing are
not likely to be eschewed by law-en-
forcement agencies which have, within
the last six months, not hesitated to
violate the most fundamental human
civil rights.
1t is no secret that some police
have searched private homes without
warrants and seized private papers
without warrants. Some police have
held unconvicted persons incommuni-
cado, refusing the request of an ar
rested person for permission to see a
lawyer promptly, privately and before
he is questioned by the authorities,
refusing to tell him promptly the ma
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
Capitol Corridor
Chatter

One guy who just woke up to the
fact that there is such a thing as this
great family journal, wrote in to the
paper and wanted to know what the
AABF was, so before | go ahead and
do my stuff, I'll have to explain that;
because there are several more new
readers that have laid the fee Gu the
line for the license to read the ele-
waiting thoughts that set down. May
be some of them read some of the
other things in the paper too. There
are lots of people who don't have
much discrimination in what they
read.
The AABF, my dear public, stands
for the Amalgamated Association of
Bar Flies, an old and revered insti-
tuition. 1t has quite few require
ments of qualifications for member
ship and some degrees. The first one
is, of course that the member must
be one bottle man at least one
bottle day, that is. Then he must
be able to handle 1t without trying to
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
WIRE TAPPING PROBE URGED, FIJI
use AGAINST UNIONS limited

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-A broad in.
lvestigation of the use of overlapping
and dictaphones by government and
private agencies was proposed here
by Sen Burton X. Wheeler 3D., Mont. }
in vigorous report submitted on be-
half of the senate committee on in
terstate commerce.
Wheeler, chairman of the inter-
state commerce committee, proposed
amending the bill introduced by Sen.
Green ID, r. ~ to include private
agencies who might be using wire
tapping or dictaphones for labor es-
pionage. The amendment would also
grant $4,000 for the inquiry instead
of $4,000
In the report of the committee
Wheeler added his voice to that of
Sen. George w. Norris (Ind., Neb) in
condemning the federal bureau of in
vestigation.
"Wire-tapping, the report declared,
"dictagraphing and similar devices are
especially dangerous at the present
time because of the resurgence of
spy system conducted by government
police
persons who have committed no
crime but whose economic and polit-
zeal views and activities may be OBJ
noxious to the present incumbents of
law-enforcement officers, are being in
vestigated and cataloged -.
"Wire-tapping and other unethical
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
TRESPASSINC AT THE CAPITAL

Ickes and the American Mining Con
gress which followed, can now be
told.
This column is informed, very reli
ably, that on March 4, two days be-
fore the report was given to the press,
Secretary Ickes called an executive
staff meeting of his department. The
session was stormy one. Ickes di-
rected Dan Harrington, head of the
bureaus public safety division, to
make public the BARLEY report. Har-
rington fatty refused. Ickes then re-
leased the report himself.
At this writing, there is no indica-
ton what action, If any, Ickes pro-
poses to take as regards Harrington's
open defiance of his order 1t is re-
called, however, that around the first
of the year Ickes requested and re-
ceived the resignation of DR.. John w.
Finch, the Bureau chief 1t is now
known that Ickes demanded the res
ignation on the alleged grounds that
Finch had served the interests of the
OpcI IdlutI lHdu LIE III
terests of the public.
The BARLEY mine report laid the
cause Of the tragedy to faulty cleo
trical apparatus permissible appar-
atus which had become non-permissa-
ble"), and pointed out that no inquest
had ever been held. The Mining Con-
gress charged that Ickes made the
report public in order to influence
pending legislation.
Background of the controversy is
the rather close relationship of some
Of the bureau of mines officials with
lobbyists of the American Mining
Congress and current efforts of the
lobby to defeat the mine safety bill
Is. 2420) passed by the senate on jan
uary IS and now pending in the house.
The bill provides for mandatory in
spection of mines and investigation of
mine accidents, together with man
Continued on Page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
UAW.CI0 SUPPORTS
AFL TEACHERS
ON SCHOOL BUDGET

DETROIT jFP) = Support of the
Detroit school budget advocated by
the Detroit Federation of Teachers
(AFL) was voiced February % by
Pres. R. j. Thomas of the United
Auto Workers (CIO). About $780,
900 addition money is involved over
the sum for last year. Mayor Jeffries,
newly elected liberal, questioned the
need.
1.-THE NAW-CIO, which speaks for
the overwhelming majority of auto
workers in Detroit" Thomas said, "be-
lieves that the budget presented by
the Detroit board of education should
be granted. The education system is
no place to experiment with econom-
les which may work to the disadvan-
tage of the schools and the children
whom they serve.
I'VE are also of the opinion that
the extra funds voted should be used
to guarantee the teachers adequate
compensation and to provide the chill
dren and students with the facilities
needed"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
F0RD'S man IS
CANADA'S INDUS
TRIAL DICTATOR

DETROIT FP) = Wallace Camp
bell, president and treasurer of Ford
Motor Co. of Canada, Ltd, is wartime
industrial dictator of Canada, with
powers as broad as any industrial die
tator in a fascist country.
Since Ford is just as savagely anti
union in Canada as in the u. S., the
damage his Canadian viceroy can do
to the labor movement in the domin-
ion is alarming all wings of organized
labor Campbell, as head of the war
supply board of Canada, is bound by
no laws, contracts or agreements that
he may choose to ignore, subject only
to the minister in the cabinet in
charge of munitions and supplies.
Even the Roman Catholic unions,
which are admittedly not militant, are
deeply worried about the future for
labor. A delegation from the Confed-
GRAFTON of Catholic Workers of Can
ada interviewed the minister of labor
at Ottawa, pledging cooperation with
the government in the war but insist
ing on collective bargaining. They
said:
"The federal administration should
have an understanding with the pro-
vincial governments legally to oblige
both employers and employees to con-
fer with view of entering such col
lective bargaining agreements" They
also demanded clause in the agree
ments guaranteeing the workers "the
right of revision of wage scales from
time to time to correspond with the
of living COSTS"
1t is doubtful if such desires by the
and other unions will make
much difference to Ford's man Camp
bell. Even if collective agreements
are solemnly made he can set them
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
BR0ADENS
FIGHT AGAINST
WARMAkERS
Federated Press)

The bigshots who are working moro
openly now to plunge the u S. into
the European war have hard job
for labor has declared war on the
wouldbe warmakers.
All over the country local unions,
state bodies and international conven-
lions have gone on record for peace.
Union members are given a picture
of the universal anti-war stand in a
mimeographed bulletin just issued by
Labor Research Assn, 80 E. 18th ST.,
New York.
Entitled Labor Against War" the
pamphlet is a compilation of resolu-
tions and statements by so labor
groups. The declarations range from
moderate Endorsements of the princi-
pie of neutrality to singing denuncia-
lions of those who would use the war
as means of crushing labor and ac-
cumulating vast profits.
Many of the resolutions point out
that labor is in favor of one kind of
war: a war to wipe out unemployment
and poverty in the u. S. One, adopted
by Ohio steel workers, warns Ameri-
can capital that eve are not in the
least patriotic about their foreign in
vestments or credits and would not
lift one finger to protect them"
The pamphlet is priced at 10c. Labor
Research Assn. asks that unions and
liberal groups forward copies of anti
war statements for use in an expanded
edition that is planned for later issue.
From the west coast, where Mike
Quin's pamphlet, "The Yanks Are Not
Coming" has already run into more
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
philadelphia TO
FORCE RELIEF CLIENTS
TO CLEAN STREETS

PHILADELPHIA Impressed
by the failure of winter sun to clear
streets of continued SHOWS, the Phil
adelphia city administration has at
long last decided to apply the work
or starve" law to relief clients and
speed an ordinance through the re-
publican council
Practically bankrupt until the work
ers' u Go wage tax law was passed,
the city has permitted snow to pile
up on all but the principal thorough
fares this winter to the disgust of both
motorists and pedestrians.
Under the state law, relief recipients
can be forced to help clean up snow
if the city pays their carfare and
furnishes one hot meal day. The
law provides that all able-bodied men
must work on the project in order to
draw their dole.
Mayor Lamberton expects to use
5000 of the relief clients at cost
of $4,000 for food, trucks and some
additional clothing.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20
0'MAH0NEY URGES
TAX ON MACHINES
AS JOB PROvIDER

WASHINGTON OPP A bill to
tax employers who made more than
average use of machines and reward
employers who made more than aver
age use of human labor was intro
duced in the senate here by Sen.
Joseph c. O'Mahoney d., Wyo.),
chairman of the Temporary National
Economic Committee.
O'Mahoney said the purpose of the
bill, which would amend the internal
revenue code, was to balance men
and machines" He said he would ask
for speedy hearings before the house
ways and means committee.
His bill, the senator said, undertakes
to bring about an alignment of men
with machines to conquer depression.
1t is based on the theory that the
machine could be made to pay its
way in terms of human production in
such a manner that society would re-
ceive the maximum benefits from the
full employment of both.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-20

the day marking the ending of two
fiscal years and once when the legis-
lature was in session, indicates at
least some careful managing in prep
aration for such times as he felt
obliged to make official reports on
the subject. AT no other times, at the
end of any other monthly period has
the general fund been out of the "red".
1t must also be borne in mind, in
evaluating the validity of the gov
errors claims of having conducted the
states business economically and eff
ficiently, that there has been a con-
stantly increasing revenue accruing to
the general fund.
During the fiscal year ending June
80, 1887, the first year of the gov
ernor's occupancy of the Office, the rev.
enue accruing to the general fund for
the year amounted to $3,857, 00686.
During the fiscal year ending June
80 last year (1939) the receipts in the
general fund amounted to $5,749, 957 SO,
an increase in two years amounting to
1882, 951.13.
June 80, 1889, was one of the three
times that the general fund obligingly
showed a cash balance, this being one
of the dates when publicity require
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