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Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
WARNED 20
MILLION MUST shift
JOBS AFTER THE WAR

WASHINGTON CFP) While some
senators moved along on the plan to
protect the %reconversion of industry after
the war without real study Of the prob
lem Of the workers involved, the Senate
Military Affairs subcommittee May a
heard a stern warning from Brig. Gen.
Frank T. Hines.
General Hines, director Of the Refrain
ing and unemployment Administration
predicted that probably 20 million peo-
pie will have to change their work at
the end of hostiities."
This mass turnover looming ahead,
Gen. Hines said that the "potentialities
for economic and social catastrophe are
greater than they were after World
War l."
Not only will 20 million workers have
to get into new jobs, but vast numbers
of them will have to change their loca-
lions in order to resume peacetime in
dustrial activities. Many of them will
have to be registered, be given unemploy-
ment compensation and finally be placed
in new work, the official declared.
The AFL, CLIO and the Railway unions
have backed Senator Harley M. Kilgore
D.-W. Va.) in his effort to include the
human angle in the postwar problem.
Speaking of the Kilgore bill, the AFL
said lit is the only bill which implements
the AFL policies as outlined in the AFL
postwar plan. It is based on an under
standing that neither industry nor agri-
culture can survive without the sus-
tanned purchasing power of workers fully
employed at adequate wages; that those
who are willing and able to work are
entitled to jobs at adequate wages, or if
unemployed through no fault of theirs,
they are entitled to adequate unemploy-
ment compensation for the period Of the
emergency; that they are entitled to
payment Of transportation for themselves
and their dependents to new jobs; that
they should have opportunities for fur
ther education or re%training."
From the attitude Of many senators
toward the r%econversion bill now being
considered, they are in too much Of a
hurry to protect industry to stop long
enough to consider the question Of how
the individuals in industry's factories
and plants are to get along.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
ACW Financial Report
Shows Assets of More
Than Four Million

NEW YORK-(FP)-Net assets OIL
$4.34O,113 for the year ending Jan. 81,
1914, were revealed in the financial
statement of the ~Amalgamated Clothing
workers (CIO), made public by the union
here May l.
More than 75G5 of the unions funds
are in U. S. and Canadian war bonds,
according to the report which covers the
financial position of the ACW general
office. 1t does not cover operations OF
the Joint boards and locals affiliated
with the international.
The statement lists a 100000 contri-
button to the CLIO Political Action Com
mittee which is headed by ACW Pres.
Sidney Hillman, and donations of $780,
900 for domestic and foreign wal relief.
More than 500 Of the unions expenses
we're incurred in organizing activities.
ACW membership now stands at 325,O00.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
ELECTRICIANS GET
SUBSTANTIAL AWARD

A recent award Of the National war
Labor Board granted the international
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of
Montana a substantial increase in wages
and beneficial working conditions against
the Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company. The award gave
the Electricians a SC an hour increase
which now makes the scale $1,000 per
day for line men, $11.4O per day for sub
foremen, $11. 80 per day for foremen, and
apprentices, first year, S8.4O; second
e a $3.50; third year, $40, and the
fourth years, $3.50. The unions we're also
granted retention of double time for
overtime.
There is quite a long story connected
with this award. 1t was first considered
by the Tri-Partite Panel at Helena, later
referred to the Regional Panel at Denver
and finally decided by the National
Board at washington. The Electricians
wish to particularly compliment Albert
Angstman of Helena for his sympathetic
assistance.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
BEING MADE
PRIMARY LAW
CASCADE COUNTY TRADES AND
LABOR ASSEMBLY
Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls, Montana
To all affiliated Unions and
Central Labor Councils
Dear Sirs and Brothers:
Another attack a started on the
Montana direct primary law and the
same old argument is being trotted out.
It is to the effect that the poor, dumb
people" are not well enough informed to
pick party nominees for high offices.
They should let a small crowd Of party
politicians, who are of course SO superior
in wisdom and Judgment, choose their
nominees for them. The demand that
political power be confined to a small
class is as old as government and is the
essence Of reaction against the dominant
and driving force which has expanded
popular control Of u political system,
step by step, from the beginning of the
republic.
Every argument against allowing the
Ignorant and uniformed citizenry" Sc
lect the nominees of the political parties
can be used just as logically against
allowing them to elect those same men
to office in the general election. That
argument against the direct primary is
an argument against representative gov
eminent based on universal franchise.
It is the identical argument the totali-
tarians of Europe use against political
democracy itself.
The poppycock about how superior the
caucuses and conventions were to the
primary elections does not impress those
who are old enough to remember how the
convention system was manipulated in
the days gone by. Either we believe in
popular government or we don't. The
argument against the direct primary is
an argument that the people cannot be
with political decisions, that just
a few of us superior political manipu-
lators should rule the land.
The Cascade County Trades and Labor
Assembly asks that each and every one
of you do everything possible to retain
our present primary law
F%raternally yours,
JOHN EVANKO. JR, Eec'y.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
SCHOOL BOARD TEY~ sQARLY RESTRAINED
FROM MAKING TRADE T. H. WITH A. C. M.

An order to show cause why an in
junction should not be granted enioining
the School Board from voting to release
any causes of action that School District
No. l may have against the Butte Cop
per and Zinc Co. or against the A. c. M.
Co. for damages to the Garfield school
was issued by District Judge ]. j.. Lynch,
Tuesday, May %, 1914. The complaint
was signed by a number of citizens. A
hearing will be held in Judge Lynch's
court room Saturday, May 27, 1914 at
1870 p. m. and all interested citizens are
urged to attend. The Silver Bow Trades
and Labor Council has taken a very
active part in this matter ever since the
board of trustees made the first PROPOSE
ton to trade the Garfield school property
for certain property north of the high
school -tadium. The unions take the
position that before any trade is made
the A. C. NJ. Co. should pay the school
district for damages amounting to about
$4,000.
Some weeks ago the School Board
passed a resolution providing for this
trade and which resolution was published
in the Montana Labor News in the issue
of Thursday, May 10, 1914. Attorneys
Maury, Shone and Genzberger are repre-
senting the plaintiffs in this action. The
complaint is as follows with the excep-
ton of the resolution heretofore men
toned passed by the School Board and
which has already been published.
The plaintiffs complain and allege:
l. That DR.. Harry G. Farrell, william
Gay, I. d. Hadzor, Francis x. Dolan,
Thomas Hosty, DR.. Milo c. Roberts and
Richard P. Donovan each and all are
duly elected, qualified and action mem
bers of the Board Of Trustees of School
District No. l, Silver Bow County, Mont.
2. That each and every one Of the
plaintiffs. at all times herein mentioned,
was, and now is, a tax payer, owning
property within, and paying taxes within
the territorial limits of the defendant
School District No. l, Silver Bow County,
Montana, and paying taxes for the oper-
alton of the said district.
3. That on Or about the 9Th day of
May, 1914, the said defendants caused
to be published. and announced to the
public generally of the said school dis
trict. the following notice:
CThis notice appeared in the Montana
Labor News last week.
a. That lots numbered Fifteen G5),
Sixteen G6), Seventeen 90 and
Eighteen Q8), in Block numbered Sixty
nine 500 of the Original Townsite of
Butte, Montana, are the site Of the Car
field school, a large brick and stone
school building capable Of accommodate
ing more than three hundred grade school
children, and it is the property Of School
District No. l, and such title To the said
property extends from the surface thereof
to the center of the earth. That two
years before the filing of this complaint,
the said property, and the said building,
were in good condition for school chill
dren. and actually being used for a school
for 800 children, or more, and had a
value for such purpose to the said dis
trict of more than Fifty Thousand
($5O,OOO) Dollars. That by t%respassing
underneath the surface Of the said prop
Continued on Page Two
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

, This declaration, called the "Philadel-
phia Charter" recognized as a solemn
obligation" the responsibility of the 10
to further worldwide acceptance of the
right of collective bargaining, a minimum
living wage guarantee, the extension of
social security and other measures to
promote the health, education and eco
nomic well-being OF all peoples.
Before a%djourning, the lilo also adopt
ed a statement on the social aims to be
included in the peace treaty and to be
applied thereafter. This resolution. sub
mitted originally by the United States
delegation, listed the following Z points
as being Of international as well as ma
tional concern:
/. Opportunity for useful and regular
employment to all persons who want
work, at fair wages or returns and under
reasonable conditions, with provisions
for protection Of health and against in
jury in all occupations.
2. Raising standards of living to pro
vide ADEQUATE nutrition, housing, medical
care and education.
8. Establishment of minimum stand
ards Of employment to prevent exploita-
ton Of workers, whether employed or
s%elf-employed, whose opportunities for
high wage employment are limited.
4. Provision for child welfare.
5. Provision for a regular flow Of in
come to all those whose employment is
interrupted by sickness or injury, by old
age or by lack Of employment oppor-
tunity.
6. The effective recognition of the
right of freedom of association and of
collective bargaining.
T.. Provisions of facilities for training
and transfer Of labor.
The ITO also sent a strong message to
the enslaved peoples Of the occupied
countries of Europe promising them that
their day of deliveranee is not far off.
In his closing address to the confer
ence, Walter Nash. minister TO the United
States for New Zealand and president Of
the conference, termed the Philadelphia
Charter the greatest social document that
has yet been published.
But it will not be worth the paper it
is written on unless we have action he
added.
The ITO, in order to assure action on
its recommendations authorized its gov
ernming body to serve as the watchdog
of worldwide employment, with the
duty Of calling a special conference of
the ITO when and if a general unem-
ployment situation %developes.
The governing body, in its turn, at a
meeting following the adjournment Of
the conference, directed a committee Of
nine to stand ready at all times to pre-
sent the social viewpoint of the ITO at
any international meetings held prior to
the next 10 conference.
Three representatives of the United
States, including Robert j. Watt, Ameri-
can workers delegate, were named to this
committee.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
John G.. Evans
to Be Honorad

John G. Evans, manager of the Butte
City Lines, has been transferred to Pasa-
dena, California where he will take
charge of bus operations. The employees
Of the Butte City Lines have arranged
a farewell social and dance for the eve
ming of Saturday, June 3, 1914, at the
I. o. o. n hall in honor of Mr.. Evans.
The employees of the company will also
at that time present Mr.. Evans with a
present as a token Of their esteem and
best wishes.
The committee in charge Of the ar
rangements consists Of Thomas R. Nor
gan, William Harbit and Arthur Miller.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
MINERS UNION A
TO BE HELD JUNE IL

The urgency of copper production for
the war effort actuated the officials and
committees of the Miners Union to alter
the time for the observance of Miners
Union day, so instead of holding the
celebration on Tuesday the 18th, the
event will be staged Sunday, June, 18th.
It has been decided to dispense with the
parade. A splendid program of sports in
the afternoon and dancing in the eve
ming has been arranged. However, while
the dance will be at the Columbia Gar
dens, no definite site has been chosen
for the sports program.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
WAR LABOR BOARD
BEARS DOWN ON
SEVERAL FIRMS

Sanctions totaling approximately $780,
OcO we're recommended to the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue by hearing
divisions of the Rocky Mountain Regional
War Labor Board in four cases involving
firms from this area, the board announced
recently.
In each of the cases the division found
that the firm had violated the national
wage stabilization program, but recon-
mended that the Bureau of Internal
Revenue disregard a large part Of the
sanctions provided for by the Act Of
Congress because of e%xtenuating circum-
stances involved.
Firms involved are the New Method
Cleaners and Dyers, SLIGO Tire and Oil
Company, Barnett Fuel and Oil Com
pany, all of Denver, and the Consolidated
Amusements Company of Salt Lake City.
In the case involving Consolidated
Amusements a division found that the
company had an unauthorized payroll
of S31, 8O4.21. Because of various fac
tors present in the case, however, par
ticularly the illness of the chief partner,
a d%isallowance of only s12,5OO was rec
commended.
In the New Method Cleaners and
Dyers case, manpower and wage condi-
tions existing in the particular industry
led the division to recommend a disal-
lowance of $9,426. 88, in connection with
an unauthorized payroll of $37,iO750.
In the SLIGO Tire and Oil Company
case, the division recommended a dis
allowance Of $4,000. The unauthorized
payroll was S17,476.95.
In the Barnett Fuel and Oil Company
case, the hearing division took into con-
sideration the fact that the company
was under great pressure to grant the
increases due to the low wage scale in
effect on the wage stabiliation date and
the large turnover of employees. A dis
allowance Of $4,000 was recommended.
The total unauthorized payroll was
$10,916.71.
Martin Kurasch, regional attorney for
the Rocky Mountain board, explained
that the economic sanctions imposed by
the board operate, in the main, as a dis
allowance of cost in connection with the
income tax return of the individual or
company found to have violated the ma
tional wage sterilization program.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
UNIONS FAVOR 9TH
TERM FOR |. D. R.

CHICAFO. ~ (FP) Full strength Of
the CLOS five million members was
swung into the drive to return President
Roosevelt to the White House for a
fourth term following his Endorsement
by the CLIO Political Action Committee.
CLEVELAND FP)-Pledged to the
reelection of President Roosevelt and TO
full participation in the work Of the CLIO
Political Action Committee, the 2,4OO
delegates to the second convention Of
United Steelworkers we're homeward
bound after a lively ~week-long session.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.-CFP)-AFL, CLIO
and railroad brotherhoods here united
in a joint appeal for a fourth term for
President Roosevelt.
CHICAGO - CFP) ~ Representing the
men and women who make their ma
tons uniforms, the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers (CIO) convention pledged
support to the battlefronts and to the
reelection Of President Roosevelt.
NEW YORK-FP)-Following the
lead of Init. Pres. Daniel J. Tobin, Joint
Council 16, Init. Bro. of Transfers
(AFL), pledged its 10000 members to
join the Roosevelt fourth term move
ment.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
ATTACK ~UNJUSTIFIED

The attack by Mr., Glover of the A. G.
M. Co. on one Of the officials of the
International Union Of Mine, Mill &
Smelter Workers at the Catholic Con-
ference held here recently ZONES with
poor grace. in view Of the almost trea-
sonable conduct Of officials Of the Ana
conda Wire & Gable Co. which sold de-
fective wiring 70 the U. s.. government
for military purposes.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

Shirley Davis, freshman at Montana
Ctate University, was initiated at spring
quarter ceremonies recently by the Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority. Miss Davis is the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Tom J. Davis.
2700 Floral Boulevard, Butte. She is
majoring in journalism at the university.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
Cannon, O'Connell to
Attend Convention

Many Of the Labor Unions and liberal
people Of Silver Bow County were pleased
to hear that Paul Cannon and Jerry J.
O'Connell were elected to attend the
National Democratic Convention at Chi
cago in June.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

Token adherence to the anti-Nazi
cause is insufficient evidence of friend
ship for the democracies. token support
of the war effort at home is inadequate
proof of genuine patriotism.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

There are so many ways in which all
Of us can give hope, meaning and sub
stance to our victory in war. What are
you doing? In which way are you help
ing2 Let action be your answer.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

lilo ADOPTS BROAD CHARTER OF SOCIAL,
ECONOMIC AND HEALTH PROVISIONS

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES from II nations to the
International Labor Organizations conference here adopt
ed a broad charter of economic goals which emphasized
that full employment and raising the standards of living of
working people in every nation must be the civilized
worlds primary postwar objective.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25
NOTICE

No meeting Of the Trades and
Labor Council will be held Tues
day. May 30, because that day is
Decoration Day.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

flowers. Since that time many of the states have made Memorial Day a legal
holiday However, some of the southern states have never observed the order
nor the day. For instance, in Virginia the observance is called Confederate
Memorial Day and in Louisiana Memorial day is observed on the 3rd of June
which is Jefferson Davis birthday. He was the first and only president of
the Southern Confederacy.
The observance Of Memorial Day at the present time is not confined to
the decoration Of the graves Of soldiers but to the placing Of flowers on the
graves of relatives, friends and all. 1t is a national day of remembrance.
The placing Of flowers on graves, though is a very old custom Both the
Greeks and the Romans at the height Of their glory had a day set aside for the
placing Of flowers on the graves of the dead and the Druids in England also
Japan and China have a similar custom. While many of these exercises were
religious in nature, in the United States the recognition Of Memorial Day is
largely patriotic. Memorial Day this year has an unusual enheaty to the
people of the United States. Many of the youth of the nation lie in foreign
lands. 1t is a sad day for everyone but the price of freedom demands a heavy
toll All Of the sacrifices made and which may be made should not be in vain
The preservation of America is the thought uppermost in the minds of every
one. but that preservation should carry with it real democracy where health
education and comfort are secure.
Montana labor news., 1944-05-25

HELP WIN THE wAFr-NVEST IN
WAR BONDS EVERY PAYDAY.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06
Miamii's Hialeah Enjoys
Seasons Biggest Day

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 5.-(P)-The
biggest crowd of the winter, II, 948
tourists and homefolks, bet more
than a million dollars today for
the first time in Florida turf his
tory, and cheered telling victories
by A. T. Simmons Air-Current and
V. L. Shea's Rascal in the double
header Miami Beach Handicap
over Hialeah Parks grass course.
Pari mutuel machines handled
81 ,OO5,527 for eight races and the
daily double, topping the previous
nigh of $959,007 established the
closing day of the 1912 season.
Ted Atkinson, leading jockey of
the meeting, held the five year old
gelding Air Current in restraint
through the early stages of the
S., 600 first division of the feature,
then turned him loose in the
stretch over the filly Blue Sash
and by half a length more over
the well-regarded Four Freedoms.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06
TIME FOR JAPAN
TO RISK FLEET
BELIEVED NEAR
Continued from Page One)

1--WE do not know, of course,
where the fleet will appear, but
the strategy which has been pur-
sued shows it will remain close to
its bases nearer home, perhaps
between Truk and Guam"
The Journals discussion Of air
bases in Siberia was based on the
Russian rlan of giving independent
status to the 16 republics in the
Soviet Union. 1t said Japan may
find cause of concern" in the pow
er given to the various republics
to make separate treaties and SAID
Tokyo's raction to treaty allow
ing American air bases in Siber
"would be war;
While the Journal mentioned 1.-THE
Siberian republic this area is in
Guided in the Russian Soviet fed
Grated socialist republic, stretch
ing from the borders of the Baltic
States to the Pacific and cente-ec
in Moscow. Heretofore Moscow ha!
shown no inclination to step into {
second front war with Japan az
the reshuffling of the 16 Sovie
republics has pointed to no chang,
from that attitude.
The journal mentioned the ide;
of an air base treaty as one o
several questions it raised in al
editorial.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06
Jack S. L. Takes Track
Event At New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5.-P)-
Jack S. L., under a smooth ride
by Nick Jemas, won the $1,000
Natchitoches Handicap at the fair
grounds today, despite the fact he
toted top weight of 116 pounds.
The winner scored by nose
over Mrs. H. P. Bonner's Reaping
Glory in one Of the best finishes
c. the winter meeting. B. F. Whit
sker's Pops Pick finished third,
nearly three lengths back of Reap
ing. Glory.
Jack S. L., owned by John S.
Letellier, set his own pace; and
thanks to the clever rating given
him by Jemas he was able to step
on the gas after being headed by
Reaping Glory, outstayed the Bon
nel gelding in gruelling drive.
Reaping Glory carried 109 pounds.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-06

PHOENIX. Ariz., Feb. 5-AN
Craig Wood, duration National
Open champion, Of Mamaroneck'
N Y. took the lead in the Phoe-
nix Open today by clipping three
strokes off par over the country
club course to add 68 to his e9
Of Yesterday, giving him 137 at the
halfway mark.
Although many top flight golfers
still were strung out on the course
when Wood posted his score, By
ron Nelson of Toledo, O., appear
ed to be the only pro with q
chance to overtake him.
Nelson matched Wood S two un
der par "a over the first nine.
Since he trailed Wood two
strokes with a II yesterday, 60
inc into the last nine Nelson facee
the tough task of slicing three
strokes from par IS for. a dead
lock. 1oo,+,
Curly-haired Johnny Revolta
Evanston, Ill, who led yesterda!
with a 66, dropped five stroke
hack of Wood. In trouble on tn