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Montana labor news., 1944-03-16

D Conditions in the bearing industry,
now 10 months behind schedule in out
put, were brought to light at an all-day
conference held by the United Auto
Workers, United Electrical Radio g. Ma
chine Workers and United steelworkers,
representing $50 of the industry's
10000 workers. JAW Vic. Pres. Richard
Fr%ankensteen was chairman.
Main charges leveled by spokesman at
the conference were:
The Timken Rollerbearing Co. of
Canton and Columbus, Ohio, is diverting
priority materials to civilian production
to satisfy old customers; its warehouses
and aisles in the plants are jammed
with boxed bearings; workers and ma
chimes stand idle, with morale at very
low level.
2-Timken Co. and nine other firms
refuse to sublet contracts for fear other
companies will learn their methods and
compete with them in the postwar
period.
3-While Timken has its warehouses
overlooking with material, other firms
are holding down production deliberately
10 prevent accumulation of a back log.
Manpower is improperly utilized, while
machines on second and third shifts are
left idle.
1.-The industry has a terrific turn
over rate, Fra%nkensteen reported. U. S.
employment service has been referring
workers to the industry at the rate Of
1000 a week with a net gain of only
200 a week. Nearly th%ree-fourths Of all
separations are voluntary quits.
Responsible for this are the substand-
ard wages paid in the eastern part Of
the industry and the wage differential
between men and women, which varies
from 5 to 23c, Frankensteen said. Wal
Manpower Commission admitted Decem-
Der 20 that the industry's low wage level
was directly responsible for the poor re-
cruitment.
5-Labor-management committees are
practically nonresident. Only two
Army-Navy "E's" have been awarded in
the entire industry.
v WI h4AAB bOAAAit4OAlo uAE very UUDts
with no restroom facilities for women,
few cafeterias, n improper heating
facilities.
Marking the first time the three
unions in the industry have met together
on a common problem, the conference
was called to repudiate attempts to pin
responsibility for the production bottle
neck on a plain and simple manpower
shortage. In testimony before the Sen
ate military affairs committee, Under
secretary Of War Robert Patterson and
Secretary Of Navy Frank Knox both
used the manpower shortage in the in
dustry as one of their chief arguments
for adoption Of a national service act.
At meetings March 10 with Navy,
VINO, War Production Board and Ma
tional War Labor Board officials the
unionists will call for creation of a spe-
cial WLB panel to consider the sub
standard wage question n a tripartite
WPB committee to insure proper utili-
cation Of materials and m%anpower.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
CIVILIAN GOODS
PRODUCTION 8%
BELOW PRE-WAR

NEW YOPK-FP)-At the peak of
wartime output, 1949, with the main
strength of American machinery, raw
material and manpower geared for war
production, non-war production Of con
sumner goods was only 30 less shan in
the pre-war year 1889, Labor Research
Association revealed in its March Eco
nomic Notes.
Non-war production in 1899 was 1872
billion. Last year non-war production
$79.9 billion, only 80 less. At the
same time war production hit the peak
of $67 billion.
Consumers spent more than 500 billion
for goods and services last year, COM
pared to $61,7 billion in 1889. Even
when price increases are taken into con-
s~ideration, Ira said, civilians still
bought more goods than ever before the
war. Production of such goods was
maintained at pre-war levels.
"The outstanding fact is that the
American economy has been able to pro-
duce far more than anyone supposed it
could and, consequently, has met the
challenge of the war without having to
diminish civilian consumption below the
1889 level" Ira concluded.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
COPPER PRODUCTION
SUFFERS SLUMP

Copper production dn terms of re-
coverable metaD from domestic mines
dncluding Alaska vas 89,5O6 short tons
in January 1914, a decrease of 1928 tons
GAO per cent? from that in December
1913, according to preliminary estimates
of the Bureau of Mines, United States
Department of the interior. The aver
age daily production in January was
1887 tons compared with 1851 tons in
December, a decrease of IA tons daily
and a decrease of "a tons from the
average daily production of 1881 tons
for 1913.
The production of recoverable copper
in the eastern and in the central states
remained virtually the same in January
as in December. Tennessee was the
largest producer Of copper in the eastern
states in January and Michigan was
the largest producer in the central
states.
The production from the combined
western states decreased 1926 tons
1888 per cent? in January as compared
with December. Decreases were noted
in the production Of all of the major
copper-producing states of the West with
the exception of Montana and Wash
ington. The largest decrease was from
Utah which produced 1884 tons less
copper in January than in December.
This was due primarily to the lowering
of the grade of ore treated by the Utah
Copper Co. The company had reached
the highest production in December Of
any month during 1943 by treating cop
per ore that average over l per cent
copper. The slight decrease in the Ari-
o production for January from De-
cember G5O tons) was due to declines
at the United Verde and New Cornelia
properties. New Mexico showed a de-
crease of 697 tons from December which
was due primarily TO a decline of 1856
tons in the production from the Ken
neoott Copper Co. mines at Santa Rita,
N. Mex. The copper output from Mon
Continued on Page Four
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
HEARING
OF MONTANA POWER
AROUSING INTEREST

A joint hearing of the Federal Power
Commission with the Public Service Com
mission Of Montana will be held at the
Federal building in Butte on March 81,
to determine accounting adjustments to
be made by the Montana Power com
pany, The hearing will be held pur-
suant to orders issued by the Federal
Power Commission and the Montana
Commission.
The hearing will be presided over by
a representative of the Federal Power
Commission and the Chairman Of the
Montana Commission.
The hearing set for March 27 is an
outgrowth of an order announced by the
Federal Power Commission on January
6, 1914, which directed the Montana
Power company to show cause at a
hearing set for January 81, 1914, in
Washington, D. c., why it should not be
ordered ID to dispose of S2,7O7, $780, 6.
now classified in the account designated
as Common Utility Plant Acquisition
Adjustment, in accordance with an APP
propriate method developed from evil
dence at the hearing, % to dispose Of
$50. 632, BAL 6, representing write p ups
and other i|nflationary items in its cleo
trio plant accounts, in accordance with
such plan as the commission shall APP
prove or prescribe, and 90 to prepare
additional studies with respect to s4,031,-
252.69 in its electric plant account for
the purpose of determining the appro-
pirate classification and disposition Of
this amount in accordance with the re-
quirements Of the commissions uniform
system of accounts.
The commissions staff found S54,660,-
1874 consisting of S54. 296, 1O8. 81. Elec-
trio Plant in Service, S. O4.87, Electric
Plant Leased to Others. and $357,1l4.15.
Construction Work in Progress) to be the
original cost Of the Montana oompany's
electric plant as Of January 1, 1897, the
effective date of the uniform system of
accounts. Thus, the amounts involved
in the show-cause order represent ap-
proximately as per cent of the eompany's
book cost Of electric plant.
The history of the hearing dates back
to January 6 to an original order of
the commission.
Later on in February the commission
issued an order providing for a hearing
March 10 in Butte, then upon the appli-
cation of the Montana Power company,
the date was postponed until the 18th.
Notwithstanding, a request by the
company that Mr.. C. F.. Kelley testify be-
fore a trial examiner in the East, the
commission decided that Mr.. Kelley
should appear and give his testimony at
the hearing in this city.
A petition by the American Power
and Light Company for leave to inter-
vene was granted under certain condi-
tons. The scheduled hearing is Great
ing a great deal Of interest, not only in
Butte but throughout the state.
The Montana Power company serves
customers in Anaconda, Billings, Butte,
Great Falls, Helena, Missoula and some
10 other Montana communities.
Attorneys for the Federal Power Com
mission are Howard E. Wahrenbrock and
Reuben Goldberg. Accountants are John
j. O'Neil, Edward Imhoff and Robert
Buzzard.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
LABOR BOARD
ACTS in MONTANA
OIL WORKERS UNION

A maintenance of membership clause
and a provision for eheckoff Of union
dues have been ordered by the Regional
War Labor Board in a dispute case be-
tween the Texas Company of 6unburst,
Mont, and the Oil Workers Interna-
tional Union, Local 452, CLIO, Charles A.
Graham, board chairman announced to-
day.
The maintenance of membership clause
provides that all employees who are mem
bers of the Union in good standing on
March 20, 1914, must maintain their
membership as a condition Of employ
ment. The board also instructed the
company to deduct initiation fees and
union dues from union members who in
d|ependently and voluntarily certify in
writing that they authorize such deduc-
tons.
Industry members of the board dis
scented.
Mr.. Graham, in a majority opinion,
pointed out that the issue of union Sc
.curity arose out Of a request by the com
pany for the elimination of an existing
union security provision; that the main
tenance of membership clause was a part
of the current agreement between the
parties.
In regard to the checkoff issue the
union commended, and a majority Of the
board agreed, that the checkoff was
necessary because certain conditions
made the collections Of dues difficult.
A dissenting opinion by the industry
members commended that mo man should
be denied the right to work and con-
tribute to the success of the war effort
simply because he may not wish to con-
tinue his membership in the union"
on the checkoff issue, the dissenting
opinion stated: There is no convincing
evidence to indicate that conditions and
circumstances have changed so as to
justify a voluntary checkoff in 1914 when
it was deemed unnecessary in 1913"
The majority stated that when it de-
MED the unions request for a checkoff
in 1943 no showing had been made that
the Union had any difficulty in collect
ing its own dues; whereas in this case
the union made such showing.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
RATES ARE SET
IN WLB RULING

DENVER, March 14.-In a dispute be-
tween the Montana Power company Of
Butte and the Butte Stationary Eng.
neers. local SO, CLIO, the Regional Wal
Labor Board Tuesday ordered wage rates
of sl.271a an hour for the chief engineer
and $1.15 for engineers.
The company and the union had
agreed the rates ordered by the board
are applicable to the engineer c~lassifi-
cations, the WLB said, but the company
had commended the men classified as
engineers by the union we're in reality
firemen.
Public, industry and labor members of
the board upheld the unions contention.
The company had been paying the men
now classified as engineers at the engi-
neers' wage over a long period. The
order becomes final in is days unless a
petition for a review is filed meanwhile
with the national board.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
NELSON CALLS FOR
CONTROLS
ON WARTIME Firms

WASHINGTON.-FP)-War Produc-
ton Board Chief Donald Nelson said
March 10 that war-born companies would
have to be kept out Of civilian produc-
ton until established firms are also free
to return to peacetime manufacturing.
In a letter to Sen. Francis Maloney
(D.-Conn.), Nelson said, Restrictions on
new companies which want to enter an
industry for the first time will undoubt-
edly be needed until the new critical
components and materials are in easy
supply.
Certainly, so long as wartime controls
are retained, materials and c%omponents
should not be allocated to these new
firms until firms already established in
the affected industries, and which are
in a position to resume production Of
their former products have received their
just ALLEGATIONS"
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16

But the ALL adds that it lis in full
agreement on the Baruch plan stating
that the reconversion agency should be
set up by Congress and also calls for
inclusion of a unified policy between
the various agencies proposed.
apart from these shortcomings the
survey says, "the Baruch plan deals
surely and effectively with the business
side of -reconversion. The proposals for
contract cancellation, quick payment for
finished and s~emi-finished goods, finan-
cling conversion to peacetime production
are excellent. The government would be
swiftly retired from production. The
plan wisely proposes to use existing
agencies"
The survey calls for adequate social
insurance for workers to tide them over
the waiting periods and advises against
the use of executive orders to set up
directors with great power and no rep
r%esentation of the people"
Answering the question Of whether
there will be jobs for all service men and
war workers after the conflict ends, the
survey says there will be IF we are
able to get national industrial policy
that makes it possible for private in
dustry to give everyone a job" 1t in
sists that workers buying power must
be at least equal to 1913 weekly wages
and a maximum 40-hour week.
TO assure postwar jobs for all, mil
lions Of American workers will have to
buy automobiles, refrigerators, radios,
new homes, mechanical home equipment,
and the new products wartime inven-
lions will put on the market.
THAT will mean spending some of our
savings in the first years, but after
that our buying will depend N wages.
1t will take an income of at least $4,000
to buy these expensive things that mean
a good living for American families, good
business for industry; $500 a year on
a 40-hour week means a wage Of sl25l
per hour"
The AFL warned that we cannot go
back to prewar wages, or to a struggle
instigated by snti-labor interests at
tempting to destroy unions and reduce
wages. For going back to this means
at least 10 million unemployed. And no
democracy, no government, no business,
no civilization can endure such a thing
and live. We must go forward"
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
Phyllis Biddle
Elected Director

Phyllis Biddle. junior at Montana
State University, was elected director of
Pi Mu Epsilon, national mathematics
honorary at their last meeting.
Miss Biddle, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred c. Biddle. R. F. D. No. 1, Butte,
is majoring in mathematics and physics
at the University. She is a member of
Alpha Lamba Delta, Pi Mu Epsilon,
president of the mathematics club, mem
Der Of chorus, twirling and Women's
Athletic association.
A 1941 graduate of Butte high school
Biddle took part in twirling, Science
club, swimming and life saving, chorus
and athletic club.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
Elsie Erickson of
Butte Among
u. S. Cadet Nurses

Miss Elsie Erickson Of Butte is n OF
Is U. S. cadet nurses who will begin
training at Montana hospitals March TO-
after completing a pre-nurse course at
Montana State college in Bozeman, &C
cording to Miss Anna Pearl Sherricki
co-ordinator of nursing at the college.
Part of the group will complete their
training at the Deaconess hospital in
Billings, while the balance will enter the
Deaconess hospital at Great Falls.
Miss Erickson was formerly bookeeper
for the Montana Labor News.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
Butte Girl Joins
journalism Sorority

Karma johnson, junior at Montana
State University, was initiated BY alum
nae and active members into Theta
Sigma, national journalism honorary for
women, at the Florence hotel, Sunday
afternoon, February q.
Miss johnson, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis johnson, 2O97 oregon, Butte,
is majoring in journalism at the Uni
versity. She is associate editor Of the
Sentinel, yearbook; member of the pub
LEGATION board, traditions board and
Press club.
A 1910 graduate Of Butte high school,
Miss johnson was active in dramatics,
journalism, and was a class officer.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16

CHATTANOOGA, T~enn-FP)-Th e
Ducktown miners case wound up with
a clearcut decision against the Federal
Bureau of Investigation when a U. S.
district court jury acquitted four union
members Of charges Of conspiracy to
damage government properyt. Previously
four Others had been released by the
presiding judge on a directed verdict
because Of insufficient evidence.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16

LOS ANGELES-FP)-Labor, man
agement and government jointly have
launched a campaign to establish in
plant feeding facilities for more than
800 war plants in this area, each with
more than 500 workers.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
INDUSTRY DELAYS WAR PROGRAM
POOR WAGES, BAD WORKING CONDITIONS
+RETARD MAXIMUM PRODUCTION, CHARGE

Observation-Disclosures of selfish inter
ests, bad planning and substandard wage schedules are
chiefly responsible for the critical shortage of bearings
which is keeping vita, aircraft grounded, three CLIO unions
charged here Malch 9
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16

NEW YORK. - CFP) - International
unions and city and state labor bodies
all over the country denounced Con-
gress' action in overriding the tax bin
veto and wired their emphatic support
10 President Roosevelt.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
ALL FINDS BARUCH PLAN EXCELLENT
ON RECONVERSIOE s1rs~- units LABOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS wide represen-
tation for labor, management and farms. he Baruch-
Hancock report on war and postwar adjustment policies
is criticized by the AFL III the March issue of Labor's
Monthly Survey.
Montana labor news., 1944-03-16
ILGWU Gives $15O,OOO
to the Red Cross

In the past the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union )AFL) has
made many generous donations to the
USO, the AFL's war relief drive, to Rus
sian War Relief and many other causes.
And recently it was the nGWU which
started off New York city's 1914 Red
Cr1ss drive with a check for S150,O00.
WASHINGTON=FP)-TEe CLIO for
mally announced its acceptance of an
invitation to attend the World Trade
Union Congress in London June S.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-02-17
OBITUARY
Miss Matilda o. England

Funeral services for Miss Matilda
Obern England, So, lifelong resi-
dent of Rockville, an employee of
the Treasury Department, were
held Wednesday afternoon at
Christ Episcopal Church. Canon G.
Freeland Peter, acting rector of the
church, conducted the services. Bur-
ial was in Rockville Union Gem
etery.
Miss England suffered a stroke
Sunday in her home and died a
few hours later at the Montgom-
cry County General Hospital.
The daughter of the late John C.
and Annie L. England, she is sur
vived by five sisters, Mrs. William
T. Brown, Mrs. William d. Clark,
Miss Lillian C. England, Miss Elsie
M. England and Miss Maude R.
England, all of Rockville; also
three brothers, the Rev. Howard
c. England, Lakeland, Fla; Har-
rison U. England, Bethesda; and
j. Arthur England, Rockville.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-02-17
LAYTONSVILLE
Mrs. S. MehrLe Haines
TeLe. Gathers. 5-F-23
after z p. NJ.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. Merhle Haines
entertained at dinner Sunday fol
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cashell, Miss
Elizabeth Cashell and Montgomery
Cashell of Sunshine; Mr.. and Mrs
William Ricketts, of Olney.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley G. Griffith
were dinner guests of their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Griffith on Sun
day. They are now living on the
farm near Redland which they pur.
chased from the Tom Fraley estate
and have made extensive improve.
ments to the house.
Mrs. Cora Howard, vacationine
i'll st. Petersburg, Florida, writes
of visit to the Pass-a-Grille
Island where she was the luncheon
guest of Mrs. Henry Griffith whose
home "Silver Sands" is there.
Mrs. ]. Ernest Hawkins has re.
turned from Montgomery County
General Hospital and is very muci
improved after her recent illness.
Mrs. Charles Barber and hei
brother Billy Cuff, of Ashton, Mrs
Francis Barber, Mrs. Howard Kemp
and the Roy w. Barber family
joined in a family celebration ii
honor of Mrs. Charles BARRIERS
birthday anniversary last week.
Mrs. Roy w. Barber had let.
ter recently from Corp. Arthur W
Brown, somewhere in England, say.
ing he was well and had run across
Gordon Warfeld and enjoyed 0
visit with him.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-02-17
Mrs. Carrie V. Aud

The funeral of Mrs. Carrie Vir-
ginia Aud, So, wife of William L.
Aud, Montgomery County tax
assessor, who died Monday in
Poolesville will take place today.
Thursday at the home. The Rev.
Charles A. Michael, pastor of the
Poolesville Methodist Church, will
conduct the services and burial will
be in Monocacy Cemetery, Bealls-
vile
Mrs. Aud was a native of Pur-
cellyille, Va, and had lived in the
Poolesville neighborhood so years.
Besides her husband, she leaves
five children, Mrs. Ruby Tayne and
Rodney Cubitt, both of Rockville;
Mrs. Anna l.. LaBlanc, Spokane,
Wash; Ralph Cubitt, Frederick
and William E. Aud, New Orleans,
La, and seven sisters and brothers,
Berkeley Fawley and William B.
Fawley, of Gaithersburg; Mrs.
Laura Shry and Mrs. Bessie Shry,
of Keymer; Mrs. Helen Elkins and
Eugene Fawley, of Washington,
and Harry Fawley, Travilah.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-02-17
Roger R. Poole

Funeral services for Roger Ray
mond Poole, Al, who died of a heart
attack on Saturday at the Sister.
of Mercy, Bethesda, where he was
employed, were held Monday at the
funeral home of William B. Hilton
GAINESVILLE. Burial was in Monoc.
acy Cemetery, Beallsville.
Mr.. Poole was a native of Lou.
doun County, Va, but mad lived in
Montgomery County most of hi
life. He was a son of Mrs. Sarah
Poole of Poolesville, widow o.
Charles Poole. Besides his mother
he is survived by his wife, Mrs
Alta Young Poole; five children: Q
sister, Mrs. Lawrence Luhn, Clark
burg; two brothers, Charles Poo'e
Marshall, N. c., and Frank Pole
PoolesvilIe.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-02-17
Rid The Dairy Animals
OF Lice During Winter

A periodic check of all calves
and sows in the barn during the
winter months to see if lice arc
present is suggested by M. H
Berry of the University of Mary
land dairy husbandry department.
Mr.. Berry says that lice are
found on dairy cattle during the
winter months particularly unless
the animals are kept in clean quar-
tiers and given a thorough groom
ing every day. They are serious
pest, he states, and if present in
large numbers cause discomfort
and improper growth and develop
ment. The hair and skin will be in
unthrifty condition and often
patches of hair will be rubbed off
the neck and body.
There are several effective meth
DDS of treatment to kill lice, Mr.
Berry says. Probably the more eff
fective treatment is a thorough
soaking of all parts of the animals
body with various commercial dips
as recommended by the manufac-
turer, 2 per cent. solution of cree
lin or lysol, or a kerosene-soar
emulsion prepared by mixing z
ounces of hard soap and 2 quarts
of kerosene with gallons OF
water. During cold weather, wher
there is danger of the animals
catching cold if sprayed or washed
the best plan is 10 dust them witt
powdered sabadilla seed, derris
powder, flowers of sulphur, helle.
bore, or one of the many CONNER
cial louise powders on the market
Any treatment used should be
repeated in 10 to Is days in order
to kill the lice which hatch out fol-
lowing the initial treatment.
To rid the premises of lice, two
sprayings at 15-day intervals with
one of the commercial dips or solu-
tons recommended for treatment
Of animals is advised.