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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
81 Millions for City
Under Tax Proposal

The proposed revision of the
state intangibles tax statutes
would mean approximately 3d.
100000 additional revenue each
year to the City of Detroit. John
II. Witherspoon, assistant corpo-
ration counsel, said today
Witherspoon said that Detroit,
which pays half the state sales
tax and intangibleS levy. could ex-
pect to get return of about 80
per cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Triple Laun(hings
OF Warships Aug. 70

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. II (UP)
The 27000-ton aircraft carrier
Antietam and the 10000 ton
cruisers Chicago and Los Angeles
will be launched IN a triple cere-
mony at the Philadelphia navy
yard, Aug. 20 Rear Adm. Drae-
mel. commandant Of the Fourth
Naval District, announced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Ex-HospitdI Official
On Wayne Faculty

Appointment Of Mary Elizabeth
Kelly as associate professor of
nursing at Wayne University was
announced today.
Miss Kelly, until recently as
SiStant director of nursing at Re-
ceiving Hospital, previously taught
at Mercy College. She holds b. A.
and NJ. a. degrees from the teach
ers' college of Columbia Uni
VeTSity.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Itching. Cracking Between Toes7

ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Named Vichy Envoy

MADRID. Aug. II tIAS Jose
Felix de Querica Spanish amh3>-
sador TO Vichy, today was named
foreign minister Of Spain, succeed
inc the late Count Francisco Jor-
dana.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Council Extois Cdsfsior

Fred & CaStator Is going 10
ger some benefit from ms job of
city councilman. Re had a perfect
y1rCry record during the is years
bee served as a bus driver but ht
didn't gct much recognition.
Yesterday, the council passed q
resolution cNtoliing Casta'or tor
h> good judgment and safe drN-
inE. The resolution viii be M
>riIhei on The records.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
WARD STANDS PAT
ON REFUSAL TO
EXTEND CONTRACT

CHICAGO. - (FP) - Montgomery
Ward negotiations with the union stink
That's the way officers of Local 20,
United Retail Wholesale and Department
Store Employees (CIO), sum up discus
sions held so far with Wards since the
government withdrew from managing the
firm headed by sewell l. Avery.
Taking the attitude that the union
negotiating committee members were
interlopers, John A. Barr, labor relations
manager, declared fatty that extension
of the expired contract was "unthink-
able and that Wards will not discuss
maintenance of membership, checkoff or
arbitration. Negotiation is proceeding
on wages. vacations and establishment
of grievance machinery.
Wards, which discriminate against
Negroes and Jews will not discuss fair
employment practices with the union.
Although Local 20 has won two elections
by decisive votes and is insisting on eras-
ing unfair a practices u~nionists were
told that workers will not stand for
Negro supervisors or share toilets with
colored workers"
Pushed to the wall, Barr declared his
firm would engage in no Crusade" on
race relations because it was a problem
than Wards. The union remind
ed him that his firm didn't mind taking
on the U. S. government in a crusade
for what Avery calls the freedom of the
individual. Some $4,000, 900 Negro indi-
viduals have their freedom %curtailed,
Barr was reminded.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
U.S.. BANKS SHOW
WARTIME NET PROFIT

WASHINGTON - CFB) - Wartime
banking is highly profitable, more than
reasonably safe and isn't bothered with
profit restrictions or the Little Steel
Formula. That conclusion is quite plain
after a most casual reading of a report
issued May 30 by Chairman Leo T. Crow
ley Of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
After paying taxes that we're the high
est OF record, the 1924 commercial
banks throughout the U. S. insured by
FDIC reported net profits for 1943 that
we're 45% more than the figure reached
in 1912.
Net profits whats left as gravy after
all the bookkeeping gymnastics. taxes,
fancy officers salaries, etc. of these
banks amounted to 1888 million in 1913.
That is the highest profit recorded since
FDIC was created in 993. It also is s197
million more than the 1912 figure.
These bankers didn't put any more
OF their heavy sugar into dividend checks
for their stockholders than in 1912. Div
idend payments were almost the same.
But they did line the tills Of their CAPT
tai accounts with almost twice as much
dough as they did the previous year.
They put $405 million into capital ac-
counts from profits. That is a tidy sum
compared with the S213 million of 1912
and represents a cool increase of 9O.1%.
Although Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau put the touch on the
banks for 1928 million, 28.8%5 more than
the previous year, and despite the fact
that larger amounts of bank money were
invested in U. S. securities with a frac-
tionally lower interest rate than the pre-
vious year, every other item Of banking
income except interest on loans, showed
gains last year over 1912. The loan bust
ness was off $50 because more people
acceptable as borrowers are in clover
financially.
one big source Of bank income was
profit on the sale of securities deal
ing stocks and bonds. These profits
from security sales netted the banks an
increase of $37 million more than the
1912 figure Of $66 million, or 56.1%.
Despite all this, impartial surveys in
dictate most bankers will vote in NO
against the restrictive bureauc-
racy of the New Deal in Washington"
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
JOHN EVANS rs
COMPLIMENTED

An engaging Union social event took
place Saturday evening, June 3rd, when
the Bus Drivers Organization rendered a
farewell dance and social to Mr.. and
Mrs. John G. Evans. About two hundred
people participated in the event, which
included members of the Union, their
families, and friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Evens. Mr.. Evans is manager of the
Butte City Lines and is leaving for Pasa-
dena, California, to take over bus oper-
ations in that city.
AS a token of their affection for Mr..
and Mrs. Evans the Union presented MI,
Evans with a gift. Alex Blewett, a mem
Der of the Union, made the presentation.
The occasion had a particular inti-
mate touch as Mr.. Evans was himself
long a member of the Bus Drivers Union
and had served many years as a conduc-
tor and motorman on the street cars
before the buses took over. Many ex-
pressions of best wishes we're given Mr..
and Mrs. Evans.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
$4,000 RANGES
READY BY FALL

HEIENA-Production Of a total Of 81
900 domestic electric ranges is expected
to be permitted in 1914, it has been an
nounced by Oscar A. Baarson, Helena
WPB District Manager.
Sixty-eight thousand Of these ranges
will be for civilians and for privately
financed federal housing projects. The
$4,000 ranges represent about Is per cent
rs many as were produced in the year
l941. Production at the rate Of 68, 1000
for civilians this year will not meet the
total demand which has arisen since
electric range production for civilians
was stopped, but it is expected to take
care Of the most essential requirements.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
CLERKS MOVE TO
NEW QUARTERS

Hundreds Of people who have been ac-
customed to doing business with the
Clerks Union at the K. Of P. Hall, 119
South Main Street, win be surprised to
learn that this Union has moved its Of
fices to the Miners Union Building on
West Granite Street. The new office
of the Clerks Union is large and COM
modious with excellent facilities. The
Clerks Union meets every Monday at
800 p. m. and the same schedule will
be maintained in the new quarters.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

: Supreme Commander General Dwight
D. Eisenhower stated, We will accept
nothing except full victory over four
thousand ships and eleven thousand
planes took part in the crusade.
one of the most dramatic parts Of
this great show was the landing of thou
sands of paratroopers behind the Ger
man lines. All day Tuesday the radio
announced the course Of events and
some of these were nothing less than
astounding, particularly the apparent alb
sence of German air resistance.
Russia has simultaneously launched a
new offensive and the invasion Of Ei-
rope, coming as it did on the heels of
the fall of Rome makes the operation
that much more impressive.
The s%ubjugated countries in Europe
are being urged by Allied leaders to rise
up against the Germans. It is also re-
ported that the invasion may be
launched from other points than France.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
DUBINSKY, VOL
TANCLE ON issue
OF AFL RACKETEERS

BOSTON-FP-Removal of %racketeers
from the leadership of the ALL was dis
cussed by Pres. David Dubinsky of the
International Ladies Garment Workers
Union and AFL 2nd Vice President Mat
thew Vol in friendly disagreement be-
fore the 18th convention Of the mGWU
here May 81.
The AFL las rs power to oppose
racketeering in affiliated unions, Vol
said, asserting that much as he person.
ally sympathized with the criticism of
racketeering in AFL leadership, still the
unions within the federation must re-
main autonomous organizations secure
from interference. But unions should
discipline themselves in the interests Of
the whole labor movement, he added, de-
claring he knew of nothing more dis
astrous and harmful to the labor move-
ment than the betrayal Of a trust by a
union or its leaders"
Taking issue with VOL, Dubinsky
asked why the AFL could bar Commu-
nsits from holding office or being con-
vention delegates and yet not be able to
bar racketeers. Why" he asked, when
.racketeers use the AFL for selfish pur-
poses, giving the entire labor movement
a black eye, ieopardizing its success, its
progress, its influence, why can't the
AFL bar the racketeer from leadership
or at least from sitting in the highest
councils?"
AS for the uGWU Dubinsky went on,
1--WE, Matthew Vol, would be very jeal-
Gus if the AFL would try to step into
internal affairs without just cause,
but if the AFL should be jeopardized be-
cause of any of our acts it would be
within the rights Of the AFL at least to
call the situation to public attention, SO
that the members and the world at
should know we have been repri-
manded for certain acts that are not in
with AFL policy" There are still
men in the AFL council who should be
as corrupt leaders, Dubinsky said
adding: Il am hopeful that ultimately
the AFL will assume leadership and re-
sponsibility on this issue"
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
WESTERN MONTANA
COUNTIES ENLIST
IN PAC PARADE

The progressive political action parade
in Montana marches on. During the
past few days Flathead, Sanders and
Ravam counties added their strength and
influence to the movement with the for
nation Of county units Of the Montana
Council for Progressive Political Action.
Former Congressman Jerry O'Connell,
vice chairman Of the state group, was the
chief speaker at each OF the %organiza-
ton meetings, and outlined the import
ance of the coming elections, and the
need for unity among all the forces of
the people.
Bjorneby Leads Flathead
The meeting in Fiathead county was
held at the Carpenters hall in Kalispell,
with full representation Of most Of the
towns in the county. It was called by a
temporary committee consisting of mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor, The Grange and the Farmers
Union, with Ray Barnard Of the last
named group, presiding as temporary
chairman. After OConnells talk, the
audience voted to form a county council
and proceeded to complete the %organiza-
ton. Emil G. Bjorneby, veteran 100 per
cent progressive legislator, was selected
as chairman; Barnard was named vice
chairman and Pat v. Timmons of White
fish, a railroad brotherhood leader, was
chosen as ecretary-treasurer The fol-
lowing executive committee was elected:
Harold Ridenour, Bolton, Farmers Union;
Thomas st. German, Kalispell, AFL;
Charles Luke, Columbia Falls, Lumber
and Sawmill Workers; Ray Mcdonnell,
Kalispell, president Of the Flathead
Trades and Labor Assembly, and Ambrose
Measure, Kalispell, prominent attorney
and former progressive state representa-
tive.
Sanders Names Noe
The organization meeting in Sanders
county was held at the Rex theatre in
Columbia Falls, with a good crowd from
all parts of the area in attendance. Emil
Moe Of Trout creek was elected chair
man; Charles Pyatt, Thompson Falls,
pioneer progressive leader, was named
vice chairman, and B. P. Minwegen,
Plains educator, was the choice for secre-
t-ary-treasurer. An executive committee
consisting Of Paddy McLinden, Trout
Greek; Jack Hill, Plains, and Lorenz
Wustner, Plains, was set up. The legis-
lative committee is composed of William
Nolan, Plains; Helen Midlund, Thompson
Falls; Iris Turner, Thompson Falls; Lafe
Crossley, Plains, and Lillian Pyatt OF
Thompson Falls. On the finance COM
mittee Mrs. Jack Hill, Plains; Francis
Turner and William Pyatt, both Of
Thompson Falls, we're chosen.
Ravalli Elects Tucker
The Ravalli County Council was
formed at a meeting held in the court
house. Edward M. Tucker, prominent
Hamilton attorney, was chosen as chair
man; George Eggers, Darby, president Of
the International Woodworkers' Union,
chairman, and Carl M. Schrantz.
also Of Darby, secretary-treasurer
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
N MOTOR
REPAIRS EXPEDITED

HELENA-The need for rebuilding and
reconditioning automotive vehicles, farm
tractors, diesel and marine engines and
industrial engines Of all types warrants
relaxed restrictions on the manufacture
of many types of automotive mainten-
ance equipment, oscar A. Baarson, Hell
ena wPB District Manager, has n
nounced.
Restrictions on the manufacture Of
tire-changing tools, anti-freeze testers,
battery filters and battery hydrometers
have also been removed.
Officials Of the automotive division
said that the indu tries affected are
those producing equipment largely for
machine shop usage. rebuilding engines
and engine parts and keeping automo-
tive vehicles in service.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
LABOR UNIONS TO
AID 5TH WAR LOAN

Butte labor organizations will play an
important part in the fifth val loan
campaign which opens on June 8. The
overall quota for Silver Bow county is
s4,999,OO
The Labor Fifth War Loan committee
is headed by John Crawford, chairman;
Dave Reese, secretary, and the follow
ing: Harry j. Grimes, James Quill, wal
ter erase, L. D. Everett, John E. Cava-
naugh, Henry Young, william Mason,
Clarence Blewett, Fred Searle, Stephen
]. Harvey, Oscar Hills, Ed c. Vawter,
John Mcleod, L. H. Bradley, Dan Hol-
land, J. J. Harrington, Elsie Whitehead,
John O'Blizalo, R. NJ. Evans Mary NC
Nelis, Bridget Shea, Newell Evans and
Paul Fall, Jr.
The committee has addressed a letter
to all labor units of Butte, stressing that
support to the campaign be given. Fol
lowing is the text of the letter:
June 6, 1914.
To All Labor Unions-The Invasion Is
Onll The Goal Is victoryl!
Dear Secretary:
The Fifth War Loan Drive begins June
IL, and will close July 8.
Labor organizations will furnish every
cooperation to make the drive a success.
are all devoted To the one objective
to win the war. Labor will join bust
ness, professional, and other groups in
an effort TO promote an early accom-
plishment of the quota set for Silver
Bow County.
The record of labor in Silver Bow
County, and throughout the United
States in previous war loan drives has
been gratifying. We anticipate that your
response to the Fifth War Loan Cam
paign will be equally generous.
Not only should each local purchase
bonds. but the committee asks your sup
port in carrying the wa Bond Mes
sage to every resident Of the commu-
nifty.
Yours very truly,
GENERAL LABOR COMMITTEE,
FIFTH WAR LOAN.
JOHN r. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
DAVE REESE, Secretary.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
MONSICNOR RYAN
GIVES FINE ADDRESS

One of the most profound talks made
at the recent Catholic Conference on
Industrial Problems of Bishops vas made
by Right Reverend Monsignor John A.
Ryan, D. D.
The subject of his remarks was The
Bishops Program of Social Reconstruc-
ton, which outlines the basic pronounce
ments of the Bishops. These measures
are as follows:
ID Minimum wage legislation; 90 in
surance against unemployment, sickness,
invalidity, and old age; 90 a l6-year
minimum age limit for working children;
a. the legal enforcement of the right
Of labor to organize; 90 continuation Of
the National Wan Labor Board; 90 a
national employment service; 90 public
housing for the working classes; 49, no
general reduction Of wartime wages and
a long-distance program for increasing
them, not only Tor the benefit Of labor,
but in order to bring about general pros
perity through a wide distribution Of
purchasing power among the masses; 80
prevention of excessive profits and in
m through a regulation of rates
which would allow the owners Of public
utilities only a fair rate Of return N
their actual investment, and through
progressive taxes on inheritance. in
comes, and excess profits; (1O) effective
control of %monopolies, even through gov
eminent competition if that should prove
necessary; I'D participation of labor in
management and a wider distribution Of
ownership.
Monsignor Ryan then amplified each
one of these measures, explaining them
at length.
One Of the most important instru-
ments of the Catholic Church is the
great encyclical of Pope Leo XIII,
Rerum Novarum. Monsignor Ryan
emphasized that this ~encyclical declared
that it wa the duty Of the State to
multiply property owners" The speaker
then deplored the fact that in America
this is not being done but the concen-
of the ownership Of property is
being more accentuated every day. He
explained this by showing that tenant
farmers had been increasing year by
year and that in spite Of the efforts of
the Government the trend seems to be
Increasing.
Monsignor Ryan in concluding his re-
marks said 1.-THE proposals of the Bish-
ops Program for lifting labor to a higher
than that of mere wage earners
we're implicitly ratified by Pope Piux XXI
the following words:
" We consider it more advisable,
however, in the present condition Of
human society that, so far as is pos
sibley the work-contract be somewhat
modified by a partnership-contract,
as is already being done in various
ways and with no small advantage
to workers and wners Workers and
other employees thus become sharers
in ownership or management or par
ticipate in some fashion in the prof
its received
One of the most pertinent remarks
made by Monsignor Ryan related to gov
war plants. He said that the
billions of dollars now invested in these
luge plants should not be strapped, nor
old to private industry, but should be
urned over to returning soldiers for use
He suggested that they could be used as
cooperative enterprises somewhat on the
rider of the Rochdale system.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

MINERS TRADITION
OBSERVED HERE o.

These year, Miners Union Do le
10, traditional holiday of tn te
Miners, and usually celebrated any
other labor unions of the city, WI be
observed on Sunday, June 18th, instead
of the 18th. The reason for this Of
course, is the urgent necessity of keep
ing at work to maintain copper pro-
duction. This need is even more vital
now that the l~ong-awaited invasion Of
Europe by the Allied forces has COM
menced.
AS the mines are down on Sunday
there will be no loss of production by
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
HOLIDAY TO BE
JNDAY, JUNE IL

holding the celebration on that day.
The usual colorful parade will be dis
pensed with, but the Sports and Enter
taniment Committees Of the Butte Min
ers' Union are putting on an excellent
program at Columbia Gardens. This
program will commence at l p. m.
We are also informed that some Army
planes will be il town that day. The
celebration will wind up with a big
dance in the evening at the Columbia
Gardens Pavilion.
Following is the complete sports pro-
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

TVWI0 WVUNIW
No. ]. Ladies' Baseball Throw G5 entries only .----~ ---~- $3O0-s2O-$10O
No 2 Mems Baseball Throw C5 entries only. 800 200 LOO
No. 8 1O0-Yard Dash free for all. ~~~..-~ 300 200 100
No 4 50-Yad Dash for Married ades-mw--m~--~--- 800 200 100
No. 5 50-Yard Dash for Boys under 5 feet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 300 zoo 100
No 6 5O-Yard Dash for Girls under 5 feet Recommendations 300 200 100
No. 7 5O-Yard Dash for Officers of the Union ~ 500 400 800
No. 8 5O-Ymd Tmee-Legged Race for Boys under 5 feet, to
include m tie above the knee and one below at the ankle 400 300 200
No. 9 5O-Yad Shoe and Box Race for Boys under 5 feet Gree
for alb black or brown shoes ony-~--~~~~--~--~-- 800 zoo LOO
Nc. 10 Orange Race for Girls under 5 feet 300 zoo 100
No II Wheebarrow Race for Boys under S feet 400 800 200
No 70 5O-Yard Dash for smehermen ~~~ 500 400 800
No. 10 Slipper kicking Contest for ades-.~~~~-..~~- 300 200 100
NO IA Backto-Back Race for Boys Gree for ADJ. 400 800 200
Nc. is Baseball Game.
No Is Union Man, carrying Union Card, with largest family on
grounds wife must also be present -~~--~~~--~-~~ 1000 500
Only one Prize Allowed to Any Contestant
No Baseball Player Allowed to Compete in Mems Baseball Throw
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
100000 FANS
TO BE MANUFACTURED

HELENA-The production Of 100000
propeller-type electric fans, twelve and
sixteen inches in diameter, is to be per-
mitted, it has been announced by oscar
A. Baarson, Helena WPB District Man
ager.
Production quotas will be assigned to
manufacturers able to make fans without
interfering in any way with war pro-
duction. The fans produced will be suf-
ficient to meet only the most essential
military, hospital, institutional and in
dustrial needs, said Mr.. Baarson.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
THE GOOD OLD DAYS

According to receipted bills on display
in a New York museum, rum costs 27c
a gallon in 1882. while gin cost slightly
less than &c a gallon in 1860.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08
MOST MOMENTOUS EVENT in HISTORY OF
TAKES PLACE IN WESTERN EUROPE

The invasion Of Continental Europe by Allied forces be-
gan Tuesday morning, June 9th, when American, British
and Canadian troops landed in Northern France. The
event marked the greatest military operation of all time.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

A young man rejected by the Army
sent his wife to the WAC recruiting sta
ton, where she was accepted.
He also SERVES who sacrifices his home
,tfo
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

INVEST IN VIcToRY-lO PERCENT
OF PAY IN WAR BONDS TODAY.
Montana labor news., 1944-06-08

LABoR'S IN THE FTGHT-wITH
DOLLARS FoR WAR BONDS
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-05-11

nes nasa tukaj rojena mladina
in verjemite mi, da je marsiko-
mu zal, da ne pozna vec jezika
svojih starsev. Slisal sem to vec-
krat ma svoja lastna -usesa in
vem, da je res.
Kolikokrat sem JAZZ v prete-
klosti pisal: ljudje, ucite svoje
otroke slovenscine. Nj mas sicer
dosti, a imamo nekaj drugega:
slovanske brate, katerih je do
dvesto milijonov. In do vseh teh
Sc lahko pride, &c innate kljuc
slovenskega jezika. Pravil sem,
da DO bodocnost v slovanskih
narodih. Kdo me je poslusal, 81
Ger ne vem. Vem pa to, da je
vsak tukaj rojeni otrok nasih
ljudi danes sreeen, &c zna vsaj
deloma jerk svojih starsev. Ia
kaj ljudi, kakor smo Slovenci in
Slovani, nj mixer vec ma tie m
svetu.
&c nj jezika vec, Sc vedno
lahko nekaj storimo "a tiste, XII
so nasi. Vlijemo jim lahko ma
SO zavest. In vprico dogodkov,
XII Sc vrse danes, ne DO tezko.
In to je tudi nekaj vredno. Je-
xix je sicer vazen, a ne vse. Po-
leg jezika je zavest prva in maj
vecja. In &c morete svojim do
povedati, da so sinovi najvecjih
in najhrabrejsih narodov ma
svetu, jih Soste pridobili. Ce je
.Jud vseh jezikov ma svetu Sc
zmeraj Jud, zakaj bi ne bill Slo-
venec in Slovan vsak, XII Sc cuti
ko takega.
V Ameriki zahtevajo navad-
no Cd ljudi vse mogoce podatke.
In zapisati, da je Slovenec ali
Slovan, je bratje moi cast, "a
katero mas danes zavida yes
svet.
Torej: ce hocemo, Sc vedno
lahko delamo "a svoj narod.Do-
kler smo zivi, moramo naprej.
Ampak brez della in zrtev ne
bo mic.