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Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
100000 MARRIED
MEN In UNIFORM

WASHINGTON-The latest census bu-
reau survey, taken in February, shows
that at that time 2,7OO,OOO women had
husbands in the armed forces.
The migration of war workers as a re-
suit Of the nations industrial mobiliza-
ton has caused practically no change"
to married couples, the census bureau
reports, indicating that wives follow their
worker husbands.
The war has produced a remarkable
increase" in the number of married per-
sons, the survey shows, due to the psy-
Geological effects of war conditions and
to a new sense of economic security re-
sulting from fun employment and high
wartime wages Approximately 90 per
cent Of all women IA and over are now
married as compared with go per cent
in 1910.
Most noticeable change created by the
war has been the virtual disappearance
of the civilian bachelors. From 1910 TO
1914 the number of single civilian men
IA and over fell from 100000 to 1900,
600.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
MINNESOTA
POINTS The WAY

This is a salute to the Minnesota State
Federation of Labor-one of the few AFL
bodies in the country to put into action
the theory that servicemen both want
and need first-hand news about organ
lied labor. The Federation is now issu-
ing a special printed overseas news bull
letin, which reaches Minnesota trade
uioniists in the armed forces wherever
they may be.
Featured in the current number Of the
bulletin are stories on the AFL's program
to prevent postwar unemployment, and
on the rehabilitation and assistance pro
gram for returning servicemen now being
worked out by the Labor League for HUI
man Rights. There is a column Of per-
sonal and general trade union news Of
interest to Minnesotars. There is a case
history of unusual significance-the story
of a discharged veteran Of the North
African fighting, who saw labor's side Of
the picture for the first time when he
returned home, and who has since be-
come a trade union member,
This has been said before, but it bears
repetition-there is no real division be-
tween organized labor and the men in
the armed forces. There is only the dis
trust that is the inevitable outcome of
ignorance and misinformation. Mime
sofas overseas bulletin will combat this
ignorance, correct this transformation,
and perform a service equally helpful to
our %servicemen and to the trade union
movement as a whole.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
Applications Sought by
u. S. Civil Service

Assistant District Information Officer
Applications for the position Of assist
ant district informataion officer for the
office of Price administration, Helena,
Montana district comprising the state
of Montana. are being sought by the
United States Civil Service Commission,
Mr.. P. H. Pohlman, local secretary. an
nounced today.
The salary for this position is 1896
a year, including overtime compensation.
There is no written test and no maxi
mum age limit.
Complete information and forms for
applying may be obtained from Mr.. P. H.
Pohlman at Butte, Mont, or from first
or second-class post offices. Applications
will be accepted until the needs of the
service have been met.
Applications are not desired from per-
sons engaged on war work unless the po-
sition applied for requires the use Of
higher skills than the worker is using in
his present employment. A certificate
Of availability from former employer or
from the U. S. Employment Service may
be required before appointment.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
POLICE SHUT DOWN
VOTE BOOTH
in c. 0. P. TOWN

SYRACUSE, N. Y.-FP)-The scene
was a busy downtown area of this Re
publican-run city. Suddenly police cars
and a city truck came to a screening
halt in front of a store. While passersby
stood and gaped, police poured out of
the cars and oonverged on their obiec-
tive.
A oornered Nazi spy, maybe? Nope,
Just an American Labor party-CIO booth
distributing ~servicemen's war ballot ap-
plications. The small booth. also being
used to sell war bonds, was loaded into
the truck ana taken to the city garage.
1t was the booths second night of bust
ness. opening night 1000 ballot appli-
cations were handed out. The CLIO and
ALP set up the booth after the city re
fused them a permit to operate in front
of a theater. ALP Leader John ]. Maui
rillo promptly charged that Republicans
are afraid to let the people vote" Labor,
he added, is interested in giving the
servicemen ballots as well as bullets"
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
Democratic Picnic
at Gregson SPRINGS

The South Side Democratic club Of
Butte has extensive plans under way for
its annual picnic to be held at Gregson
Springs July 16 beginning at 1 p m.
M. D. O'Connell, president of the club,
has appointed the following members to
be in charge Of the picnic: c. p. schenck.
chairman; Margaret Nagle. vice chair
man, and H. S. strasser, secretary.
For many years the South Side Demo-
cratic club has held this picnic at Greg
son Springs. The event promises this
year to surpass all other years in enjoy
ment and attendance.
All state and county Democratic can
didates for office are invited to attend
as an interesting number of the program
will be the Introduction of the candidates
by NJ. D. O'Connell. Every candidate
will be given time to address the meeting
to further his own candidacy.
Thomas McGarry, past president of the
club, is chairman of the committee on ar
rangements.
Jack Healy, County Surveyor of Silver
Bow county, is chairman of the reception
committee. Jack promises all who attend
a good time. An interesting sports pro
gram has been arranged by James White,
chairman Of the sports committee. Cash
prizes are to be given the winners Of the
different events.
William j.. Walsh as head Of the pub
licity committee deserves credit for his
able work.
Bus transportation may be secured by
all who wish to attend.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
.BIDDLE ASKED TO
DROP BRIDGES
ORDER

NEW YORK-FP)-"In the interests
of a united and victorious nation At
torney General Francis Biddle was asked
June 20 to reverse his previous decision
and make it possible for President Harry
Bridges of international Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's Union (CIO) to be-
come an American citizen.
The request was wired by the Amer
lean Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born on the heels Of a U. S. circuit court
of appeals 3-to-2 decision denying
Bridges appeal for cancellation Of de-
portation proceedings against him.
A more indirect appeal to Biddle came
from the Citizens Victory Committee for
Harry Bridges which said that 1T is re-
grettable that Attorney General Biddle,
realizing, as he must, that justice will
ultimately prevail, does not act with
wisdom and courage and dismiss the de-
portation charge against Bridges"
The committee pledged to continue a
vigorous defense of the labor leader "un-
til final victory is Won" Both the ma
iority and dissenting opinions cited the
unreliability OF the evidence submitted
in the Bridges case. The majority judges,
however, said they had no authority to
pass on the truth of the evidence.
The minority opinion pointed out that
the bonds which today united our people
with the Soviet Union afford a striking
analogy to those which in 1884 linked
Bridges with the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union. Surely no one would say
that a liaison dictated by the necessities
of a common struggle for survival would
make of u own government an "affil-
late of the Communist party"
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06

, "Ihe Republican party has missed a
great opportunity the AFL leader COM
mented dryly to newspapermen after
reading the platform recommendations.
He criticized the language of the G.
o. P. labor recommendations as gen
eral in character and susceptible Of va
ried interpretations Particularly re-
grettable, Mr.. Green said, was the par
tvs denial Of labor's request for repeal
of the notorious Connally-smith Act"
Before returning to Washington, Mr..
Green indicated American Federation Of
Labor leaders will examine carefully the
statements made by the Republican
presidential nominee, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, during the coming
campaign for further light on what the
Republican party has to offer the workers
Of the nation.
In his acceptance speech before the
convention, Gov. Dewey emphasized his
determination, if elected, to provide Jobs
for all during the postwar period and
assailed the Roosevelt administration for
having to depend on the war to solve the
nations unemployment problems. He also
accused the New Deal of "wrangling,
bungling and confusion" in handling la
Dor relations and other vital matters.
such as price control, r%ationing, man
power an dtaxation,
Careful examination Of the G. o. P.
labor plank shows that only one of the
American Federation Of Labor's recon-
mendations to the RESOLUTIONS Commit
tee was wholly and clearly endorsed.
This was the proposal for reorganization
of the Department of Labor under a
Secretary of Labor who really represents
labor.
The platform did not call for amend
ment of the National Labor Relations Act
to protect craft workers, as the AFL
asked, but vaguely pledged AN end to
political trickery in the administration
of labor laws and the handling Of labor
disputes" It was pointed out that this
language might very well have been in
tended as support for Sewell Avery's re-
calcitrant stand against the National
Wal Labor Board in the Montgomery
Ward case.
The Republican Party, according to
the platform, accepts the purposes Of
the National Labor Relations Act, the
Social Security Act, the Wage and Hour
Act and all other federal statutes de-
signed to promote the welfare Of Amer
lean working men and women, and we
promise a fair and just administration Of
these laws"
But this endorsement fell far short Of
endorsement of the Wagner-NIurray-Din-
CELL social security amendments spon-
sored b ythe AFL. In fact the Security
plank of the platform fatty rejected the
ALL demand for an effective national
employment service by urging the re-
turn of public employment systems to
the states at the earliest possible time
During the early part of the conven-
ton, William L. Hutchinson, president Of
the International Brotherhood Of Car
penters and Joiners of America, an
nounced his candidacy for the Republic
can vice presidential nomination. How
ever, his name was not presented to the
convention as the delegates stampeded
to a unanimous nomination Of Governor
John Bricker of Ohio for vice president
In the pre-conyention campaign, Gov
ernor Bricker made several speeches
which attacked labors war record.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
REFUGEE FROM SPAIN
PREDICTS REVOLTS
By T G|OLDSTEIN

NEW YORK-(FP)-Guns are hidden
in the hills of Spain which will be fired
against the Fascist Franco government
in an uprising of the entire nation be
for the end Of the European war.
This word was brought from Madrid
June 81 by Carlos Lopez Maeztu, in New
York and alive after five years in a
Franco prison, thanks to the Joint Anti
Fascist Refugee Committee. An organ
izer of white collar workers under the
Spanish republic and a soldier of the
LOyalist army, Maeztu was sentenced to
death and awaiting execution when his
release was obtained through the help
Of the U. S. State department. He had
the luck to be born in the Philippines,
under the American flag.
Thin and pale, his forehead marked
with a deep scar. Maeztu looked very
tired and far older than his 30 years as
members of the press barraged him with
questions about his life in prison. He
told without stress how he escaped to
France when Spain fell, how he came
back when the French Quislings offered
him a concentration camp and Franco
promised to pardon all Loyalist soldiers,
how when he arrived in Madrid he was
Immediately clamped in Jail, denounced
for his former union utilization and anti
Fascist fighting record.
During those years in Jail, he said, he
and his fellow prisoners learned of Rus
sian, British and American victories in
the war through bulletins smuggled from
Allied embassies by prison TRUSTEES. From
papers printed underground by their sup
posedly disbanded labor unions, they also
heard of the guerrilla fighting in the
mountains Of Asturias, Gallicia, Toledo
the men who never surrendered to Fran
and kept alive to blow up trains car
rying supplies to Vichy France and Nazi
Germany.
In the prisons they worried about
America selling oil to Franco and trust
ing him not to send the oil to Germany
everybody knew it was going
there, Maeztu said. He smiled
at the thought Of anyone trusting Fran
co. Just before he left he was in the
office of the director general of security
(police office and had seen with his
own eyes German agents openly giving
to Spanish secret service men and
Falange officials.
Spain is Fascist now" he went on.
THE labor unions are disbanded, the
schools are closed down or run by the
Falange, catholic worship is compulsory,
shipments to Germany are an open Sc
cret. But not for long-because the PEG
pie are anti-Fascist.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
COURT REJECTS PLEA
TO SET ASIDE
DEPORTATION ORDER

SAN FRANCISCO-FB)-Latest at
tempt of President Harry Bridges Of In
ternational Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union CCIO) to have de-
portation proceedings against him set
aside was rebuffed by the U. S. circuit
court of appeals June 26 in a 3-to-2
decision.
In New York Carl King, Bridges at
torney, said the case would be taken to
the u. S. Supreme Court and declared
that the Australian-born labor leaders
entire defense staff would exhaust every
legal step in the fight against U. S. At
torney General Francis Biddle's deporta-
ton order.
The majority opinion, handed down by
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, held that the
Court had no authority to review or in
quire into the truth of the charges
against Bridges o into the manner in
which the attorney-generai reached his
decision. The only question before the
Court, Wilbur said, was whether there
was evidence in the Bridges deportation
hearing in 1941 and before Biddle from
which differences could be reasonably
drawn in support of the facts found"
The minority opinion held that the
findings in the case were based on in
competent evidence which, in addition,
was received and considered in VIOLA
ton Of a regulation of the Department
of Justice designed to insure fair hearings
an dto safeguard the rights of aliens"
Bridges was ordered deported on the
ground that he had been a member of
the Communist party and advocated
forcible overthrow of the government.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
EDMUNDSON TO RUN
AGAINST LEWIS

SPRINGFIELD, Il-FP)-Lifting his
ambitions from the vice presidency to the
presidency, Ray Edmundson announced
June 26 that he will oppose John l..
Lewis at the Cincinnati convention of
the United Mine Workers (unaffiliated)
in September.
~Edmundson. former president of Illi-
nois district IL, is heading an autonomy
drive in the union. An Illinois confer
ence recently called a national meeting
July 2 at Cincinnati to outline the fight
to regain home rule for 81 UNIV pro-
visional districts.
Freedom Of assemblage, freedom of
speech, freedom of worship and freedom
from fear cannot and must not be sup
pressed by the international president of
the UNIV as was %arrogantly declared in
a circular letter to the member of our
union of recent date" E~dmundson said,
referring to an official UNIV letter warn
ing locals not to attend the July 2 meet
ing.
Edmundson said he was fully aware
Of the responsibilities attached to the
announcement Of his candidacy, among
which are autonomy and self-government
in the q Of the 81 districts of the UNIV,
readjustments in the postwar period and
organic unity Of the 70 million organized
workers in the U. S."
He claimed support for his candidacy
from Lewis own local 764 in Springfield.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
G. O.P. ADMITS UNION
LABOR IS KEY TO
NOVEMBER VICTORY

CHICAGO - (FP) - Organized labor
controls the November election. This is
the consensus of reporters covering the
Republican national convention.
President Roosevelt is an assured Win
ner for reelection if labor swings its
weight in the coming campaign, a score
of newsmen from various parts of the
country and representing for the most
part conservative newspapers told Fed
Grated Press.
The widely heralded conservative
swing. newspapermen declared, is true
but it exists only among the sections
which formerly controlled both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties. Bust
nessmen, bankers, real estate operators
and professional people-the kind who
comprise IS per cent of the thousand
delegates to the Republican convention
will back Thomas E. Dewey or any
other candidate who seems to have a
chance to beat that man."
But 1914 sees a new factor on the po-
litical scene-a labor movement organ
lied politically on a ward and precinct
basis from one end of the country to
the other. That means that the old type
of party wheelhorse, the man who rose
to political leadership because he pro-
duced majorities in his ward or township,
is facing a new type of competition.
This convention is full of old-type par
ty wheelhorses. They came face to face,
for 30 minutes, with the new type, when
CLIO spokesman Van A. Bittner addressed
the Republican resolutions committee
June %. Row after row of seats was
filled with men active in union political
work who came to applaud Bittner.
The %assiduous official buildup for Pres.
William L. Hutchinson Of United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners (AFL) as
q vice presidential possibility is seen as
Republican recognition of the need of
splitting labor's 100000 votes.
The Republican, official party maya
zine, in its convention ISSUE, declared that
the G.. o. p. fails to line up labor I'VE
shall in effect be throwing the elections.
The most effective, the most convincing
move that we Republicans can make is
to select a labor man for high place on
our nationa ticket. w could thus with
one stroke cancel out the absurd charges
that the Republicans are 'anti-labor' and
that we propose to wipe out the hard
won social gains made by the working
masses in the last generation or two"
Despite appeals from AFL President
william Green and Bittner, the Republic
can party in its labor plans showed it was
unwilling to make the supreme sacrifice
for the labor vote. The platform draft
ing committee, on which Hutchinson
served, failed to indorse the Wagner act
without amendment, the Wagner-Mur-
ray-Dingell social security bill and the
r%econversion and postwar planks on
which both AFL and CLIO are united.
That's why newspapermen covering the
convention are in substantial agreement
that labor, if it gets to- work in wards
and precincts, holds the key to the cleo
ton of Roosevelt and a Congress far
more progressive than the present.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
Chicago Unions, Liberal
Groups FIGHT for Ballot

HICAGO-(FP) Determined to fight
for the right of $4,000 Illinois service
men to vote, labor and liberal %organiza-
tons will meet July 9 to demand that
Governor Dwight Green CR) certify the
federal ballot.
Initiated by the Illinois chapter of the
National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties, the conference will include In
dependent Voters of Illinois, National
Association for Advancement Of Colored
People, American Youth for Democracy
Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, Chi
cago Federation of Labor and Illinois
Industrial Union Council.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
Al STUDENTS ATTEND MGWU
SUMMER SCHOOL

MADISON, Wis.-FP)-The seventh
Institute of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union (RFL) held at
the School for Workers, University of
Wisconsin, opened here June 25.
Attending the nre1-.ee 2-week study
course are Al students from &c locals, II
cities and nine states. The course in
cludes training of %reoreationaI and edu-
cational officers, applied psychology,
aims of the labor movement and techni-
cal changes in the garment industry.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
Riches to Rags

WHITING, nd-FP)-The highest
paid worker in the world, Mrs. Elizabeth
Koby, opened her weekly pay envelope
from Standard Oil Co. on June q and
found a pay check for 500, 999, 1894.
She was a milionaire-for a minute.
A foreman hustled after her with a
check for the correct amount-S1S..6 An
error in the pay roll check machine. he
explained-not John d. Rockefeller CIV
ing away his millions.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06
PATMAN REVEALS
LOBBY PLOT

Congressman Wright Patman d.
Texas, denounced recently a million
aires lobby working for the adoption
Of a constitutional amendment to limit
income, gift and estate taxes to rs per
cent, it is reported by The Philadelphia
Record.
AS kingpings of the lobby, Mr.. Patman
named Frank Gannett, New York State
newspaper publisher, and Samuel Pet
tengill, former congressman from In
diana.
He described the Gannett- Pettengin
group as zone of the most powerful, most
effective. most sordid and most sinister
Hobbies that has ever been organized in
the history of the country.
Patman charged that Gannett and
Pettengin have been going all over the
United States getting money under the
pretense they would slip through this
constitutional amendment and save rich
taxpayers enormous sums,
II the lobby succeeds in getting S6
states to approve its amendments-it al
ready has lined up 16-Patman warned,
according to The Philadelphia Record
the nation will be unable to meet its
obligations to war veterans and their de-
pendents, there will be no such thing as
social security or old-age assistance.
Debt of 300 Billion
when this war is over, we will have
a national debt probably in excess Of
$780, 600. 900, OOO," Patman said. "The
nual carrying charges for that enormous
debt will be $1,000, 900, 900, probably 3d.
600, 100000. Thata, along with the mini
mum required for the operating expenses
of this government, will take up all the
tax money that can possibly be raised if
this amendment becomes a part Of our
Constitution. Nothing will be left for
the veterans, their dependents, or the
aged.
80, while we are thinking about the
servicemen and taking care Of them we
better pay just a little attention to what
is going on through this Fascist group
and it is a Fascist group.
Arguments Used
"You can imagine how II OF these
people will go before a group Of rich tax
and say, Now we are going to get
this constitutional amendment through,
which will prevent your paying more
than 25 per cent income taxes annually
You take a taxpayer who paid 100000
last year on a $3.50 900 income. Perhaps
the ratio is not exactly right, but for
the purpose Of this illustration I presume
it will suffice. He will take the position
why should I not pay $1,000 or $4,000
on this cannett-P ettengin plan? 1t is
a good risk and I can afford to speculate
with 1000 to save maybe $4,000 a
year from now on"
In that way they are raising barrels
Of money all over the United States ex-
pecting to slip through this amendment
which will stop all aid to servicemen, so
cial security and old-age assistance"
Patman named Vivian Kellems, said
The Philadelphia Record, as n Of the
supporters of the Gannett-P ettengin pro-
posal.
"she is out making speeches for them
the woman who now refuses to pay her
income tax and urges everybody else to
declared Mr.. Patman.
Concluding, Patman said:
whenever you permit the Gannett-
Petttengill amendment to become the
22nd Amendment, you destroy this Gov
eminent"
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06

CHICAGO-(FP)-The Republican ma
tional convention nominated anti-labor
and isolationist Thomas E. Dewey and
John w. Bricker on a s%ay-nothing plat
form that ignored demands Of the AFL
and CLIO for postwar cooperation Of
the United Nations, planned production
to assure full employment, continued
protection for labor and repeal of the
Smith Connally act. Absence of enthusi-
assn for their own candidates pervaded
the sessions which ignored the nations
war effort, steamed with hatred Of p. d.
r. and revealed G. O. P. fear Of the po-
litical action Of organized labor.
Montana labor news., 1944-07-06

NEW YORK-FP)-while Governor
thomas E. Dewey was accepting the Re
publican presidential nomination, labor
in New York was modifying for a final
battle to prevent him from disfranchis-
ing the 100000 %servicemen Of his state.
Demands went to the governor from
AFL, CLIO and National Lawyers Guild
that he accept a federal ballot for serv-
icemen and call a special session Of the
Legislature to remove the red tap sNA-
FU-ing the CT vote.