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Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
DISCOVER JOKER in
COMPENSATION BILL

Senate bill NO. ia railroaded through
both the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatives Of the 18th assembly, by
unanimous consent, and which purported
to be a measure of protection for in
jured workmen OF the families of work
men killed by accident in industry, is
10Y found to contain a 'joker," which
deprives the workmen of a protection
which a recent decision of the Montana
Supreme Court provided, while the way
in which the purposes of the bill were
presented to labor Representatives and
other liberals was that it remedied a
fault created in the workmen's compen-
sation laws by the decision.
In the case decided by the Supreme
Court in favor of the plaintiff workman
who had sustained a severe injury and
had been under treatment by a physi-
clan. the workman had failed to file a
formal application for compensation, but
the Supreme Court held in substance,
that the filing of the certificate of the
attending physician was all that was re-
quired to affirm the claim Of the work
man for compensation.
It is understood that the bill was
sponsored if not prepared by the repub-
licrat chairman of the Industrial Acct
dent Board. j.. Burke Clements. 1t was
introduced by the committee on compen-
sation of the Senate. In advocating the
passage of the bill, the principal points
stressed were provisions for payment
without delay of burial expenses or i'm
m~ediately necessary medical expenses.
This, according to attorneys, has always
been provided, and contrary to represent
tations made to labor representatives, the
Supreme Court decision did not affect
these provisions in the law.
The joker in the yoluminous bill is
contained in the following sentence pro
posed as an amendment to Section 3OO6
provided, that the filing Of a c%ertifi-
cate of the attending physician shall not
constitute a sworn claim for compensa-
ton This amendment, if the bill is
approved by the Governor and becomes a
law, will, of course nullify the liberal in
depreciation Of the law made by the
Supreme Court in the recent decision.
It is considered possible that the Gov
ernor will veto the bill, and if he does
not, that an action may be instituted in
the Supreme Court challenging its con-
stitutionality, on the grounds that it was
passed by both houses without being
printed. The constitutional requirement
is that no bill shall become law without
having beer printed for the c%onsidera-
ton of the members OF both houses.
The rush act given the Measure in
both houses precluded study Of its pro-
visions and only two voted against it for
that reason. These two were Scar Held
ing, representative from Missoula county
and Senator Stromnes of Cascade. The
liberals in both houses who voted for
the measure, did 50 on the assumption
as claimed by its crafty proponents, that
it offered advantages to injured work
men and their families which the Su-
preme Court decision was said to have
destroyed.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

9 Declaring neither WLB nor OPB were
doing the job they were set up to do
under the 1912 sterilization act, the CIO
chief told the Senate banking and cur
reney committee that Congress should
formally petition President Roosevelt
requesting a revision in operations of the
WLB which he said were sitting col
leolive bargaining.
AS to OPA, Murray said Congress
should ask the agency to stop insuring
profits in industry and get back to effeo-
tive price control.
lie denounced the recent directive Of
Judge Fred Vinson, ~ex-economic stabii-
zaiion director, as "deplorable in every
respect" and said it should be suspend
ed so the WLB can do the kind Of job
it is intended to do
The directive granting "limitel' adj
iustment of so-caIed fringe ISSUES, Mur-
ray said, further circumscribes the
WLB's sphere of activities and subjects
American workers to all kinds of wage
determinations.
Murray also called for an enumeration
Of national policy in regard to wages and
prices after VIE lay and said he saw a
definite d%eflationary threat unless an
immediate general wage increase is
granted and maintenance of high wages
after We Day guaranteed.
Hitting at the WLB's switch-over to
yardstick of straight time hourly earnings
chat include vacation pay, shift differ
entails. merit increases, etc. from it's
original measure Of basic hourly rates.
Murray said application of the new yard
stick upon return to the 4O-hour week
would mean a SIC billion slash in in
come Of American workers.
Turning to operations of OPA, the
CLIO leader said it had neglected entirely
to curb profits although the agency was
set UP by law to Grub war profiteering.
II said when price relief was granted
to a single, stricken manufacturer"
who'd applied for price relief for a Ger
tain product, OPA policy nov was to
grant industry-wide increases for that
product, regardless Of how fat profits
were in the rest of the industry.
Murray said the practice should be
curbed either through amendment of the
present law or enunciation of a new
policy.
The Senate body was urged by the CLIO
Auxiliaries to repeal the Bankhead and
Taft amend lents to the act because
they allow 'exhorbitant prices" and
hamper OPA in developing pricing by
specifications Of quality"
Murray's criticism of OPA policy of
granting price increases was echoed at
the hearing by the Textile Workers
Union tCTO) which demanded approval
Of the nations wage case to correct sub
standards affecting 100000 textile work
ers.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

No higher praise than the above re
port, entirely nonpolitical in nature,
could be given regarding the efficiency
with which Mayor OLeary has con-
Quoted the business entrusted to him by
the electorate.
Mayor OLeary is proud Of the record
he has established in city government,
but the longtime Butte resident, a
member Of the Butte Stationary Engi-
neers' Union for more than 30 years,
can also be justly proud Of his record
in labor circles. Mayor OLeary, who was
a hosting engineer on the Butte hill be-
fore he became head Of the city govern
ment, still carries his paid-up card in
the Butte Engineers Union NO. SO Of
the International Union Of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers.
Mayor OLeary makes his home at 4lO
North Washington street. He and Mrs.
OLeary are the parents Of five children,
four surviving, two Of whom are in the
armed services.
Friends Of Mayor OLeary, in urging
him to seek reelection and 10 in sup
port of his candidacy, point out that he
has sustained the pledges he made when
he took office. He pledged reduction OF
taxes and city debt and at the same time
efficient maintenance of city depart
ments. The record reveals that Mayor
OLeary has fulfilled every one of these
pledges.
When Mayor O'Leary took office the
city tax levy was 1910 mills. At present
the mill levy is. 1895, including a two
mill special levy voted by the taxpayers
of the city in 1913 to provide a sl.0O per
day increase in salary for firemen and
notice Officers. Thus, the actual reduc-
ton in the tax mill levy by his admins
tration has been IT'S mills, a direct saw
ing to the taxpayers Of s294,827. %; a
saving that was made without impair
ment of n public service or curtailment
of necessary help in any department oil
the city government. The Indebtedness
of the city has been reducd S403 1904,
in addition to $132,351.55 paid on inter
est. During this time, the city has lived
within it's income, and there has been
no registration of warrants for the first
time in forty (4O) years.
This policy of debt reduction and nv-
ing within its revenue, will put the city
Of Butte in good position to promote
well-planned postwar public projects.
Mr.. OLeary's plans have resulted in
many improvements to the city. Listed
among projects beneficial to the health,
safety and general welfare OF the COM
munity, already completed under his
administration, are the following:
Erection Of q. bridge at the junction
Of Oregon avenue and Blacktail Deer
Creek; installation of 5000 feet OF sani-
tary sewer pipe by city crews in the Gil
man Addition; removal Of the city gar
bage dump to a point outside the city
limits, thus eliminating unhealthy and
%unsanitary conditions that have prevailed
here for years; construction Of tennis
courts in several sections Of the city,
and erection Of a handhaI court on
North Wyoming street; elimination Of a
dangerous curve at the junction Of Cop
per street and Anaconda Road, q high
way heavily travelled by miners Of the
community; n the repairing Of side
walks and curbs on Warren, Garden,
Kemper, Shields, Watson, oregon ave-
nues, and Second street.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
MANPOWER REPORT
ASKS BETTER
LABOR UTILIZATION

WASHINGTON-FP)-A War Man
power Commission report March Z sub
Stimulated organized labor's arguments
that the realistic approach to boosting
production is through better utilization
of manpower.
The report said manpower problems
could be solved only through a plant to
plant study and through the joints eff
forts Of management, labor and the
VINO.
Prepared by Director Eugene G.
Bewkes of the WINGS bureau Of labor
utilization, the report said concerted
joint action could add the equivalent Of
100000 to 100000 to the labor force.
THE VINO National Management
Labor Policy Committee might very well
be the spearhead OF this expanded eff
fort" Bewkes said.
stating that "manpower required cor
present and foreseeable war production
is for the most part already on employ
ment rolls of the country" Bewkes said,
"a 8 to 10 per cent further improvement
in manpower utilization would suffice. .
He said there wasn't a community in
the country which couldn't easily I'M
prove it's utilization TO that degree If
management, labor and civic organiza-
lions agreed to work with VINO 10 bring
it about.
The report also praised use Of wage
incentives as a means of increasing pro-
duction and added that increased work
err productivity is an important aspect of
production.
Sometimes introduction of an incen-
tive system will boost production to an
amazing degree" he said. Fifty per
cent is not unusual"
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
High School Symphony
Attracts Attention

Butte high school will Stage Us sixth
annual symphony band and orchestra
Friday and Saturday evenings, March Is
and II and also on Sunday afternoon,
March Is, at the high school auditorium
These concerts, under the direction of H.
j. Schiesser, are one OF the outstanding
musical events of the year.
Persons planning to attend this affair
should secure their tickets Immediately.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
RADIO ADDRESS BY
FREEBOURN GIVES


The radio talk by Harry Freebourn,
Democratic candidate for mayor, de-
hvered over KGR recently has been de-
scribed as one of the finest political
speeches of the present campaign. Mr..
Freebourn in his talk reviewed the eco
nomic and social history of the city Of
Butte since the beginning of the first
World War in 1916, II and 18, making
a contrast between the prosperity that
existed then and now and especially in
relation to the mines and prosperity. He
said, In 1918 with Butte crowded and
business so good We felt good times
would be with us long into the future
While Mr.. Freebourn found some fault
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
DONOVAN HAS HAD
VARIED EXPERIENCE

Richard P. Donovan, candidate for
mayor on the Democratic ticket, was
born in 1906. After finishing grade
school he attended Butte Business Col
lege. Mr.. Donovan is the father of three
children. He is a carpenter by trade
and at the present time is also a mem
Der of the Board OF Schol Trustees. MI.
Donovan has shown a very active inter-
est in the welfare of children, being &
member OF the executive council in
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
Silver Bow County Council
For Progressive Political
Action to Meet TONIGHT

A special meeting of the Silver Bow
County Council for Progressive Political
Action will be held tonight, Thursday,
March IS, at o'clock in Judge Downey's
court room in the court house.
Many important matters will come be
fore this meeting and the public is urged
to attend.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
Miners Auxiliary to
Hold Maeting

Miners Union Ladies Auxiliary No. z
will hold its regular meeting Friday eve
ming, March Is, in Miners Union hall
at 8 o'clock. After the business meeting
a card social will be held beginning at
9 o'clock to which friends are invited.
Jennie Mikich, Ann Talo and Irene
irwin will be in charge Of the social.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
NAM HEAD TIED UP
WITH MON0POLIES

VIEW YORk.-FP)-lrd MOSner, bne
new president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, is like n Of
those big beautiful ads out of MANS
own million dollar propaganda cam
paign.
Those ads, which ran in your daily
papers under titles like Old American
custom, Jobs, How Americans Can Earn
More, Buy More, Have More, and Cuts
sound like they came from the pens OF
plain ordinary folks interested in saving
the best of America. They talk about
the CUTS it took for the pioneers and the
little storekeepers and all the other 60
getters to make the U. S. the richest and
most powerful nation in the world, and
how us folks must have the CUTS to pre-
serve American free enterprise for the
boys to come home to.
But it turn out that the MANS quits
means fighting Pres. Roosevelt's plan for
so million jobs, blocking any world Sc
curity organization that might interfere
with Wall Streets financial rule, and de-
stroying unions. Underneath the country
s~torekeeper talk, it's the same old NAM
out to fool the people into selling their
hopes Of peace and prosperity for the
MANS kind of profits-first American
ism.
Small Businessman?
Mosher is part Of that honey front
strategy. He's a small businessman, the
NAM wants you to know. owns Russell
Harrington cutlery co. Of Southbridge
Mass, which has 300 employees. Started
out at the bottom as an accountant. Just
a typical American little businessman.
saving free enterprise for all the other
little businessmen the NAM wants to
help.
Shows how much the NAM has
changed since the days when names like
the DuPonts were out in front. And all
the newspapers and news magazines
dutifully hurried to advertise this revo-
lutionary election of a small business
man to head the NAM. But when you
look behind the honey front, Mosher
turns out to be more than a small bust
nessman.
He has been a powerful figure in one
of the strongest domestic monopolies in
the U. s., which has a cartel tie-up with
the Nazis that helped build up Hitler's
military machine and held back our own.
From Oct. 1888 until July 1914, Mosher
had another and more important job
than heading the small cutlery company.
He was also executive vice president and
general manager of the American OPP
teal Co. with which he has been con-
nected since 1922. American Optical
employs 1900 people and is the leading
industry Of Southbridge, which has a
total population of 1925. Mosher was
also president of Consolidated optical
Co. Lit, Toronto, Canada, and director Of
the British optical Co. Of London.
He apparently resigned from Ameri-
can optical before taking the NAM
presidency. He was succeeded as execu-
tive vice-president in the middle of 1854
by Charles o. Cozzens, who is a member
of the board of directors of Russell Har-
rington. But Mosher couldn't quite re-
sign all his connections with tine optical
monopoly. The rumor in the Industry is
that American Optical is the real owner
of Russell Harrington Cutlery Co. Con-
firming the tie-up, informed sources re-
veal that every member of. Mosher's
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Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

charge Of the ~recreational center for
youths and which is known as the Teen
age Canteen, in fact his organizing abil-
ity contributed greatly in making this
enterprise a success. Mr.. Donovan has
had considerable clerical and executive
experience, having worked in the CLERK
of Courts office for three years. He.
too, like many other successful men.
acquired a good deal Of his education bv
study at home. He is president of
the State Council Of Carpenters and
also state Democratic committeeman.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
Donovan to Speak
Over KGIR

Hear Richard P. Donovan, Democratic
candidate for mayor speak over KGR
Sunday evening at 1O:45 O'Clock on the
Problems and Postwar Program Of the
City Of Butte.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15
FEDERAL &%cENCIES AIDING WEALTHY
HEAD OF Clio ATTACKS PRESENT WAGE AND
PRICE POLICIES OF O.P. A. AND W.L.B.

WASHINGTON-(FP)-In a doubled barrelled attack
on existing wage and price policies CLIO President Phillip
Murray March 9 demanded congressional action to free
the National War Labor Board from the shackles that
prevent it from being effective and to halt OPA's assist
ance to war p%rofiteers.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

The way Orchestra Leader Gordon
jenkins sees it, a popular song composer
is a man whose host Of imitators died
before he was born.
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

LABOR'S IN THE FIGHT-WrTH
PAYDAY DOLLARS FoP WAR BONDS
Montana labor news., 1945-03-15

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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-10

CHINA HAS 5-YEAR PLAN
A five-year billion-dollar post
war industrialization program is be-
ing planned in China.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-10

1t you have an income whether from
work, land, or capital you have quota
in the 18th War Loan. Be sure to make It'll
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-10
Stains Presence
Highlighted Strategy
Meeting at Teheran

At Teheran, Persia, President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Premier Stain held their first
joint discussion at the turn of No
vember, 1913, at which the U. S.
and British invasions of France and
the trip-hammer Red summer often.
sive were envisaged.
But if the immediate paramount
question was the planning of the mil
itary conquest of Germany, the con-
ferees agreement to cooperate ir
peace shaded the meeting.
g. We shall seek the CO.
operation and active participa-
ton of all nations, large and
small, whose peoples are
dedicated to the elimination
of tyranny and slavery +. :" the
three leaders declared. 1--WE will
welcome them as they may
choose to come into the world
family Of democratic nations"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-10
Italy Breaks
World Peace

A border clash in Africa that ex-
banded into colonial war showed
the dietators of Europe that the
peace-loving nations" really did
not have the win or the power to
stop an aggressive state. On De-
cember 8, 1884, Italian and Ethio-
plan troops encountered each other
in disputed territory on the edge of
the Italian Somaliland. BY January
10, 1885, fighting was resumed, and
Italy made demands. A committee
of Cancellation was agreed to, and
hostilities were suspended for
months. The emperor of Ethiopia,
Halle Selassie, appealed to the
League of Nations, of which both his
country and Italy were members.
The League hemmed and hawed,
tried to arbitrate, but got nowhere.
MussOlini, the Italian premier,
was growing impatient. He saw
a chance to extend Italian colo
NAL territory, thereby fulfilling
his pledge TO his party, the Fas-
cists. Accordingly the Italian
army, modern and mechanical,
invaded Ethiopia. The advance
was swift. Bombing planes
broke the Ethiopian resistance,
despite the fanaticaI bravery of
the poorly equipped natives.
May 5, 1886, Mussolini an
nOunced that the war was over,
and on the ninth, Ethiopia was
formally annexed to Italy.
All this was in defiance of the
League of Nations, and its peace
covenants. During the war, there
had been attempts to organize some
counter measures against Italy, rec
ognized as the aggressor There was
no thought of military action, but
economic sanctions were proposed
principally the cutting off of oil ship
ments and other necessary supplies
to Italy. Several nations stalled or
refused to join the embargo, how
ever, and the plan fell through Italy
had successfully defied the League
and its peace machinery. All ag-
gressive countries took notice, in
particular Germany and Japan, the
latter already involved in an unde-
clared war. The failure of the
League to stop Italy in Ethiopia
was the ego" signal to Germany.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-10
TRAINING PROGRAMS

In 1914, total Of 1855, $50 per-
sons were enrolled in civilian war
training programs, Paul v. Nc
Mutt, War Manpower Commission
chairman, revealed recently.