The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-07-20
Program of the Second Montana Labor
Institute, Missoula, August 2, 3, and 4


Institute, Missoula, August 2, 3, and 4
i Thursday, August
j 900 AM Registraon-Main Floor, Student Union Bldg
$3.50 AM OPENING SESSION-God Room
/ Chairman Perry S. Melton, Montana State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor
Welcome - Dean Walter A. Anderson director,
i Summer Session. Montana State University.
j Outline of Institute = John D. Connors director,
Workers Education Bureau.
1890 AM Present and Postwar Trends in Labor Contracts
c. j. Simpson, National Labor Bureau, Seattle.
Open discussion
Afternoon Sesson-Gold Room
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COOPERATION
Chairman: E. L. Freeman, Dept of English,
Montana State University.
80 M Voluntary Labor Manag cement Cooperation
Government Regulation.
Robert K. Burns executive secretary, Industrial
Relations Center, University of Chicago.
Discussants George I. Martin, state manager
Associated Industries of Montana; Robert c.
Line, School of Business Administration Mon
tana State University John Clark secretary of
Smeltermens Union CLIO, Great Falls; Sam
IRWIN, Sec. Missoula Central Labor Council.
300 Pm PANEL Collective Bargaining How Can Labor
and Industry Contribute?
c. j. Simpson, leader = r. HI. Glover, Western
General Counsel Anaconda Copper Mining Co..
Frank Fenton, director of Organization, AFL;
Robert c. Brown, secretary, Butte Miners I'm
ion, CLIO.
Evening Session
900 Pm. DINNER-M ontmartre Cafe.
Presiding DR.. Ernest o. Melby, president, Mon
tana State University.
Group singing
Robert K Burns
Address: British Labor and Education.
John D. Connors.
FRIDAY, August 3-Morning Session
LABOR FACES THE FUTURE
Chairman Charles Mclean, secretary, Montana /
State Industrial Union Council
900 A M GENERAL SESSION-Gold Room
Labor's Program for Full Employment
Frank P. Fenton
Roy W. Atkinson regional director Go
Discussants: Helen Parker Mudgett, regional di- :
Democracy; ID.
w. Chapman, president, Montana Farmers U. i
1890 Am. Group Meetings:
GROUP Gold Room
Difficulties of Building Union Membership
Kenneth Davis executive secretary, Northwestern c
Council of Lumber & Sawmill Workers. leader. Q
Sylvester Graham subregional director, CLIO; w. "a
A. Boyle, executive president, District 27, U. M. t
w. A.; and others.
GROUP Hooper Room v
Labor's Stake in Postwar Politics the National
and Local Level
Joseph Kinsey Howard Leader.
H. S. Bruce, editor The Peoples Voice; d. W.
Chapman; W. P. Clark department of classical
languages, Montana State University.
Afternoon Session Jul
MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK e.
/ 80 P. M. Group Meetings: "A
GROUP Gold Room ne
How to Develop Efficient Leadership in the Local tn
Kenneth Davis, leader M
Robert c. Weller, secretary, District Council, IN
Lumber Sawmil Workers, AFL; A. L. Robin eli
son, president, District Council Oil Workers, IP
CO. and others. ez
GROUP Hooper Room TO
Postwar Trends in Europe and Their Effect on in
American Labor ma
Helen Parker Mudgett leader. az
James D. Graham president, Montana State Fed tic
Grafton of Labor; Melvin c. Wren, department ST.
of history and political science, Montana State tn
University III III
200 PM GENERAL SESSION-Gold Room Ike
Chairman ]. M. Peterson board member Mon pr
tana Farmers Union. wi
Panel: Fascism the American Way tic
Paul Meadows, department of economics and So Wit
ciology Montana State University, leader Sc
Selma Borchardt, vice president, AFT; Helen PR
Parker Mudgett; LaVerne Hamilton, president tiv
Missoula Central Labor Council; Carl F. Kraen-
eel, department of agricultural economics, Mon n
State College.
Evening Session n
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