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Laurel outlook., 1945-08-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Walters ane
daughter Jeanette spent the weei
at the home of Mr.. Walters sister
Mrs. Herbert Dutton and family al
Cardwell. Mont.
Miss Ellen Harding left Monday
for Los Angeles after spending her
two weeks vacation with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Harding.
Cpl. Frank Thatcher who has
been stationed in Texas and has
been visiting friends here for 10
days. left Wednesday for California
to visit his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Thatcher.
Pfc. Kenneth Eastlick is visiting
at the home of his brother Herbert
in Pullman. Wash, and with friends
in Oregon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mckenzie of
Silesia was in town Saturday visit
ing among relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. d. Tompkins re-
ceived word during the week that
they were great aunt and uncle to
James Alfred Coate, born July 81,
to Sergeant and Mrs. Gerald Coate
in Forsyth. Sergeant Coate is
stationed at Guam at present.
Pvt. Betty Krieger, WAC, station
ed in Spokane. came Thursday to
spend her furlough with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Krieger
Miss Harriet Tabor of Spring
Valley, Mimi, was a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. A. o. Nelson and Mrs.
Martha Spry. Miss Tabor is a
graduate of the local high school
and has been teaching in Minnesota.
Her brother Roy Tabor is with the
soil conservation in South Dakota.
Mrs. Horace Dewey, formerly of
Ohio and a returned missionary
from China. came Thursday and re-
manned until Sunday with her
former schoolmate. Mrs. A. o. Mel
son and family. On Saturday Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson and daughter
Ruth made a trip with their guest
to Hardin and Crow Agency.
Mrs. Martha Spry spent Wednes-
day in Billings at the E. E. Peck
home where Mrs. Peck was cele-
brating her birthday.
The Boy Scouts began Thursday
to make their second collection of
waste paper. At present they are
storing the paper until all is col
lected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Thiel were
hosts Sunday at a dinner in honor
of Robert Micheal who recently re-
turned from overseas. Guests in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Micheal,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ruff and Gilbert
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The Outlook Says:

Mrs. Alex o. Reiter and daughter
Maurine left this week to visit rel
atives in Portland, Ore.
Mrs. Elsie G~oodenbour of Round
up, a former Laurel resident, has
returned to make her home here
and is employed at Greetings gar
age. Before leaving Roundup, Mrs.
G~oodenbour was given a farewell
party and a gift when the Women
Office Workers club of that city
entertained in her honor.
A collection of war souvenirs was
received this week by Miss Grace
Stadalman. The sender was Cor
poral Krogness who is stationed
with the ninety-first division of the
first army in Germany. The arti-
cles included a beer stein, a gas
mask, a letter opener which was set
with moss agates, a gold bracelet,
wooden shoes, German cigarets,
soldiers insignia and numerous
German coins. :
Laurel outlook., 1945-08-08
TREWIN

Mr.. and Mrs. William Rayberg
who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Pete Frank and other rela-
tlveS here for the past month left
for their home in Washington this
week.
Mrs. Mason Hazel is employed as
cook at the Henry Heating ranch
in the Lake Basin country.
Earl Linger of Molt was a caller
at the Grubs home Thursday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Flood and
sons spent Sunday in Billings at
the Sloate home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grubs of
Billings were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. William Killebrew at supper
Sunday night and ove night guests
at the Grubs home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Wheeler
of Laurel were visiting at the
Grubs home Sunday evening.
Charles Griebel and family of
Billings were guests of the Kapple
families Sunday. The men enjoyed
a days fishing at the river.
Mr. and Mrs. Cash Whitmyer of
Billings were callers here Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Shay of
Hawthorne, Miss Marjorie Shay and
Miss Kay Sweeney of Billings were
at the Grubs home Friday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Kappel and
Mrs. John Kappel were Billings
visitors Monday.
Mrs. Kenneth Shay and son spent
the weekend at the j. R. Shay
home in Hawthorne.
D. F. Cunningham and A. l..
Grubs and children Calvin and leila
attended a meeting of the Wrang-
lers All club in Park City Friday
Laurel outlook., 1945-08-08

Aug. 5, 1805-The Lewis and
Clark expedition explored the Big
Hole river near the present site of
Twin Bridges.
Aug. s., 1905-Lewis passed the
present site of Wolf Point on the
Missouri river.
Aug. 6, 1805-The party returned
to the mouth of the Big Hole river
near Twin Bridges.
Aug. g., 1805-Lewis passed the
present site of Brockton on the Mis-
souri,.
Aug. 7, 1SO5-The explorers de-
cided that the Jefferson was the
true continuation of the river and
started its ascent from near what
is now Twin Bridges.
Aug. z, 1805-Lewis passed the
mouth of the Big Muddy river in
Roosevelt county, the present site
of Culbertson, and south of what is
now Bainville, leaving Montana.
Aug. 8, 1805-The party was in
Beaverhead county near the pres
ent site of Blaine.
Aug. ~, loU5-LeW1S passed by
the present site of Dillon.
Aug. 10, 1805-Lewis reached the
two forks of the Jefferson river
near the present site of Crawling
and Armstead.
Aug. II, 1805-Lewis camped at
Shoshone cove, above Armstead, on
Horse Prairie creek. During the
day he saw a Shoshone Indian but
was unsuccessful in making contact
with him. Clark was near the
Ruby mountains.
Laurel outlook., 1945-08-08

Mrs. Kenneth Shay and son Nor
man spent from Sunday until
Tuesday night in Billings visiting
relatives.
Laurel outlook., 1945-08-08
Crisp Bacon

Bacon will be crisp II cooked slow
ly at low heat, turned often, and ~
fat drained of as 1t accumulates.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
New York To
Have RefuiI
Wage Floor

Minimum wage rates for New
York's half million retail trade
employees will be announced
sometime early in August. The
newly created Retail Trade Min
imum Wage Board CDR. Harry
Woodburn Chase, chairman) is
currently conducting hearings,
interviews and investigations on
which its findings will be based.
All employees of New York's
10000 odd retail trade estab-
lishments will be covered. A
three-year investigation shows
up the industry as a low wage
payer even though it does a
$5,000,000,000 annual gross
business. Wage rates of less than
SO cents per hour and even less
than 40 cents per hour are not
uncommon among the women
and minors employed in the in
dustry.
Minimum wage orders in New
York already cover laundries,
dry cl Gaming establishments,
beauty parlors, confectionery
factories and hotels and restau-
rants.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
Cosser Settles
Spicer Dispute
Continued from Page l

AhOhA a6N
unjustly fired by any employer,
especially during war time when
the Union power was greatly
limited through the mo Strike"
pledge.
Spicer Committee Rehired
Auto-Lite workers can well
remember when lay-offs hit that
plant, that it was the Union hir-
ing rights obtained under the
leadership of Director Gosser
which Immediately placed thou
sands of those laid off, on jobs
without any loss of time.
At one time the entire Execu-
tive Shop Committee of the Spi-
Ger Unit was discharged by the
company which attempted to
undermine the solidarity of the
Union by this act. Once more
Director Gosser came to the
front, and with the shop COM
mittee representatives, negoti-
ated with Spicer officials and
succeeded in placing the Execu-
tive Committee back in their
former positions.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
commes TongIe
With Swedes

Relations between the Com
munists and Swedish labor are
exceedingly strained because of
the Finnish Communists plea
that striking Swedish metal
workers go back to work. The
Firms want Swedish factories to
deliver ball bearings and ma
chinery to Finland so that the
Firms in turn may meet repara-
tions obligations to Russia.
The daughter of the Finnish
Communist leader Otto Kusin-
men came to Sweden especially
to plead with the Swedish Metal
Workers Union, and the Swedish
Communists backed her request,
but this pressure had no result.
The metal workers strike has
been in progress since February.
LPA carried a report in an
earlier issue about the strikers
demands. (LPA)
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
FEPC Passed With
Inadequate Funds

SHIN GTON, July II
(LPA)-Moves to get action or
the bill setting up Permanent
Fair Employment Practice Com
mittee came to the fore again
last week. After weeks OF
wrangling, a War Agencies Ap-
preparations Bill was finally
passed, 13 days after the agen-
cies had run out of funds, and
barely time to provide July
81 pay cks for war agency
workers. : bill was delayed
in vain aetempt by southern
Senators and Representatives to
kill any funds for the Presi-
dents Fair Employment Prac-
tice Committee.
Final compromise, accepted
grudgingly by both opponents
and proponents of the bill, was
to appropriate $250,000 for the
FEPC. The section granting
the money includes a revision
for liquidation of the agency
by the end of the fiscal year,
June 80, 1945.
However, stated the Natl
Council for a Permanent FEPC
last week, "The people know
that the compromise was forced
upon Congress by a minority
which obstructed the entire
war program by its obstruction
ist tactics"
"We cannot believe that the
Congress or the people want a
reconversion to job discrimina
ton as the war draws to a
close" said the Natl Council,
after the vote. What is unfair
in wartime is also unfair in
peacetime. Our efforts to
bring world wide peace and
security through implementa-
tion of the San Francisco char
ter are inextricably interwined
with our treatment of minori-
ties within our own border"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

providing the most powerful
ammunition the reactionaries
have had so far. Hansen has
rewritten the Murray Bill and
emasculated it.
Whether Hansen will find
some reactionary Congressman
to introduce it as substitute
bill remains to be seen. Mean
time Sen. Wagner, one of the
bills sponsors, plans to go ahead
with hearings on the original
bill this month before the Senate
Banking and Currency Com
mittee of which he is chairman.
Removes Two Features
Hansen's sabotage of the bill
would remove its two most inn
portant features: I'd - the de-
claration that all workers have
a right to useful, remunerative,
regular, and full time employ
ment;" Ola national budget to
be prepared by the president
estimating probably employment
and calling for a government
program that would employ any
who would otherwise be job
less.
All sections of organized la
Dor have already endorsed the
legislation but union leaders
have emphasized that the meas
ure itself does not provide full
employment as some daily press
editorials and columnists have
contended.
How much support revisions
of the bill such as Hansen's may
obtain from the National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers and the
u. S. Chamber of Commerce is
still a question. Reactionary en-
ployer groups may try to have
a Hansen sort of substitute
pushed through Congress instead
of the Murray Bill.
C. of C. Program Started
The Chamber of Commerce
has already started its sabotage
program. The Union for Demo-
cratic Action last week declared
that the c of C's latest bulletin
lis one of the smoothest jobs yet
produced in the cam p aign
against full employment"
The UDA said that the c of c
has always fought with all its
great power against a thorough
attack upon chronic mass un-
employment and the abolition of
unemployment. Year after year
policies and appropriations were
attacked, whitfield down, COM
promised and emasculated so
that at no time was the govern
ment able to move decisively to
wipe out chronic mass unem-
ployment. The United States
Chamber of Commerce, which
with its allies succeeded in pre-
venting a solution of chronic
mass unemployment during the
sos, now cites that failure to
wipe out mass unemployment as
argument against a goal of full
employment.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
Ship Workers
Refused Raise

WASHINGTON, GPA) - A
general wage boost for 100000
Atlantic Coast ship workers
was denied last week by the
War Labor Boards shipbuild-
ing commission. Also turnedt
down for the workers in rs
yards was a differential of
1852 for ship repair work
which was recently granted to
southern California repair
yards.
Three different written opin-
ions explained a new tentative
policy statement" which also
denied requests for increased
night shift premiums and elimi-
nation of the north-south diff
ferential.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
VET Program
Proposals

Another union with a positive
program for the veteran is Local
No. 600, UAW-CIO, Dearborn,
Mich. Chairman Harold j. Near
of the Veterans Committee an
nounces that the local, is asking
for the following provisions for
veterans in negotiating a new
agreement:
Cd Time off for service con-
nected disability without cutting
into vacation credit;
(2) Time in service to count
toward vacation pay;
(3) Seniority credit for time
spent in obtaining education un-
der the G.. 1. Bill of Rights.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
B-2q Production
Beofs Schedule

WASHINGTON GPA) - Pro-
duction of B-29's was on sched-
ule in all plants with two
companies exceeding tn e r
quotas to such an extent as to
account for a Az. total over
scheduled production of the
superbombers," WPB Chairman
Krug announced last week
While the B-29's were ahead
of schedule, 5000 workers on
Bits were thrown out of work
in California in the same week
However. Krug reported that
aircraft production for June Cell
short of the production objec-
tive by 288 planes, thus break
ing a three-month record OF
schedule achievement. The re-
port said that 5974 aircraft were
accepted from June production
against a schedule calling for
6022.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
.PAC Eyes
Detroit

NEW YORK, N. Y, July
Is - Buoyed by sweeping
victories scored by labor-end-
dorsed candidates in munich
pal elections throughout the
nation, CIO Political Action
Committee officials look for
ward to the August 7 primary in
Detroit, Mich, as a major test
of labor's political strength in
an off-presidential election year.
Special interest is centered
upon the Detroit primary for a
labor official, UAW vice-presi-
dent Richard T. Frankensteen,
has entered the mayoralty race
and is conceded to be the chief
opponent of the incumbent,
Mayor Edward E, Jeffries.
Officially endorsed by the
Wayne County PAC and expect
ed to receive the backing of the
Michigan Citizens Committee,
Negro and other progressive
groups, Frankensteen carries the
hopes of workers who are fast
seeing Detroit, the nations num-
ber one production center, turn
ing into the nations top recon
version headache. Frankensteen
has made reconversion and full
employment the main aims for
postwar Detroit.
Mayor Jeffries Condemned
Jeffries was condemned ma.
tionally for his anti-Negro stand
during the 1913 campaign fol-
lowing the race riots in that
city. He has since sought to
nollify Negro groups by a series
of favorable appointments. Po-
litical observers, believe, how
ever, that the overtures will not
wipe out the memories of JEFF
fries position in 1943 and Fran
kensteen will draw a sizeable
Negro vote.
Besides Frankensteen other
labor-backed candidates in the
primary include Tracy Doll, Sec
retary of the Wayne County
PAC, 1t. George Edward, in
cumbent, and Rev. Charles A.
Hill, popular Negro clergyman.
Registration of these unregister-
ed is proceeding, and the entire
political action machinery has
been marshalled behind Fran
kensteen and his running mates.
If Detroit's PAC proves as
successful as PAC units in other
municipal campaigns, Franken-
steen should be the next mayor
of Detroit.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
Workers Hit BY
New Price Rdises
, Continued from Page One

Continued from rage Onc
his 1912 ceiling" the Statement
declared. ts
The CIO committee was espe-
cially critical of the wage fac
tor in the price formula which
it declared, will be used to
blame labor for price increases
whether or not any wage in
crease which may have been
made since 1941 actually re-
suited in higher labor cost per
unit of output.
Prices Hurt Jobs
The CIO Cost of Living Com
mittee urged unionists to make
it clear to its own members and
to the public" that the wage
rate increases being considered
by OPA in its price computa-
tions were not necessarily in
creases In labor cost, that the
policy being followed by OPA
would mean a higher cost of liv-
ing, and that higher prices for
reconversion goods mean fewer
jobs.
The CIO Cost of Living Com
mittee was appointed by CIO
President Philip Murray to re-
present the CIO on all matters
involving the OPA. It's chairman
is Donald E. Montgomery of the
UAW-CIO. The other member;
of the Committee are: John W.
Edelman, TWUA-CIO; Hoyt
Haddock, Natl Maritime Union.
C1O; Clifford McAvoy, UERM.
WA-CIO; John Thornton, USA
CIO; and L. Goodman, URWD.
SEA- -CIO.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
The Veteran Asks
Dear Sir:


| understand I am not entitled
to educational benefits under the
"G.I. Bill" as l was over twenty
five years of age when | went
into the Army. My education
was not interrupted as l was
working before entering the
service, however; / would like
to take refresner course before
going back to my regular trade.
Am | entitled to any monetary
aid from the government in tax
ing this course? su4
Phil Sullivan
Sincerely, ~
Yes. Any person having
served with the Armed Forces
for period of over ninetyrdays,
and having received discharge
other than dishoporable, is en-
titled to education in an accred-
tied school for period of one
year with all benefits listed un-
del the "G.I. Bill of Rights" Age
limitations, or proving that edu-
cation was interrupted is limited
to veterans wanting period of
education corresponding to the
period they served in the Armed
Forces in addition to their first
school year.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

the work of the people" !"
The new Secretary franks
ly faced the problems that
confront American workers dur
ing the cutback and reconver-
sion period. Millions of work.
ers, he said, now face the out
look of the factory in which they
work being shut down and the
need to return to their homes,
or seek other employment in
their present localities. l do not
wonder that they have the lit
ters. ;"
The new Secretary is expected
to name a labor policy commit
tee of top CIO, AFL, Railroad
Brothershoods and United Mine
Workers representatives. In ad-
dition he indicated that he plans
the appointment, as did Presi-
dent Roosevelt, of an assistant
secretary from CIO ranks. The
AFL already has Dan Tracy, of
the Int'l Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, as first assistant
secretary.
Schwellenbach met indivi-
dually last week with CIO Pre-
sident Murray, AFL President
Green, United Mine Workers
President Lewis, and President
A. F. Whitney, of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen. Re-
organization of the Labor Dept,
as contemplated by Schwellen-
bach, includes the return of la
Dor offices widely scattered
throughout other government
agencies. War Labor Board and
Natl Labor Relations Board
will be integrated with the
others if Schwellenbach has his
way.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20
Washington
Lobor Report
by Bradford v. Carter
LPA Columnist
CHAINS FOR LABOR

The so-called Federal Indus
trial Relations Act sponsored in
the Senate by Senator Ball of
Minnesota and Senators Hatch
and Burton rests upon at least
one important misconception
about the National Labor Rela-
tions Act. The misconception is
that the MIRA weights collec-
tive bargaining in favor of the
union. Consequently they have
incorporated in their Act provi-
sions which, it is alleged, will
equaliZe the balance of power
between labor and management.
But to anybody who under
stands the industrial relations
history which forms the back
ground of the MIRA knows bet
ter. No nation has had an en-
ploying class which was more
ruthless, violent and intransi-
geant in resisting the effort of
its workers to organize and to
bargain collectively.
The proceedings of the LaFol-
lette Committee are an ever
lasting record of the systematic
espionage, strikebreaking,s cor
ruption and company-unionism
which our best corporations en-
gagged in, in thwarting union
organization. Workers and their
unions had no legal or other de-
fense against this kind of eul-
ployer tactics. 1t is one of the
notable things about unionism in
the United States that despite
this organized terrorism it man.
aged to persist and grow.
The National Labor Relations
Act was passed to make it inn
possible for employers to inter-
fere with union organization and
collective bargaining. 1t was the
MIRA which first lifted unions
up to the level of employees In
other words, the Act sought to
maintain genuine balance of
opportunity between labor and
management.
The basic theory of the MIRA
was that management had no
conceivable interest in whom its
workers chose to represent them,
just as labor was not concerned
with whom the corporation
board of directors appointed to
management
Despite many trials and tribu-
lations, the National Labor Re-
lations Board has administered
the act in a way to implement
the intent of the Act - to pro-
tect union organization and free
collective bargaining.
What the real purpose of the
so-called Federal Industrial Re-
lations Act is, is to swing the
pendulum back to where the
employer had the legal upper
hand in dealing with his work
ers. The Act doesn't say this in
so many words, but that is
clearly the intent of many So
called union unfair labor prac-
tice provisions. This is also
clearly the intent of the red
tape in which the proposed act
ensnarls collective bargaining
processes. Under these provi-
sions it will be virtually impos.
sible to get speedy adjustment
of even run-of-the-mill disputes
between labor and management. |
There are two possible expla-
nations of the motives of the
sponsors of this piece of legis-
lation: malice and ignorance.
The Federal Industrial Rela-
tions Act is characterized by
substantial Sharo of both
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-07-20

What was in pre-Nazi days the
nerve center of the largest Ger
man consumers cooperative as
sociation - the wholesale pur-
chasing agency of German con-
sumers' cooperatives - has been
restored in Hamburg. The old
directors of this 50-year-old
German cooperative, which was
closely linked with the German
free trade union movement,
have been reinstated. LPA).