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Montana labor news., 1946-07-04

Rep. I1eleH ddHdRdH douglas,
(D.-Calif.) Senator Glenn Tay-
lor (D.-Idaho) and Vice Presi-
dent Richard T. Leonard of the Uni
ted Auto Workers (CIO).
Welles, who only the day previously
had called for a nationwide buyers
strike IN his national lookup, presid-
ed. He read a consumers pledge that
charged selfish business interests with
seeking to wipe out effective price
control and SO throw the country into
the chaos of initiation
AS over a thousand delegates from
the midwest and east sat listening in
tently in The broiling sun near the
Washington monument, Welles read
on:
Il promise that, If such attempts are
successful and a strong price control
bill is not passed, | shall pledge my
self not to buy any product for myself
or any member of my family. except
basic necessities, until these groups
have learned that public welfare takes
precedence over personal greed.
III they persist in their desire tc
lead this nation into a period of boom
and bust, | promise to persist in boy
cotting their products. | do this as an
American citizen interested in the
maintenance of high living standards
and economic stability.
Many Groups Represented
Gathered in the Sylvan theatre neal
the towering monument were groups
from the United Public Workers
tCIO), United clearinghouse Workers
tC1O), National Maritime Union (CIO,
Washington Telephone Traffic Unior
CNFTW), National Association for The
advancement Of Colored People, Mich
igan City Committee. Detroit. dele
gates from Peoria and st. Louis, from
New York and Chicago.
Welles announced his plan for
buyers strike June 90 on the radio
saying the should unite I,
force prices back into line and t
show American manufacturers an
wholesalers that we are not all fools.
That theme was followed by Mrs
Douglas In a speech saying "only fool
and Sen. Taft (R., Ohio) could believ'
we could CONVEX from val to peac'
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04

The trades council also adopted 9TH
er portions of the joint legislative
committee report that no action be
taken on first district congressman or
any county office, at least in the pri-
marieS.
Candidates Address Council
Irvan J. Cary. organizer for the AFL,
Charles West Jr.. grand lodge repre-
sentative Of the Machinists; J. w. Du-
gan. general organizer for the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen: Joe Bozone and Joe Mi
halik Of the United Mine Workers;
Phil O'DOnnell. democratic candidate
for congress from the first district;
Nick Rotering. candidate for county
attorney, county of Silver Bow and
Elmer Clark, all addressed the coun-
Gil. Cary, West, Dugan, Bozone, Mi
halik all appealed for support for Sen
ator Wheeler, and told of his assist
ance to the railroad men. coal miners
and labor.
NlRB Asks Information
A letter was received from the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board request
ing information about workers being
Disseminated against by the ACM.
The secretary was instructed to get
in touch with the secretary of the An
differentiation League, which meets
Friday. July 5, 1880 pm. in the base.
ment of the Miners Union building.
ALL Wakes Sarcastic
A rather sarcastic letter was re-
teived from the ALL in answer to a
request regarding status of alien sea.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04

stall negotiations ana start q dCk
work movement.
Brant informed the white house that
the Department of Labor is being used
by the company for strikebreaking
purposes and demanded that its con-
ciliators be withdrawn Immediately
from the phony negotiations that are
going on in Milwaukee. Pittsburgh and
Boston,"
The UE organizer charged that Har-
old Storey. a top executive of the
strike-closed plants, was overheard in
a Milwaukee hotel room June 10 say
ing. This must definitely be a back
to-work letter. This letter must be
signed by Geist milwaukee plant
manager). and not a No. 2 man. Tell
them that we may not be able to take
care of them all, but we will take care
OF any that come back to work. We
are only s~talling here, and the work.
ers are now ripe for a back-to-work
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04

functions In most instances. Their
operations furthermore are by no
means limited to meats They
we're important distributors Of butter
and eggs and handled at least half
Of the interstate sales of
cheese"
Reports from Bovles. OPA officials.
the Natl Farmers Union and United
Pa~ekinghonse Workers tCIO) all re-
veal that The meat shortage stems
from refusal Of the big packers to buy
livestock rather than refusal OF the
growers 70 bring their livestock to
market. As early as April "a, Richard
+ Bennett. OPA enforcement officer.
reported We have sent men to
watch the sales in the yards. Buyers
for the big packers just sit on the
fence or make ridiculous bids"
Small Packers Increased Purchases
Farmers Union studies show that on
the same markets where big packers
decreased cattle purchases 500. small
independent packers increased their
purchases 100 and still stayed in com
pliance with OPA and subject to the
same inspection as the big packers.
The most startling evidence OF the
phoniness OF the meat shortage. how
ever. lies right In l.. s. cold storage
holdings. Despite the sitdown strike
on cattle slaughter. the mount Of
beef In cold storage on May I was
almost as high as one year before
and total meat of all kinds in storage
amounted 10 $50. ii5. n00 pounds. about
- million more than on May l, 1915.
1915
Nor are the profits OF the Big Four
suffering The Wall Street Journal
reported June % that Armour's net
earnings for the six months ending
April y amounted to $97 million.
more than the net for the entire fiscal
year Of 1915. Profits OF the other
three. which like Armour received fav-
ored treatment from the government
throughout the war and also extracted
special favors from OPA and the Agri-
culture Dept. are likewise expected
TO 20 up.
Although the sitdown strike Of the
big packers has created a national
emergency causing incalculable
losses to thousands Of retail butchers,
creating widespread unemployment,
cutting sharply into workers diets
and even forcing workers In heavy in
dustries to threaten to quit work un-
less they get red meat-no reprimand
cial other than Bowles. nor has there
been even a hint OF government
s~eiznre.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
$500 Veterans Borrow To
Start Own Farms

Washington-A new high in Farm
Security administration loans to vet
Grams was reached when 5,iue ex.ser-
yicemen were financed in the purchase
Of farm operating equipment or fam
ily farms within a t~wo-month period
The loans constitute nearly a third OF
the total number the agency has APP
proved for veterans during the past
two years. the USDA announced.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
Countrywide Buyers Strike CalledFor By
National Figures At Giant Rally
In Washington, DC.
ALL BUTTE B BACK
OF JUDGE ERICKSON

The Butte Miners Union, We'd
nesday, June rs, started the ball
rolling for Butte-Iabor backing OF
Left Erickson for senator by strong
~ endorsing him for the U. S. Sen
ate. Similar action by Butte Sta
tionary Engineers, Local No. 80.
was taken Thursday, June 27. Then
on Tuesday evening, July 2, SINH
lar action was taken by the Butte
Building Trades Council and the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor As
sembly.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
ALLIS-chAlmERS COMPANY CAUGHT
UP WITH ITS attempt AT
UNION BUSTING
(By Federated Press.)

WAsHINGTON-Eavesdroppin is lot necessarily a trick by manage
ment in strike situations.
Proof of that came June Is when international Representative Neil Brant
of the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers (CIO) sent President
Truman and his labor adviser, John r. Steelman, transcripts of a CONVEX
sation in which a n executive of the disclaimers corporation proposed to
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
Discrimination Group Now
Making Progress In Its
Fight With ACM
Butte Labor Again Reminded of Aid Given By
Supervisory Workers During Recent
Miners Union-Company Fued

We. the undersigned miners who are donating our spare time
as chairman, secretary and treasurer Of the Montana Anti
Discrimination League wish to report progress in our efforts to
end the discrimination against the supervisory, technical and
office workers who had walked off their jobs during the April
strike Of Butte miners and thus helped 10 win a wage increase
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
Thousands of Retailers Are
Forced Ito Close Doors
By Big Packers
Meat Prices Now Expected TO Jump Almost
Half by Sept. |, American Meat Institute
Confidently Predicts
BY MIRIAM KOLKIN
(Ry Federated Press.)

NEW IORk.-ln expectation of a death blow to OPA
controls on meat prices by July l. the Big Four meat packing
stranglehold over the nations meat supply has
reached a new intensity, forcing thousands of retail butchers
the United States to close their doors and depriving
American workers of virtually all meat.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
WILL FEED 20 MILLION

Each million tons OF wheat which
we ship to the starving people Of the
world means that % million people
will have bread.
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
Thousand Delegates Pledge to Fight Runaway
Prices; Decry Stampeding Of Congress
By Well-Oiled Business Lobby
(By Federated Press.)

WASHINGTON.- national movement for a buyers strike
took form here June "a as the publcs retaliation for the ex-
pected fall of OPA and Price Control at the hands of a stub
born congress.
It's leaders were the Little People who brought delegations
here by bus and train. It's spokesman were Actor Orson Welles,
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04
Council Endorses Ericksc{ ),
Freebourn and Metca'
Tuesday Evening
Also Candidates for the Legislature; No Action
Taken On First District Congressman,
OrSilyer Bow County Offices

Judge Left Erickson, candidate for the Democratic nominal
ton for United States senate, Tuesday evening, July 2, received
the wholehearted endorsement of the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor Council.
Other state candidates endorsed were Harry Freebourn for
chief justice of the Montana Supreme Court, and Lee Metcalf
Montana labor news., 1946-07-04

IOI JUStIIt UI CIIt SUP
rene court.
Democrats endorsed for the
state legislature were: Frank
Tierney. Elmer Clark. NJ. d. O'Con
nell, Frank BENCH. Tony Petronio
William Neary, Emmett Burke: Re
publicans: Jack Byrne.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
Along The Cape Fear

of history, have remained practi-
caly unhonored and unsung.
One of these is lady who used
to live along the Cape Fear. This
lady, the story goes Gas far as it
goes, which isn't far enough, dwelt
at Orion plantation during the Civil
War.
IN the dark of night she would
throw off her daytime feminine per-
sonality, steal down to the mossy
banks OF the Cape Fear and, with
dim lanter., in her hand, give the
''a.l clear or "scram" signal to
Rebel vessels running tae Yankee
blockade.
CAPE FEAR HEROINE - Here,
un7climatically at the climax point,
the story ends. How many ships
she guided safely through the
No'thern net we do not know. How
many lives she saved by so doing
we do not know. How many teeth
the teeth-gnashing Yankee sol
dies, sailors, and spies ground
down to their gums we do not
know.
Most lamentable of all, we do
not even know her name.
Tie only other thing we do know
abo1t her is that every vessel which
now sails the Cape Fear river
Ste CAPE FEAR on Page Seven
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
UNGENTLE BUT GENTEEL-

UNGENTLE BUT GENTEEL-
History is full of genteel ladies
who, in time of war and conflict,
dropped their knitting and rushed
away from their hearthstones to
champion a cause dear to their
feminine hearts.
And who, in so doing, proved
just how ungentle a genteel lady
can be.
To name a few, there are: The
nameless Cro-Magnon doWager
who left off embroidering her raw
hide evening gown to roll bould-
ers down the hill at an invading
tribe; Jeanne dare who ditched
her papa's farm to chase the whole
British army clean out of France;
Molly Pitcher who dropped her
saucepan long enough to shoot up
an entire troop of Redcoats; and
Barbara &ietchie, who leaped
from her chaise Tongue and waved
the American flag over a complete
arnay of blushing Confederate SOL
diers.
JJNHONORED AND UNSUNG-
These ladies have earned everlast-
ing fame. And they certainly de-
serve it.
But there are others, just as
brave, Just as genteel in their tenn
norary ungentleness, who, because
Of some oversight in the print shop
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
SCOUT COUNCIL
WILL GET $500
Troops Collect SIS 90 0
Pounds OF Waste Paper
In Sunday Drive

Cape Fear council, Boy Scouts OF
America have over 5000 to further
their work, as a result of yester-
days scrap paper drive.
Over $1,000 pounds Of scrap paper
was collected by II troops OF the
area, according to a report last
night by w. E. Edwards, chairman
of the Boy Scout council commit
tee in charge of the campaign.
The collection started yesterday
afternoon at 1 o'clock with IA
trucks donated by local firms,
hauling the paper. The money will
be used for summer scouting and
eo,,inrnent for visual education, Of
ficials said.
The use Of trucks was loaned by
the CITY of Wilmington, w. H. Nc
Eachern, E. W. Goodwin Sons, W.
M. Edwards and Sons, l.. E.
Williams Transfer, New Hanover
Housing Authority, Hyman Supply
company, Sunshine Laundry, Tide
Water Power company and Star
keys Sign Service.
Troops taking part in the collec-
ton were Troop nine, 10, 13, IA, 19,
21, %, "a, SO. 81, 38, ITO, liz, la,
116, and 118.
Committeeman Edwards thank
ed the public and firms cooperating
in the drive,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
MCCRADY TO HELP
IN STRIKE PARLEY
SchwelIenbach Borrows S
Former Government Man
For Coal Task

WASHINGTON, April 2s-(P -
Secretary of Labor Schwellen-
bach, seeking a settlement in the
28-day bituninous coal strike,
Sunday, named special concilia-
tor and called for resumption OF
deadlocked operator-union talks,
Tuesday.
He appointed Former Assistant
Secretary Edward F. McGrady'
vice president of Radio Corpora
ton of America and labor rela-
tions expert as special concllatof'
Hold Conference
Schwellenbach and McGraoy
met with the operators negotiating
committee, Sunday, in an eN- s
ploratory" conference and the
secretary said he will have a
similar meeting at 10 a. NJ, temor-
row with the negotiating cornmlttee
Of the striking United Mine WorA-
ers, headed by John L. Lewis.
Asked by reporters if he ex-
poets an early break in the strike,
effects of which now are being feit
in many industries, Schwellenpach
replied:
May Settle
IF they get back to meeting
again there's always the possiblll-
ty of settlement.
See MCGRADY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
And So To Bed

There is a first time for an
things to happen-even the
ones which seem impossible.
One afternoon last week y
jaywaIker started q diagonal
march across the street ut
Front and Princess.
Horns blew, brakes scream
ed, and tires pulled q long
screech from the pavement.
But the jaywalker walked On
unperturbed.
Then the seemingly impos-
sible happened-the zone In .
million" chance.
A car hit the jaywaiker head
on.
Yes, lots Of jaywalkers get
hit by cars.
But this one was q cars
toughest target-a pigeon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
WOMEN TO RALLY
IN 0PA DEFENSE
Nation Wide Demonstra-
tions Planned By Groups
On Saturday

WASHINGTON, April 20-R)-
Senator Hickenlocper (R.-Iow0, g,
often a critic of the OPA, came out
Saturday for its continuance 'ia
reasonable form" while civic and
other organizations rallied to the
agency's support,
The Senate Banking committee,
Of which Hickenlooper is MEM
Der. expects to complete its hear
ings Friday on the OPA extension
bill and then to consider in closed
session just what it will recon-
mend to the Senate.
The start of this crucial week
for the OPA brought its supporters
into action on .hree fronts:
l. Plans for a Save OPA Day"
next Saturday, to be marked, by
demonstrations at noon in cities
and towns throughout the country,
were announced by the American
Veterans committee. Its statement
said the CIO, AFL, National Far
mers Union and Young Democra-
tic clubs Of America are asking
their members 10 participate in the
parades and demonstrations.
2. The consumer advisory COM
mittee to OPA, with representa-
tives from a score of consumers,
educational and civic groups,
closed two-day meeting here by
urging a full years extension of
the OPA and protesting too
speedy" removal Of price ceilings.
Its statement assailed "emasculat-
ing amendments" voted by the
House.
3. Caroline F. Ware of the Amer
lean Association Of University Wo-
men announced she will present
to the Banking committee Monday
statement in the name of %
national organizations with more
than $4,000, 900 members urging re-
lection of all the "crippling amend
ments by which the House wrecked
the Price Control bill"
See RALLY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
DEATH ENDS LONG
CAREER IN ARCTIC
Robert Abram Bartlett,
Perry Colleague, Dies
AT New York

NEW YORK, April 28-No -
Robert Abram (Cap'n Bob Bart
lett, famous Arctic explorer, au-
thor and lecturer who capped an
adventurous four decades Of north
land travel as a colleague Of Adm.
Robert E. Peary in the 1909 dis
covery of the North Pole, died Sun
day.
Bartlett, who was TO, died at
Hardness Pavilion Of the Columbia-
Presbyterian Medical center. Hs
had entered the hospital last
Wednesday night with what doctors
said was an acute kidney and heart
condition.
Long Career
Bartlett began his career in uhe
Arctic in 1897, when he wintered
with Admiral Peary at Cape D.
Urville, Kane Basin. His last trip
was in 1885, when he went 70
Greenland under au-
spices Of the Field Museum OF
Chicago and the Smithsonian In
stitute, Washington.
The captain was unmarried. I
See DEATH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
C0NFEREES HOPE
TO AVERT STRIKE
Railroad Representatives,
Unionists Will Confer
Again Today

CHICAGO, April 28.-GD-Rep-
resentatives of 100 railroads and
two wnion brotherhoods will meet
here Monday in a last attempt
short OF eg1tia1 intervenior-
to avert a nationwide raifoad
strike May IS.
The brotherhoods, traiaraen md
locomotive engineers, Representing
about 100000 workers, called he
strike TO support demands br
changes in working rules and FIR
wage increases above the is cent.
an hour recommended two weeks
ago by an emergency fact-finding
board.
Pessimism Ripe
There was considering pes
sisnism whether Mondays meet
ing would accomplish anything.
Union spokesnen have said that
little can be expected" from the
meeting. Thus far, in six months OF
negotiations, the railroads have op-
posed rules changes.
There has been no general rail
road strike since 1895 among op-
Grating employees.
Can Seized Roads
Presidential intervention could
be by direct seizure Of the railroads
or by reconvening the fact-finding
boards. President Wilson seized
the roads in 1918 and President
Roosevelt in 1914.
Both of these seizures were in
war years, however, and Wash
ington observers believed Presi-
dent Truman was reluctant to eX-
ercise war time seizure powers
when the country actually is at
peace.
g. ~oHrrr3n-r1C 80 n.~. nl,ro
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29

continued failure of the Big Three
Powers to agree unanimously on
any major issue.
Strenuous Efforts
This concern explains to some
extent the strenuous efforts made
this weekend to get Soviet Delegate
Andrei A. Gromyko to reverse his
position and vote for Australia's
proposal to investigate Franco
Spain.
Russia is the only one Of the
council members who is opposed
to the Australian resolution, and
representatives of other countries
expressed hope she might switch
over and break the councils pat
tern of split decisions.
Stands Pat
Tt appeared, however, that
Gromyko was standing firm in his
contention that sufficient evidence
already had been presented to the
council to prove the Franco regime
was endangering peace, and that
no investigation was necessary.
Mexican delegate Rafael De La
Colina, who has been busy since
Friday trying to get unanimity on
the Spanish case, was understood
to have been told by Gronyko that
the Russian position remained AN
changed.
Remote Chance
Some delegates still hoped that
Gromyko would receive new in
structions from Moscow directing
him to reverse his stand, but they
agreed the chances of this were
remote.
The Spanish case will come up
Monday at 3 o. M, Eastern Day
light time, when the Council is
scheduled to vote on Australian
delegate w. r. Hodgson's resolu-
tion to create a five-man subcom-
See CLASHES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29

horses be used to pull farm equip
ment.
Grain Needed
Zehner declared the need for
grain among the starving peoples
of the world is so great that the
Amish should agree to. abandon
their custom and use tractors to
help till the vastly fertile soil on
their Eastern Pennsylvania farms.
Assistant County Farm Agent
H. S. Sloat said that "use of trac-
tors will help relieve the acute
farm labor shortage which from
the present outlook will be even
shorter than last year"
Bishops Silent
The 10 bishops who govern the
sect made no immediate reply.
Eastern Pennsylvania has long
been noted for the profusion of
the tA.lnish sect, whose members
call themselves the plain people
as distinguished from the "gay
people"
The Amish can be noticed as
they carry baskets to the tradition
al market places, the women wear
ing their carefully worked caps
usually made Of Swiss organdie and
the bearded men clad in gray or
black with wide and dark felt
hats.
Plain Dress
Their religious heritage calls
upon the Anish 10 be 'plain," for
the women never to wear make
up, Cor the men and women to
wear only dark clothing.
The Amish are perhaps best
known for a popularity of speech.
The term pennsylvania Dutch"
has come to be adapted to describe
their way of speaking. Most, how
See AMISE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
CITIZENS SPENDING
AT 12O BILLION RATE
NOW, AGENCY SAYS

WASHINGTON, April 28.-Pe
Consumers were spending at re-
cord annual rate of $120, 1000, 900, 600
for goods and services during the
first three months of this year, the
Commerce department reported
Sunday.
The rate of expenditures, on an
annual basis, represented an IN
crease Of $4,000, ,000,o over the
second quarter of 1945.
The department said price rises
were responsible for part OF the
increase. Another factor was demo-
biliZation,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29
FIELD ARTILLERY
IN BERRY PARADE
Fifty Third Army Band
Will Also Play At
Wallace Festival

In addition to previously announ-
ced Army participation in Walace's
festival parade which will be Wed
nesday, the 30th Field Artillery
Battalion and the 55rd Arrny's S
brass band will join the march.
The announcement came yester-
day in a news release by the First
Army, Fort Bragg, according to
Lieut.. N. G. Cottle, in charge Of
the local Army recruiting station.
Honor Guard
Previous announcements had said
the 82nd All American Airborne
Division, comprised of over 800
men, with the honor guard platoon,
will take part in the festivities.
The honor guard platoon of some
30 crack parade masters will high
light the A,rny's part in the par
ade, officials said.
See ARTILLERY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-29

WASHINGTON, April 2S-U.D-
Mai. Gen. Graves B. Erskine,
rough and ready commander of
the fighting Third Marine division
on Two Jima, went to bat tonight
for G. Us who can't get jobs for
lack of civilian clothing.
Now administrator Of retraining
and unemployment, he said that
now-not next year-is when the
ex-soldier, sailor or marine has got
to have clothes and It's time tor
the government and industry to
show a little team work.
Receives Complaints
The general IS receiving stream
of complaints. Their theme is ''Why