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The midland journal., 1946-06-14
Posies for Bathroom
From Yard of Chintz

1T is marvellous what you can do
with a yard of lowered chintz.
Just try cutting the posies out and
spreading around for dramatic ef-
feet. Tint a faded bath mat and
apply a stunning big rose in one
corner, use others on towels; then
make shower curtains of plain
material with more roses applied
The midland journal., 1946-06-14
Out Win e

''This morning had tussle with
my dentist"
ibid you win?"
mo. It ended In . draw"
The midland journal., 1946-06-14
FOOD DRIVE CASUALTY
Three-decker sandwich,
Your exit begins;
That extra slice covered
Some terrible sins.

They say that ever since Ethel
Norman scored as Annie Oakley in
that new musical of Buffalo Bills
day she won't eat anything but buf-
falo steaks.
The midland journal., 1946-06-14
Married. En-?

First Fork-Who was that ladle
/ saw with you last night?
Second Fork-That was no ladle.
that was my knife.
The midland journal., 1946-06-14

These intriguing ideas are from 81.
page booklet, Make Your Own Cur.
tains." Every page Is illustrated SO clear
ly that you can follow directions whether
you have ever sewn before or not. With
Its help you may use both new and old
materials to curtain your house as beau.
tifully as II you hired decorator. Read
ers may get copies OF this booklet for 15c
postpaid. A Woodworking pattern, No.
255, for the spool shelves shown In the
sketch Is also 15c. Send orders With
name and address to:
The midland journal., 1946-06-14

An optimist's that guy, so strange,
Who, when he shops, expects some
change.
The midland journal., 1946-06-14

A good many men whose wives
are not any too good at baking will
welcome any drive to eliminate
pastries with meals.
The midland journal., 1946-06-14

Brooklyn becomes 400 years old
next month. Some of'its arteries GER
tainly look it.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28

Montana COP victory. The copper bosses,
who had their way when they elected Zales
n. Ecton L. S. senator. couldn't defeat Silver
Bow County Sheriff Al Mcleod. :,
Anaconda Copper had been very unhappy
with Mcleod ever since he refused to take
their orders last April when Init. Union of
Mine. Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO) men,
bers struck for and won a wage increase.
The company had demanded that Mcleod
call for federal troops to help quell a phony
company-staged riot. designed to discredit
the union. He refused and, with the aid of
union deputies. dispersed the copper bosses
stooges who had been melting mobs of young
hoodlums.
In typical copper town fashion, the
stooges had been posing as union men and
raiding the homes of non-striking workers.
Oddly enough. the alleged union. men
took extreme pains to drag furniture from
back rooms out through the front door, in
stead of through the back door, as would
have been logical-for the benefit of photo
graphers from the company press.
Oddly enough, the mobs never ventured
near the section of Butte in which the top
company officials live.
Oddly enough, the company press didn't
breathe a word of the so-called riots until two
days after the hoodlums began their violence.
For refusing to take the company's side,
Mcleod was marked for defeat
Only the company's orders didn't take.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28
EXECUTIVES 60 PEDDLE
PAPERS DURING
STRIKE
FEDERATED PRESS

Sault Ste. Marie. Ont.-Almost any
one can rise from newspaper boy to
top executive but it took an anti-labor
management TO reverse that success
formula.
1t happened when newscarriers
went on a brief strike against the
Sault Daily Star here. Among those
hastily recruited to deliver papers on
home subscriber routes were three ex.
ecutives including the managing
editor.
The dispute arose over an increase
in the papers price from 15c a week to
CSC, effective Nov. Is. The carriers
rate will be increased from Az to &c
for each customer a week. The boys
struck. demanding &c a customer each
day. Management-carrier discussion
will take place when the price in
crease goes into effect.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28
YOUR SOCIAL
SECURITY
WHAT CHANGES DID CONGRESS
MAKE RECENTLY IN THE
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT?

Congress. Just prior to adjournment,
passed a bill providing for a number
of new amendments to the Social
Security Act. Briefly they may be
! summarized as follows:
/. Survivors insurance is extended
to families of veterans who die from
nonmilitary causes within three years
after their discharge from the armed
services.
.. More liberal conditions are pro-
vided under which old-age and suryi-
vors insurance can be received. These
changes are for the most part minor
and technical in character.
3. Employer and employee social
security contributions to old-age and
survivors insurance are frozen at 10
for another year.
4. States are authorized to extend
their unemployment insurance sys-
tens to include maritime employees
who work for privately owned ship
ping companies.
5. States are permitted TO use en-
plOyee contributions to State unem-
ployment insurance funds to finance
disability insurance benefits.
G. Federal funds are increased for
the following Federal-State programs:
aid to dependent children, aid to the
blind, old-age assistance. maternal and
child health. crippled children, and
child welfare services.
For further information on old age
and survivors insurance visit your
local social security office located at
Goa Power Block. Helena, Montana,
Telephone 29S0, Stewart J. Thomas,
Manager.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28
CLOS Murray Warns
Another Bust To
Come Soon

Atlantic City.-A charge that there
is not an honest economist in America
who doesn't predict a bust to follow
our present boom was made Nov. IS
before the opening session of the CIO
convention by Pres. Philip Murray.
Reporting on the national economy.
Murray said 1T is purely a question
IF when the bust will occur" with esti-
mates ranging from the third quarter
Of 1917 to the early part of l94S.
1T is generally agreed that the bust
will occur mainly for two reasons I
the level of SUI income is not
sufficient to support the high demand
and high production: 2-prices are at
inflated levels. At present prices are
higher than at any other period in orr
history and have reached this point
because Of the greedy desire for ex-
orbitant profits by Big Business
Murray showed that between April,
1915 and August 1916, workers week
ly wages in manufacturing industries
dropped SAG while BIS figures show
consumer prices have risen 1870 in the
same period.
Therefore. August 1916 earnings of
$44.61 will purchase only S34.40 worth
OF merchandise in terms of April 1915
dollars. This indicates a drop of 1916
in the purchasing power income OF
manufacturing workers.
The total monthly payroll Of manu-.
featuring Industries has also declined.
he said, dropping 22Te in the period,
but when corrected for the rise in
prices I'VE find that the drop in pay
rolls has been 81 per cent"
Not only workers weekly
wages in manufacturing industries
have declined, but the total national
pay envelope is shrinking. Between
1945 and 1916. total income payments
have dropped only SO billion. but the
annual rate of payments to wages and
salaries has declined $40 billion, or a
decrease Of 90. On the other hand
payments in dividends and interest
and business income have been on the
increase. The shift in income pay
ments from wages and salaries which
is really income, to business
income and the recipients Of dividends
and interest, is unhealthy Business in
~terests have Jared better than the
American consumer in this postwar
era"
Murray argued that the collapse
could be avoided only by raising con
sumner income and reducing prices
which he demonstrated could be done
out Of corporate profits and rising pro
ductivity.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28
Another Depression
In Offing Says
Biz Group

Washington.-All signs on the eco
nomic horizon point to a severe econo-
mic recession in 1917 according to a
survey of the New Council of Ameri-
can Business released here Nov. 13.
The report. printed in booklet form
with the title Operation Boom-Bust.
says a concensus OF expert opinion
shows that sometime in 1947 the eco
nomy will suffer a severe. but. short
setback. This brief but violent bust
will threaten every independent bust
ness in America, will destroy thou
sands of businesses today making COM
Portable profits"
Appealing to both large and small
business groups independent of the
giant monopolies. the Moab sees 3
important factors pointing to a 1947
crash: l.. Inventory accumulation.
leading to a slowing of orders; 2. In
creasing consumer resistance to price
increases; and 3. Tapering off of con
struction as building and expansion
NoStS SOdI.
The booklet points to the increasing
differential between ability
to buy and the goods and services for
sale as initiation gets worse, adding
that lat some point inability to buy
helps precipitate a buyers strike,
creates conditions conductive to
abrupt deflation."
Evidence that the country's economy
would pull out OF a 1947 recession, the
Moab quoted experts as saying. lie in
an expanded and improved capacity
for production, a larger and better
trained labor force, high in,
come and savings and a high forsee
able foreign demand for American
goods.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28

Thousands of veterans are barred
from educational opportunities be-
cause they are members Of minority
groups.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28

No agricultural or domestic worker
is protected by social security bene-
fits.
Montana labor news., 1946-11-28
r UNFAIR LIST

Remington Engineering Co.. Omaha.
Nebr.
Guys Garage. Rocker.
as 3. Arisona st.. VIM. Luckner. Owner.
cal Utah. J. c. Nosbus. Owner.
Ryan Fruit Company. Billings.
Ray Garrett 4 Properties.
Ray l. Hofstatter. sol 8. Washington
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
MMp VOTES
 10 RETURN
 TO SHIPS
Last Barrier in 54-DdY-0Id Coast WdIkout Remov-
 ed = More Trouble

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 23. - A Federal Conciliator announced early today that the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots had vctrd to return tp work. removing the last barrier to settlement of the 54-day West Coast m iritlmc atrike.
 The Conciliator, Omar r Hoskins said Cantain C. F. Nav President of the West Coast local of the Masters and Mates inform ed him the vote was l,l23 to 9so to accept working conditions reached in negotiations with the Pacific American 5hipown- CTS Association.
 Hoskins said the coastwlse accept ance by the IMP of the agreement removed the last majcr barrier to complete resumption of shipping &C., tivities an the West Coast.
 The International Longshoremen's and Warchousemens Union and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso- ciaticn Cboth CIOl reached an ac- cord with employers earlier this week, work had been held up pend ing settlement of the MMP dispute.
 Picket lines established by the IMP on western waterfronts. cross cd in some instances by cIo union members in efforts to return to work yesterday, will be withdrawn short ly after the pact is signed. the Conciliator said
 The agreement, Hclains said, grants the Masters and Mates a Is per cent wage increase and union security clause providing seniority rights. nondiscrinination and con- sideration of union members in hir- ing deck officers for offshore vessels.
 Overtime pay was boosted -o cents an hour to $l60, the night relief rate was set at Sl50 an hour, and there was "an increase in the pilot rate and other changes l cannot enumerate now" said Hoskias.
 The IMP had sought PASA ac- ceptanco of q preferential hiring clause granted to East and Gulf Coast locals of the deck officers union in a compromise settlement of strikes there several weeks ago. But the PASA had steadfastly j. fused to grant the clause which the ship owners said would cake selec- ton of ships officers out of their hands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
U. S. C.C. ENDDRsE5 HAWAII STATEHOOD;
 SILENT ON ALASkA'S

WASHINGTON, Nov B - The United States Chamber of Com merce Board of Directors has an nounced it will support Hawaii's efforts to become a state, but made no mention on it's attitude toward statehood for Alaska
 The Directors said last night they had approved a recommenda- tion concerning Hawaii by the Chamber Committee on Interna- tional Political and Social prob lems
 E. L. Bartlett, Democratic Dele gate to Congress from Alaska, ap- peared before the committee We'd nesday asking that it endorse state hood for that Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
J. E., BRITISH S.H0 " DO WN WITH RUSSIA

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 The United States and Britain faced a showdown with Russia today over their efforts to limit use of the veto in the United Nations Securi- ty Council. and new difficulties hindered progress on the drafting of European peace settlements.
 As the Big-Fcur Foreign Minist- CTS Council wound up it's third week of peace-making sessions, this was the tangled diplomatic situa- ten.
 l. France served notice she is standing firm on her demand for internationalization of the German Ruhr and believes that, contrary to the American view. the political future of Germany should be map ped before it's economic problems are solved German discussions are still to be undertaken by the For eign Ministers
 9 The veto issue, which the For eign Ministers have lifted out of United Nations debate temporarily, was slated for discussion at 12 80 pm. PSF. Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotoy was expected to re- spond at that time to British and American proposals for Big Power agreements voluntarily to limit use of the veto. Most diplomatic fore saw Soviet disapproval in view of Russia $ hard and fast opposition to any veto modification.
 3. Following the veto talks, in which China joins with the Big Four, Molotog, Secretary of State Burns, British Foreign Secretary Beyin and French Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice You've De Mur- vile were slated to resume t2 pm. PST) their arguments over the kind of government to set up for the proposed free territory of Trieste
 This is the central issue with which they have struggled since they first met three weeks ago. Until they agree there can be no Italian peace treaty-and beyond the Italian treaty lie pacts for the Balkan states and Finland. and the whole problem of the German peace settlement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
,xeeon.d 1, Food
 Ship May Be
 Sent North
TwenfY-fwo Truck Caravan Also Being Readied
 for Highway Trip

SEATTLE. Nov. 23 = Relief for iood-short Alaska is in prospect, both by land and sea.
 Union spokesmen for AF'L deck officers and AFL checkers have an nounced completion of arrange ments with the Territorial Cover nors Alaska Relief Committee to clear another vessel for the strike isolated area
 Twenty-two trucks also are being readied here to carry supplies to the Governments Alaska Railroad for restocking employee canteens. The convoy will travel by way of Great Falls, Mont, Edmunton, Alta, and the Alaska highway to Fairbanks.
 J. P Johnson, General Manager Of the railroad, said the trucks may not leave today as scheduled due to delay in bringing the driv- CTS here by plane from Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
SLOW E AIMED AT AlASkA;;
 TERMINAL RATES Up.
Development Board, A. torney General Will Put
 Up Fight on Move

George Sundbore, of the Alaska Development Board. revealed today that a telegram from the Governor of Alaska who is in the States at the present time, has been received concerning a new proposal to raise rates on Alaskan shipments. Ac- cordiNg to the adviccs, the Seattle Terminal Association is taking steps to request new terminal tariff that would increase the present rate 100 percent.
 The Development Board is al ready taking steps to resist this new proposal just as it did one year ago when the War Shipping Administration asked for 100 per cent increase in steamship rates Through the strong opposition of counsel retained by the Develop ment Board at that time, the War Shipping Administration proposal was denied as unjustified by the Examiner for U. s. Maritime Com mission who heard the case in Seattle MT. Sundborg states that as result of stopping this pro posed increase last year, Alaskan shippers have been saved about S8 8,O00000.
 The new increase under present proposal does not concern water rates Between Seattle and Alaska, tut rather involves wharfage and handling charges in the handling of cargo over the docks in Seattle. Wages for longshoremen, working conditions on docks, higher costs prevailing, affect terminal rates. These terminal charges have been increased from time to time in the past. not only in Seattle, but in almost every port in Alaska, be- cause no protest has been made and the increases were granted auto natically. The Alaskan docks are not involved in the present propos- al, however.
 Terminal rates on shipping to Alaska have never come under a thorough study by the Maritime Commission, and the Development Board is determined that henceforth a careful investigation will be made regarding the justification of any proposed increases.
 At the present time, Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers and MT. Sundborg are conferring on the line of action that will be undertaken immediately to block this new pro posed 100 percent increase. Atty. Gen. Rivers was active in opposing last years steamship rate increase fContinAed on Page Eightj
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
TEACHERS
 STRIKING,
 MORE PAY
By Associated Press

Strikes by school teachers, and threats of further walkouts, dim med the labor picture in many sections of the country today.
 In Tennessee, strike by l33 Warren county teachers, and 30 bus drivers, who are demanding month- ly cost of living salary increases of $29 and S25. respectively, entered its sixth day Neither the teach CTS nor the drivers are unionized, Tie ccunty's 33 schools are closed.
 They will decide today whether to return to work next Monday. County school Superintendent ". M Taylor said Thursday night we're planning to reopen school Monday If we can get even skele- ton staff together"
 A meeting of the county court, scheduled for today to discuss sal ary raises, was called off, county Judge James McGee announced to give the teachers and drivers more time in which to study their demands"
 Pay scale in elementary schools range from S89 to S153 monthly fer nine months, and from $l20 to S230 fer high schools.
 Three elementary schools at Shel- byville, Tenn, shut down recently after a letter was signed by 28 of 29 teachers asking fer a S25 month- ly hike to. their present average of S135 They reopened, however, when city officials announced they would seek to raise revenues to grant the increases No action has heen taken as yet.
 A strike of LOGO St. Paul. Minn., teachers. who plan to picket the public schools is scheduled for next Monday The teachers, mem bers of the AFL American Fedora ton of Teachers, demand S200 in lieu of increases for the fall months of l946, an annual salary ranging frcm S2, AGO to S3,00o to start next January with a monthly increase of slO0, and an additional annual ap- prcpriation of $l,7o0000, in addition to the amount currently budgeted to cover school maintenance. pur- chase of more supplies and equip ment and new construction
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
Alaskan Crippled Boys Mother loses S15O in Seattle

SEATTLE, l-Sv. g - Mrs Rita Harrison, Palmer, Alaska, mother of a six-year-old crippled boy en- route to the Portland Shrine hos pital for an operation, either lost wallet containing sl50 CT was the victim of pickpocket in a depart ment store crowd yesterday. She found her handbag open and the wallet gene, she reported to police. The operation on her son. David, is being sponsored by Anchorage Shriners,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED, SEWARD
Atiing Governor Takes Aeiion Regarding Dras-
 ii1 Food Shorage

Acting Governor of Alaska Lew Williams has declared a state Of emergency for Seward in the face of present extreme fcod shortage there.
 In wire to the Commanding General at Anchorage, Williams asked that the Army supply Sew ard with relief supplies until such time as the Grommet Reefer and other ships had landed food and essential materials there
 The Reefer is now in the Vest ward enroute to Seward with con- siderable cargo for that city.
 Williams said he understood the Army will proceed immediately to supply Seward until stocks there are replenished
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
ALASKA COASTAL CARRIES 27 IN,
 OUT YESTERDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines made four flights yesterday. carrying passengers to Hoonah. Sitka, Pelican City and Sister Island. The following per- sons were flown to Sitka Mrs. k. A. Mccullough. c. R. Raatikainen, Mir. and Mrs J. Dill, w Phillips, j. Pagan. Wesley Johnson. Doug Boddy. Gilbert Fruit, Victor Hines, Albert Wallace, MT and Mrs George Harju and Jack Gueker,
 From Juneau to Hoonah. Mrs. Helen Mercer. MT, and Mrs. P. Martin, Sam Hanlon, Mrs. R. Jchns and Mrs J Howard to Sister Island. R. Wilkins and John Neis from Sister Island to Juneau. R. Wilkins, from Pelican to Juneau. Mrs. J. Farrell from Sitka. D. Harvey ard Mir and Mrs. George Harju
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
MORE TROUBLE YET

Although the maritime strike has ended at most West Coast ports, q new labor dispute has developed which threatens another long siege in the Puget Sound area.
 A F of L. Checkers ordered the cieKeting Of Seattle waterfronts be- ginning at 6 o'clock this morning in I controversy over the hiring of checkers. supervisors or supercar- EGGS. Tacoma, Port Angeles and Anacortes longshore workers are cx- pected to lend q sympathetic hanc hampering waterfront activities in those ports.
 The A. r. Of L. Checkers in Seattle ordered picket lines when waterfront employers rejected union contract ultimatum.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-23
BRIGGS 10 START
 NEW SERVICE IN
 MARCH WITH SHIP

Claude Smith. President of the Juneau Mercants Association, just received the following telegram from New York:
 Claude Smith, Pres,
 Juneau Merchants Association, Juneau, Alaska.
 Have acquired one very suitable ship and expect to go into operation in March with minimum of 220-ton refrigerator capacity, 500ton total capacity. Will forward freight rate information and proposed schedule as soon as possible. All in line with our Seattle understanding Letter following
 CSigned) PHILLIP BRIGGS,
 President,
 Briggs Steamship Company
 In commenting upon the above telegram, MT. Smith stated that the original plan of operating power barges was abandoned in favor of the cargo ship in view of the un- favorable conditions for barge op- erations There has been consider able information that barges would not be permitted to operate, at least during the winter season. Any suc- cessful shipping plan must of neces- sity be year around schedule, giving adequate service to all com munities of Southeast Alaska.
 It is the concensus of experienced shipping men that a ship of the above type and capacity will best serve the needs of this territory.
 MT. Smith further advised chat as soon as the schedule is definitely worked out, that the information will be released through the press. This will give firms in Alaska the necessary time in which to make changes in purchasing and routing merchandise through Prince Ruper. from any Midwest or Eastern source of supply.
 The Juneau Merchants Associa- tion requests all shippers to support this plan in an earnest endeavor to prevent a re-occurrence of the pres ent chaotic shipping situation.