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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03
It's Your Privilege

Americans have long claimed the exclusive priv
lege of gripping about anything and everything that
does not please them That is advantage of living
in free country, we say-you can speak your piece
But with this privilege goes another, the right to
express opinions at the polls We have long con-
tended that the citizen who does not exercise this right
has business crcsig what any elective Officers DO.
If we are not interested enough to mark an \ on the
ballot, not sufficiently interested to be really
informed to what is going
This week we have school district election and
city election. On Saturday may express prefer
ence for school trustees in District l7H We have
heard quantities of comment schools in the last
six months There is contest for election to the
post of trustee We have couple of days to inform
ourselves to the qualifications and views OF the candl-
dates. If don't do it, should hold our peace a
bout the actions of the board at least far the act
ions of the trustees chosen in this election con-
cerned.
AS far as the city election is concerned, there are
two matters before the voters. The feehoders
may vote the gas franchise and everyone registered
may express preference for aldermen.
Rumors of new development and growth in Har-
din are rampant Plans for the city being set forth
the war years is being discussed pro and con with
enthusiasm and interest 1t is time for action, for
planning, for improvement.
No matter whom we elect aldermen, they will
feel more confident about going ahead with plans, a
bout doing everything possible for the improvement of
the CITY, if a real interest is shown by voters.
We'd like to every qualified voter at the polls
in both elections.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

estimate will last only another
IL years at the current rate of
production, the oil industry is
undertaking an expanded pro-
gram of oil well drilling. Sew
eral decades ago similar con-
Germ was expressed about then
known oil reserves, but new
discoveries added substantially
to the available oil underground.
Perhaps the greatest contribu-
ton to increased oil reserves
was the successful development
of rotary oil drilling which en-
abled the industry to drill
deeper into the earth and un-
cover previously untapped oil
pools below hard rock forma-
lions. Largely responsible for
this development was the Hughes
Tool Company of Houston
which perfected a rock pene-
trating drill known as the rock
bit. The rock bit was invented
bv Howard R. Hughes, father of
the present wellkown aviation
designer flyer and industrial
list. The elder Mr.. Hughes died
in 1928 just as the oil industry
was entering its greatest dis
covery era. Young Howard
Hughes took over management
of the company and built it to
it's present position where it
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

supplies the majority of drilling
tools used in new we'll dlScoV-
cries.
BITS O. BUSINESS Poultry
men and government officials
are concerned about turkey
prices which an abnormal sup
ply may topple. There are now
100 million pounds in cold stor-
age against rs million two years
ago. Turkeys are raised in
every state in the union 80.
Shoes are going to market in
greater numbers. Output is
running about 46 million pairs
monthly, which is a rate OF
$50 million a year. The 1860
average was All million pairs
Record pork prices are wor-
rying packers and retailers who
ponder whether smoked bacon
and ham from today's expen-
sive hogs will meet sales resis-
lance when offered to the pub
lie in another couple of months
Scientists say northern to-
mato and potato crops may
suffer from blight next sum-
mer. Florida growers eXper-
fence it this winter and past
experience suggests it will hit
the north next summer. Flor
idians checked the spread by
spraying plants with dithane.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03
Service Vents
Libru1y Workers

The federal Civil Service
this week announced examin-
atoms for permanent proba-
tional appointment to the pos
itions of librarian and library
assistant.
The positions will be in var
ious federal government agen-
cies in Idaho, Montana, Ore
gon and Washington.
The entrance salary for the
pasition of librarian is $2,6H
a year and for library assistant
it ranges from 81 1854 to 1884.
Applicants will be required to
take a written test.
Age limits are between 10 and
81, but they may be waived for
veterans, and under certain
conditions for war service in
definite employees.
Further information on these
examinations and the neceS-
sary application forms may be
obtained from the secretary,
Board of U. S. Civil Service ex-
aminers, at any first or second
class post office Or from the
director, Eleventh U. s. Civil
Service region, Central build
ings, Seattle 4, WASH, Applica-
tions must be received in Seat
tie not later than April 81.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03
Potuto Stocks Are
10000 Bushels

Stocks of merchantile pota-
toes in the hands of Montana
growers and dealers March !
were indicated to be 100000
bushels, says the Bureau of
Agriculture Economics.
This compares with stocks of
$4,000 bushels still on hand
March 1 last year, 100000 bus
hels in 1945 and 100000 bushels
in 1914
March l holdings amounted
to about SIS per cent of Jan. /
stocks. This figure was "a per
cent in 1916, A Der cent IN
1945 and 70 per cent in 1914.
Included in these estimates
are potatoes that will be mar
keted after March l for food,
seed and processing and mer-
camille potatoes under loan
that will be released to the
government under price sup
port programs. However, pota-
toes held for seed, home con-
sumption and livestock feed on
farms where grown are not in
cluded in these estimates and
an allowance has been made
for expected Shrinkage and
waste after March l.
Population of the world has
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

Gar Alexander I Of Russia
brought up the question OF dis
armament before nations as
early as 1916.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

Northerners generally use cop
per compounds such as Bor-
deauX mixture.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

Population of the world has
more than doubled since 1900.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-04-03

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The union times., 1947-11-01
DenhamReversal Brings Victory To Upholsterers

PHILADELPHIA (LPA) Re versa1 of NLRB General Counsel Robert Denham on the question of fil- ing anti Communist afidavits resulted in, the quick settlement of several strikes by the Upholsterers' Int'l. Un- ion-AFL.
 After the Board ruled that top AFL and CIO officials did not have to sign before afiliates could use NLRB ia cilities, the UIU counted five walk outs won, four within few days.
 First of the strikes caused by Denham's edict was settled at Au- rora. Ind., when employees of the Indianapolis Chair Co. won wage increases after voting for UIU by 124 to 20 in an election conducted by the Indiana Division of Labor. Previously, when the union was un- able. to obtain an NLRB election, the employer refused to recognize the union through an impartial count of membership cards.
 In the first NLRB election in east ern Pennsylvania since Denham was reversed, a UIU local won by two to one and negotiations for a contract began immediately with Hanover Craftsmen, Inc, of Hanover, Pa.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Strikebreaking By Eviction Is Threat To AFL

BAKERSFIELD, Calf. (LPA)- The DiGiorgio Farms Corp. is at, tempting to use eviction notices to break the strike of 1,500 farm work CTS, members of that Natl Farm La bor Union-AFL, on its giant ranch near here.
 Last week, 25O families living on the ranch received 30-day eviction notices, and 16 single men were evict- ed from the bunkhouses. With strong support from organized labor in Cali fornia, backed up by action taken at the AFL's national convention here, strikers are still holding firm.
 Otherwise lOO9o effective, the only viOlatOrs of the picket lines are 1SO Mexican nationals who have been threatened with deportation if they do not continue to work. Pro- tests have been directed to the State Dept by AFL President William Green over the Agriculture Dept action ordering the Mexicans to continue working or face depOrta ton.
 "We understand" the AFL Presi- dent told the State Dept, "the Mexi- can Embassy requested and was as- Sured by the State Dept. that their citizens would be removed from the strike area on Oct. 9, but the Agri culture Dept. refuses to act. We urge immediate action on your part"
The union times., 1947-11-01
PaintersWin Complete Free Medical Care

NEW YORK (FP)-Eight thou sand AFL painters here will get com plete medical care under compre- hensive plan signed this week.
 Signing the agreement were Dist. 9, Bro. of Painters, the Assn. of Master Painters and Decorators of the City of New York Inc, and the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York.
 Financed by employer contributions of 59o of their payrolls, the plan will provide complete service by physicians in homes, at their offices and in hos pitals. It also includes specialist and full surgical care, diagnostic and laboratory procedure, periodic health and eye examinations, and visiting nurse and ambulance services.
 The medical benefits are in addition to the life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance. week ly accident and sickness benefits, and disqualification benefits for the em- ploye and his family which have been in effect since May 1, 1o46, under a similar financial arrangement.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Political League
 Of A.F.L. To Be Set Up On Dec. ,
International Presidents Meet In Washington To
 Organize Group

Washington (LPA) / The AFL moved swiftly here last week to com plete plans for organization of its new Labor's Educational & Political League as authorized by the Federation's Goth convention.
 First move was to summon the pres idents of 105 AFL national and inter national unions to an organizational meeting in Washington on Dec. 5 and 6. In addition to setting up the ,struc- ture of the new organization on a national, state and local level, the AFL chiefs will also consider methods of raising money to finance the politi- cal project.
 In this connection AFL officials here ridiculed reports carried by most of the daily newspapers dur ing the convention that the AFL's political fund raising would range anywhere from $3,OOO, ,OOO to $lO,- OOO,OO. The increase in per capita tax from 2c to Be, they pointed out, will produce about $1 ,OOO, 900 year. ly. This will be devoted, roughly. to three purposes l-The campaign for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law; "A long-range public relation. ship program including newspaper advertisements and radio broad casts; and 3-Cenerally increased expenses of operation.
 The projected League, however, will be financed wholly by voluntary con- tributions by unions and individuals, the AFL officials pointed out. One proposal has been for members of all AFL afiliates to pledge 25e a year, but it was expected that in addition to any such plan as this, individual AFL unions would probably contribute lump sums.
 The per capita increase does not become effective until Jan. l. On Dec. 4 the council will hold spec ial meeting in Washington to pre- pare for the conference of interna- tiOnal presidents.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Commission To Offer Trum an Civil Rights Plan

Washington (LPA) President Truman's Commission on Civil Rights is expected this week to make public the first complete itemization of the missing links in the projections af- forded to American citizens under the Constitution.
 The report is understood to cover the whole field of racial and religious discrimination, as well as civil rights in general.
 Among the members of the com mission are James Carey, CIO sec retary-treasurer, and Boris Shishkin, AFL economist.
 Attention was focused on the prob lem of race discrimination in the US. when the Natl Association for the Advancement of Colored People pre- sented to the United Nations last week a lengthy listing of ''the treatment which the United States has visited upon us for three centuries" The NAACP petition asserts that If the LIN today face contraditions and frus- trations in their great effort to build the inter-nation, no small cause of this is that democracy on earth is too often falsifying its own foundation princi- pies, and for that reason cannot honest ly build or cooperate in a just world state"
The union times., 1947-11-01
World Oil Coop Is 1naugurated

London (LPA)-Preparing to fight the oil monopolies, the Int'1 Coopera- tive Petroleum Association started in active business last week. Members of IS countries have joined the board, and refneries are to be acquired on both sides of the Atlantic. Crude oil will be obtained from the US. and other countries, with Kansas City as one of the large centers for training technicians.
 The ICPA is opposing ratification of the Anglo-American oil agreement and appealing to the United Nations for an international commission to ad4 minister Middle Eastern oil reserves.
The union times., 1947-11-01
These Strikers
 Like The CLink

Bakersfield, Ca1if. ( LPA)-If you want to find the nerve-center of the Natl Farm Labor Union, AFL, now conducting a strike of 1900 agricultural workers at the DiGiorgio Corp. ranch near here, you'll have to go to jail.
 But you won't have to get your self arrested.
 When the local church which served as the first strike headquar- ters became too small for the unions needs, the sheriff helpfully pointed out that no-one was in jail. So, the Arvin, Calif. jail is now the scene of meetings to plan strike strategy picket headquarters, and general information center in this, challenge to Associated Farmers rule in the state.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Employees
 Needs Ignored, McCovern Says
Council President Asks The Aldermen To Represent
 The People

Following is the statement made by Vincent J. McGovern at the alder manic hearing on the 1948 budget for New Haven, held in the Hall of Records Friday:
 T am speaking as President of the New Haven Central Labor Council, which is made up of so AZ. of L. unions with a membership in New Haven of over 20,0OO.
 'We in organized labor are con- vinced that the budget which you are considering tonight does not do justice to the unionized city em- ployees. The wage increases re- quested by these workers are reIa- lively small. They are not in pro- portion to the increased cost of kv- ing. When city starts economic ing at the expense of the living standards of its employees, it means that we are going backwards.
 Tn the past some people have thought that if you worked for the city, you had 1t pretty easy. One of the great contributions made by our unions of municipal employees is that they have shown that city workers work just as hard as any other group of workers. But am afraid our Board of Finance still thinks that we're still in the horse-and-buggy days, when municipal workers had to be glad to get whatever the powers-that-be de- cided upon.
 WE PAY TAXES
 That situation has changed, and the budget you are now considering does not reflect the change. We in organized labor are taxpayers, just as everyone else. As citizens, and as taxpayers, we believe that the wage increases re- quested by the unionized city employees should have been included in the 1948 budget. Penny -pinching economy will not make New Haven grow and pro- gress as it should.
 ''It is for these reasons that we. the organized labor movement of New Haven, earnestly request that the Board of Aldermen return the budget you now have before you to the Board of Finance.
 ''It is high time that the Board of Aldermen, which is elected by the people, assert its rights.
 ''The Board of Finance has ig- nOred the wishes of the people, and we look to you to speak for the people,"
The union times., 1947-11-01
ManagementAnd Labor Have Joint Interest In Crisis
High Profits Permit Wage Increases Without Raise
 In Prices

WASHINGTON = CPD The twin threats of depres- sion at home brought on by spiraling prices, as we'll as the danger of chaos and commun- ism in Europe unless the Marshall plan is speedily car ried out, make l947 a time for labOr-management states manship, the AFL bulletin LabOr's Monthly Survey says i'm its current issue.
 Pointing to high prices which have brought higher profits to business than before postwar wage raises, the bulletin repeated the AFL policy of wage increases without raising prices.
 GOOD FAITH WITH LABOR
 ''Such a policy can only succeed if management comes halfway, sub hitting facts and figures acceptable to both parties to show the wage in- crease possible without raising prices, and sitting down in good faith with labor to work them Out,'' the survey said.
 It called organization of co-opera- tives to buck price imitation "a long term project which should go steadily forward until co-operatives are strong enough to be effective over wide areas" Meanwhile, it asked that workers and the general public be told what industry is doing with its record high profits.
 HELP TO EUROPE
 The bulletin hailed Pres: Truman's domestic food saving program as necessary to the success of the Mar shall plan, which it regards as pro- gram to combat communism by giving western Europe enough to eat. "Ameri- can workers who participate in the food saving program are helping to preserve those free institutions which we and our fellow trade unionists in Europe hold most dear," it said, adding:
 "We are faced with world short ages like those of wartime, when government agencies met similar problems in this country by price control, wage freeze and ratiOning. Such government regimentatiOn in peacetime is abhOrrent and unwork- able. The challenge is to meet this crisis by voluntary measures.
 "Pres. Truman is approaching the matter in the American way. He had appointed Citizens Food Committee representing the groups concerned with food shortage problems, includ- ing labor; he has directed the com mlttee to work out a solution by vol untary means.
 ''The chairman, Charles Luck man, has proved his ability to mo- bilize voluntary cooperation by his constructive relations with AFL un- ions in his plants. He will carry these qualifications and experience to this critical national project"
The union times., 1947-11-01
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

Executive board of the Connecti- cut State Building and Construction Trades Council meets at the New Haven Labor Temple on Wednes- day, Nov. 5, at 10 AIM. Both Presi- dent Michael J. Barry and Secre- tary.Treasurer James O'Kane will have interesting reports to present.
 They're Scared To Death: Rub Der kings (Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear, Lee, US. Rubber, ct alb face a suit by the ustice Dept. for illegal price fixing on tires and tubes If convicted they may have to pay a fine of 5000. One of these companies made over $3O million in profits during the first half of this year, and its officials must be losing a lot of sleep over the possibility of paying crushing $5,OOO fine! Whoops!-Santa Bar bara, Calif., Union Labor News, AFL.
 Next time your grocer raises his prices, yell for the cops. According to Pres. Truman, the police are old hands at controlling prices.
 Col. Mccormick is expected back from Japan momentarily with a flash announcement on whether Gen. MacArthur will consent to run for President. Personally, we'd just as soon wait for that flash until l949.
 Sen. Robert ''Eat Less'' Taft (R., Ohio) became a presidential candidate last week and his s'fOr- maP' announcement surprised nO- one in the country any more than it did Taft himself.
 What was of greater interest to organized labor was that Taft, in a speech in Dayton, Ohio, repeated his argument that the Taft-HartIey law was ''the mandate of the people" and that it meant the emancipation of labor.''
 In Cincinnati, Taft made it clear that he favored the COPS s'aid- the-greedy; rob-the-needy" tax pro- gram ''even if it has to override the Presidents veto.' The bill was vetoed twice.
 Since he returned from his ''pulse-taking" tour of the west, Taft has said nothing about social legislation, about his own housing bill, about broadened social secur- ity benefits, increase in minimum wages, or such issues as FEPC, anti poll tax and anti-lynching.
 Here's little-knOwn story about that Greek government to which we're shipping our good American to Greece announced it had uncOv-
 (Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1947-11-01
Number Of Dependent Children Increasing

WASHINGTON = (FP) - ThI number of dependent children given financial aid under the Social Security Act has increased 599o since VI Day, the Social Security Administration said this week.
 Chief cause of the increased need for aid under the federa1-state pro- gram, said Federal Security Admin strator Oscar L. Ewing, has been the skyrocketing cost of living. Other causes he gave were loss of employ ment, especially layoffs of mothers who had worked in wartime jobs, and the loss of servicemen's dependents allowances.
 In August, 1947, more than a mil lion children in 100000 families were given public assistance under the act. Congress increased payments to the states for the joint program in 1946, but Ewing said price rises since then have already cancelled out the inn provement in the law in some states.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Var Profit" Probe Becoming New Deal Smear

Washington (LPA)-What started out as war profits probe by the form CT Truman investigating committee took on all the aspects last week of a witch hunt into why the American economy wasn't turned over to the military even years before the war started.
 War profiteering was completely forgotten by the committee headed by Sen. Brewster (R., Me.), who made farce of the Howard Hughes inquiry. It became increasingly ob- viOus that Brewster was attempting to prove that the New Deal, infiu- enced by labor and liberals, had thwarted the M-Day plans of the military. One essential part of these plans was the May-Bailey bill for industrial regimentation.
 Last week the Committee heard from former Asst Secretary of War Louis Johnson that two New Deal cabinet members blocked 1889 indus trial mobilization plan. Former Labor Secretary Frances Perkens, who "vio- lently opposed" a plan to convert CCC camps to military training, and former War Secretary H arry Woodring, de- scribed as "a sincere pacifst," were named by Johnson as the villains.
 None of the testimony showed that organized labor and liberals fought the plan, which was also op- posed by War Production Board Director Donald Nelson and other government officials who could not be considered New Dealers.
The union times., 1947-11-01
AFL Sees Need For L-M Statesmanship
Many Are Cold, But FelU Are Frozen

WASHINCTON-(FP)-MOre Americans got married and di- vOrced in 1946 than in any other year, the U. s. Public Health Service announces.
 Nearly 2.S million marriages took place, 42.6% more than in 1945, and 6l3,OOO divorce de- crees were granted, a boost of 24.l %.
 In 80 years of government records since 1867, the divorce rate has multiplied 60 times.
The union times., 1947-11-01
Conservation Plan Supported By AFL

Washington, D. C.-AFL President William Green declared today that labor must do its part" in saving grain for starving Europe
 In letter to all state federations of labor and AFL city central bodies, MT. Green endorsed the Government S voluntary campaign to save food for the double purpose of aiding the hun gry peoples in other countries and of resisting inaationary pressures at home.
 MT. Green cited the action of the AFL convention in endorsing the Marshall Plan with the full know1- edge that such action meant sacrifice, and reiterated the conventions stand that any sacrifice must be borne equally by all groups making up the nations economy.