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Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
Labor Forces Hasty
Revision of New
Jersey Law

Trenton. y. J.-FP-As protests OF
AFI and CIO unions piled into the
state capitol against legal blackjack
ing of striking phone workers. the New
Jersey legislature at a hastily conven-
ed all-nicht session modified the indi-
yidual penalties attached TO its 13-
day-old anti strike law.
Early April % Gov. Alfred Driscoll
tRl signed the amendments to the law
which eliminated Jail sentences for
yiolators and reduced individual fines
from a former range of $3.50 to $500 a
day 10 a new range of $25 to $50. Rank
and file strikers were exempted from
penalties. Three women leaders of
the New Jersey phone strikers are
awaiting trial on charges of violating
the law in its earlier form.
While softening individual penalties,
the legislature strengthened other pro-
visions. bringing a charge from union
counsel Henry Mayer that the new
law was worse than the original"
The amendments provided for court
review of the laws compulsory arbi-
tration provision, empowered the
courts to ban picketing, issue injunc-
tons and hold in contempt anyone re-
fusing to engage in compulsory arbi-
tration.
preceded the legislatures action. EX-
pressions of support for the striking
phone workers also came from CLIO
Defend Labor rallies throughout the
state April %. More than 5000 work
ers turned out for a demonstration in
Newark as many shops in that heavy
industrialized area closed down.
The New Jersey Telephone Co. de-
MED reports that it had offered the
strikers a SO weekly wage increase.
which would have been the first wage
proposal made by any Bell system com
pany since the strike began. New
Jersey strikers hit the SO figure as in
adequate. In New York local nego'
tiations were completely broken off
April % as the telephone company an
nounced that it would not follow the
15c hourly increase formula worked
out in steel and the electrical industry
Federal conciliator j. r. Mandel
baum brought a renewed company ar
bitration offer to the New York unions
which turned it down. The unions are
demanding IN initial down payment
wage increase Of at least So a weel
before submitting to arbitration. Tn
ion spokesman said they had decided
to stick by their wage demand aftel
an inspection tour on picketline!
showed strikers morale at a higl
point.
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01

the American press maze on
numerous occasions during the
past seven years, in the news
letter, IN FACT.
In the words Of the commission,
"One OF the most effective ways OF I'M
proving the press is blocked by the
press itself. BY a kind OF unwrltten
law the press ignores the errors ana
misrepresentation. the lies and scan
dals OF which its members are guilty.
1.-THE news is twisted by the empha-
sis on firstness, on the novel and sen
sational, by the personal interests OF
owners: and by pressure groups
Too often the result is meaningless
flatness, distortion and the perpetu
alton Of misunderstanding among wide
~ scattered groups
THE agencies Of mass communica
ton are big business, and their own
ers are big businessmen The own
ers Of the press, like the owners O.
other big businesses. are bank dlrec
tors, bank borrowers. and heavy tax
payers in the upper brackets
Names OF the commissions roster
are heavy with talent and prestige
They are John Clark. professor of &c
onomics, Columbia University. JOIN
Dickinson. professor of law. Universit.
OF Pennsylvania; William llockin'
professor Of philosophy, Harvard Uni
versity. Harold Lasswell, professo
OF law, Yale University, Archibald
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
Big Chain Group Is
Won By ALL In
Election

Lafayette, Ind. April pa labor
development of ~far-reaching import
ance to the department store field has
occurred with the decision of the Will
lam Filene 4 Sons company's sales
people to affiliate with the Retail
Clerks International association. AFL.
The final vote of the clerks in the
company's stores in Boston. Worces-
ter, Mass. Portland, Me. and other
northeastern cities. was more than
nine to one in favor of the lnternation-
al association. Some $500 employees
were involved.
For many years Filen's employees
had been represented by the Independ-
ent Union of Retail Store Employees,
which had its origin with the company
itself. 1t had long been regarded as
the queen of the retail store indie
pendents', and the members decision
to affiliate with the International asso-
citation points up the growing power
and appeal this latter organization has
for all retail clerks.
The victory was accomplished thru
the combined efforts OF International
Secretary-Treasurer James A. Stuff
ridge, Fred A. Almond. Jr., general
organizer: Frank p. Fenton, ALL or
g%anization director; John j. Murphy,
New England ALL organizer, and 9TH
ers.
Secretary Treasurer Suffridge, in
commenting IN the victory today said
THE bringing in of the Independent
union representing Filene's employees
is a most important. but only the mi
tial, step in a w~ell-developed, overall
campaign.
THE International association has
been carrying on successful talks with
many other independent and company
unions in the retail field and there is
every reason to feel optimistic that we
will be able to announce more such af-
filiatiOns within the near future"
William Green, AFL president, de
clared that he was tremendously
pleased to learn Of the Overwhelm-
ing victory and extended his congratu-
~latiOns to all who had participated in
the campaign,
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. l3ui1

Estate Of SYLVESTER HANSEN.
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given hy the under
sigued. ~eNecutix al the estate If SNl-
vester Hansen. deceased. to the cred
jtorS Of n all persons having claims
AGAINST the said deceased. t. exhibit
them. with the necessary vouchers,
within ten months after the first puh-
l~ication Of This notice. to the said
eNecutrix at the office of'l' l.. teasan,
attorney, 5ua silver Bow Block. i9ltte,
Montana. the same being the place for
the transaction Of the business OF said
estate. in the County Of SILVER Bow,
state Of Montana.
LAURA HANSEN. EN.cutriN Of the
Estate Of sylvester Hansen. Deceased.
Dated Butte. Montana. this 10Th day 81
April. 1871.
FIRST publication Man i, 1871 At
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01

issue Of full employment is the issue
of high mass markets in America,
HR ! drive us toward unemployment
because it undercuts the mass market.
Stating that so far congress-. Presi
dent Truman and his council of eco
nomic advisors have attempted tc
please everyone in the field OF policy
affecting full employment nixon said
1T is about time that American lead
ership got off the fence on the issue
because if they don't they will bt
knocked off by the very realistic ant
relentless impact Of unemployment
The tax bin passed by congress SHOULD
check depression. not feed it
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
Bv MARTY SOLOW Fed. Press

Bv MARTY SOLOW Fed. Press
They're out to "get" Henry A. Wal
lace.
A large section Of the commercial
press in America doesn't like the idea
of the former vice president OF the
l.. S. appealing for peace throughout
the world. Here's a sample OF the
ISLANDERS they're spreading:
Rigshot calumnist George Sokolsky
in his syndicated column in the April
II edition of the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat wrote: THE frigid reception ac-
corded Henry Wallace in England is
not surprising"
Sokolsky is talking through his bias.
| The New York Times, which opposes
| Wallace. ran a dispatch from its cor
respondent in England, Mallory
Brown. April II. which said: "Prob-
ably not since Wendell WiIIkie visited
London under the bombs Of 1941 has
a private citizen Of the U. S. received
such a welcome as that now being CIV
en- to Henry A. Wallace by the people
of Britain
On April Is the Associated Press
dispatched a story from London which
declared: winston Churchill today
assailed Henry Wallace as a cryptic
communist"
Two days after this lie had beer
spread throughout the U. Sand OF
the front transformations were car
ried asserting that Churchill DENIEC
calling Wallace a "crypto-communist'
Naturally. the corrections appeared OF
the inside pages.
In an exceedingly rare move, the AS
sociated Press on April II distributed
two stories of exact length on TIL
Hartley anti labor bill, just passed b.
the house. One story contained tn
arguments for it, the other the argu
ments (and very powerful ones
against.
A spot check of newspapers iron
New York, Chicago. Pittsburgh, Phila
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01

McLeish. formerly assistant secretary
of state: Charles Merriam, professor
OF political science; ReinhOld Neibuhr,
professor OF ethics. Union Theological
Seminary. Robert Redfield, professor
OF anthropology, University of Chi
cago. Beardsley Ruml, Chairman OF
Federal Reserve Bank, of New York;
Arthur Schelsinger, professor OF his
tory. Harvard University; and George
n. Shuster, president Hunter College.
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
IS DISTORTED SAYS
PRESS COMMISSION

"Many a lying, venal and scoundrelly public expression must
continue to find shelter under a freedom of the press built for
widely different purposes, says the Commission on Freedom
of the Press, headed by President Robert Hutchins Of the Uni
versny Of Chicago, in the most important and complete investi-
cation Of the u. S. press ever achieved. Fresh from the printers
!. "a Free and Responsible Press, a book covering the COM
mission. work, which indicates George Seldes' indictment of
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
AUTHOR REVIEWS HISTORY
OF FIRST may DAY
BIZ HOW FAST


You studied in school how Msy Day began, but there IS mucn
H., ~ . noble and brave in our past that the histories carefully
blot out. They say that May Day Is a foreign ,mPor'a"o"' ~
- The N who made the first May Day in Chicago in 1885,
there YVES nothing very foreign about it. They spun 1t out OF nat
i've warn; their anger at what the wage system does o human
beings did not have to be imported. :.
IN 1896 organized labor was on the march and its single Mill
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01

The average number Of wage earn
ers in the iron and steel industry last
year was 496, 500. The number Of
stockholders was 532,704.
Montana labor news., 1947-05-01
ALIAS SUM MONS

rirst publioatlon MAY i. Ial,
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
Editorials
Backs Masaoka's Proposal
For Lump Sum Payments

Two prominent citizens although they both are STRIVING TO-
wards the goalthat of helping the Japanese who
whsked into relocation centes are at difference
today the capital the amportant matter OF
the evacuation claims measure.
Mike Masaoka, executive secretary of the JACL Anti
Discrimination Committee this week suggested to the In
terror department liberal bill which asks for flat
payment of 81 every adult the age of
49, $500 for those from to 49, and nothing for those under
the age the time of the military exclusion orders
suggests that those who suffered greater los
the specified in the payments should be al
lowed to be redeemed through regular court of claims chan
nes
On the other hand Dillon S. Myer, former national drec
tor Relocation Authority feels that Masaokas
suggestions would meet with the approval of Congress
other Americans Myer argues that the Japanese them
selves must show sufficient interest to file claims order to
persuade the conys lawmakers to learn that the evac
uees really suffered huge financial losses.
doubt there will be persons who would maintain
that all gold the world the physical mental
monetary inflicted the But then that
is the sickenng attitude of the weak the who would
rather cover benmd of defeatism.
proposal calls for quick action while the coal is
still hot in the fire. Myers contention suggests cooling
off period.
cooling period in this instance, would amount to
wnded drawnout series of dry court actions which
may take months perhaps years.
The American people need not be told in figures of the
great losses suffered by the Japanese Articles after articles
already have testified to that grim fact.
However appreciate Myers interest the situa-
ton, for Masaoka in this case
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
Offers Extension
Courses at wv.

Mrs. Ethel Utter, parlia-
mentarian for the Legisla-
ture, will hold her winter
class in parliar ;.entary pro-
cedure for the University of
Washington Extension Serv-
ice students at II noon on
Mondays in Room 1881, Hen
ry Building. Classes will be
held for ten one-hour ses-
sions, it was announced to-
day.
Current Events" a lecture and
discussion class in world events,
meets at 6 p. m. Tuesdays, also in
the Henry Building. DR.. Suzanne
Konirsh, who leads the class, will
give behind-the-headl interpre-
tations of present-day happenings
Registration may be made in
the Henry Building or on the cam
pus at SO Lewis Hall
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
Lands Bowlers' Spirit
To Help Dimes Drive

Nise Commercial Bowling League dug deep into
their pockets and punked coins into March of Dimes
conaner each time they misred last night Thursday
Main Bowl.
Every drop of the silver meant ringing break for the kid
dies who stricken with nfante paralysis throughout
the land drop of the silver also better prop
osition for those paralyc who being treated
through the of funds raised by the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis
League bowlers-Flipno Chinese and Japanese Ameri-
alare to be commended for being willing to
tribute their loose change toward worthy
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
The Mailbag

Dear Editor:
Congratulations upon success
fol venture and here's hoping your
sheet will grow in prestige with
every issue.
I. / think the Nisei have
proved their ability and have been
recognized to take their rightful
place as citizens in the American
way of life. And it is through your
medium of the freedom of the
press to keep alive and achieve
those thoughts for which our fell
low Nisei fought and died.
We will be following the news
OF the Northwest for Seattle is
still our "home town"
a"
Sincerely yours.
~ TOGE FUJIHIRA,
-a NEW YORK, n. Y.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
kawakami Writes
On Macs Japan

"MacArthur's Japan" a book
on Japan under Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and its progress, by Clarke
H. Kawakami, former Domei cor
respondent in Washington, D. c.,
will be published shortly, it was
learned here today
Kawakami, who was a lieuten-
ant in the u. S. Army and who
served with the Allied Transla-
tors and Interpreters Section in
japan, is now in San Francisco,
but hopes to return to japan soon
as a civilian employee in the War
Department.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31

Two University of Washington
professors, one of whom was an
observer at the famous Opera
tons Crossroads at Bikini Atoll
during the u. S. atomic bomb ex-
periments, discussed the scien-
tlfic economic and political aspects
of atomic energy at the Labor
School Forum tonight friday.
The Forum, open to the public
with admission free was held in
the schools headquarters at 309
End Ave. North.
The professors on the program
wereDr. Lauren E.DonaldsOn, asso-
ciate professor of Fisheries, who
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31

A baby boy weighing 6 ID. IL OF.
was born Jan. 13 to Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Sakura in Providence
Hospital. The newcomer, named
Samuel Charles, is the Sakuras'
second child.
Mrs. Sakura is the former Alice
Funai.
CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-Mrs. Ralph
Takami, the former Yone Tanaka
of West Seattle, recently was hon
ored at a stork shower given by
Mrs. Robert Takami at the latter s
home. The honoree is expecting
her first visit from the stork in
few months.
MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Jan.
30. - DIR. and Mrs. George Shi-
moda became the parents of ba-
by girl, their second child, born on
Jan 10. The Shimodas have a
son, Toby. DR.. Shimoda is form
erly of Seattle.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31

was chief of the division of Radio
biology at the Bikini experiment,
and DIR. Melvin RAIDER, associate
professor of philosophy and well
known author.
Following the presentation of
their points on atomic energy and
the atom bomb. the two speakers
answered que stions from the
audience Arrangements for their
appearance at the Forum, one of
weekly series, were made through
the University of Washington
Community Forum Series, which
has both faculty members and
students on its panel
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
NiSei
FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY
1-Nisei Community Basketball
Leagues dance.
Seattle Progressive Citizens
League meeting in Buddhist
church.
8-Kalifornian' Big z dance in
Buddhist hall.
14-Tacoma Busseis' dance in
Buddhist hall.
15-University Students semi-tolo
dance.
15-Baptist young peoples ice
skating party in Civic Ice
Arena.
22-Y-Teen clubs skating party.
22-23-Open Nisei bowling touina-
ment in Main Bowl.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
Nisei Girl Teoches
EnoIish In n. Y.

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. so. -
Ida Shimanouchi, former Pasade-
ma and San Francisco girl, is now
teaching English at a high school
in Riverdale, New York. She is
a graduate of Smith college.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31
The Social Whir|

AUBURN, Jan. 81 = Mr.. and
Mrs. William Maebori of Auburn
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of their third child, Will
liam Toshio Jr., on Monday, Jan.
81. The youngster joins a brother,
Stanley, 4, and sister, Teresa, 2.
The grandparents are Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank X. Takagi and Mr..
Yujiro Maebori.
Mrs. William Maebori is the
former Michiko Takagi.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-01-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fukano be-
came parents of a baby boy born
last Saturday morning in Maynard
hospital. The newcomer weighed
Z lbs, OF. and was named Rob-
ert. The child is the second for
the Fukanos, the first being Colin,
also boy.
Mrs. Fukano is the former Mich
Shigihara.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
Wushinqton's Future Growth

Population trends in the Washington
Metropolitan Area are following the usual
postwar pattern. The latest estimates Of
the Census Bureau, showing slight falling
of in area population since the war peak
of July, 1914, are In general line with the
estimates made three years ago by the
Postwar Planning Committee Of the Wash
ington Board of Trade
That committee, after careful study4of
population trends in Washington and its
suburbs from 1900 on, predicted moderate
decline in number of residents during the
two years Immediately following the end
of the war 1t based it's opinion largely on
what happened after World War I, when
to 1920, after which the population leveled
off for another two years and then began
a slow but steady rise upward again. BY
1929 the curve had passed the 1918 peak
and was still climbing.
On the basis of past performance, the
Metropolitan Area has about reached the
depth of its natural postwar population
slump. The Census Bureau places the
approximate figure today for the Metro
pOItdIl aIcd dt 1,ooS,uUU. Ills represents
a decline of less than two per cent from
the wartime peak. Broken down by sec
tions, the bulk of the decrease occurred
within the District of Columbia, while most
of the nearby Maryland and Virginia coun-
ties continued to grow-although at a
much slower rate than during the war
years.
If history repeats, the area may expect
to hold its ground from a population stand
point during the next several years and
then there should begin gradual rise to
parallel the growth Of Government-which
is Washington's principal industry" The
congestion within the city itself inevitably
will tend to restrict further growth inside
the District, although farsighted planning
with respect to zoning, housing, transpor-
tation, off-street parking and other anti
dotes, for "city blight" can help to stimu-
late urban growth. This is problem which
challenges the Imagination and determina-
ton of all concerned with the future
development Of the Capital.
Evening star., 1947-05-16
The Persistent Dreum

It is not new idea that winston
Churchill breaches in calling for q United
States OF Europe. His latest address
formally launching campaign In Britain
to that ends simply an eloquent affirma-
tion of faith in an ancient dream. More
important, 1t is a somber warning that
the time is at hand when the peace OF the
continent and the world demands that the
dream take on substance, that 1t be trans
lated into reality, that action be started
on 1t now-not ten years from now, or
century from now.
Nothing could be easier, OF course, than
to raise the usual realistic" objections to
this dream. It has had great and brilliant
sponsors, off and on, for centuries past.
but still the nations of Europe have seemed
to cling more jealousy than ever to their
separate sovereignties. Politically, eco
nomically, historically, they have developed
among themselves such rivalries, such an
tagonisms, such hates that the thought OF
uniting them has the appearance some
times of being wholly unattainable ideal
for practical" men in hard and per-
verse world.
Yet 1t is fact that the dream Is per-
sistent and that the movement to realize
1t is stronger today, and more widespread,
than at any time in history. MIR. Churchill
is not the only voice crying In the wilder
ness of unconnected and clashing sover-
eighties. His successor, Prime Minister
Attlee, is on record as warning that the
continent must federate or perish. In
France, in Italy, in the Lowlands and else
where the same note is being sounded In
mounting volume. The government Of
Russia may be fatty against the idea, but
Europeans are for 1t in ever-increasing
numbers. Indeed, even in the New World,
here in our own country, there is great
and growing sentiment for it-a sentiment
summed up in the pending Fulbright-
Boggs resolution to have Congress declare
for "a United States Of Europe within the
framework of the United Nations"
This dream persists for good reason.
In Mr. Churchills words, divided Europe,
because OF its augmentation into lands
pulling against each other instead of to-
gether, has led itself and much of the
outside world "into the pit of squalor,
slaughter and ruin" Today, as never
before, there is a compulsion to unite,
politically and economically, for common
survival The realistic" objections are in
fact unrealistic; worse, they add up to
defeatist invitation to catastrophe. A fed
Grated continent may be long in the
making, but men with faith, every friend
of civilized and lasting peace, will keep on
striving for it against all odds.
Evening star., 1947-05-16

Roosevelt dime, Tor instance. Is an enduring
eulogy Of the late President. 90, too
the Purple Heart, which Mr.. Sinnock
perfected In 1881 without thought OF the
fateful currency it would have between
1941 and 1945, signifies more than wounds
received In battle. The patriotism for
which 1t stands Is rendered authentic at q
glance. A compelling magic attaches to
such symbols, and Mr.. Sinnock was .
veritable master Of 1t.
Not all Of his productions went into
general circulation. Many OF them were
intended to be struck only once. The
Edison medal and those presented BY
Congress to Roald Amundsen, Umberto
Mobile and Lincoln Ellsworth for their
fight over the North Pole In 1926 each
was unique or at least restricted 20 .
very few copies. A similar observation
applies to the commemorative coins which
are manufactured particularly for sale to
collectors. Mr.. Sinnock's fame therefore
will survive more especially In relation to
the commoner examples OF his genius. But
his memory already Is part OF the trad1-
tion Of the Treasury Department and OF
the Mint, and in that respect likewise he
did not live nor work in vain. The age
which sponsored and employed him has
the right to be proud OF his achievement
in devoted and fruitful service OF the public.