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Montana labor news., 1948-02-05

The greatest gains of the working people
have not come through the enactment of
laws. They have been won by Labor Unions.
Probably they can only be maintained by
political action on the part Of Labor. but that
is another story.
We see. today. in congress an effort on
the part of farm belt politicians and stooges
of the NAM to wipe out the l0-hour working
week. We are not fooled by the idiotic argu-
ments of congressman who jump when the
big fellows pull the strings. We know the
reason for this move.
Selfish employers, especially where work
ers are unorganized and therefore defense
less. do not like to pay ime-and-one-half for
the sixth day. They do not like to pay de-
cent wages. They want to reduce wages:
that is their real goal. So. they are going to
smash the 40-hour working week. Or amend
it into futility. That is their avowed aim.
If these selfish interests are successful.
they will reduce the wages of millions of
workers. mostly unorganized, in the lower
income brackets. They will fatten their own
already-bulging. money bags.
But, there is one thing they cannot do:
they cannot abolish the 40-hour working
week which has been established in thOus-
ands OF union agreements. Any attempt to
do this would precipitate work-stoppages Of
tremendous scope.
What's the lesson to be learned here?
It's quite simple. 1t is that the only hope
OF working people lies in strong, militant,
well-disciplined and well-officered Labor
Unions. 1t is folly to look to the politicians.
After organized labor has firmly established
the 40-hour week as a custom Of doing bust
ness in this country, it may then be covered
by a law of some sort, but until it is estab-
lished, by the action of the unions, any law on
the subject will always be at the whim of
petty politicians and selfish interests. Your
only hope. if you work for your living. is in
your union.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-05

Not so long ago a labor editor made a
mighty fine statement: I'VE want men who
will stick their necks out, who will stick their
necks out for what is right and for what is
best. We want them in the government and
we want them in the labor movement. too
That | think expresses Just what the rank
and file of organized labor really wants.
There is no patience among the men them
selves with pussyfooting or compromise.
They want leaders who will lead. without
one eye on their job and the other on the men
who put them there. They want a leader
who will stick his neck out for anything that
is right and best in our domestic life.
For. all sentiment aside, the rank and file
of organized labor believes in being right
and in doing right. | have heard much more
criticism of unfair labor practices in labor
union halls than | ever read in any column
Of Peglers and we all know that reforms
We're under way, long before he disclosed to
the public certain fungus grOwths on labor.
BY and large. the American people-of
whom labor is a component, not a separate
part, believe in the principles of organized
labor. What they condemn are the same
practices that the rank and file itself con-
dennis. But those not in organized labor
condemn in generalities because they do not
know the whole story. The rank and file
must become more vocal. They need to show
the public what organized labor really thinks
and for what it stands.
Labor must take a position Of leadership
and to do so it must stick its necks out
ahead-not crane backwards. The men who
will make good are the ones who are plan
ming the program for tomorrow, not the ones
who are thinking up the answers to the
charges made last year.
The phrase, Organized Labor, when re-
duced to its simplest term means a group of
people Irrespective of class, creed, or color
accustomed to work together through unions.
1t can be a potent force because it is trained
to accept leadership and to put its collective
strength at the disposal of its leaders-but
it must have leaders who will be bold and
brave and courageous enough to stick their
necks out (and lead with their 'lefts') for
what is right. no matter whom it hits.
II !. !.
1t would take 500 million hours of work
or the full time of 400, 600 dentists working
for one year to remedy the accumulated
dental neglect Of the u. S. population.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-05

When we speak of the dignity Of labor
Just what do we mean? The dignity of man
or the dignity Of his work? After all why
should we differentiate? Wherein does the
difference lie?
To many people the dignity of Work is
what separates the busy man from the idler,
the thoughtful, serviceable man from the
drone. But when they think of the dignity
CT Labor they mean the dignity of those who
work with their hands.
We are all workers-with the tools which
we are best equipped to use, whether they be
a pair Of trained skilled hands or a disci-
plined and agile brain.
1t takes all types of toll to keep the wheels
Of Industry running smoothly. We need
doors plus thinkers, action plus planning. We
Montana labor news., 1948-02-05

need men of vision who can look ahead-lf
there is to be work in the future. and we need
men who can put those visions into practice.
We need constructive thought plus co-ordi-
mated effort.
Today all types of workers must get to-
pether and STAY together TO retain our Amer
lean way of life. Each is entirely dependent
upon the welfare of the other. For one to
profit unfairly at the expense of the other
would be fatal 70 both. What Is needed Is
an ordered opportunity to serve and a Just
reward for the services of all men.
There is a dignity in both Work and
Labor. But the dignity lies not entirely in
what is accomplished, but in the spirit in
which the task is undertaken. We need men
with an infinite capacity for never knowing
what can't be done. for sticking to the Job
through good times and bad. for not giving
up when the going gets tough.
In the wan we learned what Work and
Labor mean and what they can do in COOP
Grafton. In Peace, with the same zeal and
ardol. we have the even bigger job of re-
constructing our high standards of living.
The wan proved that unemployment is unnec-
essary. that we can. ii we try-and II we IN
vest but Il small fraction of what the destruc-
tion of war costs-bring in an era Of pros
pcrity. based on constructive productivity.
that will surpass anything ever before known.
This is the task that is before Labor-and
Capital-a worthy task. the doing of which
will bring dignity and honor to the doer.
Montana labor news., 1948-02-05

RECOGNIZE AND DEMAND THE
UNION LABEL,
Evening star., 1948-02-26

O'Brien." Curt was the boy behinc
the megaphone for Joan in "Pos-
sessed'-for which Joan has beer
nominated for an Academy Award
Funny thing-Joan was at Metro
for 20 years, and no mention of an
award. At Warmers she has made
three pictures for Jerry Wald. She
won the award outright for the
first, Mildred Pierce" and now
has another chance this year.
Greta Garbo is very interested In
Fritz Lang's up-and-coming movie,
1.-THE Guttman House." by Elsa
SchWarZ. wish Garbo would stop
being interested" and actually
come back to making a picture.
Everyone wants her back.
George Montgomery has run
afoul of the zoning laws here and
cannot make any more furniture in
his home. He'll now have to wait
until he opens his factory next
month.
Mdylld, tllc AcdNy al AiChy 1o-
wells ITO the Ends Of the Earth, /"
is going to China to star for James
Wong Howe in "Rickshaw Boy" Mr.,
Howe, one of our best cameramen,
now up for an Academy Award for
his brilliant photography in Body
and Soul" bought the best seller
and will produce 1t himself ip the
land of his ancestors.
Jimmy Durante's neighbor in
Palm Springs is Marjorie Main. I'd
like to be around when they gossip
over the back fence!
Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance Inc \
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Where and When
Current TheateF Attractions
and Time Of Showing

stage.
National-"The Linden Tree;
$3.50 pm.
Ambassador-"The Swordsman" {;
lis, 800, 5:25, 7::35 and 9:45 pm.
Capitol-"The Tender Years;
10:30 am, 1855, 800, $40, 8:05 and
1925 pm. Stage Shows: 1905, 2:30,
4:55, 7:15 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"You Were Meant For
Me-; 11:25 am, 1870, $3.50, $50, 7:30
and 9:35 pm.
Hippodrome-"I Know Where I'm
Going; 2:15, 4:o5, 5:55, 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Keith's "The Bishops Wife;
11:25 am, 1870, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
9:40 pm.
LittIe-"Shoe Shine" 11:05 am,
12:45, 2:30, Ais, 6, 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
observation-disclosures" 11:55
am, 1855, $3.50, $50, 7:50 and $3.50
pm.
Palace-"Call Northside TIT; 10:45
am, 1855, 3:05, Sis, 7:25 and 9:35
pm.
Trans-Lux - News and Shorts;
continuous from 1915 am.
Warner-'The Swordsman"; 1870
am, 1:40, 3:45, 5:55, 1855 and $50
pm.
Pix-"she Couldn't Take Tt: q,
4:45, 7:35 and 1913 pm.
Evening star., 1948-02-26

quite amiably and courteously, with
critics who think otherwise.
There should be room in the
theater for play that Is gentle.
and thoughtful, and wants to talk
over important things that need
discussion" he says.
I'm no more unselfish than any
other man, but I did not take the
part of Prof. Linden simply because
it looked like good role for me. L
think it is that, but there's more to
it. I believe there's an audience for
The Linden Tree. If we get a
chance to reach that audience, I be-
lieve a large number of people will
enjoy 1t for long time"
Mr.. Karloff is fretful about
critics, and generally about the ten
dency of the theater to become
standardized. He does not believe
the drama should be limited to
compositions which 60 in simply for
a swirl Of action, slapstick or guf-
faw. Without precisely saying so,
he implies that critics are being
taken in these days by that con-
sideration.
It is like being corrected, or dis
puted, by Prof. Linden. And by
Mrs. Karloff, who was there too,
wearing a face far too serene ever
to have been frightened by Actor
Karloff in his old Frankenstein
days.
Mr.. Karloff, by the way, hopes
those days are past. He Is an &C
tor and he wants to keep on grow
ing, playing parts as diverse as
Frankenstein and Prof. Linden.
And a score of others in between.
But he has no regrets, and neither
does his actress wife, about the
horror days in the movies.
"It was trade-rnark," he says,
"And trade marks are good things" "
Nevertheless, he likes the change,
he likes his new play, and he does
not mind the grind of it, nor even
reviews with which he does not
agree.
There is no more amiable man
around town this week. Nor any
who Is working harder.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Hollywood:
Tom Drake,
Rooney Team
In Musical
By SheiIoh Grohom

Tom Drake is now definite to
play Dick Rodgers In Words and
Music" life story of songwriters
Rodgers and Hart, with Mickey
Rooney playing Hart. Gene Kelly
appears as himself in the picture.
This now shapes up as an Arthur
Freed musical super r-special.
Judy Garland gets the surprise
new star on the Metro lot, Jules
Munshin, for the top comedy role
in annie Get Your Cum" Jules
I first saw him on the stage in
''This Is the Army"-has a two
minute bit as a waiter in Easter
Parade" He wrote 1T himself.
Barbara Stanwyck is doing a
ourn. 1t was she who induced War
ners to buy 1.-THE Fountainhead, "
with the idea that Barbara would
star in 1t. Now Lauren Bacall is
the star, with Gary Cooper, and
Barbara doesn't think that's fair.
George Raft has been served no.
tice by the French government that
he must leave French Morocco by
March 6. They expect a lot of
trouble after that from the Arabs
over the Palestine question. George
has communicated with his studio
in Hollywood to tell them of his
plans to return. He'll finish "Out-
post Morocco" here.
II X X II
Greer Carson is home again sick
and her movie, Julia Misbehaves, +"
has had to close down until she re-
covers. The last time Greer was
bedded with flu they could shoot
around her. Now the only parts
still unfilmed are scenes calling for
Greer's presence.
Gregory Peck will probably get
to do "Act of Violence" after all
the Mark Hellinger estate has now
sold this property to Metro for
$15O,000. And Greg owes Metro a
picture. Talk about inflation-Hel-
linger bought "Act of Violence"
from Warmers for $75,000! It cost
Warmers something like $1,600-it
was an original and someone on the
lot batted 1t out in four weeks!
Clark Gable seems to have found
cure In radium treatments for
his leg. Now his big problem is to
find an English leading lady for
ANGELS Flight" Director Sam
Wood would like Deborah Kerr. But
Gable and Kerr weren't too happy a
combination in "The Hucksters."
Joan Crawford wants Curt Bern
hardt to direct her in Miss
Evening star., 1948-02-26

OF a. new play D6lIlB ulduc Icduy AoA
Broadway. Not the play as it ap-
pears on the stage, not that alone,
but all the grief and doubt, dismay
and near disaster that goes on be-
hind the scenes. If all this could
be caught up and worked into the
play about producing a play, then
not only the sensible but nonsensical
would avoid the process like a
plague.
Everybody would then adjourn to
Hollywood and start producing en-
tertainment by machines. They
would not only make more money,
even II the product was always in
ferior, but they would not have to
suffer through those weeks of Won
dering If anything ever will be right
about the new offering. It would be
made, put In cans, stored away for
several months, and sometimes
quite forgotten by the makers by
the time it Is released.
X ~
This is what you think, and the
logic of 1t seems indisputable.
Yet Boris Karloff, who is right in
the middle of a new play, "The Lin
den Tree" does not think SO. And
he holds its logic is. quite disput-
able
Mr.. Karloff would not miss any
part of the doubt, the dismay, the
deadly long and disconcerting hours
of rehearsal that he has been going
Evening star., 1948-02-26

sionally Lew is the .brother and
assistant of Director Frank Bor-
cage. now married to Reds former
wife, Edna.
Shelton says he has decided. to
expand his film to four reels and
use it as regular part of his show
when he makes his periodic tours OF
veterans hospitals.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
No Magic Life
BY The Assoeioied Press


Life with a magician, says Renee
Godfrey, can be rugged at times.
She; is never certain, when she puts
on d coat, that a rabbit won't Jump
ont Of the pocket. We Ss.ss':ss
Her husband is Director Peter
Godfrey, whose hobby is sleight-of-
hand. An uncommon number Of
Lproperties, it seems, are necessary
t0 mxgfoians. SIS 4a}s;9ss $50
cPeter hasa garage at home half
filed With stuff he needs when he's
putting on a magic show" she re-
lated. And when we move the
things for performance we have
to call In a large truck"
There Is also the matter OF Pc
ter's assistants. He uses three.
1.-TWO of them get paid" the act
ress reported. I'm the third"
Evening star., 1948-02-26

through for the last eight weeks of
the drama now at the National.
Let outsiders call 1t self-torture,
or any other harsher name, and
that makes them correct only from
their own point of view.
I'm back in the theater," he says,
because I like 1t better than any
thing else. It is the most satisfy
ing place I know, even when you
are dissatisfied with everything
about (which I am not"
The movies old horror man, who
is as gentle, humorous and scholar
ly in his hotel living room as he is
on the stage as elderly Prof. Linden,
can tick off any number of reasons
why this is so.
'You know" he says, "that 1t Is
the fashionable thing when you get
away from Hollywood to say that
you are well rid of the place.
don't feel that way at all. / like
Hollywood, what I've done there
and what the screen has done for
me. There's lot of talk, always
has been, about what the place does
to man. I've been there, off
and on, for 80 years and it never
did anything to me that disliked
It seems to me-and I thought this
out in Hollywood-that man can
live the life he is capable of, or
wants to live, anywhere. It can be
Hollywood, or Broadway, or Tim
buctoo."
Because he currently wants te
live the life Of a stage player, Mr.
Karloff is in the East; and there is
no place he would prefer to be al
the moment.
He likes the play he is In, moi
merely because 1t has a good part
for him and surrounds him with q
pleasant, talented acting company
but because he thinks it is good
| and useful play, He diSagrees
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Bracket Signed

Paramount has extended for an
other year its contract with Charles
Bracket, currently producing "A
Foreign Affair" which Billy Wilder
is directing. Bracket is preparing
"Tatlock Millions" as his next pro-
ducing assignment.
Evening star., 1948-02-26
They Eat Too Well
By the As.oeiafsd Press
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
Healthy Hollywood kids are In
clined to be too fat, and the casting
office of one studio is therefore In
quandary.
The Boy With Green Hair calls
for sickly, undernourished- ooking
children to portray war orphans.
But kids have to be healthy to get
work permits. The casting lists at
RKO are full Of youngsters who are
healthy-and look it.
Anybody know some healthy, but
anemic- looking moppets?
Evening star., 1948-02-26
Reds Film Expands
BY the Assoeioisd Pre-

ky me Assoeofsd Press
HOLLYWOOD.
The private 16-mm. color movie
that Red Shelton and Lew Borzage
started to make just for fun is as
suming impressive proportions.
Called "The Great Witherspoon," 1t
stars Red as a Shakespearean ham
actor. Lew is directing. Profess
Evening star., 1948-02-26
New Plays Are a Struggle
But Karloff Relishes Them
By Joy cormody

dramast with the special magic the Job needs VIII
producing He will the COL agonng
against the three four amusing onehis for
himself with hit his
hands
This probably end of the theater.
thinking when he gets closeup
Evening star., 1948-06-22

Richmond Gets
PGA's Tourney
For Next Year
BY the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, June 22-The
Professional Golfers Association OF
America today awarded its 1949
championship tournament to Rich
mond. to be played over the Hermi-
tage Country Club course May
1881. -....
Tom c. Utterback, chairman of
the Hermitage Golf Committee, was
advised of the official action of the
PGA Executive Committee.
I The tournament will be sponsored
jointly by the Hermitage Club and
the Sportsmen's Club and will be
the first PGA championship to be
stage6 in Virginia. 1t was awarded
to Richmond for $4,000, despite
larger offers from other cities, ac-
cording to Utterback.
Charles E. (Chick) Wilson, jr.,
who served as chairman of the Rich
mond open in 1945, will be general
tournament chairman.
Defending champion will be Ben
Hogan, of Hershey, Pa. who cur
rently holds both the PGA and Ma
tional Open crowns.
Serving with Utterback on the
tournament committee will be WAL
ter Hagen, jr., and Glenn C. Knox.
Hermitage oficials said certain
changes would be necessary on the
{, 6,354-yard par-73 Hermitage course,
and this work will be started soon.
The par-73 course will be heightened
by several hundred yards.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Louis No Better Physically,
But Is Smarter, Rice Says

VINO WILL meet IN one OF Cne most
interesting contests in the history
of the heavyweight division,
whatever the result.
Walcott Amazing Challenger.
There are many young sport
followers today, up to the ages of
20 or 81, who can't remember any
other heavyweight champion.
Louis was ruling the throne room
when they were 8, 10 or II years
old. Now they are grown and
Louis still is there.
Looking back only year ago,
no two men ever came together
from such widely separated spots.
If any one had told you last June
that Walcott, after 16 or II years
in oblivion, or near oblivion, was
to be regarded seriously as a
Louis challenger you would have
looked around for a padded cell.
Great challengers don't emerge
from the obscurity of 16 or II
years. Few fighters ever last
that long. In that span of time
most of the better fighters have
come up, reached the top and
then passed on. Certainly any
normal citizen would have dis
covered long ago that he was out
of the picture. It 50 happens
that Walcott is an amazing ex-
ception.
1t may have been that Jersey
Joe also would have retired from
the ring six or eight years ago If
the heavy pressure Of hunger
and poverty hadn't driven him
back to fighting.
He was knocked out time and
again. He was whipped often.
He was punching and being
punched for something less than
peanuts. He wanted to retire
more than once-but he couldn't.
He needed the $50 or $100 an
occasional fight would bring.
And he kept needing it year after
year.
Hunger Gave Walcott Chance.
Suddenly, at his best. he met
Louis at the Bomber's worst and
there will be close to 100000
worth of spectators looking on
tomorrow night at Yankee Sta
dium.
It was the combination of pow
erty and hunger that gave WAL
colt his chance. He never was
equipped with the physical assets
that Louis has carried into action
through the greater part of his
career.
The odd part is that If Louis
isn't a big improvement over his
last stand he almost certainly will
be beaten. It is my guess that
this improvement will come from
the mental shift-that while
Louis never again will be the
Bomber that belongs to past
years, his aroused pride will carry
him safely through.
I don't think Louis Is in any
better shape. physically. than he
was back in December. But men
tally and psychologically he is on
a far higher plane. He should
win.
North Amsrieen Newspaper Alliance
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Sauer Well on WAY
Toward Becoming
Reds Homer Ace
By ths Assseiefsd Press

Hammering Hank Sauer, In his
first full year In the major leagues.
gave promise today of blossoming
into the greatest home run hitter In
Cincinnati baseball history.
The 29-year- r-old outfielder yester-
day tied q club record for the most
home runs hit by . right-handed
batter when he plasted his 2oth
four-bagger of the young season.
The blow enabled the Reds to nip
the Phillies. 4-3, in q night game in
Philadelphia. The victory, Gin.
cinnati's second in its last 10 games.
snapped q four-game losing streak.
Until yesterday, Ernie lombard.
in 1899, and Frank Mccormick, in
1914, were the only right-handed
batters in Cincinnati's long history
to hit 20 home runs in one season.
Sauer, who now is one up on
Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner for the
National League home run leader
ship, needs 10 more to tie the club
record by any batter. Ival Good
man, q southpaw swinger. slammed
30 home runs for the Reds in 1888.
Sauer, a 6-foot 81 Inch native Of
Pittsburgh, also stands an excellent
chance of becoming the first Red
leg slugger to win the leagues home
run title in 43 years. The last Red
batter to gain that honor was Fred
Odwell, back in 1905. His season
total was nine. Only one other
Cincinnati batter ever topped the
leagues home run hitters. He was
Wahoo Sam Crawford. Wahoo
whacked Is in 1901.
Sauer also collected a double to
drive in two runs which increased
mis- runs-batted-in leadership Of the
league to SO. His clubbing paved
the way for Howard Fox's fourth
victory. The big right-hander, how
ever. was not around at the finish.
He was shelled from the mound in
the seventh when the Phils scored
all their runs. Harry Gumbert re-
lieved and held the Phillies at bay
the rest of the way.
Evening star., 1948-06-22
Fight Postponed,
Robinson Begins
Cutting Weight
By The Associated Prsss

CHICAGO, June 22.-Cham-
pion Ray Sugar Robinson be.
gan another weight-reducing ses-
sion today after his welter-
weight title bout with Bernard
Docusen of New Orleans was
postponed for q second time.
The fight, scheduled for Com
iskey Park last night. was reset
for pext Monday. Threatening
rain and Robinson's failure to
make the regulation 147-pound
limit forced the delay. The
match originally was scheduled
for last Thursday but rain forced
postponement.
George Gainford. Robinson's
manager. said the champion was
trim lat last Thursday. But
yesterday, the Harlem sugar boy
said he was up to 15l1s pounds.
He refused to step on the scales
and unofncially it was said his
weight was up to 155.