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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-08-18
Ripping
OF the Rivers

If work has anything to do
with it, we predict the first
annual Hardin Air Show will
be a huge success.
Members of the various COM
mittees are putting out a great
deal of time and effort in get
ting everything in readiness
for the affair. Two of these, at
least, with whom we have had
occasion to discuss the air
show are really doing a job in
making arrangements and ham
ding advertising, etc, for the
event. s3 ],
The two, Ken Fox and Earl
Carpenter, have covered lot
of territory in their work con-
nected with the show. They
seem to have no complaints
except that one was slightly
disgruntled one morning this
week at being summoned to a
telephone from his bed at 2
"a. m. to be informed that the
two F-82 army planes from
Moses Lake airfield, Ephrata,
Wash, would be in Hardin on
schedule for the Air Show.
We're sorry we're going to
have to miss the initial per-
Torrance due to plans to att
tend the Montana State Press
convention being held at Red
Lodge next Saturday and Sun
day. We've always had par
ticular weakness for the type
of entertainment which is
scheduled for Hardin this Sum
day.
Now on display in the win
dow of the Montana Power
company in Hardin are num-
Der of items from France-Big
Horn county's share of the
French Freedom Train sent to
this country.
Among the items are a pair
of wooden shoes. a fashion
magazine, a French newspaper,
number of paintings and
dishes.
According to County Clerk
and Recorder Harry E. Cox,
the items were received some
time ago but were not display
ed until suitable frames could
be made for the pictures.
Speaking of window disnlavs
have you seen the life-like
representation of a singing
Spanish caballero with a sem
orita at his side riding in an
OK cart, at Bylands. There is
life-like motion in the whole
scene. excepting, of course, the
background. The walking oxen
never get tired because "they
are walking on air. so says
Mrs. Bylund.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-08-18
Officers Chosen ct
Hoosier Picnic

Guy T. Van Cleve was cho-
sen Hcosier president for the
coming year, at the annual
Hoosier picnic held last Sunday,
August IA, at the city park in
Hardin.
Other officers chosen ir1clud-
ed D. E. Egnew, ce-president,
and Mrs. L. C. Rennick, Crow
Agency, secretary treasurer.
The picnic was attended by
members from both Big Horn
and Yellowstone counties.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-08-18
CLUB HAS MEETING

The Hardin Helping Hands
H club met Thursday, August
II, at 8 p. m. at the home of
Jean Weigand.
Since there were only a few
members present, there was no
business meeting. A discussion
was held concerning a tea for
the mothers which was to be
held Tuesday, August 16, at the
home of Joan Barker.
The hostess served refresh
ments after the meeting.
Norma VanDamme, reporter
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-08-18

Our neighbor has figured out
how to NOW his lawn without
effort-he let's his wife do it.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1949-08-18

Wolf hunting was a favo-ite
pursuit of the ancient Britons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Rent Curbs Lifted
On Million Homes

Washington (LPA)-In slightly
more than five months, 100000
people across the country have beer
affected by the removal of virtual
ly all controls on rents for 1,475,-
900 dwellings in 384 areas.
That's the tally announced by
the Office of the Housing Expedi-
ter for the period running from
April to Sept. 2.
Here's how the units were decon-
trolled:
by action of Housing Exped-
tier Tighe Woods, 241 actions COW
ering Sal, 900 home units with a
population of 6,500,000. These ac-
tions were taken on grounds that
the demand for rental housing had
been met in these areas, and short
ages no longer exist.
ply action of city or town
councils, which under the 1949 fed
eral rent control law can vote to
lift rent curbs, 1877 actions covering
493,00O units with a population of
100000.
3-By action of state legisla-
lures, either lifting controls or
putting a state rent law into oper-
alton, four actions. In Texas, where
will be lifted Oct. 10, the
federal rent offices are already
closed up. In Wisconsin, there is
union-sponsored litigation to bar a
state law raising rents 15 to 30
percent. In Alabama, controls go
off May 10. In Nebraska, controls
go off at an indefinite date.
4-By action of area rent advis-
ory boards, only two actions, to-
gether covering $4,000 units and
population.
There are still, however, 13,00O,-
900 homes covered by the federal
rent law, battered though it is by
Congressional riders and by a
stingy appropriation for enforce
ment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Sen. Robert A. Tdft Cries
Labor Misrepresents Him

Cleveland (LPA)-~Facing fight
for his political life, Senator Rob-
ert A. Taft has dotted the mask Of
statesman and put on the mask of
the ward politician. In speech
before 1900 at a luncheon given by
the Smaller Business of America,
Inc.," Taft charged:
1-"Outsiders," meaning labor
officials who do not live in Ohio,
are coming in to "tell Ohio people
how they must vote;"
2-Organized labor is "misrep-
resenting" him "on every issue;"
3-Only "power-seeking labor
leaders" really oppose the Taft
Hartley act.
4-Organized Labor is raising
millions" to defeat him and all
others who voted for the Taft
Hartley act, and an undue pro-
portion" of those funds would be
spent in Ohio to defeat him. Labor
estimates $1,00O,000 will be spent
by the Taft forces.)
Defending, point by point, the
antilabor law he co-authored, he
aligned himself with the reaction
aries on domestic policy, as he had
snuggled up to the isolationists
and Communists a few days ago,
in his violent attack on the Allan
tic Pact.
He couldn't understand, Taft
said with straight face, how the
Taft-Hartley act could be called
"slave act" "when the unions have
gained a million members since it's
enactment and enjoy the best con-
tracts, welfare services and pen
sions they have ever had"
The TIL law, he added, had ere
stored equality between manage
ment and labor" He made a pre-
diction: Labor was sure to lose on
the issue.
Taft is making a To-day tour
to report to his constituents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Chicago Transit
Workers Win as
Million In Rises

Chicago QLNS). = Wage in
creases totaling about $4,500,000
during the current contract year
have been won by more than 22,-
900 transit workers in negotiations
with the Chicago Transit Author
ity.
Ralph Budd, OTA board chair
man announced the wage settle
ment at a press conference and
said he had negotiated it with
Joseph Kehoe and Dan Mcnamara,
officials of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street, Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Employees,
representing the transit workers.
The agreement provides a scent
an-hour increase retroactive to
June /, when the union contract
expired. Another scent an hour
will be added Dec. l and will be
effective to next June l.
Operators of one-man street
cars and bus operators have been
$1.55 an hour. Operators
of two-man cars have been getting
$1.45. Elevated motormen have
been getting S1.461 an hour, con-
ductors $1.416, guards $1.398, and
ticket agents $1.25 and $1.05.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
l0-Point Anglo-U. S. Pldn
Proposed BY Federation

New York (LPA)-In an effort
to guarantee success Of the dollar
crisis talks now being conducted in
Washington by representatives OF
Britain, Canada and the Us, the
American Federation Of Labor sub
mitted a 10-poiht program to the
'conferees calling for immediate
financial assistance to the British.
The program, made public by
Matthew Vol, chairman Of the
AFL's Free Trade Union Commit
tee, was based on the belief that a
British economic collapse would be
"a catastrophe of limitless mag
nitude for the entire freedom-lov-
ing world"
The AFL refused to blame the
British for the dollar crisis and
pointed to the great accomplish
ments of Britain's labor govern
ment. The Federation praised the
laborites' achievements in housing,
health and living standards.
In addition to asking that fin
ancial help be given Britain
through the international None
tary Fund, the AFL urged inte-
grafton Of the US and British de-
fense system, and the assumption
Of common responsibility for the
Far East. One way to aid Britain,
the AFL declared, was to turn over
to her all ECA orders for such raw
materials as rubber, tin, jute and
oil.
At the same time, the AFL said
that Britain should open up her
industries to private American in
vestment with the aim of modern
izing her industrial plants. The
AFL also asked for tightening of
Western Union in Europe and for
a general lifting Of world purchas-
ing power as enyisioned in Pres
ident Truman's Point Four propos-
al
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
FOR UNION SHOP SO TO l

New York (LPA)-Members of
United Brewery Workers have
voted 531O to 12S for union shop
in II breweries and beer distri-
buting plants, in an NLRB cleo
ton. Under the union shop clause
all employees in the II plants must
join the union within 80 days after
employment and must remain
members during the life of the
contract. The union conducted a
strike against the big brewers last
spring lasting so days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
ACTU To Attend
Rome Congress

New York (LPA) = American
trade unionists of the Catholic
faith will be represented at world
congress of Catholic trade union
lists, to be held in Rome early next
year in connection with the Holy
Year celebrations.
The decision to send delegates
was made at the semi-annual con-
ference of the Assn of Catholic
Trade Unionists here last weekend,
attended by delegates from chap
ters in Cleveland, Detroit, Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and st. Johns,
Newfoundland.
The Rome world congress will
be sponsored by ACLI, an associa-
ton of Italian Catholic trade
Delegates to the conference
voted to hold the next ACTU ses-
sion in Detroit April 29 and 80,
1850.
The conference closed as dele
gates attended the sixth annual
Labor Day mass at st. Patrick's
Cathedral, and heard Msgr. John
NJ. A. Fearns assert that "Those
who share ownership as stockhold-
ers may have obligations to be
heard and to vote where that is
possible. A like obligation may rest
on members of any organization
whose acts affect the community.
Personal ethics then become social
ethics"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Profanity" Not Firing Cause

Chicago (LPA)-Edna Ruggles
was fired by the Indianapolis
Glove Co., Marion, Ind, on charges
of excessive and loud profanity" ]"
Louis Plost, NLRB trial examiner
after a hearing, has recommended
that she be reinstated. Said Plost:
"The day when curse was de-
signed and intended to call down
the wrath of heaven upon any OBJ
ject, animate or inanimate, has
happily passed. Today the words
of imprecation, cursing and bias
phemy survive in our speech shorn
of their real meaning" Now the
matter is up to the NLRB.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

My time is your time provided
you are paying the bill.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Mrs. F.D.R. Hits Bias In North

Atlanta, (LPA)-As far as rae
ial discrimination goes, the North
is "quite as bad" as the South,
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt told a
press conference here. She is at
tending a conference of $50 church
women representing 13 states, on
"The Spiritual Approach to Social
Problems" She told reporters she
did not consider President Truman's
civil rights program an excuse for
race violence.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Bright Hopes OF
Peace In Steel
Send Stocks Up

Pittsburgh (LPA)-Steel stocks
rose as the prospect for a settle
ment of the long-drawn out dis
pute between United Steelworkers
and the industry grew a little
brighter this week.
President Truman's appeal to
the unions and the corporations to
postpone the threatened nation
wide strike until "at least Sept.
25" was accepted by Us Steel,
Bethlehem and Republic-the "big
three" of the industry. Smaller
companies, as is their custom, fell
in line rapidly.
"The national interest requires
that the United Steelworkers of
America and every employer in
volved," Truman wired the parties
in the dispute, "give the greatest
weight and the most earnest con-
sideration to the findings and re-
concentrations of the three mem
bers of the board as basis for a
prompt settlement of such dis
putes."
The board earlier had recon-
mended no general wage increase
at this time, but the equivalent of
10 cents an hour in a proposed pen
sion program to be negotiated as
part of the new contract when the
present one expires in April, 1850,
and in social insurance policies paid
for by the employer.
The unions original demands,
presented when the fact-fnders be-
gan hearings in midsummer, were
for 1212 cents in a general wage
6.27c an hour in insur-
ance against death or total and
permanent disability, benefit pay
ments during temporary disability
caused by sickness or accident oc-
curing off the job, and hospital
and surgical benefits. The union
also wanted an employer-fnanced
pension program providing S125 a
month for each worker retiring
voluntarily at age 65, and also a
pension of $3.50 per month for a
worker retired for permanent dis
ability after 10 years of service, to
De reduced TO 1925 a month at 65.
The companies had uniformly
.urned down the wage boost and
pension demands, and US Steel, the
giant of the industry, had offered
,nly a few cents in social insur-
lnce, up until the time negotia-
ions broke off and the fact-fnders
we're named by the President.
The ct-fnders, in their report,
linted several times that their ex-
of union and industry
igures indicated that steel prices
hould be cut to benefit the con-
umers, or else a wage boost would
'e justified.
Directly after denying the wage
now, the three men said:
However, with increased eff
iency and lowered costs resulting
rom the plant-modernization pro-
ram, and with no great decrease
n the demand for steel, there
hould be continued and higher
rofits.
"If these profits do not result in
enefit to the consumer in the
orm of lower prices, there would
e Justification for the union to
enew its demand for increase of
,age rates in order better to par
icipate in the industry's prosper
~"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Truman Calls For
Farmers, Workers
Fighting Alliance

Pittsburgh IPA)-A clear call
for farmer-worker alliance
against the forces of special pri-
vilege has been sounded by Pres
ident Truman, who set the issues
for the 1850 elections in two Labor
Day speeches reminiscent of his
transforming in the Presidential
campaign.
Before a crowd of 100000 here
at the Allegheny County Free Fair,
and then again before the Amvets
convention in Des Moines, the Pre-
sident insisted that "If we want n
healthy and prosperous economy,
there must be economic opportun-
ity not just for the fortunate few,
but for all of us-workers, busi-
.nessmen and farmers"
"The organized conspiracy of
the selfish interests" has ignored
the results Of the last elections,
and now is trying to pit farmers
against city workers, Truman as
serted here.
"Some people have been telling
farmers, out of one corner of their
mouths, that the labor unions are
bad for the farmers.
"Out Of the other corner Of their
mouths, these same people have
been telling industrial workers
that programs to benefit farmers
are bad for labor"
We still have a fight on our
hands, Truman said, because:
"Too many people who can af-
ford big insurance policies for
themselves are not concerned over
the need Of expanding social Sc
curity.
"Too many who are making
money out of the rents from slums
are not in favor of expanding pub
lie housing to provide decent shelf
er for low-income families.
"Too many with big incomes are
not interested in raising minimum
wages.
"Too many who can freely or
ganize themselves in business as
sociations or employers groups are
not anxious to protect the same
right to organize among industrial
workers."
He repeated earlier pledges to
repeal Hartley, and defended
the proposals which have been
called welfare state" plans. "We
don't care what they call it," Tru-
man insisted, adding that "pro-
grams like these make the people
more Observation-Disclosures of
the government and independent OF
big business and corporate power"
Later, in Des Moines, he stated
the two purposes of the Brannan
farm program, behind the mis-
and propaganda"
stirred up by its opponents.
The twin purposes of the Ad-
farm plan, rejected
by this session of Congress but
very dllfC do q Vain PaA6ii
sue in 1850, were described by
Truman as:
First, we need a farm-price
support system that will afford
farmers an opportunity to secure a
fair return on their production. -.
Second, price supports must be
so organized and administered that
they will give consumers the bene-
fit of our abundant farm produc-
ton. Our people want to buy more
milk and meat, more fruit and
and all the things that
20 into a better diet. We must have
A price support system that will
farmers to shift their
production to meet the demand for
more and better foods at reason
able prices"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Labor Govt Leader
Asks British-US
To Get Together

Washington (LPA)-Talking be
fore the biggest crowd that eveI
tried to pack the Natl Press Club;
weekly luncheon sessions, British
Chancellor of the Exchequer Stat
ford Cripps voiced an eloquent plea
for making relations between the
British and US trading areas oar
abiding source Of strength and sta
bility for the western democracies.'
The tall, gaunt British Labor
government leader, here for talks
on how to avert collapse of the
British economy, declared, any cut
ting down on Britain's buying OF
US goods a "retrograde STEP" in
terfering with British recovery
from the ravages of war, and con-
ditions "forced upon US by harsh
necessity"
One side of the picture, he said,
is record production, raising pro-
ductivity of British workers, ex-
ports nearer to balancing imports
than at any time between the
wars, re-equipment proceeding al
full pressure, and very consider
able part of the physical destruc-
ton of wartime now put right"
The cumulative effect of the
changes in the world economic
scene in the early months of this
year, including the recession in the
US, Cripps explained, have "wid-
ened alarmingly the gap between
dollar earnings and the dollar ex-
penditure" of the British area.
Asked how his government ex-
plains the apparent paradox be-
tween our rapid economic progress
at home and these increasing ex-
ternal difficulties" Cripps said the
answer does not lie in Britain's
economy.
1.-TWO world wars have thrown
the whole mechanism of intena-
tional exchange out of gear" and
"the so-called dollar crisis is not
just a British crisis and nothing
more" Cripps explained. 1t involves
an area having one-quarter of the
population, including all of
Western Europe, and if this areas
free trading were to end as result
of this crisis, there would be "an
immediate contraction of trade,
and a recession to restrictive and
bilateral financing and trading ex-
pedients."
Short of the dream of a world
where one currency is used,
Cripps said, "the only satisfactory
is to find some way by
which enough goods from the nom
iollar areas can be imported into
he dollar area to pay for the dol
ar goods which the non-dollar
want to buy"
No nation, the British leader in
sisted, can go back TO the old pre-
var pattern of trade" Instead, he
a solution initiated by
he US, Britain and Canada in the
interests of the "whole free demo-
ratio world"
One of the most fruitful emer-
sency steps to pull the British out
# their growing crisis has been
he work of the Anglo-American
Productivity Council, Cripps told
he newsmen. United Auto Workers
Education Director Victor Reuther
md President Lee Minton of the
ilass Workers-AFL are vice-presi- |
ents of the council, which has
ponsored visits to the US of "pro-
uctivity teams" to study Ameri-
an d,1ot ion tknoubouy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
State Rent Law
Tough On Tenants
Experience Shows

Madison, Wis. (LPA)-Is your
state Legislature or city council
playing around with the idea of
ending federal rent control? If so,
it's members might we'll take a
long, careful look at the rent con-
troll situation in Wisconsin.
Here, the state legislature osten-
sibly substituted state control for
federal regulations. But, actually,
there is no real rent control in Wis
consin cities today, and COP state
officials, including Gov. Oscar Rem
nebolm who has his eye on a seat
in the US Senate, are getting very
uneasy.
First of all, the state laws sub
stitution for the federal statute is
being questioned in the law courts
in Washington, d. c., where the
CIO has brought suit on behalf of
Mrs. Editch Shimek of Milwaukee,
whose rent was raised under the
state law.
The CIO argues that Congress
has improperly and unlawfully left
to state legislative bodies the pow
er to determine whether or not the
respective states shall be subject
to federal law"
However, whether or not this
suit is successful, the state law is
now in effect. And here are some
of the problems that have appear
ed:
There was absolutely no
provision for an administrative
set-up. Federal records were turn
ed over to county clerks, that's all.
AS a result newspapers, the now
defunct federal rent offices, county
clerks, city housing authorities,
and local officials are being delug-
ed with requests by tenants for in
formation. Milwaukee's M ayor
Frank Zeidler, in desperation, has
set up a Rent Advisory Board to
handle individual cases and give
interpretations of the law, but
these citizens are tiring under the
strain.
2-Lawyers starting to do al
land office business and the sher-
ifs deputies in urban areas are
kept busy serving rent increase
notices.
3.-Landlords under the state
law can offer two-year leases and
then make any rental arrangements
for which a tenant will stand. This
in effect has torpedoed the controi
system. A landlord, when an apart
ment becomes vacant, can simply
charge any rent he pleases by SIM
ultaneously demanding that the
tenant sign a two year lease. With
eviction provisions greatly "hDer-
alized," this section of the law is
causing problems.
4.-To get an increase now, leg
ally, a landlord must give lease
running to Dec. 81, 1850. Conse-
1uently, a great many landlords
are simply sitting tight, hoping to
reap the harvest when all controls
are lifted next June. II
5.-Under the law, tenants, II
hey are overcharged, can sue for
double the extorted amount, with a
minimum of $25. There is no re-
corded case as yet of tenant do
ng this, but since the amount is
relatively small few tenants will
resort to a lawyer particularly
With the very real threat of COM
olete decontrol in the offing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
ray Union wages unto you'll