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Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
OPEN FORUM

From Cecil Madsen. Bonner, Mont.
Why am |, a common laborer and
member OF a trades union. urging
you to vote for Ralph McGinnis. the
Republican candidate Tor Congress
| am getting just bit led up
with all this union propaganda he
ing given us that Mike Mansfield IS
labors friend, this same Mansfield.
who in 1910 voted to draft striking
railway w '-ers into the Army, to
work at Dr.. N OF bayonet in
peacetime c>, - we know he
won't do 1t a. I.
Let's take a /, ~. record
Let's compare the ~ dates
who are seeking our vo, vc
should do our own think.
what each candidate passes ..
campaign literature, listen to tn,
speeches, and then vote as we think
best.
We have been told that any can
didate who voted for repeal OF the
Taft Hartley Act is our friend -Ap-
parently that is the only qualiii-
cation on which we are supposed
to base our decision when we go to
the polls November 9TH Mansfield
voted against the Taft Hartley Act,
so that means we are supposed to
vote for him.
Let's mention few facts about
this TAFT Hartley Net, FACTS,
which our union officials have not
told us We have been told only
that Tart-I Hartley means slave
labor law which is destroying our
unions, and making us weaker day
by day Let me ask you, as individ-
nal workers. the following ques-
tions:
First, do YOU favor having your
union issue to you financial state
ment showing you where your dues
have been spent? OF course you do
SO do |. And only under the TAFT
Hartley act can we demand to know
where our money is going,
Second, do you favor closed
shop: 4 closed shop means that be-
fore you can begin working, you
must first be accepted b ythe union
bosses, pay your initiation fee, anc
only then can you start to work
Tait-Hartlcy forbids the closed shop
because the men who wrote the bill
thought that every worker shoult
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02

most effective instruments i0f INC
Improvement ot the economic con
dilions 81 wage Gamers and Tor
the strengthening 81 labor organ
cations Is no longer open to qucs
,ion. The effectiveness q those
weapon, Of trade union activity has
becn impressivcly demonstrated.
Our own organization can testify 70
il on the basis of lis own experience
IN the earlier years Of the hislo-
r. oi or international Enion the
Union l.abcl proved itself la those
wear, no manufacturer would be
interested in entering our ilcld un-
less he was first assured that hc
could do 50 under labor conditions
that would cniiile him . tbs use u
our Onion Label Because p this.
when the open lappcr launched
their first major assault against our
Union ii hat, sar and millinery in
dusirics. tliey goueen'rgal their at
tack on our Union .abel and used
Ii. as basis for the historic Don
Hurry IIatters' case.
Ii the Union Label could be that
helpful 70 labor in furthering its
objectiycs in the days when the la
Dor movement was much smaller
and weaker than il is today, and
y hen there were not nearly as many
millions oi workers to whom ",
could address our appeal Tor 90.
operation, il should be possible u
do infinitely better now. Ii the Isl
100000 members 81 organized labor
or even any major fraction oi them
could be made to see the powc
behind the use oi their patronag
diverted to products and service
designated BY our union insignia, NJ
force that any antl-union indus
ltrialist or merchant could bring {,
bear against Us would be stron
enough to prevail II that we're nc
in and OF itself sufficient to cunpe
an anti-union employer to meet tn
legitimate demands OF his employ
ees. il would surely be a vital facto
along with whatever else we migi
do. to make him listen to reason
= In the long run, it would
better Tor labor 10 depend on sue
measures that it can initiate ar
put into effect itself than to coun
as is sometimes done now on lcgi!
lation which is designed to he
labor in its organization work Sue
legislation is subject to the passir
and changing whims oil legislature
Continued on Page O
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
The
Assembly
Line
By Bill Dovy
For Labor Press Association

LABOR JOE SEE:
One thing this
country is suffering
from is too much 1c
tobacco in SC cigars.
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
Cascade County
Trades and
Labor Assembly
Meeting of October 81, 1850

ID eetluR VI OCtOuCA @fs AS~N
Meeting was called to order at
500 D. m. BY Vice President Leo
Stewart Roll call OF officers showed
President Steinmetz absent. Presi-
dent Steinmetz arrived late.
Fred Smith was appointed Vice
President pro tenn.
The minutes OF the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
Communications
From James ID. Graham. president
OF the Montana State Federation OF
Labor urging that we appoint
committee to campaign in favor OF
a Department OF Labor and Indus
try. A constitutional amendment Will
be on the ballot at the coming cleo
ton. On motion the legislative COM
mittee was instructed to vigorously
push the passage OF this amendment
From Emmett Murphy, co-chair-
man for the James for County At
torney club urging support OF led
James for county attorney Placed
on file.
From the Helena Typographical
Union No. 95, request to hold up
any action against Blue Shield-Blue
Cross pending unionizing OF their
Helena plant. Placed on file.
From the Cascade county legis-
lative committee advising that they
have sponsored three meetings re-
Gently in an attempt to explain the
issues facing us with the approach
ing legislative session in Helena.
The committee asks for financial
assistance. Placed on file.
From the Butchers requesting the
Assembly and its affiliatcs to spon-
sor the financing of council il
deemed necessary to help fight their
pending Unemployment Compensa-
ton case and asking that commit
tee be appointed. On motion request
was concurred on. B. l. Steinmetz,
John Peklewsky and Austin Thomp-
son appointed on committee to as
sist Butchers in Unemployment
Compensation case.
Officers and Committee Reports
John Peklewsky reported that local
unions do have power to discipline
their own members who violate cs-
tablished union principles such as
crossing picket lines.
Roll Call Il Reports of Delegates
E. B. Campbell reporting for the
Electrical Workers that the Mon
tana Power employees. are now ne
gotlating new contract.
John Dusak reporting for tbs
Butchers that if the general public
continues to respect the picket line.
as they have in the past they will BE-
successful in bringing their wae,
negotiations to successful ending
soon.
Announcements
All members Of organized labol
and their friends are urged to vot
for the constitutional amendment I;
the election on November 9TH, pro
viding for a separate Department 0
Labor and Industry
Members OF organized labo
should not cross picket lines.
Rent Control Ordinance will be II
for first reading on Monday. NOV
9th. Have your delegation present
Adjournment at 9.l0 p. m.
John Evanko, Jr, Secretar
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
COOP HEAD CHARGES MONOPOIiSTS
Use WAR TO CYP TAXPAYERS

Thomas W. Dog managing director
oi the Credit Union National asSori-
alton, told the league.
He said the 1880 credit union,
in existence saved their members at
least S5.OO0,000 last year IN interest
payments. Because ol their influence
in the whole consumer cash credit,
the credit unions probably were re-
sponsiblc ior a hall billion dollars
oi extra buying power during the
wear, he estimated
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
The LESSON OF The DEPRESSION

|gaye workers uniettered opportunity
for collective action through unions
OF thei rown choice.
Thus a whole new concept OF po-
liiical and economic philosophy was
begun Americans began TO embrace
broadened approach to the prob
lens oi mankind Government role
II our economy was established Re-
,ponsible employer e mployee rela-
tion,hips began 10 evolve through
true collective bargaining.
Under the New Deal-there was
never a more apt namc--we Arferi-
cans taxed ourselves to insure bank
deposits. to provide housing. to give
unemployment and old age benefits.
to support farm prices, to insure
crops and to succor faltering busi-
ncsses with RFC loans.
The list IS much longer than this.
but these are the basic things Ameri-
cans did through liberal laws to in
sure a better and more abundant
lie ior themselves.
| Take Social Security alone In the
fifteen years OF its existence It has
paid s. billion in benefits to the
unemployed up 10 last August IA.
Reflect what would have happened
to the nation without this economic
cushion .And remember. that the
last ten OF these fifteen years have
been near-boom or boom times.
Organized labor contributed heavi-
Is to this socio-economic evolution.
Indeed, organized labor has always
led the fight ior such reforms. But
these reforms, that have made US
prosperous nation, are now in dang
er OF being sabotaged ii not COM
pletely nullified. How is this'" you
ask Let us explain:
| In 1929 organized labor had
about SO million members. Most
unions were weak. They operated
in a hostile climate Private enter
prise held the view each man for
himself and the employed owed lit
tie, ii anything, to his employees.
} Thus, when the 1929 crash came, or
} ganized labor was. as we pointed out
: earlier. in no position to resist wage
cuts and wholesale layofis. Neither
did it have sufficient influence in
; government To get remedial reforms
enacted in time to preclude wide
| spread suffering.
| But in 1887 came the Wagner Ac,
organized labor's Emancipation
Proclamation. From 1887 to l941
organized labor operated in heal
! thy climate and union membership
scared until early in l9+8 new high
! OF l5.5 million was reached.
This was five iold increase iron
I the low point Of the depression
a three times as large as the peak re
Z corded in 1920 after World War
and it meant that one out Of ever
. six persons p years Of age or owe
/ was a union member In relation I
the total work force, the l55 millio
/ marked tagged one out OF every fou
worker, as belonging to labo
union
II With such strength, organize
{ labor was able 10 assume a leadin
II x in the enactment of New Dca
socio-economic reforms. Ii is II
. coincidence that the majority {
< these reforms were adopted in tn
Il decade from 1887 TO 1917. the era {
organized labor's greatest member
d ship growth Social progress wa
r, and Is corollary to a strong lahc
movement
= This brings us up 70 the presen
I. In lgl7 the now iamous iniamo,
5 TAFT Hartley Act was passed.
s checked the growth OF all but II
y most vigorous labor unions (tl
q Continued on Page O.
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02

The peaker ser is the stronger
aer because of the 1Uedkness OF tht
stronger sea- for the Uedker sea.
The Lincoln
The children were in the midst
Of a free-for-all. Richard, who
started this?" asked the father
as he came into the room.
"Well, it all started when Da-
viz. hit me back"
Martin Agronsky, ABC broadcast
"Why do you cry over the trou-
bles of people in whom you have
no interest, when you go to the
theater? the husband asked.
II don't know. Why do you
cheer wildly when a man with
whom YOU are not acquainted slides
into second base?" she replied.
PSYCHOLOGIST = A man who
matches everybody else ,ohem
good-looking girl enters the room.
The Spotlight
It's great pity that things
weren't SO arranged that an
empty head, like an empty
stomach, wouldn't let its owner
rest until he put something in
it."
--Olin Miller
What some Of the people IN thu
country need is more soap and lcs'
perfume.
--Eb Caters in tn
Mud Run-Oho- scorpion
Canvasser: "If you can spare
me five minutes, sir, can show
you how to earn twice the money
you are now getting"
Sad man: 81 do that now
Cali workma
EASY DOES 1T
Pastor, from the pulpit: IN
friends, we have made an homes
effort to raise sufficient mone'
but we have failed. Now tn
ladies are going to hold a bazaar
The Furro
Jane asked the noted lecturer o
manners to define "poise."
After thinking moment, th
lecturer explained, "Poise is tn
art of raising an eyebrow insteo
Of the roof"
Sing a sad son
IA For Am b r o S
~ ~ DOte
wv Too lazy - Il
N~( ~ tired
vIHV To register al
@--@ vote.
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
The Montana Labor News will
not be responsible for the views of
their correspondents.

be given so days in which to join
a union, thereby having chance 10
receive a pay check. and to see il
he likes the place OF work. Ii the
worker decides to stay, and ii the
company has a union-shop con-
tact with the union the worker
must JOIN in 30 days. Is this so un-
iair'
Third, are you against the use OF
injunctions You have heard your
union bosses tell You how unjust ths
power 7oi the injunction IS, and how
il is wrecking Your union Under
the Tait-llartley Aot, II the unior
decides to call a strike which will
imperil the public welfare, the gov
ernment may seek an injunction
rom a court, keeping the men OF
the job for 80 days. during which
the trouble should be Strengthened
out When that period is over tht
men are free te-stFiise Do you thinl
YOU would lose very much by stay.
ing on the job those 80 days, with Z
good chance oi avoiding a strike
Fourth, under the TAFT llartle,
Act. both parties. the company anc
the union, must live up to the con
tract If either one breaks the con.
tract, the other may sue. In other
words, before Tai, Hartley. onl,
the company was liable on the CON
tract, where today both sides arc
liable. Is this provision 50 very I'M
just:
Fifth, union officers must sigl
non-Communist affidasits before the
union can get help from the Nation
al Labor Relations BOARD. Under
this clause, Communists must adj
nit that they are or have been Com
munists, thus giving the workers :
chance to vote them out u office
Does this seem unreasonable (Mc
Ginns iavors having both union ant
company officers sign the aifi
davit.)
! shall not go into every part 0
the Taft-lIartlcy Act. because | an
enclosing a pamphlet which vii
give you working men a better ide
of what is really III this so-calc,
"slavc-labor" law. do not blam
the union big shots for hating thi
bill, because now they can't rule ov
er us with dctatorial hand. ",
as individuals, can now speak on
minds without fear OF being throw
out Of the union. because under tn
| TAFT tHartley Act we are protected
DO you think that |, as one of 20,
would dare write this open lette
to you, if it weren't for the Taft
Hartley law
Now let me tell you a little abou
Ralph McGinnie | have told YOU 4
some of the good provisions in tn
Taft-Hartley law. McGinnic favor
the Taft-Hartlcy Law in general, br
he is willing to work Tor change
and Improvements in the law.
| McGinnis is not afraid to tell 20
where he stands. in public. aNd 3
every issue. He Will support all mea
sures to investigate and expose III
American activities. lie Viii wor
for foreign policy which Mil r,
sist and fight Communist aperct
sion everywhere
During my World War i scrgi,
spent two years III the Europca
theatre. Because Of the hungling
handling foreign affairs. in whi,
Mansfield had part, may have
60 back again Haven't we h;
enough Its time for a change Lee
switch iron China Mike"
american Mac"
Your Fellow Worker
Cecil Aiadscn.
Ed. note This is in no way I
average worker, much less a tINIC
: man feels here i'll Butte rs
Missoula they should know Mix
. record the same as us.
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
TEACHERS ATTENTION!

Thru the fine cooperation and
assistance of Our good friend AL
Mcleod, Sheriff, We still have \
few maps of Korea left.
For your free maps please call
the Sheriff's office or the Labor
News.
Montana labor news., 1950-11-02
BUTTE BUILDING AND
CONSTRUCTION
TRADES COUNCIL

eve Do Not Patronize List)
LUCKY BUG SPORT SHOP
o17 Utah Ave.
SNYDER AUTO REPAIR
Corner of Cobban Ave. & Calf.
JOE TORPEY, PLASTERER
South of the City.
KENNETH PARMALEE -
947 W. Woolman, Parmalee
Plumbing Co.
P. ]. HANRATTY-Caledonia
and Jackson Streets.
HENRY GIROUX Arizona
and First Streets.
Builder.
JOHN MARKOvICH-Home
Builder. (Home Address 2l23
George Street.
Evening star., 1950-11-26
HOMEMAKER gifts
practical and so-appreciated
in daily use by her :. and by him

toned Revere Wore Set includes ench skillet with
and VI quart pons with covers stainless steel
utensI rack not illustrated 1895
Ill Ekco Flint stainless steel kitchen tools . Apiece
includes hamburger turner bostine spoon pototo
mosher and rack, 695
11J . Ekeo Flint 7-piece set .. eoke turner bostins
spoon, fork. lode, nosher spotuIo and rock 1925
llK Exec Flint BEST" egg beoer, fast, smooth with
bokete comfort-erip honde, 4.95
I'LL . . Ekeo Pressure cooker simple sofe gift Of
for meal makers 5quort SIZE with cook book 195
lin Ekco Flint Hodster the Of the house
3nch pairing knife to e-noh ham seer. Blades Ekco
Temp stonIess steel with touehenine vonodium With hard
wood hong-up holdster, 1925
lin Robson shur edge cutlery rookes hoidoy porr
work eosier. Vegetable knife, ZOO sicer 32S coNer
$50 French knife, 375
Ito Robson Shur- edge twopiece carving set gift
thot "toIks turkey to the man of the house, 1900
lip . Individual steak knives coNeI Hors finely
tempered set Of makes having steak double pleasure
ITO Hand wrought olumnun Lozy Susan, shining osset
to hospitality 3section glass insert cover rePeots the flower
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11R Covered casserole hand wrought aluminium, 500
lis Hand wrought aluminium breed troy, 3.25
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carving. Chrome plated, 2.95 Silver -ploted, 3.95
1lU Blossom Plastic covers for bowls ROSTERS obes
defy crockine peene rdew Bowl covers Of 70c;4,
85c; 125 Food bog 25o Rooster cover 25O Table CLOTH
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l1V A coke can be "Christnoos tree" with Mrro's
aluminium mold set, coke pans, ree-Ie noIds, $50
11W Miro aluminium eooky ond posty press with Y
quckchone potes for fancy cookies posty tubes for
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cookie sheets, &c. LOO and 125
11.X Dozey de luxe opener, chrome trim, 395
lily Dozey triple crusher with wo bracket speedy
Iobor-sovine. Ceor 795. Chrone plated. 995
liz swineA-Woy can opener out of the way when
"busy" Easy Cabinet model 1885, With moenet 895
11.AA Everybody in the fomIy weighs often keeps
heolthu eye Poundoqe with Borg bathroom scole
Big stand area easy toreod accurate bnoouo do 795
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The Arizona post., 1950-06-16

ley went to New York to visit her
children, her first visit in 312
years.
Little Gloria Davidson, daugh-
ter of Sadie Maltz, brought home
the kind of report card parents
are proud of-all grades excel
lent" and containing a tribute to
the child's leadership and crea-
tive abilities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Smith and
children flew east to spend a
month in New York and to attend
the wedding of Mrs. Smiths
brother, Melvin Sussman, student
at VA in 1945-46.
The Arizona post., 1950-06-16
Mrs. Lou Sanders, Duluth, got
(McVey Photocenter)

Mrs. Lou Sanders, Duluth, got
what she considers a specially nice
birthday gift last Sunday. They
have bought a home there. She is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Schapira.
New treasurer of the Postal
Clerks Federation Aux. is Mrs.
Joseph Wolf, E. Edison. She was
also appointed Ways and Means
chairman for the State organiza-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Silverberg and
family, S. Lundy, are on an ex-
tended trip thru Grand Canyon,
Yosemite and California.
The Arizona post., 1950-06-16
MIR. and Mrs. Michael Horwitz,

Mr.. and Mrs. Michael HOrwitz,
N. Norton, are spending two
months with their children in
Chicago. They'll see a "brand
new" granddaughter and visit
with Mrs. Horwitz's mother
SydeIle GIaZer returned from
Northwestern Dental School
where she is studying oral hy-
giene, to spend the summer with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
G1aZer.
The VIM. Mas family will go to
Chicago early in July to vacation
for three weeks.
Last Saturday Mrs. Nathan Fin
Laurel outlook., 1950-01-11
Club Here Plans To
Observe Anniversary
Of Kiwanis Founding.

Kiwanis international will OBJ
serve the thirty-fifth anniversary
OF its founding during the week Of
Jan. Is to 81. Established Jan. q,
1915, in Detroit, Mich, the service
organization has since grown from
a single unit to a network of more
than 5000 clubs and 100000 men,
bers in the United States, Canada,
Alaska, Hawaii and the Yukon
Territory.
H. Lee Hamlet, president of the
Laurel Kiwanis club, said this
week that local plans for the OBJ
servance of anniversary week
would be announced oon He said
he had received a significant re-
port covering International's ac-
complishments during the past
year.
Nearly $18 million was raised by
Kiwanis clubs to support the COM
munity fund and polio, heart and
cancer campaigns in 1949: At the
same time the members were pur-
chasing government savings bonds
valued at more than $14 million.
They also provided recreational op-
portunities for 1,650,000 young
people and gave vocational guild
ance to 265 900 others.
The report revealed that 1000
Kiwanians held public office in
1949 and that $4,000 served on
school, hospital and other public
affairs boards. To strengthen the
American and Canadian systems
of government, Kiwanis Interna-
tional issued 16 million patriotic
pamphlets last year and won a
gold medal and an award of $1,000
from Freedoms Foundation, Inc.
Plans for the Laurel clubs par
t%icipation in the Kiwanis anniver-
sary week are under the direction
of the committee on education and
fellowship of which Allie M. Dol
e is chairman.
Laurel outlook., 1950-01-11
B|LEK OF SCOUTS
VISITS LOCAL OENS

Ed Bilek of Livingston, field
executive of the Boy Scout asso-
citation, met with den mothers and
the scoutmaster, Lowell Bulls,
Friday night at the home of Mrs.
Harold VanNice. Members of the
pack committee were also present.
The pack committee represents the
Methodist Men, which is the spon-
soring organization of the Cub
Scouts.
Plans for the coming meetings
of the dens were made Friday eve
ming and it was decided to hold
regular pack meetings once a
month. PACK meetings will be for
Cub Scouts, their den mothers and
their parents. They will be at the
Methodist church on a night yet
to be announced.
There will be a series of ~instruc-
ton classes for den mothers and
all others interested in Cub Scout
work at the Billings Commercial
club Thursday and Friday eve
nings the next three weeks. The
sessions are scheduled for 1880.
Laurel outlook., 1950-01-11
POPP FUNERAL IS
SETF0R THURSDAY
Former Resident Succumbs
To Age At Hospital
Relatives Live Here

Funeral services for Phillip Popp
will be conducted Thursday at 2
p. m. at St. Paul's Lutheran church
in Billings of which the deceased
was a member, by Rev. A. c.
Kroehler of Hardin. Burial will
be in a Billings cemetery, Mount
view.
Mr.. Popp, II, of 1O8 South thir-
ty-third street, Billings, died in a
hospital Sunday of irfirmities of
age. He was born in Kautz, Rus
STA, Aug. 2, 1872, and married
Kathryn Elizabeth Strauch in 1897.
They came to the United States in
1905 and settled near Lincoln, Neb.
In 1907 they moved to Park City,
to Hysham in 1913, to Worden in
1919 and to Laurel in 1929. Dur
ing that time Mrs. Popp died. In
1926 he married Mrs. Amalia
Damn and they moved to Billings
in 1888.
Survivors are the widow; three
SONS, t1eIry Ol iOo DOuLil 1WeilIy-
sixth street, Billings, John of 817
South Twenty-seventh street, Bill
lings, and Phillip of Custer; four
daughters, Mrs. William Popp of
730 North Twenty-second street,
Billings, Mrs. William Dienes
of route 2, Billings, Mrs. Solomon
Dienes of route 2, Billings, and
Mrs. George Ruff of Laurel.
There are three stepsons, George
and Henry Maier of route 2, Bill
lings, and Jacob Maier of Rainier,
Alberta, Canada; Five stepdaugh-
tiers, Mrs. George Weis of route 1,
Billings, Mrs. Henry Steinmetz of
route 2, Billings, and Mrs. George
Harper of Laurel; Mrs. Coney
Lofing of Joliet and Mrs. Alec
Weis of Leader, Saskatchewan,
Canada; "a grandchildren and
three great7grandchildren.