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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20

clerks. sugar beet factory workers
Christmas tree cutters, etc.
AS an example, a Christmas tree
worker is usually laid off about
December 15; and temporary clerks
are usually laid off day OF
two after Christmas" Root points
out. "These claimants are not inn.
mediately eligible to draw benefits
regardless of what some people say,
because the quarter October, No
vember and December is not COM
pleted until January 1 the following
year.
SIT then becomes the fifth COM
pleted calendar quarter and is still
not a part of the base period and
the claimant CAN NOT draw benefits
earned solely in this quarter until
it becomes the fourth completed
quarter" I'm order for such claim
ant to draw benefits as of January 1
Immediately following his or her
lay-off, it is necessary that they have
at least minimum compensate earn
ings in the quarter July, August and
September.)
ga claimant can draw benefits
under present law" Root continues,
Starting April the following year
as the previous quarter of October,
November and December then be-
the fourth quarter provided
he meets the requirements of the law
which says in part: he is able to
work and is available for work and
is seeking work.
Boiled down into the simplest
of terms, UCC Comm. Roots state
ment means that all this talk of
people being able to Immediately
draw jobless comp. after a very
limited period of employment is
sheer, unadulterated malarky, and
if any are, then lax administration
of the act is at fault!
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
Attention

For a dollars and cents break
down on how unemployment comp.
payments have helped to shore up
the purchasing power of the SIS
counties the last 10 years-a Pc
riod of recurring recessions-turn
TO page 6.-EDITOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
REFUTES "QUICKIE"
COMP. CLAIM
naxinuns,

All Root. member of the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Commission. put
straight number of misleading as
sertions by employers relative to de-
termining benefit eligibility, waiting
period, etc.
Root said that for all practical pur-
poses an unemployed man has a
waiting period" even though it isn't
in the law. "a claimant" he said,
has to wait week before he can
sign for a compensate week; it is
usually another week or sometimes
two or three. weeks before he re-
ceives his first check"
AS for the oft-repeated assertion
that some seasonal workers work
only long enough to draw compensa-
ton, Root said it simply is not so.
These workers include holiday store
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
rts, without record votes, Satur-
ports,
day.
LIKE A RESERVOIR

James S. TIMBER, who chaired Ia
boris presentation, likened the NC
fund to a farmers reservoir, saying
that the fund is supposed to be filled
when employment is high, so that,
like an irrigation reservoir, it can be
used when (economic) drought arises.
The AFL-CIO leader, in opposing
HB 27, stressed the highly seasonal
characteristics of the Montana econ
omy, and pointed out that the real
reason the NC fund is in trouble is
because of a sharply declining ma
tional economy which hits particular
ly hard such major Montana indus
tries as mining, smelling and lumber
ing. He quoted from the Wall Street
JOURNAL on a recent economic
study which stated that 1--WE are head
ing into terrific depression which
may dwarf the one of the early thir-
ties" That study also pointed out
that unemployment compensation is
''the most important" weapon we
have to stem the growing recession.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20


worker presently draws compensa
ton 1876 weeks).
To qualify for 13-week minimum
minimum of $685. in high quarte1
earnings as compared with presen
minimum of $40 is required, plu'
one half of that 1885 minimum il
another quarter, or $427.50.
Makes it necessary that in addi
ton to having one and one-half times
his high quarter earnings, he must
earn at least 500 in three quarters
of the year to receive more than IL
weeks but not to exceed 20 weeks
compensation. If 500 or more earn
ings are added in fourth quarter,
then he'd be eligible for up to "a
weeks.
In the variable duration" formula
lies the major objection to HB 27
by heavy construction workers. The
extreme seasonality of Montana en-
ployment in such work precludes the
possibility of the overwhelming ma
jority of these skilled workers ever
receiving the maximum number of
weeks comp. Under the present act
they can draw up to % weeks-or
just about the average length of
"shut down" time on outdoor con-
struction projects during the winter
NOTE: The Eisenhower Admins
Lration asked all states to adopt uni
form Montana COP is out
Of stepD
Re-establishes the one week
waiting period" to Encourage job
ess to seek other employment before
applying for compensation. This has
The effect of depriving an unem-
)loyed worker of one week of COM
in most communities of
he state because when winter closes
n there just aren't any other jobs
or him to seek.
o Lowers the minimum the UC
und may drop to from $28 to $22
nillion before flat 2.7 per cent en-
loyer tax on first $4,000 of work
RS wages goes into effect. (The
und stood at 1888 million, Deem
er 81, 1860 Also, increases state
vide average employer premium
rom the IL put in act in 1853 to
IS per cent.
9 losses "sop" to the few work
RS who might qualify for maximum
Of &c I1xy 4
roviding increase from % to "a
eeks and maximum benefits from
resent $32 to $34. HB 27 also pro- I
des minimum weekly benefit of
Is instead of present $40. This {
lange will automatically cut off
wer paid workers from any chance ,
II benefits whatsoever, even though
eir employers have paid premiums .
to the fund on their wages. .
oUNTER PROPOSALS Il
Four counter proposals have also
zen introduced. These are designed d
improve Montana's present act to
eet the minimum standards pro-
'sed by the u. S. Department Of v
Lbor under the Eisenhower Admin l
ration. II
SB 10 by Reardon and HB 101 by K
eden, are companion measures. c
icy would increase the maximum
ekly benefit to half of the average m
ekly wage, not exceeding $45 a st
elk. Benefit duration would be ex- sc
lded from a maximum of % to 26 tie
eks. on
SB 40 by Newman and HB 100 by
eden ct al, would return the aver pt
, employer contribution to the 'y
ell existing before 1953-or 1.8 in
cent as contrasted with present 'tt
These bills would also increase sis
minimum contribution from s. us
cent to the 10 per cent written tw
, the act in 1947. A third revision ce
lid increase the 1911 imposed
300 maximum on which premiums =,
paid to $4,000 maximum wages 'ii'
ject to compensation premium. on
HB 100 and 101 were killed by ITO
ption of adverse committee re- Tn
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
Job|ess Compensation Must Be Improved, Not Cut Back

ministration of the act or the fault
of the prosecuting County, at
torney :"
WHERE ARE THE "CHISELERS"?
Robert Harris. Kalispell, executive
secretary of the Montana State Coun-
Gil of Carpenters, took exception to
''the propaganda barrage we've been
subjected to by some newspapers,
particularly the MONTANA CITI-
ZEN,'' house organ of the Montana
Chamber of Commerce.
Harris said he didn't know of a
single carpenter who prefers to ac-
cept $32 week when, if job is
available he can earn $135 for 40
hours labor.
working men and women in Mon
tana are not chiselers and racketeers
as some would have you believe"
Harris continued.
eff employers need us for job,
we're first class citizens. But, if
compensation we're a bunch of
racketeers and deadbeatsT
Taking note of assertions by man.
agement spokesman of people "who
won't work when they do have
chance -, Harris said he, had
checked scores of rumors and had
found only one instance of chiseling.
Where are the specific examples of
on this law" he asked in
up the amount of "hearsay"
lie had run down in recent months
md found no truth in. Labor, he said.
S most anxious that any "chiselers"
re exposed because labor believes
irmly in the need for a sound pro-
ram, and 1--WE want to check any
oopholes.'
Concluding, he admonished the
legislators "let's not be too hasty in
utting the cushion that maintains
many of our communities during the
everal slack months of each year"
lot CRIMINALS"
Taking exception to labor spokes-
len's statements that employers
,ok upon the jobless as "crimi-
als'', Chad Smith of the commission,
nd representing Montana Wood
roducts Association, denied that en-
lovers feel that way toward work
lg men and women. He also con-
ended HB 27 would cut about 20
er cent rather than so per cent of
lie unemployed off from eligibility.
NTH believes HB 81 is a "fair and
orkable''.
Smith also defended the admins
alton of UCC under his recent chair
anship against differences that it
as Eat fault for letting "chiselers"
'aw benefits not properly due them.
every example of "chiseling"-if
tual-could have been eliminated
lder provisions of existing law by
nith)
Other spokesman for employers in
lded:
Lloyd Helmer, Poison, who intro
ced various proponents of HB 27;
Rep. James Haughey (R-Yellow-
mel principal sponsor of the bill,
10 said HB 27 represents San hon
effort to put the fund on a sound
sis and protect the genuinely un-
ployed -
AL Libra, Helena Employers coun-
, who analysed the changes HB 27
uld make in the act, and,
Ed Kellner, manager Montana
amber of Commerce. Kellner said
II doesn't go as 'far as we think
ought to-, and pointed specifically
the failure of the bills sponsors
put a "two week waiting period"
the measure. Kellner also made
Oh of the "freeloaders" who al
eddy take advantage of the act,
he did not offer any specific ex-
pies.
'ERIUS PRESIDED
zen. George Siderius (D-Flathead)
sided over the joint Senate-House
ring ON the five UCC revision pro-
ais.
rior to proponents and opponents
,lrrx1
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
By The EDITOR

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in edrasic
as propose
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
lib 27, A BLOW TO HEAVY
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Joe Crosswhite, Kalispell, vice pres
ident of Montana State AFL-CIO and
business representative of Operating
Engineers Local 371, cautioned that
passage of HB 27 with it's four quart
err earnings requirement in order to
draw maximum benefits would bring
about serious outflow of skilled
construction workers" from Mon
tana Contractors seeking to main
tain an experienced work force would
be badly hurt, since heavy construc-
ton workers such as he represents,
twill go elsewhere where more en-
ployment opportunities exist year
around" or there are more realistic
unemployment. compensation pro-
grams.
Crosswhite also called attention to
the fact that many of the states mer-
chants were currently paying out
20 per cent of their gross on trading
but They're not getting
their backs broke on that tax,
even though they claim the 2.7 UCI
premium tax is running them"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
AN INSURANCE PROGRAM

Ernest Saivas, Butte, board men,
berof Mine-Mill, emphasized that un-
employment compensation is an in
surance program, just the same as we
have insurance against fire, liability,
illness, death, etc. The 1853 amend
ments which, while providing a bo-
nanza for employers, made it impos-
sible for the reservoir to remain
full except in times of full employ
ment, and thus weakened the sound
insurance principles on which the act
was originally based, he said.
Salvas also presented information
showing that over the past decade,
NC payments to the jobless have aver
aged better than SIS million a year
and had provided base of purchas-
ing power which was of utmost i'm
portance to main street businessmen
during the winter months.
Indicating the gradually worsen-
ing economic climate of Montana,
the Mine-Mill official noted that in
l947 only two per cent of the COW
cred work force drew compensation.
IN 1858, however, the percentage
vas TO.
He also pointed out that Montana's
lct is already low on the totem pole
IS compared with the rest of the
lation. Nationwide, average maxi
mum benefits paid to workers
mounts to $945. In Montana the top
otal is $704. Only Alabama and
1irginia have shorter number of
yeeks benefits can be paid. And, only
states have smaller weekly benefit
laximums
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
$4,000 JOBLEss MoNTANANs


Barclay Craighead, who served as
chairman of UCC for IL years, out
lined the original purpose of the act.
He said ''it was designed to pay out
in periods of recession or depression
large sums of money TO aid unem-
ployed workers, and in good times,
to build reserves for the bad peri
DDS :"
Craighead said that there are fully
$4,000 Montanans unemployed today,
and that by and large this massive
joblessness is directly due to the
worsening national economy. He
noted that last week automobile pro-
duction was only 81 to 40 per cent
of the volume of the same week
year ago; that steel is only operating
at 35 to 40 per cent; and that all
other basic industries are far below
AS for the S minimum premium
legislated in 1853, Craighead said
81 don't think my company (the
Z-Bar network) should have ever
drawn a tax of one-half of one per
cent in view of the seasonaIity of
employment in Montana. 1t should
MT have ever been less than one
per cent.
AS for SCARE headline in
Helena INDEPENDENT
RECORD: Fraud and Free Riders
Are Depicting UCC Fund, Craighead
minated that the editor just plain
idn't know what he was talking
bout. He said that if there has been
raud it sis either a fault of the ad-
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-01-20
SIDERIUS PRESIDED


Sen. George Siderius (D-Flathead)
presided over the joint Senate House
hearing ON the five UCC revision pro-
posals.
Prior to proponents and opponents
speaking, Siderius gave UCC Chair
man Donald o. MACPHERSON 10 min
utes in which to recap financial sta
tistics bearing on the fund and the
effect HB 27 would have. MacPher-
son estimated that even with the cut
backs proposed in HB 27, the reserve
fund would drop another million to
approximately $24.6 million by June
80. After that the fund would show
a gradual gain of about $830,O0O a
year.
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Blue Ridge Work
Turqet Date Set

WATERPROOF KNOB, N. c.,
Aug. 18 (AP).-Secretary of the
Interior Udall today expressed
hope that the 469-mile Blue
Ridge Parkway can be COM
pleted by 1866 or soon after.
Mr.. Udall took part in cere-
monies here commemorating
the 25th anniversary year the
parkway has been under the
National Park Service, an
agency of his department.
The Secretary said about $40
million is now being spent on
work under way on the park
way, most Of it between Water
rock Knob and Asheville.
The Secretary noted that just
a few days ago President
Kennedy signed legislation pro-
viding for a survey Of a route
to extend the parkway from
Beech Gap into Georgia. Now
the parkway runs from the
Shenandoah National Park in
Virginia to the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park in
North Carolina and Tennessee
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Berlin Reds Seem
To Aim Poorly

BERLIN, Aug. 1s lAP). =
When the Communist Peoples
Police" shoot at their country
men making the dash across the
new Iron Curtain into West
Berlin, they don't aim very
we'll.
An East German refugee cou-
pie raced their car through the
border in the northern part Of
Berlin last night.
Communist guards fired II
shots, according to West Ber-
lin police.
When the car was inspected,
police were amazed to find not
a single hit.
Was it bad shooting? West
German authorities feel it
might have been Intentional.
Evening star., 1961-08-18

Baltimore. DR.. Ernest E. Just,
former chairman Of Howard's
zoology department, died in
1941.
|. 4O-Year Members HOnOred
Also honored at the banquet
were more than 100 men who
have been members for 40 or
more years. Among this group
were DR.. James M. Nabrit,
president. of Howard Univer-
sity, and DR.. Benjamin E. Mays,
president of Morehouse College,
Atlanta, Ga:
Richard E. Carey of New
York City, representing the
40-year members, said they
were donating $3.50 to be used
in establishing a shrine honor
ing the founders. The shrine
is expected to be built in Wash
tngton.
Jacobs Made President
Earlier, Cary D. Jacobs, a
lawyer from Indianapolis, Ind,
was elected national president,
to succeed I. Gregory Newton,
a professor of political science
at North Carolina College,
Durham, N. c., who served
three terms.
Other officers elected to one
year terms were George z.
Meares, a probation officer for
Kings County, N. Y, first vice
president; Robert H. Tucker,
a Freedom Rider" from New
Orleans, La, who attends Clark
College in Atlanta, Ga, second
vice president, and j. B. Blay-
ton, professor of business ad-
ministration at Atlanta Uni
versity, treasurer.
Continuing as national ex-
ecutive secretary is H. Carl
Moultrie, a lawyer. who lives
at 3915 Seventeenth street NE.
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Walker Denies
Giving Troops
Birch Views
CLEVELAND, Aug. 1s (APj.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 18 (APJ
The former commanding gen.
eral Of an American division in
Europe said last night he ex-
posed his troops to American
ism rather than the ultra-con-
servative John Birch Society
views.
Mai Gen. Edwin A. Walker
again denied he ever described
former President Truman,
former Secretary of State Dean
Acheson and Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt as definitely pink
He also disclosed he is now
assistant deputy for operations
at the United States Army
headquarters in Heidelberg,
Germany. Previously the Army
had announced he would take
command of the Sth Corps in
Austin, Tex, starting in August.
He said those orders were can
celed.
Gen. Walker made the re-
marks in an interview. He flew
here from his post in Germany
to attend a reunion of his
World War II commando unit,
the 1st Special Service Force.
Mrs. Charlotte T.. Walker, his
mother, accompanied him.
Several Congress members in
April demanded an investiga-
ton after a privately owned
servicemen's newspaper, Over
seas Weekly, charged that an
international program set up
by Gen. Walker was distribut-
ing material about the philoso-
ply Of the John Birch Society.
The 81 year old bachelor
general, who commanded the
troops at Little Rock, Ark.
during the 1857 integration
disorders, was shifted immedi-
ately to Heidelberg by the
Army pending the outcome Of
an inquiry. He aid-the inves-
tigation cleared his program.
, Gen. Walker said his pro-
gram was intended to keep the
troops "pSychologiCally pre-
pared for their duties" It was
not a defensive program, he
Evening star., 1961-08-18


Those participating included
Cows. Bert T. Combs Of Ken
lucky, Buford Ellington of Ten
nessee, j. Millard Tawes Of
Maryland, Terry Sanford of
North Carolina and Ernest
Hollings of South Carolina.
Gov. Combs said, the right of
the public to know how its
business is conducted is indis-
putable. He said the public Of
fieial who disputes that right
and who would conduct public
business in secrecy damns him
self and eventually suffers the
consequences of his foolish
conduct.
Gov. Combs said the govern
ment in Kentucky eoncurs in
Voltaire's observation, "Give
light and the people will find
their own way Accordingly,
he said. the State has a firm
policy OF open access to the
news Of government.
Gov. Tawes said the exist
ence. of a free press is the
Nations first security against
forces which would deprive
us of our liberties" He said
he was the first Governor of
Maryland to hold regularly
scheduled press conferences.
Some experienced news
papermen, he added, feared
the conferences would hamper
their freedom to move into and
out Of his office at will.
"They liked the idea of
picking up a telephone and
hearing the voice of the Cover
nor at the other end of the
line" he said. Gov. Tawes
said he liked the informality,
too, and held unscheduled con-
ferences as the occasion arose
in addition to the scheduled
ones. ~ ! y
Gov. Ellington said one of the
rules he had lived by since he
had been in public life was to
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Car Crash FutuI
To oCuIpeper Man

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. l8
(SpeciaD. = A man critically
hurt in an auto accident on
State Route Z, east of Broad
Run Bridge last Saturday, died
in Loudoun County Memorial
Hospital here yesterday.
He was Daulton B. RoSson,
80, of Culpeper. Va, who suf-
fered head injuries after being
thrown from a car which
plunged out of control down a
30-foot embankment.
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Russion Atheism Seen
Alternating Africans

African countries are leaning
toward the West because many
Of their leaders believe the
Communist system, which
denies the existence Of God
and the dignity Of the individ-
ual, is wrong for Africa"
This opinion was expressed
by Attorney General Robert F
Kennedy yesterday in a speech
at the Golden Anniversary
banquet of Omega Psi Phi,
which is marking so years as q
national college fraternity at a
convention in the Sheraton
Park Hotel.
The banquet honored the
fraternity's four founders
three of whom were present to
hear the Attorney Generals re-
marks, and two members of
the fraternity who are mem
bers Of the Kennedy admins
tration, Robert c. Weaver,
head of the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, and George L.
p. Weaver, Assistant Secretary
of Labor.
LOCO at BANQUET
Mr.. Kennedy, who recently
returned from a trip to Africa,
brought greetings from the
President to more than 1000
Omegas and their wives at
tending the banquet.
Mr.. Kennedy also expressed
pleasure that two members of
his brothers administration
were being honored by the fra
ternity. Robert c. Weaver was
named Outstanding citizen of
the year" and George L. P.
Weaver was designated the
years Outstanding Omega"
The three living founders
who spoke briefly are DR..
Frank Cole IAN, professor
emeritus of physics at Howard
University, where the frater-
nifty began; DR.. Oscar j. Cooper,
a physician from Philadelphia,
and Bishop Edgar A. Love Of
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Moose to Meet

SALISBURY, Md, Aug. 18
(AP) Members of the Mary
land, Delaware and the Dis
trict Of Columbia Moose Asso-
citation will hold their annual
convention at the Wicomico
Hotel here August 1928.
Evening star., 1961-08-18

be constantly available to the
press.
FOR that reason, If a re-
porter calls and I can't talk
to him Immediately. I try to
return his call as quickly as
possible" tf q.
Evening star., 1961-08-18
Public Entitled oNeWs,
Governors Tell Editors.

Governors Of five Middle Atlantic States last night told of their
methods in disseminating public information to the press and
other media meeting Associated managing editors
in the region.
Their methods varied but they in accord that the
fullest possible information should be distributed all aspects
Evening star., 1961-08-18

said, but one to train them in
Americanism, citizenship re-
sponsibilities and the Christian
faith. He denied 1t was con-
nected with the Birch Society.
Evening star., 1961-08-18

Baltimore. DR.. Ernest E. Just
former chairman Of Howard's s
zoology department, died in
1941.
Evening star., 1961-08-18
ALL

PROOF POSITIVE that HILL SANDERS WASHINGTON AREAS OLD
EST FORD DEALERS FINE REPUTATION or YEARS OF FAIR HON
EST DEALINGS is PAYING OFF