Montana Labor News (Butte, Mont.), 1939-09-28
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Thursday, September 28, 1939 THE MONTANA LABOR NEWS Page 3 GLIMPSE INTO TALKS Freebourn Answers Maritime Union Asks MOST (AMPS NOW Fascination ON NEW AGREEMENT Query on Unemploy Help Against Unfair HAVE THE 8-HOUR The following is a glimpse into ( - ment Compensation Gasoline Companies COLLAR TO COLLAR the discussions on the demand. The Skill Ball word for word transcript of the The Silver Bow Trades and Labor discussions on miners', engineers’ STATE OF MONTANA Butte miners have had the present Department of Council has been requested by the 8-hour day since 1903 and in 36 and smcltcrmen’s demands is esti National Maritime Union to assist in mated at about 250 letter sized ATTORNEY GENERAL years it has not been shortened one making effective a boycott against minute. As it works out in practice, pages. As you will see, the offi Mr. Ed. Mason, President, the products of the Standard Oil of course, it is nearer to a 9-hour cials of the Anaconda Copper Butte Miners Union, Company and its affiliates. The let day. One of the principal demands Mining Company can listen, but it Dear Ed: 26 N. Main St. ter came from New York and is as of the miners in the present negotia is doubtful that they can hear. Pursuant to your request over the phone of this date, I am enclosing follows: tions is for an 8-hour day, collar to ■8 WM. MASON: We are asking for NATIONAL MARITIME UNION a half hour cut in the present work opinion rendered to the Mill and collar. This has come to be the : ; <0 OF AMERICA standard working day in nearly day. Instead of being underground Smeltermen’s Union of Anaconda, on New York, N. Y. every mining camp in the West ex DUTCH GIRL eight and one-half hours each in August 11th, 1939, covering the same Dear Sirs and Brothers: cept Butte. The opposition of the dividual would be up at the collar question about which you now re BAKERY quest opinion, viz, as to whether or We are writing to acquaint you of the shaft exactly eight hours after company to this proposal is difficult Bread Made With Milk not men on strike are entitled to with our struggle against the power to understand. he stepped on the cage to go down. the benefits of the Unemployment ful anti-union oil companies, and to On what grounds does the com 605 UTAH PHONE 5823 MR. KELLY: Eight hours from the . I Compensation Act, ask for financial and moral support pany object to the 8-hour collar to time the first cage is sent down the KÎ j As requested I am mailing this in our campaign on the boycott collar day? Why, they say, the COFFEE shaft to the time the first cage Members of Labor Unions for- k.' Special Delivery and trust it reaches against the companies’ products and miner would not be able to complete arrives at surface? tunate in being able to purchase you in time for your purpose. by-products. the usual cycle of work in less time Coffee that has been roasted and R. C. BROWN: Yes. And on the “Red” Barber (at left) and Bob Elson, noted Mutual network sports delivered by well-paid, union labor. With kindest personal regards, After studying the vicious Wnion- than at present. They may have in night shift the first cage would leave commentators who will handle one of the most coveted assignments ENJOY Very truly yours, busting tactics of Standard Oil, the mind the round-in-round out drifts. surface at six o’clock and the first in radio—the play-by-play descriptions of this year’s World Series PRICE’S AaA No. 1 BRAND HARRISON J. FREEBOURN, membership of the National Mari The average miner, however, knows HIGH GRADE COFFEE one would arrive at surface at two games which are to be heard exclusively over KGIR. Blend No. 199 F. B. PRICE By Clarence Hanley, time Union voted to institute a na that he could and would do the same o’clock. Special Assistant. tionwide boycott against the unfair amount of work in an 8-hour collar MR. DALY; In other words the 10:00 Martha West. 10:05 Jerry’s Outlaws. (COPY) companies’ goods. The companies to collar day as he does now. He TRY OÜK 45c and 75c Dinners men eat on company time? 10:15 Savemore Market. All the Coffee You Wish 10:30 National Farm and Home Hour. Mill and Smeltermen’s Union, are: Standard Oil Company and would be glad to do it and spend WM. MASON: That’s right. :15 Radio Engineering and Service. II Mr. John Emmons, affiliates, Tidewater Associated Oil one-half hour less underground. CHEQUAMEGON MR. LINFORTH; Over a half hour KGIR PROGRAM 11:30 Manhattan Melodies. 12:00 Adventures in Reading. Anaconda, Montana. Company and the C. D. Mallory The negotiating committee argued CAFE of the time from work. 12:30 Texaco News. Shipping Company. 27 North Main St. SCHEDULE 12:45 Lost Empire. Gentlemen: and it can be proved that the 8-hour R. C. BROWN: As I said before its 1:00 Mary Marlin for Ivory Soap. You have submitted to this office The National Boycott Committee collar to collar would not cost the really no impossibility. We really FOR WEEK OF 1:15 Ma Perkins for Oxydol. SEPTEMBER 28 TO OCTOBER 5 1:30 Oechsli’s Organ Treasures. the question as to whether or not thus established, has as its main ob company a dime. The real reason believe you could very well afford 1:45 Between the Book Ends, Moving, Packing, Shipping, ». .U 2:00 Club Matinee. the members of the Anaconda Mill jectives to supply the facts of Stand for the company opposing the idea Storage — Only Fireproof to throw in another half hour. But 2:30 Vic and Sade. and Smeltermen’s Union who may ard Oil’s vicious tactics and make we’re modest. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 2:45 Plantone Serenade. seems to be that it would represent Warehouse in Butte 8:00 Pay’n Save Musical Clock. 3:00 To be announced. go out on strike would be eligible certain that every union member a small but definite victory for the (Here the company officials 8:30 Lon Hughes Financial Service 3:30 Alfairs of Anthony. JONES STORAGE & 3:45 Maytag Shop Hawaiian Serenade. to collect unemployment insurance and all progressive people are aware union. And so it would. A perma claimed that men would not have 8:45 Wife Saver. TRANSFER COMPANY 9:00 Late News and Weather Reports. 4:00 Rustic Cabin Orchestra. compensation. of the boycott. For this we need nent improvement in hours or work Phone 3261 enough time to get to their work 9:02 Ross Trio. 4:25 Road and Weather Report«. 9:15 Southernalres. 4:30 Ray Perkins. Section 5 of Chapter 137, Laws of money for publicity, printing and ing conditions is something that is places and back to the station at 9:30 Plantone Serenade. 4:45 Salon Silhouettes. 1937, provides certain disqualifica postage. We believe that you can there for all time to remind the quitting time, stating that it takes 9:45 Greenhouse. 5:00 Good Afternoon Neighbors.______ 10:00 Special Session of Congress 5:30 Pa y’n Save Evening Specials. tions in obtaining the benefits of the see that this fight is not only ours, miners of what can be done through over a half hour each way for the Broadcast. 5:45 TaIking Drums for Town Talk 10:30 Peables Takes Charge. Bakery. unemployment insurance compensa but should be supported by all Sherman & Reed average place.) the power of a union. It is there 10:45 Eddy Bakery Program. 6:00 Boucher’s Broadcast. tion, but that part of the chapter unions. You are fully aware that when wage increases have been ab Funeral Directors WM. MASON: For an illustration 11:00 Sego Milky Way. 6:15 Texaco News. 11:15 Everybody’ s Ideas. 6:30 Wilson Motors. and the entire chapter amongst these companies, named above, will sorbed by a rising cost of living. Phone 3221 let’s take this building and the 11:30 Dr. Jazz. 6:45 House of MacGregor for Symons. Broadway and Arizona Streets 11:45 Comments on Special Session of 7:00 Dr. I. Q. other matters expressly exempts not consent to union recognition and It is for that reason that Butte School of Mines. Say that we start Congress. 7:30 Emil Marans Fashion Parade. certain causes of unemployment to a decent living and working miners should put up the most de ed from the top floor of the Finlen 12:00 Address by President Roosevelt 7:45 To be announced. 12:45 Texaco News. 8:00 Dreibelbis Music. from the disqualification. For yOur standard, unless they are convinced termined fight for the 8-hour collar hotel at three o’clock sharp. We 1:00 Lost Empire-Butte Beer. 8:15 Shirley’s. 1:15 Boulder Hot Springs. complete information I am quoting that the N. M. U. has the support to collar day and should never sign could descend on the elevator, walk 8:30 Sensations in Swing with Larry 1:30 Vic and Sade. Clinton. that portion of the statute in which of organized labor. an agreement without this provision. west on Broadway and be at the 1:45 Organ Treasures. 9:00 Chesterfield Program with Fred Butte Stove Repair 2:00 Woody Herman Orchestra.