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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1944)
A CULM I I *Mfvo*ra& C o u n ty to u r n a * Published Every Friday at Moro, Ore g op Giles L. French «ut „ Editor MüKÛ, OKEGO.V I'KIDAY, JU N E M, 194A Bricker Debates Broughton W ake U p . A merica ! account for the loe» o f orestige tt> a greater extent tlwui w hat they opposed. , $ WE HAD TO SAVE Ent. red a* second claa, n u itl.r aa the Poatoffice at Moro. Orason under Act of Conirreaa o f March S, 187®. W ill the W agner Labor Ac H am per P ost-W ar Employment? A banker was talking about Mo<i«otMl by C H U R C H L 9 the large bank deposits. They FMD O. CLARK Chairman, American come, be said, from many small Economic Foundation Christian Science Society NATIONAL C D ITO R IA I— accounts that have grown rapidly Sunday morning services a t A» debated by 11 a. m. Subject **God" iSSOCIATION in these prosperous times during Raoul Deavernine Dr. Hatty W. Laldler „Wednesday n igh t service at 8 the war. Business men and farm \tW l— E x ecu tive D irector, L fn g u t for includes testim onials of healing. er* wbo form erly did not have N a tio n a lly kn ow n a tto rn e y , f> ormar p re sid e n t o f tha C ru cib le S teel ia d u a tria l D em ocracy The reading room in tin- tea» much money in the banks now C o m p a n y o f A m erica PER of the building is open. All au have nice checking accounts. thorized Christian Science .iters I AT I 9 M W thout stopping to look up the MR. DESVERNINE OPENS: Col DR. LAIDLER OPENS: I believe ture can be bought or borrow©«? laet bank statem ents it seem s lective bargaining — when It is the that the National Labor Relations OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER Act, called the j Wagner Act, will •ery likely that Oregon banks are free expression of employees—is con stimulate rather than hamper post WASCO METHODIST CHUBCI1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ci^ypring about $200 per person on structive and beneficial to our econ war employment This act as la omy. But no one knows whether col Sunday School at 10:00 A. M. Payable in Advance th< entire population o f the lective bargaining under the Wagner known, forbids employers doing an There will be no preaching ser interstate business from engaging in ONE YEAR .............................. $2<9 state. We only have a little over Act—that piece of class legislation certain unfair practices. Unfair prac vice at the Wasco and Grass Val a million people and at least $200,- that gives 20% of America’s workers tices, as defined In the act, consist ley Methodist churches next Sun- r of C l / i a n i Republican presidenti.»’ J W. (I JU N E 30, 1944 000,000 in cash in banks. The nor power to exploit the other 80%»—will among other things, in a refusal to • r f North Carolina and oay, the 26th, on account o f the . and J. f ' help or hinder post-war employment b a r g a i n collectively with labor mal used to be around $60 on a radie program freely chosen by a firm’s em annual Methodist conference in Rat oning and shortages have It depends upon how this power Is groups ployees. in discrimination against r. : r their parties mc.’ l Portland, June 22 to used. We know that unless we have the 26th. Those u)hu w o u ld tr a d e shown us that we can pile up mon - parity—that unless the wage levels workers because of trade union ac Services a3 usual the following tivities and In encouragement of fr e e d o m fo r s e c u r ity a re ey if we just do not spend it. of all large groups are such that they company-dominated unions. It pro Sunday July 2nd. Times have been prosperous, but can buy from each other—we will vides that a labor union selected by Several factors atrongly inliu- be expected of the state fair F- L. Cannell. pastor. d e s e rv in g o f n e ith e r. have s e r i o u s unemployment ThÄ ^he majority of employees should if we do not buy, or cannot buy, enced the decision. The army re grounds. wc accumulate money. And ev en t- question can almost be reduced to constitute the sole bargaining agency cently renewed Moro Community its lease on z '.tally there is enough cash on this: w ill the power of organized of the workers and it furnishes a »part of the fa rgrounds and at i’reabyterian Church labor be used to help or to hinder machinery for the selection of the I EWEY A BRICKER hand to buy a farm or som ething parity b e t w e e n the agricultural bargaining units. After World War I (the present time other branches of Fureka Lodge No. 121 A.FAk A.M. James D. Moherg. pastor. Meets on the 1st and The Repu hl i©ans have finished rise of permanent value. .vorker and the Industrial worker? there was no such legislation. Em the eervice are negotiating 3rd Thursday evenings Bible School 10 a. m. for All of us want a lot of things, At present the CIO and the AF of L ployers took advantage of the chaotic (enlarged uses o f the property. Lof each month Visiting Morning Worship 11 a. m. tlæir convention and the dele conditions to start a crusade to break members are cordially Semon “The Parable of Judge r. new car. new furniture, more Lave the power to practically dictate ”P many unions. Trade unionists Moreover, as the war movqs to ghtea should be on their way ‘invited to meet with us ment Ma 26: 31-46 and better clothe«, new houses, the wage levels of their memo- < were blacklisted, union protections R. P. Brisbine W. M. home to ooojer dim es. The weather trips. The money is available to The unorganized workera mu»: take abolished, wages drastically reduced, the w est coast the fa ir sponsors Prayer Meeting 8 p- m. Tuesday R. V. Lockhart, secretary was the only thing that was hot in us when and if the opportunity :heir chances— particularly the farm mass purchasing power decreased, feel th at further war usee may Ch oago, if one judges from news arrives. If we all try to spend it er whoee income is largely controlled labor morale lowered, resulting in Moro Lodge No. 113, I.O.O.F NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING ■>y the elements. We 111 remember strikes, lockouts and widespread un accounts Great interest in poli at once there will be high prices; vhat happened in 1931 and 1932 employment The National Labor Re Meets 1st and 3rd Notice is herby given that Mary Tuesdays in I.O.O.F. ties is not sufficiently common co if we spread our demands out, -vhen the farm Income toboganned lations A ct If continued, will, after Fdith Sayrs, Administratrix of I hall- Transient and ever shadow the more striking wv may have good tim es for -nd factory lhcome stayed up. The this war. avoid many strikes caused the Estate of Omer G. S a y u , by unfair employers' practices. It la (visit ng brothers are rew s of war. It is probable that years. Inc dently, buying bonds, is i-.?tory workera had to stop work- likely to pppvent a successful and cordis IV invited deceased, has filed in the County i: g because the farmer couldn’t buy disastrous assault on collective bar unless there are unexpected de the best way to save to meet with us. Court o f the State of Oregon for irora the factories. If organized labor gaining machinery and thus assist In velopments the D ém ocrate con Ernest Houston N. G. Sherman County, her Final Ac accepts the sober responsibility that maintaining consumer purchasing vention next month will be under Percy Thompson, Secretary N ext Tuesday will be the Fourth accompanies gieat power, we might power. In stabilizing industrial con count and the Court has set the the cloud of war as well. el July. Normally there is muck ue all right. If labor (ails to accept ditions and in keeping the wheels of Bethlehem Chapter No. 78, O.E.S. 26th day of July, 1944, n the Age old rules o f proper politi raid about the anniversary of the ihia responsibility, we w ill be In very Industry running. Meets Every Second and Office of the County Clerk in th. MR. DESVERNINE CHALLENGES: Fourth Thursdays in ea?h Court House at Moro, Oregon, at cal conduct prevailed in the selec first statem ent o f the principles serious difficulties. OR. L A I D L E R CHALLENGES: The trouble with the National Labor Month. V isiting Members tion o f Dewey and Bricker »3 upon which this nation w»s found Relations Act is that it protects only the hour of 10:00 o’clock a- m. Invited— Moro, Oregon The depression beginning in 1929 was nominees. A man from a popu ed This year we are fighting for d je primarily not to the high wages about 20% of America’s workers. It as the time and nlace for the Alice Omduff, W. M. lous eastern state and one from them and those at home are too ©( the few million workers then or has created a privileged high-income settlement of stud'fccounting and Marie Hoskinoon, Secretary class protected by government. There the m «idle west is a common bill busy to plan celebrations. The ganized. but to the low purchasing is nothing inherently wrong with Lupine Rebekah Lod^ge Np. 116 for hearing objections to the of political fare, and one that o f long year since 1776 have caused power of the mass of both Industrial strikes but we must understand who same, if any. Meets 2nd and 4th ten achieves success. In this cast1 u? to take many o f these rights v.orkers and farmers. In 1929, 43% of the workers are striking against Tuesdays of> each Mary Edith S ayis the nation’s families received inoomes When organized labor strikes it il m ight have been possible to and privileges for granted and to. month. V isit ng mem Administratrix cf $1500 a year or less, a total income strikes against the workers who are bers welcome. c lto s e a more western vice-pre- overlook the fact o f their neces r.o greater than the total received not organized — the workera who J. Tracy Barton A le e McKee N.G. s dent " considering• D ew ey’s Mich sity to our happiness. We only »rat year by the one-tenth of 1% of must buy the products of organized Thc Dalles, Oregon Standard of California labor and pay the extra cost caused Florence Johnston, igan birth. cherish them after our careless- the families on the highest rung of by the higher wages. The CIO and Attorney for the Estate Dewey has made a rapid rise rose has lost them to us, orwherr the economic ladder. The lack of AF of L with a fair wage policy can parity that year that was important to fame. He was first known as a r.-e learn of the entire absence o f was not that as between the indus stabilize industrial conditions but. If their present exploitative policy per racket busting district attorney them in other lands. It is a fitting trial wage-earner and the farmer, sists in the post-war era. we cai ex t me to read the Declaration o f but that existing as betweep |h©se pect nothing but trouble. at a time when New York two groups and the economic masters DR. LAIDLER REPLIES: By pro rdden with racketeers. That re Independence and spend a little of America. hibiting unions controlled by the putation was not sufficient to gH time thinking about rt, so th at MR. OESVERNINE REPLIES: Or boss; by forbidding coercion of and for him the nominaton in 1940. w can be renewed in our fa th in Laidler drags the old familiar red discrimination against trade union herring of class haired across the members, by making provision for New th at he has been governor of governm ent by the people. trail, but he cannot evade the hard holding honest elections to determine New York h- won that nomina facts. If a farmer must exchange 2 what unions represent the majority, tion easily. The record speaks well day» of hit work for 1 day of fac the Wagner Act protects not a small for hia adm inistrât on o f the na- tory work, he can only “employ” o n e - per cent, but all^thcf workers in their half o f I factory worker. And organ- right to organize. Under it thousands t on’s second largest adm inistra ganized’ labor should remember that of employees outside unions are reap tive job Frara the Observer. July 3, 1925 although the farmer had less dunng ing great benefits from collective bar Slightly more than 112 farmers, the depression, he stjU had his job. gaining agreements. During the last Bricker is less spectacular, bu' he has been governor o f a large visited the experim ent station last It was the laetory worker who was few years, increases in wages in the great corporations have coma not slate for years and must twva Sunday on annual Feild D ay, on relief. To insure political and eco primarily out of the pockets of other nomic stability. lai»or unions must be done well to renut a. Both men 1 eld later this year than usual be molded into our democra‘ !c proc workers, but out of huge war profits are experienced; both have re cause of the seasonal differences esses. They must not rt nt i pro of big business. All labor has directly cords as administrator». :n growing crops. There were far tected by law. yet immune Iron» law. or indirectly benefited. Perhaps their records were the mers from Sherman, W asco, and deciding factor o f their nomina Morrow counties. W B Johnson and wife left tions. Certa nly voter» must have Thursday for their home in the- become conscious of the dangers (Continued from Page One) W illam ette valley near Salem . that come from lack of adminis They made the round trip by mo trative ability. w ith this pick-up profit going to Oregon will not have a stat?1 If Republican can now make tor over the new Mt- Hood loop them The tar ff rate is 76 cen ts fa r i ; i )44, according to an- highway, a most unusual Toute ond manage the sort o f campaign per 100 pounds, so i f the Cubans noun< ement made in Salem late that w.lj truly divide those o* between eastern Oregon and their ♦win in the controversy the cash last week by Director E. L. P e t A m erit an ideals from thoae wnc valley home. gain to them would be considerable erson of the state departm ent of Only a few persons went to Waa toward the European type of •but Senator Johnson o f Colorado TH O USANDS OF M AN HOURS are lost every week in Oregon’s critical agriculture following the regular political thinking Dewey and Bric ♦be Sunday School rally at W as insisted that there i» nothing in semi annual meeting o f the state war induatrief needleaaly. co last Sunday, most of them re ker will win i® November. m aining at home or going to <tl-e sugar act which wx>uld just ,fy 'loard of agriculture. Members o f Sometimes the ¿ u s e is thoughtlessness. The job just doesn’t seem important recognition of such a claim. the boaard of agriculture and the BuckhoHow. director considered carefully ail HOW, NOT WHAT . . . or the grass looks greener somewhere else . . . or a touch of the wanderlust. A (H Barnum returned Monday Speaking for and in behalf of Ihe angles on the fair before de afternoon from Portland where n© The defeats o f Senators Holman Many of the most important causes are beyond the workers’ control—personal had gone Sunday with a shipment Ihe cotton growers o f the south, e d i n g it would be unwise to h IS ir. Oregon, Clark <® Idaho and the o f Alabama a fair under present conditions. of beef cattle from his Lone Rock Senator Bankhead problems, such as illness in the family; plant problems, such as poor eating close contest of Senator N ye in Any sta te fair that could b? has introduced a nmolution for an •took farm. facilities; and community problems, such as inadequate housing, poor tr?ns- have caused cora- From the Observer, June 30, 1904 investigation of the rayon industry held this fall would be only i reaaons therefore, ^portation, lack o f child care facilities, or unsatisfactory shopping hours. Mac Bull has sold his Plaxa lots and has asked for an appropria glorified carnival, th e group felt that any one to Postm aster Perry, who will at tion from the sen a te contingent Th« only way wo can stop thia needless lots of precious man hours is given. There is sure- oc«e proceed to convert the pro fvnd to pay its expenses. Sinoe M v u in n iiiii m the three states perty into homes for . ntending investigations are demanded for for everybody to make this resolution now— I pledge myself to stay on 'V i in* question. Holman charged that th e purpose of gath erin g data for ,residents of Moro. j the job and finish the jobf ‘ *’ OO WAR DUTIES > DO YOUR Wl ______ there w as extrem e use of money Miss Nina D Phillips, daughter •future legislation, it is to be pre- agsrisst him, but the charge falls of the prosperous road builder and «UTried that Senator Bankhead has when the figures are known. Mor farm er at Kent, and Fred -Henna- in mind som e plan which will be se spent more than Holman hut gin, son of our c a p ta list friend nefit cotton growers, a t the expen Buy m ore War not enough m ore to account for and retired farmer, Henry H ea- se of the rayon m anufacturers, al B o n d s — and the vote. The CIO, opposition w ai nagin, were married on the 22nd. though he offers no details. The cheerfully attend effective and all labor opposed Frank Sayrs carries his left government now has. many thou Io o th er hom e- Holman because o f hrs vote for hand in a sling because of a sands of bales o f cotton in stock front duties. Let’s the Smith-Connolly bill. But Hol get this war won slash from the tusk of a hog he <p»les and the yearly product on man lost in the rural areas too. quickly! is far iuexcesxi of dom estic uses, was handi ng a few days ago. Clark is said to he a member of An elaborate petition will be so the cotton ’people are constantly an old p o lftea l fam ily in Idaho presented to the county court •reeking new w a y s in which they and has been charged with not next week asking for some a ssist •may advance their product, out WwkOTSt House Owners ar Renters: doing all the th ings he promised ance towards reconstructing the they have so fa r been unable to If you are a war worker or ia any essential to people who supported him six Harris grade. convince American women that If you have living units to rent, list them Work, year can decide not to quit your job years ago. His defeat m ight have From the Observer, July 2. 1913 cotton is the m ost desirable of (free) with the War Housing Center. until the BIG job is dooe. l»een reprisal for forgett'ng his The Moro baseball team le ft stocking material. Working Mothers: ■ fro n d s, Jt was not money, nor Tuesday for Ione to fill a five day Cmplayass: CIO in hft case. Investigate child care centers to care for schedule. I have been more' and more You can see that conditions in your pi«nt N ye w as one time hailed as n Moro branch of the Tum-a-lum convinced, the more I think of it. children while you work. are such that employees will want to stay liberal who tam e out o f the west Lumber company sold six thous that, in general,. prid*c is a I fhe with you. And you can help by adhering Take Care at Children: to attack the war* material maker« and feet o f lumber Tuesday for bottom o f all great m istakes. ’to all aaopowur regulations. of the east eoasA. He wks the the new posts for the Hay Canyon I - — Ruskin Help parents who are working to stay on Bank ers. Decfurs, ltc.t prime isolationist telephone I ne- the job by caring for one or two children— Arrangements are being made at DeMoss on the 8rd. It is true th at all three oppos sap your place of business or particularly under two years of age—in C R Belshee has had the Moro ed the administration. Other men tc have the entire Salvation Army on certain nights for cooveo- your home (with compensation for you have done so as consistently and corps stationed at The D alles m eat market auto - del ivery car ukars on odd-hour shifts. for day care or full time). have been returned to office time camp a t DeMoss Park the 3rd and pvt in order for the \ harvest. a fter time. Holman and Nye, how 4th of July. The Army band will Thoae wanting deliveries during ever, were - very hitter in their 6e held in the Park Sunday A par harvest are desired to n o tify tha TW> “‘nrZZ **•’ hr TZ-WKINHABD company denunciations. They srtiw s f to ba rde of the boy scouts of Wasco market before definite routes are Natle««l Disulirrs Pioduiis Leriraratian « with hitter. That may will be a feat o f the celebration nrranged. | K - ^w ^Y ork X ___ „.’JiifW EARLY NEWS by LOWELL THOMAS 7:15 p .M .* DON LEE-MUTUAL in Other Days | MANPOWER Kelly’s Column IS NEEDED TO FINISH THE JOB . * ...a n d MANPOWER ★ ★ . Is f No State Fair In Oregon In ’44 YOU THIS IS WHAT CAN DO ABOUT IT! J
