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Show Page 6 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, OCTOBER I, 1937. OUR CONSTITUTION LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued on page 3) next session on a bill authorizing where C. I. 0. unions are active, 2051 againt rescinding the connationalization of munitions, include according to John 1. Davis, cxccu ventions resolution to of the Nationa tive business office secretary the within session Senators in the Earlier employes hole will which of the Congress resoGuild. anc The Negro jurisdiction Bone, Clark, Frazier, Nye general social importance, Thq courts struck down such laws Pope introduced a bill for this pur-- its second convention in lhiladel lution on independent political (Continued from Fage 5) All C. I. 0 action was upheld 2774 to 2202, I I phia October when they disliked their purpose locals were represented. P,se which was blocked in com-o- r affiliates Nearly have been invited to sene and that on Supreme Court reform Bone method. While) they character-- 1 w,hcn Senator of these locals have ized the condemned laws as arbi-- 1 signed agreements, and the rest recen3r proposed it as an amend Negro and white delegates to the was ratified 2685 to 2271. The action of the convenL mak!n?. helium congress. trary they actually passed judg-jhav- e verbal or other form of col- - mcrlf .? A federation of some COO organ tion to only be revoked was the resolunient on their desirability; thus I loctive banrainini? relations with I foreign nations for I commercia purposes, pointing out izations representative of every tion condemning Fascist suppresexercising a political rather than emnlovers $40,000,000 little more than form of Negro activity in America, sion of labor in Spain which lost a judicial function. Many of the nereements iqq d the congress operates through lo C0St f n decisions were settled by the vote LjtogethJr have JJJeiP-w- ou beef by the narrow margin of 2592 to the th, Jeoorted of a single justice; in recent years r bb r government shipyards ready cal councils of affiliated groups 109. he in 70 cities in 37 states. Nearly try . aI1 present needs. Sen to care it has been fairly regularly that Ileywood Broun, president of the 1000 delegates attended the firs; the to hold hoar Walsh ator Denouncing reactionary of Justict Roberts. Thus, due to agreed Guild, explained in a statement isthis amendment, the Constitution leaders of the A. F. of L. who are ings. The amendment was with national convention held in Chi sued after the completion of the - cago in 1030. More than twice official no longer means what its words aligning themselves on the side of drawn. tally, that the vote was that number are expected to attenc owners of industry and the I e say; there has not even been not to be taken by any means as this year, Davis says. cussion as to what the framers Liberty Leaguers," Wilmer Tate, BACK PAY FOR endorsement an of Fascism, but Thomas J. Kennedy, secretary may have intended. The Constitu- - I president of the A. F. of L. Cen- - j FANSTEEL WORKERS showed that treasurer of the United Mine merely many memtion has come to mean "what the tral Labor Union in Akron, said bers felt lieutenant-governo- r that the Guild Workers and evidently And, of that he would not permit himself judges said it meant." WAUKEGAN, 111. (UNS) The of should sides burnnot in take this will make the course, this perversion of the due-- 1 to line up with such a crowd, even Fansteel company has been or mainPennsylvania, international address I the at on ing F. controversy." A. congress process clause of the Fourteenth though they took away the dered by the National Labor at Convention hal has resulted in a simi-- 1 of L. dues book which he has car--1 lations Board to reinstate 83 October 10three-dawhere the y sessions will C. I. O. TEXTILE UNION lar construction of the identical I ried for 20 years. workers discharged by the corn- - be held. I I WINS AT NEW ORLEANS clause in the Tifth. Tate stressed the importance of pany last fall during a strike, and Out of the confusion the su-- 1 unity in the labor movement which I to pay tack wages amounting to A. F. OF L. LOCALS NEW ORLEANS, La. (UNS) preme court has thus produced, II he declared could be achieved only I $70,000, to G7 of the dismissed JOIN C. I. O. STATE As the result of a Labor Board has come the current widespread on the basis of industrial unionism group. The board has also ordered ND COUNTY UNION election at which workers of the dissatisfaction with the court. Ios-- 1 as laid down in the program of the I the company to desist from deal-sibl- y Lane Mills voted 942 to 365 in the evil can be remedied I C. I. 0. ing with a company union, WASHINGTON (UNS)-M- em to the due-- 1 the sent either by were of the. Textile Workers Orfavor Telegrams lership of the State, County and clause or by granting pre-- 1 vention of the International Typo-cis- e Municipal Workers of America, ganizing Committee as their barin session in powers to congress and the I graphical union are C. I. O. affiliate, now exceeds 25,-)0- gaining agency, negotiations I states. Louisville and to the West Vir- Under a for contract, way signed Abram Flaxer, executive vice The most important subject re- - gnia Federation of Labor. The Robert Tisdale, T. W. O. C. field in iresident of the membercharge quiring change, however, is that wjre to the j. T. U. expressing fra- representative, has announced. ship drive, has announced. wishes jubiiiant over the election won by In its two months of existence 8tave tcrnal &reetings ad Much interest in the industrial We look the Textile Workers Organizing the S. C. M. W. has more concluded: Vn )hl for success f"d JLn movement has been aroused union than tripled its membership," he said. recently among Catholic workers Active, functioning locals have of the vicinity. Father Jerome A. been set up in 15 states and have I t0 oreanize )rolet, of St. Frances de Sales SKg?!" received charters." already in Houma, La., spoke at Church In the recent times probeminent. The union has manual laborers, several T. W. O. C. meetings prefirst important step in the organilem has arisen in different terms. zation of the woolen and worsted highway workers, clerks, research ceding the Lane Mills election, The States and and social workers and others, industry. Catholic labor to organize, The Nation urging its members. A charter is- and refuting the false charges Voting on the question of among , It is not a question today of , sued Government WASHINGTON recently to 42 licensed phy- made against the C. I. O. union whether or not they wanted the T. states against nation. Today it sicians of C. and W. O. navy employed by the Board of movement in the south. as their exclusive operation has become a question of whether ownership Health war in New York City, is bemanufacture and the workers at agency Hans are under way for an inof, interests shall be able to shipyards gating lieved by the union to be the first I materials, with resulting mill Wood voted 4425 in to 2302 savings tensive campaign among Louisiana escape regulation by the agencies I one favor 0f the C. I. 0. union. At the of its kind. workers to be directed from new of government. Today confusion to American taxpayers, came Charters have also been granted C. week last realization mill 1389 nearer vote the to was s, atAyer step all I. O. regional offices in New attend and delay regulatory to two locals in the New York City I as Senator of the 949 for the T. W. O. C. chairman Walsh, O. C. either I. taken and action the various with by tempts, relief administratiton, one with the state or the federal govern-- 1 Naval Affairs committee, agree unions active in the area cooperat- 3000 members, the other made up ment is challenged on the ground to hold extensive hearings early j c j Q STEEL UNION (Continued on Page 7) of 400 social workers. 77" TO ISSUE CALL FOR that it should have been taken by I On September 14, a charter was FIRST CONVENTION the other, or, as a last resort, that become essential. It is possible, to a group of 300 municipal issued ac-- 1 I be . it violates due process. We are of course, that much may Labor, We Appreciate in Minneapolis, Minn., employes of confines the within Pa. (UNS) An PITTSBURGH, likely to see a renewal of this I complished Your Patronage affiliated to the A. F. of as the the present Constitution, by an I international convention of union formerly game of D. Another A. F. L. as of laws. I extension of legislation such group steel workers which will bring states adopt Buy UNION Label which joined the C. I. O. union re-- 1 the recent liberal deci-- 1 that which has been enacted re- - gether delegates from more than is a local of 1100 city Clothing sions, it is likely that there will be lating to goods made by convict1 1000 lodges established in the steel cently ill Y. N. Rochester, similar cooper-e We Solicit Your Charge industry since the organizing cam-ativuncertainty as to whether a par- labor. Perhaps by About 90 ticular industry is subject to reglegislation of congress and pajgn began in July, 1936, will be which made per cent of the locals Account up the S. C. M. W. as ulation by the states or by the fed- various states, the shipment of held in Pittsburgh late in Novem-good- s originally came can also over child organized labor made by ber or early in December, eral government, under the Wagfrom the A. F. of L. Union officials ner Act. Also, there are specific be prevented. But it is obvious chairman of the estimate that between Murray phaip 15,000 and activities, such as coal mining, that the field is limited. Steel Workers Organizing Com- - 18,000 of the present membership which cannot be regulated by isomittee of the C. I. O. said that an t,ghts there are many import- - official call announcing the date of belonged formerly to A. F. of L. lated state action and in relation locals. 307 So. Main, Salt Lake City to which the states concerned are ant nghts about which the feder tbe convention will be issued soon. The is silent. Constitution right Questions to be taken up at the GUILD anxious for federal regulation, but the court has until now pre- to vote, for instance, is not guar- - conventjon the first to be held by C. I. O. MEMBERS UPHOLD VOTE vented it. Amendments are need- anteed to every citizen. At pres-- 1 the & w 0 c wiI1 include the ed for increasing the power of the ent, as the Welcome, Labor ' drafting of a broad policy for the NEW YORK (UNS) Affiliacentral government so that it may and Nineteenth Amendments, it - gUjdance 0f both the international with the C. I. O. and seven of New & Used Tires act where the states cannot, yet protected only against discr m 0ff jce and jocaj iodges. plans will tion I the Battery Service of reason Until color, P eight to act resolutions race, tion states the by remaining also be drawn up for negotiating permitting And th j new contracts with the hundreds passed at the St. Louis convention such time as congress has entered vious servitude or sex. Phone Wasatch 1771 . were ratified the the field; perhaps, also; an Amend- extent to which Negroes are denied overwhelingly by steei companieg which have of the American ment preventing individuals from the vote m the South by poll-ta- x with the union due to membership JARVIS TIRE CO. agreements tests educational and at Guild in issue states a the Npwspaper referendum provisions rights raising ife Febru 1938 28, shows how illusory consti utional all. More than 400 stel manufactur. completed September 10. The vote Regrooving Retreading it on the C. I. O. issue was 3392 to We have left behind the day protection can be, Vulcanizing and ing, fabricating processing Oil - Greasing Gasoline 1691 against rescinding the conwhen the states might be sus- counter to a strong regional prep- - irmg e. coverjng appr0ximately enessential in are have Jarvis John of and Changes Mgr. congress, picious 000 workers are under contract ventions resolution to affiliate with tered an era when cooperation has this, and in o her respects They with the S- - w the industrial union movement. nt Q at of Labor Friend On the question of expansion of require careful consideration. Percon. Preliminary fothe plans conven constitutional new 148 E. 2nd South Salt Lake haps a ventjon were made at a staff con-tio- n the membership base along induswould be appropriate for the ference attended WELCOME TO trial vote 50 the some 3013 was to lines, by key men including Van A. 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