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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER I. 1937. Page 8 Edlitoirial Page oli TThe OteSn ILiatoor E)DSDAL (Continued from Page 1) as you carried on your solitaire" quarrel. Passing people be came as trees and automobiles as shadows. Now, thats the best way to quarrel, if quarrel you must, the nervous energy required to speed up your imagination but during your mental rampage, rightly directed, might have brought about "peace with victory. And you wouldnt have said to him all that you imagined anyway, if you had looked him straight in the eye, because, among other reasons, he might have laughed at your foolish imagination. In most cases you have seen merely the alloy in your opponent. You failed to discover the gold, which, perhaps, was really basic in his makeup. Usually, we hate men because we dont know them. And this goes for employers as well as for the workers that you know. May I suggest that you "dig for gold in your associates, and when you find it, rejoice like a miner who "strikes it rich," because theres none too much of it in the world, anyway. Thats what makes it precious. ills. NEWS AND COMMENT 'Continued from page 7) tion begins: Whereas, the Constitution of the United States was signed on September 17, 1778, and had by June 21, 1788, been ratified by the necessary number of states, and Whereas, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1780. Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United RUBBER WORKERS SHOW TIIE WAY Congratulations were in order at the second annual convention of the United Rubber Workers of America in Akron. In the past year this C. I. O. union has increased its membership from 25,000 to 75,000. The number of its locals has grown from 47 to 135. It has raised weekly earnings in the manufacture of all rubber products by .10.1 per cent, according to government statistics, and in the manufacture of rubber boots and shoes as much as 16.5 per cent. Seventy per cent of the locals of the U. R. W. have signed agreements, while the other 30 per cent have verbal or other forms of bargaining relations with the companies. More than 100 wage agreements have already been won by this young union. Much rerAains to be done by the United Rubber Workers, in organizing the 50,000 workers who still remain unorganized and wiping out sweatshop conditions in the smaller factories, which menace conditions in the organized plants. And much more remains to be done for all the rubber workers when 00 But the union has proved per cent organization is achieved. decisively that a stable and permanent organization can be built in a industry through industrial unionism. This was the first industry in which the C. I. O. applied and supported the principles which it was formed to promote. Under its inspiration, a union of but a few thousands has been built in a year and a half to its present strength. The U. R. W. had to meet all the difficulties which naturally attend the sudden establishment of collective bargaining in an industry which has always fought unionism. Charges of indiscipline and irresponsibility were leveled against it when emstrikes. But ployer provocations led to a series of these difficulties have now been largely overcome and the U. R. W. has established a reputation for internal unity, discipline, stability and responsibility which cannot be challenged. This union has also made a great contribution to American democracy, as its president, Sherman H. Dalrymple, points out. "Our members are learning the science of through the management of their local unions and their contracts," he says. "On the economic field itself we have made progress in bringing about the spreading stabilization of employment and a more equitable distribution of the national income. This in itself is erecting a safeguard to maintain our denvcratic system of government, for concentration of wealth and democracy are not compatible. As a matter of fact, if democracy is to survive, the working people must have a greater share of the national wealth and income and a voice in government truly representative of their numbers and interests. . The C. I. O. is justifiably proud of the record of the United Rubber Workers of America, which has shown what a modern industrial union can do for the workers in its industry and for the country at large. 1 mass-productio- This year the C. I. O. has expanded its organizing work in many new directions. Gaining momentum as it advances, it has increased the number of workers it has organized to over four million. And all of this organizing means more wage income to more millions who never had unions to bargain for them before. In a practical way the C. I. O. has set about righting the wrong that everyone has talked about for decades but few have done anything about it. It is doing something that can already be measured statistically to cope with the contradiction of poverty in the midst of plenty which is at the root of all of our social States of America, hereby designate the period from September 17, 1937, to April 30, 1939, as one of commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing and the ratification of the Constitution and of the inauguration of the first President un A Jim-IPi?55- tl: HJtfaSn Nsw: diologists received further - light about light and its relation- to human life from a hundred addresses in Chicago two weeks ago on the progress that has been made along these lines in recent years. Which reminds us that there is a very good article on radium in the Scientific American for October. DONT READ THIS TO YOUR WIFE 18 The Digest for September Nation-wid- e tests conductsaid: ed by the American Automobile asder that Constitution." sociation show that men park bethalf two the a and next ter than w'omen, have better vision, During reawakenbe there should a are less easily blinded by the glare years ing of American patriotism on a of headlights, hear better, concenfine basis. trate better; in short, are better The American Legion conven equipped to handle the wheel. tion in New York with its The trouble with women drivparade and inspiring addresses ers, Professor H. R. DeSilva, head and the fairs in New York and of Harvard universitys traffic buCalifornia should give added im- reau, explained, is that they are petus to our aroused curiosity con- muscle-bounThey get set mencerning our pioneer forefathers tally and physically. Their musand the conditions under which the cles refuse to respond at the speed worlds oldest democratic docu- necessary to modem driving conment came into being. ditions. Hence, he said, it is almost impossible to teach a woman over 25 to drive properly and, AN IMPOSSIBLE CONVENTION naturally, they have more accidents than men. interA convention of scientists Except in the case of husbands health ested in promoting by rays contemplating divorce, it is not and radium would have been im- recommended that these facts be not possible forty years ago. And yet- read aloud to wives, at least raand with gestures. emphasis a sizable group of important 17-ho- ur d. kJewcjpaipei? ffi? ILatei? UimninmGtlG aimol MfoeRaflcS Building Toward a Stronger Labor and Liberal Movement and Cooperation Labor-Employ- er n sit-do- self-governme- C. nt I. 0. AS WEALTH BUILDER The U. S. Commerce Department reports that last year the countrys workers received a larger share of the national income than ever before. It estimates that the national income will increase 2 per cent this year, and that labors share will be larger in percentage this year than last. With the rising tide of organized labor in Utah and throughout the intermountain states, thousands of new members are flowing into the unions and seeking reliable information and guidance on state and national events and in economic, social and political problems. In this great political and social movement the UTAH LABOR NEWS, with many years of experience in disseminating information, is admirably fitted to render this important service to new union members as well as to veteran and all those who believe in a genuine New Deal for the people. 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This new factor is the Committee for Industrial Organization which began its campaigns to unionize steel, auto, rubber and millions of other workers in the industries. Everywhere that the C. I. O. has organized these workers it has won for them substantial wage increases sufficient, in fact, to change the whole percentage of national income going to labor. never-before-organiz- mass-producti- on SUBSCRIPTION FORM Fill in his blank plainly. Enclose subscription price at the rate of $1.50 per year and mail to the UTAH LABOR NEWS Salt Lake City, Utah 24 South Fourth East St. Name Address City ed Organization. State- - |