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Show UTAH LA I! OR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 2 Employers Shown Bach of Move (o Kill Recovery Ac Non-Unio- Ia(ior Utaf) Established 04 1929 n Rudd L. McKilllps, special writer fellow officers employ 3,200 and on the staff of Labor, Washington, 1,500, respectively. Grief has ten - factories in three states, says that a brief long distance telbe-1 week The average wage for the whole ephone conversation last tween two low-waemployers industry is 86 cents an hour. In started a train of sensational hap- - the Curlee group of factories it is penings in connection with the senate financial committees investigation of the NRA. To Have As a result, there has been: 1. A devastating expose of big On Coal business conspiracy to smash down Entered as second-clas- s matter March 28 1930 at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Official publication of the Utah State Federation of Labor, and the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. $1.50 per annum Subscription ge Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. all legislative protection for wages and hours. 2. A revelation of how lobbyists sinister interests attempt to for M. 1 THOMPSON Publisher browbeat and intimidate senators Of lice L M. THOMPSON... ttMM and congressmen by remote con. trol. 3. A thorough reckoning of one NEWS AND COMMENTI NEWSY NOTES FROM of the most effective lobbyists In S. L. LABOR TEMPLE Washington. 4. And a complete shift in the from 1) (Continued page course of the congressional probe This thought came to my mind In my last contribution to the of the NA. when I was reading the decision columns of The Utah Labor News Lobbyists Shown Up of the Mountain States Regional I announced The fireworks started after Col-I would that give my case views on Labor the onel Francis M. Curlee, one of the the ! t kZu is any. tion will say owners of a large clothing factory I if there yLfL American Smelting and that there .g nQ overprotuction by in St. Louis, and chief lobbyist for company, the low wage employers in the FREE LABOR. It was interesting to read the mens clothing industry, commencIf commodities and food Were ed statement of General Manager Oat the NRA invest! testifying Connor regarding the company produced by giving jobs to men gation hearing. union organization at the Garfield and women working fewer Hours The mens clothing industry emplant, and his idea that no bona and paid a saving wage, would go begging for a ploys approximately 140,000 anc fide union had any right to be in does an annual business of more greater output. that plant. billion dollars; 85 than one-haWe hope that the workers em Where does the overproduction cent of the manufacturers subper ployed by the American Smelting come from? From sweat shops, scribe to the NRA code and deal and Refining company have vision tenement houses and prisons where I wjth organized labor. The remain- enough to see the necessity of a the convicts are forced to produce ing 15 per cent, lead by Francis M. to full capacity under contract for Curlee, bona fide union organization. operates open shop and Unorganized wage earners of private profit. is trying to smash the code and the America, why perish for lack of In 1924 and 1925 there were 17 whole NRA. vision ? A recent government check-u- p of under contract, and many prisons You have never before needed more that were not listed. Those 50 largest factories in the in the a fnend, a means of protection, as I prisons in 1923 produced 16,000,000 showed that the 10 paying dustry do noY work shirts, reports state. Other the highest wages average 69 cents Traps, tricks of every nature, smaller combined, pro- - an hour and $1,054 a year, and are are set for you by the bosses. Do duced as operators, many more shirts and in the union group. The 10 lowest fall for millions of overalls, childrens 00SJ play wages plants have an average of the soft stuff they are feeding suits, underwear and womens - ' 45 cents an hour and $581 a ye: vou concerning working conditions. They know that if you join the forces of organized labor, you nave The code specifies a minimum them cornered. of 40 cents an hour in the wage Organize! Affiliate yourself with north and 37 cents in the south. a legitimate labor union and do According to the government figvour part in assisting organized ures thef Curlee open shop group labor to realize the real vision of has practically made the minimum the leaders of the American Fed their maximum, while the union eration of Labor for the emancipashops average 29 cents an hour tion of the wage earners of Amerover the code minimum. ica. Before the adoption of the code, Is the American worker really a some of the Curlee group paid as grown ud child who can be mollilow as 3 and 5 cents an hour. fied by the private capitalistic ratThis is the story of only one intle? dustry. But it .explains why the There is no time to lose in our low wage employers in all Indusefforts to save the achievements want a return to the days of tries human genius has so far acquired dont wait. It reminds me of the individualism when, In rugged and we must rely on our own pow rainbow which can be found any the words of Mr. Curlee, there was ers to carry out our own program rainy day just over the hil. Dont a free economic of forces. play to save humanity. wait, for it will never come to you. A Real Wallop There is but one road open for Opportunity is always knocking A real wallop was handed to at the American workman, if he your door. It has been said that Curlee, the open shop lobbyist, wants to safeguard his priceless in it only knocks once in a lifetime. when 887 small hentance from the forefathers of That is a mistake you only fail to turers in mne citieg ;nsfrted a fui our beloved country, lest we relin- - hear it. Organized labor is knock-- 1 page advertisement in the New quish our guaranteed liberty, when ing and calling from the four York Times which contained an will be lying prone at riers of the world. Organize, and letter to congress declaring open the. end of the trail. has never been authorCurlee that Again I say, Organize! ized to speak for them ana never will be. Out of a total of 140,000 work Upside Down Tummy ers in 3,500 factories in the cloth- You hear these days much about the Curlee associa- the struggles of the N R A Blue AT AULT 5 C Jf TO r'XJ tion industry, cjt iUAlUV o LllllliliH represents only 63 chains anc Eagle. 20,000 employees approximately The only trouble with the Blue i St. Marks which was Curlee, himself, employs 1,500, Cathedral, is in that its stomach the Eagle two of his and Grief fire damaged Schoeneman, by are above Sunday morning, the If profits wages. be will soon as reconstructed a3 the bird is going to recover, Dj. Congress must perform an opera- plans can be completed. The fire damage to the building tion so that its stomach will be turned over so that wages will be and its contents is estimated in excess of $30,000. Insurance adjuston top of profits. ments must be completed before definite plans to rebuild the cathedral are made. Just Arrived COMPLETE NEW SPRING LOANS CLOTJIING FOR MEN All Union Label Hit Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. IT r so-call- ed over-produ- c- on over-producti- Mine Workers Want Red Ore Code C. L. Pegues, secretary of dis- trict 5, International Union Bessemer, Alabama, writes: District 5 very earnestly requests that all locals composed of red ore miners immediately communicate with the proper authorities asking immediate hearing of a red ore code. The ore miners in district 5 are facing a crisis in the. Labor Place very near future, and due to the fact that the ore miners are under Authority no code, we are finding it very hard to get any satisfaction on grievThe Nationa ances taken up with the various WASHINGTON Industrial Recovery board has ap- operators. District 5 also requests these proved an amendment to the Bituminous Coal Industry Code, pro- locals (red ore or ore miners) to viding labor representation on di- send a copy to the district 5 ofvisional and subdivisional Code Au- fice, together with the informathorities. tion as to the type of mining in The amendment was proposed by which they are engaged. We also the National Bituminous Coal In- urge that this movement be started dustrial board. at once. Each Code Authority, divisional The address of District 5 is: or subdivisional, shall have one 17 30 Third Avenue, Bessemer, member thereon who shall be se- Alabama. lected from nominations submitted by the accredited and recognized Dont Forget the Union Label. the organization of employes, amendment states. 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