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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 1, 1935. strengthened as more generally fulfill their responsibility bv joining the union to which they UNIONS THE NEED OF THE HOUR are eligible. It is the agency that can put a balance into our indiviEstablished 1929 An Editorial by William Green in the February Issue e dual and social living that will of the American Federationist justice between men. The greatest responsibility that Entered as second-clas- s matter &larch 28 1930 at the post office rests upon us for the coming year at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. There was never a time when mined and laws become effective, is to advance organization work must look to his and help unions to become more had so much to gain every wage-earnOfficial publication of the Utah State Federation of Labor, and by membership in a trade union or union to see that laws are put Into effective in doing their work. the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. so much to lose by neglecting their force. Though the law may give Send your subscription to The ............... ... 81.50 per annum Subscription ... rights and opportunities through workers the right to organize and deto We now the union are News. affiliation. rates right collectively, labor by bargain request. Advertising termining the fundamental policies form their own union; though Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, and agencies that will largely codes may fix minimum wages and 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. shape future industrial relation- maximum hours it is only the Organized representative union that can police the workshop, ships. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, groups can have a part in shaping report violations, and see that JusTulllo Carmlnatl with Lillian Harvey In decisions by presenting experiences tice is done. Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. 'LETS LIVE TONIGHT' and needs. Employers and other It is the union that takes cases Also, "MURDER ON A special groups are organized and to the National Labor Relations M. I THOMPSON Publisher HONEYMOON" active in presenting their Interests. Board and its regional boards, that Office Manager L. M. THOMPSON FAnCHOmSHA During the session of Congress makes presentations to the Nawhich has just begun momentous tional Recovery Administration and issues of public policy are to be the president when necessary. UTAH RECOVERY ACT UNION LABEL is WHEN IN PROVO tub considered and decided. The future It is the union that enables SYMBOL OF HIOIIKSr QUALITY of unAdminisfull their to the National workers ITS rights get Recovery PRODUCTS. OF AMERICAN-MADlaws der to Labors workmens compensation tration, organize right PLACES BUSINESS PATRONIZE II. B. No. 98, by Representative Stanley N. Child and several co SUTTON CAFE WHICH DISPLAY THE UNION in trade unions free from employ- and it is the union that helps to sponsors provides for continuation of the Utah Recovery act for two LABEL, SHOP CARD k BUTTONS. ers' interference, and the enforce- make our social security plan A Good Place to Eat years from the date of the expiration of the present URA. Union Label Trades Department ment of this right, jobs for the uninstituis and a a social security The union voluntary Amtrlcaa Federation of Labor Wuh. D. C. employed The present state recovery act is due to expire on June 13, 1935. are coming up for definite tion which serves public as well as The Child bill provides more workable provisions for the enforceaction. private purposes. It performs a ment of the act. It places the administration of the act in a board After public policies are deter social purpose that can be greatly To California of five, to be chosen by the governor. AND DENVER roads, and other corporations in FURNITURE MOVED The administration of the present act has been largely in the hands Utah. 4. It days the regulations for the con- ing trade, effective February By Bonded Experte No of the chamber1 of commerce. Naturally, these speakers would tract Crating Neceaaary. of producing gar- will apply to about 8000 establishBecause the present law has not been clear as to the enforcement voice their sentiments against any ments system Call or Write workers Un- ments, employing 70,000 for infants and children. of its labor provisions, it has been almost impossible to secure proper legislation that would benefit the der this MOLLERUP MOVING CO. volsales annual has an and system, employment reporting Wae. 1662 155 So. West Temple and justified wage agreements. people of this state. The corpor been The well maintained even ume of about 8390,000,000. The unscrupulous employers have chiseled unmercifully on mini- ations are paying them to do this. in thefairly off season and the average code prohibits overtime work. mum wages and maximum hours provisions of the state codes. II. B. It is a well known fact that weekly earnings of workers have 98 proposes to remedy the existing evils. these same lawyers who talked to. been held at constant levels much Because of the lax enforcement, complaints have been plentiful. the business men have sponsored And for this reason it is vitally necessary that the new recovery law and lobbied for legislation for the better than before the system was (Successor to Deseret Mortuary) be passed and a setup established that will regulate all provisions of benefit of the interest during the inaugurated. At the same time, and wholesale have retail prices FUNERAL DIRECTOR, MORTICIAN the act. past several years. But now, when not been increased. 20 Years of Service Those who have been opposed to and outspoken against the appli- the majority of the people of the cation of the Utah Recovery act are now alleging that the URA has state has something to say about Utah 161-Telephone DRY FRUIT PEOPLE GET failed as they always said it would. On the other hand, spokesmen for legislative matters, the represents-- . regulation of business, industry and employment conditions have beemtives of special interests cry about I CODE: The firms which pack dried prunes, raisins, peaches, apricots, pointing with pride to certain accomplishments since the recovery class legislation. and pears in the law became effective, and viewing with alarm the lack of cooperation Isnt it too bad that the common a.PPles GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR tates have been granted on the part of the business interests with regard to carrying out the .coas have some representation in I UNION MADE SUITS TO MEASURE code of fair competition, the present session of the legisla-- 1 purposes of the Utah Recovery act. The Pacific Coast Dried Fruit coun If the URA is looked upon as state legislation having for its ture! ACME CLEANERS AND TAILORS cil will act as code authority. The object the restoration of industrial prosperity in this state within the Friends of Labor Modern Methods members of the industry will be first few months of its operation, then one must admit that it has NRA HIGHLIGHTS 17 E. MAIN ST. PRICE, UTAH failed almost completely. In the making of laws for certain purposes, grouped into five divisions, each with representatives on the code it is assumed that laws are to be enforced as such. While it was ap- TRY TO GET RESTAURANTS authority. parently assumed by most people that the URA was to be so enforced from its enactment, subsequent events indicated that those charged AND BAKERIES TOGETHER: The question as to uist when a reswith its administration did not so regard it. NIRB BANS USE OF SHOPS: CIGARS AND CANDIES It seems that the Utah Recovery administration has made it plain taurant merges into a bakery is Shops set up in private apartURA between codes on the that to code the authorithe pending and public hearing ments or living quarters violate the during subsequent was not to be enforced as a law through the courts, as contemplated ties of the industries and the indus- code provisions abolishing homeby the law, but that it was to be promulgated as a program and a trial appeals board has asked the work. About 100 codes ban homeWASATCH 10204 129 SOUTH MAIN policy, the enforcement of which would depend upon the voluntary co- appointment of a joint committee to work and hundreds of thousands of work out a solution. Undeii the workers are affected. The adminoperation of the employers in the various industries. Lunches Union Made Insofar as the employers and business have cooperated toward baking code, restaurant employees istrative order permits persons would succeeded its in work fewer hours We have the largest stock of Union Made Smokers' Supplies the program and policy, just so far has the URA get engage in homework if allowed 'the -- arid Merchandise of any store in the Intermountain West. purposes. Insofar as the employers and business have not cooperated more pay. same rate of wages as is paid for BEST WISHES TO ORGANIZED LABOR in its program and policy, just so far has it failed. similar work in the factories, ProTHE MINIMUM MARKfUPS vided that It Is unnecessary, to indicate to those who read the unemployment they have secured CerrS&fds that the 'URA has failed in the attempted solutiort of the un- ON CIGARETTES: The NIRfthas tificates 'from the Department of extended the orders establishing Labor and are either employment problem. physically inon sales feig To whom is this failure of the URA chargeable? Is the Utah minimum mark-up- s or needed are at'Kome capacitated Recovery administration at fault for not enforcing the URA as a law, arettes under the wholesift and to attend invalids. punishable through the courts for violation, or is the failure charge- retail tobacco codes until Mafch 30. able solely to that great movement of employers who failed to take The NRA recognized an emergenAUTO REBUILDERS AND REcy due to destructive price catting advantage of the opportunity to get iheir industrial houses in order? We are for regulating the codes of fair competition and we are on July 12, last, and issued the first FINISHERS GET CODE: The President has approved a code for also for enforcement of labor provisions, because we believe that if orders for minimum mak-up- s, the labor provisions of the codes are enforced, all other provisions will Mark-up- s are minimum percent- the auto rebuilding and refinishautomatically enforce themselves. ages which must be added to the We are for continuation of the Utah Recovery act, and therefore cigarette manufacturers prices. we desire to see H. B. 98 passed and become a law. We are for sta- They were designed to stop the use Compliments bilizing business, industrial and employment conditions. We cant go of cigarettes as loss leaders. back to the old and haphazard system of dog eat dog, but we must MAY STOP USE OF SCRIPT have a state law which can be enforced. By al! means, thi3 session of the legislature should pass H. B. 98. FOR WAGES: The NRA advisory council has recommended to the NIRB the use of script in NEWS AND COMMENT paying that wages be prohibited. Script H. Just Arrived has been widely used in the bituminous coal industry, but is now COMPLETE NEW SPRING (Continued from page 1) causing difficulties in the lumber, CLOTHING FOR MEN is no denying this. The experience steel and textile fields. One of the of the past is proof enough that All Union Label proposals the special interests who dictated shall be is thatas no employee a condition of required the policies of the legislators employment to trade at a store or the for passed perfect legislation 59 East 2nd South to rent a home specified by his special interests, and farmers and laborers received nothing. The farmers and laborers have KNITTED OUTERWEAR SITlearned their lessons, and they have UATION: The NRA has had a staBEST WISHES TO paid dearly for their schooling. The farmer and labor groups bilizing influence on the knitted ORGANIZED LABOR WASATCH 4805 have learned that they are so eco- outerwear industry, according to code the Make the nomically and socially interdepen- the NIRBauthority. At its request, has wage-earne- rs labor JetoS 04 Witaf) pro-vd- wage-earne- er rs am the . E pro-gra- ORVAL L. THOMAS W va Price, I Paci-peop- le . ITS MIGGION CIGAR GTORE and 1 "J Beer of BlflTZ W. co: ROSENBLUMS dent that everything that benefits one, benefits the other; and everything that injures one, injures the Wilson Hotel other. The coalition knows per cent of the voters of Utah. And they have every right to expect from the consideration upon legislators measures that affect the economic and social welfare of this great majority of Utahns. YOUR HEADQUARTERS! Under New Management OTTO R. MAAS, Mgr. 80 Isnt It Too Bad! The other evening a business in East on Second South Closest to the Labor Temple 34 terest of Salt Lake City held t . for 90 farmer-labo- r that it represents Salt Lake Citys Most Popular Medium Priced Hotel extended , meeting. The speakers at the business gathering were lawyers who are CENTURY 3PmraT3irJG COMIPADJlf (INCORPORATED) . r paid legislative lobbyists for rail- - tiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiimiimmimiiiimiimmiimiiimimiiiiiiiiimimimiiii Success to Organized Labor I Publications, Family Service for Every Home By-Law- s, Briefs, Abstracts All Forms of Commercial Printing Palace Laundry A Commercial Printers Out-of-Tow- n Orders Solicited. 99 EDISON STREET SALT LAKE CITY The Legislature of Utah is in session. The people are expecting the legislators to pass laws in the interest of the people. Will They Listen to the People? Will the Legislature pass laws to provide for human needs and economic needs? Thats the question! 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