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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY 22. 1936. 8 TOBACCO HEAD DREW HUGE SALARY; NEW COAL BILL WORKER LUCKY TO MAKE $ 2 DAILY IN CONGRESS I Lumber Company Guilty The decision of the National Labor Relations board requiring the Greensboro Lumber company of Greensboro, Ala,, to observe the right of its employes to organize in a bona fide trade union for the of collective bargaining, fiurpose with the provisions of the Wagner-Conner- y Act, puts into the spotlight the practice of Act, and also to cease and desist from in any manner whatsoever discriminating against union workers in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment and thereby discouraging membership in the Sawmill Workers local union or in any other labor organization. Seeking to offset swiftly the su pre n j courts invalidation of the In Gufl'jy coal CQntrol act, Senator Guffey (D., Ia.) Wednesday intro the latest batch of corporation duced substitute legislation shorn salaries released for publication by of all labor provisions, but provu the SEC occurs the name of George SAGEBUUSII CLUB ing for governmental price fixing. discriminating against union memWashington Hill, president of the Introducing a duplicate bill in bers in terms of employment a faMET TUESDAY the house, Representative Vinson Mr, I American Tobacco company. device used by antiiunion vorite UI.I1H.A1, i8 an of ) in nhis drew a UUUAJUIV(I) af)gerted ?d. Ky 1935, Hill, salary The Sagebrush Democrat club at concerns to deprive working men ministration measure. $212,19!); or about $700 for every Continued from page 7) elemenits women of one and of the meeting at the Newhouse hotel John L. Lewis, president of the working day in the year. This is essentials of night amended its constiTuesday liberty. tary Mine his said General United that one of the Workers, Attorney Big Four union a to to tution Labor the provide for two women board, According It is generally conceded that At- union would join in requesting hating companies which make non local union of the Sawmill Workers, members on the board of directors. will General once to bill Chez at the enact torney union cigarets. congress Joseph The speakers of the meeting affiliated with the United BrotherThis is nearly three times the seek renomination at the Demo- prior to adjournment. hood of Carpenters and Joiners of were Judge Brown, Mrs. Scott I. cratic a in on drafted convention The bill been has Unit the of nominating the of salary president basis that seems to meet the re- - America, was organized among the Stewart, and M. I. Thompson. ed States. But. if past history is August. Merrill Bennion led in commuof the company last OcAnother candidate for of indicator potential quirements of the supreme court, employes any present perform- the On two November tober. 9, singing, and solos were rendays nity Parto this in week will added. Lewis post appeared ance that sum is the smaller part It operate dered union local the asked the after by Miss Jessie Evans and of Mr. Hills takings during the nell Black, assistant Third district maintain the equilibrium of the to Miss Allen. collectively Lake! company bargain and Democratic Salt further coal attorney industry pending study with year. Mrs Flora Severn, vice president it, the company closed down In 1930, for example, Mr. Hill county chairman, who said friends of stabilization of the industry. he mill, resuming operations par- of the club, was in charge of the was receiving as salary only a pal are urging that he become a can- he ha'1 not dc- tially on November 22 with one meeting. try $168,000. But in addition to cidcd COMMENT ON shift. he which bonus cash a got this, Dont let the dust storms blind board ordered the company Attorney O. K. Cla of Price is AMERICAN NEWS to The brought his "earnings" up to a to cease and desist from interfer-n- your eyes to the union label, shop tal of $1,010,000 for that year. Al- another possible candidate to seek with, restraining or coercing card and buttons. so, he got a special credit, what- the nomination. (Continued from page 7) ts employes in the exercise of ever that may mean, of $273,470. You do not obtain quality-rLUevade provisions designed to pre- their right to organize, guaranteed Add these items together, and you Ipiiiocrals when Relations National the Union Label is MINUS. Labor the collusive vent yy bidding. will see that Mr. Hill got from the of method As a dealing of he is which practical to company president with the alleged manufacturers the tidy sum of $1,283,470 in the gang up in price fixing and 1930. of Ogden depression year I'lease note that in 1930, Mr. I profiteering, Secretary Ickes sugHills total income from his comDemocrats who desire to attend gested the advisability of the govown cepany was more than seven times the state convention at Ogden Sat- ernment establishing its his salary. If his cash hand had urday and who do not have trans- ment plants. not lost its cunning and there is portation mav apply to the Salt Special and regular courses in all commercial subjects. Tailors Win no sign of such a happening, he ,ake county committee headquarAn would have raked in a total of ters in the Judge building or may ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AFLNS) A Position for every graduate. 169 calls for office help about $1,500,000 in the year 1935. telephone Wasatch 2036 after 5 agreement for recognition of the received so far this year. Even a Big Four tobacco magnate p. m. union shop was signed by Local 11 could manage to live on such a of the Journeymen County Committee Chairman Union No. Call, write, or phone for new catalog. Visitors Welcome sum. Parnell Black announced that all Tailors union with the 12 shops anytime. Workers Got Miserable Wage delegates would be accommodated. comprising the Merchants Tailors But while Mr. Hill was getting As many other party members will association of St. Louis following $700 a day in salary alone, large be given transportation as there is a strike which began March 31. numbers of workers in the plants automobile space available. The contract runs for two years. at the American Tobacco Co. Delegates and others may apply It provides for a 10 per cent inthought themselves lucky to get $2 for transportation to any of the crease in wages effective next week with a day. The Monthly Labor Review following committee members: September 1, a of October, 1931, gives some fig- Thomas Williams, P. S. Marthakis, a maximum of 48 hours during the Wasatch 27o3 45 East Broadway of y ures of the wages of stemmers, William II. Eamshaw, J. D. busy periods and elimination and Mrs. Rena B. Loomis. that is, those who stem the tohome work. About 125 strikers re'Largest and Best Equipped in Intermountain Territory. bacco, separating the leaves from turned to work under the new pact. Read the ads in The Utah Labor The strike is still in effect in four the stem. Most of this work is done by hand; but machines are used in News. clothing stores. many factories. Of the wages of machine stemmers, the Labor Re By GEORGE L. KNAII WASHINGTON, D. C. (ILNS)-- I ed .teLit g S Provide Transportation Saturday SUMMER TEE! STARTS JIM HENAGER BUSINESS COLLEGE 40-ho- ur Hen-ness- vipw says: None of them earned a weekly wage as high as $14. The report says further that 71 per cent of the machine stemmers got less than $10 a week, and that 65 per cent of the hand stmmers got less than $12 a week. Weekly Iay of $3.60 Found The Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor found stemmers working 28 hours a week for $3.60, This, it may be said, is part time but the stemmers seldom work anything but part time; and their w'orks lasts but a few months at best. The FERA, probing the conditions of tobacco workers in Virgin la and North Carolina, said: Nearly half of them were receiving relief at the same time thev were receiving wages. Perhaps the most striking fact disclosed was that the average weekly income from earnings for the 477 families in the sample studied was $3.02. For households containing only one wage earner, the average was only $2.35; and for households with two or more workers. the average was $4.97. The average annual wage in Cold Alone is not enough! Modern Research Achieves . . . Ice Refrigeration Ask About the Amazing New Ice Refrigerator At the present time the communists have classes in Utah, and elsewhere throughout the United States, with students in attendance each night, receiving instructions in the communist philosophy, and particularly being trained for the practice of sabotage and the exploitation of emotional situations. The communist students are also taught methods which will prolong strikes that might properly be started in an effort to obtain fair wages or better working conditions or shorter hours of labor. In such cases the communists step in, not to assist in a fair settlement, but to prolong the trouble as long as possible and then abandon the cause, leaving behind them misery and suffering. The communists are not interested in settlement. They are interested only in prolongation of a strike, exploiting existing conditions as a part of the means to an end. Communists training is to enable them to induce others with ' whom they have nothing in common unctuto their ously play game. The communists are enemies of all existing governments, except sovietism. They do not owe allegiance to any flag but the cut and knock red flag of revolution. They are unscrupulous in their demands and in their lack of consideration of the rights of others. The communists have been making a determined effort for years to bore in on the American Federation of Labor. In one or two cases they have been successful in obtaining control of a union in Utah. The leadership of the American Federation fo Labor, under President William Green, are militantly fighting communist efforts. President Green realizes the danger. Here in Utah the editor of the Utah Labor News alhas made a valiant fight against communism most a single-hande- d fight without the cooperation of the present officialdom of the State Federation of Labor, nor the central labor bodies. In the past, little outside attention has been given to the great fight that the Utah Labor News has been waging against communism in Utah. The great work of the Utah Labor News should receive the attention and praise to which it is entitled. Loyal American citizens, members of the trade union movement, business men, farmers, etc., should cooperate with the editor of the Utah Labor News. Be loyal to Old Glory, and to the principles of American Democracy. Cooperate with President Green and with labor union leaders who stand for his kind of leadership in meeting this very serious problem. Sold by ARCTIC ICE CO. (This Editorial Contributed by Friends of A. F. of L. and Good Citizenship.) Wasatch 1234 I |