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Show Xiz:urr zznrJzmT of vtj.x Review o Current Evento AUG 1 C, ' t; , 71937 C,lfTHE PEOPLES PAPER EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL VII No. 6. Price iLT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 13, 1937. - THE NATIONAL U RELATIONS AC1 R Cojrjr LEAGUE DOES EFFECTIVE WORK NON-PARTISA- NEXT WEEK IN HISTORY August Per aid Comment Hews By M. I. T. The National Labor Relations Act is not satisfactory to the rabid open shopper, and the type of big corporation as the Republic Steel, managed by Tom Girdler. It is from the open shoppers and selfish employers that Senator Vandenberg of Michigan gets his inspiration to amend the National Labor Relations Act. It is from these same sources that the corporation lawyers get their inspiration to the idea that a labor union should be incorporated same as big corporations are incorporated. In answer to those senators, lawyers, and employers who wouM now desire to retard union growth and a movement toward industrial peace, we will say that the struggle of labor for organization is not merely an attempt to secure an increased measure of the material comforts of life, but is a part of the age- 5 Cent T 15 Panama canal ed to traffic, 1914. N open- August 16First Atlantic cable message, 1858. August 17 Davy Crockett, Indian scout, bom in 1786. August 18 Jlonore de Balzac, French novelist, died in 1850. August 19 United States Steamship Constitution sank the Guerriere 1812. August 20 Benjamin, Harrison, American president, bom in 1833. August 21 William Maginn, Irish author, died in 1842. - One of the most militant and effective political organizations of this country is the Labors League. It has been the most ardent supporter of the President and his New Deal program. The League maintains headquarters in the nations capitol and it has state units in all of the 48 states, and It knows the needs of the workers jt know8 the public pulse. , , , and farmers and small business and professional men. session, con- Fidgeting for adjournment of a gress was confronted by labors challenging demand for im- and hours bill as mediate passage of the wage 7 n forwarded its campaign on the 'Labors League issue of labor standards legislation. In a letter sent to every senator and congressman on Capitol assert- Hill, E. L. Oliver, the League's executive led that adjournment without passage of the wage and hours Lill would be little short of treason to the people of America. The excuse that congressmen would perspire too freely dunng the mechanics of the bill s passage and would rather go fishing is not good enough to delay action on the bill until Jan- uary IVlr. Oliver reminded the legislators. Millions of Ameri- can workmen, he said, due for relief of intolerable living and working conditions with the bills enactment, are sweated the year around in factories and in congested living quarters. The letter sent to congress from the Leagues Washington followed by a flood of.imilar letters, wires, headquarters. n and long distance phone calls from Labor s workers and affiliated unions in 48 states as organized labor preSented its case before the national legislative body. y ask'nS passage of the bill, Mr. Oliver is clear labor satisfied with made the legislation in its not that original form. Labor $ants liberalization of the wage and hours provisions to 60 cents an hour and 35 hours a week, he stated. y Labor not only regards the bill, as the ... , n .Continued on w Non-Partisa- n . do-nothi- 1 Black-Conner- y This long struggle for liberty. to fix wages or hours, or is the pinch pretend struggle sharpened by to place the government on the of hunger and the exhaustion o: side either of labor or of capital in body and mind by long hours anc the struggle over the distribution On Wednesday, of the income of industry. August 18, improper working conditions. marks the death of Ilonore de Pal-- 1 Insuperable Obstacles Right of Workers ' zac in 1850. Among his pithy com- In his struggle to be free the on men and life we find the I ments It did, however, give explicit worker has been pitted against al recognition to the right of work- following: most insuperable obstacles. It is a singular fact that many ers to bargain collectively and it In the first place, he was op- established the sanctions necessary action f1 theory posed until very recently by the to safeguard that right. It pro- of fatalism, while the greater part united resolve of our great vided that the right of workers to of men of thought believe in a di- industries not to dea organize should not be interfered vine providence. with any union labor. By reason with by the yellow-do- g If those who are the enemies of contract, of the unique innocent amusements had the di- concentration of the company-dominate- d union, or wealth and economic power in this the discriminatory discharge; and Ul!d uth! country a few individuals had all that through majority rule worktheprtog the means necessary to repel the ers might choose their spokesmen, the former from the year, the lat- advance of the democratic element who would be entitled to bargain ter from human life. in industry. The motto of chivalry is also collectively with the representatheir tives selected asBlack-Connerthe 'workers Secondly, by employer. just iut bvenlyone.1 Events since the passage of the pirations have been retarded by a long stream of adverse court de National Labor Relations Act have cisions. The anti-trulaws were proved conclusively that it is didistorted for decades into anti- rected against the labor statutes. Black-ConnerInjunctions, pro- practices which still remain the A teachers advice .is occasionscriptions against peaceful picket-- 1 underlying cause for bitter .indupage-8)-ving, and a prevalent judicial astig- strial strife. Thb "recurrent Trodbl ally- ta&tfn, saVBroks She pal'd matism regarding the legitimate in industry has been the product in I Like to Teach in August unity of labors interests have all of industrial espionage, discrimi- Harpers. For this reason and beserved to array the law on the side nation and discharge for union cause what a teacher is' shouts of the stronger party. membership, and the flimsy pre (Continued on page 8) tenses of company - dominatec Most Important The five cases which Most important of all, the work- unions. the United States supreme reached er has had to struggle, even when Political Outlook court a months ago disclosec few in the right, against a largely unIn a wide variety of industries the One of the busiest places in Utah during the past week has sympathetic press and a largely in were same malpractices. They the regional C. I. O. offices at 324 and 325 Beason buildbeen The Utah and U. S. apathetic public. very fact that labor has had to take the of- roundly condemned by the court in ing, Salt Lake City. Inquiries have been coming in asking for Compiled From Reports fensive and disturb the status quo decisions which public opinion apinformation of Observers regarding organization of Ladies Garment Workin order to better its position has plauded. ers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Textile Workers, govRepublic Steel placed it at a strategic disadvanernment workers, and a dozen oth The Republic Steel controversy tage in marshaling public support. SALT CITY LAKE er groups. All seeking organiza taken to improve conditions for For these reasons the workers ticked up a plethora of issues. But CANDIDATES ARE tion these workers. by industry. struggle to be free has been slow, when the dust of conflict subsidec BEING MENTIONED Diweek the During Regional same bitter, and costly. At the begin- ;here came into view the rector Janies Morgan announced GARFIELD UNION HAS the right ning of the depression less than dominating question of collective-"vOVER 900 MEMBERS . Bay Various persons are being men- - aPPl?met' of labor was organized. of employees to bargain orC. O. na I. field as Wyoming When the head of the corpora- tioned as prospective candidates Today, thanks to the C. I. 0., the .a s$ According to latest reports the tion declared that even if a major- for nominations for the posts 0f amzer figure is reaching the one-fift- h announced Bonacci that Frank Garfield Smeltermens union No. his selected of two city commissioners and city mark. employees ity Iper them to union International Union of Mine, auditor: 347, particular Politicians of various hues, represent Into this unequal situation the d rgan Zer or tem Mill and Smelter Workers, a C. I. tah union would not he that recognize National Labor Relations Act was principally reactionary Republican, porarfl v O. affiilate, has over 900 members. he was personally satisfied projected in 1935. The act did unless in Mr bonacci week this he spent The union meets at the big hall unions the responsibility, something about gajt Lake City assisting Mr. Mor-th- e nothing to repeal the multitudinous of his 168 South West Temple street, not and in said effect he at that state and federal court decisions public sentiment. an active or- - Salt Lake City. for gan plans Your observers opinion is that ganization campaign, defining labors rights. It did not (Continued on page 3) Clark Naegle and Clarence Mills you can talk yourself black in the the local at the interrepresented face and read all the political bunk UNITED ICE WORKERS national convention in Denver. The KILLING OF STRIKER IN CLEVELAND you care to in the Republican news- - C. I. O. LOCAL NO. 410 10 votes in Garfield cast delegates papers but the two most frequently! MEETS MONDAY NIGHT the convention.. BRINGS DEATH LIST TO EIGHTEEN mentioned candidates for city are Lawrence A. President T. H. Steele of the MAGNA-ARTIIUUNION CLEVELAND (UNS) The hoodlums without any police inter- Johnson, and Charlie M. Ramey. United Ice and Refrigeration ASKS FOR A VOTE Both are genuine New Deal Demo- - Workers local union No. 410, C. I. ference. death of John Orecny, Killed Truck Scab crats. Johnson hails from the First O. affiliate, announces that the By Corrigan-McKinney operator employed at the The Utah Copper company has ward and Ramey from the Second union will meet at 168 South West refused to consent was run down by a truck Orecny to an election by of the plant Republic driven ward. Temple street Monday night at 8 the by a Republic strike-breakunder government employes Steel Corporation for 16 years, and who tried Mr. Johnson is secretary of the o'clock. to get through the picket to whether determine supervision O. C. I. the father of four children, brings line at the Corrigan-McKinne- y Salt Lake County Democratic com- Regional Director the company union or the Arthur up to 18 the list of union men kill- plant. The driver of the truck was mittee and chief deputy in the James Morgan has been invited to and Millmens union No. ed by company gunmen and police not held by the police on the county assessors office. Mr. Ramey address the meeting and install the 392, Magna Union of Mine, International since the steel strike started May grounds that the accident was un- is a member of the house of repre-- 1 charter recently received from the Mill and Smelter Workers, shall I. O. headquarters at Washing-an- d 26. sentatives in the state legislature, avoidable. Utah the represent Copper emC. has a splendid voting record on ton. Scores of other unionists, one of In a similar incident earlier the collective as ployes bargaining All members and prospective whom is at the point of death, same day, Tom Glowacki, 51, re- all labor and progressive measures. agent. Among those mentioned for city members are urged to attend this were seriously wounded during the ceived a fractured skull and leg The employes under the Wagner attack. As on previous occasions when struck by a truck driver who auditor arl J. Waldo Parry, and j imPortant meeting, Labor Relations Act have requestin Chicago, Massillon and Youngs- was attempting to transport scabs Jerrold P. Beesley. Both are New ed a public hearing to determine Deal Democrats, able and deserv GILSONITE MINERS ' the company union or the whether town, no one was killed or badly through the mill gates. ORGANIZE UNION Millmens oh and Magna S.W.O.C. Arthur Al Balint, the other side. The much hurt organizer, ing. There is some talk of coalition i Union No. International union talked of strike violence is again headed a committee of 15 elected 392, The gilsomte miners of Duchesne Workbetween Smelter Mill and Mine. Hall of the on to be side Republicans of reactionary on the the by proved City steps entirely now organized m local Deal Democrats to I county are 403 the Utah Copof the steel companies, the union the strikers, went to set their pro- and anti-Neof the international ers, shall represent unionNo. to a slate defeat a collective as bargainprogres- unjon 0f Mine. Mill and Smelter per employes test and demands before Mayor put up points out. ing agent. The city police are charged by Harold Burton and other city sive slate but your observers Workers rep0rts E. M. Royle, The employes under the Wagner is that that the Steel Workers Organizing Com- officials. trict seCretary for Utah. The gil-none Relations Act have requestto be materialize. able Labor For to the his In unsatisfac-thmg Mayor, speech sonite miners have had mittee with openly siding with and anti-Need a Dealers have the hearing to determine tory working conditions and even the public helping the gunmen and thugs in Balint said the union had increased and the Labor Board has a miserable such issue, to that 2000 they had to pay a rake-0- ff minority to the corn-wi- ll the employ of Republic Steel to the picket line at the plant action in the immediate come not out to dare the promised show to openly pany store from their pitifully low break up the picket line. Union in the last few days of a and case expose candidate. public the for that the needed any reactionary They wa?es. 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