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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 21, 1937. 3 i NEWS AND COMMENT (Continued from Page 1) ent and substance they have not been advocating a theory for their own self preservation. They have been giving us a way of life which if followed will save us from selfishness, impoverished uloofness, and possible insanity. The psychiatrists who today are so successful in bringing people back from the shadowy borderlands of utter mental confusion begin by getting the patient to thinking of others. He who understood humanity best was not talking airy nothings when He said, Seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness and all necessary things will be added." The life is not only saved from dire things. Being saved to service such a life becomes attractive to others who are attracted to the interests of the sharing one. Of course like many things else this can be overdone. There are those who share of their substance until they are dependent. They are not unlike an overripe fruit. Furthermore he who gives in order to gain seems to have the current of supply. There is something practical about not letting the left hand know. But he who gains that he may give, he indeed has learned to live. And to him that hath friendliness, graciousness, thoughtfulness to help shall be given more of the worthwhile values of life. Robert Louis Stevenson revealed how well he had learned life when he wrote: "So long as wTe love we serve. So long as we are loved by others. I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend." in-gro- out-goin- g, out-givi- ng short-circuit- ed to find something that can be quite as fascinating as, for instance, the theater. In one afternoon at .a ball yard, ou may, if you know where and ow to look for it, come upon a d half dozen races between a running man and a thrown ball, in which the hundredth part of a second is all that determines success or failure; dozens of examples of skill triumphant, skill defeated, traps baited and snapped shut upon victims; human courage, human folly and human cowardice; harrow escapes, heroes, villains; (Continued on page 8) split-secon- UTAHS MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES The entire nation will know about Utah on Memorial Day. In natures own cathedral, encircled by the towering walls of the Great White Throne, Angels Laud- ing, Cathedral Mountain, and Red Arch Mountain of Zion National park, the world famous L. 1). S. Tabernacle choir, the L. D. S. church, state and national officers of the American Legion, and the United States army, will present 1937s most unique Memorial Day services. The patriotic and religious program from 9:30 to 11 a. m. (MTS) Sunday, May 30, has been arranged by the advertising committee of the Salt Lake City chamber of commerce in cooperation with the Cedar City and St. George chambers of commerce, the National Park service, and the Union Pacific railroad. The first hour of the program will be broadcast on the network of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the final program will be broadcast over KSL. A. S. Brown, chairman of the coast-to-coa- st 30-min- How Big Is a Bridge? Upon the question in the title of Great White Throne committee, this depends the answer whether and Democrat national committeethe Golden Gate bridge at San man from Utah, has worked for Francisco, completed in early more than a year to bring this proMay, will assume first place among gram to success. The entire world the worlds suspension bridges, or has been invited to listen in on this whether the George Washington unique presentation of Utahs talbridge at New York will retain this ent. of Determination distinction. bigness" in bridges depends largely upon what measuring stick is LABOR ON used. Considering length of span, FORWARD MARCH the Golden Gate bridge, with a ITS main span, is the worlds suspension-typ- e bridge. longest The George Washington bridge, however, is designed to carry a heavier load, although its main span is 700 feet shorter and its cable length 2482 feet shorter than the western structure. On the other hand, diameter of the two cables supporting the Golden Gate bridge is 36 inches as against 36 inches for the George Washington structure, which has four cables providing a total supporting strength of 350,000 tons, as against 193,004 tons for the Golden Gate bridge. Scientific American. 4200-fo- ot $50,-000,0- Labor and Consumers i Cooperative Movement Closer cooperation between the labor and consumers cooperative movements in the United States will come to pass when labor becomes more generally organized and more wage earners become members of cooperative societies, according to James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, who discusses the subject in the May issue of the "Annals, published by the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pa. The growth of cooperation among industrial workers will also depend, he believes, upon an educational campaign in the unions a3 to the value of consumers' cooperation, the education of the members of the cooperative movement as to the value and need of labor unions, .the actual standards of wages, hours, and working condi tions maintained by cooperatives their own employees, the dis- position of cooperatives where possible to purchase goods made under fair labor conditions, and the attitude of cooperatives toward unionization of their own employees. Although Mr. Myers says that an agreement with any other group or organiation without having first reached a similar agreement with the automobile workers. Settlement of the three strikes marked the first important victory in the U. A. W.s recently initiated drive to organize the innumerable small tool and die shops in Detroit. Union Conditions Won In explaining the agreement, John Anderson, tool and die organizer, said, These agreements have established the highest wage rates, shortest hours, and provide the means of establishing the best working conditions ever achieved in the tool and die industry. Minimum wage rates of $1.20 an hour for tool and die makers and $1.10 an hour for machine men, with a 75 cents minimum for common labor, were set up by the agreements. Anderson pointed out that these rates vere only minimum and that the average rate would range from $1.30 to $1.40 an (Continued from Page 1) meeting at the Fraternal hall, hour. 323 State street. Many members were obligated. Murray smelter workers new The increases effected amounted to 15 cents an hour over the rates local now in effect. In addition to these union will elect officers at a meeting in Murray this (Friday) evening. The employes of the Hercules Powder Co. at Bacchus met Tuesday night in Cooper hall at Magna three shops the union has signed agreements already with a number of other shops establishing mini-muof $1.25 and $1.15. The agreement further provides an additional 5c an hour added to reorganize the powder workers compensation for afternoon and local union. The meeting was ad- night shift workers. dressed by Mr. Royle. Other Benefits Provided The Midvale smelter workers Other terms are time and one-ha- lf union obligated new members at for more than eight hours a its meeting in Goff hall at Midvale day, 40 hours a week, and the first ten hours on Saturday; double time Tuesday night. for Sundays, holidays, and more than ten hours on Saturday and Tool and Die (Continued n page 4) Goolsgy What do you mean, young fellow, by telling it about town that my "head was made of solid ivory? OJawish Im sorry, old chap, but I never used such language. I Shops Win Pact more carried said that "you merely osseous matter above your shoulBy Frank Winn Orders than any other man I ever DETROIT, Mich. (UNS) makers die met. and of tool ganization Goolsby Well now, thats dif- in job shops here by the United Automobile Workers has been ferent. Pathfinder. forging ahead vigorously in recent Drama on the Diamond weeks with the settlement of three Baseball can be the most fasci- strikes establishing the highest ever nating game in the world to watch wages and shorter hours indus-trand also the dullest, depending achieved in the tool and die upon the quality of the play, the caliber and situation of the comAgreements with Richards peting teams, and upon what you Brothers, Koeslin, and the Star tool and die shops gave virtual yourself bring into the park. will bore sole collective bargaining rights to If games you, you never like baseball. But if you the U. A. W. Managements of the can take pleasure in the story of three companies agreed to recogconflict unfolded before your eyes, nize the union as the bargaining it is only necessary to become a agent for its members and at the little more familiar with the game same time agreed not to come to supply bill paid by American farmers in 1935 was spent for supplies purchased cooperatively, about 800,000 farm families now belonging to these cooperatives, that worth of oil products were little practical interest has been shown, until recently, "by either movement in the other" since the A. F. of L. endorsed consumers co operation in 1917, he points out that there is an increasing tendency on the part of cooperative employes to join labor unions and for cooperatives themselves to bargain collectively with their employes and to purchase goods produced under fair labor conditions. He notes that one of the largest American cooperatives, the Central Cooperative Wholesale at Superior, Wis., reports that it has adhered from its inception to the interpretation that the consumers' movement must be cooperative looked upon as a part of the general labor movement. "In its practical relations with its own employes, that cooperatives statement continues, "it has consistently favored union organization, and employes of the Whole sale have been largely instrumen-fo-r tal in the organization of trades in the city of Superior, as in the case of bakers and. truck drivers" Among the cooperatives whose employes are all members of trade unions, Mr. Myers lists Cooperative Distribution Inc. and Consumers Union in New York, the Peoples Cooperative Society (city cooperative store) in Superior, Wis., the Franklin Cooperative Creamery Association, Minneapolis, and the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Associations gas station operatives. The writer notes that the American Federation of Hosiery Workers set up a Labor Committee on Cooperatives in 1935 and that this union started the Carl Mackley cooperative houses in Philadelphia. He states that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers now have two units of cooperative housing, including stores and services, in New handled lastyear by gasoline and oil cooperatives, that cooperative insurance companies are growing satisfactorily, that the Credit Union National Association has grown to the point where 5843 cooperative credit societies were functioning on March 18, 1937, and that farm purchasing cooperatives are increasing their business volume. Cooperative Wholesale Cooperative SUPERIOR, Wis. established in 1917 Wholesale, with a capital of $15.50, completed its 20th year of successful operation with a net worth of over $200,-00- 0 and a cooperative business which totaled $2,840,000 in 1936, according to the report of II. V. Nurmi, general manager of the Coop Wholesale, to cooperative representatives meeting here. Three hundred delegates from 100 consumers cooperatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin crowded the Workers hall for the 20th annual meeting of the cooperative and to measures voted designed activithe extend and strengthen ties of the cooperative. In order to build a greater inventory of goods the delegates approved the recommendation of the board to place $12,000 of last years savings in a reserve fund and to return the remainder of the $56,000 net gain to affiliated cooperatives in deferred rebates on purchases. The delegates instructed the board of directors .to establish a and testing laboratory to maintain Co-o- p brand of improve the quality goods; endorsed the Wisconsin law providing for teaching consumers cooperation and marketing in all public schools and urged other states to follow Wisconsins lead; appropriated $7500 for educational work and empowered the board to York City, spend more if business warrants; Mr. Myers reports that the frag- voted to establish a feed mill and mentary data available indicate seed cleaning plant at Superior; that wages, hours, and. conditions condemned fascism and voiced of cooperative employes are not their allegiance to labor and to uniform. While in some instances peace. standards are higher than in comReaffirming its past cordial polpeting private establishments, in icy towards organized labor, the other cases they are found to be p wholesale meeting voted inferior. He suggests that union- unanimously to "recognize the ization and "an enlightened con- right of employes to organize as science among the members must they themselves see fit and to barbe relied upon to correct existing gain collectively through represenabuses. tatives of their own choosing, fully Other writers in the current An- assured that this entails no disnals, which is devoted entirely to crimination on the part of organ-ide- d labor against the Cooperative Consumers Cooperation, report of the total farm movement as a whole. that co-o- one-eigh- th YOU SHARE IN TIIE PROFITS We Welcome You as a Customer or a Member UTAH CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION GROCERIES FRESH MEATS South Main FRUITS 860 JUST PHONE VEGETABLES Wasatch 4864 WE DELIVER . Best Wishes To Labor y. UTAIKI-DOAI- ' Best Wishes to our Friends Who Labor SUOAP COMPANY KI Manufacturers of Phone WASATCH tyj amifl i 0 r Cleaners and Dyers CHARGE IT, IF YOU WISH 00 Beneficial Life Building Salt Lake City |