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Show 8 THE IOEA0L£ c aa 1OESIOF Foes © F IO LEI0: 1OEi0% iO mayo H© aOEIC OE I0} SEARCHLIGHT 1 . Statement Prepared by William Green, President of the American eration of Labor, for the American Labor Yearbook AOKI0k nt @ Eon O Eee Green Lauds Industrial Unionism Fed- 1 SE10r The Searchlight finds itself in complete agreement with the views expressed by President Green of the American Federation of Labor in his comparison of the relative merits of craft and industrial unionism. Ort? : ——_i ~EI0rk We believe those views should be vailable to all union men and women in Utah as well as the general public. The Green statement should throw much light on the situation at Utah Copper and at Geneva. \ ORIOL IOIZIOE I OLI0E Power Company Appeal to the State Appeals Supreme Court from rate reduction of $1,504,000 ordered by the lic Servce Commission, has been taken by Power & Light Company. bond to cover necessary Supreme Court sustains ORO: ai OL Meanwhile refinancing the PubUtah Company posted a refunds in the event the OF to == (eo): = (o) = OLA0L— IOLI0F. — OLIOE. =. (eo) —= (0); the Company plan GOEICE IO LI0F =—OLIOE IOE=I10% = (o).—— (eo): “The Organization of men by Industry rather than by craft brings about more perfect organization, closer cooperation and tends to develop the highest form of organization. The causes of jurisdictional disputes are considerably decreased and in many industries can be eliminated altogether. “The constant friction resulting among craft organizations in their constant contention for jurisdiction causes the Labor movement more trouble and greater inconveniences than any other problem with which it has to deal. “When men are organized by industry they can concentrate their © economic power more advantageously than when organized into craft unions. The results of such concentration of economic strength are the welfare and the advancement of their promotion of their common common interests. “The advantage of such form of organization is so obvious that one A form of organization can seareely conceive of any opposition thereto. that protects the interests of the unskilled workers is the form of orMuch complaint has been directed against ganization most desirable. craft organization because little regard has been given to the problems of the unskilled workers. “Summing up the situation, some of the advantages resulting from an industrial form of organization, are the reduction of opportunities for causes for jurisdictional disputes; the concentration of economic emcooperation of all men strength; the blending into harmonious ployed in industry and the advancement and protection of the interests of the Unskilled Worker in the same proportion as that of the skilled worker.” .—William Green, President of the A. F. of L. has presented Securities the & a new Exchange Commssion that does not include a merger with Colorado Western and Company Traction the Power Company, as originally contemplated. The the Commission. In “Coal view of Baron’ the coal should shortage be spelled we believe ‘‘Coal that Barren’’. |