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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS Tage Eight Saturday, April 7, 1917 TWO BROTHERHOOD MEN WHOSE EFFORTS SHOULD NOT BE IN VAIN Clint Houston, editor of the Denver Labor Bulletin, is in receipt of a letter from B. S. Pepper, vice chairman legislative board of It. of R. T. for Colorado, urging that the paper be made a daily. It u too bad that the working boys cannot get together and support the newspapers that that will do something for them instead of supporting several newspupers that neer overlook an opportunity to take up the side of the other fellows, while their own little paper must dTml for support on a handful of sincere Yuen to carry the load. While the B. R. T. man is boosting for the Bulletin in Colorado to have that paper made a daily, here in Utah an 0. R. C. man is trying to get the railroad boys to do their part in making Utah Labor News even a live weekly, as evidenced by the following letter addressed to the various We hope both will be successful. lodges. Transportation Brotherhoods' Publicity of Utah & l'gilative Bureau Brotherhood of locomotive Engineers ' . Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Order of Railway Conductors Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Salt Lake City, Utah, March 10, 1917. To .ll Members in Utah, Dear Sirs and Brothers: I want to again call your attention to the weekly labor paper issued from the Salt Lake Labor Temple; it is the Utah Labor News" and is beked by the federated trades of Utah and is maintained for the protection of the labor interests. The finest and most practical way for our railroad brotherhoods to with the organized workers of the state is in the tion and support of this paper; the trade unions will appreciate such and value it highly; they will gne us their active symand pathy support and the Utah Labor News will work for us as if it co-oper- belonged to us. The trade union lodges now have an arrangement in which each lodge treasurer remits to the Utah Labor News" the sum of 5 cents per month per member and the paper is sent regularly each week for just that sum to every member of the lodge at their home address; the Labor News" can do this with the aid of their advertisers and the Labor Federation" backing. There is no one living off the Utah Labor News" and the two men who work upon it daily are the most overworked and sincere and earnest workers in the state, and they receive the union scale of daily pay j'ust the same as the rest of us. I respectfully suggest and urge upon all of our lodges that they take immediate action upon this matter and advise the Utah Labor News" that 5 cents per month per member will be remitted and the membership list sent m. I say to you that this is the very least we can do to prove our foresight for our working interests and a proper understanding of our duty to those who help us. We must and help in Buch ways as this; and if we ignore this and stay in our narrow selfish rut we will crumble and break up and we will then belong to that 80 per cent that is working with us upon the railroads now that 80 per cent that we should have we will be organized long ago. If we dont organize and 100 per cent without organization and we can take what the company feels like giving us or take our time which ever we wish. Now please consider and act upon this matter you can handle this matter if you really wish keep in mind that the time has come for us to act, and we must act right away, if we are to keep this paper te going. say f It is our move nowand we must now get on record. What do you What are yon going to do about it f Fraternally, WM. J. TIERNEY, Div. 395, O. K. C. BONUS SCHEMES BY DANTE BARTON, IN LABOR CLARION. The freedom of workers and their control of their own lives through collective bargaining by trades unions are being attacked' now by the bonus system among many This insidious attack is employers. made right along with the other being bolder attacks on workers that is being made in the form of attempted laws for compulsion and conscription and to repeal the short working day. As the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America recently said in effect, there might be a form of giving additional pay to workers wherein the principle of collective bargaining through trades unions was recognized and wherein the additional pay was ihe result of the joint action 6f the employees and the employers. But the bonus system as it is being worked now by the great corporations is,, in practically all cases, the exact opposite of that. They fall within the warning uttered from the altar of St. Patrick's cathedra! lat Christmas day by the Rev. Father John II. ORourke: "We should examine closely these bonuses and increases lest the great Bln of defrauding the worker of his wages go unrebuked and even unnoticed. A bonus to employees,' he declared subsequently to an interview- er of the committee on Industrial relations, that is stained with the blood and tears of women and children and underpaid, overworked, and many times mangled, men, is not even charity. Such a bonus at its best is but a small tithe of restitution. At Its worst it is a calculated, shrewd business investment, designed to keep the workers content with low wages; designed to content them with dependence upon others instead of requiring that which is theirs. Labor does not want charity, nor pity, nor coddling," recently declared Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. We want that which is due us a fair compensation for work well so-call- ed 1 done. A bulletin (No. 203) just recently issued by the department of labor in Washington, discloses that the motive In most, if not all, of the bonus and profit-sharin- g plans Investigated by the department was precisely what Father fiRourke warned so-call- ed Chiropractic Is in 'Accord With Nature Chiropractors do not prescribe Medicine, make use of Surgery, nor practice Osteopathy; nor do they treat, heal or cure disease. They locate and adjust the cause of Nature will do the healing, curing and repairing after such adjustment Jias dis-eas- e. ' been made. The cause of dis-eas- e is vertebral sublnxations, which' produce pressure on spinal nerves, thereby shutting off life currents passing through nerves from brain cell to the parts of the body affected or Chiropractors adjust subluxated vertebrae, relieving pressure on nerves, thereby enabling Innate Intelligence to restore normal functions. The result is health. Innate Intelligence will afford health if allowed uninterrupted transmission; uninterrupted transmission insures perfect expression of function dis-ease- d. To Whom It May Concern, especially those suffering from rheumatism: g. had rheumatism for fifteen months, was ready to die to get rid of my I tried all remedies, both internal and external, with no results ; I also took one month ostopathy treatment, which proved a thrown awhy $50.00. I am a carpenter by trade, but could not take a job because I could not hold my own; but now, after four weeks adjustments by Dr. Ben R. Johnson, Chiropractor, I am now ready to go back to my trade again. This is written in the interest of humanity and hope that all people suffering from rheumatism mav get the same relief that I did. H. S. CAMPBELL, 319 W. Third North, Salt Lake City, Utah. I . suf-erin- BENJ. R. JOHNSON, D. C., Chiropractor Palmer School Graduate. The Man With a Principle. Boston Building, Suite 310-311-31- 2. 1 |