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Show 1935. UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. DECEMBER 6, Includes depression the largest amount of stability was in a group that electric light and power and gas manufacturing, sugar refining, petroleum, ice cream, soap, and department stores, whereas the least sta bility was in motor vehicles, electrical machinery, and iron and steel. env Obviously, it is easier to make progress toward guaranteeing than others; steadier nature in their are businesses in that ployment but the point of this .article is loss in what has been so far accomon caPlta' plished than in the growing recognition of a duty that rests Not in the lifetime of any person row on earth will business be so related to the community that every person wishing to work way do so. The next problem in importance, therefore, is how to provide for the lives of those who have passed working age. .When one large eastern city, Rochester, New York, was struck firms by the depression, about twenty of the prominent employing undertook to meet the situation by cooperative action. As far as i to know, this is the first attempt at joint action in private industry these and protect its unemployed. The city has long been progressive, firms had already been taking such steps as regularizing production, etc. producing ahead in slack seasons, spreading employment, too old for are when of to they care take An obligation employes effective work is less generally recognized than is the obligation to unkeep employment steady. I agree with e Irofessor Balderstonbe that will it steadily charge, less industry chooses to assume this undertaken by separate states, as well as by the national government, and I do not care to prophesy which would be better for business itself. labor Jetos Utafj Established A MEM HER OF T1IG 1929 0 Thin paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. iMLU 04 vW Entered as second-claa- s matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.50 per annum .. Advertising rates by request. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th Utah. East Street, Salt Lake City, Telephone Was. 2981. ..........PubIisher .... Office Manager THE HANK AND FILE BUNKUMIST YOU AND THOSE YOU HIRE By Norman Ifapgood, in the Rotarian The entire world, we are informed, is watching with unfeigned interest the dual impact on business morals in the United States of a steadily growing enlightenment in the field of employer-employ- e relations ,and current governmental efforts, spurred onward by the depression, to give economic security to the worker. Surely, few will question the assertion that within the past generation an increasing number of employers have been endeavoring to develop better relations with their employes as rapidly as competitive condition and other circumstances have made them possible. If I am right in thinking that increasing security of employment is the foremost question in front of us, then it becomes desirable to give the fullest credit to those employers who have been, some of them for many years, endeavoring so to conduct their business as to reduce to a minimum the tragedy of insecurity of jobs. General Electric began in 1931 to guarantee a definite amount of work in one of its divisions, but in other divisions it has not felt able to deal successfully with the seasonal nature of demand. It has, however, at least stated the sound basic philosophy that conservatism in boom times is the best security against lay-ofin the slower times. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad, troubled by this problem of irregularity of employment, has ceased to send its locomotives to outside shops for repair but, instead, has the repairs done at times n and places so chosen as to give a better chance of keeping the at work. pany s own Leeds & Northup, the instrument manufacturing company which won a- conspicuous prize for the best plan to improve relations be- tween owners and employes, stresses the increase of overtime when is unusually large, instead of the employment of extra men, with 50 per cent more pay for overtime. The firm, Procter & Gamble, which won second prize in the same contest, has increased continuity of employment by a combination of methods: a very careful forecast of sales, after which the work is planned evenly for 52 weeks; improvements in warehousing; regulation of sales and deliveries. The president of this company has said that the injustice of irregularity of employment is too great that industry must solve it or the problem will be taken from her hands and placed in those of others not so competent for its solution. Numerous other examples could be cited of genuine wrestling with this outstanding problem of regularity, some of them in small companies. An admirable collection of them may be found, quite up to date, in a book by C. C. Balderston, professor of industry in the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor BaldefstoA, among other things, finds that during the I fs corn-me- I - .... 1 NEWS and COMMENT (Continued from page 1) We can make our lives sublime You may meet discoverers, poets, The Dad and That Granddad Drank scientists, statesmen engineers, judges, musicians, artists, sculp-- 1 tors, editors and writers in fact! men of nearly all trades and professions. Their introducers or biographers! will tell you things that will reveal their inner longings, their victories, their defeats, their joys and sorrows. In many cases you may examine their thoughts as they have set them down with great care for you to persue. Do you like humor? Go down to your meeting place in your own home city or hamlet, and sit awhile with Mark Twain, and let him delight you with his inimita- ble humor. Or chat a while with great phil- I osophers who have truly lived. Or go over again the life of the one who spent much time in "doing ize that all they enjoyed and suf- fered and wrought is your heritage as truly as though you were the last soul survivor of the human race. But you are in a better position. You can enjoy their silent comradeship knowing that you can TOR PLEASANT Christmas Wednesday, Tuesday, (Gifts The seasons here and gifts of lasting sat isfaction are HERE!!! 'For instance Rain may be especially good for ducks, but a lot of gooses go out in it. t BOOKS GLOBES . PENS STATIONERY . . . and CARDS Wise mothers do not expect immediate results will always follow They their words and efforts. keep on sowing seed and cultivating and leave the growing part to time. ...a huge assortment of charming designs. Make your selection NOW. HYING TnE HOME OF THE QUALITY ss is within your reach. you may have to stretch. 44 East South Temple East 2nd South iiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiimimmimimiiimimiiiimiiimmiis m 14 East Broadway THE SHOP THAT CATERS TO OFFERS STYLE-MINDE- WOMEN D MARVELOUS VALUES COATS . . . SUITS... 5 I I I USE Pikes Peak SUPER QUALITY FLOUR tl8- - In the labor two-thir- two-thir- o ds - When you are going places you like to inquire the way of someone who has been there. Made By ds If grocers will use newspaper advertising consistently and intelligently, J. Frank Grimes, presi- The Busier Flour Mills dent of the Independent Grocers alliance, said, they will do more business in 1936 than in any year during the last decade. In a letter addressed to members, Grimes said: The fellows who used the depression as an excuse to curtail their advertising have steadily made their plight worse and are now paying the penalty for their shortsightedness. Our consistent advertising and promotion has been the most potent force in our remarkable growth. Advertising makes for volume sales, volume sales lower production cost, and we all benefit. CENTURY (INCORPORATED) Many business men are making up their minds these days that they have stood still long enough. They are going places. How about you ? 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American Federation of La- DISTANT tomorrows can be deterbor and its affiliated organizations mined to a great extent by choices OF AUTHENTIC MERCHANDISE AND VALUE are founded upon the constitutional you make today and in the IMform of government. The very MEDIATE tomorrows. TillllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIlllllllllllllllllIIIIlllllIllllIIIIllllllIIIIIllIlllIlllIIlllI? principles of the bona fide labor movement of America teach re" H spect for law and order. It teaches respect for the constitution and laws of organizations as well as of the nation. Sometimes there are members who thoughtlessly, or otherwise, forget that the labor movement is governed by laws and that these laws, above everything else, should be respected and obeyed. Disrespect and disobedience of the laws of the labor movement, as well as of the laws of our country, tend toward brute force, mob rule, an,d anarchy. We must not have organizations, it takes a majority to change the constitution. When the organization adopts laws with a majority, these laws good. As you mingle with the great should be binding upon the mem-an- d good the real 400 leaders of bership and they should be respect-societ- y stop a moment and real- - ed and obeyed. (Continued on page 3) luhnJBke AT dictator of the labor moveThe other day we heard a would-b- e ment state that he wants the rank and file leadership. He was opwell posed to dictatorship by elected leaders and executive boards, as as chosen committees. It sounded like the rank and file" racket the communists have of Labor played for some years in accusing the American Federation leaders as dictators, etc., etc. . The joke of the entire statement of this particular person is the fact that he does not desire dictatorship of anyone but himself. He has never respected nor supported any leadership in the labor movement unless it was of his own choosing. And because he has not been able to dictate to the members whom they should elect to lead them, the result has been that he is carrying a chip on his shoulder about everything pertaining to the labor and constantly "belly-ache- s movement. He has scattered his spleen and hatred wherever he has gone. He has condemned those who have devoted time to the task of organizing the unorganized workers and whenever a new organization was started, he was out with his hammers to bring about dissension and turmoil within the ranks of the new organization. He has taken special delight in his chosen task of hammering, to knock the Utah Labor News during the past few fears. Thist he has done because he could not dictate the policies of this publication. The majority of the members of bona fjde labor unions of Salt Lake City and Utah have this knockers number. They dont trust him. The majority of the members of organized labor believe in consti- tutional form of government and they aupport their elected leaders, This is as it should be. There is no room in the labor movement for persons who facture and circulate spleen, hatred and dissension, manu-busine- I ng UNION HADE Monday, Thursday and Friday. But if you tried to carry Fridays, Thursdays, Wednesdays and Tuesdays load on Monday, it might show up a weakness. The same is true of mental problems. Divide up your worries, Youll be agreeably surprised at the surplus strength you will appear to have. old-ag- M. I THOMPSON. L. M. THOMPSON. soap-maki- You might be able to carry 30 pounds of sugar 10 miles every Memorize the Name EDISON STREET SALT LAKE CITY Phone Wasatch 1801 231-3- 5 ffEae UttaBn ILaEsoi? Neyc Where Your Advertisement is Read by tbe Best Paid Workers in Utah r |