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Show tnuzJ or tstirszstiT News and Comment EDUCATE ORGANIZE lj M. I. T. Dictators in There are a few the labor movement who are striving mighty hard to be dictators to every member of the trade union organizations, political parties, business men, and what not. To members of organized labor these would-b- e dictators try to tell what publications they should read and support. To businecs men they try to tell how and where to spend thir advertising money. To political parties they tell they must be leftists and do so and so or they will deliver their 30,000 votes in their vest pockets to anyone they please. If there ever were nuts," the would-b- e dictators can be classified with them. The 30,000 labor votes they claim to carry in their vest pockets in a showdown would shrivel down to 300 or less. Their 80,000 reasons can be Bnswered in one reason, common-sensThe members of organized labor, Would-B- e COOPERATE self-seeke- rs , Labors Non-partis- an e. an spleen-poisone- Cl Political Outlook U fiague dS Utah and U. S. card in Lab3 Compiled From Reporta of Observers an 31? te for Pres. a?u 8 u en oosevt 2' 'ember. or of the The enthusiat k .ting, acceptances we I vigor-ijo- r cates labor is goi, Berry ously to that en stated. Labor realizes that it has a real friend in the White House now, and intends to keep him Campaign. I On campaign 'for Democratic party nominations is on at full blast. The state convention will take place at McCulloughs arena in Salt Lake City on August 15. The Salt Lake City and county there." primaries to elect 329 delegates to Meanwhile as tabulations of the the state convention will take membership roster progress, re- place on August 10. sults show a pronounced spreadThere is keen interest taken in In the ing geographically as well as nu- the gubernatorial race. d race with Governor merically. Every state in the Union in- Blood, seeking renomination; State cluding the Canal Zone and the Senate President I.Iaw, and State Territory of Hawaii are repre- Senator Woodward are vying for sented, Major Berry pointed out. the honored first place. Indications at this date, three Stage Employes Join The resolution of the Interna- weeks before the convention, point tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage to the renomination of Governor Employees and Motion Picture Ma- Blood on the first ballot. In fact, chine Operators, typical in intent your political observer believes to other international union resolu- that the roll call will not be completed when a motion vill be made tions, reads in part as follows: make the Governor the partys to RESOLVED: officers the By and delegates of this convention unanimous choice as the standard assembled at Kansas City in June, bearer of Utah Democracy. Your observer may be mistaken, 1936, that we go on record as pledging our united and whole- but so far his calculations have a hearted support to bring about the batting average of 1000 points. The Governor is conducting a continuance of the work of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president of the clean and gentlemanly campaign, United States of America for an- appealing to the Democrats to inother term. vestigate his record during his (Continued on page 2) Let us go forward for Roose. velt and recovery, for political freedom, social security and economic will work and fight as they never justice. This resolution comes did before to the from the very hearts of the mem- humanitarian that ever satgreatest in the bers of this industry, regardless of White House, Franklin D. their political affiliations, who indi-for- The three-cornere- re-ele- ct Steel Workers Rights Will Be Protected, Says Kennedy THE NEW DEAL AN ANSWER TO REACTIONARY CRITICS Ban Broken by Homestead Meet Steel Organiz-in- g Committee Reaffirms Peaceful Aims and Warns of Company Union Trickery ' Pennsylvania Governor See 'Tha t W Or keri GeFJ ust ice. Anti-Unio- n (Continued from last week) The Wagner Labor Relations Act Public LawCreates a permanent National Labor Relations Board of three members, appointed by the President with senate consent, to promote and equality of bargaining powers between employers and employees to diminish the causes of labor disputes. This permanent board replaces the old temporary National Labor Relations Board established under executive orders of President Roosevelt. Declares collective bargaining to be a national policy. Provides that employees shall have the right to to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in activities, for the purpose of pay, hours, and other condicollective bargaining or other mu- tions.wages, A minority would be allowed tual aid or protection. to present grievances. Lays down five unfair labor Empowers the board to decide practices by forbidding employ- in each case whether, in order to ers insure to employees the full bene1. To interfere with, restrain, or fit of their right of coerce employees in the exercise of and to collective bargaining, the right guaranteed in the coi- - and otherwise effectuate the polsection (sec. 7) icies of the act, the unit approg .of the act. priate for the purposes of collecor interfere tive bargaining shall be the em2. To dominate with the formation or administra- ploye: unit, plant unit, or any subtion of any labor organization or division thereof. contribute financial or other supDirects the board to prevent . any person from engaging in any port to it. or discourage of the five enumerated unfair la3. To encourage membership in any labor organiza. bor practices affecting comtion by discrimination in regard to merce, this power to be excluof employment or sive and not affected by any othhire or tenure ' any term or condition of employ- er means of adjustment or prevenment. tion that has been or may be es4. To discharge or otherwise dis- tablished by agreement, code, law, criminate against an employee for or otherwise. filing charges or giving testimony Stipulates that nothing in the under the act. act shall be construed so as to in5. To refuse to bargain collec- terfere with or impede or diminish tively with the representatives of in any way the right to strike. employes subject to the provisions Wagner Employment Act of section 9a of the act, which pro(Approved June 6, 1933. Public vides that bargaining representa- Law No. 30, 73d Cong.) tives chosen by a majority of such Provided for the establishment unit exclusively in bargaining on of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such a system NEWSPAPER GUILD NAMED by creating in the Department of TO REPRESENT ASSOCIATED Labor a bureau known as the UnitPRESS EDITORIAL EMPLOYES ed States Employment Service, under a director appointed, by the WASHINGTON. President with senate consent. (AFLNS) The National Labor Relations Empowered the Federal Governboard announced that it had cer- ment to coordinate the activities of tified the American services and, Newspaper state employment Guild as the exclusive represen- where states do not establish a tative of the New York City em- svstem of their own, to take the ployes of the Associated Press for first steps in that direction. collective Authorized an appropriation of bargaining with the $1,590,000 for the first year and management. The board said that by order of $4,000,000 annually thereafter, its regional director an election of this money to be was conducted by secret ballot distributed to the states to assist among the employes between May in maintaining the employment 25 and May 29. services, on condition that the "A majority of those eligible states an equal appropriate voted; a majority of those voting, amount, the rest to go for adminthough less than a majority of istrative purposes. those eligible, voted for the AmerThe Roads Employment Act ican Newspaper Guild, the board (Approved June 18, 1934. Public stated. Law No. 393, 73d Cong.) The board explained that in cerProvided for the increase of emtifying the Guild it followed the ployment by authorizing approprirule established by the circuit court ations for emergency construction of appeals for the Fourth circuit of public highways and related in Virginian Railway Co. vs. Sys- projects. tem Federation No. 40. (Continued from page 3) -- ( Approved July- F, 1935.- - 74th-Cong.)--- No-,-198- - - . con-cert- ed lective-bargainin- three-fourt- hs Cents Per Copy 2.g , executive committee and state committee members of the Labor's Nonpartisan League will meet at the convention room at Newhouse hotel, Salt Lake City, Sunday, July 20, 2 oclock p. m. Frank Bonacci of Helper, state chairman, will be in charge of the meeting. Several county committees of the League are already functioning in Utah, and the workers are showa vast majority of them, are in- ing much activity and interest in telligent. They reason and put two the reelection of President Rooseand two together and vote accord- velt. ingly. Because they are intelligent labor will not take Workers in 92 WASHINGTON. organized their orders from would-b- e dicta- crafts and trades, and officials of tors and plain nuts." 47 international unions, have join, ed Labor's League to Shoot At a Target date, pledging their united support The special target of the nuts to the Leagues single objective of Presidictators has been for 1936, the and would-b- e the Utah Labor News. This, be- dent Roosevelt, George L. Berry cause we are running a publication president of the League, announced which is constantly growing in fa- today. Three international unions, the vor and prestige with intelligent readers; and because we deal in Amalgamated Clothing Workers of facts, and not in wild and woolly America, the International Alliance dreams of the would-b- e dictators. of Theatrical Stage Employees We do not agree with their ideas and Motion Picture Machine Oper of dictatorship and do not approve ators and the Cap and Millinery of personal Workers' International Union, have of their voted public resolutions as a unit, and hatred. spleen Every time they shoot with their pledging their organization memd arrows at the Utah berships to the Leagues 1936 Labor News it raises the prestige plank. 84 Per Cent of Labor of this publication in the hearts This response indicates that up and minds of our fellow citizens. The people of Utah, both with- to this time, we have members in in and without the labor move- 84 per cent of the trade unions of ment, know and appreciate that America, Major Berry explained. Every holder of a membership (Continued on page 4) The Non-Partis- 5 ca Crafts Joi Ninety-tw-o Price: SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JULY 24. 1936. VOL. VII; NO. 2. By VIN SWEENEY PITTSBURGH (UNS) The constitutional rights of steel workers will be protected by the state government in Pennsylvania, about 5,000 of them were told at a recent rally in nearby Homestead heretofore closed to union organizers. Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, who is also secretary-treasurof the United Mine Workers, personally carried the message from Harrisburg: To the captains of steel who are resisting, and would an end to these efforts to organize steel workers in this year of bring 1936. let me say to them that they are not go- ing to get away with the kind of stuff they have pulled on the workers up to this time, he said. The government of Pennsylvania is now located in Harrisburg, not in Pittsburgh, New York or Bristol, Pa. The governor of this commonwealth is George H. Earle, who is able, honest and courageous. As governor of Pennsylvania he is commander-in-chie- f of the armed forces of this state and he is going to see that the workers er are granted their constitutional rights under the constitution. Af r it shall be my purpose to assist the governor in all of his great work. Entitled to Relief I am also a member of the State Emergency Relief Board, and if the steel magnates intend to follow their usual procedure and throw people out on the streets as a result of their unionization efforts, they will find that these people are entitled to relief from the government under the present administration of relief. It was a stirring address, made at a demonstration that marked the 44th anniversary of the Homestead massacre of 1892. On the graves of the labor martyrs were laid wreaths, after the mass meeting in a piayground a few blocks away. Homestead is notorious as an n But the stronghold. present campaign has broken down that barrier, a barrier that a few vears ago prevented Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins from addressing steel workers there. She was forced to hold a meeting in the post office federal property. Company Propaganda Answered Another development in the weeks activities of the Steel Workers Committee Organizing was an expose by Philip Murray, chairman, of cooperative efforts on the part of officials of steel corporations and local chambers of commerce to create the impression in the public mind that the union drive is interested only in precipitating disorder and causing lieutenant-governo- But best of all, we have here a sterling manhood and womanhood. In their veins is the blood of patriots and pioneers. Drouths may come and cause devastation; pests may curtail production; but our people, sustained by noble traditions, may be depended upon to build this state and make her future glorious. -- Governor Henry H. Blood, in his message to the 21st legislature of the State of Utah. January 15, 1935. In these days when there is so much propaganda being spread by leftists and other sorts of ists against the administration of Governor Henry H. Blood it is timely that we look at the records. circuWe should not be satisfied with what the late. It is the duty of every citizen to lind out the plain tacts and act accordingly. In order to be fair and give the facts the Utah Labor News will review the official rec- - enable you to judge what should ord of the Governor by giving a be done in the way of legislation during the next 60 days. It will be synopsis of his recommendations to my duty and my pleasure to work the legislature. with you, and to give such inforThe messages to the legislature, mation as I possess that will assist in both the 20th and 21st regular you in determining the course best sessions, cover practically every- to take with reference to state thing that labor, agriculture and problems." social welfare workers asked. Metal Prices Not Governors Fault It is, however, a satisfaction to It was not the fault of the Gov- note a substantial improvement in ernor if they failed to pass the leg- the metal price situation as comislature. Many of these measures pared with two years ago. The failed to pass the senate. In the Crice of gold is about 69 per cent gossip-monge- senate, especially during the 21st session, some of those propositions never came upon the floor of that august body. The bills died natural deaths in the sifting or some other committee. The president of the senate appoints members of the various senate committees, therefore, the greatest blame lies with the gentleman who wielded the gavel in the upper house for the failure of passage of the desired legislation. Of the measures upon which the house and the senate disagreed, necessitating action of joint conference committees, without exception, the conferees appointed by the president of the senate were reactionaries and antagonistic to the measures, Naturally the result was disagreement and failure ot the measures.. .... .... No sane and person can blame the Governor for the sins of the president of the senate and antagonistic senators. Governors Message It may be doubted if ever a governor of this state stood before a newly elected legislature and presented to the members a message when conditions, as thev the citizenry as a whole, were more difficult and involved than those now existing. fair-mind- ed A Real Challenge The state government has met a real challenge during the past two years. Almost daily new problems have had to be solved. As a rule there was found no precedent upon which to act. The task has been a tremendous one for all who have held official positions. That this state has come so far and so well through the turbulent period is due to the willingness or men and women to assume responsibility with or without remuneration. I pay deserved tribute to those who have served with me in elective and appointive offices. Nor can 1 forget how men of affairs outside of official life have willingly given their time on essential and unpaid committees, with the single purpose The of performing public duty. thanks of the state is du them. Many, indeed most, of such committees still are working. No governor could have received better support or greater evidence of unselfish service; and such service was never more needed. Important History The Twenty-firLegislature is destined to write important pages of Utah history. You members are here under mandate to represent all the people. You were not elected as special advocates of groups or organizations, or lines of business or industry. The people elected you to represent them, and the people are of all classes. The thing most necessary to do for the state and for its people, is the thing for which we all should stand. You know what the people back home are thinking. This knowledge will st anti-unio- ton works of Camegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corp. Efforts were made to have similar action taken in other some will undoubtedly be mills but Goldens quick successful spiking of the scheme caused many mills to refuse. f A concrete example of this was at the McDonald (Ohio) works of where the comCamegie-Illinoi- s pany union flatly refused to adopt the resolution. They simply, announced they would not be used as the cats paw; that they would take no part in any move which might be contrary to the wishes of the workers. strikes. Murray sent out a denunciation of such tactics, in a bulletin to all executive officers, field representa a rs silver about 117 per cent higher, copper about 26 per cent higher, zinc about 24 per cent higher, and lead about 5 per cent lower than in January, 1932. It is evident that but for the large increases in the prices of gold and silver the metal mining industry probably would have been much more extensively curtailed than it has been." Coal Production I regret to report a still further decline in the production of coal. This is attributable to a shift of fuel use from coal to other heat producing agents. I shall take keen interest in any plan that can be devised to restore this industry so essential to the relief of unemployment and so important to the state of Utah. -. Social Legislation j, We are living in a new era. Political policies and social conditions tolerated and condoned in the past, even though not always completely accepted, are gradually being replaced. New and progressive trends influence our every thought and action. The problem before us is to choose the best of these . , trends. A change has been emphatically demanded by the people of this state and this nation. As a result remedies have been and are being sought for conditions that through the breakdown of our economic machinery have become intolerably oppressive. The solutions offered by the federal government have not yet had time to prove in full their The President, himself, efficacy. has properly said that ailments of long standing cannot be cured in a short time. Results, on the whole, are very encouraging, and the fact that some of the most vexing problems still remain unsolved should not cause us to lose faith in their ultimate solution. The future of our state and our nation is secure because of the undaunted courage of the American citizen in his search for ways and means to meet his problems, and because of the democratic structure of our government itself. Unemployment The most serious problem which still confronts us is that of unemployment. No socially minded person will contend that it is possible again to attain prosperity until the great number of unemployed men and women who are willing and able to work have been granted that right. There is, perhaps, no social condition more subversive of manhood and womanhood than enforced idleness. The very nature of our compactly organized group life demands that cooperative labor must be performed by man in order that he may live. When through no fault of his own he is unable to fulfill this demand that he sustain himself through v'ork, extreme discontent with conditions is engendered. The minds of those who seek work wMi. out finding it become imbued with the idea that social justice is absent in our present system. Support Themselves Real men and women, true American citizens, are never satisfied while they are recipients of charity; on the contrary they are insistent in their demands to be permitted to support themselves. The new policies outlined in Presself-relia- nt ident Roosevelts address to the 74th congress show conclusively that it is his aim to return every employable person to his place in the world of men where he can (Continued on page 2) . |