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Show ; Review ofi CJuairiPeinit s' rrxjMisr OJ vz 1 r ZiEC Eremito n " r 1 4 193G Z.IT2JSHET EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE V Vn SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DEC VOL VII; NO. 23. GIVE THE STRIKING MINERS IN UTAH A SQUARE DEAL flevs and Schumann-Hein- k ; 1936. Price: 5 Cent Per Copy Thousands a Day Join Union In Steel Workers Campaign Cominr By M. I. T. An Editorial by M. I. THOMPSON II, . The C. I. O. Steel Drive Goal Is In Sight Workers See Through Companies Trick Agreement And Refuse to Sign Away Rights AH Get Wage Boosts Anyhow. Give the striking miners in Park City, Lark and Bingham continued throughout eternity. Bu; when a great soul of true good a square deal I They are entitled to itl By VIN SWEENEY ness ana worth like Ernestine memAll the strikers are asking for is fair play and a square Schumann-Hein- k PITTSBURGH (UNS) Smashing victories, finds her body no deal. We feel sure of this. They have been patient and peace longer fit to contain herself, then bership, and staggering jolts for steels company unions are swinging ful. As far as we know they have at all times been ready and we find it hard to fall in with the the unionization campaign among steel workers towards complete sucdenial that she may cess in the very near future. willing to meet the employers and talk things over with a hope materialists New members in the steel union since the presidential election and independent of physical exof reaching an understanding and a peaceable settlement. There persist the meeting of the Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittspression is nothing fairer than this procedure. No physical substance can be burgh on November 8 have averaged close to 2,000 daily. This membership, added to the 82,000 previously enrolled, makes We believe the union miners are asking for only those put out of existence. Can human the goal of the Steel Frances Perkins, U. S. Secretary that certain of the form highest things which are deemed just and fair a small wage increase personality, Committee Workers Organizing all Labor, ruled that employe repin keeping with the higher, cost of living, and recognition of I thinpsrcxist be "put out oexSt-collectiv- e a strong, militant union in the of resentatives (company union had Schumann-Heink- s voice steel industry will soon be a fact. no right to sign agreements; that ence ? bargaining by the operators. Steel workers and those com- where such agreements had been could live in the air independent of There is nothing wrong with these demands. union representatives now signed they were not binding. pany The operators should realize in this age of organization physical support, unhampered by U. S. Steel quickly ran to cover openly aligned with the union were and collective bargaining that the only way to continue pleas- - I mended" the voiccethaitTNo jubilant at the swift and success- with an announcement that those ant relations between employers and employes is through or- - one knows either way but we find ful turn of events in the past week. plants which had refused to sign An average person migi... willing to concede that there is nothing of himself worthy of being ever-increasi- ng ever-mounti- ng I One of the most crushing blows the agreement would likewise get ourselves lining up more firmly ganized channels. was dealt to the gigantic U. S. the pay increase an announceeach year with the great and good Evidently the employers are organized and have an un-- 1 w Steel with the expos- ment made days before by Philip Corporation of centunea at derstanding among the employer groups therefore they should ure of their trick wage increase, Murray, chairman of the S. W. not begrudge organization of labor into bona fide and orderly with the string at- 0. C. Previously, steel managetached. labor unions. ment tried to create the impression, without actually announcing Agreement Not Binding There is no room in organized industry for company In the Pittsburgh and Chicago it, that such plants might not get unions, welfare organizations or any other forms of strikemills of that corporation company the raise. breaking agencies, and the employer who aids and abets such In the verbal fight, U. S. Steel union representatives speaking for more than 30,000 workmen refused made an open confession contraagencies is making a sad and costly mistake. These may sucto sign the proffered written dicting itself. It had announced the ceed for a time, but they are short-liveagreement, despite terrific pres- wage increase with the Sooner or later the employers in Utah mines must recrider was an outgrowth of sure from management. Their poognize the bona fide union then, why not now? between sition backed by the S. W. 0. C. collective bargaining True, the business men in the strike areas have suffered was completely upheld when (Continued on Page 4) a fallen trade, but this should not turn them against the strik ing miners. Instead they should cooperate with the strikers U. S. PROJECTS article should be engraved in toward a speedy settlement and return to work under the - con-- 1. I anrliivmM m Kwatc a mm Political Outlook IN UTAH ditions and wages which the miners are entitled to receive. If In the business men give their cooperation and good will to the SAN FRANCISCO. In connecUtah and U. S. working men now; it will mean prosperity for them after thej tion with the recent announcement strike is, settled and is a closed history. Compiled From Reports of approaching completion of the of Observers should The public officials in the strike area keep national land acquisition program . and bless those who may still tune .f fact that the striking workers are human beings of the Resettlement Administramind the j her in. tion, Omer Mills, regional director and are entitled to every consideration a citizen should receive. Direct Primary of rural resettlement, gave a brief Peace Congress They should consider the peaceful and orderly manner in which a direct pri review of projects in Region Nine, to A bill provide Many people from the .United the union miners have continued all these weeks on picket lines States among the firs which includes Utah, Arizona, Caland Canada have gone south mary law will bewhen the legisla ifornia and Nevada. introduced ;o be and other activities of the strike listen to and take part in a lot ... it ( in meets The largest land purchase under ;ure January. All concerned, whether they are business men, public or- 0f talk about peace at Buenos was committee A the ap special program was made in Utah, ficials or unorganized working men, should not give aid to the Aires. This Peace II where 26,243 acres were acquired Governor Henry by pointed strike breaking organizations and scabs. Instead they should Congress is going to cost a lot of 31ood to draft a model bill. The in Garfield county and 39,879 money. Will it be worth it? Of members of this committee are Dr, aid and assist the bona fide union miners and cooperate to the course acres in Juab and Tooele counties. we shall see what B. Maw, president of the The Garfield county area, known Herbert end that the strike might be ended through proper and orderly see. But here are some weof shall the state senate; Walter K. Granger as the Widtsoe project, is being dechannels and to the satisfaction of the employers and employes. possibilities: Cedar of City, speaker of the house veloped as a grazing area. In acIndividuals, families, nations of Some might say that this is impossible, but we say it is not. Frank M quiring this land the government representatives; like to be as independent as possi Remember this: Where there is a will there is a wayl D. C. bought with it the townsite of Mrs. of Ogden, ble. In Germany today they are Browning I am familiar with the trials and tribulations of the workGibson of Helper, state representa Widtsoe, once a thriving commumaking synthetic rubber, alcohol M. of Eldred Elberta, Royle I tive; know a great deal about the treatment nity of about 200 families. Dwining men of Utah. (Continued on Page 7) Utah from senator state county; agricultural production and dling given employes by some of the employers in unorganized inDr. W. L. Wanless of the Utah consequent emigration from the dustries of this state. State Agricultural college, and region had reduced the population of A. Adopt jU.M.W. of of six federation the as state terms During my Tracy R. Welling of the Utah State to about 30 families. president Federation. Farm Some of these have resettled labor I learned about the arrogance and the holier than thou Legislative Program This Bureau authorized has committee themselves. Others will be resetI deknow how some employers attitude of some employers. S. D. assistant tled the with aid of the ResettleHuffaker, attorney I The following is the legislative spised and hated labor officials and organizers. I can recollect the proposed bill, ment Administration to better to draft general, a(iopted by the interna- the stumbling blocks the Nevada primary law as farms in various parts of central they put in my way when I was making tional executive . board, United Mine using a model. He will report on the pro- Utah: Salt Lake, Utah, Juab, efforts to organize the unorganized workers. mi were to re- Workers of America of next the law at Sevier, Tiute and Garmeeting posed Sanpete, volume would these make a late my experiences during years it WHEREAS, labor and other pro- the committee, to be held on De- field counties. of many pages and would contain names of a number of prom-- 1 gressive groups in this country cember 19 at 9 a. m. in the state inent citizens who are employers of labor, and were opposed to have demonstrated their determina- - capitol. ocrats and four Republicans. Thus soa It can be seen that it is nearly commembers of the fide unions. their labor bona of into Meanwhile, employes organization this in a progress country through the direct each will mittee study unanimously Democratic. If there Because of my activities in behalf of the workers 1 was definite program and with are another law of state, going to be any differences of frequently ostracized and branded as a person not fit to asso- - I WHEREAS, it is necessary for primary of embodying in the Utah opinions it will be among the Demthe idea The stool this end that such social and eco- - law the best features of all the ex- ocratic members themselves.' leaders of the "upper-crus- t. ciate with the aims be consolidated into a labor-hatin- g The Democratic members of the of time laws. among the noc employers worked over pigeons national and uniform state legisla isting laws state the primary egislature, no doubt, will caucus Among workers spreading vile propaganda against me, and in some n" tjve program, on those be of are studied to Idaho, I Saturday, January 9, to decide stances they were successful in turning the workers against me. NOW, THEREFORE, Be it un- - Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, who shall be president of the senstool pigeons were clothed in disguise to These employer-pai- d Massachusetts, Wyoming and Mon- ate and speaker of the house of fit the occasion. They talked in whispers, bided their time to tana. representatives. Each house will lold its own caucus and decide on News observer Labor of The Utah catch the worker when he was most receptive and unaware ts own leaders and officers. law. in the interested is primary the vile trickery to which he was subjected. been has his for Among those being discussed for It hobby many Regardless of all that transpired during those years when t0 unite the efforts of labor for years. He has studied the subject resident of the senate are Herbert I saw the bona fide labor movement grow from a handful to a the formulation of a legislative and has scrutinized 3. Maw and D. W. Parratt, Salt - these accordingly national and of state legI well of and units of from program laws men, disciplined practically every Lake county; Ira Huggins, Weber mighty army orderly a primary law. county, and Ward Holbrook, Davis there where state satisfaction the of have the having played a prominent part in "'eiaTiirtsIfTawVand Your observer iswill keep the county. on (Continued Page 8) FURTHER RESOLVED, that readers posted on this subject There has been some talk that from cost-of-livi- ng d. cost-of-livi- ng I Pan-Americ- an - ... so-call- I ed board hereby approves and time to time as this legislation recommends the incorporation into anv such legislative program the following measures: January 11. 1937 (a) National legislation for the Januarv 11. 1937, is just a month stabilization of the bituminous and away. Thats the dav the Utah anthracite coal industry: and state legislature will meet to (b) Uniform state legislation grind the legislative grist. The for: legislature is made up principally 1. A state labor relations act. of Democrats. The senate has 22 This should follow- closely in form Democrats and one Republican. (Continued on page 6) The house is composed of 56 Dem- this Christmas is approaching, and therefore we are reminding that shopping days remain for you to do your only you shopping for your Christmas needs. Go and shop today and avoid the last minute rush. Read the Christmas advertisements in the Utah Labor News and shop early. 1 1 - Senator Maw, who presided over the last session of the senate, may not be a candidate to succeed himself. It is said that he would rather be floor leader, where he would be in a better position to direct important legislation than' if le occupied the position of presid-:n- g officer. In the event Maw decides not to ye a candidate it is said that Sen (Continued on page 2) -- |