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Show J UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. DECEMBER II. 1936. 4 TO ORGANIZE 60,000 SHIPBUILDERS IN STEEL WORKERS CAMPAIGN (Continued from Page 1) management and the company union. But B. F. Fairless, presi admittet dent of Carncgie-lllinoi- s, publicly that the same plan hac been in effect at the Internationa Harvester company for years, Thus he admitted it was imposec on the steel workers. Quickly another blow fell. The National Labor Relations Board in another case, ordered that com pany union pattern for those in the steel industry to disband. Union Man Elected-On- izing Committee. The current is sue of Steel Labor carried it prominently on the first page: anc thousands of leaflets were distributed with the denial, in addition. Then to crush completely the stand of U. S. Steel, E. T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corporation, gave an interview in which he likewise denounced the legging of wages with the cost of iving. In announcing his company would not follow the lead of Big Steel, Weir said: As I see it, any attempt to permanently establish the living-coindex as the sole barometer for wage adjustments would tend to retard the continued increase in real buying power which has been and should be the goal of all industry. . . . This arrangement would halt future advances in standards of living. of the fighting leaders of the steel workers in tne maneuver was Elmer J. Maloy, a company union representative from the Du quesne, Ia., works of Carnegie Illinois. Maloya affiliation with the S. W. O. C. is well known. In the midst of the fracas, Maloy was elected general chairman of a newly-forme- d Central Com mittee of all Camegie-Illinoi- s DIVIDENDS AND Steel company unions in the Pitts On district. WAGE INCREASES the committee are 34 delegates two from each of the 17 mills in Not even in the boom days was this area. He defeated Fred Bohne, there such a surge of extra diviof Youngstown, for the post. dends, wage increases and employe Bohne has been pegged a com bonuses as this season. Corporate pany man by the steel workers is pouring out money to industry even in his own mill. its stockholders and workers in unMaloy and George Patterson, of precedented amounts. South Chicago, another company A list of extra dividends and union representative and also an bonuses declared would take many organizer for the S. W. 0. C., car- pages to detail, but here are some ried their fight for an interpreta- outstanding items: Steel has antion of the proposed wage agree- nounced a 10 per cent advance in ment to Washington. The ruling wages, which will up payrolls in 1937. General Motors by Secretary Perkins was the result. will pay its workers a Christmas President Misrepresented jonus of $10,000,000, in addition to Steel management tried to make other benefits. Chrysler has voted much of a supposed endorsement an extra dividend of $5.50 per share. Eastifian Kodak declared a by President Roosevelt of the scheme. They plastered extra, and Jewel Tea commills the with newspaper clippings pany $2, Standard Oil of New Jerpurporting to show the President sey will pay a $4,500,000 bonus to in that light. But Roosevelt im- workers, and Sears, Roebuck one of mediately denied that he was dis- $1,500,000. Upshot of this is that dividends cussing the steel wage increase when he referred to the desirability of various big industries will be as days of a social wage. arge as in while this wages, in some cases, will be denial, Management ignored but not the Steel Workers Organ ligher. Steels new wage rate is st burgh-Youngsto- $70,-000,0-00 cost-of-livi- ng 75-ce- nt pre-depressi- on t Merry Christmas to Labor ddl Fioranfiooir Is still a wonderful buy" Come in and profit here! Convenient Terms Can De Arranged. Standard Furniture Co. 7 and 9 So. Main St. Wasatch 2445 y American Smelting and Mining Company Salt Lake City, Utah Purchasers of Gold, Silver, Lead and Copper Ore, and Smelter Products ORE PURIIASING DEPARTMENT Seventh Floor, McCornick Bldg. Consign all ore shipments to : American Smelting & Refining Co. Ship Lead Ores to Murray Plant, Murray, Utah Ship Copper and Siliceous Ores to Garfield Plant, Garfield, Utah ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING CO. 700 McCornick Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah A C. I. O. UNION LAUNCHES DRIVE THOUSANDS A DAY JOIN UNION A na week on all new conweek in repair Merry Christmas . ELIAS MORRIS & SONS CO. CAMDEN, N. J. (UNSJ drive to organize some struction; 00,000 unorganized shipyard work yards. 21 West South Temple 2. Overtime at 2V4 times for ers and to establish a minimum Wasatch 8008 mechan repair workers. wage of a $1 per hour for 3. $1 per hour minimum for ics with a week, has been Colored Tile Bath launched by the Industrial Union mechanics, with proportionate inof Marine & Shipbuilding Work- creases for those who now make Rooms more than the average; and simiers. The union will have the coopera lar increases for unskilled men. In your new home, or your 4. Union hiring halls for repair tion and support of the Committee remodeling plans, TILE is for Industrial Organization, with yards. an important factor. Our 5. Elimination of speed-uwhich it recently alfiliated. custom built tile renders 6. Elimination of improvers organizers are Eight full-tim- e beauty in the home. already in the field, with a large system, and of all schools for weldand volunteer ers, shipfitters, etc. number of part-tim- e First Cost - Last Cost of 7. the Stabilization on the industry them, organizers assisting OVER 70 YEARS OF . Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Con- so as to insure steady employment income. SERVICE annual tacts for organizing work have and a sufficient health Lakes 8. and also been made in the Great Proper safety conditions. and Gulf areas. Present wage scales in the in dustry range from 88 cents per hour in the unionized yards, down to CO cents per hour, for mechan Best Wishes to Labor ics. Hours of work have been held to 36 a week in yards organized ASK FOR by the Industrial Union, but it sees a concerted move on foot by the shipbuilders to increase the work week on naval work to 40 hours. Some yards have already instituted SERVED AT ALL LEADING FOUNTAIN the longer week. LUNCH COUNTERS Steel Subsidiary Leads Leading the shipbuilders in this move is the Federal Shipyard at Kearney, N. J., a U. S. Steel subsidiary, which recently gave its TO YOU, LABOR employes a 5 per cent wage increase and four more hours work instead of the 10 per cent granted We Extend the Most Sincere of Best the steel workers. The major objectives of the Wishes for a Merry Christmas drive, as outlined by John Green, president of the union, are as 1. 36-ho- ur 40-ho- ur tion-wid- e 36-ho- ur p. y rjE,Eiicia Meatt IPfiec the highest in its history, General Motors is 10 per cent above .he 1929 average. Business ' Week says that next year industrys costs will possibly be the highest in all U. S. industrial history. What caused this amazing change? Obvious answer is better imes and there is no question but what industry in general has pulled out of depression, has entered a period of recovery. But that isnt the entire answer o why business is figuratively breaking its neck in an effort to get as many dollars as possible into the hands of stockholders and workers before 1937 dawns. Big and potent influence is the new tax bill on undistributed corporation profits, passed by the last congress. This tax bill levies taxes of unprecedented severity on such profits taxes ranging up to 27 per cent. But when the profits are distributed, in either wages, bonuses or dividend, the tax is avoided. And that is the major reason why business is following its present lavishly generous course. According to the New York Journal of Commerce, distributions to stockholders ordered for the last three months of this year directly traceable to the tax law, total at least la-)- WATERWORKS EQUIPMENT CO. or W. Second South 149-15- 1 Salt Lake City, Utah We Take This Opportunity to Extend Our Best Wishes to Our Many Friends Who Labor, and to Wish Them a MERRY CHRISTMAS! Western Foundry & Stove Repair Works FOUNDRY AND OFFICE: 875 South 8th West Street Phone Wasatch 4474 Salt Lake City, Utah $500,-000,00- 0. Economists are highly dubious of the ultimate results of the law, fear it will prevent industry from building up surpluses that are es sential if future depressions are to be survived. In the meantime, however, the tax is helping cause a veritable dividend and wage boom. Boy: A noise with dirt on it. Saxophone: An ill wind that no- body blows good. Detour: The roughest distance between two points. Etc.: Sign used to make others believe you know more than you do. Readers Digest. Greetings to Organized Labor Hallo Laranadry Gain; Compliments and Best Wishes To Labor SEWELL'S UNITED STORES 881 So. Slain - We do all classes of good LAUNDRY WORK Phones : Was. 1375-137- 6 We are as close as your Telephone Utah Products Have Always Been the Featured Items in All Our Stores y |