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Show 8 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 18, 1936. Editorial IPage ofi ARISTOCRATS HATED EDWARD Tlhe Otalh ILlalbIr, News of L. executive council, which has, almost without exception, appointed learned his lesson, but there are craft union organizers to head them up. many who know about his flop (5) There is no guarantee that a national industrial charter will who havent. Never has there been a plainer example of the bitterness eventually be granted where a national council has been established. Thou wilt keep him in perfect of aristocratic capitalist hate exemplified than was in Englanc The radio federal unions were led to believe that their national council would be permitted to develop into a but the union, whose mind is stayed on peace last week when King Edward was forced to abdicate his throne. council decided to a international. craft belonged Bible. Thee. they Only those who have been on picket lines in subzero (6) The A. F. of L. officers have discriminated in favor of directweather, and those who have served on a union negotiating ly affilated locals that are not industrial in form. To a small number Honestly, now, you Cooper committee to deal with some employer and sat about while the of federal locals of less skilled workers existing side by side in their would have never thought this car with council the executive in craft a few industry internationals, and months d lordly employer hemmed and hawed and I had bought one was of mine has paid out more than twice as much money from the Defense d would can have a real appreciation what they were doing Fund as to all you? other locals during the past three years. Never in my life. I Coles to Edward in England. (7) The executive council has now strengthened its grip over had made it rule, approved thought you Edward, unluckily, became known as the democratic king, directly affiliated locals. The councils who loved his people. Unluckily for him he gave expression by the recent convention, allows the president of the A. F. of L. to any such local, suspend or expel its officials, and suspend its to the belief the coal miners of Wales should have something discipline charter. No trial is necessary, but an appeal may later be taken to the to eat. executive council! The recent convention also ended the right of diFOUNTAIN PEN That was plenty. Even a king with ideas like that is too rectly affiliated locals to introduce resolutions at A. F. of L. conSHOP dangerous for the brutal saps who control international capi- ventions. A. The L. continues to refuse to recognize the full inF. of (8) talism. dustrial of internationals long affiliated with it. It conPens That Satisfy In the Mrs. Simpson episode they saw their opportunity to tinues tojurisdiction legalize craft raids on the Brewery Workers and the Mine. FROM $1.00 UP get rid of this king with the peculiar notions that working men Mill and Smelter Workers. It has refused to recognize the industrial jurisdiction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin should live in comfort. We Repair Any Make as stated in its certificate of affiliation in 1887. Workers, Fountain Pen chased did Edward But from the throne. what They Such facts show beyond dispute that the craft leaders in control they get) What will be the result) Will fascist Mosley make of the A. F. of L. have tried to dam up the river of industrial progress. Pembroke Company a stab for power) Or will England go along quietly, or will It is they who have forced the formation of the C. I. 0. to win for init turn out that the British masters of intrigue and capital sowed dustrial unions an even break with craft unions, and to secure for the 24 East Broadway millions of the of industrial unorganized I which the wind) Time will tell right organization Salt Lake City they are now beginning to exercise. self-governi- ng side-steppe- secon- d-hand, craw-fishe- selp-adopt- FORD NOT ALWAYS IN IIIS DOTAGE Critics of the Dearborn philosopher, who talks politics, history, theology and automobile making with the best of them, often forget that this garrulous old gent was not always in his dotage, and the same may, in large measure, be said for his alter ego, W. J. Cameron, who talks for Ford when the latter is incapacitated," says the Chicago Federation News. A few days before the campaign closed newspapers quot ed Henry Ford as saying that he couldnt conceive of Roosevel being reelected. Ford lost no time in falling for Landon, because he resembled Coolidge. Frank Knox, the eloquent, strangely appealed to Ford because he just couldnt keep his mouth shut. What we really see is the spectacle of Mr. Ford in his later life becoming hidebound and childish. Younger he was more hopefully visioned. Henry Ford dont like the unions very much. Perhaps he never did. But that is no reason why labor should forget the distinct service that Mr. Ford rendered labor, perhaps a quarter of a century ago. Henry Ford was unorthodox, just as the labor movement is unorthodox. Viewing the situation from ,an employer's standpoint, he decided long ago on a minimum wage for employes, and fixed it at $5 a day something unheard of in business circles. His fellow manufacturers charged that Ford was trying to ruin industry and the country by paying i much and he was boycotted in respectable society. Ford answered the Liberty leaguers of that time by raising the minimum wage still higher. He had declared his independence of Wall street and all money powers and was running his business he chose. It was a merry war and many of the crying competitors saw their business saved from annihilation only by Ford taking it over. Henry Ford proved the venerable contention of labor that higher wages are the thing, not only for the workers, but for the general good, including that of the employers NEWS AND COMMENT tection this year if they are to sur- and exciting reading. yards chippering with the cheerful songsters if they will begin now to throw out crumbs and seeds or grains early in the morning. Thats when birds need food most, after a long night in the cold. It is also not a bad idea to have a little sand and gravel to put out when the ground is covered with snow for long periods. vive the prophesied winter. Many people in Utah like birds (Continued from Page 1) and make a regular practice of reverent style that makes it easy feeding them. Others will find their Seeks Air Mastery Large corporations which already have a stranglehold on radio are out in force to strengthen their monopoly and convert the last natural resource into a gigantic commercial machine to exploit the people while poisoning them with pernicious propaganda. That charge and other equally astounding have been made be fore the federal communications commission by Edward N. Nockles, general manager of WCFL radio station in Chicago. When the radio act was adopted by congress it was heralded as the Magna Charta of the radio public. It was claimed that it would forever protect the American people against cialization and other abuses. Unfortunately, the prophecy has not been vindicated because the men named to administer the act sold the listeners down the river, If the present policies of the commission continue the nation will be drenched with propaganda the like of which has not yet been experienced, with the object of further clipping and controlling by sheer brute power the intellectual and economic soul of the country. There are just three courses open to the commission to protect the people. They are: 1. Reallocate all wave lengths and adopt regulations that will give listeners a fair break. DAMMING THE RIVER OF PROGRESS 2. Limit power of all stations ;o 10,000 watts, making them virlocal stations. tually have Opponents of the Committee for Industrial Organization 3. The government to control made the claim that industrial unionism is a fictitious issue in its conand operate all stations. troversy with the craft leaders of the American Federation of Labor. They have alleged that the policies of these leaders permit the growth But Not Taffy of industrial unions in the A. F. of L., through the chartering of When a drunk was given 10 days affiliated federal locals which may hope eventually to become in jail by Judge Wm. R. Bell of industrial internationals. Seattle the But examination of the official documents presented to the recent old the judge he was daffy. The Tampa convention does not support this claim. On the contrary, it judge eventually shows that every obstacle has been placed in the way of industrial or- at least was not proved that he taffy as the industries. Consider maximum sentence he ganization in the unorganized pronounced these facts: of 90 days and $300 was neither (1) During the past year, as many as 408 directly affiliated locals soft nor sweet. of the A. F. of L. were suspended or disbanded. (2) Not a single national charter in a, industry Snow and the Birds has been issued by the A. F. of L. since the 1935 convention. Sub- How happy the snowbirds stantial groups 'of federal locals have been refused such charters on sing the excuse that they are not sufficiently strong. Yet during the last While hopping and flitting they go 10 years the A. F. of L. has chartered five craft internationals of They tell of a lesson to me which the four still affiliated in 1936 reported a total combined mem- While silently falleth the snow. bership of 3,000. The above lines from one of (3) Only two national charters have been granted to directly af- childhoods songs came into mind filiated locals in industries in the last 10 years. These when the last snow fell in the yard. two, in autos and rubber, were granted only because of great pressure The birds they speak of' are goand were only partially industrial in form. ing to need a little of mans pro (4) The national councils created by the A. F. of L. in d industries are far from an adequate substitute for a national industrial union. They are loose federations with little power or MERRY CHRISTMAS funds. They keep the locals definitely under the control of the A. F. mass-producti- mass-producti- over-comm- er on mass-producti- on Life Boats and Bicycles Big boats carry little boats for emergencies. Seeing a bicycle in an automobile show window the other day suggested how useful it might be in case one could not get near a parking space near ones destination. There are more cyclists in Utah today than there have been for many years past. At long distance I may admire a man who puts himself forward. Sometimes it is true that he that tooteth not his own horn, yea, verily it shall not be tooted. But close up, I like the man big or little who is modest. A man can get drunk on the concentrated excrescence of decaying mash or on his own self importance. The effect on others is the same Disgust. Kaiser Bill thought: The arshall inrogant and He may have herit the earth. self-asserti- ve LABOR... 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