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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY I. 1937. Utaf) Hafitir Established 1929 Old-Ag- Organization Headed by Frank I. Walsh Seeks to Make the Bar a Truly Progressive Force- - Opponents of Social Security and Child Labor Ban Scored As Reactionary Minority. A MEMBER OF THE This paper receives the American Federation of Labor News Service. J4 Bv A. F. of L. News Service. s Entered as matter March 28, 1930, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. second-clas- Organization of the National Lawyers Guild, which seeks to make the bar a truly progressive $1.50 per annum Subscription ... force in the life of the nation, has , Advertising rates by request. been announced in New York. Frank I. Walsh, chairman of Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, the National Public Service Com24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. mission and eminent lawyer for many years, has been named as Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, first president of the Guild, which Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. is now engaged in extending the organization. Publisher M. 1 THOMPSON......... It is stated that at least 2,500 Office Manager L. M. THOMPSON lawyers have already signified their approval of the new guild. Sympathetic response has also been reported from many cities, Printers Object to Use of Schools For Boston, Washington, Rat Magazine Subscription Drives including Chiand Louis St. Philadelphia, cago. Completion of a national ortheir efforts and their lives to the ganization is expected to be effectBy A. F. of L. News Service. PEORIA, 111. Emphatic protest advancement of the labor move- ed at a meeting called for Wash-21 has been lodged with the local ment, and the better social condi- ington, to be held February 20, school board by Typographical tions for which that movement and 22. com- stands, that it is extremely obnoxThe present membership is reunion No. 29 against the mon practice of certain maga- ious to have the public school sys- ported to include scores of leading zines in using the public school sys- tem prostituted into a subscrip- barristers, who are said to oppose that tem as a means of promoting sub- tion agency for a lot of magazines the reactionary minority the social claimed described drives. in was labor circles proposed It as rat. fights security, scription Federal Child Labor Amendment Members of the Typographies that publications using this method of promotion are nearly always union, along with other organiza- and other progressive and humane n products, while the com- tions of a like nature in Peoria, measures. Such leaders as Charlplaint was directed specifically at are to a great extent owners o ton Ogburn, A. F. of L. counsel; Jeseveral magazines, which property and patrons of the schoo rome K. Frank, FRC attorney; were named. system and object to having their Henry T. Hunt, former mayor of We do not wish to enlist the children made innocent tools to de- Cincinnati, and numerous others of school board in a drive against any feat the cause for which their par- the highest standing, are reported to have already allied themselves magazine or publication of any ents are striving. The practice of getting children with the new guild, the objectives kind, President Marble of the oftentimes of which are stated to include: Typographical union stated in a to sell magazines, letter quoted in full in the Feoria through school contacts, is said to To make this body and its Labor Gazette. be indulged in rather extensively members truly representative of We do wish to remind you, he throughout the country by the the best thought and traditions of continued, that to people who are most notorious of the comparative- the American bar. n To protect and foster our dempaying their money and dedicating ly few publishers. ocratic institutions and the civil of Utah, 1933, providing for an ex- rights and liberties of all the peoPOLITICAL OUTLOOK tension of delinquent taxes, be ple. To advance the professional clarified. of work and economic well-bein- g (Continued from Page 1) (10) That the law governing the the members the of bar. (3) That the amount of bonds leasing of state lands and minerals To promote justice in the adrequired for certain state officials within the meander of Great Sal ministration of the law. be revised. At present unreason- Lake be amended by giving some To advise the public on matable premiums are expended for state agency the power to make ters the bar and its work, affecting official bonds far in excess of such leases. the organization and operation of what is neessary. Acording to the report the at- courts and other matters which afRe- torney generals office has been a fect (4) That Section the administration of justice vised Statutes of Utah, 1933, be busy one the past two years. to the public. In recognition of the faithfu clarified so that an appeal from .To make the Constitution and the Department of Registration service rendered by the office staff the administrative and iudicial shall be through a writ of cer- Mr. Chez names them: effective and agencies Deputies John D. Rice and S. tiorari. instruments for accomplishing D. Huffaker of Salt Lake City, law (5) That the eight-hothe of law as declared bv purpose and A. Giles of Fillmore, governing work in mines be clari- Grover will ;he of the American people. Vernal. of fied and made more certain and Zelph S..Calder Mr. Walsh declared that there Elizabeth Leg-gStenographers definite. is obvious an need for a urgent of Salt Lake City, Kathryn tax law (6) That the ton-minational association American of Fosbe amended in order that certain of McCool of Ogden, and Emma awyers which will be a truly proter of Cedar City. its provisions may be clarified. The Utah Labor News observer gressive force in the life of the na(7) That the state teachers re- compliments Mr. Chez and his of- tion. tirement act be amended in order fice staff for the We are living in a time of comprehensive that its provisions may be made economic distress, he said. great report and splendid recommendadefinite. The civil rights of the American tions made. oeoole are under widespread at(8) That the law governing es(Continued on Page 6) cheat of estates be amended in ortack. Never before has the need der that it may include stockhold- STEEL UNION CHARTERS reen greater for genuinely true ers of corporations as well as MORE AND MORE LODGES leadershio. The American people heirs at law. have a right to look to the bar to contribute in no small measure to (9) That the first proviso of CHICAGO (UNS) Nine more that Section Revised Statutes leadership. lodges of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Work- THOUSANDS .TOTN STEEL ers have been chartered in a week UNION IN SOUTH of organizing effort by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UNS) according to the latest renort of Van A. Bittner, regional director. Steel workers are joining the union They cover Chapman Price Steel in the Alabama district at the rate at Indianapolis; Leader Iron of almost 1,500 a week, according Works at Decatur, 111.; Caterpillar to regional headquarters of the Tractor at Peoria. 111.; National Steel Workers Organizing ComTube at Lorain, Ohio; Apex Steel mittee. Some 3,000 signed up in a & Supply at Cleveland; Mississippi few weeks following the elections Mo.: and the rate of recruiting is conValley Steel at Maplewood. Russel Bursdall & Ward Bolt & stantly increasing. Nut at Rock Falls, 111.; Koppers Construction at Ft. Wayne. Ind.; and General Steel Wares, Toronto, Canada. With the Post Office department now reporting receipt of 22,129,-61- 7 employe account number applications for participation in the e benefits program Federal of the Social Security Act, a breakdown by states shows New. York, with 3,433,631 applications, at the top of the list, the Social Security Board reported this week in a letter to the Utah Labor old-ag- 6, well-worki- some of them over. and Michigan, 1,109,435. Totals by geographic divisions New England, 2,102.902; are: Middle Atlantic, 6,554,860; East North Central, 5,336.304; West North Central, 1,652.741; South Atlantic, 2,249,706: East South Central, 782,137; West South Cen For Labor and Social Economic News the Utah Labor News excels them all O Subscribe Today Only $1.50 per year. To Our Labor Friends We Wish a Prosperous, Happy New Year Wilson Motor Service 55 East 4th South Wasatch Phones: 3366-336- 7 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH WE EXTEND A HEARTY WELCOME AND THE SEASONS GREETINGS TO LABOR HEATHS NITE HAWK CAFE To quench that thirst or satisfy your hunger Sandwiches, Lunches, Fountain Drinks and Union Made Beer on Tap Under Authorized License PLENTY OF. 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The next five are: Illinois, 1,G80,059; Ohio, 1,469,837; California, 1,324,-921,189,203; Massachusetts, on ; division: Arizona, 44,200; Colorado, 132,-54Idaho, 28,693; Montana, Nevada, 10,405; New Mexico, 25,442; Utah, 55,909, and Wyoming, 26,918. News. non-unio- non-uni- tral, 1,233,134; Mountain, 386,261; and Pacific, 1,730,117. Following are the totals for the individual states in the Mountain 22,129,617 File for Liberal Lawyers e Benefits Form New Guild Edison Street Phone Wasatch 1801 Salt Lake City, Utah |