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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 11,1937. LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 2) of the organization may well be proud one which has never been equaled in all the long and glorious history of the greatest international union on earth. This was followed by a list of national publications, employmg thousands of printing trades workers, unionized recently Crowell, Springfield, Ohio; McCall, Dayton, Ohio; Conde Nast, GreenDes wich, Conn.; Meredith, Moines, Iowa, and Pathfinder Pub- lishing Washington, In addition, 15 printing plants were organized in Detroit and some 400 new members into the union. Typographical Lansing, D. C. Co., Mich., union added 46 new memOpen-sho- p Minneapolis, Minn., printing industry is practically 100 per cent unionized. A New Star Rising Apparently there is a new star rising upon the horizon for Salt Lake City printerdom the unionized printers star. This will indicate that Salt Lake City is on the way to become one of the best organized printing towns in the west. bers. President Gilligan Tom Gilligan was unanimously elected president of the Salt Lake City Bartenders union to fill an unexpired term, at a meeting held Sunday. A number of new members and several additional union contracts were reported. The local has a committee to look around for establishment of club looms and union headquarters. The union will decide at an early meeting as to the location and other details. Culinary Workers Secretary Startin of Salt Lake Culinary Alliance No. 815 has been busy lately signing up working agreements for additional union houses. The membership of the union is growing. The catering industry unions are increasing in membership throughout the western states. Wage increases averaging 10 per cen: feature the new agreement of Culinary Alliance and Bartenders union local 345 of Watsonville, California, which has been signed by of Watpractically over two-thirsonville employers coming under its jurisdiction. The contract fixes minimum pay of waitresses and miscellaneous employes at $2.75. Pay for cooks ranges from $4.50 for fry codks to $6 for chief cooks. Meals are furnished by employers. Employers agree to hire only members of the union in good ds standing. An day within a ur period, with not more than one split in a shift, and not more than six days work per week are provided. All extra employes for 12-ho- ur holidays, conventions or celebrations will be paid one dollar over the scale. The union is affiliated with the Hotel and Restaurant Employes International Alliance and International League. Culinary Workers and Bartenders No? 451 at Everett, Washington, have submitted a new scale to employers there, calling for increases in wages of from $1 to $2 a week, with the work day, week. This schedule, which is expected to take effect June 1, would give the workers a work week, instead of 48 hours as Built On Sound Principles Not so many years ago agricultural producer cooperatives were in their infancy, so far as any widespread influence was concerned, they were eyed with suspicion, and it was believed in many quarters that their chance for success was Bartenders slight. Today producer cooperatives, which dispose of agricultural crops at wholesale to establish distribu- ay tors and retailers are an essential part of the agricultural They are almost universally approved by farmers, consumers, industry and government. Reason for their growth and rise in popular esteem is a their WAS CHARLES P. one. Ihey have been built simple HOWARD RIGHT? on sound business principles. They continue to operate in a businessAt the recent Cincinnati confer- like manner, with capable execuence of the A. F. of L., Charles P. tives, careful cost accounting, and Howard, president of the Interna- without asking subsidies or spetional Typographical union, and cial favors. The cooperatives secretary of the C. I. O., referring which have not kept business printo certain statements of William ciples in mind have failed a failGreen and John I. Frey, remarked: ure which was foredoomed from Whom the gods would destroy i their inception. The sound cooperthey first make mad, and then atives have gone ahead, until tomake them see red. Instead of day millions of farmers are repreanswering the arguments of the sented memon their industrial unionists, Mr. Green now rolls. tries to smear the C. I. O. with bership communism. This is the height of The Road We Travel something or other. If communIn those countries where democists favor industrial unionism, then racy is a vigorous growth which industrial unionism is communistic. is not likely ever to be uprooted, With the same logic, one might say there line of econthat if communists like ice cream, omic is a very clear This developdevelopment. then for the rest of us to eat ice ment does not with interfere pricream makes us communists. When vate interests of business private Green joins Hearst in crimson so long as that industry and that name-callinthen, indeed, is it business is conducted on a social time for the angels to wreep. basis. The news also brings the anAt that minute when monopoly nouncement that Big Bill Hutch-ensoto attack the community begins president of the Carpenters with predatory insistence, or when International union, has instructed business men feel are superior carpenters to refuse to handle to the welfare of they the then nation, building materials produced by C. the or the community government I. 0. unions. While Hutchenson in with vital competition. was getting this splitting, cam- steps This competition is offered in three paign under way the United Mine ways: Workers began remodeling its in1. By powerful cooperatives orternational headquarters in Washganized both on producers and ington, D. C. two blocks from the consumers basis. White House. The job will cost a 2. By publicly owned corpora- quarter of a million dollars, and the contracts specify that only thf National Labor Relations union building mechanics shall be with Board. . Now who is guilty of employed. Stevens said he had urged ChiJohn L. Lewis or Big splitting to vote cago delegates support of Bill Hutchenson? C. I. 0. at the impending nathe This whole fight could have been convention of the Guild. avoided if the executive council, tional He said he would file his charges seeing that big changes were' in- against Green under Section 8 of evitable, could have altered juris- the Wagner Labor Act. dictions here and there to make Section 8 prohibits as an unroom for the onward march of la- fail labor interference, practice bor. Bakersfield Labor Journal. restraint or coercion of an employee in his right to to form, join, or assist NEWSPAPER GUILD IN labor organizations. BREAK WITH A. F. L. A. F. L. FAKERS TRY The executive board of the TO DEFEAT WALKOUT American Newspaper Guild has adopted a recommendation to lay RICHMOND, Cal. Innate tende before the Guild convention this encies of A. F. of L. fakmonth that the Guild affiliate with ers are comug to the surface with the C. I. 0. attempted formation by MachinThe Guild has charged that the ists union officials of a company conA. F. of L. had permitted union to break the United Automonivance with employers to defeat bile Workers strike in the Ford collective bargaining and that it plant. could not escape a charge of conJ. A. Huybrecht, international comorganizer of the Machinists, and spiracy when it enrolled pany unionists and molesters, as E. H. Vernon, business agent of was done in Kansas, in order to the Auto Mechanics, local No. smash a bona fide union with pick 1546, are pinning buttons on anyhandles and gas bombs supplied by one who will go through the Auto Workers picket line at the Ford the employers. Don Stevens, a member of the plant. Arthur 0. Wharton, interGuild, and organizer for the A. F. national president of the Maof L., was discharged by William chinists, has promised an A. F. of L. charter to the company union. Green for C. I. 0. union activity. Guild Ford foremen, thugs and finks to the Stevens, assigned since August, 1936, announced he are wearing the Machinist button will file charges against Green (Continued on page 4) 40-ho- WITHERS DENTAL LABORATORY Take pleasure in announcing to the Dental Profession Their NEW LOCATION 218 So. Main St. For a Limited Time We will offer SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES ON ALL WORK PEACH-GL- PLATE O $750 world. ur ! ever-growi- ng tions. By powerful trade union groups organized on a democratic basis capable of insisting on high labor standards and honest conduct of the industry. No honest business need fear this development. It is only the crooked industry which needs fear it. Apparently America has elected to take these courses. Russian communism is a dead letter so far as affecting the course of economic development in these United States. Persons who raise the hue and cry of communism are merely using it for a cheap purpose to try to head off any or all progressive measures. Fascism is equally impotent and as long as there can be a growth in action and so long as voluntary trade unidns are allowed to function, fascism will never succeed. This is a cheery outlook because we know now the road we must travel. We have turned the corner and we are headed to new goals of achievement. 3. n, All work is performed on inert matter under the author- ization and responsibility of Utah Licensed Dentists. Free Estimates and Advice 218 So. Main St. of cooperative Organization health associations will be given promotional aid by a new Bureau of Cooperative Medicine organized recently by the Cooperative League of the U. S. A. UTAH CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION VEGETABLES GROCERIES FRESH MEATS FRUITS Wasatch 4864 South Main WE DELIVER JUST PHONE 860 y BEST WISHES TO LABOR ACME Non Fattening BEER KEGLETS BOTTLES -- PASTEURIZED And in Gallon Capsealed Jugs FRESH FROM THEJ KEG i V2 Distributed By MIDWEST DISTRIBUTING COMPANY C. H. CHICK REILLEY Was. 4919 - 4619 132 S. 2nd West LABOR BEGINNING RIGHT Building a house? The time to be careful is before you specify any woodwork! The time to be thankful is after you have speci- fied MORRISON-MERRILL- ! Specify MORRISON-MERRIL- L quality BUILDING MATERIALS from foundation to completion. ORRISON-11- ! E R R IL L & Co. THE LUMBERMEN 1st North and 3rd West Wasatch 410 LABOR, WE HAVE Fathers Day MONEY TO LOAN OUR FAMOUS GOLD CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK SUPERIOR QUALITY LOWEST PRICE foods. YOU SHARE IN THE PROFITS We Welcome You as a Customer or a Member . Os ... Those good old days when the could go for perhaps six country Co-o- p Health Centers months without having to worry Health problems are now being about any paramount issue and tackled by cooperatives. The Cen- could devote its time to doing the tral Cooperative Wholesale at Su- ordinary things of life in the orperior, Wis., which did a $2,830,-00- 0 dinary way, seem to have gone, business in 1936, has started and ferment is the order of the a Cooperative Health Association. day. Chester M. Wright. g, GIFTS FOR DAD Each member buys a $5 share of stock and for affixed monthly fee is entitled along with his family to all ordinary medical treatment by doctois employed by the cooper-ativand hospitalization in the Superior hospitals which are joining in the plan. Organizations which have endorsed the new cooperative include the Peoples Cooperative Society, Superior Federation of Labor, Douglas County Farmers Union, Workers Alliance, and the Northern Wisconsin Cooperative Federation. . , . Already operating successfully on cooperative principles are a hospital at Elk City, Okla., and a health assoA ciation at Economy, Ind. Health Study Cooperative Club has recently been formed in Philadelphia. Objective of its members is to study ways of improving health through diet, exercise, and other means. One of their projects is the securing of a farm where members may produce their own e, old-lin- PAINLESS 3 Tl to build, buy, refinance or modernize homes. 1 TO 20 YEARS. FIIA or TERMS First Federal plan to suit your needs. PAY-LIKE-REN- er - s GOOD CANDY BARS ARE SOLD TO LABOR! Ychcral Ttrsf BfjUiiirrtranri!iin;mHE:aaiin Main at 1st South Wasatch 616 T |