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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH (Continued from rage 4) munitions including machine guns ready for use. We have brought this to the attention of State officials and the proper agencies of the Federal Government," he said. Republic Steel, leader in this unholy alliance to deny their own workmen the benefit of a signet contract might as well know today that the public will not stand for gunmen tactics any more." Crusible Steel, employing 18,000 workers signed a contract before the strike with the S.W.O.C. based on the Carnegie-Illino- is Steel Cor 140 Some agreement. poration companies altogether now have written contracts with the new steel unions and others are being signed daily. The 5,400 employes of Pittsburgh Steel Co. voted on June 0 at a Labor Board supervised election. Both plants of the Sharon Steel Company have had elections which came out overwhelmingly in favor The Jones & of the S.W.O.C. Laughlin election, however, was the biggest victory for the union. More than 17,000 of 27,000 workers voted for the S.W.O.C. sentative for the Textile Workers Organizing Committee in the Caro-lina- s, has refused to recognize his expulsion from the presidency of the North Carolina Federation of Labor. Elected to the office for seven successive terms, Lawrence declared that he had not been disloyal" as charged by Pres. William Green of the A. F. of L. and other officials who attempted to oust 1 1, 1937. among the cloud sitters of Cincin- actually intended or done. WILLIAM GREEN So it was natural that the Amernati, however, even with the C.I.O. ican Newspaper Guild should be AMONG THE ANGELS cast out. to By LEN DE CAUX was not unnatural that the It minds of William Green and his colleagues, meeting in Cincinnati to survey the results of their own bankruptcy of leadership, should to Paradise Lost." turn him. But in attempting to make a I am a member of Typograph- Lucifer of John L. Lewis, Green ical Union No. 009 in Winston-Salegot somewhat mixed and compared part of the International him to Michael the Archangel, who Typographical Union, which is af- has one of the most heroic roles in filiated with the A. F. of L.,M Miltons famous epic. Lawrence said in upholding his It was Michael who guarded claim that the steps taken to un- Heaven with a sword and seat him were unconstitutional. He drove forth theflaming disloyal angels. declared that he and other C.I.O. But Green, in a g flight ofm, high-soarin- supporters would retain their of oratory, declared: fices and membership in the State The first dual movement ocFederation until the state conven- curred in Heaven itself, a place tion is held this summer. where harmony and peace prevailed. Yet a dual movement be30,000 FUR WORKERS gan when, as a committee of one, VOTE TO JOIN C. I. O. Michael the Archangel rebelled against God and his authority. CHICAGO (UNS) The executive council in Heaven By an almost unanimous vote, the twelfth did not hesitate to act. After exbiennial convention of the Interna- amining the fact it expelled his tional Fur Workers Union voted to Satanic majesty and his dual moveaffiliate with the Committee for ment from Heaven. Industrial Organization, making Greens subconscious apparently the fifth of the national unions to betrayed him into a psychological join in the last two weeks. The vote error, such as often occurs when in favor of the C.I.O. was 94 to 4. people try to express the opposite C.I.O. PACT WINS PAY Earlier in the convention, Nicho- of their real feelings or of the INCREASE FOR 14,000 las Fontechio received a prolonged actual facts. In any case, there is no doubt The ovation when he addressed the delNEW YORK ( U N S ) it is he who feels put out. as that a the of representative Transport Workers, newly affili- egates ated C.I.O. union, has signed a C.I.O. A field director for the Heavenly Discord Greens comparison of the A. F. closed shop contract with the Inter- Steel Workers Organizing Commitborough Rapid Transit Co. which tee, Fontecchio substituted for Van of L. executive council to a gathergives a ten per cent pay increase A. Bittner, regional head of the ing of angels is indeed a fascinatto 14,000 workers, a minimum S.W.O.C. in the Chicago district, ing one. There is something cherubic week ar.d who was prevented from attending wage of $25, a about Green himself, of course, but vacations with pay, bringing quick by important union affairs. Fontecchio told the delegates it is a little harder to picture Big returns to LILT, workers who voted the union of which he has been Bill Hutcheson as an angelino that 95 per cent on May 15, for the a member for 35 years, the United floating white-winge- d colthrough the Transport Workers as their Mine Workers, owed its success-'u- l clouds. lective bargaining agency. Some of the council members are development largely to its inTerms of the contract were set-uvenerable union dustrial enough to make saintly conDescribing agreed upon after a four-horecent not too irreverent. in orvictories the comparisons steel ference in the Interborough office But the trades officials are he building the said that reganizing campaign between Thomas E. Murray, ceiver for the Company, and John new industrial union of steel lest suggestive of cherubim and seraphim. And the smaller and L. Lewis, C.I.O. chairman; Alan workers in ten months had organdarker members, such as Wharton ized men. 350,000 Haywood, regional C.I.O. director and Woll, would look more natural in N. Y.; President Michael Quill Sentiment as devilkins with pronged tails, in Transand other officials of the The sentiment in favor of join- the some. of opinion Workers. port ing the C.I.O. was clearly evident All was not heavenly harmony It was signed by Quill and Mur- from the beginning of the convenLewis. and by Scores tion. countersigned ray, of telegrams from Declaring that the contract was a labor groups urging affiliation vious week in the Jones and Laughgreat victory for the Transport were received, and discussions of lin plants, also gave a more than Workers union Lewis said that it delegates showed it to be one .of vote in favor of the would serve as a basis for similar ' the most important issues to come C.I.O. steel union. ' agreements in negotiations with before the conventfom other N. Y. transit groups. Delegates voted to levy a special RETAIL CLERKS HAIL tax of $2 a year for an organiza- C. I. O. AFFILIATION AS OFFICE WORKERS UNION tional fund. The drive toward DAWN OF NEW DAY VOTES TO JOIN C.I.O. complete unionization of the fur NEW YORK (UNS) A camworkers will be directed immedA iately toward the Ford of the fur paign to organize the nations PHILADELPHIA (UNS) resolution to withdraw immediately industry," A. Hollander and Son. retail employes has been launched by the United Retail Emfrom the American Federation of The company employs approxiLabor and to affiliate with the mately 2,000 workers. ployes of America, newly affiliated Committee for Industrial OrganizaBen Gold was elected president C. I. O. union. Regional offices will tion was passed 150 to 7 at a of the International by a unani- be established throughout the counmeeting of Local 18049, Steno- mous vote, and Pietro Lucchi, try with central headquarters graphers, Typists, Bookkeepers and former president, was elected New York City. Assistants Union. Machinery has been set up to secretary - treasurer, also unaniA call for a national convention mously. provide for the issuing of local 1 of office workers held May 'Hie International charters as they are formed, Samat the Adelphia hotel was which has grown from a member- uel Wolchok, chairman of the also voted overwhelmingly. Dele- ship of 3,000 to 30,000 in the last union, has announced. Organization gates were instructed to urge the two years, is planning an intensive will be on a complete industrial convention to form a C.I.O. inter- drive to increase its enrollment basis, with all employes in retail establishments, not only salesnational of office and professional even more rapidly. people, being taken into the union. workers. Hailing the granting of the STEEL WORKERS WIN CAROLINA UNION HEAD C. I. O. charter as the dawn of a UNION VICTORY REBUFFS A. F. OF L. new day for the retail employes of this country," Wolchok said that WINSTON SALEM, N.C.(UNS) Steel retail workers l?ad been kept from SHARON, Pa. (UNS) Roy R. Lawrence, field repre- - workers in the Mahoning Valley organization and condemned to won a second decisive electoral vic- sterility and division by the lead tory for the new C.I.O. union when ership of the old international Best Wishes to Labor employes in the two plants of the which in 47 years had succeeded Sharon Steel Corporation voted in organizing only 10,000 of the 1,773 to 721 for the Steel Workers millions of sales people ripe for orOrganizing Committee as their ganization. chosen collective bargaining We give fair warning that we are going to organize the workers agency. The election, supervised by the (Continued on page 6) INCORPORATED National Labor Relations Board, was held at the companys plants CIGARETTE in Sharon, Pa., and Lowellsville, VENDING Ohio. Ralph Lind, N. L. R. B. MACHINES regional director, said the election which was one of the best he had Phone 1787 Lake Salt City conducted, was entirely free from Hy. disorder and violence. Sunday, June The first election, held the pre- Yc protest against The mutual recriminations, it is the first union of the Cinthe purposes disruptive acbetween craft said, archangels to conference and refuse to cinnati cusing each other of raiding" and poaching," made it sound more participate. like an anvil chorus of sulphur-shoveleBrushing aside Green's claim in the nether world than that the conference would plan a coordinated campaign of organizalike a heavenly choir. tion" (who believes such claims any C.I.O. Carpetbagging Against ftom the A. F. of L.), the more Greens psychological slip brings declared in a letter to the Guild to mind the even worse break made council: executive r recently by his special representa-Idie real purpose, as indicated Francis Dillon. tive, the very announcement, seems When Yankee Dillon was sent in be to obstruct and defeat the to down to Georgia in carpet-baggin- g forward march led by the splendid an attempt to break up the State C. I. O. Federation of Labor there, Derange Frankly, we fear that any orof its alignment with the C.I.O., work now undertaken he heralded the results of his dis- ganization council will be for executive the by ruptive efforts in a wire to Green, the purpose of confusing and obwhich declared: structing the C. I. O. drive." The A. F. of L. is truly marchOrganizer Fired for Activity ing through Georgia 1" A. F. of L. organizers are known charter - jerkers. Dillons lack of consideration for nowadays as one of them, Don Stevens of southern feelings was probably not j But deliberate. But it did betray an the Newspaper Guild, actually conattitude on the part of A. F. of L. centrated on organizing, with some leaders which is hastening the success. So Green has discharged present swing of southern labor to him for being Stevens says he was fired for the C. I. O. It is in marked contrast to the union activity. Those were the attitude of the Textile Workers grounds on which all the C.I.O. Organizing Committee of the C.I.O., unions were fired from the A. F. whose campaign in the south is of L., if it comes to that. conducted from the south, by At the recent convention of the southerners, and has attracted the support of all outstanding southern Texas Federation of Labor, the labor leaders. delegates were required to take an Fooled Not oath of allegiance to the AJ F. of Newspapermen L. at the opening of each mornin are better a Newspapermen position than most people to get ings session. A. F. of L. officials, the dope on a situation. They it appears, cant be sure even from are trained to look beyond what is day to day that their followers professed or announced to what is wont go C.I.O. rs C.I.O.-minde- d. 48-ho- ur p. ur Pro-C.I.- two-to-o- ne 30-3- -- Rowe Service Co. MTS 20 Fathers Day THE UTAH LABOR NEWS Is the Only Labor and Social Economic Publication in Utah Published Regularly Every Week. 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