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Show miitw-- - UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 25, 1937. C. I. O. SPEAKER ROXY AND STAR THEATERS AT OPEN FORUM ARE 100 PER CENT UNION (Continued from page 1) Denver & Rio Grande and Union Pacific depots, and in front of taxi company offices. The representatives of the union and the employers met Wednesday to negotiate differences and to disThe cuss possible arbitration. union demands the closed union shop, and a guarantee of $3.85 week. daily wage and a G. Elmo Hall, business agent of the union, says There will be no settlement without closed shop," while Shirley 1. Jones, attorney for Larson Brothers Transportation Co., owners of the Green cab Ill never accede line, declares: to closed shop. The demands of the union are not unreasonable. They are within keeping of increased costs of jiving, and only mildly within the present day labor standards. 40-ho- ur MEANTIME TIIKY'KE ORGANIZING PEOPLE! Sesh in his Violets and Vitcolumn in the Kern County riol Union Labor Journal, Bakersfield, A1 California, notes that gathering in extraordinary convention in Cincinnati were the representatives of international unions of the A. F. of L. In addition to other matters the question of dealing with the C. I. 0. received the attention of the delegates. The convention, with handpicked delegates dominated by Frey, Green and Hutcheson, decided to continue the wrecking policy instead of urging that jurisdicin order tional lines be re-dra- KAT ODOR THAT CANT BE MISSED By LEN DE CAUX The Republic Steel corporation has rendered a public service of sorts by assembling in printed form a series of newspaper editorials and news items against the steel strike. The purpose is evidently to compropapile and promote anti-C.I.ganda. Hut the net result is a remarkable exposure of the reactionary press from which Republic culls its editorial selections. One little lie is often very effective, in a setting of carefully chosen But when a whole slew of lies and misrepresentations are presented in an unbroken series, with a dressing only of editorial venom, even the most simple-minde- d will smell a rat. O. half-truth- s. Treasure An example of Republic Steels collection of rat smells is the offering of a congressman from MichNon-Existe- nt igan, whose claimed name of Hoffman must be an alias for Baron Munchausen. The C.I.O. contended Baron Hoff- man, for the benefit of the Congressional Record, has an income of from $36,000,000 to $500,000,000, all tax exempt! The chief trouble with this story, from a C.I.O. point of view, is its remoteness from the truth. Hoffmans amazing discovery of hoard has also suba jected the C.I.O. to the attentions of other hunters for hidden treasure. They want to know what the C.I.O. does with its surplus. To which the only answer is, What , surplus? has C.I.O. work been, Actually and still is, a matter of outlay, u6t income. The biggest union organizing campaigns in history have been financed by the generosity of organized miners, clothing workers and others, who have assessed themselves to aid their unorganized brothers without expectation or hope of any direct o immediate financial return. Organizing expenses have far and away outbalanced any income, so far, from the newly organized, and every penny that the C.I.O. receives goes out in further organ-- non-existe- nt izing. Dividends From Organization The unions financing the C.I.O. drives have-.- ' made a huge investment. But they do not expect their dividends in dollars and cents from those they have aided to organize. The dividends for which these C.I.O. unions do look are a raising of tbe whole American standard of living, for the benefit of all; the building of a powerful labor movement to bulwark their organiza- tions; and a consequent possibility of raising the wages and improv-ing the conditions of their own members far more than was possi Glen Gillespie, board member of that the movement for industrial International Union of Mine, the the unionism may continue vithin Mill and Smelter Workers, a ComThe itself. the of AFL structure mittee for Industrial Organization fact remains that the CTO is ac tually ORGANIZING steel, auto affiliate, will deliver an address at 8 mobiles, rubber and textiles, and Open Forum, Sunday, June 27, of in council the the chamber m., p. be to sufficient this ought proof that the industrial union policy is City and County building. Mr. Gillespie will discuss the C. the proper one in approaching the I. O. program and what it means mass production plants. Hut the to the American worker. d council executive refuses All those interested are invited to admit this. It still worships at the shrine of the great god Per to attend and hear Mr. Gillespie. Capita. If the executive council is Admission is free. sincere about peace and unity, why doesnt it agree to open up the LABOR ON ITS die-har- question of jurisdiction in order that mass production workers, as well as skilled craftsmen, may be organized under the banner of the AFL? Meantime, the CIO mas been a tremendous factor in organizing the workers. It has not only organized over a million workers it self, but it has forced the execu tive council, in self defense, to get out on the firing line. The net result will be organization all around. In order to compete with the CIO, the executive council has been fore ed to industrialize the jurisdic tion of many of the large interna tionals. For a year or two there will be a disagreeable dissension, but out of it all will come a new, revitalized labor movement and eventual unity under a single banner. Labor historians of the future will give credit for this achievement to the Lewises, Hillmans, Jlowards, Fremmings, Du binskys, Gormans, Martins, Murrays and Hropheys. ble before. Such dividends are already being drawn by the United Mine Workers, Inti. Ladies Garment Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers and other strong C.I.O. unions whose resources are behind the C.I.O. All have improved their conditions and increased their memberships much beyond the limits of previous possibility. The United Mine Workers, for example, has risen to dose to 600,-00- 0 members since it began promoting the C.I.O., and a recent speech of 1res. Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers explains how that union has already benefited. we he said, Until recently, had 8 0rA of the clothing industry organized, 20 unorganized. That 20 has been cut in half since the C.I.O. drive started. Every day, we in the clothing workers union come nearer our aim of complete unionization. On the strength of the C.I.O. drive, we are penetrating towns and cities that Were immune to unionization for years; sweatshop nests are being ferreted out; and old opponents of unionism, those who have defied us for years, are being reached again and again. We are organizing everyone, every-whe- FORWARD MARCH (Continued from page 5) 000 are already under T.W.O.C. contracts in Rhode Island. In the past, two months, the T.W.O.C. has negotiated for 12,000 workers in addition to the 4000 ij already under United Textile Workers contracts, before the T.W.O.C. started its campaign. ii I. O. UNION MADE WHISKY IS ON MARKET C. Special to the Utah Labor News A nationPHILADELPHIA wide campaign to promote the use of union-mad- e whisky, gin and other liquors, was successfully conducted this week by the Philadelphia branch of the United Distillery Workers of America of the C. I. O. The products of the Continental Distilling Corporation can now be widely heralded as UNION - MADE. them Among are Cobbs Creek Blended Whisky, Old Hickory Straight Bourbon, Square Straight Rye, Gin, etc. The Continental Distilling Corporation, one of the largest distillers in the United States, is the outstanding firm in its field to sign a union contract with a C. Rit-tenhou- se I. O. affiliate. SECURITY BOARD URGES RECORDING OF NUMBERS WASHINGTON (UNS) It is important that all workers record with their employers their Social Security number, according to an announcement of the U. S. Social Security Board. This should be done at once, it states, so that deductions from wages will be credited to the individual by tne Board. The Board declares that not only the workers present employer but also all of his employers since the first of the year should have a written record of his number. This is essential so that credit can be given for deductions made for old age benefits. If, for any good reason, a worker wishes to change his Social Security number, that can be arranged by writing directly to the Social Security Board, Washington, D. C. re Doll and Toy Workers Join C.I.O. NEW YORK (UNS) The Doll A. F. of L. Tail vs. C. I. O. Dog and Toy Workers union with 3000 It has always been considered members rather a difficult matter for the American has seceded from the Federation of Labor and tail to wag the dog. But the tail-en- d the Committee for Industrial joined of Americans labor procession, forces of the Organization. A. F. of L., is going to the bow-woin an even more difficult NEW OFFICE UNION manner. j)PENS INSURANCE DRIVE is main the .'It body expelling of labor from itself in state after NEW YORK (UNS) A camand some- paign to organize industrial insurstate, in a breath-takin- g times hilarious exhibition of sui- ance agents has been announced by cidal acrobatics. the newly-forme- d United Office In Iowa, William Green has just and Professional Workers of Ammustered three votes at the State erica, C.I.O. affiliate. An IndustriFederation of Labor convention for al Agents Division has been set up his orders to expel the Iowa labor by the union to conduct the drive movement from the Federation; which will be concentrated at first while 349 votes were cast for san- in New York City, with locals in ity and against suicide. Philadelphia, Newark and other Green will now doubtless order cities cooperating. this tail of three, not to wag the Leaflets have been distributed at rest of Iowa labor, but to expel the offices of all Metropolitan, and drive it forth, to .the end that Prudential and Hancock Insurance the A.. F. of L. hereafter may con- Company offices, announcing the sist purely and simply of tail-end- s, organization campaign. undefiled by the presence of living Industrial insurance agents have dog! many serious problems and genuine grievances which can be solved C.I.O. Wins Bridgeport G. E. only by organization, Lewis MerBRIDGEPORT, Conn. (UNS) rill, president of the U. O. & P. W., The United Electrical and Radio said. The Industrial Agents Division Workers, C.I.O. union, won the labor board election at the General (Continued on Page 7) Electric Co. by a vote of 2790 to 1991. Maybe we wouldnt feel so great we could see a chaTt of what if sometimes Even Miss Fortune we are supposed to accomplish those toward attitude changes her who give her a cheerful grin and set up beside our daily performtrudge on or those who snub her ance. On the other hand if we entirely. But those who sit down knew how much confidence the Inin her prudence and whine, she finite has placed in us to carry either cuffs right smartly or nags ut a part of His plan we would duff in and do better. and nags. namely the anti-C.I.- Democracy Needs You . . . America is at the cross-roadDemocracy is in danger. To save Democracy all Americans must join hands and work unitedly for all the things that stand for Democracy. s. red-blood- ed President Roosevelt needs the help and good will of every man and woman who believes in Democracy. He needs this help X regardless of party labels. J There are senators and congressmen who were elected as Democrats, and on the New Deal platform, who are no more New Dealers than are Andy Mellon, Hell n Maria Dawes, and the leaders of the reactionary Liberty League. There Are governors of states and other elected officials, who were swept into office as Democrats on Roosevelts coat tails, but who are a disgrace to the Democratic party and the New Deal program. They are doing all they can, secretly and in the open, to block the Roosevelt These wolves in sheeps clothing are dangerous enemies of the people. 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