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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 6 LAW AND ORDER GROUP DEFEATS EFFORTS TO PREVENT RLOQDSIIED of its wholesale practices, congress Act impose! in the Guffey-Vinso- n commission the the duty o upon wholesale these prices ani setting regulations. Under the law, while wholesalers are not members of the code, their actions can be ef fectively controlled by the penalties available against producers who say, in their dealings with wholesalers, violate the code or the regulations of the commission. Many instances were cited in the course of the long series of before hearings congressional committees to show that sales practices were, as much as any factor, responsible for the chaotic and unprofitable situation of the mines. The Act therefore, gave the commission very specific powers of regulation in this regard. The hearings will bring out the views of all sections of the indus- w-a- s Back-to-Wor- 1937. healed and that the family of latpr be will once more be united. ease can almost invariably the to traced directly patients Much of this sham sympathy is mode of living. The high speed life (Continued on Page 7) ed. ' Then it wont need a mayor, or a chief of police, or any official, Switter said he was told. he under constant Not only pressure from Republic Steel offi cials, the Law and Order League, k and the committee, but General William E. Marlin, head of the Ohio National Guard, also tried to get him to increase his police force by deputizing Re public employes, saying that he would have to prepare to take over when the National Guard was withdrawn. wounded. To Switters statement that he Heat Put On Officials thought any addition to the police If he had been let alone in the force should come from a neutral performance of his duties, Switter source, General Martin replied said repeatedly, the riot of July 11 that it was no time to be neutral, try. would never have taken place, Bui the police chief testified. On Wednesday the commission Carl Meyer, Republic Steel official Chief Predicted Bloodshedl held a conference with the reprein charge of the Massillon district, Finally, worn out by the strain sentatives of the twenty-thre- e disand business men in the Law and of 16 to 20 hours a day on the trict boards elected the bituby Order League put the heat on the job since the strike was called May minous industry under the Guffey-Vinso- n mayor and hammered away at 26, and being pretty well pounded Act. direction of himself and other town officials for down by that time, Switter said the commission Under these boards have weeks, Switter said, until finally he gave in and agreed to take on drafted each a set of marketing he was forced to agree to take on a the special police. I decided rules consistent with the code force of special police. thats what they wanted, let them which is part of the statute. They I knew if they put guns in the have it. I said Id appoint the are also to submit descriptions of hands of those rookies' there whole dam outfit give them ev their market areas. The respective would be trouble, Switter testi- erything they wanted. of these conferences is to purpose fied. He added that he knew there the commission to proceed Little by little the story of his would be blood shed as soon as the enable to the various rules coordinate rookies were armed. losing struggle to keep the MasIt was posed, with special reference toprothe sillon police force neutral came July 7 when he agreed to take minimum on which areas market out. In the beginning when a Re- them on. will eventually be based. On the night of July 11, Switter prices public Steel official first came to him demanding that the policfe testified, at the suggestion of Cap ATLANTIC AND GULF smash the picket lines and open up tain Harry Curley, a former army MARITIME CONVENTION the plant, Switter said he told him, officer, and leader of It isnt our job. We arent a the new police force, he went off VOTES FOR THE C. I. O. g outfit. duty about 9:30, and drove 12 miles NEW YORK (UNS) By a At conference in his office and or so out in the country with his unanimous the constitutional vote, elsewhere, Switter declared, threats wife and some friends, to get some convention of the National Mariwere made continually by company relaxation. Union time meeting at the Manofficials that they would close When he returned about one hattan House in New York Opera down the plant permanently and oclock he learned that a riot had reduce Massillon to a junction on occurred while he was awrny in passed a resolution endorsing the the prairie, unless the plant was which two men had been killed, Committee for Industrial Organization and recommending affiliaopened. many wounded, and ICO arrested. tion. Several hundred delegates repfew weeks ago, in their concerted LABOR ON ITS 35,000 Atlantic and Gulf resenting drive to smear the C. I. O., the Coast seamen the convenFORWARD MARCH organization was just about ready tion called to attended constitution a draft to fold up. All it needed was a National Maritime Union of a for good funeral service to add to the America which is expected to be (Continued from Page 5) formalities of burial. at a convention to be held strain caused by looking for comIt is now learned, that while all formed in in August. Chicago in no I. munists the C. 0. that they was going on, this grave-diggin- g The resolution endorsing the can see than their further longer the C. I. 0., unperturbed, was C. I. 0. charged that the American noses. No matter what the ex- gathering in new members by the of Labor through its Federation planation, the results are thousands and looking for larger leaders has for many quarters. When you see it in the reactionary retarded the organization of years daily newspapers, its not so. American workers, and has by its WHEN YOU SEE IT alliances with company unions IN THE DAILY PAPERS, NATIONAL BITUMINOUS and professional scab- - herding ITS NOT SO COAL COMMISSION agencies become discredited and repudiated by sincere and honest The National WASHINGTON According to the newspapers a unionists. trade on Commission Coal Bituminous The Committee for Industrial Tuesday, August 3, began one of the most important phases of its Organization, on the other hand, Best Wishes to Miners' and It started the resolution states, being formed regulatory function. Smeltermen's Convention elements hearings to determine maximum by the most progressive discounts to be allowed wholesal- within the A. F. of L. for the SMOKE ers, to determine what persons may avowed purpose of organizing the be defined as wholesalers, or dis- millions of unorganized workers, tributors, as the Act calls them, has follewed progressive policies and to establish regulations for of industrial unionism and demothe enforcement of the commi- cratic procedure such as are fully ssions marketing rules upon them. in accord with the policies and purCIGARS The commission will also consider poses of the National' Maritime Every Puff a Pleasure-Smok- e the special requirements the act Union. sets forth for farmers cooperaCuban Cigar Co. tives. Hurts the Heart Salt Lake City, Utah The world, especially the occi Recognizing the vital importance to the industry of a proper control dental world, owes a great deal to the hustlers who have made possible our high standard of livBest Wishes to Miners and Smeltermens 1937 Convention ing. How great that debt is may be gathered from the following excerpt from Scientific American: L-iynIn 1933, heart diseases caused clx in the United 286,360 deaths this figure had In States. 1935, STOCKS, BONDS AND INVESTMENTS grown to 312,333. Cancer, during 1935, caused 144,065 deaths. GenMember Salt Lake Stock Exchange erally speaking, cancer is a disease which is contracted through no 418 Kearns Building Salt Lake City, Utah Wasatch 6844 certain fault of the sufferer forms of industrial cancer except- (Continued from page 1) ployes to discontinue their membership in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Switter, a reddish blond, ruddy faced young man of medium build, said to have been a steel worker formerly, gave the appearance of being intently concerned to tell everything and clear his record of the blot which he obviously felt had been smeared upon it by the strike bloodshed of July 11, when two men were killed and a number 6, On the other hand, heart dis- of the average American contributes largely to the prevalence of heart disease. Sane living, sane eating, sane drinking, and a more placid, slower speed of existence would go far toward reducing the ravages caused when the little pump so necessary to life goes awry. Take it easy and live longer, may be trite but it is truer today than ever before. money for? to Africa! cried a chorus of cheery voices. Texas Longhorn. To go Playing safe. Cassius left the Garfield and Magna Labor, We Wish You the Best of Luck WELCOME, LABOR EAT AT Magma CaCe Quality Food and Cleanliness ARTHUR STORE. 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