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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. AUCUST 13, 1937. 2 Habor Utaj) Established 1929 This paper receives Service, a C. 1. A MEMBER OF THE Union News 0. affiliate. 04 matter March 28, 1930, at the post office Entered as second-clas- s at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.50 Advertising rates by request. per annum FORWARD MARCI (Continued from Page 1) pany union affairs can be ex pected. CULINARY WORKERS SEE GREAT GAINS Locally and nationally the cater ing industry employes are making gains in membership. Here in Salt Lake City, both the Culinary A1 loca liance, and the Bartenders union, have added many new mem bers and signed union agreements with employers. There are more union house cards displayed in Salt Lake City today than there have been in many years. As result of picketing by loca its 815 Mayflower tavern closed doors rather than recognize union and give fair working conditions. Beau Brummel cafe, owned by same people; is still being picketed. Thomas Startin, union secretary, says the fight will continue until this unfair employer will recognize the union and give fair working conditions to the employes. Publisher Office Manager 15-ce- claims 100 per cent organization in this city. Portsmouth a C. I. 0. Town Portsmouth, Ohio, is practically a C. I. 0. town, Fuller said, as al the unions with the exception of a few building trades groups are affiliated to the industrial organ ization movement There are 2. local unions in the city with a combined membership of 16,000 to 18,000. By Dr. Charles Stelzle Executive Director, Good Neighbor League It has been estimated that it costs the state and the com Some employers may argue that they have helped worker to secure an education and to otherwise equip himself as a worker through the taxes which they pay. But these item are more than balanced by what the state and community have done for the employer through the privileges and protection which they give him in order to conduct his business, toward which, by the way, the worker himself has directly coni Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. LABOR ON ITS WHAT THE WORKER PAYS Co. munity plus the expense to the individual's family about Sole bargaining agreements with and equip the average laborer for his life s five laundries covering 300 laundry $10,000 to raise workers have also been signed re work. And so, when a man applies for a job, he is offering the cently, August Scholle, C. I. O. re- employer a $10,000 machine," for which he pays nothing. gional director in the Toledo area the reports. Other contracts won by C. I. 0 unions In the district include an agreement between the Yerges Co. Fremont, and the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, covering 125 employes, and one between the Rauh and Royster Fertilizer Companies and the C. I. 0. local indusan trial union, calling for a hour wage increase. Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City. Utah. M. I. THOMPSON L M. THOMPSON sions desired by the union. The union was formerly known as the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers International Union. Firms signing the contracts are the Gulf, Sinclair, National ant Barnsdall Refining Companies Jlickox Oil Corp., Shell Petroleum Co.; City Service Co.; and Daly Oi nt R. C. A. GROUP CHOOSES C. I. O. NEW YORK (UNS) traffic employes of the Radio Live Cor- poration of America Communications, Inc., voted 456 to 333 in favor of the American Radio Te legraphists Association, C. I. 0. union, as their collective bargaining agency. , Huntington, W. Va., has 1 BIGGEST BUS LINE unions with 10,000 members, anc IN MANHATTAN SIGNS Parkersburg, has seven with a C. I. O. CONTRACT total membership of more than 5000. NEW YORK (UNS) The TransEvansville, Ind., has 3000 workers under union contract; New port Workers Union, C. I. O. affiliAlbany, 1500; and Seymour, 1000 ate, has signed a closed shop In Ashland, Ky., there are between agreement with the New York City 1100 and 1200. Omnibus corporation, operator of The new unions have contracts the largest bus network in Manhatwhich cover workers in the shoe tan. Wage increases of 10 to 18 paper, meat packing, metal, ant per cen, vacations with pay, other miscellaneous industries. Ad pay for overtime, and agreement has been signed with other improvements in general the Selby Shoe Company at Ports working conditions for the commouth, Ohio, employing 4000 panys 1800 bus drivers, mechanics workers, and with the International and garage employes, were won by Nickel Company at Huntington, W. the union. Va., which has two other plants, The agreement is the first one in England, and one in Canada. reached between the and There are 1800 employes in the any bona fide labor company organization, Huntingdon plant. all previous agreements having Sole bargaining contracts have been with company unions. The According to last report of Rob- also been signed with the Ameri- Transport Workers Union became ert R. Hesketh, international sec can Car &, Foundry Co., employing sole bargaining agency for New GO new r, charters 3000 and with the West Virginia York City' Omnibus employes by were issued during June and July. Rail Comoration of Huntington, polling 82 ner cent of votes cast in a collective bargaining election With a membership now over 140, employing 2000 workers. 000 and growing rapidly, the orheld June 22 under direction of Co. Telephone Signs Contract LaOuardias City Industrial Mayor ganization expects to pass the 200,-00- 0 The first union agreement to be Relations mark before the end of this made Board. a telephone company in by year. Negotiations between the T. W the middle west was negotiated re U. and the company have been goC. O. Ohio the I. bv cently Valley 23,000 OHIO WORKERS office when it signed up the Ports- ing on since the election, an agreeCOVERED BY C. I. O. mouth Home Telephone Co. All the ment being reached at a final held July 28. The company PACTS IN SIX WEEKS hello employes including the was in negotiations by represented well as as girls linemen, repairmen its president. Hugh J. Sheeran: WASHINGTON (UNS) The and others, are covered by the loynton Wright, attorney, and notion that strikes are the sole agreement which grants a stock and trade of the C. I. 0. lourly wage increase, an eight-iou- r John A. Ritchie, nresident of the Coach company week and Fifth Avenue movement was dealt a blow by day and five-da- y which controls the stock of the New Paul Fuller, regional director in vacations with pay. York City Omnibus corporation. the Ohio River valley, who came The local union of the United Negotiators for the union into Washington recently to confer Radio and Electrical Workers is cluded Michael J. Quill, president; with C. I. 0. officials concerning recognized as the sole bargaining John Santo, business representathe membership drive in his territ- agency in the contract. tive. and Harry Sacher, general ory. Exclusive bargaining agreements counsel. C. I. 0. headquarOutlining at lave also been signed between the New Wage Rates ters the story of the amazing Jnited Wooden Box Workers, of new the C. Presence trade union O. I. and of Ritchie in the ne local union growth industrial movement in Ohio, Indiana, West the Edgerton Manufacturing- Co., gotiations was significant since the Virginia and Kentucky, Fuller said and between the United Distillery Transport Workers Union is soon that nearly 23,000 workers In a Workers, C. I. O. local, and the ;o begin negotiations for an agreement in behalf of the 1200 Fifth group of cities and towns in the Sherbrook Distributing Co. area extending from the western Coach employes. The T. Wage increases, vacations with Avenue border of Pennsylvania to the MisW. U. won an election among check-ofand f pay, seniority Avenue ifth Coach workers by 82 sissippi were brought under con- of union dues rights the are protract in six weeks without a single visions included in among per cent on July 21. the contracts. strike. The agreement with the New A new C. I. O. office An average of four to five thouYork City Omnibus Corporation esbeen at opened Dayton, tablishes sand workers a week have been las just a new high hourly wage R. Doll in charge. Ohio, with rate82 cents for bus drives signed up under union agreements, Another Harry of looffice is he declared, in the greatest trade cated in the fare transit under W. Va., union sweep the country has ever 1. M. at Huntington, ield. rate drivers in for bus Top of Osmeyer. Headquarters seen. Vlanhattan now been 78 until has ;he Ohio valley regional office are cents per hour, while in Brooklyn In Cincinnati alone thousands of in Cincinnati. where the Transport Workers workers have joined 36 new local Jnion seeks bargaining rights for unions, including 18 locals affili3. M. T. bus drivers, the top hourly ated to the Steel Workers Organ- C. I. O. OIL WORKERS rate is 70 cents. izing Committee with 7000 mem- SIGN UP 8 TOLEDO FIRMS bers. The low hourly wage rate, or The oldest unions such as the TOLEDO, O. (UNS) Eight oil starting rate has also been ingarment workers and the auto- companies in the Toledo area have creased from 61 to 65 cents in the mobile workers were already well signed agreements with the Oil agreement. The starting rate on organized in C. I. 0. unions, Fuller Workers International Union, C. I. other bus lines, in Manhattan is around 45 cents. B. M. T. bus said, before the present drive 3. affiliate, providing for a week, sone to two weeks va- drivers start at 40 cents per hour. began. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, for example, cation with pay and other conces Contract Expires Dec., 1938 The wage increases, won by the T. W. U. in the agreement, come on BEST WISHES TO top of a flat hourly increase MINE, MILL AND SMELTER WORKERS granted New York Omnibus em- time-and-a-h- alf retary-treasure- con-eren- ce 15-ce- nt tributed. As a matter of fact, the community and the state have done so much for the average employer, that his business is actually a socialized enterprise, in which the government local, state and national has a considerable stake, for without the support which the employer receives from the government, he simply could not exist. But to come back to the $10,000 worker who wants a job. Suppose a business were established in which $1,000,000 was invested in actual equipment, and for which 1000 workers are to be employed. These 000 workers would have an "equipment" value of $10,000,000 ten times as great as the amount spent for building and machinery. Have these workers no stake in the business? Have they any rights which should be considered? The fact that the personnel might change would not alter the situation, because at all times, under normal conditions, the employer would have at his command the full time of a thousand $10,000 workers but with the privilege of discharging anyone of them if he should become worn out, who would then be replaced by a "brand new machine" for which the employer pays nothing which would not be the case if the machine made of iron and steel were to be replaced. Under these circumstances it is absurd for the employer to say that he is absolutely independent of any "outside interference," and that he will conduct his business as he pleases, pay his workers what he pleases, and totally disregard any attempt to cooperate in bringing about fair and harmonious relationships between the various interests involved in the conduct of his business affairs. 1 nloyps about 3 months ago when the T. W. U. started its organization drive among these employes. Wage boosts for drivers average between 10 and 15 per cent; for mechanics between 11 and 18 per cent and for unskilled help, such as washers, cleaners, and sweepers, 10 per cent, and a new hierh for skilled mechanics of 80 cents an hour is established. The New York City Omnibus WELCOME, LABOR ZDNHEUS corporation operates 80 per cent of surface buses in Manhattan. T. W. O. C. 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