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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JUNE Labors Non- - Partisan League county precincts. It is expected that more than 200 delegates will be seated at the county convention on July 16. (Continued from Page 1) League for several LEAGUE UNIT FORMED hours, lie was en route to Pacific AT IIUNTEIl coast points. A unit of the Labors At a lunch at Scotty's cafe at 2 League was formed at Hunter, m. the national leader explained p. to Utah leaders the League work in Salt Lake county, Thursday night. sponsoring legislation in congress Claude Rasmussen was chosen in the session just closed. This chairman, and Lon Rashton secreof the new unit. years campaign plans were dis- tary State Senator E. M. Royle was cussed. The League has an active II He explained the organization in practically every the speaker. League and the necessity program district congressional throughout the nation. It will support its of organization in the political friends and defeat its enemies in field for intelligent voting. this years elections. LEAGUE UNIT FORMED Mr. Oliver is a prominent memAT HOLLA DAY ber of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, A. P. L. affiliate. .Ile said A unit of the Labors that regardless of William Greens League has been organized at reactionary tactics in denouncing the League the rank and file, as Ilolladay. J. Carlos Lambert was well as liberal leaders of the A. F. elected temporary chairman, L., are supporting the League pro- George Marchant vice chairman, Robert Farrell secretary. gram in every state of the nation. andState Senator E. M. Royle, chairman of Salt Lake county League IIOUSH RULES COMMITTEE unti, was the speaker at the organBLOCKED PASSAGE OF ization WALSII-IIEALmeeting. BILL A meeting to effect permanent Without a .roll call and with only organization will be called within a few minutes debate, the senate a few days. passed the Walsh-Heal- y bill, putting teeth in the original act. CONSUMER NOTES The bill provides that employers bidding on government contracts BEFORE YOU BUY must pay union wages and maintain a week in their plants. SHEETS READ THIS The passage of the amended bill In Cincinnati lives a consumer would close loopholes in the law. who knows now that you cant rely Its supporters claim its provisions on to tell you the best qualprices will cover all industries, including product. ity shipbuilding. This careful consumer selected 9 The only objection to the legissheets. She sent all of them to a lation in the senate was raised by professional laboratory to be testSenator King of Utah, who rarely misses a chance to show his hos- ed for quality. Then she asked some salespeople and some other tility to labor. consumers to test the same sheets. on contended ban the that King Results stacked up like this: The employers who defy the Labor most of Board would set up a system expensive sheet rated top with the salespeople, fifth rea drew and quality espionage, sharp with Senhis from quality consumers, andTHIRD Utah ply colleague, ator Thomas, who is as progressive quality with the laboratory. One of the least expensive sheets rated as King is reactionary. no would fifth be need There of any quality with the salespeople, spy system at all, Thomas said. fourth quality with consumers, but If a firm flouts the Labor Board, TOP quality with the experts in the its records will so show. The of- laboratory. fender would not be given a conWise consumers, says the Contract, and that is as far as it is sumers Guide, ask for this label information when they buy sheets: necessary to go. The bill was help up- in the re- (1) minimum tensile strength of actionary house rules committee. warp and filling; (2) minimum Efforts to secure a rule permitting thread count of warp and filling its consideration from the rules (the higher the thread count, the committee were unsuccessful in finer the fabric); (3) maximum the closing days of the session. percentage of sizing in the fabric; The Labors N o P artisan (4) weight in. ounces per square League backed the bill to the limit, yard of fabric; (5) size of unand has the record of the reaction- hemmed and hemmed sheet; and ary members of the rules com- (6) whether the sheet is a first mittee. or a second. More information about sheets SALT LAKE COUNTY be secured by writing to the can LEAGUE of Documents, Superintendent CONVENTION JULY 16 Washington, D. C., for U. S. BulleThe convention date of the Salt tin No. 1765 entitled Guides for Bath Lake county unit of the Labors Buying Sheets, Blankets, 5 Towels. cents. is The price League has been changed from June 25 to Saturday, A man was being shown over a July 16 at 10 a. m. The date of the shop. By the way, he weeks carpenters two convention is county remarked, which convention picking up a planl to the state prior are these holes in this what 30. has been set for Saturday, July wood? the work of The organization Those are knot holes, explained League is progressing nicely in Salt Lake county, reported State the carpenter. They are holes, insisted the Senator E. M. Royle, county chairother formed man. New units are being angrily. Do you think I dont in the city wards as well as in the know a hole when I see it? Non-Partis- an Non-Partis- Non-Partis- an an Y 40-ho- ur - n-- NON-PARTISA- Non-Partis- N an Welcome, Labor. We Appreciate Your Patronage D. G. HENRI0D Friend of Labor A Union Market Quality Meats 80 WEST CENTER . I. G. A. STORE Quality Groceries Phone 131 PROVO, UTAH LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH C. I. O. FORCES SUGAR FIRM TO OBEY LABOR RELATIONS LAW DENVER (UNS) Even the n most powerful corporations are learning that labor laws must be obeyed when the C. I. 0. undertakes to see that they are enanti-unio- forced. Latest to absorb this lesson is the Great Western Sugar company, which has been forced to' publicly A. repudiate a company-sponsore- d F. L. union by action of District 3 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, packing & Allied Workers, C. I. O. Faced with a C. I. 0. boycott of its plants, the Great Western Sug- ar company got together with Mon- tana A. F. L. top leaders and set its foremen and straw bosses to organizing the workers in an A. F. L federal union. In almost no time the A. F. L. got a contract which had nothing to say about wages or hours or other fundamental working conditions in the plants. The workers, seeing through the dodge, called in the Agricultural workers union, which immediately filed charges of company unionism with the Labor Relations Board. As a result of these charges, the company has posted a public notice agreeing to stop trying to organize the A. F. L. in its plants and to allow the C. I. 0. full freedom to organize. PORK PLANT WORKERS VOTE 234 TO 61 FOR CIO UNION 1938. 17, Page was the only union claiming to cials, took place in the offices of represent the employes, and was the state superintendent of insurunopposed at the election. ance, and gave the 55 agents working for the Golden Eagle Life InMONTANA MINE UNION surance Co. the preferential shop CELEBRATED 57T1I and improved working conditions. ANNIVERSARY IN BUTTE Negotiations between the compa-- ( Continued on page 4) Some BUTTE, Mont. (UNS) 8000 union men marched through) the streets of Butte on June 13 to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the formation of the Butte Miners union. The Butte union, forerunner of' the Western Federation of Miners, was one of the most militant! unions in the nation during the! last few years of the 19th century.1 At the present time, the union,1 now affiliated with the C. I. 0. through the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, has regained the strength it commanded in its most prosperous years. Walter Smethurst, assistant to the chairman of the C, (. 0. and a e Montana state legislator, was a featured speaker at the celeone-tim- bration. It was in June, 1878, that a then group of miners in Butte one of the wests most colorful mining camps met to form their first labor organization. A sense of forced them to take the step which would afford them some protection from a bunch of unscrupulous employers who had consistently cut wages from a high of $10 to $12 a day until several employers were paying $3 for a day, Sylvester Graham, president of the Butte union at the present time, points out. The union grew in strength, and later, with its treasury greatly increased, sent organizers into a few of the other Montana camps. With other unions springing up in various localities, the Butte organization, in 1893, called a conference of workers representatives and helped establish the Western Federation of Miners. self-preservati- on 12-ho- ur Workers at the Roberts & Oakes Co., pork processing plant, voted 254 to 61 in favor of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee as their chosen union at a Labor Board election. The consent poll was held upon agreement of the union and the company. There are about 325 workers OFFICE WORKERS SIGN employed in the plant. The PWOC FIRST CONTRACT WITH INSURANCE COMPANY CHICAGO (UNS) IN THE MAIL red-baitin- (A Total of 124 Issues) One Year Each: McCalls Magazine Pictorial Review Womans World Good Stories The Country Home The Farm Journal UTAH LABOR NEWS g. first collective bargaining agreement yet negotiated with a life in- surance company. The pact, signed in the presence of union, company and state offi- - For Father an e All Seven Publications Value $4.75 For Only A Case of Milwaukee BEER Years Union Made for 85 Also Lucky Lager The Dated Beer Owners and Exclusive Distributors of ALTA CLUB GINGER ALE, LIME RICKEY CARBONATED WATER WHITE SODA NELSON-ANSOCO., INC. N Was. 314-31- 5 Send your order to the Utah Labor News 28 Fourth East St., 132 Pacific Ave. Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah THE BEST BEST WISHES Editor Utah Labor News: Heres the money keep my paper coming. The Utah Labor News is the best publication in Utah and it is getting better. I like the Labors League movement also and wish it every success. More power to you in the fight for common justice and equality of opportunity. R. G. D., Tooele. Non-Partis- Publications And Your Favorite NEW YORK (UNS) The ited Office & Professional Workers, C. I. 0.. this week signed the rs Non-Partis- Big Un- (Continued from Page 2) derous Our local central labor union, of which he is also president, lined up solidly with machine-lik- e a precision with threat to oust us from their body. An anonymous letter attacking-ou- r local was even received by the central body and entered in the minutes. It is even an open fact that Mr. Marciante is a close friend of one of the most notorious union-hatein our city, a school prinwho has openly announced a cipal plan to bust the union! This is the type of help we can expect from the A. F. L. in New Jersey. As a matter of fact, we have been getting help from the C. I. O., even though we are not affiliated with them. These alert and progressive unions are more solidly behind us than the building trades crowrd, that is evident. Labors League has furnished us with more contacts and has given us more help than the state federation of labor ever has done. It is a reactionary state, and the A. F. 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