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Show LlMMKr Review ofi ILiatooir Activities wrirxitsITr' JUL P- - SA-- - EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL. V; NO. 39. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL IAIN STREET GANG Price: 5. 1935. 5 Cents Per Copy CENTEUJ ON UTAH SENATE Are That a $50,000 Bribe Fund Was Raised Regional Labor Board Orders News and Comment! D, M. I. T. Garfield Smelter Worker Reinstated By a unanimous decision by gang. On December 10, 1934, he the Mountain States Regional La- was laid off, or discharged. Nagle bor board, given on March 29, C. says discharged, the company J. Nagle, an employe of the Amer- says laid off. ican Smelting and Refining comDue to decline in volume of work pany at Garfield was ordered rein- the company reduced the personstated in his former position. nel in the service division on DeThe hearing of the case was cember 10, 1934, laying off at the held in Salt Lake City, January time 24 employees, including Mr. 25. The members of the board im- - Nagle. On January 5, 1935, Nagle panelled to hear the case were: L.was again reemployed in the division at $3.35 a day, and Cluff, chairman, repre-ivic- e the senting public; F. A. Noller, is still so employed, whereas his former job paid an average of representing labor, and Arthur Current Definitions t DEMOCRACY, A land in which a policeman receives a larger salary than an educator. , INFLATION Swell head money with a buy- ing inferiority complex. ASSETS The purse in ones personality. : WEATHER The emotional variations of climate. PEDIGREE It is Reported a Secret Meeting of Big Business Interests Was Held For the Purpose of Subscribing to A Fund to Defeat Bills Which the People Wanted Passed Telephones Were Used to Spread the Details of Senate Program A of Fortified the Senate Chamber. Regiment Lobbyists It is the talk of the town, as It is reported that when a bill that a bribe was being considered which these well as the state, fund had been raised by big busi- interests either desired to have ness interests making up the per- passed or killed, telephone wires sonnel of the Main street gang were instantly brought into use A birth certificate for an im-- 1 for the of influencing along Main street and a dozen animal showing who solons inpurpose portant automobiles carried voting favorably for representing industry. Ac- $4.13 per day. its parents are and proving Its measures desired the gang,'1 the board of directorates of the inby Union Activities cording to the testimony offered, birth is legitimate. and in voting against measures the terests up the capitol hill to surC. J. Nagle first was the employee On November 14, 1934, and two round the state senate and thus of the company on September 10, or three days following, a letter gang desired to see killed. Communists are red; are current a at that the fortification of paid Reports C. 1921, and continued to be so em- signed by augment J. Nagle, as Republicans are blue; secret of the Main street of the gang. meeting ployed until September 19, 1930. president of local union No. 57, lobbyists The Democrats are color blind; He held various positions during announcing a meeting of the union made were Succeed in Senate arrangement gang How about you? to raise at least $50,000 for the use this period. He was reemployed in the Salt Lake Labor temple DeIt was reported that earlier in of the lobbyists for the gang in the session these same tactics were July 13, lOSS the day after he cember 11, 1934, to discuss inHuman Rights laas an dock crease in need of started on the lower house memapplied way. unloading membership, the This this state, this the most effective borer. Later he was transferred interest in legislative matters and nation, community, Tell Things bership, but it was soon discovered be much betto the P. & H. shovel as operator initiation, was circulated among ter off are going to been some has that It that no headway could be made reported politically when some peo- members of the for three days and then transfer- the nearly 100 applicants for ad-- ( ple become so became with the members of the house, gang as worried over hured again to the roaster repair Continued on Page 3) man rights as they now prove to drunk with anticipation of suc- and therefore an organization was be over constitutional rights, anout cess in their purposes that they perfected to work exclusively on which they know almost as little gleefully told about the alleged the senate. How successful was this work of as they do concerning the former. bribe fund that was in the making. It is reported that the drunken concentration on the senate, is participants of the secret meeting proved by the journal of the senGrowing Power Are Members of the ates daily proceedings showing the had told, of the things that is The Press Labor Exchange: vote on the compensation revision to a the in takes person meeting spired growing power. Nothing American Federation of Teachers it was thought was friendly with bill, and car limit bill, passage of its place. Affiliated with the Yes and will succeed as a pow the aims, objects and purposes of which would have benefited the ' people of Utah. Then there were er, but only as subscribers' support the Main street gang. American Federation of Labor not did its advertisers. ; Reported information bills, among, which was the direct .Are you doing It?,,; ' the proposed $50,000 primary election . law, which were fund was fully subscribed or over- not even considered by the senate. The Greatest Sin And there were bills like II. B. 1(7, Keep Schools Open subscribed. this splendid organizaton. Men, races and nations The present tragic state of our Were Conspicuous Senator Cuttings amendment providing for a 4 cents per 1000 schools is largely due to the fact for lack of vision. The paid lobbyists of the various cubic feet tax on natural gas, setting aside $40,000,000 of Presi- that I sin The class a greatest working big majority of our educatb;g business interests representing which were blocked in the senate dent Roosevelts huge relief fund ors have failed to appreciate the and their enemy to progress is- the Main street gang were very sifting committee. to keep schools open in communi- value of a teachers union organi- their lack of vision their short- conspicuous around the senate Desire Control ties which have exhausted their re- zation. and failure to compre- - bies during the last three weeks of Because the Main street gang sources should meet with a unaniUnited in a militant union the hend the maneuverings of those the sessioilf and especially during desires to continue in control of mous approval by both houses of teachers could do more to save who would make prey of them, and the 60th day of the session which both the Democrat and Republican I who would devour them. congress. Americas school endangered syslasted five days. party machinery in Utah, considerJust recently Dr. John W. Stude-bake- r, tem than any (Continued on Page 2) other single force. were In this lobby lawyers, rep- ation of the passage of the direct director of the U. S. Bureau resenting public utility corpora- primary election law was blocked of Education in the Department of FEDERAL EMPLOYES tions, railroads, mining and smelt- in the senate. the Interior, completed a survey of TOOELE SCHOOLS TO The membership of the gang ing, and every other variety of big American schools made under his WAGES RESTORED business. knows that as long as there is the officials RUN that noted was NINE MONTHS It direction. The facts revealed In of these corporations were also antiquated convention system they this survey are truly appalling. reFederal restorations around the lobbies and in close can control the conventions of both wage Tooele county schools will conUnless the federal government active sulted an from (Continued on page 4) congress goes to the aid of the public schools tinue for the full term of nine which granted federal employes touch with their lobbyists. at once, Dr. Studebaker predicts months this year, the board of edu- salaries as before the that 3,500,000 school children will cation decided Saturday. This will economy act enjoyed 1933. of Approxibe denied educational training af- bring the closing date to May 24. 1500 government mately employes A committee headed by W. W. ter April 1. The report reveals that in many Gerrish, president of the Tooele in Utah are affected. instances teachers have not receiv- county Federation of Teachers, ed a penny of salary since Janu- presented a request from the teach- UTAH RAILROAD ary 1, and yet they are sticking to ers asking the board to Increase MEN ARE HAPPY Former State Chairman Utah the salary budget 10 per cent for their jobs. Progressive Party Expresses His next school the thousands of to board the doors the year, Locking States There is Great Views On Political Situation The railroad employes in Utah of American schools would be a determine how the salaries are to La FoUette Progressive Sentiment For New Party as well as all over the United calamity of major proportions. The be distributed. Because of a resolution made by States recovered their nation that neglects its children is It Cast Party in 1924 Received in Utah 33,662 Votes wage scale beginning April 1. sacrificing its most precious as- the board at the time salaries were and Weber More Than Democrat Party in Salt Lake, Several thousand employes of sets. This nation cannot afford to cut that they would be restored as Carbon Counties. before the cut, the board appointed the two units of the Union Pacific make such a blunder. The Utah Labor News is happy A. D. Crandall and Superintendent system the Oregon Short Line to record, with what it regards as P. M. Nielsen as a committee to and the Los Angeles & Salt Lake One cannot fail to understand The Utah Labor News is in repardonable pride, that Senator Cu- meet with a committee from the railroad; the Denver & Rio Grande ceipt of a letter from E. A. Mitch- when he talks with many people ttings proposal was suggested by. Tooele Federation of Teachers and Western railroad; Western Pacific ell, Provo, chairman of the Pro- as I have done lately, that the the American Federation of Teach- work out a satisfactory salary plan railroad and the Southern Pacific gressive party in 1924. The letter masses now understand that the two old parties are capitalist ers, a bona fide teachers union, to be presented to the board about railroad, are benefited by the wage reads as follows: affiliated with the American Fed- April 10, when action on salaries recovery. of Utah two issues the The last agencies and that the working beeration of Labor. Every teacher In and contracts for next year are to class cannot expect anything by with the Labor News, dealing Green insisted the thing to do was the land should be a member of be discussed. of the Utah of by supporting either one of them, or people not to destroy the law and return trayal liberals and Democrat the govby selecting legislature to the jungle of unregulated indus-- , one on or the are formathat the and running emor, forecasting GREEN DEFENDS trial relations, hut rather to perCALIFORNIA HAS tickets. old have other of a Political party party, tin neY it and make its basic principles Labor Party I have RECOVERY ACT feet TRAIN LIMIT ACT valid in practice in addition to Men very interesting. sent who are at all class conThose extra the passed copies you being commendable in theory. would I scious out see where h16 clearly that politics are thought they WASHINGTON A firm defense He urged that additional legisCalifornia joined its sister states of the class manifestation a mosA col-good. 1 of Nevada and Arizona in prohibit- of the principles underlying the lation should strengthen the Sentiment New the working and that Party of act National struggle Industrial trains lective bargaining section of the Recovery ing operation of freight here sentiment is a mass There no has class party. political great the recommendation when and of in a 70 stressed the necessity cars act, length strong more than conI am are want. and new for is a what That rebe They party a 24 B. S. and it basic they that the work than week shorter by strengthened the assembly passed foundations vinced to if that proper organizing anstrongly opposed vote of 55 to 24. The bill now enacted characterized the testi- 40 hours stipulated in most codes, in used are laid and care class other organparty. capitalist needs only the signature of Gover mony given by William Green and emphatically opposed removMy suggestion is that the quesservice trades izing, a new party would sweep president of the American Federa- ing the nor Minam to become law. Utah county in the next two to tion of organizing a new political tion of Labor, before the senate fi- from NRA jurisdiction. . Ininvesfour a nance which committee was house National the years. However, it appears party be taken into the labor lower that passed Utah The Declaring train limit bill during the recent tigating the effects of NRA codes. dustrial Recovery Act is the first that the masses want a real Labor unions, the mass organizations, and Although declaring that working step in the establishment of real party, one that is of, by, and for out among the unorganized worksession of the legislature, but it in the Mr. Green the working class the producers ers of every distinction. If they men and women have not received collective bargaining, vote close was defeated by a as as opposed to another capitalist favor it, and I feel assured they as benefits railroad served said a had lobby it the where many great pur-jos- e they rightfully senate, in this direction and must party that is of, by, and for the will, then a real Labor party that centered its opposition against the expected from the act and the codes established by its authority, Mr. not be underestimated. bill. (Continued on page 3) capitalist exploiters. ser-Eggers- Mc-Farla- en . ne, high-power- ed 1 UNION SCHOOL TEACHERS . , -- sby-whet- hf ess . Utah County Progressives Ready for New Labor pre-depressi- on - . so-call- , . so-call- ed Party |