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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 12, 1937. bile Workers of America, 801 Hofmann Building, Detroit, Mich. Thanks Labor New President Martin, in behalf of the United Automobile Workers, AUTO STRIKE late petitions among its laid-of- f and local businessmen proclaiming the right to work. Peo pie who wrote letters to the editor saying they wanted to work but thanked the Utah Labor News for I minority was stopping them, die the splendid publicity given in its I not find the daily papers devotinj columns during the organization! whole pages to their plaints, campaign of the union, and now I As a manufacturer of public during the existing strike of the I opinion, however, General Motors G. Al. employes. has now discovered in the right-t- o Mr. Martin remarks, With your work a great crusade. So much so wonderful support and with the in fact, that its straw bosses anc support of your friends we are go- stoolpigeons have been telling em ing to carry on until we win. ployes that the company doesn't want them even to work for it i they dont sign peti Manufacturers of tions, which incidentally can be Cars and Opinions checked against company lists. Qf course, the joker in this is that the .union men campaign CAUX LEN By as anxious as anyone else Public opinion is going t0 are, just to to work, under union back get count a lot in the outcome of the and that they believe in conditions, auto strike, according to all the wiseares who presume to know the right to work much more than what public opinion is. Both Gen- does General Motors. drummed up Jy eral Motors and the union have i Ata meeting Tifinion-rnan-Allianceali diffcre"1 ufLSri oT workers (Continued from page 1) other than the U. A. W, A. in future negotiations. He added the union was demanding an agreement of indefinite length, subject to termination by corporation or workers on 30 days' notice. Any agreement reached, it was said, might provide for settlement on a national scale of questions of working hours, minimum wages and maximum speed of production lines, leaving for local negotiation scales of wages and minimum production speed. May See 'the Light Union representatives report that the G. M. executives are beginning to see the light of day, when they are beginning to real ize that it would be more businesslike for the corporation to deal through only one organization for all of the G. M. employes. This I far better than to leave the mat- ters open for all union orgamza- n Motor8' the supposedly General or rather its e.m crowd tions demanding collective bar-- 1 "10;rs enthusiastic into burst ap- used to.. manufacture auto- ployes, t when them Plause unionists gainmg. une nf the u. M. corner- among R ut the corporation has ees was reported having remarked njoDiies. no mean manufacturer managedj to, get in a wora tui of public opinion. Its depart- they favored the speediest possible agency is more suitable for the ments and subsidiaries specializing return to work, but under union corjvoration than dealing with 20 in the latter conditions. commodity have not or more different labor organiza- been tied A Movie Test for G. M. up by the strike unfortutions. The claims of the daily press to Regardless of the expected re- nately. On the contrary, they are now reflect public opinion were shot to sults the union mailed appeals for a wholesale and un- pieces in the last election, when funds to carry on the fight. These operating onscale and the corpora- nearly all the papers went for Lan precedented don but the voters went for Roose appeals went to the officers and tion is hopeful shortly of having velt. members of international unions, enough public opinion manufaccentral labor unions and state fed- tured One of the more reliable preto meet all its current needs. erations of labor. was the re election opinion-test- s The union and the C. I. O., on to the audiences movie of action Money Is Needed conown do or not the other hand, General In a letter to the Utah Labor trol, nor do this candidates. test, By have any bosom News this week, Homer W. Martin, pals owning they present drive to fill the or controlling any Motors n general president of the United public opinion factories such as papers with canned I is falling flat. Automobile Workers of America, daily newspapers, big radio sta opinion n When the campaign sajd tions and personnel departments in Detroit its was This fight for the right to or- with thousands of reaching height supervisors, papers, audiences in down-tow- n ganize is your fight as well as straw bosses and stool pigeons. ours. It is a fight for the Ameri The labor boys are all for public theaters there were greeting a can to belong to a labor union, a opinion, however, not as manufac-- 1 newsreel of the strike with loud right that must be defended with turers but because they figure they I applause whenever the and their every lawful resource at our com have the genuine article right un- - strikers were 8 hwn mand. We repeat, we are fighting der their own hats in the minds I opinions heard, and with frozen si express Wall Street and in this fight we of the millions of workers who are lence when call your assistance. We must go seeking higher wages ancl fairer ed what General Motors would on the air to tell our story to the conditions, and in the minds of have us believe is public opinion. American people. We must publish those millions of others to whom literature to supplement our story better rewards for labor will bring POLITICAL OUTLOOK on the air. more business, more demand for We must defend our people farm products, etc. (Continued from page 2) against the attacks of pliant and Faking Photos A neat instance of the way Gen-- 1 of taxation. Our entire system of willing tools of General Motors in public office who have prostituted eral Motors plants have been taxation needs a revision if we are to to raise sufficient funds for social their public trust. Money is need- turned from ed to carry on this fight for true n was seen at the security and do the many other Americanism. We appeal through Chevrolet Gear & Axle in Detroit. things which government is cannot you for financial assistance. In After the plant had been closed, pected to do. social undertake view of the combination of money! the employes were all called in one security, proper we are fighting we ask for con-- 1 .day to receive their pay checks, meet its obligations to our unfor- tributions as liberal as possible. When they assembled by the thou- - tunates, provide for adequate edu-Omen and women are determin-- l sand outside the plant, they were cational facilities and do the many ed to carry on this struggle for I kept waiting for their checks while other things which we expect or increasing human freedom until the flag of I photographers were put to work on government without surrender is hoisted by General I them. Three banners were governmental costs Motors. With your assistance we I stretched out in the foreground, I with cannot lose. before the photographers, I Make all contributions payable n slogans on them, to George F. Addes, general sec-- 1 .. . . , Some of the union men in the.. the great question is: v retary-treasure- r, United Automo-- 1 crowd get an inkling of what was shall government derive the going on and tried to shout their protests. But they were silenced by company tough guys until it was too late and the picture had I back-to-wo- , rk 1 eSiary 1 is artti-unio- w anti-unio- SUPREME COURT REFUSES SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW WASHINGTON (AFLNS) Observers here interpreted the refusal of the supreme' court to pass on the constitutionality of the Massachusetts unemployment insurance law find the Federal Social Security Adt as an indirent certification of the validity of both measures. The suitAvas brought by Howes Brothers company of Boston, who argued that the Massachusetts law was invalid because th$ Federal statute, wjiich it supplements, was unconstitutional. The suit had been dismissed' by the Massachusetts supremejudicial court, which ruled the Federal Act did not violate the ; rights of the company. Howes Brothers appealed the decision of Use Massachusetts high court to the supreme court of the United States. The companys attack on the constitutionality of both the Massachusetts law and the Federal Social Security Act was aimed principally against the unemployment compensation of the latter, which levies a payroll tax on employers to provide benefits for the TYPO AUXILIARY Womans Auxiliary No. 16 to Typographical Union No. 115 will entertain with bridge and 500 at the home of Mrs. W. A. Parker, 931 Simpson avenue, Tuesday, February 16, at 8:30 p. m. Mrs. L. R. Johnson and Mrs. R. II. Smith will assist the hostess. Members and their families and friends are cordially invited to anti-unio- sit-do- anti-unionis- wu ts car-producti- on opinion-productio- costs of social security. This applies to the federal as well as the The unemployed. Federal employment compensation laws approved by the Federal Social Security board. The present ruling of the supreme court supplements another of its recent decisions refusing to review the unemployment compensation sections of the Federal Act in a case brought by George P. Davis of Boston, which had also been dismissed by the Massachusetts federal district court. A decision of the U. S. supreme court was sought by Davis without following the usual practice of appealing the decision of the district court to the U. S. circuit court of appeals. LABOR SPY AGENCY MEN FACE TRIAL WASHINGTON (AFLNS) Six officials and employes of the Railway Audit and Inspection company of Pittsburgh, Pa., pleaded not 'guilty in the Federal district court here to indictments by the District of Columbia grand jury charging them with contempt of the U. S. senate in refusing to obey subpoenas served last fall by agents of the senate civil liberties committee requiring them to appear before the committee with the records and documents of the concerns activities. The company is reputed to be one of the largest private detective agencies in the United States and is alleged to make a specialty of spying activities with regard to labor union activities among the employes of many state government. Justified taxation is a study that Nothing has ever been decided Our legislators by war that could not be decided time. should not jump at conclusions un- without it; and if decided after the til they understand the tax war, why not before? General U. S. Grant. requires BEST WISHES TO LABOR COMPARE THE COST YOU MUST BE SATISFIED 20 Months to Repay $300.00 or Less A Complete Loan Service, Including Our Single Signature and Auto Finance Plans Listen to Your Unseen Friend at 3 P. M. Every Sunday, KSL PERGONAL FINANCE GO Room 405 Continental Bank Building Salt Lake City - Phone Was. 2007 75 East Center St. Room 921 Eccles Bldg. ur Provo Ogden Phone 210 Phone 1277 UNDER STATE SUPERVISION I 7 anti-unio- 1 I VAAf1 f q Vpti The next day the Detroit papers blossomed out with pictures all across their front pages of the. thousands gathered at Chevrolet Axle to receive their pay- 1 UIUwIlt ua,uufll wm-- Gear & but with captions alleging mitteeman for Utah, informed the checks, back-to- Utah Labor News this week. that it was an anti-unio- n celebrademonstration. work These banquets are in The Right to Work tion of the fourth anniversary of As a manufacturer of cars Gen- President Roosevelts first inaug-uration. They will be held in oaiuieiai. Motors was never concerned Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Logan, about, nor did it ever condescend Price, Richfield, Cedar City and to recognize any right to work. It would close its plants for months "onticello. The Newhouse hotel will be the at a time, depriving tens of thou- tene of the feast in Salt Lake sands of its employes of a living and Mr. Brown Predicts that and nearly bankrupting whole com-- 1 more than a thousand Democrats munities. In those periods it did not circu-- 1 will participate here. , We Welcome Labor as Members Utah Consumers scientific, and has no relationship whatever to the theory of taxation ba8ed 0J! t0 PaY A ax upon the consumer (sales es, it means reduction ,stan,d of those who ard are eyeing betowjwhatjve con i sider a decent a ard of those who are living on a subsistence bare level, whioh means merely exis(J-City- , taxes cannot afford rdlon them to pay. There can be only one answer and that is a tax upon wealth according to its income. It is both just and equitable that those who desire the greatest benefits from our social order, those who would receive the greatest benefits from continuing that social order, should defray the LABOR Meats and Groceries for the Cooperative Association 860 South Main Just Phone Wasatch 4864 We Deliver i Holidays COLORADO MARKET 591 West 2nd South II. P. FINSTER, Mgr. Act stipulates that ninety per cent of the tax may be deducted by employers in states which have un- The Utah Labor News Is the only weekly labor anti publication in Utah. And, contrary to the libellous statements published by spleen peddlers and social-econom- ic self-seeke- rs in montlily circulars, the Utah Labor News is endorsed by organized labor, and it has done more for the upbuilding of the bona fide labor movement in this state than all other publications combined. The Utah Labor News refuses to be dictated to by erratic misleaders and and reactionary Republican labor poliself-seeker- s, ticians. V The Utah Labor News is free to preach the gospel of education, organization and coojieration, which is so necessary to the workers of Utah. It stands for progress and a ne deal in politics, and for the Committee for Industrial Organization in the labor advancement. It is outspoken it does not straddle the ssues. Read the Utah Labor News and patronize its advertiser. |