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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. MAY 21. 1937. 2 fitaf) la&or Jtetotf Company Union A MEMBER OF THE Established 1929 two-paragra- Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corp., dated April 20, signalizes the end of an epoch in American industrial matter March 28, 1930, at the post office s second-clas- By Len He Caux news release A from the Washington office of the Thla paper receives Union News Service, a C. 1. 0. affiliate. Entered as collective bargaining or make any tive fashion. New Version Of An Old Game agreement with such group or orunof this, however, does not All of the purpose ganization for mean, unfortunately, that all emdermining the union. The company union after all, has ployers have seen the light and are little reason for existence if it is now obeying the letter and spirit not used to determine the union. of the Labor Regulations Act by dealing with geniune unions in A 'Substitute That Failed good faith. Company unions were started by The company union idea, for Inemployers in the first place as a stance, has cropped up in another substitute for real unions and for form at the Consolidated Edison the purpose of diverting the work- Co. in New York. ers from union organization. There the company has apparOnce this obstacle has failed to ently tried to achieve the company prevent the C. I. O. from organiz- union purpose of undermining the ing workers in the steel, automo- union chosen by the employes, by An Obituary On at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March Subscription ......... Advertising rates by request. $1.50 3, 1879. per annum Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Published weekly at 24 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. Publisher Office Manager M. I. THOMPSON.. U M. THOMPSON SUPREME COURT history. The employes of the Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corp. are notified tothe management of its withby day drawal from participation in, or further recognition of the plans of it says. employe representation, The employe representatives are notified today that the company will no longer recognize them as the spokesmen for any of the bile rubber and other industries, and once the employers had been compelled to recognize the independent union of their employes choice, company unions became it handicap and a nuisance more than anything else to employers desiring peaceful and orderly collective bargaining relations. Having brought them into being themselves in the first place the employers have been able to discontinue them just as easily as they started them. ' Advantages of Industrial Form Speaking before an audience of financial and industrial leaders at the Economic Club in New York, Sidney Hillman of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee had little difficulty in explaining to them the advantages of the C. I. O. type of unionism from the point of view of industrial efficiency, as well as from the point of view of promoting the workers employes. The Carnegie-Illinoi- s Corp., biggest subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., was not the first large corporation to discontiue its company union plans. The International Harvester Co., a week before, had dissolved its Industrial Council one oldest of comof the Plan, in 1919. formed first unions, pany It announced its decision not to appeal the ruling of the National Labor Relations Board against this company unions. anBut the Carnegie-Illinoi- s nouncement sounds the real death-kne- ll of company unionism. For with it topples the whole structure of company unionism, not only throughout the plants of U. S. Steel but also throughout American heavy industry generally. The Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. and the American Steel & Wire Co. announced withdrawal from participation in or further recognition of their company unions on the same day ant in the same language as did the Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Co. Other steel companies hastened to folcomlow suit. Discontinuance-o- f pany unions in the Goodyear Goodrich and Firestone plants the big three of rubber came soon (Continued from Page 1) , come very close to a flat reversal yond the shadow of a doubt that of its decision on the Guffey coal it has been guilty party by throwbill and other similar statutes, but ing out legislation that was coneven though the light of under- stitutional in every meaning of the standing was a bit tardy, it was term. Victory Is In Sight none the less welcome. Victory is in sight a complete The combined effect of the recent decision of the court is to and smashing victory over Kings, which for prove beyond a doubt that the prob- Glasses, and those forcesto use the decades have into sought the lem of bringing judiciary line with modern thought is not Federal judiciary to twist and torConstitution from a noble impossible, and it has proved be- ture the of human rights into an do charter it yond a doubt that the way to the subjugation and for instrument Roosevelt President is to do what of humble and poverty-strithe tackle to exploitation done that has is, cken citizens. Therefore, head-on- . problem dear readers, the enemy is in reMake No Mistake treat. Make no mistake about it the Racked by the overwhelming maman responsible for the victories jority of his fellow citizens and which the people of the United conscious of the fact that his cause States are now winning in the Un- is just, President Roosevelt is ited States supreme court is Frank- ready to give the final thrust at lin D. Roosevelt. If he had backed a pernicious system that has hamaway from the task, if he had lis- pered and hamstrung the cause of tened to those who counseled de- social and economic justice for genafter. lay or vacillation, if he. had pre- erations. The final decision rests their take ferred to let things with the people. Upholding the C. I. O. Put Kibosh on Kept Unions course, the process of judicial usur- mighty arm of the President; give In all of these cases, it was sucpation would have continued in all him your enthusiastic, whole- cess of the C. I. O. organizing its forces and all its dangerous hearted, and complete support, and drives that made unions tendencies. There would have been insist that your representatives in an anachronism acompany that no reversal of the despicable decithe Presi- is to say, whose chief reason for will support congress laws sion banning minimum-wag- e and before many weeks have existence has ended. for women; there would have been dent, he will have won another When the United States Steel no favorable decision permitting passed, in the never-endin- g recognized the C. I. O. steel Corp. victory glorious Uncle Sam to use his influence and to achieve human union, Philip Murray, chairman of struggle authority in preserving peace be- freedom. the Steel Workers Organizing comtween industry and labor. mittee, expressed the opinion that n reversal of opinion The the agreement marks the end of in the supreme court decisions has GOLDEN GATE the plan in been an awakening. Obviously steel the BRIDGE FIESTA The industry. something piust be done. We must employe representation plan conditions not drift along under in form for awhile after continued that make it easy for us to slip San Fran- - this agreement, but the life and SAN FRANCISCO back into the abortive conditions of cisco is the most elabor- content has gone out of it. a few years ago. The necessity ate and planning fiesta ever In the automobile industry the spectacular for action rests upon President held in the west to celebrate the Chrysler agreement cut the ground Roosevelt. He has suggested a plan and opening this month out from under company unionism, completion to meet the situation. Now it is of the $35,000,000 bridge across its when the corporation agreed that up to congress to decide whether famous Golden Gate. would not aid, promote or fiit imthe government shall remain Comparable in its own field to nance any labor group or organizapotent, or whether it shall provide the great bridge it celebrates, the tion which purports to engage in a legal method of doing what pafiesta will be a gigantic community tiently must be done to protect the celebration from May 27 to June farmers and wage earners of this 2 peace time, will remain for the enin which Canada, Mexico, all Cal- tire duration of the fiesta. country. ifornia and all western. America More than 500 planes will Understand Constitution in jubilation. One of the thrill multitudes navy will join mass air with To rest on our oars, to assume oldest of San Franciscos dreams enwhile the maneuvers, 60,000 because a that the fight is won that of a bridge across the Gold- listed men and officers the ships bare majority of the court is now is en Gate, surmounting the last big carry will participate in parades, willing to concede the legality of water barrier to an minimum-wag- e pageants and other spectacles. legislation, would coast highway. From the Pacific northbe the height of folly. It would After more than half a century west andCanada, famed Redbe worse than that; it would be faCalifornias wood empire, cavalcades will intal. The wavering support of a of wishing, decades of speculation and planning and five years of ac- vade San Francisco single justice who is uncertain in by rail, air and his own mind as to the real mean- tual construction, that dream is highway. Similar caravans will the bridge stands come from Mexico and now realized Californias ing of the Constitution of the United States, is too slender a thread completely ready for the traffic of southland. Still other great cavalworld. Universally regarded as cades of fiesta upon which to hang the moral and the participants will the accomplishment of an un- move on San Francisco material welfare of the great mass from each rivalled engineering achievement, of the Amof folmountain Rocky states, ericans. They deserve a better the bridge is the longest and high- lowing the historic trails of the est single span ever built by man. dav of fate. gold. inwe believe Joseph B. Strauss, its designer If that the These innumerable caravans will really terests of the workers and the and famous bridge builder, regards merge at the Golden Gate bridge farmers are entitled to a greater it as the first of the worlds super- making an unforgettable spectacle degree of protection in our courts, spans. of color and brilliance. The entire United States fleet, then it is the sworn duty of our The Golden Gate bridge fiesta senators and members of congress more than 100 warships of every will be a forerunner of the Golden to make sure that those rights are type, will steam in line under the Gate International exposition in accorded them. Let us remember Golden Gate bridge on May 28, San Francisco in 1939. that it can no longer be said that the day of its opening to traffic. President Roosevelt is trying to Anchored in San Francisco bay, put oyer legislation that is uncon- near the bridge, this great fleet, stitutional. On the contrary, the most imposing display of American court has now demonstrated be naval strength ever assembled in has-bee- n, all-Paci- hard-workin- g, God-feari- ployes. Then He Left, Anyway Out on the terrace they met tween dances, and he said: Pretty dull party, this! be- Yes, indeed. Oh, lets go get our wraps and leave, he suggested. Well, I cant get away, she plied, You see. Im the hostess. re- interests. Any enlightened employer knows, he said, that if he has to deal with organized labor he would much rather deal with a single responsible industrial union of all his employes than with a multiplicity of craft unions with often conflicting claims. What employer, for instance, would choose a set-u- p that makes j jurisdictional strikes possible? Hillman pointed out that the in-- ; dustrial form of organization , makes it impossible for one group' of workers in the union to strike against another group, and that it also makes it possible for the union to deal with the problems of the whole industry in a construc mima THE BEST BUY IN WINE CALIFORNIA Ji EYE GLASSES At Wholesale to All Lenses Duplicated at Same Low Price Laboratories Optical Salt Lake one-ma- employe-representati- recognizing and trying to drive its workers into an A. F. of L. craft union, which had practically no members in the plant and had been repudiated by the local which it once had. This it has been doing, it is charged, as a means of fighting the C. I. O. union, the United Electrical & Radio Workers, which was successfully organizing the em- (EHH33UD V2HE Price, City Main Keith Bldg. Was. 7812 Utah Phone 246 So. on 327 Welcome to our Store, Miners, Millmen and Smeltermen WESTERN FURNITURE CO. Let us make your house a home. Phone Was. 8152. 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