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Show 8 UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 21, 1937. Editorial IPage off Tlhe HJtalh ILialboir LABOR ON ITS FORWARD MARCH The personal talent available represent their interests in industry. American people as a whole probably admire the nine supreme court judges for validating the Wagner Act as in keeping with the modern j spirit of fair play and equal justice to the chief producers of products UTAH LABOR NEWS EDITORIALS (Continued from page 7) Mews (Continued from Page 6) Lawrence Meet May 23 The ROSTON, Mass. (UNS) T. W. 0. C. mass meeting for textile workers of the cotton and woolen district, at which John L. Lewis, national chairman of the C. I. 0., and Sidney .Hillman, national director of the T. W. O. C., are to be the main speakers, has been postponed from May 9 to Sunday afternoon, May 23, at 2 oclock. Circumstances that could not be foreseen, requiring Lewis to reobjective was main in Washington the week of ....ng agency of May 9, made the postponement . . The A crowd of 25,000 .. , the employes in the plants. knew the that . employes Wagner Act necessary. ba ibee? 3i3r0 it gave them a legal right to orKanize in trade unions, but the employers people is expected at the mass HCSTuntpir?VCif Pl!PP W'tb dire rc.SUkS billions to refused to recognize the union, apparently in the hope that the nni bU5 meeting. The scene will be the thcir corporations going. ner Act (National Labor Relations Act) would be declared unconsti-Thi- s Common in Lawrence, worsted and tceP the mi l.onaires on easy street but kept tutional. The supreme court has upheld the woolen center of the world. Act, ,n thf filcy- - Then in 1932 thf at tablishes nothing more than that unions haveWagner a gu-exft Thus far the New England divia to T"tr? legal right rc2.nj?n admimstra-- 1 and operate. ballot box and sion of the T. W. 0. C. has negotiI anti-labv But the movement tlon,ci union contracts for 12,000 the ated industrial among large groups and over four years President Roosevelt has had the love and ad- - the chamber of commerce has not ablted. Every in 2G factories. workers of the American people, because he was attempting to do cati0n in the country has shed bitter tears over oporessfve New Union Contract Won the for their welfare. On the farm in the factory, and on the cor- - dens the Act has placed on office concluded allegedly Providence The and the free ticket industry, it ner with the small merchant one hears the same story, "At least Roose- - Lives to labor to fvery with the Crown contract union kill, a make steal, destroy and IIe the Amencan Hercules of the depression Monday morning, and burn, not peaceful" revolutions at that of North rnndi?as Company Manufacturing and his spending program where needed made the country to Mark Sullivan,, a n manufactextile cotton n?wspa? Attleboro, I columnist. hf.. It is resp?(nd by those who are opposed to trade tory, employing 1000. The agreenow are at the crossroads of our national future. Is our I that the "workers charged esneciari v ment includes a 20 per cent incongress going t0 adopt the policies of the United States chamber of form of blackmail; that a minority sedL to dictate bothto malK crease in wages; reduction in hours alhea when 14 has been dcarlynroved under Hoqv- - ment and to their fellow who may not agree with the - that from 48 to 40; a minimum wage the,f l?wr5Lani workers, I the leatlers er work. the strikes are radicals"; and that workers of $15.75; time and a half for n I are New and I)eal will be deprived of their right to earn a ivin cVnl,aue th.? poI,c,es, i.t,hJe, overtime; seniority rights; equal field? in the give them The cries of industry have always accompanied ad- - division of work in slack periods; If there is going to be a continuance of the revival of American vance of outraged labor, however small. The New out fn an arbitration of disputes and a stipuprosperity we must make a future for the small man in business, m editorial: The development of anything like industrial constitution-th- e lation that changes in production factor, and on the farm. This can be done by starting the govern-- 1 alism or democracy in industry requires at the are not to affect earnings. least ment upon a definite path looking toward the breaking up of big coast- - parties meet eaull fooUngthat Thlt on an This last clause is to protect the smaU man m - recgnLn f worker from the stretchout the basincssfe:re"htea7aj:actorand the speedup. Speaking at a The reactionary-minde- d I)emocratic senators and congressmen banquet of employes of J. & P. will have a lot of explaining to do for their progressive constituents Coats. Inc., which recently signed at home. And when their terms of office expire, no doubt New Deal T. W. O. C. contract, Hyman a Democrats will be elected to succeed the reactionaries. T. W. O. C. director for Blumberg, The people of America are sick and tired of the old dealers in (Continued from page 3) said that one of the New England, congress. They have voted overwhelmingly for a New Deal and they chief objectives of the textile drive are going to continue voting for the New Deal until all the old deal- individual deeds that verge upon be to give the worker a voice vrill the When straining the hardest we miraculous; bits of cooperation ers are eliminated from public office. that are really beautiful to see in often achieve the least. We need in determniing the machine load. their rhythm and perfection; he- to learn more of how in quietness The previous week, Blumberg neWIIAT ABOUT THIS UNION BUSINESS? roes turned into clowns, clowns be-- . to let the universal life direct us. gotiated . an agreement with the Goodyear Fabrics Corporation in coming heroes; speed, grace, and Bedford in which the emNew Most farmers were quite pleased lately by an editorial which con-- 1 sometimes the beauty of the sheer is sublime It to feel and say of veyed the idea that if a prosperous farmer went out at milking time I perfection of a well-an- d another, I need never meet, or ployes won the right to help deconI was told by a n that the men were staging a defended game. Paul Gallico in speak, or write todiim; we need not termine the machine load in the with ferences the that would buck-employer. farmer fill the agitators pants so full of 1 reinforce ourselves, or send tokens strike, shot that you couldnt tell which weighed more the seat area or the I Cosmopolitan. of remembrance. I. rely on him as I rest of the man. on myself; if he did not thus or Best Wishes to Labor d Days ood I Humorous as that sounds, it opens a subject that is not funny in Emerthus, I know it was right. To thos who send up a long wail son. many of its aspects. I The recent for the good old days when work-frientechnique aroused resentment even , among was a pleasure, this excerpt of labor because so many liberal minded Americans are, or hope I Mittens and Socks Milwaukee some day to become small owners. The majority want to feel thatl from Employes Rules of a Chi-whIt is not easy to find anything they have saved their earnings and become owners, that their I cago Department Store in the to raise a smile in connection with IBIE1EII& 1880s noted in the Rotarian Mag- - events in Germany. But in a property rights will be respected. On the other hand, many evils crept into large industries wherelazine is presented: Union Made for 85 Years phrase used by General Goering bosses had the sole say about wages with entire power to hire and fire. I 1. Store must be open from 6 in afhis of describing handling Also Lucky Lager I a. m. to 9 Take two instances, typical of many abuses. p. m. the year round. fairs does recall a slightly amusing was 2. it be must to Store the writers attention that one mil- First, recently brought swept, memory. He said he had used no Owners and Exclusive owns a four million dollar home in Florida that is used on the I ters, shelves, and show cases mittens. Distributors of four weeks a year. A system that makes such a thing possi- - ed; lamps trimmed, filled, and A British Tommy, over taking I ble is either robbing labor or stockholders maybe both. ALTA CLUB GINGER ALE, made; the chimneys cleaned; pens of a German prisAnother unverified report has it that desirable girls in a certain I doors and windows opened; a pail oner equipment LIME RICKEY, in the war, asked, what early factory soon lose out if they do not submit to the personal wishes of I of water and a bucket of coal was the SPARKLING on 'the mans belt wording bosses. Local, company unions usually dominated by local industrial I brought in, before brdhkfast. (If CARBONATED WATER, buckle. officials were powerless to correct either of these types of abuses in I there is time to do so,, attend to WHITE SODA He was told, Gott mit uns. I our American industrial system. customers who call.) Like a flash came the comment: In the light of this fact, it is interesting to note that during the I 3. The store must not be opened NELSON-ANSOCO., INC. Got have they? Well, I past few weeks many industries such as Firestone, Goodrich, and Good- - on the Sabbath unless necessary weve mittens, 314-31130 Pacific Av. 5 Was. given em socks! year Rubber companies, many United States Steel Corporation units j and then only for a few minutes, Lake Salt City, Utah and the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, have given up sponsoring 4. The employe who is in the Vision is the of art I seeing things local company unions. habit of smoking Spanish cigars, It has been said that they did this because a clause in the Wagner I being shaved at the barbers, going invisible. Jonathan Swift. I Act (validated by all nine supreme court judges) designates as unfair I to dances and other places of labor piractice" the domination of a labor organization amusement, will assuredly give his by employers. BEST WISHES TO LABOR However, the Packard Motor Car company recently invoked the employer reason to be suspicious powers of this same Wagner Labor Relations Act and under the Na-- 1 of his integrity and honesty, ASK FOR tional Labor Relations Roard direction caused a popular election to I 5. Each employe must pay not take place in their plant so that their workers might demoless than $5 per year to the church, determine cratically what union they wish to have do their bargaining for them, and must attend Sunday school The C. I. O. union won in this election. regularly. Stockholders, scattered far and wide have for long had the best 6. Men employes are given one Served at All Leading Fountain Lunch Counters evening a week for courting, and r two if they go to a prayer meetBEST WISHES TO LABOR ALSO TO TAKE HOME FROM BAKERY AT. 1142 SO. STATE ing. 7. 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